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2011 VCHCC Matanza Program
2011 VCHCC Matanza Program
VALENCIA
COUNTY
News-Bulletin
O f f i c i a l P r o g r a m · J a n u a r y 2 2 , 2 0 1 1
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schedule of events
Saturday, Jan. 29 Liver contest Iron Pig competition All containers will be delivered to
(teams only) each team a half an hour prior to judg-
Gates open: 6:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. (teams only)
Due: 12 p.m. ing time. It is the team’s responsibility
Valencia County Fairgrounds Due: 9 a.m.
to deliver each entry on time to the
Entrance fee: $10 at the door, chil- Carne adovada contest
Specialty items contest judge’s tent, which is located inside the
dren age 10 and under are admitted free (teams only) center tent.
Parking: $5 at the grounds; a shut- Due: 10 a.m. (teams only) Judging will be based on presenta-
tle ride will be provided from Calvary Due: 1 p.m.
tion, taste, texture and smell. There
Chapel Rio Grande Valley will be first, second and third place
Where to buy tickets: At any Tortilla. biscochitos and chile Chicharrones contest awards given for each category. The
MyBank location, Rio Grande contest (teams only) grand champion will be selected by
Financial Network in Los Lunas and (open to all) Due: 2 p.m. the total combined points from each
Carlos’ Cantina and Grille in Belen and Due: 11 a.m. in the judge’s tent category.
at the Matanza. Awards ceremony The specialty item has to contain
3 p.m. some part of the pig to be eligible.
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There are several choices this year when it come to parking at the 11th
annual Valencia County Hispano Chamber of Commerce Matanza.
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Every year, the whole Lucero family
throws a mantanza at their family ranch
The Clarence Lucero family has been in Marquez, near Mt. Taylor, the weekend
doing mantanzas for so long, it may well after Thanksgiving.
have become a genetic trait. “We kill anywhere from six to 10
has moved!!
“I’m 58-years old, so I’ve been doing pigs,” Clarence said. “We invite friends,
them all my life,” Clarence Lucero said. so there’s a lot of people. This year about
“And my dad did them before that. 200 people showed up.”
“Our grandkids can kill a pig. They He purchased several 4-H pigs that
can do everything we can do. So it’s been didn’t make the county fair sale at the
handed down from my father to me, from normal market weight of between 230
me to my sons, and my sons’ kids are and 250 pounds.
learning it now. It’s been in our family He then fattened them up to about 500
for a lot of years.” pounds to put on a two-inch layer of fat
This vast experience and acquired to provide for the chicharrones.
skill make the Lucero Farms team a “Back in the days when my father
formidable force during the competition raised a pig, they would feed the pig until
at the annual Valencia County Hispano it wouldn’t move anymore,” Clarence
Chamber of Commerce Matanza. said. “They would have pigs that had four
Lucero and his four brothers, their inches of back fat.”
wives and children, and other relatives This would not only provide the fat for
and friends comprise the team of about the chicharrones, but enough lard to pro-
20, which normally walks away with vide cooking oil for the year.
some hardware.
“Since we’ve been going, we’ve come
The pigs that are provided to each team
at the chamber matanza are about 300
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chicharrones, he said.
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In 2008, the team won the specialty
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Sara Storey
First place, biscochitos
It took a bit of cajoling to get Sara
Storey to enter the biscochito category at
the matanza.
“My boys (Rod and Frank Storey) kept
telling me ‘If you enter, you will win,’
but I wasn’t sure,” said Storey. “They
kept encouraging me, and my family
always liked them, so I fixed up a plate, Submitted photo News-Bulletin file photo Submitted photo
and I won. I was shocked, but pleased.” SARA STOREY shows her first-place ELAINE MONTOYA was first in the red KAREN VALENZUELA was second
Storey learned to make biscochitos biscochitos trophy from the 2010 chile competition at last year’s Valencia last year in the tortilla contest at the
from her mother, Inez Berner. She says Valencia County Hispano Chamber of County Hispano Chamber of Commerce Valencia County Hispano Chamber of
the texture is an important component.
Commerce Matanza. Matanza. Commerce Matanza.
“Really good biscochitos should dis-
solve in your mouth,” she said.
prepping them ahead of the single-day She said it’s really tough to gauge competitive cooks, she’s guarded in
As of this writing, Storey still was uncer-
competition. how a team will do overall and how it revealing some of her other ingredients.
tain as to whether she’d enter the 2011
“There really is only one way to make will fare in each category, and what that “I don’t use very many spices,” she
matanza contest.
“I might decide at the last minute,” she tortillas,” said Valenzuela. “The ingre- year’s judges are looking for. said. “Only two or three.”
said. dients are pretty simple, but the exact “We had no idea how we would do,” Montoya said she’s won about 12
quantities are important. The key is in said Valenzula. awards for her red chile, which she has
the masa (dough).” been perfecting most of her life. She
Karen Valenzuela Valenzuela said texture is important learned to cook from her family, but
Elaine Montoya
Second place, tortillas in making winning tortillas. She’s been she says she came up with her red chile
Karen Valenzuela learned to make participating in the Valencia County First place, red chile recipe on her own.
tortillas from her mother, a skill she later Hispano Chamber’s matanza for seven or Going for an extremely spicy, hot taste “Cooking red chile is something I do
used at her family’s Carmela’s restaurant eight years, she said. is not necessarily the way of winning red year-round,” she says.
as a teenager. She’d won an award for her Beatrice Aguirre is someone who helps chile, according to Elaine Montoya. The matanza is something Montoya
tortillas before her triumph at last year’s Valenzuela a great deal with the tortillas, “If it’s too hot, the judges can’t taste looks forward to, as much for the compe-
matanza, but taking second place was and there are often children helping to the red chile and the ingredients,” said tition as for the camaraderie.
still gratifying. roll out the tortillas as well. Montoya. “I like going against others who have
Valenzuela said her team, ROC ROC Construction also was named the Being a matanza, Montoya’s recipe been cooking red chile for years and
Construction, was the only group to Team Champion and won the liver cat- naturally includes pork, and she has used years.”
make tortillas on-site, as opposed to egory in 2010. red chile as well. However, like many
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News-Bulletin file photo mounting debts?
LOS LUNAS ARTIST and author Noé Lara is one of the many artists who will display Constantly worrying?
their work at this year’s matanza in an area Lara refers to as “Artists Alley.”
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will go to no matter what, but the weath-
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we are really praying for good weather,”
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food and music as it is a preservation of One such artist, Ricardo Chávez-
Hispanic culture, according to Noé Lara, Méndez, who specializes in the art of
a Los Lunas artist and author. “curvismo,” a drawing technique, is
Lara, a sociology teacher at the planning to send several of his students
University of New Mexico-Valencia to do demonstrations for visitors to the
Campus, is in charge of what he calls matanza.
“Artist Alley” at the Valencia County
There are several other artists sched-
Hispano Chamber of Commerce
uled to exhibit their work at the event
Matanza.
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Lara believes the inclusion of art is an cializes in ancient healing arts, will hold
important part of the annual matanza, demonstrations and Eusebio Ortega will
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Here’s To Another
Successful
Matanza!
Village of
Los Lunas 660 Main Street NW P.O. Box 1209
Phone (505) 839-3840 FAX (505) 352-3580
Mayor Councilors
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be the best yet and for the first time, Rael referred to as “absolutely excel-
the music will be piped outside via an lent.”
elaborate sound system that Rael is Another highlight this year will
providing. be eight-year-old Kylie Tafoya from
“There will be standing room only Albuquerque, who will sing with
by 10 in the morning,” Rael said. Mariachi Tradicional and delight the
“This music captivates people, it really crowd other, more contemporary,
does. And now, everyone can hear it songs including Tina Turner’s “Proud
even if they are outside.” Mary.”
Mariachi Tradicional will open their As in years past, the day’s enter-
part of the show at 11 a.m. with “La tainment will begin early with Los
Negra,” and will feature some folk- Garrapatas, who will sing rancheritas
lorico dancers that will showcase the to liven up the early-morning crowd.
full power of the music. “These kinds of songs originated out
“The power of the song comes to the on the ranches,” Rael said. “They are
forefront right away,” Rael explained.
“And the dancers will enhance that.” dance songs, like polkas or fox trots.”
The folklorico dancers Rael is Garrapatas is not new to the matan-
referring to are members of the S&A za, and many people are looking for-
Dance Academy led by Sandy Telles ward to the return of a favorite, and
of Belen. This is the first year the fitting, song “La Matanza.”
dancers will perform at the matanza There will be posters at the event
and most of the group are natives of outlining the specific time that each
Valencia County. performer will be on stage, but the
Other individuals will perform show will run continuously from 8:30
with Mariachi Tradicional, including a.m. until 2 p.m., with a short break
Sandra Montoya, a Peralta resident around 10:30 a.m. to allow for some Submitted photo
who many may recognize from the equipment to be taken down.
JOSE CARRILLO, leader of Mariachi Tradicional and an Albuquerque resident, will
Mariachi Holiday concert held annu- “This is a preservation of culture,”
Rael said. “And the entertainment will perform at the matanza and was described by matanza music organizer Pete Rael
ally at Los Lunas High School, and
Arnoldo Arrieta from Mexico, who be outstanding.” as “outstanding.”
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Congratulations
Valencia County Hispano Chamber
of Commerce on Matanza #11
and your continued support of
Valencia County youth through the
money raised at your matanza!
BCS appreciates
because of his own merits rather than allow the board to perfect the pig roast.
being picked because Fernando was “We want to grow slowly to keep it
related to the business owner. under our control,” Fernando said. But
He said he is proud of his own accom- everyone is learning.”
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