Hosting Exchange Students Can Be Life Changing
Exchange students in a trip to Bandelier National Park. Courtesy photo
Hosting exchange students has changed our lives. It could change yours.
Our family made the choice to host exchange students in the school year 2006-2007. It has been a wonderful experience and I am proud to say that we have hosted six very different students from Germany, Belgium, Spain and Mexico. It is so fundamental to who we are that when we recall a year or activity we usually remember it by which student we were hosting!
Wenzel, our very first German student brought Read More
Northern New Mexico Citizens’ Advisory Board Meets In Taos July 29
NNMCAB News:
The Northern New Mexico Citizens’ Advisory Board (NNMCAB) is one of eight site-specific advisory boards established to involve local citizens in the Department of Energy’s (DOE) environmental clean-up decision process at its nuclear facilities.
Members of the public are encouraged to attend NNMCAB meetings and provide their unique perspective on environmental issues.
The NNMCAB will meet 1-5:15 p.m., July 29 at Sagebrush Inn Conference Center, 1508 Paseo del Pueblo Sur in Taos.
At 2 p.m., representatives from DOE will provide an update titled “Los Alamos National Laboratory Read More
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New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas
ALBUQUERQUE – Today, Attorney General Hector Balderas announced the creation of the Fraud Recovery Strike Force; a unit in his office charged with aggressively investigating and pursuing litigation to protect New Mexico consumers, New Mexico taxpayers, and to recover public funds.
“The Fraud Recovery Strike Force will investigate and litigate in the public interest, support legislation and aggressively pursue damages, and recover public funds,” Balderas said. “The unit’s priorities are to recover funds for the state’s treasury from people Read More
United States Is First Country To Reach Pluto
Despite traveling at the speed of light (186,000 miles per second), it took four and a half hours for this photo to reach Earth as it crossed the 3 billion miles between here and Pluto. Courtesy/The White House
The WHITE HOUSE News:
This morning, the United States became the first country to reach Pluto — and the first country to explore the entire classical solar system: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
NASA’s New Horizons interplanetary probe has been making its way to Pluto since Jan. 19, 2006, and has been providing the world with the sharpest Read More
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Valles Caldera Trust Board To Hold Final Meeting
Valles Caldera National Preserve. Photo by Rourke McDermott
VCNP News:
- Board Will Celebrate 15 Years of Staff Accomplishments During ‘Preserve Days’ Celebration Weekend
JEMEZ SPRINGS – The Valles Caldera Trust (Trust) board of trustees will conduct its final public meeting 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, July 25 on the Valles Caldera National Preserve.
The meeting will be followed by the annual storytelling jamboree held as part of the Trust’s weekend-long Preserve Days celebration commemorating the 15th anniversary of the passage of the Valles Caldera Preservation Act, which established Read More
