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What’s
happening February 19
‘Born Toulouse Lived to Paint’ Chautauqua
Artist and educator, Petr Jandacek presents the history of renowned artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec through a character re-enactment with audience participation. Ruidoso Public Library, 107 Kansas City Road. Gesture drawings 1:30 p.m., program 2 p.m. 258-3704, www.youseemore. com/ruidosopl. Free
February 21
Third Thursday Music Local musician Lu Anne Ellison brings her pop, folk, blues and keyboard talents for a family night of entertainment. Ruidoso Public Library, 6 to 8 p.m., 258-3704. Free
February 23, 24 Ski Apache Sisters on Snow
Women’s Ski Seminar: Camaraderie, Control & Confidence, a two-day clinic designed for women and conducted by women for skiers of all levels. Two days of instruction, video analysis and a personal improvement plan. Breakfast and lunch both days. Ski Apache Ski Area, 464-3641, www.skiapache.com. $185, includes lift ticket.
February 23
‘Crimes of the Heart’ Free movie
Quirky sisters Lenny (Diane Keaton), Meg (Jessica Lange) and Babe (Sissy Spacek) come together for a birthday celebration. The youngest has just shot her husband. The oldest takes care of their grandfather and is turning into an old maid, while Meg has had a wild life filled with many men. Their reunion causes much joy but also tension. Sacred Grounds, 2825 Sudderth Dr., 6:30 - 9 p.m. 575-257-2273.
February 25
‘Spamalot!’ at the Spencer Theater
Winner of the 2005 “Best Musical” Tony Award, “Spamalot” is an outrageously fun musical lovingly ripped-off from the classic film comedy “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” Loosely telling the legendary tale of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table, and featuring a bevy of beautiful show girls, cows, killer rabbits and French people, Monty Python’s “Spamalot” “raises silliness to an art form” (The Sunday Times) and has been hailed as “a noholds-barred smash hit” (The New Yorker). Spencer Theater for the Performing Arts, 108 Spencer Rd., 336-4800, www. spencertheater.com. Buffet $20, 5 p.m. Performance $76
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Medical cannabis – flying high for wellness Eugene Heathman/Ruidoso Free Press
Medical cannabis ingestion and treatment methods vary from topical use, ingestion in food and smoking. All options are offered by Compassionate Distributors, Inc. of Ruidoso. By Eugene Heathman Editor eugene@ruidosofreepress.com The use of cannabis for medicinal wellness in recent years is outpacing the once stigmatized condemnation as a hippie party drug in the 60s and developing into a viable, legal treatment option to manage chronic pain and other ailments. Since 2009, New Mexico is emerging as a robust medical cannabis economy treating approximately 8,263 active patients as of Feb. 1, according to the New Mexico Dept. of Health. Compassionate Distributors, Inc. owned by Mandy Denson located at 1216 Mechem Drive, Suite 3, is one of 23 Licensed Non-Profit Producers (LNPP) serving approximately 500 Qualified Patients (QP’s) of New Mexico. The objective is to ensure the safe production, distribution and dispensing of medical cannabis to QP’s. The New Mexico Medical Cannabis Program (MCP) was created under the Lynn and Erin Compassionate Use Act. The purpose of this
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act is to allow the beneficial use of medical cannabis in a regulated system for alI leviating symptoms caused by debilitating medical conditions and their medical treatments. The Department of Health (DOH) administers the MCP in accordance with the act while at the same time ensuring proper enforcement of any criminal laws for behavior that has been deemed illicit by the state.
was addicted to 11 different prescription drugs for 15 years to manage my pain. Medical cannabis has provided me welcome relief.
Medical attributes
As of December 2012 there are 17 qualifying conditions eligible for the Medical Cannabis Program: Cancer, Glaucoma, Multiple Sclerosis, Epilepsy, Spinal Cord Damage with Intractable Spasticity, HIV/AIDS, painful peripheral neuropathy, Intractable nausea/vomiting, severe anorexia/cachexia10, Hepatitis C infection currently receiving antiviral treatment, Crohn’s
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– Jeffrey A. Quinnell, medical cannabis patient
disease, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, severe chronic pain, hospice care, inflammatory autoimmune-mediated arthritis and cervical dystonia. For the purpose of this program, practitioners are identified as medical personnel licensed in New Mexico to prescribe and administer drugs that are subject to the Controlled Substance Act. A number of qualifying conditions also require the documented support of a provider or specialist with expertise in the particuSee CANNABIS, pg. A3
Bog Springs restoration involves high school students By Sue Hutchison Reporter suehutch@valornet.com Van Clothier, founder of Stream Dynamics, Silver City, presented information to the village council last Tuesday about an assessment the village awarded his company two years ago. His current plans include high school students in implementation of Stream Dynamic’s design to add natural elements to the entrance of the school, and repair the surrounding wetlands. A consent judgment between Forest Guardians and the village of Ruidoso with Ruidoso Downs filed Feb. 2008 dealt with phosphorous contaminants being released into existing waterways in 2005 after treatment in the old waste water treatment plant on. Under the agreement, Ruidoso agreed it could reduce the amount of released
Plant and the formation of a River Ruidoso Restoration Committee to study methods of wetland repair. Item eight of the consent judgment decrees that beginning in 2008 the village would encumber funds for approved projects for the restoration of the Rio Ruidoso, its tributaries and associated ecosystems and that within five fiscal years would encumber at least $1 million dollars in approved projects. In kind services, according to the judgment can be factored Sue Hutchison/Ruidoso Free Press in. Since then, funds for RRRCVan Clothier, of Stream Dyapproved projects have been namics, presents plan to the established. village council. Stream Dynamics, according phosphorus several ways, including to their website, uses a holistic and intuitive approach that creates the extending sewer lines to residenmost cost-effective, efficient and tial areas which were primarily beautiful results which are both being served by septic systems at the time. Reparations were sought economically and ecologically in the judgment, including buildsustainable. Clothier said it was his ing a new Waste Water Treatment responsibility to assess 28 miles
of Ruidoso creeks. One project he presented determined restoration procedures of the wetland habitat of Bog Springs, with emphasis on the area paralleling Warrior Drive near Ruidoso High School. Clothier says he’s worked extensively in New Mexico and Arizona on a variety of restoration projects. He told the council he flew over the county twice to view the Bog Springs area as well as taking more than 1,000 photos to develop proposals. Nora Midkiff, River Ruidoso Restoration Committee’s chair, said the project is something that hasn’t been done before. “The village staff has been wonderful in helping us find our way and getting the details pulled together,’ she said and introduced Clothier to the council. Clothier gave an overview of his firm’s assessment. “We walked See BOG SPRINGS, pg. A3
Kinder, gentler gun bill advances By Eugene Heathman Editor and Julie Ann Grimm The New Mexican A proposed change in state law to require federal background checks on people who buy firearms at gun shows is on its way to the Senate after clearing the House of Representatives Wednesday by a 43-26 vote. The bill represents a compromise from the original proposal by Rep. Miguel Garcia, DAlbuquerque. Most notably, the version moving to the Senate wouldn’t affect private gun sales. Opponents of the bill argued that expanded background checks wouldn’t have prevented highly publicized mass shootings at a Connecticut elementary school in December or a January incident in which an Albuquerque teen shot and killed several members of his family. Representative Zach Cook (HD-56, Lincoln and Otero County) and Representative Yvette Herrell (HD- 51, Otero County) stood up for Second Amendment rights and voted against House Bill 77. “There is no doubt that the tragedies we
have seen over the past few years have left their marks on hearts across this nation,” said Rep. Cook. “While we express our deepest sympathies to families and victims, we know that limiting the Second Amendment rights of law abiding New Mexicans is not the answer.” Federal law already requires background checks on people who want to buy from federally Zachary Cook Yvette Herrell licensed firearms dealers, but not for sales that take place between individuals or collectors in private or at gun shows. The New House measure came from Republicans, seven Mexico Firearm Transfer Act would make state votes in favor came from that side of aisle. law more restrictive. “A lot of people have accused those of us “None of the guns used in the Sandy Hook who have expressed interest in gun safety as shooting, the Aurora theater shooting, or the politicizing a tragedy,” said Rep. Gail Chasey, shooting of U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Gif- D-Albuquerque. “I think this is a response to fords were purchased at gun shows,” continued tragedies that have been staggering in their Rep. Cook. “As a result, this legislation is noth- magnitude. Our job as policymakers is to try to ing but an emotional legislative reaction that examine what possibly could happen that would fails to get to the root of the problem.” prevent not every one of these incidents, but Backers praised the bipartisan effort, with some of them.” several noting that Gov. Susana Martinez has Mental-health records are also addressed in said she is likely to sign it into law, as long as is the legislation, but its wording mostly codifies it remains in its current form when it reaches her current state practices of reporting involuntary desk. While all but three of the votes against the See GUN BILL, pg. B6 WN IN TO
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