Debbie Myers awarded NMLA Amigo Award

2018 Winner for New Mexico Library Association's Amigo Award:

 Debbie Myers, Capitan Public Library

 The New Mexico Library Amigo Award is given to an individual
 (friend, volunteer, trustee, board member, other citizen, or other
 non-certified personnel) whose work on behalf of the local library
 has resulted in significant progress and/or achievement for that 
library; or in recognition of work in the promotion of library
 service within the state.

Even before she retired from 25 years of teaching elementary children in Ruidoso, Debbie Myers began volunteering with the Capitan Public Library Children's Library in 2005.  She took charge of offering after-school programs and the annual Summer Reading program.

Debbie continues to create weekly programs offered year round.  She took charge of selecting and ordering the children's books for the library catalogue.  She instantly became a vitally necessary member in the volunteer library.

Debbie creates special-themed sales to occur throughout the year to raise money for the 100% self-supporting, non-profit library. Two annual sales are the first weekend of May Plant Sale and the first Saturday of December Holiday Bazaar.   These sales are successful due to her diligent search for excellent items for the public to purchase, including making her own crafts and pottery to donate.
 
The Capitan community and outlying communities enjoy a beautiful library that is well-staffed by volunteers and offers many programs for all patrons, especially children, thanks to Debbie Myers.

At the award ceremony on November 1 in Albuquerque during the NMLA Annual Conference, Debbie took the opportunity to recognize her parents, Carol and Dwight Myers, for years of their involvement with the NMLA.  They both had the highest honor  given by NMLA --a Lifetime Membership -- since 1988.  In the 70's the Myers started the N.M. Book League and its magazine, Book Talk.  Carol was the sales manager for University of New Mexico Press for 15 years while also serving the NMLA as its treasurer and newsletter publisher. Dwight worked for book publisher Prentice Hall for 35 years as well as serving on the NMLA Board as Awards and Education Chair. 

Tom Mann of the Capitan Library  introduces Debbie Myers
at the NMLA Awards Ceremony

Many in the audience remembered the Myers and were pleased to see their daughter recognized for her work in the library public service industry.

Well deserved, Miss Debbie!  Congratulations!

 

November First Friday to be held at Canaan Trail Baptist Church - FOOT STOMPIN' MUSIC!

Hurd prints for sale

The Library was the recipient of these donated beautiful prints of Peter Hurd. Some are signed and some are framed.

Primera Nieve

River Valley in Spring

Terraced Land

The Roadrunner

More Hurd prints

Last Call

The Sheperd

Horse Trade

Westbound Freight

The Oasis

E-Waste Recycling Returns November 3

The Greentree Solid Waste Authority (GSWA) will be conducting its annual electronic waste (e-waste) recycling event on Saturday November 3^rd, from 9:00 am to 12 Noon at the Greentree recycling Center, 26590 US Highway 70 east of Ruidoso Downs. Residents of Corona, Carrizozo, Capitan, Ruidoso, Ruidoso Downs, Mescalero, and the Sun Valley Water & Sanitation District may bring e-waste items to be recycled at no charge. You will need to bring a water or trash bill from the above communities in order to drop off e-waste at Greentree.

Region 9 employees, however, in working with GSWA, may bring e-waste items to the Region 9 offices during the week of October 29 to November 1, where a GSWA volunteer will transport them at no charge on behalf of R9 to the Recycling Center.

R9 school districts and the Mescalero Apache Schools should contact GSWA event coordinator Jim Miller at 937.2873 to arrange for large volume e-waste drop-off at the GSWA facility.

Dia de Muertos in Lincoln Saturday, NOVEMBER 3

Creative Aging Nov 2

New Mexico Libraries GO Bond B on the Ballot - Information for YOU, the voter

 PLEASE READ FURTHER for more detail information of WHAT GO Bond monies can (& can't) be spent on and also HOW the monies are calculated

FYI: How the MATH is done: Distributing the 2018 GO Bonds Allocations

$4,000,000 Public Libraries

1. 10% ($400,000) is taken off the top for the Library System Distribution

2. $4000 is allocated to Rural Services

3. The remaining $3,596,000 is divided up on a per capita basis to each county based 

on the latest (2016) Census county estimates.

a. $3,596,000 divided by the NM 2016 est. population of 2,081,015 = $1.7280

 per capita 

b. Each county receives $1.7280 per capita

 Example:  Lincoln County (pop. 19,429)

            19,429 * $1.7280 = $33,573.31 

 Example: Chaves County (pop. 65,282)

            65,282 * $1.7280 = $112,807.29 

4. Within each county

 Step 1:  Divide the individual library’s LSA population by the sum of the LSA 

population of all the  libraries in the county to arrive at a percentage

Step 2:  Multiply that % by the total county allocation to determine the individual

 library’s allocation.

 Example:  Lincoln County (pop. 19,429) received $33,573.31 based on $1.7280

 per capita 

 Capitan Public Library (LSA 1489) + Village of Corona Public Library (LSA 172) + 

Ruidoso Public Library (LSA 8,029) = 9,690 (sum of the libraries’ LSAs)

Capitan:  1489/9,690 = 0.1536635 x $33,573.31 = $5,158.99

Corona:  172/9,690 = 0.0177502 x $33,573.31 = $595.93 

Ruidoso:  8,029/9,690 = 0.828586 x $33,573.31 = $27,818.37  

 Example: Chaves County (pop. 65,282) received $112,807.29 based on $1.7280

 per capita 

Roswell (LSA 48,366) is the only library in the county; therefore, the library receives

 100% of the county allocation

Update to Absentee and Early Voting. Please be sure to review Voter Guides. Library GO Bond is one of the issues being voted on.

Regarding the timeline to vote in person in Carrizozo, absentee and (what we historically called) Absentee in Person voting begins on October 9^th .  This provides an option for voters to cast a ballot in the Office of the County Clerk as of that date.

However, the Early Vote Site in the County Conference Room opens on Monday, October 22^nd.  

              

We are happy to accommodate voters at this time in the Office of the County Clerk but, with limited space and staff, we encourage those who don't have an immediate need to cast a ballot in person to utilize the Early Vote Site    beginning October 22^nd  which is staffed by an appointed precinct board.    Please feel free to call the Lincoln County Clerk's Office at 1 800 687 2705 ext 6 if you need any type of assistance with voting.

Rhonda Burrows

Lincoln County Clerk

Individuals may vote an absentee ballot in person at the Office of the County Clerk in Carrizozo. Early Vote Sites will open October 20 in Ruidoso at the Horton Complex and October 22 in Carrizozo at the Lincoln County Courthouse.     We encourage voters who may not be able to cast a ballot in person at one of our six Election Day Vote Centers to Early Vote at one of these two sites:

Horton Complex                                

237 Service Rd. Ruidoso

Tuesday thru Saturday   October 20 -- November 3^rd     10 am to 6 pm

County Clerk’s Office

300 Central Ave. Carrizozo

Monday thru Friday    October 9^th – November 2^nd   8 am to 5 pm

 Voter Guides which provide information regarding the Constitutional Amendments and Bond Questions are available through the Lincoln County Clerk Office Website

English: https://www.lincolncountynm.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/2018-Voter-Guide-English-FINAL.pdf

Spanish: https://www.lincolncountynm.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/2018-Voter-Guide-Spanish-FINAL.pdf

Please feel free to contact the County Clerk’s Office at 575 648 2394 ext 6 if you need further information.   

Lincoln County Votes! 

Veterans Appreciation Program

This afternoon I received a call from Mr. Christopher Scott of Capitan Schools notifying me of a planned Veterans Appreciation Program scheduled for 09:30 on 8 November to be held at the Capitan Schools' gym building.  Mr. Scott asked that I spread the word to all area veterans, and that I give Mr. Scott some idea of the number of attendees. So 

1.  Please do pass the word to your American Legion and/or VFW posts and to veterans that you know.

2.  Ask that any veterans who plan to attend drop me an e-mail or phone call (575-648-2226) and let me know so that I can get a head-count for Mr. Scott.

Thanks,

John Tate, Post 11 Commander (Acting)

Nov 1st Bookclub book to read

The book club meets the first Thursday of the month at 10:00 am.
 For more information, contact the library 575.354.3035

We will reviewed the book Turning Pages by Sonia Sotomayor at the December meeting. It is a children's illustrated book and Capitan Library has ordered it.  It can only be downloaded to a Kindle Fire.  However, we will have it on a shelf for book club members to come in and read it in the library.  The book is not long. It will take less than 30 minutes to read, less time than checking it out and returning it. If you don't get it read, come on to book club because the discussion will cover the whole book. This makes preparing for the December book club easy.

Sunday, October 21 @ 2 pm

Creative Aging Oct 19th

Sunday movie in C'zozo library - Oct 14th

Creative Aging Notes - FYI

CREATIVE AGING MEETINGS

OCTOBER 10, 2018

IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT PERSON: CLARA FARAH

ARTICLE WRITER: HOLLY BRADEN

Creative Aging’s September 28th meeting at Eastern New Mexico University – Ruidoso was a discussion of what is means to be mortal and how to die well.

 David Gerke and Dr. Clara Farah were the presenters and discussed Atul Gawande’s

 book Being Mortal. Three points were emphasized during the meeting. To know how

 someone wants to die, you need to ask him or her, then you need to respect those 

wishes. The ultimate goal is not a good death but a good life all the way to the end. 

What medicine can do often runs counter to what should be done. It is important to

 have a strong advocate during the end of life period. Small groups discussed how one

 should die then the 30 attendees came back together to share their ideas.

The next Creative Aging meeting will be held October 19th at 10:00 a.m. at ENMU-Ruidoso with a social hour beginning at 9:00 a.m. Refreshments will be served. The

 topic for discussion will be the new transportation system in Lincoln County. Cecile

 Kinnan will facilitate the meeting. Joe Hardin representing Z- Tran will present as will

 Dave Tomlin and Anthony Montes. The new county transportation system is up and 

running in Ruidoso and Ruidoso Downs. Part of the discussion during this meeting will 

be ways of expanding the coverage area. Another area of discussion will be attracting 

drivers with the necessary commercial driver’s license.

Creative Aging meetings are open to everyone and address topics of concern to our 

aging population. For more information contact Dr. Clara Farah at 575-973-7835 

or email her at cirfarah@gmail.com

voter deadline and FLU shots

  The deadline to register and vote in the upcoming 2018 General Election is October 9, 2018.  

Free Flu shots October 19 from 8-12 at Capitan clinic

Oct 11 Land Grants and Water Rights: Fighting Words in the Twenty-First Century? @ NM Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum

Land Grants and Water Rights: Fighting Words in the Twenty-First Century?

Thu, Oct 11, 2018, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum, Dripping Springs Road, Las Cruces, NM

Land grants and water rights have been an integral part of New Mexico's history. The subject of intense debates, long and arduous discussions and disagreements, court rulings and legislation, land grant and acequia rights remain an ongoing issue in New Mexico today. Dr. Stephanie Beninato addresses the cultural, social, economic and political history as well as jurisprudence.

Dr. Stefanie Beninato is a long-time public historian, working on projects ranging from archaeological surveys to genealogy, land use and water law.

First Friday Program

On Friday, October 5 at 7:00 p.m.

come learn with Sid Goodloe 

“Developing a Livestock & 

Wildland Ethic in Lincoln County 

Over a Century”

For 62 years, Sid Goodloe has been owner-operator of the Carrizo Valley Ranch, 19 miles North of Capitan, NM. 

Sid and Cheryl Goodloe began implementing what was to become

Holistic Planned Grazing in the late 1960s. Carrizo Valley Ranch 

 began to divide paddocks, not using the cell approach, but by

 topography and water availability, and began noticing a general

 improvement in range condition and biodiversity.

Sid’s primary goal was to grow as much grass as the rain would 

allow and control erosion. This led to the realization that there were 

too many invading trees that were not only suppressing grass growth,

but causing sheet and gully erosion. It has taken 50 years to achieve 

that objective or goal and now the Goodloes are able to keep much 

of the rain that falls on the ranch—on the ranch! 

The Goodloes have used a wide variety of vegetation manipulation 

methods to accomplish their landscape goal and sustain what they 

want to produce. They have included: chaining; dozing and piling; 

seeding; fire; hand grubbing; and herbicide. Their philosophy is to 

defer the riparian area during the growing season and flash graze 

during the dormant season. A lush riparian zone is also attractive to 

all forms of wildlife, and when combining that with uplands in near 

climax condition, fee hunting becomes a major player in the overall

profitability of the ranch.

Light refreshments will be provided following the presentation.

First Saturday of the month - $5 FOR A BAG OF BOOKS! 10 am to 2 pm

You could build a bookcave!

BookClub - open your books and compare notes at

the next meeting on Thursday, October 4, to discuss the latest Masie Dobbs book:
 To Die But Once. 






At the last meeting we decided on a book for November: 
A Gentleman in Moscow. 

Writers: gather your pens/pencils/papers/laptops/etc and GO! to

the next meeting is Monday, October 8 at Capitan Library at 9.45 a.m.

at the NM Humanities Council - an enlightening journey through photographs

ENRIQUE'S JOURNEY

Don Bartletti's Pulitzer Prize Winning LA Times Photo Essay on Exhibition at NMHC 

Fri, Oct 5, 2018, 6:00pm

In the vast migration that’s changing the face of America, thousands of Central Americans annually attempt a harrowing 1,500-mile journey through the length of Mexico on the tops of freight trains.

Nearly all are visited by cruelty, hunger and fatigue.  Stowaways call the unscheduled train they run to catch “La Bestia” or The Beast.  Some are maimed or killed by the iron wheels.  In the states of Chiapas and Oaxaca, Mara Salvatrucha gangsters, corrupt immigration and police officers and opportunist citizens hunt them like animals.  By contrast, in the state of Veracruz trackside residents throw gifts of food, water and clothing to migrants as the train passes by. 

Among these migrants are children as young as 12 who travel alone.  Most are trying to find parents – usually mothers - who left them behind years ago to work in the U.S.  For children, the dream of reunification becomes the quest for the Holy Grail.  Success comes only to the brave and the lucky.

In 2003, Bartletti’s six-part photo essay in the Los Angeles Times, “Enrique’s Journey” was awarded a Pulitzer for Feature Photography.  Bartletti was the first U.S. photojournalist to document the ongoing Central American diaspora of children clinging to freight trains and their dreams of crossing into the U.S.

Bartletti has an interesting New Mexico connection, too. In 2003, he was assigned to photograph legendary New Mexico author, Tony Hillerman, for a Los Angeles Times Travel Section story written by Hillerman.  Bartletti will share with exhibit reception guests his wild adventure in the Sandia Foothills capturing the portrait of a New Mexico treasure.

“Enrique’s Journey” opens Friday, October 5, 2018 at 6 pm. The exhibit runs through December 28, 2018 at the New Mexico Humanities Council, 4115 Silver SE, Albuquerque. Visitors are welcome Monday through Friday, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm.

Enrique’s Journey exhibition is part of the "Democracy and the Informed Citizen" initiative, which is administered by the Federation of State Humanities Councils. The series is aimed at deepening the public's knowledge and appreciation of the interconnections joining democracy, the humanities, journalism and an informed citizenry. 

Special thanks go to The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for its generous support of the initiative and to the Pulitzer Prizes for their partnership. Thanks, too, to the City of Albuquerque's KiMo Theatre as a major sponsor of the series.

 Contact Info: (505)633-7370; info@nmhumanities.org

from Bookbub-book news: Coming: "We Were the Lucky Ones" TV show

Great news, historical fiction readers: A We Were the Lucky Ones TV show is now officially in the works! According to Deadline, Old 320 Sycamore will adapt Georgia Hunter‘s bestselling World War II novel for the small screen. Director and producer Thomas Kail — best known for his Tony award winning work on Hamilton, as well as Oliver Twist, Critical Hours, and Grease Live — is set to direct.

We Were the Lucky Ones

by Georgia Hunter

Since its publication in 2017, readers have raved about Hunter’s debut novel, which tells the story of a Jewish family separated by the horrors of World War II who struggle the survive and reunite. BookBub readers described the novel as “inspirational” and “informative,” and emphasized the importance of preserving this story. One reviewer wrote, “This is a story that NEEDED to be told,” with another reviewer adding, “As harrowing as it is to read about the atrocities of the Holocaust and each character’s journey after leaving the Polish ghetto, this story and others like it should be continually told for each generation. Bravo Georgia Hunter for getting it right… You are a beautiful writer.”

And what makes the novel even more special is that it was inspired by the tale of the author’s own grandparents. Kail, who is set to direct the We Were the Lucky Ones TV show, spoke of how, like so many fans, he was moved by the story:

“Georgia and I have been friends for almost 20 years. I remember, years ago, when she first mentioned her desire to illuminate this remarkable piece of her family history. I am overjoyed to be partnering with her to create a television version of this story that honors this incredible book.”

Georgia Hunter herself can’t wait to see the We Were the Lucky Ones TV show come to light. Hunter shared with Deadline:

“As both a friend and a fan, I couldn’t be more excited to partner with Tommy! I love his work, and I’m especially impressed by his ability to connect audiences to characters in the most human and genuine way possible. For him to put his signature touch on my family’s story is an honor and a thrill.”

As production begins, we look forward to learning more details about this historical adaptation, including casting, trailers, and release dates. And if you haven’t read We Were the Lucky Ones yet, now’s the perfect time to add it to your reading list!  By G.G. Andrew|September 28, 2018