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Las Vegas, NM Heritage Week: August 7 – 15

Las Vegas, NM Heritage Week: August 7 – 15

Please join us in Las Vegas, New Mexico, for Heritage Week 2010, where we will celebrate our 175th Birthday with over 40 exciting historic events!
In 1835, Spanish settlers applied for a communal land grant from Mexico, asked to settle in a rolling valley beneath the Sangre de Christo Mountains. New Mexico wasn’t yet a State of …

Birdie Jaworski on NPR, my son has more surgery

Birdie Jaworski on NPR, my son has more surgery

I have a story on NPR – if your station plays the nationally-syndicated show, 51%, listen in for my story about honeybees. Or, click here to listen online!
My youngest son had Round Two of surgery thanks to an accident earlier this year in which he broke his leg and ankle. This time around, he needed to have surgery on BOTH …

June Artist of the Month: Meredith Britt

June Artist of the Month: Meredith Britt

One of the most subversive locations in town is a simple house by the Rio Gallinas. The house mirrors its owner: small, sturdy, quiet. If you look at the house, at the woman, you will miss the secret interiors, the scrape of paintbrush against synapse, the pile of discarded collage scraps fighting for a second …

The Lost Villages, the Blessed Works

The Lost Villages, the Blessed Works

One of my work projects is to put together the very first San Miguel County-wide Artist Guide, a full-color 68-page book of our artists, artisans, writers, poets, musicians, theatre folk. 188 artists are participating in the project, and even though this is a small town and a sparsely populated county, the number of artists we …

City of Las Vegas Clean-Up!

City of Las Vegas Clean-Up!

LOCATION: Carnegie Park
TIME: 9AM
DATE: Friday 14, 2010

Mayor Alfonso E. Ortiz, Jr. and the City Council  invite you, the City of Las Vegas employees and residents to participate in the “City of Las Vegas Community clean-up” campaign.
*All city department Teams, Schools, Sports Leagues, Businesses and Residents are asked to help clean our community in order to maintain the beauty of our …

Missing Dog – Please help find Nori

Missing Dog – Please help find Nori

Hello everyone!
I have been deep in work as well as deep in a personal project, and haven’t had time to blog. I am dropping in to post a notice for a missing dog. Pat Romero’s sweet doggie, Nori:
MISSING DOG: Eleanore (Nori), black with tan paws and face-markings, Husky mix, about 70 lbs, friendly and approachable. She is blind so her …

The Nat Gold Players Present “Box Seats”

The Nat Gold Players Presents…
Box Seats: Originals and Look Who’s Playing God by Albert Johnson

Where: Tome on the Range
When: April 23-25
Times:  Friday 23 and Sat 24 at 7:30 PM and Sunday at 5:00 PM
Tickets: $10.00 adults $8.00 for seniors and $5.00 for students with a valid ID
People can get tickets from Jane Hyatt, LVAC, Tome, …

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