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April 22, 2013
Candidates for mayor drop to 3 Former ABQ first lady withdraws from race
by Ardee Napolitano news@dailylobo.com
Sergio Jiménez / Daily Lobo The 22nd annual La Montañita Co-op Earth Festival cropped up in Nob Hill early Sunday morning. The festival was organized to commemorate Earth Day, and included a wide array of local farmers and vendors, fine arts and crafts, sustainability organizations, and live performances.
A UNM alumna withdrew her election bid for mayor of Albuquerque last week, narrowing the race down to three candidates. Margaret Aragon de Chavez, wife of former Albuquerque mayor Martin Chavez, dropped out of the race on Friday. Now, Democrat Pete Dinelli, Republican incumbent Richard Berry and Republican Paul Heh remain in the race. Aragon de Chavez, who was running as a Democrat, told the Albuquerque Journal she got enough signatures to make the ballot. But she said she decided to withdraw after realizing it was “going to be a very expensive race.” According to Dinelli’s Twitter account, Dinelli expects Aragon de Chavez to support him in his candidacy for mayor: “Thanks to (Margaret Aragon de Chavez) for her passion and love for (Albuquerque). I’m honored to have her support
as we work to move our city forward!”
“I will get our economy robust again and bring not just jobs, but careers to the citizens of Albuquerque.” ~Paul Heh Republican candidate Dinelli, who was a former city councilor and deputy city attorney, said on his website, PeteDinelli.com, he wants to reassess the city’s police force and conduct a nationwide search for a new police chief. He said that if elected, he will also work
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UNM students talk experience at Boston Marathon No New Mexicans injured in April 15 bombings by Nicole Perez
news@dailylobo.com UNM student Chris Peverada was halfway through eating a crab roll after running in the Boston Marathon when he heard two loud explosions near the restaurant he was sitting in. Peverada, a doctoral student in linguistics, was eating with his family in a mall a few blocks from the finish line, and he said people immediately started running and screaming after the explosions. “There were a couple bangs, and the people in the hallways of the mall were all running around, panicking,” Peverada said. “A lot of people from the restaurant got up and ran off without paying, but my dad’s pretty honest, so he paid.” Peverada and his family were evacuated from the building and heard from a nearby crossing guard that the explosions were probably bombs. “It’s weird, I’ve only ever seen that type of thing on TV, I’ve never been that close to it,” Peverada said. “It still kind of feels like it wasn’t that big just because I was there. It was hard while I was there to realize that people all over the world were hearing about this. It was a pretty big deal.” As rumors flew, Peverada jumped on a nearby subway train, where a man told him 10 people
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were already dead. In reality, three people were killed in the blast. Peverada wasn’t able to exit the train near the finish line, so he walked almost two miles back to his hotel, and flew out of Logan International Airport the next morning, where an FBI agent questioned him. “At the point where you have to give them your boarding pass and your ID, they asked a few questions related to ‘What were you here for and where are you going?’” he said. “I told them I was in the marathon, and they asked if I had finished and if I had seen anything suspicious.” Shawna Winnegar, a senior majoring in exercise science and a runner for UNM, said her dad and a few friends ran the marathon. It was her dad’s first time running in the Boston Marathon, and it was supposed to be his last after running marathons for almost 10 years. “As a human to hear about something like that, not even as a runner, it’s just unimaginable,” Winnegar said. “Especially for people like my dad, who this was going to be his last marathon and it was supposed to be such a great experience, it’s the Boston Marathon. So it was really sad, I get choked up every time I think about because it’s just so awful.” She said her dad dropped out
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Juan Labreche/ @LabrecheMode / Daily Lobo Chris Peverada, a UNM doctorate student in linguistics, ran the Boston Marathon last weekend and heard the explosions from a nearby restaurant. About 80 New Mexicans ran in the marathon, a few of whom were UNM students, and nobody from New Mexico was injured.
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