Community News
Grant County Community Foundation announcements Jan 2024
- Category: Community News Community News
- Published: 27 December 2023 27 December 2023
Free Workshop: Utilizing Social Media and Other Best Practices
for Non-Profit Organizations: 11 January 2024
Are you looking to expand your skills, knowledge, and insights into Social Media? Our free workshop is the perfect opportunity for you to learn from an expert and enhance your own expertise. With a focus on practical learning, our workshop covers a range of social media topics and best practices, and provides hands-on experience to prepare you for real-world challenges.
Tyrone Lighting contest winners.
- Category: Community News Community News
- Published: 22 December 2023 22 December 2023
1st Prize - 218 ChalcociteList of winners and almost winners, selected by our panel of five judge-volunteers. We had a much better participation level than in the recent 'Covid' years. The judges agreed that it was difficult to choose the winners, because there were so many attractive displays.
Our 2023 winner is the Perez-Duran family at 218 Chalcocite. With the new LED lights, this family of five has found it's less expensive to power the display than with the old incandescent lights.
1st prize = 218 Chalcocite
2nd Price = 512 Copper
3rd Prize = 216 Chalcocite.
2nd Prize -512 CopperHonorable Mentions in no particular order:
501 Copper
502 Copper
102 Malachite
312 Bornite
517 Covellite.
Other homes which received points from the judges:
501 Malachite
508 Covellite
304 Copper
3rd Prize - 216 Chalcocite209 Chalcocite
202 Chalcocite
511 Tenorite
403 Chalcocite
504 Copper.
Honorable Mention - 502 Copper
Honorable Mention - 501 Copper
Honorable Mention - 102 Malachite
GNPC receives State Funding - Silva Creek Botanical Garden
- Category: Community News Community News
- Published: 21 December 2023 21 December 2023
Silva Creek Botanical Garden - Photo credit Elroy LimmerThe Gila Native Plant Society is delighted to announce that it is one of the twelve recipients of a Trails + grant from the New Mexico Outdoor Recreation Division. The $49,865 grant helps fund Phase One of its new Master Plan for Silva Creek Botanical Garden. The Gila Native Plant Society has been developing Silva Creek Botanical Garden for over 15 years, in cooperation with other organizations and community members. The new master plan helps focus and hone these efforts to increase the enjoyment of the Gila region’s rich, diverse native plants in an educational and aesthetically pleasing manner. The first phase will provide a habitat thicket that showcases how to attract wildlife, redesign the front entrance to be more welcoming and educational, install interpretive signs, construct a safety wall around the historic water tank that provides a surface for an educational mural, and update the children’s butterfly garden.
Preceptor Tau Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi
- Category: Community News Community News
- Published: 21 December 2023 21 December 2023
Preceptor Tau Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi is proud of its accomplishments and activities in 2023!
Service projects throughout the year included contributions to El Refugio, Spin and Wreaths Across America. Special projects were the distribution of treats and gifts for , Veteran residents at Fort Bayard Medical Center and the recent donation of beanies and gloves to the Gospel Mission. All projects are funded through continuous RADA cutlery sales and rummage sales.
Masons Unite for A Children’s better Christmas
- Category: Community News Community News
- Published: 19 December 2023 19 December 2023
Standing right to left in the foreground: Grant County Masonic Relief Coordinator Jason Hamilton, and his main supporter .. his wife Debbie, surrounded by some of the workers.This Holiday season, Grant County Masons from the Lodges in the County, with the assistance of some of their wives and other volunteers, invited 105 Grant County children to shop for the Holidays. $125.00 in funds for clothes was allocated for each child, who were chosen by the local Grant County School nurses as those in need.
“Clothe A Child”, is an annual event sponsored by the local Masonic community. Raising over $13,000 to clothe Grant County children in need and is but one of the many charitable activities supported by Grant County Masons each year. Lodges rely on fundraisers and donations from their members and others to give back to Grant County residents with about 10 different events sponsored this last year. The lodges are proud to help our community members have a better Christmas in 2023!
FMI Grant County Community Investment Fund Recipients
- Category: Community News Community News
- Published: 18 December 2023 18 December 2023
Freeport-McMoRan Foundation Announces 2023
Grant County Community Investment Fund Recipients
PHOENIX, AZ, December 18, 2023 –– Freeport-McMoRan is pleased to announce the Freeport-McMoRan Foundation has awarded $450,000 in Grant County as part of just over $3 million awarded to 55 projects in Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, New Mexico and Texas through its Community and Social Investment Fund process.
Recipient organizations will receive their monetary awards and be recognized by members of the Community Investment Committee during presentations in the coming months.
“The success of our community investments relies on partnering with communities to think through opportunities to address potential risks to resilience and well-being, and actively working to identify projects and programs that will strengthen communities over time,” said Tracy Bame, President, Freeport-McMoRan Foundation. “We are grateful for relationships with community partners that allow the kind of collaboration needed to deliver projects and programs that will yield the most meaningful social benefit and continue to build the foundation needed to ensure resilience in a post-mining scenario.”
Town of Silver City Awarded Funds for Beautification Efforts
- Category: Community News Community News
- Published: 18 December 2023 18 December 2023
Silver City -- Silver City will be ever more clean and beautiful, thanks to an innovative collaboration between town government and three local non-profit organizations, which was awarded $30,520 in grant funds from the New Mexico Department of Tourism's Clean and Beautiful Grant program. The funding will be used for litter clean-up, waste reduction, youth training initiatives and landscaping efforts in the historic downtown area including Big Ditch Park, as well as at the Waterworks Building on Little Walnut Road, just north of Jose Barrios Elementary School. Given that the grant program requires a dollar-for-dollar match which is met through donated staff time, supplies and volunteer hours, the total value of the initiative is more than $100,000.
PFLAG Gives Ally of the Year Award
- Category: Community News Community News
- Published: 18 December 2023 18 December 2023
Deb Cookingham and Hugh EppingSilver City, NM, 12/17/23—At the LGBTQ+ and allies Thanksgiving celebration dinner held on November 19, PFLAG Silver City presented Hugh Epping with the Ally of the Year award. Epping is a long-time ally to the LGBTQ+ community and is a member of both PFLAG Silver City and PFLAG Sturgeon Bay/Door County, Wisconsin.
Around 1978, Epping started working at the Open Door Clinic (ODC) shortly after it was founded. ODC, located in a suburb of Chicago, is a walk-in medical provider for sexually transmitted infections. He became director about the time AIDS came along when it was still known as GRIDS (Gay Related Immuno Deficiency Syndrome). In addition to notifying sexual partners of patients, ODC provided educational presentations to junior highs, high schools, colleges, churches, civic organizations and governmental bodies. When HIV/AIDS was first written about in the June 5, 1981 edition of the Center for Disease Control’s publication with the suspicion that the infection was transmitted sexually, the board of directors of ODC immediately incorporated HIV/AIDS education into their presentations. ODC was one of the first testing sites in Illinois.