Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Monday, August 25, 2008
Girls rule Great American Duck Race track Two youngsters were big winners Sunday afternoon at McKinley Duck Downs (Luna County Courthouse Park for most of the year) as the 29th Annual Great American Duck Race concluded with final races on wet and dry tracks. Deming's Alejandra Orosco, 5, won $1,440 with a first-place finish by his duck on the dry track. Las Cruces' Monique Zertuche, 11, was the wet track winner, also claiming $1,440. Orosco was unable to fathom her sizeable winnings. A kindergartner at Memorial Elementary School, she said a $20 bill was the largest she'd ever seen....
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