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GARY ANDREWS: Remembering a Favorite Old Hymn
By GARY ANDREWS
Sun,01/16/22-3:00AM, 443 Reads
Many years ago when my wife and I first married I can remember her mother singing or humming the tune of “I come to the garden alone”. This was her favorite song and it always put joy in her heart when she sang it. She was a very pleasant person and I never heard her say an unkind word about anyone.
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Jazmin Cazares, 14, takes notes as teacher Wendy Leighton discusses the Salem witch trials with her students at Monte del Sol Charter School, Friday, Dec. 3, 2021, in Santa Fe, N.M. Leighton is one of dozens of educators who helped draft state's proposed changes to the social studies curriculum, including adding the Sept. 11 attacks and the history of LGBTQ rights. It would increase the focus on ethnic studies in a state where 49 percent of the population is Hispanic, and 11 precent is Indigenous. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio)

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New approach to teaching race in school divides New Mexico
By CEDAR ATTANASIO - Associated Press / Report for America
Thu,01/20/22-12:06AM, 38 Reads
ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — A proposal to overhaul New Mexico’s social studies standards has stirred debate over how race should be taught in schools, with thousands of parents and teachers weighing in on changes that would dramatically increase instruction related to racial and social identity beginning in kindergarten.
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Belgium-British teenage pilot Zara Rutherford smiles after she landed with her Shark ultralight plane at the Egelsbach airport in Frankfurt, Germany, Wednesday, Jan.19, 2022. At the age of 19, she is set to land her single-seater Shark sport aircraft in Kortrijk, Belgium, on Monday, more than 150 days after setting out to become the youngest woman to circumnavigate the world solo. American aviator Shaesta Waiz was 30 when she set the previous benchmark.(AP Photo/Michael Probst)

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Nearly home: Teen pilot lands in Germany on global flight
Wed,01/19/22-9:03AM, 40 Reads
EGELSBACH, Germany (AP) — Teenage pilot Zara Rutherford landed in Germany on Wednesday on the penultimate stop of her bid to become the youngest woman to fly around the world solo.
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This January, 2022 image provided by Jeff Lowenfel shows Idaho Fescue, Festuca idahoensis. Clumps of Tall fescues are another great standard lawn replacement grass. (Jeff Lowenfels via AP)

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Resolutions for a generous and green new year in the garden
By JEFF LOWENFELS - Associated Press
Wed,01/19/22-6:53AM, 43 Reads
Something miraculous happens to gardeners at this time of year. I don’t know what triggers it. Perhaps it was the sight of Christmas trees and lights, or the presence of all those poinsettias. Whatever the cause, by January, gardeners have let go of last year’s gardens and start to dream about this year’s effort.
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