Mora County

Several Mora students competed in the Robo RAVE conference earlier this month in Albuquerque. They showed their skill in design and testing of the projects that they had been working on during the year.

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Mora Valley Community Health Services held a benefit spaghetti dinner in April to benefit the Senior Center and Ambulance Programs. The event raised $1,655, which will help with operational costs in both programs.

The benefit dinner was organized by the Mora Mountain Mama’s, a women’s group in Mora that dedicates its time to various community issues and organizations. The Mora Mountain Mama’s donated food and time, and MVCHS staff assisted at the event, which was held at the Mora Senior Center.

Cinco de Mayo was celebrated at the school in Mora by a traditional well performed program at the Martinez Gym.

The gym was packed with parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and other interested folks

The program began at 8:30 a .m. with the children from Head Start and kindergarten. The different classes performed Spanish dances, singing and recitations.

The junior high mariachi band played several numbers to the delight of the appreciative audience. The young people in the band are all from the sixth and seventh grades.

May is kicked off with Mother’s Day. Graduations are just around this big day.

I feel my mother’s presence all around me, often, and I suspect she continues to keep a watchful eye on this old ranch.

Mother would be proud of her five grandkids. They have inherited her spunk and spirit genes, as did sweet brother Bill and I.

Our mother was very different, very British, very strict. Bill and I finally figured that out, but not before we tried to get away with all sorts of things.