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Rotary calendar for February 2024

February 6, 2024 Speakers are Alexa Tubbs and Matt Leef, owners of the Open Space Brewery in Santa Clara, NM.
Topic: "To Serve as a Symbol and Value the Connection of Love for Nature and a Well-Made Brew."

February 13, 2024 Jessica Swapp, Grant County Extension 4-H Agent
Topic: "Benefits of the Grant County Extension to the People."

February 20, 2024 Bart Roselli, Director of the Silver City Museum.
Topic: " Changes in the Museum."

More information to come later.

Tri-City police department blotters – Jan. 29 through Feb. 1, 2024

Bayard Police Department

Monday, Jan.29

Unattended death
500 East Street – Bayard Low Income Apartments
54-year-old male deceased/cold to the touch. Officer advised to roll OMI/OMI en route.

Liquor laws
Cobre High School
Student found with a flask of alcohol/they are in the office and parent is being called.

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Grant County Sheriff's Office blotter – Jan.29 through Feb. 1, 2024

Monday, Jan. 29

Welfare check
Arenas Valley Road
Caller advised she can see an open flame In a camp trailer near caller's house. Deputy searched the area with negative contact.

Welfare check
Thomas Lane
Caller is a psychiatric nurse practitioner and is expressing concern for 14-year-old daughter/she has been cutting herself, drinking alcohol, and using drugs/is requesting an involuntary hold be placed on the female. Caller was advised to complete forms and fax them to GCSO office. Caller advised she will fax when complete.

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Silver City Police Department blotters – Jan. 29 through Feb. 1, 2024

Monday, Jan. 29

Suspicious vehicle x 3
La Plata Middle School – 1:19 a.m.; 206 N. Hudson Street – 1:20 a.m.; Pinos Altos Road and E. 32nd Street – 1:27 a.m.
No narrative; no narrative; vehicle unoccupied.

Accident-property damage
Market Street – Boston Hill
Caller advising went head-on into the side cliff. Officers out on foot ATL/negative contact from College to Highway 180/both units clear.

Harassment
100 17th Street – Casa Linda Apartments
Caller advised a named male is harassing her/he is claiming to be the landlord but he is not. Officer out with caller at her apartment/caller has mental issues/she refused to talk and closed the door.

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Gila/Mimbres Community Radio / KURU 89.1 FM

Gila/Mimbres Community Radio / KURU 89.1 FM

Thursday-Saturday, February 8-10, 2024

Open House Saturday, 2/10/2024, 10-4, at 519-B North Bullard Street, Silver City, NM. Enjoy refreshments, meet Board members and on-air DJs and Program Hosts, and support community radio!

Experience LOCAL VOICES AND THE WORLD with Gila/Mimbres Community Radio / KURU 89.1 FM.  Special features will be added to our regular broadcasts of entertainment and information, with more than three dozen DJs/Hosts plus nationally syndicated programming. The station asks listeners to help grow our community of support by inviting a friend to listen, learn, enjoy – and donate to keep GMCR/KURU flourishing. This station is funded entirely by the community we serve! For more information, call GMCR at 575-597-4891.

Community Meeting on Mimbres Peaks National Monument

Luna County Farm and Livestock Bureau Set to Host Community Meeting on Mimbres Peaks National Monument

Luna County Farm and Livestock Bureau is hosting a public meeting to provide information to Luna County and surrounding community members on the impacts of a national monument on local communities and answer related questions.

Saturday, February 3, at 2 p.m.

Southwestern New Mexico State Fairgrounds, Building 1, 4100 Raymond Reed Blvd., Deming, NM, 88030

The meeting will consist of 10-minute presentations from the individuals listed below followed by a Q&A session.

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Board meeting of the Upper Gila Valley Arroyos Watershed District- February 12, 2024

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT:

 The regular board meeting of the Upper Gila Valley Arroyos Watershed District will be held Monday, February 12, 2024 9:00 a.m.  at the Fire Station in Cliff, New Mexico. The meeting will also be available via Zoom.  Please see information to join via Zoom below:

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82507633246?pwd=8hiiYIc5NSZXu2KDoh9TNMfxcVrA9t.1

Meeting ID: 825 0763 3246

Passcode: 909378

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Author and poet Heather Frankland will present a workshop

HeatherFranklandPoetry Writing Workshop: Of Love and Heartbreak: Using Poetry as a Tool to Navigate the Many Roads of the Heart

Author and poet Heather Frankland will present the next workshop in The Write Stuff writing series, a 2-hour talk and generative workshop: Of Love and Heartbreak: Using Poetry as a Tool to Navigate the Many Roads of the Heart. It will be offered on Saturday, February 17th, from 10 am to noon, at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Silver City, 3845 N. Swan St, Silver City, NM.

Will you be my Valentine? Are you interested in reading and writing both love and heartbreak poems? Oftentimes, love and heartbreak poems are the first poems a poet will write, and more than often—they are among the hardest. How can one write a poem about feelings that seem to escape definition? How can one write a love poem that doesn’t sound abstract or just a mere copy of other love poems out there? In this talk and workshop, Heather Frankland will guide attendees through poetry examples, prompts, exercises, and creative play. This workshop will be both one of play and sincerity, and by the end—you will walk out with 2-3 poems of your own.

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