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Applying for a job can be frightening, expectations can be unclear, and knowing where you will perform at your best and be compensated fairly is difficult to assess. The only element that can make this process even more intimidating is if you are applying for your very first job. Carlos Duno, President of Marcia Owen Associates, a permanent and temporary staffing agency located here in Santa Fe, and I have come up with tips for first-time job applicants to get through the process and find the perfect job.

Create your Resume. Creating a resume can be daunting, especially if you don’t have...

As if leaving college wasn’t hard enough, entering the real world and applying for your first “real” job can be just as challenging. To make matters worse, the lack of young professionals in Santa Fe deters many recent graduates from even applying in the City Different. Carlos Duno, President of Marcia Owen Associates, a permanent and temporary staffing agency located here in Santa Fe, and I have come up with tips for recent graduates to get through the job application process, and reasons why even you may want to stay and watch your career grow here.

First and foremost, Mr. Duno maintains...

College is one of the most amazing experiences in a person’s life. A variety of classes are available to broaden your academic horizon, amazing friendships are made, and most importantly, you begin the processes of discovery both about yourself and the world. However, the college admissions process is time consuming and difficult, and often takes a team greater than one. Having recently completed this process, I have come up with a few guidelines to help you along the way.

Be Proactive. Deciding where to go to college will be one of the biggest decisions of your life. Despite the help and...

Join the 2010 Turnaround, January 26, to help transform Alvord Elementary into Santa Fe's First Ecological Sciences and Sustainability Magnet School.

Alvord is about to become Santa Fe's first ever magnet school and first school focused on ecological studies and creating a sustainable future.

To design and build this as a community-based program Alvord needs help with:

• Curriculum development
• Fund raising
• Outreach and public relations
• Before/After school programs
• Re-envisioning the school facility
• Forging Community Partnerships

The Santa Fe Botanical Garden (SFBG) is a nonprofit organization, established and run by gardeners, botanists and environmentally oriented volunteers. Santa Fe Botanical Garden celebrates, cultivates and conserves the rich botanical heritage and biodiversity of Northern New Mexico through community service and education on environmentally responsible garden design, including plant selection and care, as well as conservation techniques for water catchment and harvesting. Santa Fe Botanical Garden manages two properties as natural preserves: the Ortiz Mountains Educational Preserve and the...

Just twenty-five miles southeast of Santa Fe lies a lost civilization. Pecos Pueblo was once the largest town in what would later become the American Southwest. In fact, in its sixteenth-century heyday, it was the largest town in the entire area that is now the United States! A thriving trade center with a population of over 2,000, Pecos Pueblo’s location near the Glorieta Pass made it a natural crossroads between the Eastern Plains, home to the nomadic Apache and Navajo tribes, and the territory’s numerous pueblos to the west, north and south.

From Santa Fe, take I-25 North (which, due...

Is it an open air market, a high-class furniture store, a local tradition or just plain fun? Yes. It’s Jackalope. How best to describe this retail fun fest? If you set a group of leprechauns loose in the desert to design their own strip mall this is what they might give you.

You don’t just drop by Jackalope; it’s a destination. There’s planning involved. Hat, water, sunscreen and carrots. (You’ll see.)

A jackalope proper is a mysterious, rarely sighted creature, a large rabbit with antelope horns on its head. You can believe the trail-fatigued ranch hands who claim to have seen them or...

Okay, I admit it. I like pavement. I like air conditioning and cold water. I also like adventure. If you can relate, Kasha-Katuwe is the outdoor adventure for you. Known in English as Tent Rocks, this national monument is an easy drive south of Santa Fe on Cochiti Pueblo land. The last segment of road is dirt washboard that makes pavement lovers like me feel as if they’ve really gone off to do something daring.

A one-mile trail loops through the park and is even and smooth. The day I visited there was a woman making the trek in stilettos (really) and while I wouldn’t necessarily recommend...

For many young people the idea of saving money is foreign. What should we be saving for? Why does it matter? Well, the financial decisions we make today can have an enormous impact on our futures, including when we buy our first car, take out a school loan, or make a down payment on a house. I recently sat down with Sherry Finney, a mortgage specialist and financial professional with thirty years in her field. With her expert advice, I came up with six steps young people can take to encourage savings and make smart decisions about money.

Begin by starting a dialogue with your parents....

The Santa Fe Public Schools is offering kids a second chance with a new eighth-grade class at the city's alternative high school, the Career Academy.

"There are lots of issues concerning particular groups of students and we really do have to find avenues to work with all of them," said Mel Morgan, associate superintendent. "This set of students needs special attention."

The set of students includes those who either failed eighth grade last year and are at risk of failing again this year, or eighth-graders at risk of failing this year, according to Gloria Lopez, the academy's director of...