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happening October 30 ‘Hawks Aloft’

For all ages, this presentation is about the Hawks Aloft Rescue program and the birds they’ve rescued. Ruidoso Public Library, 107 Kansas City Rd., 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. 575-258-3704. Free.

Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club at IMG

Live Stand-Up Comedy Series with professional comedians performing every Wednesday night at Inn of the Mountain Gods. 7 p.m. 575-464-7053, Innofthemountaingods.com. $5 admission, must be 21 or older.

October 31

Midtown Trick or Treat

3 - 5 p.m. Dress in your scariest, funniest or best Halloween costume for trick or treating.

A Beautiful Ruidoso Halloween

Recycled costume contest; recycled artsy crafts; creepy bus; fun, games and prizes. Register for contest between 3 and 5 p.m. Costume judging at 5:30 p.m. Wingfield Park, 3 - 6 p.m.

575-257-5030.

Halloween at Smokey Bear Historical Park

118 West Smokey Bear Blvd., Capitan, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. A Spook-tacular Halloween - bring a bag for treats, a flashlight for the Haunted Forest and a camera for a Ghostly Photo-Op. Games and treats inside presented by the Capitan Women’s Club. 575-354-0033. Free.

November 2

Annual E-Cycle

Drop off your obsolete, outdated and replaced electronic items to be recycled by Greentree Solid Waste. Volunteers needed. 575-378-4697; www. greentreeswa.org. Lawrence Brothers IGA, 721 Mechem Dr., 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Free.

Grand Funk Railroad

Featuring founding members, Don Brewer and Mel Schacher, joined by veterans Max Carl (38 Special), Bruce Kulick (KISS) and Tim Cashion (Bob Seger).

In 1973, “We’re An American Band” was released – their first first gold record. Other hits include “The Loco-Motion,” “Bad Time” and “Queen Bee.” Minors must be accompanied by an adult. Inn of the Mountain Gods, Carrizo Canyon Rd., 8 10 p.m. 575-464-7777; www. innofthemountaingods.com.

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Councilors stand ground, Battin denied council seat

By Eugene Heathman Editor eugene@ruidosofreepress.com Unable to find common ground with Mayor Alborn’s second nomination attempt for Tom Battin to fill the vacant council seat left by James Stoddard in August, councilors voted Tuesday to once again deny Battin as a member of the Ruidoso Village Council. Councilors voted 3-2 with Dean, Sayers and Eby voting against; Salas and Crawford voting for. The vote followed lengthy statements and Councilor Denise Dean encouraged Battin to run in the upcoming election suggesting to the council, “I believe the seat should remain vacant until the next election and let the people decide,” Dean said.

Gloria Sayers suggested selecting alumni of the council much like the situation following the

death of Don Williams when Ron Hardeman was nominated and filled the remainder of Williams’s term. Sayers also supported the nomination of Rick Albers, who by votes while running in the last election would be next in line based on her recommendations.

Councilors Crawford and Salas echoed their support for Battin as one who knows about water and the process of getting things done on the local government level, especially working with the state on key issues. “Tom wants to offer what he can do for the village,” Crawford said.

The dialogue between councilors at this meeting was thorough and civil with Councilor Eby making very concise and clear his reasoning to stand by his previous vote. “Mr. Battin brings intense, high emotions and feelings in the

By Eugene Heathman Editor eugene@ruidosofreepress.com Bustling construction at the former TR’s Market building have peaked the curiosity of local residents as to who was moving in and when it would open. Wonder no more as Chisum Travel Center has remodeled the property and is now open.

For the past year, the convenience store and gas station has been vacant. Commuters from Capitan and residents of Sun Valley, Alto and Ranches of Sonterra frequented the popular landmark for many years until the former owner was unable to continue operations.

During the past several months, the property has undergone extensive renovations and Thursday, Chisum Travel, a division of Hub City Convenience Stores, Inc. in Lubbock, opened the store for business. Chief Executive Officer Tom See CHISUM, pg. A3

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with no agenda, non-combative against village employees, and who would be a policymaker rather than interfering with daily operations of village business.

Stoddard resigned in August with plans of retirement, traveling and spending more time with his family.

The second consecutive four-year term Stoddard served expires in March. Stoddard’s seat remains vacant and is up for election 2014, should there be no replacement.

Chisum Travel Rep. Steve Pearce and rides into Alto government spending

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community. The last time I voted for the people and their concerns.

Today I will also vote with the people,” Eby said Mayor Alborn has spent several weeks reviewing prospects by listening to suggestions from the public and village councilors. Alborn’s previous effort to nominate Battin was struck down in a 3-2 vote in September. Councilors Dean, Sayers and Eby each cast the vote of no before a quiet gallery of citizens attending the meeting. Immediately preceding Tuesday’s vote, Mayor Alborn had a clear picture that the vote may not pass and stated, “If we vote him down again, the council and people of Ruidoso will be the losers. I am very selfish in my point that Mr. Battin is the best person to move this village forward.”

Alborn has vehemently contended his selection will be someone

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Chisum Travel Center is now open in Alto, at the former TR’s Market location. The property was completely remodeled for an abundant variety of food, beverage and retail products.

By Todd Fuqua Reporter todd@ruidosofreepress.com When Rep. Steve Pearce decided to give back his pay he received as a U.S. Congressman during the recent government shutdown, it was not an isolated incident in his life.

Pearce – in town on Friday hitting the trail and talking to constituents – related a story of his company during a bust in oil prices in 1999.

“When oil prices crashed, other businesses were laying people off, but we kept all our employees on at the same pay rate,” Pearce said. “We almost lost our business, but we were able to survive because we had lived within our means to that point.”

Living within its means is just what the nation – from the federal government down to small businesses and families – needs to do in order to start to turn things around.

“The problem is the voters have elected officials that are like them, meaning most overspend their budget,” Pearce said. “If the voters start to take personal responsibility for their finances, then they can hold elected officials to the same standard.”

When Pearce returned the $6,000-plus check paid out during the 16-day shutdown after Congress couldn’t pass an appropriations bill due to a fight over the Affordable Care Act, he acknowledged it probably didn’t hurt him as much as some government workers who had to go without a paycheck in that time.

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Rep. Steve Pearce (R) is interviewed by Will Rooney for the New Mexico In the Morning show on KRUI and W105 last Friday. Pearce was in town meeting with constituents and discussing his party’s objections to the Affordable Care Act.

But he said the real point of it was symbolic – to show that members of the nation’s law-making body should follow the same rules as their constituents.

“By law, I got paid, even during the shutdown, so the question was, would I give that back,” Pearce said.

“It centered in that we in Washington should not be treated any different. I furloughed everyone in my office and shut down, that way we all had an idea of the pain we were causing. Otherwise we were pretty insulated.”

The budget crisis was an outgrowth See PEARCE, pg. A3

Volunteers to begin work on Capitan depot

By Erik LeDuc Reporter erik@ruidosofreepress.com There’s a little bit of history in the remaking in Capitan, as volunteers prepare to begin restoring and utilizing the village’s historic train depot.

“We’re going to renovate it and turn it into a local museum and meeting room, hoping to tie it in with the Orphan Train Complex,” said Paul Durham, a volunteer with the Capitan Depot LLC project.

Paul, along with his wife, Pat,

said they planned to partner with area museums and historical societies to get revolving exhibits coming through the station, focusing on trains and history, of course. “We think it would be interesting to see all the different aspects, use it as a local attraction.”

The group is operating under the auspices of the New Mexico Community Foundation, a non-profit group that endeavors to obtain grants and endowments for philanthropic causes for communities, according to its website (www.nmcf.org/).

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“They’re going to handle the fiscal end of it, hopefully with some grants;8+ we’ll be doing the fundraising,” he said.

Still, like most non-profit ventures, the Durhams expect to operate on a shoestring budget.

They don’t need much beyond some volunteers – there’s about 15-20 folks already on board to help, plus Ruidoso’s EcoServants, scheduled to begin painting the facility Nov. 7, staying true to the colors on the peeling yellow siding and green trim.

“Of course we have to clear everything, because it’s a historic building,” he added. “As soon as we get our website up, we’ll be able to contact volunteers – I’ll be building screens and replacing glass. There’s a lot of little stuff like that which we can do, and some more that we can’t.”

Paul added that the group’s projected budget for the restoration was about $200,000, aiming for grants that would accept in-kind matches for volunteer labor, though See CAPITAN DEPOT, pg. A3

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COMMUNITY CALENDAR E-cycle Carrizozo and Mescalero residents can drop off eligible electronic devices this Friday at Carrizozo Town Hall from 9 a.m.noon for e-cycling. The event continues on Saturday from 9 a.m.-noon in the IGA parking lot at Ruidoso’s Sierra Mall and at AllAmerican Park in Ruidoso Downs.

No large kitchen appliances of any kind, please. For more information on what items are eligible, call Greentree Solid Waste at 378-4697.

First Friday If you like pickin’, singin’ and cowboy poetry, come on down to the Capitan Public Libaray’s First Friday event, starting at 7 p.m. this Friday. The Canaan Trail Musicians will perform bluegrass, gospel and cowboy poetry.

Don’t forget the $5 a bag book sale on Saturday at 10 a.m.

Cemetery clean up Join the Knights of Columbus and Boy Scouts of America to help clean up and refurbish the Our Lady of Guadalupe Cemetery in Carrizozo, just prior to Veterans Day. The main work day is this Saturday from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. and 2-4 p.m. The cemetery is located at 17th Street and Water Canyon Road in Carrizozo. For more information, call 973-0474.

Chili cook-off The Smokey Bear Eagles Lodge No. 4301 will host a chili cook-off this Saturday starting at 1 p.m. at 248 Marjorie Dr. in Capitan.

The event is a building fundraiser and membership drive. Come vote on the best bowl of chili for $5 per bowl. Dress warm for the outdoor event. For more information, call 575-202-8620.

Alpine meet The Alpine Village Sanitation District holds its regular monthly meeting on Nov. 4 at 4 p.m. in the district’s building at 114 Alpine Meadows Trail. For more information, call 257-7776 or 973-0324.

Job fair A veteran’s job fair hosted by the Alamogordo Chamber and Otero County Economic Development Council is scheduled for Nov. 7 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at the White Sands Mall, 3199 N. White Sands Blvd.

All booths are free. Call the Alamogordo Chamber at 437-6120 for more information and registration form.

Chili supper Come join the United Methodist Men at the fellowship hall of Community United Methodist Church for their annual chili supper, Nov. 14 from 5-7 p.m. An $8 for adults includes drink and dessert for dining in. Dessert only for to-go orders.

Dei Corps The Dei Corps Disaster Relief Ministry is seeking individuals to fill relief volunteer and rescue specialist positions in Ruidoso.

The organization seeks those to fill positions in business affairs management and office assistance, relief Chaplains and assistant Chaplains, relief specialists and volunteers, and rescue, EMS and security specialists.

Rescue, EMS and security volunteers should call Bill McGeachy at (575)-973-8782. Chaplains and Ministers should call (575)-3541573.

Those wishing to make a financial donation to the Ruidoso Unit can do so through Wells Fargo Bank at 401 Sudderth Dr.

Firewood available For residents in Sun Valley, there will be wood until snowfall. Free, cut firewood and un-cut logs are available at the Sun Valley, La Junta and Little Creek subdivisions north of Ruidoso west of Highway 48, behind the Alto Post Office.

Drive on the Sun Valley and connecting side roads; look for stacked wood next to County roads.

Call Jim Miller for details and/or locations at 575-937-2873.

Christmas Bazaar The Capitan Women’s Club is seeking vendors for its Country Christmas Bazaar at the Lincoln County Fairgrounds on Dec. 7.

Booth fees are reasonable and spaces are going quickly. For more information, contact Ashley Ivins at nmcanchaser@hotmail.com.

American Legion Post 79 – Jerome D. Klein Post, meets on the third Saturday of each month at 9 a.m. at Veterans Plaza, 201 Second Dr. in Ruidoso Downs. For more information, or to join, call Harold Oakes, Post Commander, at 575-315-5374.

American Legion Post 11 meets the third Saturday of each month at Wells Fargo Bank in Carrizozo at 9 a.m.

The Arid Group of Alcoholics Anonymous meets at 1216 Mechem at 7:30 a.m., noon and 5:15 p.m. daily; Thursdays at 6:30 p.m. There is also a Monday 6:30 p.m. women’s open meeting.

The Sunny Spirit Group of Alcoholics Anonymous meets Monday and Thursday at noon and Friday at 5:30 p.m., while the women’s group meets Wednesdays at noon in the parish hall of the Episcopal Church of the Holy Mount at 121 Mescalero Trail.

For more information regarding AA meetings in Lincoln and Otero counties, call 430-9502.

Al Anon of Ruidoso – for family members of alcoholics – meet at 1216 Mechem Dr. Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m. and Saturdays at 10:30 a.m.

Alcoholics Anonymous of Capitan meets every Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the Senior Citizens Center, 115 Tiger Dr., just one block off of Highway 48. For more information, call Ted at 354-9031. Alcoholics Anonymous of Carrizozo meets every Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at the Baptist Church Hall.

Altrusa Club of Ruidoso meets at 5 p.m. on the third Tuesday of the month at First Christian Church, 1211 Hull Road. If you think an organization like Altrusa may be a good fit for your volunteer efforts, contact membership chair Barbara Dickinson at 336-7822.

A bereavement support group meets Thursdays from 1-2 p.m. at the Ruidoso Public Library. All residents of Lincoln County are welcome. For more information, call Ruidoso Home Care & Hospice/Encompass at 258-0028.

call Fran Altieri at 973-0571.

The Federated Republican Women of Lincoln County meet the fourth Monday of each month at K-Bob’s at 11:30 a.m.

For more information, call 3368011 or visit www.frw.rplcnm.org The Federated Woman’s Club of Ruidoso, supporting community service organizations and providing scholarships, meets Mondays at 11 a.m. at 116 S. Evergreen Dr. A pot luck lunch at noon is followed by bridge and other card games.

A special program is also presented most months, and hosts Yoga Wednesdays. For times or further information, call 257-2309.

Firefighters for Christ meet on the second Thursday of the month at the Ruidoso Downs Racetrack Chapel at 7 p.m. This service is open to firefighters and their families. For more information, call 258-4682.

Gamblers Anonymous meets every Thursday at 7:15 p.m. in the Mescalero Reformed Church, 336 Wardlaw Dr. in Mescalero.

For more information, call 575682-6200.

The Kiwanis Club of Ruidoso meets every Tuesday at noon at K-Bobs.

The Lincoln County Garden Club meets on the third Tuesday of each month at the Otero County Electric co-op, on Highway 48 in Alto, at 9:45 a.m. Visitors are welcome. The Garden Club’s purpose is to encourage community beautification and conservation, and to educate members in the arts and sciences of horticulture. For more information, call 973-2890.

The Lincoln County Community Theater meets the fourth Monday of every month at 8:30 a.m. All are welcome to come.

Call 808-0051 for the meeting location, or visit www.lcct-nm.com.

Optimist Club meets at noon every Wednesday at K-Bobs.

Rotary Club of Ruidoso meets at Cree Meadows Country Club noon every Tuesday.

Ruidoso Noon Lions Club meets every Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. at Cree Meadows Country Club. For more information, call 257-2476.

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The Carrizozo Chamber of Commerce meets on the second Tuesday of every month at 5:15 p.m. at Otero Electric, 507 12th St. in Carrizozo. For more information,

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Ruidoso Gambling Support meets the first and third Wednesday of every month at 5:45 p.m. in the Lincoln Tower at 1096 Mechem Dr., Suite 212. For more information, call 575-464-7106.

The Lincoln County Health and Wellness Coalition meets the second Wednesday of each month at noon at Sanctuary on the River, 207 Eagle Drive, to promote Lincoln County as a Health and Wellness destination. Bring a brown bag lunch. For more information, call 630-1111.

Ruidoso Masonic Lodge No. 73 meets first Monday of each month, 7:30 p.m. If the first Monday is a national holiday, the meeting will be held on the second Monday. Dinner is at 6:30 p.m. For more information, call 575-354-0111.

Ruidoso Toastmasters meet every Thursday from 5:30-6:30 p.m. at the ENMU Annex, 201 E. White Mountain Dr., next to the elementary school. Ruidoso Toastmasters Club is for those who want to improve their thinking, listening, speaking and leadership skills for that next job, promotion, or just to be more effective. Call 575799-3215 or 832-444-3633 for more information. Free for guests and prospective members. There is a membership fee when you

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With cooler temperatures each morning becoming the daily norm, this chipmunk at a home in Pinecliff is getting a head start on its winter stash, compliments of a fully stocked bird feeder. decide to join the club.

SAA meets every Thursday from 5:30-6:30 p.m. at the Church of the Holy Mount at 321 Mescalero Trail Road. For more information, call 575-956-3101 or 575-336-4187.

Sacramento Mountain Village is a network of older adults in Ruidoso and surrounding communities who support independent living by offering services and ac-

tivities that keep seniors healthy and happy in their own homes.

Benefits of membership include art and yoga classes, weekly walking and discussion groups, social functions and monthly member breakfasts at K-Bobs, on the fourth Saturday of the month at 9:30 a.m. Membership is open to any Lincoln County resident 49 years or older. For more information, call 258-2120 or visit www. sacmtnvillage.org.

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PEARCE from pg. A1

of a wider problem – that of gridlock caused by two intractable camps in congress. It’s a problem Pearce said he and a few fellow legislators tried to address with an impromptu gathering in the wing of the legislative building.

“I made a lot of guacamole and invited other representatives to join me, some whom I had never really talked to,” Pearce said.

“That includes John Conyers, a name that’s revile by a number of Republicans. But we sat and talked over the food, and were able to come to a consensus on a lot of things.”

One thing no one has come to a consensus on – at least in full – is the Affordable Care Act. It’s been famously reported that the Republican-controlled House has voted to repeal the act numerous times, but Pearce points out that those were repeals of various sections of the law.

Seven of those repeals were actually passed by the Democratic-controlled Senate as well, then signed into law by President Barack Obama.

“That shows that even the other side realized there were severe flaws in this bill,” Pearce said.

As an alternative to the Affordable Care Act – an alternative Pearce admits was late in coming from the Republican side – is a bill sponsored by Congressman Phil Roe of Tennessee. Pearce said this bill would allow younger citizens – so coveted by the Affordable Care Act to help pay for older Americans in the system – to hold Health Savings Accounts rather than buy into more expensive health insurance, and allow for insurance to cross state lines and into different jobs, without having to re-apply.

While the Affordable Care Act is law and has been upheld – in part – by the Supreme Court, Pearce still believes it’s a terrible law that must be fought against.

“Slavery used to be a law and was a Constitutional issue,” Pearce said. “Should Congress have attacked that law and Constitutional provision? I can tell you the answer is yes.

“Should we be taking on a law that is bad and is hurting the economy, is causing people to lay off and causing five-time increases for some people in New Mexico?” he asked.

“I believe we have a moral obligation to take on things that are wrong.”

CHISUM from pg. A1

Heath could barely contain his enthusiasm.

“I have yet to meet an unfriendly person here and I am very impressed with the number of folks who have come by that can’t wait for the store to open,” Heath said.

The Alto Chisum Travel Convenience Store is the 23rd store in the Hub City convenience store chain spanning throughout eastern New Mexico and West Texas.

Chisum’s parent company, Kendrick Oil operates convenience stores under the ConocoPhillips, Valero and Alon/Fina brands, stretching from Santa Rosa, New Mexico in the west, Amarillo in the north, Lubbock, Post in the east and Brownfield in the south.

Current operations, both retail and wholesale, employ more than 200 people.

Kendrick Oil Company established Hub City Convenience Stores, Inc., in 2008 and transferred all retail operations of Fast Stop Convenience Stores and Chisum Travel Center over to the Lubbock, Texas-based Corporation. Tom Heath was named chief executive officer of Hub City Convenience Stores, Inc., with Matthew Kendrick as Vice President / Director of Marketing.

Along with the new facade and covered outdoor patio, Chisum will be serving

fresh pizza, chicken and burgers from The Chuckwagon Grill. “When we scouted this location, our first in a resort based market, we wanted to keep the grill and some of the other food and beverage service attributes the previous operation featured,” Heath said.

Some new additions to the store are an indoor filtered water station and retail center.

With the property acquisition, Hub City purchased the full retail liquor license. “The Cellar will be the retail wine and spirits section and in the back of the store is the walk-in Beer Shed, next to the Sarsaparilla section,” Heath said.

A dedicated soda fountain, coffee station and FREAL milkshake dispenser completes a frozen section featuring a variety of frozen food and ice cream, compliments expanded counter space and registers for quick service.

“We plan on having a huge grand opening in December, and it will be one nobody should miss. It’s going to be fun and there will be plenty of prizes for those attending,” Heath said. Chisum Travel of Alto is open daily for business at 101 Sun Valley, across from the entrance to Alto Lakes Country Club, next to the Alto post office, featuring Alon brand gasoline and diesel fuel.

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Paul and Pat Durham stand in the doorway of a loading bay on the depot.

CAPITAN DEPOT from pg. A1

they won’t know how much, if any, funding they’ll receive until the end of the 2014 legislative session.

In the meantime, the Durhams are gathering names to help out when the real work can begin.

History

The depot’s history stretches back to 1900, when it was first erected to serve trains coming to the Coalora mines, which were then producing significant amounts of coal to accompany the gold and silver coming out of White Oaks’ and other area mines, Paul said.

That was during the mining boom days. As the mines became unprofitable, “running into such hard layers of rock,” Coalora closed in 1905. The railroad was eventually shut down and many buildings, including the depot that eventually made

its way up the tracks to Capitan in 1906, were disassembled and relocated, he said.

The depot served as a station for some freight and passenger traffic up through 1943, laying empty until 1959, when it served as a residence for three years, then became extra storage for a hardware store.

In 1972 it was donated to the state, and has since served as a storage facility, despite efforts from State Forestry to do more with the building, he said.

The depot also is remarkable for another reason – it was part of the largest migration in U.S. history.

“Between approximately 1873 and 1924, more than 250,000 children under 17 were shipped out to every state in the union and Canada from New York City,” For more information or to volunteer, contact the Durhams at ppdurham@ gmail.com.

LC Transit director resigns

By Todd Fuqua Reporter todd@ruidosofreepress.com Ruidoso Downs City Council completed some business by ratifying an agreement with the state Department of Transportation regarding Lincoln County Transit on Monday, but LCT is now without a director following the resignation of Patty Desoto.

LCT, which has been a part of Ruidoso Downs’ budget since its incorporation, will be funded to the tune of $189,473.68 by the state, according to the DOT agreement – part of matching funds which includes $99,874.20 contributed by the city.

Desoto’s resignation was accepted, with

the city taking steps provided by the DOT agreement, but councilor Dean Holman – a longtime critic of the city’s role as LCT’s fiscal agent – voted against.

In light of allegations that City Finance Director Terri Mosley had been providing incorrect numbers to the city regarding LCT, Holman was quick to defend her and her work.

“We need to get this out and make it clear that the city is not running a shoddy, improper or dishonest situation as far as the transit is concerned,” Holman said.

John Underwood, city attorney, responded that the DOT had accepted Mosley’s figures as correct.

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Opinion LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

To the Editor: Just a quick rebuttal to Frank Thompson’s review of my letter (which was 1/4 of the original content) that was printed a couple of weeks ago.

“Future shock?” Perhaps. Except that the five issues I mentioned in the first paragraph are current, not futuristic. Are you ashamed of your country? There are blatant breach of duty issues, solid reasons for impeachment, and far more serious acts than any former president has ever done/not done, including Nixon and Clinton.

I would embrace change if it wasn’t thrusting us from Capitalism to Socialism. History shows us many examples of the destruction caused by unchecked power. Mr. O. is not stupid, why then is he debilitating us economically, systematically reducing us to powerlessness.

Instead of listening to reason, he’s pointing the finger, taking no responsibility for his actions, arrogantly ignoring the laws of the land, acting as dictator. Relinquishing our right to privacy was supposed to be a temporary measure after 9/11. Our right to medical care (I am not elderly but probably will be if I live that long) has always been in place. This is forced government insurance, not health care. Poverty is the root of all evil and this president’s policies are producing just that.

What blows my mind is how many people believe his claims because he’s black, they like him. Huh? We need a leader not a home boy! Someone looking out for the good of the country, we are being stabbed in the back. The lies and game playing tactics are counter productive!

To equate the Tea Party with the KKK, if that’s not racist I don’t know what is.

We are getting the exact opposite of what we’re being told we’re getting. Obamacare is driving up health care costs and causing further damage to an already critically injured sector, the middle class. Letters to the Editor wondering why suddenly Dr.’s offices are closing their doors!

Sorry if you are so far left that you can’t see the truth.

Diana Wells Nogal To the Editor: Re: Reply to Frank Thompson Diana Wells’ complaints against this federal government are well founded and were well stated. Frank Thompson references her this week as “the poor woman” whose main problem is a failure to adapt to change. In support of that allegation, he misrepresents Alvin Toffler’s thesis in

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Future Shock, whose subject was primarily the disconnect and difficulty the human organism naturally experiences in adapting to a fast pace of technological change.

He also alludes that Toffler was primarily writing about “the elderly” which is not factual.

The fast pace of technological change has almost nothing to do with the kind of political and social change currently being foisted onto the American public by a government that was constituted only to serve that public, not change it.

Virginia Thompson To the Editor: Re: Change (Diana Wells, 10/16; Frank Thompson, 10/23) The American Revolution was also a time of change and there was certainly a “future shock” for the British and the American Tories. The rise of the Nazi party into the Third Reich was also a time of “future shock” for Jews and millions of Europeans and Americans as no significant people group escaped completely untouched out of WWII. It is not the pace of change which so many Americans object to – it is the direction of the changes. One resident of Singapore, the direction America is being moved toward, spoke of life there.

“Singapore is like a warm bath. You sink in, slit your wrists, your life blood floats away, but hey, it’s warm.” (Mark Jacobson, “The Singapore Solution,” National Geographic, Jan. 2010, p. 149) Similarly, Frank Thompson does not seem to be able to distinguish true health from self-serving acquiescence to “change” that serves hidden agendas and concealed interests and which does not promote the rule of the people, by the people and for the people – the law that is supposed to be the highest law in our nation. With the recent cave-in of the Republican Party over the budget/Obamacare fight, perhaps the last opportunity to non-violently wrest the government away from the rule of the bureaucrat, by the bureaucrat and for the bureaucrat has passed us by and we are irrevocably plunged into what can only be called soviet-socialist America. Bureaucrats who feel empowered to write laws and use their positions as weapons to attack and rob the people they are supposed to be stewards for should not be surprised that their victims feel compelled to defend themselves!

The direction of the changes may be unstoppable and it may be “healthier” (that is, in preserving this temporal life) to “embrace the changes,” as Frank suggests,

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but it also may be simple, self-serving cowardice and short-term greed. Many are those who acquiesced to the British and the Nazis (and the Soviets, etc.), yet soulstirring and self-sacrificing are the words that come from the lips of those who have stood against the tyranny of dictatorial “change” mandated from above. (Patrick Henry – “Give me liberty or give me death!”; Dietrich Bonhoeffer – “…they came for the Communists… Socialists…

Jews [but] I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.”; etc., etc., etc.)

Diana Wells – and those like her – need only decide what she is willing to die for and be imprisoned for and her name will be added to a list that includes very many great people and countless multitudes of ordinary and unknown people who lived and died for great and noble ideals. Frank Thompson – and those like him – on the other hand, needs to decide what he is willing to kill or imprison others for. Will

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Frank’s manufactured “symptoms, maladies, depressions, behaviors, susceptibilities and breakdowns” be the very excuse used for seeing to it that Diana’s prophecy “we’ll die prisoners” comes true? Or will Frank just try to be an “ignorant citizen” who will deny that he really doesn’t knows what is going on behind those fences where the smokestacks belch out human ashes day and night. But let’s not pretend that Frank Thompson’s ideas of mental and emotional “health” have any basis in reality.

“Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

(George Santayana) Neil Girrard Capitan

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At the bottom looking up

It’s that confusing time way, I certainly wouldn’t of year again. be in a rush to pay money Stumbling to the comthat won’t really help me puter in the early morning for a couple months,” he moments to find guidance continued. on what to wear for the day, Millions of Americans I find weather prognosticaare bewildered. With the tions predict balmy aftertechnical problems the new noon highs. Outdoors in the health care plan has experidark-before-dawn however, enced in the few weeks extemperatures hover around changes have been opened, freezing. Jacket for the there seems to be no end day? Socks and shoes? to the confusion. It doesn’t Sue Hutchison (Perish the thought! It’s not stop the coming penalty suehutch@valornet.com officially time to pack away though. According to a flip-flops and sandals until recent article in NPR, uninthe first snow hits the ground.) Sleeves? sured Americans must sign up for coverage Sweaters? Layering?

by March 31, 2014 or pay a penalty of eiPerplexing, indeed. Awakening in the ther one percent of their annual income or dark to prepare for the day just seems $95, whichever is higher, and the penalty is wrong. I’m no farmer, yet with the time scheduled to grow year after year. change about to occur at 2 a.m. on SunFor many, the perplexing issue of health day, it will be even worse when I finish care coverage is simply one more rung on my workday and head home needing my the confusion ladder leading ever downheadlights. ward. Locally, there are those who are Trees are just as bewildered with frigid baffled about how to pay regular bills for nights followed by near-70-degree days. something as simple as municipal utilities They must have hushed conferences in the and garbage collection. “Do we pay the dark. What we think are rustling leaves amount we have been charged in the past, are probably trees berating themselves for or do we pay the higher amount we see on shedding a day’s worth of warm leaves. It’s our bill this month?” Being told by county shivering we hear. officials that some increases are not legally While living in Phoenix for 10 years, permitted only adds to the befuddled state October was usually the month when we hundreds if not thousands of county resiwould find ourselves grateful daytime dents currently face. Some find the need to temps were finally surrendering and dipcreate their own bills indicating what they ping below 90. A 50-foot tall ash tree in think they owe before sending in the fee. our front yard exemplified the aforemenThe nation-wide office supply chain tioned tree confusion however, and usually store which created a marketing goldmine dropped all its leaves in one day. The ash with the red “easy” button makes me want simply decided to create its own Autumn to order a train-full. I’d have them strateand get it over with. gically placed all over our county. Easy And it continues nationwide. We’ve solutions are nearly impossible to come by been given deadlines by those who feel these days, but I’d give “easy” a try. I’d they know best how to manage our health punch that button dozens of times daily! care. If one isn’t insured, one is now Last Friday morning, while still dark, mandated to secure health insurance or I was invited to step outside to get a bit pay a penalty down the road. The word of perspective for the day and smell the “exchange” has come to mean something fragrance of fresh forest rain in our mortbaffling and almost sinister to some. Is gaged half acre section of Lincoln County. making sure each American has health care Still in socks and nightwear, I opened my a good thought? Of course. But we Ameri- front door and stepped out on my welcome cans bristle when we’re told what to do. mat. Unbeknownst to me, during the night Like independent 2-year-olds, we want to an animal had decided to deposit the promake this and thousands of other personal cessed remains of his dinner at the exact decisions on our own. place I stepped. I truly stepped in, well, Involve the “District” and what might you know. make sense suddenly becomes mired in There I was, at the bottom, looking up. more hoop-jumping than an Olympic Later in the morning, my co-worker, gymnastics team. Statistics are showing, when I told her how I began my morning according to news giant NPR, that one said, “Well, hey, your day can only get of the highest enrollment areas for new better from there!” Truer words were never health care is Medicaid, generally free and spoken. for under-funded individuals, which leaves At some point, the dust will settle, major providers wondering if they’re we’ll either repeal the whole health care going to take a life-threatening hit. Enroll- headache or learn to live with it, we’ll get ment across the board is quite lower than used to the blasted time change and we’ll hoped for. find out which monthly bills are legal and Larry Levitt, senior vice president for which aren’t. special initiatives at Kaiser Family FounBut for now, in the words of a friend, if dation, has indicated he’s not surprised by it can’t be fixed with a hammer, you’ve got the Medicaid issue. “As soon as you sign yourself an electrical problem. up for a plan, the insurer is going to ask Sometimes, confusion just happens. you for the first month’s premium,” Levitt says of mainstream insurance offer-ers in Finding that a hammer, baling wire, the “exchange” or “marketplace” grab bags duct tape and ketchup are all anyone across the nation. “And given that the cov- really needs, Sue can be reached at erage won’t be effective until Jan. 1, anysuehutch1958@gmail.com.

Hiring people to fire people Copyright © 2013 Jay McKittrick I hadn’t really noticed, but rumor has it that they turned the Federal Government back on.

I guess that means that all the non-essential personnel (who were furloughed) have to go back to work doing whatever they did before that wasn’t really that essential.

The exception being, of course, paper shredders who are living proof that if a person can’t read, he or she can still succeed in Washington D.C. That being said, I read an article in a business magazine the other day that explained about how large corporations are hiring people to do their firing for them.

What I question is:

How does a person get a job like that; and who would want a job like that; and what qualifies one person to fire hundreds or thousands of other people?

What are they teaching termination at Harvard these days, or are ambitious people attending weekend seminars entitled “How to Win Friends and Fire People?”

And can you imagine the interview for a job like that?

“Well Jay, I see that you have all the qualifications that we’re looking for, but I just have one more question for you: If I go ahead and hire you, are you going to end up firing me?”

“No.” “Great! Great!... That’s the answer I was looking

Jay McKittrick

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for! You can start on Monday. I’ll have my secretary show you around the office and introduce you to everyone, and then after you get your desk together, you can start firing those people... How does that sound to you?”

“Sounds great Glen, but if it isn’t too much to ask can I get a paper shredder?”

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By Janie Smith

The increasing number of people engaged in the profession of chimney sweeping today is due to the ever rising cost of fossil fuels for heating. People have turned to wood as a source of heat.

As a safety measure, chimneys need to be cleaned of the built up soot from wood burning. This cleaning prevents chimney fires and dangerous carbon monoxide fumes from clogged chimneys. One local business engaged in the chimney profession is The Stove Store in Ruidoso. A family-run business with Al Korn at the helm, the Stove Store got into chimney sweeping as a matter of necessity. Korn said the business was selling stoves and related equipment, but many of his customers asked if he could clean their chimneys. Since the question was frequent, this became one of the services the store offered.

When one thinks of a career, the jobs that likely come to mind are

Photos courtesy of Janie Smith

With a safety harness and protective respiratory mask in place, Al Korn prepares to clean a chimney before the winter season. At right, José Hernandez is tasked with keeping the inside of a home free from chimney soot build up.

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based around computers, engineering, business administration, medical and public services. Chimney sweeping rarely comes to mind as a career choice. The profession of a chimney sweep is hundreds of years old. While the Romans used fireplaces with wood to heat their homes, it was not until the 17th century in England that a chimney sweep became an important occupation. At this time coal replaced wood as a heating fuel.

Coal builds up layers of soot and thus it became necessary for chimneys to be cleaned on a regular basis. Small boys, often orphans as young as seven years old, were employed to sweep clean the chimneys. These children had to climb into the chimneys and scrape the soot from the walls. If they were reluctant to climb up into the chimney, a fire was lit behind them. Chimney sweeping was a dangerous and unhealthy job. It was not until 1864 that laws were passed in England to prevent the use of children for chimney sweeping.

In modern times, a chimney sweep does not crawl into the chimney for cleaning but chimney sweeping is still a dangerous job. Stove Store crew member José Hernandez was asked why he wanted to be a chimney sweep. “I like the job because each day is

different. You go different places and see different houses. It’s a challenge,” Hernandez said.

The job facing the men this day meant that safety precautions must be taken. The roof was steep and high. It was not a task for a person afraid of heights. One of the safety requirements is to have a safety rope assuring that if the chimney sweep slips he will not fall off the roof. This safety rope is a harness that is stepped into and which holds the person upright. Korn, climbed on the roof and made certain the safety device was attached.

Modern day chimney sweeps have a series of rods which screw into each other depending on the length of the chimney. Attached to the end of the rod is a stiff brush. In the meantime a second person, Hernandez, was inside the house by the fireplace with an industrial vacuum cleaner sucking out the soot as it fell. Chimney sweeping is an efficient and effective method with the result being a chimney ready for another year of safe wood burning.

Not only do modern chimney sweeps clean the chimney, they also educate the public about fire safety.

They perform a safety inspection of the chimney itself, and the area around the fireplace. Safely precautions such as proper ash disposal, cleaning of fireplace glass, safe receptacle for hot ashes, proper fire alarm devices and good exits in case of fire are topics discussed. The end result is a safe home environment. It is no wonder the 17th century chimney sweeps were thought to bring good hearth and good health.

The same can be said 400 years later of today’s chimney sweeps.

New Horizons receives OCEC donation

By Erik LeDuc Reporter erik@ruidosofreepress.com CARRIZOZO — The giving season arrived a bit early for New Horizons Developmental Center, as a $2,500 check from Otero County Electical Co-Op’s Operation Roundup arrived to pay for a long-desired commercial freezer – days after the center

opened its doors to local visiting Kindergarten children on Friday.

“Two different classes came on that same day, by invitation,” said Laura Rose, director of the center. “They absolutely loved it, what they especially loved was Ashley’s room.”

Ashley, a resident at the center, kept several terrariums with wildlife, including fish and a gecko named Geico, that kept the children fascinated between bouts of miniature pumpkin decoration and touring the center, she said. “(The residents) love little kids and visitors of all kinds, but especially kids that interact with them,” she said.

As for the freezer, “my cooks are going to be so happy,” Rose said.

Rose added that, while the center is always in need of funds for maintenance and upgrades, she did not plan to apply again with OCEC for a while, “they don’t have a lot of money and there are other people out there.”

Operation Roundup is a voluntary

program for OCEC customers, who may opt-in to round up their bills to the nearest dollar, sending the change to a charitable fund that OCEC’s board of directors distributes amongst groups and individuals in need of assistance, said Clint Gardner, member services manager with OCEC. Gardner said about three quarters of OCEC’s customers were participating in the program, bringing in a monthly average of about $5,000, all of which returns to the community. The numbers of applications varies from month to month, sometimes with no applications, sometimes with more than a dozen going before the board.

“We support all of our comErik LeDuc/Ruidoso Free Press munities that we serve,” he said, Lacking lines to color in, children came up with their adding that the board has yet, own pumpkin decorations at New Horizons. to his knowledge, to turn down an applicant that meets eligibility criteria. year. As long as we have the money, we’ll “We’ve been doing this for a little over a keep doing it.”

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take place at ENMU-Ruidoso in Room 103 Tuesday, Nov. 5 at 6 p.m. The topic of the presentation Discarded computer equipment is “What a Healthy Forest Looks will continue to highlight the fall Like.” Frank Silva, timber manelectronic waste recycling event ager, New Mexico State Forestry, for Lincoln County and Mescalero Capitan District, will present and residents and businesses to take mediate the session. place Saturday Nov. 2, 9 a.m. - noon The Ruidoso Fire Department in the IGA parking lot at Ruidoso’s will be serving their prize winSierra Mall and at All-American ning Chili beginning at 5 p.m. The Park in Ruidoso Downs. Residents presentation will start promptly at who no longer want older computer Courtesy photo 6 p.m. and last until 7:30, includequipment may dispose of them at ing plenty of time for Q & A. Pictured from left to right are Jarrod Bassman and Dathe E-Waste event. All other types There is no charge for the food vid Brown, owners; Sheri Rodgers, property manager; of electronics and cell phones may or the presentation, but seating is Becky Brooks, RVCC executive director; Brad Treptow, also be disposed of at the event. limited, and early registration is RVCC board president; Deborah Douds, RVCC director of Equipment drop off takes only a membership; and Dave McIntosh, RVCC board member. strongly encouraged and may be couple of minutes and there is no made through the ENMU-Ruidoso charge for participation. member of the month for September. La website, ruidoso.enmu.edu and clicking The Nov. 2 event is sponsored by Keep Junta Guest Ranch was nominated by cuson “Community” and then “Forest Health Ruidoso Beautiful, the Greentree Solid tomer who stated that Property Manager Series” or by calling ENMU-Ruidoso Waste Authority, the Village of Ruidoso Sheri Rodgers “makes a stay at the La Jun- Community Education at 257-3012. Those Parks and Recreation, Lawrence Brothta Guest Ranch memorable and personal, who missed the first presentation “What’s ers – IGA, Schlotzsky’s of Ruidoso and and her unique promotion of your beautiful Buggin Your Trees,” can see a video of the the Lincoln County Recycling Committee. mountain community on Facebook begins entire presentation on the ruidoso.enmu.

For more information, contact the Solid before check-in.” edu website noted above. The presentation Waste Authority office at 378-4697 or toll Thank you La Junta Guest Ranch and was well attended and everyone seemed to free at 1-877-548-8772 or Keep Ruidoso Sheri Rodgers for being outstanding amtake away a lot of good information.

Beautiful at 257-5030. General solid waste bassadors for Ruidoso. disposal and recycling information is availDems host Meet and Greet able at www.greentreeswa.org.

Living in the WUI speaker The Democratic Party of Lincoln

RVCC Member of the Month

The Ruidoso Valley Chamber of Commerce congratulates La Junta Guest Ranch,

series

The second presentation in the “Living in the WUI: Forest Health and Fire Safety in the Sacramento Mountains” series will

County will be hosting Roxanne “Rocky” Lara at their next monthly meeting on Nov. 7 at the Capitan Women’s Clubhouse at Continued on next page

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Mad scientists never retire: Bike Shop open in Carrizozo

By Erik LeDuc Reporter erik@ruidosofreepress.com CARRIZOZO — With its nigh-on year-round sun and proximity to some of the most beautiful cruising scenery and biggest motorcycle rallies in New Mexico, this could readily be described as a biker’s paradise. The residents aren’t likely to argue either – “for every truck you see here in Carrizozo, they have a bike too,” said Rick Hyatt, owner of the newly opened Bike Shop in town. “Generally, they don’t have just one, they’ll have four or five. You would not believe how many motorcycles are in this town. I had no idea before.”

Hyatt came to the small town from El Paso, with the intention to maybe make a go of retiring – that plan didn’t work out too well, as he quickly wound up picking up a building and setting up shop to work on the motorcycles that have built his career.

“I like to have a small shop because you get to enjoy the people who own the bikes as well as working on their equipment,” he said. “I like being able to look myself in the mirror and say, ‘you did good today.’”

A lack of qualified technicians also encouraged Hyatt to relocate, as it was nigh on impossible to find technicians that can “take a bike apart down to its atomic structure,” he added.

One of those people able to get down to the nuts and bolts of the machine is Mason Surratt, an El Paso native, who made the move with Hyatt.

Surratt said he received a large portion of his training from the Motorcycle Mechanics Institute in Phoenix, where he became certified to work on Harley Davidson motorcycles.

“At school they taught us basic motorcycle mechanics, then you go on to specialize – I like Harleys,” he said, patting a partially disassembled 1980 Ironhead he recently acquired. “It needs a lot of work, but that’s what I like – take them apart and make them mine. Get a bigger engine, maybe make some custom fenders.”

After graduation, interrupted by a recovery period following a motorcycle accident of his own, Surratt went to work for Hyatt, back when the shop was in El Paso, where he worked for the past three years, give or take, before they relocated to Carrizozo, he said.

As for Hyatt himself, he’s learned motorcycle mechanics over the years along with the manufacturers, as each brand began to branch out and specialize as the years rolled by.

“Realistically, I’ve been doing this since I was probably 12 or 13 years old,” Hyatt said.

“So, for more than 35 years, I’ve been working on motorcycles. I don’t really have a favorite.

I think they’re all wonderful toys. I’ve studied them, built them for so long – each individual bike has its own wonderful quirk about it. Every bike is unique, you can’t lump them all in as one. Each company kind of dials in and makes one specific thing their very own.”

Erik LeDuc/Ruidoso Free Press Taking that vocation further, Hyatt spent 23 From left, Rick Hyatt sits on a custom motorcycle frame next to Mayears in the Army as a mechanic. son Surratt.

“I worked on everything from small generators, weapons, automotive, diesel, aviation, tanks, trucks – Though he also sells body armor in the shop for riders, you name it,” he said. “If it does anything mechanical, I was there’s no replacement for riding competence and knowon it.” ing one’s limits – sometimes that means going custom, and The general knowledge, honed by decades of specific building a bike to match the customer. work across the brands, is something Hyatt applies to every “It’s on a very limited basis, not because we don’t have bike he works on – sometimes staying factory true, other the time to, but because very few people can really afford times departing for after-market parts to tune up a custom to have a bike built from scratch,” he said. “You really have beast to handle serious torque. to walk through the entire motorcycle, start to finish, with “It’s not that they got more sophisticated, they just got the customer, asking them ‘what do you want to do? Do you more direct and precise in exactly what it was they were do- want something that can go for 150 miles at 200 mph and ing back in the 70s,” he said. not breathe hard, or do you want something that won’t go “The engine hasn’t changed since its inception – they any faster than 65 mph, but you can climb a hill that’s vertimight tweak it a little bit, but it’s still pretty much the same. cal?’”

Now it’s just quicker to get from zero to 60 or zero to 200, Putting all those factors together, Hyatt said he often had in some cases. I love what each individual one brings to the to mix and match between brands, finding the right part table, because they all react differently. If I had the ability specced to handle some serious forces without breaking or to, I’d have a motorcycle for every day of the year.” bending.

The potential power of the motorcycles brings another “There really is this mad scientist mentality to have when aspect into the business – making sure that the right bike you get into this. You deal with all these forces and stress – and the right customer go together, he added, pointing out a you really have to be a physicist.” smaller, harmless-looking dirt bike resting inside the shop.

The Bike Shop is located at 1213 E. Avenue and may be Hyatt said he picked up the bike from a local resident reached at 575-648-4216. shortly after moving to the town and had since repaired and tuned it up to a machine that you could take out onto a professional race course and have a competitive chance – it’s not a machine he’d be willing to sell to anyone who can’t handle it.

“We’re brutally honest here – there’s no kickstand at 60 mph,” he said. “You have to come to a stop somehow, and hopefully it’s your doing.”

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By Rosalyn Stevenson

Here are the top four trending searches for celebrity Halloween costumes this year on Google Shopping: (www. googleshopping.com) 1: Minions – both adult and kids costumes of the Despicable Me character 2: Breaking Bad costumes 3: Fox costumes from the “What Does the Fox Say” video on YouTube 4: Duck Dynasty costumes Halloween is the 2nd most commercially successful holiday, with Christmas being the first.

National Retail Federation website reports that “Americans are expected to spend $2.6 billion on Halloween costumes for adults, children and pets. Total spending – BUSINESS BUZZ from pg. A6

103 W. Second Street. A harvest-themed pot luck and Meet and Greet will start at 5 p.m. The general meeting will follow at 6 p.m. and the public is invited.

The guest speaker will be Carlsbad attorney Roxanne “Rocky” Lara who announced her candidacy for U.S. Congress, representing CD-2, in September. “Voters are ready for a change and an end to Washington inRoxanne Lara fighting that leaves America’s great problems unsolved,” states Lara. She believes she can defeat Republican Rep. Steve Pearce “because he is out of step with this border district.”

Lara has stellar credentials as a former Eddy County commissioner and as a graduate of New Mexico State University and of the law school at Texas Tech. She runs a private legal practice and is a native of Carlsbad. Her father was a miner, a firefighter and worker in oil fields.

Both her parents were union members, her mother with the United Food and Commercial Workers.

Rocky Lara is endorsed by Senator Martin Heinrich for Congress in the 2nd District, which covers southern New Mexico. Heinrich, a Democrat from Albuquerque, said he was backing Lara because she would be a worthy member of Congress. “Rocky brings the values, priorities and dedication we need to make Washington work for New Mexico. She will make an excellent partner when she is elected to serve southern New Mexicans in Congress,” Senator Heinrich said in a recent statement.

Lara is joined in her race against Steve Pearce by Leslie Endean Singh, an attorney and medical office manager from Alamogordo.

including candy and decorations – is expected to reach $6.9 billion. The average person will spend $75.03 on Halloween candy, costumes and decorations.” (www.nrf.com) About 50 percent of adults dress up for Halloween, while 67 percent take part in the activities, such as parties, decorating the house, and trick-or-treating with their children.

Courtesy photo Approximately 86 percent of AmeriVirginia Gann of the Federated Republican Women of Lincoln County cans decorate their house for Hallowdonated “The Signers” in honor of Mary Skeen, to the Peak Perforeen. mance Academy at 540 Sudderth.

More than 93 percent of children, under the age of 12, will go out trick-orand the weapon were both named after a musical instrutreating. ment created by entertainer Bob Burns in the 1930s. He More than 10 percent of pet owners dress their pets in made it from two gas pipes and a funnel.

Halloween costumes.

More than 28 million Halloween cards are sent each True or false? Vampire bats were named after vampires. year. U.S. consumers spend about $50 million on Hallow– True een greetings.

What is the supernatural condition called whereby a human Halloween candy sales average about $2 billion annually transforms into a wolf? in the United States and it is the largest candy-purchasing – Lycanthropy holiday.

“Nosferatu” was the first vampire movie to hit the silver More than 35 million pounds of candy corn will be screen, shot in 1921 and released in 1922. produced this year. That equates to nearly 9 billion pieces – One way to supposedly deter a vampire is to throw seeds enough to circle the moon nearly 4 times if laid end-to-end. (usually mustard) outside a door or place fishing net outside What is the most popular candy sold in the U.S.? a window. Vampires are compelled to count the seeds or the – M&Ms holes in the net, delaying them until the sun comes up.

What do the M’s stand for on M&Ms? Orange and black are Halloween colors because orange is associated with the Fall harvest and black is associated – Mars and Murrie. Forrest Mars, Sr., and Bruce Murrie with darkness and death. first marketed M&Ms Bobbing for apples is thought to have originated from What is Bazooka Gum named after? the roman harvest festival that was held at the end of Octo– It’s named after a musical instrument. The bubble gum, ber that honors Pamona, the goddess of fruit trees.

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Common myths related to anger management part 2 “Resentment is like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.”

— Anonymous

implication is that your angry feelings lie outside of your control.

Shirking responsibility usually relegates you to being “I always throw my golf club just a helpless victim whose in the direction I’m going.” emotions have to dramatically — Ronald Reagan rise and fall based on how the world treats you.

‘How to handle anger’ In most cases, your beliefs about the things that are myth No. 4: Analyze this! happening determine your Before you think I’m purJames D. Martin emotional responses to them. posely ‘panning’ behavioral Once you understand that health professionals – know what you are telling yourself about your this: I am one! Too many of my fellow circumstances is where your true anguish therapists think the best way to assuage one’s anger is to get ‘in touch with’ and comes from then the old adage, “Pain is a replay all your childhood traumas keeppart of life – but misery is a choice” will ing you enraged. However, only gaining resonate with you. insight into how you developed anger The bottom line is that you are failing to feelings (especially when overly done) can take personal responsibility for your own lead to what some have called the ‘paralyfeelings. To successfully reduce your anger sis of analysis.’ and more sanely face life’s difficulties give I do see great validity in reducing your up the idea that unfair situations, difficult present rage by learning how to reframe people, and great frustrations automatipast traumatic experiences and successfully cally make you angry. Yes, they do help. challenge some of the anger-producing beBut that will never negate the fact that you liefs you still have about them. I’m also of are ultimately responsible for your actions. the persuasion that learning and practicing Remember, a good cognitive behavioral new ways of thinking and behaving can be therapist can help you strategically develop very helpful in your quest to better control effective coping skills to control your anger. your emotional upheavals.

James D. Martin is the program manager ‘How to handle anger’ myth No 5: of the Heritage Program for Senior Adults at the Lincoln County Medical Center.

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Get (Sacred) Grounded against Alzheimer’s

By Erik LeDuc Reporter erik@ruidosofreepress.com Sometimes charity pays off more than expected. A late September fundraiser to benefit the Alzheimer’s Association of New Mexico may get a $2,000 boost, provided it makes it into the top five fundraisers, nationwide, amongst Genworth Financial offices.

The Sept. 26 fundraiser, hosted by Rebecca and Will Ponder, proprietors of Ruidoso’s Sacred Grounds coffee shop, brought in close to $5,000 – a big boost from the previous year.

“September is Alzheimer’s awareness month for the country,” she said. “I wanted to raise funds to the Alzheimer’s Association, and they’ve got a program called ‘Get Grounded.’”

The program is designed as an in-office fundraiser, where businesses solicit donations for the cause and offer free coffee and treats. Running a coffee shop, it made sense to jump on board – “that’s what we do, so I had a fundraiser at the shop. We gave away free coffee to anyone who made a donation and we also had a silent auction in the evening. Bruce DeFoor (head of the art department at Eastern New Mexico UniversityRuidoso) painted for the event. We had food, wine, beer, coffee and all kinds of stuff – it was kind of a party.”

Ponder said she had been amazed by the community response, receiving donations of items to auction from 53 individuals, groups and businesses.

“We had things coming in that day, even that night as we were setting up. It was an amazing response from the community.”

Overall, the fundraiser brought in $4,633 – $3,151.50 from the auction and the remainder in donations.

“I did it last year on a much smaller scale, we just did coffee and cookies out on the patio – I thought I could do better,” she said.

“The silent auction kind of happened spontaneously. We kind of started talking about it in July, I had an informal group of diverse people throughout the community. Almost everybody has been touched by Alzheimer’s in one way or another – their grandparents, maybe somebody they know has had it, so finding people that are interested in the cause is really not hard at all.”

Ponder’s interest in the cause has been more of a circumstantial spiral.

She wrote her doctorate dissertation on the relationship between Alzheimer’s patients and caregivers.

“I had some peripheral association with that process and I was looking for a timely topic,” she said. “I focused on the caregivers that help people at home and the toll it takes on them.”

The subject and the cause drew her in further, finding its way back into her life and career after she took to selling long-term care insurance with Genworth Financial – “that’s about helping the family caregiver, not just with Alzheimer’s, but with every aspect of the aging process. That’s how I got into insurance.”

Along the way the business became more involved in the cause, tapping Ponder to help the outreach on account of her experience.

“It kind of all fits together for me,” she said. “I have a academic, philosophical and personal interest in helping. Here in New Mexico I got started again, working for people in more parts of the state than just Albuquerque and Santa Fe.” For more information on Alzheimer’s, visit the association’s website, www.alz.org/ newmexico/.

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Sports Results

Oct. 22

Volleyball Capitan d. Mescalero, 3-1 Gateway Christian d. Hondo, 3-1 Corona d. Vaughn, 3-0 Portales d. Ruidoso, 3-0

Oct. 24 Volleyball Corona d. Valley Christian, 3-0 Hagerman d. Mescalero, 3-0 Cloudcroft d. Capitan, 3-1 Vaughn d. Hondo, 3-2 Ruidoso d. Roswell, 3-1 Boys soccer Ruidoso 3, Socorro 0 Girls soccer Socorro 10, Ruidoso 0

Oct. 25 Volleyball Carrizozo d. Reserve, 3-1 Football Hondo 68, Animas 20 Ruidoso 42, Portales 27 Capitan 34, Mescalero 0 Carrizozo 67, Mountainair 16

Oct. 26 Volleyball Ruidoso d. Lovington, 3-1 Carrizozo d. Quemado, 3-0

Oct. 29 Volleyball Hondo at Clovis Christian, late Capitan at Hagerman, late Mescalero at Cloudcroft, late

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Oct. 31 Volleyball Mescalero at Capitan, 5:30 p.m.

Nov. 1 Football Magdalena at Capitan, 7 p.m.

Alamo Navajo at Carrizozo, 7 p.m.

Nov. 2 Volleyball Ruidoso at Portales, 2:30 p.m.

Boys soccer Class 1A/3A playoffs Ruidoso at Santa Fe Prep, 3 p.m.

Cross country District 3-3A meet at Silver, 3 p.m.

Nov. 4 Volleyball District volleyball tournaments begin, times and locations TBA

Nov. 5 Volleyball District volleyball tournaments, times and locations TBA

THIS WEEK’S SPECIAL:

• Ruidoso earns state berth with win

By Todd Fuqua Sports Editor todd@ruidosofreepress.com After all the talk of how even the competition is in District 3-1A/3A soccer this season, it seemed almost fitting that Ruidoso should beat Socorro 3-0 Thursday to finish with an absolutely even record – 9-9 overall, 4-4 in district.

That record can improve this Saturday, as the Warriors are at Santa Fe Prep at 3 p.m. in the first round of the Class 1A/3A playoffs.

“At first, I was a little mad about drawing the 12 seed,” said Ruidoso coach

Aaron Romeo. “But it is an advantage that we’ve played them (Santa Fe Prep) before.”

Ruidoso lost to Santa Fe Prep on Sept.

7, a contest that was marked by numerous Warrior errors– including a pair of owngoals in a 4-1 decision.

That wasn’t the case on Thursday, as Ruidoso swept Socorro with the victory, something the Warriors hadn’t done in some time.

“This was a year of firsts, or at least a year of been-a-while’s,” Romero said.

“We’ve had success in the past like this, but it’s been some time.”

“This was the last game for us, and we

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Ruidoso storms to victory

By Todd Fuqua Sports Editor todd@ruidosofreepress.com Nothing – not even mother nature – could stop the Ruidoso offensive machine Friday night.

Lightning, rain and hail caused an hour-plus delay in the second quarter, and when things resumed, the Warriors racked up 405 yards and beat Portales 4227 in their District 4-3A opener at W.D. Horton Stadium.

Ruidoso (6-2, 1-0 district) had just taken a 7-6 lead when things were stopped – there was a major lightning strike just as Travis Mosher kicked an extra point to take the lead, and the stands were cleared as both teams waited out the downpour.

“I appreciate all the fans that stuck around,” said Ruidoso coach Kief Johnson. “After all the rain and hail, I was glad we could come back out and play some football. Our kids were ready to play and the coaching staff did a great job of keeping the kids motivated.”

Once things calmed down in the skies, they heated up on the field.

Ruidoso had taken its onepoint lead on a 21-yard pass from Cade Patterson to Parker Johnson. It was the first of two touchdowns either player would be involved in on the night, and it was Mosher’s kick that was the difference.

Portales (5-3, 0-1) scored first on a one-yard quarterback sneak

by Daniel Sanchez, but the extra point was blocked.

It turned out that one point didn’t make all that much difference.

Ruidoso increased its lead when freshman sensation Cisco

ing game was – at least as far as Young was concerned. The Portales receiver caught only three passes for 100 yards and the touchdown.

Following that score, the Warriors started to take over. Mayville – who ended up with 255 yards to lead all rushers – was pounding the ball up the middle to wear out the Portales defense.

“Our linemen are great, and I knew they’d do a great job opening up those holes for us,” Mayville said. “Those holes looked really big to me. The See STORM pg. B3

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Ruidoso receiver Travis Mosher, left, fights for control of a pass while defended by Portales’ John Young, Friday, at W.D. Horton Stadium.

Mayville uncorked a 37-yard score with 8:57 left, but the Rams were able to tie it up when Mat Martinez returned the ensuing kickoff 85 yards for a score.

Martinez later ran it in for the two-point conversion to tie it up at 14-all.

For a while, it looked as though that’s how the whole game would go, with both teams answering score after score. The game was knotted up at 21-all following a 52-yard strike from Sanchez to John Young for Portales with 10:08.

That score was a testament to how efficient the Rams’ pass-

Warrior Invite a preview of district meet

By Todd Fuqua Sports Editor todd@ruidosofreepress.com The field was larger and the challenge greater at the Ruidoso Cross Country Invitation Saturday at Ruidoso High School.

With 100 runners each in the boys and girls varsity divisions, the Warriors had their hands full if they wanted to challenge for a trophy or medal.

In the end, it was Regan Werito that had the best day, running a time of 20:54.6 and finishing second overall behind Las Cruces’ Sydney Salas.

“I thought I’d get a better time, but everyone said it’s hard to do that because we’re racing at a higher altitude,” Werito said.

“This is our course, but it’s difficult to run hard up here. I was hoping for a better time, but I’m happy to have beat everyone in my district.”

As a team, the Ruidoso girls were ninth overall. It marked the third time this season that the Lady Warriors have had enough runners at the varsity level to constitute an entire team.

Elyssa Douds was 21st overall with a time of 22:50.14. The final three – Alicia Little, Haley Randolph and Payton Fowler – were much further back in the standings.

“It is really nice to have that,” Werito said of the full squad. “I can’t wait to see them all move up because everyone is doing so well this season. I think we’ll run really well at district.”

Next week is the District 3-3A

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Down to one for Ruidoso

By Todd Fuqua Sports Editor todd@ruidosofreepress.com One match left, and the Ruidoso volleyball team is hoping to challenge for the top seed in the upcoming District 4-3A tournament.

They came one step closer with a 25-15, 25-20, 27-29, 25-11 victory at Lovington on Saturday.

“Teams can always dig deep, and Lovington did that against us,” said Ruidoso coach Bernadette Garcia.

“It was do or die for them and they weren’t laying down for us.”

Ruidoso (9-9, 2-1 district) was down by as much as 10 points in the third game before rallying to tie it. Even though the Lady Warriors lost that one, they used the momentum to end things decisively in the fourth frame.

“The hits were down, the blocks were split, and we ended it well,” Garcia said. “For us to hold them to 11 showed a lot.”

Next is Portales this Saturday, a team the Lady Warriors lost to in three on Oct. 22. Ruidoso was able to rebound from that with a 3-0 victory over Roswell on Thursday, but all that’s in the past now.

“Today, we prepare for Portales, end of story,” Garcia said. “There’s no matches and five quality days of

practice. That’s what we need.”

Garcia said her team was affected by a lack of fire in their 25-14, 25-21, 25-14 loss to the Rams.

Ruidoso was down 5-1 early before the Lady Warriors clawed to within a point after a tip kill

by Marikka Temple.

Another kill by Lia Mosher seemed to give Ruidoso some momentum, but every time they threatTodd Fuqua/Ruidoso Free Press ened to break out, a Ruidoso outside hitter Chloe Whipple, right, hits service error or other the ball over the net as Portales’s Kaycee Leary miscue would derail prepares to attempt a block on Oct. 22. the train.

It was only a help propel her team to a 15-11 lead matter of time before Portales and keep her team in front for good. came untracked, and in game one Game three started out close as that came when Pari Cox took the well, but then Francis Armijo took serve and the Rams rattled of seven the serve for Portales. After 11 unanswered points – including an straight serves, a 7-7 tie had turned ace serve. into a 17-7 Portales lead. The Rams Ruidoso tried to rebound in game never looked back after that. two, fighting the Rams tooth and “Hopefully we’ll have a better nail for points and taking an 11-10 showing at Portales this time,” Garlead before Kristen Wagner asserted cia said. “They’ll have to be pushed herself. around the court and play our game.

She got a pair of major kills to That’s what they did to us here.”

Match ends early to finish Ruidoso girls’ season

By Todd Fuqua Sports Editor todd@ruidosofreepress.com Ruidoso girls soccer coach Darien Ross decided a change in strategy was needed if her team wanted to win its final regular season match against District 3-1A/3A

rival Socorro on Thursday.

She moved her better players up front to keep the ball on Socorro’s end of the field and continue to put pressure on the net, thinking the best defense is a good offense.

Ruidoso’s Lady War-

riors got a number of shots on goal, but it didn’t stop Socorro from hammering Ruidoso’s net in a 10-0 decision that was over seven minutes into the second half.

“We had more shots on goal than we did in Socorro,” Ross said. “So

Bowling RUIDOSO BOWLING CENTER Tuesday Seniors standings, week 6 of 28 Name Won Lost Marx O Lot? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 6 BLJ Trio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 7 Two Ace’s & a Queen. . . . . . . . . . 14 10 Amigos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 11 Golden Oldies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 16 Last week’s high scores Handicap series – BLJ Trio 2,086, Marx O Lot? 1,941, Amigos 1,816 Handicap game – Two Ace’s & a Queen 676, Golden Oldies 641 Individual scores Men’s handicap series – Jim Clements 722, Tom Douglas 695, Larry Caywood 693 Men’s handicap game – Jim Clements 247, Tom Douglas 243, Gene Nitz 240 Women’s handicap series – Lucy Servies 679, Rose Bivens 655, Cindy Sanchez 597 Women’s handicap game – Lucy Servies 246, Rose Bivens 232, Martha Chavez 210 ––– Tuesday Night Mixed standings, week 7 of 16 Name Won Lost Scorgasm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18½ 9½ Rhinorose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 10 Sh”Dam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 10 Four Feathers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 11 Zocca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 12 Lane Violators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 13 Ruidoso Bowl. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13½ 14½ Gypsyhound Outla . . . . . . . . . . . 12 16 Bowl Movement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 19 Last week’s high scores Handicap series – Lane Violators2,606, Zocca 2,501, Ruidoso Bowl 2,445 Handicap game – Sh”Dam 916, Scorgasm 902, Bowl Movement 866 Individual scores Men’s handicap series – Alan Kirgan 734, Eddie Silva 705, Mike Barnes 692 Men’s handicap game – TJ Sanders 260, JR Mitchell 246, Curtis Williamson 249 Women’s handicap series –Ginger Williamson 648, Pam Bernard 644, Misty Barnes 623 Women’s handicap game – Dena Mitchell 232, Gloria Wheeler 220, Gracie Rheingans 216 ––– Wednesday Night Mixed standings, week 7 of 32 Name Won Lost

Team 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Western Auto- Napa 2 . . . . . . . 17½ Down’s U-Haul. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16½ Living Energies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Team 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15½ Team 10. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Ruidoso Bowl. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Team 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11½ Team 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Western Auto- Napa 1 . . . . . . . . . 9

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Last week’s high scores Handicap series – Western Auto- Napa 1 2,571, Ruidoso Bowl 2,518, Team 7 2,470 Handicap game – Down’s U-Haul 867, Team 9 866, Living Energies 851 Individual scores Men’s handicap series – Keith Brower 708, Ken Brower 655, Dan Roller, Gene Nitz 640 Men’s handicap game – Martin Espinosa 241, Jack Kannady 236, Bob Layher 235 Women’s handicap series – Michelle Lopez 690, Pam Bernard 658, Kathy Kiefer 627 Women’s handicap game – Sandi Meek 266, Jean Fanning 238, Shelly Layher 236 ––– Thursday Night Men’s standings, week 7 of 32 Name Won Lost Good Ole Boys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 9 GSV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 10 Down’s U-Haul. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 11 Team 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 12 Western Auto- Napa . . . . . . . . . . 15 13 Buckner Electric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 15 Ruidoso Bowl. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 19 Last week’s high scores Stratch series – Western Auto- Napa 2,924, GSV 2,743 Scratch game – Down’s U-Haul 964, Ruidoso Bowl 750 Handicap series – Team 4 3,102, Good Ole Boys 2,941 Handicap game – Buckner Electric 1,046 Individual scores Scratch series – Richard Guevara 683, Tim Vega 667, Gene Nitz 612 Scratch game – Jim McGarvey 258, John Cardone 245, Tom Douglas 221 Handicap series – Donald Yeager 708, Chris Carter 691, Nick Vega 665 Handicap game – Ryan Cannon 257, Weldon Ganaway 246, Ron Wright 237

we played a little better, but they didn’t play like they do in practice. They panicked.”

Dominique Molina got a hat trick twice over for Socorro, sending in six goals to lead her team.

The closest Ruidoso (314, 1-5 district) came to scoring was when Denise Martinez made a shot two minutes into the second half, but the ball was cleared

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CLASS B OUTLOOK

By Todd Fuqua Sports Editor todd@ruidosofreepress.com Both Carrizozo and Corona’s volleyball teams are affected by the same thing this week, the meeting of the National FFA convention in Louisville, Kent. The Lady Grizzlies and Lady Cardinals have so many girls attending, they had to finish their regular seasons last week and won’t play again until their district tournaments.

The layoff probably won’t hurt either team.

They’ve got exactly two losses between the two and both finished the regular season unbeaten in district. Corona (191, 10-0 District 3B) wrapped things up with a sweep of Vaughn, while Carrizozo improved to 19-1, 6-0 in District 4B with sweeps of Reserve and Quemado.

Now it’s a challenge to keep the Lady Grizzlies and Lady Cardinals focused trough the conErik LeDuc/Ruidoso Free Press vention and a long week Carrizozo’s Fantasia Dennis sets with no competition. the ball for a teammate during “We try to keep them her team’s win over Reserve on on task with what we do Friday. to keep them from complacency,” said Carrizozo coach Pam Allen. “That’s all we can do. We need to make practice difficult enough that they can hold what they’ve got and carry that to state.”

Championship day for District 4B is Nov. 9 at 2 p.m. in Carrizozo. Corona might have to play at least in the semifinals the Thursday before due to the number of teams in District 3B. “We should get three solid days of practice before we play the first district tournament match,” said Corona coach Richard Gage. “We’re guaranteed a spot a state, but I want to be ready when we get there.”

Hondo disappointment Speaking of 3B, the Hondo Lady Eagles finished up their district season with a five-game loss at the hands of Vaughn on Thursday.

“It wasn’t all on us, Vaughn played well enough to win,” said Hondo coach Dwayne Morris. “It was also our senior and dig pink night, so there were a lot of distractions.”

Hondo (7-12, 4-6) didn’t reach the end of its regular season until a match on Tuesday at Clovis Christian.

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Ruidoso runner Regan Werito (492) leads the field of almost 100 runners at the start of the girls varsity race during Saturday’s Ruidoso Invitational. Close behind is Lady Warrior teammate Elyssa Douds (487).

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meet at Silver. The Lady Colts did not have a full team at Ruidoso, but Emily Zollinger was 17th overall. Lovington was sixth in the team standings.

Individually, the boys didn’t have anyone finish higher than Rylan Vega at 13th, but their team finish of 4th was better than everyone in district except Lovington. The Wildcats had three runners in the top 10 and were second behind Hobbs.

Vega’s time of 17:54.65 was actually slower than last

year on the same course, but he wasn’t all that discouraged.

“I guess I did worse than last year, but I’ll pick it up next week for district,” Vega said. “I just got finished taking the ACT and I was pretty tired. As a team, I think we’re doing pretty good.

“Lovington is like us last year with their senior leadership,” he added. “Winning a district title will be pretty tough.”

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played our hearts out,” said David Aguirre, one of nine seniors on Ruidoso’s team. “We had the fire to win this game.”

The Warriors got on the board first with a penalty kick by Carlos Ortega following a hand ball call against Socorro in the goal keeper’s box, and Ortega made good on his opportunity with 24:24 left in the first half.

Another hand ball on Socorro

meant another penalty kick, this time

by Ernesto Ibarra, who slammed it home for a 2-0 lead. The final goal came with 2:08 left before the half, when Ibarra intercepted a Socorro pass and drove it home.

Socorro never got closer to scoring than when they had the ball just a foot in front of the net on a free kick. The ball was deflected, and the rebound kick went wide right.

There were several other chances for both teams to score in the second half, but nothing went in, and Ruidoso preserved the 3-0 victory.

Now it’s on to the playoffs, and Romero is cautiously optimistic.

“We need to harness the energy and focus we had in that win,” Romero said of the Socorro game. “If we do that, we should be able to give (Santa Fe Prep) a hard time.”

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Friday’s main event is the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Distaff, set to run at 5:35 p.m.

There is a special dailydouble wager between the Breeders’ Cup Distaff and the Breeders’ Cup Classic.

There will be wagering available on Friday for all of Saturday’s races from Santa Anita.

Game on Dude has not lost since last year’s Breeders’ Cup Classic for trainer Bob Baffert. The Awesome Again-sired gelding has won his latest six

starts and has seven wins from eight starts at Santa Anita, his home track. The earner of $5.6 million has Grade 1 wins this year in the Santa Anita Handicap, Hollywood Gold Cup and Pacific Classic. The Pacific Classic was at the Breeders’ Cup Classic distance of one-and-one-quarter miles and he won by eight-andone-half lengths in his most recent start.

Mucho Macho Man showed his readiness to take on Game On Dude when he won the Awesome Again Stakes at Santa Anita in late September. He raced the one-and-one-eighth mile in 1:48 1/5 to win by four-and-one-quarter lengths.

Other top Breeders’ Cup

Classic prospects are defending winner Fort Larned and Jockey Club Gold Cup upset winner Ron The Greek.

The Bill Mott-trained Royal Delta tries to become just the second horse to win a Breeders’ Cup race in three consecutive years when she heads the Breeders’ Cup Distaff. Goldikova won the Breeders’ Cup Mile in 2008 to 2010.

Royal Delta won last year’s Breeders’ Cup Distaff as the 17-10 favorite and should hold the favorite’s role in a race that may only have six entrants. The Empire Maker-sired mare has two Grade 1 wins in her latest three starts.

Princess of Sylmar and Beholder are three-year-

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only thing I worry about after that is holon the D.” ing onto the ball.”

The game was widely viewed as the district championship – Lovington is 1-7 “We’ve got a big offensive line that loves to hit and get some pancake blocks,” after a 38-27 loss to Hope Christian – but coach Johnson knows they still can’t take Johnson said. “They line up in there and the Wildcats lightly. will open up some holes. When we can “We only play two games in district, so establish that, it’s going to be a good night we’ve got to win both of them,” Johnson for us.” said. “Right now, Portales is a good team, The Warriors took the lead for good but Lovington is a tough team. I don’t care with 2:47 left in the third on a 10-yard run what their record is like, we’ve got to play

by Parker Johnson, and they increased the tough when we go over there.” lead on a 79-yard interception return for a touchdown

by Brendon O’Connor after the Rams had driven to the Warrior 21.

Bronte Staugaard – who led Portales with 146 yards – scored a touchdown with 8:07 left to bring his team within eight points, but that was all for the Rams.

No. 25 Cisco Mayville Ruidoso sealed the vicFreshman running back tory with a 15-yard pass from Patterson to Shy No. 33 Parker Morrow Senior defensive back Dankert with 5:25 left.

Portales threatened to score Mayville – the freshman snsation again within three minutes, – racked up 255 yards on just 19 getting all the way to a first carries against Portales, including a 37-yard scoring ramble. He and goal at the Warrior 3. was part of a potent offense that A tackle for a loss by outgained the Rams 405-331.

Zane Reynolds and another Morrow was one of several interception by O’Connor at the one ended that threat, defenders that had to step up to counter a season-ending injury and Ruidoso was able to to teammate Grant Weaver the get a first down and run out week before. Morrow had several tackles for losses, while the clock.

Brendan O’Connor got a 90“Our D-line is doyard interception return for a ing really good to allow touchdown and the game-clinchthe linebackers to get in ing pick at the there and get the tackles,” Warrior O’Connor said. “You could 1-yard tell everyone was pumped line.

olds taking on the veteran Royal Delta. Princess of Sylmar defeated Royal Delta in the Grade 1 Beldame Invitational on Sept.

28. Beholder is undefeated around two turns at Santa Anita with Grade 1 wins in the Las Virgenes Stakes and the Santa Anita Oaks.

Another successful regular season came to an end for Hondo’s football team Friday with a 68-20 victory and over Animas and a District 2 championship.

Hondo coach Brandon Devine said the game was closer than the final score shows – at least to start.

“Animas came to play,” Devine said. “It was a tough game in the first half.”

Indeed. Animas led 14-6 at the end of the first quarter, but then the Eagles (8-1, 4-0 district) held the Panthers scoreless the rest of the way.

Meanwhile, Hondo scored – lots. Devine said they’ll need that scoring to get past the state semifinal, which will be played at Steven Chavez field next weekend against the winner between Dora and Animas.

The Animas-Dora tilt is this Saturday at 1 p.m.

’Zozo smacks Mountainair

Carrizozo’s football team is challenging for another District 2 championship after a 67-16 victory over Mountainair on Friday.

The Grizzlies (5-3, 1-0 district) had 357 yards rushing, led by Nick Chavez with 279 yards on 13 carries.

He and Lawry Johnson scored three touchdowns each.

Next up is Alamo Navajo this Friday.

“This is all about getting the district championship,” said Carrizozo coach Kevin Sheehan. “If we don’t make any mistakes, we should be OK.”

Capitan girls split

Things continue to improve for Capitan’s volleyball team, just not enough to beat Cloudcroft.

The Lady Tigers lost Thursday 25-13, 25-18, 29-15, 25-20 to drop to 5-12, 1-3 in District 7-1A. This came after a four-game victory over Mescalero on Oct. 22.

“We’re still getting better every day,” said Capitan coach Jessica Becker. “We played better against Cloudcroft, there are still some transition things we need to fix.”

Capitan was at Hagerman Tuesday, while Mescalero (115, 0-4) was at Cloudcroft. The Lady Chiefs are at Capitan this Thursday.

Rain-shortened win

Capitan’s football team had a 34-0 lead at Mescalero just before the break when the skies opened up with lightning, rain and hail.

Officials decided it was too dangerous to continue play, so that’s how the game ended.

Tiger coach Jim Hughes was happy with the win, but concerned that his team (6-2, 1-0 District 4-1A) has played barely two quarters of football in the last three weeks due to cancellations by Loving and Cloudcroft.

“It was a good tuneup, though, for Magdalena,” Hughes said, referring to Friday’s showdown for the district title.

Mescalero’s season is at an end thanks to Cloudcroft’s cancellation of its season. The Chiefs (2-7, 1-2) were to play the Bears this Friday.

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Ruidoso Free Press

October 30, 2013

By Corey Bard

In the summer of 1975, two important decisions were made by an 11-year-old boy.

First, he decided to give his baseball glove to a neighbor who just moved in down the block. Two seasons of the coachs’ kids getting all the batting practice.

Two seasons of the coachs’ kids starring as pitcher, catcher and short stop while, “why don’t you three outfielders go play catch until we are ready for your batting practice.” He led the team in walks because he really did not know how to swing a bat. He also stood four foot six inches, weighed 70 pounds and was a very tough strike zone for even the best pitchers. In 1975, he sat out the baseball season wondering why he did not have a father who would come home from work and want to play catch or pitch batting practice to him.

His parents did not want him sitting around all summer and no baseball practices or games left a lot of time. The neighborhood kids all had bicycles so they could ride to the pool each afternoon, but he was also the kid who was very fair skinned and easily burned under the hot summer sun.

The 11-year-old’s parents decided to send their son to MaKaJanWan Scout Camp in Pearson, Wis. The boy made his second decision and agreed to go. He had been a Cub Scout for several years and his father was determined that his two sons would be Eagle Scouts. The father’s passion for the Boy Scout organization would have made him a great Little League father. The father looked at his 70-pound son and pictured the MaKaJaWan Scout Camp summer of 1975 as the year his son would begin growing up.

After a five and a half-hour bus trip from the suburbs of Chicago to northern Wisconsin, the bus pulled into an open field surrounded by endless forest that bordered a private lake owned by the Northeast Illinois Boy Scout Council. If swimming had been the only activity the boy had focused on, his first year of camp would have been successful. Swimming took place every morning at 9 a.m. for just an hour. Swimming merit badge proved to be a very attainable goal where he enjoyed learning the freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and sidestroke. Swimming was the first badge earned of the 24 badges his father was determined his son would complete. Becoming an Eagle Scout was the chosen path to molding his son into a leader.

The boy walked with the other scouts from Troop 50 carrying a

duffle bag with all the clothes and supplies his parents thought he would need for the summer. Their campsite was back in the woods, up a narrow trail situated the furthest distance from the dining hall, waterfront, archery and shooting range, commissary, chapel, nature lodge – the most isolated campsite from any activity site in the whole camp.

He was directed to a tent that would be home and introduced to his bunk mate. Then, one by one, he was introduced to the other scouts who were a year, two and three years older. With no adults present, three of the scouts offered the boy his first cigarette as they sat back puffing away in lawn chairs they had brought with them from home. He politely turned down the cigarette, aware at 11 years old of his decision to lead a healthy lifestyle. He would spend the rest of his life turning down drugs and alcohol wondering if this had been an unintended gift from his father – The ability to stand up for himself.

His father had hoped he would learn scouting from the other boys.

Form friendships. One afternoon, he was with the smokers, his patrol leaders, returning to their campsite from lunch. They were the first out of the dining hall and ran back to the campsite. He followed the other scouts as they detoured through another campsite. While two acted as lookout, the others entered the tents searching for booty. Pocketknives, flashlights and who knows what else, perhaps money. In minutes, these examples for which he was meant to learn from, taught him another lesson: about picking your friends and who you choose to hang around.

Keeping the peace would require an unholy alliance.

There would be no debate in the matter. His father thought Boy Scouts would make him grow up, become a man and be a leader someday. So the boy rose up through Troop 50, and like any organization, its members dropped out over time and new members joined. There was one certain message. Life is about persistence, staying the course, not giving up. Whatever activities you choose to participate, people will come and go.

In the summer of 1975, choices were made about what kind a person he wanted to be.

— From the story “Scouting, It Makes a Boy Stronger” from the collection, “I’m Not LeBron.”

Interested in Writing? A Writer’s Workshop meets the second Wednesday of each month at 11 a.m. Send your five-page double-spaced sample to coreybard@ruidoso-nm.gov one week prior and I will send it out to my email distribution list. The Workshop is set up for the participants to read and offer suggestions to writers to help the writers improve.

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From left, James Saucier stands beside his mother, Leona, and grandfather, George, next to a portrait of James painted by his grandfather.

Capitan student makes it to All State Mixed Chorus or take, to get ready to perform at the University

By Erik LeDuc of New Mexico campus alongside 299 other youth Reporter gathered from around the state. The performance erik@ruidosofreepress.com will run Jan. 8-11.

James Saucier didn’t think he was going “He hasn’t received his songs yet, usually it’s to make it to the state performance this year. around six,” Shaver said.

He’s confident in his singing, backed by a clear “He’ll have to spend all the extra time he has, tenor that leaves hints of musical cadence in for a while, memorizing it. Then they’ll test him his speech, but he was certain he lost points on again when he gets there to see how well he does, sight reading – those notes and scales still look then they go from there.” like arcane scribbles to the former band student, Though James doesn’t yet have a firm plan for who’s only been officially training his voice for a college, he said he was leaning toward a major in bit more than a year. electronic engineering/programming (the threat “When we went in the room we sang a solo of a math-heavy field is somewhat discouragwe practiced on, a regular piece we’ll play at ing) with a minor in music – a family trait, by all All State, and then they had us sight read a piece indications. His grandfather, George, minored in we hadn’t seen before,” James said. “I feel like I music in college. got bashed on that – I didn’t think I was going to “There’s a little piano we got for $12 at the make it.”

Yet, according to the panel of judges and his thrift shop – I needed practice, because, a lot of music teacher, DuWayne Shaver, he nailed it on the time, I wasn’t coming home and doing that his first time competing, placed in Tenor 1 for the like I should have been,” James said. “Then they upcoming performance. moved the audition time a week closer, so we “He does have a very, very good voice,” Shav- crammed all weekend, four or five hours a day. er said. “He got up there and did a really good I’ve enjoyed singing since I was little, but I was job – he didn’t think he did as well as he did.” always too shy to sing in front of people. SchedCapitan had bussed 11 students, James and ule permitting, I plan to stay in choir the rest of 10 girls, down to Las Cruces for the competimy high school career.” tion, he said.

George, chiming in, ribbed James about one “Some of them have tried before, some are sticky transition – “you needed to get that interval newcomers. It was kind of a mixed lot,” Shaver higher, go from a G to a C. That was a B, and he’d said, adding that it was the first time in six years say, ‘no, Grandpa, you’re wrong.’ He had it before that the school sent a student to All State Choir, he left here, so he must have hit it all right.” though the school’s band is fairly regularly represented. “We’ve got band All State tryouts in two weeks, so hopefully we’ll have some more.

Who? Toddlers and kids thru age 7 One of our clarinet players, Evan Saba, was No. 3 in the state, so we’re What?

Vision screening for kids hoping he gets in.”

Sponsored by New Mexico Lions KidSight The students performed a pair of project pieces, accompanied by a long-term When?

Wednesday Nov. 6, 9:30 a.m. - noon volunteer from Alto, Lou Ann Ellison, Where?

Ruidoso Public Library, 107 Kansas City who accompanied the Capitan, as well Road, upstairs in the archive room as Ruidoso students on piano. “She Why? To detect risk factors which could cause donates her time for us here, once a Amblyopia (lazy eye). If the screening week, to help our kids. She’s been here shows signs of risk factors and family is in as long as I’ve been here, and this is financial hardship, KidSight may be able to my 18th year. It’s been quite a while.” help – plus, it’s free.

Now, James has until early January to learn a half-dozen new songs, give Questions? Please call RPL 258-3704 or vision screener Curt Dimberg, 630-1947

Paging Dr. Frankenstein We were having Goldfish crackers for snack. Stewart came up later and informed me he had not eaten all of his Goldfish but had thrown some away. I said, “Okay, don’t you like Goldfish?”

“Of course,” he told me, “but one time I had a whole bag of Goldfish and I ate them all and then I threw them all up.”

I screwed up my face and told him I could have gone all day without hearing that story. He was most indignant and fired back at me, “It wasn’t a story Ms. Nisha. It was real!”

We opened a new center in our classroom. A doctor/ veterinarian office, complete with stuffed animals hoping it would be more vet than doctor. It didn’t happen.

I was told my appointment was at 10:30, would I please be on time. When I arrived, I was told to sit and wait.

Three pint-sized doctors came to look at me. Dr. Stewart came in to check my reflexes. (His parents are both doctors.) Very professionally, he asked me, “What do I do with this thing, Ms. Nisha?”

I explained it to him and he had me cross my legs and he whacked me on the knee. In the end, he whacked both knees a number of times. He and the other two doctors seemed to think it was funny.

Dr. Casey came up with his stethoscope (his mother is also in the medical profession) and placed it on my chest.

Looking very grave he addressed Dr. Stewart, “I don’t hear anything. I think she is dead. What do we do now?”

Dr. Stewart never missed a beat, “We need to do a heart test and a head test.”

Nurse Alice appeared with a needle (actually, they lost the needle the first day and she was armed with a pair of play tweezers) and jabs me in the arm.

Dr. Bryce (his mother also works at LCMC) Nisha Hoffman hands me a piece of paper nishahoffman@yahoo.com with what could well be some doctor’s handwriting on it and says, “This is your prescription. You can have it filled downstairs.”

Dr. Stewart returns to do my heart and head test. This involves pieces of tape being applied to my arms, head and chest. Following the test the doctors leave to study the results. Dr. Stewart and Dr. Casey return and hand me a paper with a series of lines on it that resemble lightning. Dr. Casey points to the bottom line and tells me this is my heart test. Dr. Stewart proceeds to tell me that my heart is fine just not loud and that’s why Dr. Casey couldn’t hear it. As to the test for my head, they looked but they couldn’t find nothing. Can’t beat those results.

This all ended with Dr. Stewart sneezing and saying, “You can say, God bless you, now, Ms. Nisha. I just sneezed.”

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Oct. 30 through Nov. 5 WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 30 Pre-school Story Time, Ruidoso Public Library, 107 Kansas City Road, 10:30 a.m. 575-2583704. This week: Halloween stories; craft: make a CD pumpkin.

“Hawks Aloft,” Ruidoso Library, 107 Kansas City Rd., 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. For all ages, this presentation is about the Hawks

Aloft Rescue and the birds they have rescued. Presented by the Lincoln County Bird Club. 575258-3704. Free.

Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club, Club 49, Inn of the Mountain Gods, 7 p.m. Professional comedians will perform live every Wednesday night. $5 admission. Must be 21 or older to attend. 575-464-7053.

Live music at WPS in Midtown Ruidoso, 8:30 p.m. - 1:30 a.m.

THURSDAY OCTOBER 31 Tiny Tots Program, Ruidoso Public Library, 107 Kansas City Road, 10:30 - 11:15 a.m. For infants and children through 3 years old. Programs can include: stories, dance, music, free play and sometimes a craft.

Midtown Trick or Treat, 3 - 5 p.m. Dress in your scariest, funniest or best Halloween costume and come to Midtown for trick or treating.

A Beautiful Ruidoso Halloween, Wingfield Park, 3 - 6 p.m.

Recycled costume contest; recycled artsy crafts; creepy bus; fun, games and prizes. Register for contest between 3 and 5 p.m.

Costume judging at 5:30 p.m. Be creative and use the most recycled materials to win a bicycle or one of many other prizes. 575257-5030.

Halloween at Smokey Bear Historical Park, 118 West Smokey Bear Blvd., Capitan, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. A Spook-tacular Halloween - bring a bag for treats, a flashlight for the Haunted Forest, and a camera for a Ghostly PhotoOp. Games and treats inside presented by the Capitan Women’s

Club. 575-354-0033. Free.

Mark Kashmar, country blues, Café Rio, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

Karaoke with DJ Pete, Cree Meadows Lounge, 6 - 11 p.m.

All-you-can-eat taco bar from 6 9 p.m. Open to the public.

Live music at WPS in Midtown Ruidoso, 8:30 p.m. - 1:30 a.m.

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 1 Murder Mystery Weekend, The Lodge Resort & Spa, 601 Corona Place, Cloudcroft. Runs through Nov. 3. A perennial favorite, the weekend includes a champagne reception, buffet dinner on Friday and Saturday evenings, Sunday breakfast buffet, lodging both nights, a mystery gift, and wonderful prizes for the best sleuths.

For prices and reservations, call 800-395-6343; www.TheLodgeResort.com.

Susan Kolb performs at Tina’s Cafe, dinner reservations recommended. 257-8930.

Mike Sanjku performs in Wendell’s Restaurant at the Inn of the Mountain Gods, 5 - 10 p.m.

Terry Bullard Band performs at Cree Meadows Country Club, 5:30 - 8 p.m. Friday night fish fry.

Mark Remington performs at the Swiss Chalet Inn, Mechem Dr., 6 p.m.

The Eliminators perform at Casa Blanca Restaurant, Mechem Dr., 6 p.m.

Open Mic Night, Sacred Grounds, 2825 Sudderth in the Boulder Plaza, 6:30 - 8 p.m. Hosted by Tradd Tidwell. 575-2572273; www.sacredgroundscoffee.net. Free.

Michael Beyer performs older songs and jazz at Kokopelli Country Club in Alto from 7 - 10 p.m.

Karaoke at The Elks Lodge on Highway 70, next to the Ruidoso Emporium, at 7 p.m.

Remedy – The Rock Show, Club 49 at Inn of the Mountain Gods, 8 p.m.

Live music at WPS in Midtown Ruidoso, 8:30 p.m. - 1:30 a.m.

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 2 Western Frontier Gun & Craft Show, Ruidoso Convention Center, 111 Sierra Blanca Dr. Sat., 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Sun., 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Buy, Sell, Trade.

Guns, ammo, knives, military surplus, jewelry. All Federal and State regulations will be followed. 575-430-8681. Admission is $5; children under 10 free with parent.

Annual Electronic Recycle, Lawrence Brothers IGA, 721 Mechem Dr., 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Drop off your obsolete, outdated and replaced electronic items to be recycled by Greentree Solid Waste. Volunteers needed. 575378-4697; www.greentreeswa. org. Free.

Hubbard Museum/ENMURuidoso lecture series on Lincoln County history, at the museum, 26301 Highway 70 West, Ruidoso Downs, 2 p.m.

This week: Hispanics of Lincoln County. 575-378-4142; www. hubbardmuseum.org/scheduleof-events. Free with admission.

Susan Kolb performs at Tina’s Cafe, dinner reservations recommended. 257-8930.

Mike Sanjku performs in

Wendell’s Restaurant at the Inn of the Mountain Gods, 5 - 10 p.m.

Mark Remington performs at the Swiss Chalet Inn, Mechem Dr., 6 p.m.

Free movie “Bottle Shock,” Sacred Grounds, 2825 Sudderth Dr., 6:30 - 9 p.m. A docudrama based on a true story – in 1976, Steven Spurrier, a sommelier in Paris, comes to the Napa Valley to take the best he can find to Paris for a blind taste test against French wine. He meets Jim Barrett, whose Chateau Montelena is mortgaged to the hilt as Jim perfects his chardonnay. As Spurrier organizes the “Judgment of Paris,” Jim doesn’t want to participate while his son Bo knows it’s their only chance.

575-257-2273.

The Eliminators perform at Casa Blanca Restaurant, 7 - 9 p.m.

Michael Beyer performs older songs and jazz at Kokopelli Country Club in Alto from 7 - 10 p.m.

Grand Funk Railroad, Inn of the Mountain Gods, Carrizo Canyon Rd., 8 - 10 p.m. Feel the ground rumble with the notorious awakenings of rock and roll and Grand Funk Railroad featuring founding members, Don Brewer and Mel Schacher joined by veterans Max Carl (38 Special), Bruce Kulick (KISS) and Tim Cashion (Bob Seger).

Deemed “the biggest live rock act in America,” it wasn’t until 1973 that Grand Funk released “We’re An American Band,” their first No. 1 single and first Gold Record for a single. Success continued with hits like “The Loco-

Things to do every day Ruidoso River Museum - Open at 101 Mechem Drive. Hours: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Thurs. - Mon. Admission is $5 for adults and $2 for children.

Simulcast Horse Racing at Billy the Kid’s Race Book at Ruidoso Downs Race Track & Casino. Simulcast races are shown live from across the country and betting windows are open to place your wager. Billy’s Race Book also serves delicious food and has a full bar. If you love horse racing, it is the place to go.

Smokey Bear Park is open in Capitan, located on Highway 380. Open every day of the year except Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s day. $2 for adults, $1 for children 7-12. Children 6 and under are free. Smokey Bear

Simulcast

HORSE RACING

LIVE

from across the country

BILLY’S RACE BOOK

RUIDOSO DOWNS RACE TRACK

26225 U.S. Hwy 70 • Ruidoso Downs Full restaurant and bar

Historical Park is operated by EMNRDForestry Division.

Hubbard Museum of the American West, Ruidoso Downs, just east of the racetrack. The �irst New Mexico museum to be granted “af�iliate” status with the Smithsonian Institution. Open seven days a week, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Admission $6 for adults with discounts available for seniors, military and youth.

Visit www.hubbardmuseum.org or call 575-378-4142.

ALBUM: Mid-20th Century Photographs by Carmon Philips of the People and Places of Lincoln County exhibit opens at the Hubbard Museum of the American West. 26301 Hwy 70 West, Ruidoso Downs, 10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. daily. 575-

378-4142; www.hubbardmuseum.org.

Cree Meadows is open to the public and invites all non-members to join the family and share the fun without membership. Cree offers golf with a view; Sierra Blanca view dining for breakfast, lunch and dinner; entertainment on Thursday nights: DJ Pete Karaoke and Friday nights: the Terry Bullard Band.

The “19th Hole” bar and lounge offers libation at best prices in town and a dramatic Sierra Blanca view. Schedule weddings or meetings in the “North 40” banquet facility. Call 575-257-5815 for information about participating in a classic hometown Country Club where everyone can enjoy the atmosphere and services without membership.

Motion,” “Bad Time” and “Queen Bee.” Minors must be accompanied by an adult. 575-464-7777; www.innofthemountaingods. com. Tickets start at $25.

Remedy – The Rock Show, Club 49 at Inn of the Mountain Gods, 8 p.m.

Live music at WPS in Midtown Ruidoso, 8:30 p.m. - 1:30 a.m.

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 3

DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME ENDS.

Turn clocks back one hour.

The Singing Women of West Texas Service of Praise, First Baptist Church, 270 Country Club Drive, 10:45 a.m. - 12 p.m.

575-257-2081. Free.

Live music at WPS in Midtown Ruidoso, 8:30 p.m. - 1:30 a.m.

MONDAY NOVEMBER 4 Live music at WPS in Midtown Ruidoso, 8:30 p.m. - 1:30 a.m.

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 5 Jesus, Mommy & Me. Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church, 1120 Hull Rd., Tuesday mornings, 9:30-11 a.m. for preschool-aged children. Bible story, songs, finger plays, craft/ art/learning activities and snack.

No fee. 575-258-4191.

Live music at WPS in Midtown Ruidoso, 8:30 p.m. - 1:30 a.m.

HALLOWEEN COSTUME CONTEST at CREE MEADOWS

Thursday, Oct. 31 9:30 p.m.

1st Place: Las Vegas 2-Night Package 2nd Place: $75 Cree Credit 3rd Place: $50 Cree Credit

301 Country Club Drive

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

575-257-5815

www.playcreemeadows.com

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News from around the state OCTOBER 24 School board passes on policy service

FORT SUMNER — The school board bypassed action on Oct. 21 on its superintendent’s request for a contract to ensure consistent updates and maintenance of the district’s policy manuals.

Superintendent Nolan Correa proposed the board contract with the New Mexico School Boards Association to provide regular review of the policy manuals to make sure the documents comply with all state statutes, as well as rules and regulations implemented by various state agencies.

The association charges $385 per month to provide the service and to host the updated manuals online for the public to access. The contract requires a four-year commitment at a total cost of $4,620 per year.

“I have concerns, when looking at the new evaluation process and the potential litigation as a result of it that we need to make sure we are all aligned and up to speed with our policies,” Correa said.

Initially, school board member Tom Wilton moved to approve the expense, but withdrew his motion after others on the finance committee said they would prefer to wait until the next budge cycle to consider the expense.

Currently, 47 school districts in the state subscribe to the service.

— De Baca County News

are coming to an end as regulators channel low-income people into new healthcare programs.

The commissioners in September approved indigent claims of more than $1.3 million to Española Hospital, St. Vincent Regional Medical Center in Santa Fe, and Los Alamos Medical Center. It was the first approval of indigent claims in the County’s 2013-14 fiscal year that began July 1.

As of Oct. 1, Americans were eligible to purchase federally subsidized health insurance from state and federally run health insurance exchanges as part of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly referred to as Obamacare. The costs of health insurance are based on income and household size.

Centennial Care, the name of the state’s new Medicaid program, begins Jan. 1.

Most people enrolled in a New Mexico Medicaid program are eligible for Centennial Care. Four managed-care organizations will provide physical and behavioral health services, long-term care and community benefits. Eligibility is based on income, citizenship and residency.

Rio Arriba County Manager Tomas Campos said the County will continue collecting gross receipts taxes dedicated to paying indigent claims, although Campos acknowledged the indigent funding will be much less without the state and federal subsidies.

— Rio Grande Sun, Española

County still honoring indigent claims

Two killed after chase, roadblock on highway

ESPAÑOLA — The Rio Arriba County commissioners continue to approve indigent claims, although state and federal subsidies for the hospital indigent program

LOVINGTON — A four-mile police chase along U.S. 285 south of Roswell ended with a gun battle and the death of 30-year-old Cristoval Quintana, two

wounded police officers, and another death in a related traffic accident on the morning of Oct. 21.

New Mexico State Police say the chase began when police located a woman on the side of the highway. She told police that her significant other, Quintana, was located further up the road. When police approached Quintana’s vehicle on the shoulder of the highway, he sped off.

State police and Chavez County Sheriff’s personnel chased Quintana for four miles before successfully stopping the vehicle with spike strips deployed in the roadway. State police say Quintana came out of his vehicle firing at officers, hitting a state police sergeant in the leg before officers returned fire, killing him.

Quintana was convicted of armed bank robbery in Albuquerque in 2004 and spent 10 years in prison before recently being released on federal probation.

Police had the highway closed during the pursuit and ensuing shootout. A semi truck did not see the roadblock on approach and rear ended two pickups and an SUV. The accident claimed the life of Rosemary Becerra, 39, of Lake Arthur who was driving one of the pickups.

The drivers of the other pickup and the SUV both sustained minor injuries as well, while the truck driver reported no injuries. A Roswell police officer was also critically injured while directing traffic during the accident and was airlifted to Texas hospital.

— Lovington Leader

OCTOBER 23 County considers new hospital management CLAYTON — County officials held a

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work session Oct. 18 to discuss continuing concerns about Union County General Hospital’s stability and accountability.

The hospital has been under the management of HealthTech Management Services (formerly Brim) for several years.

However, complaints from patients and their families in recent years have raised questions about whether that management has been in the best interest of the public.

Union County owns the hospital facility, but up until now the county has had little to do with the hospital’s daily operations.

Numerous attempts have been made recently to talk with the Hospital Board, the current hospital director and HealthTech management, but county commissioners remain dissatisfied.

Four other hospital management companies are reportedly interested in the hospital, with all four scheduling tours of the facility in November.

— Union County Leader

State’s ‘best town’ for young families named

CLAYTON — The website nerdwallet. com has listed this town as New Mexico’s top community for young families, based on its schools, affordability, growth and prosperity..

Also helping Clayton earn the honor are the outdoor recreational opportunities in the area, which ranges from hiking to boating, giving the town a cumulative score that topped all other communities in the state.

The top five New Mexico communities on the website’s list were Clayton, Los Alamos, Edgewood, Artesia, Rio Rancho and Clovis.

— Union County Leader

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I was once told that intercessory prayer (praying for one another) was like Christian voodoo. That statement cannot be further from the truth. Intercessory prayer is the most powerful tool in our toolbox.

The Word says that the effective and fervent prayers of the righteous have great power. Paul prayed persistently, powerfully and perpetually for all of the people that he had shared the gospel with. Jesus ducked out on many occasions to lift up prayers to the Father includPhil Appel ing the amazing intercessory prayer phillip.appel@thefootofthecross.org that takes up all of the real estate in John chapter 17.

So why is intercessory prayer so powerful? First and foremost it is because of Who is listening on the other side of the phone, the Almighty God of the universe. He not only listens to us, but He hears us as well. In other words, he knows the very cry of our hearts before we even ask. He knows the exact right solution and has absolute power and authority to execute it without any obstacle. Our part is crazy simple compared to His. Ask and believe. That’s it! The Word tells us that we have not because we ask not. And Jesus says when you ask, believe that you will receive it.

Secondly, intercessory prayer is inherently selfless. By definition, if I pray for myself, it is selfish. I am not saying that praying for your needs is wrong. Many scriptures exhort us to lift up our needs and the needs of our families. But I am saying that there is something altogether even more pure and passionate and in tune with the heart of God when we selflessly lift up someone else and ask God to bless them. It is also inherently full of faith. Think about it, when you lift up prayers for other people when no one else but God can hear you, you are either a nut case or you truly believe God is really listening.

You have nothing to gain and nothing to prove. That is the definition of fervent!

But if God only listens to the prayers of the righteous, doesn’t that mean that praying is a waste of time? Who among us is righteous?

Oh but wait, we have access to the very righteousness of God Himself. The perfect, holy, undefiled, game changing, life giving, chain busting, unperishable, unstoppable, Rock solid, dance like David, enter past the gates and right into the Holy of Holies, come boldly to the throne room of grace kind of righteousness that is given freely to those that trust not in their own works, but squarely place every ounce of hope and trust in the righteousness of Jesus!

So off to our prayer closets saints! Let’s pray fervently for our brothers and sisters and neighbors and enemies and yes, even our politicians. And let’s do it all in the name of Jesus so that the breath of our words rides on the very righteousness of His blood straight into the heart of God. When we do that, nothing can stand in the way of God’s answers. Now go change the world, one prayer at a time.

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Children from ages 2 to 10 come together every Wednesday evening at First Baptist Church of Ruidoso. With excitement in the air, the night kicks off at 6 p.m. with pledges and prayer before the children head out with their club leaders to their AWANA classrooms.

AWANA is a church-based club that helps children learn memory verses in a fun way. Motivation for memorizing the verses comes from prizes and

awards the children earn for each memory verse they can recite. AWANA stands for “Approved workmen are not ashamed,” this comes from the Bible passage in 2 Timothy. This is a fitting acronym since the goal of AWANA is to help youth learn and recite Bible verses at times, even in front of people. AWANA is broken down into six categories based on age. Each group focuses on one aspect of Biblical teaching and the lessons carry on this Continued on next page

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the school day back one hour. The student will get There is a challenge in change. The old saying out of school before dark. is true. “No one likes change, except a baby with a But, that presents a problem for sports and dirty diaper.” The time change is upon us. On Nov. 3, extra-curricular activities, and for parents who take we will “fall backward” an hour and regain the hour their children to school on their way to work. we lost last March 10 when we “sprang forward” an hour. Short of a calendar for the current year, the I am not offering a solution to this “Challenge to only way that I can keep up with the time change is Change”, but one would think that somewhere there this…in the Spring, we Spring, we “spring” forward is a solution to this time change thing. Some states and in the Fall, we “fall” backward. just don’t mess with the time change. And that throws The title of the circumstance for the time change businesses off with the states that do. Of course, we is called “Daylight Savings Tome”. And that is truly already have four different time zones across nation the purpose for the time change. For those who and s couple of others with Alaska and Hawaii. work in eight to five jobs, there is one more hour Now, my head is spinning and I have not come of sunlight in the day. But it is hard for school age up with a solution. It looks like we will just have to children who have to get up in the dark an hour early live with what we have and make the best of it. We to get ready for school. will just have to keep on hoping because we sure I understand the worker’s dilemma in getting off need help for today. at “dark-thirty”, but I never really understood the challenge for school kids having to get up in “dark-thirty”.

It really would not be such a problem for the school children, if school started an hour later with the coming of Daylight Savings Time. Being a worker all my adult life, I am in favor of giving the worker an CHURCH SERVICES Sunday School 9:45 AM hour more of WayneJoyce.com Morning Worship 10:45 AM sunlight. But, Sunday Night 6:00 PM Listen or Download FREE Wednesday Night 7:00 PM being an old school teacher, I wanted the RUIDOSO BAPTIST CHURCH students “bight Teaching you Chapter by Chapter & Verse by Verse. eyed and 126 Church Drive • Ruidoso, NM • 575-378-4174 bushy tailed” Next to Family Vision Center on Mescalero Drive for the school Plenty of Parking! day. So, move

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ANGLICAN Mescalero Family Worship Center Gary Dorsey, Pastor; 464-4741 ASSEMBLY OF GOD Carrizozo Community Church (AlG) Barbara Bradley, Pastor. Corner of C Ave. & Thirteenth One Church Pastor Todd Carter. 139 El Paso Road, Ruidoso.

257-2324. wwwonechurchnm.com BAPTIST Canaan Trail Baptist Roland Burnett, Pastor; Located just past milepost 14 on Hwy. 48, between Angus & Capitan.

336-1979 First Baptist Church - Carrizozo 314 Tenth Ave., Carrizozo. 648-2968; Hayden Smith, Pastor First Baptist Church - Ruidoso 270 Country Club Drive, Ruidoso,NM 88345. 2572081; Dr. Alan Stoddard, Pastor First Baptist Church - Ruidoso Downs 361 E. Hwy 70, 378-4611, Randy Widener, Pastor First Baptist Church - Tinnie Bill Jones, Pastor Mescalero Baptist Mission 1016 Old Road Box 9, Mescalero, NM 88340, 9730560, Pastor Zach Malott Mountain Baptist Church Independent-Fundamental KJV. 145 E. Grandview Capitan. 937-4019 Ruidoso Baptist Church Wayne Joyce, Pastor; 126 Church Drive, Palmer Gateway. 378-4174 Trinity Southern Baptist Church (south on Highway 48) 700 Mt. Capitan Rd. 3542044. Mel Gnatkowski, Pastor 808-0607 BAHA’I FAITH Baha’i Faith 257-8857 or 258-5595 BUDDHIST Buddhism of the Lotus Sutra George Brown; 257-1569 CATHOLIC Saint Eleanor Catholic Church 120 Junction Road, Ruidoso, 257-2330. Fr. AI Galvan Saint Theresa Catholic Church Corona. Sunday Mass: 6 p.m. Fr. Mike Williams Saint Joseph’s Apache Mission Mescalero. Father Paul Botenhagen, OFM Our Lady of Guadalupe Bent. Father Larry Gosselin Sacred Heart Catholic Church 299 3rd St, Capitan. Mass 5:00 p.m. Saturday; 8:30 a.m. Sunday. 354-9102. Fr. Mike Williams Santa Rita Catholic Church 243 Birch, Carrizozo. 648-2853. Fr. Mike Williams CHRISTIAN First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)

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1211 Hull at Gavilan Canyon Road, 258-4250 Carrizo Christian Fellowship Leonard Kanesewah Ill, Pastor. 56 White Mt. Dr., 3 mi. W of Inn of the Mountain Gods Mescalero.

464-4656 CHURCH OF CHRIST Gateway Church of Christ 415 Sudderth, Ruidoso, 257-4381. John Duncan, preaching minister Church of Christ - Capitan Highway 48. Joshua Watkins, preaching minister CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST LDS Church of Jesus Christ LDS Ruidoso Ward, 1091 Mechem Bishop Melvin Jenson, 258-1253 Church of Jesus Christ LDS Mescalero Branch, Mormon Missionaries 3172375 EPISCOPAL Episcopal Church of the Holy Mount, 121 Mescalero Trail, Ruidoso. Rev. Judith Burgess Rector 257-2356. Website: www.eclc.us St. Anne’s Episcopal Chapel in Glencoe Episcopal Chapel of San Juan in Lincoln St. Matthias Episcopal Chapel Carrizozo, 6th & E Street EVANGELICAL The Lighthouse Christian Fellowship Church 1035 Mechem Dr. 258-8594 FOURSQUARE Capitan Foresquare Church Hwy 48, Capitan. Harold W. Perry, Pastor, 9377383 FULL GOSPEL Mission Fountain of Living Water San Patricio Full Gospel Church Seed of Faith Fellowship, 517 West Smokey Bear Blvd, Capitan. Pastor Beverly Sills, 973-3721.

6 p.m. Sundays & Wednesdays, pastorbev1@ gmail.com JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES Jehovah’s Witness - Ruidoso Kingdom Hall 1102 Gavilan Canyon Rd., 3364147, 257-7714 Congregacion Hispana de los Testigos de Jehova 1102 Gavilan Canyon Rd., 336-4147, 378-7095 LUTHERAN Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church 258-4191; 1120 Hull Road. Pastor Thomas Schoech. www.shlcruidoso.org METHODIST Community United Methodist Church Junction Road, behind Wells Fargo Bank. Judy Shema, pastor. 257-4170 Capitan United Methodist Church Pastor Jean Riley and the congregation of Capitan United Methodist. White Oaks and Third in

Capitan. 354-2288 Trinity United Methodist Church 1000 D. Ave. 648-2893/648-2846. Carrizozo. Jean Riley, Pastor NAZARENE Angus Church of the Nazarene Angus, 12 miles north of Ruidoso on Hwy. 48, 336-8032. Rick Hutchison, Pastor QUAKER Quaker Worship Group Unprogrammed meeting at the AndersonFreeman Visitor’s Center in Lincoln. For details, contact Sandra Smith at 653-4951 PENTECOSTAL Apostolic Pentecostal Assembly Retired Pastor and author Harry A. Peyton Abundant Life United Pentecostal Church of Ruidoso 613 Sudderth Dr. Unit D. Pastor, Art Dunn, Youth Pastor, Nathaniel Dunn. Free home Bible studies The 1st Iglesia Apostollca de la Fe en Cristo Jesus 613 Sudderth Dr. Suite D, Ruidoso. 257-

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Tony Chambless, Pastor Ancho Community Presbyterian Church Pastor Terry Aiello, CLP Corona United Presbyterian Church Pastor Terry Aiello, CLP Nogal Presbyterian Church Reverend E.W. “Bo” Lewis REFORMED CHURCH Mescalero Reformed Mescalero. Bob Schut, Pastor SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST Ruidoso Seventh Day Adventist 207 Parkway, Agua Fria, Ruidoso Downs, 3784161. Pastor Chuck Workman, 575-636-3773; 1st Elder Manuel Maya 937-4487 SPANISH SERVICES Iglesia del Nazareno Angus Church, 12 mi north of Ruidoso on Hwy 48.

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UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP Sacramento Mountains Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Call 336-2170 or 257-8912 for location NON-DENOMINATIONAL American Missionary Fellowship Rick Smith, 682-2999. E-mail: RickS@ americanmissionary.org Calvary Chapel 127 Vision, next to Cable Co., 257-5915. Pastor John Marshall Centro Familiar Destino 304 Sudderth Dr., Ruidoso, NM 88345, 257-0447.

Services are bilingual Christ Church in the Downs Ruidoso Downs, 378-8464. AI and Marty Lane, Pastors Christ Community Fellowship Capitan, Highway 380 West, 354-2458. Ed Vinson, Pastor Church Out of Church Meeting at the Flying J Ranch, 1028 Hwy. 48, Alto. Pastors: Tim & Julie Gilliland. Mailing Address: 1009 Mechem #11 Ruidoso 88345. 258-1388. www. churchoutofchurch.com. Keepin’ it simple ...

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Cornerstone Church Cornerstone Square, 613 Sudderth Drive, 2579265. John & Joy Wyatt, Pastors Foot of the Cross Christian Ministries, 2812 Sudderth (Pine Tree Shopping Center) Pastor, Phil Appel. For more info please call 937-8677 or visit our website at www.thefootofthecross.org Grace Harvest Church 1108 Gavilan Canyon Rd, 336-4213 Iglesia Bautista “Vida Eterna” Pastor Rev, Ramon Robledo. 207 East Circle, Ruidoso Downs, NM 88346, 361 E. Hwy. 70, 3788108. Email: revrobledo@lycos.com J Bar J Church 40 Hwy 70W, 257-6899 Pastor Charles W. Clary.

E-mail: jbarjcountrychurcb@ruidoso.net Miracle Life Ministry Center Ron Rice & Catherine Callahan, Ministers Available 24 hours for healing, prayer. 354-0255; e-mail miraclelife@ruidoso-online.com Open Circle - High Mesa Healing Center, Sundays, 10-11 a.m. Call 575-336-7777 for information Pacto Viviente 25974 Highway 70, la iglesia “J Bar J” en la granja roja. Domingos 12:30 p.m., Jueves 7 p.m.

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theme. The club begins with Puggles, which is for ages two to three. Puggles as well as the preschool Cubbies club focus on respect and learning that God is a ruler. Children in Kindergarten through second grade learn about wisdom as well as who God is. Next is Truth and Training for grades third through sixth and this club has an emphasis on grace and getting along with one another. AWANA members are motivated to learn these verses with the incentive of a badges and

other awards. Not only is the club great for children but it is a positive influence on the whole family.

“The children learn scriptures that are shared with their families,” said Katrinka Park, an AWANA teacher. Fast-paced learning and fun lessons bring the point home in an effective way.

“It is so exciting to hear the children recite what they have memorized. In God’s word there is no void and that is true with this program,” said Stephanie

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Obituaries

George A. Lawrence

George A. Lawrence, 76, of Ruidoso passed away on Tuesday, Oct. 22 at his home. He was born Dec. 1, 1936 in Yonkers, N.Y. He was a retired Master Sgt. of the U.S. Air Force, serving during the Korean and Vietnam War. He moved to Ruidoso in 1983 from Big Spring, Texas. He attended the Episcopal Church of the Holy Mount.

He married Christina Sollento on Oct. 13, 1968 in Yonkers, and she preceded him in death on July 14, 2006.

He is survived by his son, Nicholas Lawrence; two grandchildren, Bella Lawrence and Sebastian Lawrence; sister, Toni Milioto.

He was preceded in death by a son, George Albert Lawrence Jr. on Dec. 28, 1993.

Visitation was Oct. 28, at LaGrone Funeral Chapel, with the funeral service on Oct. 29, at the Episcopal Church of the Holy Mount, burial followed at Forest Lawn Cemetery.

Condolences may be sent to the family at www.lagroneruidoso.com.

Maelena ‘Chummy’ Johnson Visitation for Maelena “Chummy” Johnson, 35, of Mescalero will be Wednesday, Oct. 30, at LaGrone Funeral Chapel of Ruidoso from 2 until 4 p.m. The prayer service will be Wednesday, at 6 p.m. at the Mescalero Reformed Church where the funeral service will be on Thursday, Oct. 31, at 10 a.m.

Burial will follow at the Mescalero Cemetery.

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She was born Feb. 22, 1978 in Mescalero and had lived there all of her life.

She is survived by her mother, Henrietta Johnson; father, Curtis Johnson; brothers, Clyde Davis and Timothy Johnson; sisters, Jerilyn Morgan and Myrtle Johnson; many nieces and nephews; and her companion, Ernest Bigmouth.

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120 LEGAL NOTICES RESOLUTION NO. 2013/2014-02 ELECTION NOTICE WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of Alpine Village Sanitation District in the County of Lincoln and the State of New Mexico has determined to submit to a vote selection of one director, Position 3, NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED

BY THE GOVERNING BODY (I.E., THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS) OF ALPINE VILLAGE SANITATION DISTRICT: Section 1. In compliance with Section 73-21-14 NMSA 1978, an election shall be held in Alpine Village Sanitation District at 114 Alpine Meadows Trail on Tuesday, January 14, 2014, at which time there shall be submitted to the taxpaying electors of Alpine Village a slate of persons interested in becoming a member of the Board of Directors to Alpine Village Sanitation District, Position 3.

Section 2. Position 3 shall have a term of six (6) years beginning January 15, 2014.

Section 3. Nominations for places on the ballot for Board Position 3 must be filed with the Secretary of the Board, Cheryl Knobel, Post Office Box 699, Ruidoso, NM 88355 on or before November 14, 2013.

Section 4. The polls for said election will be opened at 10:00 a.m. on the day of said election and will be closed at 7:00 p.m. Each voter, except absentee voters, will cast his or her ballot at the polling place.

Section 5. The election committee shall receive no ballot unless the person offering to vote is a taxpaying elector of Alpine Village Sanitation District. A “taxpaying elector” means a person, qualified to vote at general elections in the State, who either has paid or incurred a general tax liability on real property within the District in the twelve months immediately preceding the election or who is purchasing real property within the district under a real estate contract where a property tax has been paid or incurred on the real property in the twelve months immediately preceding the election.

Section 6. Absentee voting will be permitted by following the instructions on the absentee ballots sent out to non-resident electors who reside in the State of New Mexico.

Absentee ballots will be mailed to all New Mexico residents who wish to vote in the election prior to the January election. However, at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, January 13, 2014 (the day before the election), the secretary is required to destroy all unused absentee ballots. In accordance with Sections 1-6-1 through 1-6-18 NMSA 1978, the completed official mailing envelope containing the absentee ballots will be accepted until 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 14, 2014 so that they can be counted with the election tally on Tuesday, January 14, 2014 (election day).

PASSED, ADOPTED, SIGNED AND APPROVED this October 7, 2013. /s/ William Hanson, President /s/ Cheryl Knobel, Secretary

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Full Benefit Package. High School Diploma or GED required. Some college education preferred. Must have and maintain a valid NM driver’s license. EEOE. Closing date for applications is November 1, 2013 at 2:00 p.m.

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Data Entry/Secretary for the City of Ruidoso Downs Police Department Starting pay $10.71 hr. Applications will be accepted until 4:00 p.m. on Friday, November 8, 2013. Complete job description and application at the City of Ruidoso 123 Downs Drive, Ruidoso Downs, NM 88346. Phone 575-3784422 or Fax 575-378-4586.

Website www.ruidosodowns.us “Drug free Workplace “EEOE. EMPLOYMENT NOTICE OPERATOR II – Lincoln County Road Department. Applicant must have working knowledge in the operation and minor maintenance of a wide variety of gasoline or diesel-powered construction equipment; perform minor repairs; preventive maintenance and servicing to equipment. The applicant must possess a valid New Mexico Class A CDL with endorsements N or X. Must pass physical/drug screen.

This position is full time with excellent health and retirement benefits. Obtain application and job description from Billie-Jo Guevara at 575/648-2385 ext. 100. Applications accepted until 5:00 P.M., Tuesday, November 12, 2013.

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140 GENERAL HELP WANTED WOULD YOU LIKE to make a difference in the life of a special needs person? New Horizon’s Developmental Center in Carrizozo is hiring motivated people to work with developmentally disabled adults – teaching, guiding and mentoring.

Starting wage is $7.65. Paid time off, sick time and health benefits plus company paid medically Certified Medication Aide training are

available. You must be at least 21 years old and pass drug, alcohol and criminal background screenings. Pick up an application at New Horizons offices, 810 “E” Avenue. For more information, call Laura Rose, Executive Director, at 575-648-2379. Visit our website at www.newhorizonsdevelopmentalcenter.org. EOE RUIDOSO MUNICIPAL SCHOOLS seeks math teachers for employment in Ruidoso, NM. Multiple positions available. Teach math subjects to high school students.

Req’s Masters in Education or Mathematics+eligibility for NM secondary teaching license w/math

endorsement. Please mail resume to Dr. George Bickert, Ruidoso Municipal Schools, 200 Horton Circle Ruidoso NM 88345 and reference job#MREP13.

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Stephanie Jensen and AWANA participants.

Thank you!

The Staff & Board of Capitan Public Library would like to extend our thanks to the following merchants and individuals who helped make the annual October Silent “Oction” a big success: Ann Curtis Lincoln County Mercantile Marjorie Petree Barbara Watson Mary Jo Smith Brunnell’s Pat Garrett Pauline Purvis Candle Power Peggy Ramona Salvail Casa Décor Ray Parrish Cecile & Fred Kinnan Renee Bradley Cherry Blossom Renee’s Good Food Chris Osborne

Hummingbird Sacred Grounds Jane’s Jewelry Sadie & Tom Mann Janet Henley Sears Jeannie Adams Shelda & Dick Adams Jill & Ron Duncan Smokey Bear Restaurant Joyce Davies Sue Burke Kawligas Teresa’s Clay Works Linda Hand Thelma’s Upholstery Linda Lauchkardt Lindualls Tom and Pat Sullivan

Ron Sanchez Cynthia Smith Rose Smith Wanda Polhemus Log Cabin Quilts Thunderbird Burke’s Outlet Willa and Preston Stone Joyce and Carlton Davies Debbie Myers Ruidoso Athletic Club El Paisano Rustic Connections Foxworth Rustic Diva George Hinch Rustic Olive

If we have missed anyone, please know it was not intentional.

Call 258-9922 or stop by 1086 Mechem (MTD Media) to place your classified ad. Deadline for Legal Notices and Classified Display is Thurs. at 5 p.m.; Deadline for Classified Liners is Fri. at noon.

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ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT. Duties: Appointment coordination, event & meeting planning, travel arrangements, setting appointments, raise monthly invoice. Send your resume and salary expectations to: sonwn1@yahoo.com CONSTRUCTION LABORER NEEDED. Call Jim 575-808-1959. $1500 SIGN-ON BONUS for experienced CDL-A drivers. Get home often & earn 38 cpm. Excellent benefits & CSA friendly equipment. Call 855430-8869. Paid training for CDL-A school recent grads and drivers with limited experience. Apply online at AverittCareers.com. Equal Opportunity Employer.

HELP WANTED-TRUCK DRIVERS OTR Drivers to run Mid-west to West Coast, late model equipment, scheduled hometime, travel allowance, paid vacation. Call Chuck or Tim 800645-3748 ADVERTISE YOUR DRIVER JOBS in 33 New Mexico newspapers for only $100. Your 25-word classified ad will reach more than 288,000 readers.

Call this newspaper to place your ad or log onto www.nmpress.org for more information.

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ADOBE PLAZA

616 Mechem • Ruidoso, NM • (575) 257-4011 • 800-530-4597

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MAGNIFICENT CUSTOM HOME OVERLOOKING THE #2 FAIRWAY

Views of Sierra Blanca, golf course and the Capitans. 3 bdrm plus loft, office, dining room & gourmet kitchen. Separate wet bar area for entertaining. Courtyards, patios & deck area. Paved drive, 2 car garage plus a golf cart garage. Full golf membership. So many extras! $599,500 MLS #112906

NEW! Comm’l Studio Lease

$200-$600/mo

200 Mechem 575-802-3013 190 REAL ESTATE TWO NEIGHBORING 20 ACRE RANCHES each just $12,900 or together for $24,000. Lender repossession. 1 hour 45 minutes southwest of Albuquerque. These ranches previously sold for 3x the new asking price. Remote, high desert setting with good access and electric. Financing available. Call NMRS 1-888676-6979

All American Realty SALES & RENTALS Long & Short Term Rentals Top of Sunny Slope, 3br 2ba, garage, deck $1250 Nogal 3br 2ba, horses ok! $700 Available Now (part time/full time agents welcomed)

(575) 257-8444

205 ROOM FOR RENT

ROOM AND BATH with private entrance. $350 per month. 575-3788163

220 MOBILE HOMES FOR SALE 2BDRM, 2BTH with fireplace 806787-1935

3 bdrm, 2 ba w/study, den, living room PLUS bonus room! Beautiful tiled showers, garden tub & granite countertops throughout. Crown molding & real rock FP. Situated on a cul-de-sac with gorgeous views on 6.58 acres. This home is special and a delight to see! $419,000 MLS #113281

BEAUTIFUL GOLF COURSE LOCATION

One of the prettiest on the golf course, w/a view of the mountains & the water. This large 4 bdrm, 3 ba home has high cathedral ceilings. Sit on the deck & watch the ducks fly in or just enjoy the golfers and additional wildlife. Easy access, porte cochere and other amenities. $291,500 MLS #112674

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IMMACULATE WELL-BUILT AND MAINTAINED HOME

RENTALS HOUSES

323 HEATH DRIVE – FURN 3 BDR, 2 BA (showers only) with knotty pine walls & wood floors. Approx. 1337 sq.ft. $975/Mo + utilities.

111 FIR – UNF 2 BDR, 2 BA. Approx 1168 sq.ft. Pets ok with owner approval. $800/Mo + utilities. (On the Market - Subject to showing with a lawful 30-day notice) 962 GAVILAN CANYON – UNF 2 BDR, 2 BA. Approx. 1070 sq.ft. $1100/Mo + utilities (water is included).

964 GAVILAN CANYON – UNF 2 BDR, 2 BA. Approx. 1011 sq.ft. $1100/Mo + utilities (water is included).

114 LARCH – UNF 3 BDR, 2 BA. Approx. 1326 sq.ft. $1050/Mo + utilities. (Available 11-7)

CONDOS

406 SUNNY SLOPE #3 – FURN 2 BDR, 1 1/2 BA. $1100/Mo incl. utilities. #416 CHAMPION’S RUN – FURN 2 BDR, 2 BA w/carport. Approx. 1320 sq.ft. $900/Mo + utilities.

108 TURNBERRY LANE – FURN 2 BDR, 2 BA. Approx. 1254 sq.ft. $1400/ Mo + utilities.

MANUFACTURED HOMES:

481 PARADISE CANYON – FURN 3 BDR, 2 BA with log siding & a great deck. Approx. 1760 sq.ft. $1600/Mo includes utilities.

COMMERCIAL

2900 SUDDERTH DRIVE – Large building at the corner of Sudderth & Mechem with many potential uses. Come take a look.

419 MECHEM DRIVE – Approx. 1100 sq.ft. Come take a look. $500/Mo + utilities.

575-257-4011 • 800-530-4597 View these rentals at: www.ruidosorelo.com

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14X70 MOBILE HOME. Owner financing. Down payment required.

575-937-9236.

225 MOBILE HOMES FOR RENT ONE BR, FURNISHED, remodeled.

Centrally located. $675 utilities paid.

575-937-9236.

235 HOMES FOR RENT: FURNISHED / UNFURNISHED 3BD/2BA $975 plus utilities on south Cree. 575-430-7009

260 APARTMENT RENTALS 3 BR, 1 BATH in Ruidoso Downs $550. Deposit $300. Tenant pays gas

& electric.

SECTION 8 VOUCHERS WELCOME

Inspiration Heights Apartment Homes 1, 2, and 3 bedrooms.

Nestled in the pines of Ruidoso Downs 301 Sierra Lane

378-4236

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NEWLY BUILT, light and airy, views, large one bedroom loft apartment above a home: utilities included, near Midtown, $750/month. 575937-6791.

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LARGE EFFICIENCY in Upper Canyon, private entrance. Cable, all utilities included. $525/month $250 deposit. 575-973-4805

CANADA DRUG CENTER is your choice for safe and affordable medications. Our licensed Canadian mail order pharmacy will provide you with savings of up to 90 percent on all your medication needs. Call today 1-800-661-3783, for $10.00 off your first prescription and free shipping.

310 MISCELLANEOUS TOPSOIL FOR SALE. Please call 575-937-3015 KOKOPELLI FULL GOLF MEMBERSHIP for sale. 512-401-9601 HONDA WALK-BEHIND SNOW BLOWER $600. Commercial concrete roof tiles 2 styles $1,500 each.

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AUCTION P & M FARM AND MUSEUM. Nov 2, 2013 at 9:30. Preview dates are Oct 31 and Nov 1. Starting at noon, sale of vintage cars, wagons, carriages, farm equip. 478 Jarales Rd., Jarales, NM, 1/4 miles N of Jarales post office. www.bentleysauction.com. 505-344-1812.

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REMODELER SEEKING WORK will consider trading labor for automobile. 937-1041

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