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10 HIDALGO COUNTY HERALD FRIDAY, JULY 26, 2013
Ana Castillo to present Memoir Writing
workshop September 28 in Silver City
Submitted by JEANNIE MILLER/
SWFWW
Ana Castillo, an award win-
ning poet, novelist, essayist, edi-
tor, playwright
and translator,
will teach a Mem-
oir Writing work-
shop, at the
Southwest Festi-
val of the Written
Word in Silver
City NM on Sat-
urday, Septem-
ber 28th. It is
open to anyone
who wants to
learn to write
memoir. The
workshop fee is Ana Castillo
$125 and enroll-
ment is limited.
"In memoir, the reader must
be persuaded that the narrator is
writing honestlyl whether or not
he/she is secondary. It doesn't
matter as much 'what happened'
as what you make of what you
remember may have happened,"
explains Ms. Castillo. She de-
scribes" the workshop as a time for
talking, laughing, crying, vent-
ing, and writing from the heart
and mind. After that, she says, the
participants will learn to get rid
of all the sentimentality and leave
on the page what is important to
the reader to know about their
memoirs. The workshop will
consist of a number of exercises
which will help the participants
to know how to get started work-
ing on a memoir essay.
Ms. Castillo will also be the
Southwest Festival of the Writ-
ten Word's opening
speaker on Friday,
Sept 27 from 5:00-
6:30pm. Her key-
note address is
titled "Two New
Books and How
They Came to Be in
an Anti-Print Age".
This event is free
and open to the
public.
Ana Castillo's
novel, Sapogonia,
was a New York
Times Notable
Book of the Year.
She is editor of La Tolteca, an arts
and literary zine dedicated to the
advancement of a world without
borders and censorship and is on
the advisory board of the new
American Writers Museum in
D.C. Castillo held the Sor Juana
Inrs de la Cruz Endowed Chair at
DePaul University, The Martin
Luther King, Jr Dfstinguished
Visiting Scholar post at M.I.T. and
was the Poet-in-Residence at
Westminster College in Utah,
among other teaching positions
throughout her extensive career.
Ana Castillo holds an M.A from
the University of Chicago and a
Ph.D., University of Bremen, Ger-
many. In Fall, 2013 Ana Castillo
will be teaching memoir writing
in the MA/MFA writing program
at Northwestern University in
Chicago. The 20th anniversary
edition of her classic book of
Xicana essays, Massacre of the
Dreamers will be released Fall,
2014
She has also written several
essays hnd columns for newspa-
pers and magazines across the
country on various topics such as
the murder of Tejano singer,
Selena; gender roles in the
Farmworkers movement (Los An-
geles Times, 4/20/97); being a
mother (Salon, 4/12/99); and
Feministas turning 50 (Oxygen).
She has been profiled and inter-
viewed on National Public Radio
and the History Channel. In ad-
dition, she has also been featured
along with Sandra Cisneros and
Denise Chavez in Vanity Fair (9/
94) and Hispanic (3/95).
The Southwest Festival of
the Written Word will take place
in Silver City NM from Friday
September 27-Sunday September
29. All events at the Festival are
free except for the Ana Castillo
Memoir Writing workshop and
the Festival Banquet on Saturday
night with keynote speaker,
Denise Chavez. The Workshop
cost is $125 and the Banquet
ticket cost is $30.
To register for the Memoir
Writing Workshop, send an email
to chair@swwordfiesta.org. For
full information on the Southwest
Festival of the Written Word, visit
www.swwordfiesta.org
Aug. 1deadline for FSA county nominations
Submitted by USDA/Lordsburg local FSA county committees.
Juan M. Garcia, Administra- ."The last day to file your
tor of USDA's Farm Servicenomination form is about a week
Agency (FSA), today reminded away," Garcia said. "Please get
farmers, ranchers and other agri- involved this year and nominate
cultural producers that they have the candidate of your choice or
until Aug. 1, 2013, to nominate nominate yourself to serve on
eligible candidates to serve on your local county committee. I
Donna Levine, juror for the 2013 Purchase Prize Award Exhibit.
Juror announced ,th
Annual Purchase Prize Exhibit
Submitted by GCAG
The Grant County Art Guild has chosen ~cottsdale, Arizona, art-.
ist Donna Levine as the juror for this year's Purchase Prize Award
Exhibit that will be opening September 24 at the Guild's Pinos Altos
Art Gallery. A lifetime of art follows Ddnna Levine, along with over
forty years of teaching art. She has a Master's Degree that she earned
in Florence, Italy. Donna's richly colored impressionistic paintings
emerge from intense observation and contemplation of growth and
change. This is done with her instinctual, intuitive, passionate eye,
which she willingly imparts to her students. The Guild is pleased to
announce that Donna is offering a three-day workshop on painting in
all media on September 25 through 27. Class sizes are limited. To
reserve a place, call 575-534-2899 or email info@gcag.org.
The Purchase Prize Award Exhibit, open to all New Mexico art-
ists, is in its 28'h year and has gained recognition as one of the most
popular annual shows in the area. There is a total of $2,400 in prize
money awarded for the show winners, including the $1,500 for plar-
chase of the "Best in Show" winning painting. The deadline for entry
forms is August 5. Check the gcag.org website for your entry forms
and further information.
especially encourage the nomi-
nation of beginning farmers and
ranchers, as well as women and
minorities. This is your opportu-
nity to have a say in how federal
programs are delivered in your
county."
FSA county committees help
local farmers through their deci-
sions on commodity price support
4oans, conservation programs and
disaster programs, and by work-
ing closely withcounty execu-
tive directors.
To be eligible to hold office
as a county committee member,
individuals must participate or
cooperate in a program adminis-
tered by FSA, be eligible to vote
in a county committee election
and live in the local administra-
tive area where they are running.
A complete list of eligibility re-
quirements, more information
and nomination forms are avail-
able at http://www.fsa.usda.gov/
elections
All nominees must sign the
nomination form FSA-669A. All
nomination forms for the 2013
election must be postmarked or
received in the local USDA Ser-
vice Center by close of business
on Aug. 1, 2013. Ballots will be
mailed to eligible voters by Nov.
4 and are due back to the local
USDA Service Centers on Dec. 2.
The newly elected county com-
mittee members will take office
Jan. 1, 2014.
USDA is an equal opportu-
nity provider and employer. To
file a complaint of discrimina-
tion, write to USDA, Assistant
Secretary for Civil Rights, Office
of the Assistant Secretary for Civil
Rights, 1400 Independence Av-
enue, S.W., Stop 9410, Washing-
ton, DC 20250-9410, or call toll-
free at (866) 632-9992 (English)
or (800) 877-8339 (TDD) or (866)
377-8642 (English Federal-relay)
or (800) 845-6136 (Spanish Fed-
eral-relay).
Lordsburg Elks welcome six new members
The Lordsburg Elks Lodge held initiation ceremonies on June 19, 2013, welcoming into the order six
new members. Pictured above are Randy Estrada, Anna Molina, Edgar Gomez, Priscilla Perea,
Esquire Annette George, Exalted Ruler Christine Ortiz, Steven Perea and Chris Helbig. For more
information on becoming a member of the Lordsburg Elks Lodge, contact Membership Chairman
Glenda Greene at 575-639-2484 or email dairygreene@hotmail.com. Herald staff photo
Biol find end
Jem
Mountains
der
Submitted by NM DEPTofGAMEThe Jemez Mountains sala- Jemez Mountains of New
& FiSH/Santa Fe mander (Plethodan neomexiean- Mexico. It is listed as endangered
Wildlife biologists made a~ us) of the family Plethodontidae, under the state Wildlife Conser-
startling discovery last week in is lungless and breathes through vation Act and has been proposed
the Jemez Mountains when for listing under the fed-
they found what is believed eral Endangered Species
to be the longest living en- Act.The salamander
dangered Jemez Mountains found under a small
salamander, branch Wednesday was
Mark Watson, a Depart- about five inches long. It
ment of Game and Fish bi- was discovered during a
ologist and a member of the salamander training work-
" New Mexico Endemic Sala- shop for about 25 biolo-
mander Team, said the sala- gists and naturalists rep-
mander found just east of the resenting Jemez Pueblo,
Valles Caldera National Pre- The Nature Conservancy,
serve is estimated to be 17 Bandelier National
to 18 years old. It was iden- Monument, the Valles
tified as a salamander cap- Caldera National Pre-
tured and tagged in 1998 by Colored markers injected into this salamander serve, and private consult~
antS.
Department Herpetologist in 1998 helped biologists estimate its age as The workshop was
Charlie Painter. 17 to 18 years when it was found, conducted by the New
"This was a very excit- Photo by MARKWATSON Mexico Endemic Sala-
ing and surprising find,"
mander Team, which consists of
Watson said. "Experts had be- its skin. It spends nine months of members from the Department of
lieved this species to be long- the year underground, coming Game and Fish, the U.S. Fish and
lived, but we never knew just how out only during the summer mon- Wildlife Service and the U.S. For-
long-lived these salamanders soon rains. It is found only in the est Service.
could be."
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