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1 Jimmie Rodgers:How blue thy yodels?(See page 13)RED RIVERMINERV olume XXVI, Number 19 red RIVER , New me XIco Thursday, augusT 16, 2018 50 ce NTs Bits & Pieces 2 Bizbits 3 Crazyfoxx 3 Altitude 4 Food for Thought 5 Headin West 5 This Week in Red RIVER 6 Music Highlights 7 Home Country 8 Sudoku 9 Legals 9 Check It Out 9 Bulletin Board 10 Out of the Past 11 HuMMeR RePORTHow do they hover and fly backwards?Morton BeehefflerMAMACITA GOT A SQueeZeBOX? - Dave Perez will be working the crowd Saturday as the Tejas Brothers bring their high energy brand of Tex-Mex Honky Tonk to the Hot Chili Days/Cool Mountain Nights festival this weekend in Brandenburg Park Buckaroo Ball Is Socko!

2 The celebration of All Good Things Red RIVER known as the annual Buckaroo Ball saw a huge crowd enjoy a wonderful night of great BBQ from Steve Cherry and the Shotgun Willie s crew, some excellent auction items do-nated by local members of the community and a big dance floor for two-steppin fun The money raised for the not-for-profit Red RIVER Valley Foun-dation final total yet to be de-termined will eventually find its way into the hands of worthy groups in town who make this little town a fine place to live. A very special Thank You to Judee and Ron Vanden Busch and the Buckaroo Ball committee for making Fritz & Friends a humble part of this great community event P S The term Socko is an old show business term for outstand-ing success and best describes the Buckaroo Ball and its impact on Red RIVER Book Club Meets August 16 This is a reminder that the book for the August 16 Book Club meeting is Placed Out by Janet elder, available on Amazon Rita Conway is sponsoring the author to speak to the group and would appreciate any donations to help pay for the author s gas to come to Red RIVER The Book Club is fortunate to have an author speak at the meet-ing.

3 So please attend and make a good turnout on August 16 in the Southwest Room of the library Questa Art Tour The Questa Creative Council announces the Questa Studio Art Tour is set for August 18-19, from 10 am to 5 pm each day The event will feature over 40 traditional and contemporary art-ists on display at 13 venues in Questa, El Rito and Sunshine Val-ley Artists from Questa and the surrounding communities play host to visitors to their studios The Questa Creative Council recently presented the Wild Rivers Plein Air Paintout which included an exhibit of art and an awards ceremony held at the Brass Rail Theatre in the Alpine Lodge in Red RIVER This project is supported in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Af-fairs, and by the National endow-ment for the ArtsA Mighty Wind Yes, all the New Mexico TV stations broadcast the video of the August 9 eagle Nest tornado in the Moreno Valley.

4 The unusual spectacle appeared in abundance on social media and even made the national news, appearing on the channels that specialize in 24 hours programing of weather According to NM area meteor- ologists, the freak storm which was reported at approximately 2 pm was a landspout, a form of a tornado that does not develop from a mesocyclone They are akin to waterspouts near costal areas No injuries were reported to authorities and damage was minimal, although a camping trailer was overturned and power lines were affected One estimate of wind speed of the tornado was in the 75-80 mph range If accurate, the storm would rank as an F1 on the enhanced Fujita Scale used for rating tornado intensity, based on damage inflicted on human-built structures and vegetation An F3 tornado hit Cimarron NM in 1964 causing one death and an F2 occurred in July of 1996, destroying the brick post of-fice and inflicting other t s a n d Pi e c e sTh e Re d Ri v eR Mi n eR2Au g u sT 16, 2018f Michael Martin Murphey F In 1971, Murphey began work on a concept album, The Ballad of Calico The double album was written by Murph and Screen Gems co-writer Larry Cansler The songs tell the stories of individuals who lived in the 1880s silver mining town of Calico, CA Soon after the release of the album in 1972 by Kenny Rogers & the First edition, Murph had enough of Cali-fornia living and earthquakes.

5 Eventually moving his wife and son to Dallas to be closer to his mother and father Murph was still living in California when Gary P Nunn first saw him perform at the Saxon Pub in Austin, in Janu-ary 1972 In his book, At Home With The Amadillo, Nunn relates being knocked out by what he saw CALL 575-754-6280 FOR ALL DATES & TICKET INFOC huckwagon Dinner Shows August 23 & 25 - 6 PMROCKINg 3M AMphIThEATER ON BITTER CREEK ROADG eorge Crawford George Crawford, 96, died July 16, 2018 He spent 38 summers in Red RIVER enjoying fishing, breakfast on the deck, his wild-flower garden, the wildlife (both large and small), and dinner at Sundance It s that time of the year when the roasting of green chile fills the New Mexico air with the fragrance best and honestly described as ambrosia Pure ambrosia Yes, my friends, like nectar fit for the immortals of ancient civi-lizations, carried on the breeze just as the Greeks received it, on the wings of doves, notice is hereby served that it is time for roasted green chiles!

6 All is right with the world and as it should be Pinky Swear! Perhaps it is merely an accident, a quirk of fate, that the beginning of the season for the roasting of green chile just happens to coin-cide with the New Mexico State Green Chile Championship Coincidence: yes, that has got to be the case The event is part of the Hot Chili Days/Cool Mountain Nights Festival and Cookoff that Larry Joe Taylor brings to town every August The Green Chile Champion-ship has been an official part of the festival since 2009, added to the CASI Four Corners Regional Chili Cookoff which is a quali-fying event for the 52nd Annual CASI Terlingua International Chili Championship which will be held on November 3 The Chili Capital of the uni-verse event has become common knowledge throughout the galaxy, as some of the qualified competi-tors may be of the otherworldly variety The cookoff is always the first Saturday of November and is leg-endary in status and soulfulness I find no evidence that Texas has a Green Chile category I don t know if green chiles are even grown in the Lone Star state Probably not They may have to buy them from Colorado Colorado?

7 Pueblo, to be pre-cise Really, Texas? Colorado? Do they have a green chile championship? Remember the salsa commer-cial years ago where the city slick-er dipped his chips in the product from New York City and the re-sponse to such nonsense? New York City? came the chorus of astounded, horrified cowboys, gastronomical connois-seurs of the highest order And so I say Colorado? P S That picante was created by a Louisiana boy whose time in the service of his country in WWII was spent in San Antonio He re-turned to Alamo City after the war and created THe Salsa that took over the condiment market If you want the real deal, attend the Hatch Green Chile Festival September 1-2 in the Green Chile Capital of the universe, Hatch, NM The event runs from 9am-Till the Sun goes down! I love Hatch chiles but I confess: I like green chiles from Pe asco, but they re hard to come by and you have to know someone who knows someone bizbitsNew GM At RRSAFARM, RANCH & RECREATIONAL REAL ESTATEBEAU MCDOWELLQ ualifying Broker, New Mexico1371 East Main StreetRed RIVER , New MexicoCELL: in the Red RIVER area since 2005 Th e Re d Ri v eR Mi n eRAu g u sT 16, 20183 Linton Judycki will become the General Manager (GM) for the Red RIVER Ski & Summer Area effective October 1, 2018, Denny Judycki, the current President & GM announced on August 10 Linton has most re-cently served as Assistant to the GM and the Director of Skier Operations He is also a Vice President of RRSA and on the Board of Directors.

8 Linton has been directly involved in Ski Area decision-making and management over the last 10 years, since his father Drew passed away prematurely Linton will continue to follow in the tradition of his dad as well as the Ski Area business model over the last 10 years Over the years , Denny Judycki stated, we have invested in two new chair lifts, a significant transformation of The Grill at the Lift House, continued our priority on snowmaking improvements, and begun a win-ter Snow Coach Dinner Tour to the top of the mountain We have particularly put an emphasis on improving summer activi-ties for those visiting Red RIVER including the addition of two 800 foot mountain tubing lanes, the Pioneer Flyer seated zip line, and the Hidden Treasures Ropes Course/Zip Line I am very proud of Linton and the management team and staff that we have developed to make this such a successful business venture I am excited for the opportunity to continue what my father began and my uncle Denny and I, along with the rest of the management team at the Ski Area have accomplished over the years This is an incredible year-round resort with amazing talent and I look forward to continue working with them, the Town of Red RIVER , the For-est Service.

9 And industry leaders to deliver the very best skiing and rec-reation experience to our guests I can guarantee everyone that the next few decades will be as dynamic as the last six decades have been I can t wait to start as the new GM of Red RIVER Ski & Summer Area and to continue on with having generations of family fun (Courtesy Red RIVER Ski & Summer Area)OPEN Italianoopen DaIlyDinner 5- 9 pmopen forlunch on Weekends Riverside Diningon Our DeckOn Red River110 Pioneer Rd 575-754-6297 RED RIVER MINER - Send it to me now!Yearly Subscription Rates: $25 - You pick it up/ $60 - We mail it Name _____ Address _____ Town _____ State _____ Zip _____ Send to: Red RIVER MINER , P O Box 735, Red RIVER NM 87558 RED RIVER MINERP ublished weekly by Shepherd Studio FRITz DAVIS KeRRY SHePHeRD Editor Publisher CONTRIBuTING WRITeRSAlyce Lindberg Densow Ann Huskinson Slim Randles PHOTOGRAPHeR - Todd Michael Ye a r lY Su bS c r i p t i o n ra t eS$25 - Picked up $60 - Mailed $20 - OnlineSend all correspondence and address changes to:The editorP O Box 735, Red RIVER NM 87558(575) 754-2742 us On Facebook:TheRedRiverMiner 2018 Red RIVER MinerTh e Re d Ri v eR Mi n eR4Au g u sT 16, 2018aCute MountaIn SICkneSS.

10 It S alSo CalleD altItuDeBrett s Bistro a t Lifts Westopen DaiLy Lunch & DinnerspecialssteaK, steaK,steaK!CoLD Beer & fine Wines201 W. Main st. red RIVER 575-754-9959 Bill Mackey Box 5357 Last Quarter TrailRed RIVER NM 87558O Suffering from altitude illness or AMS (Acute Mountain Sickness)? At higher elevations, such as in the Rocky Mountains, the lower baro-metric pressure makes it more difficult for oxygen to move from your lungs into your blood stream, and therefore may cause physical dis-tress in the form of shortness of breath, inability to walk in a straight line, vomiting, fatigue, rapid heart rate, nausea, headaches, memory loss and mental fogginess Symptoms may last several hours or a few days and treatment from medical professionals is always recommended For temporary relief, the following have been known to help: Descend to a lower altitude Stay well hydrated with water and electrolytes Avoid alcohol and caffeine Chew Clorets gum Get some air (open windows, go outside) Use oxygen therapy In Red RIVER and up to New Mexico s tallest point, Wheeler Peak, the elevation ranges from 8,700 feet up to over 13,100 feet This range of elevation has been classified as High Altitude to Very-High Altitude, where we benefit from as little as 50% of the oxygen we breath in.