Community News
YCC Crews Make a Lasting Impression
- Category: Community News Community News
- Published: 01 June 2023 01 June 2023
The Youth Conservation Crew (YCC) offered by Aldo Leopold Charter School (ALCS) provided paid internship positions for 85 youth ages 14-15 including ALCS students in grades 9-12. Their projects included: trail building, eco-monitoring, garden crew, water harvesting, and mural design and installation.
Under the direction of local craftsman Dickey Sanchez, the crews completed two projects: the juniper tree trail next to Ritch Hall on the Western New Mexico University (WNMU) campus and phase one of the Silva Creek Nature Trail connecting the historic Waterworks site to Penny Park. At the Ritch Hall site crew members gained experience in trail design and installation, including building stairs using boulders and flagstone.
The Children’s Water Festival Turns 20!
- Category: Community News Community News
- Published: 01 June 2023 01 June 2023
This year, we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Children’s Water Festival, an opportunity for 5th graders to experience the Gila River. The Children’s Water Festival (CWF) has been organized by different entities over the years and the Upper Gila Watershed Alliance began coordinating in 2016. We’ve improved the format so that just one school at a time is at the river, allowing birdsong to be heard along with the facts from the instructor.
“I’m very grateful that UGWA’s support for this meaningful event allows us to reach students from the Silver City, Cobre, Lordsburg, and Deming School Districts,” states Carol Ann Fugagli, UGWA’s Education Director and organizer of the event. “Watching the faces of young people light up as they discover the texture of sycamore leaves or find aquatic macroinvertebrates never gets tiring!”
Silver City Museum held its annual yard sale 052023
- Category: Community News Community News
- Published: 01 June 2023 01 June 2023
Photos by Mary Alice Murphy
Silver City Museum annual yard sale 052023
Silver City Museum annual yard sale 052023
A bedroom suite
Silver City Museum annual yard sale 052023
Allie from Seattle checking out a chest of drawers
Silver City Museum annual yard sale 052023
Sarah Zamora, museum community engagement manager
Silver City Museum annual yard sale 052023
let there be light
Silver City Museum annual yard sale 052023
something for a side table?
Silver City Museum annual yard sale 052023
more miscellaneous items
Silver City Museum annual yard sale 052023
breakables, be careful
Silver City Museum annual yard sale 052023
one of the tables with miscellaneous items
Silver City Museum annual yard sale 052023
telling time
Silver City Museum annual yard sale 052023
a couch and pillows
Silver City Museum annual yard sale 052023
paintings
Silver City Museum annual yard sale 052023
Janet Ramirez and Charlie Kiehne check out some reading material
Silver City Museum annual yard sale 052023
snacks and lemonade for sale
Silver City Museum annual yard sale 052023
Checking out all the donated items for sale
Silver City Museum annual yard sale 052023
Browsers trying to find the perfect item to take home
Sarah Zamora, museum community engagement manager, oversaw the filling of the museum courtyard with items on tables and shelves, as well as leaning against tree trunks. "The donations are from around town. And we just made all the listed prices half price. You can't leave without buying something. and carrying it away."
She said to this photographer's question that items that don't sell are donated to other entities in town such as SWAG. "Some of the items we store until next year."
ALCS Alumna Selected as Congressional Intern
- Category: Community News Community News
- Published: 30 May 2023 30 May 2023
Aldo Leopold Charter School (ALCS) alumna Ajalaa Claussen was selected to serve as an intern for U.S. Representative Gabe Vasquez (NM-02) this summer in Washington, D.C. Claussen just completed her junior year at University of Southern California and is majoring in political science and Spanish. She is interested in either a career in politics or becoming a civil rights attorney.
Claussen became inspired to pursue a career in politics as a high school sophomore and junior following school field trips to the New Mexico Roundhouse in 2018 and 2019. There she gained practical experience in how a bill becomes a law and the deep debates involved in the process. Working for Rep. Vasquez this summer, Claussen looks forward to witnessing this process unfold on a national level and supporting Vasquez’s efforts to protect the Gila River, one of the nation’s last free-flowing waterways. She says, “Having grown up backpacking along the Gila River, witnessing the vital role of this riparian habitat, it will be an honor to stand by Rep. Vasquez supporting the river’s preservation. It will also be exciting to be in D.C. and dive into the issues that concern New Mexicans.”
HMS’s Mimbres Valley Senior Center Busy in June
- Category: Community News Community News
- Published: 29 May 2023 29 May 2023
Three major community events are on the calendar:
On Monday, June 12 at 5:30, HMS CEO Dr. Dan Otero, DBA, will be presenting on rural health, and screening the popular PBS documentary, The Providers. Come join your neighbors in the sharing of delicious food and relevant information about rural health in our community and the state. All Mimbres Valley and Grant County residents are welcome. Contact the Senior Center at 575-536-9990 or email us at info@mvhal.org.
Name Corrected: Preceptor Tau Ends 2022-23 Term with Fun Activities and Election of New Officers
- Category: Community News Community News
- Published: 28 May 2023 28 May 2023
The Preceptor Tau Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi recently held their annual Founder’s Day celebration at the Messiah Lutheran Church in Silver City. Jackie Berry, an experienced quilter, presented information about the Quilts of Valor program. Some of the quilts created for presentation to veterans in Grant County were displayed for the members to view.
Service projects included donations of snacks for patients at the Dialysis Center and Mothers’ Day gift baskets for residents of El Refugio.
Pat Johannes hosted a Mother’s Day luncheon for members.
MVHAL’s Give Grandly a Success
- Category: Community News Community News
- Published: 27 May 2023 27 May 2023
The Mimbres Valley Health Action League (MVHAL)’s participation in Grant County’s Annual Give Grandly fundraising event coordinated by the Grant County Community Foundation Giving Day event was an unmitigated success. MVHAL’s fundraising goal was $5,000, and although the final tally isn’t in yet, we raised $4798.00.
Seventy-four (75) supporters in approximately 14 states provided support for MVHAL’s programs. MVHAL is deeply grateful to all who offered financial and moral support and we offer the sincerest “Thank You” on behalf of the Mimbres Valley residents who will benefit from the generosity of our supporters!
That generosity means that MVHAL can continue supporting:
The Hunt Ranch in Range Magazine
- Category: Community News Community News
- Published: 26 May 2023 26 May 2023
Dusty Hunt, owner and operator of the Hunt Ranch, which was featured recently in Range Magazine is a native of Grant County. His family used to farm at Riverside. Hunt began ranching in the 1980s after working eight years for New Mexico Game and Fish Department.