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On Christmas day

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On Christmas day, Mrs. G. stopped telling lies about Mrs. S. and stopped giving her the evil eye.

On Christmas day, Mrs. L. stopped gossiping about Ms. P. On Christmas day, Bully Billy did not hit Johnny T. On Christmas day, Sally did not lie and say that Mary stole her lunch money.

On Christmas day, the new car dealer took $500 off a buyers cost.

On Christmas day, the angry man did not kick the dog.

On Christmas day, the thief stole not a dime.

On Christmas day, brothers did not fight, sisters did not steal each other’s clothes and mothers did not slap their children.

On Christmas day, the rich gave to the poor, the shelters did not close their doors and restaurants opened their back doors to the hungry instead of throwing food away.

On Christmas day, children were loved and got the toys they truly wanted.

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A tale of two brothers out later was untrue.”

In 1980 Morgan, one brother, Craig, and his father went to search for the adopted sibling in LaSalle County, Ill., where the family had lived when the child had been born.

Morgan checked birth records dated 1959. He found records of the daughter of the physician who had been present at the birth of his sibling. Since Morgan’s mother had told him the child was a girl, he thought the physician had adopted the child. He managed to find the doctor’s home and knocked on the door. The doctor answered and when Morgan told him he thought the doctor’s daughter was his lost sibling, the doctor slammed the door in his face. Morgan knocked again and when the door was opened he gave a paper with his contact information to the doctor, then walked away.

A few days later, the doctor’s daughter phoned to say, “I am not your sister.”

Morgan continued his search, locating a cousin who, “looked identical to my mother and was born in 1959. I thought this was my sibling. I was wrong.”

He continued to search last names of related cousins, aunts and uncles in the area. It was a large family with many branches. “Everyone seemed to want to forget the past,” he said.

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By Rosalyn Stevenson Gary Morgan, 64, of Capitan, dealt the World Series of Poker for many years, dealing to legendary poker champions Amarillo Slim, Doyle Brunson, Stu Unger, Johnny Chan and Phil Helmuth.

James Lane, 54, a Carrizozo resident since 2009, is an extra in New Mexico-made films boasting such credits as: “Fifty To One” (March, 2014 release), “The Lone Ranger,” “A Million Ways To Die In The West,” “Breaking Bad,” “Night Shift” and “Jane Got A Gun.” Morgan was 10 years old when his mother, who had five children already including Gary, got pregnant again and did not tell the other children. She was divorced from their father. When the baby was born, an adoption was arranged through the attending physician and a local church official. The adoption parents were a newly married minister and his wife, living on the other side of the state. Though she kept the birth and adoption secret for years eventually the young mother told her other children, saying she had not had enough money to raise another child.

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Separation filled with ironies has a happy ending after all who adopted me, became influential in his church and preached with Dr. Billy Graham and Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. During the course of the years we traveled and lived in many cities finally moving to Pasadena, Calif., where we lived five miles from the birth family that was trying to find me! None of us were aware of this.

“One of the places I worked at that time was Bob’s Big Boy. Unbeknownst to me, my birth brothers were coming in and eating there. I cooked for them and none of us knew it!

“In 1989 I moved to Portland where I worked for the forest service. I had had a copy of the adoption transaction since I was 14, given to me by my adopted father and I mentioned it to a man I worked with. It turned out that he came from a town near where I had been born. He knew my birth family!

“Until then I hadn’t looked for my birth family, now I wanted to find them. This man and I drove to Illinois.

“I found the doctor who had attended my birth. He told me he couldn’t help me but I left him my contact information. Two years later, back in Oregon, I received an envelope with no return address that contained hospital records showing my mother’s name and information that she and my siblings had moved to California.

“I didn’t want to hurt my adoptive parents who were so kind to me so I didn’t pursue it anymore then.

“In 2000 I picked up the search again. I wanted to let my birth mother know that she had done the right thing and that I had had a loving home.

“I placed an ad in a newspaper in my birth town stating that “Baby boy Morgan” was searching for his biological mother.

“As it turned out a biological cousin worked for that newspaper. Within minutes of publication of the ad, I was receiving phone calls from aunts, uncles, cousins and my birth mother. Six months later, the whole family met in Las Vegas, Nev. After the irony of all those near meetings, this was the first time I saw my birth mother, and met Gary, the brother who had searched for me for nearly 20 years.”

Gary Morgan says that he and James talk on the phone every day now and visit each other often. He said that finding his brother “filled a void” for him.

James Lane said that he has felt “overjoyed and heart warmed” that he had family who cared enough to search for him all those years.

Cover photo courtesy of Rosalyn Stevenson

James Lane (left) is well-known in New Mexicomade films. Gary Morgan (right) is famed for dealing winning hands to many of the best known poker champions in the world.

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Wildlife of wild Lincoln County

By Ray Pawley Contract Director of the HMAW. The wildlife of the Wild West was just as important as the people themselves who had migrated and settled here over the last several thousand years, with the biggest wave of immigrants arriving during the last 200 years from points east. Consequently, the fates of both humans and wildlife became intermingled, either as partners or adversaries. Some people feared the “top predators,” like the bears, mountain lions and eagles, while others saw bison and deer as food on the hoof. Then there were the trappers who commercialized on fur-bearers such as beaver. With so many viewpoints about wildlife there are many facts which all too often become laced with misconceptions. To look at the broad array of wildlife in Lincoln County in the context of their many histories is a fascinating journey and it happened right here.

Lincoln County, which was once the biggest county in the U.S., is 4,800 square miles in size. The States of Delaware and Rhode Island, along with Washington D.C., could all fit within its borders.

Claunch, the town closest to the center of the State, is just outside of the northwest corner of the County.

Most of the land is government owned which, along with extensive ranch holdings, may account for why we have more species of animal life here than any other county in New Mexico. The word “wildlife,” as it is used here, includes all of the kinds of animals found in this area, from invertebrates like spiders and scorpions through the vertebrates like the bears, cougar and eagles.

There are several reasons why Lincoln County has such a large assortment of wildlife species. First, there is an exceptionally diverse array of habitats that extend from the Pecos Basin (high plains) in the east, to the “island” mountains in the west, with the prevailing Chihuahuan desert in between. Second, the high altitudes of the mountains, more than two miles above sea level, provide homes for those animals that need moist, cool habitats. Accordingly, the Capitan Mountain range, a massive white granite uplift, is found entirely within the county and has, among its rich array of fauna, an endemic species of salamander found in the Capitans and Sacramentos and nowhere else.

Wildlife has always lived here, long before Lincoln County and the first humans arrived more than 20,000 years ago. Species have come and gone. After submergence under a Permian Ocean 300 million years ago, a huge layer of limestone is now all that remains of extensive coral reefs. The limestone is peppered with fossils and honey-combed with spectacular caves including the huge Carlsbad and extensive Lechuguilla. Bats by the tens of thousands have occupied these and other caves, principally Carlsbad, for millennia, producing vast quantities of guano (bat

droppings) that was once mined and exported by the ton, to farming regions in California as high-grade fertilizer.

During the Oligocene Era, about 30 million years ago when horses were much smaller and rhinoceros relatives were bigger than elephants, the Rio Grande Rift Valley began to split apart, leaving what are now the Sacramento and the San Andreas Mountains about 40 miles apart. The depth of this immense valley is more than four miles down and is filled with silt – a lot of Colorado dirt was carried here.

After being submerged under an early ocean, this area has been covered alternately with lush forests (both hot and humid as well as cold and dry), grasslands, lakes and landscapes that shift about. Since the last Ice Age, the weather has been gradually warming up for the last 10,000 years, and has become a part of the expanding Chihuahua Desert, the largest in North America. The Chihuahuan harbors the most animal species of any desert in the New World.

Wildlife populations never stop moving and some have been helped by man. For example, a few ancestors of the horse which evolved here in North America, ultimately ventured across an early Bering land bridge to Asia about 3 million years ago to further evolve into the wild horses found on the Asian steppes as well as the zebras of Africa.

However, horses went extinct here about 12,000 years ago, perhaps in part because they would have made delicious meals for early hunter/gatherers. The loop was closed when a few domestic horses were returned to the New World by Cortez when he embarked on his conquest of Mexico in the early 1500s.

Once the land bridge of Panama connected North America to South America about 4 million years ago, species began moving both ways. Our familiar cougar was able to extend its range south along the Andean mountain chain to the southern end of South America while opossums and small anteaters began moving north. As

the weather warms up, species will continue to move north. Armadillos and fire ants are among the newcomers to the U.S. while boa constrictors and vampire bats are now within 100 miles south of Brownsville, Texas.

Ever since the arrival of people in the New World, wildlife has come under pressure. While subsistence groups of hunters/gatherers may have accounted for some speeded-up extinctions of more than a dozen huge animal species in the last 20,000 years including mammoths, giant beaver, rhinoceros and horses, the most recent impact on wildlife was indiscriminate use of pesticides, sanctioned by the federal government in the 1960s to kill “varmints” – an old term used collectively by ranchers to classify those kinds of predators that may devour livestock. Fortunately, however, most populations have rebounded.

Feral animal populations are sometimes created by people either through carelessness or design. Dogs and especially cats that have been released can devastate local fauna. One of the biggest current environmental threats is the spread of wild pigs which destroy wildlife, including ground-nesting quail and turkeys, on the order of a small bio-bulldozer. And interestingly, after the military brought Dromedary camels

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right here in Lincoln County. Moreover, we now know that between the grubfinding abilities of the hog-nosed skunk and the bark-penetrating, beetle-eating flickers, Ponderosa Pines have a critically important team of allies as they struggle to survive in the increasingly drying climate of the Capitan Mountains. Did you know that skunks apparently dislike the smell of their own spray as much as we do? And that tadpoles of spade-foot toads consume large quantities of mosquito larvae while bats and Poorwills go after the buzzing adults? Rattlesnakes, thanks to a pair of heat-seeking “pits” on either side of their head enable this snap-strike, heat-seeking ambush predator to unerringly seize and consume its warm-blooded prey: young rabbits and gophers even in total darkness. In fact, seven adult jackrabbits consume as much grass as one cow.

But there is much more about wildlife that we know little about. Why do pronghorns lose their horns each year (the only hoofed animal to do so)?

How can buck deer and elk to grow such massive mineral-based antlers each year without collapsing from rickets? How do tiny birds survive through bitter cold winter nights without running out of calories? And how do birds really migrate without losing their way?

The list of questions grows, never shrinks, and expands as we learn more.

Today’s New Mexico Department of Game and Fish originated in 1904, six years before statehood, when New Mexico was still a territory. Along with most other states at that time, the Conservation Department was primarily concerned with curtailing the wholesale slaughter of the state’s wildlife that was being decimated for commercial purposes.

Market hunting was a man-made expanding wildlife “disaster” in most parts of the country which brought many species close to extinction (i.e. the Snowy Egret for

its plumes) and eliminated the Passenger Pigeon (neither of which ever occurred in New Mexico). Soon after, New Mexico’s conservation programs focused on the management of deer species which were never especially abundant over past centuries, and had been further decimated in the 1700s and 1800s by unregulated hunting. By managing habitat for deer, sports hunting would increase as a means of generating revenues via license sales and to protect natural areas where deer and other species occurred. By now, in many areas deer are exceeding the carrying capacity of their environments and we have too much of a good thing. In those places where hunting does not sufficiently control the size of the deer population, limited culling operations are necessary.

Native wildlife such as black bears and cougar, along with eagles and rattlesnakes are among the most notorious top predators which in turn prey mostly on vegetationeaters such as deer, rabbits, and gophers. Both kinds of animals, the hunters and their prey, have been struggling under the hardship of the three-year drought we have been enduring, which has resulted in an ever expanding short-fall of forage, recent rains notwithstanding. As the wild hay-burner populations thin, predators, which suffer in turn from a lack of prey may resort to taking an occasional heifer or sheep. Subsistence ranchers, who are caught in the same loop, may take their own steps to eliminate an offending predator to protect their remaining herd stock. No one wins during a drought.

Wildlife dynamics are constantly shifting and changing. Hopefully fire ants will never be able to completely adapt to the colder winter weather of Lincoln County. Armadillos, constantly working their way north, will probably not be able to adapt to New Mexico’s arid conditions. On the other hand, vampire bats and boa constrictors may feel more at home if or when they finally reach New Mexico in another century or two. Meanwhile, jaguars are already hunting javelina along the border with Mexico, and California Condors may reappear. Grizzly bears and Mexican gray wolves will probably never fully succeed in reclaiming New Mexico habitat from which they were extirpated a century ago.

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to the U.S. following the Civil War, they were simply released when the Camel Corps was disbanded; the last feral camel was seen in 1941 in New Mexico.

In fact, New Mexico embarked on an exotic animal importation program in the 1960s with the intention of releasing the progeny of such species as Barbary wild sheep, oryx, Aoudad and two kinds of ibex, the Siberian and the Persian.

These imports were held at the Red Rock breeding facility near the “bootheel” in southwestern New Mexico. The intent was to release the young of each of these species on one of the several “island” mountains (i.e. the Floridas, Hachitas, others) in New Mexico where it was hoped that they would adapt. The plan was to provide an expanded departmental revenue source that would enable exotic game hunters to shoot their exotic quarry without incurring the much greater expense of time and money by traveling to those overseas countries of origin. Virtually all of these efforts failed with the exception of the oryx, which is thriving in the White Sands area, and Aoudad, which have spread through much of Lincoln County.

There is much that we already know about wildlife in this area. For example, we can brag about having three of the four kinds of skunks of North American

Suggestion: With the exception of seed-eating birds, it is important to resist the temptation to feed wildlife such as deer and other creatures, especially bear and raccoons, around your urban home. These kinds of guests – like so many others, including a few humans we might know – may actually try to move in and go so far as to bite the hand that feeds them. All of these, including deer, can sometimes cause direct injury or worse. Enjoy the wildlife around you but encourage them to stay at a respectable distance.

Please do not feed the wildlife.

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practices. We achieved this status in less than three years. Not bad I don’t think of myself as for a practice located an easily excitable person. in Ruidoso.

As an anesthesiologist and Decreased volume paramedic I have had to face and descent of the many critical situations with mid-face accelerates trauma patients and maintain the look of facial agmy cool to ensure that I proing. Unfortunately, the vide optimum medical care. descent doesn’t stop at As a pilot I can’t get excited Dr. Stephen Rath the neckline. Descent and lose sight of the big picof bodily fat tends to accumulate ture while flying. That said, I am truly around the mid-section and contribexcited about changes and developutes to an increase in clothing size. ments in the aesthetic medicine world Fusion Medical Spa recently received as well as in my medical practice. an early Christmas present to combat Allergan, world famous for bringfat and cellulite from Cynosure. ing Botox to the market, recently The Smartlipo TriPlex system is obtained FDA approval to start marCynosure’s newest laser liposuction keting Juvederm Voluma to the United platform designed to treat stubborn States. According to Allergan, only the fat, tighten loose skin, treat cellulite, top 20 percent of aesthetic medicine and eradicate overactive axillary practices are eligible to purchase Volusweat glands. I have been following ma for the initial rollout and Fusion the progress in laser liposuction for Medical Spa has already received its the last three years and am confident first shipment! Voluma, approved for that our new platform will allow us use in Europe for more than 3 years, to treat issues that have historically received FDA approval in October been difficult to treat with traditional 2013 and was released by Allergan in time for Christmas in December 2013. liposuction. Smartlipo laser liposucVoluma “reverses signs of age-related tion is a vast improvement on older technology as it melts fat and tightens volume loss in the mid-face” with tissue simultaneously while allowing results lasting up to two years in the faster recovery. majority of subjects.

Finally, Fusion Medical Spa will Why is this exciting? We have a celebrate three years in operation as new dermal filler that, in my opinof Dec. 27.

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Volume loss in women usually starts to become apparent in the early 30s Merry Christmas! and continues to progress as age increases. This volume loss, accentuated Disclaimer: Dr Stephen Rath, MD, DABA is a board certified anesthesiby decreased skin elasticity, causes ologist, Air Force flight surgeon, FAA the cheeks to descend until the smile AME, paramedic, and pilot as well as and then the lower jaw and neckline the owner and medical director of Fuare affected. Voluma can reverse this sion Medical Spa located in Ruidoso. volume loss better than any previous He is happy that his long walks on the fillers. humid Galveston beaches have been I was even more excited to learn that Fusion Medical Spa had achieved replaced by brisk walks in the mountains. Comments or questions? His “Gold” level status with Allergan. email address is: DrRath@FusionGold status is reserved for the top 15 percent of Allergan’s aesthetic medical MedicalSpa.net.

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ENMU-Roswell EMS graduates announce achievements The ENMURoswell Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Education Program is pleased to announce a 100 percent pass rate for a group of paramedic graduates on the National Registry Exam for certification and licensure. The summer 2012 cohort graduated from the EMS Paramedic Program this fall 2013 semester. Three students received the Associate of Science degree in Emergency Medical Services and nine received a Certificate of Occupational Training in Emergency Medical Technician-Paramedic. The Paramedic Program instructor is Rodney Ray. According to Mike Buldra, EMS Program director, three graduates are employed by the Artesia Fire Department, three by the Carlsbad Fire Department, one by Albuquerque Ambulance Service, and one

by Superior Ambulance of Roswell.

Four graduates have moved out of state for employment.

ENMU-Roswell established the EMS program in 1986, offering EMT Basic and Intermediate classes, and becoming New Mexico’s second EMS Bureau EMS Education Program. Since the EMS program’s beginning, more than 10,000 students have gone through its programs

or classes. This includes more than 1,500 First Responder, 3,000 EMT-Basic, 1,000 EMT-Intermediate, and 1,000 Paramedic students who have graduated. ENMURoswell’s Paramedic Program is accredited by the Committee on Accreditation of Educational Programs for the Emergency Medical Services Professions Employment of paramedics is expected to grow by 19 percent through 2016, which is faster than the average for all occupations according to the U.S. Department of Labor. It is becoming increasing difficult for emergency medical services to recruit and retain unpaid volunteers because of the amount of training and the large time commitment these positions require. As a result, more paid paramedics are needed. The demand for paramedics will also increase as a large segment of the population – aging members of the baby boom generation – becomes more likely to have medical emergencies.

Prerequisites courses for the Paramedic Program start this coming spring semester. Classes start Jan. 13.

For more information, call 575-6247359 or go to our web site www. roswell.enmu.edu/ems.

ENMU-Roswell closed for winter break

Eastern New Mexico UniversityRoswell closed for winter break, starting Friday, Dec. 20 through Wednesday, Jan. 1. The campus will resume regular operating hours on Thursday, Jan. 2 at 7:30 a.m.

Students can still apply for admission and register for the spring semester online at www.roswell.enmu. edu. Registration and advising will

also continue on campus from Jan. 2 through Jan. 17 during regular campus operating hours: Monday through Thursday, 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Friday from 8 a.m. until noon. The spring 2014 semester begins Monday, Jan. 13. Saturday classes begin Saturday, Jan. 11.

For campus information, call 575-624-7000.

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Bowman to retire from ENMU-Roswell in May of 1979 and they After 35 years of serhave two children, Shonvice to ENMU-Roswell, taye, 31, and Marques, Robert Bowman, vice 29 and a 6-year old president for Student Afgrandson, Julhian. fairs, is retiring at the end ENMU-Roswell held of this year. a retirement reception Bowman started workfor Bowman on Dec. 11 ing at ENMU in Portales to wish him well and in 1978 as the Learning thank him for his many Center Manager. He later years of dedication and served as the Coordinaservice to the campus. tor of Black Programs Robert Bowman “I would like to thank and the Coordinator of all of you that were University Skills Classes. able to attend my retirement party In 1991, he was hired at ENMUand also a big thanks to those of you Roswell as a business instructor. He that could not make it for the phone was named dean of Student Affairs in calls and messages,” Bowman said. “I 1993. His title later changed to vice really appreciate being a part of such president for Student Affairs. a wonderful organization that works Born in Alamogordo, Bowman has so hard to educate all who enter our a BBA in Business Administration doors. Thanks for making my stay a from ENMU and an MBA in Marketing from ENMU. He married Marietta good one.”

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Don’t let the flu ruin your holidays Department of Health encourages vaccinations

“Getting a flu vaccination every year is the best way to protect yourself and your loved ones from influenza,” said Department of Health Cabinet Secretary Retta Ward, MPH. “In addition to getting a yearly flu vaccination, I encourage New Mexicans to wash their hands frequently. Also, remember to sneeze or cough into your upper sleeve or elbow, rather than into your hand.”

The Department of was fair to good for anglers using Health recommends worms, PowerBait and salmon eggs. people talk to their docEl Rito Creek: No reports from tor or pharmacist about anglers this week. getting the flu vaccine.

Eunice Lake: Trout fishing was The Department offers good using salmon eggs and Powvaccinations for people erBait. without insurance or Green Meadow Lake: Trout fishwho are otherwise not ing was fair to good using worms, able to get immunized.

PowerBait and salmon eggs. A few Those with Medicaid fish were also caught by anglers usor other insurance who ing spinners. come to Public Health Greene Acres Lake: Trout fishOffices are asked to ing was fair to good using salmon present their insurance peach, green and rainbow PowerBait card. and salmon eggs.

People in high risk Grindstone Reservoir: Trout fishing was good using PowerBait, small Kastmasters and salmon eggs.

Jal Lake: Trout fishing was fair to good using salmon eggs and PowerBait.

Lake Van: Fishing was fair using PowerBait and salmon eggs.

Oasis Park Lake: Trout fishing was good using PowerBait, salmon eggs and Pistol Petes.

Pecos River: Stream flow below Sumner Lake on Monday was 15 cfs. No reports from anglers this week.

Perch Lake: No reports from anglers this week.

Ruidoso River: Stream flow at Ruidoso on Monday was 5.1 cfs.

Trout fishing was slow.

SANTA FE — The New Mexico Department of Health is reminding New Mexicans that it’s not too late to get vaccinated against the flu. The holiday season is time for gatherings, office parties, shopping and coming in contact with the flu virus.

Colds and the flu tend to flourish during this time.

Fishing report for Southeast NM Bataan Lake: Trout fishing was slow to fair for anglers using salmon eggs and PowerBait. No reports on other species.

Black River: Stream flow at Malaga on Monday was 18 cfs. Trout fishing was slow to fair using salmon eggs and copper John Barrs.

Blue Hole Park Pond: Trout fishing was fair to good using salmon eggs and garlic-scented PowerBait.

Bonito Lake: Closed.

Bosque Redondo: Trout fishing was good using garlic scented PowerBait, salmon eggs and small spoons.

No reports on other species.

Bottomless Lakes: Trout fishing at the Devil’s Inkwell was good this past week. Anglers did well using PowerBait and Z Rays.

Brantley Lake: Anglers are to practice catch-and-release for all fish here as high levels of DDT were found in several fish.

Carlsbad Municipal Lake: Trout fishing was good using salmon eggs, PowerBait and small spinners.

Chaparral Park Lake: Trout fishing Photo courtesy of Eugene Heathman

groups and those who live with or care for high risk individuals are especially encouraged to get vaccinated against the flu. People in high risk groups are at increased risk for having serious flu-related complications. People in these groups should also consider seeing their health care provider to be evaluated for antiviral medications if they develop flu symptoms. Flu symptoms may include rapid illness onset with fever, cough, sore throat, headache, and/or muscle aches. Influenza vaccination is highly recommended for the following groups: • Children 6 months through 4 years of age • Pregnant women (any trimester) • People age 50 and older • People of any age with certain chronic medical conditions like asthma, diabetes, lung or heart disease, and those who are immunocompromised • People who live in nursing homes and other longterm care facilities • People who live with or care for those at high risk for complications from flu • American Indians and Alaskan Natives • People who are morbidly obese • Healthcare personnel To find out more about flu vaccination clinics throughout New Mexico, you can call the Immunization Hotline toll free at 866-681-5872.

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a certain sound,” notes Campbell. “It’s a brand like Coca-Cola and you’ve got to give the people what they expect. At the same time you have to move on.”

As previously reported, the members of Def Leppard will be featured on a block of programming called “Day of Hysteria” that will air December 29 on AXS TV. The special will include the broadcast premiere of the band’s Viva!

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in a cover song on the group’s next release, although he’s not quite sure yet what track he’d want to choose.

“It could be anything,” he notes. “It could be that we cover something really old from the 50s or 60s, but who knows? The right song just pops up that just fits Volbeat. That’s the beauty of music, you know, it’s all about inspiration and following your heart.”

Poulsen has said he plans to concentrate on writing new material sometime early next year.

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Def Leppard plotting ‘Viva Pyromania’ Las Vegas residency for 2014

Photo courtesy of Gitte Meldgaard

After mounting the successful Viva Hysteria residency in Las Vegas this past spring that yielded recently released concert video and album packages, Def Leppard is making plans to return to Sin City in 2014 with a whole new show.

Guitarist Phil Collen tells Billboard that his band will be scheduling a “Viva Pyromania (residency) at some point at the end of next year,” meaning Def Leppard will be performing its entire classic 1983 album at the upcoming concerts.

The band’s Viva Hysteria show, which took place at the Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, featured the group playing its 12-times-platinum 1987 album Hysteria, plus select other tunes from its catalog. Pyromania is Def Leppard’s second-best-selling release, with more than 10 million copies sold in the U.S. since its 1983 release. The album featured such hits as “Photograph,” “Rock of Ages” and “Foolin’.”

Meanwhile, Def Leppard also is planning to work on a new studio album soon in Dublin, Ireland. Guitarist Vivian Campbell explains to Billboard that for the new project, the band likely will seek to deliver elements of its classic tunes while also exploring some new sounds.”The band is successful for

Adele receives MBE Honor at Buckingham Palace

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Adele had an encounter with royalty Thursday morning at Buckingham Palace in London, as she received a special honor from Prince Charles.

According to People magazine, the singer appeared at an investiture ceremony inside the palace ballroom, and His Royal Highness presented her with her MBE, which stands for Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. Charles pinned the medal – for “services to music” – on her dark, patterned long-sleeved Stella McCartney dress, and People reports that they also enjoyed a brief chat. Adele then curtseyed, walked away and laughed, presumably in reaction to the surreal moment.

According to People, Charles was standing in for his mum, Queen Elizabeth II, who was on her way to the Royal Family’s holiday retreat to prepare for Christmas.

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Volbeat’s Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies features a unique collaboration with King Diamond, frontman of Danish metal pioneers Mercyful Fate, and a cover of alternative rockers Young the Giant’s hit single, “My Body.” As the band begins thinking about their follow-up to the release, frontman Michael Poulsen says he’s looking to have more guest stars featured on the record.

“I sure hope…that I’ll be able to bring on different guests on the next album,” he tells ABC News Radio.

“It is something that is really, really cool and is something that it’s very inspiring for us as a band too, and it gives a lot of freedom and a lot of fun in the studio.”

The singer adds he’d like to continue the tradition of throwing

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Eli Young Band feeling the pressure to continue their string of hits

Eli Young Band has scored another big hit with their latest single, “Drunk Last Night,” and that bodes well for their upcoming studio album.

The group’s lead singer Mike Eli admits they weren’t so sure they’d be able to repeat the success of their previous album, Life at Best, which produced the No. 1 hits “Crazy Girl” and “Even If It Breaks Your Heart.”

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ROSWELL: Dec 31 American Legion Riders Chapter 21 New Years Dance, American Legion Hall, 1620 N. Montana, 8 p.m. - 1 a.m. A byob event (no bottles allowed) for adults only (21 or over).

Dance the night away to Tejano, Country, Oldies and Rock ‘N Roll music provided by Desert Moon DJ services and Nferno DJ. Party favors, raffles and food available for purchase. $20 per person.

575-910-2102 or 575-420-5049

LEA COUNTY HOBBS: Dec 27-28 Hobbs Holiday Tournament.

Support the tournament with an advertisement, a sponsorship and attendance. Teams from New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma will converge on the Tasker Arena floor for this mainstay tradition. Team sponsors are needed to welcome visiting teams and to take them, as well as the hometown team, out for a meal. Volunteers also needed to man shifts throughout each tournament day to sell programs.

400 N. Marland, 575-397-3202; info@hobbschamber.org

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ARTESIA: Jan 3-4 Wait For What? band performs Cottonwood Wine and Brewing, #1 E Cottonwood Rd. 575-365-3141 11 Bunnell Strings, Ocotillo Performing Arts Center, 310 W. Main, 7:30 p.m. Transforming classical, pop and rock genres with their crossover blend of styles, the musical string quintet of five siblings attracts audiences of all ages to share their story of family, faith, and music. www.bunnellstrings. com. $20. 575-746-4212 CARLSBAD: Dec Fri’s Friday Focus, Best Western Stevens Inn, 1829 S. Canal St. 7:30 a.m. Carlsbad Chamber networking breakfast - share information about your business or organization. operations@carlsbadchamber.com Thru Christmas on the Pecos Dec 31 Take an evening boat ride on the Pecos River with illuminated backyards and island of blinking lights.

The tour starts at 711 Muscatel Ave. every night. Adults $12.50 Sun - Thurs; $17.50 Fri & Sat; children 2-11, $7.50 Sun - Thurs; $12.50 Fri & Sat. christmasonthepecos.com

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this record there was more pressure than ever, which we didn’t necessarily think that that was going to be Republic Nashville the case, but then when you’re faced with making that next record, you’re faced with that choice of how far are we gonna go with this record and how do we want to make this record?”

Thanks to their string of hits, the guys know they have a good track record with country radio.

“Our music works on country radio well enough,” says the band’s Jon Jones. “It’s just, the pressure is in finding the songs.”

Look for Eli Young Band’s next album to be released in 2014.

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ALTO: Jan 21 ‘Man of La Mancha,’ Spencer Theater, 108 Spencer Rd., 8 - 10 p.m. Winner of five Tony awards including Best Musical, this breathtaking new touring production by Columbia Artists Theatricals stars 30 singers, dancers and musicians. “Man of La Mancha” is a comedic tragedy based on Miguel de Cervantes classic novel, set in southern Spain. Filled with heartbreaking hilarity, Quixote, a seeming madman, insists that there are castles and knights and virtuous ladies, but others only see taverns, windmills and trollops.

Pre-performance enchilada buffet at 6 p.m. ($20). 575-336-4800; www.spencertheater.com. Performance is $66 or $69 CAPITAN Dec 31 Inaugural Cattleman’s Ball, Lincoln County Fairgrounds, Highway 48, 8 p.m. Come dance the night away with the Longhorn Dance Band featuring Russell Burris, champion fiddler. Fun for the whole family with door prizes and red chile posole at midnight. (This is an alcohol-free event.) Benefitting the Lincoln County Sheriff ’s Posse Scholarship Pool and the Lone Tree Scholarship Fund. Adults, $15; students 13-17, $5; 12 and under free RUIDOSO: Dec 28 Free movie “The Pianist,” Sacred Grounds Coffee & Tea House, 2825 Sudderth Dr., 6:30 - 9 p.m.

Based on the real-life experiences of Jewish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman during the Nazi occupation of Warsaw in WWII, from his piano playing days at Polish Radio, through the restrictions imposed upon the Jews by the Nazis, the move by Szpilman and his family to the Warsaw ghetto, how he is saved from deportation (while the rest of his family gets deported to Treblinka, an extermination camp), his role in the Jewish resistance movement and finally his struggles in hiding on the Aryan side of Warsaw till war’s end. 575-257-2273 31 Cree Meadows New Year’s Eve Party, 301 Country Club Dr., 7 p.m. to midnight. Bring in the New Year with the Terry Bullard Band. Food, fun, favors and a champagne toast at midnight. Buffet with buffalo wings, egg rolls, chicken strips and quesadillas. Call for advance tickets

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and reservations, 575-257-2733 ext. 4. $25 for singles; $40 for a couple RUIDOSO DOWNS: ALBUM: Mid-20th Century Photographs by Carmon Philips of the People and Places of Lincoln County exhibit at the Hubbard Museum of the American West. 26301 Hwy 70 West, 10 a.m.

- 4:30 p.m. daily. 575-378-4142; www.hubbardmuseum.org Dec 31 Ring in the New Year at Billy’s Sports Bar & Grill, 26225 U.S. Highway 70, Dinner, 6 - 9 p.m., $17.95; beer and cocktail specials all night, party favors and balloon drop at midnight. Music by the Luke West Band, 9 p.m. - 1 a.m.

No cover charge. 575-378-4431; www.raceruidoso.com WHITE OAKS Dec 31 New Year’s Eve Party, No Scum Allowed Saloon, 7 p.m. Free brisket dinner. Music by Cowboy Mafia, no cover. Call for reservations: 575648-5583

MESCALERO Dec Wed’s Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club, Club 49, Inn of the Mountain Gods.

7 p.m. Professional comedians will perform live. $5 admission. Must be 21 or older. 575-464-7053 28 Terrain Park Competition No. 1, Ski Apache, Highway 532/Ski Run Road, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Try your skills in our terrain park competition located at the bottom of the mountain on the gondola lift line.

Compete for prizes, medals and bragging rights. 575-464-3641; www.skiapache.com 31 American Pie – New Years Eve 2013 Inn of the Mountain Gods, Carrizo Canyon Road, 7 p.m., dinner served at 8; first show starts at 9.

Kick off your shoes and dig those rhythm and blues with American Pie, a tribute to Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, and Ritchie Valens.

Dine on a special festive menu with your pretty Peggy Sue, including smoked salmon and oysters on the half shell, shrimp and red crab claws, prime rib and a delectable dessert. And of course, we’ll countdown to midnight. Tickets are $125 and can be purchased at the concierge desk, by calling 575-4647053 or online at innofthemountaingods.com

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ALAMOGORDO: IMAX NM Museum of Space History “HUBBLE,” Daily at 10 a.m., 12 and 3 p.m. The seventh awe-inspiring film for the award-winning IMAX space team. Accompany the astronauts as they attempt some of the most difficult tasks ever undertaken in NASA’s history. Explore the galaxies and some of the greatest mysteries of our celestial surroundings “Tornado Alley,” Daily at 11 a.m., 2 and 4 p.m. Join storm chasers star Sean Casey and the researchers of VORTEX 2, the most ambitious effort ever to understand the origins and evolution of tornadoes, on this heart-pounding adventure. Experience the adrenaline of nature’s most dramatic phenomena Dec 28 Lake Lucero Tour, White Sands National Monument. Take a threehour tour with a ranger and learn about the formation of the white sands and the special plants and animals that live in and around the dunes. Reservations are required.

575-679-2599. $3 adults; $1.50 kids and America the Beautiful Senior and Access pass holders Jan 4 The Crescent Moon, Oliver Lee State Park, 409 Dog Canyon Rd., group shelter, 6 - 7:30 p.m.The Amateur Astronomers Group will sponsor a night under the stars. A Crescent Moon in Aquarius will grace the evening sky. Dress warmly. 575437-8284. Day-use fee required 5 Bridal and Special Events Expo, Willie Estrada Civic Center, 800 1st St., 1 - 5 p.m. Presented by Diamond Events - Wedding & Event Planning. If you will be having a wedding or a special event, then this is the place to be. Meet local wedding vendors and register for a chance to win prizes. www. facebook.com/diamondeventsnm.

Free admission CLOUDCROFT: Dec 31 - ‘An Evening in Paris’ The Lodge Jan 1 Resort & Spa, 601 Corona Pl., Cloudcroft, 9 p.m. Dance the night away with gifts and party favors available.An international cheese and fruit display, two champagne toasts (10 p.m. and midnight). A breakfast buffet will also be served at 12 am. For children ages 4 and up there will be a ‘Children’s Party in the Trestle,’ with a pizza dinner at 7 and snacks, a sparkling juice toast, party favors, activities, videos, games, music and slumber time. 1-800-395-6343.

Wednesday

CHRISTMAS DAY

CHRISTMAS MENU OFFERED - $14.95 from 11-5 Billy’s Seafood Night starting at 5 pm in Billy’s Sports Bar & Grill for $21.95 Senior Day Senior Specials for $3.95 in Billy’s Race Book Thursday BILLY’S “SHOOT OUT SIX” HANDICAPPING CONTEST IN BILLY’S RACE BOOK IS BACK! Bottomless Pasta — all you can eat for $3.95 Friday BILLY’S HOLIDAY CASH Surf & Turf starting at 5 pm in Billy’s Sports Bar & Grill for $13.95 Saturday BILLY’S HOLIDAY CASH Prime Rib starting at 5 pm in Billy’s Sports Bar & Grill for $13.95 Sunday BILLY’S HOLIDAY CASH Beer Specials in Billy’s Race Book Monday $2 Beer and Hot Dogs in Billy’s Race Book Tuesday

NEW YEAR’S EVE

$2014 CASH GIVEAWAY DINNER FROM 6 PM - 9 PM - $17.95 LIVE MUSIC BY THE LUKE WEST BAND BALLOON DROP AT MIDNIGHT