About the ECNA

Julie Dreike, President Embudo Canyon Neighborhood Association

We built our home in this great neighborhood 1995.  We enjoy being steps away from the City Open Space and National Forest.  I hike the trails often and always enjoy the views.

Every neighborhood has a “rhythm”.  Embudo Canyon Neighborhood Association gets it rhythm from the great outdoors, the wild life, and the good people who live here.  I am grateful for the neighbors who are tuned into the “rhythm” of our neighborhood, including watching out for one another.

I first joined Embudo Canyon Neighborhood Association years ago, and was an inactive member.  After retiring from administrative positions I joined the Board of Directors and eventually became President.  Our Board Members volunteer their time and talent to make a positive impact on the place we have all chosen to live.  Areas of focus include:

• Crime and safety
• Infrastructure and Environment
• Social events to support our sense of community
• Effective communication, listening and messaging
• Good stewards of members dues and offer benefits to our neighborhood

Due to COVID the past year has been a challenge to us all individually and as a neighborhood.  The Board made the decision to offer free membership in 2021 because we were unable to offer all of the benefits we had planned.  I hope you will join and be an active member in Embudo Canyon Neighborhood Association.

My wife Lou and I moved into our near-perfect home on Agnes Court in 2013 after living in the UNM neighborhood for many years. That area had some certain advantages, but we were both ready for a change of scenery, a different Albuquerque experience. We love the quiet and security of our cul-de-sac, and the easy access to the foothills open space and the Sandias. It didn’t hurt that we already had some friends that live very close by now, and our area has begun to compete well with Nob Hill for good dining and bistros.

I worked at UNM as a research biochemist, then as a software engineer, continuing in that field at Philips Semiconductors and Intel.  I’ve been retired from paid work for quite a while now, and I’m enjoying volunteer work with organizations such as ECNA because I feel that working with others to solve problems and help enhance quality of  life for my neighbors is a very good and satisfying use of my time.

Hello, my name is Curtis Vernon. My family moved into Embudo Hills in 2020 and quickly became interested in finding ways to better the neighborhood. I volunteered to be the Treasurer to help ECNA not only with its financial management, but with all of its goals. I am a marketing consultant, but previously was a public finance attorney, and continue to practice law on a part-time basis.

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I arrived in Albuquerque in January, 1967, as a Naval Officer assigned to a joint services staff at the base. After leaving active duty in December, 1969, I attended graduate school at UNM on GI Bill, receiving a Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering.

I then went to work at PNM, both at the downtown headquaeters and at the San Juan coal fired power plant near Farmington during its construction and start-up. Next I worked for Bovay Engineers, a consulting firm in Albuquerque, and ended up at the Facilities Engineering group at Sandia National Labs until I retired.

Virginia and I got married and moved in to our house on Archuleta in the spring of 2000. Somewhere between 2010 and 2012 we learned of ECNA, mostly through Nena-Joy and Judy Minks and I became active with the Board in 2012. I have been a Director and the sign guy since it was erected in 2012.

My outside interests include hiking, bicycling, skiing, camping and cars, mostly Alfa Romeos. Was VP of the Sitzmarker Ski Club a couple times and have been President of the New Mexico Alfa Owners Club for the last several years.

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I moved into Embudo Canyon neighborhood in 1979 with my wife and 3 sons.  The boys were all graduated from Manzano High School.   I was a CPA and corporate controller.  My wife was an APS teacher. We are both retired now.  We enjoy travelling, gardening and I play golf as often as possible. 

I was involved for a few years with ECNA when it was first established.  We worked in the early 80’s to get Embudo Hills park built by the city.  I was not on the board after the late 80’s.  

In about 2008, I began contacting city officials to try to get the landscaping reestablished at Indian School and Tramway.  I got no where.  So I began working with ECNA toward that goal.  I became a Director in about 2015.  The efforts of many members of ECNA have resulted in the project under construction now.  

There are many future projects on our wish list.  I plan to continue to work with State, County and City political leaders to bring to projects to reality.

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Hello Neighbor,  I have been happy to call ABQ and Embudo Canyon Neighbhorhood my home for the last three years.  We have moved around a lot over the past 14 years and I am thrilled to have found a house in this neighborhood.  I enjoy being active and involved and helping out with the social media side of ECNA’s outreach seemed like a good place to help out.  Please let me know if you have comments or suggestions.  Thanks!