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Mora County

  • Mora County Calendar and Senior Lunch Menu - Dec. 14, 2012

    COMMUNITY CALENDAR

    Friday
    TBA — Mora Rangerettes Middle School basketball, Taos Tournament, away
    6 p.m. — Mora Valley Baptist Church Christmas Program, Cleveland
    Saturday
    Mora Rangerettes Middle School at Taos Basketball tournament
    1 p.m. — Mora Rangers basketball vs. Dulce, away, junior varsity and varsity
    1 p.m. — Mora Rangerettes basketball vs. Dulce, junior varsity and varsity
    9 a.m. — Mora Middle School wrestling, away, Memorial Middle School
    Monday

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  • Mora County Notebook - Agency completes 22nd year of service

    On Nov. 27, Esperanza Home Health Care and Hospice in Buena Vista completed their 22nd year in serving the area. At present, they are serving Mora, San Miguel, Colfax, and Harding counties. The staff covers more than 100 miles in their duties.

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  • Mora County Calendar and Senior Lunch Menu - Dec. 7, 2012

    COMMUNITY CALENDAR

    Friday
    5:30 p.m. — Mora Rangers basketball vs. West Las Vegas, away, junior varsity and varsity
    TBA — Mora Rangerettes basketball at Lady Lions Classic, Santa Rosa, varsity
    6 p.m. — The Christmas Story program, Mora Valley Baptist Church, Cleveland
    Saturday
    Lady Lions Classic Basketball continues, Santa Rosa
    9 a.m. to 3 p.m. — Chamber of Commerce, Winter Fest, crafts, food, entertainment, Santa Claus, door prizes, Mora Elementary Gym
    9 a.m. — Mora Middle School wrestling, Los Alamos
    1 to 4 p.m. — Bingo, Helping Hands Inc.
    Sunday

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  • Palabras Pintorescas - Memories of the drought and dust storms

    At a recent get- together, my friends and I seem to visit once again about the memories stirred up in our “older” brains about those horrific dust bowl days chronicled masterfully by Ken Burns on PBS. I popped into this world in 1934 so I was too small to actually remember those horror stories, but I do remember my parents often talking about that drought and the dust storms.

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  • Mora County Notebook - Artist creates and teaches painting

    Sylvia Ortega, a talented artist, lives in Guadalupita, located in Mora County. Ortega has loved art all her life and has shown it in her beautiful paintings, water colors, oils and acrylic, are the media she has used to express her skill at different times.

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  • Mora County Calendar and Senior Lunch Menu - Nov. 30, 2012

    COMMUNITY CALENDAR

    Friday
    4 p.m. ­— Rangerette middle school basketball vs. Dulce, home
    5:30 p.m. — Rangerette basketball vs. Tucumcari, home, junior varsity and varsity
    Saturday
    9 a.m. — Mora Middle School wrestling, away, Taos
    Tuesday
    6 p.m. — Mora Rangers basketball vs. Roy, home, junior varsity
    Wednesday
    4 p.m. — Mora Middle School wrestling, away, West Las Vegas
    Thursday
    4 p.m. — Rangerette middle school basketball vs. Dulce, Home

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  • Palabras Pintorescas - History in the making

    Yes, that was me you saw roaming through our pasture, following leader dog, Tinta, recently. We continue to investigate and try to figure out what is going on with our almost summertime weather (the very warm temperatures) and the lack of snow in our vast mountain chain. Sometimes I wonder if this is the start of yet another dust bowl. Ken Burns surely did a masterful job portraying the last one recently on PBS channel.

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  • Mora County Notebook - Saint Gertrude’s parish celebrates función

    The 156th year of the birth of Saint Gertrude was celebrated this past Sunday with the annual función at Saint Gertrude’s Catholic Church.

    The Mass ended with a processional to the elementary school gym.

    In the processional, the priest and the deacons followed with the cross.

    The statue of the patron saint was carried along with the patron saints of the different churches of the parish. The Penitentes sang hymns all the way. A large group of people of different ages walked in the procession.

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  • Mora Community Calendar and Senior Lunch Menu - Nov. 23, 2012

    COMMUNITY CALENDAR

    Sunday
    11 a.m. — Memorial Mass at Saint Gertrude’s Church for the deceased who were cared for by Esperanza Home Health Care.
    Monday
    4 p.m. — Mora Rangerettes Middle School Basketball vs.WLV, home  
    Tuesday
    1 p.m. — Nurses Work Shop-Esperanza Home Health Care, Buena Vista
    Wednesday
    4 p.m.-Mora Rangerette Middle School Basketball vs.Santa Rosa, Home
    Thursday

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  • Palabras Pintorescas - The things I’m thankful for

    My fun father used to tell us kids there was a dodo bird that flew backwards to see where he had been. Of course, we looked for that odd bird, and we never did see one. I did tell sweet brother Bill I thought I’d seen  one, in hopes he’d quit pestering me and spend his idle time looking for oddball birds.

    Oh, yes, I got away with a lot there for a while, just because I was two years older than Bill.

    And now as this column hits our print media, I look on yet another memorable  Thanksgiving and recount the many blessings we all have here.

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