January 8, 2026
I hope everyone had a great Christmas Season! I would like to wish everyone a very Happy New Year!
I hope each and everyone of you have a great 2026! A few reminders:
Our next meeting is on Tuesday, January 13, 2026. The meeting starts at 5:30 p. m. at the Polo Sierra LULAC Hall located at 100 Alice Street.
Dues for the coming 2026 year are upon us again. The amount remains at $15.00New members pay the $15.00 plus $6.00 initiation fee.Please mail payment to: LULAC Council 8003, P. O. Box 3021, Silver City, NM 88062
Hall was used a few times in December. We earned $435 in rental fees! That will help pay a few bills! Hall will be in use on January 14, 2026, by the Democratic Party. and again on February 11, 2026.
Oly Sturdevant has requested the use of the Hall for January 24, 2025. Mikki and WNMU Professor Tanya Rivers will present on our meeting on February 10, 2025. They will present on receiving the Southline Community Grant and they are also working hard on expanding thier ourteach to the community. We wish them well and look forward to their presentation. Anybody out there who wishes to be on the radio KURU representing our Council? Let me know. Got an email invitation some time back from Maree McHugh, Her show is on Tuesday mornings from 9:00 to 11: a. m. Interview lasts from 30 to 50 minutes. We may have Aimee Jauriqui on as a guest to speak on the housing in Silver City. A project being set up the help senior citizens.
Vangie Montes asked about putting on a merchandise bingo when the weather gets better. Let me know your thoughts. That’s all for now! Let me know if I left anything out.
Sincerely,
Fred Baca, President
LULAC Council 8003 575-538-9286 H. 575-654-6844 C
November 11, 2025
TIME FOR ANOTHER UPDATE!!
Monday, November 10, 2025
We honor and salute all our Veterans on Tuesday, Veterans Day Armistice Day – WWI ! Tuesday, November 11, 2025. A reminder of our regularly scheduled LULAC Council 8003 meeting. 5:30 p. m. Polo Sierra LULAC Hall 100 Alice Streett
On the Agenda: Treasurer’s report, Building report
Updates: Dia de Muertos Event, Hispanic Author selection, Honoring Bataan Death March soldiers project, Perros Bravos/ Brewer Hilll Project, Any upcoming projects (Museum Victorian Christmas), Las Posadas (Frances Vasquez)
Hope you can make the meeting!
Sincerely,
Fred Baca, President
LULAC Council 8003
October 11, 2025
TIME FOR ANOTHER UPDATE!!
Hope all is well and everyone is enjoying the wet weather! Our next regularly scheduled meeting date of LULAC Council 8003 is Tuesday, October 14, 2025. The meeting is at the Polo Sierra LULAC Hall located at 100 Alice St. in Silver City. Meeting time is 5:30 p. m.
Guests: VIA Zoom Dr. Larry Jaurique who will speak to us from North Carolina. He is a nephew of the late Greg Jaurique and cousin to Silver City’s Rachel Tais. He would like to speak to us on an important Veterans’ issue relating to Bataan Death March and hoping to get momentum to award Medals of Honor to all who were in the March. More on this if you attend the meeting!
Another guest is Tim Zamora who along with Mrs. Zamora have opened up a country rural store in Arenas Valley. The will tell us about their new business and what we are able to find there. Mr. Zamora is a veteran and was invited by our own Ted Pressler whereby both are active in the Veteran’s organization here in Grant County.
Tomorrow, Sunday, October 12, 2025, the Perros Bravos/Brewer Hill Project members witll hold a Potluck at the Hearth Building located at 1915 N. Swan Street from 1:00 to 3:00 p. m. Music by DJ Danny Arzola playing oldies, but goodies! Bring a dish to share with others.
This community celebration led by Rosemary and Robert Peru along with Javi Marrufo will introduce what many community members have been working on for a few months. Memories, oral history and socializing with many who were brought up and still live in Perros Bravos. This is the official kickoff of the Perros Bravos/Brewer Hill Project. It is hoped you can attend and support the group’s efforts.
Plenty of food, drinks (nonalcoholic), music and memories to share! Please join us! We’d like to see you there! The building has gotten excellent use this week:
Perros Bravos/Brewer Hill meeting on Monday
Democratic Party meeting on Wednesday
Funeral Fellowship on Friday afternoon
Sunday, Dorian will be filming a cooking lesson using the Hall
Good to see our Building being used!
Regular Agenda: Treasurer’s report, Building report, Guests, Discussion on upcoming projects, Report from committees, Reports from our members and their involvement in other important community organizations, Any new business anyone would like to bring up!
Join us on Tuesday, October 14th! Hope to see you there for all the news! Too much to put it on the Update!
Sincerely,
Fred Baca, President
LULAC Council 8003
September 7, 2025
TIME FOR ANOTHER UPDATE!!
Hope all is well with everyone and I hope everyone is having a great afternoon!
A reminder:Our regularly scheduled meeting is set for this Tuesday, September 9, 2025. The meeting will be at the Polo Sierra LULAC Hall located at 100 Alice Street. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 5:30 p. m. Special Guests: Simon Wheaton-Smith, a mayoral candidate for Silver City Ray Goellner, President of the Silver City Chapter of the Rotary Club.
OUR BIG AWARDS CELEBRATION IS THIS SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2025! IT IS SCHEDULED TO START AT 6;00 P. M. AT OUR POLO SIERRA LULAC HALL! EVERY MEMBER IS WELCOMED TO BRING SOMETHING TO THE POTLUCK! DON’T KNOW WHAT TO BRING?? CONTACT: Manuela Baca Jenkins at 480-459-7574 mjenkins43@cox.netTHOSE RECEIVING STATE HONORS AT THE NEW MEXICO STATE LULAC CONVENTION IN ESPANOLA:
Educator of the Year: Lucinda Escobar Valencia
Woman of the Year: Elizabeth “Lisa” Vasquez
Man of the Year: Javi Marrufo
Council of the Year: LULAC Council 8003 of Silver City
We congratulate Rudy Martinez on the wonderful and superb Veteran’s Breakfast held at the State Convention on Saturday, August16, 2025. His guest speakers of U. S. Senator Ben Ray Lujan and our very own member in New Mexico Lt. Governor Dr. Howie Morales spoke on the importance of Veterans and how they have served bravely for many years. Thanks again, Rudy for working so diligently and producing such a great breakfast program! Rudy is our State Representative for LULAC on Veteran’s issues and has done a super job getting the word out!
Thanks to those that traveled to Espanola, New Mexico for the State LULAC Convention and served as Delegates: Manuela Baca Jenkins, Rudy Martinez , Javi Marrufo
Also getting votes on State elections and other business conducted were: Fred Marquez as Deputy for Young Adults, Fred Baca as NM State LULAC Director
WE EXTEND OUR CONGRATULATIONS TO JAVI MARRUFO AS HE WAS VOTED IN BY ACCLAMATION AS THE NEW NM STATE DIRECTOR! CONGRATULATIONS JAVI
Javi also served as the photographer for this Convention! Hope to see some of those pictures in our website! Next years State Convention will be hosted by Las Cruces Council 120 and the Otero LULAC Council from Alamogordo. Plans are to have the convention at the Inn of the Mountain Gods near Ruidoso and Mescalero.
I was privileged to be asked to represent LULAC Council 8003 along with the Episcopal Church to deliver baked cookies to our law enforcement, EMT;s, fire departments, dispatch, Police departments, Sheriff’s Department and the many who sacrificed and saved lives during the 9-11 tragedy! We hope that we don’t forget the nightmare and keep remembering the many lives that were lost in that catastrophe!
My assignment: Monday, September 8: Grant County Sheriff’s Department EMT headquarters in Silver City Thursday: Santa Clara Police Department and Fire Department. Again, I am very proud to represent our LULAC Council! Come to the meeting!! There’s much more!
Sincerely,
Fred Baca, President, LULAC Council 8003
August 10, 2025
TIME FOR ANOTHER UPDATE!!
Greetings to everyone and I hope all are doing well or just hanging in there! Our next regular meeting is Tuesday, August 12, 2025. The meeting will be at the Polo Sierra LULAC Hall located at 100 Alice Street here in Silver City. Meeting is slated to start at 5:30 p. m.
Agenda items:
Two speakers: Jamie Sechrist, Executive Director of the Gila Community Foundation
George Carr will speak on immigration concerns and new developments
We may have a special guest who i invited to our meeting in Ray Goellner, President of the Rotary Club. I was honored to speak at one of their meetings last month to introduce LULAC and speak on our projects. I thoroughly enjoyed attending the meeting! I met some real nice people! I invited him to our meeting! I am hoping he make it to this meeting and if not, our September meeting!
Last night or Saturday, August 9, 2025, I attended and participated in the Copper Country Senior Olympics Banquet at the Convention Center. Our guest speaker was none other than Lt. Governor Dr. Howie Morales! He presented a very motivational type talk. Members: Fred Baca, Manuela Jenkins, Lynn Baca, Fermin Lopez and Bea McKinney came gave support. Special guests were members of the Dona Ana Senior Olympics Organization. It was my honor to introduce him!
Returning to Agenda items:
Building report
Treasurer’s report
Finalization of the Delegate list for our State LULAC Convention in Espanola, New Mexico Proposal to have Delegate fees paid by the Council (currently we are eligible for 5 delegates and I and Fred Marquez get votes as State officers)
Update on Convention details
Hispanic Author report
Brewer Hill update
Update on WNMU Presidential Search Town Hall meeting
Report from other member who belong to other organizations who would like to update us as to what their organizations are doing. Silver City Museum, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Bayard Public Library, WILL program and any others.
National LULAC Convention (Long Beach, California) This past week Assistance on helping build a LULAC Council 8003 table for the State Convention. Ideas, pictures items where we can let others know what our Council is doing and who we are!
I am sure there will be other items brought up at the meeting also. Next meeting date is scheduled for the second Tuesday of September. September9, 2025.
I should be in town!!
Sincerely,
Fred Baca, President
April 5, 2025
Hope everyone is doing fine!
Condolences to the family of one of our former members in Ora Rede who passes on Monday, March 31, 2025 in Hurst, Texas.
Our next scheduled meeting is on Tuesday, April 15th, 2025.
Meeting on the 15th will start at 5:30 p. m. as usual. Location: 100 Alice Street, Silver City, NM. I neglected to mention that Mr. Fred Marquez was in attendance at our last regular meeting in March. I regret the omittance. Sorry Fred!
Our special guest is Athena Wolf who represents a group who is concerned about the immigration problems and how they are affecting people. We had a super Enchilada Sales meeting at the Bayard Public Library on Tuesday, April 1st. The group discussed plans for the upcoming Enchilada Sales on Friday, May 16. Excellent information was put forth by all who attended. The committee is still calling out to members for donations of food items. delivery drivers, kitchen workers and all around help. There is something for everyone! Please join us as it sounds like a lot of fun! Please contact me or Renee for more information. Frances and Renee are going to Las Cruces and purchasing items at Sams Club on Saturday April 12. I have already finished cleaning three sacks of dried red chili. Ready for blending on Sunday, Sunday, April 13. Come join the party! A huge thanks for the generous donations from Frank and Betty Quarrell, Adriene Booth and others who we will I am sure great strides are being made in the selection process for our WILL Hispanic Author. Javi, Renee and Mikki have reported great progress at our last meeting. Great input from Simon on authors we need to consider.
The St. Francis Ministry will be using the Hall on Saturday, April 5, 2025 for a fellowship gathering. They were very kind and gave us a generous donation for the use of the Hall! Thank you Florence Hall! Vangie Montes is scheduled to use the Hall on Saturday, April 19th for a baby shower. Contratulations on becoming a Grandmother again, Vangie.
On May 9th, the Hall is rented for a WNMU graduation party. They will decorate the Hall for the special gathering! The 150th St. Vincent de Paul Commemorative booklet committee has used the Hall twice to put together commemorative booklets. Thanks Marivel and Javi for attending and lending your expertise! I also attend with a few other church members.
Rumor has it that the Brewer Hill Project is getting formulated by community members; Robert and Rosemary Peru. Javi will be lending his expertise in interviewing and overseeing the progress of the group coming together. Anyone is welcomed to give any information on the History of Brewer Hill! Several people that I have spoken to are very excited about the project as am I. I lived my younger years in Brewer Hills! I have a few stories to tell also! It has the potential to be as huge as the Chihuahua Hill Project!!
My trip to Washington DC was very informative, enjoyable and got to see many friends from all over the Country. Many have declared for National Offices and are getting ready for the National LULAC Convention in Long beach, California, in Augusst14-17, 2025. Our State Convention will be held in Espanola, New Mexico, for 2025. It is slated for August 8, 9 and 10. One can begin to book rooms at only $69 per room per night! It’s at a well know Casino in the area and should have many special programs and events on the three day convention. I believe our own Rudy Martinez will present a program related to our Veterans
Our rechartering information has been turned in to the National Membership Office. Special thanks Lynn Godoy Baca and Frances Vasquez for their diligence on this important matter!! More to come! Need more immediate information contact Fred Baca at 575-538-9286 or email at baca_fred@yahoo.com.
Please contact Renee on the Enchilada Sales information.
Sincerely,
Fred Baca, President
LULAC Council 8003
March 26, 2025
Greetings to everyone! Hope everyone is doing well!
Our new officers for 2025 starting from March 2025 to March 2026 are:
Fred Baca – President (reelected), Javi Marrufo- Vice President, Secretary/Treasurer- Frances Vasquez, Parliamentarian – Danny Vasquez, Chaplain – Renee Provencio, Building manager- Fred Baca(self appointed)
Congratulations to all the officer holders!
Our next meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, April 15, 2025. Fred Baca will be at a doctor’s appointment in Phoenix on our regular meeting date which is the second Tuesday of every month.
I would like to thank the members and guests that were present at our last regular meeting on Tuesday, March 18, 2025.
Attending were:Fred Baca, Lynn Baca, Ted Pressler, Frances Vasquez, Danny Vasquez, Fermin Lopez Sr., Renee Provencio, Mikki Jemin, Della Acosta, Javi Marrufo, Marivel Medel, Rudy Martinez, Claudia Elferdink, Bea McKinney, and Simon Sotelo.
Making special presentations: Victoria Chick on the establishing of the southwest regional art museum and art center. James Charleston, Executive Director presenting on the Silver City Theatre. J james is in search of some Chicano men who would like to audition for parts in the play “The Last Angry Brown Hat” Ages 30 to 50. Interested in a part? Contact James at 303-349-8727. Perhaps you may know someone who is interested! James is also seeking someone who may be able to help with costume designing or seamstresses as he is seeking someone who can help. Please contact James at the number above.
ENCHILADA SALE!
Friday, may 16, 2025
Meeting to discuss the enchilada sale is on Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 5:30 p. m. at the Bayard Public Library, come and get the update on the dinner! Help is always welcomed!
Saturday, April 12th: Renee and Frances Vasquez will venture out to las cruces in search of needed supplies for the enchilada sales.
Sunday, April 13th: Chili making party! Time to be announced! Bring your party hat! Donations are still being sought! Physical help, money, ingredients or any of the needed items list on my previous update. Contact Renee at the Bayard Public Library for more info!
LULAC Council 8003 rechartering process concluding as it will be mailed out before March 31st. Thanks to all the members who paid their dues!
State LULAC Convention: August 15, 16, and 17, 2025. Norther NM Community of Ohkay Owingeh located minutes from Santa Fe in the beautiful Espanola Valley.
Please make plans to attend. If you already know you are going, please contact Fred Baca. The OHKAY Casino-Hotel Resort Rooms: $69 per night. Let me know as soon as possible, please.
Sincerely,
Fred Baca, President
LULAC Council 8003
March 11, 2025
Hope everyone is coping well with illness and the political picture! Our next regular meeting for LULAC Council 8003 was rescheduled to Tuesday, March 18, 2025 This information was on my last update. So, no meeting today, Tuesday, March 11, 2025. A reminder that we are having Council elections on that meeting of March 18th. Interested in an office for our Council? Open positions: President, Vice President, Secretary/Treasurer Other positions: Chaplain, Parliamentarian and Building Manager. Hope you all can give serious consideration to taking a position.
We have four potential members coming to our meeting on the 18th. I advised that they should come to a meeting and make up their minds whether LULAC Council 8003 is for them. Let’s welcome them to our meeting as we may gain 4 potential members! We have a guest in Virginia Chick who will present on the Southwest Regional Art Museum and Art Center on the 18th. We will be looking forward to her presentation! James Charleston, Executive Director of the Silver City Theatre has put out a calling for actors in the next Play they putting on. Especially in need are Chicano men from 30-50 years of age for auditions. A noted Chicano director from Phoenix, Arizona is coming to Silver City to direct the play himself! Play: The Last Angry Brown Hat by Alfredo Ramos Here’s a great opportunity to get involved in our Silver City Theatre! If your interested contact Jim at Jim@silvercitycommunitytheater.com or Chris Chavez at crc0377@gmail.com. Spread the word to friends and acquaintances.
Paperwork deadline for reapplying for our charter has been moved to March 31. You can still pay your dues if you haven’t gotten a chance. We will get a report on how our selection for a Hispanic Author sponsored by LULAC Council 8003 and The WILL program from WNMU. Contact: Javi Marrufo, Mikki Jemin or Cindy Provencio for more information on this great venture. Thank you Dr. Fox!
After spending about 7 hours at the Hall about two weeks ago on plumbing issues, I am glad to say our drain from the kitchen has been cleared! Cost to Council is approximately $30! Saved us a bunch on a plumber! I am not a certified plumber, but it needed to get done and as inexpensively as we could! We will hear other reports on what else is happening as will as a Treasurer’s report. I will be traveling to Washington DC beginning my journey today, Tuesday. I will attend the National LULAC Board meeting as the State LULAC Director. Should be back Friday evening!
Sincerely,
Fred Baca, President
LULAC Council 8003
February 28, 2025
Good morning everyone! I wish all of you the best in what the day may bring! Prayers and good wishes for everyone going through some tough medical issues or otherwise. Had a great time with Bea McKinney at a special reception for all Silver City Museum volunteers on Monday, February 24 from 2:00 – 4:00 in the afternoon! Lynn and I really enjoyed the reception. Plenty of snacks and great company! Thanks Bart! We were able to converse with Mary Parker of the WILL Program also! Super entertainment! Whoever they were, they were really good!
Bart sent me an email a few days ago introducing me to Kathy Hymer from the Light Art Space Gallery on Broadway Street. The gallery is having two exciting upcoming exhibitions opening in March.
Louis Carlos Bernal: Retrospectivita and the Art of Alvaro Encisco: Ghosts from the Desert Mr. Bernal is an artist living and working out of Tucson, Arizona. One of Bernal’s famous photographs was taken here in the Buffalo Bar! The Light Art Space Gallery has ben open since September of 2018. The opening celebration will be Friday, March 7, from 5-7 p. m. ArtistAlvaro Encisco will be be present to talk on his work starting at 5:30 ;p. Show runs until Saturday March 29. Gallery hours are Thursday 11-4, Friday 11-5, Saturday 11-5 , Sunday 11-3 and by appointments. Call 575-574- 8444.
Our regular LULAC Council 8003 meeting will have to be cancelled until Tuesday, March 18. I will travel to Washington DC for a National Board meeting on that on the regular meeting date. Council elections will be held on that meeting in March for all elected offices and appointments to other positions in the Council. Care to run for an office! Declare you candidacy for President, Vice President, Secretary-treasurer. Perhaps an appointed position as Chaplain, parliamentarian or building manager. Be prepared for a speech or two ! We need some fresh blood in all positions! A huge thanks to those who have stepped up in the past to help the Council continue to flourish!
I have spent several hours doing some plumbing at the Hall. Seems like our drain from the kitchen on our was plugged! This was starting to become a problem several weeks ago. I decided to tackle the project. I believe I got it working again! It cost the Council approximately $30 instead of the couple of hundred dollars from a plumber! I am totally amateur!
Our Hispanic Author selection committee has been named: Mikki Jemin, Renee Provencio and Javi Marrufo. Hopefully the committee can come up with an outstanding Southwest Hispanic Author by sometime in June. I know they are diligently doing research and probably some reading! Thanks Dr. Fox and Ted Pressler and others for your work on the Southwest Word Fiesta!
Renee is setting up a meeting on March 5 to plan the Enchilada Dinner scheduled for sometime in May. You can contact her if you wish to be directly involved in the committee for time and place. Unfortunately, I will be in Phoenix for a doctor’s appointment. We will keep you updated as to developments. I am sure Renee could use any donations of funds, eggs, corn tortillas, chile makers, help delivering, making the enchiladas, etc. The fundraising is for the Bayard Library and LULAC Council 8003. I hope we can count on our Council members to contribute our share of whatever is needed!
Bea, please let our guest know that we move our date up to March 18th for our regular meeting! Thanks!
State Convention venue has changed to Casino in Espanola! Cost and expenses drove it our of Santa Fe. It is scheduled for Augusta 15, 16, and 17. This could all change, but I just wanted to keep up updated. Much more to come on the Update! This is just to give you an idea of what has and will be happening soon!
Next Council meeting 5:30 p. m. on Tuesday, March 18 at the Polo Sierra LULAC Hall! Hope to see you there!
Sincerely,
Fred Baca, President
LULAC Council 8003
January 7, 2025
Happy New Year!
I hope everyone has entered the new year in good fashion! I hope everyone had a great Christmas and got the gifts they wanted! Our prayers to all going thru difficult illness and not feeling your best. We certainly hope things get better for you, your family members or close friends.
I received the sad news on the loss and passing of Lousia Quarrell ( mother of our member, Frank Quarrell and mother in law to our other member in Betty Quarrell.
Louisa was a long time member of our Council. She will be missed. Louisa contributed in many ways to the early development of our Council. We send our prayers and sincere condolences to Frank and Betty, and to all their family.
Council dues are now being accepted. They are $15 per year. They can be mailed to LULAC Council 8003, P. O. Box 3021 Silver City, NM 88062. You can pay also if you are attending our meetings. We would appreciate the dues being paid as soon as you can do we can do the appropriate paperwork and send it in to the National Office.
Our next regular meeting is on Tuesday, January 14, 2025. The meeting will be at the Polo Sierra LULAC Hall on 100 Alice Street. The meeting is slated to start at 5:30 p. m. There are no special guest on the docket for this meeting.
On the Agenda:
Treasurer’s report, Building report, Fundraising, Reports on organizations we are are a part of, anything else that comes up.
Hope you can come to the meeting!
Sincerely,
Fred Baca, President
LULAC Council 8003.
November 17, 2024
Hope we find everyone doing well! Prayers to those having difficult medical issues.
A big “Thanks” to the LULAC Council 8003 members that were able to come out and help at the Tamal Fiesta booth that the Council set up.
Special thanks to Fermin Lopez Sr., Fred Marquez, Renee Provencio, Fred Baca, Jessica Salaiz, Mikki Jemin and Javi Marrufo and of course the ever present Bea McKinney working the circuit. Hope to see pictures from Bea and Javi on our website very soon!
Our booth make $197 from the sales of 50/50 raffle tickets, LULAC t-shirts and another donation of Sethycreation T-shirts donated by Francis, Brianna, Seth and Ben Fishcher. We received $21 from dues and another $21 from a new member.
There were several inquiries as to what LULAC was about and what it stood for. We also sold a few of the donated tumblers and old convention tumbers.
I felt we got super support from those attending, especially the many friends of our Council! We even go monetary donationsfrom some of the people coming to our booth.
Our own Fermin Lopez St. won the 50/50 raffle and took home $142!Although it was rather cool with cool breezes staring up in the afternoon and after a few minor glitches with our tent. Everything considered, it went well.
The Fiesta brought in quite a few people ready to eat great food, great entertainment and enjoy the company of friends and acquaintances. The Fiesta seems to be getting larger each year. Special thanks to Raul Turrieta wfho commandeered the event and along with a great committee made the Fiesta a super success.
If you didn’t get a chance to go, you missed a great time!
It was great seeing our friends and supporters. It had a fun atmosphere with plenty of things to do and get involved in. It was very well planned!. My thanks to the Santa Clara committee that worked on this for a few months and got it done!
Our next meeting is on Tuesday, December 10, 2024.
We thank Jim Charleston from the Silver City Theater group who made a great presentation. He make a plea for our Council to look into the possibility for getting more involved and getting the youth interested in theater production.
We had a serious discussion on fundraising. It appears that the Enchilada Dinners may be on its last leg. Our stalwart members and volunteers who usually ramrod the Enchilada Dinners are dealing with medical issues. Its very difficult to continue the dinners without the volunteers that it takes to do Enchiladas.
We as a Council need to look at Fundraising projects to keep on going. We seriously need your input, but much more than that, is your help.
Suggestion brought forth were: A food raffle, looking into a “Round up” opportunity with the Silver City Food Co-op. Please send suggestions on fundraisers. We could also use members to step up and Chair the suggested fundraisers
Sincerely,
Fred Baca, President
LULAC Council 8003.
September 17,2024
Hope I find everyone doing well!
Our meeting on Tuesday, September 10, 2024 was well attended! Thank you for all that were able to attend.
We were unable to have a formal meeting as our Treasurer-Secretary was ill and could not attend. Our vice president was also absent. We did not have a quorum to conduct any business or take any votes. We did have an informal discussion on a few topics, but of course no action was taken.
Starting out was a superb presentation by Marivel on the LULAC Council Website. The Website is going to be great!
Its taken a lot of time, work and effort from Marivel and Javi not to forget Mariam McDonad who has guided both Marivel and Javi. It has color, history, pictures, applications, contact information, a calendar system for events occurring or will occur. There is much more and its coming out soon after some tweaking and fixing a few bugs.
We thoroughly enjoyed a presentation from Holley Nonen and Joseph Kennedy from the Crooked Forest Institute. Their presentation centered on the need for housing nationally as well as locally. They presented a very sequential method of getting the information out to the public on how housing can be made more affordable and attainable. It also spoke on the sizes of houses as well as better and more environmentally friendly materials can be used.
We had some very good questions from our members. I invited them to come back and give us any update. There was quite a bit of information to take in. We did cut the presentation down some, as many members wanted to attend the National Presidential Debates starting at 7:00 pm. We were our of the building early as to allow members to attend the Debate which was televised.
Our next meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, October 22, 2024. The meeting will start promptly at 5:30 pm with a presentation Mr. Norm Wheeler who will speak on his platform as he is running for our District Attorney position in this coming election.
Presentation will be approximately 15-20 minutes.
Mr. Renteria, who is the present District Attorney in office has said he will come and discuss his platform as he is running again for the position. He has agreed to make his presentation at 7:00 pm. Mr. Renteria will be given the same amount of time. Both were invited. As you know, we are a nonpartisan organization and will not endorse any candidate in any office as an organization.
Members attending the last meeting: Fred Baca, Manuela Baca Jenkins, Lisa Vasquez, Della Acosta, Mikki Jemin, Marivel Medel, Javi Marrufo, Ted Pressler, our guests, Holley N. and Joseph Kennedy,our newest member Fermin Lopez, Sr., Bea McKinney, Renee Provencio and Lynn Baca. I am positive I forgot someone.
Hope to see you on October 22, 2024 at 5:30 pm.
Sincerely,
Fred Baca, President
LULAC Council 8003