Robert and Julia Salazar have started a new business, Enchantment Curbside Car Service.

The enterprise focuses mainly on local automobile repair companies, picking up parts and delivering them to customers in Santa Fe and Albuquerque.

"We got our business license last week," Robert Salazar said. "We're starting this week."

"This is a whole new ballgame for us," Julia Salazar said. "My husband has been a tow-truck driver for many years. "That's way overpopulated in Santa Fe — there are too many of them here. We tossed this idea around for a couple of years and finally decided to do it."

The Salazars charge $15 per item for delivery, less if there are multiple items for the same shop.

Enchantment will also pick up parcels at customers' homes and take them to the post office and complete other errands.

For more information, call 505-315-1795.


Anne Sperling with Daniels Insurance has been named Santa Fe Professional Business Woman of the Year by Santa Fe Professional and Business Women.

The other nominees were Holly Bradshaw Eakes, The Holly Co.; Vera Hayduk, Hutton Broadcasting; Tracy Hogg, Santa Fe Donations; Sherry Hooper, The Food Depot; and Margaret Janis, the Janis Group and Girls Inc.

Sperling is active in numerous community organizations such as the Northern New Mexico Human Resource Association, International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans, and the Society of Certified Senior Advisors. She is chair of the board of Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce Board.

The organization has named a Santa Fe Business Woman of the Year since 1989.


The Association of Commerce and Industry of New Mexico recently hosted its annual VIVA Awards banquet at the Hyatt Regency in Albuquerque.

VIVA stands for vision, investment, vitality and action.

This year's honoree from Santa Fe was Outside magazine.

Lawrence J. Burke founded Mariah Media Inc. in Chicago in 1976 to publish Mariah Magazine, the first national magazine dedicated to inspiring people to live an active "outside" lifestyle.


Crocker Ltd., a Santa Fe contractor specializing in architectural conservation, has been selected to receive a National Preservation Honor Award by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Crocker Ltd. shares the award — given for the restoration of the Gutierrez-Hubbell House in Albuquerque's South Valley — with with Bernalillo County, the owner of the property, and the Hubbell House Alliance.