Today's News

The community is receiving a gift Saturday. This present is for all ages and costs just a buck. All that is required is for people to show up.

The gift, the Family Fun Festival, is hosted by the Family Strengths Network and will be held from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday at Fuller Lodge.  The admission fee is $1 for persons age 3 and older.

I’ll probably never learn to master any type of visual art. Those people who claim they can only draw stick figures? Yep, I am one of them. However, my artistic handicap does not stop me from appreciating what others can do. There has been a lot of ground covered to gain this appreciation.

I’ve toured the Vatican, the Louvre, the Tate, the Museo Reina Sofia; I’ve watched artists mold figurines from soft, palpable glass in Venice and I’ve observed artists painting peonies at the Denver Botanical Gardens.

Bandelier National Monument has been collecting fire ecology data since 1992 and says it plays an important role in creating objectives for prescribed burns and evaluating the short and long-term effects of fire on its vegetation communities.

“The data helps us decide if our Fire Management Program is on the right track or if we need to adjust our actions,” Bandelier Superintendent Brad Traver said in a release. “It also helps us decide which areas in the park are priorities for fire treatment and which areas should be treated at a later time.”