2012 enchantment magazine Photo Contest
Gear up for our annual photo contest! This year's theme, Best Pals, is bound to lead to a treasure of wonderful photos from all over the state. Winning photos will be published in the June issue. So grab your cameras and go on a hunt for Quirky Pets, Comical People, and High-Strung Instruments. You could be a winner! Click here to enter.About enchantment magazine
We believe New Mexico is a great place to live. We want to share our enthusiasm with the members of New Mexico's rural electric cooperatives.
Our goal is to tell the story of the people and places that make New Mexico special. We also want to offer useful and reliable information about energy use, conservation and rural electric cooperation.
enchantment has been in continuous circulation since 1960. It is published by the New Mexico Rural Electric Cooperative Association.
Send comments and letters to Letters to the editor and event information to Enchanted Calendar. Please send event information two months ahead of time.
If you would like to be considered to write for enchantment click here for a downloadable PDF of our writer's guidelines.
enchantment Magazine Website Receives Award!
enchantment Magazine's website was recognized with a Certificate of Merit from the Statewide Editors Association on Tuesday, August 9, for best website representation of a statewide magazine on the Internet. The site was evaluated on user friendliness and the total impact of graphics, editorial content and design. The newly redesigned website was launched this July.
The Statewide Editors Association supports statewide electric cooperative magazines, including enchantment, and the people who
produce them. There are 32 statewide electric cooperative magazines which are delivered monthly to over nine million Americans.
The New Mexico Rural Electric
Cooperative Association
enchantment (ISSN 0046-1946) is published monthly by the New Mexico Rural Electric Cooperative Association. Over 126,000 families and businesses receive enchantment as electric cooperative members. Nonmember subscriptions are available at $8 per year, or $13 for two years.
The New Mexico Rural Electric Cooperative Association provides legislative and educational services for the 18 cooperatives that deliver electric power to New Mexico's rural areas and small communities. Each cooperative has a representative on the association's board of directors, which controls the editorial content and advertising policy of enchantment through its Publications Committee.
OFFICERS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS: President: Charles T. Pinson Jr., Artesia, representing Central Valley Electric Cooperative. Vice President: George Biel, Elephant Butte, representing Sierra Electric Cooperative. Secretary/Treasurer: Jerry Smith, Taos, representing Kit Carson Electric Cooperative.
MEMBERS OF THE PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE: Chairman: Gary Rinker, Clayton, representing Southwestern Electric Cooperative; Hal B. Keeler, Deming, representing Columbus Electric Cooperative; Lance Adkins, Clovis, representing Farmers' Electric Cooperative; Abran H. Romero, Mora, representing Mora-San Miguel Electric Cooperative; and Donald Wolberg, Socorro, representing Socorro Electric Cooperative.
For more information on the New Mexico Rural Electric Cooperative Association, visit www.nmelectric.coop.
