State Sen. Bill Soules (D-Doña Ana) and fifth-grade students at a local elementary school in his district are now working to get a bill celebrating the beloved chile to the Senate floor.
There was only one that couldn’t give them fresh chiles: Chili’s, the national chain restaurant, Soules said.
That was when another student called out how much they loved the smell of chiles roasting, which received consensus from the about 100 students gathered in the library, said Kristina Campbell, one of the fifth-grade teachers at Monte Vista. They researched how an official aroma would benefit the state’s economy and tourism. They wrote letters to legislators about what the bill would mean for New Mexico. And leading up to the bill’s first committee hearing on Jan. 31, where they would help Soules present, they made posters about the questions they would get about the bill and practiced how to answer them.
The day of the hearing, students from Monte Vista presented via Zoom during the Indian, Rural and Cultural Affairs Committee meeting about the bill.“Why not the smell of oil or dairy farms?” another said, referencing other scents common in the state.
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