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Mora County

  • Mora County Notebook: Joshua Garcia receives prestigious scholarship

    Joshua Garcia and six other northern New Mexico recipients were honored at a luncheon this month where they received the Pete Domenici Scholarship funded by Los Alamos National Laboratory.

    Garcia, son of John and Ann Garcia, is a 2011 graduate of Mora High School. At the luncheon recipients had a chance to sit and visit with Domenici.

    The students selected for the scholarship were chosen because of their outstanding academic achievement as well as outstanding leadership skills and community service.

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  • Mora Community Calendar and Lunch Menu - May 27, 2011

    Community Calendar

    Friday
    6 p.m.  - Senior class graduation, Mora High School Gym                                           

    Saturday
    7 a.m. - 1 p.m. - Huge yard sale and bake sale, Mora Senior Center
    10 a.m. - Senior class graduation, Wagon Mound School

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  • A math wizard — Willie Sanchez

    A recent KFUN radio program that Jesus Lopez hosts had an old friend of mine as a guest. Willie Sanchez and I were students at New Mexico Highlands University together a long time ago.

    This was the early 1950s when our veterans from both World War II and the Korean conflict returned and went to school via the G.I. Bill. They came to get a good and useful education so they could move on with their lives. Some of us younger students didn’t have the same work and study habits they had. In other words, they came to get an education and they had little time to goof off.

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  • Mora County Notebook: Mora County has lots of college graduates

    Once again Mora has shown the intelligence, ambition and work ethic of its young people as they work to gain advanced education in colleges and universities.

    This week, seven students from Mora received their master’s degrees at New Mexico Highlands University. Nathan Espinoza received a master’s of business administration, Marvina K. Sanchez in guidance and counseling, Shan Marie Sanchez in curriculum instruction, Dayle Adkins in social work, Loric Lucero in social work, and Sandra L. Romero in social work.

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  • Mora Community Calendar and Lunch Menu - May 20, 2011

    Community Calendar

    Sunday, May 22
    11 a.m. - Graduation Mass, St Gertrude’s Church

    Tuesday, May 24

    6 p.m. - Spring Band Concert, Mora School gym
    6 p.m. - T-ball - Rangers vs. Mariners, Little League Field #1 - Angels vs. Rangers, Field # 2 - Rockies vs. Broncos, Little League Fields in Holman
    6:45 p.m. - T-Ball –Yankees vs. Pirates, Little League Fields in Holman-

    Thursday, May 26

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  • Mora County Notebook: Wagon Mound celebrates Earth Day

    An Earth Day activity took place in Wagon Mound as the soil was prepared and a garden planted by the youth in Jaylyn Maestas and Lousia Maestas classes with the help of Sophia Martinez of the Concerned Citizens of Wagon Mound and of Mora County and Jennifer Bellin.   

    Another special time of garden activity took place on Cinco de Mayo while traditional Spanish music was played and songs were sung in celebration of Cinco de Mayo.

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  • Mora Community Calendar and Lunch Menu - May 13, 2011

    Community Calendar

    Friday
    8:30 a.m. - Dia de la Cultura, Mora Elementary
    Saturday
    10 a.m. - Stock Growers meeting, Mora School Board Room                                      
    Sunday
    2 p.m. - Gunmanship Practice, Augustine Romero Ranch      

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  • Palabras Pintorescas: Which came first? Our kids knew

    Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Our kids knew the answer to that early on. Most ranches have chickens for many reasons, starting with the really fresh eggs for breakfast, then followed by super good fried chicken for dinner, all collected from the nearby chicken coop.

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  • Mora County Notebook: Mora County has annual clean-up

    Last Friday’s windstorm left lots of trash for the annual clean-up crew. Making the Mora Chamber of Commerce annual Clean-up Day a great success.

    People stopped at the parking lot to pick up bags and safety vests. The volunteers then picked up trash and cleaned the main highway right-of- way and some side roads.

    Those who could not work on Saturday planned to pick up trash on Sunday but could not do so because of the snowstorm that passed through town.

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  • Mora Community Calendar and Lunch Menu - May 6, 2011

    Community Calendar

    Friday
    9 a.m. - State Track and Field meet, Albuquerque

    Saturday
    State Track and Field meet continues, Albuquerque

    Sunday
    Happy Mothers’ Day

    Tuesday

    10 a.m. - Mora County Commission meeting, Mora School Board Room                        

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