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Otero County LULAC Council 8105 the League of United Latin American Citizens is raising funds for Emergency Housing for the homeless, Phase I of an effort to help the homeless here in Otero County.
The organization is aware of 10 homeless families with school-age children living in motels and a recreational vehicle that has no utilities. There are more homeless families – 75 families with 150 children in the county, who meet the criteria of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act.
LULAC 8105 will be working with the first group of families, to stabilize their housing, help with their children’s educational needs, and basic support – food, clothing and transportation.
In the longer term, rhey will continue to raise funds and also address the needs of the larger group of homeless in Otero County – the 75 families and 150 children.
If you would like to help with this effort, LULAC will fund-raise at the Tularosa Winter Festival, in Tularosa, New Mexico, on Saturday, December 7, 2024, from 9:00am to 10:00pm, on Granado Street, just west of US54 in downtown Tularosa.
For more details on the activities and schedule of events for the Tularosa Winter Festival, see Tularosa Winter Festival on Facebook.
For more information on LULAC’s fund-raising to combat homelessness, or to contribute, please contact Otero County LULAC – at 915-490-5786.
And if you know of anyone else in need of housing, please let us know at the LULAC telephone number above or by e-mail to oterocountylulac@gmail.com.
Hope to see you there. And a Merry Christmas and Feliz Navidad to all.
Sunny, with a high of 77 and low of 48 degrees. Sunny during the morning, clear for the afternoon and evening,
Everything in Alamogordo feels fake to me, as if it is some kind of staging ground or network, not an organic community. Since the Manhattan Project, the military has used the town that way, but then there was a hard separation between the base and the town, and maybe that’s where things went sideways.
It looks like my comment was edited.The part about low income housing being crime infested was removed.
this is a situation which is replicated in countless small communities across our nation; where a single business/mine/factory/industry, or in this case, military base, is the economic engine that powers the entire community. this creates a nervous sort of dependency, and subservient approach within the local gover
The corruption which causes reputational damage is too widespread already and is going to overflow into the public eye soon enough. There is nothing anyone, or any group can do to stop it all from coming out. It is not limited to Chamber of Commerce or MainGate, IMO. Its tentacles are choking this city.
this is not an unusual situation involving chambers of commerce - merging government with business interests is nearly as problematic as merging government with churches. either situation places minority stakeholders in positions to manipulate the public's interests.