Organ News

Pat Phistry, president of District 111 Ladies Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, throws a wreath into the Rio Grande on Memorial Day 2010 in memory of her husband, Philip Phistry, who was a navel officer in World War II.

Look beyond the backyard barbecue this Memorial Day weekend, and you'll find lots to do, close to home.

Joanie Tyler, who has volunteered at the Slumbering Mountain Cemetery in Organ for the past 30 years, looks at the gravesite of Walter Floyd Ingraham, surrounded by an iron fence of crosses Thursday at the cemetery.

By 10 a.m. today it was already getting hard for Las Crucens to see the Organ Mountains, to the east, because of the dust caused from increasing gusty winds, from the west-southwest. By noon, peak gusts at San Augustin Pass, on U.S. Highway 70 where the highway crosses over the Organs, had already reached 70 mph.