B.C. Comic for August 14, 2022
BY: Mason Mastroianni, Mick Mastroianni, and Johnny Hart
UPDATE: CANCEL MISSING JUVENILE RUNAWAY ADVISORY- Silver City, NM – Araceli V. Torrez has been located and is safe
- Category: Front Page News Front Page News
- Published: 18 July 2022 18 July 2022
Silver City, New Mexico – The New Mexico State Police is seeking the public's assistance in locating Araceli V. Torrez. Torrez is a 17-year-old Hispanic female, 5'1" tall, 138 pounds, with brown eyes and black hair. She was last seen in the late evening on July 17, 2022, near Chavez Lane in Silver City, NM. Torrez was last seen wearing blue jean shorts, a green tank top shirt, green Adidas brand shoes, and carrying a backpack. Her whereabouts and destination are not known.
Anyone with any information on the whereabouts of Araceli V. Torrez is asked to call the New Mexico State Police in Silver City at (575) 382-2500 option 1 or dial 911.
Heat Advisory lower elevations 071922
Southwest Desert/Mimbres Basin-Northern Dona Ana County-
Southern Dona Ana County/Mesilla Valley-Western El Paso County-
Eastern/Central El Paso County-
Rio Grande Valley of Eastern El Paso/Western Hudspeth Counties-
Rio Grande Valley of Eastern Hudspeth County-
Including the cities of Deming, Columbus, Garfield, Hatch,
Radium Springs, Las Cruces, Vado, Sunland Park, Downtown El Paso,
West El Paso, Upper Valley, East and Northeast El Paso, Socorro,
Fort Bliss, Fabens, Fort Hancock, Tornillo,
and Indian Hot Springs
231 AM MDT Mon Jul 18 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TUESDAY TO MIDNIGHT MDT
TUESDAY NIGHT...
Clay Festival at Makers Market 071622
- Category: Front Page News Front Page News
- Published: 17 July 2022 17 July 2022
Photos by Mary Alice Murphy
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MainStreet Plaza hosts the Makes Market, which featured Clay Festival vendors on Saturday, July 16, 2022
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Yen Chu demonstrated her clay throwing skills.
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Chase forming a bed for his clay cat.
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Chase is proud of the clay cat he made.
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Caleb and Marlene Melchor show their Santo Domingo pottery
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Cory Feder shows one of her tiny handmade pots.
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More of Cory's tiny pots.
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Susan Mach and her work
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Pam McGill admires one of Judy Menefee's creations.
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Lynn Welsch purchases something from Melissa Crenshaw.
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Curtis Owens holds one of his handmade plates.
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Alexa Tubbs checks out one of Rachel Burke's handmade mugs
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Wendy Shaul holds one of her ceramic pigs
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Sister and brother Wendy Shaul and Ward Rudick at Wendy's booth.
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Julie Szerina Stein with her handmade blue-and-white ware
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Nancy Phillips of Roswell shows her work. She hand makes the tiles that she then breaks up to create her mosaics.
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Garrick Ellis, left, and Trudy Ellis, right, look at Blythe Whitely's varied product, from clay to cloth.
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Carli Balogh checks out one of Studio Katagami Jaclyn Pacheco's clay pieces
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Carmen Ruiz, a multimedia talented artist, shows one of her Japanese fish prints.
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Tina Salmon, at right, talks about her knitted work to Lily Beer.
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Kim Muller, a Makers Market regular, talks to a potential customer about her jewelry.
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Mariah Walker shows one of her prints.
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Marcia Tinker, at right, of The Tinker's Daughter, shows Katie Nolasco one of the skirts Marcia creates.
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One of the Maker Market regulars Ann Alexander with some of her clay work.
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Clay Festival Founder Lee Gruber and Coordinator Alexa Tubbs in front of banner with Tom Vaughn and Sandy Feutz all "clayed" up for the festival.
The Clay Festival hosted demonstrations and vendors at the Makers Market in downtown Silver City's MainStreet Plaza on Saturday, July 16, 2022. Directed by Clay Festival Founder Lee Gruber and coordinated by Alexa Tubbs, people checked out the wares, not only of clay artists, but also of regular Makers Market vendors.
Aldea Gallery featured Kate Brown's pottery in opening 071522
- Category: Front Page News Front Page News
- Published: 17 July 2022 17 July 2022
Photos by Mary Alice Murphy
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Kate Brown in front of some of her older work from the 1990s
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Kate with a couple of friends, Patty McDonnell and Bobbie Romero
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Sales of Kate's Kintsugi pottery will benefit El Refugio Inc., a women's shelter from domestic abuse
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Those gathered for the opening watched a video of Kate's work over the years.
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Another artist in the Aldea Gallery is Cynthia Carlson
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More of Kate's friends joined into a group photo, with Ted Wagner, Kate, Bobbie, Patty and Lora Collins.
Aldea Gallery at the corner of Yankie and Bullard streets held a Clay Festival opening to feature Kate Brown's pottery. Brown has brought some of her older tiles to hang on the wall, and she also had a table of Kintsugi pottery, which is a Japanese style of repairing broken pieces with gold dust paint. The sale of the Kintsugi pieces will benefit El Refugio Inc. women's shelter for victims of domestic abuse, she said.
Luna County Commission hears SABRE presentation on border efforts 071422
- Category: Front Page News Front Page News
- Published: 17 July 2022 17 July 2022
[Editor's Note: Thanks to Leslie Broken of Deming for sharing these comprehensive notes with the Grant County Beat for viewing by our readers. I concur that our border counties in NM should consider expanding this program to our area.]
SABRE PRESENTATION
7/14/2022
Cochise AZ Sheriff Dept, Sgt Tim Williams
Cochise County, AZ
- Includes the Bisbee / Sierra Vista area
- 38th largest county in the US
- 83 miles of US/MX border
- Half of the county has no cell phone coverage or radio communication
- Spotty cell phone coverage in other areas
- Law enforcement relies on landlines from private citizens in these remote areas to call for assistance
- 90 Sworn Law Enforcement officers
- Population 120,000
- The Sabre program has been a huge force multiplier in Cochise County
- There were 3 officers from Cochise County present at the meeting, which is 85% of the unit dedicated to the Sabre program.
SABRE program 2017 – present
- SABRE Program developed by the Sheriff's Dept to deal with drug mules crossing the border.
- It is a system of game (hunting) cameras that transmit back to the Sheriff's Department.
- The program has been expanded and improved over the years.
- Approximate cost to date $1.1 million. It covers an area from the New Mexico border to Yuma, Arizona.
- It took years to build out.
- These game cameras enable law enforcement to determine how many drug mules and undocumented immigrants (illegals) looking for a better life are crossing the border illegally compared to how many illegals are being captured.
- For those who are not captured, they simply disappear into the US; if they don't commit a crime, no one knows they are here.
- This is a County program, not a Federal program.
Grant County Commission holds work session 071222, part 1
- Category: Front Page News Front Page News
- Published: 15 July 2022 15 July 2022
After public input, the county recognized the 30-year county service of Ted Martinez, accounting specialist of solid waste billing and payments.
From left are Chair Chris Ponce, Commissioner Harry Browne, Assessor Raul Turrieta, Commissioner Alicia Edwards, honoree and retiree Ted Martinez, Commissioners Javier "Harvey" Salas and Billy Billings and Interim County Manager Randy Villa.
[Editor's Note: This is the first of a multi-part series of articles on the Grant County Commission work session, July 12, and regular meeting on July 14, 2022.]
Photo and article by Mary Alice Murphy
During public input at the beginning of the Grant County work session on July 12, 2022, Paul McMaster said he lives on Cottonwood and has heard of more than five burglaries in the area. In one case, the occupant was at home; in another case the woman has become so scared that she is trying to sell her home and move. More have had their houses trashed, and people are intimidated by the trash and meth houses. We've learned that a state policeman is concerned because he cannot do anything. There is apparently no remedy for a trash house or squatters. It has become worrisome. I would like to see the commissioners create a remedy and take a much stronger stance. I live on a dead-end road, and I try to do my part and clean up trash on my road. When I complained to the previous code enforcement officer, he told me he didn't have the tools to enforce anything. I would like to include this, which I attribute to Edmund Burke; 'The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is to do nothing.'"