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Mora County

  • Palabras Pintorescas - Stopping Nancy in her horseshoe tracks

    The very large windows in my house give me a vantage point. I can really just watch the world go by, and by some standards that might be judged as a big waste of time.

    One day last week I watched our now retired Betsy mare do her darndest to rearrange a particular small area of her pasture so she could roll in comfort. She pawed the snow and underlying grass in a circle, spinning and turning until she thought she had it about right. She used her right front hoof for this. Then she carefully lay down in this circle and rolled and rolled.

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  • Elected officials take oath of office

    The elected officials of Mora County took the oath of office on Friday Dec.  28 at the Mora Senior Citizens’ Center.

    Probate Judge Edward Aragon presided over the ceremony and swore in the newly elected officials. The senior citizens, family members and county officials were present to witness the officials as they were sworn in. A white Bible was used for the swearing in.

    Those who were sworn in were Joanne Padilla–Salas as County Clerk, Florence Romero as County Treasurer and Alfonzo Griego as County Commissioner.

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  • Mora County Senior Lunch Menu - Jan. 4, 2013

    The lunch menu for the Mora /Wagon Mound Senior Centers with coffee and milk served daily.

    Monday — Pork posole, salad with dressing, mustard greens, garlic bread and pumpkin spice cookie
    Tuesday — Beef fajita, pinto beans with green chili, salsa, flour tortilla, oatmeal cookie, and peaches
    Wednesday — Baked chicken, wild rice, carrot-raisin salad, biscuit with margarine, and mandarin oranges
    Thursday — Pepperoni pizza, bean salad, pasta salad
    cantaloupe, and oatmeal cookie

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  • Palabras Pintorescas - Starting the New Year with good ol’ fruitcake

    Don’t look now, but ... there is a second chapter in the story / column I wrote about fruitcakes. Yes, I know some family members might call me the original fruitcake  because I write about such nonsensical things, but what do they know!

    The day the fruitcake column was published,  my neighbors just down the road near Sapello appeared at my door with a real, packed-in-that-tin fruitcake, made by the monks at Holy Cross Abbey in Berryville, Va., no less.

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  • Mora County Notebook - The Valley celebrates Christmas

    Christmas is sharing time in Mora. Many people showed the reason for the season, sharing their talents, and their material with others.

    Pauline Laumbach’s BPA gave 156 color books to children in grades kindergarten through third. The music department gave a free Christmas concert. The Mora Mountain Mamas sang Christmas carols at the Mora Senior Center.

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  • Mora County Calendar and Senior Lunch Menu - Dec. 28, 2012

    COMMUNITY CALENDAR

    Saturday
    Mora Rangers and Rangerettes basketball at NRG Tournament, Pojoaque
    Monday
    4 p.m. — Mora Rangers Middle School boys basketball vs. Pecos, away
    Wednesday
    4 p.m. — Mora Rangers Middle School boys basketball vs. West Las Vegas, away
    Thursday
    5:30 p.m. — Mora Rangerettes Basketball vs. Taos, Home-varsity

    SENIOR LUNCH MENU

    The lunch menu for the Mora /Wagon Mound Senior Centers with coffee and milk served daily.

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  • Palabras Pintorescas - For the love of books — about our state

    Oh my! I love it when a book finds me, in a somewhat circuitous route, I might add. In other words, Santa has a way of finding us, I’ve learned for the Nth time in my life.
    A big part of the fun of writing this column is delivering my typewritten columns to the Optic staff every week. I was surprised recently when the kids there told me I had a package or an envelope waiting for me. Oh, my again! The package contained a signed copy of “Las Vegas, New Mexico, Volume II” by Joseph Lordi, with a note tucked into the signed copy.

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  • Annual Winter Fest a great success

    The 11th Annual Winter Fest was held in the Mora Elementary gym on Saturday.

    The holiday festival is sponsored by the Mora Valley Chamber of Commerce for the benefit of the community. Crystal Fort, the director, and her staff worked long hours to make it possible.

    It was said to be a huge success with more than 500 people attending. Attendees stayed and shopped at the many booths set up by local and neighboring vendors.

    Attendees also ate Frito pies served by the women of the Presbyterian Church and enjoyed the many goodies sold at the booths.

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  • Palabras Pintorescas - ‘Oh, horrors… That tree is plastic’

    If you drive Highway 518 towards Mora this time of year (as I do) you probably will meet trucks and trailers filled with our local, homegrown Christmas trees. They are sold in tree lots throughout New Mexico. Mora County is famous for its beautiful Christmas trees. Almost all of them are natural, not planted, and they thrive on our mountain slopes here.

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  • 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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