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This year, the Las Cruces Farmers and Crafts Market celebrated its 40th anniversary. Since its establishment in 1971 by local produce growers, the market has grown significantly and on Wednesdays and Saturdays year round, the Downtown Mall is bustling with local craftsmen, artists, entertainers, food vendors and, of course, farmers. The celebration kicked off on May 11 and it was quite a turn out. The anniversary celebration was made even more special by the announcement in September that the Las Cruces market was voted the #1 large farmers market in the country in the 2011 America's Favorite Farmers Market contest, which is sponsored annually by the American Farmland Trust.

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When most people picture heart disease, they picture someone's grandpa clutching his chest and having a heart attack. However, according to the National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease, the number one cause of death for American women is heart disease, and five times more women will die from heart disease than from breast cancer. One in 10 women ages 45 to 64 has heart disease and that statistic rises to one in four women after the age of 65, according to Healthy Woman Online, a program provided for women by MountainView Regional Medical Center. The symptoms of heart disease tend to be more subtle in women than in men. Heart disease is no longer only a man's problem.

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