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“We finally finished. Yay!”

Odalys González Fernández, director of Bilingual Montessori School, LLC, is happy to have the walls painted, the carpets laid and, best of all, to have children attending her new, 5,000-square-foot White Rock school.

“The parents are very happy,” she said, “and they’re passing the word around. That’s how we’re getting started.”

Construction is set to begin immediately on the Los Alamos Skate Park in front of Mesa Public Library now that appeals of the Planning and Zoning Commission’s approval of the project’s site plan have been denied.

Following more than three hours of hearings and discussion – and to the delight of a throng of young people in attendance – County Council voted 6-to-1 Tuesday night to uphold the P & Z’s decision.

Have been filled with thoughts of mortality lately. Part of this was brought about by the death recently of a friend in Georgia.

Several things went through my head when I heard of his death. How short life is was one of them. And sadness over the fact that I let contact be lost and really did not communicate with a good man like I should have.

Now I can’t, and that is sad.

Then I thought of one’s life and how do you gauge it and its success?

“Stranger Than Fiction,” playing this week at Mesa Public Library, is one of my favorite movies. How can I review it? I gave up any objectivity very early in the film, about the time Harold Crick’s wristwatch had an opinion about the single Windsor knot in Harold’s necktie.

The wristwatch is funny, but Harold, played by Will Ferrell, or possibly his secret, stoic twin brother, is not.