TO W N Celebrate EARTH Day! April 22 is Earth Day! Appreciate Mother Earth and MCRC! The McKinley Citizens’ Recycling Council is happy to announce the arrival of its new website: recyclegallup.org. The website provides the most recent information about recycling in Gallup-McKinley County. Check out the links for the Where to Recycle guide on the City of Gallup and Solid Waste Authority webpages and for an exhaustive look at recycling in the state by accessing the New Mexico Recycling Coalition site. To become more familiar with what is available on the web site take the quiz below. *Old Telephone Books may be recycled at the Courthouse Square, the Larry Brian Mitchell Recreation Center, and at the train station. Look for the specially marked bins. Year round, old telephone books can be placed in a bin at the NWNM Regional Solid Waste Authority Gallup Transfer Station on Hasler Valley Road or taken directly to the Jim Harlin Community Pantry. *Visit the Library during the month of April to view an exhibit about new recycling opportunities in Gallup. Members of the McKinley Citizens’ Recycling Council will be on hand Saturday, April 20, from 10 am to 2 pm with more information and handouts. Find out where you can recycle in town and get tips on how to recycle everything from automobiles to telephone books in McKinley County. Displays will highlight the new website, new recycling bins and Saturday hours, the Gallup Transfer Station, and the Jim Harlin Community Pantry. Recycled crafts will be showcased. And don’t forget to take the recycling quiz and win a prize! Earth Day 2013 Recycling Quiz for Gallup-McKinley County Take the McKinley Citizens’ Recycling Quiz and win a prize! Answers can be found in our website and in our Recycling Guide. The first person(s) to submit the correct answers to all 8 questions will win a prize. Enter your answers under Contact Us at www.recyclegallup.org or turn in your written answers on April 20 between 10 am and 2 pm, at the MCRC table at the Octavia Fellin Public Library. Thanks for participating! 1) The Northwest New Mexico SWA runs the transfer station in Gallup where trash and recyclables are collected. SWA stands for ___________________________. 2) Which of the two recycling sites in town is open on Saturdays— a) at the Cultural Center or b) at the Larry Brian Mitchell Recreation Center? 3) Where can you recycle cereal boxes in Gallup? 4) When you get a new cell/smart phone, what can you do with your old one (if you want to be green)? 5) In the recycling bins in town and at the transfer station, brown paper bags go in with: a) mixed paper or b) corrugated cardboard? 6) Where is the transfer station located? 7) You can recycle #1 and #2 plastic bottles at the bins in Gallup. How do you know if the bottles you have are #1 or #2? 8) MCRC’s home page (www.recyclegallup.org) has a photo of the Red Rock Balloon Rally. This photo was taken by__________________. Name__________________________Phone#______________________ Email address_____________________________ * Many thanks to Leigh Tutterrow for reworking and updating the website. * Kudos to Barbara Brandt for scheduling Saturday recycling bin volunteers. * Library exhibit design team: Sandi Aretino, Barbara Brandt, Linda Popelish, Leigh Tutterrow, Melanie Van Dorp. *Ongoing support from Chair, Gerald O’Hara; Secretary, Millie Dunn; Treasurer, Linda Popelish; Board Members: Lynn Anner-Bolieu, Betsy Windisch, Sandi Aretino, Don Hyde, Marilyn Johnson, Be Sargent, and Sandra Young. Volunteers are always welcome at the monthly meetings, to assist with Saturday recycling bin monitoring, and special events and activities. Call 722-5142 or 722-9257 for more information or visit the web page!
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Outsider Art Exhibit at the Octavia Fellin Public Library through April The works of Outsider Artists, Jay Dickens, Robert Martinez and Floyd Nelson will be on exhibit at the Octavia Fellin Library throughout April. All three gentlemen are artists-in-residence at Open Studio/ Outsider Gallery in downtown Gallup where they are provided with studio space and support from other local artists to explore their unique artistic gifts without interference. Jay Dickens lived with his family Gallup until he was court ordered into a state institution at the age of 11. What was purported to be a brief rehabilitative stay became 29 years of segregated confinement. Mr. Dickens embodies the idea that it is never too late to find one’s passion and weave new meanings into one’s life and paintings. He is always present in his work and in the living of his life, which includes swimming, fishing, and hiking. Robert Martinez has been drawing and painting since his teens. He was partially disabled in a car accident but this did not stop his love of painting. Many of his works reflect portrayals of his Navajo heritage as well as memories of the people, places, and moments. Some paintings clearly delve into a world imagined with imagery that is dark and edgy but always retain elements of reality mixed with humor. His irrepressible spirit, humor, and keen perceptions permeate his paintings, which often evoke joy and delight in those who view them. Floyd Nelson has lived in and around the Navajo Reservation. He, along with his brother, spent 16 years in institutions and group homes as a result of the all too common practices of social devaluation and forced segregation of people with disabilities. Mr. Nelson’s work has evolved from heterogeneous looming faces, interspersed with one or more that stand apart from the crowd, depicting alienation of the individual to reoccurring symbols of his life, past and present. He has gone from spending minutes, to hours, to days and weeks exploring and developing an elaborate and personal artistic identity in each new piece. Currently, Floyd enjoys the self reliant and autonomous life of the bachelor and his interests include shooting hoops and billiards. He is a huge fan of professional wrestling. Outsider Art is a testament to the human spirit and to the diversity of creative expression that lives within all of us. Artists are self-taught, not socially conditioned, and work outside the fine art system. They have produced, from the depths of their own personalities, their own observations and experiences, works of outstanding originality in concept, subject, and technique. This type of art is often thought of as art in its purest form – a spontaneous psychic flow from the brain to the paper, canvas, or any variety of materials. It is a direct and uninhibited form of artistic expression. A reception in honor of artists will be held at Octavia Fellin Public Library on Saturday, April 13 between the hours of 6:00 and 7:30 pm. The entire community is invited. For further information please email library@ci.gallup.nm.us or call (505) 863-1291.
Red Rock String Ensemble Sunday, April 14, 4pm First United Methodist Church Admission Free On Sunday, April 14 at 4:00 pm at the First United Methodist Church, the Red Rock String Ensemble and Friends will perform a free spring concert. Audience members will enjoy the works of Hovhaness, Schubert and Elgar. This concert features the musical talents of several local musicians, as well as visiting musicians from Albuquerque. In Alan Hovhaness’s Tzaikerk (Evening Song) for flute, violin, timpani and strings, Gallup High School’s band director, Felicia Sanchez, will be featured as the flute soloist. Ayisha Moss, a graduate student at UNM, will play the violin solo, and on timpani is Clare Iralu, a local high school senior who plays with the Gallup High Jazz Band. Rondo in A for solo violin and strings, by Franz Schubert, is a violin concerto in one movement and the closest Schubert came to writing a true violin concerto. Debra Terry is the featured violin soloist. She received degrees from Michigan State University and the University of New Mexico and plays professionally in Albuquerque. She teaches violin using the Suzuki method in her own private studio and through the University of New Mexico Suzuki Lab School. Edward Elgar’s Piano Quintet is a massive masterpiece written during World War I. Elgar wrote three chamber works, including this one, around this time, which turned out to be his last works, although he lived for another sixteen years. Local pianist Erin Black joins the string quartet for this very moving piece. This concert is possible because of support from the Gallup Independent. Please come and enjoy this free event.
Spring Conference Friday-Sunday, April 5-7 New Hope Pentecostal Church & Living Proof Church are sponsoring a Spring Conference, April 5-7. Friday and Saturday services will be held at Rehoboth Church beginning at 7pm and Sunday’s service will be at New Hope Church (702 W. Mesa, Gallup) at 3pm. Pastor Rob Bibb of Pentecostals of Phoenix is the guest speaker. Food and a time for fellowship will follow all services. New Hope Church offers free home Bible studies, adult and teen spiritual development, marriage and family ministries, substance abuse ministries, and children’s ministry. “We leave the judging to Jesus, as he leave the loving to us.” For more information, please call or email: 505-870-6344 newhopechurchgallup@yahoo.com.