Holiday Bazaar was Fantastic! Lots left, so come to the library & shop for unique items!

SEE'S Chocolates!!!!!

New Winter Hours and Holiday Closures

Once again:        Beginning Tuesday, Dec. 8 the library will close at 5:30 p.m.

HOLIDAY CLOSURES:

Thursday, Dec. 24

Friday, Dec. 25

Saturday, Dec. 26

Thursday, Dec. 31

Friday, Jan. 1

Volunteers needed to place wreaths at Fort Stanton Cemetery

Saturday, December 12, 2015, 11:30 am at Fort Stanton Cemetery.  Volunteers needed to help distribute Christmas wreaths on the graves of veterans at Fort Stanton Cemetery.  For more information call Larry Holt 354-3421.  Dress warm.

Lincoln County Creative Aging Advisory Committee

Creative Aging Advisory Committee to Lincoln County

Monthly Meeting:  Friday, December 11, 9am, at the Ruidoso Downs Senior Center.  
 Refreshments will be served. 

Please plan to come and "advise" us on your concerns and creative ideas for keeping us all healthy and active.

Monday, DEC 7, Medicare help available AND New Winter Hours for the library starting Dec 8

MEDICARE HELP AVAILABLE: Two people will be at the library on Monday, Dec. 7, from 10:00 to Noon to assist anyone needing to sign up for medicare programs.

NEW WINTER HOURS AND HOLIDAY CLOSURES 

Beginning Tuesday, Dec. 8 the library will close at 5:30 p.m. 

HOLIDAY CLOSURES:

Thursday, Dec. 24

Friday, Dec. 25

Saturday, Dec. 26

Thursday, Dec. 31

Friday, Jan. 1

It's tomorrow!!!!!! Don't miss the Holiday Bazaar!!

Don't forget your library in your Christmas giving.

Holiday CapiGram for December 2015

Music for the Holidays

• ENMU-Ruidoso Community Choir's Winter Concert will be Sunday,December 6, at 3

PM, First Christian Church, 1211 Hull Rd., Ruidoso.  Featuring Sleigh Ride, We Need a

Little Christmas, classical pieces by Mozart & others, a carol sing-along, + a few

surprises!.  Tickets are $5 at ENMU-Ruidoso, 709 Mechem Dr., or at the door.  More

info: 575-257-3012.

Reminder: Library Holiday Bazaar date

Don't forget - every 1st Saturday is $5 for a bag of books from the Book Sale Room!

 The 5th is the first Saturday of December!

SEE below for photos of some of the items at the Bazaar. A small sample.

More previews of Holiday Bazaar gifts

Western theme items available

Petroglyph Art

Cowboy angels

Don't miss the best HOLIDAY BAZAAR on Saturday, Dec. 5 at 8 am - 2 pm

Here are some items you'll find at the Holiday Bazaar. More pictures to come - stay tuned!

The "red" table - eclectic assortment of crafts and goodies.

Definitely don't need to worry about this holiday yard art blowing away!

Capigram

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 Did you know?

· Benjamin Franklin wanted the turkey to be the national bird of the United States

· Since 1947, the National Turkey Federation has presented a live turkey and two dressed turkeys to the President. The President does not eat the live turkey. He "pardons" it and allows it to live out its days on a historical farm.

· The five most popular ways to serve leftover turkey is as a sandwich, in stew, chili or soup, casseroles and as a burger.

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Country Christmas Bazaar – 3rd Annual

On Saturday December 5, from 9am to 4pm, come to the Lincoln County Fairgrounds in Capitan, NM, to enjoy a Country Christmas Bazaar with

lots of vendors for many holiday gift ideas, and a food vendor.

And do come take pictures with Santa and Mrs. Claus!

The event is sponsored by the Capitan Women’s Club.

PTA Clothing Exchange

The PTA Clothing Exchange will be held on the Second Saturday of each month from 10am -12 noon at the Capitan Women's Club building, 103 W. 2nd Street in Capitan. All sizes of clothing are accepted.

Veteran Resources

November is the month to remember Veterans. Please visit Ruidoso Today, a website where to find tons of free information and free services available to veterans in this area. In addition, there is also a huge amount of information on various other accessible services in the area. Visit and bookmark http://www.ruidosotoday.com/ to contact Don Spencer, Co-Founder of VhV, and to discover what is the “Best Kept Secret in the South West”.

Creative Aging Advisory Committee

The Creative Aging Advisory Committee is a group who wants “to create an opportunity to bring together decision makers and influencers across the public, private, and volunteer sectors at the county level and work in partnership with seniors to put in place imaginative changes that will have real impact on the day-to-day lives of all of us as we age in this frontier community.” The group is endorsed by the LC Commissioners and supported by ENMU-Ruidoso. The Committee meets once a month. Call or text Clara Farah at 575.973.7835, or email Clara at clrfarah@gmail.com for meeting dates and locations.

Basic Computer Skills

Learn Basic Computer Skills for free, at the White Mountain Annex Computer Lab. It is located at 201 White Mountain Drive, Ruidoso. Drop in on Thursdays at 3:30pm to begin learning basic skills or bring your questions. Learn how to set-up an e-mail account, download and save files, or how to search internet for all kind of info, and so much more. Computers are available on site. Call 258-1730.

Federal Law REAL ID Act of 2005

Homeland Security will be starting visitor restrictions at federal facilities in January 2016, including a better ID than a NM state driver’s license to gain admission. It will be necessary to show a passport or other approved documentation. A New Mexico driver’s license as an ID is expected to no longer be enough to show at airports.

Support your Library

Illustration donated by Rick Geary

Capitan Public Library is a non-profit organization run by volunteers, devoted to making library services available to the Capitan/Lincoln County region.

We are asking you to consider supporting our cause. This year's campaign goal is to raise $6,000.00. Funds from the campaign will be used to keep the library open.

Any support will be highly appreciated. If you have any questions, please feel free to call 354-3035 or come by the library.

Friends of the Capitan Public Library

Save the Date! Holiday Bazaar - Dec. 5

N2SS & Library dates/times open Thanksgiving week

Not 2 Shabby Shop will be open Tuesday, Nov 24 and Wednesday, Nov 25 from 10am to 2pm both days.

 CLOSED: Thursday - Saturday (their normal open days).  That's Nov. 26 -  28.  Then back to regular days and hours the following week.

The library will be CLOSED Wednesday, Nov 25 and Thursday, Nov 26.  Then open Friday, Nov 27 and Saturday, Nov 28 at regular hours - 10 am to 2 pm.

Traveling for the holidays? Take a NM FamilyPass with you to tour museums or historical sites for FREE!

Don't forget the Capitan Library checks out the NM FamilyPass, which provides free admission for up to six people to any of the Department of Culture Affairs museums and historic sites.  Any Capitan Public Library card holder in good standing may borrow the pass for one week.  Passes available until 8/30/16.

The FamilyPass may be used at the following locations:

• 7 New Mexico Historic Sites, Statewide
• New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe
• New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
• Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe
• Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe
• New Mexico Museum of Space History, Alamogordo
• New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Albuquerque
• New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum, Las Cruces
• National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque

Missed getting your flu shot?

One more chance to get your Flu shot is available 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday, NOV. 23 at the Ruidoso Community Center, 501 Sudderth Dr., Ruidoso.  The N.M. Dept. of Health's Ruidoso Public Health Office is providing this clinic.

Caregiver meeting

Grandparents who are raising their grandchildren or great grandchildren, or those family members who are taking care of Alzheimer patients should attend this meeting.

Discuss challenges and solutions for our state’s

419,000 family caregivers during a presentation of

The New Mexico State Plan for

Family Caregivers

with

Myles Copeland, Secretary Designate of

The Aging and Long-Term Services Department

                                               

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Ruidoso Community Center

501 Sudderth Dr., Ruidoso, NM

9:00 to 11:00 a.m.

                                               

Light breakfast and refreshments will be provided by the Creative Aging Advisory Committee to Lincoln County, ENMU-Ruidoso, and Con Alma Health Foundation.

Writers' Workshop: Monday, Nov 9, at 9:45 am

The writers attending the Writing Art Workshop in October enjoyed sharing ideas and being taken to task to do some writing examples.  So, they decided to continuing to meet at least once a month.  The plan is to meet the second Monday of every month.  If you're a writer, come join this workshop where you can share your writings to get positive feedback and critiques from fellow writers.   The Capitan Library Art Workshops are created by Pearl Tippin with a grant from the Otero County Electric Cooperative, Inc.

November Book for Book Club

The Library Book Club is reading The Twelve Tribes of Hattie  by Ayana Mathis for their meeting Thursday, November 5, 2015, at 10 am.  Come join the discussion!

Recycling Event

Nov. 6 @ 7 PM - Foot-tapping music at the Library.

Capitan Public Library presents for the 1st Friday Event of November the music of "The Hopefuls".   The music begins at 7 PM on Friday, Nov. 6.

Come join us for some good 'ole foot-tapping music by local musicians:
 Roland Burnett, Dale Boren, Roy Black, Randy Jones, Corinna Ripple & Chuck George. 
These musicians strum and sing some mighty fine Western, gospel and old-time music for our listening pleasure.  
Plus, nothing like a good rhyming cowboy to put a smile on your face, so get ready to enjoy poetic compositions by cowboy poet, Chuck George.

Refreshments afterwards. 

FREE Art workshops. Don't miss out -- sign up today!

At the Capitan Public Library,  Ellen Wilson, voice coach and teacher at ENMU-Ruidoso, offers two FREE music workshops on Saturday, November 7 and 21.  The three-hour afternoon sessions begin at 1p.m. to 4 p.m.    "How to free your voice"  workshop includes self expression, projection, physical and vocal exercises, music appreciation and individual/group practice of Christmas carols.

Myranda  Rodriguez Waldo in Moon over Buffalo, a LCCT production. Photo by Marc Stewart

On Saturday, November 14,  a 6-hour FREE drama/theater workshop conducted by Myranda  
Rodriguez Waldo is offered.  The workshop begins at 9:30 a.m. until 4 p.m., with a half-hour lunch break (bring sack lunch ). Areas of focus will be voice projection, improvisational exercises, make up, theater vocabulary exploration, theater community resources, casting/audition process and readers' theater.

Reservations are required as space is limited.  For more information, please call Pearl Tippin at 575-354-7021 or e-mail pearlofcapitan@gmail.com.  (Reservations MUST be made with Pearl, not the library staff.)

  All art workshops are free at Capitan Public Library, thanks to a generous grant received from Otero County Electric Cooperative, Inc.

  

More on Flu Shots - if you are interested in getting one this year

Presbyterian Medical Group will provide free flu shots to those 18 and older at three locations in Ruidoso, Carrizozo and Capitan until the vaccine is gone.

The opportunities for immunization are:

·         from  1:30 to 3:30 pm on Friday, October 23, at the Carrizozo Health Center, 710 Avenue E,  in Carrizozo; and

·         from 10 am to noon at the Capitan Medical Clinic, 405 Lincoln Way, in Capitan.

The 2015-2016 flu vaccine will protect against four strains of seasonal flu, the Influenza A H3N2-type virus, the Influenza A H1N1-type virus and two Influenza B-type viruses.

For their safety, children cannot receive flu shots through these clinics. Contact your child's primary care provider to receive a properly dosed flu shot.  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that everyone six months and older receive the flu vaccine.

The Lincoln County Medical Center is a county-owned facility that has been managed by Presbyterian Healthcare Services since 1972.  Lincoln County Medical Center and Presbyterian Healthcare Services operate a hospital, a primary care and specialty clinic, three rural clinics and a countywide ambulance service in the county. Lincoln County Medical Center is one of eight hospitals run by Presbyterian, which also has a statewide health plan and a growing multi-specialty medical group.

And again: The Ruidoso Health Clinic will be  at the Ruidoso Community Center to give out FLU shots on Monday, October 26, from 9:00am to 4:00pm and at the Capitan School Gym on Wednesday, October 28, from 11:30am to 1:30pm.

 

At the Library learn about insurance this week. FYI: Flu Shot clinics next week

 At the  program on Tuesday night, Oct. 20 at 6 pm, Be Well N.M. representatives will tell you about the changes in New Mexico's official health insurance exchange.  They're serving free pizza!

Wednesday morning, Oct. 21, at 10:30 am, learn about changes in this year's Medicare program.

Flu Shot Clinics:
  The Ruidoso Health Clinic will be  at the Ruidoso Community Center to give out FLU shots on Monday, October 26, from 9:00am to 4:00pm and at the Capitan School Gym on Wednesday, October 28, from 11:30am to 1:30pm.

Capigram for Oct/Nov

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Free Health fair at Inn of the Mountain Gods - Oct. 17

There will be a free health fair at the Inn of The Mountain Gods on Saturday, October 17, 10:00 a.m.--5:00 p.m.
  Free flu shots.  65 vendors showing all their "health" goodies.  Sponsored by the Lincoln County Health organization.  Pass this along if you know of people who would like to attend. 

Be in the know about the Be Well NM program - Oct. 20 @ 6p.m.

On Nov. 1, open enrollment starts for New Mexico's official health insurance exchange.  At the Capitan Library on Tuesday, Oct. 20 at 6:00 pm, come learn about any changes in the program and where to go to get help getting this insurance.  Plus - PIZZA will be served! Bottled water, too.

3 FREE ART WORKSHOPS IN NOVEMBER - call to sign up

At the library, two FREE music workshops will be given by Ellen Wilson, voice coach and teacher at ENMU-Ruidoso. On Saturday, November 7 and 21, the three-hour afternoon sessions begin at 1p.m. to 4 p.m.    "How to free your voice"  workshop includes self expression, projection, physical and vocal exercises, music appreciation and individual/group practice of Christmas carols.

Reservations are required as space is limited.  For more information, please call Pearl Tippin at 575-354-7021 or e-mail pearlofcapitan@gmail.com.  (Reservations MUST be made with Pearl, not the library staff.)

Lincoln County Community Theatre production of "Moon Over Buffalo" Lyn Kidder, Myranda, and Daniel Waldo.  Photo by Marc Stewart

On Saturday, November 14,  a 6-hour FREE drama/theater workshop conducted by Myranda  

Rodriguez Waldo.  The workshop begins at 9:30 a.m. until 4 p.m., with a half-hour lunch break (bring sack lunch ). Areas of focus will be voice projection, improvisational exercises, make up, theater vocabulary exploration, theater community resources, casting/audition process and readers' theater.

Reservations are required as space is limited.  For more information, please call Pearl Tippin at 575-354-7021 or e-mail pearlofcapitan@gmail.com.  (Reservations MUST be made with Pearl, not the library staff.)

  All art workshops are free at Capitan Public Library, thanks to a generous grant received from Otero County Electric Cooperative, Inc.    

Medicare 101 - Free Information - Find out what you NEED to know

Capitan Connected announcement

 

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Capitan Connected is announcing it's very first competition to the community!  Capitan's very own Merchants Association is looking for a business logo.  We are asking anyone who has any interest in drawing, animating, of doodling to send their ideas to us!  The competition is open to all ages and the winner will receive a $100 Visa Gift Card and will also be featured on our website!

Email or mail your entries to:  capitanconnected@gmail.com PO Box 772 Capitan NM  88316

Friday, October 2 @ the Library

Don't forget we have Donna Birchell discussing her New Mexico Wine book at 7 p.m.  Go to the blog to read more about the program on the Sept. 28th post.
After the book discussion, be sure to stay and enjoy the refreshments!



While at the library, be sure to enjoy the display of Michael Hurd prints.  We are so lucky that he loaned the prints to us to put on display for the public to view through Thanksgiving. 

OCEC Community Meeting to Discuss New Rate Proposal

Otero County Electric Cooperative (OCEC) will be holding 

an informational meeting on Wednesday, Sept.30 at 5:30 PM

in the Capitan School Cafeteria, 150 Forest Street. 

Managers and trustees will be there to give important 

information and answer any questions members may have

about the recently published new rate proposal.

If you need more information about this meeting, please 

call Billy Massie at 575-682-2521

 or 1-800-548-4660.

First Friday - October 2 at 7 p.m. - author Donna Birchell

"Every vine has a story"  Nearly four hundred years ago, New Mexico's wine journey began when the first Mission grapes were planted in 1629.  At the Capitan Public Library on Friday, October 2, at 7 p.m., taste this rich legacy, the oldest in the United States, in Donna Blake Birchell's Power Point presentation of the struggles and triumphs that shaped New Mexico's burgeoning wine industry. 

Her book for this discussion, New Mexico Wine: an Enchanting History, is published by the History Press.

Birchell's account of the history finds that despite greedy Spanish monarchs, prim teetotalers and the one-hundred-year flood's gift of root rot and alkaline deposits, New Mexico's winemakers continue to harvest the fruits of sun-soaked volcanic soils and clear skies.  Their family stories blend with the vines and traditions of the Old World. 

Birchell will also verbally give a brief tour of some of the wineries included in the book and tell of their specialties as we follow the New Mexico Wine Trail.  

Three wineries donated bottles of wine to the library to be discussed during the presentation.  Tularosa Vineyards donated their international award winner and number-one seller, Sangiovese.  Cottonwood Winery in Artesia sent a bottle of their #1 dry red wine, 2010 Cabernet Sauvignon.  Dos Viejos Winery in Tularosa donated their State Fair of N.M. award-winning and customers' favorite 2006 Sangiovese.  

Donna Blake Birchell is a native New Mexican and wine enthusiast, whose passion for history developed at a young age. Birchell, a former librarian, is currently a board member of the Southeastern New Mexico Historical Society.  She has authored four books on local New Mexico history: Carlsbad and Carlsbad Caverns, Eddy County, New Mexico Wine: An Enchanting History, and Wicked Women of New Mexico.

Refreshments will be served after the discussion. Books will be available for purchase and signing by the author.  She will also have copies of Wicked Women of NM available.

Sign up for the After School Program

Below is the information and permission slip for the After School Program offered by Debbie Myers and Pat Pauley on Mondays  4 - 5:30 p.m. at the library.  The Monday dates are: Sept. 28; Oct. 5, 12, 19, 26; and Nov. 2, 9, 16.  (Below it says see attached calendar, which in NOT attached to save space.)  If you can't read the letter in the email, go to the blog online and expand the view to 150% or 200%.  You can also call the library at 354-3035 to get a copy faxed or just come by & pick one up.  A great opportunity for your kiddos!

Michael Hurd prints on display at the Library

Cross Roads

The library is pleased to have on display ten prints by renown artist, Michael Hurd.

Lost Trail at White Sands

  

 According to Hurd's website: 

Michael has been a professional artist for most of his life.  His specialty is oil and watercolor.  The Hurd La Rinconada Gallery contains prints of originals that Michael has created over the years.  Much of the scenery painted in his landscapes is straight from his home on Sentinal Ranch in San Patrico, NM.  As the youngest son of renowned artists, Peter Hurd and Henriette Wyeth-Hurd, Michael is following in a long line of artists. 

"Hurd's painting are like coming home after a long absence.  They are both comfortable and comforting.  They welcome you to life not only as it is in the Hondo Valley, but as it is essentially." Quoted from Virgina Watson-Jones book, Lincoln County Arts, 1999

Prints at the library are for sale through the Hurd La Rinconada Gallery.  Please call 575-653-4331

Starting in October: FREE ART WORKSHOPS FOR ADULTS

Thanks to a small grant received from Otero County Electric Cooperative, Inc., the Capitan Public Library is pleased to announce a series of free art workshops for adults to be held in the forthcoming months at the library at 101 E. 2nd Street in Capitan.

The first will be a two-part writers'workshop on Saturdays, October 10 and 17,  from 9 am to noon, conducted by Linda Rodriguez, a published writer from Carrizozo. If you have ever wanted to write a memoir for your family or develop a short story, learn more about developing characters or build momentum in a novel, here's your opportunity.

Music, drama, silk painting and drawing workshops will be featured in the coming months.   Reservations are required as space is limited.  For more information and to make your reservation, please call Pearl Tippin at 575 354 7021 or e-mail pearlofcapitan@gmail.com. 
( Reservations MUST be made with Pearl, not the library staff.)

Info meeting on Otero Electric rate increase

If your electricity comes from Otero Electric, you may be interested in attending the meeting at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, September 17,  at the Ruidoso Convention Center.  The discussion will center on the prospective increases to your bill.  Please pass this on.

The major increase is in the customer charge going from $16 to $25.  They have done a cost analysis that shows the actual customer cost to the company of $35.  The rest is made up by usage.  The argument is who should carry the cost of business, those who use more or all those who are connected.

If 25 people formally object to the proposed increase it must go to the rate commission to be considered.

Otero Electric likely has sufficient paperwork to get an increase.  The bottom line is that the bank requires Otero to collect $1.5 million in excess of their basic loan payments.

More details at:    http://www.ruidosotoday.com/test/zozo/zozo9.15.2015

Book Club - Start Reading your October book!

The Book Club meets the first Thursday of every month at 10 a.m. at the library.  On October 1, they will be discussing Orange is the New Black.  Everyone is welcome to come to the library and join in the discussion.



Now don't cheat and watch the show on Netflicks.

 
 

 Have you been watching the new season of Longmire series on Netflick?  (Spoiler Alert!)  Longmire is interviewing for a deputy sheriff and he has the candidates discussing Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck.  Well, this one fellow says, "I can't get Malkovitch's voice out of my head."  Tsk, tsk.   He didn't get the job.


Now, you could say I am guilty of cheating, because I have not read all of Craig Johnson's books.  But they don't show that Aussie, Robert Taylor.  

FYI - info from Workforce Connection