More Jubilee

Ladies aside & Jock's antique cars

Anyone got campgrounds, fireworks or dance pictures for the blog? Please Email them to me as attachments. All at the campgrounds were having a great time, but it's just not as photogenic as parade floats.

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Taken in (See more photos here)

All in all, Jubilee 2007 was a smashing hit. Despite less than stellar promotion and speedbumps along the way, the turnout for parade, campground activities, BBQ, live music by the Cognitive Dissidents, fireworks and dance was better than in recent years. Be sure to thank Edythe R., Kathy Anglin (at Town Hall), George Hewitt and Doris Anaya the next time you see them. Unfortunately, Edythe had to miss campground festivities to work at the grocery. Doris Anaya was in charge of the parade and did a bang up job. So let them know how much you appreciate their efforts. Offer to help them next year too...

More to thank for making Jubilee a success: click here to see the thank you list posted at the campgrounds.

Done in by the heat, I missed both fireworks and dance but heard glowing reports on both. At the campgrounds, people, tables, games and activities spread out all over the ground. There was ample shade and a pleasant breeze. A few tables and the traditional Fire Dept BBQ were indoors, allowing welcome access to A/C. The selection of local and out-of-town vendors was decent but could have been better. Local: Rose Smith, jewelry; Kristie Fulfer, DKF Diversified, Avon; Carlotta Moorehead, crocheted pursesm headbands and tops; tables selling drink, snacks, nachos, posole; and more. Photographer (Clixnpix) Aislon Burnam and family, recently moved to Mountainair, offered notecards featuring local Mountainair scenes - and has promised some for the blog. Out of town: enchanting "Del arte ruso" with traditional items such as Russian stacking dolls, painted ceramic jewelry and "beresta" or birch barks crafts; regular Cynthia Daly of Milagro Moon Ranch with goat milk soap and other products. Too bad more local artists and artisans did not show up on a float or with a table selling their wares.

In addition to vendors, music, food and games, a number of local and county organizations supported Jubilee with tables: Head Start, Farm & Livestock Bureau, Alta Mira, American Cancer Society, TCPO and more. I was delighted to see the TCPO (Torrance County Project Office) table and pick up information on their rural transportation program (TCP To Go). Their buses have been running from Mountainair to Willard, Torreon, Manzano, Estancia, Moriarty, Edgewood, with connections to Albuquerque. Starting July 16, there will be an early morning bus from Mountainair to the Belen Rail Runner, with an evening return to Mountainair. TCPO also ran an hourly bus between the campgrounds and Quarai.

In town, local businesses reported overall good traffic and sales. The opening of the Cibola Arts show, "Fireworks," seemed a bit quiet. I wish I'd been able to promote it here, urging Jubilee visitors to drop by, but no one sent me anything. Sorry, but it's true. Let's all be more with it next year...

And now for the pictures - thanks to Ray Terhorst for taking and sending parade pictures.

Follow that tractor! (photo by Ray)

Red and more red (photo by Ray)

Another Mountainair District Forest Service float: Smokey the Bear

(photo by Annie B)

Being in the parade is for everybody & any kind of conveyance - not just for flatbeds, pickups, kids onbikes, riders on horses or mules or guys driving vintage cars, trucks and tractors (photo by Ray)