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Veterans invited to honorary dinner
Veterans, their families and family members of a fallen soldier, airman or sailor are invited to attend the inaugural Ride To Pride Partnership, Inc., Honorary Dinner at the Las Vegas, N.M., Civic Center on April 12 from 5:30-8 p.m. The dinner is free, but organizers request that reservations be made in advance by calling 505-454-9738. Veterans’ Services Deputy Secretary Alan Martinez will be the guest speaker. Following the dinner, the public may join the guests for a dance featuring the music of northern New Mexico band El Gringo. Tickets for the dance are $20 and can be purchased by calling the number listed above. The Ride To Pride Partnership, Inc., program provides a variety of equine assisted, interactive, experiential and traditional forms of counseling and therapy services in San Miguel, Mora and Guadalupe counties. The program promotes recovery and resiliency by actively addressing substance use, violence, abuse, communication issues, depression, anxiety, stress and many other behavioral disorders. More information can be found at www.ridetopride.org.
College regents still unconfirmed
The lack of confirmation votes by the state Senate during the Legislature’s 2013 session means two appointees of Gov. Susana Martinez won’t be seated on the board of regents of Northern New Mexico College.
Board chairman Michael Branch says Donald Martinez Jr. of El Rito and Kevin Powers of Albuquerque can’t be seated because the regents they’re replacing are legally entitled to stay in office until their replacements are confirmed.
The Santa Fe New Mexican reports that the terms of Cecille Martinez-Wechsler of Santa Fe and Feliberto Martinez of Española expired at the end of 2012.
Northern New Mexico is a four-year college with campuses in Española and El Rito. The board has five members.
Pecos to get water system upgrade
PECOS — Department of Agriculture officials came to Pecos Tuesday to present funding for an upgrade to the village’s aging drinking water system.
The USDA’s rural development director for New Mexico, Terry Brunner, presented a certificate of obligation to the mayor and community promising to pay the project’s $600,000 construction costs.
The Village of Pecos applied for the funding through the federal Community Program, which targets federal investments to rural communities of less than 10,000 people with serious drinking water quality, quantity and dependability problems.
The USDA says it will pay for construction of a new water tank, distribution lines and a new chlorination system to replace the town’s 35-year-old tank and equipment.
