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Burke Denman, owner of Santa Fe Stone, moves the Children’s Peace Statue into place Tuesday on the east side of the Santa Fe Children’s Museum off Old Pecos Trail. After about an hour of work, the 1,550-pound artwork was relocated from the Ghost Ranch of Santa Fe (Plaza Resolana), a downtown property that has been put up for sale. The statue, created by The New Mexico Kids Committee and intended as a gift for the community of Los Alamos, home of a nuclear weapons laboratory, began as a project at an Albuquerque elementary school. About 90,000 children from around the world gave money for the project, which was completed in 1995. However, it was rejected by the Los Alamos County Council for fear that it would be a rallying point for anti-war activists. The statue has been a focus of annual Peace Day events in Santa Fe to remember the World War II bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Local news in brief, Feb. 8, 2012
Chimayó retreat plans scaled down
A new version of a spiritual retreat planned near the Santuario de Chimayó will be unveiled at an open house scheduled from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday in Chimayó at the Holy Family Parish Hall on N.M. 76.
As proposed late last year, the $2.5 million Jardin de los Niños Spiritual Retreat would have included 8,000 square feet of new construction, including overnight rooms, kitchen facilities and a conference room.
But Gil Martinez, a Santa Fe resident who is promoting the idea, said this week that he responded to complaints by agreeing to renovate not only the 200-year-old home of the man who built the santuario, but also a second house nearby that is about 100 years old.
In addition, Martinez said, he has moved the site of some of the proposed sleeping rooms so they do not crowd the historic structures.
"We did change, and we're proud of what we're promoting," he said. "There's not going to be a whole lot more to complain about because we did listen to the main concerns."
Martinez said he will have maps and designs available at the open house, as well as about a dozen people to answer questions one on one.
Airline alcohol training bill clears Senate
The office of U.S. Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., said Tuesday that legislation he sponsored to require alcohol training for airline employees has been sent to the president's desk for his signature.
The provision, part of the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill that passed the Senate, would require airlines to train flight attendants and gate agents about whether a customer should be served alcohol, and to train them to cope with passengers who disrupt flights.
Many airlines already provide alcohol-server training during initial flight-attendant training. However, passage of a federal mandate on alcohol training has been endorsed by organizations representing flight attendants, federal air marshals, air traffic controllers and others, the senator said.
Udall, a former member of the House of Representatives, first introduced the proposal in the House in 2006 after a drunken-driving crash near Santa Fe, in which a Tesuque man was killed along with five members of a Las Vegas, N.M., family after the man was served liquor on an airline flight into Albuquerque.
Picuris woman charged with embezzlement
A 53-year-old Picuris Pueblo woman was arraigned Tuesday in federal court in Albuquerque on a charge that she embezzled about $132,000 from her tribe.
If convicted, Normal Mermejo faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine, the U.S. Attorney's Office said in a news release.
Mermejo entered a plea of not guilty and was released on her own recognizance pending trial, the statement said.
According to the indictment, Mermejo, who had worked as a file clerk in the Picuris Pueblo accounting office, is accused of embezzling the funds between February 2008 and April 2010.
A new version of a spiritual retreat planned near the Santuario de Chimayó will be unveiled at an open house scheduled from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday in Chimayó at the Holy Family Parish Hall on N.M. 76.
As proposed late last year, the $2.5 million Jardin de los Niños Spiritual Retreat would have included 8,000 square feet of new construction, including overnight rooms, kitchen facilities and a conference room.
But Gil Martinez, a Santa Fe resident who is promoting the idea, said this week that he responded to complaints by agreeing to renovate not only the 200-year-old home of the man who built the santuario, but also a second house nearby that is about 100 years old.
In addition, Martinez said, he has moved the site of some of the proposed sleeping rooms so they do not crowd the historic structures.
"We did change, and we're proud of what we're promoting," he said. "There's not going to be a whole lot more to complain about because we did listen to the main concerns."
Martinez said he will have maps and designs available at the open house, as well as about a dozen people to answer questions one on one.
Airline alcohol training bill clears Senate
The office of U.S. Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., said Tuesday that legislation he sponsored to require alcohol training for airline employees has been sent to the president's desk for his signature.
The provision, part of the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill that passed the Senate, would require airlines to train flight attendants and gate agents about whether a customer should be served alcohol, and to train them to cope with passengers who disrupt flights.
Many airlines already provide alcohol-server training during initial flight-attendant training. However, passage of a federal mandate on alcohol training has been endorsed by organizations representing flight attendants, federal air marshals, air traffic controllers and others, the senator said.
Udall, a former member of the House of Representatives, first introduced the proposal in the House in 2006 after a drunken-driving crash near Santa Fe, in which a Tesuque man was killed along with five members of a Las Vegas, N.M., family after the man was served liquor on an airline flight into Albuquerque.
Picuris woman charged with embezzlement
A 53-year-old Picuris Pueblo woman was arraigned Tuesday in federal court in Albuquerque on a charge that she embezzled about $132,000 from her tribe.
If convicted, Normal Mermejo faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine, the U.S. Attorney's Office said in a news release.
Mermejo entered a plea of not guilty and was released on her own recognizance pending trial, the statement said.
According to the indictment, Mermejo, who had worked as a file clerk in the Picuris Pueblo accounting office, is accused of embezzling the funds between February 2008 and April 2010.
