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This year, Chevron’s money went to more than 60 candidates, mostly in $5,000 increments, with larger sums dropped to the New Mexico Senate Democratic and Republican Caucus committees, Egolf’s Speaker’s Fund and the House Republican Campaign committees. Chevron also donated heavily to New Mexico Strong, a Texas-based PAC that buys ads in New Mexico to promote oil and gas-friendly candidates. Chevron isn’t the only group sprinkling money around the Roundhouse, but it certainly is the
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those jobs may not return by the end of 2021, according to research by the global consulting firm Deloitte. In the past month, Houstonbased Occidental Petroleum, the largest producer in the Permian Basin, and two major international energy companies, BP and Total, all said the world might soon reach peak oil—if it hasn’t already. Peak oil is the theoretical point at which world petroleum production has reached its maximum and slowly begins to decline. Further, the majority of Texas oil and gas executives believe US oil production has already peaked, according to a survey conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Only Alaska, North Dakota and Wyoming rely more heavily on oil and gas to fund state government. This should be sobering news to New Mexico’s legislators, since nearly 45 %— more than $3.5 billion—of the state’s general fund came from oil and gas revenues in 2019, according to New Mexico’s Legislative Finance Committee. That was a record high, buoyed by record production and sales. This year, with the coronavirus-triggered economic downturn, the state is still tying 40% of the budget to oil and gas revenues. With their legislative session coming up in January, New Mexico’s lawmakers are trying to fill a revenue crunch brought by COVID-19 and the follow-on drop in oil and gas revenues. And some— but not all—are looking to unhitch the state from the fossil fuel roller coaster. In southeastern New Mexico, Republican state Sen. Gay Kernan represents a district covering a large chunk of the Permian Basin, which accounts for nearly 40% of oil production and 15% of natural gas production in the United States. She received $10,000 from Chevron this year and more than $69,000 from oil and gas groups since 2004. Like Muñoz, she voted against the electric vehicle tax credit and state investment in renewable energy. “I’m going to support oil and gas regardless of any contributions they give me,” she says. “We have to keep that industry strong.” That sentiment is shared by US Rep. Xochitl Torres Small, a Democrat and water attorney who ran an extremely close race for
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year. You got your other friend working at the refinery making $100,000 a year,” he says. “You don’t vote against your friends and jobs you have.” Politicians on both sides of the aisle deny that campaign contributions influence how they regulate the industry—though neither voters nor observers agree. But everyone does agree on a larger quandary: the state’s dependence on tax revenues from oil and gas companies, which far eclipse the size of any possible political donations. “For a long time, the impact (of lobbyist dollars) was seen in the nonaction of the Legislature and what was not passed,” says Lucas Herndon of Progress Now New Mexico, which tracks oil and gas spending in the Legislature. “They love coming to the table and saying that they’re a stakeholder, and we all know that they hold all the cards in reality because they have all the money.” And even though that monetary influence could still “temper the policy-making of the Democratic side of the aisle,” he’s optimistic progressive change can happen. With oil and gas revenues dropping, state funding is in jeopardy. And as legislators chart a new path forward, their historical financial bet is one they may have to leave behind.
most generous. Its contributions made up roughly 40% of all donations to New Mexico politicians from May 5 through Oct. 5. In fact, contributions from oil and gas companies totaled about half of all donations from lobbyists in state-level races during the same time period, according to a report by New Mexico Ethics Watch and Common Cause New Mexico. Chevron is the second largest oil and gas producer in the United States. But in the second quarter of 2020, despite $16 billion in revenues, it recorded an $8.3 billion loss—more than the New Mexico state budget for all of 2019. And in October, Chevron laid off 700 workers in Texas. It’s not just Chevron. Overall, the industry has lost about 107,000 jobs to the COVID-19 fueled recession. And 70% of
re-election in the Permian Basin’s 2nd Congressional District, which she eventually lost. She spent much of her campaign fending off attacks that she was out to shut down New Mexico’s oil and gas industry. Minutes after former Vice President Joe Biden criticized the industry during the third presidential debate, Torres Small tapped two Tweets: “I disagree with VP Biden’s statement tonight. Energy is part of the backbone of New Mexico’s economy. We need to work together to promote responsible energy production and stop climate change, not demonize a single industry.” And, “I will continue to stand up to my party when they’re out of touch with the reality on the ground in #NM02.” These traditional ways of thinking are being challenged, however. “We’ve just been so shackled by this oil and gas industry that it’s not allowed us to imagine something different,” says state Rep. Angelica Rubio, D-Las Cruces. “There are legislators who take oil and gas money and don’t vote for oil and gas policies. That is true,” she says. But she adds that “just the act of taking oil and gas money is limiting our ability to really legislate proactively.” “I just don’t feel like it can be a both/ and,” she says. New Mexicans seem to agree. In a study conducted of nearly 6,000 voters in the aftermath of the 2018 election, 70% said that New Mexico’s elected officials are more responsive to donors than to voters. In addition, “Half of (voters) believe that rich people buy elections all or most of the time,” according to the report by Lonna Rae Atkeson, professor and regent’s lecturer at the University of New Mexico’s political science department. Rubio grew up in the Permian Basin. Almost her entire family works directly for the oil and gas industry or their livelihoods are tied to the industry. Sparking their interest in green jobs or tourism is a hard sell, she says. The jobs simply don’t pay as much. She acknowledges that changing communities and lives won’t happen quickly. Yet, she’s one of the loudest voices calling for the state to break away from its dependence on oil and gas. To drive the point home, she does not accept donations from anyone associated with the industry. The industry blames the pandemic for its current crisis, she says. But many people have been pointing out for a long time that the rate of drilling and meteoric increases in production have been a problem. “There’s just absolutely no way
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that it could be sustainable in the long term,” she says. The industry’s history is one of busts and booms. Oil and gas prices also tanked in 2016, for example, because of overproduction and a subsequent glut. Much of that glut was created by ramped up production in the Permian Basin. “We as a state do have an abundance of natural resources,” Rubio says. “But what we lack is an abundance of ideas.” * * * There are plenty of reasons to diversify New Mexico’s economy away from oil and gas: to offer young people a broader selection of stable jobs; to blunt the fossil fuel industry boom/bust cycle on state finances and employment. There’s another big reason: to reduce the reliance on an industry that is making it increasingly difficult to live in the state.
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New Mexico already suffers heavily from the impacts of climate change. The state is warming at twice the global rate. The fabled Rio Grande through Albuquerque is drying up, and already has dry stretches farther south. The wildfire season now lasts essentially all year. All of these problems are accelerated by climate change, and that change is accelerated by what is drilled out of the ground in New Mexico. “The oil and gas industry is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in New Mexico. And that is primarily in the form of methane that escapes from leaks and other problems at oil and gas wells in the San Juan and the Permian Basin,” says Jon Goldstein of the Environmental Defense Fund. In fact, methane constituted 35% of New Mexico’s total greenhouse gas emissions in 2018, compared to 10% for the nation as a whole. Goldstein has tracked emissions and their environmental effects for years, since his time in the administration of former Gov. Bill Richardson. Since the start of the year, well operators have reported more than 170 leaks at natural gas wells to the Oil Conservation Division, the state office tasked with protecting and preserving the state’s fossil fuel reserves. Those leaks have spewed more than 1.68 million Mcf of natural gas into the air. And that gas is 80 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than an
equal amount of carbon dioxide, according to the EDF. Goldstein says that in New Mexico government, the fight has long been between a healthy environment and a healthy economy, and that “is a false choice. They really go hand in hand.” He points out that methane — the main component of natural gas — is valuable, and capturing it creates jobs. Colorado has done that since 2014, when the state implemented new, more stringent rules on leak detection, detection equipment and repair. At the same time, Colorado dramatically increased fines for oil and gas leaks and spills. For Rubio’s part, she knows she needs to dig in and change the minds of her fellow legislators. There are more than 52,000 active oil and gas wells in the state, and more are drilled every week, despite the downturn in fossil fuel prices. “It’s an industry that’s not sustainable,” she says. “Accepting money from the oil and gas industry tells me that not only are we are not serious about addressing climate change,” she says, “but we’re also not serious about how we support families in terms of addressing a transition that isn’t just about renewables, but actually looking at a serious roadmap on economic diversification in the state.” Jerry Redfern reported this story for Capital & Main, an award-winning publication that reports on economic, political and social issues. Santa Fe Reporter is co-publishing.
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ucked into an industrial street off Siler Road is a large collection of strange things in a small, unassuming warehouse. One room is full of scrap cloth and fabrics. There are boxes of vintage dolls and their small wooden beds, delicate china and a table full of arts and crafts tools and supplies, along with every Sarah Pierpont founded Resourceful Santa Fe to be a middleman between people who want to color and style of pin and button. give things away and the artists who need them. There’s even a “Vintage Ephemera” corner with yellowed postcards, blackreally accessible to everyone,” Pierpont which is making block printed prayer flags and-white photographs and an old gas tells SFR. “I’d love to have regular hours on recycled fabric. Her husband, a music lamp. and workshops and events and be a com- teacher, also tagged along and found rollThe space, home to Resourceful Santa munity space in a non-COVID world, ing metal racks perfect for holding guitars. Fe since July, is the new storefront exwhich I think we’ll get to that…People are pansion of the nonprofit Recycle Santa Fe Rothschild has a great admiration doing a lot of projects, building projects, for Pierpont’s work in recycling and reArt Festival. What was once an enormous home improvement projects during the use in New Mexico and is excited to have yearly event at the Santa Fe Community pandemic and I think if there’s any way to Resourceful year round, versus the festiConvention Center now has a retail comnot buy brand new material to do so.” ponent. Resourceful, 2879 A Industrial val just once a year. Resourceful gets donations from all Road, is open to New Mexicans who want “She’s just a conductor of goods, of over the city—artists, residents and busi- helping people who want to make things to get rid of unwanted things while reducnesses alike. All contribute to the small with recycled materials, helping them get ing what goes into the landfill. It’s also warehouse’s packed rooms. those materials, and then helping people for artists who want to find Heather Van Luchene, a found- who are like, ‘What do I do with this inunique recycled materials ing partner of HVL Interiors, stead of throwing it away?’” Rothschild for their work. an interior design firm in Santa tells SFR. “To have something ongoing Every item on the shelves Fe, has donated several SUV year-round where people can make a piland tables and spilling out loads of fabrics, accent tiles grimage just over to a local location and of boxes at Resourceful has and wood and flooring samples find something that they need or to get inbeen carefully collected since Resourceful opened in spired, that just seems great to have that by the nonprofit founder, July. Sarah Pierpont, who is a ongoing.” “When other organizations self-described “broker of As far as Rothschild and Pierpont have been unable to accept are concerned, there is nothing like strange items” between the our items, Resourceful Santa Resourceful in Northern New Mexico. And people who don’t want them Fe has welcomed us with open especially not something like Resourceful anymore and the artists arms, a community spirit and a starting up during a pandemic. who do. She also coordinatmission of reduce, reuse, recyed the Recycle Santa Fe Art “Not many people would have the cle,” Van Luchene says. “Lots of breadth of ability, like [Pierpont] has gotFestival and its programs supplies for creative minds.” in schools for the last 15 ten donations from schools and old desks Emily Rothschild, a part and stuff like that, but then also really years—a considerable untime artist who had a booth cool materials from artists,” Rothschild dertaking—until this year. at the Recycle Santa Fe Art says. “She has that connection, that’s what Pierpont also has a long Festival for the last three years, makes it really unique and in the end, the history of working in the has already used Resourceful wherewithal to make this happen now state’s reuse industry. She The cancellation of 2020’s Recycle Santa Fe Art Festival gave Sarah four times for various projects, during this pandemic and everything, is the executive director of Pierpont the time and space to open Resourceful. including her side business, that’s really great.” the New Mexico Recycling
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lenty of people knew Roger Montoya’s name in Northern New Mexico long before CNN honored him on national television in 2019—and before his election last week to the House of Representatives. They had seen the impact he’d made on kids’ lives as a co-founder of Moving Arts Española. They were familiar with his advocacy for people with HIV and AIDS. They respected his work for the homeless and addicted. It’s those deeds, and the actions still to come, upon which he wants to continue staking his name—not a political maneuver that marked the final weeks of the campaign. Montoya, a 59-year-old Democrat, won the Rio Arriba, Colfax, Mora and San Miguel county District 40 handily with 57% of the vote against a Republican challenger. His decisive victory came a month after a right-wing blog revealed that Montoya had appeared in two porn films in the 1980s— information picked up and amplified by the state’s two largest newspapers and national press. The state Republican Party called on him to drop out of the race. The very brief acting career, under two stage names, came when Montoya was a young man in Los Angeles. He went on to tour with professional contemporary dance companies based both there and in New York City before settling in New Mexico in 1990. Montoya calls the smear a “blessing.” And he emphasizes he’s not holding it against anyone. As he prepares to enter his freshman legislative session, there’s no time to fret about the past. Democrats have increased their majority in the state House, and Montoya will be part of a more progressive-leaning faction. He replaces Joseph Sanchez, a conservative Dem who didn’t seek re-election and instead ran unsuccessfully in the primary election for the 3rd Congressional District. The challenges COVID-19 is lumping on already-burdened sectors of the community can’t be waved away. At Moving Arts, fewer than half its normal number of students have been able to stay enrolled online. The Española Pathways Shelter opened in January, only to see its overnight accommodations hampered by the pandemic. Plus, lawmakers need to address public education, the health care system and other big ticket items that require lasting solutions. Montoya spoke about these and other issues with SFR in the following interview, which has been lightly edited for length and clarity.
SFR: It’s been an intense election for the US. Can you describe this moment in the political and cultural landscape and what you see as your place within it? Roger Montoya: We are definitely at an inflection point in our history and to be running for a political office at this particular moment is just so rich. There are so many implications, not only a call to action but a chance to really put my years of experience to a new level of effect. I just feel I have done a lot of good work on the ground. Now I hope to scale it and apply the knowledge as the voice of the people of my beautiful district. It’s just the greatest honor I could think of having right now. My mother passed this year and her life’s work as the founder and really the mother of school-based wellness in New Mexico, it weighs heavy on me, not in a dark way, but in an inspirational way, to carry forward the incredible work that she did in the 40 years here in Española. I’m ready to work. Did you feel a little daunted by the prospect that the presidential election might result in a second Trump term? I wasn’t worried. The lingering PTSD from the last election cycle in 2016 was certainly sort of haunting, but deep in my belly I believed that truth would prevail and that our people in the United States would step up and make the change that is so necessary right now. So I think in the bigger picture, I trusted that we could do it and that we would do it. What were you doing when you heard the news that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris would head to the White House? I was preparing to head for my first day at the statehouse. I was preparing and I was dressing and getting ready and the news was on and they announced it, and I made a scream. My partner was like, ‘What is going on? Did they call the election?’ and we both just rushed down to the television and just sat in reverence and in gratitude and with more fire in my heart than I have ever had to be a leader of change. The Legislature is scheduled to convene in mid-January. What do you expect that to be like? Based on the [Democratic caucus meeting Saturday], there is a lot of very thoughtful planning and strategic visioning around the impact of COVID on our constitutional duty to serve. There is a sort of a real challenge to figure out: How do we make a 60-day session as meaningful to people we serve but also as safe? We have an absolute priority to protect the health and wellness of every citizen in the state, and so I
What are the most pressing challenge lawmakers face? COVID has underscored the access to health care, which is already heightened, and we are going to have to fortify the existing systems for the most vulnerable, especially those veterans and seniors and the immunosuppressed individuals who seem to be the most at risk. The impact on public education is a major, major worry for me; that’s where most of my civic duty has rested, in public education. I see the struggles and the deficiencies on so many levels to our teachers and our students and families. I anticipate real challenges, ideologically. The political divide is not just going to go away; it’s going to have to be reconciled and it’s going to take a lot of grace and dignity and compassion to inspire right action by all citizens to place the priorities in their proper order. And goodness gracious, the budget is going to really be a challenge. There’s not going to be a lot to work with. The diversification of the economy moving forward over time is going to have to be at once courageous and at once responsible to ensure that we can take care of our people and build a brighter future. We don’t have a lot of economic opportunity in New Mexico in general and it’s going to take some real innovation and creativity to get there. Do you think New Mexicans are in for big changes? Yes. I’m an altruistic, active participant in change. And I have always held aspirations that we have to always look to the very best we can be. Otherwise, why work towards anything? The bar has to be lifted, not unrealistically, but incrementally so that we are constantly on a trajectory forward. You have joined a small, but growing number of LGBTQ elected officials. One flier for a Zoom meeting this season called it the Rainbow Wave 2020. What’s the significance of this to you and to New Mexico? Civil rights and equity is absolutely at the foundation of our nation and our Constitution, and the fact that I am an out-and-proud, HIV-positive man is not the most important thing. I think the discrimination that I have lived through, surviving the last pandemic of
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was really inspired by the depth of the dialogue in trying to figure out how we move forward. Is it a hybrid? Is it postponed? Is it part in one place and part in another? There were many options.
Among his inspirations, Roger Montoya credits his mother Dorotea “Dottie” Montoya’s work on student wellness.
HIV and AIDS in the 80s and 90s, was a major challenge but it has informed my knowledge and my empathy and compassion to get through this. So, I’d say it’s not so much that I am going to be this advocate for the Rainbow Wave, it’s just that I have an expanded empathy for all people who are downtrodden and not the center of the focus always. I think...that tends to be people of color, our tribal and our immigrant populations, even veterans and even seniors, there is so much of a disproportionate priority and I think if I can be a voice to find equity because of who I am, not advocating for just gay rights. That is so shallow to me. Last year was also a big one for you with national recognition as a Top 10 CNN Hero. What was that experience like? Before I gave my acceptance speech, right before I stepped on the stage, I closed my eyes and I thought of my mother and father and my ancestors and they called me to remember the ‘we’ of our lineage, my community, the people who are heroes in our circle— that it’s not Roger Montoya the hero, it’s the community that needs to be honored. And so I adjusted my speech
accordingly because my community is extraordinary and without the challenges and all of the gifts and all of the unsung heroes—and there are so many including the kids and families themselves—that it really was a collective honor. And it did not feel and does not feel to this day like any one person creates alone. We are part of a community and that is really at the base of my philosophy and my practice as a leader. Did the national attention help the work at Moving Arts Española? Absolutely. It made a world of difference. It legitimized our work. It gave us more confidence, certainly, and it expanded our donor base by many, many, many percentage points and the capacity to continue dreaming. We are in the process of expanding right now in very bold ways. We are going to create an aspect of our service provision that we don’t currently have. We have been a 3-year-old to 13-year-old, mostly, youth-serving organization, but we see the potential and the need for the 13 -to -22-year-olds who don’t have the confidence and need that career development. We are going to use the arts and culture through digital media, filmmaking, sound engineering
and behavioral health, the nexus, in expanding our current site by 6,000 square feet, and intentionally serve and pipeline young people into pathways of passion and purpose. It’s all in partnership with the tribal government. That’s always been important. Moving Arts has been an organization that invites and unites strategic partners for the best and highest outcome possible. Ohkay Owingeh is where our organization is nestled, but because of our work as an organization, we have also partnered with the Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Council, the immigrant community, all of the institutions of higher ed. We are really far reaching; the Sikh community are big partners. We leave no stone unturned and that is really part of our recipe for our success. How has the pandemic affected the work of Moving Arts Española? Immediately the pandemic halted the operation of serving kids directly. But one of the strongest provisions we have, the last five years, is an emergency food and meal service, so we led a coalition of 10 nonprofits within the first CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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weeks of the epidemic to unite and to address the food insecurity throughout Northern New Mexico, particularly the rural areas in Rio Arriba County. So the 10 nonprofits raised about $75,000. I led the charge and each of us were able to have our own autonomy of delivery, but we worked in tandem to ensure that every corner was served and that we could leverage any and all resources. It was just a beautiful thing. Closer to home, we moved into our summer session in June, admittedly, clumsily, on distance learning platforms that were kind of piecemeal…It became very clear during that six-week session that we needed to focus and align all of our teachers and our parents and students on one platform. So we found something called Moodle that allowed us to take the curriculum and the safety of the students to the highest level and also to train our staff and our teachers to get the kids on. We have retained about 125 kids, ages 3 to 18, in every art form that we have. Our normal students served weekly is about 400, so it definitely dropped. But we were able to really continue a stream of service that was the best we could do for the fall session, which is just finishing now, and we are assessing the best practices yet again to be prepared for whatever we need to do. Our mission is to serve and inspire and cultivate leaders through the arts and culture and no boulder in our way is going to stop the flow of water. That is our philosophy. We keep flowing because we have to. We are artists and artists solve problems through innovation, tenacity and effectiveness. You’ve also helped to found Española Pathways Shelter, which just opened in January. What is the status of that effort? For 30 years, the city of Española and Rio Arriba County could not success-
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Montoya paints landscapes of Northern New Mexico, part of his “art is medicine” approach.
fully, and had not ever up to that point, opened any provision of service for homeless individuals outside of a faithbased temporary shelter or soup kitchen. This model is a comprehensive, inter-dependent, social-services driven intake, treatment, supportive housing and workforce development. It took a great deal of work, and this is part of my recipe and how I am going to serve in District 40, is that democracy is about action. Community champions, unsung heroes, exist in every strata and in every community on a whole host of issues. By identifying them and nourishing their mission, we can accomplish great things. There’s a gentleman named Ralph Martinez, now 41 years old, a former addict, homeless for many years, hit rock bottom and he found a way forward and he is a remarkable community organizer and he called me about three years ago and said, ‘Roger, the homeless population is growing. Winter is coming; we have to move into action.’ And so we started, literally, six hours later. It was 3 am, and by 9 or 10 o’clock the next morning I was out looking for sites. We were going to do a pop-up shelter because it was a cold winter, and that quickly graduated into forming a very diverse board of directors, which has evangelicals and Sikhs and immigrant leaders across a whole spectrum who are linked and absolutely united to solve this issue of homelessness in Northern New Mexico. So the Española Pathways Shelter was born. And it hasn’t been easy. The folks who don’t want this in their backyard have been very vocal and attempted to block us at numerous angles and we have made history. We had a unanimous Planning and Zoning hearing Commission vote…because of our addressing of this critical social ill and the conditions they set were exceeded
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on every point. And so we are at the challenge now that, because of COVID, we cannot house homeless individuals in the kind of bunk bed style provision, so we are looking at other avenues to house those that are in need, those that need transitional [housing], those that need medically assisted treatment, those that need mental health services… We have been able to interface with over 125 individuals and previous to our work there was literally zero data in Rio Arriba County ever in the history of the county. So it’s been a really remarkable journey. It’s a testament to my style of leadership, to take a problem head on, identify a coalition that is broadly diverse intentionally and get to work… The idea of criminalizing or shaming anyone for any reason is not part of how I work. I think we can be humane, compassionate, bring dignity and devise a system that may take five or 10 years to help someone find their stability. But it’s worth it because the cost to not acting—to the person’s life, first and foremost, but the cost to society of the revolving door, incarceration and drug addiction—it’s not something I can live with. I am deeply moved to make changes across a whole host of needs. And you know, I am so excited. People say, ‘Aren’t you tired?’ or ‘Haven’t you done enough?’ and my answer is, ‘The work has just begun.’ The fact that I am healthy in mind, in body and able and inspired, now I have a real duty to act and make the next 20 years really matter.
At left, Salvador Ruiz-Esquivel, executive director of Moving Arts in Espanola, co-founded the organziation with Montoya, right.
I respect all leadership. The decisions and actions that the Republican Party took were necessary to them. They felt that they needed to do whatever they needed to do. I was and always will be prepared to be a truth teller. Truth matters. Leadership matters and a history of actual service matters. And it clearly showed. My voting percentages were huge, given the challenges. And I believe that, and this is without ego, that the public will see my capacity for leadership moving forward and that I will engage as many naysayers with my work and my example—not my words but with my actions. I don’t hold any animosity toward anybody who attacked me. I hope to win them over. In short, I am thrilled the way it played out. The timing couldn’t have
been better. It was difficult, but it freed me. It allowed me to find healing and any time a person tells the truth, they are fortified and ready to do even more work, and that is how I feel right now. It’s a blessing, really. You posted on Facebook three days after the election about wanting to build bridges. What can you do, what can New Mexico do, to heal divisions and connect to one another? I believe that at the end of the day, if we pose the right questions in the right way, without the noise of partisan wedge issues and all this sort of old corrosive material, if you will, and focus on what matters, then we have more in common than we do not. I just cannot imagine that any human
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doesn’t want a safer world, doesn’t want optimal health, doesn’t want an economy that allows for everybody to be fulfilled. The whole notion of taking care of your neighbor, that cuts across any set of values as truth and I think that is how I was able to develop a coalition for the homeless shelter. Guys, this is not about any one faith or denomination or somebody is better or somebody is worse. We have work to do and if you want to join, please: Let’s link arms and let’s get this show on the road. It is really a no-nonsense approach to humanity and the needs that face us. I’m a proud Democrat, but at the end of the day I’m a humanist and we must find ways to focus our work and make it the most meaningful that we can.
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Watercolor created after the toppling of the Santa Fe obelisk illustrates opportunities for growth
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hen artist David Sloan (Diné) stepped onto the Santa Fe Plaza on Indigenous Peoples Day last month, he wasn’t expecting a diverse cross section of the city’s citizenry united in pulling down the obelisk monument at its center. By the time he left that afternoon, however, he knew he’d need to paint the day’s events. Indeed, with the police standing down and a decentralized movement forming, the people used tow ropes and chains to topple the racist monument, and Santa Fe might never be the same. “I’d heard there were protests on Saturday, and I’d gone down to the Plaza a couple of times just to see what that was all about that day and Sunday,” he says. “By the end of Monday, I was thinking it was like something out of a movie. To really be there in the moment…I thought I could—I should—document that.” Sloan took no part in the actual removal of the monument, but says he’s glad to have been there. He’s primarily known as a printmaker (he runs the Santa Fe Community Screeprinting studio at YouthWorks! and, full disclosure, has printed shirts for my mediocre punk band), but the new untitled piece is a watercolor. Local art fans might not have seen such a piece from Sloan before. He works in the medium often and just doesn’t usu18
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An untitled watercolor by David Sloan—more widely known as a printmaker—captures the day the obelisk fell.
ally share those pieces. “It’s the easiest way I know to create an image as vivid as my memory,” he explains, “and in my memory, it was all these people, all walks of life, all kinds of Santa Fe citizens; it was jovial. Everyone was tearing up. Everyone was happy.” The piece itself is almost dreamlike with vignettes of human movements dotting the altered perspective of the Plaza. Protesters raise their fists; some climb the once-imposing monument; a large cadre holds the tow ropes and, in the sky, Sloan’s ancestors look on. “It’s just the events I saw,” Sloan tells SFR, “like a description, rather than choosing sides.” Amber-Dawn Bear Robe (Blackfoot Sikiska), an assistant professor in art history at the Institute of American Indian Arts, likens Sloan’s piece to a form of old-school political cartoon, or even journalism. “I draw the connection to how the history of Indigenous people was not documented,” she tells SFR. “Around the time of the Civil War—it was the first war to be photographed because of the daguerrotypes, but before that, wars were illustrated [and reported] by journalists who wouldn’t even get there until it was over, so these were
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recreations of those moments of war. I’m making the connection that David is doing this same kind of journalistic representation of the incident, but he was there.” Bear Robe says the history of the obelisk shape itself is a long and murky one. Generally, she says, they denote a sense of place, but their very design is representative of Egypt, certainly not America. Additionally, she adds, there have been myriad artist responses to the concept of the obelisks and monuments over time. Barnett Newman’s 1963 “Broken Obelisk,” for example, which deconstructed the concept, flipping the shape upside down. Even more apropos, says Bear Robe, might be the Samuel de Champlain statue in Canada’s capital city Ottowa, part of which once included a genuflecting Native figure placed in subservience beneath a decidedly more triumphant representation of the French colonizer. “There was a lot of protest around that,” she says. “You have this kneeling, basically naked and nameless Indian statue—and it’s memorializing the colonization of that region—so there was a lot of protest by Indigenous people, and what ended up happening was that the [Native] part of the statue was taken away, just re-
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moved, and that’s problematic because it’s erasing it and not addressing the history. It’s just a ‘let’s kill the Indian’ kind of thing.” Santa Fe faced the inverse of that when the city removed a statue of the colonizer Juan de Oñate from Cathedral Park in July. What makes the citizen-spurred tearing down of the Santa Fe obelisk so different, Bear Robe notes, is that rather than unceremoniously removing it from view, those who took part in bringing it down became part of an impromptu piece of interventional and ultimately reconciliatory performance art. “It was kind of a ceremony,” she explains. “It was people taking back space, seizing space to bring attention to the history and the land. That’s what art does: Art brings attention to space and place and history, and the removal of the obelisk did just that.” In other words, while a large contingent of Santa Fe’s populace has voiced vitriolic disapproval of the obelisk’s removal—and the police seem to be regularly announcing new charges against just about anyone they can identify from that day—the action’s ultimate intent was to make room for healing. As Bear Robe says, harmful monuments, protests aimed at them and art pieces spawned by them are nothing new—we’ve been having the should-it-stay-or-should-it-go conversation about the obelisk in Santa Fe since the 1970s, probably earlier. But the people taking matters into their own hands not only accomplished what Mayor Alan Webber promised and failed to do in June, it paves the way for something different. That is, it can if Santa Feans finally let go of hollow “We’ve always gotten along!” talking points and realize people don’t tear down monuments for no good reason. “What the obelisk was celebrating was a violent act,” Bear Robe says. “It was almost an act of peace, in a way, to take the monument. It forced us to look at something we could easily ignore, and is it going to rub people the wrong way? Yes. But in order to move on, there’s got to be discomfort. Santa Fe is in its own vortex bubble, so when Indigenous people say or do something, it’s shocking. It shakes [people’s] idea of what Santa Fe is: the pretty sunsets, Indian Market, tourism.” Which brings us back to Sloan’s untitled watercolor. In it, he’s somehow captured both beauty and intensity; a frozen moment that Sloan says he has no plans to mass market. “I just painted it because I wanted to see it,” he says. “I went there that day because I am Diné, and I have an accountability for the people who couldn’t be there.”
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n his October newsletter to customers, Monte Skarsgard of Albuquerque’s Skarsgard Farms wrote “We have a saying around here that ‘Numbers don’t lie.’ Numbers don’t get hunches, have feelings, get political or get emotional. Numbers tell a story whether you like it or not. And right now, COVID numbers in our enchanted state aren’t good.” Now, I don’t know if that’s because we all kind of got bored sitting at home, if it’s because some people insist on keeping their masks just below their noses when they’re out or if we’re just being outsmarted by that crafty coronoavirus bastard, but I do know that new case numbers are rising dramatically. Good, then, that Skarsgard Farms is eliminating a need to visit the physical store. Since March, the company has grown like crazy, rising to meet the pandemic head on through a reliable and affordable CSA/ grocery delivery service with offerings as vast as they are enticing. But its massive growth isn’t just some overnight success story, it’s the product of years of hard work from a rather unlikely guy. “I’m from Albuquerque originally, and I was working on a farm for two years in
Seattle after college,” Skarsgard tells SFR, adding that he’d gone to UC Santa Barbara for business and never even saw himself in agriculture. “At a certain point in my life, though, I was just asking myself what am I going to do? Where am I going to be? So looking to Albuquerque, and this was in 2003, it was really underserved at the time with, I think, one CSA and, like, 45 customers.” He took the methods he’d learned in Seattle, rented land from Los Poblanos Organic Farm and went at it. Nearly 20 years later, he’s grown the business into one of the more prominent and convenient CSAs in the state, partly, he says, due to the mounting foodie movement of the early-aughts; partly through a desire to both feed and impact his hometown community. Additionally, he says, the COVID-19 pandemic is making us all rethink how we interact with food supply lines. “The people who connect to their food, [the CSA] really moved them,” Skarsgard says. “But it’s not a matter of the McDonald’s ‘billion served’ thing—our model doesn’t need the one billion hamburgers sold.” COVID-19 has ironically played a major part in the company expanding. Skarsgard says his Santa Fe customer
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We’re always here for some good Asian cinema, especially when it’s a piece by prolific Chinese actor/director/writer/filmmaker King Hu. But whereas the highlights of that particular world are many, it’s a little baffling that Hu’s 1979 film Raining in the Mountain would get the remaster treatment—it’s kind of a slog. During the Ming Dynasty, the famous Three Treasures Temple faces more activity than usual. The abbot knows he’ll die soon and must name his successor, which brings an esquire, a wealthy landowner and an accomplished general to help arbitrate and facilitate the transfer of power. Meanwhile, a convicted criminal manages to alter his sentence to a monastic life at the temple, but a connection to a man in the general’s entourage could prove fatal; a young thief might just be roaming around, too, in search of a handwritten Tripiṭaka (Buddhist scripture) rumored to be beyond value.
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In 2017’s Band-Aid, writer/director/actor Zoe Lister-Jones (who also had a pretty OK arc on the TV show New Girl) cobbled together an achingly relatable tale of late-stage relationship doldrums and the ways in which couples try to escape their ruts. It was a phenomenal pice of filmmaking that cemented Lister-Jones as a fresh voice to watch, at least for this writer. In the newly released The Craft: Legacy, however, Lister-Jones deflates that enthusiasm, disappointing at nearly every turn and presenting a middling and out-of-touch homage to the witchy 1996 original movie—only this time it’s crammed with “hip” zoomer lingo and politics, plus barely there performances from Michelle Monaghan and David Duchovny. It begins with Lily (Cailee Spaeny), a high schooler of indiscriminate age whose single mother (True Detective’s Monaghan) falls in with some toxic masculinity guru (Duchovny of the vile and unfunny Californication) and decides it’s time to cohabitate. Right away we learn Lily didn’t really have friends in her old town (she’s weird, y’all… with short hair and a mysterious necklace and sad glances and nervousness), but a rocky first day at There Are Probably Witches High tosses her in
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In other words, the setup is all there for the thrills, chills and Dickensian spills that come from down-on-their-luck types thrust into a world of hardships and coincidences. Sadly, though, Raining in the Mountain is mainly about long conversations in courtyards and parables, or at least the kind of teachings old folks like, namely, ones wherein there’s always some kind of trick wisdom hidden beneath the surface. Oh, there’s a fight scene or two, though they feel deflated—as does an early act sequence of a mysterious pair making their way across the massive temple grounds in what feels like real time. No, seriously—it’s, like, 10 solid minutes of two people running across the temple grounds. Pity, too, as the story itself is intriguing. Perhaps Hu was aiming for a fairy tale thing,
with a trio of young women/caricatures of modern youth played by Lovie Simone, Gideon Adlon and Zoey Luna. Luna, for what it’s worth, is an out trans actress—which seems cool right up until she gets fewer lines than everyone else and most characters continually refer to “you guys” when addressing her group. Thankfully, there is no trans tragedy angle here, but the witches do hang around and say stuff like “stan” and “lit” and “fam,” and it is annoying. Like the original movie, the budding witches realize their powers, told here in montage form. Lily, it seems, has the strongest abilities, and the quartet uses their newfound magick (with a “k”) to do fun things and good things and less good things and creepy things. Somewhere in there, Lister-Jones buries would-be interesting thoughts on toxic masculinity, performative woke-ness and consent, but whereas the real-life Gen Z seems to have bravely rejected gender norms, rape culture and racism wholesale, The Craft: Legacy examines such topics too fleetingly before placing the main dilemma of the film on Lily’s inability to process her emotions. Or so it seems, anyway. Cue last act fall-apart, a one-two lightweight punch of dual twists that surely won’t resonate with the young audiences at which the movie’s aimed—or even at the slightly older set the filmmakers obviously hope loved the ’96 Neve Campbell/Fairuza Balk romp. In the end, one thing is clear: They want a
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but at around what feels like the 300th conversation about what the criminal did, who should be the abbot and how civilians and military types butt heads, it starts to feel like it’ll never end. That’s not to gloss over the gorgeous remaster and the few fleeting moments of excitement, rather that we could think of a lot of movies from that era that might have better deserved an update. This one’s for the Asian cinephiles only, and even then it’s more like a badge of honor than something you’ll be glad you trudged through.
sequel for this one very badly, but it’s our duty as citizens of cinema to never let that happen.(ADV)
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With 1990’s The Witches having reached a sort of cult status (mainly for ruining lives with that intro thing about the little girl trapped forever in a painting), it’s only natural to react to an HBO remake of the Roald Dahl story with consternation. But then you start seeing that names like Robert Zemeckis, Guillermo del Toro, Kenya Barris, Octavia Spencer and Anne Hathaway are attached, and you breathe a little easier. The story’s the same: A young boy (newcomer Jahzir Bruno) moves in with his grandmother (Spencer) after his parents die, and a fateful vacation to a ritzy seaside hotel coincides with the annual meeting of the witching world’s top brass. There, the Grand High Witch (Hathaway) has concocted a scheme for international covens to transform children into mice—they hate kids and mice are easier to stomp to death, it seems—and the young boy is swept up in the mania with some other recentlyturned-mice types. Del Toro/Zemeckis/Barris’ take, however,
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sets the action in the late 1960s, complete with Motown music cues, then centers Black actors while giving Spencer’s character a little voodoo know-how. The superior special effects wizardry of today adds a little more oomph. As always, Spencer proves herself a national treasure. She cuts an empathetic figure during emotional scenes reflecting on life and loss; she phases into heroic and witty against daunting odds—she’s comforting but powerful at once. Bruno as the young lad is serviceable enough, but Hathaway repeatedly steals the film as the horrifying Grand High Witch. Part Anjelica Huston from the original (because how could you not?), part Pennywise, Hathaway’s take oscilates jarringly between that of a glamorous wig aficionado to menacing monstrosity. Kudos to Hathaway’s use of the crazy eye technique, and kudos again for infusing just the right amount of humor to an objectively horrifying character. Stanley Tucci’s in the mix as well, as is some early-movie narration from Chris Rock, though in both cases that hardly seems to matter. Those things exist and little else. Anyway, we’re just here for the hijinks and the horror lite elements. As an added bonus, you can show this to your kids alongside the original movie then ask them to compare and contrast. That oughta kill a few hours. (ADV)
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Love can’t always do work,” wrote novelist Iris Murdoch. “Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.” From what I can tell, you’ve been doing that recently: looking into the darkness for love’s sake. That’s a good thing! You have been the beneficiary of the blessings that come through the contemplation of mysteries and enigmas. You’ve been recalibrating your capacity to feel love and tenderness in the midst of uncertainty. I suspect that it will soon be time to shift course, however. You’re almost ready to engage in the intimate work that has been made possible by your time looking into the darkness.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Who is to decide between ‘Let it be’ and ‘Force it’?” asked Libran author Katherine Mansfield. I mention this because you’re now hanging out in the limbo zone between “Let it be” and “Force it.” But very soon—I’m sure you’ll have a clear intuition about when—you’ll figure out how to make a decisive move that synthesizes the two. You will find a way to include elements of both “Let it be” and “Force it.”
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me,” wrote Scorpio poet Dylan Thomas (1914–1953) in a letter to a friend. That sounds like a lot of energy to manage! And he didn’t always do a good job at it—although he did at times tap into his TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Author Barbara primal wellspring to create some interesting poetry. I’m Kingsolver says, “Don’t try to figure out what other going to use Thomas’s words in your horoscope, people want to hear from you; figure out what you because I think that in the coming weeks you can be a have to say.” That’s always valuable advice, but it’ll be subtle, refined, and mature blend of a beast, angel, and especially useful to keep in mind during the coming madperson. Be your wisest wild self, dear Scorpio! weeks. You’re probably going to feel more pressure than usual to tell others what they wish you would tell SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Activist and author them; you may experience some guilt or worry about Rebecca Solnit writes, “The grounds of my hope have being different from their expectations of you. Here’s always been that history is wilder than our imagination of it and that the unexpected shows up far more reguthe good news: I’m pretty certain you can be true to yourself without seeming like a jerk to anyone or dam- larly than we ever dream.” In my astrological estimation, her grounds for hope should also be yours in the aging your long-term interests. So you might as well coming weeks. The future is more wide-open than you say and do exactly what’s real and genuine. might think. The apparent limitations of the past are at GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “The violets in the moun- least temporarily suspended and irrelevant. Your fate is tains have broken the rocks,” wrote playwright purged of some of your old conditioning and the inertia Tennessee Williams. I think that’s a poetic but accuof tradition. I encourage you to make a break for freerate description of the feat you’ve been working on dom. Head in the direction of the Beautiful Unknown. lately, Gemini. You’re gently smashing through stony CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The famous Leaning obstructions. You’ve been calling on your irrepressible Tower of Pisa doesn’t stand straight, but tilts at an will to enjoy life as you have outsmarted the rugged, angle. Why? The soil it was built on is soft on one side. jagged difficulties. You’re relying on beauty and love So the marble-and-limestone structure began to tip to power your efforts to escape a seemingly no-win even before it was finished. That’s the weird news. The situation. Congratulations! Keep up the good work! good news is that the tower has remained standing for CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian rapper Vince Staples says, “I feel like it’s impossible to be completely yourself.” Why? Because ideally we’re always outgrowing who we have become; we’re moving beyond the successes we have already achieved. There is no final, whole, ideal “self” to inhabit and express—only more and more of our selfness to create. Staples suggests we’d get bored if we reached a mythical point where we had figured out exactly who we are and embodied it with utter purity. We always have a mandate to transform into a new version of our mystery. Sounds like fun! Everything I just said, Cancerian, is an empowering meditation for you right now.
more than eight centuries—and has stayed intact even though four major earthquakes have rolled through the area. Why? A research team of engineers determined it’s because of the soft foundation soil, which prevents the tower from resonating violently with the temblors. So the very factor that makes it odd is what keeps it strong. Is there a comparable phenomenon in your life? I believe there is. Now is a good time to acknowledge this blessing—and enhance your use of it.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Even if you tend to pay more attention to what’s going wrong than what’s going right, I ask you to change your attitude for the next three weeks. Even if you believe that cynicism is an intelligent perspective and a positive attitude is a wasteful indulLEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “I am my own sanctuary and I gence, I encourage you to suspend those beliefs. As an can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my experiment—and in accordance with astrological potenlife.” Singer-songwriter Lady Gaga said that, and now I tials—I invite you to adopt the words of activist Helen offer it to you to use as your motto. According to my Keller as your keynote: “Every optimist moves along analysis of the astrological omens, it’s a fabulous time with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist to be your own sanctuary. I invite you to rebirth yourself would keep the world at a standstill. The consequence at least twice between now and the end of November. of pessimism in the life of a nation is the same as in the What’s the first step you’ll take to get started? life of the individual. Pessimism kills the instinct that urges people to struggle against poverty, ignorance and VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The National Football crime, and dries up all the fountains of joy in the world.” League is a giant socialist enterprise. It earns billions of dollars of revenue, and shares it equally with each PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Researchers in the UK of its 32 teams. So the team in Green Bay, Wisconsin, found that 62 percent of the adult population brags population 105,000, receives the same payout as the that they’ve read classic books that they have not in team in Chicago, population 2.7 million. I advocate a fact read. Why? Mostly to impress others. George Orwell’s 1984 is the top-rated book for fake claims, folcomparable approach for you in the coming weeks. lowed by Tolstoy’s War and Peace, James Joyce’s Just for now, distribute your blessings and attention and favors as evenly as possible, showing no favorit- Ulysses, and the Bible. I hope you won’t engage in anyism toward a particular child or friend or pet or loved thing like that type of behavior during the weeks ahead. In my opinion, it’s even more crucial than usual for you one or influence. Be an impartial observer, as well. to be honest and authentic about who you are and Try to restrain biases and preferential treatment as what you do. Lying about it might seem to be to your you act with even-handed fair-mindedness. Don’t advantage in the short run, but I guarantee it won’t be. worry: You can eventually go back to being a subjecHomework: What’s the one thing you have never said to your tive partisan if you want. For the foreseeable future, best friend that you really should say? FreeWillAstrology.com your well-being requires cordial neutrality.
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LEGAL NOTICES - ALL OTHERS STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT LUCILLE M. MONTOYA, Petitioner No. D-101-DM-2019-00607 IN THE MATTER OF THE KINSHIP GUARDIANSHIP OF C.M., S.M.,J.M.,M.M.,M.M., Children, and concerning Tommy Montoya and Lorraine Montoya, Respondents. NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF ACTION STATE OF NEW MEXICO TO LORRAINE MONTOYA, RESPONDENT. GREETINGS: You are hereby notified that Lucille M. Montoya, Petitioner, filed a Petition To Appoint Kinship Guardian(s) for Christina Montoya, Samuel Montoya, Jacob Montoya, Moses Montoya and Mikayla Montoya against you in the above entitled Court and cause. Unless you enter your appearance and written response in said cause on or before November 30th, 2020, a judgment by default will be entered against you. Name and Address of Petitioner's Attorney: Lucille M. Montoya 3339 Caminito Quintana Santa Fe, NM 87507
FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE MARIA D BETANZOS G PETITIONER/PLAINTIFF VS. JORGE A MEJIA M RESPONDENT/DEFENDANT. Case No.: D-101-DM-2020-00358 NOTICE OF PENDANCY OF SUIT STATE OF NEW MEXICO TO Jorge A Mejia M. GREETINGS: You are hereby notified that Maria D Betanzos G, the above-named Petitioner/ Plaintiff, has filed a civil action against you in the aboveentitled Court and cause, The general object thereof being: to dissolve the marriage between the Petitioner and yourself. Unless you enter your appearance in this cause within thirty (30) days of the date of the last publication of this Notice, judgment by default may be entered against you. Maria D Betanzos G 3637 N Platte Road Santa Fe, NM 87507 (505) 699-9848 WITNESS this Honorable Shannon Broderick Bulman, District Judge of the First Judicial Court of New Mexico, and the Seal of the District Court of Santa Fe/ Rio Arriba/Los Alamos County, this 23rd day of October, 2020 KATHLEEN VIGIL CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: Tamara Snee Deputy Clerk Public Notice: 10/13/2020 Instrument #1930995 Santa Fe NM County Clerk recorded Document "Acceptance of Land Patent" #88 Chain of Title and related documents for Growing in Excellence Trust.
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INTENTIONAL CREATIVITY GROUP: Start to nurture a relationship with the creative self through art, meditation, and journaling. Learn new ways the creative self can resource and teach us to interact with life's challenges. Art supplies required, but they can be provided if needed. Group held Tuesdays from November 10th- December 29th 12:00-1:30 pm via Zoom through Tierra Nueva Counseling Center by student therapists. Call (505) 471- 8575 to register.
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WELCOME TO LAMY, this 12.5 acre lot will provide spectacular sunrise and sunset views from this developed (utilities at the lot line) property. Bordered to the South by the Gallisteo Reserve and to the East by a conservation easement, assures unobstructed views of the Sangre de Cristos and the Ortiz Mountains. This is a fantastic opportunity to experience the landscape of a lifetime. There is easy access (approximately 8 miles to gas/shopping/ etc) to Eldorado. Less than 30 minutes to Santa Fe. If you have been looking for a spot to build your dream home in the southwest, look no further. Price $149,900. 18 Alyssa Court, Lamy MLS® #202004118. Mara Melton, Home & Land Professionals LLC. 505-699-0407
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