The USDA Rural Development, Southwest New Mexico Council of Governments and the Silver City Realtors will be hosting a Southwest New Mexico Resource Housing Summit on July 20th. The summit will provide information regarding home repairs, homelessness, housing programs and will include a variety of housing agencies. This event will take place from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the Grant County Veterans Business and Conference Center and the public is encouraged to attend. For more information, call 575-654-5788.
The Gila National Forest – Wilderness Ranger District will be conducting several prescribed fire pile burning projects beginning July 21st until the month of August, in the Gattons Park wildland urban interface project area. The goal of the prescribed fires is to help restore fire back to the landscape within fire-adapted and fire-dependent ecosystems. There will be intermittent delays on New Mexico Highway 35 and smoke will be monitored to ensure that the New Mexico Environment Department’s Air Quality Bureau are met. For more information, call 575-388-8211.
The Silver City Police Department will be at the Silver City Public Library with one of their K9 dogs to discuss what the K9 unit does. This event will take place on July 21st from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m is for ages 0 to 18. For more information, call 575-538-3672.
Deming and Luna County have been working on building new attractions in the city to provide more activities for youth and to help attract visitors. The city recently completed work on the new “Inflatable Water Park”, which is now open, and are working on adding a new skatepark, roller rink and batting cages. For more information on when these attractions are set to be completed, call 575-546-0494 or visit their Facebook page.
