The High Desert Humane Society will be holding its monthly reduced rate rabies vaccination clinic this Saturday, April 8th, from 9am to noon, 3050 South Cougar Way, Silver City. One year or three year rabies vaccinations for cats and dogs will be available. This is a drive through clinic. For more information call 538-9261.
Attention youth livestock exhibitors, Ace Hardware is having a special event for you. There will be a FREE Showtec “Show Feed Clinic” on Tuesday, April 4th at 6:30 P.M at the Grant County Veteran’s Memorial Conference Center next to Ace Hardware. Seating is limited and refreshments will be provided at 5:30.
For our Deming area listeners, there will be a Vamos A Pecar event held in Deming, April 30th. This free family-friendly event will feature fishing, archery, wildlife and waterfowl identification sessions, food and more. It will be held at Trees Lake in Deming, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
For youth in Grant County, the Commons will host a YCC program once again this summer and we are looking for youth ages 14-18 to be a part of a 6-week paid program. If you know of any youth wanting a summer job and might be interested in applying, reach out to the Commons in Silver City for more information! Last summer, they had a great team of youth assisting with the facilities for a 6-week program. The deadline to apply is May 6th. The Common’s mission is to meet the immediate needs of Grant County residents who are food insecure and strive to build community around the concepts of food justice, local self-sufficiency and sustainability.
In state news, today the Early Childhood Education and Care Department (ECECD) Cabinet Secretary Elizabeth Groginsky provided an overview of the upcoming expansion of the New Mexico PreK program in FY24. The FY24 budget passed by the New Mexico State Legislature includes nearly $100 million for New Mexico PreK, which is projected to expand the program by 40 percent, adding thousands of new PreK slots in the coming year. This will constitute the largest expansion of the New Mexico PreK program in state history, bringing NM PreK to more communities, more children, more days of the year, and more hours of the day. For more information on how this can benefit you, go to the Early Childhood Education and Care Department’s website.
