The Luna Light The Luna Light “The People’s College”

Becoming The Premier Rural Community College in America

Volume 3 Issue 36 Aug. 30-Sept. 5, 2010

LCC Foundation Golf Tournament makes nearly $50,000; net proceeds to student scholarships

Any Luna Community College automotive technology or collision repair students interested in SkillsUSA can get in touch with Anthony Baca, Gene Sandoval or Tom Nitcznski. Students that are interested must be enrolled in at least one auto-motive technology or collision repair course. For more information, call 505/454-2591 or 505/454-2590.

SkillsUSA is a national nonprofit organization serving teachers along with high school and college students who are preparing for careers in trade, technical and skilled service occupations including health occupations.

Last year, LCC swept the state SkillsUSA com-petition in collision repair. The students were Gary Gamersfelder, Adolfo Bachicha and Ricardo Baca. Jonathan Urioste place third in prepared speech.

The state competition is held in early spring and the national competition is held in the summer.

The Electric Horseman took first in gross score. Pictured (l-r) are: Eddie Trujillo, Randall Armijo, Dwayne Craig and Dennis Lucero.

The Luna Community College Golf Tournament made nearly $50,000. The net proceeds are earmarked for student scholarships. The LCC Title V grant will match that money as well.

The tournament, which had a record-number 24 teams, was played Saturday at Pendaries Golf Course.

“I want to thank everyone who helped raise this money,” said Tournament Co-Director Ernesto Salazar. “It was a total team effort from everyone involved. This was a great day for Luna Community College and Title V.”

The Electric Horseman Inc. took first in gross score. The team consisted of Eddie Trujillo, Dennis Lucero, Randall Ar-mijo and Dwayne Craig.

Best Western Hotel and Suites took first in net score. Play-ing on this team were Gavino Archuleta, Shellie Broyles and Jim Diesler.

For a total breakdown of the monies raised, see future edi-tions of The Luna Light. For more pictures, see page 3.

Mora Inde-pendent School Su-perintendent Thomas Gar-cia (left) along with Board Chair Joseph Griego and Facilities Di-rector Roger Gonzales welcome the Luna Com-munity Col-lege Board in Wednesday’s meeting held at Mora High School.

SkillsUSA seeking new members

Luna Community Col-lege students, staff, faculty along with community members are encouraged to drop by the Gerald P. Ortega Wellness Cen-ter and see some of the new equipment recently purchased. For more information on how to enroll for a wellness class, call 505/454-2541 or 505/425-8767.

2010 LCC Foundation Golf Tourney

Pictured clockwise are: golfers listen to instructions at the beginning of the tour-ney; LCC Foundation Board Member Anto-nio Ortega; Gilbert Vallejos, Phil Wolff (foundation board member), Robert Cordova, Ray Lither-land, Antonio Ortega are thanked by Ernesto Salazar (foundation board member); Jim Di-esler, Shellie Broyles and Gavino Archuleta of Best Western Hotel and Suites took first in net score and Ernesto Salazar.

LCC: “The People’s College”

Gratitude beyond words

RECRUITMENT ACTIVITIES (and other events) WEEK OF August 30 thru August Sept. 6

Monday, August 30 – Late Registration ends, 5pm Tuesday, August 31 – College Days Planning meet-ing, NMHU, 10 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 1 – LCC Half Hour Show w/ Jesse Gallegos, KNMX. 1pm Thursday, Sept. 2 – Campus Tour, 1 pm Friday, Sept. 3 – no activities planned Saturday, Sept. 4 – Labor Day Weekend

LUNA COMMUNITY COLLEGE IS AC-CEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR THE FOLLOWING VACANT JOB POSITIONS: • Director-Allied Health Sciences • Temporary Part-Time Assistant Baseball Coach (1) Adjunct Faculty/Per Course Instructor FOR JOB DESCRIPTION(S) AND/OR CLOSING DATES, CON-TACT THE HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT AT (505) 454-2503 OR VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.LUNA.EDU

By Dr. Pete Campos LCC President

The golf tournament sponsored by the Luna Community College Foun-dation held this past Saturday was an overwhelming success. In fact, course officials stated this was the most successful Foundation Tournament yet!

During the last several months as I observed plans being developed for the annual Foundation golf tournament, potential team and sponsor contacts being made, prizes being gathered, people working together and finally, the huge turn out; enormous gratitude - that goes beyond words - filled my heart.

I am thankful for our Luna Family volunteering their precious time and donating their hard earned money towards this successful event. I am still in awe for the generosity shared by the Foundation’s private and public partners – business persons, retirees, government employees and students – in general, hard working people who unselfishly gave funds that will be used to help students attend Luna Community College. That’s right – the proceeds, in the form of scholarships, from this golf tournament are for students!

While I wish it were possible to name every person who supported this LCC Foundation golf tournament in one way or another, I would miss someone and that would never be my intent. So, to each of you who gave in one way or another, always hold in your mind the memory that you sup-ported the educational endeavors of students, who in many situations, could not afford to attend college if it weren’t for you.

Please accept – from deep within my soul – gratitude and satisfaction for a job well done! Luna Community College students truly are the benefactors.

Luna Com-munity Col-lege Presi-dent Dr. Pete Cam-pos was one of sev-eral dozen partici-pants that competed in Satur-day’s LCC Foundation Tourna-ment. LCC students will benefit from Satur-day’s suc-cessful tourna-ment.

Eagle Nest Chamber better than ever By Melissa Gold

The Eagle Nest Chamber of Commerce has moved into a beauti-ful new building and is looking forward to foster-ing growth in member-ship. The Eagle Nest Chamber of Commerce and The Enchanted Gate-way Museum are sharing the building located at the north end of the main street and have already seen an increase in foot traffic and visitors to the new building. The new building is highly visible from the main street and offers ample parking and an attractive new look for visitors. The chamber moved to the new loca-tion on April 12, after occupying a small office space at a local motel. The chamber is in their busy months right now and has enjoyed steady flow of tourists walking into the new museum and chamber. The chamber sees people from all over the country, but most visitors come from Texas, Oklahoma and are looking to get out of the heat and also for the beautiful scenery that encompasses Eagle Nest.

The Village of Eagle Nest serves as the eastern gateway to the en-chanted circle and is nestled among the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. It’s a beautiful town with a population of around 300 locals serving visitors year round to some of the best fishing, hunting and hiking trails anywhere.

Eagle Nest has been making great strides in their efforts of eco-nomic development for the town. The main street, which is less than a mile long, has been newly renovated with sidewalks and antique

street lamps. The Eagle Nest Lake is now consid-ered a state park and has undergone a major make-over with new docks and a welcome center. The Chamber of Commerce has been active in the com-munity and with the new building that is shared with the museum; the chamber has set goals of continued growth and prosperity for the town of Eagle Nest. The Eagle Nest Chamber is dedicated to working towards promoting and strengthening the success of small businesses through community leader-ship and resource develop-ment. They work closely

with the Luna Community College Small Business Development Cen-ter to help with direct technical assistance for the small businesses in Eagle Nest. The partnership is proved to be beneficial to both entities and to the village of Eagle Nest. The small businesses now have somewhere to go where they can meet with professionals on all their small business needs. The Eagle Nest Chamber also works closely with the other chambers in their area, such as Red River, Cimarron and Angel Fire to help promote each other and local events coming up.

The Eagle Nest Chamber of Commerce and the Village of Eagle

Nest has been showing that even with the national economy in hard times there is still room for growth and prosperity in small town, America.

The new Eagle Nest Chamber of Commerce is located in a more visible area.

I am asking for your support in promoting the Tobacco Use Policy. One of the challenges I have faced in trying to address the issue with students is that they point out a faculty or staff member walking by smoking or they have seen them smoking outside the designated areas.

I understand it will take some time for everyone to get used to the new policy, and we will continue to work with it, but we shouldn't set up for failure from the beginning. The policy is a health benefit for both the tobacco user and the non-user. I hope as a team, we can make this policy a success.

Another issue is signage, we are working diligently to address this issue, and we hope to have signs posted at every building entrance.

Thank you for your cooperation on the matter. Andrew J. Duran Life/Safety Coordinator

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