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  Los Padillas Acequia Meeting. 

• Over 7 years:  5000 bicycles given out to schools
  Recycling.  That is a word the means a lot to Richard Rivas, a volunteer who rebuilds discarded bicycles and then turns them into treasures for elementary students to ride.
  Over the past few years, he estimates that over 5,000 bicycles have gone out.
  
  
• MRGCD Candidates discuss issues for June 7 election
  The Middle Rio Grande Conservancy election is set for June 7 when three board positions —a position for Valencia County, the At Large Position, and one position for Bernalillo County—are up.
  SVI contacted all candidates, and the candidates for Valencia County failed to respond to the questiions as did one candidate for Bernalillo County.  All candidates were emailed; those how didn’t respond were called by phone.
  Page 7 shows the listing of candidates and polling locations.  
  Below are the answers from candidates who responded to SVI’s five questions.    
  Five top issues identified by SVI and its readers include:
  √ Reasons for running:  Why are you running for the MRGCD board?                                                        √ Problems/Issues facing MRGCD: What three issues/problems are most important to the district, and how would you address or solve those issues or problems?
   √   Efficiency of the district: What steps would you take to improve the efficiency of running the district, or in the alternative,  why do you think the district is running as efficiently as it can ?
  √ Water delivery:  Would you  support cutting off irrigators  from the water bank leases in a water short year?  How would you recommend the district do that in a safe and efficient manner?
  √ Recreational uses: What steps should the MRGCD take to encourage recreational use of the trails along MRGCD ditches?  Or if you do not support recreational use, why and how would you discourage that use?        

• Pedestrian/bicycle safety & Trails in future for SV                                                                                    The Bernalillo County Public Works Planning Division is looking to the future for creating pedestrian and bicycle facilities in the county and in the South Valley.
  While it is only a vision at this time, plans are in the works to include these projects in the County’s Capital Improvements Program (CIP) to construct them over the next 20 years or so.  

• SV Growers’ Market Opens June 11                                                                                                       Endless windy days, two late freezes—that’s about par for the course for New Mexico’s spring weather. While this weather has impacted our growing season, we can be thankful we do not have to deal with major earthquakes, hurricanes, tidal waves, flooding, and killer tornadoes.  
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  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 Los Padillas Acequia.

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