Lifestyles

NMDOT And Archdiocese Of Santa Fe Discourage Good Friday Pilgrimages: ‘This Holy Week, Home Is The Holy Place’

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Scene of pilgrims gathering on Good Friday in 2013 at the El Santuario de Chimayó … due to the COVID-19 pandemic, NMDOH and the Archdiocese of Santa Fe are asking the faithful to stay home this year during Holy Week. Photo by Salvador Zapien/ladailypost.com

NMDOH News:

SANTA FE – The New Mexico Department of Transportation and the Archdiocese of Santa Fe are asking the faithful to stay home during Holy Week.

While annual pilgrimages to El Santuario de Chimayo and Tome Hill are cherished, New Mexico traditions, the events have been cancelled due to the imposed health order to prohibit gatherings Read More

Classic Air Medical Prepared To Transport COVID-19 Patients

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Classic Air Medical transporting a patient in one of three Isopod negative-pressure individual patient isolation unit the company has acquired. Screenshot/LADP

Classic Air Medical News:

Classic Air Medical in Los Alamos now has the ability to respond and transport COVID-19 patients.
The company has acquired three Isopods to safely transport COVID positive patients in its fixed wing aircraft.
These aircraft are located throughout the regions Classic Air Medical serves and have the ability to respond to Los Alamos with teams who have received specialty training. 
The Isopod is a negative-pressure
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NM Congressional Delegation Announces More Than $16.7 Million In Housing Grants To New Mexico Communities From Emergency Coronavirus Funding

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NM Congressional Delegation News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. —Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), along with U.S. Representatives Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) and Xochitl Torres Small (D-N.M.), announced that New Mexico communities across the state will receive over $16.7 million in emergency housing assistance from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to bolster the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The funds are part of a first wave of grants from the $2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Read More

Liddie’s Traditional New Mexican Dishes: Red Chile From Pods

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Red Chile from Pods. Photo by Liddie Martinez

By LIDDIE MARTINEZ
Española Valley

It struck me as odd when a lot of focus and attention was given to organic growing of food a few decades ago. It begged the question: Why are we actively poisoning our own food supply and how did we get here?

Living on a farm and raising our own food has always been our way of life. Granted, it was not a life that was glamorous and it was often ridiculed by people who saw it as a poor man’s way to live in the backdrop of new and fancy name-brand packaging. Our chickens always ran loose around our property and the sight of that activity Read More

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham Orders Expedited Permits For Trucks Delivering Relief Supplies To New Mexicans

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Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham

NMDOT News:

SANTA FE — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham issued an executive order Tuesday to facilitate the speedy transit of emergency relief goods across New Mexico.

Executive Order 2020-017 requires the New Mexico Department of Transportation to issue special permits to allow heavier-than-normal vehicles to traverse the state when their loads consist primarily of relief supplies. 

“The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted supply chains around the world, making it harder in some cases for New Mexicans to obtain the food, medicine and clothing they need,” Gov. Lujan Read More

Home Country: April Fools Day Hoax

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Home Country
By SLIM RANDLES

“So how about this?” Dud said, grinning. “We get somebody to pretend to be an oil tycoon’s executive director or something, and we have him talk to Delbert about where to build the refinery.”

The other members of the Mule Barn truck stop’s world dilemma think tank looked at Dud and sipped coffee and silently shook their heads.

“Okay,” Dud said, ”and why not?”

“Won’t work,” Steve said, brushing sweet roll crumbs off his walrus moustache.

“Dud, the nearest oil to this valley is sold in cans down at the Gas Station Gun Shop.”

“Yeah, I see what you mean.”

Doc said, “I realize Read More

Scenes From Activities At Overlook In White Rock

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Winnie leads the way out of the canyon with her companion Kevin O’Brien after rock climbing Sunday afternoon with friends at Overlook in White Rock. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com

Hackers thread their way along the bottom of the canyon near the small falls Sunday afternoon in White Rock Canyon. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com

View of the small falls in the canyon near the Overlook platform in White Rock. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com Read More