Our annual Rice and Beans drive has started.  Our goal is $2,000; we are currently at $500.

 

RYLA is coming up.  Recruiting is open to the third week of April.  We are paired with St. Pius High School.

 

The 2025 Essay content is a go so we will include more information when available.

 

Thirty-five club members/spouses celebrated St. Patrick's Day at O'Niells Irish Pub on march 19th with corned beef and cabbage.  A great time was had by all.

 

Dean Constantine is arranging tickets for an Isotopes games the latter half of April.  More to follow.

 

We received the budget from the Juarez club for the children's dining room and we are getting it translated.  The plan is that the club will put a proposal together and visit other clubs for donations for a potential global grant.

 

Luis Hernandez, Donate Life New Mexico, spoke to our club.  He said his organization was a 501(C)3 non-profit but they received federal funding which is unusual.  His organization promotes organ and tissue donations.  He said a good percentage of New Mexicans are already donors.  One person's donation can save up to 8 lives and up to 75 more with tissue donation.  There are currently 600 New Mexicans awaiting kidney transplants.  April is national donate life month. You can register as an organ/tissue donor at the MVD or at www.donatelifenm.org.  If you have a heart symbol on your drivers license, you are already a donor.