UFO Museum subject of program

Karen Jaramillo, executive director of the International UFO Museum and Research Center, will be the guest speaker at the July 14 Rotary Club meeting.

She will be joined by Cat Martinez, UFO Museum Gift Shop manager, in describing the role the Museum plays in the local and regional economies.

The UFO Museum annually draws more than 240,000 visitors to Roswell and Chaves County. This makes it the largest-drawing museum in New Mexico.

The Museum is also home to the world's second-largest library of UFO material, surpassed only by the Vatican Library.

Over the past two years, while many other museums were remaining idle in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, the UFO Museum began designing and installing $1.5 million worth of state-of-the-art displays. The final new display was installed in May.

As a result of work by Jaramillo and Martinez, attendance and online Gift Shop sales hit all-time records in 2021 and 2022.

Karen Jaramillo (left) and Cat Martinez will speak Thursday.

Fleming discusses Anderson, Museum

Nancy Fleming, director of the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, speaks at the July 7  Roswell Rotary Club meeting about the museum; its founder, the late Donald B. Anderson; and the international artist-in-residence program he founded and endowed.

Governors on parade

Past and present Rotary District 5520 governors prepare for the July 4 Parade in El Paso. They are (from left) immediate past Governor Bob Rausch; Roswell Rotarian John Drusedum, current governor; and Sunny Kellerman, who preceded Rausch as district governor.

Rotary District Governor John Drusedum and his wife Sharon prepare to board their vehicle for the annual Independence Day Parade in El Paso.