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Thoughts From The West End Gallup is a paradox. A paradox is defined as “a situation, person, or thing that combines contradictory features or qualities.” A paradox can be either a good thing or a bad thing. For example it’s a good paradox that we have desert sandstone red rocks and a pine treed National Forest in the same place. It’s a bad paradox that in the proverbial center of the Native American universe we don’t have a legitimate Native American museum/center, but rather blaring train horns and excessive panhandling.

In this issue of the Journey there are lots of paradoxes: Sending hot air balloons up in the winter (pg.12); a priest that likes muscle cars (pg.38); how bees may have helped diabetics (pg.18); an east Indian man who wants to end homelessness in Gallup (pg.20); building a solar farm in the middle of a mining town (pg.30); a bunch of Benedictine monks that are making a thousand year commitment to a monastery in the Zuni mountains (pg.56).

I suppose Christmas itself in a paradox, a virgin giving birth to a King with a feeding trough as a crib? Wisemen bringing gold to a barn? And now 2000 years later somehow that translates to putting trees in our houses and lights outside of them?

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Letter to the Editor

We loved reading Martin Link’s “Ode to Octavia” (Oct. 2015), and wondered if you would be interested in – the rest of the story; or at least another chapter in the amazing multifaceted life of Octavia Fellin.

Along with the Franciscan Sisters, who operated the old Saint Mary Hospital for over fifty years, Octavia was a founder of the McKinley General Hospital Auxiliary in 1968. The first major function of the newly formed Auxiliary was escorting some 1,500 people through the new medical facility overlooking the city. Octavia also served as one of the original Auxiliary officers. This was a project she really believed in through the ensuing years.

On November 1, 1983, when the two private hospitals in Gallup were merged after much negotiation, operating as Rehoboth McKinley Christian Hospital, the next step was the merger of the two Auxiliaries. That occurred on January 23, 1984. Octavia was again front and center.

You may not be aware that all Auxilians are volunteers, but not all volunteers are Auxilians. The differences lie in several areas. Auxilians tend to be extremely loyal not only to their cause, but also to their facility or organization. Hospital Auxilians not only caringly serve the patients’ needs, but also sponsor fund raising projects for the hospital and promote wellness.

Volunteers usually are devoted to a more single purpose. Both are vital to humanities’ needs worldwide.

Such was Octavia’s devotion to the integrity of RMCHCS that, some years ago, she indignantly resigned from the hospital and the Auxiliary over some now forgotten issues that went against her always high moral standards. Octavia was never one to hold back on her opinions when she was sure of her footing. Whatever the issues, they must have been resolved to her satisfaction as, in time, she was back at RMCH fulfilling her commitments before her paid up Auxiliary dues had expired. She was never Letters to the Editor may be sent to gallupjourney@gmail.com or mailed to 202 E. Hill Ave., Gallup, NM 87301. Your name & contact info is required.

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taken “off the books” and, to my knowledge, this incident was never mentioned again. (Until now!)

While serving as “Gallup’s Librarian,” Octavia worked at Auxiliary fundraisers, Health Fairs and such, but never could commit to regular shifts such as at the Gift Shop. In her latter retirement years, however, she joined the Sorting/Stocking crew at the Auxiliary Thrift Shop located on the Behavioral Health Services East Campus, a position that she truly enjoyed literally up until her final year of life. Fortunately, she never knew the Shop was forced to close when the building that housed it was condemned due to a caving in roof.

Need I say that her specialty was sorting the donated books which the Shop received in droves. Octavia inspected every book, looking for, and occasionally finding, that rare first edition or historical treasure, which she separated out for special display and pricing. One thing she hated – cheap paperback romances.

Once, setting up for a Saturday clearance sale, while stacking books, spine up, around the periphery of two joined six foot tables, she was observed casually tossing her rejects under the tables in an ever growing pile, while muttering under her breath of wasted printing. Prior to the sale, I crawled under the tables and scooped her rejects into a 30 gallon trash bag, which my husband hauled out to our car for later recycle. Octavia conceded that at least they were good for something.

It was only appropriate that, at 93, Octavia entered Eternity in the care of her friends at RMCH. As her many family members were leaving the hospital following their final good-byes, those Auxilians on duty in the lobby area went to offer them our love and condolences. Traditionally, the Auxiliary attends a memorial service of our deceased members in our uniforms, sitting together as a unit in recognition and appreciation for the life and dedication of our volunteers.

However, one of her relatives told us that, at Octavia’s insistence, there would be no public funeral or memorial. Octavia did not want an official send-off.

In fact, we were told, Octavia had willed her remains to Science. Then, with a twinkle in the eye and a slight giggle in the throat, her beloved relative added, “What do you think Science will think when it gets that wrinkled up little body?”

Quintessential Octavia.

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We enjoyed Gallup and are still enjoying the Gallup Journey back in Switzerland! We wish you all the best and take care.

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December 2015: Volume 12, Issue 12 - #137

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On December 4th, from 6-8pm, there will be a fundraiser with Peruvian auction items at the upstairs gallery of the Gallup Cultural Center. All procedes to benefit IDO.

Three years ago Dr. Valda, a Gallup children’s dentist, went to Peru for a wedding. He didn’t realize that this would lead to a three year endeavor to bring help to the people of Peru.

“While I was down there I decided to look up different things to do and came across this woman who did weavings. She did these weavings in nine different communities down there. She told me that these communities were very isolated and therefore were in real need of dental help.”

That was when the IDO (Indigenous Dental Outreach) program started. So far, Dr. Valda has not been able to actually do any dental work since the past three years has been dedicated to getting the program set up and all of the legal and logistical proceedings that go with that, but he is finally ready to head down and start doing work this May.

“I have been working with this great couple, Dr. Carmelo Nay and Dr. Marleni Callanaupa, who live and work down there.

They have been extremely helpful, especially since the language spoken down there is a very distinct dialect.”

Dr. Valda is starting with one community but hopes to expand to more once he gets more people involved.

“We will probably not be needing any volunteers on this upcoming trip, but would definitely appreciate some in the upcoming years. We would love to get other dentists involved, but anyone can volunteer.”

The IDO will be hosting a Wine and Cheese Tasting plus silent auction fundraiser on December 4th upstairs from Angela’s Cafe Con Leche. Among other things, the auction will feature art pieces from Peru that Dr. Valda has personally collected. Each ticket costs $20 and all proceeds go to IDO. If you wish to purchase tickets or donate items to be auctioned, you can go to Small Fry Dentistry which is located on 107 West Green St., or call 505-721-0040 for more information.

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Health In The Land of Enchantment

In this space there will be a variety of local writers who will share their perspectives on health, lifestyle, and medicine. This month’s article is written by local Dr. Rick Kruis.

Bees & Diabetes: A possible Theory Despite my hesitations, I reluctantly agreed to submit this theory to The Journey. I want to emphasize that my ideas are not facts …just speculation. So I hope you enjoy my musings - but please take them with a grain of salt (or a dollop of honey).

have heard that health surveys on the Navajo Reservation before WW II showed that cases of diabetes were very uncommon… only one or two cases on the ENTIRE RESERVATION. Now shockingly I

almost half of Navajos over 40 have diabetes. When asked we are told that it is due to a combination of life-style and genetics. And that’s it.

think of it. I started bee keeping about 20 years ago, then about 10 years ago my sister-in-law passed away from a ruptured brain aneurysm. The funeral was in northwest Iowa, near the small town where I went to college. So I took the opportunity to visit my organic chemistry teacher who was also a bee keeper.

He was researching organic bee keeping as a way of preventing the colony collapse syndrome we are seeing in bed colonies all over the country.

“Now shockingly almost half of Navajos over 40 have diabetes. “

But I keep wondering if there is more to it than that.

I wonder, because as an ER physician for many years, I have seen a number of people who have diabetes whose life style seems like it should not have led to diabetes. I saw diabetic grandmas who were very active as sheep herders and were not a bit overweight.

I have a friend who was a serious runner in his youth and who has always been slim. He didn’t have a car and walked several miles every day to work and back, yet he became diabetic. What’s going on?

A possible answer came to me from bee keeping, and it does have to do with lifestyle, but not how we usually

What my chemistry professor discovered was that the commercial bee keepers in our country were making the huge mistake of following a trend in our food industry – using high fructose corn syrup in almost everything we eat. When they transport bees by the semi load for pollinating orchards in another state, the

bees need to be fed. They do this by coming along side the semi trailer full of bees with a tanker car carrying high fructose corn syrup and pump the stuff into feeders in each hive.

It was after these feedings that some bee colonies collapsed. But why? It turns out that high fructose corn syrup is made by hydrolyzing the cellulose in corn using hydrochloric acid. Hydrochloric acid is most cheaply manufactured by running an electric current through a salt brine with mercury coated electrodes at either end of the tank. High fructose corn syrup made in this way contains trace amounts of mercury.

What might mercury have to do with the colony collapse problems of bees? What could it have to do with diabetes?

When I go to Shop & Save, I see shoppers come out of the store with shopping baskets full of soda. When you live on the rez and have to haul drinking water why not buy soda instead? Sodas used to be sweetened

“I saw diabetic grandmas who were very active as sheep herders and were not a bit overweight.” with sugar, but now most use the cheaper high fructose corn syrup, and the switch to this sweetener happened at roughly the same time diabetes starting developing in our area. Could this corn syrup be a source of mercury?

I began to wonder if there could be a link between mercury and diabetes, so I did an internet search and discovered that mercury can damage the islet cells of the pancreas. The islet cells are what makes insulin, and damage to these cells leads to Type I diabetes.

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resistance. In other words there is plenty of insulin being made, but it doesn’t work well to lower blood sugar. Here again mercury can play a role. The insulin molecule requires zinc as a co-enzyme. Mercury can displace the zinc in the insulin molecule, and it deforms the insulin molecule just enough to make the insulin less effective, leading to insulin resistance.

So what to do about it? First, remember what was said at the beginning – this article contains a good deal of speculation. That means more research is needed.

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mostly water and eat green leafy vegetables every day rarely get diabetes.

It turns out that various fruits (especially the rinds) and vegetables contain a substance called pectin which traps (chelates) heavy metals like mercury. Cilantro is especially good at trapping mercury. Other foods that are good sources of pectin are green apples, cabbage, bananas, beets, grapes, carrots, and the pith of citrus fruits.

Whether all this speculation is correct or not, the measures suggested can’t hurt and are right in line with best practices in preventing diabetes: In addition to regular exercise, eat your vegetables, drink plenty of water, avoid high fructose corn syrup, and when you make your salsa, be sure to include generous amounts of cilantro in the recipe.

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Interview by Fowler Roberts

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Executive Director of Care 66 Inc. Q.

In looking at your time with Care 66 what has been the pivotal moment?

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(Reflective pause) I don’t know that there’s been any one moment. I think from the very get go the mission of the City of Gallup’s 2004 blue ribbon commission that we sprang from was to propose ideas about how to end homelessness. Period. It was not, “How do we mitigate this problem. How do we whitewash it?” There was none of that. So what I’m trying to say is that our mindset was, “Can you dream big enough to get within range of that dream?”

Q. What have you enjoyed most about your tenure at Care 66?

A. The funnest part, the hardest, the most

challenging part, has been taking an impossible dream and dialing it back to just barely possible. (Long expressive chuckle) That gets me up to go to work every day. Is the ball going to move today or is it going to move backwards? (Chuckles again)

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What have you accomplished?

In this business quantification, in some ways, is very easy if you look at money, for example. Over the last ten years we are looking at maybe 16 to 18 million dollars of investments, in Gallup, in housing resources and jobs. But I think the more important way to measure accomplishment is in every single person whose life got saved. And not necessarily because we did anything other than to provide a place for them to put their life back together or to get other people a spot job to help them get their life back together and reunite them with their families.

And I think we have served several thousand people in this way. I think that’s the more valuable accomplishment, so to speak.

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There has been some political and community push back on the new housing project in the downtown area. What is your response to that?

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A couple of things. Gallup is the county seat for one of the poorest counties in the country. We have as a resource a lot of poor people. So it makes sense, since they are our largest market, to serve them. And given that our mission is to end homelessness, and that homelessness is so closely tied to poverty and the lack of affordable housing... it’s a very viable process for improving the wellbeing of the community.

Q. Is the downtown project a low income housing project?

A. This particular project downtown is a mixed income project.

For the most part, it’s going to be working families downtown. And the nice thing about affordable housing is that because it frees up working families resources, there is more money to spend locally – and they spend it locally. At least that’s what the studies seem to think. We took a hole in the ground that was a hole for fifty years and nobody did anything with it until we decided to. There have been allegations and rumors going around about sex offenders and violent offenders and single men – hundreds of them or maybe more all living there – that is absolutely untrue. HUD does not allow you to take someone with a felony, and we have a lot of HUD money in there.

Q. What do you do for fun?

A. I ride my bicycle, mostly road biking.

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What is your favorite ride in the Gallup area?

Most of the time when I take people from outside of Gallup, I take them on the Red Rock Chapter ride, which is a very scenic gorgeous ride. It doesn’t hide anything about Gallup and it doesn’t whitewash anything, but at the same time it’s extremely beautiful.

If they want to go mountain biking, I take them on the High Desert Trail.

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You could be doing a lot of different things with your life, why do you choose to do what you are doing?

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There is something about a home that I like. I wish everyone has a good one. I want everybody to have a good one. In my own family’s history, my great-grandmother was widowed and she had nowhere to go. So I think I always remember that story and feel like I’m paying back the kindnesses shown to her and the jobs given to her – essentially an illiterate woman. (Pause) So, maybe, that’s just who I am.

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The Cold Within

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ecently I came upon an article by Judith Shulevitz (New Republic, Aug. 2014). In her article she describes in detail the condition of a human freezing…a condition which occurs too frequently in Gallup and McKinley County. In her article she says:

At first the person feels the coldness of being ignored.

Then they shiver at the thought of being rejected, followed by trembling at being alone. From the lack of warmth, the eyes dry up and no longer cry at being alone. The ability to reach out diminishes, and from the lack of touch with others, the heart starts to harden. In time the breath goes shallow and mumbling under ones breath at their conditions begins to occur. And if the person has children, they develop insensitivity. At this point, just as the body reacts to the cold from without, a person dies from the cold within.

But the cold within is not their own. It’s the cold within us when we fail to see these people as people. It’s the cold within when we spend hundreds of dollars for gifts and food at Christmas for ourselves and can’t spare a twenty to help the homeless, the battered wife, and the recovering alcoholic. One doesn’t need to give a person a twenty to help others. A contribution to Battered Families helps them feed the hungry at Christmas. Donations of canned foods to the Food Pantry can help feed a family over the holidays. Donating to the Behavioral Health programs of NCI and RMCH can help them care for others. Supporting your church drives to spread warmth to others which IS the meaning of Christmas.

“There are worse ways to die than by freezing. To be sure, it’s extremely unpleasant, but only for a little while. At first, the cold gnaws at your skin, which soon goes slightly numb, the blood shunted away from the surface to protect your inner organs. Your body shakes as it tries to gin up heat, your heartbeat quickens, your breath comes faster, but the farther your body temperature drops from its usual 98-plus degrees, the less you feel or understand. At about five degrees below normal, you develop amnesia.

As more warmth seeps out, you grow apathetic, then fall into a stupor. Just before you lose consciousness, you may engage in a mysterious activity called “paradoxical undressing” – ripping your clothes off – probably because at this point the blood floods back to your skin and you are suddenly very hot. Your kidneys start to fail. Urine may flow out of you, though you probably won’t notice; nor will you be aware that your breathing has now slowed while carbon monoxide builds up inside of you.

Your metabolism sputters like an engine out of gas. Your heartbeat becomes erratic. When your temperature sinks Please, this Christmas, do not let someone die from to about 75 degrees, your heart stops. Very shortly after within. It is a far worse death when the heart stops from a that, your brain flat lines.” lack of caring than freezing from the cold.

How utterly tragic that one should die this way. And as harsh as that reality is, there is a death worse than that.

-David Conejo/ Palacios It occurs from the Cold Within. It happens when the warmth of other humans or a friendship is taken away.

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2. Which of the following projects was not under consideration at a Downtown Arts and Cultural District public input meeting: a. A Rio Puerco interpretive viewing deck. b. A railroad themed parking lot with an observation deck. c. Additional shading for the Courthouse Square. d. A garage near City Hall to house the Mayor’s Harley and the City Attorney’s Smart Car.

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4. Navajo Nation President, Russell Begay vetoed legislation: a. Expanding the exterior boundaries of the Nation to incorporate the Gallup Flea Market. b. Limiting his line item-veto authority. c. Imposing a gross receipts tax on fry bread. d. Designating Bill Donovan and Ernie Bulow honorary members of the Navajo Tribe.

5. The last week of October in Gallup was tumultuous. Which event did not occur: a. A Red Lion Inn employee broke into an office safe and set fire to a room. b. 32 cars of a BNSF train derailed two miles east of Gallup. c. Federal agents executed search warrants against local Indian jewelry stores. d. Miyamura High’s, Niles Thomas, tripped and fell as he approached the State Cross Country race finish line.

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Do Taboos Die?

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t seems to me that taboos fade all the time. Taboos go away for various reasons. They can become no longer be useful.

They can be proven wrong, sometime through becoming inconvenient over time. Taboos are hard to get away from.

They don’t disappear abruptly it seems.

I knew a Navajo person, who, at a pizza eating gathering, declared that he would not eat any of the pizza which had mushrooms on it. “My grandmother calls mushrooms “naa’ adii’,” it ruins your eyes,” he declared. I tried to tell him, that there is a type of mushroom that can cause blindness, but that the mushrooms on the pizza will not make anybody blind.

I told my friend that the Navajo word for mushrooms is , literally, “eyes will be gone,” probably came about specifically from the Navajo experience with that particular type of mushroom. I supposed that Navajos avoided all mushrooms in the Navajo regions as a precaution against the dangerous one. I tried to convince my friend that now we can eat mushrooms from stores without fear of blindness because there is no chance of the dangerous one getting into the commercial supply. He decided to continue to avoid all mushrooms again referring to grandma’s teachings. Probably he is one of few Navajos currently holding that view.

The taboo against mushroom consumption and the Navajo word for it were once very useful to warn people, especially children), about the dangerous mushrooms. “Naa’ adii’,” was a quick easy way to warn Navajos about the particular mushroom. (Mr. Bulow mentions that taboos are useful to teach “proper behavior” to children. Today we really do not have to worry about eating the dangerous mushroom. I don’t think we have to change the word for mushroom either, although it may confuse a few people, like my friend, who worry that there is a religious basis for the word and the taboo.

Another fading Navajo taboo is the admonition to not say your name; it will cause your ear to dry up and shrivel. Mr. Bulow, and Tony Hillerman in the foreword to Bulow’s book, both mention the Navajo value of modesty and moderation.

In my mind this is what the taboo against saying your name is about. Modesty and moderation continue as valued Navajo attributes, but these days hardly any Navajo refuses to say hers or his name. At the same time, most Navajos are aware of the taboo about saying one’s name. It is still common to hear somebody say in jest, “Ni’ jaa’ doo gaanl’ (your ear will dry up),” when somebody speaks their own name.

Taboos are hard to leave behind; they can be deeply embedded in language and values. People can continue observing an outdated, seemingly irrational taboo out of respect for identity and culture. It can also be a good thing to shed taboos. Some fundamentalist view of certain taboos led Christians in colonial Massachusetts to burn women as witches. Happily, at least in my belief, humans seem to all strive for enlightenment even as they use taboos to guide behavior.

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n October 13th, two consultants, hired by the City of Gallup, explained that the solar investment tax credits will expire December 31st of 2016, which makes it smart for solar companies to install power before that happens. The consultants advised the City of Gallup to seek proposals from companies that could come in and build a plant that the City could eventually own with no upfront costs.The contract that we have with Continental Divide Electric Coop, from whom we buy electricity wholesale and then resell to Gallup citizens, allows the City to own 10% of its power generation, equivalent to a 9MW plant. (Gallup Solar takes some credit for the inclusion of this clause). Far from being recalcitrant, the mayor, council, and city attorney announced that such a plant could be sited on 80 acres of City owned land near the groundbreaking for Allison Bridge. Councilor Landavazo did ask if the plant had to be up and running by December 31, 2016. Essentially, “yes”, the consultants said. But that would be no problem. “These plants go up in no time!” The Council voted unanimously to get a Request for Proposals out ASAP. Gallup Solar members attending were flabbergasted and excited.

GALLUP SOLAR’S ILLUSTRATED HISTORY:

Gallup Solar was formed in March of 2007 by six women on a trip to see Jane Goodall in Albuquerque. Left to right: Be Sargent, Pat Sheely, (Jane Goodall and assistant behind her), Sister Rose Marie Cecchini, Sister Joan Brown (now in Paris for Climate Talks), Betsy Windisch, and Sister Maureen Houlihan. Our Mission: Gallup Solar is collaborating with communities, elected representatives, utilities, and industries to bring solar power to all peoples in our area.”

GRAND GOAL: (not coal) Our Grand Goal in 2007 was to have a MW Solar Plant to supply all Gallup’s electrical needs. We actually thought PNM

would give it to us since they do have a mandate to produce 20% of their energy with renewables by 2020, and were planning a massive solar thermal plant before Photovoltaics became the technology of choice. But they essentially called us a backwater - a measly wholesale customer, out of their service area.

GETTING REAL IN GALLUP: After a few years of demeaning ourselves in Albuquerque and with all the utilities and big power producers and users in the Four Corners, we decided to get real and chip away at our mission. We have been working with University of New Mexico, Gallup Green Technology students and their teacher, Chris Chavez, to solarize four Habitat homes (pictured above). We were also instrumental in getting the $200,000 grant that paid for the 50KW solar tracking system at Gallup High School.

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SOLAR POWER GENERATION! GETTING REAL EVERYWHERE: Gallup Solar also considers the 18,000 families on the Navajo and Zuni Reservations, who have no electricity, as an integral part of its mission. The cost of Solar is now so competitive that it can beat out the cost of kerosene typically used by these families for light. Refrigerators can be solar powered for the same cost as propane. And a whole house can be powered for the cost of generators and gasoline used to power all household appliances. The cost to bring power from a power line usually exceeds the cost of a complete system.

DO IT YOURSELF MUNICIPAL SOLAR

Before the City flabbergasted us on October 13th, Gallup Solar had been formulating a Do-It-Yourself Municipal Solar, DIYMS, plan. Ed Munoz, of Munoz Solar at Navajo Tractor, made a presentation of DIYMS to the Sustainable Gallup Board and to Richard Matzke, Gallup Electric Director, on October 8th, a week before the momentous Council Meeting. The DIYMS consists of building 25KW arrays (100 panels), we call them Solar Corrals, near large transformers and places of greatest use.

Instead of running through the metered system of a hospital or water pumping station, we prefer to connect directly to the City’s electric grid.

We propose that UNM-G Green Tech students get credit and experience building these Corrals, which can be done by anyone with the right two wrenches. Gallup Solar, Chris Chavez, and his Green Tech Students demonstrated the feasibility of DYIMS at the Dog Park on November 13th. Later that day, the same panels were installed permanently on the fourth Habitat Home that Gallup Solar has helped to solarize. As Bill Bright, president of Gallup Solar says...“The proposal to bring in a Megawatt Plant is just the first ten percent” Maybe the rest can be Do It Yourself!

Thank you so much to all our open-minded forward thinking City Council and Mayor McKinney!

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“Memories of Gallup” will share interviews by Bob Rosebrough with some of the extraordinary people who have made Gallup such a historically rich and culturally beautiful place to live.

Memories of Gallup

By Bob Rosebrough

“Even though everything was dead elsewhere, Gallup was an active town.”

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AN INTERVIEW WITH TOBE TURPEN JR.

obe met his wife, Doris, after she graduated from nursing school. He says, “She graduated from nurse’s school in Minneapolis. As part of the war effort, after they graduated, they had to go spend six months somewhere else. She drew Fort Defiance. So they sent 30 to 40 girls to Fort Defiance. She came in the store, and that’s where I met her.”

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“I need to put him in jail.”

Tobe continues, “She and another girl came to Gallup on a train that came in at night. It was a cold, snowy, nasty day and Mickey Molicca, who was the sheriff, met them and got them off the train. He said, ‘Come on girls, I’m going to take you to Fort Defiance. The only thing is both of you are going to have to sit in the front seat for a little bit because I’ve got a guy that I need to take and put him in jail.’ So they had to sit in the front seat while Mickey took the guy and put him in jail. That was their introduction to Gallup. (Tobe laughs) Another thing about those nurses: They married several guys in Gallup. Armand Ortega married one of them and quite a few stayed in Gallup.”

“I figured people would find me.”

After World War II, Tobe went to work in his father’s trading business, Tobe Turpen Trading, on Third Street across from Kirk Brothers Trading. He says, “I think I came in 1943 and I stayed at that particular location for about twenty years before I built the store south of Gallup that’s there today (now Perry Null Trading on Second Street). Everyone including my father thought that I was making a big error to move that far out of town instead of trying to get a store on Main Street, but I had a good following. I figured that people would find me and they did. I actually stayed in the store on a daily basis for 56 years and then spent another four years going to and from Albuquerque to Gallup just to look in on things.”

“Hippies started wearing Indian Jewelry.”

“Early on it was just a really difficult business – very difficult. It just seemed like no one had any appreciation for Indian jewelry. They didn’t know what it was and it

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about three weeks I’d go to Petranovich’s and show him the belt, and it was never just right. Finally they were about to leave town and I thought, ‘I’ll go tonight and collect for the belt.’ He looked at it and said, ‘Well, the only thing about this is that it needs to expand. When I come in at night and drink beer, I gain three or four inches. This belt has to expand!’ You know conchos were on leather, so I said, ‘I can’t do that.’ So I took the belt home and threw it in scrap silver.” (Tobe laughs)

“Indians are getting ready to march towards you.”

Tobe and Bill Richardson at Bill’s 90th birthday party didn’t mean anything to them. It was really hard to sell. But then it turned around in the 70’s as far as the arts and crafts business. The hippies started wearing Indian Jewelry for whatever reason, and then the movie stars started wearing it and it started showing up in magazines. It just almost seemed like overnight it just took off. There were points in there where we couldn’t get enough merchandise.”

Ronald Regan came in.

Tobe met movie stars who came into the store. He says, “My father knew some of the people with Paramount. They hired him to overlook the livestock. He supplied the livestock so he got to know them. They didn’t finish until seven or eight o’clock at night. When they came in from working late and wanted to buy some jewelry he would open up for them about once a week and they would buy from us. Ronald Regan came in. What’s the guy who said, ‘Make my day?’ Clint Eastwood. He came in too.”

Kirk Douglas wanted an expanding concho belt.

“Kirk Douglas came into town every night. He would go to the Petranovich Bar after he got in and he’d spend the whole night drinking beer. He came into the store and he wanted a concho belt, but he wanted it specially made. He showed me what he wanted, so I told him I would make it for him. Once a week for

The 70s were also a time of Indian activism. Tobe was very close friends with Gallup Mayor Emmett Garcia who was abducted in 1973 and escaped by diving through a plate glass door with his hands handcuffed behind him. He says, “There was a Plains Indian, Russell Means, who came to Gallup and tried to organize the Indians. It was a frightening time. Once they had a big gathering and there was probably 100 or 200 people. We were all very worried, because the ones they were really after was us Indian traders. They thought we had taken advantage of the Indians. That’s what they kept preaching.”

“One day we heard that they were going to march toward us. I sent all my employees home and my cousin and I stayed in the store. We were that worried. I got a telephone call and this guy says, ‘Tobe, this is Jim Williams.’ Well Jim and I had been in the service together for four years and we were very close. He said, “I’m the commander of the National Guard. Those Indians are getting ready to march towards you.’ I said, ‘I’ve heard that, Jim.’ He said, ‘Well, don’t worry. They’ll never make it.’ The National Guard cut the march short about two blocks from us.”

Father Dunston: “He thought like a businessman.”

Over his lifetime, Tobe knew and worked with many of the iconic businessmen and leaders in Gallup including Clair Gurley, Bill Richardson, John Kirk, Gilbert Ortega, Eddie Munoz, Guido Zecca Sr., C.G. Wallace, John Kennedy, and Jack Eichman. He also developed a special business relationship with Father Dunston, the founder of Southwest Indian Foundation.

Tobe says, “Father Dunston came in the store and he said, ‘You know, there’s some direct mailers out of Washington that I’ve met, and they think we could raise some money to use to help the Indians if we could come up with a little brochure of some sort featuring Indian jewelry. And he said, ‘I’ve been turned down by three other dealers.’ We sat down and went over the merchandise and selected about fifteen items and came up with a little brochure. He started mailing it, and the mail and the money just started rolling in. He used the money wisely. He used it out on the reservation to help with roads and heating. Of course, it expanded today into an enormous success. He was really a businessman. I often wondered how he got into the Church. He thought like a businessman.”

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My family and I reside here in Gallup, New Mexico. This is my daughter Marlee Edwards (Frybread) and my niece Olivia Stranger (Blue Bird Flour.) These were their costumes for Halloween. I started thinking about costumes back in July and it didn’t take long to come up with the idea. It came about after reading and hearing all the negativity that was going around about “Native American” costumes. As we are Navajo and Ojibway from here in New Mexico and Peguis First Nations, Manitoba, Canada. So, we wanted to go against that and do something positive for the people.

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ALLIGATORS IN THE BACKYARD A Short History of Juniper Trees

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have never met anyone who spends time in the outdoors who doesn’t love the Alligator Juniper. They are beautifully ugly, sometimes even sinister, older than Christ, and make magnificent firewood. The first Alligator Juniper was collected by a Dr. Woodhouse in the Zuni Mountains in 1851 (but he didn’t get it named after him) while with the Sitgreaves Expedition. The team was sent out to see if the Zuni and Little Colorado Rivers would support boat traffic.

Imagine their disappointment.

rise upward, rather than fanning out, they can look like a prop from a Headless Horseman movie.

When I went back to photograph these particular trees, the oncoming winter had already made them inaccessible. I’m pretty sure they planned it that way. It will come as no surprise that all of the juniper family—including the ones we call cedars, even though they are not—have been revered since ancient times for their medicinal and sacred properties. They have been valued for their protective properties since at least the Egyptians, and probably millennia before that.

Junipers are mentioned several times in the Bible, and even more in the apocryphal books. The prophet Elijah hid from Queen Jezebel’s deadly anger by hiding in a holy juniper. The juniper was associated with the Canaanite fertility goddess Astarte in Syria.

They are also called Thick Bark or Checkerboard Junipers, for the more faint of heart. I prefer Alligator, which their STILL BEAUTIFUL AFTER ALL THESE YEARS bark resembles. Sometimes they are called Mountain Cedar, but that may just be confusion with the Rocky Mountain Juniper. In Mexico they are called Sabinos.

A little-known fact, baskets of juniper berries were found in King Tut’s tomb. They were not native to Egypt so they had to be imported. The Egyptians took these In New Mexico wood cutters are limited to dead trees not more than a foot in diameter. Over that size they are considered “habitat” and they do help support berries quite seriously. deer and turkeys, as well as a variety of birds. I have also seen nests and squirrel houses in old Alligators. On Zuni land wood cutters are forbidden altogether.

There is a remedy noted in an Egyptian papyrus dating fifteen hundred years B C. It was a cure for tapeworm. They also used juniper berry oil in their embalming process. The Romans used them for a variety of stomach ailments including I have always thought that Alligator Junipers were solitary trees. I never seemed to see very many together in the same place—like normal trees. Recently I had flatulence. It is still used for that “ailment” to this day, but I can’t testify to its value in curbing gas. Since pepper from India was pretty expensive, the Romans ground to revise that opinion. I was taken to a forest of huge, gnarly, ancient Alligators. up juniper berries and did make-believe.

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ALLIGATOR JUNIPER BERRIES ARE EDIBLE RIGHT OFF THE TREE

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Everyone knows of the astringent juniper berry tang in Gin—required by law. But the Scots used it long before to flavor whiskey. The theory is, that it was more pleasant to take in strong drink, though it wasn’t used for flavor, but its medicinal properties.

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While the juice of juniper berries had many medicinal properties, it also has a less benign use. In reasonable doses this tonic was used to induce uterine contractions. Taken in large quantities it induced abortion. But taken in too large a dose, it could cause

Only the female tree produces edible berries and they take two years to mature.

Actually, they aren’t berries, but tiny, fleshy pine cones containing seeds. Like the pinion and other conifers, the male spreads a lot of pollen, causing a whole variety of allergic responses for many miles around.

rats carry the seeds to their nests and eat them during the winter. They gnaw off the end of the seed and suck out the nut meat inside. Kids will dig into these large messy nests and gather the seed hulls. They string up nicely and with a few glass or plastic beads of color they are a cheap tourist item.

Originally, though, the seeds were strung, sometimes in short hanks, and hung on the rear-view mirror to protect a pickup, or strung around the neck to protect the wearer from ghosts and witches, particularly after dark. Some people say that cedar soot, or ashes with water, smeared on the face after dark offers the same protection.

The Zunis use cedar ashes to take the skin off corn for posole, and to take the bitterness from blue corn meal and wild spinach. Rubbed on the afflicted place, it soothes leg aches. It is rubbed on a girl baby to prevent excessive hair where it won’t be wanted.

In the United States we have fifteen varieties of juniper, about half of the species found in the whole world. In our neck of the woods, so to speak, the most common kinds are the Oneseed Juniper—the family hairy barked tree we call cedar—the Rocky Mountain Juniper, sometimes called the Post Cedar. We use the

“The Navajo also revere the juniper berry, but they like the one from the smaller tree—the gin flavoring one. Tea made from the berries is good for a number of things, including sore throat and colds.“ Juniper smoke also had magical properties, being used to cleanse people and places from malignant forces, especially the ritual purification of temples. When certain priests inhaled the smoke it made them clairvoyant—though exactly to what purpose is mysterious. Maybe to foretell the future, or find lost objects. The main use was to make contact with the spirit world.

Used to cleanse and cast out witchcraft it was also believed to protect from the Black (or Bubonic) Plague. The occupants of the house were made to stay inside while the place was thoroughly fumigated. Then the house was opened up and the folks inside revived with whiskey.

The culinary uses were quite extensive besides flavoring hard liquor and fake pepper for the Romans. It combines well with many other spices and seasons red meat if used sparingly. It also supposedly removes the gamy taste of wild meat dishes. There is a Swedish health beer that uses juniper berries.

In the Southwest, the berries of the Alligator Juniper were simply eaten right off the tree or in stew. A tea could be made of them. The Zunis are said to have made a kind of pemmican from them.

Berries, if pounded into dried meat and animal fat, was said to store very well. Alligator Junipers produce a berry about three times as big as the cedar berry, and it is much softer, especially before it fully matures. Dried berries on hot coals made an incense.

The Navajo also revere the juniper berry, but they like the one from the smaller tree—the gin flavoring one. Tea made from the berries is good for a number of things, including sore throat and colds. The interesting thing is their use of the berries for protection. They make beads out of them.

In the summer tourists will see kids along the Res roads with little stands set up. They are selling beads made from the hulls of juniper seeds. Pack

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Oneseed kind. Cedar posts last 50 years; in the arid Southwest much longer than that. They are just naturally rot resistant.

They are also bug resistant. Termites fed juniper sawdust die prematurely. They don’t say if that is soon enough to prevent termite damage or not. In areas of the forest where the pinions and ponderosas have been killed off by bark beetles, (those nasty little critters that look like a mouse poop), the cedars and junipers seem unaffected. Juniper—the one locally called cedar—is also able to “hibernate” during extremely dry periods, instead of dying off like many trees.

A forest of pinons, junipers and cedars is called a “pygmy” forest, for good reason. The trees are short and stumpy. But once you reach higher elevations, there are other cedars, tall pinons, and Alligator Bark Juniper. Their range is supposed to be 5,000 to 8,000, but they are found as high as 10,000 feet elevation. The mature trees grow tall, but in Texas they grow taller, of course.

And there is one in California that is an 85 footer estimated to be between 3,000 and 6,000 years old, with some writers favoring the higher number. That certainly gives the Bristlecone Pine a run for its money. New Mexico has some of them too.

The largest Alligator Bark in the state is in Lincoln County and it is 26 feet, 10 inches around the waist, sticks 41 feet in the air (no competition for the California tree) and a crown of 54 feet. The Alligator Bark Junipers are older than the state’s Bristlecone Pines, making them the oldest living creatures we have.

The biggest pinon tree is near Cuba, New Mexico. It is 11 feet 10 inches around, and TALLEST ALLIGATOR JUNIPER IN THE STATE 51 feet tall, with a crown spread of 48 feet.

I wonder what kind of nuts it produces? I NEAR DEMING, NM was surprised to find there is a 1,500 year old Douglas fir over by El Malpais National Monument. That’s still our back yard in my opinion.

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t seems Father Matthew Keller of Sacred Heart Cathedral has always had affections for American steel and the iconic muscle cars of yesteryear. Being raised in Ganado, Chinle, and then Shiprock, he attended Bloomfield High School where he was able to spend half days working in the vocational “auto body” program. These classes naturally led to his own personal homework assignment: the purchase of a rough 1964 Chevy Malibu Supersport that he eventually restored and then unfortunately sold years later. Although I didn’t ask, it seems likely Father Keller burned a lot of rubber while driving cars in his youth.

Fast forward life 30 years: A business degree, musical pursuits, and a life in Durango, Colorado. Then letting all that go in search of devotion to the Divine that led to six years of seminary. Then the ordination vows of priesthood and 13 years of service to the Gallup Diocese, two of them at Sacred Heart.

Today there is a 1972 Chevy Chevelle SS sitting in the garage at Sacred Heart.

Father Keller came up with the plan to completely restore a “muscle car” and then raffle it off to help pay for upcoming priests to attend seminary. Initially the plan was to primarily have Gallup seminarians work on the project with Father Keller, but when word got around, car enthusiasts, friends, and random folk (Catholic and non-Catholic alike) began showing up and helping out.

The entire frame and suspension parts have been powder coated.

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“I didn’t expect this project to turn into a broader fellowship or evangelism opportunity, but it has,” Father Keller says. “The whole project has been an unexpected surprise of generosity from others.”

The original car was donated by an anonymous contributor, and the Chevelle’s new power plant was donated by Brandon Garcia. The engine is a fresh Chevy 468ci V8 that should put out around 450 horse power and is properly painted in Chevy orange. Getting power to the wheels will be a “four on the floor” M20 tranny connected to a 373 positraction rear end. Much of the body work and painting has been donated by Phillip Peña, who has spent countless hours restoring this car to perfection.

The Chevelle has been disassembled down to the frame and rebuilt from the ground up with powder-coating on everything along the way. When asked about what the final paint scheme will be, Father Keller looks quizzical and says, “Well there is only one color it can be: Black with white stripes. . .the colors of the priestly vocation.”

On December 12, 2015 at 1 p.m., the Chevelle will be raffled off at the Sacred Heart Family Center.

Raffle tickets are $25 each and can be purchased online at www.v8forvocations.org or you can purchase directly by calling or going by Sacred Heart Cathedral. Winner need not be present.

Estimated value of the finished car is around $30,000; but anyone knows such a vehicle is priceless, especially one that likely has been blessed along its restored journey. For more information please write to gallupvocationsoffice@gmail.com or see www.v8forvocations.org.

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35th Annual Red Rock Balloon Rally 4th-6th Mass Balloon Ascensions From Fox Run Golf Course and Red Rock Park @ 7:30am Glow in The Rocks and Indian Dances at Red Rock Park @ 6:00pm Balloon Dawn Patrol @ 6:30am • Mass Balloon Ascension at Red Rock Park @ 7:30am Pyramid Run • Registration 8:00am • Race 9:00am • Starts @ Church Rock Post Office Downtown Christmas Parade @ 1pm • Downtown Gallup - Aztec Announcement of the Winners of the Festival of Trees • Rio West Mall • 4pm Balloominaria • Rio West Mall @ 6:00pm or dark Career and Technical Expo by GMCS • Rio West Mall • 10am Gallup Special Olympics: Indoor Yard Sale 8am-1pm @ 1st Methodist Church Balloon Dawn Patrol @ 6:30am • Mass Balloon Ascension at Red Rock Park @ 7:00am Awards Brunch and Auction at Red Rock Park 10:00am Toys For Tots Motorcycle Fun Run • Start at Veteran’s Building • See G-Town for details.

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Red Rock Elementary Craft Fair • 9am-3pm • For more info contact (505) 721-3900

Santa’s Workshop • 7pm • Rio West Mall • Ages 3 and up 13 Sun. Rehoboth Christian High School Choir’s Christmas Concert @ Sacred Heart Cathedral, 4:00pm 31 Thur. 7th Annual Késhjééh Navajo Shoe Game Tournament @ Navajo Nation Museum • 8pm-Midnight

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Phoebus Solutions: Helping Gallup’s Less Fortunate & Selling Innovative Products Don Phoebus and his wife Nona came to Gallup 32 years ago and they have never really stopped bringing energy and ideas into our town for the last three-plus decades. In the early days they used to run a mobile rescue bus that would pick up homeless people and bring them to the flea market area where they provided a meal. On the return trip to town they were told by the police that they couldn’t bring them back into the city so they would drop them off at the municipal border.

After many years of this bus service to the underprivileged, Don and Nona then transitioned and started an in-town soup kitchen on Route 66 to help feed the hungry without transportation issues.

From there Don has become the pastor at Diné Chapel, and he and Nona also teach at Crestview Christian Academy located just West of Gallup.

But Don and Nona are more than just helpers of society and preachers of the good Word. They are also passionate business folk who are excited about innovative products that think outside the box.

Their business, Phoebus Solutions, has promoted Legal Shield, a contract pre-paid legal service for individuals and businesses. Yet more recently, Don has engaged a new company called “Total Life Changes” which retails rare nutritional products that are unavailable at stores.

The biggest product they sell is”Iaso Tea” which is a detox, weight-loss herbal tea with a host of potential health benefits. Primary ingredients of the teas are: holy thistle, maiva leaves, blessed thistle and persimmon leaves. Other products that Phoebus Solutions sell are nutritional coffees, vitamin and energy supplements, as well as body lotions and creams. One product called “Nutraburst” has the nutrition of 10 salads in just one serving. Don was sold on these products when a friend introduced him and he lost five pounds in the first five days of use. For more information on Total Life Changes you can go to www.teafor5.com or call Don at 505-979-3918.

Don says he and his wife enjoy hiking the local trail systems, spending time with family, and working with his 86 year old dad. When asked about how Gallup has changed over the decades, Don says, “It’s improved a lot! There are way less bars, lots more new businesses, and we are just starting to see some good tourism development.”

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Specifications VEHICLE TYPE: front-engine, front-wheel-drive, 5-passenger, 4-door sedan PRICES: BASE S: $32,410 AS TESTED: $34,040 ENGINE TYPE: DOHC 24-valve V-6, aluminum block and heads, port fuel injection DISPLACEMENT: 213 cu in, 3498 cc Power: 300 hp @ 6400 rpm Torque: 261 lb-ft @ 4400 rpm TRANSMISSION: continuously variable automatic with manual shifting mode

2016 Nissan Maxima Fighter Jet Meets Sports Sedan “Everyone wants that sporty feel” was how the

story began, “and the Maxima has it” the salesman continued as he handed me the keys. Was this just salesman hyperbole? A pitch? Or was there some soul is this newly refreshened Nissan flagship? Only one way to find out.

I’ll openly admit, it’s been two decades since I was in high school, but back when I had an epic bowl cut and was sub 140lbs, the Nissan Maxima was a sweet ride.

Even to a young high-schooler when an LX Mustang was cool, a V6 Maxima with a 5 speed was a pretty close 2nd. I’m happy to report this newest version of Nissan’s top sedan would make current high school kids even giddier with the keys in hand.

DIMENSIONS: Wheelbase: 109.3 in Length: 192.8 in Width: 73.2 in Height: 56.5 in Passenger volume: 97-99 cu ft Cargo volume: 14 cu ft Curb weight: 3,471 lb FUEL ECONOMY: EPA city/highway/combined: 22/30/25 mpg

particular. Nissan‘s CVT is becoming ubiquitous throughout their lineup, and with good reason, it helps return solid power and great fuel economy, with this large-ish sedan returning 30 mpg hwy, 22 city and 25 mpg combined! I’ll openly admit that I don’t like all CVTs, but the Maxima’s is excellent. Nissan has gone to great efforts to hide the CVTs more unpopular characteristics and even gives the transmission faux shift points when in sport mode. It works great, with none of the rubber-banding and slow response often found in other CVTs. I’m going to take a minute though, to make a point. A typical 6-8 speed automatic transmission

It’s fair to say that the exterior styling of the new Maxima is likely a bit polarizing.

Following the language set forth in the latest Murano, they both are not likely to be lost in a sea of sedans and crossovers. Personally, I really like the styling. Meant to evoke a fighter jet, the Maxima’s body sculpting flows from the front end all the way to the back. Careful inspection reveals some interesting elements. The black contrasting is used starting at the A pillars and continuing all the way back to the rear deck-lid lip spoiler creating a cool floating effect to the roof. At certain angles, the roof-line nicely mimics Nissan’s halo car, the GTR. In front of the rear wheels, where the rocker panels meet the rear doors and fenders is nice stamping, a subtle detail, but it adds to the overall package nonetheless. Out front, as is the case with many vehicles meeting ever-evolving safety regulations, the Maxima’s beak is a bit long, but the flowing lines, sharp headlights with cool LED running lights, and contrasting black center section combine to create an aggressive, striking front end.

Perfect for helping the traffic in front of you know to move over!

And move over they shall. With 300hp and 261 lb-ft from Nissan’s VQ 3.5 liter V6 routed to the front wheels via a continuously variable transmission (CVT), the new Maxima is quite quick. Testing from the automotive press shows 0-60 in well under 6 seconds. Now the Internet is ripe with fodder over CVTs and the Maxima’s in

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I O N S is often viewed as the performance choice compared to a CVT. What’s interesting, is this is largely perception, not necessarily reality. Frankly, what’s more performance oriented, smooth forward thrust, or the slight pauses from an automatic’s shift points? I think we’ve become so accustomed to watching the tachometer’s needle bounce, and hearing the engine’s roar rise and fall as a indicator of building speed, that it throws off our perception, when it’s no longer there. Electric vehicles like the Tesla model S are experiencing the same perception battle. I’d speculate that in due time, newer drivers are going to find the ebb and flow of non -CVT and electric powertrains less and less familiar. Interesting!

Dynamically the Maxima touts a firm ride and spirited handling.

Cloverleaf on-ramps are particularly engaging when exploiting the Maxima’s grip and power. It’s important to note that this a sporty sedan, so don’t expect a floating, comfort oriented composure. While not harsh, you’ll notice when you cross an expansion joint or manhole cover.

While the exterior will catch your attention, it’s the interior that will keep you there once inside. With a squared off steering wheel bottom, driver canted infotainment screen, and sport oriented gauge cluster, the Maxima doesn’t hide the fact that the driver is the focus. Not that the passengers are roughing it. The Maxima uses contrasting stitching, soft touch materials at all the important touch points, handsome seat fabrics and a very attractive brushed metal trim design to create a really great interior aesthetic. I was particularly impressed with Nissan’s infotainment screen, its very responsive and doesn’t require a very hard touch to use and combined with a really nice knurled control knob in the center….being my first encounter with it, I have to say, it’s really good.

Starting at $32K for the S model you see here, the Maxima is not meant to be budget transportation. That $32K doesn’t feel like you’re missing much. As you move up the trim’s luxury items like leather, seat heaters, moonroofs, etc… become available - but that’s not the Maxima’s shtick at its core. It is Nissan’s flagship sedan, but it’s not based purely on its size either. While the Maxima is bigger than the Altima, its mid size sibling, it isn’t quite as big as other full sizers such as the Impala or Avalon. No, the value here lies in the Maxima as a complete package, a handsome, enthusiastic, high grade sport sedan. There are some great cars in this price range, the Maxima, is one of the best. And that makes it worth a test drive…just don’t give the keys to your high schooler. *Special thanks to Lou and the folks at Ed Corley Nissan for the test drive!* **Check out the Maxima in and around Gallup on my YouTube channel: Gallup Journey Test Drives**

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When Christmas Doesn’t Stop It is an odd thing about Christmas. We all love it. We love the feeling it brings. We like the smiles on strangers we meet. We like the courtesy we receive. And we like the good feeling we get by being kind to others. But what is odd is that if it comes from within us…why does it stop?

It begins around Thanksgiving, no matter how soon the stores begin their advertising. Maybe it’s because giving thanks is similar to acknowledging our imperfections. Which brings a positive response from others. Or it could be that the fall season of the year reminds us that our life too, has seasons. And fall is the one before the end. So we give thanks and appreciate others because we become aware that eventually, time runs out. And again, our attitude of thanksgiving brings a positive response from others.

Then begins the season of giving, singing, hugging, laughing, loving and caring. It is not only felt, it is heard in the music. It is seen in the eyes. It is felt in the embrace. We make the Christmas season last as long as we can…but like the embers of a warm fire, eventually, it too burns out. So I wonder, if it comes from within us, why do we let it burn out?

I am pleased to share with you the opposite oddity. What happens when Christmas doesn’t end, and the embers do not burn out? Over thirty years ago I met Martha Zollinger. I can’t speak of the burdens she carried, but they are the tragedies of life from which we never recover; we just cope. Yet Martha made a wise and fruitful choice…”If I cannot heal my pain, let me heal the pain of others!” Martha became the perpetual Christmas.

For over the thirty years I have known her, Martha has maintained a positive and cheerful spirit. She brings good cheer; the same as a Christmas greeting. Meeting her somewhere is like receiving an unexpected Christmas card or a Thank You note. Some call her eccentric: So what! They call Santa Clause eccentric…and believers of Santa Clause eccentric. Some used to call Jesus eccentric. Not to mention they thought Noah was nuts. She is in good company. She is totally unconventional. It might not surprise you however, when you stop to think about it, that our great leaders, movie stars or charismatic ministers were unconventional. Kennedy and Martin Luther King; Ghandi and Elizabeth Taylor; Einstein and Woody Guthrie were all eccentric and unconventional.

So this year, I toast to the woman who chose to live her life as if every day were

“So this year, I toast to the woman who chose to live her life as if every day were Christmas.”

Christmas. Just like Jimmy Stewart in the movie “A Wonderful Life,” Martha stood on a bridge of despair at one point in her life and said, “I want to live!” I envy her will, her stamina, and her cheerfulness. She answered the question, why does it stop? It stops because living fully and loving is about choosing to do so. Join me in recognizing her.

Lets not wait until this cheerful soul is silent. When you see her, all you need to say is, “Thanks for being you” and she will understand that you have caught the Christmas spirit…the spirit which won’t stop.

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Navajo Nation Museum Events

The 18th Annual Keshmish Festival and Ugly Sweater Contest at Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock, Arizona will be on December 11th, 9 am- 7pm, and December 12th, 9 am- 5pm, where you can buy direct and handmade by the artisans! Children’s arts and crafts, luminaries and much more. To purchase a booth, contact Clarenda Begay or Nate Bitsoie at 928-871-7941 or email clarenda@ navajonationmuseum.org. First come first served for purchasing booths for the event.

New Year’s Eve there will be a 7th Annual Késhjééh Navajo Shoe Game Tournament at the Navajo Nation Museum from 8 pm to Midnight. Shoe Game Teams come from miles around to sing traditional Navajo songs to win cash prizes. Includes other activities: the string games and traditional foods. Open to public! For more info call 928-871-7941 or visit us on Navajo Nation Museum Facebook for updates.

Red Rock Balloon Rally

Join us the first weekend in December, 4th-6th, for the 35th Annual Red Rock Balloon Rally. Friday, the 4th, there will be mass ascensions from Fox Run Golf Course and Red Rock Park at 7:30am. Glow in The Rocks and Indian Dances that same day will be held at Red Rock Park at 6:00pm. Saturday, the 5th, there will be dawn patrol at 6:30am and mass ascension from Red Rock Park at 7:30am. Later there will be the Pyramid Rock Run at Red Rock Park at 8:00am. That afternoon the Downtown Christmas Parade will take place at 1:00pm, and the day will end with the Balloominaria at Rio West Mall at 6:00pm. Sunday, December 6th, dawn patrol starts at 6:30am and the mass ascension at 7:00am from Red Rock Park. The awards, brunch, and auction will be held at Red Rock Park at 10:00am on Sunday. Whether up in the sky or on the ground, this event is fun for everyone!

Holy Spirit Church Events

Sunday, December 6th, 4:00 pm, the Church of the Holy Spirit will hold an Advent Festival of Lessons and Carols. Join us as we prepare for the coming of the Christ Child with music, quiet, lessons, and beauty. Thursday, December 24 at 7:00 pm we will hold a Christmas Eve Service. O Come, All Ye Faithful! Join us for a beautiful candlelit service of Lessons and Carols and Holy Eucharist.

Bring your family and friends and plan to stay afterwards for fellowship, cocoa, and cookies. The Church of the Holy Spirit is located at 1334 Country Club Drive, Gallup, just one block west of Red Rock Elementary School. Phone: 505-863-4695.

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Breakfast With Santa

Red Rock 4-H will sponsor a Breakfast with Santa on Saturday, December 12th, from 9am-11am at the Community Pantry.

A five dollar donation will include a breakfast (pancakes, sausage, beverages, etc.) and a picture with Santa. Tickets are available from any 4-H member or they are available at the Community Pantry. All proceeds go to the Jim Harlan Community Pantry to help in the effort to eliminate hunger in Gallup and McKinley County.

Rio West Mall Activities

Get your photo with Santa at the Rio West Mall in the Center Court every Sunday from noon to 6pm and Monday through Friday from 11am to 7am, and Saturdays from 11am to 7pm. Pet photos with Santa are Monday’s through Friday 5pm-7pm. On December 5th at 4pm there will be the announcement of the Festival of Trees winners, and at dark that same evening there will be the Balloon Glow. The night will finish off with the Career and Technical Expo by GMCS at 10am. On December 12th at 7pm, there will be a Santa’s Workshop for ages 3 and up.

TAIZE’ WORSHIP

A worship service in the style of Taize’ will be held Sunday, December 13 at Westminster Presbyterian Church - 4 pm. Please join us for quiet, meditation, song, prayer, and Scripture for the Advent Season. The church is located on Boardman Drive just south of Orleans Manor Apartments. Call Kathy (722-5011) for more information.

Draft Growth Management Master Plan Update Workshop

The City of Gallup Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) will hold a workshop to review and receive public comments about a draft of the updated Growth Management Master Plan. The growth management master plan is an official public document adopted by the City as a policy guide to decisions about the physical development of the overall community. Following the P&Z’s October 28 review of plan materials, planners prepared a complete draft document that takes into consideration that discussion and incorporates other topic areas.

What: Special Meeting of the Gallup Planning and Zoning Commission When: Monday, December 7th, 5:30pm Where: City of Gallup Council Chambers, 110 W. Aztec Avenue.

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87301 National Mentoring Month

Each one of us remembers someone special – a neighbor, teacher, relative or friend who broadened our horizons and brought a little magic into our lives. So what better way to start a new year than to return the favor by mentoring a young person? January is National Mentoring Month, as well as the month to make New Year’s resolutions. This year, if you become a mentor, it may be the one resolution you will want to keep. Just a few hours a couple of times a month can make a big difference in a child’s life, and be a rewarding experience.

Big Brothers Big Sisters matches young people (ages 5 to 15) with caring, supportive volunteers (18 and over) who can encourage, guide, talk to and spend time with them 2 to 4 times a month. Volunteers and youth are matched together based on similar interests and hobbies and can do activities such as hiking, sports, arts and crafts, reading and camping.

When you become a mentor, you are not just a volunteer but you are making an investment in a child’s life, one that will change their life for the better, forever.

As part of National Mentoring Month, Big Brothers Big Sisters Mountain Region is also encouraging McKinley County residents to honor those individuals who encouraged and guided them, and had a lasting impact on their lives. Here are a few ideas: Contact your mentor directly to express your appreciation, continue the cycle of kindness by volunteering, spread the word about Big Brothers Big Sisters, or make a financial contribution!

For more information or to get involved as a mentor, please contact 505-726-4285, e-mail sarah.piano@bbbsmountainregion.org or visit the BBBS website at www.bbbsmountainregion.org.

New Roaster In Town The Gallup Coffee Company in Downtown Gallup has a new roaster to fulfill all our fresh coffee needs. This gem is able to do up to 5 pounds at a time. It came just in time for the holidays.

Toys For Tots Motorcycle Fun Run

Toys For Tots Motorcycle Fun Run is on Sunday, December 6th, at the Veterans Building, corner of 2nd St. and Maloney. Entry starts at 9 am and KSU starts at 11:30 am. Entry fee is $10 and a toy or $20 per person.

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Annual Christmas Parade

This year’s Annual Christmas Parade will be on Saturday, December 5th, at 1:00pm in Downtown Gallup. There is a new route this year starting on Aztec. Santa Clause has already scheduled his arrival for the parade. Please no extra Santas. We are encouraging traditional type Christmas floats. Get your parents, teachers, religious leaders, bosses, and everyone you know involved. Get an organization to sponsor your float. Make it big, make it grand, and let the spirit of Christmas march through downtown Gallup’s community. Return completed entry forms to the Gallup Chamber of Commerce or email it to gretchen@thegallupchamber.com.

Theology on Tap

Join the The Knights of Columbus for a Theology On Tap on Tuesday, December 8th. The night will include drinks, a talk, and a discussion at Knights of Columbus Hall, 105 Apache Cr. The event begins at 7pm with a lecture on “A Christian’s Approach to Consumer Culture,” which will be followed by a community discussion. Don’t miss out on this culture fill event.

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MOUNTAIN MONKS

“He should first show them in deeds rather than words all that is good and holy.” - Benedict of Nursia, Rule of St. Benedict

By Jay Mason

Christmas comes every year, and hopefully we thank God for our family and the blessings around us. There are some new persons that may well be coming to Gallup soon for whom we should all be thankful. They are the Mountain Monks moving to McGaffey. They are not called Mountain Monks; they are really Benedictine monks who are looking to come to our area.

In order to understand the life and ministry of a Benedictine monastery, you need to know a little about St. Benedict. Benedict was born in Italy around 480 A.D. and was the son of a Roman noble. He left his studies in Rome and went into the country to escape city life. At that time Western civilization was declining and crumbling. Benedict eventually became a hermit monk and lived in a cave, in silence, for three years. He was asked by local monks to become the abbot of their monastery. The story goes that the monks tried to poison him when he tried to unify them in their spiritual practices. He said a prayer over the cup of poison, and the cup shattered. He went back to his cave, but his deep spirituality led to the eventual founding of many monasteries near Rome, and his most famous monastery was Monte Cassino of World War II fame, which still exists today.

Benedict is best known for his short book about monastic life – The Rule of St. Benedict. The basic principle is Ora et Labora – pray and work. Each day a monk is to devote eight hours to prayer, eight hours to sleep and eight hours to manual work, sacred reading or works of charity. To this day Benedictine monasteries around the world follow the Rule of St. Benedict. They normally pray the Divine Office in Latin which divides each day into prayer, readings from the Bible and Mass. It is also called the Liturgy of the Hours.

It is a rigorous life that begins at 3:00 in the morning and continues at specific times during the day and into the night. In between the monks study, work, sleep and eat. They are usually cloistered and have little contact with the outside world. Their lives are dedicated to contemplative prayer. However, they welcome visitors and worshipers and give individual and group retreats upon request.

Their primary purpose is to develop a deep spiritual life through prayer and physical labor. It is not a life for the faint of heart.

The Benedictine monks in question are from Clear Creek Monastery near Tulsa, Oklahoma. They originate in France from the Benedictine Monastery at Fontgombault. The Abbey of Notre Dame at Fontgombault was founded in 1091. It grew dramatically in the 12th and 13th centuries to twenty monasteries. In the 16th century it was partially destroyed, but was later restored that same century. The Benedictine community declined in the 18th century, and during the French Revolution the government seized the property and sold it. The Abbey was not destroyed but was occupied by several communities and also used as a military hospital and a seminary. After World War II the Benedictines returned to Fontgombault with 22 monks from the famous Benedictine Abbey of Solesmes. Solesmes is known for its beautiful Gregorian chant. That tradition continues at Fontgombault. It has remained a Benedictine monastery since that time.

Almost 50 years ago there was a humanities program at the

University of Kansas which exposed college students to the great books of philosophy, theology, poetry and literature. I benefited from this program taught by Dr. John Senior. Several college students from this program and the University of Kansas traveled to Fontgombault to see if they could live the monastic life.

They knew some Latin and very little French, but six students stayed and are Benedictine monks today. I went to college with some of those monks, as did some other Jayhawks in Gallup. These monks lived in France for many years, but the Abbot at Fontgombault who once also visited Gallup always said that someday he would send monks to America to return the gift of those American students who became monks many years ago. Several locations were considered, and in 1999, the Abbot accepted the invitation of the Bishop of Tulsa, and Clear Creek Monastery was established.

One of those former students, Father Phillip Anderson, is now the abbot at Clear Creek Monastery. He first came to Gallup several years ago to visit his friends here, but also to find a place for the older monks to have relief from the Oklahoma summer heat in July and August. The mountains at McGaffey filled the bill, and each summer we enjoyed their short visits to our area.

In the meantime the monastery in Oklahoma grew considerably. A beautiful church and monastery have been built there, but more importantly many young men have come to live the contemplative life at Clear Creek. You should check out their website at www.clearcreekmonks.org. A Benedictine monastery works best with about 65 monks to perform all the daily tasks of the community. Clear Creek has been so successful that they are running out of room for those who wish to join the monastic life. As a result, the Abbot sought a place to establish a new small monastery to accommodate the many vocations that he has received.

The plot thickened when my son, Patrick Mason, had an idea to acquire some property for the monks. After college Patrick visited Fontgombault and saw the good work that the Benedictines do. He, his family and friends bought a large piece of land and divided it into reasonably large parcels reserving some of the land for the new monastery. He sold all of the lots, and the remaining land was donated to the monks. The monks will eventually build a small monastery in McGaffey. We will see what the future brings. Much of the physical work to build the monastery will be performed by the monks themselves. They do physical work every day of the week; in Oklahoma they raise their own vegetables, make goat cheese and raise prize cattle. It will be interesting to see what the monks will do in this mountain environment.

So a story which began in the 11th century in France now comes to Gallup in the 21st century. In this busy, crazy world gone mad, we hope to have some very holy people praying for all of us.

That is a great gift to all of us. Merry Christmas!

Fontgombault Abbey, France

Monk life is not for the “Faint of Heart.”

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“EDUCATION MATTERS” DECEMBER FOCUS: FUTURE PHYSICIANS / GHS GRADUATES The University of New Mexico School of Medicine recently hosted their 2015 Alumni Awards and Scholarship dinner at the Hotel Albuquerque in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The theme of the dinner was “Where Dreams Take Flight.” Three Gallup McKinley County School graduates were among the nine recipients receiving the Alumni Association Scholarships.

The recipients were: Kaitlin Petranovich- 2008 Gallup High School Graduate Teresa Leslie-2007 Gallup High School Graduate

Happy Holidays from the Dominguez Family!!!

Megan Maguire-Marshall-2008 Gallup High School Graduate Alumni Association scholarships are available to undergraduate and graduate students at UNM. Scholarships are awarded using a variety of factors such as academic achievement, community involvement, employment experiences, areas of study, financial need and several others. Scholarship amounts may change annually.

The University of New Mexico School of Medicine was established in 1961 and admitted its first class in 1964. The School of Medicine has gained national and international recognition for its constantly evolving curricular innovations which are aimed at adapting adult learning theory to medical education.

The UNM School of Medicine has once again ranked second in the nation for its Rural Medicine program in the latest issue of U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Graduate Schools” for 2015. The SOM has maintained this national ranking since 1996, underscoring UNM’s commitment to programs that serve New Mexico’s rural communities.

Five of the School of Medicine departments are ranked in the top 40 National Institutes of Health grant funded departments in the nation including Family & Community Medicine (#15), Neurosciences (#26), Pathology (#33), Neurology (#37) and Internal Medicine (#38).

The University of New Mexico School of Medicine is committed to racial and ethnic diversity with special reference to the inclusion of students from groups that are underrepresented in medicine in the state of New Mexico. Congratulations to our GMCS Medical Students!!!

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RMCHCS NOW MOVES TO OPEN HEART The most important aspect of caring is the Open Heart. We are not talking about the surgical procedure which is important if you have heart disease. We are talking about the concern extended to every patient, family member or friend of a patient who comes to us for care. This concern comes from the Open Heart.

We are reminded daily that: “A kind gesture, a compassionate word, can reach a wound that only caring can heal.�

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