The Red, White, and Balloons fundraiser welcomes the public to celebrate the birth of the U.S.A. at the Anderson-Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon Museum. The museum encourages the public to enjoy a day filled with food, family, fun, and fireworks. This fundraiser will be loaded with games and activities for children as well as music and live entertainment for the older crowd.

Tickets will provide access to the Balloon Museum, VIP parking, a traditional picnic dinner, and seats with the best view of Albuquerque fireworks. A balloon glow is planned, weather permitting.

Local photographers get the opportunity to exhibit their work showing City Open Space lands.

The exhibit of photographs displays images taken by local photographers that show New Mexico’s rich, cultural landscapes.

The photographers say the images call to mind the essence of Open Space as seen through their eyes, captured at a particular time and place.

On display will be images from each of the three major areas of our Open Space lands: the Rio Grande Valley and Bosque, the West Mesa, and the foothills of the Sandia Mountains.

The Open Space Visitor Center says the goal of this exhibition is to present the beauty of our natural environment as well as the tension between human influence and land preserve.

This event if free and runs until June 30, 2013. The Open Space Visitor Center is located at 6500 Coors Blvd., located east of Coors Blvd. at the end of Bosque Meadows Rd. which is between Montano Blvd. and Paseo del Norte.

Registration is now open for the Albuquerque-Bernalillo County Trade Alliance’s mission to Taiwan. This trip aims to provide local businesses with opportunities to find customers and business partners in Taiwan. From Sept. 1-9, Bernalillo County Commission Chair, Maggie Hart Stebbins, will lead the trade mission.

“Over the last couple of decades, Taiwan has evolved into a Who’s Who location for multinational corporations to do their product research and development” said Stebbins. “Our New Mexico companies are developing the technologies they are looking for.”

The trade mission will focus on SEMICON Taiwan, a large semiconductor tradeshow that covers a variety of subsectors, but is not limited to companies interested in SEMICON Taiwan.