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Another Beautiful Cinco de Mayo

5/10/2019

Thank you to all who came out for and participated in Saguache’s 3rd Annual celebration of Cinco de Mayo. The fiesta generated a lively day of activity in Downtown Saguache with many contributors. HEART of Saguache/KV organized and hosted the event bringing together a wide array of entertainment, volunteers, exhibitions, and vendors; including Mountain Valley Student entrepreneurs who were selling their creations. HEART would like to thank Deano Maes for his expert sound production. We also want to recognize our performers. The Mountain Valley Preschool dancers were a huge hit. In addition; Los Vecinos Bailladores, the Old School Band, Evan Samora and Evan’s students all provided wonderful entertainment.

   The Cinco de Mayo Car Show was huge this year with several Valley car clubs participating. Awards were given for Best Project, Best Rims, Club Participation, Street Machine, Best Oldie, Best Euro, Best Paint, Best Interior, Best Truck, Best Custom, Early Bird, and the People’s Choice. Jamie Dominguez from Alamosa was instrumental in helping to set up and organize the car show, making trophies and bringing in participants from around the valley. Our local judges; Steve Armenta, Austyn Hammel and Tim Torres also deserve a huge thank you for their participation and careful consideration of each entry.

   The event also highlighted local art and cultural demonstrations. The Mountain Valley Art Students displayed their work at the Range, with a special exhibition by Heaven Harford of her drawings and puppets. The Silver Building featured a stunning exhibition of local Colcha artists including; Patsy Garcia, Nyla Thompson, Delores Worely, Mary Baker, Lupe Tafoya, Bena Lovato, and Margie Gurule. Myron Chavez came from New Mexico to demonstrate adobe brick building on 4th Street. He allowed spectators to mix the mud with their feet which proved to be very popular. Iris Garcia and family taught tortilla making with delicious results.

   Family activities went on all day on the beautiful Courthouse Lawn. Alicia Mancha, Lacy Reed and friends created gorgeous henna tattoos and did face painting alongside family games and crafts. The Saguache Volunteer Fire department was wonderful as usual, serving up frito pies, margaritas, and beer.
Thank you again to all in the community for coming to celebrate our local culture and history. HEART is looking forward to putting together an even larger fiesta in 2020. Please get in touch with suggestions or to volunteer at heartlvigil@gmail.com.

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A Sharing Christmas Thank You!

1/8/2018

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HEART of Saguache/KV would like to thank all of the individuals and organizations that helped with the Saguache Sharing Christmas effort. This was a community wide effort and we are so lucky to live in a town where so many people give to help others. I apologize in advance if I forget to mention anyone.
Thank you to:

The individuals who put money into the Saguache Sharing Christmas bank account. We don’t know who you are but we do know there was more money in the account when we we went to spend it then we though there would be. A lovely surprise and such a relief!
Karen, Doug and Tawnya at the Saguache Town Market for giving us a tremendous discount on the food we ordered and letting us store it there. Doug and Tawnya set up a special freezer at their home just for the turkeys which was a huge help.

Aubrey and Cory Hill for their generous donation to save the event and purchase turkeys after Social Services had a series of freezer disasters!

The SLV Local Foods Coalition delivered to us a huge amount of frozen local food as well as produce to add to the boxes.
Linda Warsh donated a massive quantity of potatoes.

Department of Social Services helped us with meat and boxes to deliver the food in.

Saguache Works generously donated food and some gift certificates to put in the boxes.

Cozy Castle Cinema awesomely gave us a big discount on gift certificates for a movie, drink and popcorn for every child on the list.

The Volunteer Fire Department: Evan Samora, Anthony and Ty Salaz, and Trevor Ward delivered all the boxes for us around town and dropped them off at the KV Clubhouse to be collected.

Iris and Eddie Garcia donated stuffing and rolls for the boxes.

Center School Key Club worked on the effort in Center

Susan Banning spearheaded the work in Center.

Community members of all ages came out to help in one way or another from driving around with supplies and delivering food to the office, shopping for food and gifts, wrapping gifts, assembling and filling boxes and making phone calls to organize the collection of boxes. Also thanks to all the people who offered their time but we didn’t call upon.

Alamosa Walmart gave $50.00 gift card.
Alamosa City Market gave us a $30.00 gift card.
Salida Walmart gave a $30.00 gift card.
Salida Safeway gave a $25.00 gift card.

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Another Beautiful Cinco de Mayo

A Sharing Christmas Thank You!

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