New Mexico Humanities Council awards grants in April meeting
In Albuquerque, the 27 member New Mexico Humanities Council approved 54 thousand 40 dollars and 39 cents in grants to nine non profit groups from Albuquerque Socorro Lordsburg Los Alamos and Las Cruces. The groups will provide about 49 thousand 273 dollars in matching funds to support their projects.
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New Mexico Humanities Council
Albuquerque
Ferent
New Mexico
Socorro
Lordsburg
Los Alamos
Las Cruces
Humanities Council
the Council
Eee
The
Committee For Public Education
Elizabeth Bailey
Medical Records Association
Helen Davis
Institute of Mining and Technology
Barbara Banks
Petrina Moyer
Committee For the Humanities and Public Policy
Humanities and Public Policy
J. Bruce Streett
Lordsburg Hidalgo County Chamber Banquet Friday
The Lordsburg Hidalgo County Chamber of Commerce will host its annual banquet Friday at the Lordsburg High School Cafetorium. Local Citizen of the Year will be named and Bill Kundrat, State Director of Tourism, will deliver the keynote. Tickets are moving quickly and available at the Chamber Office or through members.
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Lordsburg-Hidalgo County
Bill Kundrat
Kundrat
New Mexico
Chamber
White Collar Jobs Rise in Hidalgo County
Hidalgo County has seen a shift toward white collar occupations since 1960, rising about 2.4 percent. White collar workers now make up 34.4 percent of the local labor force, with a growing gap over blue collar workers as automation reduces production roles and boosts clerical and management needs.
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Hidalgo County
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Department of Commerce
Federal funds to back eight New Mexico youth centers
Money totaling 422388 from the U S Department of Justice will fund youth centers in eight southwest New Mexico communities including Deming Central Hurley Socorro Silver City Grants and Lordsburg. The centers will address family relations drug abuse and juvenile delinquency alongside youth activities.
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New Mexico
Rio Grande
REACT Team Receives Two New CB Base Radios
The REACT Team received two Citizens Band Base Radio Stations with antennas funded by First National Bank of Lordsburg. Western Auto donated coaxial cable. one base will serve Lordsburg Police and the other Hidalgo County Sheriff's Department with 24 hour monitoring by local dispatchers.
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First National Bank
REACT
Ce React
Citizens Band Base
National Bank of Lordsburg
Fred Ewing
Bank
Western Auto
Lordsburg
Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Department
Spontaentee
Lordsbur City
Chic Rudy Gonzales
Phil Rodriguez
Gonzales
OSHA finds no fault in Playas fatal fall case
Albuquerque area OSHA director John Parsons says a report on the Playas accident finds no fault by Westerwald AG Brown & Root or Phelps Dodge. The 30 foot fall killed Carl Grauel of Germany while crossing barricaded areas. Parsons notes the victim’s own actions led to the death.
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Albuquerque
Occupational Safety & Health Act
Playas
John Parsons
OSHA
Carl Grauel
Germany
Brown & Root
Phelps-Dodge
Grauel
Westerwald AG
West Germany
Brown and Root
Phelps Dodge
Parsons
Animas High Senior Bettine Adams Receives ENMU Freshman Scholarship
Bettine J. Adams, senior at Animas High School, earned an Eastern New Mexico University Freshman Academic Scholarship for 1977 fall, including $200 for the year. She ranks in the top ten percent of her class and participates in National Honor Society FFA Annual Staff Pep Club and athletics.
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Animal High
Bettine
FFA
Tired Riders Peddle For St Jude on Local 20 Mile Ride
ESA's Million Dollar Bike Ride drew 28 of 43 county riders to a 20 mile route on State Road 338 to benefit St. Jude's Children's Hospital. Riders faced wind and dust with checkpoints for rest and water as Cotton Ambulance crews aided minor injuries.
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I-10
Animal
ESA
St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital
Animas
Sheriff's Department
Cotton City
Rusty Walter
Animas Community Center
St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital
Memphis
Tennessee
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