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City Update • November 2015 Skatepark Plan Moves Forward. Representatives from the design consulting firm held a second community meeting on October 15 to discuss the latest plans for the new downtown skateboard park. Thanks to feedback from local skateboard enthusiasts, we now have a completed design. The new facility will be built adjacent to the Gallup Cultural Center. More details coming soon!

Street Projects Completed This Year. Public Works recently completed a major curb, gutter, sidewalk, and resurfacing project on Country Club Drive between Phillipina Avenue and Red Rock Drive. This project also included installation of new utilities underground infrastructure.

Public Works also resurfaced a number of roads through the city this year, including Sixth Street between Mesa and Aztec, Mesa Avenue between Fourth Street and Eighth Street, Green Avenue from Fourth Street to Eighth Street, Tafoya Drive between Buena Vista Avenue and the park entrance, Buena Vista Avenue between Ford Drive and Tafoya, and Phillipina Avenue from Grandview Drive to Country Club.

Second Street Arts Festival, November 21, 10 am to 4 pm. Join us inside and outside of the El Morro Events Center for great food, art, and music.

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Veterans’ Day Observances. This year’s activities will begin at Hillcrest Cemetery with wreath-laying and remembrances from 8 to 10 am. At 11 am the annual parade will march down Aztec from the cemetery area to Courthouse Plaza where ceremonies will follow. A flyover by Gallup Medflight is planned for noon. The public is invited to participate.

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Letter to the Editor Dear Editor,

I first want to thank Mrs. Bera Dordoni for the opportunity to dialogue on this topic. I know that many exchanges between hunters and anti-hunters end in unproductive rhetoric and I wonder if explaining myself is even worth the time.

Please understand that I have read your frustrations and have tried to understand where you are coming from. Since I (a trophy hunter) represent a large group of people in McKinley County and the surrounding area, I thought it necessary to make an explanation.

Mrs. Dordoni, I am trying to understand your anger towards me for killing a bull elk (not a “buck”, as you stated in your letter) and your general distaste toward all of us who call ourselves hunters. You are entitled to your opinion and I respect it, but I disagree.

Let me be clear on a few things. First, you talk about the growing hatred toward the dentist who killed Cecil the lion and the death threats against him. The death of that lion was undoubtedly unwelcome and unfortunate. Palmer, although an imperfect human like all of us, is still a human being, and I believe humans are more important than animals as we are made in the image of God. Why is it that anti-hunters are ready to hate and kill other human beings, but get enraged by the idea of a dead animal? Seems so ironic and out of perspective.

I want to remind us of a few things that I think are relevant to this discussion.

One human being dies from armed conflict every minute. Two people die every minute from auto accidents, and about 21,000 children die each day from hunger or preventable diseases, yet here we sit and focus our attention on legal, sustainable, managed hunting of animals. What about the basic human necessities like electricity and water that even Zimbabweans themselves are more worried about on a daily basis than a lion. I think it was sad that that lion was killed, but I also think our attention and concern can be greatly skewed in this area.

I understand that maybe you have an idea in your head of this irresponsible person who kills anything that moves, shoots carelessly, and doesn’t even clean his own gun. Maybe there is a stereotype that comes with the label “trophy hunter.”

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Yes, I love the trophy, but there is so much more to the hunt that I need to explain, and hopefully this letter gives you the idea that someone like myself respects what you think. I have a passion for hunting and put much thought and intentionality into it. I am thankful that all this has forced me to articulate my own perspective.

Second, the elk that I kill expire quickly, less than a minute after I shoot them. Natural deaths involving predators, on the other hand, can be very ugly and brutal. A so-called “natural death” doesn’t mean that it was peaceful and painless. Also, elk and deer will often get hit by vehicles. These accidents are messy and unfortunate for everyone and everything involved.

Third, yes I am a trophy hunter. I typically don’t shoot the first animal I see. Instead I wait for the biggest and smartest elk in the woods. There is an incredible challenge in taking one of these animals. These bulls are as smart and savvy as any creature on earth.

I am in a chess match with the best of the species. You should also know that this is an animal who is getting close to the end of his life. In a year or two his teeth will be so worn down that he won’t be able to eat and then will starve to death.

Yes, I enjoy everything about the hunt – the anticipation, the sounds, the smells, the stalk, and even a successful kill. Trying to stay undetected, wearing camouflage, masking my scent, and then stalking an animal in their own habitat is a rush I can’t explain. I don’t expect everyone to understand this.

Fourth, I like to provide lean, healthy meat for my family and friends. A week ago I gave approximately 400 lbs of meat to five men working on the same reservation that I had the hunt on, and also where I grew up. The looks on their faces and the gratitude for the amount of meat they would bring back to their families was priceless. It’s also a blessing to know that the animal who sacrificed his life was well-fed and free-ranging.

He didn’t spend a day in a feedlot, coral, or in some other inhumane existence, being pumped full of growth hormones and antibiotics so that it hardly resembles food in its natural form. I could continue to talk about the time, effort and money spent on conservation by the hunting community, but space won’t allow that in this letter.

Finally, the head and antlers will be mounted on my wall not for pride, but as a reminder of the time and effort I have put in chasing the elk and the absolute respect I have for these animals. I enjoy looking at my mounts, not to feed my ego, but because it stirs my memories of the hunt – the camaraderie and the good times spent outdoors with family and friends. This may be hard to believe, but it’s absolutely true.

I love life, I love animals; I love people; and I love the outdoors. Hunting has led to lifetime friendships and I feel very blessed! I believe God gave humanity animals to help us, work for us, and for us to eat. Not the other way around! Even more, in the Bible God demanded the blood of animals be sacrificed to atone for man’s sin. Jesus, who I believe is the son of God, thankfully now bears that sin...and even He harvested fish, ate the passover lamb, and killed a herd of pigs in a lake. Hopefully both of us can try and follow His broader examples of love for humanity.

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It is amazing to watch these athletes perform; showing strength, skill, and agility. And that is just watching them on the sidewalks of Gallup when they sneak an opportunity beyond the “No Skateboarding” signs.

There were only three young people, Cecely Todacheenie, and her brothers Jeremy and Gerald, who attended the very first meeting at the Northside Neighborhood Meeting, but the enthusiasm was quite evident. They explained that the current small skateboard facility by Lincoln Elementary is sketchy, an embarrassment, and also dangerous. When the first concept drawings were presented at a City Council meeting, the word had spread and there were several more young people along with parents who attended and spoke to the council concerning their desires for the park. Their enthusiasm went beyond just their activity of skateboarding; they explained that there are competitions all over the country and often buses of competitors pass right by Gallup on I-40 on their way to other communities to compete. They want the opportunity to hold competitions or even practice sessions right here in Gallup.

The skaters have been able to participate in two City Council meetings to view the concept drawings from the landscape architectural firm of Morrow Reardon Wilkinson Miller, Ltd. There were three locations originally presented: (1) The Gallup Cultural Center, (2) adjacent to We The People Park, and (3) close to the Harold Runnels Sports Complex. Weighing many pros and cons, the skateboarders, the City Council and the landscape architect Greg Miller all agreed that the new Skateboard Park should be built at the Gallup Cultural Center, keeping the park downtown and close

to other events and restaurants. The plan is to relocate the rail caboose and utilize all the open space to the east of the Cultural Center. The City and the design firm recently held a Skateboard Park planning meeting at the newly opened Second Street Events Center and received great input from many young people of the skateboard community on the types of pipes, rails, lifts, ramps, etc. that they would desire in a park. Those ideas are currently back on the drawing board with the design team.

The City has $40,000 in Legislative Capital Outlay funds designated for the Skateboard Park. Patty Lundstrom, District 9 State Representative, garnered these funds two years ago. There is a stipulation on the funds that it must be used on the North Side of Gallup. The Southwest Indian Foundation has also committed another $50,000 towards the completion of the project. When the final concept is presented by the landscape architect, the City Council will know the exact funding that will be required to build the skater’s dream park.

At the City Council meeting on September 8, 2015, the Skateboard Park was listed as #1 on the City’s Infrastructure Capital Improvement Plan (ICIP) list.

When the New Mexico State Legislative session is convened in early 2016, this park will be presented for Gallup’s ICIP needs.

So, hang tight, skateboarders. Your new park could be completed in 2016. Your input and zeal has been greatly appreciated.

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After getting a locater call back, I ran into the trees as fast as I could to cut him off. I had to calm down and clean the lens on my scope because of condensation. I took my shot at 275 yards and missed high. Amazingly ,it didn’t move as I began the painful process of reloading. It was still standing in the clearing as my second shot hit him in the shoulder. It still just stood there as I reloaded again, which seems like an eternity with a muzzle loader. I took a third shot and dropped him through the heart. 6x6 Elk. -Chad Meekhof

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My pet:

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By Martin Link

B

y 1972 our zoo, which was attached to the Navajo Tribal Museum in Window Rock, was ten years old. Mostly through happenstance we had acquired two bears, two eagles, and a menagerie of foxes, ducks, deer, coyotes, bobcats, raccoons, and a badger. We decided it might be time to add a mountain lion.

“I was notified in late August that they had a six-week old female cougar available, so I drove to Albuquerque in my new Ford Cougar and made the purchase. I had absolutely no idea what my life would be like for the next five years! -Martin Link

In the early spring of that year, I visited the Rio Grande Zoo in Albuquerque and talked to their staff about the feasibility of adding a mountain lion to our collection. They suggested that I not try to trap an adult in the surrounding forest, but start with a juvenile kitten that would grow up being in constant human contact. So, with that advice, I put my name on their waiting list.

The Rio Grande Zoo had a couple of female cougars who would produce a litter every other year, and to my surprise, there was both a waiting list and a $300 purchase price! I was told that most of the buyers were ranchers from the central regions of New Mexico. What? I thought they were the primary proponents for exterminating them?

No, the zoo staff assured me, they raise them and then turn them loose on their rangeland to control the prairie dogs and grasshoppers!

Anyway, I was notified in late August that they had a six-week old female available, so I drove to Albuquerque in my new Ford Cougar and made the purchase. I had absolutely no idea what my life would be like for the next five years!

wasn’t a dog looking at them out the window.

At that time I lived in a duplex on Navajo Street near the corner of Green Street. When I got back from work, I would put Candy on a leash in the front yard, at least until I finished supper (if she was in the house, we always had a fight over the mashed potatoes). She would always spend the night cuddled up in an old blanket in the bathtub. An interesting characteristic I learned about mountain lions is that they preferred to defecate in water. When Candy grew to the size that she could comfortably straddle the toilet, that’s where she would do her business; she never learned to flush it, though.

By the end of the year, she had gained over 30 pounds, lost all her spots, and the color of her eyes changed from blue to amber. As a precaution, I had the vet remove her front claws, but we left her teeth alone.

During the following years, especially in the summer evenings, the neighborhood kids would come over and ask if Candy could play with them.

They put the kitten in a traveling cage that just fit the back seat of my car, and I returned They had an old football with some loose lacings to Gallup. And what a feisty little cat she Me and Candy Cougar which they would throw down the street and Candy was. Sharp claws and even sharper teeth, and would catch it by holding those lacings in her mouth. It was quite a sight to see an appetite that was never satisfied. Since she loved chocolate bars, we named her a dozen kids chasing a mountain lion with a football in her mouth all over the “Candy.” neighborhood!

We had a cage for her in the zoo, but I found myself taking her home at night.

I remember one night when she failed to come home. To be on the safe side, I As the weeks and months went on, she settled down, became more compatible to human contact, and actually enjoyed riding in the car; usually in the front passenger notified the police and we spent more than an hour going up and down the alleys looking for her. We searched in vain. So, notified the neighbors, and the police left seat with her head out the window. When I passed another car, it was always the area. Luckily I had left the front door open, and when I returned home, there amusing to see the expression on the driver’s face when he or she realized that it

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was Candy, sound asleep in the bathtub.

Every autumn Candy and I were special guests to Tohatchi High School’s homecoming. The Tohatchi Cougars football team would get their

group picture with their “mascot,” and then she would sit at the 50-yard line during the game, usually at the consternation and wonderment of the opposing team.

In those days the Rotary Club met for lunch at El Rancho. The banquet room was set up with a head table and two lines of tables in a “U” style. This allowed the waitresses to go between the two lines and serve and then to clean up before the program. One time I was asked to make a presentation about endangered animals with a focus on mountain lions.

On the day I was to make my talk, I came early and spotted Candy under the head table. When the Rotarians showed up for the lunch meeting, only the president was aware of who was sitting under the table.

When everyone was finished with their meal, the waitresses began to clear away the dishes and utensils. The waitress who came up to the head table was a long-time and well-known employee of El Rancho, Maxine Hamilton. As she started to clear the dishes, Candy’s curiosity got the best of her, and before I could react, she came out from beneath the table and met Maxine face to face! Needless to say, dishes, glasses, and utensils went everywhere! Thanks to Candy’s grand entrance, my presentation was

Pat Gurley doing a photoshoot with Candy Cougar ears that were presented to any of their offices, no questions asked. It was open season, and it didn’t really matter if the lion had actually been killed in neighboring New Mexico, Utah, Sonora, or California. There were instances where a cougar had been shot or trapped only to find that its ears had already been cut off. Also, because of its classification as a predator, there were no funds available to do professional studies of the lion’s habitat, diet preferences, and the niche this species occupied in the overall environment.

Finally, several organizations, including the Sierra Club managed to propose legislation that would re-classify the status of the cougar as a big game animal, thereby doing away with the bounty, and in its place, charge a fee for a hunting license. But there was still a lot of opposition, and the up-coming public hearing for the bill portended to be quite controversial. I managed to reserve three seats at the hearing room in the State Capitol in Phoenix. On the day of the public

preempted, and Maxine wouldn’t talk to me for months.

In the mid-70s the Ford Motor Co. embarked on a national advertising campaign to Candy in her promote their line Gallup home of Ford Cougars.

Since I was the only guy on my block with two cougars, Pat Gurley asked if I would participate in a local advertising campaign that he initiated. So, on a Saturday morning, Candy was the special guest at Gurley Motors, posing on all the Cougar models they had in stock and meeting potential buyers. As usual, she took the whole episode in stride.

Perhaps her greatest legacy came in 1976. For years Arizona was the last state in the

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discussion of the bill, I, Steve Darden, and Candy took our seats, and the tenor of the discussion changed drastically. In the

end, much to Candy’s satisfaction, the committee members all voted to classify the Mountain Lion as a big game species. Candy just sat there and purred.

After a year of construction, we dedicated the new Navajo Zoological Park on July 4, 1977. Candy finally had an appropriate home. Several months later I changed jobs and took on the directorship of Red Rock State Park. Without a doubt, the hardest part of the transfer was saying goodbye to Candy. Over the years I would go out to the zoo for a visit. Once I called her name, she would come running over to me and start purring, wanting her ears scratched. But as the years passed, her gait turned to a slow walk as arthritis took its toll.

On the first weekend of December 1990, Candy lost her valiant battle with old age. She was eighteen and a half years old.

Loline Hathaway, curator of the Navajo Nation Zoological and Botanical Park, remarked, “The reigning grand dame of the zoo has given up her throne. She was definitely one of our main attractions and had her own audience.” A sweet sadness fell over the zoo, and all those who knew her.

“There’s a sadness hidden in that pretty face, a sadness all her own, From which no man can keep Candy safe,”

Candy’s Room - Bruce Springsteen.

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Q. What was it like to ride in Gallup when you were young?

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When did you start racing?

I went to my first race at the motocross park in – I believe it was 1984

or 85 – and I was just in awe. I never knew we had that here. I was blown away watching the Honda ATC 250R three wheelers race around the track. I was just like: I want to come out here every weekend. We just rode the trails we had, but there wasn’t sanctioned racing in Gallup again until we had our first one in 2011.

Q. A.

How do Gallup’s off roading courses compare to the rest of New Mexico?

I feel they are second to none, but of course I’m biased. We’ve got everything you can think of. We’ve got motocross. We’ve got desert.

We’ve got tight technical. We’ve got lots of mud when you want mud. (Deep laugh) That was one of the biggest reasons I moved back to Gallup after I finished PT school. At the time I was racing professionally, and Gallup was the best place to keep my racing skills up. We have a great combination of every riding element you can think of.

Q. Who have you looked up to?

A. My father has been my biggest influence in off roading.

He was my right-hand-man when it came to racing. We wrenched together and raced together. He only missed one of my races in my entire lifetime.

Q. A.

Who are some of the other people in town who share your passion for off roading?

Gallup’s been a big racing town for many years. Growing up, of course, there was my dad and my older brother Mike. I followed my brother around, and his riding buddies were my riding buddies too, like Kevin Bright. David Vining was one of the fastest guys back in the day. His son Abraham and I would do everything we could to stay on his fender. (Laughs) He was so smooth. We just loved watching David ride. Growing up I loved going against the older guys like: David Hutchison, Todd Costley, Dave Steadman, Randy Duran, and Frank Hausner. That’s how I learned to get fast; racing with them.

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Q. Do you jump in your Quad? What’s the most air you’ve got on a jump?

A. When I was younger,

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I loved to fly. My goal was to win a pro class arena cross race, and I finally did in 2007 at Red Rock Park. I would say the highest vertical jump I’ve ever done was 35 feet. I wouldn’t do that anymore. It was actually at Jefferson jumps before they built the school there. There was a plateau you came down to hit an old coal seam. When you hit it, you would launch all the way down to the bottom. We used to find jumps, like over by the old Allsups and stack our Quads and see how many we could clear. (Laughs) We never had a boring moment growing up in Gallup. (Laughs again)

Q. Tell me about the flood this year.

A. It just came at such a horrible time. That was our first race of the

year, on July 4th, and we are part of the New Mexico Motocross series.

Saturday was practice. The flood wiped us out. I’ve seen floods before and I’ve seen the arroyo get full, but this one just backed our culvert up with so much debris that the arroyo came up over our parking lot and the water was two to three feet deep all the way across. There were enclosed trailers, 4 wheelers, tents, tools, and gas cans floating away.

There was a mad dash to keep them from being swept back into the arroyo. It was atrocious – talk about feeling helpless. The only good thing about that was that we didn’t have to water the next day at the park. (Deep laugh) We actually raced the next day. We pumped out a lot of the berms that captured water, but we raced. We raced all day long.

It took a lot of work from our club. We worked all night long.

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Looking back on your racing career what moment stands out as a moment you will always treasure?

A.

The first desert race I ever went to was in Snowflake, Arizona. I was 23 and I knew how to ride, but didn’t know how I compared to other people. We pulled up in the dark and when the sun came up and I started looking around I thought, “Oh my gosh, What am I doing Greg And His Pops here?” It was enormous. It was the biggest off road race in Arizona. It was huge! I didn’t know what to do but I pulled up on my stock Yamaha Banshee, and when the starter said go, I just pinned it and finished 6th out of 100 Quads. Immediately, I got bumped up to a higher class and after two races, when I won that class, I got bumped up to pro, and I’ve been racing pro ever since.

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Health In The Land of Enchantment

In this space there will be a variety of local writers who will share their perspectives on health, lifestyle, and medicine.

This month’s article is written by Therapy Mobz “Where Movement Heals.”

Creaking Knees???

Myths about Knee Osteoarthritis??

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uring your recent visit to your doctor, your X-ray confirmed that you have knee OA. This explains the cracking, creaking, popping, and grinding sound you hear when you move around. Now you sink into the reality that you have officially joined the “old-age group” who gets infested with this notorious joint disease. But wait, you are barely past 40. How can this be? Do you stop doing your one mile daily walk? Do you validate the need to just sit in your chair and revoke all the hope of getting physically in shape? Let’s bridge the gap between the facts and myths about knee OA.

1. Myth: OA affects only the elderly and those who are obese.

Fact: Research shows individuals with increased body weight and age are at increased risk of knee OA, however, there are several factors that can contribute to the development of knee OA which include: past injury, occupation, sports, and genetics. Approximately 14% of adults, aged 25+, are diagnosed with radiographic osteoarthritis at varying degrees of severity.

2. Myth: All knee OA will end up needing knee replacement. (You are bound to have a ‘bionic’ knee)

Fact: Surgical intervention is dependent on couple factors: the level of pain and difficulty to perform daily activities, and the level of severity of joint compression as seen in the imaging diagnostic exams (X-ray or MRI).

3. Myth: Once diagnosed with knee OA, you should no longer walk for exercise.

Fact: This fallacy will lead to more co-morbidities e.g. diabetes, hypertension, depression, increased joint stiffness, increased weakness of your legs and your whole body, and increased risk for falls. Modification of activities and lifestyle is needed to maintain healthy physical fitness.

In the presence of pain or discomfort, our movement pattern is distorted, and when we persist to perform in this manner, we perfect the impairment. In due time, what was once a great hip and knee alignment becomes bow legged or knock knees. This is how we add to the statistics of knee OA in the future.

In this day and age when there is an emphasis to be strong and physically fit, there are lots of gizmos on the market promising to do the trick of building abs or the buns. We get thrilled about the fact of how many push-ups one can perform or how fast one can burn the walking belt off the treadmill that the quality of movement is often undermined and compromised.

Knee OA develops over time. In some cases, other surrounding structures may be involved like the meniscus. It is best to consult

with your physical therapist to understand how to improve your movement pattern. In cases where surgery is indicated,

physical therapy management, before and after, will improve the rate of success in restoring the individual’s physical functional goals.

“The primary cause of degenerative joint disease or osteoarthritis is joint dysfunction. Therefore, it may be concluded that its presence is due to failure or lack of accessibility to physical therapy.” (Paris.

S.V. First International Conference, Vienna, Austria, 1985)

Are you a candidate for knee replacement or knee surgery? Ask a physical therapist how they can help you achieve your maximum rehab potential? Do you have a ‘bionic’ knee (knee replacement)?

Ask how getting physical therapy can assist you in preventing your other knee or your hip from getting replaced in the near future.

-Jeremias & Lynn Torres Doctors of Physical Therapy • Orthopedic Clinical Specialist by APTA

4. Myth: Once diagnosed with knee OA, you have to start wearing your knee brace at all times.

Fact: It is best to consult with your Physical Therapist to understand and address the mechanical factors that are contributing to the increased stress to your joint. The Physical Therapist will develop a treatment plan to prevent further progression of abnormal joint loading while maintaining an active lifestyle. The use of a brace may lead to muscle disuse and further muscle strength imbalance if used as the only treatment. he month of October was celebrated as National Physical Therapy month. the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) declared 2015 as the year of: “Aging Well.” To age well, we need to move often and move well.

How early do we really think of aging well? How often do we hear an adult advise a young athlete dealing with pain to toughen it up and keep on going till no pain can be felt?

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Fact or Fiction?

by Fowler Roberts

Pop Quiz 1. NMDOT has completed a master plan for landscape designs at Gallup’s I-40 exits.

Which of the following design themes is not being considered:

a. Route 66.

b. Navajo and Zuni culture.

c. Indigenous Chaco masonry.

d. Digital signs with Rueben Barreras and Brett Newberry in Dallas Cowboy regalia.

2. The Pueblo of Zuni received a donation of two modular buildings for the Zuni Senior Citizens Center from:

a. The Bow Meow Gala raffle.

b. The Bill and Melinda Gates Make a Wish Foundation.

c. The Washington Redskins Original Americans Foundation.

d. Charlie Chavez as a representative of Gallup’s NASCAR affiliate club.

3. One of the technical challenges with the Navajo Gallup Water Supply Project is that:

a. It’s hard to find a route that won’t disrupt frybread stands at the Sheep

Springs flea market on Sundays.

b. Stations to pump water uphill are necessary because Gallup is at a higher

elevation than the San Juan River.

c. The City will have to prove that heavy metals from the Gold King mine

spill north of Silverton have dissipated to safe levels.

d. It will require deployment of the National Guard to fight off San Juan

basin farmers when it actually comes time to send water to the Navajo Nation and Gallup.

4. Mayor Jackie McKinney asked City staff to issue a request for proposals seeking development of a:

a. Think tank to generate policy proposals to benefit “good old boys.”

b. Solar farm.

c. Natural gas powered power plant.

d. Factory to mass produce trash cans painted with flying pigs.

5. The City of Gallup and McKinley County recently met to establish joint legislative priorities. Which of the following is not one of the joint priorities:

a. Increased and sustained funding for behavioral health investments zones.

b. Funding for the design and construction of Carbon Coal Road.

c. Full funding from the State of NM for housing state prisoners in county jails.

d. Weekly European facials at Mystique Salon for Councilors and Commissioners.

6. The RMCHCS board has approved sale of its assets to Health Care Integrity/David Conejo. For the sale to be completed, three other approvals must also be obtained.

Which of the following approvals is not required:

a. McKinley County for a new lease of the building.

b. A State of New Mexico regulatory body.

c. RMCH bondholders.

d. Two of the three Zecca brothers.

Answers: D. We won’t be seeing Rueben and Brett at our I-40 exits.

C. The Redskins foundation donated modular buildings to Zuni.

B. NGWSP is designed with pumping stations like the one being built at Tohlakai.

B. The City is requesting proposals for development of a solar farm.

D. Sorry, no facials for our Councilors and Commissioners.

D. The Zecca brother’s consent is not required for the RMCH sale.

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VETERAN’S CORNER Joe Danoff

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20 YEARS OF SERVING HIS COUNTRY

n 1937, at the tender age of 16, Joe Danoff was already piloting a single-engine airplane that belonged to Mr. Clair Gurley right here in Gallup. Even at that young age, Danoff had made up his mind that he wanted to be a pilot. He smiled when he said, “Though at that time, I was not sure where that desire would take me.” Clair Gurley was his pilot instructor and instilled a love for planes and flying in his young protégé that would guide Joe’s life and career choices.

Danoff’s parents lived in Gallup, but his mother made an untimely trip to California and Joe was born in Los Angeles on August 31, 1921. As soon as his mother was able to travel again, they returned to Gallup which would become the home base for his rewarding 94 (and counting) years.

In 1939, Danoff attended Junior College in Bonham, Texas and followed this with flight school at the prestigious Kelly Field, Texas, where he trained at Service Instructors School. After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the need for more pilots, bombardiers, and navigators resulted in the rapid expansion of the United States Army’s air arm and the Advanced Flying School. From 1941 to 1943, Danoff would work as a contract civilian instructor to the Army Air Corps, honing the flying skills of pilots who would defend our country during World War II. Night flying was added to the school program and the amount of training time doubled. Between January 1939 and March 1943, over 6,800 men graduated from Kelly’s Advanced Flying School and approximately 1,700 additional pilots graduated from various other courses in the Instructor’s School. As a very young man of only 23, Danoff was a top flight instructor for these men.

Today, Kelly Air Base is the oldest, continuously active, air base in the United States Air Force, but at that time it was an air base branch of the Army Air Corps. The history of Kelly begins only 13 years after Orville and Wilbur Wright made their first flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on December 17, 1903.

From that quiet beginning, American air power has emerged as a vital element of our national defense. It was because of skilled training pilots like Danoff that the United States had powerful air attacks with the PT-19’s.

With World War II in full engagement in the European theatre, Danoff left his civilian training position and joined the Army Air Corps where he continued his flight training duties, but now as a member of the United States

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Armed Forces. He returned to Bonham, Texas where he continued cadet training and instructed pilot flight skills for P-51’s. He was then transferred to Lincoln Army Air field in Lincoln, Nebraska. This base provided technical training for aircraft mechanics, basic training for army aviation cadets, and served as an overseas deployment staging area for bombardment groups and fighter squadrons. At war’s end the airfield served as a military separation center for aircrews returning from overseas and closed soon thereafter. Danoff went on to Dale Mabry Air Field in Tallahassee, Florida until 1945 when he left full service and entered the Air Reserves.

Joe went to Phoenix for a time and worked as an engineer for Air Research.

When the United States Air Force was created through the National Security Act of 1947, Danoff moved from being in the Army Air Corps Reserves to being in the United States Air Force Reserves.

Back in Gallup in 1947, Joe met a young lady named Ruth Lee at the El Rancho when she was visiting from Mesa, Arizona. He laughs when he says, “Ruth lied about her age.

She was only 17. But I fell in love and married her shortly thereafter in Florence, Arizona. Ruth was attending a girl’s school and would wear her wedding ring on a chain around her neck so that no one would know she was married.”

In June of 1950, when the North Korean People’s soldiers crossed the 38th Parallel, between North and South Korea, Danoff was recalled to the Air Force to once again serve as a pilot training instructor as the United States engaged to assist South Korea. He was sent to College Station in Bryan, Texas where he trained the pilots on T-28, T-33, and C-47 fighter planes. Danoff then served in an administrative position until 1953 when he again left full service in the United State Air Force after 10 years.

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Danoff then resumed his position with the Air Force Reserves and returned to Gallup for a brief time. Ruth’s father, Al Lee, owned four different Trading Posts, one of which was in Ganado, Arizona. Joe and Ruth moved to Ganado with their four daughters, Debbie, Cathy, Carol and Valerie to run the Ganado Trading Post.

But just because Joe lived in Ganado, Arizona, did not mean he would give up his flying. He had managed to purchase a single engine Beechcraft Bonanza, and he built a dirt landing strip in Ganado and would fly on weekends to Williams Air Force Base in Mesa, Arizona in order to stay active in the Air Force Reserves. He retired from the Air Force Reserves in 1963 as a Major, spending a total of 10 years in the Air Force and 10 years in the Reserves.

“But,” Joe comments, “The greater world of aviation was still calling me.

It was in my blood.” So, in 1967 Danoff left the Ganado Trading Post and went to work for D.B Clark at the very small Gallup air terminal. “Thinking back, in 1945 it was named the Senator Clark Field and was run by Thunderbird Aviation. This is actually a bit comical, as the original airport was a pasture for cattle and the landing strip was made from coal ash.” Through those early years, Clark and Danoff acted as a flight chauffeur service to many of Gallup’s elite, as well as emergency flights when needed. In 1971 City Fathers approached D.B. Clark to be manager of the Gallup Airport. D.B. did not want anything to do with management, as he only wanted to fly. So, Danoff became the manager, starting a 25-year second career. Through the years, he brought the tiny terminal to a full small airport, adding additional buildings, constructing his own hanger and hangers for others. The runway was extended to handle small jet planes and state-of-the-art runway lights were added. Danoff was responsible for bringing Frontier Airlines to Gallup in the late ‘60’s.

Danoff became good friends with D. B. Clark, and it was one of the hardest times of his life when D.B.’s plane went down in 1972 somewhere in Nevada. Danoff flew over Battle Mountain in Nevada where he spotted the wreckage of his good friend’s plane. Clark and Jerry Tanner were killed in the plane crash. Danoff shakes his head as he says, “I lost a small part of my world that day,” but he did not lose his desire to fly. After two more Beechcraft Bonanza’s and a Cessna 180, he finally settled with his final plane, a retractable-wheel Cessna 210. The previous owner flew it to Gallup for the sale and Danoff said, “I had to overhaul the engine and tweak the plane to meet my needs and desires, and I loved flying that plane!”

Noting his knowledge of aviation, Danoff was appointed by the Governor to the Board of the International Space Two of the Flight Log Hall of Fame in Alamogordo, books showing his flying New Mexico. When the meetings history from 1943 to 2005 were held Danoff would fly there to attend and share his love for aviation with other board members.

Joe retired as an employee of the Airport and the City of Gallup in 1996.

He continued to fly up until 2005 when he underwent triple by-pass heart surgery.

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Danoff gives a sad head-shake as he says, “I gave up flying by my own choice. I didn’t want anyone else telling me I had to quit. It was a difficult day, but I knew it was time.” He sold the Cessna 210 and out of the goodness of his heart and his love for aviation, he donated his personal hanger to The City of Gallup. At that time, Danoff had logged over 25,000 hours in the air. As he answered questions and needed clarification of dates, he would refer to numerous flight log books dating from 1943 to 2005. Danoff had made quite a mark for himself, in the world of aviation, for his country, and for Gallup, New Mexico.

Joe and Ruth have lived a great life together, sharing 4 daughters, 19 grandchildren and 27 great-grandchildren. Joe smiles and gives a little sigh when he says, “Ruth has been a guiding beacon in my life. She is my partner and my best friend. I feel I was able to accomplish much in my life due to her love and support.”

To commemorate his contribution to the aviation growth in Gallup, on October 15, 2015, the City Fathers renamed the Gallup Terminal to “Joe Danoff Terminal”. Large silver lettering on the north and south sides of the building now proclaim the new name. There is also a pedestal plaque at the doorway entering the terminal from the runway that celebrates the date and the new name of the terminal.

A gathering of family, city management, and old friends from his flying days were on hand to see this special day for Joe Danoff. The mayor presented a proclamation and many handshakes and hugs were provided to this 94 year old monument of a man!

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Doo Ajinii Da

Mr. Bulow is generous in his praise of the Navajo people for being one of the tribes still speaking their language. He lamented how the larger American society and “the socalled sophisticated peoples of the world” have “perverted” the power of the spoken and written word, blaming “the incredible advance in mass communications.”

In praising the Navajos’ oral tradition, Bulow derides the poetry of renowned poet E. E. Cummings for not appreciating the power of the word, and in the same paragraph referencing a character in N. Scott Momaday’s House Made of Dawn, who he says asserts that “…we Anglos are in the process of talking ourselves out of existence.”

Bulow gives many examples of words and phrases that Navajos are told not to say.

Some are quoted on this page. I am sure the mentioned word taboos came from Navajo informants. Most are not exactly as I heard during my life. I do clearly remember the taboos about not planning at night and not to say your own name. I remember being told not to criticize others because the same attribute or event might happen to me. You were told not to say your own name or your ears would dry up and shrivel. I was told this is a reminder to be modest and humble.

However what I remember most about the use of words is the specific phrase, “Doo ajinii da.” It means, “One (you) should not say that.” The common admonition would come usually from an older person, in response to a mean or derogatory statement about anything.

The phrase was not always followed by an

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explanation of what might happen to you; you usually would know what was said was rude, bad, or simply discourteous or pessimistic.

It was not until I was in college that I took to heart one of the most important reasons for “doo ajinii da.” The narrator in Herman Hesse’s Steppenwolf muses that when something is put into words it is closer to reality; closer to happening. The worst thing you might say to somebody is to wish them death; while you might not cause a death, you have taken the extraordinary step of putting it into words.

Bulow observes that Navajos traditionally did not use the Navajo words for please and thank you. I agree and the few Navajos I asked agreed. The reason is not that clear. However in current times, Navajos seem to say those words more often. You should hear the politicians begging for votes. When I am at a restaurant I will say “thank you” several times as I am being served, but in English.

The Navajo thank you would be a little too strong.

I like Bulow’s effusive praise of Navajos’ respect for words and their language of course. I am not so sure about the thought that Anglos are not appreciating the power of words and how mass communication and advertising are degrading the power of language. To me, advertising and mass communications demonstrates the power of the word; it is possible that if more of it were in Navajo, the language would cease its decline.

a. Don’t say”Chindi”(evil spirit) b. One will come to you and do you harm.

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A. Don’t say your own name too much B. Your ear’s will fall off pg. 118

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GALLUP, NEW MEXICO

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This 68,620 sq/ft building in downtown Gallup is scheduled to be opened in the next month. These homes are being developed

by Care 66 with the purpose of providing families with quality downtown housing. J.L. Gray Inc. are taking applications now at jlgray.com. Special thanks to the Navajo Housing Authority for their commitment to this project.

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Home of Harmony This project was designed to be a place called home for moderate and low income working families. Located on the eastern edge of the Central City District, it acts as a colorful gateway welcoming people to downtown and Gallup’s future.

There are 45 apartments, mostly two bedrooms, with a handful of three bedroom units, and nine one-bedroom units. About five units are set aside for chronically homeless people and thirty units are set aside for Native American families. Secure underground parking is available to residents for an additional fee. The apartments are all electric with plenty of sunlight and fresh air.

Rent range from $591 to $755. Renee Otero is the Assistant Site Manager for JL Gray and is accepting applications now. Residents will be required to have background and credit checks to ensure that they have enough income and that they will enhance the quality of life at Hooghan Ho’zho.

Senator Martin Heinrich contemplates the view from the Hooghan Ho’zho apartments with Care 66 Executive Director SanjayChoudhrie.

Hooghan Ho’zho is a smoke free residence and has several courtyards, planters for trees and plants, a community room, patios, and outdoor play areas. It was designed and built by some of the best architects and contractors in New Mexico to be a good comfortable place to live. This project was funded by: the Navajo Housing Authority, Washington Federal, USDA, Bonneville Multifamily Capital, HUD, NM Mortgage Finance Authority, McKinley County, City of Gallup, Rural Community Assistance Corporation, and NMED. In other words, almost everybody pitched in to help make this happen and we have much to be thankful for.

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Memories of Gallup

By Bob Rosebrough

“Even though everything was dead elsewhere, Gallup was an active town.”

AN INTERVIEW WITH TOBE TURPEN JR.

Tobe Turpen, Jr. joined his father in the Indian trading business in Gallup in 1943 and worked in the business, which he eventually owned, for the next 60 years.

A mule as a babysitter.

Tobe says, “I was born in Flagstaff in 1923. My father was trading in a very remote reservation store called Shonto up near Tuba City. And they brought my mother to the hospital in Flagstaff, and that’s where I was born.”

Of reservation life as a young child, Tobe says, “I remember going to Flagstaff. It was all dirt roads, and if the weather was bad it was just terrible. The car would break down. I remember that. We had an old mule, and there was kind of a safe area down there in a canyon. My dad would put me on that mule. He told me, ‘So I’d put you on that mule and leave you out there for three or four hours and then go get you.’”

“The interstate took it out.”

Tobe’s family moved to Gallup in 1928. Tobe says, “My dad was offered a job in Gallup with a company called McAdams Indian Post. They were big traders.

There was McAdams, Kirk Brothers, Gross Kelly, and Charles Illfeld. Those were

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the big ones. We moved to Gallup, and I started going to school and went through all the grades in Gallup. My first memory that I really recall well was in elementary school. I went to a school on the north side of town called Sunnyside. It was on a street where you would go to the ceremonial grounds in those days.”

Tobe also lived on the Northside.

He says, “Our house was right next to the McAdams Trading Post. It was on Third Street, about three blocks north of the railroad tracks on Third Street. That’s how we lost our store building, the Interstate took it out.”

Even though everything was dead elsewhere, Gallup was an active town.

Thinking back to the Great Depression, Tobe tells a story about how Gallup was different from many communities. He says, “Dr. Anthony, who was a physician in Gallup Tobe Turpen Jr. at his for a lot of Albuquerque store in years was Old Town in 1964. going to California to see if he could find a job out there. He stopped in Gallup in a café on Front Street called the White Café. He went in to have breakfast and sitting there he realized that the town was different than anything he had seen in this travels. The difference was that people were driving cars. He said, ‘Everywhere else I went, nobody had enough money to put gas in cars to drive around.’ Dr. Anthony was visiting with the waitress and some fella sitting down at the end of the counter heard him and said, ‘You’re a doctor?’ And he said, ‘Yes, I just graduated.’ And the man said, ‘Well, I’m a physician here and I’m just worked to death. I really need a little time off. Would you take my place for me for maybe three or four weeks?’ Dr. Anthony said, ‘Yeah, I’d be glad to.’ Well, he stayed the rest of his life. That was the thing that he said. Even though everything was dead elsewhere, Gallup was an active town.”

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We’d have snow on those streets for 60, 90 days. Everyone walked to school. It was probably a mile or mile and a half to school, but no matter how bad the weather was, we just put on our galoshes and walked to school.”

“His (Sheriff Mack Carmichael) son was in my class.”

Tobe has a personal memory about the coal miner’s riot that erupted in a downtown alley south of Coal between 2nd and 3rd Streets in 1935. He says, “I was in junior high when Sheriff Carmichael got killed. His son was in my class. A teacher came in and took him out in the middle of class, and we all wondered why.

Of course later we found out that Sheriff Carmichael had been killed. A very good friend of our family, Bobcat Wilson, was in on that. Bobcat got shot that day. It was a very scary time. Even as a child, I remember that we were so afraid that things were gonna get really bad. As I remember it, the coal miners wanted to unionize and that was the basis of the problem.”

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dressed up all nice. A lot of people did in those days. Many times he wore a hat, kind of a semi-cowboy hat. I guess he came from the East and that’s the way he liked to dress.”

COMING IN DECEMBER: Hippies started wearing Indian jewelry.

Ronald Reagan came in.

“Indians are getting ready to march towards you.”

Father Dunston: “He thought like a businessman.”

C.N. Cotton and Lorenzo Hubbell.

Tobe has memories of some of the iconic traders of Gallup’s past. Of C.N. Cotton he says, “My father thought so much of him. It just seemed like everyone knew how honest he was and how generous he was. That’s the main thing I remember about him. He was the president of Gross-Kelly. They carried a lot of groceries. We didn’t have any supermarkets at that time, just little grocery stores, and the little grocery stores would buy from Gross-Kelly. But their biggest business was with the reservation traders and it was kind of a barter system, really.

The reservation traders, would buy produce like canned goods, and many times the traders would pay Gross-Kelly in jewelry or rugs. So Gross-Kelly set up a whole department in their store of jewelry, rugs, and pottery that they had to take in order to collect their bill.

Of the reservation traders, the Hubbells at Ganado stand out in Tobe’s memory. He says, “The Hubbells were the number one people out there. I didn’t know Lorenzo. I guess he was gone by my time, but I knew Roman, and I saw him often. He would come into the store and he wasn’t a typical-looking trader. He

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Please join us in celebrating 100 years of God’s faithfulness at the Rehoboth Mission House. For more information please contact Bob Ippel at 505.726.9623

November 17, 2015 at 6:30 “Coffee House” Concert featuring RCS Cantabile, Staff, and Alumni.

7TH ANNUAL

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December 17, 2015 at 11:30 Luncheon For Rehoboth Alumni Formal Invitation to Follow.

On November 21, 2015, join iHeartMedia as we broadcast live from 11am to 3pm from this year’s host location, Lowes Shop N Save Supermarket on 200 Marguerite St. in Gallup.

We ask your help to fill the The Community Pantry’s freezers with turkeys and their shelves with non-perishable foods for our needy families in Gallup and the surrounding areas.

Listen to your favorite local iHeartMedia stations for this year’s super low prices on turkeys. Remember, to receive the special low price, for every turkey you purchase for yourself, an additional turkey of a similar weight must be purchased for the Community Pantry!

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Charity Invitational HOPE FOR A BRIGHTER FUTURE

PHYSICIANS AND PROVIDERS Dr. Samuel MacBride • Dr. Gerald and Elizabeth Robertson • Dr. Charles and Maria Guimaraes • Dr. Mary Poel • Dr. Nancy Rieder • Dr. George Basinikas • Family Medicine Associates • Drs. Christopher Gonzaga and Flor Callabar-Gonzaga • Dr. Philip and Betty Kamps • Dr. Thomas and Margaret Robinson • Dr. Kimberly Collins • Gretchen Woods, CNS • Linda Van Asselt-King and Phil King • Durward Lynch, PA and Phyllis Lynch • Dr. David and Marian McKenzie • Yvonne Mandagaran, LPCC • Holly Herr Stravers, CPNP and Andrew Stravers • Dr. Michelle Stam-MacLaren and Scott MacLaren • Dr. Adelfio Fronterotta • Drs. Lawrence and Aidra Andrade • Dr. Erwin Elber • Dr. Gayle Harrison • Dr. Mark Luce • Drs. John and Kathleen Mezoff • Dr. James and Marilyn Hathaway • Dr. Peter and Louise Frechette • Dr. James Veenstra

MEDICAL SERVICES Gallup Med Flight • Leidos Health • McKinley Medical Supply, Inc. • New Light Healthcare • Red Rocks Dialysis/U.S. Renal Care • TriCore Laboratories

INSURANCE Clay Fultz Agency • Gartner Insurance • Larry Dorsey, State Farm Insurance

EYE /DENTAL CARE Dental Innovations of Gallup, LLC • Lidio Rainaldi, DDS • Small Fry Dentistry • Sundance Dental Care • Eye Associates of New Mexico • Gallup Vision Source • Nizhoni Vision Center

It takes a community to accomplish big things. RMCHCS’ Residential Treatment Program is now open and you helped make it happen. Thank you for supporting Charity Invitational 19! Together, we can provide hope.

ORGANIZATIONS AND SERVICE GROUPS City of Gallup* • Gallup Chamber of Commerce • Gallup Rotary Club • Gallup Shooters Club* • Hope in the Dessert Episcopal Church, Albuquerque • RMCHCS Auxiliary • The University of New Mexico, Gallup

RMCHCS

ADMINISTRATION AND STAFF Due the large number of names, we are unable to list each contributor separately. Together, RMCHCS staff members raised over $65,000 for Charity Invitational. This came from the hearts of everyone from housekeeping to administration.

HOTEL/DINING/ENTERTAINMENT A Taste of the Southwest • Comfort Suites • DeLa Riva Enterprises, Inc DBA MacDonalds • Don Diego’s Restaurant & Lounge • Goodfella’s Sports Lounge • Navajo Nation Gaming Enterprises/Fire Rock Casino • Red Roof Inn • Rocket Café and Lounge • Angela’s Café* • Badlands Grill* • Camilles* • Coal St. Pub* • Cocina de Dominguez* • Cracker Barrel Old Country Store* • David’s Restaurant* • Fratelli’s Italian Bistro* • Genaros* • Glenn’s Bakery* • Pee Wees Katering Kitchen* • Zen Steak and Sushi* • Sammy C’s*

AUTOMOTIVE

BANKING/FINANCIAL

American Tire Factory • Amigo Automotive Center • Gurley Motor Co./Red Rock Investment • Premier Car Wash • Rico Auto Complex

Pinnacle Bank • US Bank • Wells Fargo Bank • Tony Gonzales, CPA

LEGAL

HOUSING

Mason & Issacson, PA • Melendres & Melendres • Walter Wolf, Atty

Coldwell Banker High Desert Realty • ReMax Combined Investments

INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES

FOUNDATIONS

RETAIL

Arlene R. High • Betty Smith • Charles and Marlene Neal • Colin and Coleen Tanner • Dave and Anna Dallago • Dave and Gigi Bischoff • Dr. Christopher and Cynthia Dyer • Dr. James and Margaret Johnson • Frank and Linda Farley • Gary Schuster • George and Joyce Kozeliski • Heather Nasi • Hubert and Margaret Becenti • John and Teresa Dowling • John and Ruth Hartog • Jordan Johnson • Katharine Stokes • Lydia Garcia-Usrey • Mary Ann and Perry Ustick • Patricia Sheely • Paul and Joyce Graves • Paul and Lurae McCollum • Rob and Esther Koops • Roger and Lisa Gleisner • Scott and Vickie McIntyre • Shiela and Wendell Nicholson • Steve and Marilee Petranovich • The Carmany and Berry Families • Vince and Anne Yegge • Wilda and Louise Orr • William and Natalie Overton • Harriet Adam • Ina and Warren Burmeister • David and Judy Conejo • Mary Lou and Ron Donkersloot • Monica and Johnny Greene • William and Jasmine Kiefer • Toni Kinsel • Cassandra Lopez • Art and Susan Macias • John and Heather McMullen • Michael and Christina Nye • David and Denise Odom • Sterling and Stephanie Smith • Randy Whittsit • Loren and Nate Emerson

Cibola Medical Foundation • Safeway Foundation • Southwest Indian Foundation • The Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation • Walmart Foundation

Bill’s Reloading* • Butler’s Office Equipment & Supply, Inc. • City Electric Shoe Shop • Flower Basket* • Gallup Lumber & Supply • Gallup Printing & Office Supply • Gallup Service Mart* • Go Team Go • Lowes* • JC Penny, Inc.* • Joe Milo’s Trading Co • Perry Null Trading Co. • Richardson’s Trading Co. • Rio West Mall • T & R Market • Uniform Station* • Zimmerman’s Western Wear

MEDIA

BUSINESSES AND SERVICES

iHeart Media* • Millennium Media* • Gallup Journey* • Navajo Times*

Adobe Self Storage • All Star Janitorial Supply, Inc. • Big Mike’s Rental Sales & Service* • City Vending Co. • DAB, Incorporated • DePauli Engineering & Surveying, LLC • Elite Laundry and Dry Cleaners • Four Corners Welding & Gas Supply • Fultz Rentals • Gallup Title Company • Howard Electric Inc. of New Mexico • Mr. Teez* • Murphy Builders, Inc • Mystique Salon & Day Spa* • Red Rock Roping • Rescue Plumbing* • Taira’s, Inc. • Coca Cola Bottling Co.*

*Inkind or partial inkind donation. Please accept our apology for any names we may have inadvertently omitted.

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TOWN November Events!!!

Veteran’s Day Events

World War I officially ended when the Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919, however, fighting ceased seven months earlier when an armistice or temporary cessation of hostilities, between the Allied nations and Germany went into effect on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. For that reason, November 11, 1918, is generally regarded as the end of “the war to end all wars.”

In November 1919, President Wilson proclaimed November 11th as the first commemoration of Armistice Day. Armistice Day was primarily a day set aside to honor veterans of World War I, but in 1954, after World War II, Congress, at the urging of the veterans service organizations, amended the Act of 1938 by striking out the word “Armistice” and inserting in its place the word “Veterans.”

Veteran’s Day continues to be observed on November 11th, regardless of what day of the week on which it falls. The observance of Veterans Day on November 11th not only preserves the historical significance, of the date, but helps focus attention on the important purpose of Veterans Day: A celebration to honor America’s veterans for their patriotism, love of country, and willingness to serve and sacrifice for the common good.

November 10, 2015 • 6:30 pm: Candlelight Vigil at Veteran’s Center, North Second Street and Maloney Avenue November 11, 2015 • 10:00 am: Observance ceremonies at the Veteran’s Plot at Hillcrest Cemetery • 10:30 am: Parade line-up at Gurley Motor Body Shop Parking Lot • 11:00 am: Parade down Aztec Avenue to Court House Square, Downtown Gallup • 11:30 am: Official Ceremony • 12:30 pm: Dedication and Recognition of Veteran’s Portraits painted by Greg Ballenger on various city buildings.

Parade applications are available at the Gallup McKinley County Chamber of Commerce.

One Day Flu Clinic

Gallup Indian Medical Center (GIMC) is pleased to announce that the GIMC Flu Clinic will be providing immunizations on Saturday, November 7, 2015, from 9:00am–2:00pm. It will be located in the old dental area at the north side of the hospital called the Day Treatment Clinic. This is great if you can’t come in on a work day. This service is for IHS beneficiaries only, ages 3 years old and older. Parents or legal guardian will need to be present for children under 18 years of age.

New Gallup Journey Website

Check out old and new people reading on our website @ gallupjourney.com!!! And don’t forget to like us on Facebook!!!!!!!

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Octavia Fellin Public Library Activities

On Tuesday November 10th, at 6pm, the Adult Library will host Derrick Suwaima Davis, 7 time international hoop dancing champion. Mr. Davis is from the Hopi and Choctaw nations and will be performing at the library. After having performed internationally for years, Suwaima has turned his attention to presenting the people the cultures of the Southwestern U.S., via The Living Traditions Dance Troupe. For more information please call 505-863-1291 or email libref@gallupnm.gov.

On Saturday November 21st at 2pm, the Children’s Branch will host the Cellicion Zuni Dancer’s as they perform traditional Zuni Dances. Founded by their late parents in 1983, the Cellicion Zuni Dancers entire dance group consists of 15 family members and is made up of 2nd, 3rd, and 4th generation performers.

Under the direction of Fernando Cellicion, the group has become one of the top professional touring native dance companies in the performing arts. For more information please call 505-726-6120 or email childlib@gallupnm.gov.

Billyhawk’s “Rich Man Blues” Concert and CD Review

The Billyhawks will be hosting CD release parties at Coal Street Pub on November 6th and at The Old School Gallery on November 7. Both shows will start at 7:00 pm, and there is no cover charge at Coal Street Pub. There will be a $5.00 cover charge at The Old School Gallery, but it will be discounted from your CD purchase.

Holiday Craft and Baked Goods Sale

Saturday, November 14 , 2015 at Bethany Christian Reformed Church, 1110 South Strong Dr. (corner of Strong and Philipina) from 9:00a.m. – 2:00p.m., there will be a holiday craft and baked goods sale. Get ready to do your Christmas shopping and stock your freezer with goodies for the holidays! Delicious baked goods, breakfast burritos, and more, will be available at the concession stand.

Red Rock Strings Concert

Red Rock Strings & Gallup Community Choir presents Vivaldi, and Gloria, Sunday, November 8, 4:00, at First United Methodist Church. The concert will incude works by Mozart and Beethoven. It is free admission and is sponsored by the Gallup Independent.

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87301 The House That Pays You Back

“It’s the future,” said Bill Bright on the site of Habitat of Humanity International’s latest achievement; a house that literally pays you back. This is the fifth one built of its kind in Gallup by HFHI and hopefully, many more will follow.

Habitat for Humanity’s mission is to build energy efficient homes for families in need and they do this as volunteers. “We have no salaried positions here in Gallup,” said Bill, President of the Board, Construction Supervisor, and volunteer for HFHI. The owners of the house, however, do pay a regular mortgage for three years, but at no interest, and Habitat of Humanity uses that money to pay for the next house. “It’s a hand up, not a hand out,” said Bright and, “we want them to be able to pay that without competing with an inefficient house and high utility bills. So it’s a very energy efficient house.”

What differentiates the HFHI house from your average Gallup home is that it generates electricity through its solar panels on the roof. “We have 1000 watts, give or take, on the roof,” said Bright. During the day when the sun is out, the solar panels give electricity to the city and at night when the owners of the house flip their lights on they pull from the city’s source. “There is a special meter that reads both ways that the city puts in,” Bill explained, and “at the end of the year the city settles up. If she (the owner) produces more than she uses, the city either gives her a check, or credit, or some kind of reimbursement, just like a mini power plant, and the money that she saves is the cancellation of the utility bill.” The house pays back.

The solar panels are not the only thing that makes this house. “We do a no maintenance exterior home,” Bright said. The color of the home is built into the structure, the roofing is metal, and the porch has been pressure treated. Furthermore, the solar panels last between 30-50 years. Also, Bright said, “the lights should last a long time. All the lights are LEDs; the latest.” All this enables the owners to go without having the need to up keep the house.

Habitat for Humanity is an international Christian organization that provides this service to their communities, and in Gallup, they were not alone. Bill made a point to thank all those who aided in the construction of the home. “I want to thank Gallup Solar, specifically. They are going around and donating a kind of beginners set of 3-4 affordable solar panels (…) for each one of our homes,” and “I want to give credit to UNM Gallup Construction Tec. They built this house primarily.” The UNM Gallup Construction Tec, according to Bill, had a hands-on experience. “The concrete class came out and poured the foundation for the house, the framing class did the walls, and another class did the roof.”

HFHI has plans in that same lot, which was donated by the city, for another smaller home. The lot will be subdivided for the project. Meanwhile, between jobs, the volunteers offer their services to our local battered family shelter for maintenance repairs. “It fits with our mission,” said Bright.

Bill closed by encouraging the community of Gallup to follow the HFHI’s mission to save and create energy in any way you can, even it is as simple as changing your light bulbs regularly or investing in rain barrels to save water for your garden watering needs. Bright also encouraged the community to call the City of Gallup’s Conservation officer, Elizabeth Barriga, who can help you in this endeavor. There are even possible benefits that she offers if you save energy!

Rio West Mall Events

November 21st there will be a Turkey Trot registration at 11am.

That same day from 10am-5pm, the mall will hold a Holiday Craft Fair.

The Festival of Trees will be held in the mall. Trees will be on display November 21st in the Mall. November 21st - December 5th there will be ticket sales, and finally, December 5th there will be a tree give-away at 4pm. All proceeds benefit the Soroptimists of Gallup Community Projects.

On November 27th the Santa set opens for visits and photos at 11am.

November 2015

iHeartradio’s 7th Annual “T’s for Turkeys”

On November 21, 2015, join iHeartMedia as we broadcast live from 11am to 3pm. We ask your help to fill the The Community Pantry’s freezers with turkeys and their shelves with non-perishable foods for our needy families in Gallup and the surrounding areas. Listen to your favorite local iHeartMedia stations for this year’s super low prices on turkeys.

Remember, to receive the special low price, for every turkey you purchase for yourself, an additional turkey of a similar weight must be purchased for the Community Pantry!

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LIVING

By Anne Meloy, Biological Soil Scientist, Foodweb Affiliate

On Saturday, November 7 at UNM-Gallup in Room 200, in the Student Services Building from 10am to 4pm, there will be an all day seminar with Elaine Ingham, a world renowned soil scientist. Work in Beauty thought this information of such vital importance that they are spending $6000 in fee and transportation to bring her to Gallup to explain how to restore life to our soil. Please come. It is a free event and all are welcome. Here is a small introduction to Elaine’s work: Until the advent of very high-powered microscopes, people considered the mineral component the only component of the soil.

Knowledge of organic matter and organisms was limited to what could be seen with the naked eye.

High-powered microscopes were limited to cutting-edge labs and highly skilled research scientists.

Elaine Ingham was one of the first scientists to use these microscopes to study soil microbiology.

Hans Jenny, the Father of Soil Science, defined soil: 1. The mineral component 2. Organic matter component 3. Organisms

The information she brings is based on a career of studying all three components of the soil all over the planet earth under the very highest-powered microscopes available.

Very rigorous, high-tech, higher-powered microscopes require intensive learning curves to ID to genus and even more to ID to the species level. High-tech labs do highly quantitative assessments of bacterial or fungal activity, quantifying the organisms to the nanogram level of accuracy and precision. It takes two

to three weeks to receive data results. There are only two U.S. labs with this capability.

But new shadowing microscopes used in conjunction with high-tech labs can now provide inexpensive, lowtech, rapid results and are easily taught to the average public.

They provide an idea of the biology present in the soil in 5 to 20 minutes at the site. By simply getting an idea of what microorganisms are present, we rapidly get an idea of what needs to be done to bring the soil back into a condition of health for the plant desired.

Owl McCabe Looking For Soil Organisms

“So consider that within a few hours, a bacterial aggregate can be the size of a sand grain, and those bacteria happily glue all sorts of organic matter, clays, silts, etc. into that aggregate. With the help of a few fungi, the micro-aggregates can be turned into macro-aggregates that people can see with their eyes.

And consider all the benefits that come with building these structures, and that these structures can only occur if the organisms are present and functioning.�

Elaine Ingham Traditional labs are set up to study the mineral component only. Because of the exclusion of the other two components, properties of those two components are applied to the mineral component, making a false assumption. When people consider information from these labs for use on their soil, their data is faulty and they will not have success. These labs are of no value until they adapt to include organic matter and micro-organisms.

The development of the shadow microscope brings cutting-edge technologies to the public. It also reveals the true facts of the three soil components. All three components of the soil have separate but necessary roles for a good, highly productive soil. Application of beneficial practices and techniques are easier when these roles are better understood.

Elaine Ingham offers a biological definition of each component: 1. The mineral component - sand, silt, clay broken down, by organisms for the most part, from rocks, parent materials, gravel, pebbles, boulders, etc.

2. Organic matter component - plant detritus, debris, residues, exudates, whatever label you want to give plant material, and any and all decomposed organic materials. Possibly, we need to be clear what is meant by organic: any material which contains carbon in chains ultimately produced by photosynthesis.

3. Organisms - which perform all the processes in soil that transform organic matter, release nutrients in plant available forms, structure soil, retain, hold and sequester nutrients, including carbon, etc. Of course all abiotic factors affect rates of transformation of organic matter, building of soil, etc.

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SOIL When we know what we are talking about, we can learn about the roles of each component and what they do and do not do in the process.

Minerals: do not change unless something else acts on the mineral, either physically, chemically or biologically. It may take it a million years to change. “The crystalline structure of clay, sand, silt, rocks, pebbles, etc. holds within it a great deal of every nutrient that plants require. Bacteria and fungi make the enzymes remove those nutrients from that crystalline lattice work and pull those nutrients into the body of bacteria and fungus, retaining, holding and keeping those nutrients bound inside the organism. The organic matter, or food, for the bacteria and fungus to do this work is usually provided by the roots of plants, or to a lesser degree, organic matter present in the soil.”

Elaine Ingham Organic matter: is a living organism and changes with its life cycle and photosynthesis; “photosynthesis, the process of storing sunlight energy in carbon - carbon bonds.”

Elaine Ingham

Anne hands soil sampling tools to Joyce Skeet and Owl McCabe

Living organisms: change with their life cycle and living processes.

“Daily changes in organism activity abound. What are the daily, weekly, monthly inputs of organic matter? When did the herd of herbivores walk by? Rainfall, snowfall, temperature, humidity all work to invoke changes. There is a seasonal cycle, and that cycle must be understood.”

Elaine Ingham If you want to change your soil, it needs be through the management of organic matter and/or living organisms.

The top two inches of the soil is critical. If enough living organisms are present in the top two inches of a soil to support plants, those organisms will multiply and lead the plant roots down thru the soil as deep as the roots can grow. It’s much more difficult for the biology to go up than it is down thru the soil.

“No life, no aggregates, no pores, no way to maintain structure, no way to alleviate compaction.

People who do not understand how soil structure is built will often talk about how tillage aerates soil. No, really, all that tillage does is fluff soil for a very short period of time. As soon as water begins to pass through the mineral particles, the fluff is lost. Rather like making cotton candy. Sure, blowing air into a syrup solution causes a light, airy structure, but at the first sign of moisture, wind, or other disturbance, the fluff is lost and it all compacts right down again.

Life builds structure. Soil organisms are much more like people, who build houses, buildings, urban, sub-urban, town, village, farm infrastructure.

Without humans, none of that structure occurs. Any disturbance can destroy that structure and it may take days, weeks, months, years to re-build. But, without life, no structure will be built.”

Elaine Ingham “The secrets of soil are being un-earthed. <wink> All puns intended!”

Elaine R. Ingham, 2015 For more information go to workinbeauty.org or Work in Beauty on Facebook!

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Call Karla Benefield today for an appointment!

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Produce Grown In Gallup

It has been a great 2015 growing season for La Montanita Coop. We started the summer off with Hobbit Gardens who provided us bagged greens and lettuce mixes as well as head lettuce and bunches of amazing heirloom kales. We are rounding out our growing season working with Kenworth Jones at the Community Pantry’s Hope Gardens. Kenworth has been growing at the Hope Garden for 3.5 years and this year you can find his tomatoes, carrots, beets, lettuce, arugula, and spinach all in La Montanita’s produce case. Get them while you can, old man winter is knocking on our door!

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Steak Lobster!!!

Year round you can find super local eggs, Colorado and New Mexico grown grass fed beef, milk from Albuquerque, cheese from Tucumcari and numerous bulk, grocery, and wellness items from the Four Corners region. Thank you Gallup for supporting local growers and producers at La Montanita.

Fresh. Fair. Local. Organic.

John Philpott Store Manager

La Montanita Coop Gallup is located at 105 E. Coal (between 1st and Puerco on Coal). Our hours are 8am - 8pm, Monday through Saturday, and 10am - 6pm Sunday. Feel free to give us a call at 505.863.5383.

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Plan your gathering early. Ask for Special Group Rates. Our Banquet room holds 60 guests.

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November Events

What’s Going On

November 3. Tues.

Young Professionals Night • Gallup Coffee Company • 6-8pm 7 Sat. Workshop on Local Agriculture “Bringing Life to Lifeless Soil” • @ UNM

Student Services Center • 10am - 4pm 8 Sun. Red Rock Strings at Gallup Community Choir present Vivaldi-Gloria • 1st Med. Church • 4pm 10 Tue. 7 Time World Champion Hoop Dancer Performs • Adult Public Library • 6pm

Veterans Candlelight Vigil • Veterans Center on N.2nd St.&Maloney Ave. • 6:30pm

Watch Gallup Rugby Football Club play an Australian team @ North side Field @ 7pm 11. Wed. Downtown Veteran’s Parade • Aztec to Courthouse Square • 11am 14 Sat. Bethany Arts & Crafts Holiday Market @ Bethany Church, 1110 S. Strong Dr. @ 9am

ArtsCrawl • Downtown Gallup • 7-9pm 18 Wed. Deadline for Gallup Cultural Center Art Scholarship 17 Tues: Theology On Tap • @ Knight of Columbus Hall • 105 Apache Cr. • @7pm

Topic: A Christian’s Approach to Consumer Culture • Beer - Theology - Conversation 20 Fri. Gallup Community Concert Association • Bella Hristova • Gallup High School @ 7pm 21 Sat. Rio West Mall Turkey Trot @11am / Rio West Mall Holiday Craft Sale @10am

Zuni Cellicion Dancers Peform • Children’s Library • 2pm Theology On Tap • @ Knight of Columbus Hall • 105 Apache Cr. @7pm

“Beer, Theology, Culture and Conversation” • “Voluntary Poverty and The Eucharist” 2nd Street Art Festival •El Morro Theatre Events Center • 10am - 4pm

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December 4-6 5 Sat. 8 Sun.

35th Annual Red Rock Balloon Rally Annual Christmas Parade • Downtown Aztec @1pm Theology On Tap • @ Knight of Columbus Hall • 105 Apache Cr. @7pm Topic: “The Challenge of Mercy” • Beer - Theology - Culture - Conversation

GLP November 2015

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Last December the Hilton Garden Inn Grille & Bar opened in Gallup, and one of the main questions asked about the Hilton Grille & Bar is whether or not the location is open to the locals. The answer is yes. The Hilton Grille & Bar provides an all-you-can-eat made-toorder breakfast for $10.95 which includes an expansive variety of foods, from waffles to omelets.

In the evening the restaurant and bar opens up for dinner and drinks. The sleek environment is complimented with 4 flat screen TVs for the public’s enjoyment, and the food and drink menus have an ever changing option of specials.

The Hilton offers, along with the restaurant and bar, full meeting facilities for events from parties to business reunions. Not only is the restaurant itself open for rent, and can fit up to 200, but right off the front lobby there is a sunlite meeting area with a flat screen TV, available for rent. Furthermore, there is a ballroom, southwest styled, that can provided for a party up to 200 persons. This room can be utilized for a variety of events, from weddings to presentations, and contains three projector screens. Finally, the Hilton has a private conference room, able to fit 12 persons comfortably, outfitted with a voice tracking camera and projector screen. For all events the Hilton provides a full catering option. If you are interested in using these facilities, don’t hesitate to call the Hilton!

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“EDUCATION MATTERS” NOVEMBER FOCUS: NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH

What started at the turn of the century as an effort to gain a day of recognition for the significant contributions the first Americans made to the establishment and growth of the U.S., has resulted in a whole month being designated for that purpose. The first American Indian Day in a state was declared on the second Saturday in May 1916, by the governor of New York. George H. W. Bush approved a joint resolution designating November 1990 “National American Indian Heritage Month.” Similar proclamations, under variants on the name (including “Native American Heritage Month” and “National American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month”) have been issued each year since 1994. Gallup McKinley County Schools is not only the largest district in NM, in square miles, but also serves the largest in Native American population in the state and country.

The district serves 9,923 Pre-K-12 Native Students. The GMCS district houses 41 Navajo Language and Culture teachers, three Navajo Language and Culture instructional support coaches, and one Indian Education Coordinator. The goal of the GMCS Navajo Language and Culture program is to enrich students with Dine’ culture, while providing support in learning how to speak the Navajo language.

Most recently, the GMCS Navajo Language and Culture program has been diligently testing Navajo students, using the Oral Dine Language Assessment, in order to compile data on how many students can or cannot speak the language and at what level of fluency. This effort is guided by the Department of Dine’ Education in Window Rock and will also help with the data being gathered for the Navajo Nation STEP grant process.

This month is a time to celebrate the rich and diverse cultures, traditions, and histories, and to acknowledge the important contributions of Native people. To Celebrate Native American Heritage month, the GMCS Indian Education Unit is promoting the “Rock Your Mocs” campaign. All employees and students (whether non-native or from other tribes besides the ones in our area) are invited and encouraged to join in and wear your MOCCASINS the week of November 9-13 and on all Wednesdays in November. If you feel like it…“Rock your Mocs” EVERYDAY in November! It’s easy! Just wear moccasins to school, work, or wherever your day takes you.

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November Dates To Remember • November activities at the Gallup Public and Children’s Libraries • November 1, Daylight Saving Time Ends • November 2, Board of Education Meeting SSC 6:00 PM, BOE Meeting • November 9, Catherine Miller operational by the 9th • November 11-Veterans Day (No School)/ NLC Staff on the Barbara Stanley Show 6:00 PM Ch. 21 • November 9-13, GMCS “Rock Your Mocs” Week • November 16, Board of Education Meeting SSC 6:00 Pm • November 17, IMPACT AID Meeting @ TseYiGai High School • November 19, Turpen El-Princess Pageant • November 23-27, Thanksgiving break LOOK for GMCS news monthly in the Gallup Journey, LISTEN for news on iHeartmedia, and WATCH for GMCS district happenings on the Barbara Stanley show (Comcast Ch.21) at 6pm live on May 13, 2015!

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When I drove by it screamed at me, “Drive me!” How was I to resist the temptations of such conspicuous driving consumption?

Yes, it’s not all that practical. While it does have rear seats, they’re just for show. And yes, it’s a German motoring machine, and yes, even used, it’s still expensive. But the sides, modern lighting, and of course, these huge come on, would you have passed it up? I was all grins.

22” rims, black paint, and deep window tint, the BMW is very Aston Martin in its profile and just all around badass. LED lighting gives the front end that Just look at it. Long nose, short rear deck lid, “out of my way” look that helps immensely on the wide haunches, and a low roof line. A good start for open road. Dual exhausts at the rear remind them sure. Combined with some subtle body sculpting on

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On the inside the 640i is all grand tourer. The seats are ridiculous, with crazy amounts of adjustability, including a thigh support extender, and a pneumatic side bolster to help get everything right. Being heated and cooled, the seats are prefect for our hot afternoons and cold mornings here in the southwest. By far the biggest piece of theatre on the inside is the upgraded Bang and Olufsen sound system. When powering up the system, a center channel speaker at the top of the dash rises up to reveal a tweeter as well….it never got old. Each speaker grill here is made from plate aluminum, and even though it’s a 2-door coupe, it still rocks two subwoofers.

There’s a legend in the automotive world that BMWs have a way of going about their business that is just right, or symbiotic if you will. Automotive magazines have gushed over their driving dynamics for years.

Maybe it was a placebo effect, maybe not, but this 640i just felt really good. There was a consistency in the mantra of the drivetrain, handling, and steering that just made the coupe so enjoyable. With adjustable driving dynamics, from Eco and Comfort

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By Greg Cavanaugh modes all the way up to Sport+, there’s some reasonable flexibility here, although the differences in settings are relatively subtle. No doubt these outrageous 22” rims have an effect on the ride quality, but it was still apparent that the vehicle was just so well controlled, so well damped and has tons of grip.

Cloverleaf on-ramps suddenly become the best part of your day!

Bavarian Motor Werks is the name on the hood for a reason.

They know how to make engines. Gone are the days when the number scheme on the back of a German automobile could tell the story of its configuration. The first number still denotes the series of the car, 6 in this case, but the second number no longer indicates the engine’s displacement. A decade ago this car’s 40i moniker would indicate a 4.0 liter V8. Today, this 640i uses a BMW staple, their 3.0-liter inline 6, but now with a single turbo stuffing air into it and direct injection for the fuel. The effect is impressive. Rated at 315 hp and 330 lb-ft. of torque at a lowly 1400rpm and routed to the rear wheels via an 8-speed automatic, this car is plenty quick. BMW is often accused of underrating their engines, and I can see why. I’ve driven cars with similar and even more power, very few of them provided the seamless thrust of this mill. The power delivery is very smooth and linear, not brutal or peaky as in some other highpowered cars. It’s the sheer lack of effort needed to so quickly get the 640i up to speed that calls into question the 3.0 liter’s factory ratings. And this is supposed to be the fuel economy choice.

Is this coupe for everyone? Hardly. Is this coupe irrelevant? Hardly. For a small sliver of the automotive buying public, this is THE car to have.

I’ll openly admit that when I started testing the 640i I tried to get my wife to put on a short dress and high heels to go out for a fancy date night… at eight months pregnant she was having no part of it. If you like to be noticed and love driving, this car rewards the driver with both. It’s made to have an effect, and there’s no denying it most certainly does.

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ost people have no idea that Gallup has a high school rugby team. Even fewer probably know that they’ve quietly been playing their sport here for the last 9 years. Timaris Montano (Maternal Clan Nakii Dineh/Paternal Clan Ashii), a Gallup High Graduate, started the Gallup Rugby Football Club originally because her husband, Chee, played Rugby in Phoenix, and when their kids were of age they wanted them to play too. What developed was an outlet for down-n-out kids, or student/athletes who didn’t fit into other school sports. What ehy found was a tight-knit club in an extremely physical sport where coaching has as much to do about tackling your opponent, as it does about being on-time and other daily life lessons.

A professional video was done on the Gallup Rugby Football Club that highlights our local area and the youth community

development that Timaris is doing (check it out at www.gallupjourney.com).

Because of the video, the Australian Aboriginal U20 team is coming to Gallup for a matchup. The game takes place on Tuesday, November 10, at the TDFL Northside field at 7pm. Admission is a canned good donation to the Gallup Food Pantry where the Australian team is also bunking for the night.

The Gallup Ruby Football club typically competes during the spring season and is a part of the New Mexico Youth Rugby organization. If anyone age 13-18 is interested in playinf for the Gallup Rugby Football Club you can call Timaris at 505-879-2922.

There is a $55 registration fee per player, and the competitive season lasts 12 weeks with statewide opponents.

What is Rugby: Rugby is one of the fastest growing sports in the United States. Many people are familiar with rugby as a fringe sport,

but you may be surprised to learn that it is actually the second most popular sport in the world behind soccer. In fact, in Europe, Australia and South Africa, the teams and players are elevated to a star status that exceeds that of NFL players in the United States! There are four ways to score points in a rugby game.

• Try – When the ball is grounded over an opponents’ goal line in their ‘try zone’ it is worth 5 points.

• Conversion – After scoring a try the scoring team gets an attempt to kick the ball over the crossbar and through the posts of the rugby uprights.

A conversion is worth 2 points.

• Penalty – If the opposition commits a penalty, a team can choose to kick at the goal. A penalty kick is worth 3 points.

• Drop Goal – During play a team may drop the ball on the ground and kick it over the goal, this is called a drop goal. This is worth 3 points.

The Australian Aboriginal U20 Team is coming to play Gallup Rugby Football Club Come Watch Us Play: November 10 @ TDFL Northside Field @ 7pm Check Out this Gallup Rugby video

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She was diagnosed in April 2014. She fought a good fight; living another 18 months. She remained positive and beautiful (even without hair) throughout her treatment which included prolonged hospitalizations, two bone marrow transplants, and many blood and platelet transfusions.

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JUMPING THROUGH HOOPS

EARLY HISTORY OF THE POPULAR DANCE

The claim by the American artist Eric Sloane that he was the inventor of the Hoop Dance brings to mind a couple of popular quotations—particularly the one about history being written by the one who controls the media. The Hoop Dance was presented to a national public in 1926, the fifth year of the Gallup Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial, as performed by members of the Taos Pueblo.

While something like the hoop dance might

By Ernie Bulow date much much earlier, it was not presented for Author photo by Erin Bulow public entertainment, which was the hoop dances’ only purpose.

During those early years photographs show dancers with three or four hoops. Today there are a few performers that are said to control as many as thirty at one time, and some put the number even higher than that.

I found a very puzzling photo among the images from photographer

“For years the Hoop Dance was the property of Taos Pueblo and

Alonzo Compton who documented New Mexico in the early years of the last century. He took a lot of pictures of Native Americans, but his prints and negatives have no captions. This photo seems to show two very early Hoop Dancers. But they are both grinning, and one of them is pretty chunky. The hoops they hold are rather crude and they each only have one.

Is this a prank or an early version of the dance?

Wherever the original idea came from, its performance came of age during the early years of Ceremonial. The Hoop Dance was the property of Taos Pueblo NAVAJO HOOP DANCER JOE PRICE and in particular Adam Trujillo. Though he never got singled out in the press, he became an icon of Indian Dancing. Judging from newspaper coverage, it was the custom at the time that individual performers were not given billing, except for a few solo vocalists who already had a national reputation. Members of groups were never named, probably to keep everyone happy.

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ADAM TRUJILLO AND BEN MARCUS According to Jerry Archuleta, my Taos uncle, there was a group of men besides Adam who are remembered as the first hoop dancers and they performed publicly far and wide once the dance caught on. Some are mentioned in Sloane’s article for New Mexico Magazine (August 1962).

He claims he made the first hoop for a three-year-old Bobby Lujan and taught him the dance in 1925, Ceremonial’s fifth season. It debuted in Gallup the following year, which was awfully fast action for Sloane’s claim.

That early Taos group included Bobby’s uncle, Juanito Luhan, Anesemo and Trinidad Archuleta, my friend’s uncles, Augustine Mirabal, and one often left off the list, Ben Marcus, though Ben was a popular performer around the country and into Canada. The Taos group were unchallenged until 1931 when a Navajo group presented what the program called “The Beautiful Chant.”

This was probably taken from the Beauty Way ceremony. It was not the Hoop Dance as we know it.

In an August 30th, 1929, newspaper article there is brief mention of November 2015

the “Hoop Dance of the Utes,” but no explanation or description. Fugitive notes like that are difficult to explore.

Taos then held the field until 1937 when Acoma put up a challenge. In 1939 the dance was presented

by Acoma children. The following year the Acoma kids teamed with young Navajos from Lukachukai to present what they called the “Plumed Hoop” number.

And in 1941 the Acoma group dominated.

The war years put a damper on Ceremonial, but in 1946, the Hoop Dance was performed by groups from both Taos and Jemez, the home of the famous Whitecloud dancers.

1948 saw the first appearance of a dynamic new performer, a Navajo named Joe Price. Price had served in the South Pacific during WWII with the Navajo Code Talkers. Joe was a Ceremonial sensation and won again in 1949 and 1950.

He was getting a lot of notice in the press and plenty of curtain calls.

Price was only in his mid-twenties when, in 1949, a reporter wrote, “Joe Price, with easy grace, took first prize in the hoop dances. Joe is a Navajo boy from Fort Defiance, and was called back at each performance for

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several encores.” According to another newspaper article, Price had honed his skill with the hoops while serving in the Pacific performing for his fellow Marines. In the same article we read of his unusual skill, “Usually working with four or five hoops, Price is seeking to complete a routine which will require the use of 10 hoops at the same time. The record is believed to be six.”

Though Joe Price took top honors in 1950, he was fending off a challenge by soloist Tony Whitecloud [or White Cloud] but the following year Whitecloud buried him. The Jemez dancer was, “moving rapidly to the drumbeat from the outset, tearing through his four hoop act as though he were late for a bus. His performance lasted only a few moments but brought forth applause, clapping, stamping and huzzahs from the grandstand and the bleachers.” Of course he was called back for encores.

Tony was not a newcomer to the Ceremonial arena: “Getting his start as a young boy at the Ceremonial, he perfected his routine to a professional degree, and has toured the nation with a troupe of Indian companions. Although getting along in years for the exhausting routine, White Cloud still packs them in at the Madison Square Garden, Chicago’s coliseum, and other metropolitan entertainment centers.”

“Another hoopster who stirred the crowd to noisy appreciation was a 10-year-old [Indian girl] Red Wing of St. Michaels, AZ, school.” The little girl in her tiny red costume was also a huge hit [1951].

The writer’s description of Tony as “getting along in years” doesn’t seem correct, nor do claims today that he was dancing the hoops in the early Thirties. He was photographed as he performed in Chicago at the Railroad Fair held in July 1948. He looks to be in his teens at most.

The time had come when many standout Hoop Dancers were emerging and the showy dance was spreading to tribes all over the country—many of whom claimed they performed it first, though we know it was a dance debuted and perfected in the Ceremonial Arena in Gallup, New Mexico.

On Tuesday November 10th, at 6pm, the Adult Library will host Derrick Suwaima Davis, 7 time international hoop dancing champion. Mr. Davis is from the Hopi and Choctaw nations and will be performing at the library.

After having performed internationally for years, Suwaima has turned his attention to presenting the people and cultures of the Southwestern U.S. via The Living Traditions Dance Troupe. For more information please call 505-863-1291 or email libref@gallupnm.gov.

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CECIL GARCIA 1950-2015

A Man For All Seasons…an appropriate title for a man who lived simply but loved deeply. In the play, which portrayed the true story of Sir Thomas More, the great philosopher has to make the moral choice of opposing his King or of “going along” with the crowd. He can sign a pledge to his King and support the immoral divorce of the king, or he can, upon the penalty of death, oppose the King and represent for mankind that there are certain values which we should uphold at all cost.

It was into such a world in the mid-seventies that a young Cecil Garcia, age 25, found himself. Like all of us, he had his own struggles, but those who knew him best will say that at this age he cultivated the gentlemanly and kind manner that was to become his signature personality. He developed the soft eyes that could look into your soul and character. But he did not judge. Instead, where he could, he extended himself to be of help.

And so this play leads us to the choice in the life of Cecil Garcia.

Should he live the deep and passionate life of a caring man or pass through life just “going along” with the crowd. Cecil chose the path of caring.

This Chinese Proverb characterizes Cecil:

It is a tragedy of life that too often, the rich, flamboyant, famous, and politically connected are exalted as if their values are superior.

The Kardashians, Nixons, Trumps, and Jobs of the world receive the attention. Never mind that they treat people shabbily. Forget that with their wealth and power they do not extend a hand of support to those in need. Meanwhile, the media overlooks or minimizes the works of Mother Theresa (who helped the poorest of the poor in India and around the world), Muhammad Yunis (who started the practice of giving small loans to the poor so they could develop a business), Gary Sinis ( the actor who champions for veterans), Paul Newman (the actor who donated over $250 million in profits from his food business to charity). Too often we envy the person with a 50-inch television but overlook the person building homes with the Habitat for Humanity; or we relish our time watching television rather than working to help fight breast cancer, drug addictions, homelessness, spousal abuse, or other such afflictions.

If my goals are clear, I can achieve them without fuss.

If I am content with what I have, I can live simply and enjoy both prosperity and free time.

If I am at peace with myself, I will not spend my life force in conflicts.

If I have learned to let go, I do not need to fear dying.

Someone once said to him, “Cecil, you don’t need to do that,” meaning someone else would come along to do the work. To which Cecil replied, “I know I don’t have to. But if I can, I will!”

No politics; no money; no jealousy;…simply the act of caring for others. Truly a Man of All Seasons.

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On November 10, 2013, Mitchel Hicklin founded a local nonprofit organization, Hypostomus Plecostomus Coalition Inc., (HP Coalition Inc.) a business whose motto is “Helping beautify Gallup from the bottom up,” and Hicklen means this literally. Mitchel is celebrating his 2nd anniversary of his organization this November.

At the age of 14, in the 80’s, after years of hardship, Hicklin ran away from his adopted parents, and over a 20 year span he lived intermittently on the streets. “I’ve been on the bottom all my life, I have lived under bridges and have been homeless. So my motto kinda’ fits.”

Due to disabilities Hicklin was unable to keep a standard job, “I had a lot of support. Same little ol’ lady would come out there every Sunday and help. It wasn’t no fault of my own. It was not because I was lazy. I used to think I was lazy,” said Mitchel.

Throughout the years Hicklin would beg in the area, and eventually, in 2013 one of his donors, Barbara Quinones, owner of the Laundry Basket, offered even more to Mitchel. She raised money to give him a 12 by 24 ft. portable home. After the donation of the home, people would ask him if it was enough, to which he would reply, “Oh, man you have no idea. This is good.” Not long after this, Mitchel was donated a truck by another friend, in which he still keeps his shopping cart that held all his belongings when he was homeless. He does this to remind himself of his blessings. It was during this time that Mitchel came up with the idea for his non-profit. “I was chomping at the bit to do something.”

The corporation is formed to promote and carry out projects to beautify Gallup and encourage persons to volunteer. Hicklin, by means of donations, works on areas of landscape in town that are in need. He does this solo for the most part, but, on occasion, works with other organizations. “It’s just a way an ol’ beggar can give back.” Hicklin has over 35 donors. All donations goes directly into the necessities of the business. When asked if Hicklin takes a percentage for himself he said, “No. It’s by law. I can’t use the money for myself. I did not feel like panhandling. When people give me a dollar, now, they know that it goes into this and not into my pocket. It’s transparency. That is what I am going for.”

“This grassroots beautification of Gallup keeps me busy. I hope to do this until I can’t crawl up and down that truck no more. It gives me something

“I’m just an ol’ beggar that can give back.”

to do. It helps the community. I’ve lived on these streets for ten years. I go to pockets of trashy areas where they have not been able to address it (Overgrown/unkempt areas) and I clean them up.” After being asked if he was content he said, “Yes I am extremely content. I feel like I am basking in blessing,” and as far as the continuing of the institute goes, “I hope to make it as far as Father allows. It’s not my call.”

To donate to Mitchel’s efforts, please contact him via Facebook: Mitchel Hicklin.

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