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I think there is a certain neurology to Gallup. Every place has some type of neurology. For good or for bad, every community has its mental challenges and its cognitive bonuses and bummers.

The question is, how do I choose to react to each moment that I encounter here in Gallup. Ah, already you’re reacting thinking, “this is gonna be some preachy cheese, the equivalent of some overcooked Sunday school lesson.” Because of this natural response, I’m going to have to go into technical detail of how your brain works so that in the end there will at least be some physiological basis for what you may think is caca de Toro.

Whether you like it or not, most of your body actually operates at a subconscious level. As much as we like to think we are in control of everything, it is very unlikely that right now you are consciously controlling your heart rate, blood oxygenation, digestive juices, pupil dilation, hormone balance, or tissue repair.

We don’t think about it…it just happens.

Some of our emotional processing and thought patterns also happen at an unconscious level. We have highly developed neuro-paths that can fire reactively without control from our frontal lobes. Much like a skilled musician who doesn’t actually think about each note that is played, it simply happens intuitively from immense hours of practicing and growing the motor neuron paths, until it is nearly on auto-pilot once the concert begins. It is the same thing with pro basketball players who have trained their minds and muscle to process the skills of passing and shooting with lightning speed.

Your mind develops neuron paths in the same way that lifting weight develops muscles. There is a protein in your brain called “proBDNF”. This protein acts as a weed killer to inactive neurons, trimming them back and inhibiting their growth. However, where there is a neuron path that is fired often, that active neuron releases an enzyme that converts proBDNF to BDNF*; this converted protein now acts like a neuron fertilizer, feeding and encouraging the growth of that neuron path. Just like muscle our thought patterns are also in a “use it or lose it” environment. The more we think about a certain thing the more that thought will be encouraged to grow, just like the more you curl that 30lb dumbbell the more your biceps will increase in strength and size.

So, what’s my point?

My point is that every time I come to a busy four-way stop in Gallup, and what should be a simple exercise in everyday driving, turns out to be a cluster-munch-circus of whose turn it is to go.

My point is that, at first, I thought this incident was novel, but because it happens every day, the neuron pattern grew from novel to annoying, and then it strengthened from annoying to agitating, until finally I found myself mentally blurting expletives as an unconscious interruption to the K-LOVE song I was just singing along with on the radio.

The problem is that I allowed that neuron path to grow, and encouraged it to do so every time I chose to let it get under my skin.

I didn’t take any steps or pause to stop that thought. If I had, at the first point of getting agitated, stopped myself and said, “don’t be such an uptight entitled ‘bilagáana douche bag’,” or, “am I really such a selfish rectum to get perturbed over waiting two extra seconds?” Had I found the self-mastery to choose such roadblocks…then I would have trimmed that neuron path back and probably wouldn’t randomly be saying four-letter words in the middle of a Matt Redman song.

Ok, so maybe you were right, in the end this is a sappy sermon based on the freedom of choice and the personal responsibility of your thinking; but I really don’t care, because one must be aware that living in this beautifully quirky city can hijack your neurology….if you let it. *BDNF= Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor

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By Nikki VanSlooten

Find Your Park Just six and a half hours southeast of Gallup by way of I40 and US285, there are 119 limestone caves hidden underneath the surface. Carlsbad Caverns National Park was created in 1923 to preserve and protect these magnificent caves in the Guadalupe Mountains.

Not only can you spend time hiking down into the caves, but you can also witness hundreds of thousands Brazilian Free-tailed bats exit the cave at dusk from May to October. If you’ve never made the trip to explore the caves or see the bats, let

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me tell you a little about what you can expect and why you should make this trip. And, while you’re already down south, you should also visit White Sands National Monument.

Every adult (over 15) will need to pay an entrance fee of $10 to enter the Carlsbad Caverns National Park. You have a couple of options for visiting the caves, self-guided or ranger guided tours. According to the NPS web-page, “self-guided tours consist of two choices: The first choice is walking down the Natural Entrance 1.25 mile path, 750 feet into the cave. The path is a steep asphalt switchback route that winds down into the Big Room. The second self-guided tour is

walking the ‘Big Room’, another 1.25 mile path that takes you through a very large cave chamber. You may access the Big Room by walking down the Natural Entrance, or by riding the elevator into the cavern.” The Big Room is the largest cave chamber in North America. In it, you can see cave structures like columns, soda straws, popcorn, and draperies (sometimes called cave bacon).

Your other option for viewing the caves is taking a ranger-guided tour. These tours have an added cost of $7-$20 and range in difficulty and length. Our family of five, including three kids, took the King’s Palace tour, and we highly recommend it!

Tours take you into parts of the caverns that you cannot see on a self-guided tour, and the rangers provide you with more information than you could ever hope to retain. Reservations for all tours are highly recommended. Some sell out weeks in advance!

And then there are the bats. I don’t like bats, or that’s what I thought before I witnessed their flight. It is awe-inspiring to see the sky filled with bats. The nightly Bat Flight Program is free and you don’t need reservations. The amphitheater is located at the Natural Entrance, where you will find stone seating to hear a ranger presentation before the bats take off each night. The use of electronic devices of any kind is prohibited during the flight because it can cause changes in the bats’ behavior. The time of the bat flight varies with the time of

sunset, so call ahead, or ask a ranger when you arrive at the Park so you don’t miss it!

There’s also plenty to see aboveground. If you are lucky, you might catch a glimpse of javelinas, black bear or Barbary sheep, as well as many types of birds and small mammals.

There are all kinds of cacti, succulents, ferns, and shrubs as well. If you have kids, there is also the Junior Ranger Program to take advantage of !

So, now you’ve seen the park.

Are you hungry?

On your way back to Carlsbad on US62, may I suggest La Patrona? This Mexican food truck is the number one choice on Yelp.

Our family loves trying out the local joints, food trucks, and Mexican food, so we gave this a try, and we weren’t disappointed! We tried a variety of burritos and combination plates and every bite was delicious! The Blue House Bakery and Cafe also gets great reviews on Yelp, so if you need a bite to eat before heading to the Caverns this would make a great choice.

When you say you are going to Carlsbad Caverns, the immediate response is “Are you going to White Sands?” The Parks are three and a half hours apart, but if you have already made the trek south, it’s worth heading northwest to Alamogordo.

You’ll need to spend the night in Carlsbad or Alamogordo. Since we’re talking about food, or we WERE talking about food, let’s talk about a fun place to try in Alamogordo.

Again, we like the local flair, so we hit up JAM-ing Hot Dogs and More. This hot dog shack serves up hot dogs wrapped in bacon, deep-fried tortilla wrapped hot dogs, cheesy, jalapeño smothered goodness. If you are in search of breakfast, you might try the Waffle and Pancake Shoppe for a wide selection of omelets and more pancake and waffle options than you can believe!

We then headed to White Sands National Monument. You’ve probably seen these gypsum sand dunes in movies, but pictures do not do justice to these white dunes. As a Michigan native, I know sand dunes, but I was not prepared for White Sands! There are 275 square miles of gypsum sand dunes protected by the National Monument that was created in 1933. The park is near the White Sands Missile Range, and you are probably familiar with Project Trinity, which tested the first atomic bomb in 1945 just 60 miles from White Sands National Monument.

Missile testing is still going on today, and occasionally the park is closed for a few hours because of this. You may want to call ahead.

When you enter the Monument, you’ll pay a fee of $5 per adult over 15; kids are free. Then you’ll head to see the dunes on the Dunes Drive, an eight mile loop that takes you to different trailheads, camping, and sledding areas. The trails range from a quarter mile to five miles and from boardwalk to sand dunes marked with orange poles. We spent several hours sledding at the back end of the Monument where the tallest dunes are.

Because they are made of gypsum, the slope is steeper than other sand dunes. The best sleds are saucers, and you may want to bring some wax. The heavier you are the slower you go; but don’t be fooled, the sand is not soft when you tip over! Backcountry camping is allowed with a permit at marked locations. No matter how you choose to enjoy this park, make sure you have plenty of water. There is virtually no shade to offer you protection from the intense sun. Again, if you have kids, make sure to take advantage of the Junior Ranger Program.

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By Elizabeth R. Rose

Utah's Mighty 5® National Parks:

A TOUR for the

BUCKET LIST Utah is proud of their National Parks. In fact, they have named them the Mighty 5®. In Utah, the federal government owns 63 percent of the land base. Only Nevada has a higher percentage of federal ownership. And, the beauty of the National Parks and National Forest lands has resulted in ever-increasing tourism to the area.

So I decided I had to go experience the Mighty 5® this past April before the crowds descended on the better-known parks. I joined an early spring Southwest Adventure Tours Mighty 5® six-day adventure. On our guided van trip out of Salt Lake City, we explored five breathtaking National Parks: Canyonlands, Arches, Capitol Reef, Bryce Canyon, and Zion.

These National Parks provide the visitor with stunning landscapes because of their geology. They are part of the Colorado Plateau, an open landscape where you can see the layers of rock deposited over time. The lifting up of these layers by continentalscale tectonic forces and the erosion of the layers on the earth’s surface has created fascinating formations, cliffs, and canyons.

CANYONLANDS NATIONAL PARK After a four-hour drive from Salt Lake City, and lunch in Moab, we arrived at the stunning Islands in the Sky section of Canyonlands National Park. Canyonlands is divided into four sections.

The Islands in the Sky section of Canyonlands is situated on a huge mesa, resting on sheer sandstone cliffs over 1,000 feet above the surrounding terrain.

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Visitors Center provided an expansive view that rivaled that of the Grand Canyon.

Later, we hiked a short trail to view Mesa Arch, a weathered sandstone arch with a window on the canyon and mountain vista we had been enjoying.

Canyonlands offers trails for off-road vehicles, short and long hikes, mountain biking, and camping.

ARCHES NATIONAL PARK Arches National Park, just outside Moab, is known for the 2,000 plus arches found within its borders.

Some have described this park as fantasy-like or otherworldly. With a variety of geological features including fault lines, petrified sand dunes, arches, bridges, balanced rocks, even just driving through the park, viewpoint to viewpoint, provides the visitor with excitement at every turn.

We took an early hike to Delicate Arch before the crowds arrived. We also explored the old Wolfe homestead and petroglyphs at the trailhead. In addition to touring famous formations like the Windows Section, Balanced Rock, Courthouse Wash, and other areas on the front south side of the park, we took a breathtaking one-mile hike through a canyon named Park Avenue. The canyon, with sheer cliffs on both sides, gave the same feeling as you would have walking down New York City’s Park Avenue, with tall buildings on both sides of the street. But our feet were on weathered rocks, dotted with wildflowers. The area, which had once been under water, had visible ripples worn into the stone. It was a beautiful hike with a view of the massive “three gossips” formation as we emerged from the canyon.

At the end of the day, we returned to Moab, Utah, for another night and a visit to our now favorite Mexican restaurant, Fiesta Mexicana.

CAPITOL REEF NATIONAL PARK In the morning we followed the Colorado River and stopped to view petroglyphs high on a canyon wall. We traveled to Capitol Reef National Park, stopping at the fascinating Goblin Valley State Park with fanciful sandstone formations.

Capitol Reef National Park is not visited as often as the other Utah parks but is equally interesting.

The park is filled with cliffs, canyons, domes, bridges, petrified wood, geodes, and fruit orchards in the middle of what they call the Waterfold Pocket, a 100-mile geologic fold slowly being exposed by erosion. Capitol Reef is named for the shape of some of the white sandstone formations that look like capitol domes. And, the area, now desert, once was an underwater reef.

We learned about the rich cultural history that goes along with the geological formations in the area.

A highlight was having fruit pie made from the fruit in the orchards which were planted by early settlers who irrigated the land.

At Capitol Reef, our group separated, and part of the group took the Cohab Trail, following a high ridgeline, and others h iked an easy trail to view the Hickman Bridge arch. The weather was warmer, and

we benefitted from the cooling Fremont River flowing through the canyon.

We spent the night at Capitol Reef Resort in Torrey, Utah and enjoyed the balconies overlooking the mesa, especially at dawn.

BRYCE CANYON NATIONAL PARK Bryce Canyon National Park is known for its red rock and the odd-shaped pillars known as Hoodoos.

Hoodoos are found throughout the world, but these are colored in ways unlike any other area on earth.

Spanning over 2000 feet in elevation, Bryce Canyon has three distinct climate zones within its borders. As we enjoyed photographing the Hoodoos, we noticed a dark storm in the distance and then it started to snow.

We were able to get to the key areas in the park before checking in to our hotel, the Best Western Plus Canyon Hotel outside the park gate. As the spring snow fell, we went back into the park to have dinner at the historic Bryce Canyon Lodge. The food was excellent and we enjoyed the history, the blazing fire in the stone fireplace, and the drive back to the hotel through the newly fallen snow.

ZION NATIONAL PARK The next day we drove to Zion National Park with a stop at a marvelous German bakery in Orderville,

Photo Taken By Thomas Lynch site of an early social experiment by the Mormon settlers in communal living. Although the settlers moved on to different ways of life, Forscher Bakery was thriving and well worth a visit. We arrived at Zion National Park via the east entrance with a brief stop at the Checkerboard Mesa formation.

After traversing through the historic 1.1-mile long tunnel and down into the canyon, with picture windows carved out of the rocky walls, we entered the main canyon. Zion was amazingly beautiful with massive cliffs and, due to recent rain, mist hanging in the folds of the rocks.

We checked in to the beautiful La Quinta Inn in the art-filled community of Springdale and enjoyed lunch at the Zion Canyon Brew Pub right at the entrance of the park.

After lunch, it was off to hiking and sightseeing.

The park has a shuttle system that takes you to trailheads and key points of interest. It links to the free shuttle in Springdale, so our group split up according to interests, knowing it was easy to get back to the hotel. I decided on a flat amble on the Pa’rus Trail following the Virgin River. I craned my neck to enjoy the cliffs shrouded in mist and noticed the bright spring green cottonwoods on the banks of the river. Although Zion was busy with visitors, I was alone with this beauty during much of my walk.

That evening we enjoyed dinner at the westernthemed Wildcat Willies. The next morning was our last opportunity to enjoy Utah’s Mighty 5®. Some went hiking and some shopped the galleries of Springdale. I spent some time at the Zion Visitors Center picking up a souvenir magnet and gifts for family. I also found a rock shop and brought home a local Utah geode to add to my rock and mineral collection.

As we drove back to Salt Lake City that afternoon, we had yet another glimpse of the canyons of Zion National Park at Kolob Canyons. The Mighty 5® National Parks tour had been an experience of a lifetime, a true bucket list trip.

ABOUT SOUTHWEST ADVENTURE TOURS Southwest Adventure Tours (www.southwestadventuretours.com) is a Utah-based business, providing individuals and groups with scenic, photography, and adventure tours throughout the Southwestern U.S. Their specialty is that they focus on small group experiences… usually between 14 and 25 passengers. They offer a wide range of multi-day tours and day tours from Las Vegas, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, and other local areas adjacent to the National Parks.

Our group numbered six, and we enjoyed the comfort of a new Mercedes touring van with driver/guide. Our guide took care of all the details and made sure that everyone, no matter what their physical ability, had an enjoyable adventure along the way.

WHEN YOU GO If you travel on your own from the Gallup area, you can do this itinerary in the reverse order starting with a six-hour drive via US 89 to Utah and a visit to Zion National Park.

Information on the Mighty 5® National Parks: https://www.visitutah.com/places-to-go/most-visitedparks/the-mighty-5 Each National Park has its own website with maps, hiking information, weather alerts, and operating hours. It is well worth researching your tour and visiting these websites. *Photos by Elizabeth R. Rose

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By Liz Hannum

Five Things I've Learned

About Community

Development Facebook Memories recently reminded me that last year around this time I attended an event called Yankton Startup Weekend which changed my perspective on community, economic development, and how to be a part of a movement. Yankton is a small town of 14,000 in South Dakota, and Startup Weekend is a platform for business creation – it’s a mad-dash, 54-hour competition to create a business. Yankton Startup Weekend had 95 participants, and over 100 community members came to watch the final presentations. I was one of the 95 participants, mostly because one of the organizers is a friend of mine and I wanted to be supportive, but I’d also heard that these events (held all around the world) were tons of fun. Essentially the idea is on Friday night, everyone pitches a business solution to a local problem, and you whittle down the ideas and create teams and then spend the rest of the weekend vetting your idea, creating a viable business plan, and then going out and making sales.

Sounds nerdy right? Well it is, but in an amazing way. My team’s problem was the lack of jobs for young people who had to move away to larger cities to find jobs in their field. The solution was a co-working space where people can work remotely or have the opportunity to create their own jobs. We had eight people on our team, from ages 17-55, with varying life and 22 May 2017

technical skills. We all worked together to create a viable solution to our problem.

That co-working space actually opened in January this year and has exceeded its projected membership!

The reason this story is relevant is that, to me, it highlights all the best parts of community development and I’d like to share the lessons that I’ve learned, not just from Yankton Startup Weekend, but from ten years of community and economic development in communities of every size and shape:

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Be Relevant in People’s Lives

This is the simplest of concepts – show up when it matters to others. I went to Yankton Startup Weekend because my friend Ben shows up at every event that I managed nearly four hours away. He showed up and supported others as they were building their own startup communities. In a world where relationships are increasingly superficial, Ben made the effort to show up in person and create an authentic relationship and show genuine passion for other’s events, communities, and interests.

And then comes “the ask”. When Ben asks you to do something, it’s hard to say “no”. I don’t know how many times I’ve gone to his events or spoken at his conferences when it was inconvenient for me because he had

made himself matter to me. It’s the premise behind the Gary Vanynerchuk book Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook – give, give, give then ask.

By making himself relevant to me, he created a cycle of caring that created a community.

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Celebrate Others in Your Community

Use your event or your business as a platform to share what awesome things your neighbors are up to. Startup Weekend spent ten minutes during the final presentation to let anyone have the floor to talk about their upcoming event. How cool is it to walk into a store in a town you’re visiting and see dozens of other things to do, see, or experience while you’re there? That’s what celebrating others can do – it takes away the silos that we all put ourselves into and makes the community bigger and more vibrant.

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Be Inclusive

Speaking of silos…Yankton Startup Weekend welcomed all ages, all skill sets, and everyone with a good idea – even their Mayor pitched an idea! When we target our events or businesses at the ideal audience, don’t forget to step outside the usual suspects. Those teenagers who would normally have been given a menial task were treated as every other contributing member, so they stepped up and were valued members of the team, thinking up an

entirely new revenue stream that the older, more experienced business people hadn’t considered.

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Brand Everything

asking 100 people to give up their weekend to create a business. I’ve held an event called Midnight Brunch where we asked people to show up at 10:00pm on a Thursday night for drinks and dinner and a toast at midnight, where we had an artist create the table settings and a local dance troop perform a piece from their upcoming show. Don’t be typical, and think about the experience you’re creating for your audience. Get creative!

Gallup MainStreet will be on absolutely everything that we do, not because we want the fame and glory, but because we want to build something that is recognized as a central location for people to converge their ideas. Yankton Startup Weekend is now And A Bonus Lesson known as the place to bring your business ideas and get them accomplished quickly. Never Expect a Profit Last year they had 95 participants, this year After 10 years of community-building, they had to cap the group at 150, so that I’ve learned that if you want to make changes the final presentations didn’t take all day! in your community, don’t expect to make a I also wear my Yankton Startup Weekend profit. Trust is a hard thing to earn and very t-shirt all the time which says “Talk Less, easy to lose; community development is all Do More”, and people stop me all the time about building trust in your organization or to ask me if they should pitch their idea at business. Putting profit before community is the next event. Branding just creates the the easiest way to lose trust and slow or halt platform for ideas to come together in an community building efforts. Yankton Startup organized way.

Weekend cost $60 to attend but they fed us, they gave us t-shirts and water bottles, and they provided us with an amazing 5 Create Unique, World-Class experience. They broke even financially after Experiences the ticket price and sponsorship, but a year Use unique venues and try something later, I still get advice from my teammates different. Don’t stick to the typical cocktail and I’m still talking about that experience to party at a hotel. If you want a cocktail party, anyone who wants to listen. make it a unique theme that no one else is So what do you plan to do to create the doing, or try something totally different, like community that you want to live in?

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Questions

Questions for Dr. Sutanto Chiropractic Physician

1.

What is your background in?

I have a degree in Nutrition and Economics. I was born in Indonesia and came to the United States to attend college in Hawaii. While studying I met my wife who is from this area. Later I finished up my premed degree in Missouri. This is where I became interested in becoming a chiropractor. I also have a background in competitive body building and martial arts.

I competed and won several competitions in a five to six year span. The competitions were all-natural.

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Is this the type of work you have wanted to practice?

Yes, I always wanted to do something with my hands. I have been practicing for around 28 years in the Chicago area.

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What brought you to the Gallup area?

My wife and I came back to Zuni; she is Zuni and we wanted to come here to retire. My retirement did not last long, only seven months. I did not feel mentally challenged. I saw the need to help people here in the surrounding area.

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What do you think of Gallup?

I am surprised at the size of Gallup and how the population grows over the weekend. I had thought of it as a small and rural town, but it has been fun to see how it draws people from a wide region. Many people come from the Arizona area. It is neat how it draws people from all over.

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What is your philosophy towards healing?

• My philosophy is to educate people towards healing first. I use a variety of treatments: • Acutherapy utilizes a no-needles technique with electrical stimulation or pressure applied to the traditional acupuncture points.

• An electrical trigger point stimulation machine is used to stimulate nerve and muscle tissues.

• Interferential Therapy is used for pain control and muscle spasms.

• Light Therapy is used for joint pain, nerve muscle, and muscle pain • Ultrasound Therapy is used to break down the scar tissue to help with pain therapy.

• Hands-on spinal and joint manipulation and soft tissue work.

• I also work with stretching techniques and correct ways of movement to prevent injury. My overall goal is to restore the balance of the body, making it stronger.

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How is your practice doing so far?

So far so good, we have been here almost one year. We commute from Zuni Monday through Thursday. Recruitment has come mainly from word-of-mouth. We have been open for almost one year now.

I treat from 14 to 95 years old. Many of my patients are females. I treat shoulder pain, headaches, anxiety, hot flashes, unresolved trauma, and whiplash trauma.

For More Information: Back and Neck Pain Relief Dr. John S. Sutanto Chiropractic Physician 907 US Hwy 491 505-979-1937 Office Hours: 9:00am to 6:00pm May 2017

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Exterior of Tom's Variety taken in the mid 70s

By Dan Rhinehart

Gallup Model Airplane Club In 1950’s America, just about every town had a local hobby supply store, which also sponsored a model airplane flying club, and Gallup was no exception.Tom's Variety Store was Gallup's local hobby supply store, and home to the Gallup Model Airplane Club.Tom's Variety was owned and operated for over forty years by Ed Shibata, a first-generation Japanese American, Gallup native and decorated WW II U.S. Army veteran.

In its heyday from the mid 1950’s to the early 1960’s, the Gallup Model Airplane Club members could be seen flying their airplanes at the old Gallup

Ceremonial Grounds parking lot on just about any weekend. The Gallup Model Airplane Club had no official membership roster and its "headquarters" was the hobby counter in the back of Tom's Variety.

The Gallup Model Airplane Club rank and file consisted of people of various ages and backgrounds.

Walter and Tom Shibata, both active members, were the brothers of Ed Shibata. Warren Wakefield and Foster Batt were both AT&SF Railroad employees and active local pilots of full size airplanes, as well.

Doctor Dean Sadler, was a local medical doctor. E.D. “Dusty” Rhodes worked for El Paso Natural Gas Co.

Back of Tom's Variety hobby counter 1957. Left to Right: Bill Bickel, Ed Shibata, Ed Cousins, Foster Batt, Walter Shibata

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Steve Meza was a line serviceman for Navajo Flying Service and Ed Cousins was a recent High School graduate. Ed Shibata, Jr., Johnny Horrocks, and Bill Bickel were Jr. High School and High School students.

The airplanes built and flown by club members often reflected the creative imaginations of their builders. Bill Bickel had an airplane that looked like a flying saucer that was made from a phonograph record. Bill reckoned, that since the record according to the label was "Unbreakable with Normal Use", it would make a crash proof airplane! Ed Cousins had

Bill Bickel February in 1957 with his twin engined airplane made from recycled parts of at least one other airplane

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Bill Bickel's "Twin Ringmaster" which is two ringmaster fuselages mated to one Ringmaster tail and wing. It had a reputation as being a very noisey and very fast airplane and is a great example of the creative nature of the Gallup Model Airplane Club members a small free-flight biplane that had a habit of doing all sorts of aerial gyrations, including swooping down upon unsuspecting spectators on the ground, only to miraculously pull up at the last second. Often club members had their airplanes hanging in display from the ceiling of Tom's Variety.

In 1958, the Gallup Model Airplane Club joined the jet age when Bill Bickel built an airplane powered by a Dyna-Jet pulse jet engine. Also about this time, some of the Gallup Model Airplane Club members were experimenting with the new technology of Radio Control, with varying degrees of success. These flight tests were conducted in an open area just west of the intersection of US Highway 666 and the road going west to Window Rock. In one instance Ed Cousins and Bill Bickel were driving out to this flying sight when they were pulled over by a NM State Police officer, who upon learning what these kids were up to followed them to the flying field to watch Bill fly his airplane. Bill launched his plane and upon completing its first turn the radio failed and it started flying in a straight line towards Window Rock. Upon seeing this, the helpful Police Officer put Ed and Bill in his Police Cruiser and the trio chased the out-ofcontrol airplane across country for several miles until

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it ran out of fuel and landed without incident.

By about 1960 the young adult club members went off to either the Military or College, and shortly thereafter Warren Wakefield passed away and other members moved away from Gallup. With this loss of creative enthusiasts, the Gallup Model Airplane Club faded away. By the early 1970’s, the Old Gallup Ceremonial Grounds was demolished to make way for Interstate 40, and the flying field was lost.

Though the Model Airplane Club was extinct, Ed Shibata continued to operate Tom's Variety Store, at 300 W. Highway 66 (the present location of the Rex Museum). By the late 1970’s, going into

Tom's Variety, hobbyists would still be greeted by Ed Shibata to serve their hobby supply needs. And just maybe more importantly, Ed would take time to tell visitors with a warm smile and a twinkle in his eye all the stories of the good old days of the Gallup Model Airplane Club. Ed Shibata continued to operate Tom's Variety until his death in October of 1980. * I would love to get to know any readers who were involved with model airplanes, knew any of the people in the above article, or have pictures from that time in Gallup in the 50s through 70s to swap memories!

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Theater in Gallup Gallup Theater is back in full force.

This May two very unique plays are coming to the El Morro Theater directed by and starring people from the Gallup Community.

“I wanted a bigger theater presence in Gallup,” said Kelli Furney, one of the directors, “so I contacted Jennifer Lazarz, the manager at the El Morro, and asked how we could start spearheading a theater group in Gallup. She was very enthusiastic and helpful.”

Furney is directing The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), which is a three-man play that goes through all of the works of William Shakespeare in comically shortened skits and parodies.

“I love Shakespeare and thought this would be a fun and funny way to get the works of Shakespeare to the community,” said Furney.

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But even if you are familiar with the works of Shakespeare, you will get a kick out of this performance, perhaps even more so.

“It is hilarious and the most ridiculous play I have ever been in,” said Patrick Moore, one of the three actors. “There is at least one scene we can’t get through without laughing.

It is definitely not dry or boring.”

The other two actors are Curtis Gill and Hannah Sowers, and all three actors have been heavily involved in theater.

Furney is also an actor in the other play that is coming which is called The Complete History of America (Abridged), and is directed by Suzanne Hammons.

“Jennifer immediately told me to contact Suzanne who has already directed a few plays for the El Morro,” said Furney.

Hammons had been involved with putting on The Complete History of America (Abridged) before and thought it would be a good play to start with since it is minimalistic.

“We wanted to start small,” said Furney, “and see what kind of turn out we got. It was fairly decent, and we hope it will just get bigger and better.”

The Complete History of America (Abridged) has basically the same format and layout as The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), with a nonexistent fourth wall and three actors going through (very quickly) the history of America in skits and parodies.

“It is a fun, funny, and a fantastic journey through American History,” said Erik Pederson, one of the actors in the play.

“The best description of the play I have heard so far is the one from the Washington Post. It states that it’s like attending the last day of history class where the brightest, wittiest, and most irreverent kids are allowed to recap everything that you ever learned about American history,” said Leslie Farrell, the final actor in the fun trio that makes up

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your own film? You don’t get to manipulate the image as much as you do with a digital camera; did that change the type of pictures you take?

I loved film photography; in film you have to get it right or it will not work, more challenging than digital. In digital, you can manipulate light and in film, it’s tough to do.

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Take Off A Day for The

Very Large Array

DO YOU LIKE BIG WEIRD THINGS? If you say, “Hey yeah!,” you’re a candidate for a trip to the Very Large Array – a gargantuan collection of twenty-seven 94-foot tall radio telescopes sitting incongruously on super wide flatlands 163 miles southeast of Gallup. The “VLA” ain’t like a lot of attractions you find in this state.

This oddly-named tourist lure doesn’t have anything to do with the history of Native Americans or the Europeans who came here in 1598, both of which are seen everywhere in the state. That said, the Very Large Array is definitely concerned with the past. In fact, it speaks of a past so old, you probably have difficulty thinking of it. We’re talking a few billion years. If you hang around for the merest sliver of that, I’ll explain what that all means.

But first, you’ll learn how to get there and get help visualizing one of the most breathtaking tourist sites in all New Mexico, and if you know this state well, that’s saying a lot.

TAKE A LONG WILD RIDE Even before arrival, you get visual treats on the three-hour drive. There’s two ways to get from Gallup to the VLA, but the best is 38 May 2017

to spin south on Highway 602 for 30 miles, then bump east at Highway 53 (instead of going west towards Zuni) and travel 4 miles to catch Highway 36 – going south once more. You’ll be going right off Highway 53 to hit Highway 36, and then you’ll remain glued to it for 80-odd miles. Eventually, you’ll parade into the charming, teeny town of Quemado (population 250!). There, after racing past the Sacred Heart Church on your right, you’ll smack right into Highway 60 going east-west. Go left there, and you’ll have 40 rising miles before bursting through the short mountains around an ancient lakebed where the huuuuge Very Large Array makes its home. Twenty-seven monstrous radar dishes are “arrayed” there in a broad valley.

Behind it is the 400-square-mile plot of land where the VLA’s dishes point their big “feed horns” (dish noses) skyward, like a Godzilla flock of baby sparrows feeding on the stars.

GET TO THE BIG SKY Like so many things in New Mexico, the panorama shows us both absence and presence. Each dish at 250 tons makes an even grander impression because of the hollowed-out void above the slate-brown flatness of the Augustin Plain.

When I was a kid, I liked to stand close to trains as they shot by. I still love dirty skyscraper construction sites filled with wanking big cranes and earth machines. Two years back, I lived in Australia. A favorite memory is visiting the eighteen towering The VLA looks into the turbines of the Albany Wind Farm on the southwest coast. This group of white colossi, beginnings of the cosmos, which scientists tell us is 14 born of the modern engineering mind, sits on three winding miles of bushy, ocean-bluff billion years young side-paths, and their vastness surrounded me They first look like pinpricks as you spy on my solitary stroll the day I stopped by. them from the very tiny town of Datil The VLA reprises my Australian (population 50!) that sits plunked on the experience, but it’s got 27 behemoths, not overlook to the VLA’s plain of San Augustin. 18, and the wide-spaced forest they create Departing Datil, you’ll descend 500 feet and stretches over four times as many miles. It is 20 miles to land at a 55-mile-wide lakebed uplifting to saunter through just by your roadwhere a bare-bones visitor-center awaits. tripping self or with your road-tripping friends.

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RADIO WAVE “PICTURES” FROM FAR AWAY AND LONG AGO After seeing the eye-candy, you might think, “Okay! So what’s behind this large metal zoo?” The VLA’s blandly-painted, teeny-tiny guest center tells us why the Feds spent 79 million in 1972 to build this thing. The guest center tells us what radio telescopes do. The center teaches you how these things, sometimes called “antennae”, sift evidence from really ancient history, by reading electromagnetic waves that started streaming toward the Earth about a gazillion years ago.

The VLA looks into the beginnings of the cosmos, which scientists tell us is 14 billion years young. It does this by exploiting what we know about the wavelengths of electro-magnetism (EM) – a basic energy of the universe which makes up visible light, microwaves, radio waves and other familiar phenomena.

The terrible radiation from an atomic bomb, that easily destroys your body, is made of minuscule EM waves, like gamma rays and x-rays. Radio waves are significantly larger, and these types of waves and many others are thrown off by mysterious things in deep space.

If astronomers want to study the structure of galaxies (which radio-wave patterns reveal), find black holes (which send out radio waves even though they trap light), or track spinning neutron stars (called pulsars) that broadcast a steady rhythm of radiowave shots, then these telescopes are the technology of choice. Think of a radio wave like a cloth that rolls through space, but its

ripples are a mile long! If the “cloth” lays its waving self down on the Earth, the only way to get a clear picture of its whole pattern is to arrange an “array” of receivers that can infer the overall shape of the “cloth-wave” by ”seeing” many parts of it over distance.

Light is an EM wave, and we know all the complexity of the visual world is expressed by that tiny band of light that sits in the EM spectrum called “colors”. We see colored light when it is emitted or reflected off things. Without it, we see only black.

Imagine that same complexity in much larger waves, and the “pictures” these too might create. For example, we see the sun as an expression of its light waves, but a radio telescope can see it as an expression of radio waves. The Very Large Array, by reading radio waves as they fall over its large field of “eyes”, uses a computer to combine the information and make a “radio-picture” of the objects emitting these waves – some of which are millions of times the size of the sun!

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THE BIG GUY BEHIND IT ALL The proper title for the VLA is the “Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array”. It honors the man who first figured out that radio waves emerge from deep space. He did so at the tender age of 28 in 1933. And he caps the story! To learn about him, and radio waves, get yourself to the VLA! Besides learning tons about technology and seeing some colorful panoramas, you can learn a bit more about a historical great in science – the intrepid father of deep-space radio, Karl Guthe Jansky.

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Parts Unknown

By Michele Laughing-Reeves

About a hundred years ago, the million-year sandstone formation of Antelope Canyon was known only to a few locals. Only a few sheepherders might wander into the slot canyon for lost sheep or goats. At times, young men would venture into the canyon alone to prove their manliness.

During the right time of the day, young couples might take romantic strolls into the canyon. Since then outsiders have gotten a whiff of its wondrous walls and mystifying effects of natural lights. Photographers,

both amateurs and professionals, make this remote place a much-desired destination.

However, this remote place is a day-trip from nowhere except for Page, Arizona. For those of us who still live in the isolated areas of Navajoland, we are fortunate to have access to the natural beauty that surrounds us.

Your family can easily take a day trip into the Chuska Mountains, for example. My childhood was filled with adventurous treks up every possible slope of the Chuskas. It was the beauty of the mountains (and the excuse for getting away from herding sheep) that kept me hiking all those years. The

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biggest asset when hiking the backcountry is common sense. You should never attempt a hike that is too strenuous or riddled with huge boulders which look like they may lose their battle with gravity at any second. If you do get yourself into a situation that requires emergency assistance, your cell phone is practically useless. Your best bet is to head down toward the nearest home. Chances are Shima or Cheii will have a cell phone or know where to get help. In addition, hikers should pack as you would for any other hiking expedition. The Chuska Mountains start at 7,000 feet above sea level at its base

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and approximately 9,500 feet at its highest summit, no need to hire Bear Grylls at these elevations. The southern parts of the Chuskas are more accessible to outsiders than the northern end. The objective for a day trip is to have fun, enjoy one another’s company, and to discover the scenic wonders in our backyard.

The great thing about the Chuska Mountains is that you can access it from any direction. It may look like you’ll need to trail-blaze, but there are plenty of gravel and dirt roads around the base or traversing the plateaus. From the east, you can turn into Mexican Springs or Sheepsprings. From the west, you can get to the base by turning in toward Asyaaii Lake, via Navajo, NM, or take State Road 134 through Crystal, NM to Narbona Pass picnic area. Since the mountain range is not an official recreational area, you will not find trailheads or trail signs. What you will find are seasonally used 4x4 roads and animal trails, either can be used by hikers. When we headed out on our hikes, we usually left our “chitty” at a home near the base, with the permission of the owner. You could also drive to one of the many lakes on top of the mountain and take a hike from there. Of course, Robert Frost advises us to take the “road less traveled”.

You will be amazed at what you’ll find and what you’ll experience. You will see beautiful wildflowers, but try not to spend too much time making a bouquet; you will end up carrying it the duration of your hike. You will notice the tall pine trees and their equivalent in height, the aspens. Wildlife sightings may include deer, elk, coyote, rabbits, lizards, snakes, bears, and mountain lions. Again, using common sense will keep you out of danger. In all my years of hiking in these mountains, I’ve never encountered any real danger or Sasquatch, but I did see a lot of wildlife. On one hike when I was about 12 or 13 years old, we reached a meadow and my other siblings decided to race across it. I had never been there, and I wasn’t tall enough to see very far ahead of my feet. But before I knew it, my older brother yelled, “Go!” We took off. We were about 50 meters into the meadow when we heard hissing from all directions. I can only remember telling myself to run faster. We all reached the opposite side, our hearts pounding with fear and adrenalin. We couldn’t believe that we just ran across a field full of snakes!

(Sorry Mom, you’re only finding out about this now.) To this day, I’m afraid of snakes.

We also witnessed a bear drink water from a stream, then slowly make its way back up the mountain. The awe of nature can make your hike quite memorable.

One of my favorite places is a spot somewhere between Narbona Pass and Wheatfields Lake that is awe-inspiring. The area is very rugged and has volcanic rocks jutting out in a close cluster, leaving falling aspen trees to “stack” up in a high pile. If you are coordinated enough, you can walk across this part of the forest on fallen logs.

The plants growing beneath the fallen logs have very large leaves, creating a canopy directly under the logs, and you cannot see the ground beneath you. So, if you fall off the logs, you will fall through the canopy of leaves to an unknown distance below. You’ll find it hard to believe that such a place even exists, yet we say that about other scenic destinations around the world, too, including Antelope Canyon.

So now whenever I hear the George Strait classic, Oceanfront Property in Arizona, I get it. Metaphorically, we have the beautiful scenery comparable to an oceanfront, with all its value and fame, right here within driving distance. I remember all those adventures to the top of the Chuska mountains fondly, and I wouldn’t trade them for any oceanfront.

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Veteran’s Corner

UNM GALLUP STUDENT VETERANS ASSOCIATION

By Sandra McKinney

You are hyper-vigilant and always assessing your surroundings, startle easily at loud noises; you jump for cover at the sound of a car backfire; you never enter an area without affirming all escape routes; never do you sit with your back to the doorway.You are looking for sniper vantage points when driving down a road; a 21 Gun Salute can bring tears to your eyes; you have great respect for the Stars and Stripes.You are a Combat Veteran of the Armed Services, and you are likely suffering from PTSD! Adjustment back to civilian life is certainly challenging for all returning veterans, but especially those with multiple deployments into war zones. It is a much-deserved plus that returning veterans can receive a college education using their Veteran’s Benefits, but the process does have its challenges, too. It is daunting enough for any starting college student to face the course of registration, choosing classes, buying books, finding classrooms; but add to all that the issues of PTSD and hyper-vigilance and it can be totally overwhelming!

With many veterans returning home in recent years, and the desire for additional education, the UNM-Gallup Student Veterans Association (SVA) was developed about 10 years ago to assist veterans in negotiating the many aspects of college life. Following are some of the education opportunities available through veteran’s benefits. The members of the SVA are well aware of these benefits and how to go about obtaining the deserved education compensation.

Below are a few of the available GI Bill benefits: VETERANS AND RESERVISTS/NATIONAL GUARD MEMBERS Chapter 33: The Post 9/11 GI Bill – The Post9/11 GI Bill provides financial support for education and housing to individuals with at least 90 days of aggregate service on or after September 11, 2001, or individuals discharged with a service-connected disability after 30 days.

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Anthony Larry (12 years U.S. Army), Benson Long (4 years U.S. Marines), Jarvis Bahe (3 years U.S. Army), Miguel Bittony (20 years U.S. Navy) Chapter 30:The Montgomery GI Bill – Under Chapter 30, Active Duty members enroll and pay $100 per month for 12 months; and are then entitled to receive a monthly education benefit once they have completed a minimum service obligation.

Chapter 31:Vocational Rehabilitation – The Voc-Rehab program assists veterans with service connected disabilities to prepare for, find, and keep suitable jobs.

1606 MGIB-Selected Reserve – The MGIB-SR program may be available to you if you are a member of the Selected Reserve. The Selected Reserve includes the Army Reserve, Navy Reserve, Air Force Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve and Coast Guard Reserve, and the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard.

1607 REAP – This program makes certain reservists who were activated for at least 90

days after September 11, 2001 either eligible for education benefits or eligible for increased benefits.

(Note: If you are eligible for REAP benefits you are probably also eligible for the Post 9/11 GI Bill.

You can compare the benefits and find out what program is better for you.)

DEPENDENTS OF VETERANS Chapter 35: Survivors & Dependents Assistance (DEA) – Dependents' Educational Assistance provides education and training opportunities to eligible dependents of certain veterans.

Chapter 33: Post 9/11 GI Bill transferred to Dependent – Some service members and veterans are qualified to transfer their Post 9/11 GI Bill to one or more dependents, such as a child or spouse.

The SVA not only assists other veterans to navigate paperwork, class schedules, class locations, and adjusting to college life, but they also maintain a very active presence on campus. They have created a small library of used college-level books which they make available for any student. They participate in local events like Memorial Day and Veterans Day ceremonies, High School Homecoming Parades, and Job Fairs. The group has held Halloween Carnivals, 5k Runs to encourage good health, events with the Jr. Police Academy, etc. Most of their events are simply to be involved or to be helpful, but occasionally they might hold a fund-raising event to add a few dollars to their coffers. The group has a standard meeting each Tuesday at 3:30pm upstairs at Gurley Hall.

back from leave. They were rowdy and greeted me with exuberance.”

Of his 20 years in the Navy, Bittony spent three years and eight months on a ship in San Diego. The rest of the time, he was traveling: the Middle East, South America, Indonesia, Australia, Korea, Dubai, Yemen, Greece, Virgin Islands, Italy, Iraq, Cuba, just to name a few places. He worked as a Quarter Master navigating the ship, often by the stars. He was also on Security Detail with the Military Police.

One of his duties was at Guantanamo Bay, working corrections for the prisoners of the 9-11 attacks.

Bittony did see times of combat during his Navy career and served with the Military Police; he is also studying Criminal Justice at UNM-Gallup.

The SVA has established a Governing Body with the following officers: • Jarvis Bahe – President • Miguel Bittony – Vice-President • Anthony Larry – Member • Benson Long – Marketing Coordinator • Shelbey Lee – Treasurer • Mikayla Lynch – Secretary JARVIS BAHE is a 2010 graduate of Gallup High School. Jarvis had signed on as a high school junior in a delayed-enlistment program with the U.S. Army. He graduated high school on a Friday and come the following Monday he was at Basic Training at Ft. Benning, Georgia with a three-year commitment to the army. He was deployed to Iraq in 2011 and did one tour.

“The army changed me,” Jarvis stated. “I became a different person and grew up really fast in the Army.

I accepted that I might die over there. I was part of a Personal Security Detachment and was in the lead truck out of Camp Liberty.”

Today Jarvis sports longer hair and a bushy beard.

A few tattoos showed from under his shirt sleeves.

But you could still see the discipline from his time in the U.S. Army. My inquiries were met with polite answers, each accompanied by a “yes ma’am” or “no ma’am”. Jarvis is currently studying for a degree in Criminal Justice, but his desire is beyond the realm of local police work.

MIGUEL BITTONY graduated from Thoreau High School. He had committed to the U.S. Navy in a delayed-entry program. Little did he know that his four-commitment would turn into a 20-year career with the Navy. He spent Boot Camp at Great Lakes, Illinois. Bittony spent time in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Hawaii, and then to Japan. Bittony went to Japan to meet with the USS Kinkaid DD965. When he deployed to Japan, he was totally alone without any other Navy personnel and no knowledge of the Japanese language. Miguel laughs, “I met a group of exchange students who spoke English, and they guided me to the port to find my ship. It was a weird and solitary experience. That did not last long, as I soon met the ship’s crew coming

ANTHONY LARRY is an intense young man, which is totally understandable considering he spent 12 years with the U.S. Army, mostly in combat. Larry had four combat tours; three tours in Iraq and one tour in Afghanistan as Artillery Infantry. To say he was in the thick of battle is an understatement! He was at Camp Ramadi as the second wave to enter Iraq. This was a major commitment for a young man who graduated from Gallup Central High School in 2001. Admittedly, a troubled teen, Larry entered the Army one week after graduation to get himself away from a negative lifestyle here in Gallup.

I first met Anthony Larry November 2016 at the Gallup Veterans Day Ceremonies. He and others were presenting the Missing Man Table, which is a very emotional scene to anyone but has tremendous impact to someone who has lost numerous friends right before their eyes during war. Larry states emotionally, “The Missing Man Table is a message to everyone about the losses of war.” The “table” is a symbol of those who did not come back alive from the war – a table setting which no one will ever use.

“Unfortunately, I lost too many friends in Iraq and Afghanistan,” said Larry sadly shaking his head.

Anthony Larry left the Army in 2013 as a Sergeant. “I was married previously, but life in the military did not agree with marriage and we divorced,” Larry stated. “But my wife now is my

best friend and my ‘rock’. She gets me through the terror of the memories; she comforts me when I have my nightmares. She understands me,” he says proudly as he looks over at her. “There was not a day in combat that I wasn’t scared, but you just do your job while you are there. Then when you come back home, all those demons attack your mind and make your life pretty damn miserable,” Larry says sadly.

Anthony Larry has taken a break from college for a while, but he is still active with the SVA and is very willing to help new students or returning veterans with what lies ahead for them.

BENSON LONG, a 2012 graduate from Gallup High, became a Marine directly out of high school.

Long trained at Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, California and spent four years in the Marine life. Long’s Marine training is very evident with his very straight posture and extremely polite manner. I truly appreciate the respect he showed me.

In his duties as a Marine, Long was fighting a battle of a different kind as he was placed at the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma, Arizona to cover the border to Tijuana, Mexico. Long worked until 2016 in the Joint Task Force North unit with Drug Enforcement Officers attempting to keep importation of marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine from crossing the border into the United States. “We certainly made an impact,” Long states, “but the war on drugs is as big as the war on terror!”

“The Marines really made a difference in my life,” Long stated. “I feel it gave me greater respect for life and for the opportunities I have been given.

Military life has provided me with greater direction and a desire for future self-improvements.”

Long left the Marines as an E-5 Sergeant. He has great leadership skills and did an excellent job of gathering the group for me to conduct the interview.

Long is working towards an AA in Liberal Arts and is the Marketing Coordinator for SVA and organizes all the informational flyers, event coordination, and efforts put forth by the entire group.

SHELBEY LEE and MIKAYLA LYNCH are civilians, but have great respect for our military. The four men told me about Shelby and Mikayla. “They get us! They understand us and our sometimes dark humor,” Jarvis Bahe said about the women. “They help keep our lives together and organized. We really appreciate their support.”

If you are on the UNM-Gallup campus and need some assistance, please look up one of the members of the SVA, and they stress, “whether you are a veteran, or not.” They are extremely willing to provide assistance. This group will also make themselves available to assist in community events. Military training and a helpful attitude drives these young men to help and succeed.

For more information, contact SVA at (505) 863-7520 May 2017

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Miracles

By Jay Mason

This year is the hundredth anniversary of the Miracle at Fatima. In 1917 the Virgin Mary appeared to three young Portuguese shepherd children six times over several months, culminating with the last appearance in October of 1917. These miracles were not recognized at first by the Catholic Church. They were not believed by their family, their priest, or bishop, much less the media or the government.

This miracle happened at the end of World War I and just before the Communist Revolution. The children, Lucia, Francisco, and Jacinta, said they saw the Mother of God. What did she say to the children? She told them to pray for peace. She told them to build a chapel in her honor. She told them the Great War would end, but that a greater world war would happen if the world did not turn away from sin. She told the children that Russia (they did not know who and what Russia was) would come under an evil power but it would eventually fail. Mary spoke only to the children. They were questioned after each appearance and in August of 1917 were put in jail by the local authorities so that they could not go to the field where the apparitions occurred. The people protested, the children were released, and the apparitions continued. In August after the release from jail, the beautiful lady appeared again and told the children that there would be a

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“Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.”

C.S. Lewis

sign of her appearance in October, so that everyone could know that the Mother of God was appearing.

On the 13th of October, 1917, over 70,000 people came to Fatima to see what would happen; there were many believers, but also many who did not believe. The media was there. The government authorities were there. What happened around noon has been called the “The Dance of the Sun”. The clouds separated, and the sun appeared to turn over and over again across the sky. One eyewitness who looked away from the sun reported that the objects on earth reflected many different colors. There is no explanation for this event. It happened only in this area of Portugal. There were no eclipses or other natural phenomena occurring that day. The skeptics said that everyone was hysterical and delirious from staring at the sun. The media at the time however reported that something phenomenal happened. That was the last appearance to the shepherd children.

Francisco and Jacinta died within the next few years during the worldwide flu epidemic. Lucia joined a convent and eventually became a Carmelite nun.

Francisco and Jacinta will be declared saints this year.

The Catholic Church investigated the appearances and in 1930 declared that the apparitions were “worthy of belief ”. You do not have to believe in these events to be a Catholic. They should be merely an opportunity for prayer and spiritual growth. Kitty and I just returned from a pilgrimage to Fatima.

Today a small chapel exists where the apparitions

occurred. One night at a prayer service, prayers were given in seven languages (French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Polish, and Korean). The Bishop of Gallup also celebrated mass there. It was a quiet and beautiful place. The busy season begins in April,

and this May Pope Francis is coming to visit. There were not as many pilgrims there when we visited.

There are two huge churches on each end of the shrine, and the children are buried in one of them.

In between is av large area that will hold over 100,000 people. It was more peaceful to be there when the crowds were away.v On our pilgrimage, we also visited Lourdes in France. In Lourdes, the Virgin Mary appeared to a poor child, Bernadette Soubirous. It was 1858 in France near the Pyrenees Mountains. Once again, everyone was skeptical. Bernadette was at first punished by her parents. Bernadette returns to the grotto where she saw the beautiful lady and throws holy water at the apparition to make sure it is not the devil.

Eventually the lady speaks to Bernadette. She tells her she will be happy, not in this world but the next. Mary appeared 18 times to Bernadette from February to July, 1858. She encourages Bernadette to pray and in late February, she asks Bernadette to dig in the dirt of the grotto. At first the crowd that had gathered laughs at Bernadette with her face covered with dirt, then muddy water. A spring arises and eventually the water is clear.

The lady later asks Bernadette to build a chapel at the grotto. People started to collect the water and healings were claimed to have occurred. The authorities closed the grotto because of public disorder. Eventually the local church and bishop took over the site and built a chapel. Pilgrims have been coming there ever since.

The Church recognized the apparitions as worthy of belief in 1876.

Pilgrims come from all over the world to pray and seek healing. It is estimated that 200 million pilgrims have travelled to Lourdes since it was founded. Today there are facilities to care for the sick and many volunteers to assist them while they are in Lourdes. It is possible to bathe in the water at Lourdes, and some of our pilgrims did just that. We all brought some water from Lourdes back to Gallup. In fact, I left dirty clothes in France so that I could bring water and make the weight limit on luggage for the trip home.

Thousands have claimed to be healed from the water at Lourdes. From 1858 to the present, the Church has officially recognized 67 miraculous healings. Almost every night there is a candlelight prayer procession honoring the Mother of God and her appearance at the Grotto. The Grotto has been replicated in many places around the world. Two of the most notable replicas are at the University of Notre Dame and the Vatican Gardens in Rome.

What is a miracle? The modern world says that since the development of “modern” science (by the way, science has always been around), there are no miracles. Everything can eventually be explained.

There is only the natural world which goes forward from event to event without interruption from any supernatural source. But miracles occur within the rules of Nature; it is just that a supernatural force has introduced an element that alters the anticipated outcome. If God plants a child in a woman, and then nine months later that child is born according to the laws of Nature, it was not just an ordinary child. For Christianity that was the ultimate miracle – that a supernatural being would make His presence known in the form of an innocent child. If that happened (and many people believe it did), then any other miracle is just child’s play. As rational human beings, we should always inquire whether a miracle has really occurred.

The Sunday after we returned from the pilgrimage, the gospel reading was of the raising of Lazarus from the dead. Lazarus was a friend of Jesus. Why did Jesus perform miracles? Was it just to show how powerful He was? No, it was an invitation to the people around Him, and now all of us to return to a relationship with God. His mother extends the same invitation to us when she appears. Just as C.S. Lewis has said, miracles are glimpses of the constant invitation to return to the One who made us all.

Miracles happen every day in this world of ours.

God is working in the world but we can’t always see or recognize Him. We might not realize a miracle has occurred until long after it took place.

We should keep our eyes open and pray that we will understand when the miraculous comes into our lives.

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In the late 1700s, the peasants in Italy The chubby child with a bow and arrow, attacking decided they wanted their own home unsuspecting lovers, or would-be lovers, is neither an crucifixes and saints but, in marble or bronze, angel nor a fairy; he is the Roman god of lust. If he is they couldn’t afford them. Solutions have a an angel, he is a very pagan one. way of popping up once a need is identified.

The cutesy “Kewpie” was an immediate success, Up to that point, plaster of Paris was mainly and by the following year, the image was being used to add decorative touches to things attached to all sorts of products. By 1913 the like moldings, picture frames, ceilings and demand for Kewpie dolls was so great it took fireplace fronts. Plaster of Paris is gypsum, twenty-one factories to keep up. (I swear, it’s in roasted, and powdered. When mixed with the book.) Besides chalkware the little critters were water, the material gets hard again. made out of almost anything: bisque (a low-fire clay Mexico’s even poorer peasants embraced that’s not much different than plaster), celluloid, these figures, but that class in New Mexico plastic, and what have you. was too poor even for plaster saints, so they carved them out of wood, creating a new art form. A notable exception was the Santo Nino de Atocha, the Christ Child. These statues are usually dressed in doll-sized clothing, after the tradition of that figure who is known for wearing out shoes as it patrols the village at night.

A well-known antique appraiser has written that the plaster figures – later known as chalkware, even though they aren’t chalk – are a true folk art.

Red Man Is Even Uglier Close Up. That’s probably stretching it a bit, since most of them involve some degree of manufacture – often with tens of thousands produced. They are – be it noted – hand painted.

The less classy ones were spray painted (air-brush).

They were “folk” to This Grotesque Chalk the extent that the subject Piece Gives New Meaning matter tended to be To “Red Man” Label. pretty earthy, far from politically correct, and pretty tasteless. Not all, Now the One Version Of The Cute Kewpie Indian of course, but the folksy ones qualify for that description. chalkware The ones featuring Black folks were especially repellent. fad hits Doll By the mid-1800s, a new fad had struck England – porcelain high gear. figurines. Staffordshire and other fine porcelain manufacturers When were turning out thousands of the small “sculptures” from a Ceremonial was created in 1922, there was still no paved highway high-fire clay that could be glazed, making them less likely to in either direction. Route 66 was made official in 1926, and signs chip or have the paint rub off. But a hundred years before that, went up the following year. It would only be a few years, though, the Chinese were exporting porcelain figures and had already before the Great Depression hit and tormented America for invented the nodder, or bobblehead. nearly ten years. That period was the Golden Age of cheap public The first bobber that I have clear memory of is the Hawaiian entertainment, from the paperback book and the comic, girl glued to the flat area behind the back seat. Her whole to film, radio serials, and the carnival with all its thrilling rides torso moved in a creepy sort of Hula dance. I don’t think it was and trappings. supposed to be creepy. Dogs and cats were equally popular with Stuffed toys hadn’t been conceived yet, so many of the small the heads bobbing up and down. prizes for carnival games were chalkware, and no other venue so It seems that fads often have phases, or periods of change illustrates the lack of taste epitomized by these cheap figurines. In The Top Half Of This and renewal. In 1909 a popular illustrator named Rose O’Neill an ocean of ugly, no category was worse than the Black caricatures Hula Girl Appeared To was using a cartoon drawing of Cupid in her illustrations. An represented by very clichéd, very black-skinned folks.

Dance. editor suggested that he get someone to write little poems (call The tourist trade in the Southwest is represented by two very that doggerel verse) and she could illustrate them. She wanted different streams. One branch is the car tourist who often stayed to do both. She called her creation Kewpie as a spin on Cupid. in cheap motels, ate in diners, and shopped in tourist traps. Out

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Ernie’s First Selfie in front of the tourist trap, there would be one or more concrete teepees, a large cement jackrabbit, or other animal the kids could pretend to ride, while daddy wasted a lot of film, and the ever popular rattlesnake pit (at least they didn’t wrestle them like Florida [mostly didn’t]) The roadside was plastered with signs that bore messages like “See, Live Squaw! Weaving!”, an actual billboard from Continental Divide. They had an Anasazi mummy billed as “The Thing!".

The others were the travellers who "Mischief " Is The Title Of This 9x12 Wall Plaque. stayed in hotels, ate in restaurants, visited galleries, and trading posts. While there are a number of definitions of the trading post, I use it here to mean places that actually carried Indian-made goods for at least half their inventory. Besides the good stuff, they offered cheap pottery, stamped silver and turquoise jewelry, and things like Indian-assembled bow and arrow sets and drums, using inner-tube for the heads.

by Ernie Bulow Indians invented their own curio items like the “thunderbird” necklaces from Santo Domingo, and the “rain gods” from Tesuque, both of which were once junk, but are now collectable. The real Indian dealers did not sell gas, ice cream, and suntan oil along the highway.

The word “curio” comes from “curiosity” and is defined as a decorative object considered novel, rare, or bizarre.

Yeah, I like bizarre. Chalkware scores high in all three categories. To be fair, there were large pieces made from multi-part molds, finely finished and beautifully painted. These were not, however, for sale along Route 66.

Some years ago a friend of mine got the store stock from a 1950s curio shop in Arizona, and I bought a number of items with original penciled prices of $1 to $2.50.

The Bizzare Child On The Potty I’m sorry I didn’t pick up a few Was A Popuular Chalk Piece. of the bizarre ones. Plaques were popular, and I got one depicting the namesake of Route 66, Will Rogers.

Animals were popular, and I bought some buffalo that show the hasty airbrushing, though faces and details were usually painted in. Since chalkware is pretty fragile, I thought not many would survive, but I was really wrong. Yesterday there were 7,700 for sale on eBay. I was tempted to buy the “Red Man", but decided that joke would be in poor taste.

There Are Several Versions Of The Buffalo Bookends.

Many Americans Still Believe All Indians Wear Feathers.. . . Even Women.

- ernie@buffalomedicine.com May 2017

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Gallup Treasure Kendra Wapaha won a sterling silver rosary with malachite beads, handmade by the Most Reverend Bishop James Wall of the Diocese of Gallup, and $100!

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He is humbly thankful. I believe his plans are to share his winnings with his Masani (grandma) and Cheii (grandpa). As a mother, thank you for providing this adventurous opportunity for youth/families of this community.” - Myra Cousens

Can you find this month’s Gallup Journey

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BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! Time for work.

It was just a dream.

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Events Calendar

Events Calendar

14th Sun.

May

Events: 3rd

Walking Together for Healthier Wed. Nations 6:30am Registration at Pueblo Pintado Chapter House (40 miles East of Crownpoint) 7:00am Walk Begins 6:30pm Arrive at Na’Neel Zhiin Ji’Olta (Torreon) Day School 7:00pm Community Health Fair Begins Free Event-No Registration For More Info: Eli Bigthumb 505-786-6321

6 th

Renaissance Faire Sat. El Morro Area Arts Council Old School Gallery Hwy 53 mile marker 46-1 East of El Morro National Monument 505-783-4710 7-9pm

7th

Do Or Dye Color 5K Run Sun. Entry Fee: $45.00, children 6 and under free.

Family Discount: with each paying parent, children 8th grade and younger run for FREE! For More Info: Ara Green 505-863-7519 adgreen@unm.edu McKinley County Courthouse 505-783-4710 9am

8th Mon.

9th Tues.

Crownpoint Just Move It Series Family Fun Runs & Walks Standing Rock Chapter Info: Division of Public Health 505-786-6321 9am Registration 10am Start Time Crownpoint Just Move It Series Family Fun Runs & Walks Baca Chapter Info: 505-786-6321 8:30am Registration 9:30am Start Time

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10th

Crownpoint Just Move It Series Wed. Family Fun Runs & Walks Ojo Encino Chapter Info: Division of Public Health 505-786-6321 9am Registration 10am Start Time

11th

Crownpoint Just Move It Series Thurs. Family Fun Runs & Walks Pueblo Pintado Chapter Info: Division of Public Health 505-786-6321 9am Registration 10am Start Time

12th

Crownpoint Just Move It Series Fri. Family Fun Runs & Walks Lake Valley Chapter Info: Division of Public Health 505-786-6321 8:30am Registration 9:30am Start Time

16th Tues.

17th Wed.

20th Sat.

13th

New Mexican Landscapes Sat. by Be Sargent and Jane Chilton opening at May ArtsCrawl PLEASE COME 307 South Second Street, Gallup 7-9pm

13th Sat.

Gallup Music Teacher’s Ensemble presents a concert with: Gallup Community Orchestra, Gallup Community Choir, and Stagecoach Elementary Children’s Choir.

Free Admission. Donations are appreciated.

Gallup High School Auditorium 7pm

13th

ArtsCrawl: Comic Con Sat. Downtown Gallup 7-9pm

14th

Red Rock String Ensemble Sun. Spring Concert. – Admission Free First Methodist Church 4pm

25th Thurs.

20th Sat.

6th Annual Manuelito Children’s Home 5K Run/Walk Gallup Family Fitness Series 1 Mile Fun Run First Methodist Church 8am Registration 9am Race Start Register: www.newmexicosportsonline.com or at the event on race day Crownpoint Just Move It Series Family Fun Runs & Walks Torreon Chapter Info: Division of Public Health 505-786-6321 9am Registration 10am Start Time Navajo Nation Museum Summer Star Lab Constellation Lecture Navajo Nation Museum Lobby 5-7pm Plateau Sciences Society 18th Annual Native & Xeric Plant Sale 9am - 3pm Native Plant Workshop 10am -11am Workshop is FREE to the public Holiday Nursery More info: Martin Link 505-863-6459 1214 E. Aztec Ave. Crownpoint Just Move It Series Family Fun Runs & Walks Alamo Community Wellness Center Info: Division of Public Health 505-786-6321 4:45pm Registration 5:15pm Start Time Adult Art Classes: gallupArts Figure Drawing Workshop

27th

Watercolor Painting Workshop Sat. For more information and to register, head to www.galluparts.org/adult-art-classes.

30 th Tues.

Rio West Mall Kids Fest Kick-Off Event Downtown Gallup 5-7pm

6 th Sat.

McKinley Citizens' Recycling Council meeting Contact: Gerald O'Hara – 505-870-1314 Millie Dunning – 505-722-5142 Linda Popelish – 505-905-5966

7th

Annual Bird House Auction Sun. The Ups and Downs team of the American Cancer Society's Relay For Life of Gallup will hold their annual Bird House Auction.

For more information call Linda Shelton at (505) 722-2175 or (505) 297-9515.

Sammy C's 6pm

14th

Taize' Worship Sun. Contact: Kathy Mezoff 505-870-6136 Westminster Presbyterian Church Gallup

15th

The Next Gallup Interfaith Mon. Community Gathering Bring a dish or drink for a shared meal. Bring a friend! The church is located at 151 State Highway 564, on the hill near Orleans Manor Apartments.

For more information about the gathering, contact Rev. Kay 505-290-5357 or call the church at 505-905-3247.

Westminster Presbyterian Church 6:30pm

May 18th Navajo Ranch Field Day:

Holistic Management for Restoring Health to Tribal Lands & Navajo Community Holistic Management International (HMI) will present "Open Gate: Rough Stone Ranch Day" at Rough Stone Ranch near Farmington, NM on May 18, 2017. The theme of the event is "Inspiration from Tradition: Restoring Health to Tribal Lands & Navajo Community".

Advance registration is $25 per person (by May 11, 2017) and includes a delicious lunch. Walk--in registration is $35 per person, if available.

For details and to register, visit www.holisticmanagement.org/ogstone.

This event is made possible by funding from the Farm Service Agency (FSA).

For more information, contact: Carrie Stearns Holistic Management International 505-842-5252 ext 101 carries@holisticmanagement.org

On Going: The City of Gallup's Monday Sustainable Gallup Board of each Month Community members concerned about conservation, energy, water, recycling, and other environmental issues are welcome.

Call 722-0039 for information.

Octavia Fellin Library 3:30-5pm First

Habitat for Humanity Work sessions held each week.Volunteers to serve on decision making meetings or wish to volunteer at or help fund construction projects, call Bill Bright at 505-722-4226 for details.

First Wednesday of each Month

Mondays

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.

Next meeting: May 3rd.

For info call: 360-912-1953 Meets at City Center Coffee 501 S.Third St. 6-7:30pm Al-anon, Support for Families and Friends of Alcoholics Sacred Heart Cathedral Family Center, 555 South Woodrow Dr., Gallup, NM 12noon - 1pm

Thursdays

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

Tuesdays

Al-anon, Support for Families and Friends of Alcoholics One Day At A Time Club Next to Catholic Church Ft. Defiance, Az. 6pm - 7pm

Wednesdays of each Month

Gallup Solar is hosting free classes about all things solar on Wednesdays.

Call 505-728-9246 for info on topics & directions.

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A group from Gallup’s surrounding area joined Bishop James Wall of the Diocese of Gallup and the Gallup Journey on a pilgrimage to Fatima and Lourdes. Here they are at Fatima. From right to left – Jeanna Dowse, Angela Riley, Lupe Rosetti, Jay Mason, Tina Rosetti, Joan Wall, Desiree Taliman, Diedra Taliman, Bishop James Wall, Cathy Agostinelli, Ed Fritz, Diane Fritz, Kitty Mason, Victoria Begay.

Kelson and Angela Plummer enjoyed their Christmas Holiday in New York City, NY at the Rockefeller Center with the Gallup Journey.

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Walking In Beauty

GROWING A FAMILY GARDEN One of my favorite memories shared with my dad and now my own kiddos is growing a garden. We would spend time picking out vegetable seeds that we would like to try to grow. Some of our favorites are cherry tomatoes, along with green and yellow squash.

Gardening is a great way to spend time as a family.

It is a great way to teach your children that plants, like people, need food and water to grow and stay healthy.

Taking care of a garden teaches them responsibility. It is also a great way to have them try new foods.

THINGS YOU NEED: • Garden plot: a 2-foot area works • Child-size tools: watering can, hose, small shovels, sticks to label plants • Potting soil • Some type of fertilizer • Seeds or seedling plants Some Easy Foods For Kids To Grow: • Carrots, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, green beans, lettuce, onions, zucchini, peppers, herbs, spinach, and watermelon.

Once the garden is growing and showing progress, have your kids help you maintain it each day. They can help pull weeds, pick the vegetables when they are ready, water plants when they are thirsty, and keep them safe from pesky critters. Then they can help prepare something from the garden to share and eat together as a family.

Chicken Caesar Bialy Good luck on your garden this summer!

Chicken Caesar Bialy

Grilled chicken, creamy Caesar dressing, romaine, and Parmesan on a savory bialy bun.

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Grilled chicken, creamy Caesar dressing,

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July 28th-30th

Excellent Entertainment For All!

Dozens of Balloon Ascensions Friday, Saturday, Sunday 6:30am (sunrise) • Red Rock Park

Motorcycles and Hot Air Balloons “Tunnel of Fire”

Saturday, 8pm (sundown) • Aztec Ave., from 9th St. to 3rd St.

Live bands, with Voodoo Rhythm and Black Pearl

Saturday, 4-11pm • Downtown Courthouse Plaza

Over 100 Outstanding Classic and Fun Cars Saturday, 10am-3pm Gurley Motor Co. on Coal Ave.

Circus Acrobats from “Wise Fools” (Santa Fe)

Saturday, 3-8pm • Downtown Courthouse Plaza

SUMMER EVENTS IN DOWNTOWN GALLUP

Gallup Rt 66 Freedom Ride Flight Cruise

For schedules and information visit: gogallup.com • Facebook - Freedom Ride and Flight Rally • http://gurleymotorcoroute66carshow.com/ • rt66freedomweekend.com

SCHEDULE

First Annual Gallup Native Arts Market

INVITED GUESTS AND TICKET HOLDERS: Artist Potluck and Preview Thursday, August 10th: 9am-12pm OPEN TO GENERAL PUBLIC: Thursday, August 10th: 12-6pm Market Friday, August 11th: 10am-6pm Market Saturday, August 12th: 8am-6pm Market For information visit gallupnativeartsmarket.org

Juried show overseen by a commission of established local Native artists Featuring work for sale by dozens of Master Artists jewelry-weaving-pottery-sculpting

Sponsored by City of Gallup, and coordinated by Gallup MainStreet Arts and Cultural District and GallupARTS - additional support by Gallup Business Improvement District.

francis@gallupbid.com

www.GoGallup.com

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