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1. Best Burger: _____________________________________________________ 2. Best Breakfast Burrito: ____________________________________________ 3. Best Coffee Joint: ________________________________________________ 4. Best Grocery Store: _______________________________________________ 5. Best Sandwich: ___________________________________________________ 6. Best Hiking/Biking Trail: ___________________________________________ 7. Best Pizza Joint: _________________________________________________ 8. Best Margarita: __________________________________________________ 9. Best City-Sponsored Event: _________________________________________ 10. Best Local Bar: ___________________________________________________ 11. Best City Park: ___________________________________________________ 12. Best Mural: ______________________________________________________ 13. Best Green Chile: _________________________________________________ 14. Best Red Chile: ___________________________________________________ 15. Best Burrito: _____________________________________________________ 16. Most Recognizable Gallupian: _______________________________________ 18. Best Salsa: _______________________________________________________ 19. Best Thing About Living in Gallup: ___________________________________ This is so easy. Here’s what you do: Write down any or all of the answers to these questions, rip the page out, and bring it to the journey office (202 east hill) or if we’re not in the office, drop it in the mail slot at the curb.

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Stop by Rico Auto Complex and see our great line-up of Buick and GMC vehicles. Our selection has never been better.

Wishing you and your family a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

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Now’s the time to plan for Spring 2014.

An advisement appointment can help you with: • Admission • Financial aid • Curriculum planning • Registration Academic Advisor

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Stop by: Calvin Hall, Rm 228 8am - 5pm • Monday - Friday Appointments always welcomed.

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y friend Patrick and I have recently started podcasting.

Let me guess, you have no idea what the word “podcast” even means? Don’t worry, I’m here for you . . . here’s the definition according to Merriam-Webster:

pod·cast

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noun : a program (as of music or talk) made available in digital format for automatic download over the Internet.

Does that answer your question? I’m guessing that in many cases, it does not answer your question. Basically, Patrick and I record ourselves talking to a guest about their life and we post it on the Internet for you to find.

A few months ago, Patrick and I started brainstorming the idea for a podcast/radio show where we could talk with all of the incredible folks in our community. We knew that we would really enjoy getting to know the backstory of each of our guests; and, among other things, that’s what we talk about. Of course, there’s much more to our podcast than that, but I’ll trust you guys to go listen and find out what else there is!

We’ve already put a few of our episodes up at www.believegallup.com, so you should definitely check them out. You can listen to them right on your computer – you don’t need any crazy software or anything. Or you can subscribe to the podcast via iTunes (which basically means that each new episode will download directly to your iTunes account). If this sounds too complicated, forget I even mentioned it and just listen via www. believegallup.com.

Here’s what you do to find our podcast: Option #1 Go to www.believegallup.com and click on the SpeakEasy podcast tab at the top of the website. Then click on whichever episode you like, grab some popcorn and a low-calorie soda and start listening.

Option #2 Open up your iTunes account and go to the iTunes store. Type “SpeakEasy” in the search bar and scroll down to Podcasts, click, “see all” and look for this icon (at right) and click on it.

When I run into you on the streets of Gallup, I don’t want to hear any excuses.

I expect all of you to follow the directions listed above and start listening.

It’s so little to expect from each of you this holiday season. So, don’t waste any more time than you already have.

Spring into action and start listening.

Enjoy, NH

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Features

16 Custom Guitars 28 Music “R” Me 32 Healthy Kids McKinley County 37 Enchantment PT 48 Who Am I? 52 my rambles.

62 Red Rock Balloon Rally Challenge

Columns

12 Rounding the Four Corners 14 Driving Impressions 20 DIYG (Do It Yourself, Gallup) 22 8 Questions 24 Words of Wellness 26 West by Southwest 31 Theological Reflections 38 Memories of Gallup 42 Little Sisters of the Poor 44 Lit Crit Lite

Contributors Ernie Bulow Greg Cavanaugh Dr. Bera Dordoni Jeannette Gartner Stacey Hollebeek Phil Kamps Rob Koops Larry Larason Jay Mason Paul McCollum John Philpott Kris Pikaart Fowler Roberts Bob Rosebrough Don Tamminga Chuck Van Drunen Betsy Windisch

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Best of Gallup Survey Thoughts Izzit?!

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WNMU-Gallup • Spring 2013 Course Schedule

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

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With the publishing of this article comes the end of an era. This installation of “Rounding the Four Corners” – which started out as “Rock Talk” in the early days of Gallup Journey history – is Larry Larason’s last. We are incredibly grateful for the many years and many words he has shared with us and our readers! We wish him the best for whatever adventures lie ahead. Thanks, Larry!

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View of Parker Dam on the Colorado River from California side. photo by Larry Page

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- Nate, Heather, Chuck & Jenny

emember when Arizona nearly started a new civil war? Well, probably not. It happened in 1934.

That’s before even I was born. What caused the dispute? Water.

In 1934 water was in short supply across much of the nation. This was the era of the dust bowl on the high plains. A severe drought was crippling agriculture in several parts of America. Hoover Dam was under construction; it was started in 1931 and completed two years ahead of schedule in 1936. But in 1934 construction of another dam on the Colorado was begun by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation near Parker, Arizona. When the governor of Arizona learned of this action, he declared martial law on the east bank of the river and sent 100 National Guard members to defend the sovereign soil of his state. What led up to this?

There’s an old saying that in the American West, “Whiskey’s for drinkin’, water’s for fightin’.” This sounds like something that Mark Twain might have said, and the remark is often attributed to him, although Twain scholars have never been able to verify that he said or wrote it.

Disputes about the Colorado River, the only major stream in the Southwest, began early. In the West we have the Law of Prior Apportionment that says the first party to claim use of a water source has rights to it forever. California began claiming river water at the beginning of the twentieth century. The other Colorado River states sensed a threat, although they had little use for the water at that time, and formed a compact in 1922 that divided the water between the two basins the river flows through. The Upper Basin – Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, and

New Mexico – claimed half the water. The Lower Basin – California, Nevada, and Arizona – claimed the other half. [Why is New Mexico included in the Upper Basin? Because the San Juan River is a major tributary to the Colorado.]

After some legal wrangling, in 1928 the U.S. Secretary of the Interior came up with allotments for the lower basin: California received 59 percent, Arizona 37 percent, and Nevada only 4 percent.

Consider this: the river forms the border between Arizona and California, but on the west bank of the river is a desert lying in the rain shadow of the Sierra Mountains. So California’s contribution to the river’s flow is almost nothing, but it claims the lion’s share of the water. One of the major reasons for the building of Hoover Dam was to provide irrigation water for California’s Imperial and Coachella Valleys. Given the perceived unfairness of this situation, seeing California as a water bully, Arizona refused to sign off on the Colorado River Compact. It was only in 1944 that they finally agreed to it.

The fourth governor of Arizona, Benjamin Baker Moeur, was a

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The Colorado River, the only major stream in the Southwest . . . physician, who had grown up in Tennessee and relocated to Tempe in 1896. As a physician he was considered compassionate; as a politician he was noted for his short temper and salty language. When he sent the National Guard to Parker, he told them to do whatever was necessary to protect the sacred soil of Arizona.

The guardsmen took him at his word and even transported machine guns with them. Although no shots were fired and no one was hurt, facing armed military men with menacing weapons brought a swift halt to the construction work. The issue ended in court with a suit brought by the Department of the Interior. The national press had a lot of fun at the expense of Governor Moeur, but he had the last laugh. The Supreme Court surprised everyone by siding with Arizona.

They ruled that the dam had not been authorized by Congress and California had no right to build it without the consent of Arizona. After some negotiations took place, work began again. The dam was finished in 1938.

Parker Dam was financed by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. However, since construction, it is owned by the Bureau of Reclamation. Building the dam was difficult. Deep excavation was necessary to reach bedrock for footing the concrete; the dam is 320 feet high, but 235 feet of that [73 percent] of the structure lies below the river bed. The reservoir behind the dam is called Lake Havasu. It provides water to two major aqueducts. The first, and the reason for its construction, is the Colorado River Aqueduct, which sends close to one billion gallons of water to greater Los Angeles and San Diego each day. The second is the Central Arizona Project Aqueduct, which was begun in 1973, that serves mainly Phoenix and Tucson. Electricity is also generated by the Parker Dam, but half of it is used to pump the water to Southern California.

Access to Colorado River water has been and will continue to be contentious. I came across a concise list of legal actions in this regard on the internet; it may have been concise, but it was longer than I wanted to read.

The water wars are not over but now they are fought in the courts, especially as Indian tribes and Mexico assert their rights to the water. Part of the problem is that the river’s flow was measured before 1922 and the results were used in designing the compact; but more recent studies have shown that those numbers did not reflect the actual average annual flow. The allotments made, and California wants more; at least once it was ordered to stop exceeding its allotment. Drought has left the major reservoirs on the Colorado, Lakes Powell and Mead, at about half their capacities. They are disbursing more water than they receive. So, we can promise as much as 25 percent more than the amount of water that is really available. Expect more dissatisfaction and disagreements in the future. In 2008 Senator John McCain said that the compact should be scrapped and negotiations undertaken to design a new plan.

I think he was right.

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By Greg Cavanaugh

A Standout in the sea of Crossovers 2014 Ford Escape s

You get the best characteristics of the Escape no matter the price.

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f feel like I’m becoming the crossover king. It seems like they’re the only things I drive these days. But more than anything, it likely reflects the current consumer and market trends and explains why the segment somehow keeps growing. The Ford Escape was one of the first crossovers and the hybrid version was actually the first Escape I drove way back in 2007-ish (so long ago I actually can’t find the article.) This Escape is nothing like that first generation Escape.

Now based on the Ford Focus, the new Escape makes no claims of being a trucklette and I doubt they go off road much.

(Although a lifted 2.0 EcoBoost Escape would be rad.) This makes for a more car-like personality that pays off in the Escape’s strong suits. The beauty of this test drive was the price. I was driving the

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base model Escape, which allows me to really evaluate the true merits of a vehicle. Regardless of price, the Escape has three compelling traits.

Firstly, from base all the way up to Titanium trim, the Escape is arguably the best looking CUV on the market. (I think the Mini Countryman is super cool too.) While some crossovers are trying too hard to distinguish themselves in the crowded CUV segment, the Escape looks like a jacked-up and muscled-out Focus – and this is a good thing. The front end and the creasing on the hood in particular help set the Escape apart without being overwrought.

On the inside, the Escape uses the same ergonomics as the Focus and makes for highly easy-to-use controls. This base model even has a standard backup camera that sits in the dash making it easy to

S S ION S use and see. My only real gripes mirrored that of the Focus, other than two cupholders, a weird little alcove next to the 12v outlet and under the armrest, there is a distinct lack of storage cubbies in the center stack of the Escape. Also, the seatbelts in the front go directly over the recline adjustment levers on the seats, making them hard to use.

Secondly, all three powertrains of the Escape have their place in the lineup and all return fuel economy within an MPG or two of each other. The larger 2.0-liter EcoBoost turbo 4 makes the most power and returns the lowest MPGs. The smaller 1.6-liter EcoBoost returns the highest EPA fuel economy and bests this base model’s power by about 10 ponies and 10 lb.-ft. The base actually has the largest displacement at 2.5 liters, and produces 168 hp and 174 lb.-ft. Mated to a 6-speed automatic and FWD, it returns an EPA rated 22 mpg city, 31 highway and 25 combined. While there’s no hiding it’s the base engine and it seems little happens after 4,000 rpm on the tach, the base 2.5 simply does the job most people will need it to. At $3,000 on the sticker to jump up to the SE trim and the 1.6-liter EcoBoost, the 2.5-liter presents a compelling case for sticking with it.

Lastly, in every trim level, you get versatile cargo space.

Compared with the new Toyota RAV4 I drove this summer, the Escape seems very similar. In the way back, on paper, the RAV4 boasts slightly more cubic feet, 38 vs. the Escape’s 34. In reality, the Escape’s essentially cubic dimensions mean the cargo area is highly usable, easily holding two full-size coolers or several pieces of luggage. The second row provides excellent head, leg and tow room for passengers, but is a bit too narrow to regularly meet 5-passenger duties. While it doesn’t move fore and aft to improve versatility, the 60-40 split allows for longer items to be moved when needed. As a reminder, crossovers are a compromise for those that can’t bear to see themselves in a wagon or minivan. If you need real space, those are much better choices.

So given the Escape’s non-price dependent virtues, the price is only something to use in order to get the equipment you need, because you get the best characteristics of the Escape no matter the price. The base model doesn’t attempt to punch above its weight class, but at $23K, as tested, and rebates pushing it down to just above $20K, it represents a real value that real buyers will appreciate.

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**As always, jump to my YouTube channel (Gallup Journey Test Drives) to see more of the Escape in and around Gallup. ** ***A special thanks to Sal and Steve at Gurley for the test drive. *** Specifications VEHICLE TYPE: front-engine, front- or 4-wheel-drive, 5-passenger, 5-door wagon BASE/AS TESTED PRICE: $23,595 ENGINE: DOHC 16-valve 2.5-liter inline-4, 168 hp @ 6,000 rpm, 170 lb-ft @ 4,500 rpm TRANSMISSION: 6-speed automatic with manual shifting mode DIMENSIONS: Wheelbase: 105.9 in Length: 178.1 in Width: 72.4 in Height: 66.3 in Curb weight: 3600lb.

FUEL ECONOMY: EPA city/highway driving: 21/31/28 mpg

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How to Build your own Custom Guitar and not screw it up

By N. Haveman

The one and only step?

Take this class.

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uitars have always played a significant role in Robert Brochey’s life. From an attempt to re-finish his first guitar, an Epiphone Texan at age 11, to building his first archtop guitar at the Guitar Institute in Nazareth, PA three years ago, Robert has been around the instrument most of his life. With that first attempt a few decades in the past, Robert’s wealth of knowledge is about to pay great dividends for the Gallup community. Starting January 18, Robert will be offering a custom guitar building workshop at the Gallup Cultural Center. The classes will be each Saturday for 5 weeks and will culminate with you stringing up your very own custom guitar. The model you’ll be building is a Martin 000, which is a

wonderfully versatile guitar and a suitable instrument for folk, country, acoustic rock, blues and for playing around the campfire. The guitars will be in kit form directly from Martin Guitars. This means that you can build the guitar faster since most of the difficult cutting and bending is done at the factory. Although this will make the assembly easier, the students will have many options while building to personalize their instrument. The price of the class is only $800, which includes everything needed to build the guitar and Robert’s instruction and assistance. The classes will be limited to four students at a time so that Robert is able to give each student the proper instruction.

The Gallup community is a growing arts center with a great spirit and these workshops will add to that spirit, offering something affordable and normally only found in larger metropolitan areas.

R A I N with some of his custom guitars.

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Workshop in a Nutshell: Class begins Saturday, January 18 and will run for 5 Saturdays. Sign up soon - space is very limited!

Classes will be held at Old Train Music & Arts at the Gallup Cultural Center Price of the class is $800, which includes everything needed to build the custom guitar along with Robert’s instruction.

More than great pizza.

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Here’s what people are saying about our new menu . . .

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Steak & Sushi

I could almost eat the Spaghetti and Meatballs every day of the week.

-John Beeman

Good crab cakes are really hard to find . . . I’m glad I found them!

-Kitty Mason

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We are Friendly, Professional, and Experienced.

We treat Pain, Injuries, and Weakness.

We treat with Manual Therapy, Therapeutic Exercise, and Patient Education on Pain, Stress, and Wellness.

We accept VA Insurance, BC/BS, Tricare, Presbyterian, Lovelace, Molina, Navajo Nation, Worker’s Compensation, Trustmark, Medicare, Medicaid, Salud, and Auto insurances.

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homemade Refrigerator Pickles

What you will need to make 1 quart or 2 pint jars of pickles:

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• Vegetables to pickle

(1 pint jar holds about 2 pickling cucumbers.)

• Jars with good sealing lids • Vinegar (white, apple cider, rice, red wine)

• Water • Salt

(Any salt will work; no need for pickling-specific salt.)

• Sugar

(Any sugar is fine, or try substituting a small amount of honey for the sugar.)

• Herbs and Spices

(Dill, peppercorns, garlic, onion, red pepper. Get creative here!)

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aking your own refrigerator pickles at home is fun and easy.

You can pickle just about any vegetable, and add different herbs, spices, vinegars, salts, and sugars to create your own flavors.

Around the holidays, having a jar of pickled carrots, peppers, cauliflower, and cucumbers makes for a quick, tasty and colorful tray of homemade delights for guests.

Start by making your pickle juice brine by combining 1 cup water, 1 cup vinegar, 1 tablespoon salt, 1 teaspoon sugar. Mix well and set aside. Wash and slice your veggies into spears or rounds. When pickling carrots and beets, use a peeler to get the outer skin off. Put your herbs and spices in the bottom of the jar. For a starting point, try 1/2 teaspoon dill, 4-6 peppercorns, 1 peeled clove of garlic, and a few slices of onion per jar. Now fill the jars fairly full with your vegetables. Avoid packing the vegetables too tight; you want some room for your pickle juice. Fill your jars with your pickle juice, covering all of your vegetables.

Put the lid on your jar. Once you are done admiring the look of your sliced veggies in their jars, put them in your refrigerator, wait at least a day to enjoy.

Your refrigerator pickles are not shelf stable or preserved for long-term storage. They will keep in your fridge for about 2 weeks. Always use a clean utensil to get into the pickle jar. Fingers can contaminate your pickle juice.

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Questions

Answers and

By Fowler Roberts

On the 30th Anniversary of the RMCHCS Merger

With

PAUL McCOLLUM – Long-time Hospital and Foundation Board Member Dr. PHIL KAMPS – Physician since 1968 KRIS PIKAART – RMCHCS Chaplain

Q. What drew each of you to work at the hospital?

Paul McCollum: My father was the Chairman of the Board when they did away with the old St. Mary’s Hospital and built what is now RMCH. I was on the City Council at the time and my job was to get the street into there and the lighting done. That goes way back to the late 1960s.

Dr. Phil Kamps: Being born there. (He grins) So I came back. I always had no other place that drew me. I thought this community could use doctors.

Kris Pikaart: I never intended to move back to Gallup. I was asked to apply for the

Kris Pikaart: My special memories are almost all associated with our hospice patients, driving way out to Timbuktu to some little shack out on the reservation and to see a hospice patient and just being part of a family even though I didn’t understand half the words, but somehow to be invited and involved in this great event of storytelling that happens in hospice. Those are my favorite memories and I have many of those.

Q. Tell me about a hospital employee who stands out in your memory and why?

Paul McCollum: Probably Raymond Estrada who has been there probably well over

Above: McKinley General Hospital, Left: A snowy path to the original Rehoboth Hospital.

job when the chaplain’s job came open and I sort of half-heartedly applied without taking it very seriously. When I showed up to the interview, I realized how amazing it would be to be a chaplain to people I knew and who knew my family and who had been my teachers and doctors.

Q. Tell me a memory about the hospital that stands out at a heartfelt level?

Paul McCollum: My memory is that we started the hospital with nothing. The land was donated by Clair Gurley and the organization got it put together and built the hospital.

Dr. Phil Kamps: Well my memory has to do with people and what they teach you.

One of them was a Gallup businessman who had a heart that was that big (holds his hands out), literally, and had all kinds of difficulty. He had an extremely rapid heart rate on a number of occasions when I was doing family practice. One time Jack and I were working with him, but his son-in-law flew in from Moab. He walked into the old hospital, and said to his dad, “We got to get you out of here!” And his dad said to him, “No. These guys know what they’re doing. I’m staying right here!”

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forty years, from the old St. Mary’s on to here. He works very well in the social setting, taking care of people that otherwise would not be taken care of.

Dr. Phil Kamps: There are, of course, many, but I recall one time walking in the front door of RMCH and one of the maintenance people was there. He’s always very friendly. Someone came up to him and asked him, “Where is so and so?” And he said, “Oh, I’ll take you there.” You know, you don’t see too many maintenance people who will be that friendly.

Kris Pikaart: I think about Dr. Gonzaga. Just this weekend I had a big memorial service, and he came in and he sang at it. All the patients’ families know him. He sings a song to them because he loves them and because he feels for them. He’s just an oldtime, small-town doctor in the very best way.

Q. Looking back over the years, what has been the biggest challenge for the hospital?

Paul McCollum: Well obviously the biggest challenge has been to be financially stable.

It’s been a very difficult thing being an independent non-profit hospital. We’ve had our ups and our downs.

Dr. Phil Kamps: Money. Yes, and secondarily recruiting excellent people because that’s

Paul McCollum, Dr. Phil Kamps and Rev. Kris Pikaart not easy. Fortunately, for the most part, they have been excellent.

Kris Pikaart: Tagging on to what they’re saying, but maybe bigger picture is how to hold on to a sense of mission and calling and doing God’s work for the poorest of the poor in the face of just insane logistical demands.

Q. Thirty years ago, Rehoboth Christian Hospital merged with McKinley General Hospital. With the benefit of hindsight, what thoughts or memories of that merger do you have that might help us today?

Paul McCollum: In my opinion, it was absolutely necessary in order to have one hospital that was sustainable and viable.

Dr. Phil Kamps: I had a slightly different take on it, but that was partly because we were young and energetic and naïve. Our medical group thought that Rehoboth Hospital was doing fine. But we didn’t want to wake up one morning and find out that McKinley was closed and that we were the only hospital in town and we thought merging two medical staffs suddenly would not work very well. So we said we better plan it than to just let it happen, and who knows what would have happened if we didn’t? Something crazy would have happened.

Kris Pikaart: I was thirteen at the time. I only really minded that the gift shop wasn’t going to be there on Vanden Bosch because I walked there to get candy. So I don’t have very good insight, but I do find it really fun that we have two, maybe, old St. Mary’s employees who still work for us. I love to hear their stories of what that time was like.

Not easy. That’s the sort of theme of those stories of melding those couple cultures together. So I do think that there’s got to be some wisdom to call from that old merger for our upcoming affiliation.

McKinley County’s first hospital, built in 1905. The Sisters of St. Francis took over its operation just before WWI and ran it until the construction of St. Mary’s hospital in 1917.

The old building can still be seen next to the Gallup Post Office on 2nd Street.

Q. With the prospect of an upcoming affiliation, what are you most optimistic about? What’s your highest and best hope for the future of the hospital?

Paul McCollum: Well we would hope that we get a very qualified, strong group that could come in here and be able to recruit, as Dr. Kamps has just said, some of the best talent in the country into our hospital to serve as providers.

Dr. Phil Kamps: My hope for this hospital is to have one hospital in the community, not two. I think that this time has potential, more than any other time in the past.

Kris Pikaart: I really hope we can somehow keep our local flavor, our cultural flavors and that our little mission statement, that came from way back when, can somehow survive.

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ood. Men. We can’t live with or without them. Well, at least the food we can’t do without. Right, ladies? Oh my, did I just say that? I know I also can’t live without my dogs! Or a good book. Or . . . especially Ron. And it happens every day. I mean, we want to eat every day. Sometimes more than once a day – even three times a day along with some snacks. Why not? Even if we’re not hungry, we usually love to eat. It tastes good.

Why? Often it’s all the chemicals that entice us, if it’s a fast food designed to addict us (like sugar). Yum, good chemicals. But after a while, if you’re like most Americans caught up in the rut of grabbing a fast food because it’s convenient (and you’re tired after a long day at work), you might not want to give up something you like. It’s quick. It’s convenient. It’s immediate comfort. Other than the accompanying bloat or discomfort. You’ve grown accustomed to its taste, even if it doesn’t provide you with energy, increased mental capacity or joy for living.

Oddly enough, however, there are foods that come mostly straight from gardens that can do just that. Consuming foods designed for our bodies actually does provide us with joy for living, with increased energy or mental clarity, and they taste dang good if you’re willing to give them a try.

Recently we held two events that included “farm-to-table” foods at the Ramah Farmers’ Market and at the Chamber of Commerce in Gallup. Lunch was served at each event and the response was overwhelmingly positive. For several of the dishes we prepared I’ve been asked to provide recipes. I’d gladly do

the local organic gardens or at La Montañita Co-op made it into the soup.

Southwestern Harvest Soup We steamed in a large stockpot some fresh pumpkin, eggplant and celery. At the same time we lightly sautéed onions, garlic, jalapeños and potatoes in organic virgin coconut oil (yum!), then combined the sautéed items into the stockpot with the steamed veggies. We added to that some dulse and kombu (kelp) – both salty-flavored sea vegetables. Once those flavors were combined, we added coconut manna and nutritional yeast to taste. How much? I recommend tasting it as you’re preparing it for flavor and texture. Nutritional yeast has a slightly salty, cheesy, nutty flavor that lends a wonderful taste to a variety of dishes (it’s our go-to along with the coconut oil for making popcorn). When we were about to serve the soup, we added raw, finely chopped kale and asparagus so there would still be some live enzymes remaining intact (not heated above 120 degrees) to nourish the body. The only thing not remaining when we finished both luncheons was any soup.

Of course the soup had to be accompanied by salads, so we threw together two easy salads that anyone can make in a hurry, both including foods that had just come from the garden.

Garbanzo/Quinoa Salad The garbanzos and quinoa didn’t come from any of our local gardens, so we had to purchase those at La Montañita Co-op in Gallup. Since we were in

Why not eat something that can nourish you and sustain your health? so here, but I’ll only include what was in each dish and not the amounts, which I recommend each person/family do according to their size and if they want to have leftovers. I have to apologize – I simply don’t measure like normal people do or read cookbooks. I love to let my intuition do the commanding – and follow its guidance in putting in the ingredients and amounts. If you love to eat and don’t mind spending time in your kitchen instead of running to a fast-food joint, then your own creativity will take over. As you prepare your foods, taste test for flavor and texture you want.

Salads are my favorite go-to dish throughout warm weather – all summer long I can live on what’s fresh from the garden. But once the weather changes so does my palate, and now I hanker for warm foods in addition to the salads, and the salads tend to become a bit heavier (including beans or whole grains). I love to have some form of soup available all winter long (so if you come visit us, you can expect to be served a bowl of soup). We made similar soups for the Farmers’ Market and the Chamber of Commerce events. Basically, what was available in

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a rush, we didn’t prepare the garbanzos like we usually do (boil them for hours to soften them). Instead we allowed ourselves to purchase a couple of cans of organic garbanzos. The quinoa only takes about 20 minutes to prepare (boil in water). To that we added fresh-from-the-garden tomatoes and spinach, finely chopped, diced onions and garlic, cilantro, organic corn, cayenne pepper, olive oil, fresh-squeezed lemon and ume plum vinegar. We also took no leftover salad home with us from the events.

Cabbage Salad When cabbages are in season, they are so crunchy and delicious. I love to make fresh sauerkraut (gallupjourney.com/2012/08/fermenting-we-will-go/ or check out Journey editor’s DIY sauerkraut at gallupjourney.com/2013/10/ diyg-october-2013/), add cabbage to my soups, or make a delicious cabbage salad (some might call it coleslaw). You might enjoy making my version with the following ingredients:

Make a nice pot of soup and accompany it with a salad fresh from the garden.

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Large cabbage (organic, of course), fresh garlic, sliced almonds, toasted sesame seeds, red bell peppers, small amounts of liquid aminos, ume plum vinegar, coconut nectar (sugar), toasted sesame oil and apple cider vinegar (raw, unfiltered). Shred the cabbage, and mince the red bell peppers. Mix with the remaining ingredients and serve.

Munch Time Grab some organic black corn chips and make a pico de gallo. Finely chop up tomatoes, cilantro, garlic, onions and jalapeños, mix together, dig in your chips and enjoy.

Oat Seed Clusters Attention: Mothers who give your kids snacks! Local farmer Denis Black shared his personal recipe with me for a healthful snack you can grab rather than junk food. I won’t divulge his exact recipe, because then I’d have to kill you, following which he’d kill me. But my takeoff is a variation on it, and you can make it with your own choice of nuts or seeds. If I’m honest here, I liked the texture of Denis’s combination better, and he says it’s because he boils the honey to make it hold together better. Since I like to keep as much of the nutrition intact, I don’t bring the honey to a boil. Simply, the recipe calls for approximately a cupful of uncooked oats, some sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, coconut oil, honey and almond butter (approx. ¼ cup) (or sunflower butter, peanut butter – your choice). Heat them in a pan long enough for them to moosh together, take them out and press them flat (½ inch thick), let cool, cut into clusters and enjoy. Good fiber, good taste.

Feel the Love & Cry Everything that comes out of my kitchen has a big helping of love thrown in, which gives a warmie feeling. Interestingly, more than one person who has come up the mountain where I live has cried in their soup. They couldn’t explain what brought on the emotions, but they have each felt like they were being nurtured and loved, and said it brought on memories from their childhoods and “better times.” Imagine that! You can make a soup for family and friends and make them cry.

Christmas gifts are often most appreciated when they’re homemade. Share some of your creations with family and friends and spread the wealth about health. I love receiving gifts that come from the heart – that took time to prepare – and have a purposeful intent. My favorite gift to give someone is sweet – get some raw, unfiltered organic honey and heat it very gently, just enough to allow it to become more liquid than solid (certainly NOT up near 120 degrees) and add some of my favorite chili powder to it, put it in a cute little jar with a ribbon and voila, here’s a gift of chili honey.

As Jackie Gleason always said, “How sweet it is!”

We have to eat in order to live, although many of us live to eat that next bite of something full of addicting toxic chemicals; then we pay for it. We know it’s holiday time and we’re gonna junk out more often than not, and end up getting sick if we don’t counteract the junk food with nourishment. So why not eat something that can nourish you and sustain your health that you know was made with love and everything else good? Make a nice pot of soup and accompany it with a fresh garden salad. Share them with those you love.

I wish you great health, happiness, and more blessings than you can count through the holidays and always, and a good cry in your soup! See you in 2014.

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Dick Mattox: Frontier Character

He Gave “Eccentric” A Whole New Meaning ( A c on tin u a tion of la s t mon th ’ s a rtic l e )

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hough Richard M. Mattox was born in Wisconsin in 1873, I have always thought of him as the ultimate symbol of Gallup in the first half of the twentieth century. He was a man of many parts.

And many of those parts were about how this spectacular figure made a living for himself and his family. In the 1910 federal census, Mattox lists himself as “stockman.” In the 1920 counting he decided he was an “Indian trader,” and by 1930 he settled on “tourist guide.”

In fact, Dick was all of those things all the time and pursued half a dozen other careers, as well. Few of them involved keeping regular hours, wearing a uniform, or being in the same place every day – not even the same city or state.

One exception was his job as a night policeman for the city of Gallup.

In 1919, during the famous flu epidemic that killed so many people, Mattox was quarantined away from his infected family for five weeks according to the Carbon City News.

He also served as house detective for the El Rancho Hotel because of his outrageous mustache, his cowboy garb, and his gift of gab. He was a one-man tourist attraction.

He was a regular during the early years of the Gallup Inter-Tribal Ceremonial, hanging out with the fun-loving boys (J. B. Tanner, Mike Kirk and friends) rather than the local businessmen. He had a favorite shirt that was known to everyone, which he wore exclusively at Ceremonial. It was painted with Southwestern symbols all over, with a big covered wagon on the back.

The man’s biography is so tantalizing. A local paper ran this little notice in 1911: “Dick Mattox is home again after making a trip down into Mexico. Dick went

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to Juarez . . . He went down there to look after a turquoise mine for some parties who were contemplating purchase.”

For years the experts on Indian jewelry have said that there was virtually no activity in turquoise at that early date. It turns out that Mattox was known to the Navajos as “Turquoise Dick.”

One of the more interesting aspects of Gallup life in the early years of the last century was the outright warfare between the Republicans and the Democrats that makes today’s politics look relatively sane. The powerful Gregory Page, who owned extensive property in early Gallup, was the leader of the Republican faction and the lawyer, Arthur T. Hannett, challenged him by injecting life into the Democrats.

Hannett, who became mayor of Gallup and then Governor of New Mexico, always insisted that Dick Mattox’s notorious arson trial in 1915 was politically motivated. Turquoise Dick was just too independent and flamboyant for the Republican taste. Governor Hannett, in his memoir Sagebrush Lawyer, called him “One of the most colorful individuals of McKinley County.” Hannett was Dick’s defense attorney, but he only gives Dick and the trial two pages in his book.

It seems that a man named Jack Scott, one of Mattox’s “runnin’ buddies” was the son of Republican heavyweight N. M. Scott, part of Greg Page’s crowd.

This Jack Scott is a problematic character, but apparently a fun-loving sort. He was an epileptic with a long rap sheet. As the newspaper put it, he was a pal of Dick Mattox, “with whom he pulled off several little stunts around these diggings.” The elder Scott had come to hate Dick with a passion.

It isn’t clear how the next part of the story went down, but here is what’s reported. Every year the Mexican city of Juarez had a race season. One of Mattox’s major sources of income was apparently gambling, which he must have been good at.

Every year he would spend some time in El Paso for the races, “peddling a huge quantity of Navajo blankets and jewelry,” as Hannett put it. While there he got a call that his house had burned to the ground. No mention is made of his family. Luckily, Mattox was with New Mexico governor William C. McDonald at the Juarez races the day of the fire.

McDonald, the first governor of New Mexico, was a Democrat and sported a big walrus mustache himself, though it didn’t hold a candle to Dick’s. He was an important figure during the Mexican Revolution, carrying on the border fight with Pancho Villa.

Mattox went home, collected the insurance on his house and went on with his colorful life. Then Jack Scott came forward to say that Mattox had paid him $100 to torch his place. Scott went to prison and Mattox went to trial. Nobody could explain why Jack confessed since there was never any suspicion about the fire.

True to Gallup’s character, the editor of the Gallup Independent, W. J. Hanns, published some inflammatory stories. It was reported that his statement was so worded, “that a most serious charge was made regarding the integrity of the prosecution, it being stated that political influence was being used in an underhanded manner towards the defendant.”

Apparently that was an understatement. In a waggish editorial the paper went on to say the jury from the Mattox trial is expected to get together and “on some pleasant evening in the near future, after they are thoroughly rested up after the trying case they have just heard, then and there select the kind of rope and the time and place for hanging the editor of the Gallup Independent, because he started the riot which caused the jury to be tied up.”

After a rather fiery and sometimes fairly absurd trial, the jury was hung up, eight to four for acquittal. The prosecutor moved the proceedings to Bernalillo Country and added the charge of railroad track obstruction, presumably because of the riot.

On re-trial Dick Mattox was convicted of arson. Lawyer Hannett had tried to get his client to cut his mustache off and buy a bowler hat. Dick said he’d rather spend his life in prison.

Hannett went directly to Governor McDonald, who had been with Mattox in Juarez, presented a basketful of evidence that epileptics were prone to delusional

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episodes, and the governor pardoned Mattox. A few years later Jack Scott was moved to a facility for the criminally insane.

Mattox would buy horses on the Navajo reservation and take them to Texas. He would buy mules on the eastern plains of New Mexico for the mines in Gallup. As a young man he had traveled with Wild West shows with his pal Will Rogers and he had been in the movies as an extra and stunt man.

In the early days horseback was still a major method of transportation in New Mexico.

As a horse trader and Indian trader, Mattox was wellknown on the reservation. In 1915 he was asked to “postsit” for E. H. Davis so the Davises could go to the fair in Farmington. While Dick was gone his favorite sorrel horse was stolen from one of the livery stables in Gallup. He was notified of the theft but he couldn’t leave his post. He thought the pony was gone, but a Navajo came into the store a couple of days later and said he’d seen the horse running wild. Not long after that, the horse amazingly, at one o’clock in the morning, found his way to Dick who pieced together the tale.

A Navajo, in town to sample some bootleg (prohibition was on at the time) had helped himself to the horse, though he said later he had no idea it belonged to Turquoise Dick. When he sobered up all he could think of was some Mattox revenge so he turned the animal loose.

. . . because of his outrageous mustache, his cowboy garb, and his gift of gab. He was a one-man tourist attraction.

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All the Navajos knew whose horse it was so they sort of herded it along until it arrived at the trading post his owner was at. Such was the regard for Dick Mattox, and such was his reputation.

In 1917 there was a short notice in the paper that Dick Mattox had just sold one of his “modern” houses on Knob Hill to a local doctor. “Mr. Mattox has only two more for sale.” Yet another occupation.

On one occasion the press noted that Mattox had been fined $25 because he “beat his fist against the face of L. E. Gould, the alleged editor of the Gallup Herald.”

Those were the days.

In 1935 M. L. Woodard noted in his paper Southwest Tourist News, that “old timer and dude wrangler” Dick Mattox had passed through town. His wife had recently inherited a farm in Michigan and Mattox said he was “suffering from comfort.”

About the same time the Albuquerque Journal noted the old pioneer had been robbed at gunpoint of $40 in the Santa Fe bar in Gallup. I keep wondering what else I don’t know about this colorful character.

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Almost all of us played the trumpet, and most of us learned on the same old family trumpet.

Music “R” Me

By Jeannette Gartner

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kay, I don’t exactly go around jingling or tinkling. But, if you consider how much I love music, many kinds of music, then I could say music “r” me. You may have noticed that I said “many” kinds and not “all” kinds of music. For me to love it, it has to have at least a semblance of a beat and a tune. I don’t want to be critical – okay, I guess I do – but if it’s discordant like so many of the “modern” orchestral attempts, or noise that might have sort of a rhythm as its only redeeming factor, like your typical rap “song,” then music “r’nt” me.

Before you continue reading this, I need to caution you not to believe any of our sons when they say, “I suffered irreparable child abuse and was ruined for life because I was forced to listen to mom’s Neil Diamond tapes over and over and over during my entire childhood.”

That isn’t true! I also played classical music. Besides, they could have left the room – uh, make that the house – at any time (or used ear plugs, I’m not picky). I was only trying to broaden their musical horizons, despite the fact that one of them said, at the age of about seven, about a certain piece, “That would be good music for a funeral.”

Can a seven-year-old be sarcastic? Apparently. Or, to give him the benefit of the doubt, maybe he truly believed that. Naw. When was he ever at a funeral?

Okay, maybe that particular symphony was a bit somber, but that’s a pretty drastic comparison, don’t you think? Besides, I’m certain that all their exposure to classical music (and even Neil Diamond) when they were growing up accounts for the superior intelligence they all periodically exhibit . . .

Our grandchildren couldn’t possibly be as intelligent as their dads, because, despite my best efforts, their parents don’t play classical music in their homes. I also played classical music as background music in my classrooms to increase the intelligence of my students. However, I’m not saying which classes I treated to that music lest they, or their parents, sue me for ruining their lives.

My all-time favorite music is classical. I could say I’ve loved it all my life, but that would be an exaggeration if not an outright lie. I was introduced to classical music when I was about 11 or 12. I can’t remember if the first time I heard it was when my older brother was in high school band or when I was. At the time, the high school band always had a spring concert where we played classical music. I do remember exactly the first thing I ever heard, though. It was Beethoven’s 5th Symphony, and as soon as I had saved up enough money I immediately ran out and bought the record. That’s right, record. You know, that black round thing that you put on a “record player” and a needle sits on it and music comes from it, and if you bump the record or the player, that same needle scratches the record?

And then a sort of zzt, zzt sort of sound integrates itself into the music and sometimes the same part plays over and over until you move the needle. Remember? Ever see one of those antique things? And, no, it didn’t have a big curvy sort of bell-shaped tube coming out of it. That was earlier, way, way, way before my time.

Throughout my teen and college years, whenever I could afford it, I bought classical records. When the world changed to reel-to-reel tapes, I bought tapes, then it changed again to compact discs and I duplicated my music collection yet again. Now I no

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longer have records or tapes, just discs. And now I play music on my computer and my phone and my Kindle. What next? I’m sure that at some point, if I live long enough, it’ll be inserted into a button under my skin that I can just mentally access to play.

Practically all the kids in my family played in the band, almost all of us played the trumpet, and most of us learned on the same old family trumpet. My older brother was the first and my folks bought him an old, used trumpet to learn on. I was next, two years later, and got the same learner’s trumpet, a little more banged up and dented. After me came two cousins, then my younger brother. By then that old trumpet was in pretty bad shape.

It had been dropped, bumped, scraped and who knows what else. All of these were under the same band director. Finally, my baby sister was ready to take band. What instrument would she play? Well, the family had this trumpet . . .

That poor, maltreated, broken, dented, scraped and scratched trumpet was retired, with valves and slides that stuck. In fact, it was retired before my sister was able to use it, because when my younger brother showed up at the band room, trumpet in hand, the band director said, “Nuh uh, not again. Not that trumpet. Never ever again.”

Pretty drastic, wouldn’t you say? So she had to get her own, more “gently” used trumpet. Only one cousin did not play the trumpet, and that’s because he’s the same age as I am, was in the band the same time I was, and I had the trumpet. I’m sure his life was ruined by the fact that he couldn’t play the trumpet, and he’s the black sheep at family dinners because he can’t reminisce about trumpet playing. There was one more trumpet player after my sister and that was our youngest son, but, alas, he didn’t have the family heirloom to learn on.

Of all the trumpet players our family generated, my older brother was the most talented. He even had his own band and they played for many school dances. When he tolerated me, I sat in on the practices in our basement family room.

If you’d ever played a brass instrument in your youth and pick one up after about ten years, you’ll make an astounding discovery! You’ve lost your “lip”! All you can get out of the instrument is a sort of fzzst or pfuuu. What? So you lick your lips and try again. Same result. I wonder if players of other instruments are the same. Well, of course, not the piano or the drums. The hands may not work as fast though. It is interesting, though, that, even after so many, many years, I still remember the fingering.

Besides trumpet playing, I come from a family of whistlers. My dad always whistled when he was working around the house and I used to whistle when listening to music. Real music. Music with a tune. How could you ever whistle to rap, I wonder?

However, much to my chagrin, I lost my whistle some years ago and have not been able to find it on most days. I try, but it is mostly a ffttt. I might be able to get sporadic notes once in a while, but that’s all. I also can’t find my dog whistle, which I learned to do in junior high. It’s extremely loud and when it works I can use it to call the dog, or kids, or as part of the applause at concerts (well, maybe not classical), or to get someone’s attention. Music r’nt me so much now, however, since I no longer play an instrument and my whistling is undependable. So alas, I have to get my music only through my ears, which, fortunately, still work.

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I plan to write a series of theological reflections. It is my observation that most people think theologically; by that I mean we all think about God and the impact of God in our lives. So I would like to more formally engage some of that thinking. Why me? I ask that everyday. The answer lies someplace in the fact that I am formally trained in theology and teach a doctrine class each semester at Rehoboth Christian High School and that doctrine class entertains any and all questions and has, as its primary purpose, helping kids think theologically. The answer also lies in the fact that my theology is very inclusive of other religious traditions rather then exclusive . . . some would say it’s heresy. You can decide.

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met Mr. M when he was on his deathbed in the hospital. Mr. M had never set foot in the church I was pastoring at the time; in fact, I doubt he ever set foot in any church. His niece had asked for prayer for him one Sunday and I figured that since I was praying for him, I should probably go and visit him. Mr. M was in intensive care with wires and monitors everywhere; he was dying of cirrhosis of the liver.

Mr. M knew almost no English and I knew only enough Navajo to make a fool of myself. Fortunately for both of us, his niece was there and she could speak both languages. She explained to her uncle that I was the pastor of her church and that I had come to visit him and pray with him. I will never forget his reaction. He looked up at me with a longing in his eyes and reached out both of his hands and took my hands into his and held them. Total strangers somehow connected. Sometimes communication goes way beyond words and this was one of those times. My interpretation of his response was that he was reaching out empty to whatever God I represented. With nothing to offer except his helplessness, emptiness and his need for somebody to do something to save him, he held on to my hands. The image of his hands wrapped around mine is vividly imprinted in my mind: unkempt, yellow from his liver’s limited functioning, fingernails that had not been cut for a long time curling around towards his fingers. So, I did what I had come to do; I prayed for him and left.

Later that week, I thought of Mr. M again and thought it would be a good idea to visit him to see what had transpired. When I got to the hospital, I knew that Mr. M was in trouble. The whole family was there – wife, brothers, sisters, kids, nieces and nephews, you name it. I went into his room and he was in a coma with a heart monitor and other monitors on him. It did not look good.

I bribed the nurses – the hospital had a two-visitors-at-a-time rule – and asked the niece to call the whole family into his room to pray, because that is what a pastor does. So, picture about 30 people gathered in an intensive care room around Mr. M’s bed, holding his hands, touching him where they could and me in the background getting ready to pray. So, I prayed.

What do you pray in a situation like this? The man is dying! There was no hope for him, humanly speaking, and I, honestly, had no hope that my prayers would make any difference whatsoever! So, I prayed what I could.

(I am sure that most of you reading this fear that at this point I will tell you how my prayers were answered and they healed Mr. M and I am now going to sell you on my branch of religion. Not even close!)

Sometimes communication goes way beyond words and this was one of those times.

So I prayed.

At some point in the prayer, realizing I did not have an ounce of hope of Mr. M improving, I said that if this was Mr. M’s time to go that God would take Mr. M to be with Him. At that very moment, Mr. M flat-lined and died.

The monitor made that awful sound, I had to truncate my prayer in a big hurry, nurses and doctors came rushing in and chased all of us out. But Mr. M was gone.

To this day, I think that Mr. M’s family thinks I am a miserable failure; the man died while I was praying for him. His niece still attended our church, but the rest of the family never talked to me again and did not ask me to participate in his funeral; after all what more damage was I capable of?

I, however, left with a totally different view of the event. I think Mr. M passing away at that very instant during the prayer, when I was asking God to take him to be with Him, was a sign that God did take Mr. M to be with Him. All God needed from Mr. M was emptiness; empty and in need of what only God can do.

This event changed my life. I have been taught that a person has to know Jesus and commit themselves to God through Jesus in order to inherit eternal life. The criteria is faith and eternal life is a gift and one has to consciously realize it and, in faith, ask for it. But here was a modern-day thief on the cross, who at the very final moments of his life pointed himself toward God and was accepted. Mr. M had no concept of theology or knowledge of doctrine, no church background, nothing religious to my knowledge to fall back on. What he did have was emptiness and need and the rest was up to God. At the end of his life when he turned his face to God, God responded, yes! “Seek and you will find.”

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Healthy Kids McKinley

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arol Burnett, nutrition specialist for Gallup-McKinley County Schools, was attending a birthday party when a mother told her about her son’s daily salad report. When she comes home from work, he is so excited to tell her which kind of Burnett’s pre-packaged salads he ate at his elementary school that day.

“Just hearing that, you know you’ve touched one kid. They are making better choices,” said Burnett, who implemented healthy salads. “I think if the children can make better choices, the parents will learn to also.”

Students and staff love eating the different salads offered a few times a week, including chef ’s, grilled chicken, taco, and popcorn-chicken salads.

Unlike a lot of school meals, the students don’t throw away much.

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The school district may be the only one in New Mexico offering pre-made salads as reimbursable lunches – which means they meet the national nutrition requirements to receive federal money. It is rare for elementary schools to offer a second entrée as an option.

Cafeteria staff are making and serving about 1,300 salads each week at all 19 elementary schools, according to Burnett.

“For a lot of kids, this is their only meal,” Burnett said. “We are trying to teach them to make healthier choices, and we don’t know what choices they have at home.”

The healthy addition to school food in McKinley County is one small piece of the Healthy Kids Healthy McKinley County Initiative. The initiative, supported by Healthy Kids New Mexico, is making changes where children live, play and

learn so it is easier for them and their families to choose healthy foods and be physically active.

In northwestern New Mexico, Gallup is the largest city in McKinley County. It is a rural community near the Navajo Nation, and its ethnic distribution is more diverse than many New Mexico towns, with a majority of American Indians, followed by one-third Hispanic, 22 percent Caucasian and a minority mix of other cultures like Middle Eastern. The area is rich with culture, arts and outdoor recreation, but the community also has one of the state’s highest diabetes and obesity rates.

Healthy Kids Healthy McKinley County is working to curb those rates with a comprehensive, multi-sector approach that includes school and community gardens, a farmers’ market, local food buying programs, healthy foods in schools, walking

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school buses, community trails and school wellness policies.

To expand nutritious options at schools, Healthy Kids Healthy McKinley County offers fruit smoothies as alternatives to pickles, popcorn and nachos that are sold as fundraisers. In high school, smoothies are another option to supplement the grab-n-go breakfast of plastic-wrapped sausage. Healthy Kids trained students and staff to make smoothies and applied for a national grant so four elementary classrooms could have free smoothies for breakfast every day for a month.

It became a smoothie revolution – a program so popular that now students make smoothies at home; local and national organizations donated blenders to the cause; one school racked up at least $2,000 in smoothie sales; Hiroshi Miyamura High School sold 600 smoothies a week. Healthy Kids tied the smoothies to nutrition education and the smoothie sales to school gardens, helping students buy plants they can grow with their school’s proceeds. The alternative high school sold 500 plants to school gardens at $5 each.

“The more you involve students, the more they get comfortable with fresh fruits,” said Joshua Kanter, a FoodCorps member who works on the Healthy Kids Healthy McKinley County Initiative. “Being comfortable will

probably give them a license to try new things. If you’ve never seen it, never touched it and don’t know its name, you probably won’t put it in your mouth. But they are probably going to want to taste it if they have a hand in creating it.”

The key to working with the Gallup–McKinley County Schools has been the ongoing relationship Karl Lohmann has cultivated over the years, as a health advocate and as an elementary school teacher years ago. Lohmann coordinates the Healthy Kids initiative and is director of the Boys and Girls Club of NM-Gallup and Gallup Youth Conservation Corps.

“Karl never puts us down and has always been there as a positive person or a positive pusher in order to keep things going,” Burnett said with a laugh. “He’s always supported us, and we try to support him as much as we can.”

Lohmann said he attends school board meetings to praise the

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Key Community Successes October 2011 – June 2013

· 4 Gallup McKinley County Schools (GMCS) elementary schools and 177 third grade students participated in the 5.2.1.O Challenge this past year. · Updated school district wellness policy to include language around healthy eating and physical activity. · Expanded the number of school gardens from 2 to 9. · Developed a community garden with community pantry and nearby farm. · Offered pre-made salads as reimbursable lunches in all 19 GMCS elementary schools. · Implemented fruit smoothie initiative in 4 elementary schools. · Held monthly family food nights at 2 elementary schools. · Expanded Farmers’ Market and Community-Supported Agriculture programs to include more growers and quantity of food offered. · Began trail development throughout the community and conducted walkability assessments on paths connecting schools to neighborhoods.

Community transformation in Gallup McKinley has, to date, reached 100% of GMCS elementary schools (5,078 students), primarily through healthy eating initiatives.

food-services staff when he learns of healthy strategies like getting rid of deepfat fryers in all schools. The food-services staff “was pleased that we were attentive to bad practices and supportive of good practices,” he said.

In addition to creating healthier options for students, Lohmann and his coalition of health advocates started working with the school district to update the wellness policy, which hadn’t been a school district focus for years.

Carmen Moffett, Director of Indian Education and supervisor of school nurses, took the lead in what became one of the most all-inclusive, systemic examinations of a school wellness policy. She brought together parents who were active in the schools, high school students, community leaders and other school officials to develop a vision for the health of their schools.

To encourage attendance at Saturday meetings, she provides a small stipend to reimburse parents and students for traveling long distances throughout the Navajo Nation. One family comes from Crownpoint, about 45 minutes away; another family comes from Navajo Pine High School, 60 miles away.

“Line by line, word by word, we talked about everything so it would be meaningful for us,” Moffett said. “We have not dug deep into the wellness policy the way we are now. As we go through this journey of revising and making recommendations to strengthen it, we are also talking about implementation.”

Recommended policy changes include prohibiting carbonated and energy drinks on any school campus, encouraging structured physical activity daily, selling healthy food options during fundraisers, and restricting the fat, sugar and calorie contents of food sold.

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“We want to examine whether the policy is being implemented with fidelity and whether it’s having an impact,” Moffett said. “We hope our kids will show that they are healthier.”

Healthy Kids Healthy McKinley County’s work with the schools has been extensive and also involves creating school gardens and increasing physical activity opportunities for students.

Lohmann and his Healthy Kids volunteer crew developed walking school buses in which students walk with volunteer adults to school from designated points. They installed fitness trails at all elementary schools and are building trails that connect schools to neighborhoods. “We have trained a team that goes into neighborhoods and looks at walking hazards and tries to eliminate them so kids who want to walk to school can,” he said.

Nine schools have gardens, and four schools have hoop houses that extend the growing season and produce such vegetables as bok choy, lettuce, green mixes, beets, broccoli and carrots. The healthy food partnership reaches into the community too, supporting a large community garden at the Jim Harlin HOPE Garden and expanding the local community-supported agriculture program by about ten times in the amount of food and the number of people who commit to buying boxes of local fresh produce, Lohmann said.

The Farmers’ Market has also expanded to include more growers selling their fruits and vegetables.

Lohmann is quick to point out that the Healthy Kids Healthy McKinley County Initiative has involved numerous players, including a strong health coalition representing a broad base of community members.

The Business Improvement District awarded a grant to the Farmers’ Market that doubles the amount of local food purchased with SNAP (Supplement Nutrition Assistance Program).

“We’ve got this philosophy that place matters,” he said. “It means your zip code has a lot to do with the kind of access you have to good health care, good food and safe places to play. We are trying to create health policies and a physical environment that would give everyone more access to a healthy lifestyle.”

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nthony Arviso may have never met his wife Trish if he hadn’t been steer wrestling with her brother. Anthony grew up and went to school in Crownpoint while Trish and her brother were across the plain in Naschitti.

Perhaps it was Anthony’s rodeo bumps and bruises that made him originally intend to be a physician when he entered UNM. But Anthony changed his major when his dad had an accident falling off a ladder. His dad said he had the best experience/relationship with his physical therapist in getting well again. From that interaction Anthony decided to go into physical therapy himself.

After graduating, Anthony worked at RMCHCS as a physical therapist

Anthony & Trish Arviso in Enchantment’s new location.

for ten years, until 2006 when he and Trish decided to take a leap of faith and open their own clinic, Enchantment Physical Therapy.

“It was scary to leave a steady paycheck without knowing how it was really going to work out,” Anthony says. But they opened in Feb. 2006 on the east end of the Butler’s complex.

Now almost 8 years later they have successfully grown and the Arvisos have expanded their business to a new facility just down the sidewalk on the west side of the Butler’s complex.

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

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Memories of Gallup

Tell Me Who Your Friends Are and An interview with Joe DiGregorio and Florencio Aragon, Part 2 of 2

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bout an hour into their reminiscing, Joe and Florencio remember the time black and white photo of Ceremonial wagons and a watermelon in midair. “That’s a they spent at Gallup’s downtown theatres. picture of me with my back to the camera. As the wagons came by, we would pitch

“Those guys would come out with whips.” Florencio says, “There watermelons and put them in each wagon. If you look closely, you’ll see a watermelon were three movie theatres in Gallup then – the Navajo, the Chief Theatre in the air. That was part of Ceremonial. As the Ceremonial came through town, we and the El Morro. The Navajo was an old theatre down the corner – it would put a watermelon in each wagon.” was near 66 and Third. On Saturday afternoons they would have chapters or serials, Florencio says, “They used to have the Ceremonial at Sunnyside. The wagons you know, of Batman and Robin, Captain Marvel, Whip Wilson. Often the actual would go up to the Ceremonial grounds. They were last in the parade and Joe would movie stars would show up and they would give demonstrations, like Whip Wilson give them watermelons.” and Lash LaRue. Those guys would come out with whips and (Florencio makes the

Joe says, “I had a lady come in last month and she said, ‘You have a picture of sound of whip cracking.)” throwing watermelons to us.’ This is her dad. He’s a Zuni guy that worked for us and,

“I was telling Joe that one of the guys came out and he hit a whip to take a in fact, they named their grandson Basilio (Joe’s father’s name). Basilio Tsabetsaye.” cigarette out of the mouth of another guy. So my friend made a little whip and talked

Blowing up the brick plant: “Who is going to take this gun?” Deep into one of the neighborhood kids into letting him hit a cigarette out of his mouth, but he their interview the conversation turns to one of the most notorious incidents in the lore missed the cigarette and hit him.” Florencio laughs. of Gallup. Florencio says, “We found some dynamite. Bill Crabb, Pete Leyba, Peter

Hershey: “You’ll never forget it because they let you out of school that McDevitt and Jimmy Conner. It was in a mineshaft near where the Pepsi plant is now. day.” One of the strong memories in Joe’s mind about growing up on the north side We took it to Pete McDevitt’s house and stored it under his bed.” was the Japanese families who had businesses there. He says, “Hershey’s father, Yaichi Joe says, “Peter was wild. Peter was out of control. He was bright, very Miyamura, had a place right there by the bridge. It was called Lucky Lunch.” bright.”

Florencio says, “The Shibatas had a variety Florencio agrees, “He was smart.” store near the corner of Second Street and 66 called Joe says, “Probably near genius, but he was Tom’s Variety. They sold all kinds of little toys and one of those people who could not control what he kites and things like that. That’s where the kids got did. He had a thing with guns. One night we were their toys.” camping out at Twin Buttes. He took out a gun

Joe thinks back to Hershey Miyamura’s and shot a guy’s bedroll. He shot the air mattress.” return to Gallup after the Korean War. He says, “I Florencio says, “Well anyway, we found told Hershey, ‘I’ll never forget that day.’ Hershey dynamite and good or bad, Peter was our friend. said, ‘You’ll never forget it because they let you out And so we stored it under his bed, which was of school that day.’” Joe and Florencio both laugh. dumb. When I look back, I say, ‘God, how in “I said, ‘No.’ I can remember standing the heck did we do that? Why? What were we on the train, the whole platform for hours – what thinking? Anyway we decided that we would set off seemed like hours, until he came. The whole town a stick of dynamite in the brick plant.” showed up. Everybody was there. It was like they “We met at McDevitt’s house on a shut down town and we were ever so proud of particular night and we were getting ready to go. him. And then five planes flew over and that was There was Ron Courtney, Jimmy Conner, Pete followed by a parade through town. ” Leyba, Bill Crabb, Jimmy West, and me and, of Florencio Aragon and Joe DiGregorio

Basilio Tsabetsaye. Joe pulls out an old course, Pete McDevitt. We planned to take two remembering the good old days.

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d I’ll Tell You Who You Are cars. McDevitt pulled out a gun and said, ‘Who’s going to take this gun?’ Pete Leyba said, ‘me’ and took the gun.

I said, ‘I’m not going to go if you’re going to take the gun.’ I was thinking I didn’t mind blowing the place up, you know but . . .” Florencio laughs at the absurdity of it all.

“I said, ‘I’m not going to do it with a gun.’ You know that’s good thinking,” Florencio says sarcastically.

“Jimmy West and Pete Leyba and I had a pact. Where one of us went, the other two would go. So Pete Leyba and Jimmy West came with me and we agreed that we would meet the other guys at the drive-in after they were done, but they never showed up. We didn’t know what had happened until it came out in the newspaper that they blew up the brick plant and then I never said a thing about it after that. I didn’t want to be involved as a bad kid.”

Mayor Pena issues pardons to the Brick Yard Bombers. Decades later when Joe was chairman of their high school reunion, John Pena was mayor. Joe says, “So I went to John and I said, ‘John could you issue official pardons, city pardons . . . (Joe and Florencio laugh) for each one of the people?’ So that night we gave several awards and one of them was to the group that blew up the brick plant and we issued official pardons for them.”

After forty years, attitudes toward claiming participation in blowing up the brick yard changed. Joe said, “Well it became a prestigious thing afterwards. Everybody thought this was an honor being part of this.

Everybody wanted to be part of this all of a sudden. It had a certain notoriety.”

Florencio shakes his head incredulously. “I wanted nothing to do with that anymore. I didn’t talk about it. Even Pete Leyba and I never talked about it until years and years later. After they had the reunion with pardons, a lot of other people, that I never knew, claimed they were involved.”

“You step aside. This is our fight.” After two hours, the interview is winding down. It is evident that both Joe and Florencio clearly know that they grew up at a special time in a special place and they seem to be searching for words to explain it. Joe says, “What was it? What was the spark? What was the glue that bound us together? I wish I had a special answer for you.”

Florencio says, “We all knew everyone. We knew everybody. Even though I was from Chihauhuita, I knew all the guys from El Rancho, from First Ward. We would travel back and forth so we knew everyone. That’s how I met some of the best friends I have. We met through arguing at the Dipsy Doodle games. God, we used to fight a lot.”

Joes says, “At that time, the business community really supported the ‘kids’ and ‘kid’ activities. During the school year there were seasons for marbles, tops and yo-yos. Salesmen would come to town to teach kids how to do tricks. At the end of each season they had contests between the different sections of town. Pete Leyba was the best marble shooter in town but he didn’t win the city championship. Why? You’ll have to stop and ask Pete.”

Joe grins.

“We also had a group of protectors. A couple in particular. One was a guy named Willie Baca and one was Johnny Romero. They were really tough guys. I mean you didn’t mess with these guys. They knew I wasn’t a fighter and if something would happen, one of those guys would make sure that they had my back. They’d say, ‘You’re all right. You step aside. This is our fight.’”

Joe continues, “And our families opened up to each other. We shared meals with each other. I learned to eat food that wasn’t Italian. My friends enjoyed coming to our house to eat Italian. My sisters had classmates that were family with my friends. These things made us closer. My grandfather always preached to me in Italian, ‘Tell me who your friends are and I’ll tell you who you are.’”

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Little sisters of the poor “Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.”

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t is the Christmas season – a time for family, friends and gift giving. At first glance one might not consider a trip to the Little Sisters of the Poor nursing home in Gallup during the holidays. But I would suggest otherwise. In our world of “It’s all about me,” bling-bling and Keeping Up With the Kardashians, be countercultural this Christmas and experience genuine charity and love.

My fist contact with the Little Sisters of the Poor occurred in 1983 when our law firm was asked to assist them in obtaining permission to build a new nursing home in Gallup to serve the elderly poor in our area. At the time the sisters were considering building in the mission areas of the Southwest, Alaska or Hawaii. They chose Gallup because of the large number of elderly Native Americans.

I still remember the Gallup City Council meeting in 1987 to approve the building of the nursing home. The project was a 7-million-dollar investment in Gallup, but it was not universally supported. I

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stood there with the sisters (who by the way were little in stature) before the Mayor and Council. That day the Mother Provencal of the order from Chicago had flown in to witness the workings of the Gallup City Council. She told me, “Don’t introduce me. I just want to watch, but we are committed to this project.” The neighbors came and voiced their support and objections. One person complained that traffic in the area would increase and destroy the quiet neighborhood. A volunteer who worked at other facilities around the country replied that they wished that they had a traffic problem but unfortunately many people did not come to visit their relatives and friends.

In the end the Council voted 4-1 to approve the project. And now they have been with us for 30 years.

The Little Sisters were founded by Jeanne Jugan (recently proclaimed a saint by Pope Benedict) in 1839. The French laywoman began her ministry by taking poor elderly persons into her home. She formed an order of sisters who now serve the elderly all over

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the world. The sisters take the traditional vows of poverty, chastity and obedience and the additional vow of hospitality. They support their homes by begging for food and other donations wherever they are. I remember being at church one Sunday when one of the sisters talked about the work of the Little Sisters and asked for donations to support their work. It was so convincing that I emptied my wallet into the collection basket. What a blessing to have them in Gallup.

The truly amazing thing about the nursing home, called Villa Guadalupe, is the experience of visiting the home itself. You are a visitor in the home where the sisters and their residents live.

The stereotypical sights and smells of a nursing home are just not there. I hope to live there myself someday. It is a beautiful experience to watch the sisters, staff and volunteers care for the elderly on a daily basis. I asked a sister once how she could devote her life to care for the elderly. Most of us experience that once or twice during our lifetimes. Sister replied, “Jay, we serve the elderly not for the good we give to them, but for the good they give to us.”

“We serve the elderly not for the good we give to them, but for the good they give to us.”

Our family volunteered at the Little Sisters when the children were young. The elderly love to see families and especially children. I know they gave more to us than we gave to them.

Another remarkable fact about the Little Sisters nursing home is the number of residents who live past 100 years of age. It is no accident. The care and compassion shown them increases their time on this earth.

If you looking for something good and rewarding to do during the holidays, visit the Little Sisters. Call the Little Sisters (863-6894) and ask about a good time to visit. Go at mealtime and help the residents get to their table in the dining room. Bring your children and friends and sing carols for the residents. Go to a Christmas program that will bring tears to your eyes when you see the joy on the faces of the residents. What a precious gem we have in Gallup at the Little Sisters of the Poor. As we celebrate the birth of Christ and God’s gift of His Son to our mixed-up world, let us thank God for the Little Sisters.

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

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s a Christmas bonus, I’m reviewing two books for you this month, figuring you’ll be curled up many long winter evenings reading before the fire, avoiding all the commercial holiday mayhem running rampant in our larger cities to the east. The first book, The Wild Trees, is for those armchair naturalists, while the second, Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery, tells how legal slavery ended in the Western world.

The Wild Trees by Richard Preston, reminded me of Maggi Van Drunen, the eight-year-old girl I saw scoot half way up a branchless tree overlooking the view at Lost Lake trail in McGaffey. The book is basically a really long story of adults climbing the largest Christmas trees in the world, the California redwoods that can grow more than 35 stories tall, and of the hunt in the 1990s to find which one was the world’s tallest tree. By genre, it’s called a narrative nonfiction, so it’s more like a reality TV version of a book, where readers get to know all the nitty-gritty details of the lives of the quirky people trying to find the world’s tallest – and largest – tree. They are an odd sort of character – quite like the sort of people we seem to revel in here in Gallup – slightly off beat, following the strange and single-minded pursuit of finding the absolute tree.

In the beginning, readers, dumped into the spring vacation of three

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college kids backpacking for the first time in one of the smaller California state parks that housed patches of ancient redwoods, view the beginning of an obsession. Readers are treated to two of the boys’ childhoods, and follow one of them as he goes on to a doctorate in botany, to become one of the world’s leading experts on tree canopies and a fungus growing only in the world’s oldest trees. Eventually he crosses paths with another odd character, a college dropout, convenience store clerk, and son of an L.A. real estate mogul, who lives on frozen pizzas from his convenience store and rents in a seedy side of town so he can feed his secret addiction of tree measuring and naming. In between the stories of the trees themselves, descriptions of their size, their logging, and their history, the two amateur naturalists eventually meet up with a third character, the girl Marie Antoine. An experienced climber, she is also dedicated to measuring the incredible amount of nitrogen found in the Lobaria oregano, or lettuce lungwort, the lichen found in the canopy of the more ancient redwoods. The author himself becomes a character in the book when he takes classes on tree climbing and “sky-walking,” a sort of tree climbing ballet across the country in New Jersey, and ends up working with the three main characters on their trip to research ancient tree canopies in Australia.

But the trees themselves become some of the more interesting characters, with names for Greek gods, “Helios” and “Kronos,” or after obscure

Tolkein characters, “Earendil,” and “Elwing,” and readers are treated to virtual trips to the previously unexplored canopies of these massive trees, a whole new world of bizarre plant and animal life unexpected so high.

Although the book’s cover reviews of “intensely dramatic” and “heart-pounding adventure” wouldn’t be my choice of adjectives for the book, it is a compelling read of a botanical world unknown or forgotten, a reminder of the intricate wonders of our astonishing earth, and of those peculiar characters who dedicate their lives to discovering it – a lovely read for a long winter’s afternoon.

A completely different narrative, yet equally riveting, is the biography of William Wilberforce, an eighteenth-century member of Parliament whose life goal was to end slavery in the British Empire, and the story of how he eventually did. That last sentence doesn’t sound nearly as exciting as the book actually is though, largely due to the expert writing of his biographer, Eric Metaxas, who is able to take a person most of us have probably never heard of – or cared about – and make him both relevant and fascinating to our 21st-century American lives. The sheer magnetism of Wilberforce’s character shines through the centuries and we’re drawn to him through Metaxas’s own excitement and verbal charisma.

The first book might make you yearn to climb trees . . . while the second inspires you to change the world.

Born in 1759 to a prosperous British merchant family, Wilberforce grew up to “hang” with the smart and wealthy crowd of his era, including his BFF William Pitt the Younger, Britain’s youngest prime minister ever, Sir Walter Scott, William Gladstone, and William Wordsworth. He met Louis XVI while the king still had a head (and didn’t think much of it), dined with Benjamin Franklin, hosted Samuel Morse and American Indians, among other American celebrities, and played on the floor with Queen Victoria when she was only 14 months old.

Throughout the biography, readers watch England’s slow awakening to social justice, brought about almost single handedly through the creative energy of Wilberforce, who wanted to “make goodness fashionable.” Besides abolishing slavery, Wilberforce, among other things, worked to improve child labor laws, argued for Catholic emancipation, helped found the “Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals” – all while fathering his own six children, and caring for his frequently poor health.

“The idea, so obvious to us today and so taken for granted, that the powerful have an obligation to help the powerless was indefatigably working its way through the whole of British society, like leaven through the proverbial lump,” Metaxas writes.

But the way in which Metaxas shares Wilberforce’s life with his readers is a tour de force in its own right, with a vocabulary to excite any sesquipedalian, and other times so droll I surprised myself laughing out loud.

Metaxas coolly walks his own slackline between oft-nightmarish 18th-century England and our 21st century, making Christianity cool and social justice novel, just as his subject Wilberforce could politically and socially bridge his dear, scorned Methodists and too-drunken Parliament colleagues.

The first book might make you yearn to climb trees – or at least drive to see the redwoods – while the second inspires you to change the world – and shows you that it’s possible.

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December Events Octavia Fellin Public Library

Annual Mitten Tree Project Help decorate our trees with new mittens, scarves, and hats to keep Gallup’s children snug this winter. Celebrate the season of giving by bringing new items to either the main library or the children’s branch. Hang them on the Mitten Tree and make someone’s holiday season warmer! Battered Families, Inc. will receive all donations.

For more information call the library at 505-863-1291 or email library@ci.gallup. nm.us.

Children’s Branch, 200 W. Aztec Ave. It’s a Winter Wonderland – On Saturday, December 14 from 10:30 am to 8:30 pm, experience the holidays with traditions from around the world! Holiday movies will be playing throughout the day, and there will be a variety of holiday crafts and activities available for children and families, including Christmas, Chanukah and Kwanzaa crafts. Books about holiday traditions from around the world will be on display. All events are free and open to the public.

10:30 am-12:30 pm: Come have milk and cookies with Santa! Visits and pictures with Santa are free, parents are asked to bring their own cameras.

2:00 pm: Award-winning storyteller Sunny Dooley will be telling traditional Navajo Winter Stories. It’s the right time of year to hear all the tales of Coyote.

6:00 pm-8:30 pm: The children’s branch will be open as part of the city’s annual Holiday Stroll. There will be hot cocoa, popcorn and a holiday movie showing. Stop by to snack, craft and visit.

Main Branch, 115 W. Hill Ave. Try Before You Buy – This holiday season there are seemingly endless gadgets at every price point. Which gadget does what you want, and what’s the right price for what you need? On Thursday, December 5 at 6:00 pm, come to the main branch and testdrive a number of tech devices before you do your holiday shopping. Gadgets will include laptops, tablets, eReaders and smart phones. Library staff will be available to answer questions and provide cost comparisons.

December Film Series – On Wednesday, December 11 starting at 1 pm, the library will feature holiday movies all afternoon starting with Holiday Inn featuring Bing Crosby, It’s a Pleasure with Sonja Henie, and Christmas in Connecticut with Barbara Stanwyck. Refreshments will be served.

Aromatherapy for the Holidays – On Saturday, December 14 at 11 am, Dr. Linda Hite will explore the soothing qualities of aromatherapy. Participants will mix essential oils to take home. Supplies will be provided. Registration required. Class limited to 15. Register at the main library or call (505) 863-1291.

Pyramid Rock Trail Run Saturday, December 7 Red Rock Park The Rehoboth Christian School choirs invite you to participate in this year’s Pyramid Rock Trail Run on Saturday, December 7. This difficult 5-mile trail will be a wonderful challenge, coinciding with events at this year’s Red Rock Balloon Rally. Run it, jog it, walk it, or crawl it – it’s up to you!

Pre-register at Rehoboth Christian School or online at the Rehoboth website (www.rcsnm.org) for $20. You can also register on site at the Church Rock Post Office for $25 on the day of the race at 8:30 am. The race will begin promptly at 9:30 am. There will be prizes for the top three winners in each category. Shirts for all participants (while supplies last). Register today! If you have questions, please call Rehoboth Christian School at 505-863-4412.

All proceeds will benefit the Rehoboth Choirs.

Rehoboth Choir will perform in their Annual Christmas Concert on Sunday, December 15 at 4 pm at Sacred Heart Cathedral!

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87301 ‘Tis the Holiday Season! Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

By Betsy Windisch From Thanksgiving to New Year’s Day, household waste increases by more than 25 percent. This extra trash – mostly food, shopping bags, product packaging and wrapping paper – adds up to an additional 1 million tons of waste a week that’s sent to U.S. landfills, according to the EPA. Luckily, there are many steps you can take that will help you reduce your holiday trash – and even save some cash.

Christmas Trees Live, potted trees are reusable. After the holidays, you can plant your tree or leave it potted in your yard and use it again next year. Freshly cut trees are recyclable.

Usually a few stores in our area sell cut trees. Better yet, if you can, chop down your own.

Avoid artificial trees that are made from polyvinyl chloride (PVC). After the holidays, your tree can be placed in your backyard for nesting birds, or call 863-1212 for the sites where trees can be dropped off or days Solid Waste will pick up trees. The trees and other evergreens will be turned into mulch for community parks and public areas. Residents may also take advantage of these materials for free by calling 863-1275. Tumbleweed Trees are a creative alternative. Look for them rolling by outside.

Natural Holiday Decorations and Fragrances Instead of buying decorations, go for a walk. Look for berries, dried flowers (even weeds), pinecones, and evergreen branches that can make beautiful decorations.

Add seasonal scents by making potpourri – simmer ingredients such as lemon and/or orange slices, cinnamon sticks, cloves, cardamom, and nutmeg. Instead of buying new decorations, reuse ornaments from your family attic or a thrift store. Make ornaments from homemade clay, scraps of fabric, old holiday cards, and nontoxic paints and glue.

Children will enjoy making the ornaments and also snow globes in watertight recycled jars. Instructions can be found online. Several snow globes displayed together make an attractive winter wonderland.

Americans generate a lot of garbage during the holidays.

Entertaining is a big reason. Plastic cutlery will last in a landfill for thousands of holidays to come, and paper plates aren’t earth-friendly if they’re coated in petroleumbased wax. What to do? Buy biodegradable cutlery and plates. Better yet: use cloth instead of paper napkins. Reusing is always better than recycling, and napkins won’t take any more energy, soap, or water to wash because you can throw them in with your regular laundry. If you use paper, look for napkins made from recycled paper. Use ceramic or glass plates and metal flatware. Borrow or rent plates and silverware if necessary.

Come party time, keep recycle containers in clear sight to make it easy for guests. Use microfiber cloths or tea towels instead of paper towels to clean up spills.

Send Green Greetings – Conserve Resources and Reduce Pollution This is the time of year many will reach out to an extended network of family and friends to send best wishes and give a yearly update. After a few weeks, most of those greeting cards will be trashed. Send electronic greetings using an online service. Often, you can add photos or even video to the message. Buy greetings cards made from 100% recycled paper. You can even find options that have seeds embedded in the fibers. Your recipients can plant the cards and the resulting flowers will remind them that you care.

What to Give?

Gift giving is an essential part of the season, but minimize the store-bought items. Get crafty - make some presents. Try your hand at homemade candy, fudge, cookies, breads, jams, dry soup mixes, powdered drinks and other holiday treats.

Wrapping It All Up Most mass-produced wrapping paper is not made from recycled paper, and if it has metal fibers or foil, it can’t be recycled. If you buy wrapping paper, make sure it’s recycled and recyclable. Better yet, use old maps, newspaper comic pages, or pieces of fabric, towels or other linens that are can be re-used. Finish off gift-wrapping with a sprig of berries or leaves from Nature’s bounty instead of ribbon. If every family in the United States wrapped just three presents this way, we’d save enough ribbon to tie a bow around the earth.

What a great gift that would be! And when receiving a wrapped gift carefully unwrap to use the paper, ribbon and other decoration another day.

Where to shop The easiest way to cut back on what you’re throwing away is to reduce the amount of stuff you bring home. A good place to start is with product packaging.

Packaging makes up 30 percent of America’s trash – the largest portion of municipal solid waste generated. Package-free Christmas shopping (or anytime) may seem impossible, but there are ways to cut back on unnecessary packaging. Shop at stores where you can buy unpackaged goods, purchase used items from thrift stores, shop at the remaining seasonal arts & craft shows and area flea markets, even Craig’s List.

Be a more caring and responsible citizen of the Earth by Going Green this Season.

On Call Jazz Benefit Concert Supporting Thai Burma Border Health Initiative Friday, December 13, 7 pm Angela’s Café Almost seven years ago, four physicians working in New Mexico formed the Thai Burma Border Health Initiative, largely in response to needs identified by local people. Currently in the border area around the Three Pagodas Pass separating Thailand and Burma (Myanmar) there are a large number of people without access to proper health care and information. There are several non-government organizations working in this area, in addition to the Thai government, but in spite of their efforts, people fall between the gaps and do not have access to health care, health education, or public health services. Also, there are in this area people trained in health care that are unemployed.

TBBHI, a Gallup-based non-profit, supports these local health care providers so that assistance may be provided to the local people. All of TBBHI’s officers are volunteers and are not compensated for their time or their out-of-pocket expenses.

100% of all donated funds received are sent to the field.

Now is your chance to help! On Friday, December 13, On Call Jazz is playing a benefit concert at 7pm at Angela’s Café, located in Gallup’s historic train station. Join us for some great holiday music and support the work of this local group sponsoring successful health and education projects among ethnic minority groups and tribes living in refugee camps along the border between Thailand and Burma. The event is free; donations are appreciated.

For more information and ways to contribute, visit www.tbbhi.org.

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am going to die.

Hopefully not too soon, but it will happen.

Along with birth, it’s the one common denominator that links all of us together.

From the richest of the rich to the poorest of the poor and from talk show hosts to astronauts.

We are all going down.

Really, our culture has sort of glossed over this. We are taught that we need to live for now – we need to be successful and climb whatever ladder we can find.

Which might be good advice . . .

I mean, I want to continually strive to be better, too. My hope is that I don’t continually strive to be richer or to step on others as I climb the ladder.

I want to live my life in a way that I am remembered well.

Wow, that sounds incredibly arrogant.

(Which, by the way, I have been called on more than one occasion.)

But I’m not ashamed of it, and hopefully I shouldn’t be.

I was talking to my friend Scott the other day over coffee at Glenn’s and I mentioned that when I die, I want the funeral service to be a whole-day affair. I want everyone that comes to walk up to the microphone and tell a story. When I’m gone, I want to be remembered – even if it’s just on one day for lots of people.

Granted, my close friends will have to remember me or they will not be included in my will – which is a treasure hunt.

Don’t worry, my family will get pretty much everything, but my Pearl Jam collection and old golf clubs – those will be up for grabs.

When I’m gone, I want to leave a legacy. I want folks in our community to say, “Oh shit, how will we fill that void?” I know that I’m not there yet, but I actually do want to get there.

I don’t want to just fade away.

I don’t want an obituary; I want a People magazine cover shot with an accompanying story.

Where would we be without ambition, right?

I want my legacy in this community to be more than just my business.

I want my legacy in this community to be more than just the kind of car I drive.

I want my legacy in this community to be more than just how big my house is or how much cash I have in the bank.

I want my legacy in this community to be tied to what I have done outside of my business and outside of my car and outside of my house.

Wow, I’m really starting to sound arrogant now, aren’t I? Well, you can rest assured that I actually mean it.

If you don’t already have a legacy in mind, start thinking about what you’d like to be remembered for.

We don’t all need to dream as if we’re important. But why not?

By N. Haveman

I’m going to dream big and hope that the impact I make will be remembered. I’m going to dream big because I want my kids (hopefully I don’t die for a really long time) to be proud of what I accomplished while breathing.

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I think it all kind of goes back to living a good story. By that I mean that most of our lives would make a terrible movie script . . . they would be sooooooo boring that people would claw their eyes out if they had to watch our sedated lives unfold.

We should live better stories than that. Let’s all shoot to live one above-average story per day. I think that’ll be a good start.

For more on the idea about living a good story, check out A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, by Donald Miller – it’s a great read.

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

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: 722-6389.

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

Codependents Anonymous, 12 noon at First United Methodist Church, 1800 Red Rock Drive, library room. Info: Liz at 863-5928.

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.

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.

Long Form Tai Chi will practice at Old School Gallery in El Morro, NM, 9:30-10:30 am. Newcomers welcome!

Experience the healing power of group meditation! Reserve a time for silence, love and light! Share your presence with us! Third Sundays of the month, 1-3 pm. Contact Maria for directions, 505-863-3772. Bluewater Acres area.

Zumba, a cardio-based workout, is “exercise in disguise.” Come for classes led by licensed instructor, Vanessa Bowling, at Hozho Center (216 W. Maloney, Gallup) Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays at 6 pm and Sundays at 2 pm. Cost is $4/person. For more information, check out www.vbowling.zumba.com.

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Meet Santa and Mrs. Claus at the El Rancho Hotel from 3 to 5 pm! There will be a Scavenger Hunt and opportunities for photos with the Clauses for a $5 donation to American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life.

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

“Teen Survivors of Dating and Domestic Violence” support group meeting, 6:30-8:30pm. Info: 7226389.

Lebanon Lodge #22, A. F. & A. M. meets the 2nd and 4th Monday of the month at 7:30 pm at the Gallup Masonic Center (4801 E. Historic 66 Avenue). An informational program and meal are presented before the meeting at 6:45 pm. All Masons are invited. Info: lebanonlodge22@yahoo. com.

Alicia’s Zumba Fitness Classes will be held from 7:15-8:15 pm at Wowie’s Gym (1500 South 2nd Street, Gallup). $5/class or 10-class punch card for $30. Your first 2 classes are FREE! Info: Alicia Santiago (505) 236-9564.

Open mic night every Monday at the Coffee House from 6 to 8 pm. Open to musicians, poets, and story tellers.

The Gallup York Rite Masons hold their monthly meeting on the 1st Monday of each month at the Gallup Masonic Center (4801 E. Historic 66 Avenue) at 7:30 pm. A short program and light meal are held before most meetings at 6:45 pm. All York Rite Masons are invited to attend. Info: GallupYorkRite@ yahoo.com.

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Free HIV testing, health resource information, art, music, food and fun will be provided at the University of New MexicoGallup’s World Aids Day, 10:30 am to 2:30 pm. All events take place in the UNMGallup Student Services and Technology Center, Room 200. For more information, please contact Jordon Johnson by phone at 505-503-5183 or email at jordon.johnson@ yahoo.com.

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Mother Goose on the Loose (ages 0-2) interactive parent-child music + movement story time, 11am at the Children’s Library.

Weird Science Club (ages 6-12) exploratory science, technology, engineering and math programs designed to make learning fun, 4pm at the Children’s Library.

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

Gallup Solar Group open community meetings. 6pm at 113 E. Logan. For more information, call Be at 726-2497.

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.

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.

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.

Alicia’s Zumba Fitness Classes will be held from 7:15-8:15 pm at Wowie’s Gym (1500 South 2nd Street, Gallup). $5/class or 10-class punch card for $30. Your first 2 classes are FREE! Info: Alicia Santiago (505) 236-9564.

Four Corners Yoga (601 W. Coal Ave.) is offering free community class at 6 pm. All donations will be remitted to Adopt an Elder. For information, call 505-863-6463, email fourcornersyoga@yahoo.com or friend us on FB @ fourcornersyoga. *All classes are hot and 90 mins. CHANGE YOUR BODY . . .

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Faith Chapter #69, Order of the Eastern Star, meet the 3rd Tuesday of the month at 7 pm at the Gallup Masonic Center (4801 E. Historic 66 Avenue). Info: Robert 505-615-8053.

Alicia’s Zumba Fitness Classes will be held from 7:15-8:15 pm at Wowie’s Gym (1500 South 2nd Street, Gallup). $5/class or 10-class punch card for $30. Your first 2 classes are FREE! Info: Alicia Santiago (505) 236-9564.

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The RMCHCS Auxiliary is hosting a Book Fair in the lobby of RMCH, December 3-4. For more information, call Carol at 870-2030.

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O Come, All Ye Faithful! Join the people of the Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit for a beautiful candlelit service of Lessons and Carols and Holy Eucharist at 7 pm. Everyone is very welcome. Bring Quilt Club at Gallup Service Mart, your family and friends and plan to stay 6-9pm. Potluck – bring your favorite dish afterwards for fellowship, eggnog, cocoa, Advent Festival of Lessons and Carols and join other quilters in the area for an and cookies. The Church of the Holy Spirit at Church of the Holy Spirit, 4 pm. The evening of fun and sharing of ideas and is located at 1334 Country Club Drive, community is invited to join us as we prepare projects. If you would like, also bring for the coming of the Christ Child with canned goods and non-perishables to donate Gallup, just 1 block west of Red Rock Elementary School. For information, call music, quiet, lessons, and beauty. The Church to the Food Pantry during the holiday of the Holy Spirit is located at 1334 Country season. Free event. For more information, 505-863-4695.

Club Drive, Gallup, just 1 block west of Red call 722-9414.

Rock Elementary School. For information, NEW YEAR’S EVE call 505-863-4695.

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Rehoboth High School Choir’s Annual Christmas Concert will be held at Sacred Heart Cathedral at 4 pm. Don’t miss this wonderful holiday event!

Children’s Christmas Program with Candle-lighting Service at the Church of the Holy Spirit, 5 pm. Westminster Presbyterian Church and Church of the Holy Spirit join together for a performance of “Good News – Great Joy,” featuring the children of both congregations. Come join us for a lovely and delightful evening, with refreshments to follow. The Church of the Holy Spirit is located at 1334 Country Club Drive, Gallup, just 1 block west of Red Rock Elementary School. For information, call 505-863-4695.

Hozho Center, located at 216 W. Maloney in Gallup, provides services for personal enhancement through information, support and hope.

For more information, call 505-870-1483.

Services include: Warm Line – Non-crisis support lines include Confidentiality, Peer-to-Peer Support System, Resources, the chance to Share Concerns. We are here to listen in you need someone to talk to! The Warm Line is bilingual in Navajo and English. Call 505-862-2161, Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 10 am to 3 pm.

One2One, a peer recovery coach to strengthen and encourage individual recovery effort. Men’s group Mondays at 10 am; Talking Circle on Tuesdays at 1:30 pm; Women’s group Thursdays at 10 am; 12 Steps Meetings Wednesdays and Fridays at 6 pm.

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Thursday ONGOING

Crafty Kids, fun for all ages, 4pm at the Children’s Library.

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.

Alicia’s Zumba Fitness Classes will be held from 7:15-8:15 pm at Wowie’s Gym (1500 South 2nd Street, Gallup). $5/class or 10-class punch card for $30. Your first 2 classes are FREE! Info: Alicia Santiago (505) 236-9564.

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Movies for all ages at the Children’s Library@ 4pm Road to Reading (3-5), 11am at the Children’s Library. A story time designed to teach pre-reading skills to the Pre-K crowd and their caregivers. AND Puppet Show (all ages), 4 pm at the Children’s Library.

Teen Games (12-17), 4pm at the Children’s Library.

Play games, hang out, make crafts.

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

The weekly Old-Fashioned Hootenanny, at Camille’s Sidewalk Cafe, every Friday, starting at ZUMBA Fitness Classes at Wowie’s Activity Hall on the corner of Maloney and 3rd Street starting at 11:00 a.m.

6:30PM. Acoustic musicians are welcome to sit in For more information email r_roanhorse@yahoo.com or call Ralph Roanhorse at (505) 862-2970. with the regular players.

Alicia’s Zumba Fitness Classes will be held from 7:15-8:15 pm at Wowie’s Gym (1500 South 2nd Street, Gallup). $5/class or 10-class punch card for $30. Your first 2 classes are FREE! Info: Alicia Santiago (505) 236-9564.

Fall Belly Dance Classes at FOF Dance Studio, 230 W Coal Ave. Kids Belly Dance, 5:00-5:30pm. Intro to Belly Dance (for adults), 5:30-6:30. FOF Belly Dance Performance Class: 6:30-7:30. Call Leaf at 722-2491 for tuition rates and registration and for more info.

Diabetes Education Classes, first four Thursdays of the month, 6:30-8:30 pm, RMCH 2nd floor library. Contact: Carolyn at 863-1865.

Zumba, a cardio-based workout, is “exercise in disguise.” Come for classes led by licensed instructor, Vanessa Bowling, at Hozho Center (216 W. Maloney, Gallup) Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays at 6 pm and Sundays at 2 pm. Cost is $4/person.

For more information, check out www.vbowling.zumba.com.

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Soroptimist International of Pyramid Rock Trail Run at Red Rock Park. This difficult 5-mile trail will be a wonderful 33rd Annual Red Rock Balloon Gallup meets the second Thursday of the Rally, the second largest balloon rally in challenge, coinciding with events at this year’s Red Rock Balloon Rally. Run it, jog it, walk it, or month at Angela’s Café at noon. Please the world, at Red Rock Park, December crawl it – it’s up to you! Pre-register at Rehoboth Christian School or online at the Rehoboth website note the new location! (www.rcsnm.org) for $20. You can also register on site at the Church Rock Post Office for $25 on the 6-8. The schedule of events includes day of the race at 8:30 am. The race will begin promptly at 9:30 am. Please call Rehoboth Christian mass ascensions, balloon glows and Second Thursday Diabetes Support competition with beautiful, hand crafted School at 505-863-4412 with any questions. Proceeds will benefit the Rehoboth choirs.

Group at Church of the Holy Spirit Native American arts and crafts. See p.

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UFO Projects at Gallup Service Mart, 9am-4pm. $20 includes lunch and pattern. Do you have pm. For all people who suffer from Type 1 projects you want to complete but just haven’t had the time, the space or the discipline to complete or Type 2 Diabetes. Info: 505-863-4695. The RMCHCS Auxiliary is holding a them? This is the time to get organized and get those unfinished projects done at the end of the year.

Balloon Rally Breakfast in the RMCH Bring your projects and join other quilters in getting projects completed. The Taco pillowcase pattern Breastfeeding 101, learn the basics of will also be taught to help you make a quick present for yourself or a friend. Come for a day of fun Solarium. Tickets are available in the breastfeeding, 6pm, RMCH 2nd floor RMCHCS Gift Shop, or at the door. For and laughter before the holidays! For more information call 722-9414. library AND Baby Bistro, support group more information, call Carol at 870for breastfeeding moms and their babies, 2030.

Community Christmas Parade, hosted by the City of Gallup and the Gallup-McKinley County 7pm, RMCH 2nd floor library. For more Chamber of Commerce. The Parade will begin at 2 pm, traveling west on Coal Ave., starting on the information contact Mary Ippel at 505corner of Puerco St. and Coal Ave. It then turn left on 8th St. to Lincoln Elementary. Santa will be On Call Jazz concert to benefit visiting us in the Parade! Please call the Gallup McKinley County Chamber of Commerce for details 870-5103. the Thai Burma Border Health at 505-722-2228.

Initiative, 7 pm at Angela’s Café.

TBBHI is a Gallup-based non-profit McKinley Citizens’ Recycling Council monthly meeting, 2 pm at the Red Mesa Center next to the that supports access to health care and library on Hill Ave. information in the border area separating Thailand and Burma. 100% of proceeds Thunderbird Supply Co. (1907 W. Route 66) invites you to Meet & Greet the 2014 Women of the will provide assistance to the local Navajo models from 2 to 6 pm. The 2014 WOTN calendar will be available for sale. Free poster people. For more information about while supplies last! Stop by and get your calendar and poster signed, bring your camera. See you TBBHI, visit www.tbbhi.org. there!

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

2013 Festival of Trees hosted by Soroptimist International of Gallup at the Rio West Mall. Trees will be on display and tickets on sale up until the main event at 5 pm on Saturday, December 7. Must be present to win. Proceeds benefit SI’s scholarship program, Battered Families Services and other community program efforts.

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Breakfast with Santa! presented by Red Rock 4-H at the Community Pantry. Come any time from 9 to 11 am. For a $5 donation you’ll get a breakfast with pancakes, sausage and a beverage and a photo! All proceeds benefit the Community Pantry!

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Breakfast with Santa fund/fun raiser at the Catholic Indian Center Catholic Charities from 9 am to 12 noon. Breakfast is free but we are requesting that new, unwrapped, non-violent toys for both girls and boys be brought as your entrance token. We will be serving scrambled eggs, pancakes, bacon, milk and juice. Donations of time and items (eggs, bacon, milk, juice, syrup, paper products, etc.) are greatly appreciated starting Dec. 2. If you wish to volunteer, please call Sr. Pacita at 505722-4407 x120 or email at director@catholicindiancenter.org.

ArtsCrawl, Downtown Gallup, 7-9 pm.

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Fort Defiance Christmas Parade! Line up at 5 pm on south side of Tse Ho Tso Medical Center. Floats welcome from families, departments, churches, etc. For more information, call Suzan Warren at THS Medical Center, 928-729-8040.

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S at u rda y , D ecember 1 4 • 5 pm - 9 pm PARTICIPATING VENUES SAMMY C’S MAKING SPIRITS BRIGHT 4TH ANNUAL VOODOO “COOL YULE” TOY AND FOOD DRIVE FROM 6:30 TO 8:30 WE WILL HAVE KIDS FUN AND GAMES AND MUCH MORE! JUST BRING AN UNWRAPPED TOY OR CANNED FOOD ITEM TO JOIN IN THE FUN! THERE MIGHT BE A VISIT FROM SANTA CLAUS SO DON’T MISS THIS CHANCE TO HELP THE LESS FORTUNATE AND THE CHILDREN FROM OUR OWN COMMUNITY. NATIVE AMERICAN CRAFTSMAN WILBERT MANNING WILL FEATURE HIS JEWELRY ALONG WITH RIC SARRACINO AND HIS 5-MINUTE CARICATURES OF ARTSCRAWL VISITORS – SINGLES, COUPLES AND GROUPS! FOUNDATIONS OF FREEDOM PERFORMING ARTS DANCE STUDIO: AT 7:30 AND 8:30 PM IN THE STREETS OF DOWNTOWN GALLUP, COME WATCH A SNEAK PEAK OF THEIR UPCOMING, “A NOT-SO CLASSIC CHRISTMAS SHOW.” THIS PERFORMANCE WILL SHOWCASE A VARIETY OF GENRES DANCED BY ALL AGES. IT’S OUR HOLIDAY CELEBRATION, BUT WITH A F.O.F. TWIST! THE F.O.F. STUDIO IS LOCATED AT 115 W. COAL AVE. ANGELA’S CAFÉ GREAT COFFEE, FOOD, DRINKS AND NOW ART! FEATURED ART FROM ROSSI BRIGHT, RAVEN BRIGHT, ADAM WENGER AND AMY COATS. THERES ALWAYS LIVE MUSIC, GOOD COMPANY AND A WONDERFUL ATMOSPHERE! SHALLOW GALLERY FEATURING THE UNM-GALLUP PHOTOGRAPHY STUDENTS’ FALL EXHIBIT. YOU CAN SEE THESE BEAUTIFUL WORKS OF ART AT 207 W. COAL (NEXT TO THE EL MORRO THEATER).

THE OPEN STUDIO/OUTSIDER GALLERY OUR GROUP SHOW OF CONTEMPORARY FINE ARTS & CRAFTS….UNIQUE, ONE-OF-A KIND & HANDMADE CREATED BY OUR VARIOUS ARTISTS! ADAM WENGER AN ARTIST, DANCER, AND A GALLUP NATIVE. THIS YOUNG ARTIST HAS PERFORMED ALL OVER THE SOUTHWEST AND IS COMING HOME FOR ARTSCRAWL! COME SEE HIM IN ACTION FROM 7-9 IN FRONT OF THE F.O.F. PERFORMING ART DANCE STUDIO.

RECYCLE RECYCLE RECYCLE McKINLEY CITIZENS’ RECYCLING COUNCIL WILL BE ON HAND TO PROVIDE INFORMATION ABOUT RECYCLING IN GALLUP. IN ADDITION, THEY WILL HAVE RECYCLING BINS DOWNTOWN DURING ARTSCRAWL. COME OUT AND SHOW YOUR SUPPORT DURING ARTSCRAWL! WAYNE COATS AN ARTIST FROM THE WHITE MOUNTAINS IN ARIZONA COMES WITH NOT 1 BUT 2 CHAINSAWS TO SCULPT BEAUTIFUL DESIGNS IN THE STREETS OF DOWNTOWN GALLUP! COME WITNESS THE DANGEROUS BEAUTY FROM THIS TALENTED MAN. QUANNIE BURNHAM THIS YOUNG MAGICIAN HAS MANY TRICKS UP HIS SLEEVES. COME SEE HIM IN ACTION AS HE WANDERS THE STREETS OF DOWNTOWN GALLUP. YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT FROM THIS YOUNG AND MISCHIEVOUS BOY. ART 123 THE MEMBERS OF ART123 AND YOUNG ARTISTS FROM CHIEF MANUELITO, CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL, AND ZUNI PUEBLO ARE HAVING A HOLIDAY CASH AND CARRY SHOW. EVERYTHING IS UNDER $40 AND JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS! LOCATED AT 123 W. COAL AVE. EL MORRO THEATRE THE LIVE RADIO BROADCASTING OF THE ORSON WELLES “A CHRISTMAS CAROL.” JOIN US FOR ONE OF THE BEST HOLIDAY STORIES OF OUR TIME. COAL ST. PUB LIVE MUSIC AND A GREAT ATMOSPHERE. MARLA DE ARMOND CHAVEZ WILL BE ON HAND WITH HER ONE-OF-A-KIND JEWELRY. Octavia Fellin Public Library - Children’s Branch 6:00 - 8:30 Cocoa, Crafts and A Christmas Carol hot cocoa, popcorn, and a screening of the 2009 “A Christmas Carol” starring Jim Carrey. Stop by to snack, craft and visit.

Holiday Bazaar @ 210 W. Coal Live Wood Sculptures • FOF Dance Productions • Live Painting • Kids’ Kraft Corner Live Performances & More!

Discounts and Specials at Downtown Businesses • Photos with Santa • Strolling Carolers Holiday Cookies & Warm Beverages • Traffic-Free Shopping

For more information or to get your space listed each month, email artscrawlgallup@gmail.com

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Reck Rock Balloon Rally Challenge

Will You Make It?

You just watched the Dec. 7 Sat. morning balloons go up at Red Rock Park. Your family is hungry after hiking around Church Rock and you stop to get a Navajo Burger at a roadside stand. You suddenly realize you’re going to be late for the downtown Christmas Parade. Can you make it there in 15 min? Or will you miss the opening fire trucks that 4-year-old Junior has been talking about all day?

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I-40 baby! + 5 min It’s smooth and fast, but it’s extra miles.

Looking west on Route 66 you see lots of traffic at the casino. It may be quicker to just backtrack east 2 miles to I-40 at the McGaffey exit.

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You made it to the exit 26 on the east edge of town. Do you stay on I-40 or get on Route 66?

A.) 66

Traffic at the casino is bad and a pickup truck with 4 chilly adults in the bed is limping on a flat tire. Flip a quarter to see how long it takes you to get by.

A.) Heads +4 min

You made it to the first stoplight on 66. If you stay on route 66 flip a quarter to see how you deal with the next four stoplights....or just get on I-40.

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You curse the absence of a stoplight and now remember the horrid times of trying to turn left. Do you risk it? Or just take the easy right onto Maloney and head towards 3rd St.?

A.) Risk the left to 66.

Yep it sucks! +4 min

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You took the easy way out but now you need to deal with the train crossing!

Oh NO! Flip a quarter to see if a train is blocking your final destination?

A.) Heads! No train! You roll thru and are golden! +1 min

B.) Tails...are you kidding me? +5 min

+2 min for Aztec as you avoided all extra traffic and parade setup on 66. +4 min for taking 66 and getting worked by the pre-parade chaos.

YOU MADE IT! DOWNTOWN CHRISTMAS PARADE! 2 PM • SAT, DEC. 7 But did you make it in 15 min and see the fire trucks?

You realize it doesn’t matter because all your kids really cared about is the 2.1 pounds of fresh candy they have collected.

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2013 Friday, December 6 7–9am RMCH 3rd Floor Solarium

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