Daily Archives: October 10, 2009

Edgewood Chamber Friday Blast on Saturday (Day Late, Sorry)

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Edgewood Chamber of Commerce’s

Friday Blast

Happy Friday Chamber Members!

I hope you all had a wonderful week. It’s hard to believe it is already October…where does the time go??

Edgewood Chamber Upcoming Events

10/14/09: Monthly Chamber Luncheon

Speaker will be Tony Flores of Read, “Write”, Adult Literacy. Ranee from Sky’s Hawaiian Ice and Catering will be catering our lunch. The meeting will be at the Edgewood Community Center at 11:30 AM. The cost is $10 and that includes your lunch. Please RSVP no later than Monday at 12 noon.

10/15/09: Networking Mixer

Ray Sample of SOH Productions will be hosting this month’s networking mixer at the Chamber office. The event will be from 5:30 until 7ish. These are great venues to bring guests to. Bring lots of business cards and come prepared to have some fun!!

Upcoming Community Events

10/10/09: Moriarty’s Pinto Bean Fiesta

Pancake breakfast kicks the event off!! This will be at 7 AM at the Lions Club Building. The parade will follow at 10 AM and then there will be fun for all ages at the City Park (water tower). Lance Valliant will be providing entertainment. There will be food, arts & crafts and fun for all!!

10/10/09: Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser for the Stanley Fire Dept

It will be from 5 PM until 8 PM at Stanley Station 1 on Highway 472. Donations will be accepted.

10/17/09: Torrance County 7th annual Toy Run

To benefit Torrance County children in need. Starting point (9AM) Estancia Sanctuary Zone parking lot. Donations requested are toy and non-perishable food items. For riders a lunch is provided at the Blue Ribbon in Estancia at 1 PM. For more info call Eddie or Dorothy Sandoval 384-2400

10/17/09: Estancia Rotary Club’s Annual Punkin’ Chunkin’

Parade will kick off the event at 10:30 AM. There will be fun and activities for all ages (even grown-ups) all day long. Official launching will begin at 1 PM. Admission is $10 a carload and all proceeds go to the Rotary’s Scholarship Fund.

10/31/09: RV Sales, Inc Annual Trick-or-Treat

RV Sales in Moriarty will be hosting their annual Trick-or-Treat. There is lots of fun for ghosts and goblins of all ages and all proceeds go to Bethel Storehouse. Admission is $1 or a non-perishable food item. The money is donated to The Bethel Storehouse, and last year they were able to This events sees about 1500 ghosts and goblins…that’s A LOT of candy. RV Sales is asking that if any of our local businesses would like to make a monetary donation to go towards the purchase of candy it would be GREATLY appreciated. They are asking for the donation to be monetary because the business that they purchase the candy from gives them a percentage of what they spend in FREE candy!!! So please help out to insure the children in our community have a happy and safe Halloween. Your business name will go on the flyer that will go out to about 1600 school children if you donate.  Buffie – 832-2400 for more information.

Edgewood Chamber’s Annual Holiday Banquet

It’s almost that time of the year again!! This year’s gala will be at Nature Pointe in Tijeras. Seating is limited to 160 and tickets are really starting to go fast!!! Only 132 left. There will be a silent auction as well as a live auction. It promises to be a wonderful event. For more information or to volunteer call the Chamber office 286-2577 or Stephanie Salcido 480-9237.

Vanguard Mortgage Services is proud to announce that as one of New Mexico’s fastest growing mortgage companies, Vanguard Mortgage will be relocating to their new office located next to Mail and Copy Business Center at #2 Marietta Court! Kelly and her team are excited to be moving to a new, larger office! Because of the technical aspects of transferring to a new office, you may see the old office closed at times during business hours throughout October.  Please be assured they are still here for you! So, if you need to reach Vanguard, please call Kelly direct at 238-1218! They look forward to seeing you at their new location during their Grand Re-Opening and Ribbon Cutting Ceremony in November!  Congratulations to Vanguard and their continued success in Edgewood and New Mexico!

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend. I hope I will see you out at Moriarty’s Pinto Bean Fiesta!!

Robin Foshee

Executive Director

Edgewood Chamber of Commerce

505-286-2577 office   505-948-6963 cell

Some Ask, Whatever Happened To Global Warming

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by Chuck Ring (GadaboutBlogalot ©2009).

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Allow me to state from the beginning, I don’t know, but I do care. I don’t know because I am not an expert (fancy that) and all the experts have gathered into camps for and against  man made causes for global warming and have confused the issues. As soon as the pro faction’s argument begins to have a candle flicker of reason, the skeptic or con side, blows out the candle.

In an article by Paul Hudson, Climate Correspondent for BBC News, the article’s (What Happened To Global Warming?) lead-in tells us:

This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.

Of course the article and the argument does not end with the lead-in. Such an ending would not allow for a rebuttal and we know when it comes to the weather, i.e., climate, there is always another side or change. The article continues with volleys of snow, ice, storms and sunshine first from one fortress of truth to the other bastion of pure knowledge.

Skeptics offer:

Sceptics argue that the warming we observed was down to the energy from the Sun increasing. After all 98% of the Earth’s warmth comes from the Sun.

But, recent information from the polar opposite indicates that solar activity is not the cause for global warming:

The scientists’ main approach was simple: to look at solar output and cosmic ray intensity over the last 30-40 years, and compare those trends with the graph for global average surface temperature.

And the results were clear. “Warming in the last 20 to 40 years can’t have been caused by solar activity,” said Dr Piers Forster from Leeds University, a leading contributor to this year’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Then new information for a natural cause (man made being unnatural?) is presented:

But one solar scientist Piers Corbyn from Weatheraction, a company specialising in long range weather forecasting, disagrees.

He claims that solar charged particles impact us far more than is currently accepted, so much so he says that they are almost entirely responsible for what happens to global temperatures.

He is so excited by what he has discovered that he plans to tell the international scientific community at a conference in London at the end of the month.

If proved correct, this could revolutionise the whole subject.

So alright, or maybe not alright. Obviously I could continue to quote from the article, but I believe the reader will benefit from their own reading of the complete article. Click here for the article

The problem with scientists believing that their particular “findings” are absolute, it seems to me, is simply it is absolutely difficult to be absolute in regards to something that changes on a more or less constant basis. So the best evidence, scientists can hope to proffer, is ducks (findings) that line up in a reasonable facsimile of a straight line.

So what happens if one or the other side is absolutely correct and they get to have their way?

The proponents for man made global warming get to see drastic change in human habits and enormous cost from human purses, to help forestall or prevent completely, further deterioration of earth’s climate.

If the skeptics get to have it their way, then drastic measures that may not be needed, will not be implemented and your purse and mine will be somewhat fatter. Yes, I know … much to simplistic and fleeting.

Well then, what if both sides are a little, or even a lot, wrong. I can’t fathom such; nor can I offer anything close to a reasoned response, but I’m sure some “scientist,” skeptic or not, will try to put their global spin on the possibility or possibilities.

In the meantime, it would probably make decent sense to do all we can, on a personal and societal basis, to use proven technology to step through, around or over what some scientists call “the carbon footprint.”

Just to perturb one side or the other, I leave you with:”

Man made global warming proponents want “Cap and Trade”

Skeptics might answer, “that’s Crap and Raid”

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