New Mexico
A northern New Mexico community’s well is running dry
NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – A group in northern New Mexico already impacted by the Hermit’s Peak Calf Canyon fireplace has one other drawback on their fingers. Buena Vista in Mora County is house to greater than 350 folks and proper now households are struggling as a result of the group’s nicely is working dry.
Think about not accessing clear water on your on a regular basis wants. Nicholas Vigil says that’s the fact for folks residing in Buena Vista. “Because the center of the fireplace, we’ve discovered that we will’t provide the fireplace division plus our residents. And so we discovered the lesson the arduous means,” Vigil stated.
The group is already impacted by wildfires and now folks have to collect their very own water and ration it – for the reason that wells’ aquifer just isn’t replenishing itself. “They’re having to actually go all the way down to the irrigation ditches and replenish their five-gallon buckets or no matter they will discover, simply to flush their bogs,” explains Vigil.
Many individuals on this rural group are older. “The issue is the aged as a result of you understand, 5 gallons of water is fairly heavy,” Vigil stated.
For years the Mutual Home Water Affiliation has needed to construct a brand new nicely due to getting old infrastructure, and the wildfires have solely made issues worse. Consultant Roger Montoya says, “The hearth was not their fault. The hearth was a part of a prescribed burn. And since the firefighter fighters had to attract on the nicely, it additional depleted the aquifer to a harmful stage.”
The challenge for a brand new nicely is estimated to price round half 1,000,000 {dollars}. There’s about 270,000 {dollars} earmarked for the challenge however that received’t reduce it. “They’re needing about $200,000, roughly, to finish the brand new nicely, do all the rigging and digging and hooking as much as the present wheelhouse to make sure that the residents can have the water they want,” Rep. Moya stated.
Vigil additionally serves because the chairman of the Buena Vista Rural Water Affiliation. He’s pleading with lawmakers, like Consultant Montoya, to assist his group. “We actually want folks to assist. I don’t want folks to vow me that they may look into it. I actually need motion.”
Proper now, engineering and allowing for the brand new nicely are in place. Consultant Montoya says he’s asking Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham to safe the extra cash to get the challenge carried out. Consultant Montoya says there are about 600 mutual home water associations throughout New Mexico in want of modernizing.
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For Celina’s Biscochitos that means making double if not three times more biscochitos to make sure locals and people nationwide have a sweet taste of New Mexico tradition.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – If you’re from New Mexico, there’s a popular sweet treat that will be on the dessert table this holiday season, biscochitos.
While you can buy them year-round, the holidays are especially busy for bakeries who specialize in making them.
For Celina’s Biscochitos that means making double if not three times more biscochitos to make sure locals and people nationwide have a sweet taste of New Mexico tradition.
“We probably do on average about anywhere from about, this year, probably about maybe 400 to 600 dozen a day,” said Celina Grife, co-owner of Celina’s Biscochitos.
It’s no easy job making biscochitos.
For the past 14 years, Celina’s Biscochitos has been making her grandma’s recipe. This year, just like the rest, there is a high demand for our state’s official cookie, especially during the holidays.
“We’re just trying to keep up with the demand. So everyday by the end of the day, we’re just trying to scramble to make sure that we have enough cookies on the shelf for our customers, so that way they can pick them up at the end of the day,” said Grife.
They’re making anywhere from 4,000 to over 7,000 cookies a day. That’s two to three times more than what they usually make outside of the holiday season.
Over the years, Grife has added more than just their traditional cookie.
“Our very first flavor was the red chile biscochito. And then one thing lead to another, we just started playing with it,” Grife said.
Now they offer red and green chile, lemon, blue corn pinion and chocolate chip. This isn’t just the unique, different flavors they offer, it’s the tradition they carry on.
“We are one of the few commercial companies that are still making them the traditional way. So we still use lard, and by lard, I mean the old-fashioned blue and white container that everybody uses at home,” said Grife. “We still use brandy in our product as well. We still use the old fashion anise.”
One thing Grife has learned over the years is that for some people, a biscochito is much more than just a cookie.
“This is very personal to people, and I had no idea how personal it was to people. I could be working at an event, and I’ll have people say, ‘No, I can’t have yours because my mom or my aunt or my uncle.’ Whatever! Somebody makes them in the family,” said Grife. “Or we get somebody who doesn’t have that family member with them anymore, and they try ours, and they’re kind of like, ‘This brings back so many memories.’”
Grife says their goal is to keep that traditional biscochito flavor and texture, in every cookie they make.
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