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Rent-free slots benefit few at convention center Little-known resolution allows nine nonprofits to benefit per year

By Julie Ann Grimm

The New Mexican

A handful of area nonprofits has benefited from a city policy that allows groups to avoid paying thousands of dollars in rental fees at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center. In 2012, the City Council adopted a

Michelle Davis of Santa Fe, left, deposits a ballot at the Gold Dust Restaurant booth during the annual Souper Bowl at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center in 2011. The event’s rental fees were waived in 2012 and 2013 through a littleknown city resolution.

resolution that allows each of the eight councilors and the mayor to choose an organization each year and offer free use of the convention center for an event, but the perk is often awarded to the same groups every year. So far, about 10 events have taken place

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Clearing freshman fog A female black bear hangs out downtown along the Santa Fe River last September. Officials say the forest is full of food sources. NEW MEXICAN FILE PHOTO

Biologist: ‘We’re not running a zoo here’ State Game and Fish official sees no need to supplement bears’ food By Karl Moffatt

For The New Mexican

The bear tracks stood out clearly in the soft dirt by the side of the road, right where they should have been, alongside a scrub oak blooming with acorns. “This is their time of milk and honey,” said Rick Winslow, a bear biologist with the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish. “And it’s looking pretty good right now.” New Mexico’s bears are getting ready to put on some serious weight before they hole up and hibernate through the winter. And acorns play a huge role in that effort, as the little nut comprises the greatest majority of a bear’s diet.

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Santa Fe Desert Chorale 2013 Summer Festival Northern Lights, 8 p.m., Loretto Chapel, 207 Old Santa Fe Trail, $15-$50, 988-2282.

Obituaries Gerald William Buchen, 62, July 31 Rubel Duran Jr., 53, Santa Fe, Aug. 1 Nora M. Garcia, 68, Aug. 2

Santa Fe High School math teacher Jonathan Haack speaks with incoming freshmen attending the school’s Summer Bridge pilot program Tuesday. The program helps incoming high school students get acclimated to their new environment. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN

Summer Bridge program at Santa Fe High gives incoming students an edge By David Salazar

The New Mexican

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t 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, with little more than two weeks remaining before the first day of classes, many high-schoolers were probably sleeping in. At Santa Fe High School, though, a group of about 40 students was gathered in front of the library, snacking on bagels with Nutella and listening to the school’s choir perform on

the penultimate day of the Summer Bridge pilot program. The program, which began July 30, is meant to prepare incoming high-schoolers by orienting them to the campus and the sort of work that will be expected of them, with small workshops and exercises intended to prepare them for the first day of school on Aug. 14. “I actually thought we weren’t going to have a very big group,”

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Jonathan Haack Santa Fe High School math teacher and Summer Bridge program worker

By Lori Hinnant

The Associated Press

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lost, then you get academically lost. … You can’t recover from that.”

Dining shift prompts lawmakers to consider restaurant labeling rules

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French cuisine under attack as fast food makes gains

Gilbert Ortiz, 68, Aug. 3 David John Strite, 79, Aug. 3 Carmen A. Velasquez, 77, Aug. 3

Thunderstorms. High 84, low 54.

said Jessica Forbes, who works with the school’s college readiness course, AVID. “But we had a really good turnout, and it’s been consistent.” Forbes said she was worried that some students would be reluctant to attend the program, since a few of them had been participating in summer school, which ended only a few days before Summer Bridge began. But

Estelle Levy displays fresh cookies in her bakery in Paris. France, a country that has always took pride in its cuisine, is seeing a dining shift amid a struggling economy, as fast food and frozen entrees become more popular. REMY DE LA MAUVINIERE/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Interim Editor: Bruce Krasnow, 986-3034, brucek@sfnewmexican.com Design and headlines: Cynthia Miller, cmiller@sfnewmexican.com

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PARIS — The country that gave us the words restaurant, bistro and cuisine is changing how it eats. For the first time in France, fast food overtook traditional restaurant receipts as the economic crisis deepened, and the share of people who pack a lunch for work is rising faster by the year. Meanwhile, lurid reports of the increasing number of traditional restaurants resorting to frozen pre-

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packaged meals to hold down their prices have shaken France’s sense of culinary identity. French lawmakers have swung into action to protect their cuisine, which the government officially considers a matter of national pride — even to the point of persuading UNESCO in 2010 to put French cuisine on its World Heritage List. “I don’t want chefs replaced by microwaves,” said Daniel Fasquelle, a lawmaker in the French Assembly who voted recently for a measure that would require restaurants to print “fait maison” — or “homemade” — on menus next to dishes that were created from scratch.

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