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Spaceport Breaks Ground

(SENTINEL Photo/Chuck Wentworth)

BREAKING NEW GROUND - Following Governor Bill Richardson's query to the crowd, "Are you ready to break some ground?" Jared Bartoo (inset) of T-or-C's Bartoo Sand and Gravel fired his road grader to life and cut a clean swath to the future for New Mexico's Spaceport America.

As recently as three years ago you wouldn't have found too many folk willing to bet they'd see the day when a spaceport would break ground in Sierra County.

"Too remote," people said.

"Too expensive."

"Too weird, too out there, too Star Trek. Try Roswell."

But there they were June 19, the governor and Elephant Butte's mayor baking in the sun amid a pawnshop-sized array of video cameras and hundreds of people, some of them actual VIPs, watching as Sierra County's Jared Bartoo, at the helm of an earthmover, broke ground for the first-ever spaceport built to make money.

Everybody was so busy saying it was an historic moment that you could almost forget it really was an historic moment.

"They said it couldn't be done," Governor Bill Richardson said. "For 25 years pioneers who are sitting here did their very best to promote...

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Promises Of An Exciting Future

(SENTINEL Photo/J. Hopkins)

HISTORIC DAY - A large crowd was on hand June 19 at T-or-C's Ralph Edwards Park to celebrate the Spaceport America groundbreaking. State officials repeatedly thanked the people of Sierra County for their support of the spaceport and promised future growth in tourism, jobs, and education.

Officials from spaceport America and New Mexico came to T-or-C in the early hours of June 19 with a message.

Their message was one of thanks for the community's support of the spaceport effort and promises of great things to come as a result of the establishment of the spaceport.

"This is the moment when the talk stops and the real action begins," said, Stephen Attenborough, commercial director of Virgin Galactic, the firm that has made the largest commitment to the new spaceport venture.

The free community breakfast event began at 8 a.m., prior to the official groundbreaking at the Spaceport America site...

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Local Leader Graduates
State Leadership Program

(Courtesy Photo)

NEW GRAD - Elephant Butte businesswoman Cathy Vickers has graduated from the New Mexico Leadership Core Program. Pictured (l-r) is Greg Winegardner, Chairman of the Board, Cathy Vickers, and Jesus Galvan, Chairman of the Curriculum Committee.

Leadership New Mexico is pleased to announce that Cathy Vickers, owner and broker of Homesteaders Realty, is among the 46 statewide leaders who recently graduated from the Leadership New Mexico Core Program.

The graduates of the Leadership New Mexico Core Program attended six educational sessions for the 2008-2009 Core Program, which identified the issues, needs, challenges and trends across New Mexico. The program sessions are held...

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