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Every two years, the Women in Agriculture Leadership Conference convenes for networking, discussing current issues in the industry and recognizing ag leaders with awards. At its recent conference in Albuquerque, the group’s Diamond in the Rough award was bestowed on Deming native, and current Animas resident, Tricia Elbrock, described in a news release as “a friend, a mother, a mentor, and a leader to so many youth from Hidalgo County …

Each morning, Evanston’s Cake Pop and Roll bakery prepares a fresh batch of handcrafted cake pops with custom designs and unique flavors.  Evanston resident Mayra Jackson launched Cake Pop and Roll in 2018. She began baking in her home on Chicago’s West Side, creating faces and mimicking different characters in her food like dinosaurs or...

Dear Evanston, As you know, Mayra Jackson, Latwian Jackson, and their young children Jordan, 9, and Nicholas, 4, lost their apartment on Judson and Dempster and all their belongings in a fire that gutted their home last Wednesday morning. The family is overwhelmed by and so grateful for the outpouring of support from Evanston residents who have provided clothing, toys, food, and funds. Subscribe Mayra, who is an artist in stained glass, lost all her artwork and supplies in the fire. Evanston resident Jill Miller, who was on her way to work that morning and pulled over to help the family when...

Evanston Now Evanstonians step forward to help family in need at the holidays. Fire consuming the apartment at Judson Avenue and Dempster Street Wednesday morning. (EFD photo) “My youngest son lost his favorite blankie.” That’s just one of many items Mayra Jackson, her husband Latwian, and their two sons lost in an apartment fire at Dempster and Judson Wednesday morning. In fact, while they escaped unhurt from the garden level unit, the Jackson family lost basically all of their possessions. “It happened so quickly,” Mayra Jackson says. The Jacksons, in...