Oction Fashion Show Photos

Great fun, great food, great deals, and a fantistic (and fun) fashion show was enjoyed by all on Sunday, Oct. 12, at the Fall Oction at the library.  Just check out the great clothes available at the Not Too Shabby Shop!

Waiting for the Fashion Show. Debbie & Fred providing music.

Board Member - Ronnie Sanchez

Mary Kay Sanborn

Kamryn Torres

Suzanne Herbst

Terri Neff

Attorneys Give Free Legal Help in Lincoln County on Oct. 18

A free legal fair will be held in Ruidoso from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. on Saturday, October 18, at the Ruidoso Community Center, 501 Sudderth Dr., Ruidoso.  State Bar of N.M. Attorneys will be available to provide free consultations on a first-come, first serve basis on a variety of civil legal topics.

This clinic presented by the 12th Judicial District Pro Bono Committee.  For more information, contact Aja Brooks at 505-797-6040 or abrooks@nmbar.org

2014 Fall Lincoln County Electronics Recycling Day

Date: Saturday, November 1st, 2014

Time: 9 AM – 12 Noon Cost: FREE!!!

Where: All American Park, Ruidoso Downs

   What: Eligible Electronic Devices (EEDs) (see list below)

No large kitchen appliances of any kind or size!

Please drop off your obsolete, outdated and replaced electronic items during this 3-hour E-cycling event. Acceptable items include:

COMPUTERS/PERIPHERALS OFFICE EQUIPMENT SMALL and 

Circuit boards Computer workstations HOUSEHOLD ELECTRONICS

Desktop towers & laptop computers Calculators Gaming hardware

Hardware Audio/visual equipment Cell Phones

Monitors, Keyboards, & Mice Pagers Satellite Receivers and Dishes

Network hardware Fax machines Radios

Modems Telephones CD & DVD ROMs

Printers and toner cartridges  Wireless devices & plotters Televisions

Toner Cartridges  And other consumer electronics

Sponsored by:

Ruidoso Valley Chamber of Commerce

Keep Ruidoso Beautiful

Greentree Solid Waste Authority

Lawrence Brothers IGA

 Ruidoso Downs Parks & Recreation 

                   Schlotzsky’s  

Keep Ruidoso Downs Beautiful

In Conjunction with:

Keep America Beautiful New Mexico Recycling Coalition

For more information or to volunteer to help at the E-cycling event, please call 

GSWA at 378-4697 or Toll Free at 1- 877- 548 - 8772.

More "Oction" Items. Start bidding NOW!

Grotle Chauvet Horses painted on sandstone
 by Jeannie Adams Value $80 Start Bid $40

Pictured are some more items in the Silent Auction.  If you see something you like, stop by the library and put in your bid.  IF you would like to donate an item for the auction, bring it by the library during open hours.  Thank you for supporting the Capitan Library!

 Library Appreciation Day & October "Oction" / Fashion Show happens Sunday, October 12, 2 to 4 pm.  Refreshments served. 

Necklace donated by More Stuff  Value $59 Start Bid $10

Mexican plate Value $12 Start Bid $6

Hang Ups Inverter Value $300 Start Bid $100

Alabaster set Value $80 Start Bid $30

Alabaster Leaf Value $45 Start Bid $20

Antique Chair Start Bid $80

Crystal Basket Value $40 Start Bid $15

Tea Service  - come to the library & find out the start bid!

 Misc. Pottery.  Come to the library to check out the starting bids.

 

Mountain Bicycle donated by Bill Jeffrey
Value $95 Start Bid $ 50

Mountain Bicycle donated by Bill Jeffrey
 Value $95 Start Bid $ 50

Medicare Survival Seminar Wednesday, October 1 @ 10 AM

Oct.15 to Dec 7 is open enrollment to change your Medicare coverage for 2015. 

 No doubt you have been receiving lots of literature regarding Medicare 2015.

Attend this seminar on Wednesday, October 1 at 10 a.m. at the Capitan Public Library and LEARN:

• How medicare works...What is covered and what is not
• What is the difference between Medicare Supplements and Medicare Advantage Plan?
• How does Medicare Part D work?  DO you need it?
• What type of protection do you have from the high costs of long-term illness?

FOR MORE SEMINAR INFORMATION CALL:

Fran Altieri, NM & AZ Licensed Representative

Cell: 575-973-0571

Mill Levy Forum on Thursday, October 2 @ 6 PM

A public Mill Levy meeting will be held by the Capitan Medical Clinic.  Personnel hosts this community outreach for Lincoln County residents.  The forum is free to the public.  Light refreshments served.

Thursday, October 2 at 6 PM at the Capitan Public Library.

First Friday October 3 @ 7 PM Lynda Sanchez

 Local author, historian and retired educator, Lynda Sanchez, introduces her latest book, Apache Legends and Lore.  Sanchez will discuss how she obtained the information for her latest book about the People who live at the base of the Sacred Mountain, Sierra Blanca.  Part of the repertoire for the program will be show and tell items depicting this unique history.

Come join us for an enlightening evening and learn more about our local history.   October 3 at 7 p.m.

 

Capitan Library Book Club meeting October 2 @10:30

The book club meets the first Thursday of every month at 10:30 a.m. at the library.  On October 2, they will be discussing To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.  Everyone is welcome to come to the library and join in the discussion.

The November book is: Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver

Free legal workshop at Ruidoso Community Center on October 8

There will be a free legal workshop and clinic on Estate Planning/Long-Term Medicaid Planning on Wednesday, October 8 at the Community Center in Ruidoso for persons 55 and older.  The workshop  covering Powers of Attorney, Advance Health Care Directives, Estate Planning and Long-Term Care Medicaid Planning is at 10:00 to 11:15 am.  One-on-one consultations will be available 12:30 to 3 p.m. You must schedule an appointment in advance for a consultation at 1-800-876-6657 or 575-257-4565. 

This service is presented by the Legal Resources for the Ederly Program & the State Bar of N.M.  Ruidoso Community Center is located at 501 Sudderth Drive.

Posters with  information are posted at the library.

More items featured in the "Oction"

Pictured are some of the items for the Silent Auction.  If you see something you like, stop by the library and put in your bid after October 1.  IF you would like to donate an item for the auction, bring it by the library during open hours.  Thank you for supporting the Capitan Library!

 Library Appreciation Day -- October "Oction" & Fashion Show 

Sunday, October 12, 2 to 4 pm.  Refreshments served.    

Pottery Platter donated by Shelda Adams Value $120 / Start Bid $30

 

Beautiful Vase  Value $125 / Start Bid $40

Eagle Walking Stick by Anacleto Loya
Value $60 / Start Bid $25

Detail - Eagle head

Duster w/ pearls sz.8 donated by Francis Sanchez Value $60 / Start Bid $20         

Detail on duster

Shop Vac donated by Sears
 Value $40 / Start Bid $12

Avon Collectible Angles
 Value $35ea. / Start Bid $12ea

#55 Portable Artist Easel
Value $50 / Start Bid $20

October Silent "Oction" - Start putting in your bids October 1

Pictured are some of the items for the Silent Auction.  If you see something you like, stop by the library and put in your bid.  IF you would like to donate an item for the auction, bring it by the library during open hours. 

 Library Appreciation Day -- October "Oction" & Fashion Show 

Sunday, October 12, 2 to 4 pm.  Refreshments served.    

 Thank you for supporting the Capitan Library!

Two Sets of 8 settings of Furio Christmas dishes donated by Gary & Beth Stilwell.
 Value of each set $240 /  Start bid $100 each set

#5 Oyeiu print beautifully matted donated by Ann Hinch.
Value $140 / Start bid $30.

Detail of Oyeiu print

#10 Quilted "Cats" Table Runner
 donated by Mary Jo Smith
Value $45 / Start Bid $20

Detail of Quilted Table Runner

#4 Painting by Spacey  Value $80 / Start bid $15

#6 Ayne print w/ real feather donated by George Hinch.
Value $140 / Start bid $30

Feather detail

#7 & #8 Horse paintings donated by Seasons Nursery
Value $45 each.  Start bid $10 each

Golf Bag (without clubs) value $130 Start bid $50

Ruth Hammond Services

Ruth Hammond, Lincoln County News, has passed.

Services will be on Saturday September 13, 2014 at  Fort Stanton Cemetery @ 12:30 pm.

An account has been set up at Wells Fargo Bank in Carrizozo, NM.

Pick up Application for the Village Wide Yard Sale at the Library

Village Wide Yard Sale is Saturday, SEPTEMBER 13, starting at 8 a.m.

Come by the Library, Not Too Shabby Shop or the Post Office to get your application.  Applications MUST be turned in by 5 p.m. Thursday, September 11.  A $5 fee covers advertising, sign and map with your information.  Call the library for additional information 354-3035.

Reminder: 1st Friday this Friday, Sept 5 at 7 pm

Chautauqua on Navajo Code Talkers --“The Navajo Code Talker’s Indispensable Role in the Pacific Theater and How Coded Language Continues to Pervade Our Lives” a Chautauqua by Nancy R. Bartlit

Refreshments will follow the program.

Nancy R. Bartlit is an author, oral historian, amateur photographer, and a Chautauqua lecturer listed with the N.M. Humanities Council and the Historical Society of New Mexico.

Please join us for a most interesting & educational evening.  For more information about the Chautauqua, see the blog post from Aug 19 at CapitanLibrary.blogspot.com
 

 

 

September 5 @ 7 pm: First Friday Event - Chautauqua on Navajo Code Talkers

“The Navajo Code Talker’s Indispensable Role in the Pacific Theater and How Coded Language Continues to Pervade Our Lives” a Chautauqua by Nancy R. Bartlit

Capitan Public Library hosts Chautauqua Speaker, Nancy Bartlit, for the 1st Friday Adult Lecture on September 5th  at 7:00 p.m. Refreshments will follow.

Nancy R. Bartlit is an author, oral historian, amateur photographer, and a Chautauqua lecturer listed with the N.M. Humanities Council and the Historical Society of New Mexico.

Upon graduating from Smith College, Northampton, MA, as a history major, Bartlit taught in Sendai, Japan, for two years, visiting all four main islands of Japan.  She revisited Japan four times, one which was under the University of New Mexico Study of Japanese Business and Technology. Following completion of that program, she studied under Everett M. Rogers, a distinguished professor who headed the UNM Journalism and Communication Department and under whom she received her Master’s Degree.

Rogers and Bartlit interviewed numerous New Mexico veterans to write "Silent Voices of World War II: When Sons of the Land of Enchantment Met Sons of the Land of the Rising Sun" (Sunstone Press, Santa Fe: 2005) They interviewed U.S. Army Survivors of the Bataan Death March, Navajo Code Talker Marine privates, Manhattan Project civilians and military personnel, and a survivor of the Santa Fe Internment Camp for males of Japanese descent.

Bartlit traveled in the US and abroad to research archives, military museums and monuments, libraries, and spoke to authors and persons who knew these WWII heroes. Bartlit attended the Window Rock, AZ, ceremony where hundreds of the Navajo Code Talkers were honored with the silver Congressional medal for their unique contributions to end WWII.

In April 2012, Bartlit co-chaired a two-day Symposium on NM Japanese internment at the Historical Museum of NM/Palace of the Governors. At the symposium, the public learned about the life in the Santa Fe Detention Internment Camp and the Lordsburg Camp, and how the men of Japanese ancestry were treated. One of the ironies of internment was Japanese American sons were fighting in Europe and the Pacific on behalf of America -- their native land -- while their fathers were incarcerated based on their professions and "alien" status, not for actions against America.


This year, Bartlit was a guest speaker at the 71st Anniversary commemoration of the Bataan Death March surrender at an April 9 ceremony in Santa Fe sponsored by the NM National Guard (http://www.dvs.state.nm.us/apr9_BataanMemorial.html) and at a special program held in Alamorgordo with survivors of the March and Navajo Code Talkers the weekend of the 25th Annual White Sands Memorial March.

Nancy Reynolds Bartlit - Author, Historian, Lecturer, amateur Photographer

Bartlit is a member of the NM Museum Foundation, the Historical Society of New Mexico, the Los Alamos Historical Society, the International Women’s Forum of NM, as well as organizations for authors and publishers. She has a web site, www.NancyBartlit.com.

Bartlit will also be speaking at the Corona Library on Thursday, September 4th.

Business Showcase - Tuesday, August 19

Summer Reading: Fizz, Boom, READ ends with a BANG!

The library's summer reading program is over but what fun the kids had reading and learning through the summer.  Cindy Foglesong brought a gallon a freshly milked goat milk and proceeded to show the children how to make cheese.   She also talked to children and parents about the different kinds of goats and explained the life cycle of goats.

The program served 40 children this summer meeting on Mondays in June through July 21.  Rink Somersby from the Asombro Institute in Las Cruces brought her trunk of fossils and educated the children on how to recognize fossils and entertained them with hunks of dinosaur poop. Other presenters told stories, sang songs and made sugar candy with the kids.

The final program ended with hot digs, chips, drinks and cookers.  Thanks to  Debbie Myers for coordinating a super program for the summer, and to several dedicated parents.

Top readers from left to right (Zach Rich - 2nd place; Duncan Daugherty & Daniel Daugherty - tied for 1st place; and Alice Allen - 3rd place, all received Walmart gift cards and a gift bag.  All 40 participants received a gift bag.

August 1 - First Friday Event @ 7 p.m.

Capitan Public Library will host author and pilot, Albert Charles Ackerman, Jr., on Friday, August 1, at 7:00 p.m. for an entertaining evening discussing Ackerman's life experiences and his recently published book, My Journey West: A pilot's lifetime in aviation.

Ackerman was born in 1933 and experienced a difficult early life after being abandoned by his father at age fourteen, which left him and his mother struggling to support themselves.  In 1950, his life took a new direction when he took an illegal solo flight in a Piper J-3 Cub.  He knew from the moment he first touched the controls that becoming a pilot would be his only goal.

After some disappointing setbacks and a miraculous survival from a horrific crash, he established a career in aviation.  For 63 years he flew famous celebrities and world leaders in over a hundred different types of airplanes and helicopters.

After retiring, he spent a rewarding five years as an Angel Flight Pilot.  These pilots fly disadvantaged patients to health care facilities free of charge.  Ackerman is still an active pilot at the age of 81, making him a new member of the UFO (United Flying Octogenerians).  The UFO is an international, non-profit organization with over 1500 members worldwide.

   My Journey West: A pilot's lifetime in aviation

Piper J3 Cub

AMAZON SYNOPSIS: High-flying hijinks. Death-defying close calls. Rubbing elbows with rock and roll bands, politicians, and glitzy celebrities. Albert Ackerman has whittled down the most funny, sad, and downright scary tales into My Journey West. Ackerman went from his first flying lessons in high school and his eighty-seven-dollar-a-month air force job to becoming a flight instructor, a commercial airplane captain, and a charter pilot to the rich and famous. He got to know Bill Lear, creator of the Learjet, and Chuck Yeager, the pilot who broke the sound barrier. He flew Conway Twitty, Steppenwolf, and even Frank Sinatra, whose plane came complete with a piano bar and well-stocked liquor cabinet. He even got a close look at President Lyndon Johnson. His flying days were also punctuated by brushes with death, including a crash over the Caribbean. My Journey West is sure to please both aviation buffs and readers who prefer to keep their feet firmly on the ground.

4th of July @ the library was a success!

Thank you to the public and the library volunteers for supporting the library at our 4th of July bake, book and hot dog sale.  Wonderful weather made for an enjoyable day to see the parade and eat lots of good food.

CORRECTIONS - Snakes and shopping

The Snake Conservation group had to CANCEL their July 7th program at the library.  Unmark your calendar. Bummer - we were looking forward to spending the day with the snakes.    >{:}=//\\//\\//\\=~

Apologies.  June 28th is NOT the 1st Anniversary Sale of the Not too Shabby Shop.  It is the 1st Anniversary Sale of the Humane Society Resale Shop in Ruidoso on Hwy 70.  BUT, come by the Not Too Shabby Shop on July 4th to see their great deals.  Don't forget to go by the library for great eats and used book sale while you're in the area.

Friday, July 4 - Annual Bake, Book and Hot Dog Sale.

Bake sale starts at 8:00 a.m. Hot dogs, smoked sausage and nachos available at 10:00 a.m and served until 1:00 p.m..  Enjoy our cool, shady back yard.  Take advantage of the $5 a bag book sale.
Be sure to go next door and check out the Not too Shabby Shop.  Heard they will have some GREAT deals on the 4th!

IT's NOT the Not Too Shabby’s First Anniversary Sale

This anniversary sale is at the Humane Society Resale Shop  in Ruidoso  on Hwy. 70.  Saturday, June 28 - 10 am to 4 pm  Sorry for the mix up!

CANCELED!!! SNAKES coming to the library Monday, July 7th

Fascinated or scared to death by snakes?  >{:}=//\\//\\//\\=~ 

CANCELED!!!. MARK YOUR CALENDAR!  This is your chance to view and visit with our Serpentes reptile friends on Monday, July 7th.  FIRST, the Summer Reading kids & parents will see the snakes from 10:30 am to noon.  THEN, the public may come to view the snakes from 1 to 3 p.m.

This program is bought to the library by Snake Conservation, a small group of snake enthusiasts. Their goal is to educate people on the good things about snakes. Snakes help keep down the rodent population which in turn, keeps down the incidence of the plague and the hantavirus which have killed people in New Mexico. Did you know that rattlesnake venom is being used in heart and cancer drugs for humans? Snakes help to save human lives so the least we can do is help snakes exist in this world. Snake Conservation has snakes that reside in New Mexico; milksnakes, Great Plains rat snakes, garter snakes and many rescued bull snakes on exhibit to help people understand how worthwhile it is to save snakes and to show that snakes are wonderful and beautiful creatures. Additionally, Snake Conservation will talk about rattlesnake safety as well as general information and misinformation about snakes in New Mexico and how kids can help protect snakes.

Bullsnakes

Milksnake

Fizz, Boom, READ Summer reading program starts off with a Bang!

Two weeks into the summer reading program and we have great attendance!  On opening day 23 kids attended and 21 kids this week. It's not too late to enroll your child to enjoy this summer's science-themed reading program - Fizz, Boom, READ!  See details of the reading program in an earlier post.

Debbie Myers explaining the SR program 

Rink Somersby from the Asombro Institute in Las Cruces showing a timeline from the beginning of time.