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Plein Air Paint Out
The Las Vegas Plein Air Club will present its second-annual  Plein Air Paint Out. It includes registration, slide show and lecture with Ester O’Fearghail, a Highlands University assistant professor of art. The cost is $25 per participant, $10 for students. The event begins at 5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3, at the El Zocalo Artist Co-op. Call 505-426-6688.

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The New Mexico Highlands University Campus Violence Prevention Program will sponsor an “Out of the Darkness” run Sept. 26 to mark Suicide Awareness Month.

The free event begins at 7 p.m. with registration at the university’s new Student Union Building at Eighth Street and National Avenue. Participants will receive glow sticks, bracelets and mini flashlights to help light the way.

Gov. Susana Martinez and Attorney General Gary King are at odds over who should have final say on whether same-sex marriages are legal in New Mexico.

Martinez, who personally believes that marriage should be between a man and a woman, says voters should decide the issue through a constitutional amendment. King, a Democrat, argues that the courts should decide the matter since it is a civil rights issue.

We agree with King.

We stopped at a fast-food place where, when you buy a burger, you get to put the mustard and ketchup on yourself. We also bought a side salad and got to pour the French vignette dressing on ourselves.

It was one of those days, when we could smell fall in the air and the change in temperature and climate made us want to go out for a snack rather than cook at home. I guess you could say we were out to butter our own nests.