When she was 17 years old, while walking on the campus of Cal Poly Pomona, a drunk driver hit Mona Patel. Her lower right leg was crushed. She was airlifted to UCLA Medical Center where the orthopedic team told her distraught parents that amputation would be the easiest course of action. It was possible that she could be walking in three to four months. The plastics crew told her parents that they could try and salvage what remained of her…
The Jicarilla schoolhouse was placed on the New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties in 1977 and the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. Betsy Swanson of the New Mexico Historic Preservation Bureau wrote the national nomination and recommended inclusion based on significance in architectural, education and exploration/settlement. According to Swanson, the schoolhouse is one of the best examples of pioneer architecture in the area. Built in 1907, the school was constructed of Ponderosa pine logs hauled down from…
Seven women, five from the Ruidoso area and two from Denver, returned recently from reaching the 14,199 foot summit of Mt. Yale in Colorado. There was a 20 year age difference and a varied range of climbing and backpacking experience within the group. The one thing Shippen Salas, Sue Morris, Lori Lamphere, Devonna James and Ann Ellis agreed on when interviewed this week was that they came back changed people. Salas had taken backpacking trips to Colorado since 2012. She…