(575) 887-5516.

There is no fee for this program other than the $5.00 per vehicle
day use fee or camping fees if you are staying at the park.

For more information, call (575) 457-2384

“The Role of Southeast New Mexico in the Global Economy” will be held from 11 a.m. to 4:25 p.m. June 10 at the Pecos River Village Conference Center, 711 Muscatel Ave., Carlsbad.

A second session will be offered from 8:30 a.m. to 1:40 p.m. June 11 at the Lea County Event Center Banquet Hall, 5101 N. Lovington Highway, Hobbs.

Participants can register online to attend the event. The registration deadline is May 31, and admission is free. Limited seating is available.

“Speakers at this conference will examine recent economic trends in the area and offer remarks on future economic performance in the region,” said Robert Coronado, speakers, can be found on the Dallas Fed website.

Columnists noted that other Disney princesses, like Belle and Ariel, have also been sexed up over the years. So Princess Leia had better dust off her slave outfit.
Outcry ensued, with feminists and plenty of other people noting that maybe it would be nice to have just one princess who doesn’t look like a runway model and that maybe little girls should be taught that things other than beauty matter. And other people, including myself, just felt that maybe little girls, for just a few years of their lives, can have toys that are not fixated on cleavage and high heels. So it was perhaps even a rare alliance between feminism and more benign strains of fatherly-protection.

Now, Princess Merida would have every right to decide she wants to comb her hair a bit and put on a dress for her “coronation” into the princess pantheon, but in this case it was so exactly the opposite of the character in question, that you’d think Disney would have avoided running her through their princess cookie-cutter machine.
Disney backed down, but perhaps a greater atrocity was committed when the company attempted to trademark Day of the Dead, a holiday celebrated in Mexico, Latin America and the United States. It’s kind of a big deal.

As a side note, I’ve recently interviewed several Mexican Americans about their music and other hobbies. In the case of all three recent interviews, the hobby had a very strong tie-in with a beloved, deceased loved one. For example, a drummer began performing with his church in memory of his sister, and he has a photo of her on his drum set. These individuals found a tangible way to honor someone, and they didn’t repress their sadness and/or become overwhelmed by it, which many of us do. So I submit that a culture that offers a “Day of the Dead” provides its members with a very healthy way of mourning loved ones who have passed away.

Anyhow, there was outrage over Disney allegedly attempting to steal Day of the Dead, and Mickey and his lawyers backed down.

I’m absolutely certain that Disney will recover from these two public black eyes, but the cases are more interesting on a macro level. You are never going to make everyone happy, and no matter what choice Disney makes with its product, it is probably going to get a petition from someone.

Still, stealing cultural holidays honoring deceased loved ones and brainwashing iconoclastic princesses seem like decisions that- Monday morning quarterback here- might not be good ones. I think the point is that corporations are going to have to learn to adapt more quickly – what worked last year may not be seen as socially acceptable right now.
Score two for the little guys…and girls.

There will be regular refuse collection for the normal scheduled service on Monday.

Sandpoint Landfill will be open on a normal schedule of 7 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.

Convenience Station located at 302 E. Plaza will be open on a normal schedule of 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Office service will resume on Tuesday, May 28, 2013.

Nightly, half hour programs begin at sunset as rangers dispel myths and extol the virtues of bats. Thousands of visitors have learned about these nocturnal creatures as they watch them spiral out of the cavern on their nightly forage for insects.

Bats are one of the best natural predators for controlling insects because they eats millions of them every night, providing a natural pest management service that is harmless to humans but offers an integral environmental benefit.

The nightly number of bats fluctuates naturally for a variety of reasons throughout the season. Temperature and weather are the biggest factors in the fluctuation in population, although lack of rain reduces insect populations, which in turn affects availability of insects for bats to consume. Bats will split into smaller colonies during dry years in order to ensure enough resources for survival.

Park visitors are reminded that, during bat flight events, the use of all cameras, including cell phones and video cameras, is strictly prohibited while bats are exiting the cavern. Bat researchers from around the world have documented the disturbance caused to bats by lights, including the light from flash cameras. In addition, the sounds from electronic devices may interfere with the bat’s echolocation abilities and disorient them during their flight.

For more information about bat flight and times, call 575-785-3012.

With limited glass markets in our state and the public demand for the recycling of this material, NMRC has compiled information based on other efforts as well as providing 4 case studies on communities within New Mexico that are collecting, crushing and locally using this material themselves.

You’ll be pleasantly surprised that there are many options to turn glass into road base, as an aggregate supplement, in addition to drainage and pipe laying projects and many other valuable, practical local public works, cement and roads projects.

To download the guide and view links to further resources, please visit http://www.recyclenewmexico.com/glass.htm

This resource was developed through the generous support of NMRC’s sponsors: http://www.recyclenewmexico.com/Sponsors_2013.htm

Thank you!