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Give Grandly 2023: Give Grandly booths (photo by Bruce Bloy)GIVE GRANDLY! GIVE LOCAL! 65 SOUTHWEST NEW MEXICO NONPROFITS SHOWCASED DURING OUR 2024 COMMUNITY DAY OF GIVING
For 11 years Give Grandly! has created space to connect and celebrate community non-profits. This year, 65 nonprofit organizations will participate in our -- live and in-person! -- event Saturday, May 4, from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm at the Makers Market in downtown Silver City. Online donations are also available to allow all to contribute and show appreciation for the work being done by these vital organizations. Our online platform opened April 20th at www.givegrandly.org , to inaugurate a month of giving.
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Bryce Wooton, directs choir members of the Silver Chorale on one of their many "folk song" themed musical selections for their upcoming performances Friday May 3, at Terrazas Funeral Chapel in Santa Clara on 1 Ft. Bayard Road at 7pm and Sunday May 5, at the Silver City Church of Christ in Silver City at 1920 Little Walnut Road at 3pm. Melinda McClanahan will accompany the group on drum, Alexis Shirey and Karen Valentine, both on guitar for the song "Come Ye Ladies and Lairds." Laurel Brown is the choir's accompanist. The concerts are free to the public.Silver Chorale, a community mixed choir, is winding up rehearsals for this spring semester's concerts coming soon. Friday, May 3, the chorale will perform at Terrazas Funeral Chapel at 7pm in Santa Clara at 1 Ft. Bayard Road, and Sunday, May 5 at the Silver City Church of Christ, located at 1920 Little Walnut Road in Silver City at 3pm. The performances will be about an hour and a half long with intermission. The spring season presents a lighter fair with a "folk song" theme, as the singers will perform some recognizable favorites like "Shenandoah," "Cindy," "My Bonnie Lass She Smileth," "Down in the Valley to Pray," "Aura Lee," and seven others, plus two songs in Spanish, "La Martiana" and "La Llorna."
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New Mexico Senate Candidate Gabriel Ramos to hold dinner/fundraiser for his campaign on April 27. For more information and how to get tickets, see poster below:
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Grant County Community Concert Association
Saturday May 4
7:00 - 9:00 PM
The last concert of the GCCCA's 2023-24 concert season will feature Chrysalis Chamber Players with trumpeter Mary Bowden.  Launching the CCP's 12th season, founder Mary Elizabeth Bowden will be performing and touring with the women of the Chrysalis Chamber Players, presenting a recital of works for solo trumpet and string quartet. The program includes outstanding new arrangements and compositions highlighting virtuosic works by Beach, Debussy, Haydn, Bach, Mozart, and more.
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This photograph of the "Slim Jims" (left) the umpire and the "Fat Fellows" was taken at Yankie and Main Streets, circa 1888. Photo courtesy of the Silver City Museum. Silver City Museum, WILL, Present
"A Burlesque Take on the History of Baseball in SW New Mexico"
Silver City -- For baseball fans, there's nothing like springtime and the start of baseball season. Thursday, April 18, the Silver City Museum and WILL (Western Institute for Lifelong Learning) present "A Burlesque Take on the History of Baseball in Southwest New Mexico," from noon to 1 pm at the Besse-Forward Global Resource Center on the campus of WNMU, at the corner of 12th and Kentucky streets. The event is free, and will be presented by local historian Doug Dinwiddie, PhD.
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Sherry and Bryce Wooton rehearse for The Sunday Afternoon Musicale, along with other vocalists, keyboardists and the Jubilate Ringers, (hand-bell choir). Sunday, April 14, 3:00pm at the downtown Silver City Episcopal Church. Free admission with reception following.Â
Upcoming Events
| Wed Oct 30 @ 1:00PM - Gin Rummy - Little Toad Creek Brewery |
| Wed Oct 30 @ 3:00PM - 05:00PM Computer Class-Email and Internet Basics SC Public Library - Silver City Public Library |
| Wed Oct 30 @ 3:45PM - 05:00PM Classic gentle Yoga with Colleen Stinar - Church of Harmony |
| Wed Oct 30 @ 4:00PM - 08:00PM Family Genealogy Free Assistance for Everyone - |
| Wed Oct 30 @ 6:00PM - US 180 4-Lane Project Public Information Meeting - Hurley Community Center |
| Thu Oct 31 @ 1:00PM - 03:00PM Town of Silver City Trails and Open Space Advisory Committee - |
| Thu Oct 31 @ 3:00PM - SWSWA Special Meeting - |
| Thu Oct 31 @ 4:00PM - New York Comes to Silver City - SC Starlight Theatre |
| Thu Oct 31 @ 5:00PM - 06:15PM TOPS Take Off Pounds Sensible - American Legion Post 18 |
| Thu Oct 31 @ 6:00PM - Whiskey Creek Zócalo Songwriter's Showcase - Whiskey Creek Zocalo |
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