Gallup Sun ● May 28, 2021

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VOL 7 | ISSUE 322 | MAY 28, 2021

MIXED EMOTIONS

Gallup City Council takes up masks; marijuana

By Molly Adamson Sun Correspondent

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he pandemic isn’t quite over, but the end is in sight.

On May 14, the New Mexico Department of Health announced that the state would be adhering to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s updated guidelines that say that individuals who are fully vaccinated no longer have to wear masks.

Du r i ng t he May 25 Gallup City Council meeting, Gallup’s City Attorney Curtis Hayes shared an ord i na nce t hat wou ld allow vaccinated Gallup citizens to take off their masks star ting July 1.

MASKS/ MARIJUANA | SEE PAGE 15

STEM Core is the newest opportunity for a budding GMCS Engineering Pathway Program of Study. Gallup McKinley County Schools is pleased to offer this program to those interested in pursuing a career in fields of science, math, technology and engineering.

This opportunity is a 6-week internship that includes AP Algebra, Intermediate Algebra, Engineering and PreCalculus provided by Navajo Technical University (NTU). The program also involves (2) 3-week projects with Los Alamos National Labs (LANL), Sandia Labs and Lawrence Livermore Labs.

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w waiting for them. This program is provided to our students at Gallup High School and Hiroshi Miyamura High School with prospects of opening it up further in coming years.

Upon completion of this project, each student is eligible to receive a $2750 stipend. Many of the students involved in the STEM program are recent 2021 graduates. These students will spend their summer earning money and getting a head start on their already bright futures.

LANL Engineers Matthew Biss and Rory Bigge Bigger er join Gallup High School STEM EM M instructor Eric Schieldrop for a presentation and introduction to STEM Core Project

Rory Bigger. Both Biss and Bigger made a presentation that began with their early college careers and how they became interested in STEM courses and how they made their way to Los Alamos National Labs. Biss and Bigger’s presentation provided their unified interested in explosives and how this impacts sound, heat and wave variations.

The STEM program is very important to the future of our country. As years have progressed, the need for American based scientists and engineers has become greater. The STEM program provides opportunities for school aged students to learn about what science, math, engineering and technology careers could be

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Gallup Housing Authority BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS “Everything Revolves around Leadership” GREAT LEADERS: • • • • • Alfred Abeita, Sr. Chairman

Have clear vision Motivate people to action Are decisive when needed Handle crisis and chaos well Have honesty and integrity GHA MISSION STATEMENT

James R. Morris, Vice- Chairman

To provide safe, decent and affordable housing to income qualified families as they strive to achieve economic self-sufficiency and improve the quality of their lives.

To seek partnerships with community resources to create job opportunities within the local community for residents and to increase their financial literacy and life management skills.

The Board of Commissioners are appointed by the Mayor of the City of Gallup subject to conĮrmaƟon by the City Council. As a board they are the governing oĸcers of a public-corporate enƟty that funcƟons as a [possible] developer, landlord, and administrator of local low-income housing programs.

Their role is like that of a private corporaƟon’s board of directors. Some [but not all] of their primarily duƟes include: to hire a qualiĮed ExecuƟve to manage agency operaƟons on daily basis; to review and approve an annual budget; to hold monthly board meeƟngs to received reports on operaƟons and make agency decisions; to adopt agency policies and procedures to ensure internal controls on Įnancial transacƟons are in place; to ensure an annual audit is procured and completed in a Ɵmely manner; and to adopt policy and procedures for proper personnel management and proper contract bidding and procurement of services in accordance with state and federal laws rules, and regulaƟons.

Clayton “Lee” Maestas is the new Resident Board Member.

He is a life long resident of Gallup, NM. He has been married to Rose Ann for 17 years.

He worked in construcƟon for 25 years or so.

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Clayton “Lee” Maestas

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LOCAL NEWS

Council hears details on liquor reform bill

By Kevin Opsahl Sun Correspondent

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new law which will take effect July 1 conta i ns a nu mber of reforms to the state’s liquor laws since 1981. Rep. A ntonio “Moe” Maestas, D-Bernalillo, sponsor of HB 255, took questions about the new law from local liquor license holders at a special City Council meeting May 19.

HB 255 gives restaurants a new kind of license to sell spirits and one that is less expensive than in the past; the ability to deliver specific types of alcohol to homes; prohibition of small amounts of hard liquor away from licensed establishments; and assistance, like tax breaks and the waiver of license renewal fees, to liquor license holders due to the pandemic.

McKinley County is exempt from a number of provisions in the law.

Marie Chioda and her husband own two establishments that sell liquor in Gallup, Sammy C’s Rock N’ Sports Pub and Grille, and Rocket Cafe Liquor and Lounge. Both places are restaurants, but Rocket is also a liquor store and bar.

Chioda has held a liquor license for years and was particularly involved in this past legislative session, in which HB 255 was passed.

In an interview, Chioda who attended the special Gallup City Council meeting May 19, said HB 255 may offer some benefits. She also expressed uncertainty about how the new regulations will affect her business.

“It’s ju st ha rd to say, because we do not know what the impact of all these changes is going to be until after July 1,” Chioda said, “Hopefully, it works out in a positive way.”

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SUNDAY SALES On May 25, the council amended an ordinance on Sunday alcohol sales in order to be consistent with HB 255. The legislation removed time restrictions on Sundays and Christmas Day, but not McKinley County’s ability to regulate and restrict hours for package sales.

The Gallup City Council cha nged its ordina nce to extend the prohibition on selling packaged liquor on Sundays to the hours between 7 am and 9:59 am.

Gallup City Attorney Curtis Hayes told councilors, Gallup has no control over the issue.

Liquor is being sold on Sundays now.

Cou nci lwoma n F ra n Palochak, Dist. 4, considered it a burden on public safety officers.

“I don’t know how the representatives could have allowed this to happen in McKinley County,” she said at the meeting. “This is such a taxing thing on our police department because now they have to be out there on Sunday.

“They don’t get one day of rest. They’re going to have to be out there — our community service officers working to keep folks safe.”

She suggested that Gallup keep the best data it can on “how taxing this is to the city.”

Hayes said there was a plan to keep data so that they can show legislators how the city is impacted.

City Manager Mar yann Ustick said Gallup asked its detox center as well as its police officers to keep data on the increase in the number of calls for service and admissions to detox.

GAS STATION CONVENIENCE STORE LIMITS Sen. George Mu ñoz, D-Gallup, said the city’s alcohol

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Gallup Mayor Louis Bonaguidi, City Manager Maryann Ustick, City Clerk Alfred Abeita, Gallup lobbyist Mark Fleisher and three city council members listen to Rep. Antonio “Moe” Maestas, D-Bernalillo, sponsor of HB 255, talk about changes to the state’s liquor license laws. challenges are among the reasons he added an amendment to HB255, which keeps anyone who sells retail gasoline from selling alcoholic beverages other than beer with less than 10 percent alcohol.

“Then you solve a big issue for us — a really big issue,” he said, “Because convenience is the way people like to shop.

“If you make the problem that you have inconvenient, then it makes it harder for it [the problem — crime] to happen.”

Muñoz called this provision a big victory for Gallup residents.

“To the consumer and the people that know we have an alcohol problem in Gallup — by God, that amendment ought to work,” Muñoz said.

W hen Pa loch a k hea rd Maestas say it would be up to state police to monitor convenience stores to be sure they followed the new liquor law, she did not mince words.

“I’ve never seen any police officer at any location,” she said. “Restaurants are fi ne — they don’t do anything wrong.

But some of these convenience stores, some of these package liquor stores, we’re seeing a lot, a lot of problems.”

Palochak recommended the legislature “dedicate an officer” in Gallup to “cite those people that are not following the law.”

“We have a very, very bad alcohol problem here and things need to be monitored,” she said.

Maestas responded by saying any police officer is authorized to enforce the Liquor Control Act, but the state also has a division specifically tasked with training people to enforce the act.

In an interview with the Sun, Chioda seemed to disagree with Palochak’s comments. She believes Gallup residents who are drinking also do drugs at night to “stay awake so they don’t get beat up.”

“I think this is going to be a good time for the liquor stores in Gallup to actually show maybe this isn’t such a bad thing anymore — Because I don’t think, as liquor stores,

we’re all that bad,” Chioda said, “Because right now, a lot of the problem we see with people on the street has nothing to do with alcohol.”

SPIRITS Restaurants’ licenses are currently limited to selling beer and wine, but Maestas’ bill creates a new license which adds spirits — also known as hard liquor, which have a higher alcohol content.

Prev iously, restaurants wanting to serve hard liquor had to obtain another license, costing them between $300,000 and $500,000 on the secondary resale market.

At just $10,000 annually, restau ra nts that wa nt to sell spirits will have to get a Restaurant B license The Alcohol and Beverage Control Division is considering allowing current restaurant license holder s to t ra nsfer t hei r licenses without submitting a new application.

But r e s t a u r a nt s mu s t

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GMCS board celebrates Lady Bengals Staff Reports

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he Gallup McKinley County Schools District had something to celebrate at the school board meeting May 24 after the Lady Bengals won their state championship game three days before.

The board took the opportunity to congratulate the girls’ win with handshakes

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and plaques.

W hen it wa s h i s t u r n to congratulate them, Superintendent Mike Hyatt commented that Gallup had not seen a championship in a while, and that some people might not expect it from their school because they don’t have the tallest athletes. “[The girls] really fought ever y single ga me,” Hyatt said. “I watched them play against some girls who were my height and they took care of them quite easily.”

Boa rd member Kev in Mitchell spoke about the challenge COVID-19 introduced into the mix while he was complimenting the team and their coaches.

“To the coaches, thank you very much for working with these girls the way you do,” Mitchell said. “Again, under the circumstances that you guys had to work with, you

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Members of the Gallup McKinley County Schools District hail the Gallup High School Lady Bengals at the May 24 school board meeting.

Photo Credit: GMCS Facebook guys did a great job making sure that they were properly conditioned.”

Board President Charles Long talked about his hopes for the girls in the future.

“If you decide to go to college, I hope you continue to

pursue being on a basketball team,” he said. “Sometimes our local athletes — when t hey g r a du at e f rom h ig h s c h o ol — w h e t h e r t h e y be i n ba sketba l l, vol leyball, or whatever, you don’t hear about them in college

anymore.”

Towa rd t he end of the meeting, A ssista nt Superintendent Jvanna Hanks presented the FY22 district budget. The Sun reached out to her for a copy, however, she did not respond by press time.

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PUBLIC SAFETY

Weekly Police Activity Report Staff Reports UNWELCOME GUEST Thoreau, May 14 She invited him in. But the glow wore off quickly.

A woman called the police after a drunken man broke several items inside her mobile home.

On May 14, around 5:29 pm, McKinley County Sheriff’s Deputy Paul Davis Jr. III was

sent to #61-A Rose Street in Thoreau.

When the deputy met with the caller, she led him inside to a bedroom, where Brian Begay, 25, of Thoreau was seated on the bed. In the report he fi led with the McKinley County Sheriff’s Office, Davis said Begay seemed calm when they met.

Davis asked Begay if he could speak with him outside

in his patrol car. When the officer led Begay outside, he said he could smell liquor on the man’s breath.

When Davis asked him what was going on, Begay said nothing. Davis explained that the woman said he had broken some things inside her home.

Begay stated that he hadn’t broken anything. Davis didn’t see any cuts or bruises on the man’s hands, so he let him go.

Davis returned to the house and photographed the damaged property. The woman pointed out a wooden structure/divider in the bathroom that had been broken.

She said she had invited Begay over to her house around noon. She said he had seemed fine at first, but then later on he began yelling at her children, telling them to get out. She asked him to leave, but he went into the bedroom and began breaking things.

T he wom a n s a i d t he

damaged property would cost about $300 to fi x and that she would have to tell her landlord about it.

Davis took Begay to the Gallup Detox Center, and after checking with Metro Dispatch learned that he had an outstanding warrant. Begay was arrested. Deputy Terence Willie booked Begay at the McKinley County Adult Detention Center.

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Dropped cell phone precedes tragedy Staff Reports

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cell phone dropped into a leech vault at the Northern New Mexico Regional Solid Waste Authority where three men were replacing a pump off Highway 371, north of Thoreau a little before 11:26 am on May 25. It wasn’t an easy retrieval. The opening was similar in size to a manhole cover.

The platform at the bottom was over 10 feet down with a ladder system attached to the inside wall.

It was initially reported to the McKinley County Sheriff’s Office that one employee went to find a tool to recover the phone.

But, when he returned he did not see the other two employees around the truck.

He looked into the vault and saw that both employees were at

the bottom. Neither one of them was moving.

He did not enter the vault because of an overwhelming odor he described as a smell like gas.

Sheriff’s Deputies along with McKinley County Fire and EMS from Thoreau and Prewitt were dispatched to the scene around 11:46 am, and fire personnel detected high levels of Hydrogen sulfide and methane inside the

Gallup Fire Department staff outfitted in special gear and self-contained breathing equipment use a tripod apparatus and ropes to bring out the men who fell into the vault May 25, north of Thoreau. Photo Credit: MCSO vault. One of their staff members descended into the vault wearing special gear. Both men were determined to be dead.

Gallup Fire Department was called out to extricate the two men from the hole. A tripod apparatus and ropes were utilized to pull the men topside.

The exact cause of death is under investigation by the Office of the Medical Investigator.

At this time MCSO does not believe that they fell into the vault and there is no evidence of foul play.

The names of the two men that died are not being released at this time.

M o r e i n fo r m a t i o n i s expected once the autopsies are completed at the Office of the Medical Investigator in Albuquerque.

This table represents a seven-day period of Gallup Police Dept. incident calls.

May 19 - May 25 INCIDENT TYPE

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NUMBER OF CALLS

WELFARE CHECK

157

INTOXICATED

135

TRAFFIC-RELATED

72

POLICE REQUEST

53

DOMESTIC

35

ALARM

34

LAW

27

ACCIDENT

21

ROUTINE PATROL

21

DISORDERLY SUBJECT

19

All other calls including. attempt to locate, burglary, battery, assault, party call disturbance, etc.

219

PUBLIC SAFETY

A rude wake up call

By Molly Adamson Sun Correspondent

Saucedo. She said she woke up to banging Gallup woman was at her door. abruptly awakened W h e n s h e one morning when looked out , a strange man tried she saw him to break into her trailer home. kick ing a nd Ga llup Police Off icers h i t t i n g t h e Timothy Saucedo Nicole Diswood and Timo door trying to Molina were dispatched to her get inside. address at 624 Hazel Dr. on She said Saucedo then April 11. moved to the east side of the On the way Metro Dispatch trailer, where he broke the said the man had broken the window and crawled halfway window and was trying to in. She estimated it would cost crawl inside. When Diswood her $300 to fi x the screen door arrived she saw the man in he damaged and $350 to fi x the question. He was identified window. as Timothy Saucedo, 23 of When the officers were Gamerco. asking him questions Saucedo Diswood told Saucedo to kept saying he wanted his come toward her. She also told lawyer present, and he also him to turn around and put his pleaded the Fifth Amendment. hands behind his back. In her W he n t he a m bu l a nc e report to McKinley County arrived, medics bandaged Magistrate Court, Diswood up Saucedo’s cuts. He was said Saucedo’s hands and arms a r rested at 6:19 a m a nd were bleeding.

D i s wo o d d r o v e h i m t o She asked Saucedo if he Rehoboth McKinley Christian knew anyone who lived in the Hospital, where he was meditrailer home, and he said he cally cleared. did. Molina called an ambuDiswood then took him to lance to take care of Saucedo’s the McKinley County Detention cuts. He watched Saucedo Center where he was charged while Diswood talked to the with breaking and entering and owner of the trailer home. criminal damage to property.

The woman who owned the Saucedo was released on trailer said she didn’t know his own recognizance.

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Click it or ticket: Multistate campaign to raise seat belt safety awareness FIVE STATES JOIN NEW MEXICO TO INCREASE SEAT BELT USE ACROSS STATE LINES Staff Reports

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ANTA FE — The New Mexico Depar tment of T r a n s p o r t a t io n and local law enforcement agencies join Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Utah, and Wyoming reminding travelers to buckle up. The ‘State2State Buckle Up’ campaign wants travelers to stay buckled in every state no matter how far they are traveling.

The campaign coincides with the start of the national Click it or Ticket seat belt PUBLIC SAFETY

The Click it or ticket multistate campaign to encourage seat belt use began May 24. New Mexico is being joined by five other states in this effort. Image credit: publicdomainfiles.com en forcement per iod t hat

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WEEKLY DWI REPORT Staff Reports Roseanna Tom Dec. 27, 2020 1:15 am Aggravated DW I (Second) A woman who said she had hurt her knee trying to break up a fight w a s pu l le d over near First Street and Maloney Avenue.

Gallup Patrolman Julio Yazzie met with Roseanna Tom, 46, of Church Rock, N.M. after being dispatched to Sun Valley Apartments, 201 JM Montoya Blvd.

He reported that he saw a gray vehicle traveling south on Woodrow Drive matching the description of a vehicle that also parked in the middle of the street.

W hen he met with the driver, Tom admitted to having two mixed drinks about an hour before. Yazzie said he smelled alcohol coming from inside her vehicle.

Based on her failed standard field sobriety tests, she was placed under arrest.

Tom ag reed to g ive a breath sample and she was transported to Gallup Police Department for the test and posted samples of .21 and .22.

She was then transported to McKinley County Adult Detention Center and booked.

She was released on her own recognizance.

Myron Scott May 27, 2020, 6:50 pm Aggravated DWI On his way through the drive-thru at a Lotaburger, Myron Scott, 30, address not listed, hit the curb. His poor driving led to a visit to Pep Boys at 702 U. S. Hwy 491 by Gallup Patrolman Jarad Albert.

Dispatch said Scott had slurred his speech when his orange Ford Explorer veered out of the restaurant lane.

When Albert arrived, the Explorer was parked in front of the store with the engine running.

Scott seemed to have difficulty locating the documentation Albert requested. The patrolman said he also had bloodshot eyes and slurred speech and a woman inside the truck who tried to speak for him.

Scott got out of the truck and told Albert he had consumed two 12-oz. beers prior to driving. He agreed to take the standard field sobriety tests, but failed and was placed under arrest after Albert concluded his investigation.

Albert transported Scott to Gallup Police Department for the breath test, where he posted samples of .18 and .17. He then took him to the county jail for booking, but Scott was denied booking after jail staff fi nished their medical evaluation.

The report did not state whether a summons was later filed.

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A riz. was in a silver SU V with an unspecified number of passengers when New Mexico State Police Officer Chaz Troncoso spotted the truck she was driving while patrolling east on Highway 118.

The SU V was traveling without head or taillights.

T roncoso conducted a traffic stop near the intersection of Highway 118 and Third Street.

The driver and rear passenger windows opened as he approached and he noted a strong smel l of a lcohol coming from inside. He met the driver, Sakizzie, 58, who ha nded h i m a reg u la r ID instead of a driver’s license.

She sa id she wa s com i ng from Love’s and had previously consumed a six-pack of Coors Light.

Sakizzie got out of the vehicle at Troncoso’s request, where he also noticed she had bloodshot eyes and slurred speech. She agreed to take the standard field sobriety tests, failed, and was placed under arrest. Troncoso searched the vehicle and found several cans of Coors Light inside. There were also an unspecified number of passengers in the vehicle, who were all transported from the scene by a tow truck driver.

After agreeing to give a breath sample, Sakizzie was transported to the local state police office for the test, where she posted two samples of .12. She was then taken to the McKinley County Adult

Detention Center and booked without incident.

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filed with the McKinley County Sheriff’s Office, Etsitty checked the car to make sure it hadn’t been broken into. He said it hadn’t.

Etsitty asked the woman if anything had happened at her house last night, or if the neighbors might have been the ones responsible for the damage.

Deputies have been called out to a nearby address, 206 Ray Ave., in the past, but the woman said she didn’t think her neighbors had caused the damage.

She said she didn’t know when the damage might have taken place. Etsitty asked her if she knew of anyone who would want to break her car’s windshield, and the woman said some of her family members could possibly have a motive.

Etsitty told the victim he would file a report.

NASTY SURPRISE Gamerco, May 6 A Gamerco woman woke up one morning to discover her car’s windshield and taillight had been shattered.

McKinley County Sheriff’s Deputy Clayton Etsitty was dispatched to 205 Ray Ave. in Gamerco On May 6, around 10:51 am When he arrived at the scene the woman was standing by her car, a silver Nissan Sentra. She explained that she had gotten home from Farmington around 11 the night before. When she woke up the next morning, she noticed her car’s front window and right taillight had been smashed.

According to the report he

Adrian Catron Aug. 2, 2019, 9:52 pm Aggravated DWI After a visit to the casino, it was hard to wake Adrian Catron up. The 30 year-old from Saint Michaels, Ariz. reportedly passed out behind the wheel of a GMC Sierra near the 16-mile marker of Interstate 40.

New Mexico State Police Officer Merlin Billy was called out to conduct a welfare check.

When he arrived he found a vehicle matching the description he was given with its headlights on a nd engine running. He approached the driver’s side and found a male asleep in the driver’s seat.

Catron did not wake up when Billy opened the driver’s door, but did stir when the vehicle was turned off.

Billy had to eventually shout to get Catron’s attention, and he noted Catron had bloodshot eyes and slurred speech. When asked to get out of the Sierra, Catron staggered as he walked toward the back of the vehicle.

When asked if he had had anything to drink prior to driving, Catron admitted to having three beers at the casino. He agreed to take the standard field sobriety tests, but failed and was placed under arrest.

Catron was transported to the local state police office for a breath test, where he posted two samples of .21. He was then taken to McKinley County Adult Detention Center and booked.

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INDIAN COUNTRY

A century of federal indifference left generations of Navajo homes without running water PART FOUR: WATER WITHIN SIGHT, BUT OUT OF REACH

By Elizabeth Miller New Mexico In Depth April 12, 2021

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he Colorado, Little Colorado, and San Jua n r ivers wend through red mesas, creating ribbons of green river valleys that run up against the Navajo Nation’s boundaries and occasionally cut through pieces of tribal lands. Water is both right at hand, and unavailable to tribal members.

Navajo people, who call themselves Diné, which means “the people”, have made their homes for centuries in the high desert of what’s now the Navajo Nation by shaping their lives around when and where water became available in a homeland they call Dinétah. For more than a century, they’ve watched water run by, downstream to cities and other farmers’ fields, waiting for a way to access what’s rightfully theirs.

More than 100 communities and settlements tuck along fins of sandstone and rise out of fields spotted with junipers. They crop up on stretches of flat scrublands, too, where trees rarely interrupt the sky or obscure views of distant spires like Shiprock, which floods with morning sun before the light touches any other piece of the landscape. Water threads sandy washes, the swooping corners of canyons, and the depressions where cottonwoods grow.

Livestock validate a family’s occupancy of the land, according to custom and Navajo law.

Livestock also lay an economic and food security baseline people built on by hunting, farming, and gathering. When they had access to all of their historic homeland, Diné ranchers moved herds of sheep, goats, and cattle, and horses too, to graze rangelands shared among extended families, their presence shifting with moisture.

The practice has been greatly reduced, but for some, still keeps people in touch with the needs of INDIAN COUNTRY

the land and deities to whom they pray for rain and grass.

“People presently living on these Native lands are unique in American society as their traditional lifestyle requires intimate knowledge of the ecosystem, knowledge that has been passed on for generations through oral traditions,” reads a 2011 report on disaster risks from drought in the Navajo Nation, research for which was led by the U.S. Geological Survey and included interviewing 50 Navajo elders.

But the reservation system has impeded that practice. When some families moved herds north of the San Juan River, into Utah, during a drought in the 1950s, nearby white ranchers took the issue to the courts, which ruled Diné ranchers were trespassing.

They then rallied U.S. Bureau of Land Management employees to remove Diné families who’d lived on the north side beyond reservation boundaries for generations.

The employees posted notices first — written in English, neither read nor spoken by some of the Diné — and then rounded up and hauled away or killed livestock, handcuffing Diné ranchers and marching others south across the river, and setting their hogans and shade houses on fire.

Historically, the Diné relied on shallow aquifers in sand and gravel along rivers and floodplains, where water fluctuated with the season’s snow and rainfall.

Some of the drier lowlands receive just 150 millimeters of rain a year; wetter areas might see twice as much.

When the federal government established the reservation in 1868, Anglo and Hispanic settlers carved out the best rangelands for themselves, while the tribe retained the Chuska and Lukachukai Mountains. The federal government added to

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HEALTH & ENVIRONMENT

Earthweek: Diary of a Changing World Week ending Friday, May 14, 2021

By Steve Newman

Royal Breeding Western mona rch but ter f l ies from the Pacific Nor thwest to California may not be going extinct as earlier feared, but are instead changing their breeding habitats and adapting to climate change. A Washington State University expert says last winter’s count of the colorful insects revealed a sharp drop, especially across much of Southern California, where the number plunged from about 300,000 three years ago to just 1,914 in 2020. But entomologist David James says large populations were observed by citizen scientists in metropolitan Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area, where they had seldom been seen wintering before.

Earthquakes The Philippine capital of Manila and nearby areas were

prevent another catastrophe.

“It’s like the embers in a barbecue pit,” nuclear chemist Neil Hyatt of the University of Sheffield said. He says the new rates of fission are very low and believes they probably will not lead to an explosion. But scientists on the scene say they are not sure since there is no direct way to monitor what is happening inside the sealed and intensely radioactive chamber.

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-111° Vostok, Antarctica jolted by a temblor that was unusually strong for the region.• Earth movements were also felt in eastern India’s Assam state, Los Angeles and a wide area from the northern Sierra Nevada to the Sacramento Valley.

Methane Warning The U.N. announced that cutting emissions of methane from farming, fossil fuel operations and landfi lls is urgently needed to help combat the deepening

climate emergency. While methane doesn’t last as long in the atmosphere, it is many times more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. The U.N. says that global industry could easily and inexpensively slash methane emissions by 30 percent within a decade, with a 45 percent cut possible by using other readily available methods.

Some of the biggest sources are the growing mountains of human trash buried in landfills around the world that generate the gas as they decompose.

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Plugging leaky oil wells, coal mines and pipelines could also help curb methane emissions.

Forest Recovery Areas of felled forest around the world, collectively the size of France, have regrown naturally during the past 20 years, potentially soaking up more carbon emissions than the United States creates each year.

But the World Wildlife Fund, which led the survey, says far more areas of forests are being lost each year through deforestation than are recovering.

“The data show the enormous potential of natural habitats to recover when given the chance to do so,” John Lotspeich, executive director of Trillion Trees, the coalition group behind the study, said.

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‘Stratoshrink’ One unexpected consequence of hu ma n it y’s greenhouse gas emissions is that they have shrunk the stratosphere — a thinning that could eventually affect life on Earth, satellites and GPS. Writing in the journal Environmental Research Letters, scientists say the high and rarified layer of the atmosphere has contracted by about 1,300 feet since the 1980s and is likely to shrink another 3,300 feet by 2080 without sharp cuts in carbon emissions. Global heating of the troposphere, the atmosphere’s lowest layer, has caused it to expand, pushing up the bottom layer of the stratosphere. And when carbon dioxide emissions mix into the stratosphere, they cause that layer to cool and shrink.

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F i s s io n r e a c tions appear to be occurring in an inaccessible chamber of Ukraine’s crippled Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which exploded 35 years ago.

Scientists say they don’t know if the slow rise in neutron emissions will fizzle out or increase, forcing them to find ways to

Tropica l Stor m Andres became the ea rl iest tropica l cyclone to form in the eastern Pacific on record. It beat Tropical Storm Adrian’s formation in 2017 by 12 hours, but was weak and short-lived.

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Earthweek: Diary of a Changing World Week ending Friday, May 21, 2021

By Steve Newman

Psychedelic Frenzy Some of t he billions of Brood X cicadas that are emerging from the soil in the ea ster n United States for the first time in 17 years are infected with a fungus that eats away at their abdomens as it increases their sex drive.

The Ma ssospora cicad ina fungus lies dor ma nt until the 17-year periodical cicadas begin to stir. It’s laced with the same chemical as in psychedelic mushrooms and causes the males to emit the mating sounds of both males and females. This attracts more potential partners and spreads the fungus. Since the fungus effectively castrates the males as it eats away at their bodies, it acts as a natural population control, making it impossible for the infected insects to mate successfully.

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“2020’s increase was double the 2007 growth. It’s even higher than the early 1980s, when the gas industry was going crazy. It’s really scary,” geophysicist Euan Nisbet of Royal Holloway, University of London told New Scientist.

The increase is far greater than atmospheric scientists had earlier predicted.

Earthquakes Six people were i nju r e d a nd t wo dozen homes damaged by a st rong central Nepal temblor.• Earth movements were also felt in Costa Rica, southern Wales, northwestern Sumatra, northern Japan’s Hokkaido Island and around Lake Tahoe.

Methane Surge Concentrations of t h e p owe r f u l greenhouse ga s methane increased more la st yea r tha n since records began in 1983, and scientist s say t hey a ren’t sure why. After plateauing in the early 2000s, atmospheric methane has been increasing steadily since 2007. The gas

Mobile Monitors Smartphones could soon help scientists measure how solar activity is affecting Ear th’s magnetic field and determine where navigation devices may be most a ffected by sola r stor ms.

Writing in the journal Space We at h e r, resea rcher s say that an app using the magnetometers in most Android and iOS mobile phones could create a vast global observatory. Solar storms can affect compass readings and have been observed degrading the accuracy of GPS navigation systems.

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hu m a n a c t i v i t i e s h ave t r a n sfor med nearly a fifth of the pla net’s la nd su rface since the 1960s, roughly equivalent to the areas of Eu rope a nd A f r ic a com bined. During that period, Ear th’s forest cover alone has been reduced by nearly a million square kilometers, with farmland and grazing pastures increasing by about the same amount. While forests have actually expanded in the Northern Hemisphere du r ing the pa st 60 yea rs, they have been disappearing at an alarming rate to

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the south. This is because of the growing production of beef, sugar cane and soybean in the Amazon, palm oil in Southeast Asia and cocoa in Nigeria and Cameroon.

Zombie Fires T he rel at ively new and rare fires that have been observed smoldering over the winter months in the peaty soil across some Arctic regions are predicted to become more frequent and potentially catastrophic as global heating becomes more pronounced.

Writing in the journal Nature, researchers from Alaska and the Netherlands say these “zombie” fires accounted for just 0.8 percent of the total burned areas between 2002 and 2018. But the percentages swung widely, depending on how hot the summers were, rising to 38 percent in one region. The researchers say the fires will become more ferocious as the landscapes dry out due to climate change.

Tropical Cyclone The worst cyclone to strike western India in three decades left more than 100 dead as the region also battled COVID-19.

Cyclone Tauktae was one of a growing number of Arabian Sea cyclones that meteorologists say are also increasing in intensity because climate change is rapidly warming the sea.

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Human Domination A new study finds that

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‘Cruella’ isn’t deliciously evil, but does look striking

By Glenn Kay For the Sun

RATING:  OUT OF  RUNNING TIME: 134 MINUTES This film from Disney will be released May 28 simultaneously in theaters as well as on Disney+ with Premiere Access and a onetime additional fee.

Disney can’t seem to stop itself from producing live-action remakes of its animated titles. Of course, they have been doing this for many years now (even the original 101 Dalmatians got a live-action redressing in 2000). Their newest attempt is Cruella, a prequel of sorts that focuses on t he ba ck stor y of t he famous antagonist. There are some pacing problems in this fi lm and it isn’t without some issues.

However, it should impress children and is a visual treat.

Estella aka Cruella (Emma Stone) is a woman who has experienced great tragedy since childhood. After being orphaned and forced to live on the streets as a youth, she fi nds herself participating in petty

crimes with cohorts Jasper (Joel Fry) and Horace (Paul Walter Hauser). Dreaming of working in the world of fashion, the adult Estella actually manages to impress world famous designer the Baroness Von Hellman (Emma Thompson).

She is hired to work for the baroness’s clothing line, but after making inroads, the lead discovers shocking and distressing secrets about her employer.

Estella begins to let her criminal side bloom, developing an alter ego named Cruella de Vil to help her take revenge on the baroness.

The big highlight of this feature is its visuals. Much of it is set in the 1970s and every frame is fi lled with eye-popping production design and cinematography. As one might expect from a movie that deals with fashion, the elaborate costumes on display are consistently colorful and everything about the movie is as lavish as possible. The film also boasts a constant barrage of music from the era, including some incredible tunes that must have cost a fortune for the fi lmmakers to license.

Taken simply as an atmosphere piece, the feature is a pleasure to watch.

The story presented is as something of an origin tale,

Estella aka Cruella (Emma Stone) as the title character, works to impress world famous designer Baroness Von Hellman (Emma Thompson) in “Cruella.” Photo Credit: Disney+

which means that it takes quite a while for the main confl ict to develop and for the action to hit its stride. While the visuals help make up for some deficiencies, the actual pacing does feel slow in early sections. The central confl ict is also very personal, involving specific grudges between the central characters. It’s all entertaining, but the battle between the leads never feels like it will have any major consequences on those around them.

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And as you might have guessed, the puppy-skinning antagonist from the original story has been softened significantly. In fact, she has been transformed into a plucky, down-on-her-luck protagonist who has been mistreated by those around her. The fi lm subtly attempts to suggest why Estella might have a problem with the Dalmatian breed in the future and there are certainly actions that suggest a personality disorder. But beyond giving a couple of pointed looks into the camera and dressing like a villainess, there is little about her that suggests a true evil-doer.

At least Stone does her best to try to add some layers to the role as she begins struggling to control her darker instincts.

And Emma Thompson makes for an entertaining foe as a selfish, elitist fashionista only concerned about her own public

status. While there are a few tricks played between Cruella and the baroness, one can’t help but think the story might have benefited from making its lead a proper nemesis. It would be fun to watch two nasty outlaws truly go toe-to-toe with no regard for the world around them.

Sadly, the fi lm is far more concerned with making us feel sorry for and like Cruella, than it is with allowing her to be a charismatic wrongdoer.

Like other recent Disney fl icks about similar personalities, Cruella doesn’t make the most of portraying the life of a famous supervillain. That is a shame, but the movie looks so slick and well-produced that it should still entertain families and impress them with a few enjoyable moments and plenty of striking images.

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‘Army of the Dead’ is a case of undead style over substance

By Glenn Kay For the Sun

RATING:  OUT OF  RUNNING TIME: 148 MINUTES This film became available to viewers May 21 on Netflix.

Filmmaker Zach Snyder has spent the last decade producing and directing superhero films based on the sprawling DC comic book universe. However, he actually got his big break in 2004 helming a remake of the horror classic, Dawn of the Dead. Snyder has now returned to the zombie genre with Army of the Dead. His latest boasts plenty of gore and wild action, but it also requires viewers to overlook nonsensical story elements and tonal inconsistencies.

The story is set in the city of Las Vegas, Nev. After a massive zombie outbreak results in the famous strip and surrounding area being walled off from the rest of the country. The government considers dropping a nuclear weapon on the infested area. Scott Ward (Dave Bautista), a man who survived the initial undead assault, is hired by casino owner Bly Tanaka (Hiroyuki Sanada) to assemble a team of mercenaries to conduct a secret operation.

The plan is for this small group to gain access to Tanaka’s casino vault and recover $200 million dollars on site before the entire area is decimated by the bomb.

But of course, Tanaka may have an ulterior motive for sending the group inside and Scott must contend with his estranged daughter Kate (Ella Purnell), who insists on joining the mission.

Adding a break-in heist element to a zombie picture is an intriguing twist on the horror formula and the setting of Las Vegas makes for a colorful and visually arresting backdrop. As movie fans will already know, the director has a distinct style and has been shooting big action set pieces for years, meaning that the chases and gunfights involving zombies are all punchy and amusing to watch. The opening scene and climax detailing a lengthy COMMUNITY

attack involving hundreds of monsters does contain thrills and chills.

If only the characters were more fully drawn. This might seem a surprising thing to complain about given the film’s extended two-and-a-half hour running time. Lead Bautista is a likable hero who tries to eke

some drama out of a personal trauma involving a family member. However, the script doesn’t seem nearly as interested in anything concerning his backstory.

The protagonist’s struggles

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Blu-ray/DVD Roundup for May 28, 2021

By Glenn Kay For the Sun

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elcome to another l o ok at new releases arriving on Blu-ray and DVD. There aren’t a great many major Hollywood films arriving on disc this week, but there is a lot of interesting and exciting material coming around. So, if you can’t or shouldn’t be heading out to the movies this week, be sure to give one of these titles a try!

BIG NEW RELEASES! AMERICAN FIGHTER: A college wrestler desperate to help pay medical bills for his ailing mother decides to earn extra cash by joining an underground fighting circuit. Initially, it doesn’t go well and the protagonist is injured during his first match, but a trainer takes a shine to this new competitor. The ex per ienced figure decides to train the lead and turn him into a lean, mean athlete for the next tournament.

This independent feature earned more positive write-ups from the press than negative notices.

A portion thought the fights were well-shot, but complained that the drama ultimately missed the mark. However, slightly more appreciated the sincerity on display and found it charming overall. It features George Kosturos, Tommy Flanagan, Sean Patrick Flanery and Bryan Craig.

BENNY LOVES YOU: In this dark comedy from the UK, a 35-year-old man still living at home must deal with tragedy after his parents pass away. He decides to make a new start in life by tossing out some of his childhood toys. This includes the lead’s favorite childho o d plu s h animal, Benny.

Unfortunately, Benny doesn’t take kindly to being thrown away and goes on a murderous rampage to let his owner know that they should not be separated.

Critics were amused by what they saw unfold. A small number of them couldn’t get on the film’s

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wavelength and stated that the events depicted were sophomoric and unfunny. Yet the vast majority described the feature as an entertaining black comedy.

They found Benny hysterical and thought the mix of laughs and gruesomeness generally worked.

The cast includes Karl Holt, Claire Cartwright, George Collie and James Parsons.

DELIVER US FROM EVIL: A South Korean hit man decides to retire after completing his latest assignment. Unfortunately, the assassin learns that an ex-girlfriend from Thailand has been murdered and her child has been kidnapped. Believing that he may be the father of the infant, the protagonist decides to find the responsible party and rescue the child, while the vengeance-focused brother of his previous victim chases after him. The press really took a shine to this action picture.

In fact, there haven’t been any negative write-ups for the movie. All of the reviews complimented t h e p e r fo rmances, stating that the actors added a level of humanity to the proceedings.

They also complimented the pacing, the impressive action sequences, and admired the stylish cinematography. Hwang Jung-min, Lee Jung-jae and Park Jung-min headline the feature.

KINKY BOOTS: THE MUSICAL: Kinky Boots was a 2005 movie based on a true story about a shoe manufacturer who befriends a drag queen and creates high-heeled boots for men that end up saving his business.

It was turned into a hit Tonywinning musical production in 2013 (with Cyndi Lauper writing the songs) that ran for several years. This feature is a filmed version of the West End London stage adaptation. There aren’t many reviews available for the disc, but a few have popped up online.

They all suggest that it’s a solid production that does a good job of capturing the stage show.

However, a few did complain

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MASKS/MARIJUANA | FROM COVER Hayes explained that the city will drop its own ordinance and begin following the New Mexico Department of Health’s rules and regulations.

Hayes expressed his concerns that enforcing the rule that unvaccinated people have to keep wearing their masks in public may prove difficult. “… [The] last public health order basically says that there’s going to be different rules for folks [who] have been fully vaccinated and those who haven’t,” Hayes stated.

“I think that’s going to be real difficult to enforce, so our ordinance will remain enforced for another month, which would require face coverings in the City of Gallup for all individuals.”

But come July 1, that all will

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They must be restaurants, not bars. They can’t serve customers more than three hard liquor drinks per visit. They must have current food service permits, with sales that are 60 percent food and 40 percent drinks; and they must continue the same hours of operation (close at 11 pm or when food service stops, whichever is sooner).

Hayes told the Sun that in order for restaurants to serve spirits, the city council would pass an ordinance to “opt-in” to the provision of the state law that allows Restaurant B licenses to be issued.

Hayes added there isn’t any thing in the city code now regarding restaura nt licenses and Gallup is already a local option district that has approved restaurant licenses for beer and wine, as a result

change. The council approved the ordinance.

Mayor Louis Bonaguidi spoke for everyone when he expressed his joy over not having to wear a mask much longer. “… [Everybody’s] tickled to death we’re repealing the mask order,” he said.

MORE CHANGES ON THE WAY The late-spring-summer months will bring more adjustments for Gallupians. It won’t be long before people over the age of 21 will be able to consume marijuana in Gallup.

Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed a bill legalizing marijuana in New Mexico on April 12. The bill will become law on June 29, 90 days after she signed it. However, selling the drug won’t be legal until April 1, 2022 Hayes acknowledged the

of a special election.

TRANSFER OF LICENSE Another major provision in the new law is the ability for a licensee to transfer their liquor license out of McKinley County.

“To sell is a private business decision and yields a lot of money,” Maestas told the Sun. Liquor licenses have different names, allowing license holders to do different things, he wrote. But the types of sales are simple and distinct: one is liquor by the drink (sold in a bar, tavern, or restaurant) or liquor by the package (sold in a liquor store). Although some establishments can make both types of sales available to customers, he noted.

“If one tra nsfers their license to a different ‘local option district,’ then the licensee can no longer sell (by) repackage; it can only be used to sell liquor (by the) drink,” Maestas wrote in an email.

He suggested that the penalty for having marijuana in your possession should be limited. If someone is caught smoking or vaping marijuana in public, they will be charged a $50 fi ne, and it will only be a civil offense. He explained that smoking and vaping will only be allowed in dispensaries once they become legal in April 2022. Before that time they will be considered a public disturbance.

A special case will be made Gallup City Attorney Curtis Hayes told the for people between 18 and 20 City Council May 25 that vaccinated people because they are no longer could go mask-free starting July 1. File minors, but are still under the Photo legal age of 21. Hayes stated that these people will be given difficult situation that could a choice to either serve four arise where someone will be hours of community service legally allowed to have mari- or take a four-hour class on juana in their possession start- marijuana. ing June 29, but it won’t be legal As for which courts will for someone to buy it in New handle the situation, Hayes Mexico until April of next year. said he believed the situation

would be handled more effectively in municipal court rather than in magistrate court.

“We decided it simply wasn’t worth dealing with sending those cases to magistrate court,” Hayes said. “It wasn’t worth the expenditure that it was going to cost the city.”

Councilor Fran Palochak, Dist. 4, asked Hayes what the law said about eating a marijuana brownie in public since it does not cause the same possible public disturbance that vaping and smoking do. Hayes said eating a brownie is not against the law.

“I guess we’ll just have to see how it works out,” Palochak chuckled. “It’s going to be different.”

The council decided to repeal the original ordinance that makes possession of marijuana illegal and adopt the new rules for smoking it in public.

He was referring to districts in counties and/or cities that voted to approve the sale, serving, or public consumption of alcohol, according to HB 255.

He wrote that McKinley County license holders benefit the most because their licenses are the only ones in the entire state that maintain their ability to sell packages if they’re ever transferred out of McKinley County.

“This [provision] will allow McK i n ley Cou nt y l icense

holder s to t ra n sfer t hei r licenses without losing their package — the ability to sell liquor for off-site consumption,” Maestas wrote in an email. “The policy goal is to incentivize licensees to move out of McKinley County.”

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BLU-RAY/DVD | FROM PAGE 14 that the movie frequently cuts to audience reaction shots, which did take them out of the story. Matt Henry, Killian D on nel ly, Natalie McQueen, Sean Needham and Cordelia Farnworth headline the feature.

MARTHA: A PICTURE STORY: Photographer Martha Cooper is the subject of this documentary. She was one of the first to capture graffiti art with her camera in New York City during the 1970s. The filmmakers interview the figure and discuss her career and how her popular images have not only impressed those in her field, but inspired new generations of graffiti artists around the world to create works of art. The press uniformly enjoyed this non-f iction feature.

The reviewers all admitted that the mater ia l on the figure had been presented in a typical and ordinary way.

However, they still called it a joyous and upbeat examination of the life of an influential figure, who was well ahead of her time and helped popularize an underground art movement during its earliest days.

BLASTS FROM THE PAST! Blue Underground is getting the ball rolling with the release of The Final Countdown (1980), a fascinating little science-fiction picture involving a battleship carrier that finds itself transported to the Pacific Ocean a day before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Those onboard are forced to figure out how to respond and react to the unusual situation. This cult movie was shot on a working U.S. Navy vessel and has a great cast that includes Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Katharine Ross, James Farentino and Charles Durning.

The title is being released as a Limited Edition 3-disc 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray and Blu-ray. It also includes a CD featuring the film’s score. The extras are plentiful, too. They include a commentary track from the director of photography, an extended interview with crew member Lloyd Kaufman (who dishes plenty of dirt on what happened during the production).

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You’ll also get interviews with members of the flight crew, all kinds of publicity materials, a lengthy booklet giving more background information about the movie, as well as more extras!

Arrow has some great Blurays, as well. If you didn’t pick up their exceptional Blu-ray of 12 Monkeys (1995) a year or so ago, you can now pick up a Steelbook edition with fantastic new cover art. This edition of the sci-fi classic comes with all the remarkable extras from the distributor’s previous edition.

If you like spaghetti westerns, you can also purchase a 4K Blu-ray 2-disc Limited Edition of Django (1966). This is an incredible flick about a mysterious man out for revenge who drifts into town dragging a coffin. The movie inspired the title of the 2012 Quentin Tarantino production Django Unchained and it’s easy to see how this flick made an impression on the filmmaker.

The set also comes with the film Texas, Adios (1966), which featured the same lead actor and was released in some territories as a sequel to the marquee feature.

Django comes with a film historian commentary, an interview with the assistant director, a discussion with the director’s wife, an archival talk with both of the co-writers, another interview with a stuntman and performer from the movie, an appreciation of the feature with a western film scholar, an archival featurette with director Alex Cox (Repo Man, Sid & Nancy) about the movie’s historical importance, publicity materials, and much more.

And that’s not all! Arrow is also putting out the box set Weird Wisconsin: The Bill Rebane Collection. This independent filmmaker created all sorts of drive-in B-movies and this Bluray collection includes Monster a Go-Go! (1965), Invasion from Inner Earth (1974), The Alpha Incident (1978), The Demons of Ludlow (1983), The Game (1984) and Twister’s Revenge!

(1988). You’ll also receive the feature-length documentary, Who is Bill Rebane? (2021), which goes into more detail about the life of the man behind the camera.

The set features new restorations of all the movies, interviews with Rebane about each of the titles included, as well as additional discussions about his career, visual essays about some of the flicks, short films, and industrial shorts by the director.

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great set for fans of low-budget, do-it-yourself horror filmmakers.

Shout! Factory has a trio of big Blu-ray titles. City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly’s Gold (1994) was a follow-up to the 1991 Billy Crystal/Jack Palance Oscar-winner, City Slickers. It reunites the cast of the first film as they take part in a new adventure across the American West.

The release arrives with an audio commentary with the director and co-stars Daniel Stern and Jon Lovitz.

You’ll also get a making-of documentary and a trailer.

One of the most exciting releases of the week is the Blu-ray debut of the cult film, Explorers (1985). The feature follows three kids (played by Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix and Jason Presson) who receive a message from space and attempt to make contact with otherworldly forces.

This film from director Joe Dante (Gremlins, Innerspace, The ‘Burbs) didn’t fare well at the box office during its original release, but has built up a massive fan following over the years. It is arriving as a Collector’s Edition that includes the theatrical and TV cuts of the feature, as well as an hour-plus long documentary about the production featuring recent interviews with Dante, Hawke, the screenwriter and others.

You’ll also get deleted scenes with an optional director commentary, an interview with the director of photography and a trailer.

And the distributor is putting out a Blu-ray of The Hand (1981), an early feature from Oliver Stone (Platoon, Wall Street, JFK, Natural Born Killers). This horror flick stars Michael Caine as a man who loses his hand in a traffic accident, only to have the severed appendage go on a murderous rampage. The disc includes a 2K scan of the movie from the inter-positive, a new interview with Stone himself, discussions with co-stars Bruce McGill and Andrea Marcovicci, in addition to the film’s producer. You’ll also get a previously recorded commentary track with Stone.

Kino is releasing plenty of noteworthy Blu-rays. The all-star comedy Honky Tonk Freeway (1981) is a satire about a town that tries to buy an interstate ramp to their community and will do anything to get what they want. The movie has received a 4K Blu-ray restoration from the original camera negative and comes with a producer commentary and a trailer.

Lights of Old Broadway (1925) is a classic silent technicolor drama with Marion Davies that has been given a 2K restoration, a new orchestral score and a film historian commentary. If you’re looking for more wacky comedies, you can pick up Million Dollar Mystery (1987).

It’s about a bunch of travelers in a diner who are told by a dying customer that his massive fortune is buried in four locations across the country. Naturally, they end up racing against each other as they scramble to locate the cash.

It’s not a great movie, but does feature a lot of familiar faces partaking in the wackiness. This Bluray includes an entertainment journalist audio track and trailer.

The Night of the Following Day (1969) is a thriller with Marlon Brando and Richard Boone about a gang of men who take the daughter of a millionaire hostage. Their plans go awry as they fight among themselves over how to split the money.

The Blu-ray comes with a critic commentary, a discussion of the trailer with director Joe Dante (Gremlins, Explorers, Innerspace, The ‘Burbs) and a second trailer. And Kino also is making a Blu-ray available of the French drama, Ponette (1996).

Criterion has an interesting film-noir. Nightmare Alley (1947) is about a conman working at a carnival who makes a life for himself telling lies. As time passes and those around him threaten to reveal the truth, his life begins to fall apart, and he takes some extreme risks.

The film has received a 4K digital Blu-ray restoration and comes with a 2005 film historian audio commentary, a critic interview, a discussion with others included in the production, numerous featurettes with critics discussing the film’s importance, as well as audio recordings with the cast and crew and much more.

And Cinema Guild has a Bluray of the well-regarded South Korean comedy/drama, Yourself and Yours (2016).

If you’re looking for B-movies, you’ve got plenty to choose from this week. Vinegar Syndrome is having a “Halfway to Black Friday” sale on their website this weekend. Besides discounts on many titles, they will also release some new Blu-rays. One of them is the cult action/comedy SixString Samurai (1998), which contains a 4K transfer, multiple director commentary tracks, an extended making-of documentary and tons of other bonuses.

Apparently, the Eddie Deezen comedy, Surf II (1984) is also

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Smile (1975), was a very well-reviewed satire of beauty pageants from the ‘70s that starred Bruce Dern. Fun City Editions is presenting the film on Blu-ray with a 2K restoration.

It also includes a new interview with the lead, an audio commentary with film authorities talking about the feature and some publicity materials. They also have a 4K restoration of the Robert Forster action picture, Walking the Edge (1985).

You’ll get numerous cast and crew interviews, multiple audio commentaries, and more.

Lionsgate has a Target Exclusive Steelbook title called the Schwarzenegger Double Feature. The new packaging contains previously released Blu-rays of Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1990) and Total Recall (1991) inside elaborate new packaging.

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FEDERAL INDIFFERENCE PART FOUR | FROM PAGE 9 the reservation over the coming years, with it finally covering onethird of the traditional Dinétah, the driest, hottest piece of it.

An already delicate balance around water has only become more tenuous.

Decades of drought have turned year-round streams into seasonal pulses, dried out historic springs, and concentrated groundwater so wells become so saline that they corrode their own pipes and pumps. Vegetation has died, leaving loose sand that feeds dust storms thick enough to turn the sky red. The Navajo Nation now sees less than half the snowfall it did decades ago.

The San Juan River also flows with half the water it did a century ago, and the entire Colorado River Basin is expected to dry further as the climate continues to change.

As colonists moved into this arid country, where rainfall could not be relied upon for water and rivers were turned to instead, they imported a “first in time, first in right” principle for allocating water that prioritized its earliest users. The U.S. Supreme Court read that “first in time” right as transferring to tribal nations in 1908, when it issued what’s now called the Winters Decision in a dispute over water for the Fort Belknap Reservation.

The Winters Decision stated that when Congress created reservations, it implied that water went with the land. That dates tribal water rights to the reservations’ establishment.

“This doctrine is grounded in the principle that in ceding millions of acres of land to the United States, tribes in no way intended to relinquish their ability to use water for the benefit of their homelands and reservations,” water rights attorney Jay Weiner summarized to Congress in 2015, testifying as assistant attorney general for Montana, home of the lawsuit that led to the Winters Decision.

In water rights parlance, the Navajo Nation has “paper water” — rights to some unquantified amount of water — but not “wet water.”

The Colorado River Compact, which allocates Colorado River Basin water, splits estimated

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SPORTS Rehoboth Lynx Reece Blackmoon connects with a pitch from the Zuni Thunderbirds in the second game of a doubleheader at Ford Canyon Park in Gallup May 22. The Lynx won both games of the doubleheader, 16-0 and 17-0. Photo Credit: Cable Hoover

Double header; double win REHOBOTH DEFEATS ZUNI 16-0, 17-0

Rehoboth Lynx Reece Blackmoon tags up on second base as Zuni Thunderbird Nathan Sanchez makes the catch at Ford Canyon Park in Gallup May 22. Photo Credit: Cable Hoover

Zuni Thunderbird Nick Juarez pitches to the Rehoboth Lynx at Ford Canyon Park in Gallup May 22. Photo Credit: Cable Hoover

Rehoboth Lynx Talen West catches a popup from the Zuni Thunderbirds during a doubleheader at Ford Canyon Park May 22 in Gallup. Photo Credit: Cable Hoover

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FEDERAL INDIFFERENCE PART FOUR | FROM PAGE 17 annual river flows in two, half for upper basin states and half for lower basin states. No tribal members were represented when those negotiations were finalized in 1922.

In deference to Winters, the compact allows for separate dealings on indigenous water rights.

New Mexico’s allocation of the Upper Colorado River Basin — 11.25 percent, or 669,000 acre feet per year — was granted with the expectation that the state would someday have to share a then-unquantified amount of water with tribes.

The federal government left tribes and states to determine how much, from where, and how to access that water through settlements approved by Congress or in the court system. That meant the Navajo Nation needed to negotiate with three different states — Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico — to settle how much the tribe acquired from each state’s allocation.

“This has the affect of pitting tribal nations against the states and all of the interests the states represent,” Yazzie said, with Sixth World Solutions. “There’s so many layers of conflicts this has created.”

States often treat tribal water

rights as a subtraction from what’s theirs to use, instead of a provision for some of their most financially strained communities. Meanwhile, they’ve built farms and cities reliant on water tribes could claim as their own, and now, the looming prospect of tribal water rights clouds their future.

As tribes have negotiated settlements with states on how much water is theirs to use, lawmakers essentially trade money to build pipelines, pumping stations, and treatment plants to access “wet water” for an agreement that reduces tribal water claims and defers to current water users.

Water allocations also estimate need based on census population, rather than tribal membership, ignoring the possibility that if homes on reservations had running water and electricity, more people might want to live there.

“It’s just manipulation of information and data to further minimize our claims,” Yazzie said.

“They know that we really need water and we really need water infrastructure, and we can’t get that water infrastructure until we settle our claims. … It’s this way of manipulating this urgent need, this human right, in order to put in these conditions that further minimize tribal sovereignty.”

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a settlement in 2005, it directed the federal government, with some money from the state, to fund and construct the NavajoGallup Water Supply Project to move water from rivers to homes. “A ‘paper’ water right does not benefit people who must haul their drinking water,” former Navajo Nation president Joe Shirley, Jr. explained when the settlement went before Congress to approve in 2007. “The Navajo Nation is foregoing a large paper water right in exchange for a smaller paper water right, [and] conditions on the wet water development outlined in the settlement legislation.”

The Navajo-Gallup Project includes 300 miles of pipeline, multiple pumping plants, and two water treatment plants that will reach 43 Navajo chapters.

The project splits into two major components. The Cutter Lateral serves Navajo communities along Highway 550 and reaches Jicarilla Apache communities near Teepee Junction. The San Juan Lateral parallels Highway 491 through a series of Navajo communities before a terminus at Gallup, where the city’s tappedout groundwater wells are putting long-term viability of their water supplies in question.

Spokes would stretch from Gallup to nearby Navajo communities, some with more than half of their residents without water at home. Spur lines will

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reach Crownpoint, farther east into New Mexico, and Window Rock, the Navajo Nation capital just across the state line into Arizona. The project will serve a population expected to reach 250,000 by 2040.

During congressional hearings in 2007, Bush administration staffers testified in opposition, calling the project too expensive.

Then New Mexico Senator Jeff Bingaman, a co-sponsor on the legislation, was quick to point out that the $714 million requested was less than a third of the $2.3 billion the Bush Administration spent on water infrastructure and management in Iraq. Shirley also pointed out that after Hurricane Katrina, Congress authorized billions to rebuild water systems for New Orleans residents. Now, the tribe was asking Congress to do the same for Navajo people.

Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Carl Artman, an enrolled member of the Oneida Tribe of Wisconsin, said the administration hadn’t thoroughly analyzed the matter or completed their search for a more affordable option, even though a federal team had been investigating it for years.

“It’s just not a credible response,” Bingaman replied.

“The Federal Government’s been AWOL is essentially what you’re saying.”

Arizona’s water resources department director, Herbert Guenther, also objected. He argued that piping San Juan River water, from the Upper Basin of the Colorado River, to Window Rock and Gallup, which lie in the Lower Basin, violated the Colorado River Compact.

He also said supplying Navajo communities across the state

line in Arizona would compromise Arizona’s pending settlement with the Navajo Nation. He argued all of the Navajo Nation’s claims to Colorado River water should be resolved before the project advanced.

Shirley disagreed: “We are disappointed that the Arizona testimony talks about the need to resolve litigation with the Navajo Nation, but [makes] no acknowledgment of the real needs of the Navajo Nation to obtain sufficient water rights to create a permanent homeland.”

Still, Senator Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., inserted a clause that bars communities in Arizona from tapping into the Navajo-Gallup supply line until Congress approves a settlement for Navajo claims on the Little Colorado River and the Lower Basin of the Colorado River. That clause has stalled out the spur line to Window Rock for a decade and effectively trapped 6,411 acre feet of water, the amount the Navajo-Gallup project would have delivered to Navajo communities in Arizona.

An omnibus public land management act finally approved the New Mexico settlement in early 2009. It was signed by President Barack Obama just weeks into his first term. That passed a milestone Congress had foreseen a need for as early as 1971, when they authorized a feasibility study on the project.

A settlement between Utah and the Navajo Nation passed Congress this year, dedicating funding for 5,000 people living without reliable water supplies or relying on wells contaminated

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CLICK-IT | FROM PAGE 7 started May 24. Participating states will alert travelers using social media and digital highway signs.

“Click It or Ticket is not about citations; it’s about saving lives,” Transportation Secretary Mike Sandoval said.

In 2019, there were 9,466 unbuckled people killed in crashes in the U.S. In New Mexico there were 141 traffic fatalities involving an unbuckled driver or passenger.

Drivers with out-of-state licenses were involved with 37.5 percent of all fatalities on

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FEDERAL INDIFFERENCE PART FOUR | FROM PAGE 19 with heav(il)y mineralization, including arsenic. The largest part of the reservation and the greatest share of its population live(s) in Arizona. That state has yet to reach a settlement with the Navajo Nation for its water rights.

Now the federal government is facing litigation for this failure.

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interstates according to New Mexico data from 2016-2019.

Of those fatalities, 42 percent were not restrained. In the fatal crashes involving out-of-state drivers, California, Arizona, Texas, and Colorado had the most drivers in fatal crashes on interstates.

To help make New Mexico roads safer, the New Mexico Department of Transportation and statewide law enforcement agencies encourage all drivers and passengers to do their part and buckle up no matter what state they call home.

“As the summer travel season gets rolling, we are going to see more travelers from

neighboring states in New Mexico,” Sandoval said. “We want those travelers to be safe and buckle up, so they don’t miss anything our beautiful state has to offer.

“Buckling up is the simplest thing you can do to prevent injury or death in a crash.

Sadly, we see the results of not wearing seat belts all the time. We see the loss of life and often, these tragedies could have been prevented,” he said.

Seat belts reduce the risk of injury or death in a crash by 50 percent, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. New Mex ico l aw s t a t e s e a ch

occupant of a motor vehicle having a total weight of ten thousand pounds or less manufactured with safety belts in compliance with federal motor vehicle safety standard number 208, shall have a safety belt properly fastened about his body when the vehicle is in motion on any street or highway. New Mexico’s current seat belt use rate is 91.8 percent, which is above the national average of 90 percent.

State2State Buckle Up is a multi-state seat belt safety campaign led by local transportation and law enforcement agencies from New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska,

Utah, and Wyoming. The summer-long seat belt awareness campaign launches alongside National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the New Mexico Click It or Ticket May seat belt enforcement period.

High-visibility seat belt enforcement is important 24 hours a day, but nighttime is especially deadly for unbuckled occupants. In 2019, 55 percent of passenger vehicle occupants killed at night between 6 pm and 6 am, were not wearing their seat belts.

Learn more about the Click It or Ticket mobilization at nhtsa.gov/ciot.

on the ridiculousness of the situation (a couple of these notes seem improvised).

These flaws might be forgivable if the film was clever or offered satire to balance its extravagances. Sadly, the story doesn’t make sense and there are bizarre editing choices and tonal imbalances. The film opens with an extended montage presenting the original zombie rampage and the protagonist’s history. It is choppily

assembled and generally played for laughs with gory sight gags that unintentionally diminish any personal trauma for the leads to address later in the film.

Many of the leads make dopey decisions, or assert an idea before embarking on contradictory moves later in the story.

There are even problems with the zombies themselves.

We discover that some possess human emotions like rage, can move quickly and act more

intelligently than other undead folk. Yet the details and reasons why aren’t explained in nearly enough detail, nor is much done with their extra gifts. And even the casino owner’s true motivations for the operation leave viewers wondering why he went through with this elaborate ruse and didn’t use his resources in a simpler and more direct manner.

In the end, this picture’s wild and over-the-top events are ultimately on display to impress

with style over substance and the screenplay makes little logic.

While the movie has an interesting concept and few entertaining moments, the story is so confused and scattershot in tone that it isn’t long before the film struggles to keep viewers invested in the plot.

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Court has characterized these responsibilities as ‘moral obligations of the highest responsibility and trust,’” Shirley told Congress in 2007. “The federal government should not be allowed to shirk its trust responsibility or its treaty commitments with Indian nations by hiding behind a veil constructed of legalese that can be applied to the detriment of the poorest of the poor in America.”

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A complete copy of the Ordinance is on file in the Office of the City Clerk, City Hall.

CITY OF GALLUP, NEW MEXICO By: /s/ Alfred Abeita II, City Clerk PUBLISH: Friday, May 28, 2021 *** LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF ORDINANCE PASSAGE

BY TITLE AND SUMMARY ORDINANCE NO. C2021-3 PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the governing body of the City of Gallup, New Mexico, at its regular meeting of May 25, 2021 passed, adopted and approved the following entitled Ordinance: AN ORDINANCE REPEALING GALLUP CITY CODE SECTION 5-1-22 WHICH PROHIBITS POSSESSION OF ONE OUNCE OR LESS OF MARIJUANA; ADOPTING A REPLACEMENT SECTION OF THE CODE WITH PROHIBITS

SMOKING MARIJUANA IN A PUBLIC PLACE EXCEPT AS ALLOWED BY THE NEW MEXICO CANNABIS REGULATION ACT; AND SETTING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. The purpose and subject matter of the Ordinance is contained in the title.

A complete copy of the Ordinance is on file in the Office of the City Clerk, City Hall.

CITY OF GALLUP, NEW MEXICO By: /s/ Alfred Abeita II, City Clerk PUBLISH: Friday, May 28, 2021 *** LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF ORDINANCE PASSAGE

BY TITLE AND SUMMARY ORDINANCE NO. C2021-4 PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the governing body of the City of Gallup, New Mexico, at its regular meeting of May 25, 2021 passed, adopted and approved the following entitled Ordinance: AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING AN INCREASE TO THE RATES FOR WASTEWATER SERVICE, REPEALING AND REPLACING TITLE 8 CHAPTER 6 SECTION 8 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE OF THE CITY OF GALLUP IN ITS ENTIRETY. The purpose and subject matter of the Ordinance is contained in the title and provides for the rates, fees and

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COMMUNITY CALENDAR MAY 28 - JUNE 3, 2021 FRIDAY, May 28

ART DEMO: GLAMAZONING THE GODS

1 pm @ LIVE on Facebook, @galluplibrary for a makeup demonstration featuring Goldie Tom. Goldie is a war paint specialist, a licensed cosmetologist and makeup artist who works freelance in the Gallup area. Watch Goldie demonstrate her techniques in a livestream and listen to her story. For more information: email jwhitman@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291.

SATURDAY, May 29

LUMINARIA LIGHTS OF HOPE & LOVE EVENING

8:30 pm-10 pm @ “We the People” Sculpture Park. Relay Luminarias and Lights of Hope (American Cancer Society-Cancer Action Network) bags will be set up along the park path on Montoya Blvd, across from The Playground of Dreams.

Make purchases and donations from your car. Donations are a minimum of $5.

FREE FAMILY ART KIT: MINI ACCORDION BOOKS

12 pm-4 pm @ART123 Gallery. Get all the materials to cut, fold and bind mini-accordion books designed by local artist Dana Aldis. First come, first served. More info at: galluparts.org/familyartkits

PANEL: TRANSLATING STORY TO IMAGE

3 pm- 4 pm @ LIVE on Facebook, @galluplibrary for a creative workshop featuring 7000 BC and the American Institute of Graphic Artists. Translating a written story into a visual language can be done in many different ways. In this panel discussion graphic designers, illustrators, and comics creators elaborate on different methods to translate stories. For more information email aprice@ gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291.

CLASSIFIEDS | FROM PAGE 22 other charges for wastewater service to be increased by an average of twenty-five percent (25%). The new rates will be effective for services rendered on and after July 1, 2021. A complete copy of the Ordinance is on file in the Office of the City Clerk, City Hall.

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MONDAY, May 31

MEMORIAL DAY

City offices closed TUESDAY, JUNE 1

REGULAR COUNTY COMMISSION MEETING

9 am-11:30 am @ County Commission Chambers (207 W. Hill Ave., Floor 3). Among other items, the County Commission will consider the adoption of a Proclamation declaring extreme or severe drought conditions within the county and banning certain fireworks for the Independence Day firework sale period. As part of this consideration, there will be a public hearing for the Commission to hear comments regarding this issue and to receive a drought report. It will also to consider the repeal/revocation of Ordinance 2020-APR-003 requiring the use of face mask/face covering in public.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2

TECH TIME: ONLINE EDUCATION & TRAINING

4 pm @ Facebook, @ galluplibrary or YouTube at Octavia Fellin Public Library for FREE computer classes.

Registration is not required but is available for anyone who wants to participate in the LIVESTREAM courses.

For more information email libtrain@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291.

PRINT WIRELESSLY AT OFPL

Want to print from your phone, laptop or tablet? Did your home printer run out of ink and you need a place to print? We can help! Learn how to use our new wireless printing service and send us your prints from home or at the library. You’ll be able to print on any device straight to our printers!

WALK ON THE WILDSIDE – PRESCHOOL SONGS AND ACTIVITIES

11 am. Join us outside by the playground at Octavia Fellin Public Library Children’s Branch for bilingual animal songs and stories.

For the continued safety

CITY OF GALLUP, NEW MEXICO By: /s/ Alfred Abeita II, City Clerk PUBLISH: Friday, May 28, 2021 *** ELEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT COUNTY OF McKINLEY

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of our neighbors, we do ask attendees to continue social distancing and mask wearing. We’re also offering a preschool activity book available at OFPL on a first come, first-served basis using the Supply Request Form at ofpl.online. This week the focus is on Dr. Doolittle and Friends.

THURSDAY, JUNE 3

CHILDREN’S LIBRARY BRANCH WEEKLY EVENTS CRAFTY KIDS

4 pm on Facebook and YouTube @galluplibrary (all ages) for family-friendly crafts and step-by-step tutorials for all skill levels.

Supply kits are available at OFPL on a first-come, firstserved basis using the Supply Request Form at ofpl.online.

This week we will help you with Wrapped Yarn Critters.

ONGOING

MCKINLEY COUNTY BACK TO SCHOOL IMMUNIZATION CLINICS

8:30 am-4 pm @ McKinley Public Health Office (1919 College Dr.) Call (505) 7224391 to schedule an appointment. Bring your child’s shot record. Vaccines will be provided at no cost for children through 18 years of age.

FREE FAMILY ART KITS

From April - June, 2021, gallupARTS will be producing 300 Free Family Art Kits monthly. Each kit will feature an all-ages, hands-on, creative project designed by a local artist. Each month, 200 kits will be made available for pickup on a firstcome-first-served basis at ART123 Gallery on the last Saturday from 12 pm-4 pm and 100 kits will be distributed in Zuni in partnership with the Zuni Public Library.

VIRTUAL AUTHORS FESTIVAL: VISUAL STORYTELLING

OFPL will launch its first Virtual Authors Festival in May! Artists, filmmakers, poets, and authors get your summer rolling with storytelling and creativity during the entire month of May. Connect with us on FaceBook, @ galluplibrary and YouTube to

STATE OF NEW MEXICO In Re Guardianship Proceeding For JAZELLE THOMAS, a Minor.

JESSICA MOTANO and DARREN A. THOMAS, Respondents.

No. D-1113-DM-2021-00058 NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF ACTION GREETINGS: JESSICA MONTANO and DARREN A.

join the activities. For more information email bmartin@ gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291.

LIBRARY CARD REGISTRATION ONLINE

Today’s libraries have programs and resources that go far beyond books. From virtual story times, family game nights and art classes, to opportunities to borrow audiobooks and stream movies, there’s something for everyone at the library.

To explore all that the library has to offer, visit your library at ofpl.online to register for a free library card. For more information: bmartin@ gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291.

CURBSIDE CHECKOUT SERVICES

OFPL staff continues to provide essential services to our community by offering curbside checkout, virtual classes, workshops, and public education through our social media platforms. Visit ofpl.online for the online request form. • DVD/CD check out limit is 10 - 30 library items total. OFPL Staff is onsite Monday through Friday from 11 am-5 pm and will offer curbside pick-ups only from 12 pm - 4 pm. Saturday pick-ups must be scheduled in advance. There will be Saturday curbside pick-ups only from 12 pm-4 pm. New requests will not be processed on Saturdays. Please allow 48 hours for the fulfillment of all library requests.

Call (505) 863-1291 to schedule a Saturday pick-up and for reference services.

FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY REGISTRATION

OFPL is recruiting new members for our Friends of the Library Group. The OFPL Friends support library programs, services, and collections through a variety of in-kind activities.

If you are passionate about helping our community grow stronger, join the Octavia Fellin Public Library Friends’ Group and get involved in event planning, local and state advocacy, fundraising and philanthropy. To join please visit https://ofpl.on-

THOMAS You are hereby notified that LAURE A. THOMAS, filed a Petition to Appoint Kinship Guardian for JAZELLE THOMAS against you in the above entitled Court and cause.

A Final Hearing has been scheduled on June 25, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. Unless you enter your appearance and written response in the said cause on or before June 25, 2021, a

line/partners-of-ofpl/#friends and our Friends’ Coordinator will contact you with more information. For more information email childlib@ gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291.

DIAL-A-STORY

Storytime anytime, call (505) 862-9177 to hear a story any time of the day or night. Stories will change daily. At the end leave us a message to let us know what stories you want to hear.

IN THE STACKS!

2 pm. Join us on Facebook and Instagram, @galluplibrary or YouTube at Octavia Fellin Public Library to catch the latest talk on movies and books, and to hear about the exciting events coming next week. Would you like a sneak peak into the weekly events at the library? Watch our newest virtual show.

We’ll answer questions, showcase library materials, and more. For more information email bmartin@ gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291.

VIRTUAL ZUMBA CLASS

6 pm @ Octavia Fellin Public Library every Monday, Wednesday, & Friday for an evening workout with OFPL’s own Zumba Fitness instructor. Bring down your house with salsa, booty shaking, and heart-racing songs. For more information, email jwhitman@gallupnm.gov; (505) 863-1291

RMCHCS COVID VACCINATION WALK-IN CLINIC

8am-4pm Mon.-Fri. @ College Clinic (2111 College Dr.).

No appointments needed.

RMCHCS is offering Covid vaccines to anyone ages 16 and up. There is no out-ofpocket cost for the vaccine, but insurance companies will be billed an administration fee, so be sure to bring your insurance information.

To post a nonprofit or civic event in the calendar section, please email: gallupsunevents@gmail.com or fax: (505) 212-0391. Deadline: Monday at 5 pm.

judgement by default will be entered against you.

MASON & ISAACSON, P.A. By: James Jay Mason East Aztec Avenue P.O. Box 1772 Gallup, New Mexico 87305 (505) 722-4463 Attorneys for Plaintiff Publish Date: May 28,2021 June 4,2021 June 11,2021

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