ABQ neighborhood watch hires off duty police
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Some
neighborhood associations in
Onate Neighborhood Association in the Northeast Heights
The police officers volunteer for the extra money, but
they can only volunteer for up to 20 hours a month of off-duty police overtime.
When a neighborhood association or commercial business requests the service,
they pay a fee to the city, which is used to pay the officers invovled.
NM film office sees potential in Carlsbad area
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Perhaps channeling the title character in the 1996 film Jerry Maguire, the New Mexico Film Office asked Carlsbad residents to "help us help you" during a town hall meeting Wednesday at New Mexico State University Carlsbad.Film Office director Nick Maniatis brought a team with him from Santa Fe to better educate the public about the film industry in New Mexico and the effect it could have on Carlsbad.
As part of the public meeting, men, women, and children alike were invited to fill out applications and get their headshots taken. Maniatis promised that this information would be submitted to all of the casting directors and agencies in the state looking for extras in upcoming films.
Fourteen-year-old Brandon Perini and his 17-year-old sister, Michelle, were very excited about this opportunity. "I think it would be so much fun. If they're here, why not try," said Brandon. And even though teenagers were the most represented age group at the Film Office Town Hall Meeting, they were not the only ones excited about the possibility of appearing in a movie.
"In high school, I used to be in plays, so I thought, 'What the heck?' I'm retired now. It'd be interesting to be selected as an extra in a movie," said Al Paneral who has lived in Carlsbad since 1963.
And even though Maniatis may have put a damper on some of those dreams when he said, "Getting on screen is a tough, long, long haul," he did tell the story of a young girl from New Mexico whose mother did not believe she had a chance in the film industry. Finally the girl made it to an audition and was recently cast as young Primrose Everdeen in "The Hunger Games." "It happened by this type of thing," said Maniatis.
But aside from getting individuals involved in film, Maniatis focused the meeting on ways to get the city itself to appear in major Hollywood motion pictures.
"It's a huge influx of dollars for cities that are film friendly. If a major film will come to our state and to your area, that's half a million dollars a day with hotels, food, and jobs," said Maniatis.
Don Gray, locations manager for the Film Office, said he was Carlsbad's "salesman" to the film industry.
"My job is to sell the state of New Mexico through the film industry." Gray's works closely with script managers in Hollywood to find unique locations that they are looking for. And with the caverns and oil derricks here, Gray said he sees a lot of potential for shooting movies in Carlsbad someday. But in order to do that, Gray enlisted the help of the public. "I need to get you to help me to help you," he said. The Film Office has a database of more than 60,000 photos of locations around the state including dairy farms, alley ways, or desolate gas stations which are very popular shooting locations for movies. But even though Gray bragged that he has put 240,000 miles on his Toyota driving around the state of New Mexico to find these locations, he still needs the help of the local people...
Read more at The Carlsbad Current-Argus...
Lovelace and ABQ Health Partners reach agreement
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Lovelace
and ABQ Health Partners have reached a temporary agreement for some of their
patients.
ABQ Health Partners has agreed to continue accepting Lovelace
insurance for about three thousand transitional patients. This includes
patients who are undergoing cancer treatment, have surgery planned or were just
discharged from a hospital. Pregnant women can also keep their doctors up to
six weeks after the pregnancy.
The remaining ABQ Health Partners patients with
Lovelace insurance will have to find new insurance or a new doctor.
Newsbreak New Mexico 8am Webcast 10/25/12
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Republican and Democrat big names visit NM
Fire in Carson National Forest 300 acres
NM aerospace and aviation potential
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Republican and Democrat big names visit NM
Fire in Carson National Forest 300 acres
NM aerospace and aviation potential
ERB investment returns reach historical high
The Educational Retirement Board said the pension
fund had assets valued at more than $9.7 billion at the end of September. The
previous high was $9.6 billion in September 1997, shortly before the state's
pension and investment funds nosedived because of a global meltdown in
financial markets.
About 97,000 educators and retirees are covered by the
pension program.
Court rules NM family can't sue over brain in casket
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The state Court of Appeals has ruled
that a
The family, whose identity isn't revealed in
the damage lawsuit, discovered the brain after smelling a "foul odor"
a day after a New Mexico funeral home gave it
to them in a bag containing the personal effects of a woman killed in a 2009
automobile accident in Utah
The brain was in a separate plastic bag labeled with the word
"brain."
Fire in Carson National Forest grows to more than 300 acres
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A fire burning in the
The fire was
expected to be very active Wednesday because of high winds pushing the flames
to the east.
The Midnight Fire was reported Tuesday about 5 miles northeast of
the town of Red River.Campers in the Valle Vidal, McCrystal and Cimarron
campgrounds have been warned to be ready to leave if the fire moves their way.
About
75 firefighters are battling the blaze.
Newsbreak New Mexico 5pm Webcast 10/24/12
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Environmental group accuses wildlife feds of keeping Mexican Wolf information secret
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Environmentalists on Tuesday accused
federal wildlife managers of keeping secret some of the details behind
decisions that led to the capture of a female Mexican gray wolf whose pack was
blamed for several cattle killings in southwestern
The criticism comes after a
public records request by WildEarth Guardians netted hundreds of pages of
blacked-out documents. Nearly 80 percent of the 870 pages released by the U.S.
Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services were redacted.
Wildlife Services noted in a letter to the
environmental group that some of the information requested was exempt under the
Freedom of Information Act because it included employee opinions and
recommendations and other draft documents.
WildEarth Guardians is planning to
appeal and is calling for a congressional investigation of the agency’s
handling of the records request.
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