South Valley Ink, Your source for all things South Valley...

SOUTH VALLEY INK prints news fit for conversation. We cover the South Valley, Los Lunas, and the Westside.  We distribute 4500 copies through small businesses along Isleta and Coors, and through Albertsons in the South Valley and on the West Side as well as Los Lunas.

      We're always looking for story ideas— so contact us if you have a question or story idea.  Our current issue is pictured to the right.  If you would like a copy, simply click on the picture and download a PDF directly to your desktop.  At the very bottom of this screen you can find past issues of SVI.

At the bottom of the page is an audio recording of a recent Los Padillas Acequia Meeting. 

Stories for  April:

• First conservation easement in the SV:  Sanctuary describes 8 acre site
   Sanctuary.  That one word describes the first conservation
  easement in the South Valley if all the plans go forward. 
  It will most likely be completed by the end of summer.
  
  
• Growers’ Market Plans Annual Spring Meeting
   Every spring the South Valley Growers’ Association holds a vendor registration meeting to explain how our market operates throughout the growing season and to provide valuable information about being a vendor at the South Valley Growers’ Market. This year, the meeting will be held on Sunday, May 16, 2010, at the Pajarito Senior Meal Site located at 6080 Isleta Blvd (across the street from Abuelita’s New Mexican Kitchen). The meeting will begin at 2:00 p.m.
  
• Click on the links below to get past issues of South Valley Ink.
• January 2010
• February 2010
• March 2010
• April 2010
  
  SOUTH VALLEY INK  is the distributor for the New Mexico historical adventure, Tiffany Blue.  This non-fiction book covers the  search for turquoise in territorial New Mexico when Charles Lewis Tiffany demanded perfect blue stones for his jewelry.  You can order Tiffany Blue  by emailing us at patmccraw@aol.com or use the contact us button. 
  

Tiffany Blue written by Patricia McCraw, editor of South Valley Ink, is the true story of Irish immigrant, James Patrick McNulty, who served as superintendent of the Tiffany Mines outside of Cerrillos, New Mexico.  McNulty keep the flow of turquoise going to Tiffany's of New York.    The book is based on the over 3,000 letters left behind by McNulty.  For one hundred years, these letters about the search for turquoise resided in large steamer trunks, and   they  have been donated to the New Mexico State Archives.  Click on the Tiffany Blue button above to read more on how to order and to see a book preview.

Click on link below and here what is going on in the Los Padillas Acequia meeting.  They were tryig to figure out how to spend $60,000 the state legislature gave to the South VAlley Acequias.

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