Today's Features

WEDNESDAY MIERCOLES
• Story Time at Carnegie Library, 10:30 a.m. and 4 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 6 in the children’s area of the pubic library. Free and open to the public.
• Seventeenth Annual Kiwanis Pancake Day, 7 a.m. to 9 a.m., 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 6, Hillcrest Restaurant Flamingo Room. Tickets are $8 per adult and $5 kids, 10 and younger. Proceeds used to support local youth programs. For more information, call 505-718-6655.

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• The Board of Trustees of the Tecolote Land Grant monthly meeting at 9:15 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 2 at the Tecolote Community Center. Heirs are urged to attend. For more information, call Joe I. Herrera at 575-427-1141.
• Las Vegas Senior Olympic Day, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 2 at the Abe Montoya Recreation Center.

A young woman who was born and grew up in Mora is now serving in the Peace Corps in Mozambique, Africa.

Andrea Martinez, 24, has been assigned to the Catholic mission in Dombe. She is working as a librarian and teacher.

Martinez will be serving there for two years. She had brushed up on her French, thinking that she would be assigned to a French-speaking country.

But when she was assigned to Mozambique, where the native language is Portuguese, she had to switch gears.

I’ve discovered a few of my readers think my sweet brother Bill is a figment of my imagination. And some of my friends want to see a picture of Bill. My editor, Mercy, asked me a while ago if I had any photographs to go along with a story. Well, the indoor jobs when it is so cold caused me to dig out an old box of pictures, and there it was! A Kodak moment with sweet brother Bill, no less.