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When Connor Olson started the spring semester in January, he was one of about five students working in New Mexico State University’s Sam Steel Café, housed in Gerald Thomas Hall. Connor Olson, a School of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management student at New Mexico State University, poses with a line of pecan sandies at the ACES Foods production facility on campus. (NMSU photo by Whitney Blickem) Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the ACES Foods production fa...

Grateful for kindness of others The coronavirus pandemic has most of us weary, but there are times to be thankful also. Recently I have had two reasons to be thankful and they concern four youths in our community who helped me. I live on Pacific Terrace and we have six trees on our median. The amount of leaf clean up is a real task for me as sometimes the leaves are about four inches deep. (Sometimes I wish they would “leave” me alone. Ha.) I asked for help from Connor Olson who mows the is...

LAS CRUCES — When Connor Olson started the spring semester in January, he was one of about five students working in New Mexico State University’s Sam Steel Café, housed in Gerald Thomas Hall. After the COVID-19 pandemic struck, and NMSU began operating under state health guidelines to reduce the risk of spreading the virus, Sam Steel Café temporarily closed its doors. Olson moved over to ACES Foods, a student-run food production company in the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environ...