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Veterans Events in the Month of November (For more information about any events below call 505-863-1227)

Native American Heritage Month Events (For more information on these free programs, call 505-863-1291.)

Veterans Events Across the City in November Vietnam War Film Series by Ken Burns @ Octavia Fellin Library Throughout November, programing for The Vietnam War, a film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, is offered as part of a grant from the American Library Association, PBS and WETA Washington, DC. The screenings will include panel discussions about the war’s impact on veterans and their loved ones. Two showings are scheduled at the Veterans Helping Veterans Center: November 6th at 10am and November 20th at 10am. There will also be screenings at the library on November 13th and November 27th at 5pm. More screenings throughout the month will be announced. For more information on these events, call 505-863-1291 or email libtrain@gallupnm.gov.

Free Film Screening: “Awake, a Dream from Standing Rock” @ El Morro Theatre On Friday November 3rd at 6pm, the Octavia Fellin Public Library presents the Tribeca Film Festival 2017 Official Selection “Awake, a Dr eam from Standing Rock.” This documentary shows the rise of the #NODAPL peaceful resistance at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. Thousands of activists converged from around the country to stand in solidarity with the Water Protectors protesting the construction of the $3.7 billion Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). The film is a collaboration between indigenous filmmakers, Director Myron Dewey and Executive Producer Doug Good Feather, and Oscar®-nominated environmental filmmakers Josh Fox and James Spione.

November 9, 2017 10:30am Free Double Feature: “Searching for Home: Coming Back from War” & Ken Burns “The Vietnam War” @ El Morro Theatre Searching for Home explores, in their own words, the Truth, the Healing, and the Hope of veterans from all generations returning home from war and their search for the “home” they left behind - physically, mentally, and spiritually.

From WWII, Korea, and Vietnam to modern-day conflicts, Searching for Home is a multi-generational documentary that chronicles the journey from battlefield to homefront and the search for healing and eventually hope. Admission is free. (Includes a small popcorn and water bottle, hot dogs provided during Vietnam War showing)

Turquoise Man Art Exhibition @ Octavia Fellin LIbrary OFPL is honored to present the creations of Turquoise Man, Shawn Nelson, throughout the month of November at the main library. Mr. Nelson is a local Navajo artist who has been creating sand paintings and oil paintings for many years; he learned the traditions of dry painting from his grandparents at a very early age. Mr. Nelson is well known for his mural work around the United States. Closer to home you will find his mural work at the historic El Rancho Hotel in Gallup. Opening reception at the Main Library, November 7th from 5:00 – 6:30 pm

November 11, 2017 Veterans Day Events

10:00am - Veterans will lay a wreath for the Unknown Soldier at Hillcrest Cemetery.

10:30am - Parade will begin from Hillcrest Cemetery/Aztec 5 to Courthouse Square. (Participants must be at the site (Aztec 5) by 9:30am. Your organization can walk, be in a vehicle, or a float to participate. Call Gallup-McKinley County Chamber of Commerce at (505) 722-2228 with any questions.

11:30am - Ceremonies at Courthouse Square.

1:00pm - Gather at National Guard Armory to witness the permanent raising of “The People’s Flag.” Refreshments will be served at the National Guard Armory following the flag-raising.

November 11, 2017 ArtsCrawl “Thank You for Your Service” 7-9pm Coal Street and Second Street, Downtown Gallup In addition to the variety of arts and live music during each ArtsCrawl programmed by gallupARTS, this date features a Veteran Artist Group Show at Art123 and a Thank You Carnival. The Thank You Carnival is designed to help spread awareness about and/or fundraise for groups doing community based work in the Gallup area. Booths are free but you must RSVP to Rose at artscrawl@galluparts.org or 505-488-2136. You may also contact her for further information.

Author Howard Bitsui: Vietnam Veteran@ Octavia Fellin Public Library On Thursday November 16th at 6pm, Vietnam Veteran and proud Native author Howard Bitsui will be at the library to discuss his book, “I Can See the Bullets.”

Mr. Bitsui tells the story of two search-and-destroy missions served in Vietnam. Mr. Bitsui was a squad leader during his second tour and his book details his experiences serving in a leadership role. After an honorable discharge in 1969, Mr. Bitsui began his pursuit of higher education and worked within the Navajo Government for many years. For more information on this event, call 505-863-1291 or email libtrain@gallupnm.gov.

Zuni Olla Maidens @ Octavia Fellin Library On Tuesday, November 14, 2017 at 6pm, the Library will host the Zuni Olla Maidens. The Olla Maidens are best known for the Pottery Dance, a powerful ceremonial dance where they move in sequence with delicate painted pottery jars balanced on their heads.

November Film Series: Chris Eyre Films @ Octavia Fellin Library Every Wednesday at 5:30pm at the Main Branch – popcorn provided.

Smoke Signals - Nov. 1st A Thief of Time - Nov. 8th Skinwalkers - Nov. 15th Edge of America - Nov. 29th

“Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, and what you will be.”

- General Douglas MacArthurThe City of Gallup thanks those who have served and continue to serve our country. We are incredibly grateful to you for your generous service to this country and for dedicating your lives to preserve and protect the liberties we as Americans treasure.

We are honored that you call our greater Gallup community home.

Thank you.

Mayor Jackie McKinney Councilor Linda Garcia Councilor Allan Landavazo Councilor Yogash Kumar Councilor Fran Palochak

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Thoughts From The West End I’m just going to cut to the chase and deliver my most devastating discovery of my existence.

It’s one of those things I didn’t expect to learn, nor wanted to; but my number was drawn and I was drafted by life, God, providence, the force, or whatever name you wish to call the mystic creative powers that sometimes direct our plights.

The lesson was hard.

Western medicine with its specialists, magnetic resonance imaging, and quarts of blood tests were conducted at about the total cost of what an average family in Nigeria could live on for 50 years.

Yet these expensive probes concluded virtually nothing for my malady.

Eastern medicine with its Chinese diagnostic meridians, the Raki healers, and vibratory deciphering concluded absolutely nothing, although with much less expense.

The drugs were offered like peppermints at the reception desk. Jack up your serotonin, pump up your hormones, and create new brain chemistry. No thanks.

Perhaps if someone could actually explain the cause, pathology, and pattern of my ailments I would be obliged.

I even submitted, to my physician’s request, to see a trio of psycho-analysts who uniformly agreed that I didn’t fall into any mental illness DSM category (much to my surprise).

Eventually science, serendipity, numbers, common sense, and even an uninvited prophetess slowly began to align against me. I had to accept the daunting evidence that I was making myself sick.

My very thoughts were the culprit for the disharmony in my biological shell.

My neurology was dictating a certain biology that was creating poor brain chemistry, crappy hormone profiles, and a degrading bodily homeostasis.

Deeper study had me conclude that my subconscious limbic system was running a background program of “fight or flight” that was flooding my body with stress hormones and creating this illness. In learning how to control a limbic response, I became a self-taught student of neuroplasticity and grasped an understanding of how to create new neuropaths to calm down these parts of my brain.

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in management of my symptoms as I slowly became capable of manipulating my limbic responses. But yet I still wasn’t getting to the root of my problem. What was causing these portions of my brain to freak out in the first place?

The unfortunate answer is really simple: ego.

My ego, my self-perceptions, my self-expectations, my constructs of who I think I am. Your ego is basically your Facebook page which resides in your brain. When the reality of my life didn’t match up to what my over-grown and expanding ego expected, my limbic system would respond and create biology as if I were in a life or death situation.

The unfortunate solution for this problem was equally simple: The ego must be brought down.

A great mystic teacher once told his followers to “wash other’s feet”, “love their enemies”, and then “die to themselves”. Yet this same teacher said that doing so would make their “yoke easy and their burden light”. How can this be?

This is because when you let your ego die, suddenly your load will lift. There is no more energy wasted in maintaining your delicate self-image, no more self-created chains of focused competition and comparison, your mind is now free and you can be transparent in your faults, honest about your mortality, joyful in the simplest of things, and perhaps present enough to grasp a waft of the Divine indwelling.

It will also help fix your stress-induced biological problems…for a lot less money.

My friend Father Josh Mayer left me a book on his departure to Bloomfield. As a parting quote, I leave you words from Jasques Philippe: “Here it is worth reflecting on the problem of pride. We are all born with a deep wound, experienced as a lack of being. We seek to compensate by constructing a self-different from our real self. This artificial self requires large amounts of energy to maintain it; being fragile, it needs protecting. Woe to anyone who contradicts it, threatens it, questions it, or inhibits its expansion. When religion says we must “die to ourselves,” it means this artificial ego, this constructed self, must die, so that the real “self ” given us by the Creator can emerge.”

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Shi Masani (My Grandmother) Michele Reeves

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First Born Program

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Flat-Food and the Panhandle of Texas Larry Cooperman

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Notes Of Love Vesta Henry

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West by Southwest Ernie Bulow

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Questions for the Dentist

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Veteran’s Corner Sandra McKinney

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The Mystery of the Aztec Nathan Jacob George

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Make It Happen Palacios

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The Smell of Jet Fuel in the Morning Duane F. Haven

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TDFL Outlaws 2017

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Event Calendar

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Treasure Hunt

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Lessons My Children and Grandchildren Taught Me Lori Arsenault

Heroes In Our Midst Jay Mason

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Electronics and Teens Jason Arsenaut

Cover: Thank you to Arland Ben for sharing this beautiful photo for our cover!

Contributors: Ernie Bulow Chuck Van Drunen David Conejo-Palacios

Sandra McKinney Jay Mason Larry Cooperman Michele Reeves Vesta Henry Nathan Jacob George Duane F. Haven Lori Arsenault

Publishers: Daisy & Jason Arsenault Chuck & Jenny Van Drunen Managing Editor: Aileen Steigerwald Staff: Sandra McKinney

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SHI MASANI (My Grandmother)

Demeter from Greek Mythology

By Michele Reeves According to traditional Navajo belief, the inhabitants of the Third World heard First Woman’s voice call from the East, and they made the decision to follow her to the Fourth World, emerging as the First Diné.

Because the Third World had left them filthy and starving, First Woman cleaned them up and fed them. She then proceeded to teach them to grow vegetables, make clothing, give them advice, and to protect them.

Generations later, you can see the archetype of First Woman in most Navajo grandmothers, and I was fortunate to have had one.

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My grandmother wasn’t mean and strict, even though she may have been toward her own children. I had a traditional Navajo grandmother.

She wore a skirt and velveteen top every day with her favorite pendant, her turquoise bracelets, and her hair in a bun. She cooked every meal from scratch and ate what she harvested, and she made a living as a sheepherder and a weaver. Because having a large family was typical for that generation, she cleaned house and fed nine children while my grandfather worked away from home. Every spring she and her children planted corn, squash, and potatoes, and then in the fall, they harvested and stored food for the winter. She also made her own clothing and her children’s clothing, until bell bottom jeans became the fashion, and she couldn’t compete with Levi jeans and t-shirts. But the two most important things she did were to advise and to protect her family.

Whenever anyone had a problem or an important decision to make, her advice meant the most. If there was a dire situation, she was the go-to person, making sense of the problem or fixing it altogether. That is what she did; she protected all of us, especially her grandchildren.

Grandmothers always feed their grandchildren even if they aren’t hungry. I always loved going to grandma’s house because she was always baking homemade biscuits, and I ate my way to a chubby childhood. She also took advantage of our frequent visits by giving us chores; little did we know at the time that she was teaching us about responsibility. We learned how to care for animals, chop wood, and to process wool for weaving. When we didn’t feel well, she took us to gather herbs or if it was something more serious, she would seek out a medicine man. She constantly reminded us to walk with purpose, “Otherwise you end up becoming a follower,” she said—I still remind myself of that whenever I’m feeling lost. She protected us with her unconditional love. With grandma on your side, you have no reason to be afraid, doubtful, or hungry.

More contemporary Navajo grandmothers, in contrast, now shop at Forever 21, and listen to 80s music. But they, too, have First Woman’s traits. In fact, these are the grandmothers who take in their grandchildren to raise.

They take them shopping for clothes, relying on the grandchildren’s taste in fashion—a true demonstration of trust. She will cook for them, but is always willing to drive to McDonald’s for dinner. She will, for certain, teach them to make dough and frybread and tortillas. If the grandchild becomes ill, she will already have their IHS chart number memorize or written down and in her purse at all times.

She intentionally turns an injury or an accident into a funny story, knowing it will help ease the trauma. She also protects with love. She will be the first person to yell at the referee when her grandchild is called for walking or fouling or double-dribbling, regardless of what level or what court. She has a gift to discipline without raising her voice, assuring you that love does conquer all.

Last June, my grandmother passed away at the age of 92. I was fortunate enough to have her as a constant presence all my life, including now. By watching her and being around her, I learned to work hard, be strong, and independent. In fact, one of my students said, “Mrs. Reeves is boss woman.”

I smiled, because I knew that was exactly how I would describe my grandmother. She was a homebody and spent most of her time weaving her beautiful Navajo rugs. That is where I found her when I came home on weekends from college. I studied female archetypes in mythology class, and in one way or another, I was reminded of my grandmother.

She identified with Mother Earth and Demeter and Spider Woman. I miss my grandmother, but I know she has passed on her great qualities to my mother, because my son and daughter have a grandmother who is very similar to mine.

Mother Earth Navajo grandmothers have a great impact on our lives. We tend to boldly face life on our own, but once we get into a tight spot, we need her. Then one day, she leaves. Your first instinct is to doubt yourself and ask how you can live without her. But if you remember clearly what she has instilled in you, you can fearlessly take charge and know what you need to do. Grandma has shown you how to take care of yourself, to raise your animals, to plant in the spring, to offer or receive advice, and to protect your family.

And for the times when you are feeling lost, listen—listen for her voice. She is calling from the East, telling you not to worry.

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NEWS FLASH: EVERETT REUSS STILL MISSING IN UTAH WILDLANDS

Everett Reuss Must Have Looked Like This When He Disappeared: Frozen In Time As A Handsome Boy

In the depths of the depression, here is a youth determined to find freedom (if not fame and fortune) by celebrating the natural world in word and picture. For a solitary fellow who eventually falls off the edge of the earth, Ruess’ adventures are very well documented. There are boxes of photographs, drawings, woodcuts, and poetry to supplement his detailed letters home. The only page missing is the last one.

Royalty? In between stints in the desert, Everett sought out some of the foremost artists and photographers of his time, dropping in on them for extended stays as a house guest. Among others he counted the friendship and patronage of Maynard Dixon, Ansel Adams, Edward Weston and Dorothea Lange—all of them lovers and explorers of the Southwest. The boy was anything but shy.

There is also the contradictory matter of his family, who were very supportive of Everett. They were well-to-do in a very poor period for most Americans. His mother was an established artist in her own right. Reuss, who bummed around the west trading block prints and small watercolors for food, once noted in a letter home that he was aware of the freedom offered him by an inheritance of several million dollars. In other words, his possible death by starvation and his fascination with unencumbered hobo life were hardly harsh realities—more like flirtations. Like all serious risk takers, Everett was most alive when dancing on the edge of the cliff.

Of course, the romantic element is all over this story, like the chocolate coating on a cherry cordial. For one, this precocious young man was athletic and handsome. Portraits of him show a smiling, clean-cut face, squinting into the merciless sun, trustworthy as any boy scout. Artist, poet, self-styled “vagabond for beauty”, Ruess epitomized the romance of the open road. Freedom was his catch phrase, natural beauty his holy grail, wilderness his playground.

He left the single word NEMO wherever he rambled. Nemo is the name of the strange captain in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, a popular book by Jules Vern. Nemo is something like the Flying Dutchman, cursed to never set foot on land. In Latin Nemo means No Man. And of course, mystery is what keeps this story alive and in the headlines. How could this boy disappear so completely? How is it possible that

UTAH BONES AREN’T THOSE OF WANDERING POET EVERETT REUSS AFTER ALL There is an old joke about the ingredients for a perfect story: religion, royalty, romance, and mystery — “Good God, the Queen’s pregnant, whodunit?” The joke isn’t so great, but the formula holds up pretty well. And no place in the world has been more fertile for romantic mysteries than the wilderness Southwest.

The Lost Dutchman and dozens of other vanished fortunes in gold, Butch Cassidy and the Hole in the Wall gang, mysterious murders, and vanished river runners, the Lukachukai Mountains harbor a “lost city”, described by a Spanish explorer, but never found in modern times. Less well known are native stories of hidden turquoise mines, huge serpents that eat livestock and caves full of sand paintings. New Mexico isn’t called “The Land of Enchantment” for nothing.

But no mystery fits the formula better than the saga of Everett Ruess, who disappeared in the canyonlands south of Escalante, Utah, late in 1934. Ruess was not yet legally of age. While the religious element of his myth may be the most enigmatic, hardest to pin down, it is probably the most important as well, the key to his longevity in the public imagination. What religion? The boy was a nature lover, a dark pantheist, who sought the ultimate answers in the song of the wind, as he wrote.

A young boy, with a handful of poems a few letters and a couple of diaries, managed to articulate a philosophy that puts him in the company of Henry David Thoreau and John Muir. As someone once noted, however, Henry David, however much he loved nature, went home and slept in his own bed at night. Everett Ruess espoused a relationship with nature that was monastic in its simplicity, wholehearted in its embrace, but ultimately deadly in its execution.

Like Ed Abbey, Ruess did not proselytize, did not seek converts. Neither of them believed that the wilderness was meant for everyone. And the dark side of Ruess’ poetry and other writing has always troubled me. There is a lot of sinister imagery, darkness, moonlight, whispering wind, and even hints of his mortality.

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in eighty years nobody has been able to turn up a clue?

Of course, the last place Everett was seen alive is now at the bottom of Lake Powell. There have been plenty of theories but no real clues. A really good mystery shouldn’t have a solution, I suppose.

When the public finally went looking for the boy, there was no trace at all. Though his two burros were eventually located, happily cropping grass and clueless as to the fate of their master, not another scrap was ever located. No trace of his gear. (Some believed the local Navajos took everything. They might have done him in as well.) Many months later a Navajo tracker claimed to find his boot prints in three

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locations. Most questioned permanent tracks in the shifting sand. No clothing, no body, no last inscription on the canyon walls. Total silence.

James Dean, the ultimate iconoclast of my generation, the “Rebel Without a Cause”, seems to be fading away, slipping from public consciousness.

A Woodcut of Monument Valley. He Was Largely Financed By Selling His Art And “The Kindness Of Strangers.”

Freddy Fender, who passed away not so long ago, didn’t even get an obituary (Rolling Stone snubbed him completely). I could go on in this vein ad nauseam.

Fame is fickle to say the least.

I first came across the Everett Ruess legend, best I remember, in Wallace Stegner’s book Mormon Country, in a piece called “Artist in Residence”. Stegner was drawing primarily on the series of letters printed in issues of Desert Magazine in the late thirties. The publisher of Desert, Randall Henderson led a couple of search parties and eventually collected all the Reuss material in a book called On Desert Trails with Everett Ruess, published in 1940. The delightful book is full of photos, woodblock prints, watercolors, maps, commentary. It has recently been reprinted.

Edward Abbey takes up the Reuss legend in his commentary to the picture book “Slickrock” and the story stayed alive among the aficionados of the Colorado Plateau. My friend Ken Sanders, publisher of Dream Garden Press, issued a magnificent series of wilderness calendars in the eighties and they were stuffed with information on the high plateau and wilderness in general, with significant dates and quotes from important nature writers. Everett Reuss was one of his authors.

In other words, it was a great story, known to the wilderness brethren, told around campfires on river trips. (Remember, his last resting place may have been in the cold waters of the Colorado River.) I was pleased in 1983 when W.L. Rusho updated the legend in a new book, Everett Ruess: A Vagabond for Beauty.

The introduction was by John Nichols, the afterword contributed by Edward Abbey, both friends of mine.

I wish the photo reproductions were a little clearer, the pictures a little larger. There is one enigmatically titled photograph of Everett standing in front of a Hogan next to a woman holding a baby in a traditional cradleboard. He wrote on it, “My Navajo Wife.” Obviously this wasn’t literally true, but his motivation is unclear. Some people have wondered at the lack of any significant female in Everett’s passionate life. Several people made the claim that Ruess spoke passable Navajo, a very difficult language to learn.

A decade passes, more or less. There isn’t much new material. Utah publisher Peregrine Smith reprints On Desert Trails, then a new book by Mark Taylor, Sandstone Sunsets: In Search of Everett Ruess. Taylor said he had spent ten years chasing the Ruess legend before sitting down to write the book. It seems more like a book about Mark Taylor and his quest than about Ruess, not that it isn’t interesting. One of Taylor’s lines of inquiry picks up on the question of Ruess’ sexuality. He ties, possibly, Everett’s disappearance to Emery Kolb, the Grand Canyon photographer who turned out to have skeletons in his own closet,

He Also Painted In Watercolor, Like This Study Of Rocks And Light literally. Law enforcement people still don’t know the identity of bones found hidden in a boat after Kolb died.

Taylor also explores a couple of stories of confession; one a drunken cowboy, another (almost plausible) of a renegade Navajo who was implicated and eventually convicted of killing another white man. But, ultimately, he doesn’t have an answer either.

There are four favorite endings to the story. The first, and most likely I suppose, was that Ruess, always the risk taker, fell off a cliff, died of a rattlesnake bite, or was drowned trying to swim the Colorado River. Local Navajos helped themselves to his gear (though nothing ever turned up, not even a scrap of clothing) so there was no trace. The two burros remain a puzzle.

He was murdered. There are at least three possible suspects for this scenario, not to mention the local Navajos who had killed and robbed other wandering white men. If the body was dumped into the river, it would never come to light. There have also been rumors that he ran into some cattle rustlers who mistook him for a federal agent and offed him. That part of Utah was criss-crossed by outlaw trails.

One persistent theory says he never died at all, just disappeared into the wilderness he loved. He has been spotted, over the years, like Elvis. He is usually seen in Mexico, the deserts of California, and the Navajo Reservation. The southwest is full of Undead—from Billy the Kid, to Ambrose Bierce, to Butch Cassidy, and dozens more. The major problem with this answer to the riddle is Ruess’ flamboyant personality.

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of a new magazine published in Durango, Colorado, called Inside, Outside, Southwest (along the lines of Gallup Journey) by Amy Maestas which gives an excellent overview of the Ruess Legend.

And in December, the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff had a month-long exhibit of Ruess art and memorabilia along with at least two special presentation programs at the museum. I wasn’t able to make it over there. All of this attention to a boy who went missing over seventy years ago is provocative. At a time when global warming has long passed the theory stage, when even Republicans are loath to allow unlimited oil drilling, when even the hard-core conservatives are fed up with unlimited pollution, perhaps it is the right moment for a new patron saint of ecology.

John Nichols, writing about Ruess’ ultimate obsession, quotes Albert Einstein: “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” While I’m not sure that Einstein’s sense of the mysterious is the same as mine, (him being a mathematician and all) I think we can agree that it is a sublime moment when an ordinary human being gets a glimpse of some great truth and finds his emotional equipment overloaded and inadequate to take it all in.

Looking up at the Milky Way on a winter midnight somewhere on the Colorado Plateau, I know the spirit of Everett Ruess is lurking nearby.

But some folks just have to ruin romance and mystery. A lot of people were happy when a Navajo looked for, and found, bones of a man his grandfather had buried in a remote shallow overhang, tucked behind a saddle. Grandpa claimed he saw someone else club the man to death.

Then some academics from the University of Colorado matched the skull to Reuss’ face and claimed it was him. Later another Colorado researcher claimed the DNA matched as well.

But Utah’s state archaeologist and others soon raised questions about the findings. The archaeologist said Ruess’ surviving dental records don’t match the condition or characteristics of the teeth on a lower jawbone that was found among the remains. The worn teeth also suggest a strictly American Indian diet.

To clear the air, the family had a government agency do another DNA test and they did not find a match. What they found prompted this 2009 headline from The Denver Post:

Utah Bones Aren’t Those of Wandering Poet Everett Reuss After All His Rendering Of Tower House At Mesa Verde Finally, there is a strong possibility that he killed himself and then Nature and the Navajos covered it up for him. His writings always had a dark streak, a melancholy that doesn’t fit with anyone so young. He often referred to his own death and the pain of living on any but his own terms.

All of the above material is common knowledge, available in the books cited. While Ruess’ story has always interested me, I don’t have any new information, no new theory about his disappearance. Like some others, I have felt at times that Everett was a little too self-serving, working hard at building the legend that followed him. It has even been suggested that he lost it at the end; that the solitude and privation, coupled with his own melodramatic personality, drove him over the edge, which works for theories three and four.

What really interests me is the Ruess legend has had a sudden revival of amazing proportions. His official website (extensive and well constructed) gets thousands of hits. Three films about the life and disappearance of Everett Ruess have been made in recent years. More books and articles appear every year. Most amazing of all, Escalante, Utah, the probable scene of his demise, has just held their annual Everett Ruess Days. A few hardcore locals call it an art festival. There is still a strong feeling in that neck of the woods against the “Hollywood queer” tree hugger.

I gather it is a pretty impressive gathering, considering the remoteness of the town. For the first annual event the promoters brought in Waldo Ruess, Everett’s brother, now in his nineties

Some locals call Everett’s followers “Ruesstafarians”, but the fact remains, disciples he has. There is a very entertaining article in the October issue

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e know him as Harry Greece. He wanted to get out too before being Athens, but he was born killed. in 1945 as Charalambos Aunt Pareskavula Athanassopoulos, who Athanassopoulos in Fragislived in the United States in San Diego, ta, Greece. Although WWII California, visited the family in Greece. She was over, there was still great unrest in Greece saw the conditions in which the family was in 1955. The Greek Civil War was not a clash living. The Germans had destroyed almost all of good vs. evil, but one of two extreme belief their possessions. Uncle Yiorgos (George) had systems that could not co-exist, with the majorattended college in Turkey and now lived in the ity of the Greek people trapped somewhere in United States. When Aunt Pareskavula returned the middle. It was to the U.S., she contacted Yiorgos and told him a battle of ideolthey must get the family out of Greece and to ogies. It was a America. difficult time Uncle Yiorgos had been in the United States in Greece; for several years. He was with a native Laguna the Gerwoman named Marie Aragon. They had a home mans had in Paraje, New Mexico and also later in Gallup.

While still living in Greece: Harry on his Grandpa Dimitris destroyed After learning of the plight of Yiorgos’ family, Athanassopoulos’ lap, sister Voula on Mom Chrysanthe so much Marie agreed to sponsor the family to immiand people Athanassopoulos’ lap, and Dad Konstatinos Athanassopoulos. grate to the U.S. were This changed the plans of Konstatinos to living in terrible conditions. Konstatinos move the family to Australia. It was more logical to move to the United States where Athanassopoulos had beother family was already living. Chrysanthe was pregnant and had a small toddler, gun to make plans to Styliania. She was not able to make the move with the rest of her family due to her move his family to pregnancy. Konstatinos made the trip by ship with his young children: Harry, Areti, Australia to escape Voula, Orunia, and little Yiorgos (George), named after his uncle. They arrived in the ravages of New York, and then traveled to Chicago, where they boarded the Super Chief which war and the threat took them to Gallup, New Mexico, arriving January 4, 1956. Chrysanthe stayed beof communism. hind in Greece and one year after giving birth to another little girl, Elainia, the three Konstatinos and followed the rest of the family to Gallup. his wife ChrysanThat was the beginning of life in Gallup, New Mexico for Charalambos the had five small Athanassopoulos. “To make life easier in the U.S., my name was shortened to children, the oldest Harry Athens; though I never changed it legally,” Harry said with a grin. being Charalambos Harry had completed 4th grade in Greece. It was challenging to start school in (Harry). They Gallup, but he learned English and continued his education here and graduated from wanted a better Cathedral High School in 1966. Harry explains, “After graduation, so many were life for their going out to San Francisco, but I went to New York to once again visit the Big City. family. Harry’s From New York, I traveled with a group back to Greece and then returned into Canagrandfather had da to go to Expo ’67 in Montreal. You see, I was a Permanent Resident of the United been in Turkey States and I had a Green Card stating such. I had no trouble getting into Canada. After visiting there for a few days, it was time to return to the United States and my family working as in New Mexico.” Harry gives a scowl and says, “That is when the trouble started! a spy for Back in the 60s, we young men were given a Selective Service (draft) card, and we were supposed to carry it at all times. But, you see, I had not packed my draft card for all my traveling. When we got to the border crossing to enter the U.S., they demanded Harry today, proudly all my papers. When I could not produce the U.S. draft card, I had to make a decision given a couple of options: I could be returned to Greece to join the Greek Army or I displaying could be immediately drafted into the United States Army.” the vest he “My dad didn’t want me to go to any Army,” Harry explains. “But they gave me 24 wears when hours to catch the next flight to the United States, and the next thing I knew, I was at volunteering Ft. Benning, Georgia training for the U.S. Army!” with Veterans “I was with the 339th Construction Engineers division in Vietnam. We built helicop-

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Back row from L to R - Konstatinos Athanassopoulos, sister Voula and brother George, Harry, sister Orunia and Judge Frank Zinn at the Citizenship Ceremonies.

Harry with his sister Orunia and future wife, Betty Ann Delgado.

ter pads, portable hospitals and such, with pre-fabricated Beaumont Hospital in El Paso, Texas. I recovered from hinged metal planking. We also built roads working the malaria, but could not be released as all my medical with Brown and Root Construction which was owned records had been lost.” Harry laughs slightly, “I created my

by Lady Bird Johnson, a big company like Halliburton. own fun by regularly catching a bus to Juarez, Mexico. I I learned to operate bulldozers, steam rollers, and other had no uniform, only civvies, but I was given $37 a day to large equipment,” Harry states. “My papers had my spend as I wanted. It was a fun time, but I was very ready name as Athanassopoulos,” Harry grins, “that was a lot for someone to sign my discharge papers and let me get of name for the First Sergeant to call out, so he called back to my family in Gallup!” me ‘Alphabet!’”

“Finally I received an honorable discharge, and I got a Harry looks distressed as he explains, “I was doing ticket back to Gallup on the Trailways bus. I got into Galguard duty at Cam Ranh Bay to Pleiku at the perimelup at 11:30 at night and walked home. My dad cried when ter. My entire company was killed back at the base.” he answered the door to my knock. He told me he was very Harry shakes his head, “That is so haunting!” After that proud of me. I will always remember that,” Harry says. seven-month deployment, Harry did get to travel to “It was time for me to have a job, and I applied at the Australia for much-needed R&R, but was soon returned City of Gallup,” Harry says. “Though I was very qualified to Vietnam. for the job because of my training in the military, I was During the Tet Offensive (named such for the lunar still not a U.S. Citizen, and the City Manager at that time new year holiday called Tet), Harry was located by the refused to hire me. I was pretty angry with the thought Red Cross and was told his father had died and that he that I could fight for this country, but I could not have a was to return to the United States. “I was really disjob here,” Harry says showing a bit of resentment. “Dan tressed, but eventually found out that it was not my faGutierrez, (father to Lionel Gutierrez, a three-tour Vietnam ther who died, but actually my Uncle Yiorgos (George), Veteran) helped many of my family to become citizens who had passed. Uncle George was listed as my nextHarry, not long after going to work for the in 1969. After six months of study, we took the Oath of of-kin on my Army documents and they thought he was Citizenship in front of Judge Zinn. I then got that job at the City of Gallup, surrounded by sisters and my father. Unfortunately, I did not make it home for his city and worked for the water department for three years friends. funeral, as the plane broke down in the Philippines and and then the electric department for 26 years and retired in I ended up stranded there for 30 days. I was on a plane 2002.” Harry gives a small laugh and says, “I think I was a with many deceased soldiers, and their return to family was also delayed. That was pretty good employee!” very sad,” Harry explains.

Harry is married to Betty Ann Delgado. They enjoy a comfortable life and happily “After this unusual detour from Vietnam, I only had one month left before my dis- share their common enjoyment of collecting unusual items at the Flea Market and charge from the Army and I was returned back to the same area. But instead of going garage sales.

Today, Harry is proud to participate with the local Veterans Helping Veterans. He back to construction, for which I was trained, I was sent out on patrols because my wears his red shirt and black vest with his name “Athanassopoulos” (not Athens) emcommanding officer wanted combat medals!” Harry explains with disgust. “There were mortars coming in and shooting all around, and I was certainly in the middle of broidered on the back. He participates in many of the activities, still serving the comcombat plus I was also very ill. This is where another detour happened; I had run out munity of Gallup. You can find Harry humbly saluting the American Flag, marching of malaria pills and collapsed in the jungle of Vietnam and woke up at a hospital in in the parades with other veterans, serving with the color guard for the funerals of Japan, packed in a tub of ice. I had contracted malaria and was running a dangerousfallen comrades, working at special events, and being a very proud citizen of Gallup ly high fever!” he explains and shakes his head. “I was then transferred to William and The United States of America.

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Make it Happen Recently a story by Bob Proctor and Bob Templeton, One Person Can Make a Difference in “Chicken Soup for The Canadian Soul” was brought to my attention. It resonated within me because so often I hear people here say, “That’ll Never Happen…at least not here in Gallup!” As I read this story, I realized that possibility has absolutely nothing to do with location. It has to do with the faith of people in a given area. Read this story and let’s develop an attitude—WE can do anything we set our minds to. Let’s make it a part of this area’s mindset. And in the future when people say, “Why can those people in western New Mexico do what others can’t?” The answer will be, THAT’S GALLUP !

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was doIng a weekend semInar at the Deerhurst Lodge, north of Toronto. On Friday night a tornado swept through a town north of us called Barrie, killing dozens of people and doing millions of dollars worth of damage.

Sunday night, as I was coming home, I stopped the car when I got to Barrie. I got out on the side of the highway and looked around. It was a mess. Everywhere I looked there were smashed houses and cars turned upside down.

That same night Bob Templeton was driving down the highway. He stopped to look at the disaster just as I had, only his thoughts were different than my own. Bob was the vice president of Telemedia Communications, which owns a string of radio stations in Ontario and Quebec. He thought there must be something we could do for these people with the radio stations they had.

The following night I was doing another seminar in Toronto. Bob Templeton and Bob Johnson, another vice president from Telemedia, came in and stood in the back of the room. They shared their conviction that there had to be something they could do for the people in Barrie. After the seminar we went back to Bob’s office. He was now committed to the idea of helping the people who had been caught in the tornado.

The following Friday he called all the executives at Telemedia into his office. At the top of a flip chart, he wrote three 3s. He said to his executives, “How would you like to raise 3 million dollars 3 days from now in just 3 hours and give the money to the people in Barrie?” There was nothing but silence in the room.

Finally someone said, “Templeton, you’re crazy. There is no way we could do that.”

Bob said, “Wait a minute. I didn’t ask you if we could or even if we should. I just asked you if you’d like to.”

They all said, “Sure we’d like to.” He then drew a large T underneath the 3 3 3. On one side he wrote, “Why we can’t.” on the other side he wrote, “How we can.”

“I’m going to put a big X on the ‘Why we can’t side.’ We’re not going to spend any time on the ideas of why we can’t. That’s of no value. On the other side, we’re going to write down every idea that we can come up with on how we can. We’re not going to leave the room until we figure it out.” There was silence again.

Finally, someone said, “We could do a radio show across Canada.”

Bob said, “That’s a great idea,” and wrote it down. Before he had written, someone said, “You can’t do a radio show across Canada.

We don’t have radio stations across Canada.” That was a pretty valid objection. They only had radio stations in Ontario and Quebec.

Templeton replied, “That’s why we can. That stays.” But this was a real strong objection because radio stations are not very compatible.

They usually don’t work together. They are very cutthroat. They fight each other. To get them to work together would be virtually impossible according to the standard way of thinking.

All of a sudden someone said, “You could get Harvey Kirk and Lloyd Robertson, the biggest names in Canadian broadcasting, to anchor the show.” (That would be like getting Tom Brokaw and Sam Donaldson to anchor the show. They are anchors on national TV. They are not going to go on the radio.) At that point, it was absolutely amazing how fast and furious the creative ideas began to flow.

That was on a Friday. The following Tuesday they had a radiothon. They had fifty radio stations across the country that agreed to broadcast it. It didn’t matter who got the credit as long as the people in Barrie got the money. Harvey Kirk and Lloyd Robertson anchored the show and they succeeded in raising three million dollars in three hours within three business days!

You see, you can do anything if you put your focus on how to do it rather than why you can’t.

Bob Proctor, Willowdale, Ontario with Bob Templeton, Halifax, Nova Scotia This excerpt is reproduced by permission of Bob Proctor, who is considered an expert on the human mind and in the personal development movement. For more about Bob Proctor, go to www.proctorgallagherinstitute.com.

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Heroes in Our Midst A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. ~ Christopher Reeve

By Jay Mason

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arly last summer I noticed, as I drove to work down Second Street, a large number of zombie-like people wandering in no particular direction. One day I counted 25 such people just on that road.

This experience went on for several days.

Of course, these people were not zombies, but our fellow human beings addicted to drugs and alcohol. Late in the summer, the number dropped, and I realized that some of these poor individuals had been picked up and taken to the Detox Center operated as the Na’Nizhoozhi Center and supported by the City of Gallup.

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Recently two former residents returned to Gallup and had the foresight and understanding to reopen Behavioral Health at the old Rehoboth Hospital. Those people were David Conejo and Dr. Tom Carmany.

David is CEO of the hospital, and Tom is President of Western Health Foundation.

Several years ago, Behavioral Health closed, but fortunately, the building was in relatively good shape. David and Tom intended to start slowly and open a few beds for a 90 day treatment program. Eight beds and the necessary staff seemed appropriate.

They were able to do just that, but then it became clear almost immediately that the demand was great. In one month, they went from those 8 beds to 18 beds. The number increased almost monthly, and in the course

of the first year, they reached their current number of 50 beds. Twelve more beds have also been added for transitional care.

Raising money to care for these needy people is not easy. These programs rely primarily on government money to survive.

It is hard to raise money from the private sector for this type of health care because most people believe that the patients have brought this problem on themselves. That may be true, but this problem affects all of us. If things are ever going to get better, everyone will have to contribute in some way.

The path to freedom from alcoholism and other drug abuse for most street people begins at the Detox Center or NCI. They

money to have a Sobriety Pow Wow on New Year’s Eve. If a person wants to change his or her life, NCI also has a 60-day rehabilitation program called Hinn’ah Bits’os or Life Feather that uses traditional Native American therapies. NCI also places people at Behavioral Health and other treatment programs in our area. If a person wants to get treatment, the counselors will find a place for him or her to change their lives.

have a contract to treat 26,000 people per year. Of course, the actual number of individuals is 6,000 persons, many of whom are repeat visitors. Kevin and the staff at NCI try to break the cycle of abuse. They can hold someone from 12 to 72 hours depending on the number of times they have been picked up. No one can go to a rehabilitation program unless they are clean and sober.

For many this program is the first step. NCI also shelters some street people at night who have nowhere to go. Every year they raise

Gallup has other programs, where in many cases, volunteers serve these unfortunate people. Some churches have coffee and breakfast and invite these people to come and get some nourishment. Catholic Charities serves breakfast almost every day during the winter months. The Missionaries of Charity (Mother Teresa’s sisters) offer a daily lunch and small afternoon meal. All of these volunteer programs become an opportunity for individuals to change their lives and return to a normal life. The Missionaries also shelter men and women at night in separate facilities and put some people to work if they show promise of leaving the life of dependence on drugs and alcohol. That is the hard part; each person must want to change his or her life. Until that decision is made, all the programs in the world will be a waste of time.

One of the heroes that I am praising in this article is Katy. She runs the art project at Behavioral Health. When I toured the facility, she had a project where the patient made a mask of what the patient’s friends and family thought they were like. Some of the masks depicted a Mardi Gras or party face; one was the face of the devil. Most of the masks were colorful and creative. Some were very sad. Once the mask is completed, then Katy asks the patient to turn over the

mask and paint or write or talk about what the person is really like inside and what they would like to become. For many it is a life-changing experience.

At the end of their time at Behavioral Health, patients are given jobs at the facility and around town with the help of the City of Gallup and business people. They earn some money and pay rent to the facility to live there. They are taught or relearn simple principles of money management so that they can hopefully return to a life without addiction. Another hero, Mercedes, comes to the program to teach those who want to get a GED before they leave the program.

Other staff helps to find a place for graduates to live or to work.

I merely describe some of the good work going on around us every day. I know it is not easy to complete any of these programs.

It is even more difficult to stay the course after the rehabilitation is completed. It is something that must be followed every day or the old habits will return. But it is worth doing because the alternative is a very lonely death. I pray for success for those who accept the challenge of changing their lives.

The heroes in our midst are all those in our community who serve the people who suffer from alcohol and drug abuse. I would last five minutes in that job. Some are trained staff in the programs; others are volunteers. All of them deserve our praise and gratitude. As Superman said above, a hero is an ordinary person who perseveres in spite of overwhelming obstacles. These people make our lives in Gallup, New Mexico better by their dedication and service. If you know one of these heroes, give them a hug, ladybug, and thank them for all they do. If you get a chance to support their projects, please do so. Happy Thanksgiving!

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First Born Program

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Our Mission is: “Our community supports the health and wellness of first born babies by building strong relationships with families.”

Our Vision is: “Happy, Healthy Babies.”

One of the important components of our program, aside from the great curriculum that was developed specifically in New Mexico, is that we rely strongly on “community support.” “Formal support” comes from schools, medical clinics, recreational programs, libraries, churches, clubs, cultural and community organizations. We also encourage our families to explore their “informal support.” These are best friends who are there to listen to us, our families who will babysit or help with grocery shopping or running errands, and most of all, our grandparents, who love us and our babies unconditionally, who hold our family history, who remind us and teach us our traditions.

Our families have the best of both worlds, a home visitor who assists parents in setting and meeting their goals to be the best parents possible, and encouragement to connect with supporters that will enhance their family and their baby’s development and happiness. Our services are voluntary, free, and have no income requirements. The best time to enroll is prenatally to up to two-months of age for the baby.

You can call us for more information at (505) 863-8850.

Northwest New Mexico First Born Program McKinley and San Juan Counties Home visiting services for first time parents and families.

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FLAT-FOOD

E H T S A AND X E T F O E L D N A H N A P

By Larry Cooperman

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ineola, Texas is a beautiful little town and a pleasant place to be “stuck.”

Packed and ready to go, the cyclist took one last cup of coffee, bought

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supplies, and cycled on Texas Highway 69 which went northwest into the Panhandle.

“Where’s your flat-food section?” The cyclist asked the produce manager at the Piggly Wiggly.

“It’s next to the round-food section…What do you mean, flat-food?” Amused, the man-

ager smiled with curiosity.

“You see, young man, that I am THE cyclist and bear the weight of sixty-five pounds, one pound for each year of my life, and flatfood is what the cyclist needs to pack correctly and balanced. Besides, I love Swiss cheese and hard salami. Tortillas work better than bread, sliced cheese is more efficient than block, sliced roast beef better than pork short ribs, and dried apple better than not-dried apple.” Always fairly detailed in explanations, the cyclist picked up a grapefruit and tossed it up and down saying, “Weighty and round.”

The produce manager said, “You’re funny, but I get it.” Perhaps the cyclist is not eating well but well enough; he burns every bad calorie off.

Packing correctly is essential. This became evident on his earlier failed attempt in August 2016, where he had to turn around for his best friend’s funeral in Columbus, Georgia, to cycle madly back to Savannah. Picking up a Tumbleweed Man on a Huffy stuck-inone-gear bicycle in Adrian, Georgia, the man fueled on malt liquor and couldn’t keep up, then left at a feed store near Swainsboro. The cyclist had packed two small Axiom Seymour panniers and a medium internal frame

backpack, all affixed to the back rack with nothing on the front. The balance was pretty whacked, and controlling the bike required constant vigilance with the back of the bike doing a little side-to-side dance when slow and an expansive waltz when going downhill.

However, getting off of the bike often had him falling over in mini-mart parking lots to his non-embarrassment. A man of sixty-five has lost quite a bit of pretense, so the cyclist had no care except for being hurt.

Now on the Panhandle of Texas in 2017 with two sets of panniers, the cyclist’s rig was well balanced. The ride north hit headwinds that cut his average speed, which had been around twelve, down to eight to nine MPH. Two slices of Swiss cheese and a couple of slices of salami wrapped in a flour tortilla, two times a day, fueled legs that were becoming excellent machinery. His fingers with open-fingered bicycle gloves leaving the handlebars to grab trail mix on a well-balanced touring package, kept the cyclist going up to twelve hours a day.

Dr. Atkins protein bars with very low sugar and carbohydrates feigned desert well enough. Food stores in little towns have next to nothing for a diabetic. Texas was turning out to be as overweight as the south; the country tilted and all the roly-poly Texans grabbed onto the earth with their little centipede legs, holding on to their banjos and corndogs, munching happily in the sun saying, “Don’t mess with Texas.” You can hear the banjo accompaniment. The next stop was

Lone Oak and a picnic area; Chinese tent on a gross angle in order to be stealthy.

The cyclist had enrolled with a premium membership for Planet Fitness before he left Savannah, which gave him access to all of the one thousand outlets. Incorrectly thinking that every outlet would offer a hydro massage bed, a shower, Internet access, and a quiet early A.M. rest was actually a farce. The finest of all Planet Fitness outlets was the one he left in Savannah - the rest of lower quality.

Greenville, Texas’ Planet Fitness was not in operation regardless of what the Internet said. They were open to just take memberships and finish construction.

On to an operating Planet Fitness, located in Frisco, TX, the cyclist was on a good roll and rolled just under seventy miles from Lone Oak. At dusk, he arrived and pushed his loaded bike through two sets of double doors and leaned it against the east wall.

All eyes are upon the cyclist in these settings. In grocery stores, the cyclist rolled a polished homeless conveyance, trick to the bolt, and nice looking in green and black with large capacity Nashbar waterproof panniers on the back and on the front, Axiom Seymour medium capacity panniers.

“Can I get a room?” The cyclist asked a gum-smacking young aficionado of he couldn’t say, but she was plugged in, metaphorically, with wires coming out of her ears below multicolored hair.

“Hi, um, excuse me, what did you ask?”

She placed her gum on a piece of paper be-

low the cyclist’s view.

The cyclist asked, “First of all, can I leave my bike there?” He pointed at his conveyance and showed his membership card.

She looked around for a higher authority; there was none, “I guess so. It isn’t blocking anything.” Another rule of the cyclist: if you are going to impose on a business with a packed-to-the-hilt bicycle, you must not block their monetary gain.

With Planet Fitness, the hydro massage beds vary in length of time at each outlet. In Savannah, it was twelve minutes; in Frisco, Texas, six minutes angered him in his own special exhausted way.

“Double my order, waitress!” The cyclist said.

“Huh?” She answered with little interest.

The cyclist wrongly thought that he would be able to get a little sleep in Planet Fitness in the early mornings when the facility was not much in use—no deal. The music of urban predators was enough to annoy the cyclist and the lighting-brash.

He was now on Texas highway W-380.

Near Denton, Texas, he was momentarily in “The Twilight Zone.” There was a big sign saying, “Savannah.” It was a subdivision.

After standing like a mesmerized duck, he cycled on to the next Planet Fitness in Denton.

Denton had a reasonable Planet Fitness, no gum-smacking groovies, but college women at the front desk. After reasonably good relaxing and a shower, the cyclist was off to Decatur, Texas.

A sixty-mile run, at around two p.m., with a touch of headwind, brought the cyclist in for a miserable camping experience.

Finding a flat area behind a mini-storage facility, the lights from the establishment were bright so the cyclist made a decision to use the tent as a bivouac to keep the profile low to avoid detection.

The cyclist had purchased a “good to thirty-five degree” sleeping bag. Be aware; the temperature designation in the United States refers to you being able to survive this temperature; in Europe, the temperature rating refers to you being somewhat comfortable and not shivering.

With this in mind, making a survey of temperatures across the southern states, the cyclist purchased a sleeping bag liner that brought the sleeping arrangement down another ten degrees. No help did it provide in Newton, Mississippi, or in Decatur, Texas, and the cyclist spent his second night cold and with no sleep.

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s e t No of e v o L

Even when grandchildren are not in my arms, on my lap, or in my home, they are in my heart, and there they will stay forever.

By Vesta Henry

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Love, Fun, Laughing, More Fun, Excitement, Love, Some Tears of Pride, and a Big Dose of Compassion, then Lots More Love: These are words and phrases that grandparents share with their grandkids.

Grandparents play a vital role in our grandkid’s lives. We help them make decisions which will affect them for the rest of their lives (hopefully, the decisions are all good). Grandparents will spoil the grandchild, and all of us do this—but most of all we want our grandkids to be successful.

Randal and I have six grandkids. They range from young adults (working and in college) to two teenagers and two little ones of 4 years and 1 ½ years. We never have a dull moment!!

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of receiving an Academic letter, or making the High School basketball team or the golf team. It is a highlight of the day to learn they have been asked to join Mid-School Honor Society, be in the city football playoff, or to show dairy cattle in the Southern State Fair. It is so fun that the little guys are hitting T-balls and learning their letters and numbers, and we have a little dancer who dances to Mickey Mouse.

My favorite time is talking with one or all the grandkids just before they go to sleep. The topics are wide and varied. We are all in one room and the questions start. We have lots of laughter and teasing. I hope that I give them solid advice and answers to their questions.

We not only share in the positive things, but sometimes we are part of the decisions that may not be as successful as they thought.

These are the learning elements where they absorb that there are winners and losers in real life—and that it is okay to be on either side of that decision. We help them learn that life continues. We try to help maneuver the grandkids through society and peer

groups with an open mind.

Listening is the most important thing for grandparents to do and to try not to judge. These skills plus love lets you have more fun with your grandkids. Grandchildren are little adults who need guidance, laughter, fun, excitement, and unconditional LOVE. That love, along with laughter, helps them to be totally successful.

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QUESTIONS FOR THE DENTIST:

DEZBAA DAMON-MALLETTE

Q: You are a dentist; your husband is a lawyer. Professional degrees can create lots of options, what was it about Gallup that made you move here?

A: Gallup is closer to my family and my culture. We also have come across families who have lived here for 20-40 years and they like it; that tells us that Gallup is a great community to raise a family.

Q: Gallup is surrounded by history of ancient civilizations, is the Indian Jewelry Capital of the World, and in my opinion has the best red and green chile dishes in New Mexico. What are you looking forward to discovering here?

A: We look forward to exploring what Gallup and the surrounding area has to offer in the way of outdoor activities. We have heard of great places to camp and fish. Louie also is interested in seeing and possibly restoring old trucks and classic cars and watching com-

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munity theater productions. Louie is curious about how well a garden will do here and has been researching fruit trees and bees.

Q: Now that you have been working and getting to know your new city, what are some experiences you didn’t expect?

A: The local restaurants have great, authentic food. I also figured that people of the community would be nice and respectful of a newcomer, but I am surprised by the warmth and sincerity as people shake my hand and say, “Welcome, we are happy you are here.”

matized from earlier dental encounters. Dr. Rainaldi and I are General Dentists providing exams, cleanings, fillings, root canals, crowns, bridges, implants, extractions, partials, dentures, bleaching kits, etc. Some cases are complex and we will refer those out to specialists. I hope to continue to work on my knowledge and skills to reduce the number of cases we may need to refer. Of course, the patient’s best interest is always the priority.

Q: Your husband is hoping to do what type of law here? Would this also be his first job after obtaining his law degree?

Q: What will you specialize in at Dr. Rainaldi’s office? Do you hope to develop some services that the office doesn’t currently offer?

A: Louie just graduated from UNM Law School and will be obtaining his first job soon as a lawyer. He is interested in different areas of civil law.

A: I do not really have a specialty, but I do enjoy being of service to all age groups. I try to be gentle, especially when working with children and people who have been trau-

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THE MYSTERY OF THE AZTEC

The Aztec Ruin was declared as a National Monument in 1923.

exploration of the Aztec Ruins. About 950 years ago, Pueblo people made a new village in River Valley and on the Mesa. They gathered materials to build the ruin like the structure in Chaco Canyon. It gives us information about the history of the of life of the ancestral Pueblo people in the four corners region.

It’s a misnomer that the ancient Pueblo people were called “AzThis summer, I had the opportunity to visit the Aztec Ruins Natec”. They were mistaken as the “Aztec civilization”, while they were tional Monument. It is an Ancestral Puebloan in Northwest, New Mexico, near the Animas River. My family and I went on the trail to the original pueblo people. Could they have come from Mexico? the Aztec Ruins, and we stopped at special sites to visit rooms of the Excavations show that they were well-versed in hunting, farming, and pottery making. The Mancos Black-on-White bowl was made Aztec Ruin. The exploration was a journey to the past at the Aztec at the Middle and Northern San Juan regions between 1000 and Ruins.

1150 AD. The Great Kiva was an area of religious and social cereHistory says that in 1916, Earl Morris led a major archeological

By Nathan Jacob George 7th Grader Rehoboth Christian School

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The Mancos Black-on-White bowl The white color comes from the clay.

The black paint was made from boiled plants or crushed rock with iron such as Hematite. Paint brushes were made from the Yucca plant.

The reconstructed “Great Kiva” Great Kiva at Aztec Ruins is the oldest and largest reconstructed Kiva in the world.

It is a place of worship, ceremonies and social interactions.

monies. The Kiva in the Aztec Ruins is the oldest and largest reconstructed “Great Kiva” in the world.

By the late 13th century, people started to leave the area by 1300 AD; Aztec stood empty. Researchers are still trying to find an answer as to why the people left. The best possible explanations are that they joined other Pueblo people. There also might have been a famine and they migrated for verdurous pastures.

Earl Morris Earl Morris led a major archaeological exploration of Aztec Ruins in 1918. He built a house at the site with some of the nearby building material.

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THE SMELL OF JET FUEL

By Duane F. Haven

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eveille! Reveille! Reveille! All hands heave out and trice up!” – U.S. Navy saying. This is the sound of a U.S. sailor speaking over the 1MC (shipboard public address) to the flawless crew of the aircraft carrier. It is something like a civilian’s alarm clock to get them out of bed and prepare for the day, but in our case, a nautical day. It is time to play the game and roll with the punches as a worthy aircraft director (yellow shirt) and the countless duties of flight deck personnel.

Arising and rolling out of a coffin-sized rack (bed), three levels high on both sides of the shellback, extending into the endless sea of new and old salty sailors that cloud the 280-man berthing will take much getting used to. Desperately seeking your shower shoes in the creases of your rack, you do not want to make skin contact with the barely decontaminated decks (floor) of the berthing. Enlightened by the galley’s breakfast menu, the sailor rushes to get a decent, clean toilet and sink so that he or she can quickly poop, shower, and shave, as if they were in the comfort of their own once-cherished bathroom.

After a fairly-cooked breakfast by the ship’s culinary specialists, it is time for her (ship’s) crew to get their game faces on to tackle day and night flight ops. But first, there is always a briefing on safety and the first launch sequence. A choice assemblage of flight deck personnel are bunched up inside flight-deck-control. The huddle space is neighboring the deck, jam-packed inside a family room-sized section of the ship. The hardy scent of that fine Navy coffee crawls about the space. Hungry personnel who missed out on the fine Navy chow only have this hard-as-nails blend to satisfy their appetite until lunch.

The enjoyable beverage not only satisfies the eager men and women, it amps them up for the hard-hits of launching and recovering of the aircraft.

The safety briefing will consist of the Aircraft Handler (head honcho of the flight deck) reminding all personnel to keep aware of their surroundings and to, “Keep your heads on a swivel! Get your heads out of your butts! Beware of props and rotors.” This proverb is a constant reminder to everyone’s commitment to the dangerous and very hazardous 4.5 acres of flight deck. Several types of aircraft will be taxiing, propelling, and stirring about the deck.

For many duties onboard the aircraft carrier, it is time for all personnel to put their worries, their fears, and the hardships of their personal lives aside. The hard-earned schooling and training the Navy has paid for is about to shine.

The plane captain and the pilot have an extraordinary bond.

These two communicate using hand signals. As a fact, the whole deck crew will be communicating with hand signals and rats (headsets). Maintenance, ordnance, catapults, arresting gear, safety offi40

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cers, fuel, and the air wing, are all standing by for flight operations.

The aromas of jet fuel, grease, exhaust, and the rich scents of the ocean waters, linger throughout the day. We appreciate the view of sailors having sweet desires to perform well their respective duties.

And we know for whom they do it - God, country, family, friends, plus total strangers whom they have never met. The sailors do this all for the freedoms that each and every one of us take for granted.

SAR (search and rescue), eyes, fuel, and attack is the launch sequence, the order in which aircraft are to launch first. Each aircraft has a duty. The pilots and flight deck crew work together to get the job done. It is important for the aircraft to return to the carrier so they can regroup, launch and recover, and then the cycle repeats it-

IN THE MORNING

self. This rotation continues for twelve hours straight, or the amount of time it takes to complete the task at hand. The morning launch kicks off flight ops, and it determines how the rest of the day will run. Smoothly, chaotic, timely; we all hope for the rhythmic and stable flight activities.

ft. at a whopping zero to 180mph in just two seconds. Once the jet is accommodated in its respected catapult, this is where all hell will break lose, whether it is for training purposes, or an actual dog fight amongst the adversary. The day and night flight operations bring about our country’s finest United States Navy men and women.

The planes are up and ready. Walk-arounds and spot-checks of the aircraft are completed. The pilot’s plane captain gives the aircraft director a thumbs-up, letting the director know their plane is ready for take-off. Chocks and chains (tie downs) are removed from the aircraft. At this exact moment, flight ops begin. The yellow shirt, anxious to taxi the planes, are directed to one of four launching catapults that will volley the planes into the air at a distance of 300

The exhaustion of flight deck personnel will never halt. Each and every man and woman has a duty to uphold. The early morning announcement is a reminder of why sailors are on watch around the globe, twenty-four/seven, three hundred and sixty five days a year. The sailors are there to protect this great country from foreign threat that will continue to exist as long as there are people. It is just another day in the office afloat.

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Events Calendar 3rd

A one-time special screening of “Awake: A Dream from Standing Rock” at the El Morro Theatre on November 3rd at 6:00 pm to commemorate Native American Heritage Month.This event, coordinated by the Octavia Fellin Public Library, is free to the public, and features a discussion of the events captured by this unique Tribeca Film Festival selection.

“Awake” follows the historic #NODAPL native-led peaceful resistance at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota.To view a trailer and more information about how “Awake: A Dream from Standing Rock” captures a rare moment in American history visit www.awakethefilm.org or the film’s Facebook page @ AWAKEaDreamFromStandingRock.

Visit the Octavia Fellin Public Library at www.galluplibrary.com on Facebook @octaviapubliclibrary for more information about the screening.

FREE Artist Business Management Workshop 9:00 am to 3:00 pm.

Learn about pricing artwork, online sales, social media marketing and more from artist Maggie Hanley.

Brought to you by gallupARTS, NM Arts and the SDBC. Registration required. Call 505-722-2220 or sign up online at www.nmsbdc.org/ gallup Gallup Poetry Slam featuring Laguna poet Max Early.

6:30 pm to 8:30 pm ART123 Gallery. More info at http:// www.galluparts.org/gallup-poetryslam/

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The Annual America Recycles Day Arts & Crafts Fair and Recycling Jamboree Gallup Community Center 9:00 am to 3:00 pm Contact: Betsy 505-721-9879 / betsywindisch@yahoo.com

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Eastern New Mexico 5th The Choir and Rehoboth

Cantabile invite you to an hour celebration of choral music 6:00 pm, Rehoboth Church.

For more information call Bob Ippel at 505-726-9623.

Gallery 10th ART123 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Pollentongue: Poetry Salon & Reading Featuring award-winning Dine’ poet Orlando White, this event will feature poetry readings and discussion

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ART123 Gallery 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm Journal Writing and You Join poet and writer Carmela Lanza for a workshop exploring journal writing. Just bring a notebook and a pen or pencil!

A Christmas 5th Auditions: Carol & 7:00 pm, El Morro Events Center and singers welcome! Foley 6th Actors and sound effects positions are also available. More info: text/call 505879-9835 or email: se.hammons@ gmail.com

Reception for 7th Opening Turquoise Man Art Exhibition

6:00 pm, Octavia Fellin Public Library. OFPL is honored to present the creations of Turquoise Man, Shawn Nelson, throughout the month of November at the main library. Mr. Nelson is a local Navajo artist who has been creating sand paintings and oil paintings for many years; he learned the traditions of dry painting from his grandparents at a very early age. Mr. Nelson is well known for his mural work around the United States. Closer to home you will find his mural work at the historic El Rancho Hotel in Gallup. Info: 505-863-1291

8th Dementia/Alzheimer’s Caregivers Support Group for caregivers of dementia patients

and anyone who would like to learn more about dementia.

6:30 pm , Gallup Masonic Center 4801 E. Historic 66 Avenue No charge to attend. For information: Robert 505-615-8053

Holiday Craft & Baked Goods Sale Bethany Christian Reformed Church 1110 South Strong Dr. 9:00 am to 2:00 pm

ArtsCrawl Thank you for Your Service 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm, Downtown Gallup

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An Evening of Song and Just Desserts Singer, composer, pianist Rachel Zylstra will be performing a benefit concert of secular and worship music at Bethany Christian Reformed Church 7:00 pm.There will be a freewill offering to support the Bethany CRC building fund. A reception will be held after the concert. Any questions, contact: 505-862-2481.

Olla Maidens 6:00 pm, Octavia Fellin Public Library 14th Zuni Olla Maidens are best known for the Pottery

Dance, a powerful ceremonial dance where they move in sequence with delicate painted pottery jars balanced on their heads. Info: 505863-1291 or email: libtrain@galllupnm.gov

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Soroptimist International of Gallup is accepting applications for the “Live Your Dream Education and Training Awards for Women.” The deadline is November 15, 2017. You may apply online at www. soroptimist.org. You can also contact by email sigallup@soroptimist.net or call our coordinator at 505-721-9121 with questions.

Bereavement/Grief Support Group for those who have lost someone special in their life. 6:30 pm Gallup Masonic Center 4801 E. Historic 66 Avenue No charge to attend. For information: Robert 505-615-8053

& Painting Author Howard Bitsui:Vietnam 9th Wine 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm 16 th Veteran Have a creative night out at ART123 Gallery! Registration required.

Sign up at www.galluparts.org/wineand-painting or call 505-488-2136.

6:00 pm, Octavia Fellin Public Library Vietnam Veteran and proud Native author Howard Bitsui will be at the library to discuss his book, I Can See the Bullets.

Info: 505-863-1291 email: libtrain@gallupnm.gov

In Celebration of America Recycles Day!

ARTS & CRAFTS FAIR & RECYCLING JAMBOREE Saturday, November 4th

9:00 am to 3:00 pm Gallup Community Service Center (Old Bingo Hall) Contact: Betsy Windisch 505-721-9879, betsywindisch@yahoo.com Millie Dunning 505-722-5142, milliedun1@aol.com

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Daniel Vandever, native author and illustrator will be joining us at the Children’s Branch Library for a reading and author-talk featuring his children’s book “Fall In Line Holden”, at 2:00 pm.

Info: 505-726-6120 email childlib@gallupnm.gov

On Going: Mondays

Al-anon, Support for Families and Friends of Alcoholics Sacred Heart Cathedral Family Center 555 South Woodrow Dr., Gallup, NM. 12 noon – 1:00 pm

Tuesdays

Al-anon, Support for Families and Friends of Alcoholics.

One Day At A Time Club Next to Catholic Church Ft. Defiance, Az. 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

2nd Street Arts Festival in downtown Gallup Featuring 50+ artist and food vendors. Get a jump start on your holiday shopping! 10:00 am to 4:00 pm El Morro Events Center, ART123, and 2nd Street More info at http://www.galluparts.org/2nd-street-arts-festival/ Rock String Ensemble 19th Red 4:00 pm First United Methodist Church

Free admission. Program includes works by Turina, Hummel and Beethoven Featured soloist is Julian Iralu on trumpet (Hummel Trumpet Concerto). She is from Gallup and is a junior trumpet major at Arizona State

Co-Dependents Anonymous First United Methodist Church, 1800 Redrock Dr, Gallup, in the library. 6:00-7:00 pm All are welcome; learn more at CoDA.org.

Wednesdays Thursdays

Al-anon, Support for Families and Friends of Alcoholics Methodist Church 1800 Red Rock Dr. Gallup, NM 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Saturdays

Overeaters Anonymous Meeting Open to all. Every Saturday at 10:00 am First United Methodist Church 1800 Red Rock Drive, Gallup Meeting takes place in the Library Feel free to call Liz, 505-721-9208 with any questions

Kristofic, author of Navajos Wear Nikes,The Hero Twins: 30th Jim A Navajo-English Story of the Monster Slayers, and Black Sheep,White Crow.

Octavia Fellin Public Library, 6:00 pm Info: 505-863-1291 email: libtrain@gallupnm.gov

November 12th

A Taizé candlelight Service 4:00 pm at Westminster Presbyterian Church-Gallup to provide an opportunity for silence and spiritual refreshment. The theme of “Gratitude” will be explored through music, chant, prayer, quiet time, Scripture and readings of various faith traditions. Please join us. The church is located at 151 State Highway 564 (Boardman Drive near Orleans Manor Apartments). Contact: Kathy Mezoff - 505-870-6136

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November 25th

The City of Gallup’s Sustainable Gallup Board meets on first Monday of each month 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm at the Octavia Fellin Library. Community members concerned about conservation, energy, water, recycling and other environmental issues are welcome.

Call 505-722-0039 for information.

Habitat for Humanity work sessions held each week. Volunteers who serve on decision making meetings or wish to volunteer at or help fund construction projects.

Call Bill Bright at 505-722-4226 for details.

DOWNTOWN NIGHT OUT’ “CHRISTMAS KICK OFF”

6:00 pm to 10:00 pm National Shop Small Business day!!! Downtown business’s are staying open late offering Huge Discounts, Limited time offers, Gift Giveaways, Food & Beverage Specials, Live Entertainment at Gallup Coffee Company, Coal Street Pub, Camille’s Sidewalk Cafe,Sammy C’s Rockin Sports Bar, El Morro Theater, Open Mic Hosted by Quintana’s Music at The American Bar, and so much MORE!, Bring the kids Santa Claus will be there taking photos, Let’s have fun, in Downtown, Gallup! Join us on the last Saturday of every month for ‘DOWNTOWN NIGHT OUT’!

Gallup Solar is hosting free classes about all things solar Wednesdays 6:008:00 pm at 113 E. Logan. Call 505-728-9246 for info on topics and directions.

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Gallup Autism Support Group Do you have a child on the Autism Spectrum?

Join with other parents to find support. Children welcome at meetings. Also find our group on Facebook. Meets at City Center Coffee/ Journey Church (501 S.Third St) from 6:00 -7:30 pm.

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By Lori Arsenault

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It is hard to explain the feeling of tenderness, awe, love, and hope I had for each one of my children when I first held the little bundles of joy. Certainly, they were the most precious beings ever and I was going to do my utmost to make sure their lives would be perfect. They would learn so much from me! By the time the grandkids came around, I’d smartened-up a bit and realized that I’d be the one doing the learning!

Let’s start with food lessons. Of course, I thought every child is going to eat the vegetables, fruits, proteins, and good food. I thought the best way to achieve that would be to only have healthy food in the house. It was going along pretty well, and then they visited my cousin’s kids. It didn’t take long for them to inform me that sugar can be eaten on cereal. Then there is the picky eater. I thought all you had to do was just put it on the table, no fussing about a choice. That is when my daughter started getting an upset stomach from tomato sauce of all things! So her noodles were eaten without tomatoes. My son tested my patience by giving everything I served the sniff test to see if it was edible. Then he’d go outside and taste the sand in the sandbox!

One of my granddaughters at age 5 was a bit more expressive when I tried to convince her that cheese on the burrito tasted good and was healthy. She just looked at me and said, “Cheese is for mice.” So who can argue with that? I did learn to give choices, like the time I gave a 2 year old grandson several traditional breakfast choices and his reply was “chocolate candy.”

I went through the list of breakfast choices a second time and the reply was “chocolate cake.”

Third try got “tiramisu.” But my second oldest granddaughter really was at the top of the list for being the picky eater. She absolutely would not eat anything out of the very bland range, and it required the right texture. I took her and her older sister on a trip to California when they were 8 and 9. The only thing she would eat on the road was a Burger King burger with just the bun and fries.

By the time we were headed home, her sister was getting tired of the burgers (me too) and asked if we couldn’t stop someplace else. So to accommodate both of them I agreed to go through the Burger King Drive-Through and then in anticipation turned to the granddaughter with obvious gourmet tastes and asked,

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“Now where do you want to go?” She wanted a Wendy’s burger! It does seem that one food is universal though and that’s mac and cheese. They all eat it, and one grandson always asks for Grandma’s famous mac and cheese. I heard the other grandson inform his siblings that my mac and cheese was good.

It tasted like Dad’s. Lesson learned: Kids eat what they want to eat and don’t bother trying to change their minds.

Every child needs a pet. At least that is what your children think, and they will promise to take care of it! I was able to avoid the pet trap for a short time. Then a neighbor had an extra cat that somehow came to live with us when my two oldest were preschoolers. The only thing good about that experience was the day the cat came scurrying hell-bent into the bathroom where the washer and dryer were located and disappeared behind them in a flash. I turned around to see my 2 year old standing in the doorway saying, “Kitty, Kitty.”

My oldest was the animal lover though and brought home two cats when she was in second grade “for free!” I took my two oldest to the Natural Science Museum in Chicago thinking that the animal lover especially would like seeing all the animal exhibits. All she could say was, “Why did they kill the animals?” Repeatedly! Then the youngest, a boy, came along and I’ve lost track of the number of dogs and cats that found their way into our home. He got a little more curious about what a pet would do than the girls. He came home one afternoon to inform me that he and his buddy decided to put their Blue Heelers into a neighbor’s flock of chickens to see what would happen. One time my three cherubs came home with a puppy.

The deal was they needed to take care of it. So turns were taken for cleaning up the messes. The middle child was the only fast learner. After her turn at mess-cleaning, she wanted to get rid of the dog. Now the three of them have children of their own and they all have pets. After my experience and watching my grown children and their experience with animals, this is what I’ve learned. Mom always gets the major chore of taking care of the pet.

Parents get to be in the enviable position of passing on their knowledge through role modeling. This is especially important in the teen years. My most memorable experience was being in Durango on a ski trip with the two youngest skiers. Driving is sometimes a challenge, and so some young upstart gave me the finger and a few choice comments. My response was a most appropriate yell, “The same thing back to you and more of it!” That’s when my offspring doubled up in laughter and informed me that I, their mother, was in the wrong in that situation. Lesson learned: Role modeling provides children and grandchildren with endless humor, especially as the parent gets older!

But the best part of being a parent and grandparent is watching the offspring grow into fine adults. It fills the heart with happiness to see their accomplishments, whether it is the first word (cracker) of the oldest child or watching the youngest grandchild baking a cake on her own. Somewhere along the line, I got the idea that I’d guide those talents. My middle child loved art and crafts (me too), so naturally I provided materials for projects for the two girls. The oldest ended up frustrated and obviously hating it with “I don’t want to do this” comments. By the time the youngest came along and wanted to paint, I recycled an idea from a parenting article and gave him a bucket with water, a brush, and sent him outside to “paint” the driveway. When he got older, he accused me of stifling his artistic talent. He wanted color! So there it is; I deprived the world of another Picasso.

Of course, the school programs are special whether it is acting in plays, dancing, on the field making touchdowns, soccer goals, running, or graduations and awards. The talents of these children amaze me. They include a social worker, an assessor, a businessman/accountant, a medical researcher, another accountant, a promising young artist, a college student (physics), and more talent working hard in school.

But the best part of all is now that I’m retired, I get to be a bum and live with all three of my kids and the grandkids. They and their spouses graciously welcome me into their homes and treat me with kindness. I love them!

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ArtsCrawl: Thank You For Your Service Saturday, November 11, 2017 | 7 – 9pm | Downtown Gallup This Veterans Day, pay tribute to our community’s veterans and many service providers at ArtsCrawl: Thank You for Your Service from 7- 9pm: H Celebrate Gallup’s many talented veteran artists at the opening of ART123 Gallery’s Veteran Artist Group Show.

H Support local nonprofit, charitable and educational organizations while playing carnival games at ArtsCrawl’s “Thank You Carnival”.

H Make patriotic pinwheels in the Event Center.

H Salute a veteran or other community member with a “Remembrance Ribbon”.

H Observe Veterans Helping Veterans’ Flag Burning Ceremony at the intersection of 2nd and Coal.

H Check out the Gallup Fire Department’s Fire Safety House.

H Enjoy “Music Montage: Instruments of Gallup” in the Event Center, featuring short performances by banjo, bagpipe, tuba, cello, guitar and Lakota flute players!

H Catch Negative Zero outside Quintana’s from 7- 9pm and Foundations of Freedom’s Belly Dancers outside Sammy C’s at 8pm.

H Scavenger hunt for portraits of veterans in downtown murals.

H Don’t miss the “Thank You Banners” lining the street made by students at local schools in recognition of all of the people who work hard to make Gallup great!

ArtsCrawl is produced by gallupARTS and sponsored by the Gallup Business Improvement District.

Stay up-to-date with ArtsCrawl on Facebook @ArtsCrawl Gallup.

See you all downtown for ArtsCrawl: Thank You For Your Service on November 11th!

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

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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 (100 E Aztec Ave.).

2. FIVE photos per entry.

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People Reading The Gallup Chamber takes a trip to Austria and Germany with the Gallup Journey

Cathy McCarthy takes a minute to read the Journey outside St. Mary of the Assumption Cathedral just following the wedding of her nephew in Jakarta, Indonesia.

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D. Delrow on vacation in Rome, Italy, reading the Journey. Mr. Delrow is originally from Crystal, NM.

Two Anasts and the Gallup branch of the Gredecki’s at the Solidarity Museum in Gdansk, Poland with the Journey

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JOIN US ON DECEMBER 22ND, 6:00 PM AT THE GALLUP CULTURAL CENTER FOR A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE. Come to pay homage and remember those who founded Gallup over wine and hors d’oeuvres. Come see our collection of local relics from Gallup’s past and talk about Gallup’s rich history and what makes our town great.

TICKETS FOR SALE AT THE GALLUP CULTURAL CENTER GIFT SHOP: $20 FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT COLIN MCCARTY AT 505-863-4131.

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Walking in Beauty

Staying Active During the Winter With Your Kids

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s the weather changes to cold, it is harder and harder to find ways to remain active. During the winter months we often find ourselves staying inside more. It is during this time that we can gain up to 10 or more pounds just by being inside more and not finding some way to remain active each day. It is also a big challenge on how to keep our kids busy when the cold comes.

Being inside more we will spend added time watching television and being on our electronics.

As adults we need at least 60 minutes each day of physical activity, and our kids need at least 30 minutes or more each day.

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inside with your kids: • Create an obstacle course. Make paths with pillows, use cardboard boxes for tunnels, and cones or hula-hoops.

• Create a story using a favorite book. Act out a chapter of the book to make the story come alive.

• Cook your favorite recipe together. Kids love to cook; have them cut and chop some of the items for a recipe you all want to try together.

• Dance to music. Turn up your favorite songs and move to the music. Jump, swing, turn, leap, and play to the sound of the music to get some exercise.

• Build a tent. Pull out the blankets and pillows and make one large tent. Add flash-

lights, some books and pretend to be on a camping trip.

Look for activities in the community to remain energetic during the winter. Visit the indoor facilities we have here locally to play indoor sports. The winter is also a great time to go take an exercise class you have always wanted to try. Try something new this winter such as: yoga, a spinning class, kick boxing, karate, swimming, or roller skating. It is never too late to try something new and never too late to get your kiddos to be more active.

Remember, if we get them to be active now as kids, they will likely be more active as adults.

Be a great role model for your kids by making exercise fun!

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By Jason Arsenault

For those of us who pay attention, we quickly realize that the leaders in our community spend a considerable amount of time promoting our great city to bring tourists here to spend money.

Tourism dollars are important to communities across our country and fortunately we have a lot to offer. The number of events to experience in Gallup seem to grow each year.

This year was the First Annual Gallup Native Arts Market which took place in August. I have not heard an official report on its success, but from the amount of traffic downtown during the event, I believe it is an event that will continue and grow. Gallup is already home to two major events that bring visitors from around the globe. The Inter-Tribal Ceremonial is our biggest tourism draw that is nearing its 100-year anniversary. Each December balloonist and hot air balloon enthusiasts arrive for the Red Rock Balloon Rally. This amazing event has become the second largest balloon rally in North America. Gallup is also home to many other small events that bring tourists to our unique community.

We are now known as the Adventure Capital of New Mexico, and the adventurist types have a long list of cool events. Dawn ‘til Dusk is a 12 hour mountain bike race which shows off our very cool High Desert Trail system. Both runners and mountain bikers love the challenge of the Squash Blossom Classic. For those who want to escape the hot desert riding, they can test their endurance in the cool weathered 24-Hour Enchanted Forest race held in McGaffey.

You will also find McGaffey home to a New Mexico Endurance Series race, the Zuni Mountains 100 which offers a 50 or 100-mile race. Makes me think more of us need to head over to Sports World and get our two-wheel setup.

It wasn’t that long ago that I always heard the term “Indian Capital of the World” used regularly for Gallup, New Mexico. This title makes perfect sense

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Marketing Ideas for Gallup, New Mexico

with our proximity to the Navajo, Zuni and Hopi tribal lands. Plus, we all know that our town is filled with shops that sell the authentic art made by artisans from these tribes. Maybe it is because I work within this industry, but I feel we could do an even better job of letting those outside our community know about this great community attribute.

However, I don’t think we should stop there.

Our family took a vacation to Texas this summer and I noticed that the popular smaller towns all had one thing in common, they promoted antiques.

When we would go into one of these stores, I was amazed at the number of people that had made the journey for just that, antiques. It made me think about our community and how we market our stores. Every Trading Post in town has historical pieces of Native American art. There is a story behind each piece of old silver and turquoise, pottery, rugs and baskets that these Trading Posts sell. History is an amazing selling tool, and this town is full of history.

It is time that we put our heads together and figure out a way to tell this history. People from around the globe our fascinated with our Native American history, and the proof is in the number of people who arrive here annually for the Inter-Tribal Ceremonial. We need to educate people about these cultures and the arts with a stateof-the-art museum. Not only will this draw tourists to the community, but it will inspire them to purchase a piece of that history. We already have the infrastructure here that supports our Native American culture and arts, now we just need to learn how to exploit it with a positive marketing strategy and investment.

I know, you are saying that people already come here because they know we are the “Indian Capital of the World.”

However, trust me when I tell you most travelers pass our community on I-40 every day because they have no idea what we are about.

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Electronics and Teens

By Jason Arsenault

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uys just don’t think about it. When my buddies and I would hang out as teenagers, we just didn’t ask each other, “How many kids do you want?”

Those are conversations that girls are supposed to have. So, when I got married my wife told me how many I wanted. As my children started to show up, I had to figure out how I was going to raise them, and those were conversations I had never had before either.

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made choices for myself. Her idea was that I would learn from those choices. If my decision resulted in a negative outcome, I would learn not to do it again. For example: I would make the decision to not always show up for school, and that would result in having to attend Saturday School to make up for those absences. I liked my mother’s system, but when I had my own kids, I wasn’t sure I wanted to give them so many freedoms.

However, now that I have kids, it hasn’t taken long to realize that the raising-children-battlefront has moved to electronics, whether it is my 8-year-old who thinks that all her free time should be spent streaming her favorite shows on Netflix, or my 11-year-old who thinks he is saving the planet with his buddies on Star Wars Battlefront. Don’t

even get me started about my teenager who can’t pull her attention away from her iPhone and the engrossing world of social media. My mom had it easy; these devices know exactly how to keep my kids entertained.

It isn’t just because these devices are fun, but they are really, really smart. Netflix knows exactly what show my child is interested in watching because she has let the service know what she wants to watch due to her previous choices. Who needs physical friends anymore when a community of online gamers already share an interest and can come together to fight the evils of the world in an incredibly realistic graphics game? However, it is the social media world that really has me scared.

There is a reason it is called a smart phone. It puts your child at the center of the world.

This device knows exactly what your child wants to see by complicated algorithms. You think you know your child? Their phone knows them better. These algorithms make the phone at their beck and call 24-hours-a-day, and everything they are interested in keeps streaming to the home screen constantly. They don’t even realize how often they are grabbing their phones to see what is going on.

Social media is the worst. Snapchat is designed so you must continually watch the updates, or you miss what is going on because the posts disappear quickly.

Facebook and Instagram have the selfgratifying world of selfies. What better way to show the rest of the world that the universe revolves around exactly what you are doing now.

The battle against the devices can be daunting, but it is important that we don’t feel defeated by these smart devices.

Remember we are the parents, and we are still the ones in charge. It is okay to take the television, PS4, or phones away from our children. Set up rules in the house to lessen the amount of time they have on these devices. An easy rule is that all devices are off after a certain time in the evening, say 7:30. Also, don’t let that smart phone go into the bedroom during sleeping hours.

Children need their sleep and will not be able to stop looking at the constant social media updates that happen all night long.

Technology is not a bad thing. We have at our fingertips many great things. However, raising our children to learn how to have humility, empathy, and the ability to interact with real human beings is more important than getting them the latest and coolest piece of technology.

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Benefactors Cibola Medical Foundation • The Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation Legacy Donors Christine and Joe DiGregorio Emerald Donors David and Judy Conejo • Christopher Gonzaga, MD and Flor Caballar-Gonzaga, MD • Islamic Center of Gallup • Pinnacle Bank • RMCHCS Auxiliary

Platinum Donors Amigo Chevrolet/Toyota • Andeavor (formerly Western Refinery) • Anonymous • David and Anna Dallago • John and Theresa Dowling Four Corners Welding & Gas Supply • Gallup Lumber & Supply • Arlene High • Kimberly and Jamie Jones • Murphy Builders Mary Poel, MD and Rick Kruis, MD

Diamond Donors Anonymous • Big Mike’s Rental Sales & Service* • The Bischoff Family • Comfort Suites/Red Roof Inn • Fire Rock Casino—Navajo Nation Gaming Enterprises Clay Fultz Agency, Inc.* • Gallup Lumber & Supply • Charles Guimaraes, MD and Maria Guimaraes Gurley Motor Co. /Red Rock Investment Company • High Desert QSR • iHeart Media* • Rex Lee Jim—Global Indigenous Solutions Janet Kauzlaric • William and Jasmine Kiefer • Art and Susan Macias • Scott and Vickie McIntyre • Michael and Christina Nye • Nancy Rieder, MD Sacred Wind Communications • Subre Properties • T & R Market

Golden Donors Harriet S. Adam Aedra Andrade, MD Anthony’s A Taste of the Southwest Mary Ann and Gabriel Armijo* Ina and Warren Burmeister Butler’s Printing & Office Supply Barry and Janet Butler William Camarota Thomas Carmany, MD De La Riva Enterprise, Inc. DBA MacDonalds Don Deigo’s Restaurant & Lounge Mary Lou and Ronald Donkersloot Dowling Enterprises Christopher and Cynthia Dyer Elevate Healthcare Consultants, LLC Lawrence and Rose Marie Etherton First American Traders

Peter Frechette, MD and Louise Frechette Gallup Journey, Inc. Gallup Rotary Club Tony Gonzales, CPA James Hathaway, MD and Marilyn Hathaway Jerry’s Café James Johnson, DDS and Margaret Johnson Philip Kamps, MD and Betty Kamps Lion’s Club* Adam Manycow Cassandra and Steve Martinez Mason & Isaacson, PA Rev. Jay and Anne McCollum Paul and Lurae McCollum McKinley Medical Supply, Inc. John and Heather McMullin Melendres & Melendres, PC

Randy Myers Heather Nasi Adrienna and Rakesh Patel, MD Perry Null Trading Company Lido Rainaldi, DDS Gerald Robertson, MD Thomas Robinson, MD and Margaret Robinson Rocket Café Silver Dust Trading Company Joe and Cindy Tanner* TriCore Laboratories Monica and Gilbert Torres Linda vanAsselt-King and Phil King BriAnna Wilson Walter Wolf Vince and Anne Yegge—Morgan Stanley *in-kind or partial in-kind donations

Golf Hole Sponsors Andy’s Pawn, Avalon Restaurant, Best Western Plus,Tom Bischoff, Controlled Air & Metal, Darcon Exterminating, Dental Innovations, El Sombrero Restaurant, Fuhs Industrial Park, Clay Fultz Agency, Gallup Propane Service, Gartner Insurance, Genaro’s,Tony Gonzales CPS, Hinkley Signs, Holland Office Products, Horizon Enterprises Plumbing & Heating, K&B Company, Knight Electric, Meditech, Michelle’s Redi-Mix, Greg Plese PA, Point S.Tires, Premier Car Wash, Quality Home Care, R&M Rent to Own, Rollie Mortuary, US Bank

In-Kind Donations A & J Produce, Bonaguidi Construction Co., Cargo Coffee & Roastery, City of Gallup, Coal Street Pub, Coca Cola Bottling Company, Cocina De Dominguez, Anna Dallago, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Firestone Tires, Frito Lay, Jerry’s Café, K & B Company, Dorie Laycock, Lowe’s Shop and Save, McKinley County EMS, Mr.Teez, Murphy Builders, Naked Mobile,The Palate Teaser, Pep Boys Automotive, Pinnacle Bank, Kafiyah Rasheed, Red Rock Motor Sports, Rent-A-Center, RMCHCS Patient Financial Services, RMCHCS Work Rehab Pottery Program,Thomas Robinson MD, Bob Rosebrough, Shi’Ma Traders & Pawn, Smokey’s, Sports World, Jonathan Tanner and the Gala Committee,Towering House Event Services, Amani Tuqhan, UNM Gallup, Virgie’s Restaurant & Lounge, Walmart, Wise Pies, Nate Yale

Volunteers PLANNING COMMITTEE: David Bischoff, Gigi Bischoff, Ina Burmeister, Amber Chisamore, Judy Conejo, Cynthia Dyer, Ara Green, Marilyn Hathaway,Tiffany Horn, Greg Kirk, Art Macias, Jan Menini, Pamela Montano, Randy Myers, Michael Nye, Alice Perez, Lisa Rodriguez, Cindy Tanner, Emerald Tanner, Monica Torres, Nate Yale VOLUNTEERS: Carla Ashley, Anna Begay, Gigi Charlie, Christina Gasper, Pawel Gredecki, Johnathan Gutierrez, Michaela Henry,Tony Hernandez, Kimberly Jones, William and Jasmine Kiefer and family, Jenifer Kirk, Sam Lalio, Kenneth Langley, Bill Lee, Lisa Lovato, Elizabeth Loverink, Scott McIntyre, Allan Mapa, Cassandra Martinez, Justin Mazon, Shalina Morgan, Heather Nasi, Brenda Otero, Godfrey Ramirez, RMCHCS Auxilians, Ray Schemm, Rosie Verdugo, Theresa Warner, BriAnna Wilson, Ivan Yazzie, Maranda Yazzie

Please accept our apology for any inadvertent omissions we may have made.

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GOAL: To renew a sense of pride in downtown, in our business community, and our heritage as an historic Route 66 community through signage improvements within the District, and to encourage property and business owners to upgrade or improve business signage. Interested property owners or business owners should begin the process by contacting the B.I.D office.

francis@gallupbid.com

www.GoGallup.com

Gallup Business Improvement District 230 S. Second • P.O. Box 4019 Gallup, NM 87305