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What is the Monsoon?

By Mark Strobin, Meteorologist

The word monsoon is derived from

the Arabic word “mausim,” which means season. Traders plying the waters off the Arabian and Indian coasts noted for cen-turies that dry northeast winds in the winter suddenly turn to the southwest during the summer, and bring beneficial yet torrential rains to the Asian subconti-nent.

We now know that these large-scale wind shifts, from dry desert areas to moist tropical areas, occur in other parts of the Earth, including the Oceanic sub-continent, Southeast Asia, Australia, North America, Africa and South America.

These wind shifts are all more or less

See MONSOON, page 10

By Tamara Bicknell-Lombardi 2020 was a record year for animal

adoptions; now, as the nation is reopen-ing and many people are returning to work, animal shelters are filling back up, so much so that they can no longer accept owner-surrendered animals.

The East Mountains and Estancia Valley have a few animal shelters and most are at full-capacity currently.

Bernalillo County Animal Control operates a large facility with the capacity to hold approximately 800 animals is at full capacity.

Spokesperson Larry Gallegos said they are experiencing a high volume of dogs and cats coming into the shelter. He said they couldn't adopt animals fast during the pandemic and animal control was shut down.

Gallegos said they will be returning to regular business hours on July 1 when

By Sara Werth If Edgewood's town council fails to

meet a court-ordered July 5 deadline to pass an election resolution determining how voting in the November election will be conducted, that election will still go ahead as planned, said the Santa Fe County Clerk Katharine Clark.

According to Clark, if that deadline is missed, the Secretary of State’s office would still issue ballots for the election, which will include five commissioners and a municipal judge.

If no decision on a voting method is agreed upon and submitted to the Secretary of State, voting in that election would then default to at-large, said Clark. That means that voters would be able to cast votes for any candidates, regardless of where the voter lives.

Town clerk Juan Torres said in an

email to The Independent, “I cannot speak for what will happen with at large vs. districted voting,” adding that the Attorney General, Secretary of State or County Clerk would make a determina-tion “on how the vote will take place” if the governing body doesn't act on it.

If the town council decides that voting would be districted, then voters within a district would only vote on candidates within that district. Historically, Edgewood's voting for mayor and coun-cilors has been at large.

“The council did the most important thing already,” Clark said, and that was to agree upon and adopt a districting plan.

Clark will have until July 13 to “work out the positions to be filled” in that elec-tion with the Secretary of State, she said, and the SOS will have until Aug. 4 to issue the election proclamation.

What is yet to be determined, said

Clark, is if the resolution passed by the town and submitted to her office and the Secretary of State “counts as notifica-tion,” and what the resolution “is actually saying.”

“[Since] the Secretary of State is actually triggering the election,” said Clark, it’s ultimately up to that office to make any final determinations regarding the special election in November if the Edgewood Town Council misses its opportunity.

Clark said that on June 11 her office received a copy of the election resolution passed in November 2020 which formal-ized that Edgewood would adopt a com-missioner-manager form of government. The Secretary of State’s office was copied in on that correspondence.

If that resolution contained prefer-ences for voting style, it would have been submitted well in advance of the July 5

deadline for consideration by the Secretary of State. However, the very thing not included in that submitted res-olution was how the town would like to conduct that voting, be it at-large or dis-tricted, according to Clark.

Generally, once a council informs the Secretary of State of the town’s voting preferences, that office issues an election proclamation and parameters are then set, she said.

But with Edgewood's council evenly divided on whether to press on and make a determination, or wait for additional information from the Attorney General’s office, no decision on voting style has been made.

Mayor Pro Tem John Abrams has been vocal about wanting more informa-tion from the AG’s office in advance of a

Election happens even if deadline missed

See ELECTION, page 5

Animal shelters overflowing, fees waived

See ANIMAL SHELTERS, page 13

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Wild Things: Southwestern fence lizard (Sceloporus cowlesi)By James Taulman

This brownish-gray lizard has a

median gray stripe down the back and variable gray or tan bands on either side of the center line, often with dark blotches. Scales are keeled and overlap-ping, and males have two blue patches on the sides of the belly. It occurs in grassy plains to desert scrublands, rocky canyon lands to open forests throughout New Mexico, eastern Arizona, and western Texas.

This lizard will climb up on rocks, into trees, or up on fence posts to bask in the sun. During cold winter months they hibernate. Fence lizards typically sit and wait for prey to come close enough to be captured. The diet is varied, including many kinds of insects, spiders, snails, and even other small lizards. Up to four clutches of eggs may be laid during the late spring and summer, containing up to 10 eggs. Young hatch throughout the summer months. These lizards are preyed upon by snakes, hawks, roadrunners, shrikes, and other lizards. The southwest-ern fence lizard is common in its range and the population is not threatened.

Photo by James Taulman, at Oak Flat

recreation area, Cibola National Forest, Tijeras, NM. Nikon P900 camera.

James Taulman is a semi-retired research wildlife biologist, having worked with the U.S. Forest Service research branch and taught zoology, ecology, and other courses in several university posi-tions. He lives in the East Mountains, and explores natural areas observing native wildlife and conducting independent research projects. Search for James Taulman on YouTube to see wildlife videos.

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By Sara Werth Historic Route 66 has seen countless

legendary motels and motor lodges over the decades. While some of those land-marks, like the Aztec Motel in Nob Hill in Albuquerque, were eventually demol-ished, others, like the Blue Swallow Motel in Tucumcari, have been restored through a succession of owners to mod-ern replicas of their vintage counterparts.

Only one Route 66 motel has remained in operation since 1959, is run by the same family who built it, and has maintained its inceptive aesthetic: the Sunset Motel in Moriarty.

According to owners Mike and Debbie Pogue, the motel has successfully kept most of its first furnishings. “You’re sit-ting on original furniture; the paneling is original,” Debbie Pogue said. “Almost everything in the motel is except for the refrigerator cases. The lamps are origi-nal. We only have two chairs in all the rooms that are not original.”

Televisions, refrigerators, and air con-ditioning have been added since the motel’s 1969 completion, but the Sunset Motel looks much like it has in several motion pictures. Hollywood productions like “Hell or High Water” and “The Dry Land,” and the not-yet released “Land of Dreams,” have been shot there.

The day The Independent visited the motel, another movie, “End of the Road,” starring Queen Latifah, Ludacris, and Beau Bridges, was being filmed.

The motel is unmistakably identifiable to Mike Pogue, who, as son of the initial owners and builders, did much of the building himself.

Once, during a visit to Amsterdam years ago, Pogue visited a movie theater. During the previews, he spotted some-thing familiar. “I looked up and realized ‘That’s my hotel!’ It was a quick scene from a movie that was coming up, and they filmed it in the bathroom of the Sunset Motel. Isn’t that amazing?”

He has no recollection of the name of that movie, nor did he grant permission for it to be shot as his motel, he said. “There have been many little films made in these rooms that we didn’t even know about,” his wife agreed.

After successfully running the Yucca Motor Court in Moriarty for years, Bill and Elaine Pogue, Mike’s parents, began building the Sunset Motel in the 1950s while raising their two young sons there.

When the Sunset opened in 1959,

there were two rooms for rent. By 1969, several more rooms had been added, and more were planned in order to complete the horseshoe-shaped design common to roadway lodges of the time. But before that final construction addition could begin, Bill Pogue died in 1972.

Elaine Pogue listed the motel for sale, but for three years, there were no takers. “We didn’t get a single ask,” said Mike Pogue. He said a local banker told him that he had an obligation to help his mother, who was running the motel all by herself. “So I said, ‘Fine, loan me the money and I’ll buy it,’” which he did in 1975, entrusting a manager to run it.

After time spent on Wall Street in New York, and in Silicon Valley in California, Mike and wife Debbie returned to Moriarty to raise their own family. In a very cute turn of events, theirs wasn’t the only notable family to pop up on the block.

Next door to the Sunset Motel is the Whiting Bros. Gas Station, which also dates back to the ‘50s and holds historical significance for Moriarty.

Naturally, the sign was in need of repair and restoration. Debbie Pogue decided to write a proposal to the National Parks Service to request per-mission to source funding to do the proj-ect, as the station’s Old Route 66 location made it a contender for National Trail designation. Permission was given, and a sign company was contracted and techni-

cians were dispatched to the location. Only then was it discovered that a family of barn owls had set up home within the dilapidated sign.

The sign company backed away, refusing to continue the project.

“So hey, rock-and-roll,” said Mike. “I’m a network engineer. So I went up and put in an infrared camera, and did a microwave shoot over [to the motel] that’d bump it up on the internet, onto a website... so you could sit there and watch the owl family. You could see the mom and dad headed down to go find mice and bring, like, 30 mice a night back to the babies.”

This website was such a hit, said Debbie, that “there were people from all over who came to see.”

A group of students from Europe showed up to take pictures. They told Mike that they’d been studying the owls in class back in Germany using the web-site he created.

Once those owlets fledged, said Debbie, parties reconvened to get back to the sign restoration when it was discov-ered that, in an unusual turn of events, the female owl had laid a second set of eggs, and the project had to be called off yet again.

“I had to write for another extension [on the grant],” said Debbie. “It was one of the longest grants [the NPS] had ever done.”

After all was said and done, hundreds

of owl enthusiasts had visited Moriarty and the Sunset Motel, and over 350 people had contributed to the restoration of the Whiting Bros. sign, said Debbie.

When asked about plans for any future changes to the motel, Debbie said emphatically “No. If we did, people would just go crazy!” Regarding plans for the couple, “[We’re] really trying to figure out what retirement or semi-retirement looks like,” said Debbie Pogue. “And keeping the motel at the same standards. And not losing our clientele.”

“Amazing people stay here,” Mike Pogue said. “My brother and I, when we were young, would get home from school and watch TV on the couch, and my dad would come in and say ‘Go sweep the sidewalks.’ We didn’t have air condition-ing, so... we had chairs out in front of the rooms. And my dad was saying to us, ‘The world is right outside the door. Go meet them.’ Right?”

He went on to say that the couple, who also own a home in Albuquerque, do have plans for the motel, even if they do not plan to change the look at all.

“We’re going to come out here and have time to do things, to develop this, maybe do weddings here, promote the area architecturally…” At this, she chuck-led and shook her head. “The last thing I wanna deal with is Bridezilla.”

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decision by the council. When The Independent reached out to the AG’s office inquiring about the consequences of not meeting that deadline, the follow-

ing response was received from Matt Baca of the Attorney General's office: “The consequences of failing to comply with the Court's order would be better addressed directly by the [Edgewood town] Council or its attorneys. Here is the AG's comment on the Matter: Our

office, the Secretary of State, and the courts have all given sufficient guidance to the Town council to take the next steps in carrying out the will of the voters; and I am highly concerned that they have not appointed a fifth voting member in order to take necessary gov-

erning steps to do so.” In March, Abrams brought forward

three names for consideration by the town council, which could not agree on any, deadlocking on all three votes.

Abrams did not respond to requests for comment for this story.

ELECTION Continued from Page 1

By Tamara Bicknell-Lombardi After a year of canceled events and

quarantining, Independence Day events around the East Mountains and Estancia Valley are back on track for the most part.

Nearly 90% of New Mexico is experi-encing at least severe drought conditions, with significant portions of the state in extreme or exceptional drought, accord-ing to the U.S. Drought Monitor.

All known fire restrictions are posted at nmfireinfo.com. The State Forestry Division recommends checking with local fire departments, municipalities, or governing agencies to see if there are fire restrictions in place at any time.

Mountainair On July 2, Mountainair will kick off its

annual Jubilee with a block party on Main Street starting at 8 p.m., when Al Hurricane Jr. will be performing his first post-Covid in-person concert. Food ven-dors will be onsite, as well as Kilt Check Brewing with three different brews for people to try. The block party is free.

On July 3, the Ray Clark Memorial

Parade will start at 10 a.m. Line-up for participants starts at 9 a.m. on Limit Avenue. During the parade, a “Wet Zone” will be available behind the highway bar-ricade at the elementary school for vis-itors to get soaked by the Mountainair Fire Department.

At the Chavez Memorial Park starting at 11 a.m. there will be jumpers, food ven-dors, a root beer chugging contest, a mud volley ball tournament, a flaming hot eat-ing competition, live music, a visit from the new Congresswoman, and Fear Factor games.

From 11 a.m. to 3 pm. there will be a car show in the parking lot of the Salinas National Monument office. The theme is honoring the history of the transporta-tion used over time to visit Salinas. Cars attending vary from classic to modern and everything in between. The car show is free for spectators but there is an entry fee to enter a car into the show. For more information about entering call 505-847-2585. There will be local prizes donated by local businesses as well as cash prizes.

Moriarty On July 3, there will be a block party at

Buttercrust Pizza starting at 10 a.m. and going on “until they shut us down,” according to a social media post from the business. There will be live music, cars, vendors, food and drinks available.

On July 3 the Moriarty Lion's Club will be hosting its annual Pancake

Breakfast at the Lion's Club from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. It's an all-you-can-eat break-fast. There will also be a parade starting at 9 a.m., with lineup for participants is at 7:30 a.m. behind Tillery Chevrolet in Moriarty. There will be no fireworks dis-play because of the drought.

Edgewood On July 3, Founder's Ranch is having

a celebration from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. They will host a three-way shootout competi-tion between Public Safety Officers, Cowboys, and Outlaws.

Public Safety Officers from various departments including law enforcement and the fire department will shoot against single action shooters (Cowboys) or against anyone (Outlaws). They will be competing for fastest shot at a target paying homage to the Old West style shoot outs. In addition, they will be

offering breakfast and lunch. There will also be a flag ceremony, Civil War re-enactments, a gun fighter show at the end of the day, a water balloon fight with officers and a slip-and-slide with the Torrance County Fire Department. Founder's Ranch will also be open for business on July 4 until noon.

Estancia On July 3 at Arthur Park there will be

an Independence Day celebration from noon to dusk. There will be live music performed by Paul Pino and Tone Daddys from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. and from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. DJ Melanie Gallegos will provide music. Food will be available for sale provided by the American Legion Post 22. The Estancia Rotary Club will be hosting a horseshoe tournament from 12-1 p.m. There will also be vendors. A fireworks display will start at dusk.

Fire danger & what’s going on for Independence Day in the tricounty area

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By Jo White I lead on this tale with the plea to the

residents in my neighborhood to please, PLEASE, don’t set off random fireworks this Fourth of July. I love my home and I don’t want to lose it. However, I feel very patriotic any time the Fourth comes around, and I understand you wanting to shoot the moon with fireworks. The signers of the Declaration of Independence gave their all when they signed this remarkable document. It cost them their wealth, the lives of their friends and sometimes their own. The words America and Freedom are synonymous all over the world.

Since I am a history teacher, let’s talk history. When the new nation celebrated as the war ended, the men stepped in style. They wore short pants to the knees,

socks up to the knee and a long coat, with those famous tri-cornered hats. Women wore long dresses with corsets pulled so tight that when they ate or drank, they passed out. OK, I made that up, but women wore lots of petticoats and frilly bonnets to cover their heads. They ate dinner at what we call lunch and it started with turtle soup, then, poached salmon with peas and new potatoes. They drank cider and port. The children did not cele-brate with adults; they sat away and had lots of bread and milk. President Thomas Jefferson was the first to hold a party for Independence Day in the White House; his nemesis, President Adams had 13 ships on the river in D.C. fire their can-nons 13 times after the 13 new colonies. Both men died on the same 4th of July.

One hundred years later, in 1876, they still held parades, speeches, picnics and fireworks but, it was a little different from today. The men wore long pants, not Levis, long sleeve shirts, vests and slightly shorter coats. They wore hats, sometimes made from beaver, some-times out West it was Stetsons and hand-

made boots. Women had gotten rid of the hoops and petticoats. They still had bustles, long skirts, puffed sleeves and a large hat that covered the face from the sun. Women’s clothes were very dec-orated with heavy flower designs. They wore gloves everywhere. For a meal, the Americans of that era ate what they raised and hunted. More beef was eaten up north, and more venison down south. You ate what was in season all over the U.S. To go on a picnic, you would take cold roast beef, rack of lamb, roast duck, or on the east coast, lobsters and stewed fruit in glass jars eaten over biscuits. Lots of breads and butter or cheese sand-wiches were common. The end of the feast was turnovers, cakes and fresh fruit for dessert. Adults drank wine, kids drank milk. No one carried water in a bottle, you drank from a stream. (Don’t get me started on dysentery.) Real cloth napkins with wooden plates were used.

Fast track to the present: We like our cookouts. Burgers, hot dogs, potato salad, chili dogs, baked beans, Jell-O, chips and guacamole, and buffalo wings. All desserts

are dyed red, white and blue, of course. Oh, that reminds me of when my

patriotism almost killed my family. I am 74, so no one could blame or sue me now. When I was 12 I made a yellow cake. I had enough powdered sugar to make white frosting, but no red and blue food coloring. So... so… I found a way. I took blue ink from my Dad’s fountain pen, red iodine from the bathroom and folded it into some of the white frosting. I made an American flag, and it looked beautiful. Mom was just about to cut it for the family and neighbors when she asked me, “Jo, where did you find the food col-oring? I thought we were out?”

“Oh, don’t worry,” said I, smoothly. “Dad won’t care.” Well, Mom did care, and it went on from there, and the red iodine which might have been fatal was forever beaten into my butt when she emphasized it was medicine and I was an idiot child. They scraped off the frosting and we ate the cake. Why couldn’t I be remembered as the creative cook? I don’t decorate any more. Roaring Mouse mak-ing only Jell-O, over and out.

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Independence Day: An American holiday, past, present, and future

By Darrell Allen

Christopher Columbus bumped into North America in 1492, an accident of history. The path to Asia sailing east was well known to Europeans back then, but Chris was looking for a path to Asia by sailing west. His bumping into the land mass that would become Canada, Mexico, and the United States started the first great wave of European colonization of the New World. I am personally grate-ful for this wave of colonization, but I am also aware that the native North Americans who happened to be in the way were treated with casual indiffer-ence, at best.

My family’s ancestors came to North America in the 1690s. European mutts is

the best way to describe us now; a mix of Britain, Germany, France, Nordic coun-tries, and touches of Africa and eastern Europe. Why my ancestors came here I cannot know for sure, but I am pretty darn sure they came to seek a better life than what was available in Europe in the 1690s.

Try to imagine such a mindset. You are a peasant, commoner, or laborer on the outskirts of Stockholm, or London, or Amsterdam. You have no money, no land, and no connections. You decide it is better to put yourself and your family on a tiny wooden boat, powered by nothing more than the wind, onto a course to the New World, because there you at least have a chance to do better when you get there.

This is risk-taking and optimism, writ large. This is what it means to grab onto hope, and to pursue the right of happi-ness. This is what it means to be an American.

This pattern of immigration to our shores kept going. For the whole of the 19th century and the first two decades of the 20th, open-borders immigration was

the rule. Ellis Island accepted millions of mostly European immigrants, with few questions asked, and the questions that were asked were health-related. These folks were also commoners and laborers, folks of dim prospects. Riff-raff, as it were. But not here. This was the era when America accepted, even invited, the “poor huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”

Open borders is no longer a viable pol-icy, and let me make it abundantly clear, this liberal does not support an open bor-ders policy. What this liberal does sup-port is a rational, evidence-based immigration system based on current needs and circumstances. Maybe a guest worker program to make sure our crops are picked on time, and a tech-worker program to make sure America gets the pick of the litter for Silicon Valley. This stuff is hard, and I have no ready answers. But there has been no meaning-ful immigration reform on a national level since President Reagan granted amnesty to 3 million undocumented ille-gal immigrants in 1986. Maybe the

Congress-critters now making noise in DC can be persuaded to do their job and, you know, legislate?

The pattern of immigration to America continues to this day, whether Congress does its job or not. The poor huddled masses in Honduras, Guatemala, or wherever still yearn to breathe free. And their yearning breaths make them look to, and walk toward, America. They ain’t walking to China, or Russia, or anywhere else. They are com-ing to America to have a shot at a better life. The ancestors of every man, woman, and child now living in America who is not native to North America did the exact same thing. We immigrants and immi-grant descendants have no birthright here, what we have is a generous gift to be judiciously shared and widely cele-brated.

Darrell M. Allen is a retired employ-

ment and criminal defense attorney. He lives with two nice Republican ladies north of I-40, where they run two head each of dog and cat.

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By Felecia Pohl

Century Wire Products, a global

supplier of stainless-steel lashing wire, is expanding, and making its

new production plant in Moriarty. Myra Pancrazio, executive direc-

tor of the Estancia Valley Economic Development Association, or EVEDA, said Century Wire looked at

many properties before deciding on the on in Moriarty. She said owner Philip Gaudette wanted a new build-ing right off Interstate 40, and the property they chose had everything

the company needed. Gaudette said he ended up in New

Mexico after leaving the Air Force, so

By Leota Harriman

With unofficial results from the

Santa Fe County Clerk of the special election in Edgewood, voters opted for

the commission-manager form of gov-ernment by a 2-to-1 margin.

With 1,505 total votes counted, 1,043 voted in favor of the question, “Shall the Town of Edgewood be organ-

ized under the commission-manager form of government and providing for the election of five commissioners?”, while 462 people voted against the question.

The special election was the result of a petition by CORE, or Citizens for an Open and Responsible Edgewood.

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From left, EVEDA’s Dave Tixier, Century Wire Products owner Philip Gaudette, Moriarty Mayor Ted Hart, and EVEDA’s executive director Myra Pancrazio.

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8 • July 2-8, 2021 Online at edgewood.newsINDEPENDENT SPORTS

By Ger Demarest One of Moriarty High School’s track

competitors earned a medal early in the day, and the boys’ 4x400 team captured one just before the end of competition at the Class 4A state track and field cham-pionships, June 25 at the University of New Mexico track and soccer complex in Albuquerque.

Rising senior Nicole Wells, ping-ponging between separate events that she was competing in, placed third in the triple jump. It was her first-ever medal in track. The four points Wells earned for her third-place finish accounted for all of Moriarty’s girls’ team’s total points.

“I didn’t think I was gonna place, I had a lot of nerves coming in cuz there’s a lot of girls ahead of me, but I just trusted [coach] Allcorn and I was happy that I jumped that far,” Wells said.

Wells also competed in the long jump and the high jump competitions.

With the high jump going on at the same time as the triple jump, Wells had to take her turn in one event and then hustle over to the other and jump again.

“At first it was a little tiring because I was going back and forth, but truly it was exciting to be able to go do high jump and then come back and do triple jump,” Wells said.

Wells didn’t place in either the long jump or the high jump events, but she elevated her game in the triple jump, notched a personal record for the season and took home the bronze medal. “It’s super-cool, it’s exciting,” Wells said.

Moriarty graduated senior Justin Carmona got to climb the podium for the first time after finishing sixth in the boys triple jump.

“It feels cool, seeing like the crowd in front of you, it’s a new experience, it’s nice, it’s exciting,” Carmona said.

Moriarty’s boys’ 1,600-meter sprint-medley relay team had the lead in the third lap before getting passed by a few runners in the final lap but still ended up with a podium-worthy fourth-place fin-ish.

“I know, and I let it go at the end,” Henry Schuett, who anchored the final leg of the race, said about giving up the lead.

Moriarty’s boys’ 4x200 team finished fifth. Moriarty’s girls’ relay teams didn’t place in their respective races—though some of them came in seventh, just mis-sing a podium finish. But a couple of

them clocked record times. And in the final relay race, the boys’

4x400 team of Schuett, Antonio Muñoz, David Vaquera, and Jaden Astorga-Bohanon grabbed Moriarty’s highest medal of the day.

Schuett ran the first leg before handing off the baton to Muñoz for the second leg. The team was pacing in sec-ond place during Vaquera’s leg when he passed the baton to Astorga-Bohanon for the anchor leg.

Astorga-Bohanon fell to third place halfway around the track but then he moved to the outside lane at the final turn, kicked it into gear for the last 100 meters and powered the team to a sec-ond-place finish and the silver medal.

“Man, my leg stared hurting so I start-ed trotting, and then at the end, right at the start of 100 is when I started giving it my all,” Astorga-Bohanon said. “I had to man, either that or we get third.”

Head track and field coach Peter Romero said he was pleased with Moriarty’s overall results.

“Nicole’s triple jump was good, it was nice to see Justin Carmona get on the podium, the girls’ four-by-one and four-by-two didn’t podium but they did run their best times of the year, the boys’ medley ended up on the podium, the boys’ four-by-two was seeded twelfth and came in fifth so that was awesome, and then we rounded everything up with the four-by-four getting state runner-up, so, not bad at all,” Romero said, adding, “All in all, considering the year that we had—it was good to see.”

‘Good to see’ Moriarty’s strong performances at 4A state track meet

Above, Moriarty’s Henry Schuett taking the baton from Jaden Astorga-Bohanon during the final leg of the boys 1,600m sprint-medley relay, at the Class 4A high school state track and field championships June 25. Below, Nicole Wells won the bronze medal in the girls triple jump. Photos by Ger Demarest.

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By Ger Demarest East Mountain Little League’s first

All-Stars team in two years played well enough to win two games in the New Mexico District 5 All-Stars Tournament that started June 25 at Roadrunner Little League in Albuquerque.

But East Mountain surrendered one big inning in each of its two losses that ultimately led to elimination from the tournament.

“Yeah, one bad inning, it’s hard to stop it,” East Mountain’s head coach Jay Pierce said after the team got knocked out of the tournament by Altamont Little League’s All-Stars.

The double-elimination tournament was District 5’s first since 2019. There was no All-Stars tournament last year due to Covid-19.

Pierce’s All-Stars team consisted of 10- to 12-year-old players who played in East Mountain Little League’s Majors Division this season.

The winner of the 10- to 12-year-old district tournament advances to the state tournament, and the state winner advances to the Southwest Regional Tournament in Waco, Texas. The Southwest Regional winner advances to Williamsport, Pennsylvania—the home of the Little League World Series Tournament.

East Mountain’s team went 2-2 in the D-5 tournament, winning its first and third games but dropping its second and fourth games.

In the June 25 opener against the Thunderbird Little League All-Stars, East Mountain had two big innings of its own that led to a whopping 22-1 blowout.

Doubles by Ryan Moorhead, Liam Pierce and Bosten Richards highlighted East Mountain’s nine-run second inning.

The team erupted for 13 more runs in the top of the fifth inning. The game ended after the bottom of the fifth on the 10-run mercy rule.

“Everything went right,” Pierce said. “We got on a roll, our hitters were aggres-sive, and Thunderbird’s demeanor, you could tell that they were down, they kind of gave up.”

The next day, East Mountain went

toe-to-toe with Zia Little League through the first four and a half innings. After Moorhead, Liam Pierce and Micah Kamplain each scored in the top of the fifth inning, East Mountain held a 5-4 lead. But Zia exploded for 11 runs in the bottom of the frame and won 15-5 on the mercy rule.

“That one big inning killed us,” Pierce said. “All of a sudden, it was just an ava-

lanche when they came to bat, we just could not get an out and that was it.”

The loss bumped East Mountain to the consolation side of the bracket where the team beat Lobo Little League 11-8. East Mountain scored two runs in the first inning, four in the second, one in the third, and four in the fifth.

“We hit the ball well, our starting pitcher, Liam Pierce, threw four-plus innings and we held them down, so I think that was the kicker,” coach Pierce said. “We got a lead and just kinda built on it.”

Then came the June 29 showdown against Altamont.

Kamplain and Liam Pierce scored in the bottom of the first inning to give East Mountain an early 2-0 lead.

But in the top of the second, four walks and three East Mountain errors helped Altamont plate six runs.

“We had one bad inning, again,” coach Pierce said. East Mountain got runners aboard in the second, third and fifth innings but stranded them on base. Altamont added two more runs in the fourth.

East Mountain’s last chance came in the bottom of the sixth when Owen Darnell hit a one-out double and advanced to third base on a wild pitch. Wesley Francis kept the inning alive when he drew a two-out walk. Clinton Moya sliced a fly ball to right field that looked like it had a chance to drive in Darnell. But Altamont’s right fielder made a diving catch to end the game and win 8-2.

“We had runners in scoring position at the end of the game and their right fielder makes possibly the best catch of his life,” Pierce said after the loss, adding, “It was-n’t for lack of effort, we just got beat, we didn’t do the things we needed to do.”

Opponents’ ‘big inning’ derails East Mountain Little League All-Stars

East Mountain's Scott Batie pitching against Zia in the District 5 All-Stars Tourna-ment at Roadrunner Little League in Albuquerque, June 26


By Mark Strobin, Meteorologist Showers and thunderstorms

are likely Friday as a weak back-door cold front moves into the East Mountains and becomes the focus for convection.

High pressure over the Arizona-Utah border will strengthen slightly, bringing warmer temperatures for Independence Day.

However, with plenty of mon-soon moisture in place expect a good chance of afternoon and evening showers and thunder-storms Saturday and Independence Day.

For Edgewood, Moriarty and the Estancia Valley, showers and thunderstorms are likely on Friday. High temperatures will be around 80 degrees with over-night low temperatures Friday night around 60 degrees.

There will be a chance of after-noon and evening showers and thunderstorms Saturday and Independence Day. Highs on Saturday will be around 80 degrees with overnight low tem-peratures Saturday night around 60 degrees. High temperatures on Independence Day will be in the upper 80s.

For Cedar Crest, Tijeras and Sedillo areas, showers and thun-derstorms are likely on Friday. High temperatures will be around

80 degrees with overnight low temperatures Friday night in the middle to upper 50s. There will be a chance of afternoon and evening showers and thunder-storms Saturday and

Independence Day. Highs on Saturday will be around 80 degrees with overnight low tem-peratures Saturday night around 60 degrees. High temperatures on Independence Day will be in

the middle upper 80s. Stay safe this holiday weekend! For the latest information

please see NWS Albuquerque at weather.gov/abq.

July 4th weekend: Good chance of showers through the holiday

driven by a similar mechanism. For much of the year, low-level winds tend to blow from the land toward the sea. However, by late spring, strong solar heating causes temperatures to soar over these land areas. The intense heat causes surface air pressure to fall, forming an area of low pressure known as a thermal low.

Adjacent large bodies of water are also warmed, but not as quickly. Thus, air pressures remain high relative to the land. Eventually, the pressure difference increases to the point that the cooler and much more humid air over the ocean is drawn toward the hot, dry air over land.

In the East Mountains, the moisture comes from the Gulf of Mexico or the

subtropical Pacific. This moist air moving onto the hot land eventually becomes unstable and develops into thunder-storms. Once this occurs and rain begins to fall, humidity levels increase over land, which only triggers more thunderstorms.

This cycle will continue until land areas begin to cool in the early fall and water temperatures reach their peak in early fall. This reduces the pressure dif-ference, which in turn causes the moist onshore flow to diminish, and the mon-soon gradually ends. The North American Monsoon season starts on June 15 and ends September 30.

Monsoon patterns also share a similar upper level flow characteristic. As surface low pressure forms over hot land areas, air in the upper levels of the atmosphere also sinks and warms. The sinking air aloft forms high pressure at jet stream

level and causes upper level winds to weaken.

The jet stream, which blows from west to east around the globe, is forced toward the poles as the upper level high expands. As the upper high migrates north, upper level winds over a monsoon region turn around to the east. These easterly winds aloft import considerable moisture off the Gulf of Mexico.

When combined with the low-level moisture, a favorable environment for thunderstorm development is created. As rain begins to fall, humidity levels increase over land, triggering more thun-derstorms. This cycle continues until land areas cool in early fall and ocean water temperatures reach their peak. This reduces the pressure difference and the moist onshore flow, which in turn ends the monsoon.

Monsoons typically occur in areas with a large, elevated landmass (i.e., the East Mountains) which further enhances temperature and pressure contrasts between land and ocean, enhances mois-ture transport, and supports stronger subtropical highs.

All of these, in turn, enhance rainfall in monsoon regions like the East Mountains. Rainfall during the monsoon is not continuous. It varies considerably, depending on a variety of factors. There are usually distinct “burst” periods of heavy rain during the monsoon, and “break” periods with little or no rain.

Monsoon precipitation, however, accounts for a substantial portion of annual precipitation in northwest Mexico and the Southwest U.S. Most of these areas receive over half their annual precipitation from the monsoon.

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Shirley Irene Smith-Pattin Shirley Irene Smith-Pattin, 78, a long-

time resident of Edgewood, passed away June 23 in Edgewood. She was born Feb. 22, 1943 in Fort Worth, Texas to B.J. and Rena Ewing. Shirley was preceded in death by her parents and her husband, Floyd August Smith. Shirley is survived by one daughter Lynette Hayes and her husband Kevin of Edgewood. Cremation has taken place and memorial services will be held at a later date. Funeral arrangements were entrusted to the Harris-Hanlon Mortuary in Moriarty.

Mary Frances Royal Mary Frances Royal, 80, of Azle,

Texas, passed away June 22, in Weatherford, Texas. Mary Frances’s remains will be laid to rest with her hus-band in Santa Fe National Cemetery in Santa Fe, at a later date. In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to a charity of your choice in memory of Mary Frances. Mary Frances was born in Albuquerque, on Oct. 25, 1940. Mary Frances loved to garden, sew and make Rosaries. She was an active member of the Holy Trinity Catholic Church. She was preceded in death by her parents, Donacino and Consuelo (Martinez) Pedroncelli; hus-band, Ronald Royal; and brother, Robert Pedroncelli. She is survived by her brothers, Jenaro (and Louella) Pedroncelli of Albuquerque, and Clifford (and Viki) Pedroncelli of Corrales; sister, Gerri (and Nick) Mora of Albuquerque; children, Carol Ann (and Kevin) Austin of McIntosh, Manolito Royal of Moriarty, Edna (and Les) Towry of Washington D.C. and Judy (and Terry) Henson of Azle, Texas; grandchildren, Carl (and Roberta) Austin, Sam Austin, Monica Austin of McIntosh, Ean Royal of

Phoenix, Arizona, Sean (and Taccara) Towry of Lawton, Oklahoma, Keegan (and Gabriel) Hitchcock of Townville, South Carolina, Micaela Towry of Seneca, South Carolina, Kasey (and Casey) Beggs, of Azle, Texas, Tyler Henson, of Dallas, Texas, Wesley Henson, of Azle, Texas, and Alisha Henson, of Azle, Texas; and great-grandchildren Robert, Wesley Cole, Alec, Brinlyn, Emmett James, Genevieve, Jeremiah, Zacheria, and Josiah.

Minnie L. Anderson Minnie L. Anderson (Lewis) was born

March 30, 1931 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi to Moses and Ava Lewis. She was one of 11 children, all born and raised in Mississippi. The family moved to Albuquerque in 1947. In 1967, Minnie and her two children moved to Edgewood, where she enjoyed living her life. Minnie was preceded in death by her parents, Moses and Ava Lewis; seven brothers, William, Ross, Rolf, Albert, James, Charles, and Huey Lewis; and one sister, Onealure Carroll. Minnie is survived by one sister, Mary Bassett of Edgewood, and one brother, Murray Lewis of Pena Blanca. She is survived by her children, William Paul Anderson (and Jacque) of Bernalillo; Lucretia Bittner (and Paul) of Edgewood; five grandchildren, Shawn Anderson (and Jessica) of Des Moines, Washington, Shana Anderson, (and Wes Odel) of Edgewood, Sarah Bittner (and fiancé, Andy Weyrich) of Goodyear, Arizona, Julia Castle (and Zakk) of Moriarty, and Jacob Bittner of Edgewood; three great-grandchildren, Greyson Castle, Aidyn Anderson and Rainier Anderson; as well as many nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews. Minnie was a loving daughter, sister, mother, aunt and friend. She had a wonderful sense of humor, enjoyed sewing and cooking, and drink-ing coffee. Cardboard, duct tape and super glue were her go-to tools. If those three things couldn’t fix it, nothing could. She was well known for her buttermilk biscuits and cornbread dressing. She will be remembered for her worrying skills, her requirement that loved one called her when they got home, and most impor-

tantly, her faith in God. A memorial serv-ice will be held July 5 at 11 a.m. at French Mortuary on Lomas in Albuquerque.

Russell Kennedy

Russell Kennedy joined his beloved daughter, our sister Tina Raby, in final rest on June 5. He is survived by two chil-dren, Annette Kennedy of Louisiana, and Wade Kennedy of Moriarty, three grand-children, and six great-grandchildren. Russell was loved by many. He sends a final farewell to his friends, his Local 412 Family, and to his best friend Dan. RIP Daddy. We deeply miss you and look for-ward to the day when we will be reunited.

Robert Russell Phillips Robert Russell Phillips, 73, a resident

of Moriarty, passed away June 21 in Moriarty. He was born Dec. 17, 1947 to Allen E. and Emily (Morgan) Phillips in Brawley, California. Robert was preceded in death by his parents. Robert married Anna Maria Sanchez on April 1, 1978 in California; she survives him of their home in Moriarty. Other survivors include two sons, Raymond Phillips and his wife Darla, of McIntosh, and Joseph Phillips of Buckeye, Arizona; one daugh-ter, Ella A. Phillips of Moriarty; one adopted daughter, Amber Friend and her husband Cody of Prather, California; one sister, Joyce Pluard; and seven grand-children, Coy, Raylan, Hadley, Ryan, Logan, Wyatt, and Chelsie. Cremation has taken place and memorial services will be held at a later date.

Jennie Lee Frohn Jennie Lee Frohn, age 89, of

Edgewood, passed away June 23, in Houghton, Michigan. She was born Juana Librada Romero on May 3, 1932,

in Aguilar, Colorado, daughter and sev-enth child of the late Frank and Julianita Romero. Jennie lived in Colorado until she met, and 30 days later married, the man of her dreams, Lloyd Frohn in 1950. Jennie was preceded in death by her hus-band of 48 years; son, Robert and daugh-ter, Virginia. Mom was wonderfully devoted to her five children, Virginia (and husband Rick), Thomas (and wife Nancy), Robert, Cynthia (and husband Craig), and James (and fiancé Barbara). She is also survived by three children, six grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren, and older brother, Don Romero. She was a loving grandmother to Thomas, Kirsta, Dustin, Nina, Crystal and Cody. Mom was overjoyed to welcome 11 great-grandchildren during her life. Mom always wanted to travel and felt thankful life allowed her to see much of Europe and the United States. Even with her travels, she loved nothing more than see-ing her Rocky Mountains welcome her home. Mom was a sweet, gentle spirit who never wanted to ‘be a bother.’ Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m., July 2 at Moriarty Church of Christ, with John Booth officiating. Pallbearers will be James Frohn, Craig Sadberry, Dustin Sadberry, Cody Frohn, Danny Stone, Jeff Stone and Boe Davis.

Socorro P. Hernandez Socorro P. Hernandez, 88, of Moriarty

passed away on June 2 in Knoxville, Tennessee. He was born June 9,1932 in Esperanza, Texas, the son of the late Juan Hernandez and Maria (Pacheco) Hernandez. Socorro was preceded in death by his first wife, Dolores (and Sanchez) Hernandez. He is survived by his former wife, JoAnn Hernandez, his children, Elia (and Tom) Key, Elisha (and Michael) Baca, Marty (and Janet) Hernandez, Cristina (and Ken) Keller, Cindy (and Dan) Heim, James (and Teresa) Hearn, Wayne Hearn and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The family would like to add a special thank you to Eileen Wilhelm for her deep friendship and loving care. A private family burial will be held at South Park Cemetery in Roswell, Sept. 10 at 11 a.m.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BY THE TOWN OF EDGEWOOD COUNCIL ON A PROPOSAL FOR THE ISSUANCE OF THE PUBLIC FINANCE AU-THORITY EDUCA-TIONAL FACILITY REVENUE REFUNDING BONDS (ESTANCIA VAL-LEY CLASSICAL ACADEMY PROJECT), SERIES 2021 Notice is hereby given that on July 14, 2021 at 6:30 P.M., a public hear-ing, as required by Sec-tion 147(f) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, will be held at the Town of Edgewood Council Chambers, 171A State Road 344, Edge-wood, New Mexico 87015 and/or by tele-

phone or other electronic means, as allowed under the New Mexico Statutes Section 10-15-1, et seq. to consider the proposal of the Estancia Valley Classical Academy Foun-dation, a New Mexico nonprofit corporation (the “Borrower”) and an or-ganization described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), that the Public Finance Authority (the “Authority'), a commis-sion organized under and pursuant to Sections 66.0301, 66.0303 and 66.0304 of the Wisconsin Statutes, as amended, as-sist in financing Facilities (as defined below) by the issuance of revenue bonds, in one or more series from time to time pursuant to a plan of fi-

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the state reopens but they still lack vol-unteer staff.

Some of their overflow was taken on by Moriarty Animal Control recently, which was able to house 30 kittens—and has already adopted out half of them.

At the Bernalillo County Animal Control animal adoptions are paid for by donation. Hours of operation are Tuesday through Saturday from 12-5 p.m., and the adoption process is by appointment.

Moriarty Animal Control takes on animals from several shelters around the state when they have the space to do so. They are strictly foster-based and are still accepting intake for animals within the Moriarty city limits.

They have approximately 15 kittens left that need to be adopted. They are charging a $20 adoption fee for them right now. “It's kitten season, when it warms up we can have many litters come in. We usually see an influx in summer,” said Moriarty Animal Control Officer Chelsea Worley.

She said they are seeing less adop-

tions right now and thinks it has some-thing to do with people returning to work. She said a lot of the local shelters are not able to accept owner surrenders and they are all seeing a higher volume of owner surrendered animals coming in.

Torrance County Animal Services Director Cindi Sullivan said both Animal Humane and rescues in Albuquerque are totally full and are unable to take transfers from them right now.

She said Covid stopped a lot of the regular movement of the animals to var-ious shelters that support each other.

She said their facility is also full and they are not accepting any owner sur-rendered animals at this time. “It's not even puppy and kitten season yet and we are full,” she said.

She said she remains in close com-munication with Animal Humane and other shelters. To adopt a pet through the Torrance County Animal Services, the adoption fee is $100 which includes sterilization, county licensing, the first set of vaccinations, a rabies shot, micro-chip and de-worming. She said in the next couple of weeks they will need to

adopt out cats. Edgewood Animal Control is at full

capacity according to Edgewood Police Chief Darrell Sanchez.

He said they currently have an over-flow in dogs. He said they were able to get a lot of pets adopted during Covid but now that people are returning to work, animals are returning to shelters. He said they are not accepting any owner-surrendered animals right now, and are waiving all pet adoption fees until July 12, to help get animals out of the shelter and to make room for others who need to come in.

To adopt a pet, contact Edgewood Animal Control and make an appoint-ment. They are re-opening on July 1 and will be open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Right now, a dog named Trigger, who is a Blue Heeler and Border Collie mix, has been at the shelter for six months. According to Jeremy Lewis, one of the Animal Control officers, she is a very sweet dog who is about four years old. She was returned to the shelter after not getting along with another dog. She would do best to be an only dog, in a family with no children, Lewis said. To

see pictures of Trigger visit Edgewood Animal Control's Facebook page.

Mountainair Animal Control is also at full capacity and is not accepting any owner-surrendered animals, said Animal Control Officer Steve Bernauer. He said he will continue to turn down surrendered animals until he can get some dogs adopted. To adopt a dog from the Mountainair shelter people can either call 505-705-0099 to make an appointment or they can visit fomus.org to fill out an application and get the pro-cess started. They are open Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and are by appointment on the weekends.

“Last year, dogs were getting adopted like crazy because of quarantine,” Bernauer said. But in the last several months its been “flat” at the shelter, he said.

Currently Mountainair has a special needs dog who needs a forever home. The dog was found in a hoarder house, and had been stuck in a kennel for 5 years. He is a 5-6 year old Blue Heeler named Paw Paw and he is a timid boy. He gets along well with other dogs, but may not ever be able to be housebroken.

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RESOLUTION OPEN MEETINGS ACT WHEREAS, the Moun-tainair Board of Education met in regular session in the Board Room on June 22, 2021 at 6:00 P.M. as per law; and WHEREAS, Section 10-15-1(B) of the Open Meetings Act (NMSA 1978, Sections 10-15-1 to 4) states that, except as may be otherwise pro-vided in the Constitution or the provisions of the Open Meetings Act, all meetings of a quorum of members of any board, council, commission or other policy-making body of any state or local public agency held for the purpose of formula-ting public policy, dis-cussing public business or for the purpose of tak-ing any action within the authority of such body, are declared to be public at all times; and WHEREAS, any meeting subject to the Open Meetings Act at which the discussion or adop-tion of any proposed res-olution, rule, regulation or formal action occurs

shall be held only after reasonable notice to the public; and WHEREAS, Section 10-15-1(C) of the Open Meetings Act requires the Mountainair Board of Education to determine annually what constitutes reasonable notice of its public meetings; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Mountainair Board of Education that: 1. All meetings shall be held in the Board Room at the Central Office at 6:00 PM or as indicated on the meeting notice. 2. Regular meeting shall be held each month on the 4th Tuesday (*except where otherwise noted). A proposed agenda will be available the Friday PM before the meeting from the Superinten-dent's office whose office is located in Mountainair, New Mexico. Notice of any other regular meet-ings will be given ten (10) days in advance of the meeting date. BOARD MEETING

DATES July 27, 2021 August 24, 2021 September 28, 2021 October 26, 2021 November 23, 2021 December 21, 2021 January 25, 2022 February 22, 2022 March 22, 2022 April 26, 2022 May 24, 2022 June 28, 2022 3. Special meetings may be called by the Pres-ident, by the Superin-tendent in the absence or inability of the President or by a majority of the members upon three - (3) days’ notice. 4. Emergency meetings will be called only under circumstances, which de-mand immediate action to protect the health, safety and property of citizens. The Mountainair Board of Education will avoid emergency meet-ings whenever possible. The President, or a ma-jority of the members, may call emergency meetings upon twenty-four (24) hours notice unless threats of personal injury or property dam-

age require less notice. 5. For the purposes of regular meetings de-scribed in paragraph two of this resolution, notice re-quirements are met if no-tice of the date, time, and place is distributed through a school calendar and is placed as a Legal in the local newspaper. The Moun-tainair Board of Educa-tion Secretary shall also mail copies of the written notice to those broadcast stations licensed by the Federal Communications Commission and news-papers of general circula-tion, which have made a written request for notice of public meetings. 6. For the purposes of special meetings and emergency meetings de-scribed in paragraphs three and four of this res-olution, notice require-ments shall be met by posting notices in the of-fices of the Superintend-ent and the Post Office. The Mountainair Board of Education Secretary shall also provide notice to those broadcast sta-

tions licensed by the Fed-eral Communications Commission and news-paper of general circula-tion that have made a written request for notice of public meetings. 7. The Mountainair Board of Education may close a meeting to the public only if the subject matter of such discussion or ac-tion is exempted from the open meeting re-quirement under Section 10-15-(E) of the Open Meetings Act. a) If any meeting is closed during an open meeting, such closure shall be approved by a majority vote of a quo-rum of the Mountainair Board taken during the open meeting. The au-thority for the closure and the subjects to be discussed shall be stated in the motion for closure and the vote on closure of each inpidual member shall be recorded in the minutes. Only those sub-jects specified in the mo-tion may be discussed in a closed meeting; and b) If the decision to hold a closed meeting is made

when the Mountainair Board is not in open meeting, the closed meeting shall not be held until public notice, appropriate under the circumstances and stating the specific pro-vision of law authorizing the closed meeting and the subjects to be dis-cussed, is given to the members and to the gen-eral public; and c) Except as provided in Section 10-15-1(E), an action taken as a result of discussions in a closed meeting shall be made by vote of the Mountain-air Board of Education in an open public meeting. Passed by the Mountain-air Board of Education this 22th day of June 2021. Mary Gustin, President Mountainair School Board of Education To be published one time in The Independent, on the 2nd day of July 2021. 7/2/21





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HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATOR The Estancia Valley Solid Waste Authority is ac-cepting applications for Heavy Equipment Oper-ator for the Estancia Val-ley Regional Landfill, east of Moriarty. Starting pay is $13.15 per hour, with excellent benefits. CDL preferred, will pay $14.50. Appli-cant must have experi-ence operating a loader, scraper and dozer and commercial trucking experience, possess a current New Mexico Commercial Driver's li-cense, and have a high school diploma or equiv-alent. Drug test and DMV check will be re-quired. Job description and applications can be obtained at the Main Of-fice, 515 Allen Street, Es-tancia, New Mexico; phone 384-4270. Deadline for applications is 5:00 PM Friday, July 2, 2021. EVSWA is an equal opportunity em-ployer. 06/25/21, 07/02/21

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STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF TOR-RANCE SEVENTH JUDICIAL DIS-TRICT COURT IN RE:The Petition for Change of Name: Of Vic-tor H Chavez No. D-722-CV_2021-78

NOTICE TAKE NOTICE that in ac-cordance with the pro-visions of 840-8-1 through $40-8-3, NMSA: 1978, Victor H Chavez will apply to the Honorable Shannon Mur-dock,

District Judge for the 705 District of the State of New Mexico, by: Meet-ing ID meet.google.com/psd-ckqp-cke OR Phone Number 1 562-567-0229 PIN: 661 296 039# on the 22nd day of July, 2021, at 1:30 pm during a regular term of the

Court, or as soon there-after as the matter may be heard, the matter of The Petition for Change of Name for Victor Hugo Chavez Lopez, a person over the age of 14, from Victor Hugo Chavez Lopez to Victor Hugo Chavez.

Susan Rossignol, Clerk of Court By /s/ Deputy Court Clerk Submitted by: /s/ Petitioner, pro se 06/25/21, 07/02/21

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FILED 7th JUDICIAL DIS-TRICT COURT STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF TOR-RANCE 'SEVENTH JUDI-CIAL DISTRICT COURT IN RE: The Petition for Change of Name Of Josilyn Inez Sherrill

No. D-722-cv- 2eat 77 NOTICE TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of 840-8-1 through 940-8-3, NMSA 1978, Josilyn Inez Sher-rillwill apply to the Hon-orable Mercedes C. Murphy, District Judge for the 7th District of the

State of New Mexico, at: Neil Mertz Judicial Com-plex 903 N. 54h Street, Estancia, Torrance County, New Mexico, 87016, on the 8th day of July 2021, at 1:15 am/pm, during a regular term of the Court, or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard, the

matter of The Petition for Change of Name for Josi-lyn Inez Sherrill a person over the age of 14, from Josilyn Inez Sherrill to Jocilyn Inez Herrera SUSAN ROSSIGNOL Angela M. Sanpson, Clerk of Court

By: Deputy Court Clerk Laura Pregatch Submitted by: /s/’ Petitioner, pro se Torrance County 06/25/21, 07/02/21

344 Storage P O Box 99 Edgewood, NM 87015 Notice of Sale Pursuant to the NM Self-Storage Lien Act, the fol-lowing unit(s) will be sold or otherwise disposed of on July 6th, at 9:00 a.m. Bids will be accepted at StorageTreasures.com. Unit 69, Kevin Moore, 313 Parsifal NE, Al-buquerque, NM 87123 smoker, large grill, tools, electronics, col-lectibles, artwork, ce-ramics, misc. boxes 7/2/21

Notice is hereby given that the Village of Tij-eras, New Mexico (“the Village”) will be accept-ing bids for the public sale of certain munici-pal real property (“the Real Property”) owned by the Village that is sur-plus to the Village’s needs. The Real Prop-erty is being sold in ac-cordance with the provisions of NMSA 1978 § 3-54-1(herein-after “Section 3-54-1”). The Real Property to be sold is located at 15 Tij-eras Avenue in the Vil-lage of Tijeras, consisting of three (3) tracts of land combined and located within Sec-tion 22, Township 10 North, Range 5 East, NMPM, and totaling 1.30± acres, and is lo-cated as provided on the survey which can be found at tijerasnm.gov. The Real Property is un-improved. The sale of the Real Property is sub-ject to the following terms and conditions: 1. Pursuant to subsection

C of Section 3-54-1, the Real Property will be sold to the highest re-sponsible bidder. 2. Bids must be received by no later than 4:00 p.m. local time on July 23, 2021 at the Village of Tijeras at Village Hall, 12 Camino Municipal, Tijeras, New Mexico 87059, and then pub-licly opened and read aloud in the Village Council Chambers. 3. Bids received after this date and/or time will not be accepted and will be returned un-opened to the sender. 4. New Mexico Depart-ment of Health COVID Safe Practices will be in effect at all times during the Bid Opening. 5. The starting bid is $30,000.00. All offers must be cash only: bids may not be contingent upon financing. 6. Bids must be prepared and submitted using the at-tached Bid Form. 7. Within ten (10) days from the date of the No-tice of Award by the Vil-lage, the successful

bidder shall furnish a certified check in the amount of five percent (5%) of the successful bid, made payable to the Village, which shall be applied to the pur-chase price at closing. In the event that the successful bidder fails to close on the sale of the Real Property through reasons not at-tributable to the Village, the deposit will be re-tained as liquidated damages as compensa-tion for costs incurred by the Village and not as a penalty. 8. Bids that do not meet the terms and conditions of this Notice of Public Sale, or which add any con-ditions or other qual-ifications, will be rejected. 9. The Village reserves the right to re-ject all bids. 10. The successful bidder will be required to pay cash at closing to the Village in the amount of the successful bid. 11. The successful bidder will be required to enter into a Sale and Purchase

Agreement in substan-tially the same form as attached as Exhibit 1, the terms and con-ditions of which are a part of this proposed sale. 12. Closing costs will be paid by the parties as set forth in the attached Sale and Pur-chase Agreement. 13. Pursuant to the pro-visions of Section 3-54-1, the sale of the Real Property is contingent upon the following: (A) Adoption of an ordi-nance by the governing body of the Village of Tijeras authorizing the sale of the Real Property (“the Sale Ordinance”), which ordinance is sub-ject to referendum as provided in subsection D of Section 3-54-1; and (B) The Sale Ordi-nance becoming effec-tive as provided in NMSA 1978, § 3-54-1 D if a referendum elec-tion is not held; or (C) In the event that a valid petition for referendum on the Sale Ordinance is filed with the Village Clerk as provided in

subsection E of Section 3-54-1; a referendum election is thereafter held in accordance with the provisions of sub-sections G and H of Section 3-54-1; and the Sale Ordinance is ap-proved by a majority of the votes cast and be-comes effective as pro-vided by subsection I of Section 3-54-1; and (D)The Governing Body of the Village of Tijeras retains the right to re-peal the Sale Ordinance at any time prior to it becoming effective. If you are interested in submitting a bid to pur-chase the real property, it should be delivered to the name and address listed below in a sealed envelope labeled as fol-lows: VILLAGE OF TIJ-ERAS,12 Camino Municipal, Tijeras, New Mexico 87059 Bid Sub-mission Attn: HALLIE BROWN, Village Clerk, Surplus Property Public Sale Bid 7/2/21

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