Gallup Journey August 2012

August 2012

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ummer’s not over yet, but it kind of feels like it. With the start of school and all the school-year activities and obligations comes a sense of new beginnings, fresh starts, clean slates. Just like in January, with the new year ahead, I look ahead hopefully.

This year, in particular, brings some changes for our little family.

Both of our kids are starting at new schools. I, also, will be a student again, taking some classes at UNM-Gallup. Just how these choices of ours will play out in our daily lives remains to be seen, but with confidence we move forward on these new paths.

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When I think about it, most of the choices we make are pretty small. Seemingly insignificant. But deceivingly so. It’s not until we find ourselves so far away from where we thought we were headed that we realize the impact all those little choices have made along the way. We’ve probably all had those moments of clarity when we realize that where we are isn’t where we thought we’d be.

Knowing how to get back is sometimes daunting. But I think it goes back to those little choices again. Choosing, deliberately, to take a new path – maybe not the easier one, but the better one. Breaking old habits and creating new ones through daily decisions. Not hitting snooze; turning in that application; ordering water instead of soda; making that phone call; picking up the pen; putting on the running shoes.

It’s scary starting something new and unknown. Going back to school, now as a wife and mother, is uncharted territory. But thinking about what the future could be like on this path is exciting; it may even be better than knowing what to expect.

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Contributors Erin Bulow Ernie Bulow Greg Cavanaugh Sanjay Choudhrie Joe Darak Dr. Bera Dordoni Richard Fagerlund Ernest Franklin Jeannette Gartner Tana Haveman Tommy Haws Stacey Hollebeek Larry Larason Fowler Roberts Be Sargent Gloria Underwood Dan Van De Riet Chuck Van Drunen Betsy Windisch

Other Stuff

4 Thoughts 7 Rodeo Schedule 34 El Morro Theatre Schedule 40 Izzit?!

40 News from Care 66 45 Sudoku 48 G-TOWN, 87301 50 ArtsCrawl Schedule 52 Community Calendar 54 Opinion Poll 56 People Reading Journey 62 This Is My Job

Columns

8 Work in Beauty Murals 14 Fermenting!

18 Driving Impressions 20 West by Southwest 22 Rounding the Four Corners 24 8 Questions 28 my rambles 36 Money & You 38 Adventures in Parenting 42 Lit Crit Lite

Features

10 Rooted In Faith 16 Kiwanis Hollywood Night 26 Not-to-Miss List for Ceremonial 30 Pesticides 32 Bats!

39 Raising Sons 46 Crazy Ideas Realized

Illustrator Andy Stravers Editors Nate & Heather Haveman Chuck & Jenny Van Drunen

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August 2012: Volume 9, Issue 8

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Work BeautyMurals

By Be Sargent

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Agriculture in Our Region Work of Heart

At Left: In the left panel of the Work of Heart Mural: Zuni waffle gardeners, Rita Edaakie, top, with squash, Rachel Weahkee, middle, and Angelita Loncassion, in the greens.

Navajo corn growers, Marie and Joe Lee amid the corn.

Dairyman Tim Nelson with Mocha and Frenchie, and I am afraid the third goat’s name is lost to posterity.

We got started talking about the temptations of processed food and I asked what a treat was in the old days. “Parched corn, heated up with sand, then sifted out, mixed with roasted piñons in the shell and sprinkled with a corn cob salt shaker, a cob dipped in salt. “

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Two thousand years ago Zunis farmed way into Arizona. Experts in floodwater irrigation, they knew every watershed in detail. Good places varied with the year. There are still Zuni ranchers raising cattle and corn, but Zuni, like Gallup and everyone else in this modern food desert are dependent on food trucked in. s children, Rita and Angelita used to water their grandmothers’ waffle gardens every other day. Back and forth from the well, next to the Zuni River, they would go with a galvanized bucket in each hand.

Marie and Joe Lee grew corn for many years on a bend in route 602 just

Cilantro, onions, carrots, radishes, beets, tomatoes, chilies, potatoes, garlic and cabbage grew in the waffle gardens. “I never liked cabbage,” said Angelita. Long narrow gardens along the fence were for climbing squashes.

In those days locally grown vegetables were a staple in Zuni.

They were usually cooked in stews started with a small amount of mutton.

Wheat and corn were also staples. They both remember riding the threshing horses round and round. “All work was done in community, feed and share.”

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I met with Rita, left, and Angelita, right, for this article.

Rachel was not at the Zuni Senior Center that day.

Zuni vegetables, Navajo corn and Gallup goat cheese could all be big time. south of Gallup. Both have died since I painted the mural and the field lies fallow. Of course this year was unusually dry and I have hopes that next year it will be in corn again.

Tim Nelson partnered with Pat Butler at Rocky Ridge Goat Dairy. Their cheese was a local treasure. Pat still has 70 goats, and occasionally shows, but all the milk is going to the kids.

Work in Beauty, Inc., a Gallup non-profit, would like to revive agriculture in our region. Founded in 2005, Work in Beauty, the name respectfully borrowed from the Navajo Prayer, Walk in Beauty, was formed to create livelihoods that sustain, heal and harmonize with the environment. The three murals on the jail are meant to illustrate that concept.

In 2007, Steve Heil and Amy Halladay formed a CSA, Community Supported Agriculture.

It has been expanding ever since.

The Work in Beauty/CSA buys produce from local growers and distributes it weekly to subscribers.

To join you can call Amy at 9792693.

Marie Lee

Zuni vegetables, Navajo corn and Gallup goat cheese could all be big time. Now is the time. People know the benefits of locally grown as opposed to the commodities and processed food.

“We would like to truck it OUT,” says Michael Smith of La Montañita Co-op.

We have challenges, like drought, frost, and mean March winds.

But as Rita said about her grandmother’s waffle garden, “When the seedlings froze or were blown away in the spring we just put in the seeds again.”

Tim Nelson

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Rooted in F Broken Arrow Bi A

bout twenty miles south of Gallup, in Vanderwagen, New Mexico, rests Broken Arrow Bible Ranch. It’s a faith ministry that has roots as deep as the Ponderosa pines among which it’s nestled. For decades, the ranch has been operating as a camp, focused on Native youth in the surrounding areas and reservations. It is a project of United Indian Missions International (UIM) and relies on the support of friends, churches and organizations for its continuation into the future.

The ranch’s providential story began long before it was called Broken Arrow Bible Ranch. Over one hundred years ago, Andrew and Effa Vander Wagen came to the Southwest from the Netherlands via Grand Rapids, Michigan. They established a permanent mission in Zuni on behalf of the Christian Reformed Church and opened a trading post there. Though they did not stay in Zuni permanently, they remained devoted to spreading the Gospel. Andrew formulated plans for a mission that would focus on multiple tribes, but passed away before his vision became a reality.

Wagen descendant, sold her forty-six-acre Summer Park Ranch to UIM at a fraction of its value. The ranch was dedicated to providing a youth facility for missions and Gibbs stayed on as the camp nurse.

In 1981 Summer Park Ranch was renamed Broken Arrow Bible Ranch (BABR), evoking a Native symbol of peace. Over the years, the camp grew, adding land, facilities, and enthusiastic campers and staffers. BABR is now at the end of a busy summer season, during which 150 youths and about 60 staff members and volunteers occupy the camp during each of eight weeks.

From mid June to early August, kids arrive, along with church groups that supplement the permanent staff, ready for a week of fun, fellowship, and faith development. Every day, campers eat together, attend chapel and rotate through activities including, horseback riding, riflery, archery, floor hockey, human foosball, Frisbee golf, crafts, go karts, and BMX biking. The lodge, A-frame gymnasium, craft/snack shop, and surrounding grounds are hardly ever empty.

From mid June to early August, kids arrive ready for a week of fun, fellowship, and faith development.

In 1956, United Indian Missions was incorporated by three couples involved with Navajo Bible School and Mission in Window Rock, Arizona. They adopted Vander Wagen’s doctrinal and purpose statements and set out on a faith adventure. Less than ten years later, in 1965, Ms. Cena Gibb’s, a Vander

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Fall, winter and spring provide other opportunities for ministry. Staff member, Anna Farrow, conducts the Mailbox Club, a correspondence and discipleship program that hundreds of campers participate in during the off-season. The ranch hosts men’s and women’s retreats, as well as a winter teen retreat after

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Christmas. Churches, schools and organizations use the facility for picnics, banquets, and conferences.

Full-time staff members also find time to get involved with other missionfocused activities throughout the area. Ruth Douglas, one of the camp nurses along with Phyllis Herlocker, started with UIM in 1957. She contributed to church-planting efforts in Ft. Defiance, went on hospital and home visitations, and taught Bible classes in many communities. In the early 1970s, she transferred to what is now BABR, and has been serving there, in addition to her other ministries, ever since. Ann Kontz, current administrator, is another with a long history of service in the area. She came to the ranch for the first time in 1972; in 1980, she began working full-time. In the late 1980s, BABR’s director Steve Knox, came with his family. During his time at the ranch, and with support from many, UIM has added new facilities and a wastewater treatment system has been put in place as part of a long-term plan for the camp’s growth. With a staff that demonstrates such devotion to and joy in the ministry at BABR, it’s no wonder campers return year after year!

While another summer season comes to an end, God’s faithfulness is celebrated and plans for the future are prayerfully considered. Long-term and deep-rooted dedication to sharing the Good News with young people from the surrounding communities and reservations is still, as ever, obvious at Broken Arrow Bible Ranch.

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Western New Mexico University Gallup Graduate Studies Center

Fall 2012 Course Schedule

Course Cancellation-The university reserves the right to-cancel courses not selected by an adequate 2012 number of students or not suitablyschedule staffed by qualified faculty.

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Dr. George Bickert

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EDUC503 Action Research

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EDUC506 History and Philisophy of Education

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Resource Management

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Professional Development & Assesment

8/20 to 12/13/2012

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Charateristics Of Effective Leadership

8/20 to 12/13/2012

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8/16 to 12/06/2012

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10900 COUN501 Counseling Profession: Legal, Ethnical, & Prof Issues 11048 COUN505 Multicultural Counseling

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10958 COUN522 Substance Abuse Counseling

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11049 COUN579 Counseling Pre-Practicum

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8/21 to 12/13/2012

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11189 COUN587 Seminar in Group Processes

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MAt-teAchiNG eleMeNtArY/secoNdArY educAtioN 11056 EDUC505 Exploratory Field Experience-Elementary

8/21 to 12/13/2012

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11061 EDUC507 Exploratory Field Experience-Secondary

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10391 EDUC534 Integration of Technology

8/20 to 12/13/2012

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Dr. Manuel Bustamante

11057 EDUC572 Elementary Methods and Curriculum Part I

8/20 to 12/13/2012

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11058 EDUC592 Practice Teaching-Elementary (Advisor approval)

8/16 to 12/03/2012

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8/16 to 12/03/2012

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11059 EDUC592 Practice Teaching-Elementary, Alternative Lic. (Advisor approval)

8/16 to 12/03/2012

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11063 EDUC594 Practice Teaching-Secondary, Alternative Lic. (Advisor approval)

8/16 to 12/03/2012

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Teaching of Reading

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Introduction to Exceptional Children

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Community Resources In Correction

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Introduction to Social Welfare & Social Work

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Jeanine Jones

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Cultural Competency in Social Work Practice

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Human Behavior in the Social Environment

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Social Work Clinical Intervention and Assessment

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Foundation of Social Welfare Policy

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Foundation of Social Work Research Methods

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Fermenting We Will Go . . .

“New Mexican Sauerkraut” uses both red and green cabbages.

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Did you bring your Tagamet® with you?” DeeAnn asked.

“Of course. I came to eat lunch, silly,” Janet responded. “What do you take so you can digest your food, Prilosec®?”

“No, I use Pepcid AC®. It seems to work better for me now.”

Laura kicked in her two cents: “Try Zantac®. My doctor put me on it last week.”

No kidding – the conversation started this way when I met my friends for lunch at a restaurant in Albuquerque last week. Three out of four of us automatically take a digestive aid in order to eat a meal without discomfort.

What’s wrong with this picture?

Keeping the “big bloat” at bay is so much cheaper and safer with proper food combining than with drugs. Consider the pepperoni pizza, for example. The digestive process immediately slows down or stops altogether due to the combination of proteins and carbohydrates, each of which requires a different type of enzyme for digestion. The acid and alkaline enzymes produced to handle the separate food groups actually neutralize each other. Result: digestive shutdown, bloat, heartburn.

Ever wonder what our ancestors did about these problems? They didn’t have pills or packaged foods, but that didn’t stop them from getting indigestion! So how did they cope? They ate some kind of fermented food with every meal.

Fermented food?!

That’s right. Humans have been fermenting foods to improve holding and storage properties for thousands of years, long before refrigeration was even conceived. Along the way, almost every culture realized at one point or another that fermented foods also aid digestion. The ancient Greeks and Romans used vinegar to promote digestion and keep the liver and gallbladder healthy.

Even today, cultures all over the world include fermented foods with their meals to aid digestion. Central and Northern European countries use sauerkraut (fermented cabbage, which has a high vitamin C content) and pickles, dating back to ancient Egypt. Salty sweet-and-sour pickles are commonly used in Korean, Chinese, Indian and

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By Dr. Bera Dordoni, N.D.

Dr. Bera Dordoni, N.D., lovingly referred to as the Wellness Whisperer, is author of the highly acclaimed book “I Have a Choice?!”, nutritional counselor, organic gardener and a naturopathic doctor who has over two decades of experience counseling clients with ailments ranging from allergies to cancer to numerous life-threatening dis-eases. She incorporates the laws of attraction to help her clients achieve vibrancy from the lifestyle changes that benefit them most. She holds wellness retreats in the Ramah area. To make a retreat reservation, request a consultation or learn more, visit www.bastis.org or call 505-783-9001.

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Japanese cuisines. Cider, beer, or a small glass of red wine might be found on the table in Mediterranean countries.

Why does it work?

As we age, our stomach’s hydrochloric acid production declines. Fermented food, such as sauerkraut, yogurt, or pickled vegetables like those found in kimchi, make up for that lost stomach-acid production by increasing our gastric-juice acidity.

Wait – it gets better! When we produce too much acid, fermented foods do just the opposite and help protect the stomach and intestinal lining! They’re a win-win addition to any meal.

How does it work?

The bacteria, molds, or yeasts used in the fermentation process “predigest” food being fermented by breaking down the carbohydrates, fats, and proteins into microflora, or lactobacilli, the friendly, life-giving bacteria that colonize in the intestines and work to keep unfriendly intestinal organisms – yeast, parasites, viruses, unfriendly bacteria – under control. Lactobacilli, a.k.a. lactic-acid bacteria, enhance digestion, increase vitamin levels, and produce enzymes as well as antibiotic and anti-carcinogenic substances.

You’ve probably heard these bacteria referred to in yogurt commercials as intestinal flora or probiotics. They’re actually ‘’live’’ foods that directly supply the digestive tract with the living cultures responsible for breaking down food and assimilating nutrients.

Probiotics are bursting with lactic-acid bacteria.

As a matter of fact, lactic acid-fermented cabbage – raw sauerkraut – has been cited as one of the most beneficial healing agents in recorded history. German scientists are working with strains of lactic-acid bacteria to eliminate “super-bugs” currently resistant to most antibiotics. Wouldn’t you rather eat a forkful or two of sauerkraut than take an antibiotic that can shut down your immune system and cause harmful bacteria to take over the body? I sure would!

Most digestive problems are almost impossible to eliminate permanently unless you increase the amount of beneficial bacteria – probiotics – and reduce the disease-causing

Along the way, almost every culture realized at one point or another that fermented foods also aid digestion.

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bacteria existing naturally in your digestive system. Easiest way to do that? Fermented foods!

And lacto-fermented foods are wonderful for diabetics. They not only improve pancreatic function, they relieve the pancreas of having to digest ordinary undigested carbohydrates.

So, what’s it going to be: a daily dose of fermented cabbage to keep your body vibrantly healthy? A delicious serving of raw homemade yogurt to soothe your tummy?

Count me in!

Hold on – don’t run to the store just yet!

Taking a bite or two of pickle or sauerkraut doesn’t mean you can go ahead and consume your favorite burger, pizza, or ice cream sundae without worry of indigestion or heartburn. The pickles and sauerkraut you buy from your grocer are all pasteurized.

Sadly, most traditional fermented foods have practically disappeared from the American diet over the past 100 years. Today, the only fermented food we eat with any regularity is pickles made from fermented cucumbers. But commercial pickles are made with distilled vinegar instead of just sea salt and water, and then they’re pasteurized.

“What’s wrong with pasteurization?” you ask. “It kills the organisms that spoil food.” True. But is also kills off all the lactic-acid bacteria . . . the good stuff that’s there to protect you.

Fermentation rocks!

Out of all the preservation and preparation techniques, fermentation is the only type that does not destroy some nutrients, creates more, and enhances others. Fermentation preserves biotin, thiamin, riboflavin, folic acid, many B vitamins, omega-3 fatty acids, and many detoxifying agents, and it creates enzymes, vital not only for digestion, but for all chemical reactions in the body, and the proliferation of the protective probiotic organisms that help protect and build the immune system.

‘Pro’ means in favor of and ‘anti’ means against. Therefore, a ‘probiotic’ provides you with favorable bacteria to protect your body, and an ‘antibiotic’ is taken to kill bad bacteria that has invaded the body.

Unfortunately, ‘anti’-biotics are not discerning: they kill all bacteria, good and bad. At the end of a run of antibiotics, your body is left with no ability to fight new foreign invaders unless you replace the wiped-out friendly bacteria with some new ‘probiotic’ bacteria.

Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride, Russian neurologist says, “Every course of antibiotics tends to wipe out the beneficial bacteria and that gives a window of opportunity for the pathogens to proliferate, to grow uncontrolled, and to occupy new niches in your gut. The beneficial flora recovers, but different species of it take between two weeks to two months to recover in the gut and that’s a window of opportunity for various pathogens to overgrow.”

Could it be that by abandoning the ancient practice of lacto-fermentation, and insisting on a diet in which everything has been pasteurized, we have compromised the health of our intestinal flora and made ourselves vulnerable to legions of pathogenic microorganisms?

“Culture does not begin at the opera house; it begins in the kitchen,” says Sally Fallon, a fermented foods expert.

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Be Aware of Die-Off

Before you start consuming cultured or fermented foods, be forewarned: if you have a lot of internal pathogenic growth, you will have a healing crisis – also known as a die-off – when the good guys come in and start crowding out those bad gut bugs.

You might be tempted to run to the doctor for a pill to ‘suppress’ that reaction, but don’t – welcome it, because it’s evidence that the good guys are killing the bad guys.

Just take it slowly so you don’t feel bloated and miserable. You might even have skin breakouts, as the toxins are released through every avenue possible. Don’t worry – it’s all good. It’s all part of the cleansing and healing process.

Fermented Food Prescription

Start with a quarter-cup serving with at least two meals a day. Have a little more if you don’t feel discomfort, a little less if you do. Use only raw fermented foods.

How can you get healthful, raw fermented foods? Make your own, of course!

My favorite is sauerkraut, a simple-to-make recipe: If you have a food processor, it will do all the work for you.

You’ll need: 1 cabbage, 1 quart purified water, 1 tbsp. sea salt, 1 quart jar with lid. Grind cabbage in food processor or cut into very small strips. Add sea salt to purified water to create brine. Cover cabbage with brine. Place a top on the jar and leave it out on your kitchen counter to ferment. If the weather is warm, it will probably take only three days to fully ferment. In colder weather it might take a week or more. Since I get bored with the flavor of cabbage alone, I often add caraway seeds, dill seeds and dill weed, or juniper berries (a great kidney cleanser) to my sauerkraut.

You want to learn more? Read Sandor Katz’s Wild Fermentation (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2003). And check out www.fermentersclub.com for some great recipes. Say good-bye to antacids and hello to fermenting! See ya later. For some reason after all this fermenting talk I’ve got to go have some kimchi now!

Fermenting we will go, fermenting we will go, hi-ho-the-derrio, fermenting we will go!

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he Kiwanis Noon-Day Club of Gallup is rolling out the red carpet at El Rancho on Friday, August 24.

The “Home of the Movie Stars” is the venue for the first annual Hollywood Night, a fundraising event sponsored by Kiwanis. And though celebrities will not be coming from L.A. for this event, Gallup’s own community members are invited to attend, dressed in their favorite celebrity garb.

Corporate Sponsors include: Berg Chiropractic • Castle Furniture • Clear Channel Elite Laundry • Ellis Tanner • Fleisher Consulting Gallup Dental • Gallup Journey • Gallup Vision Source Jerry’s Café • Keeler & Keeler • Patty Lundstrom Newberry & Associates • Pinnacle Bank • Matejka Ray Murphy Builders • R&M Furniture • Richardson’s Trading Rio West Mall • Rosebrough Law Firm • Silver Dust Trading SWIF • Virtue, Najar and Brown • Zimmerman’s/City Electric

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Kiwanis is a global organization committed to changing the world through service to children and communities. Around the world Kiwanis members help shelter the homeless, feed the hungry, mentor the disadvantaged, and care for the sick. They develop youth as leaders, build playgrounds, raise funds for pediatric research, and much more.

Kiwanis Noon-Day Club has sponsored other fundraising events throughout the years, including flower sales, car washes, and the very successful Superbowl Sunday Pancake Breakfast. However,

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Hollywood Night is the biggest event the club has planned in some time.

Planning committee chair, Brett Newberry, says, “We’re trying to bring in more money doing fewer things.” While a specific project has not been identified yet, Newberry says that they’re hoping to net $10,000 through this event in order to benefit local, youth-related programs.

Gallup, this is your time to shine! Hollywood Night promises to be an evening of glamorous fun, all for a good cause. The event begins at 7:00 pm and attendees are encouraged to arrive at El Rancho clad in Hollywood-themed attire – anything from a favorite celebrity to a movie character. Gallup’s own will walk the red carpet, surrounded by lights, and “paparazzi.” The amusement continues inside with disposable cameras and autograph books, appetizers, a cash bar, a raffle, and a costume contest.

Dinner music will be performed by On Call Jazz and, later, Over the Limit will set the stage for dancing from 9:00 pm to midnight. Spectacular raffle prizes, donated by local businesses, include an iPad, movie tickets for a year, a chainsaw, and much more. The grand prize is a package for two that includes a day in Albuquerque, touring a movie studio with the chance to meet some stars, dinner at El Pinto restaurant, and a night at a hotel. Kiwanis Noon-Day president, Nate Haveman, is confident that the event will be a great fundraiser, but adds, “We want it to be really fun for those involved – an event that sets the bar as a first annual event.”

Tickets are now on sale, $50 per person or $75 per couple. Kiwanis would love to fill El Rancho to its capacity. Corporate sponsorships are also available; $300 includes 4 tickets and name recognition at the event.

Tickets are available at all three Pinnacle Bank locations. For questions about Hollywood Night, please call Newberry & Associates at 722-6633, Gallup Journey at 722-3399 or Alec Robinson at Pinnacle Bank at 7220300.

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mericans are fighting a new battle lately, this sort of “class warfare” as it’s sometimes billed. Arguing that too much money and power is in the hands of too few Americans; the “99%” has become a coined term to mean anything from the working poor, to the sort of rich. It’s interesting how the term “sensibile” can be construed to fit many different situations and definitions as needed by the user. In this case, I’m presenting this Ford F-150 as the sensible choice for most truck users. Sounds boring I know, but hear me out.

Last month, I reviewed what could be regarded as a one-percenter truck. Overwrought, extravagant, expensive, unnecessary. Although largely unchanged from the F-150 Ecoboost SuperCrew I drove back in May 2011, as a counterpoint, I specifically asked for this month’s test drive to be the F-150 with the base V6 and 2-wheel drive. I needed to know, is the base V6

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enough motor to fulfill the needs of 99% of truck users?

Yes . . . and this is the heart of this story.

While the 3.7-liter V6 is the base engine in the F-150, it should not be thought of as so. It should be called, the “money-engine,” because it saves you on the sticker and saves you at the pump.

Using variable cam timing, the 3.7-liter is rated at 302 hp and 278 lb.-ft of torque. Keep in mind that these were 4.6-liter V8 numbers not that long ago. Coupled to the 6-speed transmission and in 4x2 configuration, this Crew Cab F-150 with a 6 ½ foot box yields an awesome blend of people and cargo hauling space and returns 17 mpg city, 23 mpg highway! That highway number is high enough that you could feel decent about trekking to Albuquerque to nab that latest craigslist find.

I needed to know, is the base V6 enough motor to fulfill the needs of 99% of truck users?

I M P R E S S I O N S Driving the V6 F-150 is forgettable, in a good way. The engine is smooth and quiet. First gear in the 6-speed is short enough that you can scoot into traffic easily and sixth gear is tall enough that you lumber along comfortably at highway speeds. It’s not really till you’re deep in the throttle for a poorly timed merge onto the freeway that you’ll feel the 3.7-liter running out of breath.

If you’re really going to work your truck, that is haul heavy loads in the bed or tow large trailers, then Ford’s 5.0-liter V8 or the EcoBoost should be considered. The 5.0-liter makes a bit more horsepower at 360, but makes a healthy bit more torque at 380 lb-ft. The EcoBoost is even more impressive making 365 hp and 420 lb-ft. of torque! The 5.0-liter, however, is going to return typically low truck MPG numbers at 15 city/ 21 highway. The EcoBoost is a gem, providing all that power and still yielding 16 mpg city and 22 mpg highway. Both engines, however, are more expensive. Plan on adding anywhere from $1,500 to $3,000 to upgrade.

For all other uses – towing smaller trailers like a pop-up camper, small boat or jet ski or hauling some mountain bikes, lumber, or ATVs – the V6 will be just fine. The V6 is really just THAT good.

My last comment is reserved for wheelbase and cab configuration.

While I concede that plenty of Gallupians feel the need for a four-door truck, I have to make a strong argument here for sticking with the

extended cab truck (in this case referred to as “Crew Cab”). Without jumping up to the preposterously long wheelbases of 4-door, long-box trucks, the 5 ½ foot box of a 4-door truck is just inadequate. Either you need a truck or an SUV, pick one. The 6 ½ box on this F-150 is so much more useful with no wheelbase penalty and the second row is not a punishment. Granted, you’re not going to stick your 6-foot-tall teenager back there for a trip to Shiprock if you don’t have to, but for the occasional trip, he could manage it. My two kids, in their car seats, fit just fine without even having to move the front seats forward.

As always, let’s end with price. Gone are the days that a 4x2 truck with a V6 is your father’s work truck with a bench seat, no air conditioning, a manual transmission and costs 20K. Not so anymore. As tested, MSRP on the XLT model here is $32,870, but that gets you everything most buyers need: power windows, locks and mirrors, cruise, air conditioning, 4-wheel ABS, alloy wheels, traction control, etc. The fact is, trucks are not cheap and even sticking with the standard V6 is still pricey, making saving at the pump all the more necessary.

While I don’t feel the 99% should be going out and buying $32,000 trucks, if they need to, this model just may be the right choice.

Special thanks to Steve and Sal at Gurley Motors for the test drive.

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Dust, Sweat and Bruises:

Ceremonial Rodeo Revives Old-Time Events

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inety-one years ago the Gallup Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial was conceived and created as a volunteer organization with untold hours of donated time going into each year’s celebration. It continues the same today.

The most amazing thing about the Ceremonial Rodeo is the fact that Jerry Silver, his co-producer, Walter Hudson, and the other rodeo personnel are all volunteers. They don’t get paid for their long hours of hard work. It is all done for the love of the sport, and Silver would like to see another generation of rodeo enthusiasts start filling the stands.

Jerry Silver has a lot of ideas percolating in his head, and he’s very excited about making the rodeo the big draw it once was. “I’d like to see the stands packed for every performance,” he said.

Silver grew up on a farm in Utah and when he came back to the area his command of Navajo was rather poor. He learned his own language with the help of his wife Margie, who hails from the Tohatchi area. As a young man he started out his rodeo career on steers and then bulls. Eventually he made saddle bronc his main event.

In 2003 he bucked off at a bad angle and landed on his head. He was medivaced to Santa Fe where they discovered he had broken his neck. Luckily, the spinal cord was not damaged and he has had a full recovery, but it was a scary experience. In true cowboy style, the injury never slowed him down.

Today’s cowboys are more into fitness and less into partying and this is something Silver stresses at his saddle bronc camps run with Navajo rodeo legend J. R. Hunt Jr. Jerry is a three-time National Indian Finals Rodeo saddle bronc champion. He and Hunt both try to encourage their students to take the sport seriously and clean up their own lives, if necessary.

He is also past president of the Navajo Rodeo Cowboy’s Association. He has worked with Ceremonial Rodeo before, but this time he has some changes in mind. One thing that should add to the enjoyment of this year’s rodeo is the appearance of Montana rodeo clown Fritz Harris, who worked last year’s Indian National Finals. Harris is a Sioux who lives in Pocatello, Idaho.

When the Gallup Ceremonial was started in 1922, it was seen as a program of traditional

Indian dances as well as a showcase for Native arts and crafts. But the Fourth of July celebrations held in town since Mr. Gallup went on down the tracks had also featured a variety of races and a few rodeo events.

The sport of rodeo was just getting national attention at the time and few towns had arenas with permanent bucking chutes, regular rules, and profession riders and ropers. In fact, they didn’t have ropers at all. Who wanted to chase a frightened calf through the sagebrush?

For the most part the horses and steers – they hadn’t discovered the excitement of the Brahma bull yet – were thrown down in the arena, saddled and mounted, and then let loose. The cowboy rode until the animal quit bucking. Old photos document that rodeo used saddles on broncs, bulls and even buffalo.

All the local boys – and around here that included a few Indian reservations of vast acreage – wanted to take part and show off for their girlfriends.

Standard events included wild horse races, wild cow milking, the hide race, the chicken pull, and bucking buffalos.

So important were events like the chicken pull that its name in Navajo, nahohai, was the word for rodeo. There wasn’t one without the other. The chicken pull was just what it sounds like – pulling a rooster from the ground in the center of the arena.

A tough old rooster was buried in the sand and horsemen took turns riding by at a full gallop, reaching down with one hand, and trying to pull the rooster up by its neck. When Anglos found that a little too disconcerting because a liberated bird flapped its wings and made a screeching racket, they buried a bag of coins in the arena and the rider tried to get a grip on that.

The noise, excitement and horror of the event came when the successful cowboy tried to get his bird back across the finish line. There is no need to get more graphic than that. The sport originated with the Mongol Hordes in northern Asia, was picked up by the Arabs and taken to Spain during the Moorish occupation of that country.

The Spanish carried the event to the New World where many Indian tribes thought it looked like a lot of fun. Superb horsemanship is on display in this event. In the early days it was made even more difficult when other riders were allowed to lash the runner to drive the horse off course.

Other crowd pleasers were more common at rodeos outside the Southwest. The hide race is a pretty simple event with few rules. All a team needed was a horse, a rope, a stiff cowhide, and somebody crazy enough to hang onto the hide no matter how much arena dust got in his eyes, ears, nose and mouth.

It was considered good form to stick on the hide while kneeling, rather than lying prone, but as long as the cowboy kept hold of the rope he could cross the finish line in pretty much any position. It was not uncommon to see a man lose his shirt during the run.

Wild cow milking was downright dangerous.

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So important were events like the chicken pull that its name in Navajo, nahohai, was the word for rodeo. There wasn’t one without the other. a milker. One man on horseback, one with a coke bottle in his hand, and one husky fellow to get the cow by the head and hold onto her.

The best cows for this purpose were range animals with horns. Many of them had never seen a man on foot before and they didn’t like getting intimate like that with strangers. The rule was that when the milker staggered across the finish line, at least one drop of milk had to drip from the bottle.

At Ceremonial, like many other early rodeos, the wagon race had all the thrills and excitement of NASCAR. Wagons pulled by a single team of horses raced around the arena. Sometimes there were added rules. In Calgary there are two extra men who load certain items into the “chuck wagon” before it can take off. They jump on their horses and race with the buckboard.

According to the newspaper, in 1935 there were one hundred and ten Navajo wagons in the parade. People still commonly came to town that way. The problem for the wagon race is the need for space. This year’s rodeo director, Jerry Silver, wants to bring back some of the old-time events, but the wagon race is a problem.

“A lot of places use miniature wagons to get around the problem of space in the arena,” he said. Events like that are hard to mount and can be expensive. “In the early days, enough wagons came to town to make the event possible.” These days the wagons and teams would probably have to be trucked to the grounds.

One of Silver’s ideas to make the classic rodeo events possible is to get the local chapter houses involved. “Get the chapter houses to compete with each other,” he said. They would each absorb part of the cost. “Since they started using stock contractors it has been impossible to have events like Jerry Silver the wild horse race or cow Ceremonial Rodeo Co-Director milking. Animals in those events can really only be used once.”

This year Silver wants to add the chicken pull and the wild horse race.

More old events will be added in future years. He pointed out that when Gallup Ceremonial started there weren’t so many time restraints on the arena, which was a rather informal space anyway. “I’ve heard that for the first Ceremonials they just boxed in the arena with cars and turned on their lights.”

Whatever happens, trust Jerry Silver to bring a lot of enthusiasm to the project. Most everyone agrees it would be exciting to restore the old-time rodeo to Ceremonial.

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A Day Trip to Casamero

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ere’s an easy day trip to some ancient ruins. Leave Gallup heading east on I-40.

Exit 26. Gallup. The Nutria Monocline, locally called simply “The Hogback,” is the abrupt western edge of the Zuni Uplift.

All the strata here originally overlaid the Zuni Mountains, but most have been eroded away since they were domed up. The notch separating the east and west portions of the hogback are eroded into the soft Mancos Shale between Gallup Sandstone and Dakota Sandstone.

On this trip you will drive between the famous red cliffs of Entrada Sandstone on the north and the Zuni Mountains to the south.

At Milepost 31 you have a good view of the rows of ammunition bunkers at Fort Wingate south of the interstate. The old cavalry post was an ordinance depot from 1918 until 1992.

Exit 33. McGaffey and Fort Wingate. This is the second location of Fort Wingate. The first was east of here near San Rafael at Ojo del Gallo.

Pyramid Rock looms just to the west of Red Rock Park. Church Rock, the one with the spires, heads a canyon north of the park campgrounds. There is a hiking trail that will take you to near Church Rock, and a trail that takes you to the top of Pyramid Rock. The mesas on the north are composed of Jurassic Entrada Sandstone at the base, Todilto Limestone, very thin Summerville Formation, Bluff and Zuni Sandstones, then Morrison Formation and Cretaceous Dakota Sandstone on the higher points.

Milepost 43. The road passes through outcrops of light-colored Sonsela Sandstone, a unit within the Triassic Chinle Formation. In the red cliffs on the north, the Entrada Sandstone sits on top of the Chinle. The Chinle mudstones are easily eroded, but may be seen in the colorful mounds or small hills at the base of the cliffs.

Exit 44. Coolidge. Small place, lots of history! Billy Crane, who served with Kit Carson, settled at a place called Bacon Springs to supply hay and beef to Fort Wingate. When the railroad came through they called the place Cranes Station, but in 1882 it was renamed Coolidge to honor the president of the railroad [not the US president, who was only ten years old at that time.] The village became a hangout for drifters and had some turbulent times early on, but settled down in the twentieth century. After railroad business shifted to Gallup, Coolidge dwindled away. The more recent Coolidge was established in 1926 when another Coolidge, with the first name of Dane, built a trading post near the highway. The settlement was bulldozed in 1930, after undergoing additional name changes: from Dewey, to Guam, to Perea.

Casamero’s great kiva, with a diameter of 70 feet, was larger than Casa Rinconada at Chaco Canyon.

In 1979, not quite four months after the Three Mile Island nuclear incident, an earthen dam burst at a uranium mine northeast of here and flooded the Rio Puerco with 93 million gallons of slurry, including 1100 tons of hazardous solids, which flowed 115 miles downstream. In the cleanup, which took a couple of years while Gallupians joked about glowing in the dark, the company removed 360,000 cubic yards of sediment from the riverbed. The major impact was on Navajo sheep herders, who could no longer water their stock at the river. Even now, many still don’t. Although it was alleged that radioactive waters were seeping into Gallup’s aquifers, monitoring has never detected any significant radioactivity in the well waters.

Just east of Exit 33 road cuts are in the banded Perea Sandstone, a unit within the Chinle Formation. It was about here that a Chacoan great Kiva was excavated and later covered by the highway.

Exit 36. Iyanbito means “buffalo spring” in Navajo. The buffaloes were imported to be featured in the Gallup Inter-Tribal Ceremonial early in the twentieth century and were pastured here. There is a Navajo community at Iyanbito.

The Pilot Travel Center at Exit 39 was once the Giant Travel Center, the only one owned by Giant Industries, Inc. It became unprofitable due to competition from the casino complexes on I-40, so Giant Industries sold it to

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the Pilot chain in 2003. Pilot owns travel centers in 37 states.

Exit 48. Cross the Continental Divide at 7268 feet in elevation. The town here is much reduced. It used to feature bars, dance halls, and the tourist shops found everywhere on US 66. Now only a couple of the latter are still in business.

Exit 53. Thoreau may have been named for the American philosopher, Henry David Thoreau, or maybe for a bookkeeper that worked for the Mitchell Brothers, who founded the town.

In any case, the local pronunciation of the name sounds like threw. Threw is the past tense of throw, and, compared to its earlier history, the town seems to be mostly in the past tense.

The first name given the place was “Chaves” for a family who had a store here when the railroad arrived in 1881. Then the Mitchell brothers arrived in 1892 and laid out a town named “Mitchell.” The brothers from Michigan hoped to set up a lumbering empire by logging the Zuni Mountains.

Their operation only lasted about six months. The Hyde Exploration Expedition moved in about 1896, using warehouses to store Native American crafts to be shipped by train to markets across the US. This was during the time that Richard Wetherill was working for the Hyde brothers at Chaco Canyon. The Hydes changed the name of the town in 1899 to the one it has now. Since the Mitchells, and their bookkeeper, were long gone, it seems probable that Henry David Thoreau was the inspiration.

Milepost 60. Mt. Taylor and Haystack Mountain, where Paddy Martinez discovered uranium ore in 1950 and started

the local mining boom, appear in the view ahead.

Exit 63. Prewitt was named after two brothers who started a trading post here about 1916. What’s left of Prewitt still sits astride old Route 66. Prewitt used to have a downtown, but most of the old buildings are gone.

CASAMERO RUINS Take the Prewitt Exit [63] off I-40. Drive 0.4 miles east on old Route 66 and turn north on County 19. This road is paved to Casamero. Continue about four miles to the small parking spot on the left. Some personal memorials are on a side road just across the highway.

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Casamero is a Chacoan outlier [about 50 miles south of Chaco Canyon], and there are two Chacoan roads nearby, although you won’t notice them from ground level. These ruins are not spectacular like the great houses at Chaco or Mesa Verde, but the setting is interesting. The cliffs behind it are composed of Entrada Sandstone capped by Todilto Limestone. The Todilto is a freshwater deposit laid down in an extensive lake during the arid Jurassic period. Since the limestone separates into fairly flat pieces, the Anasazi used it as a building stone here.

Although these ruins are not very impressive, archaeologists gained a lot of knowledge when they were excavated in the late ’60s and early ’70s. Later, the ruins were stabilized, and the BLM posted informational signs for visitors. The great house at Casamero was occupied from 1000 until 1125 CE. An unexcavated great kiva lies about 200 feet southeast of the great house. It looks like a small stock tank, and an old fence line runs through it. Casamero’s great kiva, with a diameter of 70 feet, was larger than Casa Rinconada at Chaco Canyon. The great house was rather small, about 22 ground floor rooms, but the size of the great kiva reflects a larger population in the area. Surveys have identified 140 small archaeological sites ranging from Basketmaker to Navajo in the immediate vicinity. The valley of the Rio Puerco was one of the first areas that Chaco expanded into during the 1000s CE. Other sites are known along the Rio Puerco valley west of here all the way into Arizona. The great kiva at Casamero may have served as a local ceremonial center, although there were also great kivas at Chacoan outliers near Coolidge and Ft. Wingate.

Casamero’s setting is interesting. From the great house you have a clear view of the surroundings. The Entrada Sandstone behind the pueblo displays two members separated by a white band. The lower one contains more silt and is somewhat softer than the upper one. Large alcoves in the sandstone cliff offer visual interest. You may notice that this site is near the end of the red cliffs; east of here the Entrada is broken up by faulting, which has dropped the block of land where Grants sits, so the Entrada is buried there.

If you have the time and inclination, take the dirt road toward the north; it is an interesting drive and eventually ends in Crownpoint.

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By Fowler Roberts

Gloria Underwood President of Gallup Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial Association

Q. What got you interested in working with the Ceremonial Association?

A. Well, I was recruited as a kid when I was about 14 or 15 to help a friend sell her jewelry out at the old Ceremonial grounds. Then my parents became very involved with the exhibit hall. So it was really my parents that got me going.

Q. What do you enjoy most about working on the Ceremonial?

A. I think meeting people. I like meeting the artists, people from other countries and people from town I’ve never met even though I was born and raised here.

Q. What is the biggest challenge of your job?

A. Fundraising and volunteers. Those are probably the two big ones.

It’s quite a challenge to find sponsors for everything that we need. We would really like to find a major sponsor. Volunteers are also a challenge.

We need 80 to 100 people in the exhibit hall alone.

Q. Currently, what is your number one priority for Ceremonial?

A. Developing a new mission statement to fit the times that we are in and developing a strategic plan.

Q. Have you started making any special plans for the 100th anniversary that will be coming up in 2021?

A. Well, I know that Teri Fraizer [Ceremonial’s executive director] has some plans. I have been kind of overwhelmed about just getting this year’s together, but I think we want the 100th anniversary to be a reunion of sorts. We really would like to have groups here that we have not had in awhile and also some new groups. We just want to have a big party. Not a party, party, but a big gathering.

Q. What do you enjoy doing in your off time?

A. This is my off time, (laughs) aside from my work as a school counselor, and I enjoy reading and spending time with my husband and my dad. I’m pretty family-oriented.

Q. What is your favorite book?

A. My favorite book is, perhaps, Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko. I also like the books by James Welch who was a Choctaw author.

Q. If you could trade places with one famous person, who would it be and why?

A. As a kid I thought it would be cool to be Queen Elizabeth I, for some reason. But then as I got older and learned more about her, I don’t know. Now I think it might be Wilma Mankiller. She exhibited true leadership. She was true to her own self and her own values and goals. She was like a female warrior and she brought attention not only to Native American issues but also female issues.

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his month during the 91st Gallup Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial, Gallup will be host to many visitors from around the world. Dance groups, artists, musicians, rodeo athletes, runners, and many more will all take part in the various festivities during August 8-12. The Ceremonial Board and Staff are excited about maintaining the events and performances that take place year after year, as well as introducing the 1st Annual Ceremonial ½ Marathon and bringing back some old-time rodeo events.

Ceremonial offers something for everyone, from morning ’til night during each of its five days. But if you just can’t make it to all the events and performances, you can still get a taste of what Ceremonial is all about! Here is a list of those events that just shouldn’t be missed. Enjoy a night out at the wine tasting and preview the exhibits on Wednesday evening. Bring the family to one or both of the downtown parades on Thursday night or Saturday morning. Watch the Ceremonial Rodeo on Friday afternoon, and the performances on Saturday evening. Come to take in the art and culture and to be amazed and entertained by the talents of the Native communities from near and far!

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my rambles.

By N. Haveman

I’ve got a lot on my mind lately.

I guess we all probably do - it’s not like we can turn our minds off, right?

I’ll get to some of that stuff later. For now, I’d like to start by talking about Steely Dan. Not too long ago, my parents sent us some of their old records as we recently purchased a record player.

A couple of the albums they sent out were Steely Dan. Whoa - talk about talented. They are incredible. Not only do I know most of the songs, but I also like most of the songs. I love the style of music and melodies - awesome.

Anyhow, I’ve been watching Breaking Bad lately, too and Walter White (the Bryan Cranston character) also loves Steely Dan. Walt and I have a ton in common . . .

I’ve also been reading a new series of books, thanks to a good friend of mine, Scott Farver.

The books follow Jack Reacher who happens to be a badass (sorry for the PG-13 language, but he really is - there is literally no other way to describe him).

I’m only a couple of books into the series and I’m already hooked - thankfully there are another dozen or so out there for me to read. I hesitate to tell you all the author’s name, though, because I don’t want our local library to run out of the ones that I want to read.

But his pen name is Lee Child.

My other buddy Chris actually kind of reminds me of Jack Reacher (that BA from above - you know what that stands for).

He was telling this story the other day about this time a guy tried to steal a 12-pack of soda from Lowe’s right in front of him and he stopped him cold.

Read some Jack Reacher and you’ll realize that Reacher would have stopped him cold, too.

I’d be remiss if I didn’t talk about one of my favorite events ever . . .

Come on, the OLYMPICS?!?!?!

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I’m never more of a fan of the United States than when the Olympics roll around. I do, however, like the summer version better than the winter.

Not that I don’t cry at the Winter Olympics, but I cry more at the Summer Olympics.

The heart-wrenching stories that Bob Costas tells about certain athletes are sure to bring the water works in the Haveman house.

My favorite events of the summer Olympics are swimming/diving and gymnastics.

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Non-Toxic Pesticides I believe it is safe to say that pesticides are far more dangerous than most pests and we have to continue to develop alternative ways of dealing with them.

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he pesticide industry defends the use of pesticides because pests in the United States kill between 100 and 300 people annually. They claim people need to be protected from these hideous pests. There are over 325,000 certified commercial pest control applicators in the United States using pesticides. It is the National Academy of Science’s estimate that pesticide poisoning causes over 10,000 cancer deaths every year and creates over 20,000 cancer cases. These figures don’t include neurological damage, heart disease, lung damage, birth defects, miscarriages and other chronic exposure deaths.

A nationwide report has found that pesticide and herbicide use in or near U.S. schools have sickened more than 2,500 children and school employees over a five-year period. According to a January 2001 article in Epidemiology, one of the largest studies of pesticides has found that pesticide use around the home can more than double the chance of a child developing neuroblastoma, which is a condition that accounts for about 10% of all childhood tumors. A similar study in Cancer (2000) has shown that children who have been exposed to household insecticides and professional extermination methods within the home are three to seven times more likely to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma compared to children who have not been exposed to pesticides.

I believe it is safe to say that pesticides are far more dangerous than most pests and we have to continue to develop alternative ways of dealing with them.

Never let an exterminator spray pesticides in your home, school or business, as it is never necessary. There are many non-toxic alternatives that are much safer for you and your family.

Chances are that no matter what you do, you will see an occasional insect or spider or something else. There are several things you can do to minimize the chances of seeing these intruders. First, proper sanitation is important.

Keep debris on your property down to a minimum. This includes dead leaves, mulch, wood, garbage, manure, pet feces, weeds, boxes, grass clippings, and anything else that isn’t necessary and that bugs would find attractive. Also, install door sweeps on your outside doors if they do not close tightly. If you can see light under the doors, insects can crawl in. Raise any garbage containers off the ground and place them on concrete pads, bricks or pallets.

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Routinely clean any gutters you may have.

Inspect the outside of your house and seal or caulk any cracks in the foundation or voids abound pipes or any other areas which will give bugs access to your house. Of course, make sure all of your screens are in good repair. Do not let any branches from nearby trees or shrubs touch your roof. Prune them back if necessary. If you live in an area where cockroaches are prevalent, make sure all of your drains are closed at night. If you don’t have a drain cover, you can put a Ziploc bag filled with water on the drain to keep the roaches from coming up and into the house. Cockroaches are most active from 10 pm to 2 am.

Probably the most common household pests are ants. There are several things you can do to prevent ants from entering your home. The first step is exclusion. Go around the outside of your home and inspect it very carefully from an ant’s point of view. Ants can sense cool air and aromatic odors emanating from your home and will try to gain access. Check around the house at ground level and look for cracks in the foundation, voids around pipes, areas under stucco, weep holes in bricks and similar areas that ants can use to gain entrance. All these areas need to be sealed, caulked, screened or otherwise altered to prevent ants from using them to get into your home.

Check around your windows and doors to make sure they close tightly. If the doors aren’t tight, you may have to install door sweeps on them. Check your bushes, shrubs and trees to make sure you don’t have any branches touching the roof. Don’t stack firewood, bricks or anything else next to your house or ants and other insects may find a good place to nest. If you have bushes or shrubs next to your house, periodically inspect them for aphids, scales and similar bugs, as ants are attracted to the honeydew they produce. The ants will get on the plants and eventually find their way into your home. Don’t put flagstone or flat boards on the ground too close to your home or some species of ants will nest under them.

On the other hand, mound-making ants will generally stay outside. They rarely leave their complicated and efficient home life in the mound to enter homes. If you don’t want the ants making mounds in your yard, you can flood the nests with club soda or with white vinegar or food-grade diatomaceous earth (DE). DE is not an insecticide in chemical form; it is a desiccant that

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Gallup Senior of the Month

has been in the pest control industry for over 40 years and realized a long time ago that pesticides are more dangerous than pests.

If you have bushes or shrubs next to your house, periodically inspect them.

The ants will get on the plants and eventually find their way into your home.

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scratches the insect’s body causing it to dehydrate. If you use the DE, mix 4 tablespoons per gallon of water. You can also use 1 gallon of orange juice diluted with 2 gallons of water and a dash of soap. If you prefer, you can also spread dry instant grits on the mound. The ants will eat it and not be able to digest it and die.

You can repel ants with a wide variety of products, including cinnamon, baking soda, Comet cleanser, cedar oil, medicated baby powder, Tide, talcum powder, chalk, coffee grounds, borax, garlic, broken egg shells, bone meal, black or red pepper, peppermint, paprika, chili powder and mint leaves.

If you have ants going into your hummingbird feeder, you can put duct tape, sticky side out, on the wire holding the feeder, to deter them.

The best way to control them when they get in your home is with baits.

Different species have different food preferences. Some species will take a wide variety of baits, while others are more fussy.

You can use a bait containing half baking soda and half powdered sugar and place it where you see foraging ants. You can also use instant grits, which they can’t digest, or use 2 packets of Equal or NutraSweet, which contains aspartame, wherever you see the ants.

Gene Pacheco was transferred to Gallup in 1960 by El Paso Natural Gas Company.

He has lived in Gallup ever since then, working in the oil business. Gene is married and has three sons. He is a member of the Elks Lodge, a Central Committee member for the Democratic Party in McKinley County, and attends meetings at the Community Service Center on the north side of town. He enjoys giving back to Gallup and looking for ways to be involved now that he’s retired. “Gallup’s been good to me,” Gene says.

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If the ants have a preferred food in your home, such as applesauce, peanut butter, canned cat food, Karo Syrup, jelly or similar products, you can mix in small amounts of boric acid or borax or aspartame. Mix about 2% of any of these products in the food. Make sure you keep these baits away from children and pets. If the ants are dying near the baits, you are making it too strong and need to make a fresh batch with less boric acid or borax.

Here is a recipe for effective, homemade ant baits/traps that use borax. It attracts ants looking for either moisture or food. You will need: 3 c. water, 1 c. sugar, 1 tsp. borax or 2 tsp. food-grade DE or aspartame, 6 small screw-top jars with lids, such as jelly jars covered with masking tape, which will enable the ants to climb up the side. Mix the sugar, water and borax (or food-grade DE or aspartame) in a bowl. Loosely half-fill the jars with cotton balls or pieces of sponge or wadded paper towels. Pour up to ½ cup of the sugary mixture over the cotton balls, saturating them. Make several small holes in the lid. Screw the lids on the jars tightly. If you smoke, always wear plastic gloves when making ant baits or they will sense the tobacco smoke on the baits and not go to it.

Ants do not like cigarette or cigar smoke.

If you are finding ants in a classroom or office building and baits aren’t practical, then you can spray all of the foraging ants with Greenbug for Indoors, which is a cedar product and will kill the ants it hits and repel others.

Greenbug is available online at www.greenbugallnatural.com.

I will help anyone who has pests solve the problem without using toxic chemicals. You can reach me at askthebugman@yahoo.com or by phone at 505-385-2820.

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By C. Van Drunen

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What’s Better Than A Batman Movie?

took Hwy 53 down to El Malpais National Monument, where molten lava obviously covered the land at one time. It’s a journey of over an hour from Gallup where one can be easily sidetracked with the temptations of El Morro National Monument or a tasty treat at the Ancient Way Cafe just up the road. The lava flow naturally created underground cooling vents or tubes in a process that I don’t really understand. All I know right now is that time of the essence because at dusk thousands of bats will be making a mass exodus out of one of these lava caves and there will be two very disappointed kids if we miss this showing

We drive over the continental divide, past the El Malpais ranger station, and then a few miles til the El Calderon area. It’s 7:41. The bathrooms at the parking area were quickly used, and we head up the trail for .7 mile hike to the bat cave. At 8:01 we are seated at the mouth of the cave and are anxiously quiet. We probably exaggerated to the kids the possibility of the bats not coming out if we are too loud.

At 8:10pm a handful of bats swirl at the entrance. Then a rather nasty stink fills the air, a preview to the thousands of wings now flapping deep in the cave moving their guano tainted air to us. At exactly 8:15 the bats blast our of the cave and for five minutes they swoop straight up into the glorious summer dusk sky. They are fast! And they are not afraid to fly a foot from your face. My kids are in awe. If I had to guess I’d say there were 5,000 that came out (but that’s just a guess).

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Real Bats!

While we sit and wait for the second group of bats to come out (another specie I’m told comes out later) I contemplate how odd bats are: A flying mammal that’s essentially blind that uses radar for night flight and insect-meal location? That’s actually stranger than some guy running around in armored underwear and talking in a deep strange voice.

At 8:45 the second batch comes out. They are a bit bigger, not nearly as many of them, but they didn’t swoop off right away either. These guys tended to stick around and swirl about us for a few minutes before departing to the skies.

By 9:10 we are back at the car and all members of the family are happily in Gallup beds before 11. We probably spent $25 on gas, but it was still cheaper than taking the family to the movies, and by my take...it was way better!

El Malpais National Monument has Ranger guided viewing of the bat flights every Friday in August @ 7pm @ the El Calderon area. For more info go to http://www.nps.gov/elma/naturescience/mammals-bats.htm or call (505) 783-4774 or (505) 876-2783. believe • gallup

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UNDER RENOVATION

August Schedule The El Morro Theatre will be closed for renovation for the months of June, July and part of August 2012. We still plan on having movies and activities for the children so please check our website at www.elmorrotheatre.com for the August schedule.

We will list location and times.

We would like to THANK ALL who support the venues and activities at the El Morro Theatre.

Have a wonderful summer!

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by Tommy Haws Tommy Haws is the Senior Vice-President of Pinnacle Bank in Gallup. He has over 12 years of Banking and consumer credit experience.

He is a loan officer and also oversees the day to day operations of the three branches of Pinnacle Bank in Gallup.

Buyer Beware!

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aveat emptor. This Latin phrase has been used in many settings, from big-ticket purchases such as houses and automobiles to simple things you might run across. It means “let the buyer beware” and puts us all on notice that while we want to trust those with whom we trade goods and services, it is ultimately our own responsibility to know what we are getting ourselves into when it comes to any transaction. This process is often called due diligence.

I wish to address the narrow definition of this process when it comes to purchasing a loan. Yes, I said purchasing a loan, since there are costs involved with this, including loan fees, interest, insurance and other issues related to borrowing money. The problem is, often we seize upon one aspect that we deem the most important and then base a decision on improper information.

The following is an incomplete list of things you might consider and, like the saying goes, make sure you are comparing apples to apples.

Rate This is the most often questioned portion of a loan term. “What is your rate on a ______?” is probably the question I most often get when I am around town and people know I am a banker. The problem is, there is not usually a quick answer. Rate is dependent on many things, including the strength of the borrower, the value of the collateral, the length of the term, etc. If there is one thing I have learned, one size does not fit all. For instance, with mortgage rates, the rate can vary a great deal based on the factors listed above. There is not one rate that can be quoted to everyone because all rates are subject to these other factors.

The buyer-beware portion here is to make sure that the rate that you are quoted is consistent with other rates from other lenders. Teaser rates are usually great, so make sure that you understand where they will be once they are re-priced to normal rates. Variable Rates are almost always lower than fixed rates, but once again, make sure you know how the rate change is affected when it comes.

How often will it re-price? Is there a limit to how much it can re-price each time? What does that do to payments?

So a rate is not always just a number that can be quoted on whim.

Term/ Payment Know how long your term is. This will be a factor in your overall costs. Sometimes we get trapped into thinking we have a good deal on a car, for example, because all we hear is the payment advertised. We have all heard it: “$199 down, $199 a month.” But $199 a month for how long?

What is also rolled into the loan? Are costs financed instead of being paid out of pocket?

Sometimes a very little difference in a payment amount can mean a large difference on total amount paid. For instance, on a mortgage, sometimes the difference between a 30-year loan and a 20-year loan is not very much, but the overall savings of paying for the loan for 10 fewer years can be significant. So, keeping the term as low as possible can be a real money saver and something to shop for.

Fees, etc.

This is a place where you can find many of the costs that might differentiate your loan products. Rate, payment and term might all be similar, but the lender’s fees, etc. might be different. If you are getting a mortgage, you will see these on the mandated Good Faith Estimate that your lender is required to provide. Compare to see what the lender is charging for doc fees, origination fees, etc. These charges are not wrong or improper; it is just necessary for you to see if they are reasonable and in line with other offers.

In conclusion, it is important to know what you are getting into. Ask around, shop around and do not make rash decisions if you can at all help it. There is a great deal of power in possessing the knowledge you need to make a good choice. Buyer beware: it’s not just for internet shopping!

Often we seize upon one aspect that we deem the most important and then base a decision on improper information.

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t the start of summer, I had an idea: I wanted to spend individual time with each child, instead of all three at once. Each child would get to pick what to do for the day. I started with the youngest child, The Princess, who wanted to go to the park.

Great, let’s do it, I said. “I wanna go,” said the other two children.

The Princess, who was in charge of her day, wanted her siblings and her mom along. So much for Dad’s plan.

Before we left for the park, Mom asked our son to please go and get her sunscreen from the bathroom and bring it. “OK, Mommy,” he said. We stopped to get water and our son talked me into buying three bags of gummy bears. As a wise father, I said, “Ok, but you can only eat one bag.” As I was driving, I heard his older sister say to him, “You’re going to get into trouble because you ate all three bags!” Our son had a totally calm and logical response, though. “It’s ok, because I only ate one bag at a time.”

So much for Dad’s wisdom; sugar high here we come. As soon as we got to the park, Mommy asked our son for the sunscreen. “I don’t have it; I forgot,” he informed her. “What do you mean you forgot? You said you would get it for me.” “Mom, I’m only six, what did you think was going to happen?” So much for everybody’s skin protection.

The pattern continued as each child invited the rest of the family along whenever their special individual day came up. There was one exception. My gummy bear son went golfing with me alone. Other golfers came over and told me they could never get their kids to hit the ball all the way down the fairway to the green. I watched proudly as my six year old hit the ball, ran, and hit the ball again up and down each fairway into the hole. The high points of the golf round were watching ducks in the pond, examining eggs in a bird nest in a rain shelter, and the boy excitedly chasing a real live fox at aptly named Fox Run Golf Course. And, of course, the fox won. Barely.

We discovered swimming, bowling, shaved ice, a carnival, a wolf named Forest at the Children’s Library, and bowling for our summer fun in Gallup. Mom and Dad hadn’t bowled for years, but it was still a little shocking when our five-, six-, and nine-year-olds teamed up to beat us. I want gutter rails next time for a fair fight.

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the street. I noticed my son literally became the art himself, with as much chalk on him as he was putting on the road. Eventually the kids decorated a peacefully artistic mommy with chalk art as well. Mom and Dad worked together to make their own ‘peace and love’ artistic masterpiece. Standing back to admire it, Mom said that it’s too bad the rain will wash it all away tomorrow. Our older daughter replied, “But . . . that’s just the way art is, Mom.” (That night at home, our daughter made a replica of what we drew, so that we would have it forever.) Throw in some talented belly dancers, fantastic opera singers, amazing art, beautiful jewelry, free fruit punch, and pancakes on a perfect weather night, and the experience couldn’t be beat.

We extended our summer fun to Albuquerque where we went to the zoo and then discovered Tingley Beach. Of all the many attractions at the Rio Grande Zoo, the water geysers and playground were where the children settled in for hours. At Tingley Beach, we were literally blown away. We were relaxing in a paddleboat with a canvas roof on it, floating out on the water among the ducks. High winds suddenly started gusting up ahead of a thunderstorm. That canvas roof turned into a sail. No matter how hard we pedaled, or which way we steered, the wind took us where it wanted. Our adventures in parenting aren’t totally predictable and shouldn’t be.

Summer isn’t over yet, so who knows what adventures are yet to come?

The high points of the golf round were watching ducks in the pond, examining eggs in a bird nest in a rain shelter, and the boy excitedly chasing a real live fox . . .

By Jeannette Gartner

Raising Sons for Fun & Profit

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kay, I admit it – that title is a bald-faced lie. So far there hasn’t been any profit, as in zero, none. And not always so much fun, either, as any parent of boys will tell you.

Now, I can just hear the parents who have girls saying, “Hah! Boys are easy! Try having a daughter!” To that,

I scoff, “Pshaw!”

We need to get back to the profit angle of raising sons. I said it hasn’t been for profit yet, but we’re still holding out hope for a possible future profit. In fact, we’re counting on it. The plan is that as we get older and squander more and more of the boys’ inheritance on frivolities, they’ll take up the slack and start sending us money every month. Or, at the very least, give us an allowance to buy a dried old crust of bread at the nursing home where they’ll park us . . .

Raising sons is more difficult than daughters. After all, I am a girl, so I certainly should know how hard it is to raise a daughter. And I have a much younger sister for whom I babysat all the time. Boys and girls are supposed to be the same, but I can tell you with authority that males and females are not the same. I’ve used my infamous empirical observation to determine the truth.

The youngest of our sons has just been “ungrounded,” and he’s 43 years old. We might even tell him he’s done. But, if we knew then what we know now about some of the things they did as teens, they’d all still be grounded! They tried to keep secrets from Mom, and were moderately successful, but there were always some that came to light. Like the dead lizard I found in the refrigerator.

Or the rotten egg in the bedroom, flunking driver’s ed., library books that were two years overdue, getting a ticket for driving outside the car. (Don’t ask about the last one; you don’t even want to know.) Other reliable sources include friends, relatives, or even strangers who would call, saying, “Did you know your son ______ (insert name) was_________ (insert deed)?”

Every time they get together, we learn about something else they had done – but now that they no longer live at home, it’s very hard to ground them again, what with them having to go to work and all.

Before we ever had any kids, I thought six would be a nice number. That way everyone would have someone to play with, babysit, be his friend, and so on, right? That was the theory anyway. We’ll never know, because it didn’t happen.

Three sons turned out to be too many to handle as it was. And as to possibly adding girls to temper the mix, it became obvious it wasn’t going to happen.

There were always adventures, or misadventures, afoot with boys, and not all of them were deliberate. In fact, perhaps only a few were. From the time they were toddlers, mysterious things happened. Many a time we got a call from one neighbor or another, always laughing hysterically, to tattle on one or more of the poor innocent babes.

“Jeannette, did you know that two of your sons are out in the front yard peeing in the flowerbed?” she would chortle. The same neighbor called again and was laughing so hard she could hardly talk, “Jeannette, did you know your boys are

watering the front lawn with an enema bag?” (It’s always the front yard, isn’t it?

Where else would they mortify me but in the front yard?)

Or, “Jeannette, your 3-year-old is at my house. I found him wandering down the street and he said he was ‘goin’ to gwamma’s.’ Do you want to come get him or should I bring him home?”

I heard, “Your kindergartner is at my house and says he doesn’t have to go back to school after lunch.” (Well, that one was a possibility. It could be the teacher told him not to come back – ever.)

I gave one son a swat when he was about two and sadly told him, “It hurts my heart when I have to do that.” He responded, “Yeah, and I bet it hurts your hand, too.” Reprimanding the youngest son, I said, “You don’t do that!” and his response was, “Yeah, I do.” He was right, of course, he did indeed.

When they got older, things just got more bizarre. It’s not that I was a bad mother, well, not entirely, anyway. Hey, look, they didn’t exactly pop out with an instruction book, now did they? Perhaps we weren’t abusive, although I’m sure one or another son could at any time claim we were, but maybe it was just neglect? Could it be explained that we gave them sort of a free rein because we didn’t want to stunt their delicate little psyches by keeping track of where they were? Or what they were doing? Remember, those were the days when kids roamed the neighborhoods, going from one house to another, and didn’t actually have to have “play dates” to get together. Consequently, things were always interesting.

To Be Continued…

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ur annual Mother Road Bicycle Classic is scheduled for, Saturday, September 15. If you are interested in doing the medium length ride (30 miles) as a way of to develop confidence and endurance, please email me and we can set up a ride or two.

We are juggling the many different pieces so that we can break ground later this year for Hooghan Hozho’. We are preparing bid documents, securing the final piece of funding required, double checking our assumptions, and making sure that everything is planned.

We have been known to update our blog once in a while, it is found at care66.blogspot.com.

I can be reached at Sanjay@care66.org.

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Last month Navajo Housing Authority awarded us a grant to provide support services for six months. We are very grateful for their support. We have received our annual audit and CARE 66 seems to be doing well, despite the depressed economy.

We are also looking into the idea of several small community gatherings/tours to talk about our vision for this community and the surrounding communities. Our first gathering is scheduled for August 14. Please let me know if you would like to attend one of these gatherings.

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Lit Crit Lite A look at some books available at your local public library

by Stacey Hollebeek

Davis carries few expectations with her on the trail, other than the hope that she’ll figure out what she wants to do with her life after she’s finished – and the hope that she will finish.

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ince its inception in 1921 and its completion in 1937, the Appalachian Trail is the most hiked and – I’m guessing on this one – written about trail in America, many of the writings memoirs. Although the genre might be getting a bit cliché, this month I found myself happily immersed in Jennifer Pharr Davis’s 2010 memoir of her Appalachian Trail trek, Becoming Odyssa: Adventures on the Appalachian Trail.

In 2008, Jennifer Pharr Davis set the record for hiking the 2175-mile Appalachian Trail in the shortest amount of time – 57 days. To do so, she hiked an average of over 38 miles per day from the northern most end of the trail, Mount Katahdin in Baxter State Park in Maine, to its southern end, Springer Mountain in the heart of Georgia. Each day she carried only a lightweight daypack with essentials for that day, while her husband met her each night with the rest of the camping gear, an extended hiking method dubbed “slackpacking” (i.e. “slacker packer”) by those in the know.

But it was not her first hike along the complete Appalachian Trail, nor her most life changing. Three years earlier, in 2005, Davis had decided to finish college a semester early and hike the Appalachian Trail solo – a desire she could not really explain. At the time she did not know anyone who hiked the trail, she couldn’t really explain to anyone why she wanted to do it, and she had never backpacked any long distance before.

Becoming Odyssa describes that hike and all she learned along the way, both about herself and the trail, all the while falling in love with long distance backpacking.

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As Davis describes it, the trail has its own subculture for those who set out to hike the full length, called “thru-hikers,” a rather small group, since 75% of those who start don’t finish, and only 25% of those who finish are women. Thru-hikers don’t use their own names when meeting each other on the trail or signing logbooks, but choose descriptive handles for themselves, creating a separate trail identity for the 3-6 months most of them take to hike the trail. Since she graduated college with a Classics major, Davis chose “Odyssa” as a female version of Odysseus, referencing his fabled odyssey back home, and hers toward a new definition of home. Throughout the trip, Davis not only consciously reinvents herself during her four plus months soloing the trail, but permanently and accidentally does so as well, through her unanticipated experiences and hardships.

Furthermore, she finds home is no longer the physical space she grew up in, but the journey itself and the people who share it with her.

I found Becoming Odyssa cleaner refreshing fare in comparison with Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, Oprah Winfrey’s recent hyped-up pick that describes author Cheryl Strayed’s 1000-mile solo hike along the Pacific Crest Trail. Unlike Wild, Davis does not carry a full 12-pack of condoms or the expectations they represented, and focuses the book on her time on the trail, rather than her exploits off the trail, her difficult childhood, or dying mother. Davis carries few expectations with her on the trail, other than the hope that she’ll figure out what she wants to do with her life after she’s finished – and the hope that she will finish.

Like Strayed, Davis does complain about her sore feet, but unlike Strayed, she has

Kids’ Book Review

By Tana Haveman, age 6

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like The Magic School Bus series, written by Joanna Cole and illustrated by Bruce Degen. I like each and every one of the books. They’re really fun and educational. The characters are funny. I like the way Ms. Frizzle always has crazy fieldtrips. And the bus is really cool. It turns into a lot of things: sometimes a bee, sometimes a frog. It could probably even turn into something super small like a ladybug. The students can see things that they probably couldn’t see if they just stayed at school and had normal fieldtrips.

Kids of all ages should read these books. There are lots of them at the library. They’re very cool. I like them a lot. My favorite one is about a hurricane. The bus turns into a hot air balloon and then a plane. Keep reading the Gallup Journey and The Magic School Bus.

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educated herself beforehand about the best way to hike the trail, even though she chose to do so in alternative ways. After taking a three-day course on how to complete the Appalachian Trail, Davis chooses to wear running shoes rather than heavier hiking boots, and carry a lighter pack. For her backpack, Davis grabs her brother’s old external frame from the bottom of the family storage closet, then mails her cook stove back home from the trail after she decides she hates trail cooking, and somehow thrives on granola bars, Twizzlers and pop tarts. She doesn’t filter or chemically clean her water along the way, and after her hiking pole gets lost, she joyfully uses a $3 yellow mop handle instead.

Despite the anticipated physical hardships of sore shoulders, blisters, exhaustion, rain and snow, Davis rejoices not only in the natural beauty around her and in a growing appreciation of its Creator, but especially in the colorful characters she meets along the journey, from would-be wizards and semi-stalkers, to trail angels tagged “Magic Mama.” I appreciated her frequent self-deprecation, and laughed aloud at her honesty over her companions’ rashes and chafing, as well as their solutions to the problem – including hiking in just underwear. Although Davis feels her identity as a Christian set her apart from the majority of hikers on the trail, and frequently references her spiritual identity and growth, it was not the central focus of the book, and I found it simply paralleling the growing spiritual recognition of her namesake in The Iliad.

Unfortunately, Davis’s writing is not especially lyrical, and any middle school English teacher would criticize her for too frequently telling, rather than showing her points, yet somehow I found myself eager to continue her journey vicariously.

I did not finish the book eager to jump up and start hiking 2000 miles solo, but I, like Davis, was reminded of the beauty of a slower-paced life, the importance of valued relationships along the way. I liked her perspective on walking, how for most of the earth’s existence, until the last hundred years or so, most traveling was done on foot, and how most of us today can enjoy walking as recreation, rather than necessity – a gift worth appreciating, whether through a hike up Pyramid or Church Rock, or a four-month stroll across the country.

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crazy ideas that just might work re Not all of the crazy ideas you’ve seen in the Journey are going to be realized . . . but here are two that were!

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Ceremonial Parade Walk/Run Gallup Family Fitness Series Saturday, August 11 – Downtown Gallup Taking advantage of the closed roads and the crowds gathering for the Ceremonial Parade, GFFS is walking/ running the route from 9 to 10 am for some pre-parade fitness. We’ll be doing short laps (Coal to 3rd to Rt. 66 to 1st and around again). See how many laps you can do, then take your snack and find a place to watch the parade, which begins at 10 am. Waving to gathering crowds is encouraged; balancing pottery on your head while walking is not necessary.

Register in the downtown walkway from 8:30 to 9 am.

The cost is $5 per person or $10 per family (up to four), unless you’ve already registered for the series and then it’s FREE. Registration fee includes participation in all remaining GFFS events along with a series T-shirt and post-event snacks.

Thoreau Community Center Labor Day Weekend, Aug. 31 – Sept 2

Thoreau Community Center is a 501(c)3 non-profit established in Thoreau, New Mexico with the mission to inspire hope, joy, and progress in Thoreau and the surrounding areas. It was founded shortly after the suicide crisis in the spring of 2010 and continues to work with the community to provide a safe and positive place for youth and their families today. Thoreau Community Center stands as the only public recreation center and digital library available in the community, encompassing over 300 square miles.

One of the major programs of the Thoreau Community Center is the After-School Program. This program is provided for middle and high school students and gives our youth access to tutoring, music classes, culture classes, and recreational opportunities. The center also has a computer lab with Internet access, a community garden, and will keep its doors open all summer to provide resources for the community.

Thoreau Community Center is hosting a 3-on-3 basketball tournament during Labor Day weekend, August 31, September 1 and 2. Four players are to sign up per team, to allow a substitute player to come into the game. The tournament is for youth ages 10 to 18. There are six divisions: 10-12 boys, 10-12 girls, 13-15 boys, 13-15 girls, 16-18 boys and 16-18 girls. The center is very happy to offer this event to youth, as it will be a fun, positive experience and a great way to build basketball skills! The tournament fee is only $10 per person ($40 per team), if teams register

by Friday, August 24. It will be $15 per player or $60 per team, if teams sign up after August 24. Registration begins at the Thoreau Community Center on August 1. The event is held at the Thoreau Community Center. Concessions will be sold.

Thoreau Community Center is located at 19 Paradise Lane in Thoreau, NM. For more information, call the center at (505) 862-7590.

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Plastic Containers and Cancer

By Betsy Windisch The connection between plastic and cancer was discovered in 1987 at Tufts Medical School. Researchers were culturing breast cancer cells in test tubes made of plastic. Chemicals in the plastic leached into the test tubes, causing the cancer cells to grow amazingly fast. Since then, numerous studies have shown the link between plastic and cancer. It is now well known that when you keep food or water in certain plastics, some of the chemicals leach into that food or water.

NOTE: Not all plastics are alike. Some forms are highly toxic and volatile, while others are safer and more stable.

How can one tell which are safe and which are dangerous?

Look at the recycling number on the bottom of the container!

The number of the container denotes the type of plastic.

Containers with a 3, 6, or 7 are the most dangerous. They contain the chemical BPA and should be avoided at all costs.

Containers with a 4 or 5 are generally considered safe.

But, play it safe, use them sparingly and NEVER USE THEM IN THE MICROWAVE.

Containers with a 1 or 2 are the safest. These include clear water containers, as well as most cloudy / opaque containers used for water and milk. These are made of PETE and HDPE and are safe for storing food and drink. But again, you should NEVER USE THEM IN THE MICROWAVE.

A handy plastic reference chart is available at www. pureprevention.org

What Can You Do About the Chemicals in Plastics?

Use less plastic. Carry a reusable water bottle; invest in stainless steel, glass, or ceramic food storage containers. Use a paper towel or wax paper instead of plastic wraps and baggies. Bring your own reusable bags to the grocery store; invest in canvas, recycled paper, or other material bags.

Join the Breast Cancer Fund in advocating for laws that protect people from toxic chemicals and push for the development of safer alternatives. Visit the BCF’s Legislative Toolkit to learn more and find out how to get involved: www.breastcancerfund. org/toolkit

Plastics are a major part of our everyday life. Stay informed. Be proactive. Check out the www.zerowasteinamerica.org site.

Zero Waste is the recycling of all materials back into nature or the marketplace in a manner that protects human health and the environment.

Currently Enrolling New Students Uplift Community School Uplift Community School is a new elementary charter school for children who live in McKinley County. Students entering grades K-4 are still being enrolled, however space is limited. Our temporary office is located at 101 Clark Street, with office hours on Monday – Friday, from 11 am to 2 pm. Our new office phone number is (505) 863-4333. Uplift Community School will be located at 406 Highway 564 and classes begin on September 4, 2012.

If you are looking for an exciting and innovative educational experience for your child, come by and talk with our staff about the Expeditionary Learning approach that will be used at Uplift Community School. EL provides opportunities for students to be highly engaged in their own learning, enjoy hands-on activities and research, and become citizen scholars in their own community!

The current enrollment period ends August 3rd, so come by today to complete an enrollment request form or look online at www.upliftschool.org.

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AUGUST ArtsCrawl H i st o r i c

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S atu r da y , A ugust 1 1 , 7 - 9 p m ArtsCrawl is growing! We are happy to announce an expanded street closure on Coal Avenue between 1st and 3rd Streets as well as the closure of 2nd Street from Aztec to Historic Route 66. In addition to the shops and galleries that will be open for ArtsCrawl, we will be featuring live art on the street: local balloon artists Jan & Martha will be sculpting and twisting balloons for kids of all ages on the west end of Coal Ave. and local harpist Barbra Telynor will be playing on the east end of Coal Ave. Be sure to check out the classic cars that will be lining 2nd Street!

Live Art & Music in the Street!

PARTICIPATING VENUES HealinGifts & Dragon World, 106 W. Coal Ave. HealinGifts: Specializing in specialty high quality products like noni, goji juice, CellFood, organic chai teas, canary seed milk for diabetes, weight loss and other supplements that are affordable and work!

Dragon World: oriental gifts such as swords, nun chucks, jewelry, lucky bamboo, geisha dolls, and crystals.

The Industry Gallery, 226 W Coal Ave. Traditional Native American art ON SALE for Ceremonial as well as a special cultural event taking place!

Sammy C’s Rock N’ Sports Pub & Grille, 107 W. Coal Ave. Entertainment and great sports and music memorabilia; over 3000 signed pieces!

Windsong Studio, 233 W. Coal Ave. High-end family, commercial, and portrait photography with plenty of props and backgrounds to meet your individual needs, at affordable prices! Stop in and enter your name in a draw for gift certificates!

Foundations of Freedom, 115 W. Coal Ave. Live music, open dance, and break dancing performances.

ART123, 123 W. Coal Ave. LEFT TO RIGHT problems solved through the photographed image.

Photo essays by Andy Stravers and Experiment in Separation by Fitz Sargent.

Open Studio/Outsider Gallery, 123 W. Coal Ave. (East Room) A Project of Disability Services, Inc., working to create an inclusive community. Contemporary fine arts and crafts, unique, one-of-a-kind and handmade. Featuring new paintings by Jay Dickens, Robert Martinez and Floyd Nelson, contemporary bead jewelry by Frances Martinez, and beadwork by Lionel Yazzie.

The Coffee House, 203 W. Coal Ave. Open for business with house specials, and local art featured.

Downtown Conference Center, 204 W. Coal Ave. Local artist marketplace featuring live performances.

Beeman Jewelry Design, 211 W. Coal Ave. Hand-made, one-of-a-kind, custom jewelry created by John Beeman. Featuring a window display of non-native southwest turquoise necklace and earring and our new website beemanjewelrydesign.com.

Makeshift Gallery, 213 W. Coal Ave. Featuring jewelry, glasswork, organic soaps, and wood carving by local artist “Kind Designs,” as well as many creative items by the other members of the gallery. A great place to look for unique affordable gifts and vintage clothing at Planet Mar’s.

A. Tori 13th Studio TM, 213 W. Coal Ave. “FLORA” Mixed Media Sculpture by A. Victoria Touchman and photography by Brian Pierce. Accessible through Makeshift Gallery or from the alley between Aztec and Coal. Refreshments served – open to all!

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Crashing Thunder Studio, 228 W. Coal Ave. Colorful art by Jerry Brown.

Bill Malone Trading Company, 235 W. Coal Ave. Traditional Native American art including jewelry, rugs, and more!

Many local artists will be doing demonstrations and the Little Sisters of the Poor Navajo class will be performing.

That’s Sew Right, 102 S. Second Street Sewing alterations, princess dresses, customized traditional clothing and Native ware for women and girls as well as men’s ribbon shirts, and jewelry.

Youth Art Display, 305 S. Second Street Displaying the work of promising young artists of the Gallup and McKinley County area.

Camille’s Sidewalk Café, 306 S. Second Street Kids’ Night at Camille’s, 6-9 pm: Enchanted Faces will be providing face painting for kids of all ages, and Jee Jee’s Memory Quilts will have a table set up for kids to create their own piece of a quilt that will hang in Camille’s. There will be kid-friendly food as well!

Lot 66 Décor, 201 W. Highway 66 We buy and sell most anything – new or used. Home furnishings, antiques, furniture and more! Receive 10% off with this flyer!

Angela’s Café, 201 E. Highway 66 Come for food, drink, music, art, and a beautiful atmosphere in the historic train station. This month featuring Nell Lindenmeyer a photographer out of Farmington who will be showing nature photography on canvas and large-scale photos.

For questions or more information please email artscrawlgallup@gmail.com or check us out on Facebook www.facebook.com/ ArtsCrawl.

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August Community Calendar

Sunday ONGOING

Support Class for Parents of Teens at First United Methodist Church from 6:30-7:30pm. Info: 8634512.

Poetry Group, call Jack for more information (including location) at 783-4007.

Psychic Playtime with RedWulf at the Old School Gallery 1st and 3rd Sundays, 7-9:30pm. Tarot, drum journeys and more tools to explore your inner self. $1 donation. Info: RedWulf @ 505-7834612.

Tai Chi at Old School Gallery, 9:30am. Info: Reed at 783-4067.

Coyote Canyon Women’s Sweat Lodge Ceremony on Sundays, 1-4pm, potluck dinner. Located 3 miles east of Highway 491, Route 9 junction, 1 mile south of Route 9. The ceremony is for wellness, stress reduction, purification and cultural sensitivity. All women are welcomed. For more information, call 505 870-3832.

Monday ONGOING

Battered Families Services, Inc. has a women’s support group that meets weekly. A children’s support group is available at the same time for children six years of age and older. Info: 7226389.

Codependents Anonymous, 6pm at First United Methodist Church, 1800 Red Rock Drive, library room. Info: Liz at 863-5928.

“Teen Survivors of Dating and Domestic Violence” support group meeting, 6:30-8:30pm.

Info: 722-6389.

Sustainable Energy Board meeting in the Mayor’s Conference Room, 3-5pm, on the fourth Monday of each month. For info/agenda, email brightideas98@gmail.com.

ZUMBA Fitness Classes at Larry Mitchell’s Recreation Center starting at 5:30 p.m. For more information email r_roanhorse@yahoo.com or call Ralph Roanhorse at (505) 862-2970.

Habitat for Humanity Gallup meetings TBA. Call Bill at 722-4226 for more information.

Volunteers needed Tai-Chi-Chuan at the Old School Gallery, 5:00 pm. Beginners are welcome. For more information, contact Monika Gauderon at 7753045.

Gallup Community Yoga, 6:30 pm @ Foundations of Freedom (115 W. Coal).

Beginner/Adv. Beginner, $6. For more information, call 728-8416 or email gallupyoga@gmail.com.

Tuesday ONGOING

Puppet Theater (ages 1-3) 12 noon, at the Children’s Library. For more information, call 726-6120.

RMCHCS Diabetes Education Classes – First four Tuesdays of the month, starting at 6pm. RMCHCS 2nd floor library. For more information, call 7266918.

Community Yoga, beginner/athletic beginner level.

6:15 pm, Catholic Charities/CIC. 506 W. Rte. 66.

Info: Steph Asper (717) 357-0231 .

Adult chess club at Camille’s Sidewalk Cafe in Gallup, 5-7pm.

Gallup Al-Anon meetings at First United Methodist Church, 1800 Red Rock Drive (next to GIMC).

Tuesdays at 12 noon and Thursdays at 7pm in Conference Room #1.

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Taizé Worship Service, 4 pm at Westminster Presbyterian Church (Boardman Dr., south of Orleans Manor Apartments). Join us for silence, music, scripture, and prayer. Music for the service is provided by the Westminster Winds (Kathy and John Mezoff, and Loline Hathaway), Linda Kaye - chant leader, and special guest musicians. The Labyrinth at Westminster Presbyterian is available for meditation and reflection walks any time. You will find the Labyrinth on the right as you ascend the hill to the church. If you have any questions, call Kathy at 722-5011.

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The Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit will celebrate its 120th birthday. The regular worship services will be at 8:00 am and 10:30 am, followed by an Open House and Picnic from 12 noon to 3:00 pm. Everyone is welcome.

Do come join us and help us celebrate 120 years in Gallup, NM. Holy Spirit is located at 1334 Country Club Drive, 1 block west of Red Rock Elementary School. For more information, call 505-863-4695.

PFLAG Cookout & Picnic, 2:00-5:00 pm, Viro Circle Park (Aztec St/Clark St) Gallup.

Movie Madness (ages 9-13) 4:00pm at the Children’s Library. For more information, call 726-6120.

Studio Drawing Class at ART123, 7-9pm on WEDNESDAYS. $10 for non-members, $5 for members. Artist Steve Storz will teach ages 14 through adult in various drawing techniques utilizing Abstract, Art Brute, Minimalism, contour line, and others. Students need to provide their own materials. For more information, call 575-779-6760 or email steve. storz0@gmail.com.

Gallup Solar Group open community meetings.

6pm at 113 E. Logan. For more information, call Be at 726-2497.

Spay-Neuter Discount Clinic for Low Income Pet Owners at the Gallup McKinley County Humane Society, N. Highway 491. Call 863-2616 for an appointment.

Tai-Chi-Chuan, taught by Monika Gauderon at RMCH Vanden Bosch Clinic, 5:00 pm.

Beginners are welcome. For more information, contact Monika Gauderon at 775-3045.

ZUMBA Fitness Classes at Chee Dodge Elementary School starting at 5:30 p.m. For more information email r_roanhorse@yahoo.com or call Ralph Roanhorse at (505) 862-2970.

Overeaters Anonymous meeting for beginner and returning, 6:30-7:30 pm at Church of the Holy Spirit (1334 Country Club Drive). For more information, call Linda at (505) 863-6042.

Gallup Community Yoga, 7:00 pm @ Foundations of Freedom (115 W. Coal). Intermediate, $6. For more information, call 728-8416 or email gallupyoga@gmail.com.

Tournament Schedule for August: 8/5 Miyamura Cheerleaders Fundraiser, 8/11-12 Ceremonial Golf Tournament, 8/19 Lion’s Club Golf Tournament, 8/26 Big Brothers Big Sisters Tournament.

For more information, call 863-9224.

The Gallup Slavic Lodges is hosting their Quilt Club at Gallup Service Mart, 7:00-9:00 pm. Bring projects you are working on annual POLKA PICNIC on August 5 at the Wildlife Picnic Grounds, located in McGaffey, from or have completed for an evening of Show and Tell 12 noon until 5 pm. Traditional Slavic food will be and discussions about quilting. Call 722-9414 for served from 12 pm to 2 pm. $25 Adult (12 and up); more information. $15 Children (ages 6-11), under 5 Free. A limited number of tickets will be available at the gate. For more information, please contact: Shirley Baker PFLAG Planning Meeting, 1:00505-863-5555, Darlene Yocham 505-863-5773/505- 2:00pm at The Coffee House, Downtown Gallup.

862-1990, Misty Tolson 505-879-2804, Katie Bolf 505-863-6402 / 505-870-5172.

ONGOING

Cancer support group, for information call 8633075 or 863-6140.

ZUMBA Fitness Classes at Window Rock Sports Center starting at 5:30 p.m.. For more information email r_roanhorse@yahoo.com or call Ralph Roanhorse at (505) 862-2970.

Fox Run Golf Course has summer hours: 7am-8:30pm (except for Mondays and Thursdays, 10:30am-8:30pm).

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August at Octavia Fellin Public Library Alfred Hitchcock Film Series Co-sponsored by the Gallup Film Foundation 8/1—Rear Window (1954) 8/8—Vertigo (1958) 8/15—North By Northwest (1959) 8/22—The Birds (1960) 8/29—Psycho (1960) Wednesday nights, 5:30 pm.

Refreshments served.

At the Children’s Library Escape the “Dog Days” of Summer!

Every day from July 31 to August 11, the Octavia Fellin Children’s Branch will show a free movie at 3pm 7/31 - Air Bud 8/1 – All Dogs Go To Heaven 8/2 – The Adventures of Greyfriar Bobby 8/3 – Alpha and Omega 8/4 – Bolt 8/7 – Cats and Dogs 8/8 – An Extremely Goofy Movie 8/9 – The Fox and the Hound 8/10 – Hachi 8/11 – Snow Buddies

Chanting workshop with Genevieve and Redwulf 2nd and 4th Wednesday each month at the Old School Gallery. Free. Chants from around the world 6-7:30 pm.

Meditation Circle. All faiths welcome. Free.

Time to get connected, get focused, let us meditate. 7pm. Limited space. Please RSVP leave message (Maria) HealinGifts Holistic Shoppe/Wellness Center 106 W. Coal Ave., downtown Gallup. For information, call 505 863-3772.

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Lecture, “Global Health Equity and Delivery: Lesson from Haiti to Rwanda to the US” with Paul Farmer, MD, PhD. Rehoboth McKinley Christian Hospital 3rd Floor Solarium, 6-7 pm. Dinner Provided, $5. Dr. Farmer is the co-founder of Partners in Health. He and his colleagues have pioneered novel, communitybased treatment strategies that demonstrate the delivery of high quality health care in resource poor settings.

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Red Rocks-Blue Sky Wine Tasting, 6:309:30 pm at Red Rock Park’s outdoor vending area.

For more information and to buy tickets, visit theceremonial.com.

Gallup Inter-Tribal Ceremonial Preview Night at Red Rock Park’s Convention Center, 7:00-10:00 pm.

GALLUP INTER-TRIBAL CEREMONIAL AUGUST 8-12

For more information and a complete listing of events, visit theceremonial.com.

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PFLAG support meeting, 6:00-8:00 pm in RMCH Solarium 3rd Floor (1901 Red Rock Dr., Galllup).

FREE Historic Downtown Walking Tours are offered Tuesday-Wednesday at 10 am and ThursdaySaturday at 6 pm. Tours leave from the Gallup Cultural Center and last about 45 minutes.

Mountain Bike Tours begin at 9am every Saturday and leave from the Gallup Cultural Center. There is a $10 charge for bike and helmet rental and tours will last about 2 hours. Make reservations by calling (505) 862-9344.

For more information on the downtown walking tours and the mountain bike tours, call (505) 862-9344 or (505) 863-4131 and read G-Town article.

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Thursday ONGOING

Out of This World Crafts (ages 9-13) 4:00pm at the Children’s Library. For more information, call 7266120.

Moms Supporting Moms at Church Rock School, 9-11:30am.

Toastmasters at Earl’s Restaurant, 6:30am. Info: Dale at 722-9420.

Substance Abuse Support Group, CASA, at Gallup Church of Christ, 7pm. Info: Darrel at 863-5530.

Community Yoga, beginner/athletic beginner level.

6:20 pm, Catholic Charities/CIC. 506 W. Rte. 66.

Info: Gene at 505-728-8416.

Gallup Al-Anon meetings at First United Methodist Church, 1800 Red Rock Drive (next to GIMC).

Tuesdays at 12 noon and Thursdays at 7pm in Conference Room #1.

Divorce Care Support Group, Thursdays at 7pm.

Location to be determined. For more information, call or email Dan at 505 878-2821 or dkruis@yahoo.com.

The Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit (1334 Country Club Dr., Gallup) hosts support meetings for Type 1 and Type 2 diabetics from 5:30-6:30 pm on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays. For more information call 863-4695.

ZUMBA Fitness Classes at Window Rock Sports Center starting at 5:30 p.m.. For more information email r_roanhorse@yahoo.com or call Ralph Roanhorse at (505) 862-2970.

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The Gallup Film Foundation will meet at 6 pm at the Red Mesa Center, east of the Octavia Fellin Public Library on Hill Street. (Note the change of day because of Ceremonial.) Film enthusiasts, filmmakers, and others are welcome to join us. Volunteers and films are always needed for the monthly Film Scrawl at ArtsCrawl. For more information contact Carrie at 879-9409 or gallupfilmfoundation@gmail.com.

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ONGOING

Sports Page hosting GLBT Night every Friday! Friday nights will be a place to celebrate and be yourself! For more information contact: Raiff Arviso; rca87121@gmail.com, Sports Page - 1400 S. 2nd St, Gallup, NM (505) 722-3853.

The weekly Old-Fashioned Hootenanny, at Camille’s Sidewalk Cafe, every Friday, starting at 6:30PM. Acoustic musicians are welcome to sit in with the regular players.

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Beginning Sewing Group 2 (first class) at Gallup Service Mart, 6:00-9:00 pm.

Learn about your sewing machine while making several projects (one being a simple quilt) during this three-part class. Call 722-9414 for more information.

ONGOING

Overeaters Anonymous meeting at 11 am, at the First United Methodist Church, 1800 Red Rock Drive, library room. Info: Liz 505-863-5928.

Children’s Library Events: 10:30am Mother Goose on the Loose Story Time (ages 1-5) , 2pm Special Family Program. For more information, call 726-6120.

ZUMBA Fitness Classes at Wowie’s Activity Hall on the corner of Maloney and 3rd Street starting at 11:00 a.m.

For more information email r_roanhorse@yahoo.com or call Ralph Roanhorse at (505) 862-2970.

Gallup Community Yoga, 10:00 am @ Foundations of Freedom (115 W. Coal). Beginner/Adv. Beginner, $6. For more information, call 728-8416 or email gallupyoga@gmail.com.

Habitat for Humanity Yards Sales every Sat., 10am to 12pm, Warehouse Lane: doors, tile, shingles, sinks, shower, shades, ceiling fan, lights, exercise bikes, etc. Call Bill 505-722-4226 for info. Re-modeler’s & contractor’s donations accepted.

ArtsCrawl is August 11 For more information, see page 50.

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Lion’s Club Quilt Show by Barbara Gary from Albuquerque, 7-8:30 pm. Free event sponsored by Gallup Service Mart. For more information, call 722-9414.

French Braid Table runner class taught by Barbara Gary from Albuquerque, 9:00-4:00.

For more information, call Gallup Service Mart 722-9414.

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The Navajo Nation Breastfeeding Coalition is hosting a breastfeeding Beginning Sewing Group 1 (second celebration from 7:30 am to 1:00 pm at the class) at Gallup Service Mart, 6:00-9:00 pm.

Window Rock Fairgrounds. Registration Learn about your sewing machine while making starts at 7:00 am. Our celebration will several projects (one being a simple quilt) include a 5k run, our annual fun walk, health during this three-part class. Call 722-9414 for fair, baby expo, and many more activities more information. to promote and support breastfeeding in our community. For more information, call (928) Gallup Inter-Tribal Ceremonial Night Parade 871-7897. at 9:00 pm, Downtown Gallup.

Octavia Fellin Public Library will host 2nd Thursday of the month Survivors of a Navajo rug weaving demonstration Homicide Support Group meets 6-8pm. For presented by Diné weaver, Lois A. Becenti more information, call Deborah Yellowhorsestarting 10:00 am. For more information Brown at 870-6126. please call (505) 863-1291.

The RMCHCS Breastfeeding Support Group will meet at 7 pm on 2nd Thursday of each month in the RMCH Library – 2nd Floor. For more information, please call Mary Ippel at 505-863-7025.

Saturday

Crownpoint Rug Weavers Association Auction at Crownpoint Elementary School. Viewing 4:00-6:30pm, auction 7:00-10:00pm. For more information, visit crownpointrugauction.com.

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Open Mic Night Coffee House, 7:30-9:00 pm at First United Methodist Church (1800 Red Rock Drive, Gallup). For more information, contact Elizabeth Shaffer at 989-488-7392.

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3-on-3 Basketball Tournament at Thoreau Community Center. For more information, call the center at (505) 862-7590 and read G-Town article.

“Popcorn Theology” Come join us at Church of the Holy Spirit (1334 Country Club Dr.) at 7:00 pm for a free movie, sodas, popcorn, and exploration of the gospel message in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. For more information, call 505-863-4695.

City of Gallup 2nd Annual Community Cleanup

Residential customers within the city limits can place all unwanted junk, bulk items, appliances & furniture curbside by 8 am on the Saturday designated for your neighborhood. (Household hazardous waste must be separated and labeled.)

August 4 – Area 5, South Side - Areas south of Philipina Ave. & Country Club Dr. to NM 564 and Mossman Neighborhood August 25 - Area 6, East Side - All areas east of Boardman Ave. to Vanden Bosch Pkwy.

For more information, contact Solid Waste Department at 505 863-1212.

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Organizational meeting for the Gallup Community Garden Association at The Community Pantry at 9 am.

This meeting is to determine community need/desire for garden space for individuals/families at The Community Pantry.

The McKinley Citizens’ Recycling Council will meet at 2 pm at 508 Sandstone (Indian Hills subdivision).

Support active recycling in our area with your voice and attendance. Call Gerald / Millie 722-5142 or Betsy 8792581 for directions and more information.

Casting Shadows and Circle A Round class taught by Barbara Gary from Albuquerque, 9:00-3:30. Learn two techniques to add dimension and creativity to your quilts and wall hangings. Contact Gallup service Mart for more information, 722-9414.

MMA Summer Showdown at Miyamura H.S. Gym (608 S. Boardman, Gallup). Gates open at 6:00 pm, fights start at 7:00 pm. Wilena Jim vs. Shasta McMurry. Four Title Belts on the line. (Weigh in on Friday, Aug. 3 at Sammy C’s at 6:00 pm.)

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Gallup Family Fitness Series, Ceremonial Parade Walk / Run in Downtown Gallup. Registrations begins at 8:30 am, event starts at 9:00 am. For more information, visit stayfitgallup.com and read G-Town article.

Gallup Inter-Tribal Ceremonial Parade at 10:00 am, Downtown Gallup.

Gallup Inter-Tribal Ceremonial Saturday Evening Performances, 8:00-10:00 in Red Rock Park’s Main Arena.

ArtsCrawl, Downtown Gallup, 7-9pm. See page 50 for complete schedule of events.

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Coming soon! Route 66 Road Jam / Outdoor Market at baseball field in Lupton, Arizona near I-40, Sept 1 and 2, Labor Day weekend. Hosted by Lupton Chapter Veterans Org, the Rolling Tunes and concerned Rezidents together raising SUICIDE awareness w/ Musicians/Bands against domestic violence. *Food and arts and crafts vendors contact info, dayeadreamer@gmail.com or 505 879 3244 (message with phone number). *Food vendors must have food-handler’s permit.

Connections Inc. 100 E. Aztec Gallup, New Mexico offers the following FREE programs: Access to recovery New Mexico A free substance abuse treatment program. For info: Call Randy at 505-863-3377 Ext: 108 Mon-Fri 8am-5pm Child and Adult Care Food Program Are you babysitting any kids under 13 years old in your home? We can pay you MONEY for the food that you feed the kids in your home. For more Info Please call 505-863-3377 Ext: 105, 102 or 1-800-527-5712 Senior Companion Program / Retired and Senior Volunteer Program For more information, Contact Claudette at 505-722-3565 or 505-870-8567

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Opinion Poll

1) How many times have you been to the Ceremonial?

2) If you could add one event to the Ceremonial, what would it be?

3) If you could be famous for one type of art, which would you choose?

4) Where would be the best place for a zipline in Gallup . . . from the top of the hogback or white cliffs?

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1) Every year 2) More night performances 3) Painting Murals 4) Hogback

1) Since 1970 2) Carnival 3) Silversmith 4) I don’t know

Sharon

1) Twice 2) Horse riding, non-rodeo 3) Sculpting 4) Hogback

Andy

1) 5 2) Fry bread eating contest 3) Illustration 4) White cliffs

Fern Bill

1) About 8 2) I don’t know how they do more than what they are doing now 3) I like to sell the art, I’m not Native 4) Hogback

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1) Since . . .Uh . . . look a carrot 2) Farmers’ market for more carrots 3) Carrot carving; I can make baby carrots 4) Hmm . . . depends if you can grow carrot there

Sharon

1) Since 1960 2) Carnival 3) Painting 4) Hogback

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Jeremy

1) Every year 2) GLBT Parade 3) Photography 4) Hogback

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2. The Bernabe gang reads the Journey while celebrating Nona’s (Elsie Bernabe) 90th birthday on a Caribbean cruise.

3. Amy and Phil Mickelson (my favorite golfer of all time, by the way) enjoy the Journey with Gallupian, Scott Farver, at the Mickelson ExxonMobil Teacher Academy at the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, New Jersey.

4. Phyllis & Bruce Tempest read their favorite publication EVER on the Rhone in Lyon, France.

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1. Patty Lundstrom sits in the Speakers Chair to read the Journey at the Province House Halifax, Nova Scotia while Ron Berg, Louie and Diane Bonaguidi look on.

2. Mallori and Carrie Edsitty stop to read the Journey before getting splashed at the Raging Waters park in San Dimas, California.

3. The Star Trek crew have traveled back in time to enjoy the Gallup Journey at Comic-Con International in San Diego. Â 4. Rob and Esther Koops reading The Journey with Bible translators in Bukuru, Nigeria.

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Gallup Cultural Center Presents The

Reunion of the Masters Art of the People Fine Art Show

August 9th through 11th

9am - 5pm

Free Admission

Live Art Demonstrations Art Auctions

Hands-On Art Projects Public Reception on

Saturday, August 11th 6pm to 8pm

201 East Hwy 66

And Don’t Miss The Land of Enchantment Opera!

Gianni Schicchi

Thursday, August 2 • 5:30 pm Navajo Nation Museum

Main Stage Performance “Gianni Schicchi” Saturday, August 4 • 7pm • $20

Gallup High School Ken Holloway Auditorium

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For Ticket Information: Jeremy Boucher, 505-863-4131

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This Is My Job: A Pollen lbert Brent Chase hails from Joseph City, Arizona, but he and the dance group he founded, travel all over the country, from east coast to west coast, performing and telling stories of their Navajo culture. Chase grew up learning the language and ways of his culture. He went away for school where he studied classical music, then came back to teach Navajo language and culture, which he continues to do during the school year.

When he started the Pollen Trail Dance Group about 17 years ago, education was still of utmost importance. Chase has worked with youth, ages 5 to 25. His work involves teaching, mentoring and even some counseling. Participants are taught to dance and to represent their people with pride. Beginning the day after school gets out, students are taught responsibility and entrepreneurship as they travel and perform with the group throughout the summer season.

The Pollen Trail Dancers perform frequently at the Grand Canyon, but do a lot of traveling to various locations, as well. They have been coming to Gallup for the last 14 years and are headlining at the Inter-Tribal Ceremonial this month. The group does much more than just dance.

In addition to the many traditional Navajo dances they perform, they also educate their audiences on cultural dress, stories, and language. Though traveling is tiring at times, the positive comments and appreciation from audience members always makes the job worthwhile.

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Trail Dancers

Albert Brent Chase

Breakfast Lunch Dinner

TOOLS OF THE TRADE • traditional clothing and jewelry • instruments: Native American flutes, drums, rattles, voices • ability to communicate and educate • large SUV and trailer • entrepreneurial spirit • professionalism • commitment

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