Catron County Connection

Upper Frisco Dutch-Oven Cook-Off

2009-06-20T09:54:00.000-07:00

Come try your hand at black pot cookin' at the Upper Frisco Dutch-Oven Cook-Off, 10:00 a.m. Saturday, July 18 2009 at the Reserve, NM Fairgrounds. 1 pot (entry fee $15) and 3 pot (entry fee $30) categories.

Times:
Check In Time 8:00 am
Cooking Fires May Be Started at 8:00 am
Cooks Meeting 9:30 am
Cooking Time 10:00 am-3:00 pm
Dessert 1:00 pm, Bread 2:00 pm, Main Dish 3:00 pm
1-Pot Entries 2:00pm
Taster’s Delight Meal 3:30 pm
Awards Presentation Following Potluck

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT
BEN ROMERO 575-533-6249
MARY ELLEN CHAVEZ 575-523-4838
ZANA WOOD 575-805-7170
loschilehead@msn.com

Farmer's Market/Flea Market in Datil

2009-06-06T17:06:00.000-07:00

Farmer's Market & Flea Market in Datil in the Datil Elementary School/Presbyterian Church parking lot Rt. 12 just south of Hwy. 60.

Local produce pies, muffins and flea market stuff.

Every Saturday through August, 8am - 1pm

Flea market spaces $3
Produce/food vendors set up for free.

Monthly CCCG meeting change

2009-05-27T20:39:00.000-07:00

The Catron County Citizens Group (CCCG) has changed its regular meeting days to the fourth Tuesday of each month. The next meeting will be June 23, 5:30 PM at the Reserve School Board meeting room.

San Augustin Water Coalition Annual Meeting

2009-05-27T20:30:00.000-07:00

THE SAN AUGUSTIN WATER COALITION requests your presence at its annual meeting May 30, 2009 at the Datil Elementary School Gymnasium.

5PM Registration 6PM Meeting

Bruce Frederick, Attorney, will bring us up to date on the latest developments in the water grab attempt by the Augustin Plains Ranch; Don Tripp will speak to the issue; Other speakers will talk about water developments.

Elections will be held for three seats on the Board (nominations from the floor)

Contact person: Carol Pittman 575-772-5866 or pittray@gilanet.com

CCCG Meeting notice

2009-04-29T09:52:00.000-07:00

The Catron County Citizens Group meets the last Wednesday of each month, generally at the Reserve School Board meeting room (Reserve Elementary School building) at 5:30 PM.

Baldwin Cabin Library 10 Year Anniversary Party

2009-04-29T09:49:00.000-07:00

Everyone is invited to the Baldwin Cabin Library 10 Year Anniversary Party in Datil at the library on Saturday, May 2nd from 11:30 to 3:00 pm. Free food, games for kids, pinatas, and live music.

Water Coalition meeting April 14

2009-04-14T08:30:00.000-07:00

San Augustin Water Coalition
Meeting of the Board
April 14, 2009
Datil Fire Department
6PM

Agenda

I. Call to order
II. Additions or changes to Agenda by Board Members
III. Reading and acceptance of minutes of previous meeting
IV. Treasurer’s report
V. Old Business
a. IRS tax exempt status
b. Water Dialogue
c. Reports from Board Members

VI. New Business
a. Catron County Fair
b. Annual Meeting
c. Socorro County Land Use Commission meeting
d. Film Maker

National Window Safety Week

2009-04-07T09:14:00.000-07:00

Some tips about window safety from Catron County Health Council

Observed annually the first full week in April, National Window Safety Week is designed to heighten the awareness of what parents and caregivers should do to help keep their home and family safer from the risk of accidental window falls or injuries in the home and how they can use their windows for emergency escape and rescue purposes.

Window safety starts with learning the actions you can take to observe window safety and encouraging others to do so. Responsible adults are the key to window safety. There’s no substitute for adult supervision when it comes to keeping children safe.

Facts and tips about window safety:

• Windows provide a secondary means of escape from a burning home. Doors serve as the primary exits. Determine your family's emergency escape plan and practice it. Remember that children may have to rely on a window to escape in a fire. Help them learn to safely use a window under these circumstances.

• When performing spring repairs, take care to make sure that your windows are not painted or nailed shut. You must be able to open them to escape in an emergency.

• Keep your windows closed and locked when children are around. When opening windows for ventilation, open windows that a child cannot reach, or in the case of a double-hung window, open the top sash only.

• Set and enforce rules about keeping children's play away from windows or patio doors. Falling through the glass can be fatal or cause serious injury.

• Keep furniture - or anything children can climb - away from windows. Children may use such objects as a climbing aid.

• If you have young children in your home and are considering installing window guards or window fall prevention devices, be aware that the window guards or devices you install must have a release mechanism so that they can be opened for escape in a fire emergency. Consult your local fire department or building code official to determine proper placement for window guards and window fall prevention devices.

• Some homes may have window guards, security bars, grilles or grates already covering their windows. Those windows are useless in an emergency if the devices on them do not have a functioning release mechanism. Time is critical when escaping a fire. Take time to update these devices to make sure they comply with industry standards and have appropriate release mechanisms.

• Do not install window air conditioners in windows that may be needed for escape or rescue in an emergency. The air conditioning unit could block or impede escape through the window. Always be sure that you have at least one window in each sleeping and living area that meets escape and rescue requirements.

• The degree of injury sustained from a window fall can be affected by the surface on which the victim falls. Shrubs and soft edging like wood chips or grass beneath windows may lessen the impact if a fall does occur.

4-H Rodeo Dates

2009-01-28T10:55:00.000-08:00

Dates for Catron County 4-H Rodeo are June 6 & 7 in Reserve. More info here as we get it.

Catron County Grass Roots Behavioral Health Meeting

2009-01-28T10:36:00.001-08:00

Monthly meeting February 5, 10:00 a.m. Reserve community center.

Purpose:

Inform the various county organizations of the need for behavioral health services in Catron County;

Provide an overview of what is currently provided and what we are currently doing;

Develop a long-range idea of where we want to be.

To accomplish this huge task, we are asking for a collaborative effort of support from county organizations.

Please plan to attend this very important meeting!

Cowboy Dinner and Dance - Feb 21

2009-01-22T19:50:00.000-08:00

Cowboy Dinner and Dance – Honoring Rural Families and Rural Traditions

The Gila Livestock Growers Association and the newly-formed Americans for the Preservation of Western Environment are sponsoring a Cowboy Dinner and Dance (like the good ole days) at the Grant County Fairgrounds in Cliff, New Mexico on February 21st. Dinner at 6:00pm and the dance at 8:00pm.

Music provided by Joe Delk and Bucky Allred with The Delk Band featuring Mark Delk, Byron Delk and Roy Garcia from Las Cruces, Dee Ford from Alma and Ty Martin from Silver City.

The theme behind this event is to honor our rural families and the rural traditions that those families represent and are striving to preserve.

There was a time when Saturday-night dances were as common as watching TV is today. Friends and neighbors coming together to share a meal, visit with one another and enjoy an evening of dancing. Saturday-night dances were held regularly at Lake Valley, Mimbres, White Signal, Morgan Hall in Deming, Riverside Dance Hall, Cliff, Hachita, the American Legion Hall in Animas, the Lariat Café in Glenwood and the old school gym in Reserve.

We can certainly refer to those days as “the good ole days” and we want to show our younger generation what it was like and allow our older generation to remember the way it was.

There will be no admission charge for the Cowboy Dinner and Dance. All are welcome. However, this is a fundraising event and we ask you to contribute what you can. All monies raised in this effort will be utilized to help bring an end to the wolf reintroduction program. Please make checks payable to Gila Livestock Grower’s Association.

Our rural way-of-life is under assault by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) and extremist environmental groups like Center for Biological Diversity, WildEarth Guardians and the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance.

The FWS operates under federal law that requires it to work with local government to insure that their programs are not in violation of local laws or local custom and culture. Federal law requires the FWS to consult with, cooperate with and be consistent with the laws and rights of local government that represents the people. FWS is either not aware of these federal laws or they just plain don’t care and they run over local officials who may feel threatened or intimidated.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has bungled the wolf reintroduction program and the local people are paying the price. The Mexican Wolf Program has cost taxpayers over $300 Million since 1998. Isn’t it time to end this travesty on the rural people of New Mexico and Arizona? Add your voice to ours demanding the FWS get their federal wolves out of the Gila and put them in a zoo.

So, put your dancin’ boots on and come to the Cowboy Dinner and Dance in Cliff on February 21st. Bring your family and your appetite. We’ll have a great time – like the good ole days – and maybe raise a little money.

Joe Delk
(575) 644-3082

Legal Notice: Public Hearing, Economic Development Ordinance

2009-01-22T13:26:00.000-08:00

LEGAL NOTICE
PUBLIC HEARING

Notice is hereby given that on the 4th day of February, 2009 at 1:30 PM the Catron County Board of Commissioners will hold a public hearing to consider adopting an ordinance relating to the Economic Development Planning Ordinance 001-2008 adopted September 3, 2008.

The draft of "An Ordinance Adopting an Economic Development Project for Public Support of K&B Timberworks, Inc., A New Mexico Corporation" proposed ordinance number 001-2009 may be picked up for review at the Catron County Clerk's Office at 100 Main Street, Reserve, New Mexico or by contacting Bill Aymar, County Manager at (575) 533-6423.

Comments can be sent are to be submitted to Bill Aymar, County Manager, Catron County Commission Office, PO Box 507, Reserve New Mexico 87830. For more information contact Bill Aymar at (575) 533-6423 or by email at ccmanager@gilanet.com

s/s
Bill Aymar
County Manager

Silver City Daily Press
January 21, 2009

Mountain Mail
January 22, 2009

Bruce Thompson out!

2008-11-09T10:52:00.001-08:00

Good news for people who are in favor of honest and unbiased agency directors in New Mexico: Bruce Thompson has resigned.

According to AP, Governor Richardson announced that Tod Stevenson, who has been deputy director of NM Department of Game & Fish, will replace Thompson.

Thompson was busted for illegally killing a deer on private land and lost his hunting licence last month. No one listened to people in the Mexican wolf program area complaining about his high-handed measures and his ignoring the complaints, but when conservation officers - whoever they are - complained, Thompson got replaced.

Either way, it's good news for anyone affected by NM G&F.

Wolf attack article

2008-11-09T10:24:00.000-08:00

Don't let anyone tell you wolves don't attack humans. Here's an article about a wolf attack in Iran. Note that the wolves there are the same size or smaller than Mexican wolves. This means that if you are attacked by a lone Mexican wolf, you've got a good chance of survival by choking the thing to death.

Wolf slain by 87-year-old Iranian woman
PRESS TV, Iran - Nov 8, 2008
An elderly woman is in recovery after suffocating a wolf to death during an attack in a cemetery in the village of Kashan, central Iran. [more]

Election results (unofficial) for Catron County

2008-11-05T08:58:00.000-08:00

Full Catron County election results can be found at http://67.192.207.121/county28.htm

McCain/Palin 66.7&
Obama/Biden 31.1%

Pearce 63.4%
Udall 36.6%

Tinsley 62.9%
Teague 37.1%

Daniels 100%

Gros 58.5%
Morales 41.5%

Tripp 100%

Wellborn 100%

McKeen 100%

Armijo 100%

Merklein 100%

Estrada 100%

More County results

State results

Homestead Christmas in Pie Town

2008-10-22T11:11:00.000-07:00

Dec 12, Catron County Historical Society Chrismas Program and Dinner.

5 PM "Christmas During the Homestead Period" at DanCyn Homestead and Windmill Museum, Pie Town.

6 PM Buffet Dinner at Daily Pie Cafe in Pie Town, $12.

RSVP (575) 773-4152 or eskrivseth@gilanet.com no later than Dec. 4.

USFS Fuels Reduction Project Underway Near Mogollon

2008-09-23T08:11:00.000-07:00

(Glenwood, NM Seeptember 21, 2008) The Glenwood Ranger District of the Gila National Forest is resuming fuels reduction activities near Mogollon, NM, 14 miles northeast of Glenwood. Over the last two years, heavy vegetation was thinned on 40 acres of Forest Service land adjacent to Mogollon, along NM State Highway 159. The slash piles were strategically placed within the project area and are now ready for ignition. Fire managers will monitor fuel and weather conditions closely and will ignite piles as conditions allow. Personnel may be working on the project through December, based on the progress of the pile burning--that can occur only under specific conditions.

Smoke will be visible from US Highway 180 and the town of Mogollon, but is expected to dissipate during the day, especially if light winds are present.

The project will result in reduced vegetation around the community of Mogollon, which can lessen the risk of catastrophic fire. It will also enhance firefighting capability by creating a safer environment for tactical operations, in the event of a wildfire.

For more information about the project, please contact District Fire Management Officer, James Scola at (575) 539-2481 or visit the Gila National Forest website: www.fs.fed.us/r3/gila.

Catron County Water Coalition website

2008-09-21T14:27:00.000-07:00

The Catron County Water Coalition website has been updated. Hopefully this will make it easier and more enjoyable to get info about the water issues in Catron County.

www.catroncounty.net/water/

Fur & Feathers Animal Rescue Benefit

2008-09-19T10:39:00.000-07:00

Be sure to attend the Fur & Feather Animal Rescue Benefit BBQ/Auction/Bands. 2PM Saturday, 20 Sep in Jackson Park, Pie Town, NM.

GILA CLIFF DWELLINGS TO TEMPORARILY CLOSE FOR UNSAFE BRIDGE

2008-09-02T07:51:00.000-07:00

Written by Dan Hollifield, Chief of Interpretation
For Immediate Release 9/2/2008

Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument Superintendent Steve Riley announced today the emergency closing of the Cliff Dwellings to visitation. Overnight rains eroded a bridge on the only available rode to the National Park site, making access potentially unsafe.

Officials of the New Mexico Department of Transportation are to inspect the bridge on Tuesday September 2, 2008 to determine a course of action and repair plans. The Gila West Fork Bridge, one mile from the Cliff Dwellings, will likely not be reopened until the weekend after Labor Day, possibly around September 6 or 7, 2008 at the soonest.

The park’s Gila Visitor Center and museum remain open between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. daily.

For up to the moment information, call the Gila Visitor Center between 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at 575-536-9461.

URGENT - San Augustin Ranch LLC amended water app

2008-09-01T07:50:00.000-07:00

San Augustin Ranch LLC has submitted an amended original application, the final legal notice for which is coming soon. The amended application expands the "affected counties" to essentially all in the Rio Grande Basin and each well would be drilled 3000' (over half a mile!) deep (original application was for wells 2000' deep).

It is recommended that you file a protest letter for this amended application even if you filed one last December. Your letter needs to be in the OSE office no later than September 15. For more info go to www.catroncounty.net/water/

Please forward this email to anyone you know who has in interest in water rights, water conservation, and public welfare as regards our precious water resources in New Mexico, and PLEASE send a protest letter to OSE for this amended application. Thank you!

23rd Annual BARTER FAIRE

2008-08-30T09:44:00.000-07:00

23rd Annual Barter Faire, Luna NM

Friday evening through Sunday evening
September 19 - 21

Head Of The Ditch Campground, Luna NM

Bring garden produce, next year’s seeds, home-canned goods, baked goods, crafts, home items, anything you’re willing to trade.

Directions: Slightly more than 1 mile west of Luna, NM, just west of mile marker 6 on US 180. Look for Forest Service Campground sign.

Follow dirt road ¾ mile to open meadow. There are campground sites around the meadow and a USFS outhouse.

If you plan to camp for the weekend, prepare for cold nights, rain, hail, snow, sunshine - you name it! Bring food to share, music and your joyous self!

GILA CLIF DWELLINGS ANNOUNCES NEW HOURS

2008-08-29T08:47:00.000-07:00

Written by Dan Hollifield, Chief of Interpretation
US National Parks Service
For Immediate Release 8/29/2008

National Park Service Superintendent Steve Riley of the Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument, New Mexico, announced new park hours beginning Tuesday September 2, 2008.

After Labor Day weekend, the Cliff Dwellings will be open from 9:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. Visitors will be admitted on the trail and at the dwellings up to 4:00 p.m., and are asked to complete their visit by 5:00 p.m. A guided tour will be available every day at 12:00 noon. Visitors for the noon tour, which begins at the Cliff Dwellings, need to arrive at the trailhead by at least 11:30 a.m. to walk up the trail to the dwellings. The Cliff Dwellings are open each day of the year, and are not closed holidays.

Also beginning Tuesday September 2, 2008, the park’s Gila Visitor Center, museum, and bookstore will be open daily from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The Gila Visitor Center is closed Christmas Day (December 25, 2008) and New Year’s Day (December 31, 2008).

Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument was established in 1907 to conserve, and to allow visitation of, the ruins of stone structures built by early American Indians between the 1270s and the early 1300s. The natural caves have remarkably preserved the approximate 40 man-made rooms of the complex, which can be visited by today’s visitors more than seven hundred years later. This archaeological site is administered by the National Park Service.

For more information call the Gila Visitor Center, open daily from 8:00 am to 4:30 pm, at 575-536-9461

Legal Notice: Public Hearing, Economic Development Ordinance

2008-08-09T14:03:00.000-07:00

LEGAL NOTICE
PUBLIC HEARING

Notice is hereby given that on the 3rd day of September, 2008 at 1:30 PM the Catron County Board of Commissioners will hold a public hearing to consider adopting an Ordinance relating to Economic Development Planning.

The Economic Development Plan Ordinance draft is available for review at http://www.catroncitizens.org/econdev/.

Hard copies of the proposed draft Ordinance can also be picked up at the Catron County Clerks Office in the Catron County Courthouse, 100 Main Street, Reserve, New Mexico or by emailing econdev@catroncitizens.org.

Comments can be sent to Bill Aymar, County Manager, Catron County Commission Office, P. O. Box 507, Reserve, New Mexico 87830. For more information, contact Bill Aymar at (575) 533-6423 or by e-mail at ccmanager@gilanet.com.

/s/
Bill Aymar
County Manager

Silver City Daily Press
August 8, 2008

Mountain Mail
August 14, 2008

Fed up with Mexican wolves?

2008-07-05T08:49:00.000-07:00

Fed up with Mexican wolves? Be sure to attend the "Can't Take It Any More" meeting in Reserve NM on Wednesday July 9, 10 a.m. at the Reserve Community Center. If you can't take it any more, then get together with like-minded folks and stop taking it.

Contact Bill Aymar, Catron County Manager 575 533-6123 or ccmanager@gilanet.com