Gallup Journey June 2013

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2013 Remaining Events

Contact Ken Zylstra before July 15, 2013 at 505.488.3900 or kzylstra@rcsnm.org for more information.

July 6

Family-style triathlon Gallup Aquatic Center

July 20

Zumba Rio West Mall

august 10

ceremonial parade walk Downtown Gallup

September 29

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October 13

Pack the peak hike Pyramid Peak

November 28

Care 66 Turkey Trot Downtown Gallup

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Saturday, June 1, 2013 Show Time: 1:00pm Kids Matinee Movie: ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH Rated: PG 89 minutes Animated Feature Voice Talents: Brendan Fraser, Sarah Jessica Parker, James Gandolfini, Jessica Alba, Rob Corddry Admission: Adults: $2.00 Children 12 & under: FREE!

Saturday, June 15, 2013 Show Time: 6:00pm Monster Slayer Project Presents: Short Shorts Admission: $10.00/person or $5.00/person with receipt from a downtown business

A screening of short films produced by film makers from Gallup and the four corners region. All proceeds will be used to fund the upcoming short film, “Monster Slayer”. All attendees will be entered into a free This family comedy catapults moviegoers to planet Baab where admired prize drawing. astronaut Scorch Supernova (Brendan Fraser) is a national hero to Friday, June 21, 2013 Show Times: 7:00pm and 9:00pm the blue alien population. A master of daring rescues, Scorch pulls off Friday Night Movie: HELL AND MR. FUDGE Rated: PG 95 astonishing feats with the quiet aid of his nerdy, by-the-rules brother, minutes Gary (Rob Corddry), head of mission control at BASA. When BASA’s Starring: Josh Duhamel, Julianne Hough no-nonsense chief Lena (Jessica Alba) informs the brothers of an SOS Admission: $3.00/adults $1.00/children 12 & under from a notoriously dangerous planet, Scorch rejects Gary’s warnings and bounds off for yet another exciting mission. But when Scorch Edward Fudge, a young Bible-belt preacher, gets a surprise visit from finds himself caught in a fiendish trap set by the evil Shanker (William an eccentric stranger who has a bizarre request. He wants Fudge to Shatner) it’s up to scrawny, risk-adverse Gary to do the real rescuing. investigate Hell.

As the interplanetary stakes rise to new heights, Gary is left to save his brother, his planet, his beloved wife Kira (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Son of a respected church leader known for his conservative religious views, Edward is confident that whatever the Bible really teaches is their adventure hungry son Kip. right. Trained in biblical languages and theology, he finds the proposal intriguing. He agrees to take it on, not knowing where it will lead. He Saturday, June 1, 2013 Show Time: 7:00pm dedicates a year of his life to a systematic study of Hell – and his life Saturday Evening Movie: BEAUTIFUL CREATURES Rated: PG-13 124 minutes will never be the same again.

Starring: Alden Ehrenreich, Alice Englert, Jeremy Irons, Viola Davis, As Fudge immerses himself in research, other aspects of his life begin Emmy Rossum to crumble. Leaders of his own denomination attack him for suggesting Admission: Adults: $5.00 Children 12 & under: $3.00 that members of other churches can be saved.

When newcomer Lena Duchannes arrives in the small town of Gatlin she His own congregation – people he loves and serves – fires him after he quickly captures the attention of Ethan Wate, who only wants to escape invites a black man to pray from the podium. The publishing company he has worked for since childhood terminates his employment because what he views as a boring and dead end town. He quickly gets more than he bargained for, as Lena possesses strange powers that have long he refuses to recant his liberal positions. kept her at a distance from others in her life. Lena and Ethan are drawn He becomes so committed to his research that his relationship with his together, but their budding romance is threatened by the dangers posed wife and children begins to suffer. And, most importantly, in the course of his investigation some of his core beliefs about God and judgment

by Lena’s being a Caster and her family’s Dark powers, for upon her sixteenth birthday Lena must undergo the Claiming, a process that will and eternity are shaken from their foundations. Ultimately, Fudge emerges as a defender of faith and Scripture, and a champion for God’s decide her fate forever: Light or Dark. love.

Today Edward Fudge is a well-respected author, lecturer, and theologian.

Friday, June 7 & Saturday, June 8, 2013 Doors: 5:30pm The book that resulted from his research, The Fire That Consumes, is a Show Time: 6:00pm compelling study on the subject of Hell and eternal torment. It stands Foundations of Freedom Performing Arts presents: as a testimony to a man who had the courage to search for truth and to A NIGHT AT THE MOVIES! pay the price for what he found.

Tickets: $7.00/person Tickets On Sale at Foundations of Freedom dance studio 115 W. Coal Ave Gallup, NM 87301 For more information contact: Kathleen (505) 870-0836 Friday, June 14, 2013 Show Time: 7:00pm Friday Night Movie: WARM BODIES Rated: PG-13 Starring: Nicholas Hoult, John Malkovich Admission: $5.00/adults $3.00/children 12 & under

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After a zombie epidemic, R (a zombie) rescues Julie (a human survivor) from a zombie attack. The two form a special relationship in their struggle for survival, R becomes increasingly more human - setting off a chain of events that begins to transform the other zombies and maybe even the whole lifeless world.

Saturday, June 15, 2013 Show Time: 1:00pm Kids Matinee Movie: ALVIN & THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED Rated: G 88 minutes Starring: Jason Lee, David Cross, Jenny Slate, Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler Admission: Adults: $2.00 Children 12 & under: FREE! Chipmunks ahoy! It’s a tidal wave of toe-tapping music and unfurgettable fun for the whole family as Alvin and the Chipmunks return in their greatest adventure yet! While on vacation aboard a luxury cruise liner, Alvin, Simon, Theodore and the Chipettes can’t help rocking the boat with their unique brand of ‘munk mischief. But things get really squeaky when the gang winds up stranded on a remote island - and they soon discover their new tropical playground is not as deserted as it seems.

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Saturday, June 22, 2013 Matinee: 1:00pm Evening Show Times: 7:00pm and 9:00pm Saturday Matinee Movie: HELL AND MR. FUDGE Rated: PG Admission: $3.00/adults $1.00/children 12 & under

95 minutes

Saturday, June 29, 2013 No Kids Matinee Today Saturday, June 29, 2013 Doors: 6:00pm Show Time: 7:00pm Lodgers Tax and Knifewing Productions present: RICK TREVINO IN CONCERT! Grammy-winning singer/songwriter Rick Trevino is coming back to Gallup!

Between spending time with his family and getting out on the road with his Austin-based band, Trevino rocks the house with his golden voice and razor-sharp writing.

Whether sizzling to South Texas swing (“Better in Texas”) or swaying to a sensual bolero (“Autumn Rose”), taking a honky-tonk trip with a detour to New Orleans (“Because of You”) or going back to the well of old-school country ballads (“Separate Ways”), Trevino engages with this music as few performers can.

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These early days of June seem like the tissue paper wrapping barely concealing the package that is summer. As the time comes to open this gift, we all approach it differently. Some of us can’t wait to tear into it, revealing stacks of books to read, longweekend road trips, and household projects with the extra time in which to accomplish them. Others of us gingerly hold the package or hide it on a high shelf, not wanting to acknowledge the schedule changes, new responsibilities, and obligatory travels that exist therein.

Or maybe, like me, you’re somewhere between. With lessthan-eager anticipation, I welcome this new season – since it’s coming anyway. Slightly overwhelmed at the thought of kids being home all day, every day, I am motivated to develop some fun activities and implement some sort of routine. I am lucky enough to have some extra time this summer, so perhaps there are some projects that may actually be started and finished.

There seem to be so many offerings for public entertainment, from the Nightly Indian Dances and monthly ArtsCrawl events to the library’s summer reading program and recreational sports.

Lest those dreadful words, “I’m bored,” be uttered, I’ll have ample artillery with which to combat them!

As I recall, after the winds die down (and they always do), the white, puffy clouds will appear, the days are hot, the nights cool, and summertime in Gallup is pretty wonderful.

It is now, almost as in those final days before the New Year, when what’s ahead feels full of promise and possibility. Ready or not, here it comes!

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Features

18 Small Town Life 32 Monster Slayer Project 56 Old Train Music & Arts

Columns

12 Garlic!

14 Driving Impressions 16 Rounding the Four Corners 22 8 Questions 26 West by Southwest 30 Tribal Court 36 Adventures in Parenting 38 Memories of Gallup 40 Money & You 42 Lit Crit Lite

Other Stuff

6 El Morro Theatre Schedule 8 Thoughts 34 Rodeo Schedule 41 Izzit?!

44 ArtsCrawl Schedule 47 Sudoku 50 G-TOWN, 87301 54 Community Calendar 57 News from Care 66 58 People Reading 62 This Is My Job

Contributors

Ernie Bulow Greg Cavanaugh Elysia Choudhrie Sanjay Choudhrie Patricia Darak Dr. Bera Dordoni Jeannette Gartner Joyce Graves Rob Koops Yogash Kumar Larry Larason Jay Mason Monster Slayer Team Brett Newberry Kris Pikaart Fowler Roberts Bob Rosebrough Emily Schwerdt Chuck Van Drunen Betsy Windisch

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June 2013: Volume 10, Issue 6 - #107

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June 2013: Gallup Journey

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The Divine Stinking Rose

GARLIC Photo by Donovan Govan

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w! You have garlic breath!”

Yup, I sure do—and it makes me happy. Garlic is one of easiest ways for me to stay healthy. And I love it. When I first met my Italian husband, he was so romantic (still is) he wanted to know what turned me on. Was it foot rubs? Oh yeah, those work just fine! How about ballroom dancing to music from the 40s? That definitely does it, too.

“What else?” he queried. I didn’t want to seem too easy, so I told him the truth. Garlic.

I have such a love affair going on with garlic that anyone who wants to be around me has to love it almost as much as I do or they won’t be able to stand being around me.

“Hi, I’m Bera. I eat raw garlic.”

“Hi, Bera!”

I’m not sure when or where my addiction to garlic started, but it’s just as strong as my dependency on chocolate. Garlic is sensual. Delightful.

Delicious. Stinky. Divine. Essential. Protective (against werewolves and vampires). Perfect.

Raw, roasted, added to soups or stir-fried, its aroma calls to me and its scrumptious flavor makes any and every meal better. I love garlic!

And it loves me. It must, because it does such incredibly wonderful things for my body every time I eat it – which is every day I can get it!

Benefits Galore

From the earliest of times, man has imbued garlic with almost magical powers. Folklore tells us it kills off infections and colds – and protects us from werewolves, vampires, and other creatures supernatural. It makes workers stronger and more productive. It gives athletes a competitive edge. It cures malignancies and abscesses and tumors of all ilk. It relieves headache, fatigue, and insomnia. It even increases a man’s prowess – or is it a woman’s fertility?

Today, modern science is confirming that almost all those claims are, in fact, true. (Almost all. There’s still no replicable proof about the werewolves . . .)

But hey, I simply love garlic.

In biblical times, garlic was thought to be a miracle food all by itself.

Today we know that allicin, the sulfer compound released when we crush, chop, or squeeze the bulbs, is the real miracle element, something Louis Pasteur discovered in 1859 when he saturated bacterial cells with garlic and watched them shrivel up and die.

Allicin is a natural, broad-spectrum antibiotic, which means it acts against a wide range of disease-causing bacteria. In other words, garlic is nature’s penicillin on steroids. A single milligram of allicin has the same antibiotic potency as 15 standard units of penicillin! Even better yet, the body won’t develop a resistance to garlic the way it does to pharmaceutical antibiotics. Why? Because it’s natural! It doesn’t build up in our cells! It just does its job and continues on its way.

Truly one of the most valuable and versatile foods on the planet,

Truly one of the most valuable and versatile foods on the planet . . .

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By Bera Dordoni

More than great pizza.

Dr. Bera Dordoni, N.D., lovingly referred to as the “Wellness Whisperer,” is author of the highly acclaimed book I Have a Choice?!, nutritional counselor, and a naturopathic doctor who has over two decades of experience counseling clients with ailments ranging from allergies to cancer to numerous life-threatening diseases. She incorporates the laws of attraction to help her clients accomplish their health goals and now holds workshops, wellness retreats and natural health classes in the Ramah area. To request a consultation or learn more, visit www. bastis.org or call 505-783-9001.

garlic is from the Allium family of vegetables, which includes onions, chives, shallots, and leeks. (Ummm, onions! Leeks! I’m getting hungry!) Allium veggies not only add flavor and zest to foods, they enhance our immune-cell activity by stimulating T-cell production.

But wait! There’s more! Even if you don’t eat it – even if you simply rub it on your body – garlic inhibits germ growth and reproduction. Got an infected toenail? Rub some garlic on it. How about a slow-healing sore? Apply a garlic poultice and watch the redness and swelling disappear. But it gets even better, because garlic not only inhibits bacterial growth, it also puts the brakes on microbial and fungal growth. Studies are even testing garlic’s effectiveness against methicillin-resistant infections.

Garlic is a natural antioxidant, too, which means it protects our bodies against free-radical damage. And since it stimulates white blood cell production, it actually boosts the immune system. Defense and protection.

How could you not love the stuff?

What’s Good for the Infection is Good for the Heart

We all know that excessive cholesterol can lead to heart disease and stroke. But did you know that including garlic in your diet can help lower your bad cholesterol levels? Yup. Garlic contains compounds that serve as blood thinners. That makes it a natural blood-pressure medicine, too. Studies have shown that ingesting garlic regularly helps the arteries relax, which prevents the hardening and spasms that lead to hypertension.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away? Maybe – but two cloves of garlic a day minimizes the risk of heart attack, atherosclerosis, and stroke.

Garlic’s natural properties protect blood vessels from inflammatory and oxidative stress, which helps prevent clots from forming and plaque from building up in the arteries.

Through its antioxidant properties, garlic keeps skin healthy and glowing and eases arthritic pain. Its high sulfur content aids our digestion while its high vitamin B6, manganese, selenium, and vitamin C content helps our overall vim and vigor.

Is low iron making you feel tired? Our circulatory systems need a constant supply of iron to produce enough red blood cells for optimum human functioning. Garlic helps increase ferroportin production, the protein that provides the bridge iron needs to leave the cells and stay in circulation.

Garlic can rapidly increase hemoglobin production, which in turn increases our energy level. All that aside, I just love garlic.

Dos and Don’ts

Do mince it. Crush it. Smoosh it. Chop it. Grind it. Have an affair with it. And then, EAT it! Feel a cold coming on? Smear a lard-free tortilla with avocado, cayenne pepper, and crushed garlic. What a tasty way to avoid the gleep! Use chopped garlic in salads, fresh-pressed juices, and beans.

Use garlic juice over steamed vegetables. Mince a few cloves into your favorite spaghetti sauce and hummus recipe.

Don’t waste your money on garlic capsules, and don’t microwave raw garlic because you will destroy all the nutrients in it. But do add it at the end of what you’re cooking so it will retain its flavor, aroma, and health benefits.

Are you a meat eater? Adding garlic cloves toward the end of the cooking phase reduces the carcinogens and enhances the flavor of any meat, fish, or fowl, whether roasted, baked, broiled, fried, sautéed, or grilled.

Is there anything bad about garlic? Oh, yeah – garlic breath! Take it with a little parsley or ginger root and you’ll even counteract that raunchy smell. Did I mention that I love garlic?

I wouldn’t give mine up for the all the pharmaceuticals in the Medicare database!

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Dr i v i n g

I M P R ESSIONS

By Greg Cavanaugh

The Rewards of Blending in 2013 Toyota Rav 4 X LE AWD

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here’s little argument that the small/mid-size CUV segment has become increasingly crowded and, frankly, more and more generic. The RAV4 was one of the original small crossovers to define the segment, eschewing the attempts of other manufacturers who tried to take large bodyon-frame SUV traits down to the small segment, and instead used a FWD-based unibody platform. Now this is the norm and, oddly, Toyota has had to figure out how the RAV4 should function in the sea of crossover choices on the market. While dropping the third row, V6 and rear swinging tailgate from the previous generation has made the all-new RAV4 less distinct from the rest of the crowd, the changes are marked improvements. The short of it is this all new RAV4 is the best one yet and is a great buy for a wide variety of drivers and their needs.

Let me get my complaints out of the way first since there are only a few: 1. The exterior styling doesn’t do it for me, but it’s not likely to offend many either. As mentioned, the new RAV4 is less distinct. In fact, a friend of mine thought it was a Subaru Forester and another a Nissan. Toyota used the front end as a chance to differentiate, but to me it comes off as a bit forced. As always I really don’t like slanted C

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pillars à la Pontiac Vibe and every other “sporty” crossover on the market. I think they look juvenile and down market, not to mention creating terrible blind spots.

2. In an effort to give the interior some flair, Toyota created a shelf-like accent across the front of the dashboard and trimmed it in an accent fabric. Don’t get me wrong, I think it looks fine and it certainly helps to bring the HVAC controls close and easy to use, but it creates a no man’s land underneath. I’m not sure why this is becoming such a trend as several of my latest test drives have been victims of this same design aesthetic. In the new RAV4 it makes accessing the Sport and Eco mode buttons and Aux and Power jacks for the infotainment system difficult. The storage there is a good space for lots of odds and ends, just don’t expect to be able to get to them easily.

3. Lastly, the interior used carbon fiber accent trim that I found completely out of character for the RAV4. Let’s be honest here Toyota, you’re not fooling anybody.

And that’s it. Now the good stuff: Space – The new RAV4 is probably the perfect size and space combination for at least 70% of the population. Both the front and second rows are plenty big for those over 6 feet tall, and when sitting behind my 5’ 8” frame, the second row is limo

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. . . it offers a host of features that make the driving experience more enjoyable . . . like. The added width of the new RAV4 yields good shoulder room, and the lack of a center hump in the second row (even in this AWD model) makes sitting three abreast more than tolerable. I typically spend my time complaining about new vehicles’ lack of rear cargo space. The new RAV4 has excellent space. I used a variety of real world items to evaluate the cargo holding capability and it had no problem swallowing full size coolers, oversized strollers and suitcases. By ditching the third row, Toyota was able to relocate the full size spare off of the tailgate and place it under the rear floor.

Now there’s a nice, low, flat-load floor, a traditional top-hinged tailgate and even space around the spare to keep jumper cables and other long-term items. Nice change, Toyota.

Powertrain – The V6 in the previous version yielded a rather sprightly little CUV, but rather poor fuel economy. In this day and age, the former takes a back seat to the latter. I don’t expect a CUV to be fast, but I do expect it to be reasonably fuelefficient compared to bigger choices. The 2.5-liter DOHC i-VVT 4 cylinder in the new RAV4 makes a respectable 176 hp @ 6,000 rpm and 172 lb.ft. of torque @ 4,500 rpm, routed through a 6-speed automatic transmission and, in my tester, it goes to all four wheels via AWD when needed. This combination proves a nice balance between power and economy. Most of the time I never felt the RAV4 was hurting for power.

Only on a highway entrance ramp, when a Ford Fiesta in front of me didn’t understand merging, did I wish the RAV4 had more guts. After resetting the trip on that very same stretch of highway it then returned 31 mpg. Rated at 22 city/29 highway/25 mpg combined, I’m pretty impressed. Dropping the AWD, which for the segment and our climate is hardly a necessity, will yield another 2 mpg across the board.

Features: This is one of the first cars I’ve driven where I could distinctly tell the difference between the Eco and Sport Modes (interestingly, the other was the Toyota Prius.) The biggest noticeable change when engaging Sport Mode is the quickened throttle response that makes the RAV4 seem to have more power.

Conversely, the Eco mode thoroughly slows throttle response and pushes the transmission to a higher gear as early as possible. This works well for improving fuel economy, but only if you don’t try to compensate by simply applying more throttle!

Toyota’s touch screen for infotainment worked well and the layout of the menus was easy to learn to navigate. This was also the first rear view camera I was successfully able to use to back into a parking spot. My only gripe was difficulty seeing it in direct sunlight and with polarized sunglasses. Lastly, this tester’s optional moon roof made for an airy cockpit without sacrificing headroom.

The fact of the matter is that with my personal preference of vehicle, the station wagon, falling more and more by the way side, the CUV is the bread-andbutter people hauler of America. I’d make a wager that the new RAV4 is going to a large portion of those, given how well it suits most people’s needs. With an MSRP of $25,690 and an as-tested price of $28,019, the RAV4 is not budget transportation.

But as equipped, it offers a host of features that make the driving experience more enjoyable, combined with Toyota’s reputation of reliability, all in a package that does most things well. I’d consider the new RAV4 one of the most rewarding ways to blend in!

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By Larry Larason

T h e San J u an Bas in The San Juan Basin drains northwesterly from the Zuni Mountains to the San Juan River, seen here meandering through southern Utah.

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here are two San Juan Basins. One is hydraulic, the other is structural. A hydraulic basin concerns water flow. All the streams, washes, and gullies that contribute water to the San Juan River are considered part of the San Juan River Basin. The San Juan River watershed encompasses 24,600 square miles. In turn, because the San Juan flows into the Colorado River, the San Juan River Basin is part of the Colorado River Basin of more than 200,000 square miles.

The Colorado River flows 1470 miles, cutting through several uplifted plateaus to create Grand Canyon. Calling such an area a basin is purely metaphorical; the term watershed would seem a better descriptor. Locally, the San Juan [hydraulic] Basin drains northwesterly from the Zuni Mountains to the San Juan River. For example, Crownpoint is within the San Juan River basin, but the Rio Puerco flows through Gallup to the Little Colorado River, so we are not.

On the other hand, a structural basin is just what the name implies: the rocks are warped down to a center. The structural San Juan Basin lies within the river’s watershed and occupies much of the southeastern part of the Colorado Plateau. It stretches over 4600 square miles from Cuba to north of Durango, including Farmington, and south to near the Zuni Mountains. It is

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nearly circular and, in part, is up to two and one-half miles deep. It is mostly filled with Mesozoic rocks.

How did the basin form? During the Cretaceous Period the supercontinent Pangaea was breaking up. The northern portion, Laurasia, also split from north to south, sending North America drifting westward away from Europe. As oceanic crust was subducted beneath the western continental boundary, the compression caused a period of mountain building, which geologists call orogeny. This one was named the Laramide Orogeny. It began about 80 million years ago and lasted till roughly 50 million years ago – from the late Cretaceous Period into the Oligocene Epoch. As the mountains were pushed up, basins subsided. The San Juan Basin wasn’t the only big one; three in Wyoming, the Wind River, Powder River, and Big Horn, are even larger.

One of the most interesting features of the San Juan Basin is the hogback that bounds the northwestern and northern edges. As you drive US 491 from Gallup to Shiprock, you begin noticing a dip in the rocks along the route beyond Newcomb at about milepost 59. The angle of dip increases the farther north you go until it culminates in Hogback Mountain west of Farmington, where the dip is nearly vertical.

To consider what this means, first think about the hogback [Nutria

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Monocline] at the east end of Gallup. This hogback was formed as the Zuni Mountains were pushed up during the Laramide Orogeny. As the mountains rose, the rock in the hogback was tilted up. Erosion stripped away the softer strata leaving the Gallup Sandstone and some other hard rocks in the hogback standing tall. In other words, this hogback was created by uplift.

Hogback Mountain is just the opposite. Along the edges of the basin, rocks dipped inward as the basin sank. The basin began filling with sediments washed off the rising mountains. Even after the vast inland sea disappeared, the basin remained a swampy region for some time, inhabited by crocodiles and turtles. Later, erosion removed about 3000 feet of the surface west of the basin, leaving the eastern face of Hogback Mountain [an erosion resistant layer called Cliff House Sandstone] standing up to mark the rim of the basin.

Also remarkable, the hogback continues along the northern edge of the San Juan Basin, although it may not be as dramatic in most places as it is in Hogback Mountain. However, along US 160 between Pagosa Springs and Durango, at about milepost 122 near the bridge over the Piedra River, some vertical strata mark the basin’s rim. The hogback in this place also marks the edge of the Colorado Plateau where it abuts the San Juan Dome, another Laramide feature which is the underlying part of the San Juan Mountains, which is now obscured by extensive volcanism. The dome was the source of much of the sediment that filled in the basin.

Water in the Cretaceous inland sea lacked oxygen; organic matter that fell to the sea floor did not decay normally. Instead, over time it became petroleum or natural gas. Oil and gas exploration began in the San Juan Basin as early as 1890. Although small amounts of oil and quite a bit of gas were found, no operation was truly successful until 1921, when natural gas was piped into Aztec from a nearby well. The initial system had no pressure regulators in it. If you left your stove burning on Sunday morning and went to church, and some of your neighbors turned their stoves off, the flow of gas in your stove would increase. You might return home to find your house in flames. Still, the Aztec system was the first commercial methane operation in New Mexico. The first commercial oil well was drilled near Hogback in 1922. Although oil exploration is on-going, the focus in the basin has shifted to coalbed methane. One of the Cretaceous formations, the Fruitland, is the largest source of coalbed methane in the U. S. It has produced well over a trillion cubic feet of gas, and development is still continuing.

There are at least nine Badlands scattered across the surface of the San Juan Basin. These areas of banded strata and weird erosional forms [hoodoos] are interesting places to hike in good weather. They are also fine places to search for fossils. Finding fossils is easier in such landscapes because they lack a lot of vegetative cover and digging in the mudstone is easier than slowly chipping bones out of tough sandstone. Fossil hunting began here in the early days of the 20th century. The basin hosts a treasure trove of fossils, notably dinosaur specimens. The most recent was found in the Bisti Badlands in 1997 and excavated a year later. It was nicknamed The Bisti Beast until it could be studied and given a scientific name [Bistahievorsor sealeyi]. Because the Badlands are a federal wilderness area, the diggers had to walk into the site every day carrying their tools with them. After the bones were excavated the New Mexico Army National Guard volunteered a helicopter to pick up the load without landing and deposit it on a flatbed trailer waiting on the highway to be taken to the Museum of Natural History and Science in Albuquerque.

The beast was a tyrannosaurid with a skull over 3 feet long. When alive it was probably thirty feet long and weighed approximately 3 tons.

The San Juan Basin is a significant feature on the Colorado Plateau, one that has had great economic and scientific impact on the Four Corners.

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A Potpourri of Small Town Life in Flyover Country

By Jeannette Gartner

* Contains some adult language.

Oh my, excitement abounded here when I was a kid! It just takes a village to remember all of it.

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iving in a small town, everyone knows everything about everyone else – even if it’s not true. People know who your relatives are, what they do for a living, where they live, whom they married, how they did in school, when they were arrested and what for, and other “facts.” And these facts can, at any time, be fodder for discussion. Sometimes it takes anywhere from three to eight people to remember someone’s name or any other fact someone in the group is trying to recall. The older we “old-timers” get, the more people it takes to remember anything or anyone! When there are just one or two people around, neither one can remember names, dates, or events. However, when a group of cronies get together, each person might remember a smidgen of whatever it is the group wants to remember, which might trigger a smidgen from someone else.

Naturally, these discussions can, at any time, segue into bantering or friendly arguments: “No, no, they didn’t live on Mesa, they lived on Aztec! Don’t you remember? It was the house with the tennis court in the side yard? No, I never played there, but my daddy did. I think the house you’re talking about was originally a sort of convent or seminary . . .”

“No, it wasn’t a convent; that was the other direction. The one I’m talking about was a whorehouse, I think.”

“And, pray tell, however would you know that, you old coot?”

“Was that the one next to the Hamburger Palace?”

“What, there was a whorehouse next to the Hamburger Palace?”

“No, the whorehouse was actually on Front Street.”

Or: “No, he’s not the one you’re thinking about. It’s the guy who had the one-legged wife. His sister was married to Mary Ann’s cousin, you know the one – her family had the Malt Shoppe way back when?”

Which could send the entire conversation careening into a whole new direction: “Oh, yeah, the Malt Shoppe! We used to go there almost every day after school – they made the best Vanilla Cokes, and Cherry Cokes, too!”

“Remember the old Paradise Café? All the kids blew their straws into the ceiling. If you looked up, the ceiling was peppered with stuck straws! I

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wonder if they ever took them down.” And so it goes . . .

We’ve decided that we all need to be put in the same nursing home so we could actually communicate with others who have some of the same memories we do, as nebulous and full of holes as they may be.

Gallup was a great town to be a kid in, when we were young.

Everyone in town knew either you or your family, which meant you couldn’t get away with anything. Kids walked everywhere – miles to school, uphill both ways, through two feet of snow. It was safe to walk anywhere in town.

The only place people avoided was walking by the jail. The cells were in the basement with the windows at sidewalk level. Whenever you had to walk by there, say from work to the post office, you always made sure to stay at the outer edge of the sidewalk. There was no glass in the windows, just bars, and the prisoners would yell out at you or reach out to try to grab your leg when you went by. I don’t know if they ever caught anyone.

At school, everyone went home for lunch every day and back in an hour, including teachers. There were no cafeterias and no buses. Classes were fairly small and the teachers knew not only you but your older or younger siblings and maybe even your parents, as well – which could be either a good thing or a bad thing, depending on the reputation of the predecessor!

Of course we all remember that if you got in trouble in school, you got double trouble when you got home. There weren’t as many discipline problems because we all knew we had no rights. Our parents didn’t even consider running out to hire a lawyer if we had a problem. There were consequences and we definitely suffered them.

I remember one time my older brother and cousin went into a liquor store and bought some beer – illegally, of course. The guy sold it to them, but as soon as they left he called my dad and told him about it. When my brother got home, my dad asked, “So, what did you do today?”

The usual teenage answer ensued, “Nothin’ . . .”

“Is that right? Where were you all day?”

“Nowhere.”

“Really? So you were nowhere doing nothing? Is that about right?”

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Shrug. “Yeah, I guess.”

“Then how is it that I got a call that you and your cousin were in a liquor store buying beer?”

And then the sh** hit the fan . . .

Gallup was pretty nice for kids even when our own kids were growing up. They couldn’t get by with much either. Some of the phone calls we got were memorable. For example, the day one son got his driver’s license we got a call from a neighbor, who said our son ran into their fence. It seemed that when he was turning the corner, he couldn’t stop turning and bumped into the fence. He spent the next couple of weekends repairing the fence.

I think it’s still a nice place for kids to grow up, except now they can’t just roam around at will. They now have “play dates” and their parents have to meet the other kid’s parents. I don’t know if there is anyplace these days where kids can wander from house to house all day and come home in time for meals (unless of course, the meal is eaten at a friend’s house) without parents knowing where they are every second.

When I was a kid, there were a couple of fascinating things to do in town with your family. Naturally, when it rained gully-washers, everyone rushed down to watch the wall of water come down the “Perky,” which is the local term for the creek that periodically runs through town. To this day, most locals cannot go on the overpass without checking to see if the Perky is running. Floods were always interesting to watch – unless of course, you’re the one being flooded.

Fires were fascinating, too, and everyone went to see the biggest ones. When I was a little kid, we had a volunteer fire department and one fire station. Big fires were fortunately uncommon. But we all remember the big lumberyard fires.

The second most common thing to do was to go downtown and park on Front Street, get an ice cream cone at Pino’s, and watch the trains come through. Oh my, excitement abounded here when I was a kid! It just takes a village to remember all of it.

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a police car, ambulance, or fire truck. We’re naturally curious to see if it’s someone/someplace we know. However, in large cities, no one pays any attention. Even when we’re in a large city, we always stop doing whatever we’re doing to check out what’s happening, but the natives just ignore it!

I guess when you hear sirens constantly you become inured to that sort of thing, but growing up where they aren’t all that common, people pay attention. Of course, when you have teenagers who drive, every siren is a potential disaster. Consider: it’s late at night, your kids aren’t home yet, they’re out in a car with friends, and you hear sirens. Where we lived when our boys were growing up, we could hear practically every siren anywhere in town!

Maybe that’s why, to this day, we are in the habit of checking out sirens, even if we’re in a city where we don’t know anyone.

We also look up when we hear an airplane. A group will be playing tennis or golf or out for a walk in the morning when an airplane or helicopter goes over and everything stops while we all check it out. The same thing happens if a police car or ambulance or fire truck goes by where you can see it.

Living where we do, it’s unlikely that we would know anyone flying over, but we always have to check it out. Who knows, it could be something important, like an invasion or foreign diplomat in his own private plane!

Living in a small town does have its disadvantages. We don’t have all the entertainment choices we’d have if we lived in a city. The counterpoint to that is that we spend a lot of time with family and friends making our own fun. Also, we don’t have all the shopping choices and specialty shops, but on the other hand, it only takes ten minutes to get from one end of town to the other, or in heavy traffic, maybe fifteen. Fortunately for us, where we live is only a couple of hours from all those choices as well as an airport we can fly out of. So, really, we have the best of both worlds.

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Q. So, what got you interested in running for City Councilor?

A. I ran for City Councilor because I believed I could make a difference.

Unless you’ve been up there, it’s real easy to talk about the things you can change without actually being in that seat. Without being in the driver seat it’s really easy to complain about things, so I wanted to be in a position to look at both sides.

Q. What do you enjoy most about being a City Councilor?

A. I enjoy learning how things are being done in the city.

Q. What is the biggest challenge so far?

A. Things are done a little slower and that’s frustrating for me. I’m not use to doing things that way. As a business owner we make decisions. We can’t be reactive. We have to be proactive. I believe sometimes the City needs to think that way. But it’s difficult for the city government to move that fast.

Q. At this early point in your term as City Councilor, what is your top priority?

A. I believe the budget is a priority. Our tax base is pretty much flat. I think it’s important to extend on an economic base whether it’s through economic development or tourism.

Q. What do you enjoy most about living in Gallup?

A. Coming from a metropolitan area where an hour and a half or two hours is spent in traffic, I enjoy spending more time with family. Also, you make a lot of friends here and have more time to see them.

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

A. I just pick a topic and research it and get to know the different things. It’s like a challenge for me. I want to know about things and we have the opportunity with the Internet and different resources to be able to do that. It just makes me a better person at what I do.

Q. What is your favorite book?

A. Probably my favorite book is the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I’ve read it at different stages of my life. I like it because of the fantasy, I guess, but I’m not limited to that. Except for Westerns, I pretty much read every kind of book.

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

A. I don’t think I would trade places with a person. I think being in America we can make and do pretty much whatever we want. I don’t think we can do that in any other country. So it’s up to us on how we want to live our lives and the dreams we have. We can accomplish those and that’s how you enjoy life – doing what you want.

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The Ecstasy of the Long-Distance Runner, part 1

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EW YORK TIMES – June 1920 – Dateline Chicago.

“Amilio Patasoni, an Indian, from Haskell Institute, set a furious pace in the 10,000 meter run, winning it by two laps . . .” This story, picked up by the national wire service, ran all over the country, updating America on the entries for the next Summer Olympics, to be held in Antwerp, Belgium.

The teenaged Zuni, just five feet tall and barely jiggling the scales at ninety-eight pounds, had been shipped off to Lawrence, Kansas, to attend the Indian boarding school there in the hopes he would learn a useful trade. His Zuni name was Amesoli, but he needed a last name and somehow got Patasoni, which is, coincidentally, similar to the name of a race held in Chicago at the time.

When he returned to his home in New Mexico he reversed the names and Barefoot runners became Patasoni Amesoli. In 1920 journalists sign in for race didn’t seem to be able to spell either of his names the same way twice. The bureaucrats at the Gallup who ran Haskell were happy for the publicity Fourth of July as long as reporters got the name of the school correct.

Celebration.

Amesoli had won numerous races at this point in his career and specialized in longdistance running, which he told reporters he had learned from his father and brother back home. They often injected humor into their stories by saying he learned to run in loose sand. Loose sand wasn’t the half of it.

The Zunis, in common with most other Native tribes, had a long and complicated history of distance running. It wasn’t a pastime; it was a religion, and central to village life. Between seeding their wheat fields and the time for corn planting there was a break in the work at the village. That was when the first kickstick race was traditionally held. The runners were divided into two groups: Half ran for the Elder War God and the other half represented the Younger War God. All of the contestants ran for rain, good harvest, and the well-being of the village.

They didn’t just pick a day and run; there were many preparations involving the religious leaders of Zuni. Prayers to say, feathers to plant, taboos to observe, rituals to prepare the runners. This first race of the year involved more runners over a shorter distance than the subsequent races where huge wagers were won and lost. The season opener was only ten miles long – hardly enough to get the blood pumping.

It seems astonishing to hear that Zunis and Hopis might run as far as one hundred miles or even farther in a single day. But they were running all the time. It was common for both tribes to plant cornfields anywhere in their territory where the sand was damp. Some Zunis had fields seventy miles from the village and regularly ran to and from them for weeding and tending.

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many miles away. He would run both ways to tend to his corn. At one time the Zuni mail carrier would run from the village to Gallup and back again, a round-trip of nearly eighty miles over rough terrain, hills and arroyos.

All the men ran, and they ran all time.

When one of the famous Hopi runners returned to his village some of the old men challenged him to a race. He was considered the fastest long-distance runner in the world. A few of the men were already in their sixties. They ran off and left him in a humiliating defeat. They got so far ahead of him he quit running and returned home.

A few years ago a new word entered the vocabulary of most Americans – endorphin. Endorphins are natural opiates produced by the body in response to various kinds of stress. (I get mine from really hot chile.) “Runners’ High” is the best known of the effects. By dictionary definition endorphins resemble opiates in their ability to decrease pain and increase the feeling of wellbeing.

Though endorphins were only isolated in 1974, they had been suspected for many years. I remember reading Aldous Huxley’s 1954 book Doors of Perception, which explored hallucinatory drugs and then speculated on natural religious ecstasy.

He wanted to know what caused monks to see visions without taking drugs. He observed that isolation, starvation, self-flagellation (which takes many forms), even infection could cause such a transformation in the body. The “vision quest” is one of these self-induced states.

The overwhelming feeling of well-being that floods over the athlete after experiencing sustained pain suggests a closeness to the spiritual, so it is not surprising

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It wasn’t a pastime; it was a religion, and central to village life.

that men have linked extreme running to a connection with the gods.

In 1883 Frank Cushing took a team of runners to Santa Fe to celebrate its fictional three hundredth birthday. The Zunis, kicking a stick, were pitted against the Hopis, kicking a stone. Similar challenges were held for years at the Gallup Inter-Tribal Ceremonial.

The Zuni race isn’t just about time over distance – the runners have to run barefoot, kicking colored sticks about the size of a man’s middle finger. They can never touch the stick with anything but their toes, even if it hangs up in a tree or cactus, or falls down a prairie dog hole. Picture a race with elements of soccer, roller-derby, and hurdles. The course is not groomed for the race.

Last minute preparations were important. Each runner had his hair tied in a ball on top of his head. An arrowhead was fastened inside this ball to protect the man and make him fly like an arrow. Special herb teas were drunk and it is written that each competitor would eat a small piece of hummingbird for speed.

It is also not an individual competition. When the great gambling races are held during the year – one report numbers fourteen of them in a season – there are two teams of four men each. They are usually from the same kiva group, but some say the same clan or other relationship. No-one dominates.

The starter flings the stick with his foot to start the race. The other runners dart ahead and one snatches the stick, either with his toes or on top of them, and sends it into the air. A common toss is thirty feet in the air and one hundred feet down the trail. The other racers are in motion.

Each time the stick hits the ground a different kicker sends it forward while the others surge past his split-second delay to reach it. Thus a single runner doesn’t dominate the play but all four keep things moving. Hundreds of mounted riders race along with the runners and sometimes a huge dust cloud is raised as they all move along. Body sweat turns to mud.

The standard race was described as starting on the south side of the Zuni river (which used to be empty space), proceeds east past the sacred mesa, turns south around the mountain, turns west for many miles, then north and finally returns to the middle village.

There is not a fixed course, but ancient rock cairns mark the minimum distance in each direction.

It is said that the War God Twins placed the piles of stone themselves in the far distant past.

I have been told that in the early days the runners would psych each other out in the days before the race as they prepared and watched for omens. Magic was not forbidden and opposing racers would hint to each other about steps taken to weaken the opposition.

I have also read that if the two sticks happened to land near each other, physical contact between players was not forbidden and tripping might take place from time to time, much like a physical basketball game.

The Zunis often made the national news in the early days of the last century. Zunis twice were tapped for the Olympics. In the early twenties Mike Kirk took two Zuni and two Hopi runners to Atlantic City to promote the paving of what would become Route 66.

Old Man Laate, the first Zuni runner to receive outside attention.

Here is one headline with a twist from 1937: White Boy in Race Wins Zuni Praise ZUNI, N.M. June 21 – UPI Dusky Zuni youths today held intact their supremacy in the tribes arduous stick race, but it was over the grit of Ernie Vanderwagon, a 10-year-old white boy, that the old braves chuckled. Ernie raced the last mile with two of his bare toes split and bleeding after a stumble on sharp rocks just as he appeared the winner. He finished on the heels of his Indian playmates, despite the injury.

The article goes on to explain the stick race and notes that the son of Ed Vanderwagen was the first white boy to run with the Zunis.

Patasoni was a leading contender for the 1920 summer games when he boarded something of a tramp steamer for his sail across the ocean. Apparently it wasn’t much of a ship and the passengers in steerage congregated on deck to have breathable air. Amesoli was determined to stay in shape so he tried running on deck. He sprained his ankle and did poorly in his Olympic appearance. He cancelled the rest of his European races.

Patasoni Amesoli returned to Zuni, tended his sheep, his corn fields and his peach trees. He had a large family and several of his children became prominent silversmiths.

There were many famous Zuni runners in the early days and some of them made it to the national stage. Old Man Laate posed for a series of famous photographs dressed in just his breechcloth.

But running in the white man’s (melika) races for personal glory always took back seat to running for the triumph of the kiva, clan or tribe. That was when the runners really felt the ecstasy of the run.

Patasoni Amesoli in the 1920 Olympics.

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After 36 years in Gallup and inspired by the tireless efforts of Nate and Chuck to have a positive effect on Gallup and the surrounding area, Jay Mason has written some vignettes about his life in Gallup and beyond.

The day I learned that tribal custom matters and was an integral part of the tribal court system.

hen I moved to Gallup, I learned that it was important to be able to practice in Tribal Court because many of www.stockmonkeys.com my clients were Navajo.

The Navajo Supreme Court had just instituted the first Navajo Bar Exam and I took the test. I passed and have been a member for the last 36 years. There have been many changes since 1977.

Many people don’t realize that there are twelve judicial districts on the Navajo Reservation, but you would expect that for an area the size of West Virginia. The tribal courts are courts of general jurisdiction, which mean they consider all types of cases. Even though the majority of the judges are not lawyers, they consider cases involving millions of dollars and very complicated legal issues. The Judicial Branch has tried to train the judges to respond to this challenge.

I remember being afraid at my first appearance in tribal court in 1977. After all, I was a bilaganna representing a business from Albuquerque. What I didn’t know is that I had sued the first cousin of the district judge. I appeared early and was waiting patiently outside the court for the case to be called. The appropriate time came and passed, and soon the clerk appeared and told me my case was dismissed.

I asked why and she said because the judge called the case, and I was not there. I replied that I was waiting outside, and the clerk said politely that I could refile the case whenever I wanted. I promptly did and eventually was successful, but I learned I had much to learn about the tribal system. By the way, the judge was removed not too long after that for other illegal practices.

In one of my first trials in tribal court, the opposing counsel came from Albuquerque. He was very aggressive and began badgering the witnesses on our side. Since the judge was not a lawyer, at first he tolerated the attacks, but soon interrupted the attorney to tell him that maybe that was the way they practiced law in Albuquerque, but it was not going to be tolerated in Navajo tribal court. His demeanor changed entirely and we completed the trial in a civilized manner.

Most of my experiences have been very positive in tribal court.

Most non-lawyers don’t realize that our American justice system is based on a model that eliminates consideration of right and wrong in judicial decisions. Morality per se has no place in American courts; the courts interpret the law as passed by the legislature and decided in other written decisions. Tribal court has taken a different approach. If a

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principle is a part of Navajo culture, it can be considered by the courts.

Many years ago I represented a Navajo widow with eleven children who lost her husband of over fifty years. Unfortunately her husband had wandered from his wife and lived with another woman in the last few years before his death. He had just bought a fully loaded pickup truck and had credit life insurance on the purchase. His girlfriend took the truck, and my client wanted to know if I could retrieve it. Since they had never divorced, I informed her that the truck may be community property and may belong to her. The tribal court appointed her the Personal Representative and we sought possession of the truck. The girlfriend’s attorney objected and stated that the girlfriend was entitled to the truck because under tribal custom she had provided love and companionship to him and should be compensated. I replied that tribal custom is surely more complicated and that a medicine man or woman should be consulted. The judge agreed and ordered that both sides submit briefs and affidavits on this issue.

I researched the subject and learned that the Navajo word for adultery literally means “one who steals from the mother.” I consulted a medicine man who confirmed that translation. We submitted the testimony and research to the court, and the court awarded the truck to my client. She was overjoyed. That day I learned that tribal custom matters and was an integral part of the tribal court system.

In another tribal court case a Navajo policeman was seriously injured on the job and sought to recover damages above the amount provided by the Navajo Workmen’s Compensation Program. The policeman’s attorney argued that the amount paid was inadequate and that more money should be paid by the Navajo Nation. Under Navajo law and the law of most states, if you are injured on the job, you can only recover under a workmen’s compensation system. When the medicine man was consulted, he described the policeman as the modern day “warriors” who must sacrifice to protect the other members of the tribe. The court agreed and upheld the written law but considered principles of right and wrong in making its decision.

The tribal courts must be careful in applying tribal custom and principles of morality. The Navajo Supreme Court has stated that tribal custom should be used to enhance or supplement the written law passed by the Tribal Council and not in a vacuum, which could contradict existing law. The tribal court system continues to grow and improve and the Navajo court system is considered one of the best tribal court systems in the nation.

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he Monster Slayer Project is a collabo rative art project by of artists, filmmaker a group s, actors, and write rs in the Gallup are project is inspired by a. The the portion of the D the Hero Twins, M iné Bahane dealing onster Slayer and Bo with rn for Water, and th free their people fro eir struggle to m an onslaught of fearsome monsters. to produce images We are seeking that further an inter est in the understan culture in the curre ding of Diné nt culture’s media of choice – namely fil We want to provid m and television. e a representation of indigenous character victims, but who are s who are not strong, independen t, self-reliant, and m We are not attempt otivated heroes. ing to strictly retell the story of the Hero modern setting, bu Twins in a t rather to explore the qualities that de well as the monsters fine the twins, as they face. Who migh t the twins be in to who, or what, are th day’s world, and e monsters?

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his project began in a series of discussions between independent filmmaker and animator Kjell Boersma and community activist Renaldo Benally Chapman. As a child, Renaldo learned important cultural teachings and customs from his grandparents, and later, after serving in the U.S. Army, he was asked by his paternal grandfather Chee Benally to inherit and learn the Big Star Ghostway blackening ceremony. This ceremony tells the story of how Monster Slayer and Child Born for the Water used their community resource s to destroy a dangerous enemy. Kjell moved to Gallup from Toronto, where he was working in television in stop-motion animation, to work with his uncle, aerial photographer Adriel Heisey, to develop aerial cinematography techniques.

Soon after, Renaldo brought Carrie House – filmmaker, sheep herder, and co-foun der of the Gallup Film Foundation – on board. For the past several years, the Gallup Film Foundation has organized film screenings, festivals, free technical workshops, and

recently, the Gallup FilmScrawl (a monthly screening of local shorts), and has built an international network of film enthusiasts and industry contacts. The mission of the GFF has been to encourage the enjoyment and creation of image arts in the Gallup area, and this project is an extension of that desire.

The next addition to our group was Robin Lasiloo, a gifted artist and instructor in UNM-Gallup’s Design and Digital Media department. Robin is our lead monster designer, and has been distilling our collective imagination into physical form. Next, writer Denny Spencer and artist Shane van Pelt came on board to build our concept and our world, giving our characters names and histories. Denny and Shane have been developing characters, story-lines, and fleshing out the universe in which our project takes place. Our team now also includes conceptual artist Nicholas Spencer, and filmmaker/producer Nicole Garcia, an alumna of a film program run jointly by the IAIA and ABC/Disney.

In addition to her current work with the Head Start program, Nicole has taken on the role of project manager to help organize our overall strategy and keep us on track.

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ur next big step is the production of a short film to introduce the world to our concept and characters, and hopeful ly attract enough attention that we draw the eye of people who can take our project to the next level. This spring we cast our actors – the twins will be played by Shelby Dayzie and Kenton Kaulaity of Fort Defiance, AZ, and thei r grandfather will be played by renowne d artist Shonto Begay, with whom we are very excited to work. Additionally, the character of Coyote will be played by actor Dempsey Chapito. The short will be live action, with state-of-the-art creature effe cts produced by stop-motion professio nals in Toronto, breathtaking aerial cinemat ography, and a killer soundtrack featurin g the music of Navajo flute player/beatb oxer Tygel Pinto.

We will shortly be launching an online crowd-funding campaign on indiegogo.com, a resource being used by many independent productions. In exchange for donations, we are offering a number of great rewards, including posters, T-shirts, sculptures, hand-made arrows, jewelery, rugs, fine-art prints, and even the stop-motion model we will be using in the film itself.

We will be setting up a booth at the Gallup flea market every Saturday for the month of June, as well as at Flagstaff’s Art Walk on June 7. Additio nally, we are hosting a short film festival and auction on June 15 at the El Morro Theatre, and a fund-raising concert at El Rancho’s 49er Lounge on June 28.

If you would like to support our indiegog o campaign, we will be launching it the first week of June, and more details will be posted on our web site, MonsterSlayerProject.com, where you can find project updates, event listings, and subscribe to our mailing list.

Our project is based in Gallup, NM, a town in which we are big believers.

We want to see Gallup become the film hub it once was – not just for films com ing in from out of state, but for home-grown talent, as well. We’ve got big plans, and we hope you’ll help us make them a real ity.

-The Monster Slayer Project Team

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Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

By Patricia Darak

Springtime had brought yearning for change, and a small snip of the scissors seemed to be just the answer.

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y younger daughter, a breath away from becoming six, wanted me to cut her hair so that she could have bangs.

I refused.

She didn’t beg or plead. She didn’t cry or throw a fit.

She said she wanted bangs. It was my choice, she indicated.

Either I gave her bangs or she would do it herself. With the scissors in her small hand hovering in front of her face, I could see that there would be no further discussion of the matter.

She got her bangs.

I cut off five inches of her golden tendrils, and her entire demeanor changed. She was joyful and she giggled her approval. I remarked that she looked really nice with her new bangs. As she looked in the mirror, she said that she already knew that.

Never underestimate the power of peer pressure. Last week, after hearing repeatedly how nice her little sister’s new hairstyle looked, my older daughter brought up in conversation – several times – the fact that all of her friends have bangs, too. Long bangs that reached the chin and could be tucked behind the ears, medium length bangs that skimmed the eyebrows, and short bangs that ended in the middle of the forehead. Springtime had brought yearning for change, and a small snip of the scissors seemed to be just the answer.

Ordinarily, I would need a great deal of persuasion to go anywhere near her head with an idea of losing the length; I was still semi-traumatized from trimming her ends a quarter of an inch the week before. Eventually, her logical and astute assessment of the situation won out over my feeble refusal to alter her cascading locks any more than I already had. Basically, she reminded me that she knew what she was doing and that, if the results were terrible, she would be the one to look at herself in the mirror every day. And, she emphasized, it was only hair; it would eventually grow back. With trepidation, I assembled all of the tools that I

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would need and spread them out on the bathroom counter.

She smiled at me and we began.

Twenty minutes later, she turned her head from side to side as she shyly appraised her reflection. Smiling up at me, she thanked me and gave me a hug of appreciation before going off to give an impromptu fashion show to her admiring younger siblings.

As I swept up the trimmed ends and emptied them into the trash, I wondered why I was so averse to the very thought of cutting my children’s hair. Yes, I had waist-length hair when I was younger. Yes, I enjoyed the way it looked and the many styling options I had.

Eventually, though, I only ever wore it two ways: braided or ponytailed. I would never have thought to experiment with it.

When I finished sweeping, my son came into the bathroom and washed his hands. While he was lathering up his hands, I asked him if he would like me to trim his hair also. He thought for a moment. “Sure.”

My eyes sprang open wide. “Really?” I wanted to be sure that he heard what I had just proposed.

“Sure, Mommy. I trust you. Just not my bangs, okay?” As he was drying his hands, he turned to face me. “Let’s do this.” I brushed out his thick hair until it was as straight as I could get it. Carefully, I snipped in a straight line until his ends were even. Not too bad, and I only ended up cutting off about an inch in length. After a quick glance in the mirror, he ran off to play with his sisters.

I quickly swept up and threw away the small pile of strands and, as I did, I noticed the blonde ends that had been cut off. This was the hair that he sprouted in my tummy before he was born; I felt as if some kind of milestone had passed.

“Are you still sweeping, Mommy?” I looked up from my reverie to see all three children staring at me. “Are you sad about our hair?”

I laughed softly at their concerned expressions. “A little.” I leaned over and kissed each one on the forehead. They visibly relaxed.

“Now,” I said, while clapping my hands together. “Who wants a snack?”

All three shouted, “Me!” “Okay,” I said, “Let’s go, baldies! Onward” They all started laughing.

“Oh, Mommy!”

We had lunch then, the four of us: Mommy and three no-longer-babies.

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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.

By Bob Rosebrough

Memories of Gallup

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An interview with Jack Tarro and Phil Garcia, Part 2 of 2

ack Tarro and Phil Garcia have been talking about youth baseball in Gallup for over an hour and then they turn to their high school memories and the arch rivalry between Gallup High and Cathedral.

Gallup High v. Cathedral: “You were blood and death.” Both Phil and Jack went to Cathedral early on, but Jack transferred to Gallup High as a sophomore.

He says, “I wanted to play baseball. Cathedral was going to drop baseball. Durwood Cline and Tommy Bishchoff had already switched.

Gallup High had just built the brand new high school.”

Phil adds, “That was new that year.

1963.”

No matter how well the two schools were doing each year, their seasons revolved around their game against each other. Phil says, “It was the game. It didn’t matter how good Gallup High was or how bad Cathedral was, it was always a good game.”

Jack responds, “When you competed, you were blood and death.”

Phil and Jack remember many of the star athletes of the mid 60s in Gallup like Harold Husband, Richard Kozeliski, James Lewis (current NM State Treasurer), Rick Barnett, Johnny Herrera, Danny Baca, Tom Kozeliski, Angelo DePaolo, and Vince Garcia. Phil mentions a black athlete from Gallup High named George Buchanan who “was a tremendous guy and a hell of an athlete, too. Pete Leyba tells a story cause he’s

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older than us, about George Buchanan going to Hobbs or to Clovis, one or the other, and they wouldn’t allow the black kids to eat with them, and so they had a team meeting and they said, ‘If black players can’t go in and eat, then we’ll eat in the bus with them cause we’re not going to split up the team.’ But that was something we didn’t have in Gallup. We didn’t know about that in Gallup.”

Phil Garcia wins an election against Ed Muñoz: “I was too stupid to know I was overmatched.” As a young man just back in Gallup from college, Phil began working in the County Assessor’s office and loved it. The Assessor at the time, Eddie Leyba couldn’t run again in 1974 because of term limits. Former mayor and Gallup political icon, Eddie Muñoz was “making overtures that he was going to run for that office.

Nobody wanted to run against Eddie Muñoz.”

Phil, at the age of 24, began testing the waters for support and “threw [his] hat into the ring.” He turned to his good friend Rick Barnett and said, “You know, I need to raise some money if I’m going to beat Eddie Muñoz. Do you have any ideas?” And he said, “Yes I do. I’ve got

Jack Tarro (left) and Phil Garcia reminisce.

all kinds of ideas.” Phil explains, “Rick was a promoter. We sponsored teenage dances.

All of our friends would volunteer to help us. We culminated with one final dance.

There were two very good bands in Gallup.

One was Rick and the Entire World and the other was Pennies’ Review. Rick said, ‘Let’s have them in concert. Let’s have them at the El Morro Theatre.’ That had never been done and we did it. And the fire department finally told us, ‘You can’t sell any more tickets.’ It was a big sellout.”

“My recollection is that we raised $2500 for the campaign. In today’s dollars, that would probably be about $25,000. We campaigned hard. We (Phil and his wife Lyneve) were both natives of Gallup and worked extremely hard. I got 1966 votes and I beat Eddie by 66 or 65 votes. It was a real upset, but it was hard earned. And I was very fortunate. I was too stupid to know that I was over-matched. I was the youngest elected official in New Mexico at the time.

I’m sure somebody has eclipsed that by now.”

“Save the mules first; then go get the miners.” Jack remembers a story told by his grandfather. “When there was a cavein or an accident or fire in the coal mines the owners would always say, ‘Save the mules first; then go get the miners’ cause the mules weren’t replaceable.’”

“They were chattel. It was something they needed to mine,” Phil responds.

The story of the Gallup 14 hits close to home for Phil.

“I never knew my grandfather, because he died when my father was 19. But he sounds like the man that is the focal point of the Gallup 14. My grandpa – and my dad was very reluctant to talk about it – was thrown out on the street and I think it had to do with State Senator Vogel buying the land in Chihuahuita.

The miners thought they owned their homes and they were disenfranchised. My dad said my grandfather went crazy – that he would be up in the attic of their home and he would be making animal noises. They sent him back to Mexico and he died there. I’m not sure of the circumstances or who they sent him to – I’m guessing family - but my dad was only 19.”

Referring again to the Gallup 14, Phil says, “I’m sure there were many miners that had the same story, or similar stories, is what I’m saying.”

“And Paul (Hanson) was just hitting his stride.” With real sadness Phil remembers “that terrible day. It was February 22, 1985.” Phil was on the school board and he received a call from Doc Livingston who said, ‘You need to get out here. Something really terrible has happened to Paul Hanson. He’s been shot.’”

Phil says, “I went there (the School’s central office) and I remember everybody just, their eyes were just vacant. It was just unbelievable. It was just unbelievable.”

Hanson had been elected superintendent on a 3-2 vote according to Phil, “and Paul was just hitting his stride.” Hanson was shot by Chic Fero, the principal at Tohatchi High School, during an employment termination meeting.

Phil says, “And I’ll never forget Cal Foutz (School Board

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Rallied Around that Ballpark President) saying, ‘You know, I need to be there with you when that happens.’ And Paul said, ‘It’s why you pay me the big bucks boss. That’s why you pay me the big bucks. I’ll take care of it.’

And that was the first thing that Cal told me, he said, ‘I should have been there.’ He said, ‘I might have prevented it.’ And I said, ‘No, you might have been the second victim.’ I mean it was just totally traumatic and it was – I went home and I cried. I still cry when I think about it. It was a horrible, horrible thing. It was unbelievable. It couldn’t have happened in Gallup, New Mexico, but it happened in Gallup, New Mexico.”

“Basilio brought in the grapes.” Jack remembers a happier time when Gallup Italians, “all made their own wine. They all had wine cellars. I guarantee if the houses are still up, you’re going to find a basement with a wine cellar. They would all brag about their wine. Where my grandparents lived, I could go in that basement right now and I would still be able to smell wine.”

Phil remembers how Gallup’s wine makers got their grapes, “I heard a story on that. This is cool. They said that Basilio (DiGregorio) had a connection in California and he would send a guy over with a truck and he would go over and back – because there was no refrigeration – with this trailer full of grapes and they were just leaking juice by the time they got to Gallup. But Basilio was the source and he sold it to them at a fairly reasonable price and everybody was happy.

They had fresh grapes that they couldn’t get otherwise and they had them in quantity.”

Hershey returns as a hero. As young children, both Jack and Phil have distinct memories of the day Hershey Miyamura returned to Gallup after the Korean War. Jack says, “I remember because I was very young, but my mother was the majorette of the Drum and Bugle Corps. It was huge. I mean it was a huge band and everything. And they were family friends.”

Phil says, “And it was like the Ceremonial, the parade they had when they welcomed him. He came in on the train, right?”

Jack responds, “He came in on the train and I just remember him getting off and I was too young to understand everything that was going on. But I remember vividly him getting off the train and everybody cheering down at the train station. I was just like awestruck, you know, like God, my God, because I knew enough that being awarded the Medal of Honor by President Eisenhower was really something.”

After talking nonstop for several hours, and reliving both painful tragedies and the joys of childhood friendship during a golden age, Jack and Phil take a moment and simply sit silently and reflect before saying goodbye and calling it a night.

Above: Mules were important in mining.

Right: Gallup’s Hershey Miyamura was awarded the Medal of Honor.

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By Brett Newberry AKA The Business Doctor

Brett is a CPA, Certified Fraud Examiner, and Profitability Consultant with Newberry & Associates, Ltd. He has been a CPA and Business Consultant for more than 25 years in Gallup. His passion is to help the small business owner improve their business operations and impact their income and quality of life.

Health Savings Accounts

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ue to the rising costs associated with employer-provided health care insurance to employees, many employers are reviewing their options to reduce this cost. Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) are an option available to employers and help employees to manage their own health care needs.

The HSA is a tax-exempt trust or custodial account established exclusively for the purpose of paying or reimbursing qualified medical expenses of an employee, their spouse, and their dependents. What is the eligibility to have a HSA? The employee must be covered under a High-Deductible Health Plan (HDHP). The employee cannot also be covered by any other health plan that is not a HDHP. For 2013, a HDHP must have certain plan limits. Related to individual coverage, the minimum annual deductible is $1,250, and the maximum out-of-pocket costs are $6,250. Related to family coverage, the minimum annual deductible is $2,500, and the maximum out-ofpocket costs are $12,500. There are certain exceptions for plans providing preventive care and limited types of permitted insurance and permitted coverage. The employee cannot be enrolled in Medicare, and the employee cannot be claimed as a dependent on another individual’s tax return. Your insurance agent can provide you additional information related to HDHPs. There are certain things that must be done to set up HSAs for employees. An employee can establish a HSA in much the same way someone would establish an Individual Retirement Account (IRA) with a qualified trustee or custodian. It will be necessary to determine the annual HSA contribution and whether the employee has qualified medical expenses eligible for reimbursement with nontaxable HSA distributions.

The employer, the employee, family members, and any other person may contribute to the employee’s HSA. The total contributions for the year cannot exceed certain contribution limits.

How much can the employee contribute to the HSA on an annual basis for 2013? For self-only coverage, the amount is $3,250. For family coverage, the amount is $6,450. If an individual is age 55 or older and not enrolled in Medicare, they are allowed an additional catch-up contribution of $1,000. Eligibility to make HSA contributions is determined monthly.

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Individuals who have qualifying HDHP coverage (and no other coverage) for only part of the year can contribute and deduct 1/12 of the annual limitation amount for each month they are covered only by a HDHP. How does the employee claim the federal income tax deduction for the HSA contribution?

Contributions to a HSA are fully deductible, the earnings grow tax deferred, and distributions to pay or reimburse qualified medical expenses are tax free. The employee may deduct contributions made by anyone other than their employer as long as they do not exceed the maximum annual contribution amount. Employer contributions to an employee’s HSA are exempt from federal income tax and from Social Security, Medicare, and FUTA taxes.

When is the contribution deadline for funding a HSA? The deadline for regular and catch-up HSA contributions is your federal income tax return due date, excluding extensions, for that taxable year. The due date for most taxpayers is April 15. How are HSA distributions taxed? The qualified medical expenses must be incurred after the HSA has been established.

HSA distributions used exclusively to pay for or reimburse qualified medical expenses incurred by the employee, their spouse, or their dependents are not included in gross income. Any other distributions are included in income unless rolled over.

There are certain nondiscrimination rules that must be followed related to the use of HSAs. Employers who contribute to employee HSAs face a 35% excise tax if comparable contributions are not made for all employees with comparable coverage during the same period.

Related to Health Care Reform, as of January 1, 2011 if you are under age 65 and you withdraw funds from your HSA and do not use the funds for qualified medical expenses, they will be taxed as ordinary income and you will also incur a 20% penalty tax. Most over the counter medications will not be considered to be a qualified medical expense unless they are prescribed by a physician.

Until next time, The Business Doctor

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

By Kris Pikaart

Her story itself is fascinating, but even more so are her reflections on the sometimes difficult intersection between traditional and Western medicine.

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ou could file this book review under the oldie-but-goodie category, or the I-can’t-believe-you-have-lived-in-Gallup-for-this-long-and-haven’tread-this-book category, or the good-book-to-reread-every-decade-orso category. File it wherever you want, but do give this a read if you haven’t yet.

The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing was written in 1999 by Lori Arviso Alvord, M.D., with the help of writer Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt. In this autobiography, Dr. Arviso Alvord tells the story of how and why she became a successful surgeon. Her story itself is fascinating, but even more so are her reflections on the sometimes difficult intersection between traditional and Western medicine. I write this review with some trepidation, since there are many of you readers who know and have worked with Dr. Alvord. I hope I represent her and her story well.

The author, whose childhood name was Jeanette Lorraine Cupp, grew up on the reservation around Crownpoint to a Navajo father and a white mother.

Surviving some rough patches in her early family life, she became close with her grandmother and was a good student in a less than stellar BIA school. With parents who dearly wanted to, but did not, complete college, Lori was pushed to go to college. Almost by accident, she ended up going to Dartmouth on a scholarship

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for Native students. Lost and far from home, she found solace in the small but diverse community of Native students and majored in psychology and sociology.

Eager to move home and to get any job she could find after graduation, Lori found a job as a research assistant to a medical researcher at UNM where she discovered a love of science. After taking some science classes, she finally had the courage to take the MCAT and was accepted at Stanford School of Medicine.

She started out a shy and quiet young woman quite shocked to be studying at this prestigious school. Through trials – difficult rotations and a personal illness – she eventually chose surgery and was selected for a prestigious surgery residency. It is in this section that she begins to reflect on what it means for her to be rooted in all that is mysterious and powerful about her Navajo roots while living in a setting that values science, rationality, and emotional distance.

She begins to suspect that if she were to meld the two together that she could see beautiful things in her healing work.

When done with a very long stint at Stanford, she moved back to Gallup to work as a general surgeon at GIMC. She bought a house in town, moved her dear grandmother in with her, and settled into a rewarding time of her life.

Learning to be a skilled surgeon on the ground while at the same time trying to reconnect with her Navajo culture (she hadn’t grown up fluent, so she took language classes, and learned a lot about her culture from colleagues and patients),

By Elysia Choudhrie, age 7

Morris Goes to School I want to tell you about one of my favorite books called Morris Goes to School, which was written by Bernard Wiseman.

Morris the moose does not know how to count, spell, or read. He went in the fish shop for candy because he didn’t know how to read. Then when he got to the candy store he didn’t know how to count out his money. The candy shop man asked him if he goes to school. He said, “What is school?” So he shows Morris where the school is. The children are surprised to see a moose in school. After he learns to read and write, he goes back to the candy store. He wants gumdrops. This time he knows how to give the right amount of pennies for 4 gumdrops. The candy shop man is happy. Morris is happy too.

First of all, I like this book because it is very funny, cute, and cool. I think this book is funny because he didn’t know how to count or spell.

I chose this book because I think everyone would love it. I think that it will help kids that are scared to go to school to feel better.

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Monday - Friday • 11am - 7pm & Saturday • 11am - 3pm she seemed to come into her own as a person and as a professional. For those who love all things medical, it is in this section that we get some cool descriptions of the various surgeries that she is doing. She describes in detail the intricacies of removing a gallbladder with a laparoscope and the beautiful and colorful scenery inside of the body. She tells of a young woman with breast cancer whose family simply cannot believe that it is not contagious. She tells of a man who has a porcupine quill in his gut. Slowly, Lori learned to respect her patients and their agency over their own body – even when that was really hard to do (like waiting patiently for parents to consent for a life-saving surgery for their daughter). She learned that when she treats her patients with quietness and respect for their spirit, for their fears, for their beliefs, they actually responded better in surgery.

It was during her stint at GIMC that the hantavirus epidemic broke out in 1993 I’ve always been interested in this piece of local history, and have heard stories from several in the thick of it. Dr. Alvord gives another glimpse into that brief period of medical mystery. We see again what it was like to be at the forefront of disease discovery – in all of its sorrow and joy.

In 1997, Dr. Alvord was invited to come back to Dartmouth to be associate dean at the medical school. She seems apologetic about this move – as if she feels some guilt for leaving her homeland and her practice here. But she believes that the access she gains from having a part in training future physicians is too precious to turn down. Part of her work at Dartmouth is to impart all that her Navajo culture has given her to positively affect medicine in the US. Of this, she writes: I now have the opportunity to teach Dartmouth medical students how to respect their privilege of placing their hands inside another human being. I have a chance to explain the importance of gaining patient trust, of giving back power to patient, of relieving their fear and anxiety and the impact this has on healing. In my initial address to the incoming first- and second-year med school classes, I spoke of all these things that have become essential to me, and of how I first learned them by returning to my tribe’s ancient beliefs.

This autobiography is a quick and enjoyable read. You can pick it up at the library, or off of the shelves of plenty of local readers. I recommend it especially to anyone working in the medical field here – especially if new. Most of us in G-town live in the beauty and sometimes frustration of the ways that Native culture does or does not fit with Westernized institutions. The main reason to go pick up this book, though, is that it is mighty fun to read a book from a big publishing house in which you recognize so many of your neighbors, doctors, and friends. Dr. Alvord adds many local characters to her story, and you are sure to recognize a good number of them.

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JUNE ArtsCrawl Historic

Downtown

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Saturday, June 8 • 7pm - 9pm The shops, restaurants, and galleries will be open late, and live art, dance, and music will be performed on the closed streets. Local band Chucki Begay and Mother Earth Blues Band will be playing and Randy Markham will be leading an African Drum Circle.

Live Art & Music in the Street!

PARTICIPATING VENUES

HealinGifts, 106 W. Coal Ave. Relax with meditative music in our self-serve tea/herb lounge starting at $1/cup, come in and meet our turtles, share your flute or guitar music with us, and visit Pema Osal Ling (Land of Lotus Light) Tibetan Buddhist Dharma Center.

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

ART123, 123 W. Coal Ave. “Food Packaging” A display of graphically beautiful food packaging and a very special performance art surprise!

Open Studio/Outsider Gallery, 123 W. Coal Ave. (East Room) Featuring pastels created by Outsider Artist, Shane Van Pelt along with new photography, paintings, drawings, spray paint art, contemporary fine jewelry, beadwork, & textile/fiber art created by our regular contributing artists.

The Coffee House, 203 W. Coal Ave. Featuring a series of portraits that gives people the chance to take a look into their own image and get connected to these emotions we know and like to deny, a fair IN-SIGHT from what we want to hide from everyone else, a look into ourselves. Also featuring the band Revolver.

Conference Center, 204 W. Coal Ave. Gallup Ceremonial will be hosting the Indian Dances at the Conference Center.

BID Office, 205 W. Coal Ave. Stop in and check out historic photos of downtown Gallup and light refreshments.

El Morro Theater, 207 W. Aztec Ave. Foundations of Freedom Spring Recital beginning at 6 pm.

Planet Mar’s, 213 W. Coal Ave. Gallup’s only vintage clothing shop, located in the back of Makeshift Gallery.

Select items on sale through the month of June. Aubrey Victoria Touchman will be modeling for Planet Mar’s outside Makeshift Gallery.

Makeshift Gallery, 213 W. Coal Ave. Makeshift Gallery is celebrating its 6th anniversary with a silent auction of artists’ items. For Father’s Day we have great metal work, including handcrafted knives. Check out our masculine greeting cards!

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American Bar, 221 W. Coal Ave. Come hang out at a classic local establishment, in business since 1938.

The Industry Gallery, 226 W. Coal Ave. Aaron Benally from Fort Defiance with a debut show of his art career. Come check out his original artwork. Also Panda Base and DJ Dirty Binks will be playing music.

Crashing Thunder Studio, 228 W. Coal Ave. Paula Stifler “BUG HOTELS” Fancy Constructions Bill Malone Trading Company, 235 W. Coal Ave. Traditional Native American art including jewelry, rugs, and more!

Coal Street Pub, 303 W. Coal Ave. Featuring Marla Chavez – Designs by MarlaDe, one-of-a kind handmade jewelry. Live music by Summer Wages, and the dinner special is the Crab Boil.

That’s Sew Right, 102 S. Second St. Stop by with your kid’s and make a craft with beads. Also selling hot dogs and sodas.

Youth Art Display, 305 S. Second St. Displaying the artwork of promising young artists of the Gallup and McKinley County.

Camille’s Sidewalk Café, 306 S. Second St. We will be open until 9 pm. Escape the heat and come by for a smoothie.

Angela’s Café, 201 E. Highway 66 Come for food, drink, music, art, and a beautiful atmosphere in the historic train station.

Octavia Fellin Public Library We’ll be at ArtsCrawl signing people up for new library cards and for the Summer Reading Game. Curious about eBooks? Library staff can walk you through the download process. There will be coffee, music and coupons for free movie rentals, so stop by and see what new events the library has in store for this summer!

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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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Gallup walks to cure cancer!

RELAY FOR LIFE June 14

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Courthouse Square • Gallup, NM Relay for Life 2013 Schedule Friday, June 14 4pm- Entertainment begins and continues throughout the night 6pm- Survivor Registration opens

(All cancer survivors are welcome to register. Free T-shirts for survivors while supplies last.

6:30pm- Survivor Blessing 6:45pm- Survivor Photo

Join us survivors!

7pm- Opening Ceremonies followed by the Survivor Lap and the Team Parade.

Continuous walking on the track all night long from this point on. (At least one team member per team is always on the track. Anyone else who wants to walk is welcome!)

8pm- Purse and Male Bag Auction 9pm- Mr. Relay and Pajama Mama Contests 10pm- Luminaria Ceremony

Saturday, June 15 1am-2am- Downtown Scavenger Hunt 7am- Breakfast 7:30am- Box Car Race 8am- Closing Ceremony and Clean-Up

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(Various games, lap activities and contest continue throughout the night. Teams will have booths with food, games, raffles, etc. all around the track.)

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TOWN June Events at Octavia Fellin Library

BNSF Memorable Train Ride Thursday, June 6 BNSF will be hosting a 2-hour memorable train ride for youth in Gallup, NM who belong to the Big Brothers Big Sisters or Boys and Girls Club organizations. This train ride will be given on Thursday, June 6 from noon to 2 pm.

BNSF prides itself on supporting the communities in which their employees live, work and play. This year they will be making the memorable train ride trip with organizations in 11 cities and Gallup, NM is their first stop.

Boys and Girls Club and Big Brothers Big Sisters will be provided with 350 seats for their youth and adult mentors as well as 46 seats for special guests such as board members and business supporters.

Each child will be provided with lunch while on the trip as well as the chance to take lots of fun, scenic pictures of their town.

In addition to providing a memorable train ride for the youth and their families, the BNSF Special recognizes the contribution of community organizations in the cities it visits by awarding each organization with a check from the BNSF foundation.

“Giving back to the communities we serve is ingrained in our Vision and Values,” says Carl Ice, Executive Vice President, Chief Operations Officer, and member of the BNSF Foundation Board. “Through the Foundation, we can improve the general welfare and quality of life in those communities, and initiate proactive support for specific community projects.”

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June Film Series at the Main Library – 115 W. Hill Ave., Gallup Wednesday nights starting @ 5:30 pm. Refreshments served.

Johnny Depp Month, Co-sponsored by the Gallup Film Foundation June 5 – Cry-Baby (1990) June 12 – Secret Window (2004) June 19 – Dead Man (1995) June 26 – The Tourist (2010) Summer Reading Family Carnival On Saturday, June 8, from 11 am to 3 pm the library will hold its annual Summer Reading Family Carnival, sponsored by the Plateau Sciences Society. Attractions include games, prizes, beauty shop, bouncy slide and castle, the fire department’s Smokehouse, Story Tent, appearances by storybook characters, and snacks. Children can register for the Summer Reading Game and pick up game boards.

The carnival will be held behind the Children’s Library (200 W. Aztec Ave., Gallup) in the parking lot.

Pick your adventure!

Spend your summer playing in the mountains!

Girl Scouts of New Mexico Trails has something for everyone. We have a full season of resident, troop and family camp programs at Rancho de Chaparral near Cuba, NM and high adventure programs at Camp Elliott Barker in Angel Fire, NM. Whether you want to ride a horse, swing from the ropes, shoot an arrow or paddle a canoe, we have just the adventure you are looking for. Make a friendship bracelet, hike to the mystery tree, cook outdoors – the fun doesn’t stop while you are at camp. We even offer bus transportation.

Here is a sample of some resident camps we offer:

Pro Chef Around the World July 7-12 $275 Saddle Up! July 14-18 $260 Artistas June 23-28 $275 Girls with Guitars July 28-August 2 $275 Climb On! July 28-August 2 $275 Come to camp as a family. Share the magic with mom, dad, siblings, cousins and grandparents or neighbors.

Participate in all the fun activities while enjoying the cool mountain air. Leave the cooking to us!

Here is a sample of family camps:

Rancho Big Weekend Barker 50th Anniversary Rancho Me & My Guy Barker Me & My Gal Rancho Me & My Gal

June 28-30 June 14-16 June 21-June 23 July 12-14 July 19-21

$80 per person $50 per person $80 per person $50 per person $80 per person

Your adventure starts now! Get outside and have fun this summer! You will have some great stories to tell your classmates when school starts again in the fall.

Camps are open to all girls and families, whether they are girl scouts or not.

Don’t wait! Get more information and sign up at www.nmgirlscouts.org. Call Vanessa “Shoe” at 505-9232521 with any questions.

87301 Journey to Neverland at The Old School Gallery Friday, Saturday & Sunday, June 7, 8 & 9 El Morro Area Arts Council is presenting a production of TYNK! This is a dark re-imagining and sequel to the Peter Pan classic. It is an original script based on the novel by Brad L Johnson, a resident of Candy Kitchen.

If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. She knows it is time. Peter the Pan must be stopped. She has recruited Baldamero Hook, three desperate mothers of missing boys and all the Lost Boys and Mermaids she can. Will this be enough to stop the evil that has gone on much too long? Journey to Neverland and discover how this story ends in the final confrontation between a demon and the fairy who tries to stop him.

Directed by Adam Joseph Ferry, visiting from California, and starring Missy Hill as Tynk and Sophia Tripodi as Peter the Pan, this ambitious production is supported by a cast of twenty actors, three set designers, a fight choreographer and unique and original special effects and soundtrack. Performances on the 7th and 8th are at 7 pm and on the 9th at 3 pm. They will be held at the Old School Gallery on scenic route 53, 1.5 miles east of El Morro National Monument. Tickets are $12 and are available online at www.bradljohnson.webs.com/webstore, or at the Old School Gallery.

Work in Beauty Demonstration Garden Request for Proposals Do you have a great idea for a project related to locally grown food, recycling, gardening, or resource conservation? Are you a farmer (or a wannabe farmer) who would like assistance with producing locally grown produce? Are you a landowner with space to farm? Do you need financial, technical, or material support to accomplish your goals? Work in Beauty*, a local non-profit that supports environmentally conscious work, is accepting proposals for small locally based projects. Contact us at gallupfruitharvest@yahoo.com or deliver proposals to Work in Beauty, Inc., 113 East Logan Ave., Gallup, NM 87301.

Next FREE Workshop: CONTAINER GARDENING CLASS FOR ADULTS & PLANTING/PLAY TIME FOR KIDS Sunday, June 9 at 9:30 AM at Work in Beauty House, 113 East Logan Ave. *Work in Beauty grew from the conviction that people need work that sustains, heals and harmonizes with the environment, above, below and all around us, a vision not unlike the Navajo prayer, Walk in Beauty, hence the name.

Project Heart Start Saturday, June 22 You don’t have to be a superhero to save a life. Sudden cardiac arrest kills more than 300,000 people in the U.S. every year.

This accounts for about one in every six deaths. Some of those deaths could have been prevented if those close by had been aware of a few life-saving steps.

Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services, the Gallup Fire Department, the McKinley County Fire Department and Gallup Med Flight are sponsoring Project Heart Start – Gallup, a statewide effort to teach a “new” form of CPR called Compression-Only Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR).

The event will take place on Saturday, June 22 at the Larry B. Mitchell Recreation Center, 701 Montoya Blvd., Gallup, NM 87301. There will be three training sessions: 8am, 9am and 10am.

The training is open to ages 12 and older and is free of charge.

Fourteen communities across the State of New Mexico will be participating in Project Heart Start on June 22.

Facilitators will work with small groups using mannequins to teach proper chest compression. This is an ideal opportunity for families to learn a lifesaving technique together. The course does not provide CPR certification, which is only achieved through the standard four-hour course.

Project Heart Start is organized by the New Mexico Heart Foundation, Albuquerque, NM, with New Mexico Heart Institute cardiologist Dr. Barry Ramo as Project Director.

“Many people may not choose to do CPR on a person having a cardiac arrest because they fear doing it wrong or because of the mouth-to-mouth aspect,” said Dr. Barry Ramo. The new CPR is going to change that and change the lives of New Mexicans. This is the second year Gallup is participating in the statewide effort to teach Compression-Only CPR. For more information, call 505-863-7287.

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TOWN Curbside Recycling!

Hozho Center to host weekly community Art Party!

By Betsy Windisch Would you be willing to pay $5 more on your city utility bill to cover the cost of the convenience of curbside recycling?

About 20 years ago the McKinley Citizens’ Recycling Council discussed the possibility of curbside recycling with the City of Gallup. A Northwest New Mexico Council of Governments study was conducted and at that time it was decided the program would not be feasible due to the level of participation and cost.

We are now in a new century and attitudes about recycling have changed. It is the “smart” thing for communities to do, in fact, because of other cost factors: (1) the high cost of creating a new landfill cell for our trash [.5 million], (2) higher cost for transporting that trash to the Red Rocks Landfill in Thoreau [fuel and personnel], and (3) tipping fees paid on the amount of trash generated by the citizens of Gallup and deposited in the landfill. These factors have made curbside recycling a more attractive option.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the average American produces about 4.4 pounds of garbage a day, or a total of 29 pounds per week and 1,600 pounds a year. These are the numbers for the average household member and does not account for industrial waste or commercial trash.

Staggering statistics. While the numbers may be difficult to grasp, consider this: with the garbage produced in America alone, you could form a line of garbage trucks and reach the moon. Or cover the state of Texas two and a half times. Or bury more than 990,000 football fields under six-foot high piles of waste. According to Waste Management Recycle America, Americans alone throw away enough aluminum to duplicate the full commercial air fleet of the US! Our overly consumptive lifestyle, combined with an overly compulsive need to just throw stuff away, has filled our landfills with items that are highly reusable and recyclable. Recycling, along with reducing and reusing the trash we produce, is an important component in the effort to preserve our natural resources and reduce environmental pollution.

And believe it or not, there are still people who don’t recycle. It’s been almost 25 years since the three Rs came to stand for Reduce, Reuse and Recycle, but we’re still producing too much personal waste. It is time to add a 4th R – Responsibility, and a 5th R – Respect (for Mother Earth).

What does curbside recycling require?

Before any program would start, much study would be needed by City Solid Waste and elected officials to determine how, what, and when materials could be collected. For the citizen, the basic requirements to ensure best service, safety and health would include, for example: • placing all materials on curb no later than 7 am on your scheduled trash pick-up day.

• making sure recyclables are clearly recognizable and accessible at the curb.

• ensuring that each bag or tub weighs less than 50 pounds – no overloading.

• putting recyclables at the curb, 5 feet away from your automated trash cart.

• placing only clean recyclable materials in designated bags or tubs.

The McKinley Citizens’ Recycling Council is taking an informal survey to gauge the community’s opinion on the viability of curbside recycling.

Curbside collection may require an additional charge of up to $5 to your utility bill. Give us your opinion. Respond by going to the MCRC web page (recyclegallup.org) and click on Contact Us to respond.

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Wednesdays, June 5 through July 10 The Hozho Center will now be hosting a weekly celebration of creativity – open to any and all individuals and families interested in expressing themselves with art-making. There will be a different art project each week or people can just hang out and make something at their own pace. No art experience or training is necessary; it’s totally free; all supplies will be provided, and a snack will be included.

Founded in 2009 and located in the big ol’ tan and orange building at 216 West Maloney Ave., the heart of Gallup’s north-side neighborhood, the Hozho Center was created with the goal to decrease isolation and to nurture the health and wellbeing of all members of the community by providing a safe environment for socialization, education, outreach, advocacy and support activities.

In the Navajo way, not being connected to oneself, one’s family (or clan), one’s community or the world is a sickness – an illness that is felt in body, mind and spirit. Wellness centers such as the Hozho provide a supportive environment for individuals based on the principles and values of recovery.

The idea is that when a bunch of people from all over Gallup get together, laugh, and make some art, the end product will be an elevated sense of wellbeing, belonging, and, of course, some great art to hang on the wall!

The Art Party will begin on Wednesday, June 5 from 1 pm to 5 pm and continue for six weeks until July 10.

These weekly Art Parties will be lead by Russell Ouellett, a graduate of the Master’s in Expressive Therapies program at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. Russell has given presentations on his community work at international conferences in South America and the United States, including the prestigious American Music Therapy Association Conference. He currently has a day job as a clinician for RMCHCS, but sees this Art Party! as a chance to have a little fun and make some art.

For more information or to be part of this project, please contact Russell Ouellett by phone 207-8383203 or email blankRuss@yahoo.com.

GALLUP INTER-TRIBAL Open Mic Night!

Every Monday, 6pm - 8pm Free wifi, a large selection of board games, ask about our new book trade.

Great coffee, espresso drinks, smoothies, and new cold drinks.

Home of the Peace. Love. Omelettes, Salads and Sandwiches.

CEREMONIAL

Don’t Miss Our Auction!

• Artist/Trader-Donated Pieces • During the Wine Tasting Event • Wednesday, August 7th 6:30-9pm collectors will want to be present for this auction of pieces not otherwise available.

Volunteers Needed!

Call or email the Ceremonial office

The Coffee House 203 West Coal Avenue • 505-726-0291

(863-3896, info@theceremonial.com) Get your volunteer packet today to view all the info you will need to sign up and choose an event activity to volunteer for.

Crumby Bread Co. is a weekly fundraiser organized

by FoodCorps service members Josh Kanter and Melissa Levenstein.

All proceeds fund school gardens and healthy food activities.

Volunteers join them every week to help out and learn the craft. We sell a variety of breads for the many palates of Gallup. Come to 305 S. Second St. on Saturdays from 9-12, across from Camille's.

Need to Reach the Din’e?

1330 AM

All Navajo • All the Time

Call Patricia, Melissa or David 505-863-4444 contact us at: joshua.kanter@foodcorps.org or melissa.levenstein@foodcorps.org

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Sunday ONGOING

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

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

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

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

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

Introductory Tibetan Buddhist Teachings and Meditation Time! Tea served! Sundays 1-3 pm at the Buddhist Pema Osal Ling Tibetan and Dharma Center (106 W. Coal Ave., Downtown, Gallup).

Or just come visit our Shrine. All welcome! Love offerings appreciated. For info, contact Maria at 505-863-3772.

Monday ONGOING

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

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

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

Info: 722-6389.

Community Yoga beginner/adv beginner class is 5:45 to 6:45 pm at Foundations of Freedom (115 E. Coal). Cost is $6. Info: 728-8416 or gallupyoga@gmail.com.

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.

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.

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For more information, call the Golf Shop at 8639224.

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GHS Dance Team Golf Tournament at Fox Run Golf Course. For more information, call the Golf Shop at 863-9224.

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Quilt Club, 7-9 pm at Gallup Service Mart. Come join other quilters in the area to share projects you are working on or have completed.

Upcoming classes and events for July, August and September will be discussed. Free event. For more information, call 722-9414.

Work In Beauty FREE Workshop: CONTAINER GARDENING CLASS FOR ADULTS & PLANTING/PLAY TIME FOR KIDS. 9:30 am at Work in Beauty House (113 East Logan Ave., Gallup).

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Join us for a Unique Horsemanship Competition in Crystal, NM, Hwy. 134, MP 14. Fruit scramble, free BBQ, vendors. All proceeds benefit the Tsah’Bi’Toh Community Foundation Scholarship Fund and Community Giving Programs. For more information, call 505-777-2009/2569.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Open yoga classes 9:30-10:30 am at Foundations of Freedom (115 E. Coal). Cost is $6. Info: 7288416 or gallupyoga@gmail.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.

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). Light meal before most meetings at 6:15 pm. Info: Robert 505-615-8053.

Children’s Library Events: 11am Mother Goose on the Loose (ages 0-3). For more information, call 726-6120.

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The Diabetes Support Group hosts the fourth and final class of “Kitchen Creations: A Cooking School for People with Diabetes and their Families,” presented by the New Mexico State University’s Extension Office. These free classes will be held at 5 pm at the Church of the Holy Spirit (1334 Country Club Drive, Gallup).

Please register for this free class by calling Debbie Johnson at 722-5071.

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.

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.

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.

Experience the healing power of group meditation!

Reserve a time for silence, love and light! Share your presence with us at HealinGifts, 106 W. Coal Ave., Downtown Gallup (505) 863-3772. Time: 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm.

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 . . .

CHANGE YOUR LIFE! Children’s Library Events: 4pm Knitting Club (ages 9-13). For more information, call 726-6120.

Zumba classes at the Hozho Center (3rd and Maloney) 6:30-7:30. For more information, call the Hozho Center at 505-870-1483 or call 505-7137250.

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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June Film Series at the Main Library.

Wednesday nights starting @ 5:30 pm.

Refreshments served. Johnny Depp Month, Cosponsored by the Gallup Film Foundation. June 5 – Cry-Baby (1990), June 12 – Secret Window (2004), June 19 – Dead Man (1995), June 26 – The Tourist (2010).

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2013 Men’s Health Conference, 8 am to 5 pm at Gallup Inn (registration at 7:30 am). FREE Event! FREE Health Screening! FREE HIV Screening! If you would like to pre-register, to set up an educational booth or for more information you can call us at 505-722-1741. LIKE our Page on Facebook: Navajo Health Education ProgramGallup Service Unit.

Veterans Helping Veterans Job Fair, 9 am – 3 pm at Rio West Mall, Red Rock Room. This job fair is for Veterans who are transitioning to civilian life or have civilian work experience. Job opportunities, continuing education opportunities and business ownership opportunities. For more information, call Gallup Small Business Development Center at 505-722-2220.

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Patriots Athletics Booster Fundraiser Golf Tournament will be held at Fox Run Golf Course.

For more information, call the Golf Shop at 8639224.

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Wednesday

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

Poetry group forming on Tuesdays at 6pm at Camille’s on Aztec. Come for a fun time of readings. Contact Lin kickingwoman@live. com.

Taizé Worship Service, 4 pm all Second Sundays at Westminster Presbyterian Church (on Boardman Drive just south of Orleans Manor Apartments).

The hour of Taizé is a time of silence, Scripture, music, and prayer. Music for the service is provided by Kathy and John Mezoff, Loline Hathaway and guest musicians. Linda Kaye Cantor and Patrick Moore - Reader. If you have any questions, call 722-5011.

Belly Dance Workshop with Michelle al Farfesha @ FOF Studio (115 W Coal Ave.). 12:302:30, Rhythms and Movements ($30): Learn some of the most common belly dance drum rhythms, and what to do with them as a dancer! Technique skills from beginning to advanced, all accompanied by live drumming by percussionist, David Brown.

Then, 3:00-5:00, Drum Solo Choreography ($30): A choreography perfect for solo or group.

Technique breakdown, tips for how to make it your own, and for wowing your audience. Or, take both classes for $50! Bonus: after the classes will be a mini hafla, a chance to try out your new skills to live drumming! To register call Leaf: (505)7222491 or email leafashley@yahoo.com.

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June begins the Junior Golf sessions at Fox Run Golf Course Registration is required and juniors ages 6-17 may attend any or all sessions at no charge. The time of each session will be 9am to 11am, Monday thru Thursday, and the list of the sessions is as follows: June 3-6 , June 17-20, July 8-11, July 22-25, August 5-8.

There will be awards, cookout and pool party at the Elk’s Lodge after the last session is over.

Registration forms are available at the Golf Shop. For more information, call the Golf Shop at 863-9224.

Deadline for the RMCHCS fall scholarship applications for full-time students enrolled in a health careers program. Applications are available at the UNM-Gallup financial aid office and at the RMCH information desk. For more information, call 505-863-7325.

Submit Your Event For July TODAY Deadline: June 20 • Call: 722.3399 Email: gallupjourney@yahoo.com

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Thursday ONGOING

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.

Open yoga classes 9:30-10:30 am at Foundations of Freedom (115 E. Coal). Cost is $6. Info: 728-8416 or gallupyoga@gmail. com.

Intermediate yoga class, 7 pm at Foundations of Freedom (115 E Coal). Cost is $6. Info: 728-8416 or gallupyoga@gmail.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.

ONGOING

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

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

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.

Children’s Library Events: 4pm Movies (all ages). For more information, call 726-6120.

Summer Belly Dance classes begin June 21 @ FOF studio (115 W. Coal Ave.).

Beginners Class: Fridays, 5:30-6:30 pm.

Advanced Class: Fridays, 6:30-7:30 pm. $10 Registration fee and $5 per class. Call Leaf for more info: 722-2491.

Zumba classes at the Hozho Center (3rd and Maloney) 6:30-7:30. For more information, call the Hozho Center at 505-870-1483 or call 505-713-7250.

Diabetes Education Classes, first four Thursdays of the month, 4-6pm, RMCH 2nd floor library. Contact: Carolyn at 863-1865.

Walking Together for Healthier Nations, 1 – 7:30 pm at Field House & Football Field in Fort Defiance, AZ. Events include Health Education, Family Fitness Activities, Health Snacks/Food Demonstration, Carnival/Health Fair, Cross Country for 14 and under starts at 3 pm, and 5k Fun Walk & Run at 6 pm. Please bring water bottle, sunscreen, wear appropriate clothes and shoes. Contact TMC Health Promotion Program at 928-729-8875/8876 for more information.

ONGOING

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

Children’s Library Events: 12pm Puppet Show. For more information, call 726-6120.

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

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

Yoga class beginner/advanced beginner. 10 am at Foundations of Freedom (115 E Coal). Info: 728-8416 or gallupyoga@gmail.com.

Habitat for Humanity Yards Sales Saturdays, 9am to noon (weather permitting), Warehouse Lane. New & Used: furnaces, counter tops, sinks, copier, dishwasher, range hoods, trailer frame, desks, microwaves, water heaters, kitchen cabinets, paint, doors, ceiling fans, lights, exercise bikes, etc. Call Bill 505-722-4226 for info. Remodelers’ and contractors’ donations accepted.

Are you being called to help heal others, using subtle energies? Ongoing Reiki classes offered at HealinGifts.

Saturdays, 1:00 - 2:30 pm. $14 per class session. Certificate upon completing 8 sessions plus attunements.

Special healing available for $30. Contact Wayne Wilcken or Maria at (505) 863-3772. Proceeds will benefit Pema Osal Ling Dharma Center at 106 W. Coal Ave., Downtown Gallup.

City of Gallup 3rd Annual Community Cleanup!

Residential customers within the city limits can place all unwanted junk, bulk items, appliances & furniture curbside away from al obstructions by 8am on the SATURDAY designated for your neighborhood. City crews will dispose of items on that day.

June 8 – Southwest – Areas between Muñoz Overpass to 2nd St., South to Nizhoni Blvd., West of NM 602 & South of NM 564

Children’s Library Events: 4pm Crafts (all ages). For more information, call 726-6120.

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The McKinley Citizens’ Recycling Council monthly meeting is held the first Saturday of the month. The next meeting will be held 2 pm at 508 Sandstone Place (in Indian Hills, off of Ciniza). For more information, call 505722-5142.

A night at the movies! presented by Foundations of Freedom Performing Arts Center at El Morro Theater. Doors open at 5:30, show starts at 6:00 pm. Tickets are $7. For more information, call Kathleen at 870-0836.

”TRADITIONAL NAVAHO HORSE STORY” Nabeeho K’ehji’ Lii’ Ba’ha nii’, 9 am at Triple “B” Ranch, 2 miles east of Pinedale Chapter House (follow the signs). Lunch at noon, stew and frybread is free or bring your own lunch. Trying to keep our tradition alive. Please bring dress for the weather presentation down at the barn and bring a chair. Call 505-979-9611 with any questions.

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Uplift Community School Used Book Sale, June 14- June 22. Weekdays 11-2 and 4-7, Saturdays 10-1. For more information Miyamura Co-ed Volleyball Tournament. $120 entry fee. 4/2 format – 8 on a roster. Start time / coaches meeting at 8 am. For information, call Coach Scott at 505-320-9600.

Diabetes Education Classes first four Thursdays call 863-4333 or 879-2581. of the month, 4:30-6:30 pm RMCH 2nd floor 6th Annual Brooke Linelle Spencer Basketball Summer Reading Family Carnival from 11 am to 3 pm the library will hold its annual Summer Reading Family library. For more information, call Carolyn Tournament, June 14, 15 & 16. For team Carnival, sponsored by the Plateau Sciences Society. Attractions include games, prizes, beauty shop, bouncy Mahnke at 505-863-1865. registration, call 505-870-4548 or 928-871- slide and castle, the fire department’s Smokehouse, Story Tent, appearances by storybook characters, and snacks.

Children can register for the Summer Reading Game and pick up game boards. The carnival will be held behind Gallup Film Foundation meeting at 6 pm at Red 2293. A portion of the proceeds going to the Children’s Library (200 W. Aztec Ave., Gallup) in the parking lot.

Mesa Center, just east of the library on Hill Ave. Shelter Homes.

Beginner’s Quilting, Part 3, 6-9 pm at Gallup Service Mart (continued from April and May classes). For more information, call 722-9414.

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Second Thursday Diabetes Support Group at 5:30 pm at Church of the Holy Spirit (1334 Country Club Drive, Gallup). For all people who suffer from Type 1 or Type 2 Diabetes. Please call 505-863-4695 for more information.

Dr. Marco’s Italian classes are continuing each Thursday at the offices of Mason & Isaacson, PA (104 E Aztec Ave), starting June 13 for 8 weeks. 5:30 pm Beginner Class, and 6:30 pm Intermediate Class. Private lessons are also available and family discounts apply. For information please call 541-761-4980. Grazie e ciao!

American Cancer Society Relay For Life, ArtsCrawl, Downtown Gallup, 7-9 pm. See page 44 for complete schedule of events.

Downtown Gallup Courthouse Square, Friday evening to Saturday morning. Cancer doesn’t sleep and for one night neither do we! Call Linda (722-2175) or Joyce (863-3075) for Cruising on the Green Golf Tournament and Car and Motorcycle Show. more information.

Entries are $20 plus 2 cans of food. Golf tournament entries are $40 plus 2 cans of food. For more information, call the Golf Shop at 863-9224.

Crownpoint Rug Weavers Association Auction at Crownpoint Elementary School. Viewing 4:00-6:30 pm, auction 7:00-10:00 pm. For Project Heart Start – Gallup, Hands-only CPR classes, 8am, 9am, 10am at Larry B. Mitchell Recreation more information, visit crownpointrugauction. Center. Free of charge and open to anyone ages 12 and older. For more information call 505-863-7287. com.

UFO Projects, 9am to 4 pm at Gallup Service Mart. $20 includes lunch and pattern. Do you have projects you want C/W Dance, 9 pm to 1 am at Gallup to complete but just haven’t had the time, the space or the discipline to complete them? Bring your projects and Community Center (410 Bataan Veterans St., join other quilters in getting projects completed. Debbie will also teach a scrap bag to catch your stray threads and Gallup). Featuring Midnight Rendezvous, fabric trimmings. Another project to help you stay organized! Come for a day of fun and make your own scrap bag door prizes and entertainment. $10/person. using fat quarters. For more information, call 722-9414.

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PARLIAMO ITALIANO! Get together at Fratelli’s Bistro, 6:30-7:30 pm, to practice your Italian language Popcorn Theology at Church of skills and enjoy fine food and drinks. No charge, but the Professore does accept donazioni! the Holy Spirit (1334 Country Club Drive, Breastfeeding 101, learn the basics of GHS Cheerleaders Golf Tournament will be held at Fox Run Golf Course. For more information, call the Golf breastfeeding at 6pm, RMCH 2nd floor library. Gallup). Come join us for a free movie, sodas, popcorn, and conversation as we Shop at 863-9224.

For more information, contact Mary Ippel at explore the gospel message in contemporary 505-870-5103. movies. This month’s movie will be Lincoln.

For information, call 505-863-4695.

Baby Bistro, support group for breastfeeding Gallup Pride, Inc.’s 5th Annual LGBTQA Pridefest at Gallup’s downtown Courthouse Square. Join us as we moms and their babies at 7pm, RMCH 2nd floor continue to promote a positive stance against discrimination and violence toward lesbian, gay, bisexual, and library. For more information, contact Mary transgender people to promote their self-affirmation, dignity, equality rights, increase their visibility as a social Ippel at 505-870-5103. group, build community and celebrate sexual diversity and gender variance. For more information, contact Sasha Foxx at galluppride.inc@gmail.com. Like us on Facebook!

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ark Schwerdt is the new Executive Director of the Gallup Cultural Center located in the old train station on Historic 66.

How long have you been in Gallup?

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My wife Emily, son Finn and I moved to Gallup about six months ago.

We came here from just north of Boston where I was working as the director of admissions at a small liberal arts college. After much discernment, and with a sense of adventure, we made a decision to be spontaneous. After many days of rambling across I-40, strapped to a moving truck, we made it here – barely!

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I see the Cultural Center as being just that – a center for culture. It is a mistake to think that material poverty, which we do have in Gallup, necessitates cultural poverty. Our plan is to establish Old Train Music & Arts as a community venture to make instruction in the arts widely available to the people of Gallup.

We want to offer children and adults alike the chance to grow, specifically through music, art and dance. Music especially is a means that speaks to everyone, so why not learn how to make it? As Plato said, “Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.”

I’ve always believed everyone can learn to play music – some do so more quickly and some make you want to tear your hair out at first – but in general, the seed is there and it can develop. There are just too many stories of the human spirit rising unexpectedly from the most difficult and restraining of circumstances. Beethoven was deaf; Ray Charles was blind; Tony Melendez, the great Spanish guitar player, had no arms. Choose your own hero.

The arts are not simply for the elite. You love music? You love painting?

Dancing? You’re an amateur – from the Latin word amare, which means “to love.” An amateur, quite literally, is a lover. Think of your attraction to a particular art as an invitation and call to learn more.

Old Train Music & Arts, like the Gallup Cultural Center, is sponsored by the Southwest Indian Foundation, which has a long history of supporting the Arts in our community. In the past 12 years alone, SWIF has awarded over $300,000 to young artists and their schools, both in town and in the surrounding reservations, in order to establish and advance art education.

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What do you mean by a community venture?

I say this because the success of this endeavor will rely on community support. The mission of Old Train Music & Arts is to be a center for music, art and dance education. This is a call for local artists and musicians to share their talents. We plan to establish classes at the Gallup Cultural Center and offer quality, inexpensive merchandise so that amateurs can get started. Our goal is to make classes accessible and instruments affordable.

What is the time frame for opening Old Train Music & Arts?

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e did the official ground breaking for Hooghan Hozho’ last month. Later we will see the real action begin. Several years ago, some children sold their toys at a yard sale and donated the money they received to CARE 66. These children are quite grown up now and they made cookies for our event. Thank you, Anne Marie Lisko.

We have a new Handyman Coordinator. Please welcome Gary Hallock, Jr. He is based at the Lexington Hotel. If you have any yard work or fixit projects, please call him at (505) 722-5203.

After many years, we have closed the Gift Shop in the Gallup Cultural Center. A renovation project is underway and we are planning to open Old Train Music & Arts in mid-August 2013.

For now, I’d like to ask for teachers to come forward. We’re looking for all sorts of teachers – guitar, flute, violin, dance, voice, painting, drawing, even storytelling. The old train station, which used to be the famed Harvey House, is one of the most beautiful buildings in Gallup.

Bring us your talent and desire to enrich the community. We will spread the word and provide the space for your class.

Watch this space for information about our Mother Road Bicycle Classic on the second Saturday (the 14th) in September. Please put it on your calendar and start training.

As usual there will be a variety of courses for riders with different abilities.

How can people get in touch with you?

Until next month stay well and do good.

Stop by for a visit, call (505) 863-4131 or email me at culturalcenter@SouthWestIndian.com.

And, I see you have a guitar right next to your desk. Do you play during work hours?

Oh! (clears throat) Well, uh, only during my lunch break of course.

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4 1. über-traveler, Marie Johnston (right), took a moment to read the Journey with some friends on a hike in Hollywood Hills.

2. Bill & Jennifer Lee reading the Journey in Germany on the Marien Bridge with the Neuschwanstein Castle in the background.

3. Dan and Lorie Kennell above the clouds on top of Mauna Kea Volcano in Hawaii as they wait for the sunset and some world class stargazing.

4. On a recent trip to Orlando, Florida, Lynn, Nellie M. Lee, and Samantha Gordon enjoy the Gallup Journey!

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5. Eddie Schell, Jennifer Baretinicich, Dale Baretinicich, and Valarie Baretinicich enjoy one of their favorite publications -albeit an old copy! - while at Rainbow Bridge at Lake Powell.

6. Olin Clawson, Dr. David Meyer, and Tory Brock read the Journey while taking a break from buffalo hunting in Arizona.

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2 1. Dana Pino, reads the Journey while on hiatus from stair climbing while visiting the Shrine House in Kamakura, Japan.

2. Gallup Pride Family Medicine Little Shots U8 love the Journey! They are also United Cup Champions!

Congrats, guys!

3. Rebecca, Aimee, & Robin Reinhard stop to read the Journey while traveling on the road to Hana in Maui, Hawaii.

4. The Banaszak clan takes a break by the world’s largest Pistachio to read the Gallup Journey....at McGinn’s Pistachio Tree Ranch in southern New Mexico.

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5. These kids love reading the Journey while on vacation in Rocky Point, Mexico. (L-R) Ross Keeler, Rebecca Keeler,Trey Keeler, Jack Dowling and Addison Dowling.

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This Is My Passion:

oyce Graves is a three-time cancer survivor. She is an optimist and a doer who derives satisfaction from supporting others. She and her husband Paul, a two-time cancer survivor, have been involved with Relay For Life for the past fourteen years. Joyce says, “Relay For Life came to Gallup in 2000 and I found my true passion.” By volunteering on a national training team, serving as the local event chair, and mentoring others throughout the state, Joyce has committed herself to the cause, heart and soul.

The American Cancer Society Relay For Life began in 1985 when one man in Tacoma, Washington walked around a track for 24 hours to raise awareness and money to help fight cancer. It is now a worldwide occurrence and has raised over $4 billion for cancer research and in support of those affected by the disease.

Relay For Life involves team fundraising throughout the year and culminates in an overnight community walk. Team members take turns walking around a track; one person from each team must be walking at all times. Food, games and activities provide entertainment and build camaraderie. The event is an opportunity to celebrate the lives of those who have fought cancer and to remember those who have lost their battle against the disease. Participants walk throughout the night, because cancer never sleeps.

Joyce speaks of Relay with words like satisfaction, pride, accomplishment and hope, but insists that you just have to experience it to know what it’s all about. New teams, volunteers and board members are always needed and welcomed. Making a commitment to Relay For Life may be time consuming, life changing, even tiring, but it will definitely be rewarding.

This year’s Relay For Life event will take place on June 14 at the Courthouse Square in Gallup. The event begins at 4 pm with entertainment while teams are setting up. The opening ceremony at 7 pm will honor survivors and a luminaria ceremony will be held at 10 pm. Other special events are planned throughout the night, concluding with a closing ceremony in the morning. For more information, contact Linda Shelton at adnil.notlehs@gmail.com, 505-722-2175.

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