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Mayor’s Update

November 10 is the 239th birthday of the United States Marine Corps

Community Cleanup Campaign: Over 420,000 pounds of junk removed.

November is a special month for remembrance and thanks. Please join the community on November 11 in honoring our veterans.

Services at the Veterans Cemetery will begin at 10 am, with a parade to the courthouse square where ceremonies and recognition of our veterans will start at 12 noon.

This is a prelude to our Thanksgiving holiday, when we can further reflect on the blessings we enjoy, living in a nation that provides the freedoms many around the world are striving for. This is a great opportunity to be thankful for what we have, and work to provide more for our families and community.

NEW VETERAN’S CEMETERY COMING TO GALLUP. Earlier this year, Governor Susana Martinez had nominated Gallup as one of four towns in the state to be considered for a special grant to create a veteran’s cemetery. We have just received word that Gallup was selected by the federal government as the only community in New Mexico to receive the grant. Final award of the grant depends on a budget agreement between Congress and the President. The new cemetery will serve western New Mexico and the Navajo Nation, providing additional burial options for veterans and their spouses.

Groundbreaking could start as soon as next spring and the cemetery could open in 2016.

HELP US KEEP GALLUP BEAUTIFUL. City staff has been working on several initiatives to clean up and beautify our neighborhoods and streets. Over the summer, crews from Parks and Recreation, Streets, and Solid Waste divisions conducted the fourth annual Community Cleanup Campaign and collected over 420,000 pounds of debris from around the city. That’s equivalent to the weight of six Boeing 737 jetliners! In addition, Parks crews have been pulling weeds at all city

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parks and along landscaped islands and fence lines around town.

Crews are also adding plantings to the city entrances at the east end of Route 66 and on US 491.

Please be considerate of your neighbors and pull weeds and remove debris in front of your property and in the alley behind. Code enforcement has been citing violators around town for failure to properly maintain yards. With your cooperation, we can make Gallup a more beautiful place and contribute to the quality of life we enjoy.

EL MORRO THEATER MANAGER HIRED. Library Director Mary Ellen Pellington recently announced the selection of Frank Bosler as the new El Morro Theater manager. Bosler was a resident of Gallup for 18 years prior to moving to South Carolina, and worked for GallupMcKinley County Schools as an English teacher and soccer coach. He was an associate professor at UNM-Gallup and General Manager/ CEO of Gallup Public Radio. An involved community member, he volunteered for Hospice and for Literacy Volunteers of America.

He also served on the boards of the Gallup Pantry and the Octavia Fellin Public Library. He was manager and director of promotions at the Victoria Street Theater, a 294-seat theater and performing arts center in Santa Barbara, CA. ROUTE 66 PEDESTRIAN SAFETY AND HOSPITAL/COLLEGE DRIVE PROJECTS ADVANCE. Work continues on two major roadway projects in Gallup. The Route 66 project will implement several aesthetic and safety improvements in the downtown corridor. If the contract award proceeds in December as planned, groundbreaking will occur in January with completion slated for the end of April 2015.

The Hospital and College Drive project is on a similar path with completion expected in the summer of 2015.

Mayor Jackie McKinney Councilor Allan Landavazo Councilor Cecil Garcia Councilor Linda Garcia Councilor Yogash Kumar

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The Gallup Senior Softball League would like to take this time to thank all who participated & contributed to this year’s Labor Day Senior Softball Tournament.

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The tournament was a huge success due to the following tournament sponsors: Gallup Journey, Stoneweaver, Gallup Vision Source, Storm Refrigeration, Don Diego’s Restaurant, Rico Auto Complex, Earl’s Restaurant, Advanced Technical Services, Gurley Motors, Clifton Electric, Jerry’s Café, Furniture Warehouse, Six D. Inc., Gallup Lumber & Supply, Anasazi Traders and Pepsi Cola. We cannot thank you enough for your generous contributions and or monetary donations.

We would like to thank Don Diego’s, for allowing us space to hold our tournament committee meetings, and Earl’s, for putting on a heck of a barbeque. A big thank you to the good people running the concession stands and all the businesses that contributed to their cause. Thank you to those that sold and bought raffle tickets. Thank you, Don and Phyllis Casuse. Thank you, Tom Hartsock. Thank you to all businesses and that contributed to the raffle.

A huge thank you to neighboring teams, Albuquerque Los Coyotes (Gold Division 50’s Champions), Espanola Unpredictable (Silver Division 50’s Champions), Albuquerque Silverbacks (played 5 games on Saturday; insane), NM Warriors, Albuquerque Road Runners, Albuquerque Vets (60’s Division Champions), Albuquerque Rhinos, Albuquerque Post 13 (Sportsmanship Award 60’s) and the Albuquerque Suns, for putting rubber to blacktop and making the drive to Gallup to participate. Thank you to the local teams, Weaver, Gurley Locksmith, The Bullets, The Aces (Sportsmanship Award), X-Treme, The Yarddogs, and Ernie’s for participating. We would like to thank those that sponsor or help these teams in any way.

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of Salt Lake City, Utah, Nester Talemante of Salt Lake City, Utah, Mike Gallegos of Los Lunas, NM, George Barreras of Reserve, NM, William Armijo of Phoenix, AZ, Eddie Rangel of Albuquerque, NM, Tom Worth of Texas, Mike Flip Johnson of Las Vegas, NV and all others . . . Thank you very much for the close ties that you keep with Gallup.

To the umpires who did an outstanding job not only in making tough calls, but also in keeping things calm while going toe-to-toe with managers, coaches and players, keeping everyone safe. Thank you very much!

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hank you very much to the City of Gallup, City of Gallup Parks and Recreation Department, Gallup Fire Department and the Gallup Police Department. Special thanks to Vince Alonzo and the Gallup Parks crew for doing an outstanding job and for staying on standby for the entire tournament. Also, we would like to thank the kind gentleman that collected parking fees and greeted people entering the park. We would like to give a shout-out of gratitude to Mayor Jackie McKinney for attending and showing his support and joining the camaraderie.

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A special thank you for the tremendous support we get from our families - our wives, our significant others, our friends and our wonderful fans! Thank you very, very much!

Thank you to the Women’s Senior League in joining us in between your tournament of events and games.

Thank you for your prayers and blessings.

With sincere gratitude, we wish everyone a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Secretary and Treasurer Yolanda Azua, Senior League President and 60’s Tournament Director, Jay Azua, Vice President and 50’s Tournament Director Archie Baca Jr, Umpire-In-Chief John Griego, Tournament Committee Steve Harper, Joe Mesich, Dave DeWeese and Art Burrola.

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Thoughts from the

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ne of my favorite television shows of all time, THE WEST WING, follows the fictional Presidential administration of Jed Bartlett, a man who was very fond of asking, “What’s Next?”

Seriously, if you haven’t watched the entire series, you’re missing out.

You should know that there are over 150 episodes, so saddle up; it’s going to be a long ride. But I’m serious, your life will be better if you watch THE WEST WING.*

Anyway, back to President Bartlett. He would finish one project and already be ankle-deep in the next. He was constantly moving forward.

Granted, the show was fictional and he had a massive staff carrying out his every whim, but he was constantly accomplishing tasks.

And Moving Forward.

I love lists. Toward the end of the month when I’m trying not to forget anything that needs to go into the next issue of the Journey, you could walk into my office and see two or three color-coded lists referencing everything, from page numbers to content vs. ad ratio, to new feature stories, to columnists, to deadlines, etc.

As with any job, it’s sometimes hard to keep it all straight – lists help me with that task.

I’m constantly referencing and amending what’s on my various lists to help keep my life ordered – or more ordered, anyway, and moving forward toward my next task.

I don’t know if you’ve been downtown lately, but there are some beautiful lights strung from 2nd Street to 3rd Street on Coal Avenue. The lights create a canopy of sorts and will light up the downtown (fingers crossed) every night of the year . . . they are going to be especially awesome for events like ArtsCrawl (2nd Saturday of EVERY MONTH). So if you haven’t seen them, go check them out!

Well done to Mayor McKinney, the City Council and the staff and employees of the City of Gallup for getting the project done. I’m pretty sure the Business Improvement District and others in our community did their fair share, as well – so kudos all around.

Another project that is nearing completion is the transformation of Harold Runnels Pool into an indoor sports facility; including indoor soccer and volleyball, with a walking track, to boot! Again, well done to all involved. Our community’s children (and adults) are going to be thrilled to be able to enjoy such a great facility.

Yet another project that you’ve probably seen in the works is the construction between Coal Avenue and Aztec Avenue on 2nd Street. This is, of course, the new annex for the El Morro Theatre – giving our community yet another thing to be proud of, with a beautiful meeting room and new dressing rooms to help with the revitalization of the Historic El Morro Theatre.

If you’ve got ideas on what you believe our community is in need of, shoot me an email or stop by my office! Trust me, I’d love to get a more comprehensive list started for what’s needed in our community (I love lists!).

What’s Next?

-nh *Incidentally, the entire series is streaming on Netflix and Amazon Prime.

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Columns 14 16 20 24 28 30 42 46 48

Local Legends Driving Impressions West By Southwest 8 Questions Money & You Words of Wellness Memories of Gallup College Basketball Lit Crit Lite

Other Stuff 8 34 35 44 49 50 58 61 62 64 66 70

Thoughts Izzit?!

Who Am I? ArtsCrawl Schedule Care 66 Update G-TOWN, 87301 El Morro Schedule Sudoku Community Calendar Best of Gallup 2014 People Reading the Journey Final Photo

Features 10 12 18 26 32 36 40 52 54 56 58 59

Contributors

Alfred and Ernie Abeita George Andrade Ernie Bulow Greg Cavanaugh Sanjay Choudhrie Bera Dordoni, N.D. Nia Francisco Jeannette Gartner Ray Gosden Pat Gurley Tommy Haws Kari Heil Rob Koops Brian, Sheila, Elizabeth Kruis Bill Lee Lena Lengal Martin Link Jay Mason Bill McCarthy Paul McCollum Fowler Roberts Bob Rosebrough James Calvin Schaap Justin Shaw Chuck Van Drunen Betsy Windisch

National Adoption Month Monumental Brass Rubbings Tarantula Put Us In A Home An Elderly Woman’s Thoughts A Different Kind of Fishing Story 10.35 Seconds Cougar Encounters Zuni’s House of Peace Dr. Jeckyll and Mrs. Hyde UFO Film Festival Commercial Shoot

November 2014: Volume 11, Issue 11 - #124

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Celebrate Nati Adoption Month

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Siblings (L-R) Ruthann, Elizabeth and Eugene Kruis

ovember is National Adoption month and it truly is a celebration of the beautiful lives of children who have become a part of forever families. We, the Gallup community, have reason to celebrate in a special way in November and all year round because we have a great community of adopted children and adoptive families. One of the greatest blessings in a diverse and caring community like ours is that our adopted children fit right into the diversity and the community is wonderful at embracing all of the children as our very own.

Did you know that the estimated number of orphans who have lost both their mom and dad is 17.8 million? (U.S. Government “5th Annual Report to Congress on Public Law 109-95�) Did you also know that the number of caring adults it takes to make a life-long difference for an orphan is one?

Children become adopted in three ways: private adoptions through birth parents who have come upon difficult times and cannot raise their children; through the state – children who need a safe home and a forever family; or through foreign adoption of orphaned children.

The number of caring adults it takes to make a life-long difference for an orphan is one.

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Q: What would you like to share about your adoption story?

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I was adopted when I was only a day old. I am eleven now. My adoptive dad and mom were in the middle of a birthday party for my uncle when they got the call about a newborn baby (that was me!).

Elizabeth Kruis They were really excited! Through the years, I have written to my birth mom, so we’ve been in touch. When I was two, my parents also adopted my best friend Ruthann. She is eleven also. We are still best friends.

Q: What do you think about adoption?

A: I think that adoption gives children and adults love. When someone gets adopted they don’t really know if the new family really loves them. But they do love you. I also think for people who want to adopt, it would be great for them to do foster care.

I think it gives them more experience.

Q: What do you want others to know about adoption?

A: I want others to know that adoption makes people feel included. It makes them feel like they’re part of the real world.

I also want others to know that it’s ok to adopt, even if you’re scared to. That means there’s one less lonely kid out there.

Elizabeth is the middle child of Sheila and Brian Kruis.

They are the parents of five children, and have been blessed to adopt four times. They both work with the FIESTA project, a state-wide grant to help coordinate training and activities for adoptive families in the Gallup area. FIESTA stands for Family activities, Information, Education, Support, and Trainings for Adoptive families of New Mexico.

Thank-you Gallup community for all of your love and support for adopted children and adoptive families!

For more information about FIESTA or activities for adoptive families, call 505-488-8697.

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Monumental Brass Rubbings

By Martin Link

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hroughout the late Medieval period (12th to 17th centuries), it was a common practice, especially in England, to design and install an engraved metal plate to commemorate the deceased individual. These brass plates would be embedded on the top of the tomb of a knight, a royal lady, a wealthy merchant or a priest, and were considered a proper memorial so that the living descendants would remember and pray for them. In many instances the effigy of the deceased was embellished with an epitaph and coat of arms, along with armor, costumes of that period, and jewelry. Male warriors were often shown standing on a lion.

However, during the Reformation and the English Civil War, thousands of these brass plates were destroyed, so that, at present, only about 2,300 remain.

Beginning in the 1890s, and then again after World War II, it has become popular to create impressions of these surviving plates by laying down a sheet of paper over the plate and then rubbing it with a ball of black wax, much like a black crayon.

Each one has a story to tell.

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An unknown individual, probably from New York, undertook to create a collection of rubbings in late 1959 and 1960. When that person died just a few years ago, the inheritors of the estate chose to dispose of them through an estate auction. A collector of Medieval artifacts, Lee LeCaptain of Orlando, Florida, notified his friend and mutual historian, Martin Link, an instructor at UNM-Gallup, of their possible availability. At the estate auction, in Connecticut in April, LeCaptain offered a bid, by phone, and ended up as the new owner of a collection of 40 rubbings.

The collection was turned over to Link in July, who has now been using them as a basic resource for his class in Medieval Mayhem. The students have been repairing some of the torn rubbings and trying to identify the individuals they represent.

The person who was creating these rubbings would oftentimes write down pertinent information in pencil on the lower right-hand corner of the paper used for the rubbing. This information usually consisted of the name of the deceased subject, date of death, and the church where the individual is interred.

With that information Link and his students have been able to go on-line to Monumental Brass Society or look up the individual in Muriel Clayton’s book, Catalogue of Rubbings of Brasses and Incised Slabs, from the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Many of these rubbings are almost a yard wide and seven to eight feet long. Because they have been rolled up for many years, the wax has cracked in a number of rubbings.

The fascinating aspect of these rubbings, however, is that each one has a story to tell, which is not restricted to the date of death. In some cases that date coincides with one of the crusades, or an epidemic of the bubonic plague. In one poignant rubbing, not only are the husband and wife depicted, but six small children, as well. Could they all have been victims of the plague? Another rubbing shows a knight flanked by two wives, both named November 2014

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Margaret. A rubbing from a 1410 a.d. brass shows Robert de Frevile holding hands with his wife. Robert is standing on a dog rather than a lion.

Unfortunately, thousands of brass plates relating to bishops, abbots and priests were destroyed by commissioners under the direction of King Henry VIII during the English Reformation. There are now very few survivors in that category, so the fact that one of the rubbings in the collection depicts a priest with a chalice, from Warwickshire, is one of the highlights of the collection.

Several of the rubbings, such as the one for Sir John D’Aubernoun, who died in 1327, show not only the figure of the individual, but include an awesome canopy similar to the spires of a cathedral.

A few of the rubbings are fairly morbid in nature. They depict skeletons, mummified bodies or a skull in a shroud. They probably reflect the remains of individuals who died far from home and were eventually brought back for burial.

A well-detailed rubbing of a knight had a tag attached to it stating “unknown person,” which was a shame since it is one of the best rubbings in the collection. However, in looking through the reference material, Link came upon a depiction of a knight that was the exact image. It turns out that this rubbing commemorates Sir Robert de Setvans who died in 1306. He is crosslegged, which signifies that he died in battle, and is standing on a lion. He is buried in Chartham in Kent. The brass plate is of such fine execution it is believed that it possibly is the product of a French craftsman.

This unique effort will come to fruition on Friday, November 21, when the rubbings go on display in the two exhibit cases in the lobby of Gurley Hall, on the campus of UNM-Gallup. From what Link and Dr. Chris Dyer, the university director, can determine, this will be the first time ever when a collection of this number of brass rubbings has been publicly put on exhibition in the United States. The official opening ceremonies will begin at 6:30 p.m., and the public is most cordially welcome to attend.

Martin Link uses the rubbings as a resource in “Medieval Mayhem,” which he teaches at UNM-Gallup.

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LEGENDS Gallupians

That Have Done Awesome Things

George Andrade:

Getting In & Out of Hollywood

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et’s start with the basics: I was born in Gallup, went to grade school at Cathedral School where I had a great basketball coach that helped prepare me for real life. I then went to Gallup Jr. High and finally graduated from Gallup High in 1973.

I worked one year at White Auto Store and then left for Northern Arizona University in 1974.

Next, I attended and graduated from a very prominent design school in Pasadena called Art Center College of Design. Every instructor there was a working professional and still is. I had one instructor who was working in the industry at the time but I didn’t know it. One day he came to class and asked if someone could help him and his family move and I was the first to volunteer because I had a truck at the time. I did it to help, not because I thought I could get something out of it. Anyway 3 years later he called me to help out again but this time he was at a premier movie agency. He needed help in coming up with movie posters for Little Drummer Girl with Diane Keaton. He told me that day that the reason he called was because I was the only one to volunteer to help him move. I put together 3 different posters in 5 hours and made $1000. Back then $1000 would be the equivalent of $7000 today. Well I was hooked, because not only did I have the best time, I got paid a lot of money.

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OK, so what exactly did I do . . . First of all, a movie script is handed to you and then you’ve got to read it in less than an hour. As you read, you get a sense of how the director wants to film the script. From there you begin to place yourself in the viewer’s position and you ask yourself what would get me to see this film? Is it the star, is it the story, is the special effects, etc.? From there you have to break down the entire film into one compelling image. Hundreds of ideas, which become preliminary posters, are generated before the final poster is picked. Ultimately, it comes down to a few execs. making gut feelings about the image.

Then I was offered a position with the competing design firm, known as Intralink Film Graphic Design. So for the next fourteen years, I worked on movies like: GOOD MORNING VIETNAM, DEAD POET’S SOCIETY, WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT, THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER, GROUNDHOG DAY, THE GOLDEN CHILD, BATMAN, HONEY I SHRUNK THE KIDS, PRESUMED INNOCENT, FORREST GUMP and on and on. More than 250 films in all. Most of the films would require photoshoots with the stars, so I would be art directing those. And all the while I was working on print, I was also working on trailers.

The process went something like this: While the poster was being created, I would work with an editor to come up with a 90-second storytelling of the film, which would be in line with the poster. The two would always mesh. In effect, we would begin the branding of the film. At the time voiceovers did most of the storytelling and, of course, Don LaFontaine was doing most of them. But they all seemed to be the same. So my editor and I began to push the envelope and create trailers without voiceovers. Using only the existing dialogue and music. In the beginning it was very difficult and met a ton of resistance, but now 20 years later you hardly ever hear a trailer with a voiceover. Only the lowend movies use them now, so I’d like to think that I was at the forefront of creating the modern-day trailer.

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My favorite movie poster and trailer was for CITY SLICKERS because it was a family collaboration. I art directed everything. John Alvin painted the final image, my wife, who’s a graphic designer, created the logos and my father created the hand lettering for the body copy, which had to look like it was from the fifties. Billy Crystal was producing the film at Castle Rock at the time, so I worked closely with him on the final campaign.

Then the television side came calling. CBS, NBC and ABC wanted all their advertising to look like movie advertising and when I was offered an enormous amount of money, I took it. And that’s when the trouble began. The pace of TV productions is so much faster than film that, at the beginning, I was overwhelmed. I adapted and became one of the leading go-to guys when it came to TV campaigns. I helped launch more than 50 TV pilots. Most I don’t even remember the names of because they came and went so fast. In that period of time I worked on shows like XENA, STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE and countless others.

Then one morning in 1996 I woke up and thought I was having a heart attack so I checked myself into the local hospital and waited for the test results. Nothing; inconclusive. The very next day I thought I was having a stroke and went to the hospital again. Now I was done and I had to find a way out, so I took my wife to Europe for 6 weeks for a rest, hoping that by the time I got back, I’d be fired. Nope, when I got back things hadn’t changed, so I knew I had to change things. I left the studios at the end of ’97 and just did some freelancing for the next 2 years. The problem with that was I considered now to be out of the industry and nobody was calling. In show biz you’re either out or you’re in. There’s no in between.

So I decided to get my Series 7 license and become a stockbroker. For some reason I always wanted to be a stockbroker. I didn’t know at the time that the age of the stockbroker was coming to an end.

In 1999 we decided to move to Seattle where my wife’s family lives and there I joined Edward Jones. I took all my presentation skills and in a 5-year period did 125 presentations of a seminar called SMART WOMEN FINISH RICH. I now have over 400 clients, 87% of them are women. It took a number of years before anyone I worked with in LA became a client, but eventually they came around. I fly into Burbank every 3 months to see family, friends and clients.

Today my mother still lives in Gallup and I have some family in Albuquerque and clients in Santa Fe. When I come back to Gallup I have fond memories of playing hide n’ seek with a slew of kids in the neighborhood and still love to eat at Virgie’s or get a classic Blake’s Lotaburger. In retrospect, the greatest thing that helped me in Gallup was being in love with three local girls who were only interested in college-educated guys and that inspired me to be successful! Haha!!!!

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Ultimately, the Canyon’s arrival (and that of its sister, the Chevy Colorado) begs three big questions: First, if you’re in the market for a truck, should you choose the midsize Canyon, or its larger brother the Sierra? Second, can the Canyon unseat the reigning midsize champ, the Toyota Tacoma, and win over its uber-loyal buyers? Last, does the new 2015 Canyon revive the old mini-truck segment that was once so thriving in the 90s?

In terms of the compact truck title as it relates to its glory days in the 90s, those days are over. This is not a sub-3,000 lb short box 2WD truck.

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By many measures, the new Canyon is as large as full size trucks of yore. For comparison I parked it next to a coworker’s 1995 Ford F350, Crewcab, 4x4, long bed, dually. Surprisingly, the Canyon was just less than a foot shorter and wider than what, at one time, was a BIG truck. Compared to the last gen Canyon, the new 2015 Canyon is wider and longer, but not much taller.

Although the definition of midsize has certainly changed, the Canyon, in my opinion, still represents a great blend of people space in the cab, cargo space in the bed, all in an overall footprint that is maneuverable and very livable in day-to-day use. The 74-inch bed option here provides real cargo hauling capacity, yet the floor of the bed is still reachable for shorter drivers like myself when standing on the street. The crew cab layout gives the convenience of four real doors, each with their own window, cupholder, exterior door handle, etc., but is not nearly as excessive as the limo-esque back seats of its full size counterparts. Honestly, I grew up in an age when riding in a truck November 2014

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Compared to the Tacoma, which when comparably equipped is roughly $1k cheaper, the new Canyon is similarly sized. On paper the Canyon edges out the Tacoma in most other objective categories. While the Canyon’s 3.6-liter direct-injected V6 and the Tacoma’s 4.0-liter V6 share similar torque figures at just under 270 lb-ft, GM’s “high feature” V6 makes a healthy 305 hp @ 6,800 rpm and is mated to a 6-speed automatic versus Toyota’s somewhat paltry (and likely underrated) 236 hp @ 5,200 rpm mated to a 5-speed automatic. At the pump too, the Canyon’s 17 mpg city/24 hwy/20 combined (in this configuration) will save you some money over the Tacoma’s 16 mpg city/21 hwy/18 combined. In reality and on the road, the Canyon seems like a whole other class of truck, a version 2.0, if it were compared to the Tacoma’s beta. The new Canyon’s visual aesthetic both inside and out is much fresher, the interior materials richer, and the entire package more sophisticated. The new Canyon’s 2.8-liter Duramax diesel arriving next year, only adds salt to the Tacoma’s wounds.

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Contrary to popular belief you are not migrating for tropical relief.

Your hairy eight legs that dutifully cross our autumn roads are in search of a date and seek the female abodes.

Up to fifty miles he may travel in search of love while the beloved she waits in her hole for your footsteps above.

Yet when the weary male at last finds sweet procreation, he is the one found more desirable and digested in a different consummation.

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So the patriarch only tastes a few years before demise, but the matriarch she endures decades of the yearly male surprise.

And to hers is the offspring of five hundred fold, but only because the male is so adventurous and bold.

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Melika And His Brother Tchuchi:

The Long-Distance Runner Revisited

“Give me some squaw bellies.” Don’t know if that story is true or not.

One of the most curious things about this sixty-year-old runner was his penchant for chain smoking. He got the nickname “Cigarette” because of it. One reporter said, “He smokes them by the handful, though never when he is actually running.”

In 1912 Jim Thorpe became one of the first high-profile Indian athletes when he took part in the Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden. Thorpe’s biography has been pretty well documented, except that new things come to light from time to time. Most people don’t know that the same year he was triumphant in Stockholm he won the intercollegiate ballroom dancing championship.

Left: Three races were held in Los Angeles the year before the first Redwood Empire “Marathon.” The idea was to stir up interest in the race and also screen qualifying entrants. Zunis in this run included Patasoni Amesoli, Leekity, Sandee, and Sahlutewa.

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don’t believe I have ever yet had the last word on any subject I have written about. Once a piece sees print, another juicy, interesting, sometimes bizarre fact comes to light and the author wishes he had a rewrite. I recently came across a wonderful photograph of the Zuni runners, Melika and his brother Tchuchi, and I just can’t ignore it.

In the first quarter of the last century, Indian runners captured the imagination of the American public. They didn’t look or act like the familiar Anglo athlete, yet they consistently won races. Their skin was swarthy, their stature short and stocky, their stride usually described as “choppy” but effective.

Short legs probably account for the odd gate.

What bothered the Anglo fans the most, though, was their apparent aloofness and lack of emotion. The “stoic” Indian, stone-faced and silent, is one of the oldest clichés. On the other hand, reporters jumped at opportunities to poke a little fun at their lack of social graces and poor English language skills.

In 1927-1928, the years of the Redwood Empire Indian Marathon races, a Zuni named Melika got the brunt of their so-called humor. (Why call a 480-mile run a marathon?) When they discovered he only spoke about ten words of English they couldn’t resist having a little fun.

Melika loved strawberries – really loved them. The race followed the coast of California in the month of June, prime berry season. The whites coached him to say, “Give me some strawberries.” He practiced the phrase diligently. The next time they passed a fruit stand he walked up and said,

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For his Carlisle teammate Lewis Tewanima, it was his second Olympic appearance since he had run in 1908 in London. Tewanima, a Hopi from Arizona, was 5-feet 3-inches tall, which would seem to be a serious handicap in long distance running.

Patasoni Amesoli was barely five feet tall, weighed less than 100 pounds and was only 18 when he was picked for the Brussels Olympics in 1920. Unfortunately he badly injured his ankle on the way over and could not compete. Soon after another Zuni runner came to prominence nationally and internationally. Andrew Chimoni and two of his friends, Lutse and Leekity, qualified for the 1928 Olympics.

A runner did not make it onto the Olympic team without a lot of contests under his belt. The controversial Gallup trader Mike Kirk made that possible for a lot of Hopis, Navajos, and Zunis. He hauled them from meet to meet covering the whole country from coast to coast. His Hopis and Zunis were consistent winners.

In May of 1927 Kirk took a group of runners to run in the New York Marathon. Chief Quanowahu, usually described in the press as “a Hopi snake dancer from the desert country of Arizona” easily won the race, breaking the American record, and garnered national publicity. Unfortunately he so damaged his feet on the unfamiliar hot pavement he had to turn down several invitations to take part in other races like the Boston Marathon.

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Right: Tchuchi massages his brother Melika’s feet as the runner enjoys a cigarette toward the end of the 1928 Redwood Empire Race.

By Ernie Bulow Author photo by Erin Bulow

he trained and sponsored three Zunis: Jamon, 32, Melika, 55, and Melika’s brother Chochee [Tchuchi], 48. Both Melika and Tchuchi wore their hair long and tied in a Navajo-style bun. They would be running against men half their age or less. The rest of the competitors that year were from California tribes.

By strange coincidence the three “inspectors” of the race were members of the Improved Order of Red Men from Ukiah. That is the oldest fraternal organization in America, dating back to the Revolution as the Sons of Liberty. Those were the guys who sponsored the Boston Tea Party. I suppose “inspectors” were like umpires, making sure everyone behaved.

Ernest Jamon (in print the Zunis never have first names) was first into San Rafael, which qualified him for an extra $100 prize.

This was the start of the 480-mile run known as the Redwood Empire Indian Marathon. The wire services, UPI and Associated Press carried the story nationally and it appeared in small papers from Georgia to North Dakota.

On June 19 the headline ran, “Young Karook Out Ahead of ‘Cigarette’ Melika in Shuffle Handicap.” The rules were pretty loose. The runner had to stay on his own feet and on the road. When and where and how long he rested was up to the contestant. They had to finish the race in fifteen days, though it took much less than that.

The field thinned quickly and in the end Mad Bull of the Karuk

they named him Red Robin. The 1927 winner, Mad Bull, went around in the world as John Wesley Southard, so maybe Mad Bull was appropriate.

Some other names were Running Water, Chief Geyser, Falcon, Sweet Eagle (one of my favorites), Big White Deer, Fighting Stag, White Horse and many more. Lots of Chiefs in the crowd and a Princess or two in the cheering section.

On June 18 Ernest Jamon was clipped by a car, which injured his leg and put him out of the race.

The wire services, probably tipped off by Mike Kirk, picked up the story of the Zunis’ morning prayer and offering to the spirits. That was

Why call a 480-mile run a marathon? tribe took first, his mate Flying Cloud second, and Melika third. Mike Kirk immediately began planning for the 1928 race.

REO automobile company introduced its state-of-the-art car, the Flying Cloud, in 1927. This brand name, designed by an Italian and produced by Ransom E. Olds, would have been recognizable to everyone. The Oldsmobile would anchor what became the GM line of cars.

The original announcement in the newspapers touted a first prize of $5,000. It was really $1,000, but still plenty to get excited about at the time.

Second place was $500 and there were other cash prizes. Most of the towns the racers passed through put up special prizes like $100 for the first runner to enter town.

In 1928 there were twenty-eight entrants from fourteen tribes, including four Hopis sponsored by Lorenzo Hubbell who had a trading post at Oraibi. Mike Kirk entered five Zunis: “Jamon, Lutci, Chochee, Melika, and Andrew Chimoney, champion of Zunis and Southwestern tribes,” though half the time they called him a Hopi. Spelling was obviously not very important.

A sixth Zuni, relative newcomer Sheka, was sponsored by the Golden Gate Ferry Company and some touted him as the probable winner or at least a strong contender. This was probably Oscar Sheka, the oldest of several running brothers.

There was also a lone Navajo entrant, Frank Chavez. The only runners allowed to keep their own names, more or less, were the Zunis. All the others got rechristened in Anglo style. Mr. Chavez must have been embarrassed when November 2014

just the sort of thing the newspapers loved. Another “weird” custom of the Redman.

The stoic Indian thing came up again and on June 18 stringer Joe Custer wrote for The San Mateo Times, “The smile isn’t one of happiness. It is the ‘politeness’ smile: an acknowledgement to the white man. It is a crack in the face of the stone, muscle-set red man.”

If asked, I’m sure Mr. Custer would point out that the Native Americans had no sense of humor, but Melika would continue to be the butt of jokes in the daily articles following the progress of the race.

When Melika came in second in 1928 he became an instant hero.

Mad Bull – John Wesley – 1927 winner was out of the running. Flying Cloud was first to cross the finish line. The town of Willits, California, threw a big party for Melika, putting him on the local fire engine and touring him through town with the siren blaring. They said he seemed to enjoy the honor.

There has been a lot of criticism of Mike Kirk for his many enterprises involving Indians in the Gallup area, even including his role in starting the Inter-Tribal Ceremonial. Some people think he made a lot of money off his wards. But family members remember Melika’s triumphant return to Zuni.

He was on the seat of a brand new wagon with a new team of horses wearing fancy new harness. He was very proud of that wagon and team.

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A. This seemed like the opportunity I was looking for. It’s a chance for me to get involved, not only in Gallup, but the entire McKinley County area, and I hope to make a positive impact. This is my love, this is home and it really intrigues me to have the position open up and have the opportunity here.

Q. You are now one week into the job, what do you enjoy most about it so far?

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Q. What do you anticipate the biggest challenge of the job will be?

A. Getting my hands and my head around all that is government and all of the policies and procedures that must be followed when dealing with the public’s trust and their money. I think that is critical. I think it’s important to know the rules. They’re there for a reason.

Q. What is your number one priority at this point?

A. Right now, I am focusing on meeting with each of the commissioners and learning what their priorities in each of their districts are, because they are the representatives of their constituents. My first priority is to learn from the commissioners what they are hearing back from the constituents to see what we can do to make good things happen.

Q. Ultimately, what do you see as being the highest and best potential of our extended community?

A. Over the last year, we’ve all been anticipating an explosion of economic growth and prosperity in McKinley County. And I think it truly is coming and I think that’s one of the most exciting and rewarding opportunities that’s out there for us. We just have to make sure we are ready for it. Of course, the county and city governments will play a big role in that and so will the private sector. The economic opportunities that are headed our way are really, really exciting.

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

A. I love flying hot air balloons (laughs) and there’s no better place to fly than here in Gallup, whether that’s over town or out in the scenic red rocks. This is the best place in the world to fly. Every opportunity I get, I love to fly those red rocks.

Q. What is your favorite music?

A. I love country music, but my favorite artist is Frank Sinatra. (laughs) There’s pretty diverse spread in there. One of my favorite songs is a country song that’s called, “That’s the Only Way I Know.” It kind of defines my life, so it’s a neat song.

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Home . . . the list of things we misplace grows longer the older we get!

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’m sure they’ll deny it, but I know. I know that our kids are contemplating it – putting us in a home. Or maybe the plan is already in the works. The only question is when it will happen. Oh, it’s not just the forgetting stuff, like forever looking for phones, glasses, books, etc., but there are other indications sneaking in. Fortunately for us, we don’t tell them about everything that happens or we’d be in a home already.

Like the time we were all going to watch fireworks. We knew we’d have to take two cars, so I got in the front seat of Mark’s truck while Mark was locking up the house. Then the other car left and soon Mark came out and sat in the back seat. There we sat, waiting, until it dawned on me that Mark was in the back and I was in the front passenger seat. Finally, after a few minutes, I said, “Why are you sitting back there?”

He said that one of the boys was going to drive, but I told him that everyone already left. We both started laughing and wondered if anyone would realize we weren’t with them. I told Mark, “We’d better not mention this or they’ll put us in a home for sure.”

Sometimes we’ll head out going somewhere and Mark will automatically turn on a certain street. “Where are you going?” I’d ask.

“To the office,” he’d answer. And then I’d remind him, or he’d remember, we weren’t going to the office.

Not only do I have a life-long proclivity for forgetting names, but also I’m now forgetting words. Words! Can you imagine being a logophile (lover of words) and not being able to come up with the word you want? And I’m not just talking about esoteric or abstruse words like cognoscenti or esoteric or abstruse, I’m talking about

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words such as “cradle” or “pharmacy.” Horrible! So, while the person I’m talking to is waiting with bated breath for me to say whatever it was I was going to say, I have to stop in the middle of a sentence to say, “Wait a minute – I’m trying to remember the word I want.” And it’s usually something inane like “supermarket.” Then, if I still can’t think of the word, I start describing it, like “You know, the place in the shopping center on 66 where we get, uh, uh, food and stuff.”

I have found in the last few years that meal planning is mostly a thing of the past. I certainly don’t remember (of course those last two words might be the key) being unable to put an entire meal on the table at the same time when I was younger.

Now it seems as though the norm is to have everything but the main dish ready and getting soggy or cold while you (again) turn up the oven to try to hurry it up. It’s almost always the meat dish. And while waiting for that to get done, I might forget about the garlic toast I put in the top oven until the smoke alarm goes off. I simply cannot seem to judge how long something will take to cook any longer. Throughout my life, from the time I first started cooking at about age thirteen or so, I’ve cooked for six or more people. Now that there are only two of us for most meals, I still cook for six or more. So we eat leftovers a lot – sometimes for days. Good thing we both like leftovers . . .

Then there is the Thanksgiving when I made a beautiful pumpkin pie and somehow forgot to put in the sugar. Even worse, I didn’t realize it until we started to eat it. Yuck! So to make up for it, I made another one, and forgot sugar again. Well, the next year I vowed to do it right, so I made a lovely pie and put it in the oven, at which time I realized – no sugar. However, this time I opened the oven, and poured the sugar in and sort of stirred it around, so it was okay. Now, after only three incidents, I put the sugar in first! But look at it this way – I’ve been making pumpkin pies for oh, say, about forty years and only forgot the sugar three times. Now, that’s not so bad, is it?

When – I started to say “if,” but realized it should be “when” – so, when the kids put us in the home, they will undoubtedly pick one with absolutely no electronic

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By Jeannette Gartner devices anywhere around. All three of them are called on often for “tech support.”

Mark and I are definitely electronically challenged. My “smart” phone is smarter than I am. And sometimes it’s too smart for its own britches. When I’m sending a text (don’t act so surprised, I can, on occasion, send a text!), it puts in words automatically and they’re not necessarily the words I wanted to have put in. I was sending a text to a friend named Carly and didn’t notice until the next day that the stupid smart phone had, instead of Carly, inserted “carwash.” So the text read, “Thanks, Carwash.” Well it made me laugh anyway – I don’t know about Carly.

It’s getting so I hate the word “just.” Every time I call one of the boys to fix some sort of problem with one of the electronic type devices we have – computer, cell phone, Kindle – they fix it, and when I ask them what they did, that dreaded word comes up as in, I JUST – whatever, rebooted, moved something, turned something on or off, something so obviously simple, even a caveman could do it, right? I’m conflicted. I love the convenience of so many of these new-fangled devices, but I’m often so frustrated that they don’t do what I think they should do, or what they did yesterday, but don’t do today. It’s even more frustrating because they are apparently not functioning right because of something I did or didn’t do!

When we’re leaving home for a day or more, it might take us two or more tries to actually leave. First, someone forgot a phone, or glasses, or book, or . . . then we again get out the door and in the car, back out, and close the garage door before one asks the other, “Did you set the alarm?” Usually the answer is no. So we open the garage, drive in, get out, set the alarm and start to leave before we remember that we forgot to put chargers in the suitcase. So we turn off the alarm, get the chargers and start to get back in the car when we decide we might as well go to the bathroom one more time since we’re still here. And, oh yeah, don’t forget to reset the alarm.

Going in and out of the house doing things we forgot to do the first time or the second time and going from room to room trying to find some dumb thing you set down somewhere gives us our daily exercise. And at times, both of us are passing each other wandering in and out of rooms, out to the car, and on the porch, looking for the usual – phone, either cell or land line, glasses, water glass, wine glass (that one gets trickier if we’ve already consumed some of the wine), shoes, dishes, and the list of things we misplace grows longer the older we get! I’ve found things in the oddest places. Like a hairbrush in the pantry (well, I was brushing my hair when I remembered that I needed to get out some chocolate chips for later in the morning, and . . .).

Ol’ Silver Tongue and I had been out to dinner with friends and went to one’s home after for a glass of wine. We were sitting out on the back porch when I remembered (a word I use less and less) a phone call that I needed to make, but realized I hadn’t brought my cell phone. So Mark pulls his out, dials the number, and hands me the phone. I’m talking away when he disappears and, soon after, one of my friends goes running around to the gate. When I got off the phone, I asked what was going on and was told that Mark was going back to the restaurant to get his phone he left there – yep, the same phone I was talking on! And my friend was running to stop him. So we called the restaurant and told them that when Mark got there, they were to tell him we “found” his phone.

So . . . guys, what do ya think? Is it time to do it? If so, be sure to pick the one where our friends are, so we can all tap into that collective memory with each other . . . that way, we might just barely remember who you are when you come to visit. You will come to visit, right? Right?

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The Glass is never half empty

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hen I was leaving Gallup after high school to head to college, I had the oddest conversation with a woman at the gas station on the north side of town. I was with my buddy Jared Mowrer as we were leaving this town we had grown up in, never to return. (In all fairness, he did return for a while, but eventually left again.)

We were putting Gallup in our rear view mirror and never looking back.

The conversation with this woman centered around the fact that she recognized we were leaving town and in her words: “You don’t believe me now, but you will recognize some day that this is one of the most beautiful places in the world and you probably don’t appreciate it.” She went on to say that we are not really able to see the amazing place we were from,

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because it was too close to us.

I thought she was wrong. There is no way I would ever see this town as beautiful or attractive. I would never see the rocks and the cedars as something to seek out. Now I really realize I was the wrong one.

I brought my family back to Gallup in order to raise them here. I had been away for nearly 15 years, lived in lots of other places and seen a great deal. Suddenly, I wanted to be here and work at making this as good of a place as it was when I was raised here. But as an adult, I find that I am also more aware of things that need to be addressed.

I sometimes get really tired of worrying. I think about things, worry about them, stew over them, etc. One of the temptations is to look at the negative things and spend my time obsessing there. Maybe you are like that too – it is easy to November 2014

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There is real power in positive thinking and finding a way to make something work . . . be that way. Optimism is a learned skill, I think. Maybe because we are ingrained to be protective of what we have, or maybe it is human nature that needs to be overcome – but I do know this – I hate being negative.

Don’t get me wrong; I am no Pollyanna. I do not just pretend things are better than they are in order to avoid reality. I am not one to ignore real problems and issues. In fact, in order to either prevent or repair them, they must be recognized.

There is real power in positive thinking and finding a way to make something work instead of finding the reasons they will not work. I think that there is a great deal of worrying about what cannot be changed when our energy should be focused on what can be changed – or at least improved.

So where some see the statistics of our area with poverty, educational rankings, or other “depressing” stats, it is easy to say that our problems are insurmountable. However, to me, all that means is that we have the chance to move the needle and make some good things happen.

Here are some great things happening in Gallup right now. We have greater stability at our hospital right now. We have a huge land asset with owners that believe in Gallup and are working towards having some really great job growth opportunities. We have an improving UNMGallup campus that is working on workforce development. We have a downtown that is coming into its own with Main Street, the BID, the Arts District designation, etc. We have new things happening all the time and this is the time when things are lining up to get even better.

So, let’s make sure our conversations talk about the good in town and if we bring up an opportunity for improvement, let’s come up with real solutions.

As for how this affects money and you, much of spending and investment is emotional and psychological as it is cerebral or mental. In other words, people make long-term investments based on where they think things are going. In Gallup, much of our time is wasted on thinking of what is wrong instead of focusing on what is right. The glass is MORE than half full, and we need to start acting like it. This is a great place to raise a family and there is so much that can be done in order to make it even better when we look at that glass differently.

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ou’ll never make it. You’ll die if you stay there during the week. There won’t be anything to eat – you know they’re . . . vegetarians,” his family and friends warned him.

“I need the work, so I’ll give it a go. If I can’t handle it, I’ll call you and you can come get me,” Digger replied.

That was several weeks ago and Digger has been spending his weeks here eating what we offer him while he’s on the job site helping with a construction project. An extremely talented artist, when working construction he is also completely dedicated to the project at hand. This man has an appetite! He works hard and eats to prove it. When I first offered him meals he accepted his food quietly, but after a few days he said, “This isn’t bad, this vegetarian food.” I ask if he’s still hungry after our meals, and he says, “No, this was just enough.”

Digger lives on the Navajo Reservation in the Gallup area, where he told me he eats “regular food.” I asked him how he defines regular food and he said, “You know, meat and potatoes.” He went on to explain that everyone in his family had laughed at him when he took the construction job with us because they know our eating habits.

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became what they are. After being a junk-food junkie into my young adult life, I finally paid for it when I almost lost my life to pneumonia. After that, I started eating a plant-based diet that didn’t include loads of ice cream and milk chocolate.

(I didn’t say I gave up dark chocolate!)

Then I met my husband who was a meat-and-potatoes man. I liked him a lot, but didn’t like the fact that he had migraines and digestive disorders that were so bad he was miserable nearly every night. Did very little for the romance department. I asked him if he’d be willing to change his diet and he said he’d do anything to get headache relief. He decided to adopt my vegetarian diet and, lo and behold, his headaches went away and he dropped 40 pounds.

It’s true, we don’t eat meat, but we never feel deprived. There are so many substitutes for meat that are plant-based, that are good for our health and don’t clog our arteries, and they are cruelty-free, for those who don’t like the idea of harming animals.

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difference in how you feel after eating a meal.

Another thing that causes us major discomfort these days are GMO (genetically modified organism) foods, which make up a huge amount of America’s ‘food supply.’ But that’s an entirely different topic for another time.

So what can we do to incorporate healthful foods that are not genetically modified and have high nutritional value? After all, why eat if not to nourish the body? Well, there’s always chocolate . . . but let’s not digress.

Ok, so we eat because we’re hungry. When we’re hungry our bodies are asking for something nutritious to keep the physical body going. However, we’ve been trained by advertising to eat things that aren’t so healthful for our bodies.

Carbs are constantly advertised. Pizza, bread, pasta . . . and who doesn’t love these foods?

Say, for example, you love pasta, but you know it’s made from white flour and you’re told that’s not good for you because white flour is processed and devoid of nutrients – a dead food. It also is heavy and can be like glue in the intestines if you’re not drinking enough water to help digest this ‘dead food’ that tastes oh so good. I’m one of those addicts who loves pasta, but I don’t like the heavy after effects, and also I don’t want to encourage the diseases that eating these kinds of foods will invite – diabetes, cancer, fibromyalgia, and the list goes on.

So, my choice is to find mostly gluten-free substitutes, since gluten is a big trigger for many people’s allergies today. My favorite substitutes in the pasta category include organic brown rice pasta made from nothing but brown rice and water. There’s also organic black bean spaghetti made from nothing but organic black beans and water. Kelp noodles are made from nothing but kelp seaweed, which also provides a healthy dose of iodine. Organic mung bean pasta is another exceptional-tasting substitute for white pastas. Then there’s quinoa pasta . . . yum.

All of these are high in protein, our building blocks. They’re probably all available at La Montañita Co-op in Gallup.

Meat is something that many of my clients claim they’d never be able to live without. Being that Digger is a meat-and-potatoes man, I figured he’d have a difficult time without eating meat all week long. Half the time when we’ve made different meat substitutes, he’s claimed he only knew it wasn’t meat because I don’t prepare dishes with meat. Some of those delicious substitutes are made with tempeh or cashews, or already prepared burger or sausage substitutes like GimmeLean® beef or sausage, or Beyond Meat® chicken-free strips that can easily be found in health-food stores, and even in many supermarkets. The key is to add spices that taste meaty.

Of course beans are an ideal protein source for those who want a substitute for meats. While he’s been here Digger has eaten plenty of pintos and black beans along with red rice and brown rice. He’s also had casseroles with organic potatoes, squash, cashews, spinach, tomatoes, pumpkin, parsley, basil, peppers, onions, garlic and whatever else we have on hand, along with salads and soups. He says he loves the live feeling of the sprouts we grow here daily, and enjoys the locally grown organic eggs and cheese.

Digger’s wife had dinner with us a few days ago. She said she really liked the salad we served and the organic rice pasta with pesto. No meat, but filling enough to satisfy her. Does that mean she might make dietary changes? Not necessarily, but she knows she and her husband could survive if they had to eat vegetarian food on a steady basis.

Most of the time we don’t make changes unless and/or until we need to for our health’s sake. We develop habits that are easy to follow and difficult to change. Until we have to. My husband and I had to, so we did. I knew there was no drug that could replace my common sense, so dietary changes became necessary for our comfort and survival.

Ok, back to Digger. He works hard and takes good care of his family.

And he’s willing to eat a vegetarian diet – at least during the week while he’s at work. He said, ‘never say never’ with a smile when his kids laughed at his latest eating habits. He hasn’t grown frail or weak without his meat and potatoes; he says he feels good. And he even says he’s not ashamed to let the world know that you can survive on vegetables, grains, seeds, nuts and fruits (at least five days a week), so he said I could introduce him by name. Meet Edison Bill, artist, gentleman, husband, father, grandfather, brother and all-around nice guy. A credit to the Gallup community. I like to call him my friend.

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Sa1ni Binits4kees/An Elderly Woman’s Thoughts October 17, 2014

Belle, ts7lii y1zh7, t’11 yish11lg0, shii ghah yildlosh.

Junker Bridge Park di ts’7lii y1zh7 yish [oos.

Belle, a small dog, where ever I walk along side me walks on four.

Junker Bridge Park there a small dog I lead her.

By Nia Francisco

Hwii Junker Bridge Park gi shi[ h0zhon7go haz’3.

Shim1 Nahasdz11n hanih7g77 ‘1t’4ego haz’3.

Here at Junker Bridge Park with me it is beautiful as it is.

Mother earth like it could be said as it is.

Akondi, ak0t’e4 ndi: shidiil1h7g77 47 47 ts’iilz47. ts’iilz47 [a’a[y70g0 nikidiil’1h.

However, as it is: what pinches my thought is trash.

Trash all about dropped about. {ah dah a[ts-h nah7jolaah, nisin [eh.

Azis nitsaah7g77 niji[tsoohgo, ts’iilz47 a[ts-h n1hijidoolah.

Haash dah ne4l33’ doolee[?

Az2h ‘1hoo[ts’iis7 ndi.

Sometime all to be gathered I wish it to be.

A bag huge enough one carries along, trash all of be gathered.

How much would it get?

Although it is a small place.

T’ahdoo 1lneehgo ‘eelkidgo 11d0 a[ts-h 1lyaago ‘eelkidgo t’11 ‘1[ah ‘1zdoo[ii[, ya”?

Before it is done take an image, and then when all is done take an image, both make frozen images, huh?

Sa1nii binits4hakees ‘1t’4, ya’?

Elderly woman’s thought it is, huh?

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A Different of Fishing S Night and day we’re faring Across the wide and wasteful ocean Out here on the deep, we harvest and reap our bread As we hunt the bonny shoals of herring

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hen the phone rang (which I seldom pick up), John, who is a newlywed, expecting a first child, in graduate school, and teaching college level, and had been fishing on a commercial boat this summer up in Alaska, was on the other end of the line.

“Dad!” I could tell by the tone of his voice that he was goading me and baiting me, “How is your spirit of adventure”? Ok, ok . . . A little accident on the boat, yea, crushed ribs, and you are short-handed, and the least I can do is cook. “Captain Bob asked me if you could hang on the ship. I told him you wouldn’t make the situation worse.”

Packing work clothes and big rubber boots, my lower back had not been this rickety since I had been back east last winter. Although I am fairly sturdy for my age, this back hinge was giving out on me, and I would just be standing in a stationary position and suddenly my body would give out, and I

would be half convulsing. It was not quite that dramatic, but my chiropractor did call me on Sunday, the day before I was jumping on the train, insisting on seeing me. We rolled three sessions into one, and he loaded me with some hardware and instructions for a choppy rolling sea.

“Good grief, what am I doing?” We all have fears in this life. Some fears are inspired. Whether pure fears are rational and justified or just an unfounded distraction is based in knowledge and experience. The truth is I had almost no experience on the seas. I had no idea what I was setting myself up for. I had these dreams of waves of violent seasickness, not being about to stand on deck, flapping like a salmon, uncontrollable back spasms, and desperately clutching the mast.

I got this . . . Man up, McCarthy . . . grow a few. Although my back was aching, the vertebrae felt in the right position. The little puddle jump from Anchorage to Kodiak Island must be cancelled regularly because of the fog, but the fog had lifted an hour before. It was one of those tiny little cabins where you can’t really stand and the engine is like a bee buzzing in your ear. In the back of my mind, I was thinking of Teddy Roosevelt, and how he had forged his way up the “River of Doubt” – the Amazon River – at about my age with his son on a wild adventure that almost killed him. “At my back I hear time’s winged chariot hurrying near.”

Late summer is extraordinarily powerful in Kodiak. As I passed the stuffed 13-foot Kodiak grizzly bear in the lobby, the smell and taste of the salt air rose up to greet me. The senses immediately heighten at the richness and wild nature of this remote corner of the planet.

We are not in Kansas anymore, Toto. One is clearly out of the electronics bubble. It is wild, but ordered, untamed but savagely beautiful.

Left: Ling Cod, a horrible looking creature, but incredibly tasty.

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Far Left: The La Mer. November 2014

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John had instructed me to make my way into the town of Kodiak, an ancient rough and rugged Eskimo fishing village that had been colonized by the Russians under Peter the Great in the 18th century. One is first struck by the azure blue onion domes that settle above the skyline and a Russian Orthodox seminary just a stone’s throw from St. Herman’s Harbor.

The call of the wild, Wolf Larson, Seawolf, and the land of the midnight sun rushed through my imagination as I stood on the tender fishing docks. I could see a faint outline of a ship slowly moving into the harbor. Then I could just make out the outline of two scruffy figures on the bow, and the side lettering “La Mer.” First stepping on the deck, I was struck by how relatively small the vessel was. Greeting hugs and best wishes were short as the work of unloading and banking the most recent catches were the first order of business. I did not think myself overdressed in my khaki slacks and golf shirt. “Dad, you are the best dressed man in Kodiak, only the CEOs from Seattle dress that way.” Well, I best be sportin’ my grubbies then.

I said a little prayer that I would not be a burden, be crippled or sick, but be able to contribute and hold my own; that I would not embarrass my son or myself, and that I would acquit myself adequately, although totally out of my element, and a flatlander from my youth. Improvise, adapt, overcome. Give me strength.

So, if anyone is still reading, I need to introduce Captain Bob Bowser. Robert Bowser has been fishing the big waters since the late 1960s. He was the chief engineer for the largest fishing company in Alaska for years. There was one stretch of time where he never left a boat for over 2 years. He was lifted and transported from one vessel to another over and over again. A natural storyteller, with a wealth of experience; he will regale you for hours, if that happens to be his mood at the moment. Bob is also an imposing persona. When you are in the proximity of Bob Bowser, he talks and you listen – at least those are the rules on Bob’s ship. Like any ship, the La Mer takes on the personality of the Captain. Bob is responsible for his boat, his operation, and his crew. He rules by “fiat.”

Alpha males are everywhere. It is built into the DNA gene pool in the animal kingdom. It is an indisputable truth. When two alpha males come in contact, one must submit or there will be a clash. With rational animals, one can submit in a dignified manner where the dominant male, within his territorial dominance, does not feel threatened, and harmony is established. I think you know where this is going.

Because the boat was out of provisions, I was able to shop for food that I was confident could be made into some decent meals.

Johnny Kuplack was the cook, also running the net on deck, and yes, with broken ribs. Although he is super conscientious, I had persuaded Johnny that I really needed something to do on the boat

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The truth is I had almost no experience on the seas.

Author with son John on the deck of La Mer.

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. . . Continued from previous page to earn my keep, so he relinquished most of his galley duties. That 4 by 5-foot space became my comfort zone.

The living quarters for the crew weren’t much larger – about a total of 16 by 6, including the facility. Scrunched! Body odor, the smell of the engine room, and in the bowels below there were a few 2 by 6-foot bunks. The engine acted as the alarm about 5 am. Coffee . . . strong and buoyant coffee. The stove operated off of diesel oil, and the engine dungeon was like something out of the Adam’s Family. All in all, you better not be claustrophobic, and you absolutely better be able to get along.

The very first day I went out on deck when the net was hauled in and stacked; jellyfish were normally caught up with the salmon. John and Johnny would sort out the good fish from the kelp, dogfish, and jellies. I was standing behind my son clumsily trying to lend a hand, when he threw a perfect strike of a purple jellyfish right splat into my face. Raging burning sizzling fire on the face and eyes; great fun, but you must not complain whatever you do! I wanted to scream, but no sniveling, especially the first day on the boat! Captain Bob said the pain would last 6 hours or so. Good to know!

You never know what might come up in the net. If a whale came through, well, that meant a gigantic hole, limping back into dock and losing valuable fishing days while the net was mended. We saw whales at a distance.

Three times the whales ravaged the nets of the La Mer in 2014, but not while I was there. The sea lions would sneak into the nets knowing the salmon were caught and feed freely. Then Captain Bob would throw these depth chargers, a kind of cherry bomb on top of the sea lion, and he would shoot away in a blur.

A shark was caught in the net one day, where Bob was hollering to “get him out of there.” John took up the 2-pound sledge in a couple of full whacks to the shark’s noggin, subduing the beast.

When the skiff circles around to meet the big boat and haul the fish in, there is a time of intense activity. Steve MacDonald (the skiff man) would pull the giant net full round, and the big lever tug would begin. This was the one time Captain Bob would come off his perch (equipped with sonar and radios) to direct traffic and systematically lift the big basket of fish onto the deck and into the hatch. John had tried to coax and goad me into running the line, but I could see it was a young man’s game, not only because you had to move fast, quick, and with precision, but it required knowledge and focus. They would also be fighting fish, and anything else in the net, jumping on an ever expanding pile of uneven cork, line, and net as the sea would throw them hither and yon . . .

No, the discretion became the better part of valor. My standard answer, which became a joke, “Maybe tomorrow.”

Fishing days seemed to go by quickly, one set after another. Although we were out in remote bays and inlets that were unchanged for hundreds of years, the exhilaration of a new set when the skiff ran out with the line and net, which seemed to push the reset on life itself, and a rush of the next catch.

There is a romance about the great North Country, one of the last frontiers, endless stars, real noble work and real people. After a few days, the

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normal grind and cares of the world faded into memory. Late in the evening, even though it was still light, we would go out exploring along the shoreline in the skiff. John had never seen a grizzly bear in the two summers he had worked the salmon boat. We were cruising a little inlet bay when I about jumped out of my jumpers. There lumbering along the shore were two bears not 30 feet from us. “huma huma huma . . . easy there guys.” They were as surprised to see us as we were to see them. We followed down the shoreline with them for a mile or so just taking it all in. Every 100 yards or so, they would groan and bark at us.

After a few days of catching pink and silver salmon in a modest quantity, suddenly there was an influx of red sockeye salmon (the money fish), and the catches started to swell. The reds were prevalent – catch less, make more. John would estimate each catch, dividing the various salmon types, the price per pound of each, and the tally. Johnny would chime in, “John, just tell me how much money that catch was worth to me!” And so, we went from modest days to good days, and good days to a few bumper days.

Although we were far on the west side of the island, 8 hours or so from Kodiak, I could feel the demeanor on the boat had shifted. Smiles and jocularity were present and I could even detect Captain Bob smiling underneath his serious exterior. He came down the ladder one morning with the comment, “Your Dad is my good luck charm; I need to have him come every late summer.”

“Bob, if you keep having my sons back to work the boat, perhaps we can work something out.” That was kind of the icebreaker. I now had a bit of status.

The days I was on the La Mer constituted the best fishing stretch they had all year. By all accounts, it was a bad year for the whole fishing community out of Kodiak. I was extremely thankful that the salmon were piling onto the deck. Not bad for my opening foray into the world of Jack London. Of course, I don’t believe in coincidences, random events, or outcomes. Some would scoff at my simplistic worldview, but that is a subject for another conversation.

There are few places in modern society where a young man can learn, blossom, and acquire masculine skills and virtues. A commercial fishing boat is one of those places. The mechanics, the raw natural order, the severe beauty, the physics and the discipline. They all add up to a unique experience that should pay dividends over the course of a young man’s life. Of course, we as parents aspire in hopes and dreams that our children will have a better life than our own. We want them to be happy and healthy, but I often think we have a tendency to be soft and shelter our children from what will ultimately help them harden and mature, giving them valuable experience and stern conditioning to face the rigors of life’s responsibilities.

On the last night we had come into dock at Kodiak, we went out to eat at a nice restaurant. I had found a Captain’s Cap I thought fitting for Bob. I told him if he threw it into the sea it would not offend me, but I thought he might look the part making his way through downtown Kodiak.

He received it graciously and actually permitted me do a fair amount of the talking that evening.

The next early morning John and I climbed the ladder to the Captain’s perch one last time. Bob gave me a powerful handshake and told me how much he had enjoyed my company. I thanked him for the hospitality and we both seemed to understand that somehow we would meet again.

Man truly is a social animal. We want to feel self worth as human beings, in who we are down deep, and what we do in this life; but we also wish to reach out and make connections, bonds and friendships with others. It is in our nature, and a reflection of the Divine Nature. Although of the same generation, Bob and I could not be from farther universes in many respects, but for those 10 days we grew “simpatico,” where mutual respect was built.

Perhaps I was there to pave the way for Liam to join the La Mer next year, or it might be something more sublime. I know it is all a mystery, but the human heart has an enormous capacity for expansion. When we are fully human, it opens out in a crescendo that overcomes all barriers. On my better days, when I am truly listening, that impulse calls out to me, I can hear it in the deep heart’s core, and things work out the way they were meant to be.

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10.35 Seconds 1

0.35 seconds. The thought filled my mind.

10.35 seconds. I allowed myself to think of nothing else.

The rush of adrenaline coursed through my body. I took a deep breath, attempting to calm my nerves. I paced back and forth, staying focused on the task at hand. My body felt strong and I shook my limbs to keep them loose.

I opened my eyes. The track lay before me, stretching 100 meters straight ahead. I looked to the right and peered at the stands.

They were packed with anxious onlookers and I could sense their excitement mounting. A buzz had filled the arena that was growing with each second. The moment was nearing and I felt connected to them, as we would share the emotions of the next seconds together.

I tried to block out the individual faces in the crowd and see them as a whole, to hear their sounds. My family is there; my friends are there. They are always there. There are others there today, and they were the ones that made me nervous. I told myself to focus, to not think about the NCAA suitors who would be there watching.

10.35 seconds. That’s all I needed.

That time represented the best I had ever done. Today, I knew it wasn’t enough. To win the final I would need a personal best; I knew the

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capabilities of my competitors.

No, there is only one true competitor, the clock. This will be me, alone in my lane, against the clock.

The track was perfect; I loved running here. The wind was not a factor. The stadium’s bright lights shone proudly against the night sky. The air around me was cool and helped calm me down. Yet, I still carried the familiar twinge of anxiety, a by-product of not knowing how I would fare.

A call went out for us to take our marks. I gave my limbs a final shake and made my way to the blocks. Don’t look to your side. Don’t worry about them. Focus on yourself; focus on the time. Beat your time and you will beat them. It was simple.

I set my feet firmly in place on the blocks. Lowering to my knees, I placed my hands at the starting line and ducked my head.

Listen for it; hear nothing else. I took a final deep breath and let it out slowly. And as I let out the breath, the outside world shut off.

The call came for us to set, and I rose off my knees, my legs sensing what was coming. They were like coiled springs behind me, being held down only by the power of my resolve. Focus. My mind sped up, causing my surroundings to slow down. I heard only my breathing and the sound of my heart pumping in my chest.

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The shot rang out and I exploded forward, pushing hard with both legs. I let my instincts take over, honed after countless hours of practice. My muscle memory was flawless, helping me to stay low through my takeoff.

I let the adrenaline take me. I began my upright sprint and charged onward, pumping my legs faster and faster. I threw my arms back and forth, keeping them moving with my legs.

The world around me began to blur as I sped

By Justin Shaw up my pace. I loved this part.

I glanced at my sides, looking to see if I was ahead. No, stop it. Too early, don’t think about them. Focus on yourself. Keep yourself moving; keep pumping your arms. My muscles were fresh, filled with energy, and the conditioning I had put my body through was working to my advantage.

I vaulted forward, each step a mini leap, moving at a terrific pace. I could sense it, I could feel it; I was winning.

10.35, it would happen.

I reached the halfway point and a trigger went off in my brain. It’s time to give it everything. Leave nothing on the track. No regrets. Already flying, I did what little I could do to move faster, to charge forward with an increase of speed. Don’t strain. Don’t tighten up. I reminded myself of the lessons I had received from my instructors.

I continued at this angry velocity. The speed bit at my strength, and as I spent more energy, I had less control. My body began to weaken. I paid no attention to these developments. My mind was in control, not my body. If I tell it to move, then it will. As such, I continued my furious pace.

The finish line was nearing, growing closer with each stride. I could see the outcome. I could see the ending. I had enough to make it. My body could carry me to the end.

A small blurb developed on the outskirts of my vision. It penetrated through my focus, and flooded my mind. Don’t look. Focus. Stay in your head, stay in your lane. Keep moving, keep running, worry about yourself. However, the blurb grew, and I couldn’t resist any longer.

I glanced out the corner of my eye; a runner was advancing ahead of me. No, this wasn’t going to happen. I wouldn’t allow it. I wouldn’t let them. I wasn’t going to let anything take this from me.

With a renewed vigor I plunged forward, pushing my muscles and

body to the fullest. My body screamed back at me in protest, but I refused to listen. My lungs burned, my muscles started to tense. The pain was building up and I found it hard to keep going. Everything inside me told me to slow down, to stop.

I remembered my training. I was making mistakes. Stop straining.

You’re ruining your form. They are gaining, re-focus. I stopped driving my arms with my hands, and concentrated on using my shoulders. I then focused on my legs and tried to maximize the energy of each stride. The fatigue was getting to me.

My focus was dwindling. As I began to lose my ability to shut it out, the crowd noise became louder and louder in my ears. Their roar was energizing; I could hear the screams encouraging us to go faster, to keep scrambling on. The finish was near now; I was so close.

With my body breaking down, it struggled to respond to my will.

No, I could not let this happen.

10.35 seconds. I would not let this get to me.

Another shade grew in my vision on the other side of me. I no longer cared about them. I knew it would be close. There was nothing else I could do.

I kept my focus forward, and allowed no other distractions.

Keep running; keep moving faster. My body was slowing down, but refused to accept it. I pushed harder, the finish line nearly on top of me. I lunged forward with my upper body as I ran through the end, pushing my body to its absolute limit.

I slowed almost immediately after finishing. My arms flailed at my sides, drained of their energy, as I tried to put the brakes on my pace. My chest expanded and shrank as I took the long and deep breaths my lungs craved. I slowed to a walk and interlocked the fingers of my hands, resting them on top of my head.

I eagerly looked up and awaited the results. The scoreboard was empty.

It would be any second now.

The roar of the crowd erupted as names began to flash on the screen one by one. At last, all the names were revealed.

I froze in unbelief at my name. I was third.

A feeling of disgust rose up inside me. I had lost. I wasted this chance.

Frustrated with myself, I began a slow walk in no particular direction.

Deciding to take one last look at my defeat, I turned toward the scoreboard. That’s when I saw it. That’s when I saw my time.

10.19 seconds, a personal best.

A smirk crossed my face.

I win.

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

Memories of Gallup

By Bob Rosebrough

“Everybody that showed up was there to stay.”

An Interview with Alfred Abeita and Ernie Abeita, Part 2 of 2

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he Fire Station: “Playground of dreams.” The Abeitas’ father started working for the fire department on weekends. At that time the fire station was located where the city parking lot is now – northwest of Aztec and First. Alfred, who would later become Gallup’s fire chief, says, “He was a weekend driver. He used to come to work at seven o’clock at night and go home the following day at seven o’clock. You talk about a playground of dreams. We had that.

“They used to have a lot of card games. The railroaders didn’t want to buy a room for the night when they came in. They’d just come into the firehouse and sit around and play cards, night and day.”

Ernie says, “It was, I would say, a high-class gambling place. They had two tables. This was nice – really plush nice.”

Alfred says, “The fire station only had one bed and one shower. They had a small kitchen. I was the first guy to get to go up there because my dad forgot his lunch. He’d call home and ask my mom to bring him his lunch. Fine. So I’d come on up. They ran out of cards and wanted a fresh deck. My dad said, ‘I want you to go down to Pino’s Drug Store on First Street.’ We knew where Pino’s was because the Pinos lived right around the corner from us, on the north side. Ray Pino’s dad.

“Before I left, my dad would ask the other guys, ‘Do you want to have Porky bring something back for us?’ They gave me the money and I went down to Pino’s and paid. So I gave them all the change and

an older guy by the name of Grenko said, ‘What’s the matter with you? All those are tips, they’re yours.’ I said, ‘Dad, can you forget your lunch again next Sunday?’”

They fought alone. When the Japanese conquered the Philippines in 1942 most American soldiers – including a group of Gallupians surrendered or were captured. A small group of Americans, under the leadership of Col. Wendell Fertig, took their chances in the jungle in 1942 on the Japanesecontrolled island of Mindanao. Fertig and a handful of Americans led thousands of Filipinos in a guerilla war against the Japanese. One of them was Julian Benac of Gallup who was related to Ernie’s wife, Diane.

When the Americans returned to Mindanao at the end of the war, they found Fertig and his men in control of the island and commanding a guerilla army of 35,000, and heading a civil government with its own post office, law courts, currency, factories and hospital.

Ernie says, “We have a lot of paperwork on him. He was a real big deal here in Gallup.

He’s in a book at the library called They Fought Alone.”

Ernie adds, “They were killers. Guerilla fighters.

That’s why they couldn’t get them! They were tough guys.

I think there were thirteen of them. He was living right here, living right here, and he was a big hero. He had malaria so he kind of got a mental problem going. He’d get the shakes and stuff like this. He was a sick man. He would walk the streets in Gallup. He always had a plastic bag. He

Brothers Alfred and Ernie Abeita reminisce over old photographs.

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“All the people on West Wilson were sitting on their houses.” walked every day, all around Gallup. You wouldn’t believe the stuff he had.”

Gamerco Miners Ballpark. Ernie, who had a standout career in athletics, started his baseball career when he was eight or nine and his family moved to 609 West Princeton.

Alfred says, “That was the edge of town at one time.”

Ernie says, “I used to hang out for the Gamerco Miners – a semi pro team. I was their batboy and I shagged balls for them every Sunday. Their ball park was only fifty yards from our house.”

Almost sixty years later, Ernie can still remember all the details of the ballpark. “It was a big fence all the way around – like a major league park.

Big signs on the background with different sponsors. A big scoreboard with ‘Sponsored by ICX Trucking.’ It was a yellow scoreboard with black trim with numbers that you would slide in. They had a really nice grandstand and they had a press box in the middle, and, of course, some of the finest ball games and ball players Gallup produced.”

Alfred says, “They used to bring in a team from Mexico. Chihuahua, Mexico for three games. You could not find a place to sit. Just across the street from our house people were camped out. All the people on West Wilson were sitting on their houses. On the other side there was a railroad spur we called the stockyards and people went to the stockyards to watch games there. I’ll tell you what, there was a lot of excitement at that ballpark.”

“Nobody backed down.” In the early seventies before Interstate 40 came through the middle of town, there were four or five floods and then one devastating flood. At the time Alfred was the Gallup Fire Chief and Ernie was on the Urban Commission that was charged with purchasing property to make way for the interstate.

The flood was caused by a bottleneck at the Second and Third Street bridges over the Perky. Ernie says, “If nothing got in the way the Perky could handle the water. There were a bunch of refrigerators and boards that caved in and got trapped at the Third Street crossing, but it wasn’t as bad as the Second

Street crossing. We were there. Sam Ray was the mayor. The water was bubbling over. It was scary. The thing was clogged with refrigerators, washers and dryers. It backed up all the way to Pershing Street. The water had no place to go. All the way up to Wilson Street.”

Alfred says, “Almost to Princeton.”

Ernie adds, “To Princeton, right at the alley of Wilson Street and then you had Princeton, the Senior Center. That’s where it stopped! From that area, if you can picture it, it was ten to twenty feet! I’ll tell you what, there were boats in there. Guys were trying to find people to help them, with boats!”

Alfred was one to the people who had a boat. At the time he lived in Sky City. He says, “When I left home I looked down there and I said, ‘What the hell is that?’ The water was all over the western plain, right where the mall is now. All the way to the railroad tracks looked like a mirror shining. I got down to Third and Second Street at Princeton and there were four firefighters there. Gallup was cut off – north and south.

“Manuel Soto was our neighbor near our old house on Princeton. I said, ‘Manuel! Do you still have your boat back there?’ He said, ‘Yeah, take it! Take whatever you need!’ We went down Wilson hanging on the side of the boat to use it as a float and the water is rolling. You can see a pickup truck coming by!”

Ernie says, “Yeah, cars are floating.”

Alfred continues, “I could hear people yelling, ‘Up here! Up here!’ from their roofs. I looked inside Stanley Tafoya’s house. His family was there. Their mattresses were floating. They were holding their hands, pushing the ceiling so they don’t bump their heads.”

Finally after midnight, the waters began to recede. “It was a scary night. Especially when we had people in trees!”

Miraculously there were, “No major injuries. No deaths.” Alfred concludes by saying of the rescue workers, “And nobody backed down.

Everybody that showed up was there to stay.”

The Gallup Fire Department.

Joe Abeita - top row, 5th from left.

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college bas “To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sports, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.”

- Mike Krzyzewski, coached at Army (1975-1980); Duke (1980-present)

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he madness that is college basketball begins this month. I used to believe that God cared about college basketball, especially my team, but I gave that theological principle up for Lent several years ago. I ran track at the University of Kansas, and since they don’t have much of a track team these days, I am a Kansas basketball fan.

Last year the University of New Mexico (where I attended law school) and the University of Kansas played each other in basketball. Several local Lobos (two former Mayors of Gallup among them) and a few Jayhawks, including me, agreed to travel to the game together in Kansas City. We managed to remain dignified until we reached the arena. Then everyone became a fan, and the game was on. Luckily, the Jayhawks won, and I was able to travel home in peace, but the experience was great fun.

Every college team wants to make it to the NCAA tournament in March. What makes it so exciting is the fact that some teams start the season on fire and fizzle by the time March comes around.

I know Kansas has done just that on several occasions. The fact that young college men can play like NBA players one night and look like they are not sure how the game of basketball is played the next night makes the game unpredictable.

I have been to the Final Four twice in my lifetime, once in San Antonio and once in New Orleans. On both occasions the Jayhawks played for the national championship. In 2008 they beat Memphis to win and in 2012 they lost to Kentucky. My basketball travel planner is my

daughter Kathleen who loves the Jayhawks. When Kansas made the Final Four, she called and insisted that we go to San Antonio in 2008. The game was 5 days away, and I said we couldn’t possibly get a room. I told her Kansas would lose, and that it would be a very expensive and depressing experience. She insisted that was not true, and I should try to get a room. By some divine intervention, I got one of the last rooms in San Antonio, and the trip was on.

We arrived and rode a taxi to our hotel.

The NCAA does not allow consumption of alcohol at their events, but they designated a different bar for each of the four teams in San Antonio. Ours was Rita’s on the River, and it was hopping when we got there Friday night. They ran out of adult beverages at midnight, and we walked back to our room for much needed rest.

The next day we went to the pep rally.

Many famous Kansans were there, including the Governor. The band played, the coach talked and the crowd was ready for the first game with North Carolina, another basketball powerhouse. I sat next to a Carolina fan that had been to every North Carolina Final Four appearance. He was in his eighties. That day Kansas could not miss, and by halftime, Kansas was leading by 24 points. I thought the guy next to me was going to have a stroke. I consoled him and told him I was sure the Tar Heels would do better in the second half. They did play better, but Kansas won. We watched the next game, which was Memphis against UCLA. Memphis won, and the final stage was set for Monday night.

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sketball Everyone became a fan, and the game was on.

By Jay Mason

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.

Photo by David Reber

That Saturday night we went out to dinner on the Riverwalk, and the pep bands of Memphis and Kansas in different boats were traveling up and down the river playing the school fight songs. It was crazy and fun. The next day my daughter and I went to church and prayed that we would survive the Final Four. I already knew that God did not care who won.

On the day before the Final Four, an amazing thing happens.

The fans of the teams that have lost try to sell their tickets to the final game at bargain prices. In addition, more fans from the two final teams pour into town looking for tickets. Several old friends of mine (one a former principal at Gallup Catholic School) did just that. We couldn’t even get into Rita’s on the River that night because so many new people had arrived.

Just in case there was not enough excitement, there was another pep rally and then the march to the Alamo Dome. When we took our seats behind one goal, I was surrounded by 15,000 Kansas fans, just on that side of the arena. The game began, and reality set in. The Memphis coach was John Calipari who now coaches for Kentucky. His team had three players, including Derrick Rose, that have now played in the NBA, and they showed their skills immediately. Kansas kept up, but I thought my prediction would come true. I think we trailed most of the game, and the NCAA had delivered championship hats and T-shirts to the Memphis bench right at the end to begin the celebration. Amazingly with 2.1 seconds left, Mario Chalmers of Kansas hit a three-point shot to tie the game. At the time I had my hands over my head lamenting the imminent loss, but suddenly my daughter started screaming and leapt into the air. I tried to stand to see what had happened, but in her excitement she knocked me to the ground. The game was not over, but Memphis never recovered. They missed five free throws in a row, and Kansas won 75-68.

As we walked out of the arena with 15,000 to 20,000 Jayhawk fans chanting “Rock Chalk, Jayhawk, KU,” I looked at my daughter Kathleen and thanked her for being so persistent. It is very difficult to win a national championship, and I doubt I will get to see my team win again in person. Remember that North Carolina fan who was eighty years old; he has only seen North Carolina win 5 times in his lifetime.

So pace yourself. It is not over until April. Enjoy the ride. The favorites may or may not win it all. It is always fun to watch. Everyone is a Lobo. Woof, Woof, Woof. Rock Chalk!

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

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a Perdida (2006) by Jessica Abel is a graphic novel for grownups. If you’ve never read a graphic novel, La Perdida might pleasantly surprise you. If you’ve never given this type of book a try because you assumed that it was just for kids or super-geeks, maybe now is the time to let go of that old idea and pick one up for the first time. I guess a lot of people think “comic book” when they hear “graphic novel,” but La Perdida is not silly or light, nor is it action-packed or terribly violent – no “BLAMO!” word bubbles here. And, unlike many of the comic books people are most familiar with, La Perdida does not depict any superheroes, fantasy creatures, robots, or space aliens. It’s a book about a young American woman, Carla, who moves to Mexico to discover her roots. In Abel’s book, the combination of pictures and dialogue is a really cool and effective way to convey emotions, as well as details of plot, setting, and character.

The novel’s title means “Loss” in Spanish, which captures the sense of the story perfectly. La Perdida is an account of Carla’s attempt to claim her Mexican heritage and her ultimate failure to live what she thinks of as an “authentic” life in her father’s home country. She wants to live like other Mexicans, but she can’t shed her inborn privilege as half-American. She remains an outsider in Mexico, despite her strong desire to belong.

When Carla arrives in Mexico City with her hiker’s backpack, Frida

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Kahlo braids, and huaraches, she is happily blinded by idealism about working class people and what living within her meager means in Mexico will entail.

It’s not as wonderful as she thought, being poor in Mexico City. But it turns out that it’s somewhat better to be American and poor in Mexico City than Mexican and poor in Mexico City. Carla becomes an English teacher for students who barely can scrape up enough money to pay for lessons. She is helping her students, but unintentionally, she also is taking advantage of their desire to succeed in a world dominated by the United States, its language, and its economy. Guiltily, she realizes that this isn’t exactly the role she would choose for herself, but it’s a role that’s available to an American woman in Mexico.

Growing up in the U.S. with her mother, Carla came to love Mexican culture and history, though she rarely saw her father or visited him in Mexico.

For years, she idolized Frida Kahlo. When Carla, now a young adult, moves to Mexico, a new “political” friend convinces her that Kahlo and her artwork are kitschy and have been co-opted by cultural capitalists to make money off of idealized notions of Mexican and peasant culture. Carla’s own complicity with distasteful commercialism dismays her so much that she tears up a cherished poster of Frida.

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heritage, of course, but she loses her illusions about it and sees Mexico more fully, more realistically, in all its beauty and its ugliness. In the end, she even loses the freedom to choose to live in Mexico when she gets deported back to the U.S. for her involvement in illegal drug-related activities. The fact that she is never allowed back in Mexico leads Carla to reflect that she feels like an exile, though she lived in Mexico only a year or so, overstaying a tourist visa. Abel doesn’t preach an anti-drug platform or moralize in any way, but La Perdida does not at all glorify drug selling or drug use, either.

Instead, Abel shows how being around drugs can cause pain and move people further from their dreams rather than closer to them.

La Perdida is built mainly on dialogue, and Abel includes “subtitles” for some dialogue in Spanish in the first chapter. From the second chapter on, she “translates” the Spanish into English for readers. But interestingly, Abel still sprinkles Mexican Spanish idioms and slang into the dialogue in English because she feels those particular words are important and lend flavor to the story. There simply are no direct translations for

She remains an outsider in Mexico, despite her strong desire to belong. those words. I mostly used context clues to figure out the meanings of those words as I read. But, luckily for me and other readers who don’t know Spanish, Abel also included a glossary at the end of the book to define and explain unfamiliar terms. I read every entry with relish because I didn’t want the book to end and I was hungry for more of Carla’s Mexican experience.

In La Perdida, the language is rich, the pictures are exciting to look at, and the story of one person’s search for identity is meaningful, even for those of us who don’t count two cultures in our heritage. Abel’s story of one individual not quite figuring out who she is gives us all a glimpse of the importance of self-knowledge.

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Recently, my 7-year-old daughter and I re-read an old favorite, OxCart Man (1979) by Donald Hall, illustrated by the wonderful Barbara Cooney. If you think you might enjoy feeling warmly nostalgic for a kind of pure, close-to-nature, farm-based, pre-industrial living that most of us never have known, this book is for you. Truly, Hall’s simple, poetic narrative and Cooney’s detailed yet dreamy watercolor pictures kind of almost make me wish, for a moment, that I lived on a remote farm with no modern conveniences and made my own candles and linen. It’s that good a book, and I recommend you read it with your children.

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We are still in need of office volunteers who can answer phones and input data. Please call the Lexington Hotel 505722-5203 and speak to the receptionist. Our Turkey Trot will be held on Thanksgiving morning. It’s a great way to build an appetite while doing something good.

Until next month stay well and do good!

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Holiday Craft and Baked Goods Sale Saturday, Nov. 15, 9am - 2pm Bethany Christian Reformed Church It’s that wonderful time of year again! Bakers are baking, crafters are crafting and sewers are sewing, all in preparation for the annual Holiday Craft and Baked Goods Sale at Bethany Christian Reformed Church. On Saturday, November 15 from 9 am to 2 pm, the church – located at 1110 South Strong Dr. in Gallup – will be filled with the sights, sounds, and smells of Christmas wreaths, ornaments, jewelry, decorated towels, aprons, candles, soaps, photographs, cards, breads, cookies and much more! Baked goods, breakfast burritos, sloppy joes, and more will also be available at the concession stand for mid-shopping snacks.

Get ready to do your Christmas shopping and stock your freezer with goodies for the holidays!

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Come Be Part of the Red Rock Balloon Rally!

Do you want to have fun outdoors? Meet new people? Help launch and chase hot air balloons?

Come be a part of a Balloon Chase Crew!

Chase Crew Training will be held Saturday, November 8 at 6:00 pm and Thursday, November 20 at 7:00 pm at Gallup Chamber of Commerce.

Learn everything you need to know to help out at the Red Rock Balloon Rally and win great prizes at the training!

For more information, please contact Sandy (505-863-3910) or Pamela (505-870-4752) or email crew4rrbr@gmail.com.

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America Recycles Day & New Mexico Recycling Awareness Month

Come to the Fair & Recycling Jamboree!

Saturday, Nov. 8, 9am - 3pm Gallup Community Service Center

By Betsy Windisch

America Recycles Day and New Mexico Recycling Awareness Month The purpose of America Recycles Day is to promote the social, environmental, and economic benefits of recycling. The benefits of recycling (saves energy, water, landfill space, and $), it is hoped, would encourage more individuals and businesses to recycle, and municipalities to set up efficient recycling programs. America Recycles Day (ARD), initiated in 1997 and celebrated annually on November 15, is the national day dedicated to encouraging Americans to be smart citizens of Planet Earth. Observe the 3-Rs: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle – and be Respectful and Responsible!

REDUCE: Buy less stuff! Limit the amount of things used so there is less to throw away, less to reuse, less to recycle. Buy durable goods and toys.

REUSE: Use things again and again. Use your imagination to become Green!

RECYCLE: Where possible deposit CLEAN old used items to make new.

Give Your Garbage Another Life. Take The Pledge. The national recycling rate has increased every year for the past 30 years. The current recycling rate is 34.5%. JOIN US IN RECYCLING MORE! Help to make a difference. Take the “I Recycle” pledge at americarecyclesday.org.

Recycling, Reducing, Reusing are the easiest things anyone can do to limit the consumption of natural resources. ARD is a program of the national nonprofit Keep America Beautiful.

For America Recycles Day 2014, I pledge to: Learn. I will find out what materials are collected for recycling in my community at recyclegallup. org or by attending the Recycling Jamboree on November 8. Act. Reduce my personal waste by recycling. I will recycle more. Share. I will encourage a family member or a friend to take the pledge.

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Come to the Fair and Recycling Jamboree!

Saturday, November 8, 9 am – 3 pm Gallup Community Service Center (410 Bataan Veterans St.) Find out How, What, Where, and When one can Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. Demonstrations will be given on how to prepare recyclables for drop-off at the three recycling sites. Learn ways to make backyard compost.

Support area Artists & Crafts People! Learn more about local non-profits!

This event encourages Alternative Giving. Instead of a manufactured item, give a donation to one of our local non-profits or an international relief organization. Door Prizes! Silent Auction! Children’s Activities! Concessions!

Entertainment including Foundation of Freedom Dancers and Cigar Box Musician, Scott Halliday.

The event will benefit The Jim Harlin Community Pantry & Hope Garden. Bring non-perishable food items to support the hungry in our area.

We will also be collecting aluminum beverage tabs for Ronald McDonald House Foundation.

Still Seeking Vendors, Artists, and Craftspeople; Organizations, Nonprofits, Groups, and Businesses that encourage a green sustainable lifestyle to be a part of this event. Vendors and Businesses – $10 Fee; Non-profits & Groups – No Fee. For more information about this event, to volunteer, or other recycling concerns, contact Betsy (722-9257, betsywindisch@yahoo.com) or Millie (722-5142, milliedun1@aol.com) and visit recyclegallup.org.

Sponsored by The McKinley Citizens’ Recycling Council in association with the New Mexico Recycling Coalition and Keep America Beautiful!, NWNM Regional Solid Waste Authority and City of Gallup Solid Waste Department

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Cougar Encounters

Personal Experiences with the Ultimate Predator

Cat got a leg . . .

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bout 13-14 years, ago my husband and I were out bow hunting elk on unit 9 out on top of Mt. Taylor.

We found a nice pond with good bushes around it and settled in the hopes that some bulls would wander in. My husband took a spot about a hundred yards away and we both sat patiently with our binoculars looking around across the pond.

“The cat stopped there in the open and then appeared to look straight at me. “

As I was glassing, I saw something coming down through the trees. It was about a 100 yards away and I kept tracking it until it was out in the open.

Yikes! It was a very large male cougar.

The cat stopped there in the open and then appeared to look straight at me. I immediately got the idea that we were both now aware of each other’s presence.

“He immediately fell down and yelled in pain while I crouched over him saying ‘sorry, sorry’ over and over.”

I figured at this point the cougar would wander off in the opposite direction, which it in fact did, and I relaxed as I reasonably assumed that would be the end of that.

About 10 minutes later, just hanging out behind the pond, the cougar was no longer even a thought in my mind. Suddenly some birds were startled out of a bush only 20 yards to my left. I instinctively knocked an arrow on the string of my Mathews compound bow and turned to face the ruckus. There crouching down was the large cougar hiding in the bush!

By Lena Lengal My husband now came running at me full speed through the bushes to rescue me from whatever mystery I was crazily and unceasingly screeching about.

Unfortunately he did not see that I had an arrow with a broadhead knocked in my bow and as he ran toward me his leg rammed into my arrow right above the knee! I should have tried to turn away, but I instinctively wanted to go towards him as well . . . it all happened so fast.

He immediately fell down and yelled in pain while I crouched over him saying “sorry, sorry” over and over. My apologies were certainly sweet nothings as the profanity of my husband’s pain filled the mountain air.

This was not good.

The arrowhead went about an inch into his leg and pulled out easily.

Fortunately we always carried a first aid kit and I was able to patch him up.

Needless to say, it was a long and slow five-mile hike back to the truck. In the end everything turned out fine and, while I realize that in this particular situation I was obviously more dangerous than the cougar was, I’ll never underestimate a cougar again. In fact, after this encounter I have since carried a .357 handgun on all my hunting expeditions.

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If you have a personal story/pictures about an experience with a cougar that you’d like to share, please submit it to the Gallup Journey Magazine at gallupjourney@gmail.com. Or if you would like to tell us your story in person and have us write it, please call 505-240-7678.

I screamed so loud I thought the bushes were rattling. Even after the cougar bounced up and ran off from my ravings, I continued to yell hysterically.

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Zuni’s House of Peace 1914-2014

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or a whole 100 years of life in Zuni, there’s been only one “big house.”

To say it loomed over the pueblo risks understatement. Even in its declining years nothing in town or out could rival its massive triangular bulk. It was not just one-of-a-kind, it was defiantly so, as if some Kansas tornado picked it up from its Midwest moorings and simply dropped it off right there at the heart of things in Zuni, right there in the middle of town.

The Zuni big house is now gone to make room for new building projects.

In truth, the Zuni “big house” never was a mansion, although it had to look like some sharp-angled white man’s palace to Zuni men and women and kids, who lived in tawny homes with dusty sides of square-cut Zuni brick. When the big house sprouted up in 1914 as a home to the Christian Reformed missionaries, there was absolutely nothing like it in the pueblo, nor was there for the entire next century. Nobody else had colonial windows, a spacious front porch, or a peaked gable jutting from a huge, swooping roofline.

It’s not hard to imagine what people thought when it went up. They must have been as confused as those first missionaries were when they first observed the dancers just outside the windows. It’s just about impossible to imagine a cultural statement as foreign and inyour-face as the big house must have been when it went up, stud by straight-cut stud.

Let’s be blunt. It is hard to imagine a symbol of cultural imperialism as hugely omnipresent as the Zuni big house. If you want to megaphone your intent to change people’s lives and hearts and their whole way of life, what on earth could the missionaries do more effectively than put up the biggest house between Zuni and Gallup— or Zuni and Albuquerque? “Here we are,” that house preached. “Aren’t we something? Wouldn’t you like some of this too?”

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nothing more foreign to Zuni than the big house, an American Craftsman design that could have been ordered from a Sears catalogue, but was likely built from a pattern created by J. H. Davermen and Sons.

How all the building materials the Zuni big house required got from Gallup to Zuni in 1914 is anybody’s guess, but what can be assumed is “slowly,” which is to say, by mule-drawn wagon. What a parade that must have been, wagon after wagon of industrial-sized Legos--everything a builder needed. When locals watched what was going up, some of them must have seen nothing less than a white man’s Trojan horse. Perhaps some still do.

For the record, America swooned over so-called “Arts and Crafts” homes for many years both before and after the First World War. Over 70,000 Sears catalog houses that look remarkably similar to the Daverman at Zuni were constructed between 1908 and 1940. You’d have to look far and wide to spot them in New Mexico, but out East and throughout the Midwest, similar homes still line city and village streets. But only one such monstrosity went up in Zuni, the missionaries’ house, the big house.

It was, for sure, an icon of the cultural aggression missionary endeavor often was—or at least facilitated—a century ago. For someone like myself, a descendent of those who exercised sometimes unyielding control over the mission work at the turn of the 20th century and beyond, the big house, and what it so aptly symbolized is something of an embarrassment. Nothing could be more out-of-place than a huge quintessentially Midwestern frame house erected smack dab in the heart of a New Mexico pueblo.

Maybe it’s time that big house comes down, you know? Maybe it’s a crime it took an entire century.

But a house becomes a home once it’s lived in and with, no matter how monstrous its style or arrogant its placement. And this house, Zuni Mission’s twostory Daverman, has been home, not only to dozens of families, but hundreds, even thousands of guests, Native and Anglo. It’s tallied a full century’s worth of history of late nights and early mornings in rain and snow and wind and the hot sun of endless summer days. The big house heard a couple million prayers, lots of them said aloud and a gazillion more uttered in silence.

Real people lived in the big house, and real people have loved there too. They laughed hard, I’m sure, and cried and fought hard too, and some, regrettably, left in huff. It’s seen more than its share of life. But a thousand heartfelt reconciliations have been made beneath its broad, sloping roof, lots and lots of human stories, some maybe a bit too intimate to retell, all of that life sheltered and sustained within those four wide walls. One resident even acted as the pueblo’s only dentist and conducted a good business in pulling teeth.

More than once it was emptied, of course, as residents moved in and out; but one sad night in 1971, the fire that ravaged the mission threatened the big house next door. Zuni residents came to the rescue and hauled everything out to the river. Kathleen Klompien remembers seeing her refrigerator tip when the helpers lifted it up and out of the kitchen; she will never forget things just spilling out as they dragged it outdoors all amid smoke and heat so intense it broke windows and blistered paint.

After that devastating fire in 1971, those who worshipped in the sanctuary that burned to the ground moved their weekly services to the big house basement, where the ceiling was so low that the hymns they sang had to rattle even those cement walls.

It should come as no surprise that the Zuni’s own solitary Daverman big house became

Maybe it’s time that big house comes down, you know?

Maybe it’s a crime it took an entire century.

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much more than a strange-looking beast at the heart of the Zuni pueblo. Verna Chavez, for instance, is downright disgusted about the demise of the big house. She claims it really should have become a museum because so much history was lived within its walls. She hasn’t forgotten professing her faith down there in the basement, where she also baptized her firstborn. The big house wasn’t a symbol of suppression or degradation to Verna Chavez; it was a holy place.

People lived there, after all. They ate and drank, played Monopoly and Rook and Uncle Wiggly; they raised kids, had friends over, drank endless cups of coffee, baked ten thousand cookies at a minimum.

Once upon a time a family who lived there determined to ward off January cold by layering cardboard up against an upstairs wall.

When demolition of the big house began, not long ago, and layers of everything were slowly peeled away, dozens of tiny holes showed up in that old cardboard insulation, marking the spot where a couple of brothers shouldered their BB guns and shot at targets and once in a while even themselves.

Banisters became slippery slides. Freshfaced volunteers arrived at Zuni, ate and slept in the big house, worked at endless projects on buildings and grounds, and then left, often changed substantially inside from the day they’d arrived. The boys from the preacher’s downstairs apartment once strung wires up so they could talk to the boys from the teacher’s family upstairs through a pair of tin cans.

That big Daverman was a house of many rooms—too many, one school principal thought, so he pulled out a sledge and beat down the wall between kitchen and dining room, then hurriedly stuck up a four-by-four when the ceiling above the dining room started to curve like a buggy spring. That admirable post finally fell the day the big house went down.

The big house, all by its lonesome in the Zuni pueblo, may well be a symbol of cultural oppression; but most of those who lived there in the last century can remember countless times when someone—male or female, young or old— showed up, any hour of the day or night in a level of turmoil that made being anything less than a good Samaritan unthinkable.

Not long ago, someone stood outside the pastor’s open window: “Father Meekhof,” he said plaintively, “I have sinned.” Poor man was confusing denominations. It was the middle of the night. After some conversation Pastor Mike determined the penitent wasn’t thinking straight, so he told the man to come in a more confident condition to do a vital confession.

Neighborhood kids will miss the baptisms regularly administered by Pastor Mike when, after supper, he showered them from the kitchen window, armed with the sprayer from the sink. For decades, the old fruit cellar held annual bounty to die for, and years ago an old auger-fed furnace kept kids’ noses warm and curiosities high.

There’s cause for rejoicing that the big house made it for an entire century because there were times, more than moments, when the future of the mission itself was questionable—during the Depression, for instance, when there were no funds; in drawn-out battles between personnel, after withering criticism from within the pueblo and without.

Among the darkest days was a time in the early 90s when a number of factors merged to put the Zuni Mission at great risk—low school enrollment, lack of funds, and other factors. When news got out in the community that the mission

was tottering, people from the pueblo told Pastor Mike not to let it happen, not because they were Christian believers, not because they’d ever professed the name of the God those missionaries have talked about for 100 years; but because, they said, the mission right there downtown was itself a citizen of the community, a citizen whose presence, they told him, would be sorely missed. Such unsolicited comments were a joy, he says. When he asked them why they felt that way, some claimed they like to think of the mission as “a place of peace.”

The big house fit in the pueblo like wingtips beneath a Navajo blanket, an ungainly symbol of the kind of perceived cultural superiority that made mission work doubly and triply difficult. And what really is one hundred years when the pueblo still remembers the Spanish Conquistadors looking for the so-called “Cities of Gold”?

But it was still sad—for everyone who has ever been there, inside and out—to see that massive old icon come down, because it was more than a huge, old house; it was home for hundreds of real people, even a church when it had to be.

When he asked them why they felt that way, some claimed they like to think of the mission as “a place of peace.”

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Through it all, an entire century of mission life, it has done way more than those who originally brought it here dreamed it would: It’s been a great big, ungainly place of peace.

Zuni Christian Reformed Mission Facts • Herman Fryling & Andrew Vanderwagen arrived in October 1897 to begin work in Zuni.

• Fire destroyed the main mission building in 1971.

• Local governance of the church began in 1990.

• Current Church Membership: 250 • New Gym & Ministry Center Construction began August 2014.

• Zuni Christian Mission School opened in 1908.

• Current K-8 Enrollment: 73 • Highest Enrollment: 150+ (free tuition years) • Local governance of the school began 1987.

• New school was completed August 2012 Zuni Mission Purpose Statement: To honor God by witnessing to his eternal design and love for the Zuni community.

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critter! The bite is three or four times more potent than a scorpion sting.

With some sleuthing on the internet, I found out a lot of things, the first of which is that my gloriosa captive was a female. The males have working wings and in fact look for all the world like some kind of wasp, which they are. They are rarely seen, so the wingless female is left to fend for herself on the ground—hence the gift of speed and the stinger, and an exoskeleton that is uncommonly hard, as though designed to be stepped on without breaking. The male, interestingly, has no stinger, but is known to bluff by making stinging gestures at his enemies. People talk about human males and females being from different planets, but think what it would be like for human males and I had seen one of these bugs three years ago but females to be as different as the thistledown couldn’t catch it—these things are REALLY fast!—and never found what it was—until ant-wasp! They are so different, and live such now. I bike home, transfer the new wildlife to a small bug-arium. separate lives, that it is still a mystery to entomologists which male Take a few pictures. Wife says, “You’re not leaving that thing in the of a particular species goes along with which female! house are you?” The intonation dictates the answer: “Well, uh, no, of course not.” Set the bug outside in its bug-arium. Obviously it I’d like to know if anyone else in the Gallup area has seen the socan’t fly out, no wings! E-mail bug-guy Bill Kuipers in ABQ. It’s called thistle-down ant or any of the other fuzzy ants that might probably a mutillid wasp, he says. A wasp?! With no wings? No way! turn out to be wasps. Let me know please: rob.koops@gmail.com.

I check it out. Sure enough: Dasymutilla gloriosa, “thistledown Meanwhile, BE CAREFUL—don’t try to catch one with your bare velvet ant” —a wingless wasp, or rather the wingless stage in its hands! development. It turns out I’m really lucky I didn’t get stung by this ou’ve abandoned your bike and are following a sort-of trail up the hogback southeast of Rehoboth up to where the old uranium mine used to be. A piece of fluff blows across the path. Wait a minute! The wind is going the other way! You drop to the ground, like Moses before the burning bush, and take a closer look. It’s a large ant-like critter, diving under a root. You search for something to catch it in. Does it bite? Sting? I take my chances and after three minutes of futile pursuit with the only thing I can find—a dollar bill rolled into a cone shape!—I scoop it up and wrap it with another dollar bill. Back down at the bike, I empty my water bottle and incarcerate my new acquaintance along with some leaves and sand, and ride home.

The bite is three or four times more potent than a scorpion sting.

Dr. Jekyll and Mrs. Hyde of the Insect World A rare Gallup find mutillid wasp: thistledown velvet ant.

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OCTAVIA FELLIN PUBLIC LIBRARY &HOHEUDWH 1DWLYH $PHULFDQ +HULWDJH 0RQWK Meet Miss Navajo Tuesday Nov. 18th at 6pm in the Main Branch meeting room Newly crowned 2014-2015 Miss Navajo Nation, McKeon Dempsey, will discuss her experiences competing for the crown and what she plans to achieve during her reign. A reception will follow.

Children’s Branch Sat., Nov. 8th @ 2pm

Author Visits

Films Wed., Nov. 5th @ 6 :00PM

Cachini Dancers from the Zuni Nation

More Than Frybread Wed., Nov. 12th @ 6:00PM Racing the Rez

Sat., Nov. 15th @ 2pm Sunny Dooley

Ribbon Cutting

Navajo Storyteller

Join us for a ribbon cutting of the new Navajo Language Room.

Fernando Cellicion/Florentine Johnson (Drums and Flute)

Thurs., Nov. 6th @ 6 :00 PM Right Place, Right Time, the Journey of a Pueblo of Laguna Native Judith Avila—Author

Sat., Nov. 15th @ 3 :00PM

Sat., Nov. 22nd @ 2pm

Robert Carr—Author

Thurs., Nov. 13th @ 6:00 PM Chester Nez: World War II Navajo Code Talker

Gadget Garage Thursday Nov. 20th at 6pm and Saturday Nov. 22nd at 3pm This free workshop is designed to help consumers decide which electronic device best fits their needs and budget. Staff will answer questions about function, price, and other inquiries as the different gadgets will be available to view.

Computer Training Free Community Computer Classes, Mondays at 5:30 pm all month long.

Registration required. Classes: Nov. 3rd, 10th, and 17th

Children’s Branch Programs Tuesdays @ 11am—Mother Goose on the Loose (ages 0—2) Wednesdays @ 4pm—Weird Science Club (ages 6—12) Thursdays @ 4pm—Crafty Kids (all ages) Fridays @ 4pm—Drop-in Movies

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November Schedule Featured Events

Uranium Drive-in: Film Screening and Community Forum Thurs., Nov. 20 @ 6:00 PM Admission: FREE Free Film Screening of the documentary presented by Conservation Voters NM. After the screening, there will be an open discussion with guest speakers.

Traveling with Angels Show Sat., Nov. 22 @ 7:00 PM Admission: $20 Traveling with Angels is one woman’s personal story of adventure, adversity and Divine guidance. Performed by J. Rene Pena, Traveling with Angels takes the audience on a ride from New Mexico to a small town street in Germany, and by the end, there is a suitcase full of memories. All proceeds from the show will benefit St. Francis School.

For tickets call: 863-3145

Movies Under Construction Destruction Movies

Family Matinee

Admission: $2

Kids are FREE Adults $2

Nov. 19 @ 7:00 PM Into the Storm (2014) Nov. 21 @ 7:00 PM X-Men: Days of Future Past Nov. 29 @ 4:00 PM Godzilla (2014)

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Nov. 30 @ 2:00 PM Maleficent

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Commercial Shoot:

Bob Rosebrough poses for the camera on Pyramid Rock Trail. The footage is to be used for a TV commercial that the Gallup Chamber of Commerce has commissioned to showcase Gallup’s outdoor recreational opportunities. The final product will air sometime in November on NBC KOB Channel 4 during the weekly Sunday 8:30 am showing of “New Mexico True TV.” The show is described as “taking viewers on a tour of the Land of Enchantment in order to explore some of the unique vacation destinations and experiences in the state.”

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Support Class for Parents of Teens at First United Methodist Church from 6:30-7:30pm. Info: 863-4512.

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 @ 505-783-4612.

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

Monday ONGOING

Battered Families Services, Inc. has a women’s support group that meets weekly, 5:30-7:30. A children’s support group is available at the same time for children 6 years of age and older. Info: 722-6389.

Gallup Al-Anon meetings 12 noon at Sacred Heart Cathedral (corner of Woodrow and Green), in the Family Center, 1st door on the left on the bottom floor.

Codependents Anonymous, 12 noon 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, 5:30-7:30pm. Info: 7226389.

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

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

Brain Injury Support Group, Mondays 9-11 am at Hozho Center (216 W. Maloney, Gallup). Learn new ways to deal with old problems. Become a better person by talking to people who know about brain injuries. For more information, call 505-870-1483.

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Red Rock String Ensemble will be performing a fall concert at First United Methodist Church, 4:00 pm. Featuring local high school student, Julian Iralu playing trumpet, in addition to musicians from Albuquerque and Gallup area.

Free admission made possible by The Gallup Independent.

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Sacred Heart Bazaar at Sacred Heart Gym, 12-4 pm. Booths, baked goods, linens, live entertainment. For more information, call 505-722-6644.

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The Morning Light Sanga Buddhist Meditation will meet for meditation, 3-5 pm at the Work in Beauty House (113 E. Logan). All are invited.

Taizé Worship service will be held at Westminster Presbyterian Church at 4 pm.

Please join us for quiet, meditation, song, prayer, and Scripture. The church is located on Boardman Drive just south of Orleans Manor Apartments. Call Kathy (722-5011) for more information.

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The Morning Light Sanga Buddhist Meditation will meet for meditation, 3-5 pm at the Work in Beauty House (113 E. Logan). All are invited.

Citizens of Gallup interested in conservation, recycling and sustainable development are invited to attend the newly forming Sustainable Gallup Board (SGB). The SGB meets on the first Monday of each month, 3 – 5 pm, in the Mayor’s Conference Room, City Hall. Contact Bill Bright at 505-722-0039 for information.

Spa Day at UNM-Gallup Cosmetology Department. Facials, manicures, pedicures $5 each. All proceeds benefit Battered Families Services, Inc. Call 863-5761 for an appointment.

Walk-ins welcome!

Quilt Club at Gallup Service Mart, 6-8 pm. Come join other quilters in the area to share ideas and projects. Bring your projects for an evening of Show and Tell and discussions about quilting. Are you having a problem with a pattern? Bring it for others to offer suggestions. For more information, call 722-9414.

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Ms. Native UNM Gallup Pageant will take place at UNM-Gallup’s Gurley Hall and Calvin Hall, November 17-19. The pubic is invited to attend. For more information, call 505-863-7500.

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

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

ONGOING

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

Overeaters Anonymous meeting for beginner and returning, 6:00 pm at Church of the Holy Spirit (1334 Country Club Drive). For more information, call Linda at (505) 863-6042.

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

Work in Beauty Open Board Meetings every 1st Tuesday at 7pm at the Work in Beauty House (113 E. Logan, corner of Logan and Puerco). Work in Beauty Community Action Meetings every 3rd Tuesday at 7pm at the Work in Beauty House (113 E. Logan, corner of Logan and Puerco).

Home Group AA will meet at Hozho Center three times a week Tuesday 6p-7p OD, Friday 6p-7p BB, potluck dinner 3rd Friday during speaker meeting, Sunday 4p-5p OD. Gallup Heritage Singers practices, 7-8:30 pm at UNM-G North Campus, 425 North 7th St. For information, call Lynn at 722-2381 or 505-9062848. New members welcome!

Gallup Sunrise Kiwanis meets at Earl’s Family Restaurant(1400 East Hwy. 66) at 7:00 am.

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Good Grief Support Group at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 7 pm. For people experiencing loss. For more information call Pastor Lorelei Kay at 905-3247.

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

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.

Gallup Solar meets the first three Wednesdays of every month at 113 East Logan to discuss everything solar, from megawatt plants to solar lighting for the outhouse. To find out how you can save money on a grid tie in Gallup or for more information, go to new projects at gallupsolar.org or call Don at 505-728-9246.

Community Stage Night, 7-9 pm at El Morro Theatre. All talent welcome, including music, mime, magic, improv, comedy, dance, spoken word, and more. Free admission. Performers may call Rachel at 505-863-7626, email manager@kglp.org, or arrive before 6:45 pm to sign up at the theatre.

Midweek Refreshment at Church of the Holy Spirit, 7 pm. We are watching and discussing actor David Suchet’s DVD: “In the Footsteps of St. Paul.” Come join us! The Church of the Holy Spirit is located at 1334 Country Club Drive, just 1 block west of Red Rock Elementary School. For information, call 505-863-4695.

“Evolutionary Christianity” study group at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 7 pm. Based on a series of interviews with theologians, scientists, and philosophers who integrate their faith with an affirmation of what we can learn from science.

Contact Pastor Lorelei Kay for more information at 905-3247.

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Live music at Coal St. Pub, 7:30 – 9 pm, featuring Ed Triviso’s Open-Mic-Night, Nov. 5, 12, 19.

For more information, call 722-0117.

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Spy vs. Spy Scavenger Hunt, a Relay for Life Fundraiser, will be held at Sammy C’s, 7 pm.

Teams of up to 4 can sign up, $10 per person.

Beverages and appetizers provided. For more information, contact 722-2175.

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Thursday ONGOING

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

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

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

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

Gallup Al-Anon meetings 7 pm at First United Methodist Church, 1800 Red Rock Drive (next to GIMC) 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.

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

ONGOING

Movies for all ages at the Children’s Library@ 4pm.

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.

Learn and Play Chess, 1:30 – 3:30 pm at The Coffee House. Russ, a chess master, will be conducting a class for beginners all the way to advanced chess players. Come by and relax, enjoy and learn.

Saturday ONGOING

Every 1st Saturday of the month is RMCHCS Childbirth Education classes for 2014. Classes are held in the library at RMCH and begin promptly at 9:00 am and end at 1:00 pm. The class is designed for busy people who wish to complete the class in one day. Call the Women’s Health Unit at 505-863-7026 to register, the class is free. The facilitator is Beatrice Nunez, RNc. Habitat for Humanity Yard Sale Fundraisers from 9 to noon Saturdays on Warehouse Lane. Call Dale at 505-722-9420 to donate home items.

Overeaters Anonymous meets at 11 am at First United Methodist Church library (1800 Red Rock Drive, entrance NW).

For more information, call Liz 505-863-5928 or 505-721-9208.

Open Table at Coal Street Coffee House, 6:30 pm, second and third Fridays. “Living the Questions” – a series of 20-minute videos of Christian faith basics discussed in interviews with progressive theologians from a variety of denominations. These sessions are good for any who are just learning about Christianity, or who might be rethinking their faith. Call 905-3247 for more information.

A N N OU N CEME N T S Volunteers Needed Order fresh Christmas evergreens from the Pacific Northwest by November 9.

Various wreaths, garlands, centerpieces, and other items are available for in-town delivery or within the continental USA the week after Thanksgiving. To place an order or for more information, call Betsy (722-9257 / 905-3247), Westminster Presbyterian Church or Loren (863-2947) Church of the Holy Spirit-Episcopal.

Habitat for Humanity is in need of volunteers for one or more part-day construction or support sessions. No experience required. Call Bill at 505-722-4226.

Volunteers needed The New Mexico Child Abuse and Neglect Citizen Review Board needs volunteers to provide independent and objective oversight for abused and neglected children in the custody of the state, with the goal of improving the lives of children and the child welfare system. Meetings are held one day a month to review cases and volunteers must be able to access and use a secure computer. For more information, call 866583-6101 or visit www.nmcrb.org.

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Soroptimist International of Gallup meets the second Thursday of the month at Angela’s Café at noon.

Breastfeeding 101, learn the basics of breastfeeding, 6pm, RMCH 2nd floor library AND Baby Bistro, support group for breastfeeding moms and their babies, 7pm, RMCH 2nd floor library. For more information contact Mary Ippel at 505-8705103.

Second Thursday Diabetes Support Group at Church of the Holy Spirit, 5:30 pm. For all people who suffer from Type 1 or Type 2 Diabetes. For the next three months: cooking classes! The Church of the Holy Spirit is located at 1334 Country Club Drive, Gallup, just 1 block west of Red Rock Elementary School. For more information, call 505-8634695.

Pie Potholder workshop at Gallup Service Mart, 6-9 pm. Come and enjoy Grandma Dot’s fruit pie. Use your fruit fabric fat quarts to create this fruit-filled potholder or trivet. $15 plus patter. For more information, call 722-9414.

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Thoreau Elementary School is hosting a Flag Retirement Ceremony, a Fun Run and a Fall Festival. The Flag Ceremony will take place at 11:30 am. The Fun Run registration will be at 3:30 pm and the Run will take place at 4 pm on a marked course. The Festival will be from 6 to 8 pm. There will be a Turkey Bingo, other games/activities and concession. If you have any flags that you would like to have retired, please bring them to the school by Monday, November 3.

We hope to see you there, for some fun and games! If you have any questions, please call Thoreau Elementary at 505-721-4400.

Live music at Coal St. Pub, 7:30 – 9 pm, featuring Benny an the Jets…Tanya G. an Company. For more information, call 7220117.

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Live music at Coal St. Pub, 7:30 – 9 pm, featuring The Pat n Mike Show…Variety.

For more information, call 722-0117.

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Be a part of Balloon Chase Crew in time for the Red Rock Balloon Rally!

Chase Crew Training at Gallup Chamber of Commerce, 7 pm. For more information, please contact Pamela (505-870-4752).

Popcorn Theology at Church of the Holy Spirit, 7 pm. Come enjoy a free movie, sodas, popcorn, and conversation as we explore the Gospel message in contemporary movies. The Church of the Holy Spirit is located at 1334 Country Club Drive, Gallup, just 1 block west of Red Rock Elementary School. For information, call 505-863-4695.

Interfaith Earth Sabbath Gathering at 604 Jeff King Street in Mentmore, 7 pm. For more information, call 722-3547.

Display of Medieval Brass Rubbings opening at UNM-Gallup’s Gurley Hall exhibit cases.

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Bone Health Seminar at Gallup Chamber of Commerce, 10 am to 12 noon. Come get the whole scoop on bone health and learn how to protect yourself by attending this seminar. Heel bone scans available for $25 during the event. For more information call 505-863-6030.

Join the McKinley Citizens’ Recycling Council for their monthly meeting, 2:00 pm at Red Mesa Center (105 W. Hill). Call 722-5142 for more information.

First Saturday Healing Prayer and Song – Come celebrate All Saints’ Day at the Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit, 5 pm. A casual and comfortable service devoted to healing of mind, body, & spirit, including a blend of traditional & modern folk music styles, scripture, prayer, and Holy Communion. Everyone is very welcome indeed! The Church of the Holy Spirit is located at 1334 Country Club Drive, Gallup, just 1 block west of Red Rock Elementary School. For more information, call 505-863-4695.

Live music at Coal St. Pub, 7:30 – 9 pm, featuring Kory Kline…Acoustic Rock n Roll. For more information, call 722-0117.

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Arts & Crafts Fair & Recycling Jamboree at Gallup Community Service Center, 9 am – 3 pm.

Learn about How, Why, What, Where, and When to Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle manufactured products.

Demonstrations will be given and products mad from recycled materials will be sold. Bring canned goods and other non-perishable items to support hungry in our area. Event also benefits the Jim Harlin Community Pantry and Hope Garden. Still seeking vendors of arts & crafts, non-profits, businesses and others who would like a table. Fee $10 per table. Tables & Chairs provided. Non-profits no fee. Call 722-9257 or 879-2581.

Be a part of Balloon Chase Crew in time for the Red Rock Balloon Rally! Chase Crew Training at Gallup Chamber of Commerce, 6:00 pm. For more information, please contact Pamela (505-870-4752).

National Indian Youth Leadership Project (NIYLP) presents the 1st Annual Fundraiser Dinner and Silent Auction at Elks Lodge #1440 (1112 Susan Ave., Gallup, NM), 5:30 – 8 pm. The evening will include a 3-course dinner sponsored by Navajo Technical University Culinary Program. Dinner tickets: $25.00 per person; Table of 8 people $175.00. For reservations or information contact Gloria or Celeste at 505-722.9176.

ArtsCrawl, Downtown Gallup, 7-9 pm. Schedule of events on p. 44.

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Holiday Craft and Baked Goods Sale at Bethany Christian Reformed Church (1110 South Strong Dr. in Gallup), 9 am – 2 pm. Get ready to do your Christmas shopping and stock your freezer with goodies for the holidays!

QOV Sew Day at Gallup Service Mart, 10 am – 3 pm. Come join us and work on our QOV quilts for veterans.

Limited space to 5 quilters. For more information, call 722-9414.

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“Traveling with Angels” one-woman play featuring J. René Peña, a native of Gallup, New Mexico, at El Morro Theatre, 7 pm. Peña is an actress living in the Los Angeles area and has appeared on Grey’s Anatomy, The Young and the Restless, other television and Broadway shows. Tickets benefit St. Francis School and are $20. For more information and tickets, call the school (863-3145), Fran (505-879-6570) or Shorty (505-9792316).

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

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1. Each story must be no more than 750 words.

2. Each story must be typed and emailed to gallupjourney@gmail. com with your name and mailing address.

1. Please submit your photos via email (gallupjourney@gmail.com), or bring a disc to the gallup journey office (202 east hill avenue).

2. FIVE photos per entry.

Please include your name and mailing address.

3. ONE entry per person.

Call to artists, writers, poets, photo nuts, and anyone we forgot.

Poetry

1. Each poem must be typed and emailed to gallupjourney@gmail. com with your name and mailing address.

2. ONE entry per person.

submissions due by Friday, december 5, 2014. send short stories, poems, and digital photos to us at gallupjourney@gmail.com or drop a disc off at our office (202 east hill avenue).

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1. L-R: Bettie, Tegan & Leilani Hudson enjoy ONLY the Journey at the Coors Brewery in Golden, Colorado. Taking photo: Greg Hudson.

2. Grace Bible Church youth group and Pastor John Luginbuhl and youth pastor Steve Yoder reading the Journey during their “Back to school bash.”

3. Students love the Journey! On a summer trip to Germany, Austria and Switzerland they read the Journey.

L-R: Trajen, Gilberto, Brandon, Lance, Luke, Jeremy, Gahrett, Candelaria, Donovan, Tracy, and Tia. The photo was taken in a valley outside of Lucerne, Switzerland named Melchtal.

4. ​After touring Croatia, stopping at Lake Bled, and traveling to the Top of Mt. Vogel in Slovenia this lovely group stopped to read the Journey. L-R: Sheree Stauder, Barbara Kozeliski, Leanna Kozeliski Garcia, Maya Kozeliski Garcia, Frank Kozeliski, Salvador Kozeliski Garcia, Katie Bolf, Sonja Bolf Schroder, and Alex Lopez.

5. Margaret and Johnny try to keep George, Thomas, Teddy and Abe from reading over their shoulders while on vacation at Mount Rushmore.

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1. Irvin and Norma Jean Jones are reading the Journey at Wolf Creek Pass, returning from a five-day trip to Cañon City, Colorado where they attended all-classes reunion of the Holy Cross Abbey School. Irvin is a 1959 graduate and his class is having their 55th annual reunion at Colorado Springs on September 26 and 27. Irvin earned his doctoral degree from Penn State University in University Park, PA and Norma earned her Masters degree in Elementary Education from NAU in Flagstaff, AZ in 1971. The couple are in retirement and they are absolutely enjoying their leisure time every day.

2. Pine Hill School Senior Class of 2015 start their final year of school off right by reading the Gallup Journey in Mr. Lehr’s Government class.​ 3. Susan Krzymowski, Rich Stam, Anna Coe, and Cynthia Bjehl read the Journey with a group in Cuauhtemoc, Mexico.

4. Newlyweds, Lorijo & Joe Laragan, reading the Gallup Journey with Raymond & Priscilla Pinto in Boise, Idaho.

5. Nathan, Cambrielle and Rissy made it to Minnesota to read the Journey! . . . and to drop off big sister Rissy, starting her freshman year at UMN!

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The RMCHCS Foundation and RMCHCS Auxiliary thank the following individuals, businesses andOctober is National Breast Cancer Awaren organizations for supporting Charity Invitational XVIII.

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Legacy Donors Cibola Medical Foundation • RMCHCS Auxiliary • The Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation Emerald Donor Western Refining

Platinum Donors

Four Corners Welding & Gas Supply/ Big Mike’s Rental, Sales & Service Mr. Colin & Mrs. Colleen Tanner William Knox Holt Foundation Gallup Med Flight & Eagle Air Med

Diamond Donors

Mr. David & Mrs. Judy Conejo De La Riva Enterprise, Inc. Eye Associates of New Mexico Elite Laundry & Dry Cleaners Gurley Motor Company Dr. James & Mrs. Margaret Johnson

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Schedule Your Mammo October 1–31 Mon–Fri. 8am–4pm Dr. Philip & Mrs. Betty Kamps Sat. Oct. 11 9am–3:30pm Navajo Gaming Enterprise-Fire Rock Casino Appointments recommended, Pinnacle Bank accepted, payment Dr.walk-ins Mary Poel due upon registration.

Dr. Michelle Stam-MacLaren & Mr. Scott MacLaren T & R Market, Inc.

Join us in the Ms. Harriet S. Adam • Amigo Automotive Center • Mrs. Ina & Mr. Warren Burmeister • Butler’s Office Equipment & Supply, Inc. • City Vending Company Coldwell Banker High Desert Realty • Comfort Suites of Gallup • Don Diego’s Restaurant & Lounge • Emergency Staffing Solutions, Inc.“Walk-for-Pledges” • Gallup Lumber & Supply Gallup Neurology & Sleep Disorder • Gallup Printing & Office Supply • Gallup Rotary Club • Dr. Charles & Mrs. Maria Guimaraes • Mr. Bart Hansen • Dr. James & Mrs. Marilyn Hathaway Golden Donors

October 18

Mr. William & Mrs. Kathleen Head • Mrs. Arlene High • Mrs. Patty Johnson • Mrs. Toni Kinsel • Mr. Art & Mrs. Susan Macias • Mason & Isaacson, PA • Mrs. Lisa McCabe 8am–1pm Mr. Paul & Mrs. Lurae McCollum • Mrs. Heather Nasi • Mr. Michael & Mrs. Christina Nye • Red Roof Inn • Richardson’s Trading Company • RMKM Architecture, PC Dr. Gerald & Mrs. Elizabeth Robertson • Dr. Thomas & Mrs. Margaret Robinson • Sacred Wind Communications • Sister Marie Claire Salois • Mrs. Betty Smith • Taira’s Inc. • TriCore Reference Registration the New Mexico Cancer Cente Laboratories • Triple B, LLC & Premier Car Wash • Tristate Care Flight, LLC • University of New Mexico •Ms. Gretchen Woods • Mr. Vince & Mrs. Anneat Yeggie

Golf Hole Sponsors

American Tire Company Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Mexico Butler’s Office Equipment & Supply, Inc. Century 21 Action Realty of Gallup • Delta Dental Gallup State Bank • Goodfellas, Inc. Mr. Joe & Mrs. Esther Macias Joe Milo’s White Water Trading Morgan Stanley, Vince Yegge & Cliff Gramer Murphy Builders Ms. Heather Nasi, in Memory of Dr. John Nasi Perry Null Trading Company Pinnacle Bank Powerline Technologies REDW, LLC • Richardson’s Trading Company Rico Auto Complex • Trice’s/Red Rock Team Roping TriCore Reference Laboratories • US Bank

Charity Invitational Planning Committee Mr. Bill Armstrong Mr. Dominic Biava Mrs. Ina Burmeister Mrs. Cynthia Dyer Mrs. Jeannette Gartner Mr. Mark Gartner Mrs. Ara Green Mrs. Monica Greene Mrs. Arlene High Dr. James Johnson Mr. Paul McCollum Mrs. Timaris Montano Mrs. Mary Lou Mraz Mrs. Heather Nasi Mr. Michael Nye Mrs. Linda Rounds-Nichols Mrs. Liz Sanchez Mr. Jason Valentine Dr. Nate Yale

Friends of RMCHCS

Proceeds to help purchase Patient com for the New Mexico Cancer Center and In-Kind Donors unit A&J Produce •mammography Benjamin Franklin Plumbing

Mr. Daniel Aguilar • Mrs. Christine Antonio • Mr. Phillip Antonio Ms. Amy Arnold • Mr. Martin Arias • Mr. Steffan Baginski Bill’s Reloading • City of Gallup Pledge sheets available at RMCHCS Ra Dr. Purnima Balla • Ms. Audrey Begay • Mr. James Bennett Coca Cola Bottling Company Department, New Mr. Chris Berger • Ms. Lynda Benally • Bottom of the World Film Co. Mr. Christopher & Mrs. Cynthia Dyer Mexico Cancer Cente Dr. Thomas Carmany • Dr. Salam Chalouhi • Cocina De Dominguez Flower Basket • Gallup Journey,Chevrolet, Inc. Media, Amigo UNM-G, Mr. T Dr. Kimberly Collins • Ms. Rosemary Coyne • Dallago Corporation • Ms. Dasha Daniels Gallup Service Mart/Uniform Station Financial Credit Union and Aurelia’s Din Mrs. Barbara & Mr. Doug Decker • Dental Innovations Go Team Go • iHeart Media/Clear Channel Radio Ms. Christina Diaz • Mr. Joseph Diaz • Mrs. Mary Lou & Mr. Ronald Donkersloot Jerry’s Cafe • Little Sisters the Poor • Millennium Media For of more information contact Monica a Mrs. Sue Eddy-Trices USTRC Prizeline • Ms. Eghe Ehiman • Ms. Owen Ehiman Mrs. Timaris Montano & Family El Charrito • El Sombrero • Ms. Leona Escamilla Town Talk • Zen Steak & Sushi Bikers, roller skaters and skateboar Mr. Lawrence & Mrs. Rose Marie Etherton • Mr. Cal & Mrs. Jeannie Feddes are welcome to participate.

First American Traders • Fratelli’s Italian Bistro Dr. Peter & Mrs. Louise Frechette • Gallup Journey, Inc. Gallup McKinley Chamber of Commerce • Gallup Vision Source Mrs. Margaret Gavaldon • Ms. Katrina George • Ms. Virgie Gibson Mr. Paul & Mrs. Joyce Graves • Greater Gallup Economic Development Corp.

Mr. Johnny & Mrs. Monica Greene • Mr. Tony Hernandez 1901 Red Ro Hilton Garden Inn, Gallup • Ms. Patty Johnson • Ms. Susan Johnson GALLUP, N Dr. John & Mrs. Kathleen Kamps • Dr. Lidio Rainaldi • Ms. Samantha Long Ms. Cassandra Lopez • Ms. Carolyn Mahnke • Melendres & Melendres, PC Mrs. Trinity Manges • Ms. Tina Martinez • Dr. John & Dr. Kathleen Mezoff www.rm Ms. Roberta Mitchell • Ms. Monique Monarque • Mr. Tony Montclova Mr. John & Mrs. Mary Lou Mraz • Mr. Charles & Mrs. Marlene Neal Ms. Dora Nillo • Mrs. Michelle Norris • Ms. Beatrice Nunez • Mrs. Jerelyn Olivar OnRad, Inc. • Mrs. Lisa Ortiz • Mr. Johnny Ortiz • Mr. Joshua Ortiz Mrs. Natalie & Mr. William Overton • Panz Alegra Restaurant Mr. Jason Pawlowski • Ms. Frankie Pawlowski • Mr. Angelo Pawlowski Rev. Kris Pikaart • Ms. Virginia Ponce • Quick Print & Copy • Rico Auto Complex Rocket Café • Mrs. Kathy Rodriguez • Ms. Raquelle Rowe • Ms. Barbara Rudolph Sammy C’s • Mr. Cipri & Mrs. Mary Sanchez • Mr. Ed Sanshu • Ms. Aria Santiago Ms. Ernerd Santiago • Ms. Nancy Santiesteban & Mr. Doug Turner Mr. Chris Saucedo • Dr. Dean Shippey • Ms. Sheila Silva • Silver Dust Trading Co. Small Fry Dentistry • Ms. Alyssa Strain • Sunrise Kiwanis Club Mr. Teez Custom Printing & Embroidery, LLC • Ms. Tabatha Thornton Ms. Tiffany Tetuys • Mr. Gilbert & Mrs. Monica Torres Mr. Duran Upshaw • Virgie’s Restaurant • Mr. Dennis & Mrs. Ruth Van Andel Mrs. Linda Van Asselt-King • Ms. Rosie Verdugo • Mr. Craig Warn Mr. Irl & Ms. Sharon Wallace • Winfield Trading Co.

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Ms. Tammy Archuleta • Mrs. Mary Ann Armijo • Mrs. Betty Armstrong • Mrs. Judy Conejo • Ms. Veronica Diaz • Mrs. Lorencita Emerson Mr. Carl Fragua • Mrs. Ara Green • Mr. James Greene • Mr. Juan Greene • Dr. James & Mrs. Marilyn Hathaway • Mr. Steve Howard Ms. Patty Johnson • Ms. Misty Leyba • Mrs. Trini ty Manges • Ms. Tina Martinez • Mr. Bahe Montano • Mr. Jericho Montano Mrs. Twila Moots • Mr. John Mraz • Mr. Phil Nichols • Ms. Dori Nillo • Mr. Bobo & Mrs. Lucy Saucedo • Ms. Jennifer Saucedo • Mr. Larry Smith Ms. Nancy Santiesteban • Mr. Dean Spiros • Mr. Ernie Sylversmythe • Mr. Winston Tekala • Ms. Elsie Tso • UNM BA/MD Students

Please accept our apology in the event that we have inadvertently omitted your name.

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1901 Red Rock Drive Gallup, New Mexico

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City Electric Shoe Shop 230 W. Coal Ave. 505-863-5252

103 S. Second St. 505-722-0811

Carousel

Southwest Mobile

New Mexico Pottery Company

Gallup Fabric Shop

Makeshift Gallery

318 E. Historic Hwy. 66 505-722-6400

229 W. Coal Ave. 505-863-5974

Denny Pino’s

Zimmerman’s

407 W. Aztec Ave. 505-722-6600 213 W. Coal Ave. 505-722-8886

Frame ‘n Art

116 W. Historic Hwy. 66 505-722-6455

216 W. Historic Hwy. 66 505-863-3142

925 W. Aztec Ave. 505-722-5330

Red Rock Beef Jerky

Elsie’s Flower Shop

The Embroidery Shop

602 W. Historic Hwy. 66 505-863-5155

225 W. Coal Ave. 505-979-0569

Flower Basket

Aztec Floral

313 E. Coal Ave. 505-722-7476

907 W. Coal Ave. 505-722-6675

La Montanita Co-Op Food Market

Martinez Religious Articles

Gallup Service Mart

Hidden Treasures & More

Downtown Flea Market

Navajo Spirit Southwestern Wear

Uniform Station

Lowe’s Shop-n-Save

105 E. Coal Ave. 505-863-5383

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