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We tend to think of winter as a time when nothing will grow, but from the plant’s perspective, there are really two winters, and we can take advantage of that fact to have spring veggies sooner than anyone else.

We can say there are two chronologically distinct winters from the plants’ perspective because there are two factors impacting plant growth in the winter months- limited sunlight and cold climate. The two overlap, but do not occur at exactly the same times.

Spirits from the past will haunt the Plaza Hotel beginning this weekend. A multimedia video presentation capturing historic Las Vegas characters will be projected onto the windows of the hotel and visible from Plaza Park.

“The Plaza Hotel and Park seems like the perfect place for the Highlands Media Arts video project that focuses on our local history,” said Wid Slick, one of the owners of the Plaza Hotel. “The state designated Las Vegas as an arts and culture community and now it’s up to us to do something about it,” Slick added.

‘This town is parade crazy,” says Tito Chavez.  “And this parade (electric light parade) is one of the most interesting and really the most unique of them all.”

Chavez and his wife, Mary, own Tito’s Gallery on Bridge Street. They have seen lots of parades pass by. He also remembers building lots of floats for the electric light parade in years past.

Magic Lance: Mystery and Adventure in the New West, Hal Simmons

Clear Light Publishing

Santa Fe, N.M., 2008, $14.95

Wonderful proposition — what would happen if the tribes of New Mexico banded together and used the money they are making out of gambling for a common goal? What if land acquisition were the goal? What if a thinly disguised Ted Turner also wants to acquire land?

“Magic Lance: Mystery and Adventure in the New West” is thoroughly enjoyable with recognizable and likeable personalities.

The NMHU Concert Band will kick off the holiday season in Ilfeld Auditorium Sunday, Nov. 23 at 3p.m.

The Highlands Faculty Brass Quintet and Highlands Marching and Concert Band will perform such favorites as “Sleigh Ride” and “The Christmas Song,”“Semper Fidelis,” and Five pieces by 17th-century composer Anthony Holborne. Modern pieces include“Back in Black”, and John Bon Jovi’s “You Give Love a Bad Name.”

In 2006, Patricia Crespín’s first play, “We Are Hispanic American Women ... Okay!” opened in Las Vegas, New Mexico.  In November 2008, her career as a playwright comes full circle when “Confessions of a Hispanic American Woman” premiers in Las Vegas, as well.

“The Harvey Girls” will be the theme for the 2008 Las Vegas Citizens’ Committee for Historic Preservation Annual Preservation Awards Dinner, which will be held at the former Harvey House Hotel, the Montezuma Castle at the United World College of the American West.  

Say solar energy and people immediately think about high tech solar panels and sophisticated electronics. While that’s one way to capture solar energy, price puts it out of the hands of many. There’s one form of solar, though, that is within the grasp of of most of us, and that is passive solar heating.

In its simplest form, passive solar heating means  setting up your home and land to make maximum use of the sun’s heat.

It’s sad to see that even today people are judged by the color of their skin, the way they talk, their hair, the way they look, etc. It’s not right! But it still happens.

Everywhere you go, you can be judged by either the way you look or talk.

Because of judgment, a lot of people are afraid to be who they really are, because they are afraid of what people may say.