Quilt Raffle at Plant and Garden Sale Saturday, May 7

Beautiful handmade quilt by Pauline Purvis is being

raffled off to raise money for the library.

Only $1 or 6 tickets for $5 puts your name in the raffle

with the drawing at 1:30 p.m. at the Plant Sale.

 Wow - bet Mom would like that for Mother's Day.

Don't miss putting your name in the drawing

 once or multiple times.

Plant sale photos from last year - just to wet your Plant Sale shopping whistle

It is not necessary for the plant to match your shirt!

Crowds shopping and volunteers helping

So many pretties to choose from

Plants in every nook and cranny

Fresh flowers and dried wreaths

Plants and more!

Jewelry!

eclectic assortment - definitely you can find a Mother's day gift

Plants and furniture available.  
Don't forget the BAKE SALE!

Lots of plants!

Another shelf of eclectic assortment of amazing goodies.

This be The Man who will take your money for all the wonderful items you are going to find at the plant sale - Gerald Garrett.

Next Saturday is the BIG Plant & Bake Sale!!!! This is one not to miss, folks!!! Save the DATE!

Sign up today for Genealogy class in May

TONIGHT! April 28 Property Tax & Tax exemptions

Questions about

Property Taxes and Tax Exemptions?

Yovanne Lucero from the Lincoln County Assessors Office will be at Capitan Public Library

Thursday, 

April 28 @ 5:30 pm

She will explain these topics and assist you in getting all eligible exemptions.

Light refreshments.

WUI Speaker Series May 3 - Moon Mountain Fire

Choir Concert - May 1

Need help to get ready for the 27th Annual Veteran's Memorial Service at Fort Stanton

The Fort Stanton Cemetery Committee is requesting help with placing American flags on all 1,700 graves.

Date:  Friday 27 May 2016

Time:  3:00 p.m.

Please bring a screwdriver to help drill a hole if need be to stick flag into the ground.

The 27the Annual Veteran's Memorial Service will be held on Saturday 28 May 2016.

Please pass this on to anyone who would like to help, especially to those who have family members buried at Fort Stanton Veteran's Cemetery.  Those who are of foreign nations will have their own country's flags placed on their graves.

$1 for a Bag of Books still going on!

All through April, each Saturday, a Bag of Books only costs $1!  Stock up now for those lazy days of Summer!

You can even bring your own bag!

Saturday hours:

10 am - 2 pm

See you there!

“Old and Damaged Tire Disposal Weekend”

Ruidoso Downs, Capitan, Carrizozo, Corona 

& Ruidoso Residents       

at the Greentree Solid Waste Yard 

“Old and Damaged Tire Disposal Weekend”    

                                                         

Need to get rid of old or damaged tires? Now you can   

drop them off in the Blue roll off containers at                               No Charge at the Greentree Yard  

                                                                                            Friday 8:00 am – 4 pm April 22            Saturday 8:00 am – 12 Noon April 23

Tires up to 20” Rims and Semi-Truck Tires Accepted

Do not place tires next to polycarts or dumpsters,

 in arroyos, or on City/County roads. 

No Tire Piles on your property, 

Please! throwing Tires on the Ground Makes a 

Home for Rats, Mosquitos and Zika, West Nile Virus & Hanta Viruses 

which then Spreads to People, Pets and Livestock.

Help Keep Our Communities Clean

 and Our People Healthy!

City of Ruidoso Downs *

Greentree Solid Waste Authority *

Scrap Tire Management Program

Creative Aging Advisory Committee to Lincoln County on April 22

The Creative Aging Advisory Committee to Lincoln County invites you to our Friday, monthly meeting on April 22 at 9am at ENMU, #115. Refreshments will be served. Topics to be discussed include transportation, housing, health care and volunteerism for older adults in Lincoln County. We look forward to seeing you. Clara Farah, 575.973.7835. clrfarah@gmail.com. Creative Aging Advisory Committee to Lincoln County. (CAAC)  Tentative Agenda for Friday, 4.22.16. (9:00am) ENMU. # 115. 1.   Domain: Housing. Bradford Dyjak, Village of Ruidoso, Department of Planning. Affordable housing plans to date. 2.   Domain: Quality of Life. Bradford Dyjak, the Main Street Project. 3.   Domain: Transportation, Bradford Dyjak, Cecile Kinnan and Paula Tipton. Current status of Lincoln County Transit. Introduction of the Ruidoso Tram Tour Company. 4.   Domain: Health. Alicia Castro.  NM State Health Insurance Assistance Program. Aging and Long Term Services Department.   5.   Domain: Health. Tina Sanchez. NM Ombudsman Program. Aging and Long Term Services Department. 6.    Domain: Civic Engagement/Volunteerism. Julie Baker, Retired Senior Volunteer Program, (RSVP), Alamogordo Senior Center. CAAC’s May Meeting Tentative Agenda. Date: Friday, May 20, 2016. ENMU #115. (9:00am) 1.   Domain: Civic Engagement. Daniel Waldo, Student Success Coordinator. ENMU 2.   Domain: Civic Engagement and Life Long Learning. Coda Omness on senior participation at ENMU. 3.   Brainstorming session on future goals, obstacles and opportunities. Calendar meeting dates to set for the summer and early fall meetings.  ----------------------------------------------- Clara Farah, Ph.D. P.O. Box 737 Alto, NM 88312-0737 Tel  :   575-336-1367      Cell  :  575-973-7835 e-mail: clrfarah@gmail.com

A smile for the day

While reading the SouthWest Writers Storyteller's Anthology (2013 edition) I came upon this poem.  Now IF any of you took the leap this past year from Windows 7 to the FREE Windows 10 - I think you can relate to this poem.

CRASH by Peggy Spencer

Poor Wally's computer has gone on the blink,

He tried to upgrade it but what do you think,

The hard drive went wacko, the files disappeared,

His screen sent out sparks and the keyboard got weird.

Whenever he typed he got music, no joke,

His computer was fine, but now it's baroque.

Donate your excessive plants and accessories to the library's plant & garden BIG sale. (It's kind of like recycling, but on the GREEN side.)

THE PLANT & GARDEN SALE!  

Saturday, May 7.  8 am to 2pm.

Save the DATE! 

Do you have too many plants?   Cacti that stuck you just one too many times? Changed your yard art out for a new, non-bearish look?   Plant stands that need a paint job?  Pretty pots you'll never use?  Figured out moose are not native to this area? Lawn furniture left over when you replaced it last year? Bring your plants & stuff you don't want anymore to the library for volunteers to spruce up to sell at the Plant & Garden Sale.  It goes to a good cause...your favorite library!

Then come back May 7th and buy more!

Friendly librarians will assist you in your plant purchases

Whew - got those taxes done. Now it's time to treat yourself to some good reads. Bag of Books only $1 every Saturaday in April

All through April, each Saturday, a Bag of Books only costs $1.  Woo-Hoo!  What a great deal!!!!!! 

You can even bring your own bag!

Saturday hours:

10 am - 2 pm

See you there!

Chautauqua at the Ruidoso Public Library on Saturday, April 16 @ 11 am

 THE WONDER OF NATURE: RACHEL CARSON

This program would be of interest to anyone interested in ecology.

Ann Beyke becomes Rachel Carson in this presentation from the New Mexico Humanities Council.

"Perhaps the finest nature writer of the Twentieth Century, Rachel Carson (1907-1964) is remembered more today as the woman who challenged the notion that humans could obtain mastery over nature by chemicals, bombs and space travel than for her studies of ocean life. Her sensational book Silent Spring (1962) warned of the dangers to all natural systems from the misuse of chemical pesticides such as DDT, and questioned the scope and direction of modern science, initiated the contemporary environmental movement."

(from  http://www.rachelcarson.org )

      

 at Ruidoso Public Library Saturday, April 16 at 11 am

Questions about Property Taxes and Tax Exemptions?

Questions about

Property Taxes and Tax Exemptions?

Yovanne Lucero from the Lincoln County Assessors Office will be at Capitan Public Library

Thursday, 

April 28 @ 5:30 pm

She will explain these topics and assist you in getting all eligible exemptions.

Light refreshments.

Questions about Property Taxes and Tax Exemptions explained tonight - April 28

Questions about

Property Taxes and Tax Exemptions?

Yovanne Lucero from the Lincoln County Assessors Office will be at Capitan Public Library

Thursday, 

April 28 @ 5:30 pm 

Lucero will explain these topics & assist you in getting all eligible exemptions.

 Light refreshments.

At the Old Mill on Saturday, April 9

We would like to invite you to our benefit event at the Old Mill this Saturday, April 9^th,  with the Flying J Wranglers. The doors open at 6:30, and the music begins at 7 pm. Tickets are $25.

It will be a great western show for the entire family.  There will also be a book sale & jewelry sale to help save the Mill.  Coyote Howling will be hosting the concessions, and they have donated some gift baskets & a gift certificate to raffle during the event.

As an added bonus, the Old Mill waterwheel will be turning and grinding grain inside the building.

We hope you can join us for a fun evening of entertainment in Ruidoso's birthplace. Tell all your friends and come get your Western on!

Thanks for your support,

Michael & Delana Clements & The Old Mill Preservation Corporation board members

tonight at ENMU-R!

A really informative program on Apr 1

photo by Alex Kinnan

A late snow covered the mountains and it was a chilly night, I must admit, but you missed a really good program by Loretta Hall on New Mexico people and places (and chimpanzees) in the space industry.  Fascinating!  Loretta was here courtesy of the NM Historical Society. But just so you won't be totally in the dark (like in space), the library bought her book: The Complete Space Buff's Bucket List: 100 Space Things to Do before You Die