Quemado Senior Center monthly trip to Gallup will be Wednesday, Sept 2. Please make your reservation with Diana two days in advance. Cost is $6 and leaves the center at 8 a.m. Center phone number is 773-4820. The Winners from the August pool tournaments are Steve Candelaria, Doug Chavez, Will Chavez, Erv Howerton, Chris Hostepler, Jerry Hudson, John Laude, Bergin Riddle and Ruben Serna. If you missed these, there will be two tournaments in September. Diana Simpson, Senior Center Site Manager, wishes to thank the community for their support of the Friday night dinner and entertainment fund raiser. It was a good dinner and program. The next fund raiser will be a bake sale at the Pie Town Festival on Saturday, Sept 12. Start looking for your favorite recipes to bake. More information next week.
Rockhounding
The “Chaparral Rockhounds” of Roswell invite all Rockhounds of all ages to “Agate Rendezvous 2009,” an annual 10-day camp out at Apache Creek Campground from August 29 to September 7. There are daily field trips leaving the campground at 8:30 p.m. You do not have to camp out, just come for the day.
Fruit Boxes
There are Fresh Fruit Boxes for purchase. Janene Prudler is coordinating the Quemado deliveries. Each come in a 40 pound box. The following fruits are available – Nectarines $34, Gala Apples $27.50, Peaches $33 and Pears $28.50. The fruit is fresh from farms in Utah. Orders and money need to get to Janene by Thursday, September 3 with expected delivery of the fruit around September 11. If you have any questions, please call her at 773-4739. For mailing, address is HC 32 Box 705 Quemado, NM 87829
School In Session
Quemado-Datil School has started. There are some new faces on campus this year: Phyllis Klumker, is the new pre-school and special education teacher and returning this year is Agriculture teacher Jason Lamb. A free Breakfast is served in the classrooms but lunch prices have been increased this year to $2 for lunch and .40 cents for milk. The Free and Reduced Lunch Program is still available. Please call the school office to see is your child may qualify for the program.
Eagles Volleyball
Quemado School will have their first Junior Varsity and Varsity Volleyball game at home on Friday, Sept 4, at 4 pm. The Eagles will play Gallup Catholic. The school website lists activities and notices for the school year at www.quemadoschools.org
Country Store
The Country Store has a new face behind the counter. Stacy Lopatesky says she is “happy to be in Quemado with all the friendly people.” Stop in to meet and welcome Stacy. Meanwhile Grover Armstrong is busy getting equipment ready for hunting season. Don’t want to do your elk? Now you know were you can get it done.
Fire Season
Quemado Ranger Station is happy to report that currently there are no active fires on the Quemado Ranger District. Smoke in the area is from the Arizona fires and Reserve. For the 2009 fire season, we are up to 29 fires for the district. The last one was a 300 acre fire detected on 7/21/09 located 23 miles southwest of Quemado and just south of Fox Mountain Lookout. It had a low to moderate fire behavior. Welcome to some new employees for the QRD Fire program: Tim Rainey joins us from Springerville, Arizona, Apache / Sitgreaves National Forest as the Engine Captain. Tony Medran joins us from the Carson National Forest as the Engineer on one of the Engines. Thad Marcoe joins us from Wall, South Dakota, Nebraska National Forest as the District Assistant Fire Management Officer. Nathaniel Nozie joins us from Mesa, Arizona, Tonto National Forest as the District Fire Management Officer. For more information about current fire activity in our area you can call Nate at 773-4678 or visit the website at http://fs.usda.gov/gila
When you stop in the Ranger station you will get to meet Ernestine Nozie. Ernestine is our new Information Receptionist. She came to us from the Window Rock Unified School District.
Note: Know of anything going on or a special event in a family or school, please let me know. Good news can’t be shared if it is unknown.
Call 773-4119 or email at mmquemado@ hotmail.com.
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