August 2006

Up Front

• Rising from the ashes By Ann Rustebakke
• Local businesses support 505 as New Mexico revisits the need for a second area code
• Cost of flooding mounts as Las Huertas Creek overflows By Bill Diven

Animal News

• Living with wildlife By Linda Perini
• Botulism kills ducks in Rio Rancho By New Mexico Department of Game and Fish
• Cattle-killing Mexican wolf shot dead; three more wolves to be released in NM By Dan Williams

Around Town

• Gourd-geous art to make at Coronado Monument
• Sunday is Funday picnic
• Las Placitas Association invites you to tour Hagan By Kate Nelson, Board Member
• “Mormon Tales” at historical society’s August meeting
• 2006 Corrales Harvest Festival spreads out
• Learn the ropes, ancient-style
• Debunking the myth of the sand-burrowing minnow By Laura Paskus, High Country News

Community Bits

• Volunteer program seeks foster grandparents, senior companions
• Job-search workshop for women in transition
• Class helps women through divorce

Placitas Community Center

• Placitas Community Center & Senior Center Schedule
• Sandoval County Senior Center Lunch Menu

EcoBeat

• Recycling news: it's in the bag By Robin Brandin
• See PV array from the Rail Runner By New Mexico Solar Energy Association
• Energy department awards $1.8 million to weatherize homes in New Mexico
• Fencing off Mexico is an ecological blunder By Gary Wockner
• A lesson in survival By Jennifer Hobson Hoffman
• Proposals being accepted for $5 million in conservation funds By NM Dept of Game and Fish

Fire and Rescue

• All fire restrictions lifted on Cibola National Forest

Health

• Headaches are a widespread but treatable disease
• New developments help people with Diabetes
• The Mediterranean secret is out

Night Skies

• Save our skies
• August 2006 Night Sky By Charlie Christmann

Sandoval Arts

• Jim Fish: “If you have a bent to be creative, you will create.” By Bill Diven
• Blues festival at Anasazi Fields Winery to benefit Wildlife West Nature Park
• Who are all those painters? By Elaine Koehler
• Get your licks on Route 66 Festival By Darryl Willison
• Award-winning play coming to the Adobe Theater in August
• Rag Rug Festival will benefit NM women
• Placitas Artists Series celebrates its 20th season By Gary Libman, PAS Board

The Gauntlet

• Your letters and comments to the editor
• Heard Around the West By Betsy Marston, High Country News

Schoolbag

• Take the stress out of grandparenting
• End of Summer Fun Day for three- to five-year-olds
• BPS schools to offer free meals to all students
• Village Academy interim campus prepares for students, hires principal By Rosanne Eakin
• Placitas Library party to celebrate children’s summer reading By Nancy Guist
• Complete guide for grant writers available at Placitas Library this month By Anne Grey Frost
• Crashes involving teen drivers often result in someone else’s death By Brenda Yager

Sheriff's Corner

• Bernalillo probation violator charged By Sheriff John Paul Trujillo
• Law workshop will address immigration issues
• AG Madrid releases new Identity Theft Repair Instruction Guide

Time Off

• Do you know where your wallet is? By Barb Belknap
• Forester’s log—Alaska adveturing By Mary Stuever
• Sugarite Canyon State Park ranked in Camping Life’s Top 10 List
• Master Gardeners will present planting tips

Ask Uncle Duffy

• Uncle Duffy Similes