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Sanctuary: 10,000 people visit each year Karyn Stockdale, executive director, used the occasion to announce a new fundraising campaign.
Continued from Page C-1 automobile accident on the way to California, his second wife and model, Isabel, continued to live in the house at the end of Upper Canyon Road for several years. She then turned it over to her sister, who donated the property to the National Audubon Society in 1983. Some 10,000 people visit the center each year. On Saturday, staff and friends of the Randall Davey Audubon Center gathered at the property to celebrate its 30th anniversary as a nonprofit park with hiking trails, gardens and historic displays. The house and studio, usually closed to the public, were open for tours. Karyn Stockdale, executive director of the center for the last seven years, used the occasion to announce a new fundraising campaign aimed at building a new tree house and nature-based play area, handicapped-accessible trails, and a pavilion memorializing the center’s executive director from 1986 to 2005, David Henderson, who died last August. Robin Jones, executive director of Cornerstones Community Partnerships, said her organization would be consulting with the center on the restoration of the “fragile buildings.” Santa Fe Mayor David Coss spoke to the group of about 70 people about “how
Randall Davey’s paint brushes remain in his studio. JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN
we can make sure Santa Fe is going to be here for another 400 years.” Some in the crowd, he said, were environmentalists who have been working on preservation of
the threatened prairie chicken of Eastern New Mexico. “I remember being out here 30 years ago in the ’80s, trying to figure out how to stop the latest governor’s crazy stuff from wrecking the [state] Environmental Improvement Division,” he said. “The work was done here and the work was done by so many of you who are here now.” Among the visitors Saturday was Edward James Sexton of Santa Fe. He said he and his wife got involved with the Randall Davey Audubon Center years ago. “We joined many years ago as tourists from California because we believed that this area — here, especially — has not been tainted like Southern California,” he said. Contact Tom Sharpe at 986-3080 or tsharpe@sfnewmexican.com.
Lecture: Families kept separate Continued from Page C-1 Vargas. He was appointed governor of Spain’s lost colony of New Mexico. In 1692, he led soldiers up the Rio Grande to confront the Indians encamped in Santa Fe and negotiated a peaceful surrender — the basis for the annual celebration of the Santa Fe Fiesta. De Vargas returned with Spanish colonists to resettle New Mexico in 1693, this time forcibly subduing the Indians. He died in 1704 near Bernalillo without ever returning to Spain. Hendricks said de Vargas never reunited with four of his five children in Spain, but his son, Juan Manuel de Vargas, traveled to the New World to
In brief Actor talks ‘border security’ LAS CRUCES — Marked for border protection? Hollywood actor turned reserve sheriff’s deputy Steven Seagal dropped by the New Mexico Sheriffs’ Association Conference this week to talk about border security. KVIA-TV reports that the action movie star says he wanted to share his knowledge about border security and often gives lectures on the subject. Seagal was sworn in January as a reserve deputy sheriff for Doña Ana County in Southern New Mexico. He also is a reserve deputy in Maricopa County in Arizona and holds credentials in Hudspeth County in Texas.
Duke City jail cuts inmate population ALBUQUERQUE — Bernalillo County officials say the county’s inmate population is getting close to the design capacity of its jail amid a pending deadline.
If you go What: Santa Fe Fiesta Lecture: “Diego de Vargas’ Two Families” Who: State Historian Rick Hendricks When: 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 4 Where: New Mexico History Museum Auditorium Admission: $5 at the door. Free to members of the Palace Guard, which is sponsoring the lecture.
meet his father, and died on the trip back to Spain. Diego de Vargas also named one of his New World sons Juan Manuel Officials told the Albuquerque Journal on Friday that the chronically overcrowded Metropolitan Detention Center had reduced its inmate population to 2,300. That’s near the jail’s designed capacity of 2,236 inmates. The troubled Metropolitan Detention Center in Albuquerque must come up with a plan to reduce its inmate population by Sept. 1. Jail spokeswoman Nataura Powdrell says an emergency-response team is moving inmates to jails in Sandoval, Torrance and Polk counties. Polk is in eastern Texas.
Detective faces sex charges LAS CRUCES — A New Mexico police detective has been arrested on charges of hav-
de Vargas. De Vargas’ two families “show a different side of him, but it certainly would not have been out of the ordinary,” Hendricks said. “He needed companionship and found it. “I would imagine he would have intended for one family to stay put in one area and one family to stay put in the other. Had he gone back to Spain with a woman he had had numerous children with out of wedlock, that would have been a much more difficult situation … and so I think he was kind of keeping them separate.” Contact Tom Sharpe at 986-3080 or tsharpe@sfnewmexican.com. ing an inappropriate relationship with a teenager. The Las Cruces Police Department said Michael Garcia was arrested Friday in connection with allegations that he had sex with a teenage girl believed to be 17 years old at the time. The 37-year-old was charged with one count each of criminal sexual penetration of a minor and criminal sexual contact of a minor. Investigators say Garcia was booked into the Doña Ana County Detention Center with bond set at $20,000. Authorities say he is 15-year veteran of the Las Cruces Police Department. Garcia has been placed on administrative leave pending the conclusion of an internal investigation. The Associated Press
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The Alcove House kiva will remain closed while work continues on stabilizing its walls and replacing its roof beams. NEW MEXICAN FILE PHOTO
Site: Kiva roof beams to be replaced arranged to distribute weight more evenly on the kiva walls. the 1400s. Alcove House was The work depends on the availfirst reconstructed in 1910, before ability of funding. the area was designated as a Tucked into Northern New national monument. The site was Mexico’s ancient canyons, Banfurther stabilized in the 1930s delier has a long human history and then became an emblem of that stretches back more than the monument when the Works 10,000 years. Aside from Native Progress Administration created Americans, Spanish settlers a poster featuring the Alcove and the Civilian Conservation House kiva. Corp centuries later also left The next stage will include their mark on the area. The park replacing the kiva roof. Officials drew more than 150,000 visitors last year. say sturdier roof beams will be
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