Pecan weevil threatens New Mexico pecan industry
Pecan producer Dean Calvani fears the pest enforces a widening quarantine that blocks shipments to western markets. The pecan weevil infests nuts underground then surfaces to lay eggs, ruining nut meat and risking a $180 million industry in Eddy Lea Chaves and Curry counties per NMDA records.
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Eddy, Lea, Chaves
Curry Counties
Dean Calvani
Calvani
New Mexico
Eddy
Lea
Chaves
Curry
New Mexico Department of Agriculture
NMDA
Eddy County
Calvani Pecan Company
Carlsbad
el Paso
Calvani Pecan Co
Hughes honored for WWII service
Lowell Hughes recalls service in the Army Combat Engineers 45th Division. He drove supply and support vehicles and helped clear routes, build bypasses, and remove mines to move infantry. He also endured a memory from Dachau prison camp, one of the war’s larger camps.
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Lowell Hughes
Army Combat Engineers
Hughes
45Th
Dachau
Art education conference sparks ideas and alliance
About 30 adults attended a Roswell event with celebrity instructor Mark Kistler at the New Mexico Art Education Association conference. He demonstrated his high-octane teaching while offering educators methods to present concepts and nurtured collaboration among participants.
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Mark Kistler
New Mexico
Kistler
Roswell
New Mexico Art Education Association
Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art
Roswell Museum and Art Center
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Anthony J. Imburgia
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