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NMAA Announces April ‘Compete With Class’ Honoree

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Bosque Boys Head Golf Coach Anthony Strippoli
 
NMAA News:
 
ALBUQUERQUE ― The New Mexico Activities Association announces that the Bosque Boys Head Golf Coach Anthony Strippoli has been recognized as the Compete with Class award recipient for the month of April.
 
Strippoli showed honesty and integrity when he identified an error on one of his student-athletes’ scores. 
 
“In today’s world of ‘win at any cost’ many coaches would have ignored the error. He, however, brought the error to the official’s attention knowing that his player would be disqualified
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Los Alamos Magistrate Court Docket May 11-26

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COURT News:
 
The following is the upcoming docket for Los Alamos County Magistrate Court:
 
Monday, May 11:
 
Judge: Pat A. Casados – Location: Los Alamos County Magistrate Court
 
8:15 a.m.
M-33-FR-2015-00032 
Defendant: Arturo Houston
Proceeding: First Appearance
Prosecutor:  NM District Attorney – 1st Santa Fe; Def Atty:; Officer: Ryan Wolking
 
8:30 a.m.
M-33-DR-2014-00029
Defendant: Melissa V. Valdez-Romero
Proceeding: Jury Trial
Prosecutor: Kent Wahlquist; Def Atty: Thomas M. Clark; Officer: David
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Time Trekkers Summer Camp For Kids June 15-19

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Time Trekkers summer camp fun. Courtesy/NMHM
 
NMHM News:
 
SANTA FE — Take a weeklong trip to action-packed 1863 at the New Mexico History Museum’s summer camp, Time Trekkers.
 
Children 9-11 will enjoy VIP access to the museum and get daily doses of hands-on learning—braiding horsehair bracelets, gathering a picnic lunch at the Santa Fe Farmers Market, practicing calligraphy, roping a calf dummy, hand-stitching their own book, playing old-time games and more.
 
Make new friends, strengthen literacy skills, explore different kinds of artwork and learn how
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DNCU Announces Scholarship Program Recipients

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DNCU News:

SANTA FE ― Del Norte Credit Union, Northern New Mexico’s hometown financial co-op, is pleased to announce the winners of the DNCU Scholarship program for 2015.

The seven winners each will receive $1,000 toward the higher education program in which they are enrolled in the fall of 2015.

“We are deeply committed to supporting young people in New Mexico as they make significant advances toward a brighter future,” DNCU President/CEO Chuck Valenti said. “While financial literacy is a core DNCU philosophy, education in all its dimensions is just as important. We wish the

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ACCT: Disney Sleeping Beauty KIDS 2 P.M. Today

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Sleeping Beauty kids. Courtesy photo
 
ACCT News:
 
Atomic City Children’s Theater is proud to present its production of Disney Sleeping Beauty KIDS.
 
All of the favorite characters from the classic Disney film are here – Princess Aurora, Prince Phillip, Fairies, Goons and of course, Maleficent! Disney Sleeping Beauty KIDS is based upon the 1959 Disney film “Sleeping Beauty” and features many of the songs from the movie.
 
Disney Sleeping Beauty KIDS will be presented at 2 p.m. today, in the Mountain Elementary School gymnasium.
 
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Penalty Relief For Some Small Retirement Plan Returns

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IRS News:

PHOENIX ― With Small Business Week May 4-8 just around the corner, the Internal Revenue Service reminds small businesses that have failed to timely file certain required retirement plan returns that they have until Tuesday, June 2 to take advantage of a special penalty relief program.

Launched June 2, 2014, the one-year temporary pilot program is designed to help small businesses with retirement plans that may have been unaware of the reporting requirements that apply to these plans. Normally, the plan administrators and sponsors of these plans who fail to file Read More

Letter To The Editor: Are We Getting Civics In Schools?

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By VERNON KERR
Los Alamos

The column by Cal Thomas in Wednesday’s April 22 edition of the Journal highlights a growing problem with our citizenry in understanding and living with our form of government.

Civics is no longer a must for public school students. In the 1940’s “Civics” was a semester course in New Mexico.

Somewhere along the line civics as a discrete separate course was dropped and the topic was meshed with social studies where one thirteenth of it was incorporated in each class from kindergarten through 12th grade. (See New Mexico Public Education Department Read More

Summer Adventures Available At Girl Scout Camp

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GSNMT News:

The Girl Scouts of New Mexico Trails have two Girl Scout camps that they own and operate, Camp Elliott Barker in Angel Fire and Rancho del Chaparral near Cuba.

Last year, nearly 2000 girls attended these summer camps. New this summer is a day camp in Albuquerque. 

Every girl, not only Girl Scouts, in grades 1 through 12 can attend these summer camps. Camp sessions begin May 31 and end Aug. 5. There is a camp session for everyone, whether it is horseback riding, art, cooking, rock climbing or other.

The camps are not just for girls, families are encouraged to come Read More