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  • Senior Lunch Menu — May 21, 2017

    The breakfast and lunch menu for the Las Vegas/Pecos Senior Centers, with 2 percent milk served with all meals. Menu for May 22 to May 26.

    MONDAY
    Breakfast: Scrambled egg, tortilla, yogurt, and peanut butter
    Lunch: Baked fish squares, tartar sauce, green beans, potato wedges, and yogurt

    TUESDAY
    Breakfast: Cereal, English muffin and peanut butter
    Lunch: Beef and cheese enchilada with red chile, pinto beans, Spanish rice, crackers, and vanilla pudding

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    Hitting the 100 mark
  • Senior Lunch Menu — May 14, 2017

    The breakfast and lunch menu for the Las Vegas/Pecos Senior Centers, with 2 percent milk served with all meals. Menu for May 15 to April 19.

    MONDAY
    Breakfast: Scrambled egg, cheese, bacon and tortilla
    Lunch: Green chile cheeseburger, pork and beans, tater tots, and yogurt

    TUESDAY
    Breakfast: Bagel, cheese, and cereal
    Lunch: Open face turkey sandwich, mashed potatoes, gravy, beets, and apple sauce

  • Concert to benefit Kilgen pipe...

    Submitted to the Optic

    Our Lady of Sorrows Church will be the site of a special concert scheduled at 6 p.m. on Friday, as present-day musicians strive to help preserve one of the community’s historic musical treasurers. The fundraiser (for restoration of the 1885 Kilgen pipe organ at Our Lady of Sorrows Church) will draw on the talents of University of New Mexico Chamber Singers and Orchestra for a special performance with James Yeager serving as organist, and Kristin Ditlow directing.

  • Senior Lunch Menu — April 23, 2017

    The breakfast and lunch menu for the Las Vegas/Pecos Senior Centers, with 2 percent milk served with all meals. Menu for April 24 to April 28.

    MONDAY
    Breakfast: Scrambled egg, cheese, red chile, and potato
    Lunch: Beef tips over egg noodles, steamed cauliflower, garden salad with dressing, whole wheat roll, and fruit cocktail

    TUESDAY
    Breakfast: Sausage burrito, and salsa
    Lunch: Beef and cheese enchilada with red chile, pinto beans, Spanish rice, and lemon pudding

  • Senior Lunch Menu — April 16, 2017

    The breakfast and lunch menu for the Las Vegas/Pecos Senior Centers, with 2 percent milk served with all meals. Menu for April 17 to April 21.

    MONDAY
    Breakfast: Scrambled egg, tortilla, yogurt, and peanut butter
    Lunch: Green chile cheeseburger, pork and beans, corn, and yogurt

    TUESDAY
    Breakfast: Scrambled egg, cheese, red chile, and potato
    Lunch: Baked pork roast, mashed potatoes, gravy, mixed vegetables, dinner rolls, and peaches

  • Senior Lunch Menu — April 9, 2017

    The breakfast and lunch menu for the Las Vegas/Pecos Senior Centers, with 2 percent milk served with all meals. Menu for April 10 to April 14.

    MONDAY
    Breakfast: Scrambled egg, cheese, bacon, and tortilla
    Lunch: Salisbury steak with gravy, white rice, sliced carrots, whole wheat roll, and applesauce

    TUESDAY
    Breakfast: Bagel, cheese, and cereal
    Lunch: Fideos with meat sauce, tossed salad, blend vegetables, dinner roll, and yogurt

    WEDNESDAY

  • Senior Lunch Menu — April 2, 2017

    The breakfast and lunch menu for the Las Vegas/Pecos Senior Centers, with 2 percent milk served with all meals. Menu for April 3 to April 7.

    MONDAY
    Breakfast: Potato and egg burrito with cheese, and salsa
    Lunch: Lasagna, garden salad with dressing, mixed vegetables, garlic bread, and yogurt

    TUESDAY
    Breakfast: Cereal, and bagel with cream cheese
    Lunch: Baked ham, stuffing, green beans, dinner roll, and fruit cobbler

    WEDNESDAY
    Breakfast: Pancakes, sausage, yogurt, and orange

  • Senior Lunch Menu — March 19, 2017

    The breakfast and lunch menu for the Las Vegas/Pecos Senior Centers, with 2 percent milk served with all meals. Menu for March 20 to March 24.

    MONDAY
    Breakfast: Scrambled egg, tortilla, yogurt, and peanut butter
    Lunch: Baked chicken, mashed potatoes with gravy, green beans, wheat roll with margarine, and yogurt

    TUESDAY
    Breakfast: Cereal, and English muffin with cream cheese
    Lunch: Carne adovada, pinto beans, spinach, corn bread, and rice pudding

    WEDNESDAY

  • Senior Lunch Menu — March 5, 2017

    The breakfast and lunch menu for the Las Vegas/Pecos Senior Centers, with 2 percent milk served with all meals. Menu for March 6 to March 10.

    MONDAY
    Breakfast: Potato and egg burrito with cheese, and salsa
    Lunch: Chicken fajitas, salsa, Spanish rice, corn, and pumpkin muffin

    TUESDAY
    Breakfast: Cereal, and bagel with cream cheese
    Lunch: Lasagna, green beans, garden salad, garlic bread, and mixed fruit

    WEDNESDAY
    Breakfast: Pancakes, sausage, yogurt, and orange

  • Thomas Mishler scholarship music...

    By Margaret McKinney
    Highlands University

    Seven of Highlands University’s top music students will perform in a recital at 3 p.m. on Sunday in the Kennedy Alumni Hall, 905 University Ave.

    The program for the Thomas Mishler Scholarship Recital includes a variety of musical selections, from Chopin to Schubert, Mozart and Mendelssohn.

    Music faculty Andre García-Nuthmann, Linda King and Ashlyn Harrington will be the piano accompanists for the vocalists.

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    Spreading awareness
  • Presbyterian church accepting...

    Submitted to the Optic

    The First United Presbyterian Church announces its 19th offering of Mustard Seed Grants. Mustard Seed was created in 1999 as a community outreach program to help fund one-time/start-up projects of various community groups.

    The programs or projects submitted must be new, innovative, goal-directed ideas that are consistent with the church mission statement, “With Christ as the center of our ministry, FUPC is dedicated to sharing the love of Christ in our community and beyond.”

  • Senior Lunch Menu — Feb. 26, 2017

    The breakfast and lunch menu for the Las Vegas/Pecos Senior Centers, with 2 percent milk served with all meals. Menu for Feb. 27 and Feb. 28.

    MONDAY
    Breakfast: Scrambled egg, biscuit, yogurt, and peanut butter
    Lunch: Chicken fried steak, white gravy, mashed potatoes, peas, slice of whole wheat bread, and cupcake

    TUESDAY
    Breakfast: Cereal, English muffin and peanut butter
    Lunch: Smothered red chile beef and bean burrito, lettuce, tomato,
    corn, and fruit

  • Gallery 140 exhibit features...

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    The Las Vegas Arts Council is exhibiting photographs from northern New Mexico in a benefit show and sale through the end of the month.

    The show at Gallery 140 on Bridge Street is “New Mexico Places: Photography by June Bowers.”  It includes photographs of familiar buildings, landforms, streams, vehicles, and equipment from Tecolote, Chacon, Ocate, Romeroville, North Carmen, Ledoux, San Jose, Tres Piedras, and other nearby localities. Gallery 140 is at 140 Bridge Street and is open from 1 to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.

  • Senior Lunch Menu — Feb. 12, 2017

    The breakfast and lunch menu for the Las Vegas/Pecos Senior Centers, with 2 percent milk served with all meals.

    MONDAY
    Breakfast: Scrambled egg, cheese, bacon and tortilla
    Lunch: Baked ham, stuffing, green beans, dinner roll, and diced pears

    TUESDAY
    Breakfast: Cereal, bagel and cheese
    Lunch: Frito pie, lettuce, tomato, onion, squash, Spanish rice, and gelatin

    WEDNESDAY
    Breakfast: Hardboiled egg, cheese stick, English muffin and jelly

  • Dance to feature music by Boris and...

    Submitted to the Optic

    The Sixth Annual Valentine dance by the Friends of the Museum group will take place from 7 to 10 p.m. on Saturday at the Serf hall.

    This event is free and welcomes all ages. Let the folk country and blues music from Boris and the Salt Licks Band guide the feet of the youngest to the eldest. In the past, four generations took the dance floor.

  • Julia Maestas appointed to sorority...

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    Julia Maestas, a native of Las Vegas and daughter of Jose and Dalia Maestas, was appointed as the Director of Recruitment and Retention for the remainder of the 2015-17 term by the  Board of Directors of Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority, Inc.

  • Local Catholic Daughters hosting...

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    Catholic Daughters of Immaculate Conception Parish (Court Empress of the Americas #1796) have joined Catholic Daughter Courts throughout the nation in sponsoring the 2017 National Education Contest. The contest is open to Catholic and non-Catholic students in grades four through 12 as well as adult Catholic Daughters.

    Themes for the contest are “Whatever you do for the least of my breathen, you do for me,” and “Helping the needy where I live.”

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  • Nominations being accepted for...

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    The Cultural Properties Review Committee and the New Mexico Historic Preservation Division are accepting nominations of outstanding preservation work for awards that will be presented in May as part of National Heritage Preservation Month.

    HPD and the New Mexico Heritage Preservation Alliance also are seeking events to post in the Calendar of Events, which lists dozens of community preservation events held in May statewide.