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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. The New Mexico Hospitality Association, the New Mexico Restaurant Association and the Jennifer Riordan Foundation have partnered to encourage the public to be kind to service workers with the “Be Kind” campaign.
The campaign offers tips to customers like treating others as you would like to be treated, tipping generously, planning ahead for potentially slower service and using compassion, according to a news release announcing the campaign.
“We’re excited to see our hospitality and tourism businesses opened again, many of which are bringing new employees on board without much time to train,” NMHA CEO, Kathy Komoll said.
Howling again: Lobo Theater gets new life
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Amanda Aragon, executive director of NewMexicoKidsCan, is selected as the 2021 Jennifer Riordan Women of Influence Community Impact Award honoree
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Wish-iversary: Wish Kid, groups thank local medical workers
Cancer survivor and Make-A-Wish New Mexico “wish kid” Sam Neale, right, serves doughnuts to Presbyterian Rust Medical Center health-care workers Thursday morning outside the hospital’s main entrance. Make-A-Wish, the Jennifer Riordan Foundation and the Neale family provided coffee and doughnuts at three area hospitals to thank medical workers and celebrate World Wish Day. Argen Marie Duncan photo.
A year ago, an area teenager received his wish to give back to health-care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, and he gave back again last week.
Thursday, on the anniversary of that wish granted by Make-A-Wish New Mexico, Albuquerque cancer survivor Sam Neale, now 18, served coffee and doughnuts to 250 employees at each of the three hospitals where he dropped off decontamination kits last year. Presbyterian Rust Medical Center was one of those facilities, along with the University of New Mexico Hospital and Lovelace Hosp
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. I came for an interview eight years ago bearing a grocery bag of books my children had long outgrown for a little girl with a love of reading.
It was at the Joy Junction homeless shelter, and I can still remember the 6-year-old’s eyes widening and her smile spreading, revealing the recent loss of a front baby tooth, when she saw what was in the bag.
I can still remember her joyful squeal as she reached in for a book, clambered into her mother’s arms and drifted away into whatever world that book took her.