Community Calendar

Eduardo (Eddie) Saldana, a WNMU student majoring in Wildlife Biology, will present research on Penstemon metcalfei (Metcalfe's Penstemon).

In 2023, Natural Curiosity Wilderness Stewardship Director Tricia Kazemi found a population of the rare Penstemon metcalfei in the Black Range. Natural Curiosity and Bat Conservation International partnered to secure funding from the Gila National Forest to survey, monitor, and study this newly discovered population. The funding enabled John Gorey of Underwing Biological to conduct field surveys and WNMU student Eduardo (Eddie) Saldana to assist with data analysis and reporting. Eddie will be presenting the results of the survey and monitoring, along with a predictive habitat model that will direct future survey efforts.

The program will be live at Harlan Hall, Room 111, and all are welcome. It will also be livestreamed and recorded. If you wish to participate online, you may request the Zoom link from gilanative@gmail.com

What: Reading event with author, professor, and organizer Dr. Oscar Mancinas
How: Literature, Readings
When: Friday, October 17th, 7:30 pm
Where: CMI Theater (Room 171) located inside Milton Hall on NMSU Main Campus
Who: Anyone!

New Mexico’s Mutual UFO Network Alamogordo Chapter meets at Otero Artspace on 12th & Indian AVE at 11am on the 3rd Saturday of the month. We discuss Flying Saucers and our local aerial phenomenon experiences. Join MUFON for Coffee Cups & Flying Saucers a meeting of like-minded individuals with a common interest in sharing what we see in the skies. This free monthly meeting is open to the public, MUFON membership is not required.

Join New Mexico’s MUFON chapter at the October 18th meeting where we welcome guest speaker Lyn Buchanan. Buchanan is a retired U.S. Army Intelligence Controlled Remote Viewer who served as a "Psychic Spy" for the U.S. Military in Project Stargate from 1984 to 1992.
After retiring in 1992, Buchanan founded his own company, Problems, Solutions, Innovations, which assists corporations with intelligence-related data acquisitions. He also established a nonprofit division, the Assigned Witness Program, which helps officials locate missing children.
Currently, Buchanan teaches the methodology of controlled remote viewing to civilians at his ranch in Tularosa, New Mexico. The ranch's night skies provide an ideal setting for star parties, comet and UFO watches, and simply enjoying the tranquility of nature.
The Alamogordo chapter of the Mutual UFO Network meets for “Coffee Cups & Flying Saucers” on the 3rd Saturday of the month at 11 AM at Otero Arts in Alamogordo. Our discussions involve flying saucers, UFOs, UAPs, abduction experiences, local sightings, Alamogordo's aerial phenomenon history, and other unexplained experiences. These monthly gatherings are open to everyone, free of charge, and located at the corner of 12th and Indiana in downtown Alamogordo, New Mexico.

The Parkinson's Support Group Monthly Meeting is open to the public and provides information to people in our community who have been diagnosed with, or care for persons with Parkinson's Disease. We start at 9:00 a.m. with Social time, and the meeting begins at 9:45 a.m. We usually have a guest speaker.

This meeting takes place the third Tuesday of each month.
________

Social time with coffee and goodies followed by a speaker on a topic of interest to the Parkinson's community. Caregivers as well as those diagnosed with Parkinson's are cordially invited.

The Academy for Learning in Retirement's four-part series in October 2025 will discuss "Museums of Dona Ana County." The dates, topics, and presenters are:
Tuesday, October 7: "When the Walls Talk: Taylor-Mesilla Historic Site", Emily Wilson
Thursday, October 9: "The University Museum at Kent Hall", Dr. Kelly Jenks
Tuesday, October 14: "The New Mexico Farm and Ranch Museum", Dr. Steve Loring
Thursday, October 16: "The NMSU Art Museum", Marisa Sage

Audience members may register for the Academy for Learning in Retirement's four October series or for all 10 presentations either at the ALR website or with cash or check at the door. The presentations will also be available by Zoom. ALR will send announcements and Zoom links to the registrants on the evening before each presentation. Registrants may attend at the auditorium or may log in on Zoom after 10:00 am and each presentation with begin at 10:30 am. Free coffee and cookies will be available in the nearby DACC Student Resources Building from 9:40 am to 10:20 am.

Professors Dr. Cynthia Bejarano and Dr. Maria Cristina Morales read a chapter of their book, Frontera Madre(hood) followed by a discussion and audience Q& A. October 21 at 5:30 PM, free and open to the public.

Thirty contributors discuss their lived experiences, research, or community work challenging multiple layers of oppression, including militarization of the border, border security propaganda, feminicides, drug war and colonial violence, grieving and loss of a child, challenges and forms of resistance by Indigenous mothers, working mothers in maquiladoras, queer mothering, academia and motherhood, and institutional barriers by government systems to access affordable health care and environmental justice. Fronter Madre(hood) encapsulates how mothering is shaped by the geopolitics of border zones, which also transcends biological, sociological, or cultural and gendered tropes regarding ideas of motherhood, who can mother, and what mothering personifies.

Cynthia Bejarano is a Regents Professor in gender and sexuality studies and the College of Arts and Sciences Stan Fulton Chair at New Mexico State University. Her scholarship and advocacy center on the U.S.-Mexico border. She authored Qué Onda: Urban Youth Culture and Border Identity (2005), and co-edited with Rosa Linda Fregoso, Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Américas (2010), Frontera Madre(hood): Brown Mothers Challenging Transborder Violence and Oppression at the U.S.-Mexico Border with Cristina Morales (2024), and recently co-edited with Margo Tamez and Jeffrey Shepherd as second editor, Gathering Together, We Decide Archives of Dispossession, Resistance, and Memory in Ndé Homelands (2025). Since 2002, Bejarano has served as the founding principal investigator for the NMSU College Assistance Migrant Program, where 675 farm working students have been recruited to study at NMSU.

Maria Cristina Morales is a native of the El Paso del Norte region and a professor of sociology at the University of Texas at El Paso. Her work focuses on structural violence and inequalities of Latina/o/x/e people and the U.S.-Mexico border. She is the co-author of the first and second editions of Latina/os in the U.S.: Diversity and Change (with Rogelio Sáenz and Coda Rayo-Garza) and Frontera Madre(hood): Brown Mothers Challenging Transborder Violence and Oppression at the U.S.-Mexico Border, co-authored with Cynthia Bejarano. She is currently examining patterns of structural violence at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Cult Cinema Club returns just in time for spooky season 👻
We’re screening William Castle’s House on Haunted Hill (1959) — a gleefully macabre classic that helped define the art of cinematic showmanship (and Vincent Price at his most deliciously wicked).

📅 Monday, October 21
🕕 Doors 5:45 | Preshow 6:00 | Screening 6:30

As always, we’ll have a short intro, giveaways, and a post-screening discussion for anyone who wants to linger and talk about it. Free and open to the public.

A Historical Talk/Platica on "The County Courthouse Ghost: The Real Story of Mary Alzada Waters" presented by Salvatore Patricolo, Saturday, October 25th 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. at Nopalito's Galeria, 326 S. Mesquite.

The Engagement Breakthrough: A Framework for LinkedIn Growth
📍 Free Virtual Session | 30 Minutes

We’re wrapping up 2025 with a powerful final session of The State of Marketing This Month.

Join Leah Messina and Joe Sutton Wednesday, October 29 for The Engagement Breakthrough, where you’ll discover the exact framework to grow your presence, authority, and trust on LinkedIn.

The Engagement Breakthrough: A Framework for LinkedIn Growth will cover:
- How to engineer posts for dwell time and comments (LinkedIn’s top signals)
- The proactive engagement tactics brands use to expand reach
- A step-by-step framework you can apply immediately to grow on LinkedIn

Whether you’re a marketer, business owner, or professional looking to expand your influence, this session will give you a repeatable framework to start applying immediately.

📅 Wednesday, October 29
🕦 11:30 AM–12:00 PM MT / 1:30–2:00 PM ET
📍 Free Virtual Event via Zoom