and Gary Jaramillo, Publisher
What to do with the Sun Zia Transmission Line Project?
I say send the lines east of the White Sands Missile Range and leave Socorro County alone.
I’m still wondering what Socorro County is getting out of the deal. From what I have gathered, not much.
Sun Zia project manager Tom Wray told the commissioners that the county has an abundance of geothermal resources and in order for it to be developed it needs transmission lines.
Nice try. I don’t think anybody is in any hurry around here to develop our geothermal resources.
Co-op update
It was disappointing to hear that the members are backing down on their thoughts of calling for a recall of the Socorro Electric Cooperative Board of Trustees.
From what I have heard, they don’t have to have done anything criminal to be recalled.
It’s this simple.
The board should serve at the behest of its members.
We all know that does not happen around here.
This board serves at the behest of itself because it’s probably hiding something.
Now, is the time to do something and not waste any more time.
Sure, it can call a special meeting and tweak the bylaws to make them read more legal. But don’t go out and get 1,000 signatures. The bylaw states that any three trustees can call for one and I know the members can count on at least three and possibly four for that to happen. As former Washington Redskins coach George Allen once said back in the 1970s, “The Future Is Now.”
Crying shame
It’s just a crying shame that in our little corner of the world – people actually kill other people. We have to keep believing that when we wake up each morning to go to work or clean house or go shopping, that we’ll be safe. We just have to, but unfortunately the fact is that there are those out there among us who have too much anger or too many bad experiences in their heads and at some point they are going to do something very bad.
It’s just a matter of being in the wrong relationship or wrong place at the worst of times for that person who is going to kill.
We raise our children to respect other’s space and lives and always do the right thing. Who knows what goes wrong when someone just can’t cope any longer and changes from that nice, calm great guy or girl next door that we think the world of?
It’s heartbreaking that from time to time we lose one of our neighbors and dear friends to a senseless violent act of rage or momentary insanity. Not in Socorro. Not here. We all have our disagreements and battles, but we’ve all shown time and time again that when push comes to shove, we’d do anything in our power to protect those who we really aren’t that fond of personally. That’s Socorro. That’s who we are.
All across America, little towns just like ours feel the hurt of unnecessary acts of violence, and the sorrow of loss that comes with it. We never believe it can happen here, yet every time it does we’re all stunned. Keep teaching your children about the dangers that lurk among us. It can happen to the smartest of us because we all want to believe in the good that might exist in the people we befriend. Let’s all pray for the family and our loss of another beautiful hometown girl who did nothing other than trust and care.
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