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Local Senior Centers are Happenin’ Places!
Those who have achieved the 60-year mark (or surpassed it)
can benefit from the variety of opportunities provided through the local
Senior Centers.
The Edgewood Senior Center offers three services and many
activities. Congregate meals for seniors are available Monday - Friday from 11:30 to 12:30 at $1.50 cost. Transportation is offered for
Santa Fe County residents of Edgewood to and from the Senior Center, to medical appointments, and to activities sponsored by the Center. Meals on Wheels for qualified homebound seniors are also a service provided.
Regular activities include: ceramics, exercise,
Bingo, wood-crafting, creative
writing, computer class, leather-working class, line dancing,
card-making, and nutrition
class. Contact the Center for
a current schedule:
David Fresquez (Dir.)
505-281-2515
Edgewood Senior Center
114 Quail Trail
Edgewood, NM 87015
Edgewood Senior Center’s band: “Senior Moments”
Card-making class
The Tijeras Senior Center offers many
similar amenities. Lunch
is available weekdays
during the 11:30-12:30
hour, if reservations are
made 24 hours in advance. There is a fitness
room in the facility that is
open daily from 8:30
a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Smiling faces on a day trip
A monthly menu
and calendar of activities
are posted on the Village of Tijeras website: http://
www.villageoftijerasnm.com. A sampling of activities: beading,
crochet, line dancing, various musical classes and jams, Bingo,
Bible study, Zumba, yoga, conversational Spanish . . . And more!
Contact info: 505-286-4220 #10 Tijeras Ave., Tijeras NM 87059
Senior Centers are a great way to socialize, relax, learn
new skills, meet new people, and even reconnect with old acquaintances. What great options to add a little spice to life in the
golden years.
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April 5 Easter Sunday—happy Resurrection Day!
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Easter Sunday Service 9 a.m. @ Prince of Peace Lutheran Church,
Cedar Crest. See ad page 7
Resurrection Day Service @ 11:00 am followed by Potluck @ Stanley Union Church, 14 Kinsell Ave West, Stanley, 505-832-4325
Easter Gathering @ Valley View Christian Church in Edgewood: 4
services 7:15, 8:30, 9:45, 11:00 a.m. See ad page 8.
Easter at the Meadow @ Forest Meadow Baptist Church. 10 a.m.
Easter Brunch, 11 a.m. Easter Praise Celebration. 54 Route 217, Tijeras, 281-4105.
Easter Service @ Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Edgewood,
#5 Entrade del Norte & Route 66. 281-2013 gslcnm.org
Easter Service @ Legacy Church 11:00 a.m. NOW OPEN @ 379
Hiway 344, Edgewood, 288-4775 www.legacychurch.com Ad page 16.
woodsEnd Church, 9:30 Breakfast 10:30 Resurrection Service, 87
Hwy 344, Edgewood
Breakpoint 10 a.m. Meeting @ the Edgewood Library building.
CALENDAR
April 1
 Lenten Service 7 p.m. @ Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, Cedar
Crest. See ad page 7.
April 2
 Seder Meal and Communion Service 6 p.m. @ Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, Cedar Crest. See ad page 7.
April 3
 Good Friday Tenebrae Service 7 p.m. @ Prince of Peace Lutheran
Church, Cedar Crest. See ad page 7
 Good Friday Service 5:30 p.m. @ Stanley Union Church,14 Kinsell
Ave West, Stanley, NM 87056 505-832-4325
April 4
 SASS (Single Action Shooting Society) announces their Third Annual
Notorious Nick Memorial Shotgun Match. @ Founders Ranch on Barton Rd. Registr. @ 9 am. Shooting @ 10 am. $50/100 Target Sporting
Clays; $25/50 Target 5 Stand Sporting ;$12.50/25 Target Cowboy Clays
Tax deductible. Contact: Debbie Baker (Ms. Slickshot) @ 934-2533
 The 4th Annual Town of Edgewood Easter Egg Hunt will take place from
11-2 pm @ Edgewood Elementary School.
April 5 Easter Sunday—Happy Easter!
◄ Easter Service times and locations listed in the box to the left.
April 7
 Benefits Counselors from NM Aging & Long-Term Services Dept. @
Bethel Storehouse in Moriarty 11am-1pm. No need to sign up. For more
information, call 505-832-6642.
 Edgewood Family History Center offers class: Danish Research: Extracting Genealogical Data - at 10:30am @ the LDS Church on Hwy 7, south
of Walgreens in Edgewood. Info: [email protected].
April 12
 Financial Peace University preview class @ Valley View Christian
Church in Edgewood, 5-7 p.m. See ad this page for contact info
April 13
 Benefits Counselor from the NM Aging and Long-Term Services Dept.
at Tijeras Senior Center. 10 - 11:30 am. No sign-up required, 286-4220
April 14
 Over the Mountain Quilt Guild @ at 9:30 am the 2nd Tuesday of the
month @ Mountainside United Methodist Church, 4 Penny Lane, Cedar
Crest. Eileen Suderman – [email protected]. Please come join us!
April 15
 The Edgewood Family History Center, @ the LDS Church in Edgewood,
will offer a class on Using Historical Record Collections at 10:30 a.m. Hwy
7 just south of Walgreens. Info: [email protected].
April 16
 Route 66 Arts Alliance annual meeting 6:00 @ Edgewood Comm.
Ctr. Pot luck dinner, voting for Board members & officers, followed by talk:
Basic Business Presentation for Artists w/ special printing rates for our
members. All welcome. Paid members vote www.Route66ArtsAlliance.org
April 18
 Community Trail Ride and Light Lunch. New Mexico Horse Rescue at
Walkin N Circles Ranch 9:00 AM check-in, Ride by 10 AM. $35 donation
for ride; $5 donation for lunch only (all tax deductible). 198 Weimer Rd,
Stanley, 9 miles N on St .Rd. 344. 2, 6 or 8 mile marked trail (you choose)
Bring your own horse. Lunch 12:00-2PM.Questions 286-1247, 286-0779.
 9th Annual Authors for Literacy Book sale & signing, 9 am-4 pm @
Moriarty Civic Center (See ad page 2)
April 19
 Financial Peace University class begins @ Valley View Christian
Church in Edgewood, 5-7 p.m. See ad this page for contact info
April 21
 Beads of Promise Tour. Non-denom, Bible-based service for women
6:30-8:00pm This month’s Promise: Mercy @ woodsEnd Church, 87
Hwy 344, Edgewood. For more information, call 206-2675.
April 26
 Pet Shot Clinic 4:00-5:30 p.m. @ Edgewood Tractor Supply. Ad pg 8.
April 28
 The Edgewood Family History Center, @ the LDS Church in Edgewood,
will offer a class on Native American Research at 10:30am. Hwy 7 just
south of Walgreens. Info: e-mail [email protected].
May 1
 BINGO, 7-9 pm @ Moriarty Lions Club. See ad page 12
May 2
 Self-Reliance Fair 9 am-3pm @ LDS church in Edgewood. Class times
and info @ Selfreliancefair.blogspot.com
 First Annual A. Montoya PTA Car Show & Gigantic Yard Sale! Yard
Sale @ 9AM, Car Show from 12-4 PM. [email protected]
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Adoptable Horse @ Walkin N Circles Ranch
Dakota is a beautiful seven-year-old black grade mare
with white socks. She arrived at Walkin N Circles about
a year ago, where she quickly adapted and caught the
eye of a trainer who was at the ranch to select a horse
for the WNCR 2014 Trainers Challenge. She proved to
be a good subject and placed third in that competition,
held September 2014. She is rideable and is continuing
her training with a professional trainer and an experienced ranch hand.
Dakota is available for
adoption. If interested,
please contact the
WNCR office at
505-286-0779.
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Septic Pumping
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An open letter commending ECS preschool program:
There have been so many negative things in the news
lately about our local schools that I wanted to take a minute to shine
a spotlight on a local asset.
Edgewood Christian School, or ECS, has been educating
kids in the East Mountains for 30 years and they’ve been doing a
great job of it. My son has attended the school for two years already, but I did not feel compelled to write this letter until last weekend’s end of the year awards ceremony. I was astonished at what
I saw and want to share it with the community.
ECS launched a K-3 program this school year, emphasizing
to all interested parents that this is not a daycare program, but a preschool that will prepare kids for full time pre-K and this school has
delivered on its promise. During the awards ceremony, proud parents watched their 3-year olds correctly identify shapes, colors and
continents on a map.
While we were all impressed with those achievements, we
were blown away by what followed. Two tiny girls stood up in front
of the crowd to read several simple sentences, and then one legibly
wrote her name. The teacher went on to tell us that they had spent
the school year learning all the letters of the alphabet; they knew all
the sounds of the letters and were refining their motor skills with
basic penmanship. Did I mention that they’ve done all that attending
school only three days a week?
After the pre-schoolers knocked our socks off, the kindergartners took turns reading advanced stories in front of the audience.
One read an excerpt from the speech given by President Ronald
Regan on the occasion of the Challenger disaster. The excerpts
contained several third and fourth grade level reading words, and the
kids were completely comfortable with them. It was the most impressive display of early education many of us had ever seen.
As parents paying for private school, my husband and I
often assess the educational return we are getting for our tuition dollars, and at ECS (Edgewood Christian School) there is no question
that every dollar we have spent is well worth it. Our oldest will enter
the first/second grade class this fall, where he will benefit from an
estimated 9 to 1 teacher/student ratio, and that teacher is Master’s
level educated. Our youngest will join the K-3/4 program, and I will
start counting down the days to next year’s award ceremony, when I
hope to see my 3 year old stand on stage to read and write.
Bark Beetle Tree Removal
Vicky Baca, Edgewood, May, 2014
Edgewood Christian School
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The Edgewood Civitan Club
recently announced Camp Oro
Quay in Sandia Park as the beneficiary of its Fall Fundraiser, the
Bean Valley Gun Show planned
for this September.
Funds raised will help the camp
improve its Outdoor Education
and Recreation facilities, including the installation of a double zip
line. Camp Oro Quay is celebrating 50 years of operation this
summer—a great local resource
for camps, field trips, and events.
(Contact: 281-5474; [email protected]
or www.oroquay.org)
L-R: Connie Foxe, Becky Krupar (Civitans President), Holly Taylor,
Shirley Sisneros, Liesl & Bill Bell (Camp Oro Quay Managers),
Diane & Bob Stearley. At the Camp Oro Quay office.
The Edgewood Civitan Club is a
chapter of Civitan International, a
worldwide, all volunteer, nonprofit service organization where
men and women have an organized way of approaching local
community problems through service and fund raising. (More information at www.edgewood.civitan.net)
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The Story of a Friendship (Installment #14)
By C.S. Pickering
Previously: : At college, Kristin meets Brian Elliott and runs into Bean again. When
she thinks Bean may like her, she is so startled she says something she regrets . . .
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Kristin agonized and reasoned and reasoned and agonized, and eventually she
persuaded herself that she had imagined Ben's caring look. After all, he hadn't said
anything significant, and he'd never given any hint before. She did apologize to him
for her rude departure, almost hoping he would say something--whatever "something"
was. But he just smiled and shrugged and shook his curls.
And gradually he backed out of Kristin's life. Not entirely, but enough so that
Brian had more time with her.
Kristin enjoyed Brian's company, especially when the alternative was to sit alone
at an intramural soccer game watching Ben play and wondering if she had missed a
fleeting opportunity that might be gone for good.
Brian encouraged her in her studies and in volleyball. He learned to tease her
so that she blushed and hated herself for it, while not minding him. If the wind had
been there, Kristin would have confessed to it that she liked Brian's playful flirting.
She felt at ease with him. They picnicked in the park and blew soap bubbles. He
read her children's stories and letters from his "favorite little big sister," as he called
the Princess Katherine.
There came a day when Kristin couldn't deny Brian was pursuing her. Ben kept
himself more and more to the perimeter of her life, and in her pride she did not try to
draw him in. Brian was handsome, athletic, a perfect gentleman. If not Ben, why not
Brian?
Margaret passed the latest letter over the counter to Uncle Willis, but he shoved
it back. "You read, Miss Marg'ret. I like t'hear yore voice."
She knew it was a bluff. His eyesight was failing, and he found it hard to read
Kristin's scrawl, even with the help of his glasses.
"Kris hardly ever mentions Bean now," said Margaret. "It's all `Brian this' and
`Brian that.'"
Uncle Willis slammed his fist on the counter with surprising force. "You jest tell
her t'keep hopin'!"
At Christmas Kristin went home to Sandcastle. For two weeks she wandered the
beach, but found the wind cold and restless. She visited Uncle Willis' shop only once,
fearful that he would scold her or talk of Bean, but he didn't. He merely teased her
about growing up and told how Margaret visited him and forced assorted goodies on
her.
Margaret was busy with Christmas preparations, entertaining family and being
such a storybook housewife that Kristin felt left out.
She returned to school with a spirit of disappointment and relief. Sandcastle just
wasn't the same. It had forgotten her in one short semester! Uncle Willis' shop was
stuffy. Marriage had ruined Margaret. Even the beach had offered little comfort, and
the wind was unutterably sad.
It never occurred to Kristin that she carried her heaviness with her, clouding all
her senses.
Brian's return brought some flavor to life. He had stories to tell of family snow
fights and the antics of small nieces and nephews. Ben asked for news of Sandcastle, and Kristin found she didn't want to talk about it. The disappointment hurt too
much.
For the remainder of the volleyball season, Kristin drowned herself in practices
and games. There at least she knew and respected herself. It was a good year,
though not spectacular. Eventually the season ended, and Kristin cast about for
something else to occupy her mind and energy.
"You haven't seemed your usual joyful self lately," said Brian one day in early
spring. They were sitting at a picnic table in a park overlooking the city. Kristin made
a noncommittal noise and fiddled with her pen. She risked a glance at him and regretted it. His face held love and concern; it reminded her of Ben's look that she had--or
hadn't?--seen.
"Kristin." Brian's voice was firm. "If you bear your burdens alone they're too
heavy. I love you. Please let me help."
Yes, he loved her. That was part of the burden! Kristin fought her tears.
"Please let me help," said Brian again.
If he loves me, maybe it's safe, thought Kristin. She was losing the battle. Tears
squeezed out and suddenly Kristin was sobbing into her arms, sobbing as she hadn't
since Bean left years ago.
"I hate crying!" she exclaimed in frustration. But she couldn't stop. Brian came
around to her and sat beside her, an arm lightly across her shoulders.
"You hate being weak, you're so proud--but still so vulnerable." The tenderness
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in his voice somehow made her cry harder. It also loosened her tongue.
Recklessly, before she could reason herself out of it, Kristin spilled her hopes and
disappointment, her confusion, her love that was growing bitter. Everything from Bean
to school to Christmas, and back to Bean. It was quite a recital.
All the while Brian patted her shoulders and listened quietly.
She blubbered until all her tissues were wet, stringy rags, and finally the storm
began to calm. Then Brian held her, just held her. And it was safe. She felt as she
might if Todd had wrapped her in his arms to comfort her.
Eventually Kristin sat up and looked Brian in the face.
"I'm sorry," she said. She was sorry. It seemed much more logical to love Brian.
She had tried, and she couldn't. At least not until Bean was resolved.
"So am I," said Brian. He smiled for her benefit.
As they returned to campus, Kristin asked timidly, "Will I see you at all, or would
you rather avoid me for a while?"
Brian laughed quietly. “Kris, if you were that straightforward with Ben you might
have saved yourself some heartache! You’ll see me.”
In the days that followed, Kristin discovered that something of the joy had returned to life. It wasn’t because she saw less of Brian. Often it was his encouraging
note, or wink, or greeting that made her smile. The difference was hope.
Ben, whether on a tip from Brian or not--she never knew, faded back into her life
as he had faded out. They kept running into each other at the library. He and Brian
would sit with her at meals. And when the guys gathered for a game of soccer or
frisbee football in the lengthening evenings, Ben would call her at her room to come
join them.
"You were such a ball hog!" Kristin scolded Ben. They lay under a tree recuperating after a close-fought soccer game. "That's why you kept losing it. You waited too
long to pass!"
He grinned at her. “That doesn’t explain why you let them score on that corner
shot.”
Kristin made a face and lifted her heavy ponytail off the back of her neck. “I’m
seriously thinking of cutting this mass. It gets in the way and always needs washing. I
remember the good old days of short hair." She expected Ben to accuse her of changing the subject, but instead he sat up and addressed her sternly.
"Kristin Brooke, you will not cut your hair. I like it long."
She stared at him in amazement, and he flushed.
"Sorry for the outburst, Kris. But please don't cut it."
"You like it this way?" Kris wanted to hear him say it again.
"Yes," said Ben. For a second the curtain lifted and the tenderness appeared,
but the tease quickly recovered. “This way we aren’t mistaken for each other.”
Kristin took a deep breath. “All right. If you like it, I won’t cut it.”
"Kris!" Ben hailed her across the lawn. Kristin paused in her amble toward the
library. She was contemplating the remaining weeks of class and the papers coming
due. It was Friday, and this weekend she must study hard.
Ben trotted up, grinning. It was the old conspiratorial grin of gradeschool days
that somehow transformed his manly features into those of Bean. "Do you want to
drive to the beach with me today?"
Beach! "Sure!" replied Kristin with enthusiasm. It would be wonderful to see the
waves, hear their thunder, feel the sand and the wind again. "Just like old times." Her
green eyes shone.
Ben looked at her with a peculiar smile and shook his head. "No, Kris, not just the
same. This time I'm asking you on a date."
Kristin turned slowly to face him with a look of incredible wonder. "You--me--a
date? Are you serious, Bean?" Unconsciously she reverted to the old nickname.
His eyes twinkled. "Kristin Brooke, will you come to the beach on a date with
me?"
She opened her mouth, and at first no words came.
"Spit it out!" Ben grinned. "The suspense is killing me."
"I'd love to," Kristin finally said, and looked quickly away. She was going to cry,
and she mustn't.
"Thank you," said Ben gravely. "And I'll probably try to hold you hand. I thought it
only fair to warn you." He turned her shoulders gently. "Please look at me--why, Kris!
What's wrong? All right, I won't try to hold your hand, just don't cry about it."
Kristin smiled sheepishly in response to his teasing. "Oh, hush. Stop talking and
let me rearrange my thoughts."
Continued next month in our final
installment . . . Which means we’d better
find another story pretty quickly! (Not to
worry, we’ve been working on that.)
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