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Photo courtesy of U.S. Air Force, Staff Sgt. Carolyn Herrick (released)

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgts. Samantha Hagan and Jackson Nay load donations from a Toys For Tots collection point at The Exchange at Holloman Air Force Base, Dec. 13. The toys will be distributed to underprivileged community members at the Sgt. Willie Estrada Memorial Civic Center in Alamogordo, Dec. 22 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. This is the largest Toys for Tots drive that Holloman AFB has ever held, with more than 300 toys collected.

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Airmen team up with Toys For Tots It’s that time of year again: the holiday season – complete with lights, food, family, and, of course, Santa Claus. Children are counting down the days to see what the man in red has brought for them, but what about those parents who haven’t had the best financial year? Two airmen from Holloman Air Force Base are here to help.

Staff Sgts. Jackson Nay and Samantha Hagan, both 49th Maintenance Operations Squadron maintenance training instructors, teamed up this year to successfully bring Toys For Tots to the Holloman AFB community.

“I grew up in an underprivileged family,” said Nay, an Alturas, Calif., native. “I’m really big on every child having a gift on Christmas.”

Toys For Tots was started in 1947

by Bill Hendricks, a major in the U.S. Marine Corps. His idea was to collect toys for needy children so they would always have a gift on Christmas.

Soon, the foundation grew nationwide, and now takes place every holiday season.

Nay and Hagan knew that Holloman AFB had participated in the drive before, but this year they wanted to expand and communicate the importance of giving back. They set up 26 donation boxes around base, and collected “massive stacks of toys” – more than 300 so far, according to Nay. “Everyone has an opportunity to contribute this year,” Hagan stated with excitement.

When asked why this is such an important event to them they both gave a heartwarming response.

“I have a soft spot for children,” said Hagan, a Colorado Springs native.

She is teaching her 2-year-old daughter the importance of giving back this holiday as well.

“I’m bringing my daughter to the toy distribution so she will always know how important it is to give to others,” she said.

More than 15 members of Team Holloman volunteered their time

to distribute toys at the Sgt. Willie Estrada Memorial Civic Center in Alamogordo Dec. 22 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Santa made a special appearance.

Anyone is welcome to receive; however, the Toys For Tots organizers ask everyone to keep in mind that the foundation was based on the needs of the under privileged.

“It would be nice on these final days to give one last push to help children this Christmas,” said Hagan. “It isn’t about opening walls, but opening our hearts no matter what; it’s all about the kids.”

For additional information and photos, please visit the Holloman web site at www.holloman.af.mil, like us on the Holloman Facebook page at www.facebook.com/HollomanonFB, or follow us on Twitter @HollomanAFB.

Photo courtesy of U.S. Air Force, Staff Sgt. Carolyn Herrick (released)

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgts. Samantha Hagan and Jackson Nay load donations from a Toys For Tots collection point at The Exchange at Holloman Air Force Base, Dec. 13. The two 49th Maintenance Operations Squadron maintenance training instructors initiated an expanded base-wide drive this year, with 26 collection points.

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ern bluebird, mountain bluebird, Townsend’s solitaire, hermit thrush, American robin, northern mockingbird, spotted towhee, canyon towhee, rufous-crowned sparrow, chipping sparrow, northern harrier, Cooper’s hawk, golden eagle, greater roadrunner, red-naped sapsucker, hairy woodpecker, loggerhead shrike, Steller’s jay, common raven, pygmy nuthatch, cactus wren, sage thrasher, cedar waxwing, phainopepla, pyrrhuloxias, Brewer’s sparrow, pine siskin, gadwall, American widgeon, ring-necked duck, wild turkey, American kestrel, western screech owl, horned lark, juniper titmouse, verdin, redbreasted nuthatch, brown creeper, house wren, golden-crowned kinglet, curvebilled thrasher, Crissal thrasher, green-tailed towhee, black-chinned sparrow, mallard, Montezuma quail, ferruginous hawk, peregrine falcon, prairie falcon, American coot, killdeer, Wilson’s snipe, ringbilled gull, burrowing owl, spotted owl, Wilson’s sapsucker, yellow-bellied sapsucker, downy woodpecker, Hammond’s flycatcher, black phoebe, Say’s phoebe, pinyon jay, Chhuahuan raven, blue-gray gnatcatcher, blacktailed gnatcatcher, eastern bluebird, brown thrasher, American pipit, Audubon’s yellow-rumped warbler, field sparrow, lark sparrow, fox sparrow, song sparrow, slate-colored dark-eyed junco, yellow-headed blackbird, wood duck, northern pintail, greenwinged teal, lesser scaup, common merganser, ruddy duck, ringnecked pheasant, northern bobwhite, great blue heron, cattle egret, bald eagle, Harris’ hawk, rought-legged hawk, sandhill crane, Herring gull, long-eared owl, Lewis’ woodpecker, yellow-shafted northern flicker, eastern phoebe, plumbeous vireo, American dipper, European starling, Myrtle’s yellow-rumped warbler, northern cardinal, American tree sparrow, savannah sparrow, great-tailed grackle, and evening grosbeak.

The Christmas Bird Count began in 1900, when ornithologist Frank Chapman, an early officer of the National Audubon Society, along with 27 counters in 25 locations in the United States and Canada, counted 90 different bird species. The citizen scientists who participate, submit their data to a national database.

The data is reviewed by regional panels of scientists and the results are made available publicly online.

This data is then compared and analyzed with other scientific studies. The Christmas Bird Count provides a snapshot of bird population diversity, numbers and distribution in winter, over a long period, which aids in our understanding of their health and population dynamics.

No experience is required to participate in the Christmas Bird Count. Participants may register for the Peak Fitness Challenge (www.texasmountaintrail. com/hike) to record and track hike mileages in Guadalupe Mountains National Park and Franklin Mountains State Park, and become eligible to win prizes.

To participate as a counter in the Christmas Bird Count at Guadalupe Mountains National Park, please contact the park’s Christmas Bird Count Coordinator, Michael Haynie at 915-828-3251 x2314 or via email at Michael_Haynie@nps.gov or Chief of Resource Management Janet Coles at 915-828-3251 x2400 or via email at Janet_Coles@nps.gov.

More information about the Christmas Bird Count is available at http://birds.audubon.org/christmas-birdcount#.

Guadalupe Mountains National Park to participate in annual Christmas bird count

Guadalupe Mountains National Park Superintendent Dennis A. Vásquez invites everyone to participate in the 113th Annual Christmas Bird Count on Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013 at the park. Counters at Guadalupe Mountains National Park will join more than 50,000 counters and more than 2,000 locations throughout North, South and Central America, and the Caribbean, from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego. Nancy Stotz of the Mesilla Valley Audubon Society in Las Cruces will present Winter Birds of the Guadalupes: Three Decades of Christmas Bird Counts, a PowerPoint presentation, at 10 a.m. in the Pine Springs Visitor Center Auditorium.

Each year, between Dec. 14 and Jan. 5, citizen scientists, who are birders of all ages, families, students, scientists and groups volunteer at those sites, bring their binoculars, bird guides and check lists to identify and count birds, monitoring the health of bird populations, contributing significantly to their conservation and enjoying their beauty. Guadalupe Mountains has participated in the Christmas Bird Count for more than 30 years.

Said Vásquez, “because of its diversity of ecosystems, Guadalupe Mountains National Park has nearly 300 species of birds. We are proud to partner with the Audubon Society to participate in the Annual Christmas Bird Count, along with the dedicated citizen scientists who come to the park each year to help with the Christmas Bird count and enjoy a day of birding in a spectacular national park. We are equally pleased to have the participation of the Mesilla Valley Audubon Society in this year’s Christmas Bird Count. We hope that new birders will come join us this year.”

Bird species one may see in Guadalupe Mountains National Park during the Christmas Bird Count may include scaled quail, sharp-shinned hawk, red-tailed hawk, white-winged dove, great horned owl, acorn woodpecker, ladder-backed woodpecker, red-shafted northern flicker, western scrub jay, mountain chickadee, bushtit, white-breasted nuthatch, rock wren, canyon wren, Bewick’s wren, ruby-crowned kinglet, west-

Photos courtesy of Wikipedia.com

Above, bald eagle; from left, northern flicker, black phoebe, yellow-rumped warbler, hairy woodpecker and juniper titmouse.

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Better Home and Health Meanwhile, across Well the winter holithe Pacifi c Ocean in days are upon us.

Japan, brilliant minds This is a great time to began to explore a simireflect on the blessings of lar line of thinking and good health. It is a time hypothesis. to honor our faith in the Dr. Kyochi Nakpower of the Holy Spirit agawa realized that the and to give thanks for adearth’s magnetic field is vances in natural, modern Tim Seay not fixed in its position medicine to restore and or strength but rather resonating or heal our bodies. pulsating in nature.

So far in this series we have In the last hundred years it has touched on what Pulsed Electro-Magbecome apparent that the earth’s netic Field Therapy is being used for magnetic field has weakened by about with a little more detail about how it 6 percent. affects the human cell and blood.

Dr. Nakagawa argued that since This week we will step back for humans evolved in a magnetic field, it bit and look at the history. is necessary for proper health.

More than 500 years ago, ParacelWe are much less connected to our sus, a Swiss physician and alchemist, wondered if perhaps diseases could be earth these days.

Most of us spend our time driving manipulated by magnets. At that time around in steel boxes with rubber invery few paid attention to his ideas. sulating wheels. We wear rubber-soled Years later, during the 1800’s most of the discoveries relating to electrici- shoes and move about on concrete ty and its relation to electromagnetism and steel thereby blocking the vital energy fields on which our bodies were made by a few key pioneers.

Names such as Gauss, Weber, Faraday run. Did you ever wonder why it just and Maxwell led the charge. Ampere’s feels so good to be outside? To just lie in the grass in a park or relax on the Law emerged stating that around every electrical current exists an electro- beach. Well there is more to it than just aesthetics. We used to touch the magnetic field. earth more and we need its energy to In 1895, the genius, Nikola Tesla survive and thrive as organisms. flipped a switch at the Niagara Falls These days, in parts of Japan they Power Company and began sending call Fibromyalgia Electro-Magnetic alternating current (A/C) to Buffalo, Defi ciency Syndrome, like they actuNY. ally get it.

Cities around the world soon The fact is, no one really knows followed and the birth of commercial exactly how the mechanisms of PEMF power was born. affect human health but we do know In 1898, Tesla published a paper that high intensity, artificial, manthat he presented at the eighth annual made frequencies have an adverse meeting of the American Electroeffect and low intensity frequencies Therapeutic Association. He stated found in nature have a very positive that one of the most intriguing qualieffect. ties of Pulsed Electro-Magnetic fields Be sure to spend some time outwas their apparent harmlessness, side this holiday season. You will feel which made it feasible to pass relatively large amounts of energy through and be better for it!

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LEACO donates toys for town NEW YEAR’S EVE LINCOLN SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS of Hagerman Giving Tree BALLROOM RUIDOSO • RUIDOSO DOWNS • HWY Delighted children browsed who needed a little380 help to make their through the toys at the Town of Hager- Christmas brighter. Of course, we man Giving Tree Dec. 15 at Hagerman knew this would be a perfect project Community Center. LEACO donated for us to take on. This is what LEACO $500 in toys, clothes and shoes, as well is all about.” as $1,000 in activation fees collected The event, organized by the Town between Thanksgiving and Christmas. of Hagerman, took place on Saturday, Continuing efforts to make a difDec. 15. All the children gathered at ALAMOGORDO • CLOUDCROFT • TULAROSA ference in the communities LEACO the Community Center, where the toys serves, the cooperative partnered with were organized and displayed. Each the Town of Hagerman to provide a child received two toys of their choice very special Christmas to some local and a stuffed animal. There were even children in need. enough toys left for the town to deliver Between Thanksgiving to Christto other needy families in the area that mas, LEACO and NMobile collected didn’t make it to the event. toys, clothes and shoes for local chilAbout Leaco Rural Telephone Cooperadren in need this holiday season. In tive: LEACO, headquartered in Hobbs, addition to waiving activation fees for has been southeastern New Mexico’s customers who donated these items, leading provider of wired and wireless LEACO also donated all the activatelecommunications and high-speed Intion fees collected, totaling more than $1,000, to the effort. LEACO staff also ternet services since 1954. The cooperative now serves a population of nearly contributed nearly $500 in toys and 175,000 people in the cities of Artesia, clothes.

Carlsbad, Dexter, Eunice, Hagerman, “Each year we try to do something Lovington, Jal, Hobbs, Roswell and Taspecial for people in our local areas tum. LEACO provides wireless cellular, that might get overlooked at ChristPCS, Wi-Fi, paging, and DSL services; mas. Last year we collected hundreds local and long distance telephone servicof coats and supplies for three area es; wired dial-up, DSL and high-speed shelters and the outpouring of generos- Internet services; and competitive local telephone services via a fiber optic ring. ity from our staff and customer base For more information, visit www.leaco. was enormous,” said Charity Benton, net or search for Leaco Rural Telephone LEACO marketing manager. “This Cooperative Inc. on Facebook. year, we learned about 115 children Courtesy photo in the Dexter and Hagerman areas

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making it the best-attended agricultural conference in the state.

This year’s keynote speaker is Mace Vaughan, whose work with the Xerces Society aims to protect bees and other crop pollinators. Vaughan will talk about the importance and decline of pollinators and how farmers can conserve their habitat. Renowned animal behaviorist Dr. Temple Grandin is also among the experts slated to speak this year. Round-

ing out the conference speakers are organic growers, grocers, and specialists whose work involves organic weed and pest management.

“The extreme freezes and exceptional drought we’ve had the last couple of years have been really challenging,” said Joanie Quinn, organic commodity advisor for NMDA’s Organic Program. “The conference will give farmers and ranchers an opportunity to share the lessons they’ve learned and to draw on the latest research.” NMDA’s Organic Program provides nationally accredited organic certification for farmers, ranchers, and food processors/handlers throughout New Mexico, as well as application and marketing assistance. Organic Program staff work with employees from New Mexico State University’s Cooperative Extension Service and the nonprofit Farm to Table to organize the annual conference.

To see the agenda and register for the conference, please visit www.farmtotablenm.org and click on ‘Events.’ Discounted registration ends Dec. 31.

For more information on NMDA’s Organic Program and organic certification, visit www.nmda.nmsu. edu/marketing/organic-program/.

New Mexico’s organic community prepping for state’s biggest agricultural conference Pollinator expert and Temple Grandin to speak at 2013 New Mexico Organic Conference

Certified organic farmers and ranchers from across the Southwest, as well as those interested in organic practices, will gather in Albuquerque this February to build and share knowledge related to the fastest growing segment of New Mexico agriculture.

In 2011, organic farming and ranching in New Mexico brought in more than $53 million.

“There’s a lot of diversity across New Mexico’s organic farming and ranching community,” said New Mexico Secretary of Agriculture Jeff Witte.

“We have farmers and ranchers producing organic fruit and vegetables, livestock and poultry, nuts, and flowers, to name a few.” Producers of those items and those interested in organic agriculture are invited to register for the 2013 New Mexico Organic Farming Conference. It takes places Feb. 15 and 16 at the Marriott Albuquerque Pyramid North. About 700 people turned out for last year’s conference,

Holiday ping pong tournament at the Ruidoso library

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For the holidays, the Ruidoso Public Library held a ping pong tournament. Corey Bard congratulates the winner, Elder Baker. A library is always more than just books. Ruidoso Public Library is located at 107 Kansas City Road.

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have drastically increased Dr. Stephen Rath it’s complexity. Even if Fusion Medical Center, the rest of the year is too Ruidoso busy, the holiday season I will continue to is time we need to use try to reply to questions to slow down and enjoy presented as long as space life itself. Too often we allows. become so mired in the The reader’s quesDoing that we forget tion (paraphrased): Why about the Living. do you offer “potentially I certainly wasn’t a questionable services” Dr. Stephen Rath good example of Livsuch as photo-rejuvenaing at the start of 2012. tion and laser resurfacing Military physician/fl ight surgeon three at Fusion Medical Spa? to four days per month, anesthesioloAnswer: I’d like to say it isn’t gist with 24-hour hospital call four to just smoke and mirrors, but it is! Our five days per month, ski patrol during Bladeless Facelift laser resurfacwinter weekends, and a full-time job ing procedure does produce a small with our medical spa. I was Doing all amount of smoke as the wrinkles are vaporized. Mirrors? An important part the time, and while that kind of busy schedule has always been invigoratof everything we do! Patients visit ing for me, I was brought to a crawl my practice because of issues they by my own biology. After a personal discover while looking in the mirror. encounter with early onset “old age” We hand them a mirror at the end of this summer, both my wife and I were a procedure (in addition to the before delighted to discover that I wasn’t and after pictures) to show the imterminally tired, I just suffered from provement. Visit Palomar Medical’s a testosterone deficiency. I have since website or stop by to see our before started bio-identical hormone replaceand after pictures. ment and feel like I am Living again.

The benefits of all services and This Christmas season, focus on products that we provide have been opening your eyes to the joy around scientifically proven to a very high you. Give an unexpected gift. Help standard. We use the most expensive a friend in need. Pay attention to the laser system in the United States not little ones as they open presents. Take because of it’s cost, but because it is a break from the doing and spend the only laser system that can reliably time living. Rediscover the magic of provide 100 percent patient satisfacChristmas! tion. Please, don’t make my services “potentially questionable;” make them completely questionable. Make my Merry Christmas from the services and those of all physicians inDoctors Rath and the staff of clude answering all of your questions.

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Christmas is here, and the New Disclaimer: Dr Stephen Rath, MD, Year is upon us. Time to gather with DABA is a board certified anesthefriends and loved ones and catch up siologist as well as the owner and on the good and bad that we have medical director of Fusion Medical missed due to our high-speed lives. It Spa located in Ruidoso. This year wasn’t always this way. One hundred he has resolved to turn in his Grinch and fifty years ago we gathered to costume in exchange for a dose of true catch up on everything missed due to Christmas spirit. Comments or quesslow communication. The telegraph, tions? His email address is: DrRath@ telephone, and now internet have brought great changes to our lives, but FusionMedicalSpa.net.

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Spencer brings performance luminaries Gift yourself with Spencer Theater: A great Hall of Fame

‘Spamalot’ • Feb. 25

The late artists Dave Brubeck, Marvin Hamlisch, Frank Gorshin, Rusty Weir, Roger Williams and Eddie Carroll are just a few of the luminaries to have graced the Spencer Theater stage in recent years. Now no longer with us, hundreds in Ruidoso and surrounding areas seized the opportunity to see these talents – up close and personal – on in the mix. Among the latter, we have our remarkable Alto stage. Hundreds more took a chance on the rising young two Equity performances right on deck this 2013 winter season: the hilarious artists Lang Lang, Nikki Yanofsky and Broadway comedies “Nunset BouleMorgan Frazier – talents who are now vard” starring Cindy Williams on Jan. in top demand within the industry, and in some cases, around the world. We’re 29 and “Monty Python’s Spamalot” on Feb. 25. There’s also an impressive all so proud of these performance talents and the fact that we got to see them array of mega-award-winning contemporary dance (i.e. “Stomp” on Feb. here, in our very own Spencer Theater 2), traditional and international dance for the Performing Arts. It is staggering when you think about it: this utterly (“Rhythm of the Dance” on March 3), classic Broadway musical theater (“Fidunique facility – located off the beaten dler on the Roof” on March 9), operatic path in rural New Mexico – offers a breathtaking view of the world.

‘Nunset Boulevard’ • Jan. 29 The Spencer has presented more than 900 stars, entertainers, dance, drama and comedy performance troupes, bands, symphonies music ensembles to tens of thousands of patrons, with multiaward winners and Equity shows

vocalists (The Texas Tenors on April 20) and spoton-perfect tributes (The Fab Four April 6 and “Elvis Lives” April 28) in the mix. The season’s menu is chock-full of grade A entertainment, just as we’ve been serving up for the past 15 years.

Don’t take this remarkable facility for granted! Call the Spencer Box Office for a schedule of events or go online to www.spencertheater. com. Tickets and gift certificates are available for every show. Be one of the many who gets to boast: “I saw ’em at the Spencer!”

Remember, a great seat is a terrible thing to waste.

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Renovations at Roswell LINCOLN SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS PD nearly complete

RUIDOSO • RUIDOSO DOWNS • HWY 380 cers to continue daily work, all furniture The majority of the renovations and equipment (which was still usable) the Roswell Police Department (RPD) had to quickly be moved to another building had to endure due to water location of the building. Without hesitadamage back in October are complete. tion, RPD personnel worked diligently The RPD building underwent and began relocating furniture and construction to repair damage from a equipment to ensure fellow co-workers severe rainstorm on Friday, Oct. 12.

ALAMOGORDO • CLOUDCROFT • TULAROSA would be able to continue daily tasks. It During the rainstorm three floors susonly took a half-day to temporary relotained water damage and the basement was flooded. Various parts of the ceiling cate and set up the items sergeants and officers utilize. Even while construction collapsed. Luckily no one was injured.

Pieces of furniture and equipment were was under way, RPD staff never missed a step; all reports and daily tasks were not repairable. completed on schedule.

In order for the sergeants and offiBelfor Property Restoration did a fantastic job renovating the RPD building. The ceilings and walls have been fixed, and carpet has been installed, and the roof repaired. Some furniture is still being built and most equipment has been replaced. The RPD building is fully functional once again.

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RPD reminds citizens to lock vehicle doors ROSWELL – As the Christmas holiday draws near, the Roswell Police Department reminds citizens to take all items of value out of vehicles.

As people rush to purchase gifts, they sometimes forget to secure their valuables. Every day officers from the Roswell Police Department (RPD) respond to multiple vehicle burglaries. Various items have been taken, such as cell phones, purses, money, and even guns.

The RPD would like to remind

citizens to lock vehicle doors, and keep windows in the upright position when the automobile is unoccupied.

Most recently vehicles have been burglarized due the vehicle being unsecured. If a motor vehicle is unlocked, it is an opportune time for someone to burglarize the vehicle.

Citizens should be proactive to ensure their belongings are secured.

Do not become a victim of a vehicle burglary. Remember to lock all doors, and keep valuable items out of sight.

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Holiday hours for Artesia restaurants Burritos Y Salsa - closed Dec. 24, 25, 31, and Jan. 1 Burger King - close at 8 p.m. on Dec. 24, closed 25, opens at 10 on Jan. 1 Chaos Café - closed Dec. 24 and 25 Chapz Bar and Grill - open on Dec. 24 till 2 p.m. and closed Dec. 25 Cottonwood Winery - closed Dec. 24, 25 and Jan. 1 Eileen’s Tac-Ole - closed Dec. 25 and 25 Eversprings will be open for Christmas Henry’s BBQ - closed Dec. 24 through Jan. 2 Hobo’s Meat & Bread - closed Dec. 22 through Dec. 25 and closed Jan. 1st Jahva House - open Dec. 24 9 a.m. - 2 p.m., closed Dec. 25, open Dec. 31 7 a.m. - 6 p.m. and closed Jan. 1 KFC & Taco Bell – 12:30 - 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 24, closed Dec. 25, open till 9 Dec. 31, 11 - 9 on Jan. 1 Kwan Den – closed Dec. 24, 25 and Jan. 1 La Fiesta – closed Dec. 24 and 25

La Fonda – open till 3 on Dec. 24, closed Dec. 25 and Jan. 1 La Hacienda – closed Dec. 25 La Herradura – closed Dec. 24, 25 and Jan. 1 Little Caesars – open Dec. 24 till 8, closed Dec. 25, open Dec. 31 till 8 Nina’s – open Dec. 24 till 2p.m., closed Dec. 25, 26, and 31 McDonalds – close at 6 p.m. on Dec. 24, closed Dec. 25, close at 8 p.m. on Dec. 31, and open till 6 p.m. on Jan. 1 Pecos Diamond – 11-3 on Dec. 24, closed Dec. 25, 11-9 on Dec. 31, closed Jan. 1 Paddock Café – closed Dec. 24, 25 and Jan. 1 Pizza Hut/Wing Street – close at 8 p.m. on Dec. 24, closed Dec. 25 Subway – close at 2 on Dec. 24, closed Dec. 25 Sonic – closed Dec. 25 Wellhead – closed Dec. 24, 25 and Jan. 1 Hotel Artesia will have DJ Rico playing, 9 p.m. – 1 a.m. New Year’s Eve. No cover, party favors. $98 special on a double bed only.

Y3K is comin’ Copyright © 2012 Jay McKittrick

Y3K – that’s what I’m worried about, now. ’Cause I think that Y3K is going to be the big one that gets us. And because I’m an American, I need to have some kind of impending apocalypse to keep me happy and motivated.

Now, I know that some people are skeptical about Y3K, (and pooh-pooh it as a legitimate doomsday prophesy) while others talk ad nauseam about the fact that its wrath is more than 900 years away, but I say: can’t we be optimistic and non-partisan about one issue for once, people?

And consider all the advances in modern medicine these days, and all the money that is being given away for legitimate research. What if they do find a cure for cancer? We might all live to see Y3K even if it kills us.

What’s more, if they can grow a human ear on the back of a mouse, just think of what they can do for other age related issues that are keeping us down.

My fifth grade teacher used to say, “Brains don’t grow on trees, you know.” Well, they might in the future – assuming that we have water.

Yep! Y3K is comin’ – and I’m gettin’ ready. That’s why I’ve decided

to buy a cave. (Yes! I have a realtor, by the way.) But I don’t need anything big or fancy like Jay McKittrick the one in jaymckittrick@gmail.com Carlsbad, I do, however, want my cave to be in a good neighborhood – you know, in a ‘Sapien’ neighborhood. I don’t want to live next door to a bunch of Neanderthals who come over every night to borrow my fire. And I’m not looking for a fixer-upper either, I don’t want a cave that’s full of guano that I have to shovel on my weekends, nor do I want to trip over a stalagmite or hit my head on a stalactite, in the middle of the night, when I’m trying to make my way to the bottomless pit .

As for food preparation, I’m afraid that all the beans and rice that I’ve been storing for the last 10 years won’t be any good by then. I have complete faith, however, that my stockpile of Spam and Twinkies will last forever.

Carpe diem.

MESCALERO

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New Year’s Eve party ideas Alcohol often plays a major role as we celebrate the holidays and hopefully, we can all learn to practice safe and responsible drinking.

New Year’s Eve is one of the most popular celebrations that consist of alcohol related festivities.

Here are a few ideas to consider, that may help us celebrate in a secure and joyful way.

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Create Story Boards – Using large cardboard (could be recycled from excess Christmas packaging), and magazines, you and your guests can cut out photos, words and phrases for your hopes and dreams for 2013, then glue them on the cardboard. This is an excellent way to list your resolutions and goals for the New Year and can be looked at frequently through the New Year to see how many goals and dreams have been accomplished and can help us focus on our priorities.

If your New Year’s goal is to include more health, you can always start it off right with a party that includes healthy snacks and hors d’oeuvres or you can make it a potluck, so

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you and your guests can inspire each other with delicious goodies. Healthy smoothies and juices can also be served.

A couple of snack ideas include: •

Planning a party with focal points other than alcohol is a great way to kick of the New Year and can include children, teens and adults.

A few ideas include: •

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Designate a driver, so if you and your guests have a little too much fun, everyone can make it home safely.

Limit the amount of alcohol you consume, and rotate alcoholic beverages with water (always good for our body) as this may reduce hangover symptoms the next day. By taking this beverage break, we can also give our brain a moment to adjust and realize whether we need more alcohol or not, as the effect of alcohol can often creep up on us.

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Veggie wraps – Warm whole wheat tortillas, then spread on your favorite flavor of hummus or deli style mustard, then add your choice of chopped vegetables, such as red or green bell peppers, fresh spinach, tomatoes, onions, cucumber, broccoli, on thin flat tortilla, roll up tightly. You may wish to bind with a toothpick every two inches and slice.

Veggies and dip – carrots, celery, broccoli and cauliflower florets, and cucumbers make a great choice to dip into hummus or homemade guacamole.

Regardless of how you spend your New Year’s Eve, I hope it is a safe and pleasant one.

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At top, Capitan School Band won the $100 prize for best entry in the Capitan Christmas street parade Dec. 15. Linda Pirtle furnished rig and driver for Santa, who also spent time with fans.

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EVENTS CALENDAR LEA COUNTY

HOBBS: Dec 26 Ribbon-cutting, 11 a.m. CherryBerry Self-Serve Frozen Yogurt Bar, 2827 N. Dal Paso. Come celebrate this new local business.

27-29 Hobbs Holiday Tournament, Game 1 will begin at 1:30 p.m. at Tasker Arena. Please support this great basketball event with your attendance. The Hobbs Eagles will play each night at 7:45 p.m.

30 - Light Up Lea County! Lea Jan 1 County Event Center, noon - 6 p.m. The attractions will be an artificial ice skating rink, “Snowzilla” 30’ slide, 30’ snowman bounce house, and a giant snowglobe for holiday photos.

Free. 575-391-2900 LOVINGTON: Dec 27-29 Light Up Lea County! Lea County Courthouse lawn in front of the Lea County Museum, noon - 6 p.m. The attractions will be an artificial ice skating rink, “Snowzilla” 30’ slide, 30’ snowman bounce house, and a giant snowglobe for holiday photos.

Free. 575-391-2900

CHAVES COUNTY ROSWELL: Dec 31 Roswell Chamber of Commerce and United Way of Chaves County New Year’s Gala, Roswell Civic Center, 7 p.m.

- 12:30 a.m. Happy Hour, Dancing, Buffet and Casino. Tickets $100 per person. 623-5695.

EDDY COUNTY CARLSBAD: Dec Wed’s Coffee Connection, 7 a.m.

Trinity Hotel 24-31 Christmas on the Pecos, a night time boat ride on the Pecos River, looking at the backyards and boat docks decorated for Christmas. To purchase tickets, go to www.christmasonthepecos. com. Adults 12 & over, $12.50 Sun-Thurs; $17.50 Fri & Sat; Children $7.50 Sun-Thurs; $12.50 Fri & Sat. Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce, 575-887-6516.

To post your event here send to: editor@ruidosofreepress.com or call 575-258-9922

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ALTO: Dec 28 Full Moon Gathering & Labyrinth Walk, High Mesa Healing Center, 133 Mader Lane, 6 p.m.

575-336-7777; www.highmesahealing.com CARRIZOZO Dec 24 Luminarias in Carrizozo, 6 - 10 p.m. The town of Carrizozo puts out its annual luminaria display along Hwy 54 and Hwy 380.

575-648-2371; www.carrizozochamber.org. Free LINCOLN Dec 24 Christmas Eve in Historic Lincoln, Hwy 380, 6 - 10 p.m.

This is the traditional lighting of luminarias along Hwy 380 at dusk. 1-877-784-3676; www. ruidosonow.com/festival-oflights. Free RUIDOSO: Dec 29 Free movie, Monty Python’s “Not the Messiah,“ Sacred Grounds, 2825 Sudderth Dr., 6:30 - 9 p.m. This lavish 2009 live performance at London’s venerable Royal Albert Hall commemorating Python’s 40th anniversary, and featuring the not-at-all-shabby BBC Symphony and Chorus, is funny and above all, silly enough to take its rightful place at the Python Round Table.

What a way to end 2012 and start a new year! For clear-thinking and progressive-minded adults and other oddballs who think the Brits’ outrageous sense of humor is “Right On”. 575-257-2273; www. sacredgroundscoffee.net 31 Cree Meadows New Year’s Eve Party, 301 Country Club Dr., 7 p.m. Come party the night away! Food, party favors, and a champagne toast at midnight.

Terry Bullard will be providing the music. Reservations are required: 575-257-9186. $20 singles, $30 couples. Tickets must be purchased in advance and can be bought at the Business Office between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.

Win, Place & Show New Year’s Celebration, 2516 Sudderth Dr., 8 p.m. Dance the night away with Brendan Dawes. Champagne and party favors. No reservations required. 575-257-9982. $20 at the door.

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RUIDOSO: Dec New Year’s Eve at Gracie’s Speakeasy, Grace O’Malley’s Irish Pub, 2331 Sudderth Dr., 8 p.m. Join us for an evening in the Roaring 20s! Flapper and Gangster costumes encouraged.

Must be 21 and over. Limited reservations for tables and entry.

575-630-0219. Individual cover charge, $30 includes heavy hors d’oeuvres until midnight, champagne toast, party favors, photo op backdrop, entertainment by DJ Pete Davis. Table Reservations: Table for 4, $150 - Includes all of the above plus 1 bottle of Champagne; Table for 6, $200 Includes all of the above plus 1 bottle of Champagne; Table for 8, $250 - Includes all of the above plus 2 bottles of Champagne; Table for 12, $300 - Includes all of the above plus 3 bottles of Champagne.

Swiss Chalet New Year’s Eve Party, 1451 Mechem, 8:30 p.m.

Join us for food and fun with dancing and live music from Mark Remington and Friends.

Champagne toast at midnight.

575-336-3333. Tickets are $20.

RUIDOSO DOWNS: Thru 21st Annual Fall American 3/17 Photography Competition & Exhibition, Hubbard Museum, 26301 Hwy 70. Closed Christmas Day. 575-378-4142; www.hubbardmuseum.org.

Thru “A Land So Strange” exhibit, 2/8 Hubbard Museum, 26301 Hwy 70. An educational journey of nearly 400 years of New Mexico history. Hundreds of artifacts and images from the 16th to the 20th century tell the story of the Native Americans, the Spanish, and the Euro-Americans who created the New Mexico we experience today. Visit www.hubbardmuseum.org. Free with admission to the museum.

WHITE OAKS: Dec 31 New Year’s Eve Party, No Scum Allowed Saloon, 7 p.m. - 1 a.m.

Music by The Mixx. No cover. Dinner plates $10. 575-648-5583; www.noscumallowedsaloon.com

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MESCALERO New Year’s Eve Ball, Inn of the Mountain Gods, Carrizo Canyon Rd. Join us for an Unforgettable New Year’s Eve event: Ballroom with a Twist! 11 a.m - 2 p.m. for the daytime show or 8:30 p.m. midnight for the evening show.

Both will feature Dancing with the Stars pros Dmitry Chaplin and Ashly Delgrosso Costa, American Idol alums Von Smith and Gina Glocksen and “So You Think You Can Dance” finalist alum Randy Strong, “Legacy” and Jonathan Platero. The daytime show will feature our grand buffet, music, ballroom dancing, countdown and champagne toast. The evening show will feature grand buffet, music, ballroom dancing, balloon drop, party favors, countdown and midnight champagne toast. Daytime show from $75.

Evening show from $125. www. innofthemountaingods.com Ron White at Inn of the Mountain Gods, 8 p.m. Don’t miss a night full of laughter when Ron White takes the stage.

Ron White has toured with Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall, and Larry the Cable Guy as part of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour. He has also appeared in the films Sex and the City 2 and Horrible Bosses.

Disclaimer: Minors must be accompanied by an adult. Tickets start at $35. www.innofthemountaingods.com

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ALAMOGORDO: Dec 28 Things Remembered - Centennial Ball, Alamogordo Public Library, 920 Oregon Ave., 7 - 10 p.m. Join us for the last New Mexico State Centennial event in Alamogordo. Live Music, food, dancing and all the glamour of a formal holiday ball. You are sure to have a night you will never forget.

575-430-7543. One book donation CLOUDCROFT: Dec 24, 25 Santa & Mrs. Claus visit The Lodge Resort & Spa, 7 - 8 p.m.

Santa & Mrs. Claus share hot cider and cookies while reading “’Twas the Night Before Christmas.”

Santa will be back on Christmas morning at 10 a.m. 682-2566; info@thelodgeresort.com; www. thelodgeresort.com 25 Christmas Day Brunch, The Lodge Resort & Spa, 11 a.m. 3:30 p.m. One of The Lodge’s most popular brunches featuring an array of appetizers, salads & breads, entrees, side dishes and desserts.

Reservations are required. 6822566; info@thelodgeresort.com; www.thelodgeresort.com 31 New Year’s at The Lodge, the evening starts at 5 p.m. with a Grand Dinner Buffet, followed by an Adult New Year’s Eve Gala and Children’s New Year’s Party (in the Lodge Trestle). Reservations required. 682-2566 or go to thelodgeresort.com

Please be safe this holiday season!