Serving the High Plains

Calendar - Sept. 20

• Saturday — Teeing Up for United Way golf tournament at 12 Shores Golf Club at Ute Lake. The first tee time is 7:30 a.m. The event benefits the United Way of Eastern New Mexico. The $125 ticket includes lunch and prizes for a hole-in-one, longest drive and closest to the pin. Tickets available at https://shorturl.at/aoACR.

• Oct. 7 — Quay County on the Move Fun Run/Walk. This free event that includes a new 5-kilometer course, a half course and a short course for the mobility impaired will offer a T-shirt to all finishers and snacks. Register at Kvols Park from 7:15 to 7:45 a.m. Event begins at 8 a.m. sharp.

• Oct. 7 — Tucumcari Historical Museum field trip to Santa Fe Harvest Festival. The bus will leave the museum at 7 a.m. to go to the Living History Museum at El Rancho de las Golondrinas to provide a glimpse of 18th- and 19th-century New Mexico. Learn how a red chile ristra is made or pick a pumpkin from its patch, stomp grapes by foot, make cornhusk crafts and shop homemade goods. Reservations must be made at the Historical Museum by 3 p.m. Sept. 29.

• Oct. 7 — Enchilada dinner and dance. This event at the Nara Visa Community Center will host the dinner at 5:30 p.m. Mountain time and the dance at 7:30 p.m. Mountain time.

• Oct. 14 — The Royal Fairway Disc Golf Tournament at Tucumcari Municipal Golf Course. This sanctioned event will have two rounds in one day. Sing up at discgolfscene.com. For more information, call (806) 928-2308.

• Oct. 21 — Altrusa International of Tucumcari’s Boo Bash Cash Party. This event will include a costume contest, a dance with Bakersfield Twang and a $15,000 grand-prize cash drawing. Tickets are $100, and only 300 will be sold. Call Ellen at (575) 403-6179 or Sylvia at (575) 403-8405 for tickets. Doors open at the Elks Lodge at 6 p.m., with the dance at 8 p.m. Ticket sales will benefit Altrusa’s community projects.

• Oct. 28 — Spooktacular Block Party. Tucumcari MainStreet is planning a downtown Halloween-themed block party with trick-or-treat booths, food trucks and games from 4 to 7 p.m. The event will be on South Second Street from Main to Aber streets.

To submit items for the calendar, call 575-461-1952 or email [email protected]

 
 
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