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Donna Johnson
Last updated on Monday, December 23, 2002
Donna Johnson garnered local, state, national, and international publicity for clients such as Coca Cola and the World Flower and Garden show as a Chicago publicist. She brings that experience to New Mexico.
Donna Johnson. Photo by Dallas Lemmon. A kaleidoscope of other work experience broadens her perspective. She has served martinis to millionaires and pinto beans to truckers. Typed pleadings for attorneys and analyses for a psychologist. Developed reading skills of Navajo children and writing skills of ranch kids. Improved math skills for unwed mothers and English skills for adult Spanish speakers.
And, Donna has written - promoting businesses, organizations, communities, and people, places, and events.
New Mexico publishing credits include legal secretarial articles, La Ristra; poetry, Thoughtscapes; art and drama reviews (with her husband, Dallas Lemmon), Silver City Enterprise, Wilderness Outlook, Desert Winds, and Deming Headlight; bi-weekly Internet column for educators and kids, Lordsburg Liberal; featured "Deming Profile," New Mexico Business Journal; Great American Duck Race features, Your Host New Mexico; and hospitality/business articles, Southern New Mexico Online Magazine.
Other writing includes grants for education and the arts, documentation for disability claimants, obituaries for a funeral home, and "reams" of publicity for Deming/Luna County organizations and the accomplishments of teens.
Her versatility is reflected in her role models - Eleanor Roosevelt, Carl Sandburg, Gwendolyn Brooks, Walt Disney, and Auntie Mame. Her husband mentions that he detects the influence of Mae West as well.
Articles by Donna Johnson
Cotton and cowboys, cacti and copper, cavalry and coyotes, chile and coatimundi - and the Chiricahua Apaches. All these help characterize the most southwestern part of Hidalgo County, called the Bootheel of New Mexico, where you will find the small communities of Playas, Animas, and Cotton City. As I drive, twisting through mountains and leaning around curves, having turned westward at Hatchita towards Animas on N.M. 9, which then leads to Rodeo and to Portal, Arizona, I bask in the warmth of an autumn day. I am taking a one-day vacation to leisurely revisit the sites of Old West tales in the boot heel of New Mexico. Put on a cowboy hat, grab a miner’s pick, and get out your birder’s field glasses. You may have need of them when you explore the three neighboring villages on the border of Arizona and New Mexico’s boot heel - Road Forks, Rodeo, and Portal.As you travel east or west on Interstate 10, turn off at the Road Forks exit in New Mexico. It marks the I-10 junction with transcontinental Highway 80 and then continues on to Rodeo. Take time to visit Road Forks, settled by the G.H. Porters around 1925 and further developed by the late John Graham whose family still own and operate several businesses there.
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