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Warm thanks go to: Kim for the new Mac, Steve Mills for technical support for the new Mac and HP, Christopher Jones for Hewlett Packard computer and John Scrocco for projector help.

African Celebration & Benefit: Thank you to all who attended and donated to the event last month at the Peace Center. There was a great turnout, and many new faces packed the peace hall. We raised over $1200 in donations for medical supplies for Dakar, Senegal, West Africa! Look for our next event in early Summer of '08.

Art Exhibit February: Featured artist, Mary Laniel Nakigan shares her recent work - collages and paintings - with you. Come check it out. Items are for sale.

For the last one and a half years, a small group of people have pledged $10.00 per month to be used for staff health needs. We would like to expand the group and build up the account. To contribute, call Suzanne at 505-268-9557 and leave a message. Thanks.

There are more than 200 children in your community that are in need of a mentor. Mentoring provides a great opportunity to share your skills, to have fun, and to get involved with children that are on the brink of success! All they need is four hours a month and a little encouragement. Youth Development, Inc. (YDI) uniquely offers one-on-one support with a family feel. For more information contact Wise Men Wise Women Mentorship Program. Find out how to apply. Come visit 5005 4th Street NW - Suite 102, Albuquerque, NM 87107 or call 505-271-2066. One of those children is waiting for someone like you!

Support the creation of a GI Rights Hotline in NM! If Senators won't stop the war, maybe soldiers will. The mission of the New Mexico GI Rights Hotline is to provide information, referrals, and support to members of the military and their families regarding discharges, grievances, and other civil rights issues. The Hotline will provide information about military life and war to individuals and families affected by military service, conscription, and recruitment. The target date to open the hotline is February 15, 2008.

The Los Alamos Study Group is having a series of weekly public breakfast seminar and discussion meetings ending next April in both Santa Fe and Albuquerque. The overall theme will be Dimensions of the Global Crisis: Responses and Renewal. They will alternate each week between factual aspects of the unfolding crisis (which is a crisis for New Mexico in particular) and our political response to it. Everybody is invited. Albuquerque: Wednesday mornings, Mennonite Church, 1300 Girard NE. Santa Fe: Thursday mornings, United Church of Santa Fe, 1804 Arroyo Chamiso. 7:25 to 8:45am. Coffee, tea, light breakfast. Free - provided donations cover modest expenses. Info: 505-265-1200.

The homeless could use your support each Sunday at 1pm at 10th and Central. Bring your camera, video camera - in case the police begin again to disrupt the feeding of the homeless - and family, friends, kids. Volunteers are always needed to help prepare the food, help share the food, join us in the park, and help clean up. Trinity House Catholic Worker, 505-242-0497, tna@catholicworker.biz .