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Your wedding lady

Deborah Fox-News-Bulletin photo: Silk forever bouquets, corsages and boutonnieres are handmade by Your Wedding Lady Rev. Lois C. Sullivan and are available in wedding packages, which  include a complimentary videotape of the services.

Local romance novelist Lois C. Sullivan has turned her enchanted pen to writing the perfect marriage vows for couples who have made the commitment, "till death do us part."

LLMS collects jeans for teens

Deborah Fox-News-Bulletin photo: Los Lunas Middle School students, pictured in front, from left, are Luke Wisneski, Laurent Nagy; in back, from left, Gabriel Gambia, Justin Riel, Laurent Jaramillo, Orlando Santillanes, Candace Johnston, Jared Gray and Haley Torrez are participating in ‘Teens for Jeans,’ a campaign to donate gently used jeans for homeless teens. It is a school-wide project, and all the jeans will go to homeless people in New Mexico.

Los Lunas Middle School students are collecting as many pairs of gently used jeans as they can by Friday, Feb. 8, for homeless teens in New Mexico.

LL mill levy to help with maintenance

There are no new taxes or any tax hikes in the Los Lunas Schools 2 mill levy election coming up on Tuesday, Feb. 5, said Claire Cieremans, the district CFO. It's an old tax the district would like voters to continue.

Lovelace to open new health clinic

Los Lunas government employees won't have to travel far to see their family physician now that the village has a new primary care clinic for them and the 10,000 Valencia County residents covered by the Lovelace Health System.

‘Mind Games’

Photo courtesy Joan Leslie Woodruff: Joan Leslie Woodruff is a local author who has written seven books of fiction and one nonfiction, “Mind Games.” Her book, “Ghost in the Rainbow,” is currently in negotiations for film rights, and she anticipates the movie will be filmed locally.

Increasing the level of contentment in your life is simple science, says counselor and author Joan Leslie Woodruff, and her new book, "Mind Games," published by AuthorHouse, will show you how.

Underage drinking, drug abuse is declining

Deborah Fox-News-Bulletin photo: Dubra Karnes-Padilla, advisory board president of the UNM-VC Resiliency Corps, studies the information revealed by Valencia County youth in the New Mexico Youth Risk and Resiliency Survey report in order to help mobilize evidence-based prevention strategies.

The latest New Mexico Youth Risk and Resiliency Survey report shows that underage drinking and drug abuse in Valencia County declined in 2011 from 2009, although it is still slightly higher than the state average.