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Photos by Mary Alice Murphy

The Rolling Stones Gem and Mineral Show Rocktober Fest took place at the Santa Clara Armory for two days, Oct. 19 and 20, 2024.

Local vendors of rocks and jewelry, as well as several vendors from Tucson, AZ, and Las Cruces, filled the armory and spilled out under tents behind the Armory. 

Photos and article by Mary Alice Murphy

On an unseasonably damp day in October, the Remembrance Walk for the Heroes took place at Bataan Memorial Park and Fort Bayard National Monument. 

 Walkers and some runners started out at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024, from Bataan Memorial Park and walked about three miles to Fort Bayard, around the road in the middle, and back to Bataan. They were "treated" to some rain and even a bit of sleet at one point. 

 Many walkers carried photos of their veteran loved ones, and all who signed up honored a family member or friend who has served in the military. 

By Lynn Janes

On October 21, 2024, the candidate forum for the upcoming election on November 5, 2024, took place at the WNMU Besse Forward Global Resource center. The forum had Barbara Bush and Eddie Flores facing off.

Nick Seibel, Silver City Daily Press publisher, moderated the forum. The candidates received questions from the audience, Facebook, and the Press writer Juno Ogle. Each would answer the same question and had two minutes.

Each candidate gave a three-minute opening statement.

Cracks in the System– Part Two – The Traged

By Frost McGahey, Investigative Journalist

(Editor's Note: Names have been changed for protection.)

In March of 2024, Steve shot himself. His story was one of failures of people and institutions.

Steve was a big man, 6'4" and weighed 300 lbs. His dementia symptoms included impaired thinking, anger, paranoia, and physical violence. Because of his illness, Kate, his stepdaughter, had taken his car keys so he couldn't drive his truck. Kate and her husband, Joe, went to visit Steve and their son who was living with Steve and caring for him. Upon arriving, their son met her outside the backdoor and told her that Steve was "very agitated because he could not find his keys." Kate goes in. 

Dear Community Members:

PUBLIC NOTICE

As part of our continued efforts to modernize our health system, we recently changed from a paper process to an electronic process for documentation of our ER visit charges. Shortly after the change, we identified that some ER visits were receiving higher charges than we would expect.

By Frost McGahey, Investigative Journalist

(Editor's Note: Names have been changed for protection.)

In March of 2024, Steve shot himself. His story is one of failures of people and institutions.

Steve had dementia and Parkinson's and other health conditions requiring daily medical care. He was a 68-year-old man, living by himself who had lost his long-time companion of 25 years, Susan, to liver cancer five months earlier. As a registered nurse, she had been caring for him. With her death, her daughter Kate and her family took over care because they considered him family.

Kate and husband, Joe Drinkwater, lived 30 minutes away from Steve in the Mimbres Valley. Their son had started living with the grandparents to help provide care when Susan became ill. He continued to stay after her death in to help take care of Steve. He considered Steve his grandpa. But Steve's dementia worsened to the point of agitation and hallucinations, and he had always been a heavy drinker.

Photos by Mary Alice Murphy

The ever popular annual Mimbres Harvest Festival brings out not only vendors, but also competitions, food and a health fair for all who take part. Any participant always gets to walk a distance, as the parking fills up the road the San Lorenzo School is on. The event does provide a bus and ATVs and golf carts to get people to and from their cars parked far away. [This author took advantage of one when she left.]

The always enjoyed pie competition featured out of  11 pies the first place was a blueberry-lemon pie by Susan Walter and second when to the pecan pie [This author did not get the other bakers' names.] For the empanadas, first place out of 18 went to a cherry one and second to a pumpkin empanada. Slices of pie and empanadas were sold. [This author really liked the Key Lime pie and the apricot empanadas she bought.]

The WNMU Homecoming parade took place on Oct. 5, 2024. The date also happened to be the anniversary of President Joseph Shepard's and his wife, Valerie Plame's fourth anniversary. 

The parade honored this inducted into the Alumni Hall of Fame the afternoon before and featured many sports teams and organizations of the university. 

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