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Two grassroots organizers selected to help the Biden administration craft its new environmental justice strategy

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or Richard Moore, co-director of the Los Jardines Institute in Albuquerque, the fight for social justice is inseparable from the fight for clean air to breathe and clean water to drink. Moore has spent decades organizing against major polluters in Albuquerque’s South Valley and other low-income areas in the city. It’s a fight that has taken him from his own backyard to influential positions advising the Environmental Protection Agency and the White House on environmental policy. Meanwhile, he’s never stopped fighting for better opportunities and safer jobs, or equal access to health care and education in the Albuquerque area. “That’s why I don’t consider myself an environmentalist. I consider myself an environmental justice activist,” he says as he takes SFR on a tour of the institute’s community farm. “Somebody would always ask us…‘Why are you doing what you’re doing?’ And our response has always been and will always be: for the love of the people.” Now, he’s one of two grassroots organizers from New Mexico who President Joe Biden’s appointed to the new White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council, a group convened to provide recommendations to the administration on how to deal with a national legacy of concentrating polluting and extracting industries in low-income communities and communities of color.

In January, Biden signed a sweeping executive order to address climate change that put environmental justice front and center. The order mandates that 40% of the benefits from infrastructure investments, jobs and other elements of a transition to a sustainable economy must go to marginalized communities. The task force must figure out how to make that ambitious goal a reality, says Jade Begay, the other New Mexican on the council. Begay, who has Diné and Pueblo heritage and is an enrolled member of the Tesuque Pueblo, is the climate justice campaign director for NDN Collective, a group that supports the grassroots work of Indigenous communities across North America. Begay tells SFR the council has just a few months to present its first set of recommendations to the Biden administration. For Moore, who has served on a similar council at the EPA for the last 30 years, it feels like the culmination of a lifelong fight to bring environmental justice into the mainstream. In the 1970s Moore joined grassroots organizers in Albuquerque in the effort to improve the quality of life in some of the city’s lowest-income Chicano neighborhoods. This included setting up breakfast programs and the city’s first community health clinics in addition to protesting industrial facilities polluting the area. “One thing we would always do, is we would canvass people in the neighborhood to figure out what the problems were,” says Moore. “When we asked them, ’what do you consider the

top three or four major issues in your neighborhood?’ They would say, ‘Well, the water don’t taste very good. There’s a terrible smell from the sewage plant.’ They couldn’t have barbecues outside the house because there was always these small particles floating through the air from the particle board companies nearby, and so on. So that’s how we began to turn our focus on the environmental issues, though no one thought of it that way at the time.” Moore and his colleagues founded the Southwest Organizing Project to address these and other issues, and latCARA ROMERO

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er founded the Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice to extend the scope of their work across the region. In 1990, when Moore was the co-director of SWOP, the organization sent a letter to the biggest national environmental NGOs accusing these mostly white and male-dominated groups of either ignoring or exacerbating the issues plaguing communities of color. The letter, which made international headlines, listed offenses including their support of policies annexing tribal lands for “conservation” efforts and their failure to recognize urban contamination as an environmental issue, concluding that “racism is a root cause of your inaction around addressing environmental problems in our communities.” Since then, says Begay, the issues raised in SWOP’s historic letter have morphed into what she calls “white saviorism,” when well-meaning environmental organizations show up with an agenda instead of letting locals take the lead. “For me, environmental and climate justice is about tying people back to their land and traditional ancestral ways,” she tells SFR. “Indigenous peoples, frontline communities, tribes, they know what’s best for them…and they know the best solutions to navigate the climate crisis or whatever challenges they’re facing. So what they need is investment. What they need is big NGOs and agencies with massive budgets to share their power and resources and let these people lead.” Recently, she’s seen that shift begin to happen. In the last year alone, Biden’s climate platform has pivoted to take on a much more direct environmental justice focus and the administration has appointed a slew of Indigenous people into positions of power, including Deb Haaland of Laguna Pueblo as secretary of the Interior Department, and PaaWee Rivera of Pojoaque Pueblo as the White House director of tribal affairs. Begay attributes this shift to the hard work grassroots organizers have been doing for decades. “Watching all of these things happen, I just have so much hope right now that our perspectives and our issues will finally be centered,” she says. Moore shares the sentiment. “I am very excited, because I think this is a moment in history, if everyone is really serious about it, we can really do some things,” he tells SFR. But he also warns people not to become complacent just because things are looking up. “Keep going, sisters and brothers, because the struggle’s not over until it’s over.”

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Walling Off Big lift ahead for officials required to expunge thousands of old cannabis convictions under newly passed law

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ore than 150,000 New Mexicans appear eligible for the automatic expungement of their past cannabis possession charges under a bill Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham says she’ll sign, according to a preliminary review by the state Department of Public Safety. The previously unreported figure illuminates the scope of the drug war’s impact on state residents. Many of them have struggled to secure housing, jobs and even federal student loans because of charges and convictions for offenses that will no longer be crimes under the provisions of a companion bill that legalizes the recreational use of cannabis for adults. Lawmakers adopted both bills during a special session that ended April 1. The number—154,791, to be exact—is far greater than previously believed, too. Legislators speculated that perhaps 4,000 people had been arrested annually for cannabis possession in recent years. The job of expunging—essentially walling off a criminal record from public view—will fall largely on DPS. Interim Secretary Tim Johnson and Records Bureau chief Regina Chacon acknowledge in an interview this week with SFR that

it’s a big, complex lift. And the clock is already ticking. But they say the department is up to it. “I believe we’re going to get it done,” Johnson says. “We get a lot of things on our plate over the years; we haven’t knocked all of it out of the park, but we do the best job we can.” Expungement has long been an essential element of legalization for advocates and their allies in the Legislature, which passed a law in 2019 allowing people to petition a court to have certain past charges and convictions wiped. They see it as righting past wrongs of the criminal justice system, which have fallen disproportionately on poor people and communities of color. This year’s legalization push went a step further, proposing automatic expungement for old cases in which the charge involved possession of 2 ounces or less of cannabis flower or 16 grams of extract. That provision was part of House Bill 12, which also laid out the regulatory framework for legal cannabis, during the 60-day session and was part of the reason that bill failed to cross the finish line when lawmakers went home on March 20.

So, for the special session, sponsors decoupled expungement and ran it as its own measure. Senate Bill 2 spelled out the work ahead to do away with past cannabis records, provided they meet the threshold of what will now be legal under the terms of House Bill 2, the legalization proposal. A spokesman for Lujan Grisham says she’ll sign both bills, though he did not say when. Under SB 2, the public safety department has until Jan. 1, 2022, to identify all cases eligible for expungement. (On a parallel track, the department must identify anyone who is still incarcerated for cannabis possession so that courts can reopen their cases for possible resentencing. The Corrections Department estimates that’s about 50 people in New Mexico prisons, none of whom is locked up for marijuana possession alone; it is not clear how many people are languishing in the state’s 28 county jails on possession charges.) From there, DPS must notify the courts, district attorneys’ offices and the Law Offices of the Public Defender of which cases should be expunged. Prosecutors have until July 1, 2020 to

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challenge individual expungements; if they don’t, DPS must get to work. “It’s a lot more complicated than just hitting delete,” Chacon of the DPS Records Bureau says, adding that even the identification process requires scanning multiple databases that don’t always play well together. Neither SB 2 nor the “feed bill” passed during the special session to send $6.9 million from the general fund to public safety, regulatory agencies and the courts for the new cannabis rules includes an appropriation for DPS’ increased workload on expungement. Johnson, the interim secretary, concedes his department may incur some overtime costs. “We currently do not have people assigned to this,” Johnson concedes. “We do have some plans internally to adjust some of the folks that we have in the Law Enforcement Records Bureau to go over there and help with the expungement piece until we can get in front of the Legislature again next January, where I will be asking for some additional personnel…to make sure we can maintain this.” Once it’s clear which cases must be expunged, maintenance entails marking them in the DPS repository, the department’s fingerprint identification system, two federal databases and contacting local law enforcement agencies to ensure that the record isn’t locatable in any of those spaces, Chacon says. “It’s multiple hands that need to be organized to get an expungement done,” she says. Jennifer Burrill, supervising attorney for the Santa Fe public defender’s office, says the new expungement law will, in theory, help countless current and former clients access parts of the American dream that had previously been unavailable to them. “But just having the piece of paper saying your charge has been expunged is not the end,” Burrill tells SFR. “DPS still has to do its job.”

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How Brave Were We By Katy Yanda

Winning poets overcome adversity in SFR’s annual search

rt is the true enemy of isolation, fear, uncertainty and hopelessness. The writers who contributed to SFR’s 2021 poetry contest proved with 123 submitted pieces that creativity will always persevere—even in the face of adversity as seemingly insurmountable as that of the past year. The first-place winner, Katy Yanda’s poem “How Brave We Were,” embodies a number of emotions we’ve all likely experienced lately: apprehension, wonder, love for those around us, and a settling into our lives in perhaps a different way than we’ve ever done before. “How brave we were / Placing ourselves in the winds / All those places that did not know us,” she writes; but “that was another then.” We used to be far from home, but now we are centered. It’s the kind of meditation that has perhaps come to some of us (the lucky of us) after a year of civil unrest and pandemic. The poem’s end, a kind of mantra—“count, breath. count, breath”—echoes a ticking clock in a quiet room, a metronome in the silence. It’s a reminder that no, time is not passing quickly or slowly; it’s not fading into oblivion, either. The world still exists, and we’re still a part of it, as strange as it all may seem—and that’s a good thing. Inaugural New Mexico Poet Laureate Levi Romero, who judged this year’s contest, was appointed on Jan. 30, 2020, and had grand plans to travel the state and bring poetry education and collaboration to even the most far-flung communities. The world had different plans, of course, and the architect-cum-poet pivoted his methods to virtual education, meetings and readings. His five selections from this year’s pool of submissions are diverse and poignant. In addition to Romero’s top choices, SFR also selected two poems this year, including 11-year-old Emily Busemeyer’s “Dancing on Clouds,” a delicate reflection on the freedom and grace of ballet. ‘Til next year, poets. Keep reading, keep writing, and—most importantly—keep being brave. —Charlotte Jusinksi

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One night, a well of insomnia not unhappily Counting your breaths Our children snivelsnort javelinas, me glad at your side. my fingers pressed on the Braille of a cheaply done stucco wall. Amidst the slatted half dark, I startle from half sleep, amazed… How brave were we Placing ourselves in the winds All those places that did not know us. That was another then. This now is late and also early I count my breaths the shapes of my people count, breath. count, breath. Born and raised in Northern New Mexico, Katy Yanda lived many other places and always came back.

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Wild Horses By Andrea Broyles

To Bless the Space Between By Chance Willey

The painter named the portrait “The Measurement of Men” in essences of Emerson and Mary Magdalene. The lone long-needle-pine and the long-gone Nazarene were singing songs in silence to bless the space between.

He came in with the north wind, stranded in a storm, following a window-light to where it might be warm. The snow below his boot-heels and the copper kettle’s steam were singing songs in silence to bless the space between. The ranch-hand tied a bowline. The fisherman picked his bait. And both prayed in his own way for a meal upon his plate. The dry cast iron skillet and the salmon in the stream were singing songs in silence to bless the space between.

The poet wrote a letter to his lady, gone to Rome. Picked up his pen and paper and there trickled out a tome. The tangle of his language and all it meant to mean were singing songs in silence to bless the space between.

There’s fire in the mountains. The city is full of smoke. And the light hangs from the lamppost like an Angel’s petticoat. The tabernacle of my eye and all that could be seen were singing songs in silence to bless the space between. Singing songs in silence to bless the space between.

She spilled out of the wilderness and fell down to her knees. She asked to have her magic back but got machinery, The snaggle-toothed sawmill and the aspens, gold and green, were singing songs in silence to bless the space between.

Chance Willey was born and raised in Santa Fe county, on a small farm by Cerrillos. then Santa Fe. Over his 25 years he has performed on stage and in film, written plays, a novel, an awardwinning film, and, as a lyricist, cofounded the band BrotherSound with local musician Jake Montiel.

Why do you run? But take me with you. Let me bury my face in your rough and tangled mane. Carry me over space and time leaving the pale quiet ghosts, standing guard on their pile of brittle bones behind in our dust. Tell me how beautiful I am, how perfect. Your smell rises from your body filling me with memories, some hard, some soft. Tell me why, my crazy love. Andrea Broyles is a visual artist as well as a poet. Both in her art and writing practice she finds meaning through the visual examination of the unconscious, aspects of the psyche and life’s journey from birth to death.

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Although it is August and the mountain here holds a heat like fat dashes of cayenne and ginger, my neighbor Tom adopts a husky.

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Falling lightly like a feather But floating up like a butterfly My arms are carried through the breeze My legs sprout delicate wings To carry me up and beyond Leaving this world to dance on the clouds The world slows and I’m deep underwater It finally speeds up like a beating heart Dancing with my heart Leaving this world With something

I don’t know her name so when she trots up the rocky driveway to peer in my window, I call her cutie pie, or husky, or mama, though she is pupless, and fumble for a water bowl, though she never takes from me. She is a desert anomaly, a silver cotton ball floating in a beige and cactus laden backdrop. She is constantly panting so she constantly looks happy. One winter when it snowed in the high desert she laid sunken in a foot of snow on my doorstep, everything white and fluffy, like her. Belonging like her is seasonal, though she is always smiling. That winter I pat her butt and she yelped. A chunk was missing from her thigh. The fibers of her muscle shone like rose quartz or freshly halved grapefruit.

Simply Called It was too much for me to look too long. I wanted it covered, bandaged, protected from the air and her mouth which obsessively licked it, nudged it, nibbled it.

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Emily Busemeyer is 11 years old. She attends Turquoise Trail Charter School. She loves ballet, nature, poetry, reading, and art. She loves her dogs, Luna and Boomer.

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I said, when her eyes, black and glassy, became a mirror. Eventually a thick, cloudy mucous crawled over the wound which I learned was the result of a coyote bite. It mucoused, then scabbed, then ballooned, then became a hefty cyst she limped around with for four months. Every morning, cutie mama at my door, her big black balloon hanging from the side. I couldn’t demand Tom to help her, though I rehearsed it 300 times. Maybe he is busy, maybe I should call a vet, doesn’t anyone want to help her? On and on like that. But even with a cone, dogs try to touch their wound. They will tear the gauze right off just to be close to it, to smell the rank absence of skin, to moisten what has never been touched by air. Before anyone interfered, I would see her, sometimes, hidden behind a pinon tree curled in a secret crescent, nose to wound, eyes shut, gently tasting the opening.

Molly Ponkevitch is a student, musician and poet who currently resides in the Ortiz Mountains of New Mexico. She graduated with a degree in English from University of Oregon, and is now pursuing a masters in mental health counseling from Southwestern College. Raised in a family struggling with homelessness and addiction, her work focuses on healing intergenerational trauma through art and reconnection with the natural world. She has been featured in the literary journals Unbound, Buck Off Magazine, and From Whispers to Roars.

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She died in this house, in the bed where we made the children and they first greeted the world. They scattered long ago, but returned with grave faces, watched her burial, showed spouses the swing The old house still stands, with the huge barn or their bedrooms or the stump where children were Indians attacking of the huge tree where the treehouse was. the settlers in the loft, or were settlers defending their families. The old swing hangs from the rafters, but there is --no laughter, no small person screams, Tears sear my face. Years of swinging higher and higher. laughing through sorrows welded us into some new being Horse and leather smells now suddenly ripped apart persisting decades made me feel by God’s axe. I sit on the stump, the generations of others missing the tree but glad who loved the house before us, I need not build a treehouse today. generations of shouting children, of adolescents exploring each other secretly in the loft, touching and talking as if they were the world. Then Peter Goodman is a poet and our children brought new magic fictionist who also writes a Sunday to the place, a frenzy of comic mistakes, newspaper column, does a weekly radio pitched battles, deep questions, games, commentary, and hosts a weekly twoand secrets that settled on the place hour radio show in Las Cruces. He’s like a storm that lasted twenty years. also a photographer and sometime lawyer, and lives with a wonderful wife I still see Margaret’s face and a wonderful dog. the first day we looked at the place. Both young, uncertain, wondering if we could have enough children to fill all those bedrooms, worrying about keeping the place up, yet sure together we could do anything. By Peter Goodman

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The term “singer-songwriter” surely conjures up varying images and sounds from person to person. If you ask us, it’s about one person pouring their heart out and maybe getting a band at some point to fill in the musical gaps, but within the pantheon of that great and ethereal style you’ll find certain names popping up over and over. Like Rufus Wainwright. Word on the street is that Wainwright has culled from two-plus decades of form and practice for Unfollow the Rules, the sort of album that signifies he’s not done yet, but perhaps there’s a little bit more to the story about to unfold in unexpected ways. Wainwright returns to the Lensic (albeit in virtual form) for the umpteenth time to show us what he’s working on and how he’s become one of the most enduring writers and composers of our time. This thing happens the same day this paper hits the streets—so hurry! (Alex De Vore) Rufus Wainwright—Ah! Luve Again: 7:30 pm Wednesday April 7. $20. lensic.org

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River Session Irish jam brings song to the riverbed For unsuspecting strollers out on the River Trail enjoying the lingering warmth of the Sunday afternoon sun, an extra dash of magic is in order. Under the bridge by Frenchy’s Field, a gathering of musicians plucks out traditional Irish tunes mostly for themselves, but also for any passersby. The Santa Fe Irish Session—who have been playing reels and jigs for 15 years in an evolving arrangement of flutes, mandolins, fiddles and washtub basses—found themselves cut apart when the state banned indoor gatherings over a year ago. Refusing to let the tradition go by the wayside, they opted to play outside and at a safe social distance instead. When playing indoors, crowded around an intimate living room of the Commons Cohousing Community where the session gathered pre-pandemic, rich acoustics defined the sound. Outside, however, proved challenging at first. “The sound travels pretty slowly and we could not really blend,” tin whistle player, Jackie Shane, explains. Seeking shelter from the wind in the bed of the Santa Fe River provided enough protection and physical barriers to enable the players to hear each other.

“It’s like a little Red Rocks,” Shane adds. “It has really good acoustics.” While the sandy environs might not offer the same comforts of a cozy Irish pub, the jam’s new location increases the group’s attention from the community. “We like that we’re exposed to the public,” Shane tells SFR. “The silver lining of COVID-19 is that the public actually gets to hear us.” With new players coming and going over the years, others have frequented the session for over a decade to gather, drink some whiskey, and play jigs reminiscent of olden days. Shane explains the premise of an Irish session: Anyone can show up and there’s no real order to what they play. Though don’t confuse this musical gathering with your dad’s garage jam session—you’ll need to learn the tunes to join along. “New Mexico is a very friendly place to play,” Shane assures, “because we really like to welcome new and upcoming musicians.” (William Melhado) OUTDOOR IRISH JAM 3-5 pm Sunday, April 11. Free. Frenchy’s Field (in the arroyo), 2001 Agua Fria St., thesession.org/sessions/7142

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How the West Was Projected Local authors and film historians hope to bring a different perspective to the dated film genre BY RILEY GARDNER a u t h o r @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

ohnny Boggs is a Western fanatic, and anything but an armchair historian. He’s authored over 60 books, winning nine Spur Awards, which honor the writing of the American West, and his nonfiction works include Jesse James and the Movies, Billy the Kid on Film 19112012 and The American West on Film. Boggs’ fiction catalogue boasts such books as Camp Ford—the 2006 winner of Best Western Novel from the Spur Awards which, in 1985, was awarded to a little book you might know called Lonesome Dove. “Most people think of [Western] films [like they’re all the same], but...these are art forms. You can find true art in Westerns,” Boggs tells SFR. “It’s a uniquely American genre.” Rambo creator and author David Morrell also recalls how films set in the American West built his conceptions of story from an early age. “I’m the generation from when Westerns were popular,” Morell recalls. “Some of the first films I saw were The Last Wagon and The Searchers in their original runs. It was the formative genre for me. When I became a novelist, a lot of my references came from that. When I wrote First Blood, I imagined it as a kind of Western.” Morrel and Boggs are teaming up for a virtual event hosted by Center for Contemporary Arts and the Santa Fe Public Library titled NEA Big Read: History of Western Film. And though the

talk will focus on the cinematic angles of the Western genre, it has an ulterior motive—to get folks reading. The National Endowment for the Arts’ Big Read Program awards community grants to promote themes related to a specific book of their choosing. Having been awarded one such grant, the Santa Fe Public Library selected Luis Alberto Urrea’s Into the Beautiful North, wherein a 19-year-old girl from Mexico finds inspiration in the 1960 western The Magnificent Seven and travels to America in the hopes of finding heroic men to save her village from threatening bandits. “The goal of the N EA program is to broaden our understanding of our world, our communities and ourselves through the joy of sharing a good book,” says Maria Sanchez-Tucker, library divisions director at the Santa Fe Public Library. “Some in the community might not ever read the book, but they may attend a theatrical performance or a film screening or enter an art contest, so creating opportunities through programs related to the book’s themes is a wonderful way to broaden the experience.” To help better understand Into the Beautiful North and its themes, the CCA event delves into director John Sturges’ Magnificent Seven. Boggs and Morrell hope patrons finish the film with a better understanding of the genre’s complexities and how it relates to the world events at the time it was made—something Boggs tells SFR is often dismissed.

Westerns, he explains, are artistic e xpressions through which Americans can explore their true nature—for better or for worse. “Western movies don’t reflect the period in which they are set, but they reflect the times in which they were made,” he continues. “My Darling Clementine is about post-WWII order, and later films like High Noon and Rio Bravo reflect Cold War mentalities of McCarthyism. And ’40s westerns are different from ’50s, ’60s and ’70s westerns.” Morrell cites historian Frederick Jackson Turner’s 1893 frontier thesis, which stated that American identity and an understanding of true democratic power only emerged settlers moved as removing themWest, selves from the denser, old-world East Coast. Morrell says this might even help Santa Feans understand their own town better. “The American character emerged from expansion. As easterners moved west, they collided either with the environment or the people who were already there. It’s about that collision.” he explains. “The Old Pecos Trail, the Old Santa Fe Trail—that was a major throughway for wagons. If you went southwest, that’s how you’d go. We’re situated just below the Rocky Mountains...a waypoint for people coming through.” The violent history that followed the push west came with a long history of white-washing in the Western genre’s early days. Boggs notes many are thus skepti-

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cal of the genre and the painful history it represents, yet by ignoring it, he says, one misses out on the American evolution of character—one that’s still pervasive. “People are rightfully dismissive. Most people think you’re writing typical shoot-em-ups where heroes never make a mistake,” he says. “But at the same time, they’re like anything else—they evolve and grow. [John] Ford’s films evolve from antagonistic Indigenous characters to antagonistic whites with sympathetic portrayals of Indigenous peoples.” He sees The Magnificent Seven as a strong introduction to the Western’s response to geo-political events of the 20th century. “It’s part of a genre known as the Mexican Western, starting with Vera Cruz, The Professionals and The Wild Bunch. Some see it as CIA operatives in Central and South America, or even the Vietnam War,” Morrell explains. “It’s Americans going in and getting involved in other country’s problems.” The authors will delve into broader subjects, too, but both recommend films outside of the same old western hits: Boggs recommends The Wind (1925), Blood on the Moon (1948) and Gunman’s Walk (1958); Morrell recommends George Steven’s Shane (1953), which often is read as a pro-socialist film, even as the Cold War continued to expand at the time. “It’s hard to make Westerns today,” Boggs concludes when asked about where the genre is headed. “It’s very expensive today. It’s harder and harder to even find land to film on—and it’s always been a tough genre. Still, as a writer, it’s always been said you need good movies to get people to the bookstore.”

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he sun sets behind the El Rey Court on Cerillos Road while workers from Tender Fire Kitchen (tenderfirekitchen.com) scurry around nearby, firing pizzas, handing out boxes and generally adding a professional if laidback vibe to the late-spring goings on. Not gonna lie, Santa Fe—it felt almost magical. You can’t beat Santa Fe’s weather this time of year, and Tender Fire founder Ben Crosky’s pizzas only made things better. Crosky is a relative newcomer to Santa Fe, having moved here pre-COVID from the Bay Area because when he visited some years back, he says, the town’s vibe “felt like an invitation.” Still, Crosky is aware of the Californian influx to Santa Fe and how such things affect housing, gentrification, etc., so he wanted to give something back. That something is Tender Fire Kitchen. Previously, Crosky worked on California farms and for a yoga-travel company based in Oakland, and while traveling the world leading workshops, the importance of responsibly sourced food and quality ingredients became evermore apparent. That’s the core ethos of Tender Fire’s pies, along with a proprietary sourdough crust, the starter for which Crosky developed himself. “I didn’t know I was going to [start a pizza business], but it was important to me [that the starter] was born in New Mexico,” he says.

Meanwhile, over at Back Road Pizza (backroadpizza.com), owner and certified pizza nerd Piper Kapin unveiled her restaurant’s newest offering: a Detroitstyle pizza she first learned about at the International Pizza Expo in Las Vegas a couple years back. “The last couple years I’d been, I’d seen these pizzas, and there was chatter in the industry,” Kapin says. “They’ve obviously been known in Detroit a long time, but they’ve been rolling into the pizza

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And it sings. Even a simple 12-inch margherita pie ($15) from Tender Fire is outrageously good thanks to its quality ingredients, and I haven’t even tried the vegan or vegetarian varieties, or some of the other rotating options including sausage, pepperoni and/or beet pesto. Still, the star of the show is Crosky’s sourdough crust. It’s like an experience begging to be savored in all of its chewy, flavorful glory. Tender Fire doesn’t operate every day. Instead, the menu and orders go up on Tuesdays for pickup Thursday-Sunday, 6-9 pm. The system really works, according to Crosky, as workers can track each order and almost completely eliminate any waste. This might be the same methodology used if and when Tender Fire Kitchen goes brick-and-mortar. Crosky says he’s enjoyed the freedom of the El Rey, and that he’ll only take over a space if and when he can do it right. “We’re just trying to establish ourselves and get to know our systems and community,” he notes. “We do have plans, at least for our own kitchen—but maybe also our own farm.” That commitment is about offering a quality product, but also about nourishment. “Sometimes with food it’s hard to know exactly why you’re enjoying something,” Crosky tells SFR, “but when you have

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world and becoming more known.” What’s the difference between a Detroit-style pizza and the type for which Back Road is already known? Depth, for one thing. These aren’t Chicago-style pies, but they’re certainly thick. The dough also undergoes a 48-hour fermentation period, and it takes roughly 15-to-17 minutes to bake as opposed to the 8-10 minutes of a regular Back Road pizza. As it bakes, the edges caramelize and get crispy, and the flavors hiding in those edges is everything. Kapin also says that during the R&D process through which she devised her own dough recipe, she discovered Detroit-style pizzas require a special pan and are made with a specific type of cheese called Wisconsin brick. Invented in 1877 by Swiss-American cheese champ John Jossi, the original recipe was sold to Kraft, but there are reportedly still small dairies making Wisconsin brick in the old ways. It’s a tasty one, too—with a subtle and almost fruity maturity that unlocks more complex flavors as you eat. Detroit-style also hides ingredients beneath the cheese and comes with two lines of red sauce drizzled across the top in an homage to its Motor City roots—like tire tracks. Sourcing the pans and cheese wasn’t easy, Kapin says, but diners can now order Detroit-style once a week. At first blush, the order-Sunday-for-pickup-Wednesday thing seems complicated, but with four varieties to choose from (classic cheese, margherita, pepperoni and green chile), I opted for a large half-marg/half chile ($26, though the base classic cheese pie runs $21 without toppings), it’s nice having a pizza to anticipate. Oh, and if you’re curious, the green chile is so flavorful it’s almost unbeliveable. Kapin theorizes it’s about the ingredients not mingling with the sauce. Either way, as a former East Coaster, shesays she’s pleased. “I’m from Boston, and pizza back east is a huge deal,” she says. “It’s like the way chile is here—the way people cook it, the regional differences, the culture.”

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You’d think at a certain point Hollywood itself would grow sick of ignoring new ideas and/or cinematic properties hitting the big screen (and, thanks to COVID-19, the small screen), but when it comes to Godzilla vs. Kong, we’ll just direct you to a text from a friend who also watched this thing on HBO Max over the weekend: “This movie feels like it was written by a MadLib.” Some spoilers follow, but it doesn’t really matter. Indeed, when we rejoin King Kong following 2017’s Kong: Skull Island, he’s now living it up in some corner of the island paradise, only, uhoh—it’s actually a super-advanced simulation program a la Star Trek‘s holodeck. But he knows it, so he smashes stuff. He also has a tight butt for some reason. Anyway, turns out Kong built up an affinity with a little girl from the island who has been teaching him sign language like he’s Amy from Congo. Like MadLibs, the ultimate narrative of the piece feels pointless; like MadLibs, the end product feels like a joke. Elsewhere, Godzilla is kicking it in the ocean, but decides to attack humanity, even though he was buddy-buddy with humans in 2019’s King of the Monsters. He particularly likes Millie Bobby

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The animated short films nominated for Academy Awards are, to be frank, bleak. Animation is wrongfully disregarded as a medium for kids and therefore dismissible—this year’s collection tries to prove naysayers wrong. Burrow is Pixar’s yearly innocuous offering, and follows a little bunny with dreams of a multi-room burrow, complete with a disco ball and other consumerist items. Her neighbors’ burrows are far more ornate than hers, leaving our heroine to dig as far away as she can to avoid their judgement. It’s cute, harmless and simple, plus devoid of any really meaning other than “awwwww!” On that note, the French short Genius Loci will give your children nightmares. A Picasso-like style here gives us a 16-minute odyssey into… something. A journey into the schizophrenic mind? An eventful late-night walk? It’ll be hard for even the artistically sophisticated to grasp, but thankfully, it’s visually stunning, even if not engaging (and somewhat frightening).

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Brown of Stranger Things, who doesn’t buy the attack and wonders aloud why he would “flash an intimidation display,” as if she’s some kind of giant lizard behavioral specialist. Spoiler alert: The Apex corporation tricked Godzilla, and Brown’s character joins forces with a podcast host who works for said corporation (but only to dig up dirt; Brian Tyree Henry) and a friend from New Zealand to whom she’s very mean (Julian Dennison). And so it comes to pass that the humans decide Kong is their friend, that Godzilla needs to get real and that it’s vital to get that great ape to the center of the planet where, for some other baffling reason, there’s a whole stinking ecosystem full of fantastic beasts (and, somehow, a sun-like light source). See, that’s where Kong is from and that’s where he keeps this totally bitchin’ weapon he made from Godzilla spines or something. Good lord. You may be enticed, during the heat of a Kong/ Godzilla slug-fest, to think about how this movie isn’t so bad. Fight that feeling, because no matter

Netflix’s If Anything Happens I Love You is Oscar-bait on steroids. This was the best animation of the bunch, a beautifully fluid cross-hatched world wherein a husband and wife grow distant while trying to come to grips with their daughter’s death. While timely, it feels exploitative upon the reveal, even if there’s sincerity to be found. The Icelandic Yes-People fits the yearly “I cannot believe this got an Oscar nom,” bill. Six people in an apartment building slowly reveal their day-to-day coping mechanisms, from video games to a little whiskey in mother’s teacup. It believes itself profound, but the credits rolled and an involuntary shrug followed. Life sucks, people need therapy, etc. Lastly, former Pixar animator Erick Oh’s Opera features humanity’s history within a pyramid of rooms, an individual action promoting a reaction into another room; and another, and so on until the entire pyramid is filled with activity eventually eradicated by war. Then it starts again. Opera is absolutely mesmerizing and easily the best of the bunch. So, while this year’s nominees aren’t the strongest, there are still pockets of brilliance. That’s worth something. (Riley Gardner) Violet Crown Virtual Cinema, NR, 99 min.

how many cities they level or sci-fi things they engage with or Godzilla spine weapons they brandish, even the least studious film fan simply must feel on an instinctual level that this is trash of the highest caliber. This is the movie that gets made when some glad-handing focus group schmuck pulls together a group of complete assholes in a middle America mall someplace to ask what they think should happen. No slick CGI or neon-festooned streets of Hong Kong or callbacks to the yesteryear characters from the Godzilla periphery can save this dreck. Stoned folks will probably really feel it. Everyone else should just pop on 2016’s Shin Godzilla to see how it’s really done.

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Tina displays a life driven by luck, circumstance and certainly by willpower. That simplicity won’t sit well with all viewers of the new HBO Max documentary, but there’s a wonderful kind of simplicity in how the life of Tina Turner is expressed here—defeating racial and class oppression, escaping a 16-year abusive relationship and an astonishing comeback in her middle age, even as most artists of the time dealt with an expiration date. Anna Mae Bullock (Turner’s birth name) didn’t accept dismissal, but felt and still feels like her career is often defined by her relationship with her abusive ex, Ike Turner. It’s ironic, then, that Tina’s main focus is that very relationship, given her vocal frustration. Her complaints about the involuntary definition aren’t missing from the story, but directors Dan Linsday and TJ Martin (who previously helmed the acclaimed documentary LA 92) bet on audiences forgiving them on that point. They’ve structured the film for people who know Turner by name but couldn’t say much else about her. Therefore,

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it’s natural they’d focus on the trauma that so defined her life; even if you’re not an expert on Turner by the end, you’ll know why you should celebrate her. That modern documentary feel—subjects distant in the frame, title fonts reminding you of clothing brands, snap-fast editing—is certainly here, but beyond style, Tina shimmers in the larger world that built its subject. She self-describes as a girl from the cotton fields, bringing forth fantastic slower moments of rural Tennessee, complete with the fields and shuttered town fronts that still stand, though are a little worse for wear. Without heavy exposition, the imagery of the Black American experience in the South illustrates much of what you need to know about what Turner defeated. Tina could have benefitted from a trim and tighter focus, and a little less reliance on pathos. Still, there’s so much love for Turner here that we’re spared a tribute concert and get a real, well-paced narrative that truly feels euphoric. And while Linsday and Martin don’t much delve into all the subjects that feel worthwhile (Turner’s conversion to Nichiren Buddhism is glossed over), one has to give credit for the unabashed adoration on screen. (RG) HBO Max, NR, 118 min.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Author Susan Sontag defined “mad people” as those who “stand alone and burn.” She said she was drawn to them because they inspired her to do the same. What do you think she meant by the descriptor “stand alone and burn”? I suspect she was referring to strong-willed people devoted to cultivating the most passionate version of themselves, always in alignment with their deepest longings. She meant those who are willing to accept the consequences of such devotion, even if it means being misunderstood or alone. The coming weeks will be an interesting and educational time for you to experiment with being such a person.

truths that you don’t know yet. “Questions are the keys that cause the secret doors of the psyche to swing open,” says Estes. I bring this to your attention, Libra, because now is prime time for you to formulate the Fantastically Magically Catalytic Questions.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In the 1930s, Taurusborn Rita Levi-Montalcini was a promising researcher in neurobiology at the University of Turin in Italy. But when fascist dictator Benito Mussolini imposed new laws that forbade Jews from holding university jobs, she was fired. Undaunted, she created a laboratory in her bedroom and continued her work. There she laid the foundations for discoveries that ultimately led to her winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. I foresee you summoning comparable determination and resilience in the coming weeks, Taurus.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In April 1933, Scorpio-born African American singer Ethel Waters was in a “private hell.” Her career was at an impasse and her marriage was falling apart. In the depths of despondency, she was invited to sing a new song, “Stormy Weather,” at New York City’s famous Cotton Club. It was a turning point. She later wrote, “I was singing the story of my misery and confusion, of the misunderstandings in my life I couldn’t straighten out, the story of the wrongs and outrages done to me by people I had loved and trusted.” The audience was thrilled by her performance, and called her back for 12 encores. Soon thereafter, musical opportunities poured in and her career blossomed. I foresee a parallel event in your life, Scorpio. Maybe not quite so dramatic, but still, quite redemptive. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I love to see you enjoy yourself. I get a vicarious thrill as I observe you pursuing pleasures that other people are too inhibited or timid to dare. It’s healing for me to witness you unleash your unapologetic enthusiasm for being alive in an amazing body that’s blessed with the miracle of consciousness. And now I’m going to be a cheerleader for your efforts to wander even further into the frontiers of bliss and joy and gratification. I will urge you to embark on a quest of novel forms of rapture and exultation. I’ll prod you to at least temporarily set aside habitual sources of excitement so you’ll have room to welcome as-yet unfamiliar sources.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Religious scholar Karl Barth (1886–1968) wrote, “There will be no song on our lips if there be no anguish in our hearts.” To that perverse oversimplification, I reply: “Rubbish. Twaddle. Bunk. Hooey.” I’m appalled by his insinuation that pain is the driving force for all of our lyrical self-revelations. Case in point: you in the coming weeks. I trust there will be a steady flow of songs in your heart and on your lips because you will be in such intimate alignment with your life’s master plan. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn poet John O’Donahue suggested that a river’s behavior is worthy CANCER (June 21-July 22): “It is not easy to be crafty of our emulation. He said the river’s life is “surrenand winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it dered to the pilgrimage.” It’s “seldom pushing or after the age of six,” wrote Cancerian author John W. straining, keeping itself to itself everywhere all along Gardner. But I would add that more adult Crabs accomits flow.” Can you imagine yourself doing that, plish this feat than any other sign of the zodiac. I’ll furCapricorn? Now is an excellent time to do so. thermore suggest that during the next six weeks, many O’Donahue rhapsodized that the river is “at one with of you will do it quite well. My prediction: You will blend its sinuous mind, an utter rhythm, never awkward,” lovability and strategic shrewdness to generate unprec- and that “it continues to swirl through all unlikeness edented effectiveness. (How could anyone resist you?) with elegance: a ceaseless traverse of presence soothLEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Staring at flames had bene- ing on each side, sounding out its journey, raising up a buried music.” Be like that river, dear Capricorn! fits for our primitive ancestors. As they sat around campfires and focused on the steady burn, they AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Is life not a thousand were essentially practicing a kind of meditation. times too short for us to bore ourselves?” wrote phiDoing so enhanced their ability to regulate their losopher Friedrich Nietzsche. In response to that senattention, thereby strengthening their working timent, I say, “Amen!” and “Hallelujah!” Even if you memory and developing a greater capacity to make will live till age 99, that’s still too brief a time to long-range plans. What does this have to do with indulge in an excess of dull activities that activate just you? As a fire sign, you have a special talent for har- a small part of your intelligence. To be clear, I don’t nessing the power of fire to serve you. In the coming think it’s possible to be perfect in avoiding boredom. weeks, that will be even more profoundly true than But for most of us, there’s a lot we can do to minimize usual. If you can do so safely, I encourage you to numbing tedium and energy-draining apathy. I menspend quality time gazing into flames. I also hope tion this, Aquarius, because the coming weeks will be you will super-nurture the radiant fire that glows a time when you will have extra power to make your within you. (More info: tinyurl.com/GoodFlames) life as interesting as possible for the long run. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Physicist Victor Weisskopf told us, “What’s beautiful in science is the same thing that’s beautiful in Beethoven. There’s a fog of events and suddenly you see a connection. It connects things that were always in you that were never put together before.” I’m expecting there to be a wealth of these aha! moments for you in the coming weeks, Virgo. Hidden patterns will become visible. Missing links will appear. Secret agendas will emerge. The real stories beneath the superficial stories will materialize. Be receptive and alert! LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Jungian psychoanalyst and folklore expert Clarissa Pinkola Estés celebrates the power of inquiry. She says that “asking the proper question is the central action of transformation,” both in fairy tales and in psychotherapy. To identify what changes will heal you, you must be curious to uncover

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I know of four different governmental organizations that have estimated the dollar value of a single human life. The average of their figures is $7.75 million. So let’s say, for argument’s sake, that you are personally worth that much. Does it change the way you think about your destiny? Are you inspired to upgrade your sense of yourself as a precious treasure? Or is the idea of putting a price on your merit uninteresting, even unappealing? Whatever your reaction is, I hope it prods you to take a revised inventory of your worth, however you measure it. It’s a good time to get a clear and precise evaluation of the gift that is your life. (Quote from Julia Cameron: “Treating yourself like a precious object makes you strong.”) Homework: Send brief descriptions of your top three vices and top three virtues. FreeWillAstrology.com

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LEGAL NOTICE TO CREDITORS/ NAME CHANGE COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT Case No. D-0101-PB-2021-00064 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF Jefferson M. Langford, Deceased. FILED 1st JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT Santa Fe County 4/1/2021 10:37 AM KATHLEEN VIGIL CLERK OF THE COURT Bernadette Hernandez NOTICE OF HEARING BY PUBLICATION TO: All Unknown Heirs of Jefferson M. Langford Deceased; and All Persons Claiming an Interest in the Estate of Jefferson M. Langford, Deceased NOTICE IS GIVEN that a hearing on Petitioner Rebecca Sue (Winnegar) Langford’s Petition for Formal Adjudication of Intestacy, Determination of Heirs and Appointment of Personal Representative of the Estate of Jefferson M. Langford and is scheduled for June 8th, 2021, beginning at 9:00 a.m., before the Honorable Maria Sanchez-Gagne, First Judicial District Court, Division II, at the First Judicial District Courthouse, 225 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Thirty minutes have been set aside for the hearing. Respectfully submitted, The Wirth Law Firm, PC Attorneys for the Estate of Jefferson M. Langford 708 Paseo de Peralta Santa Fe, NM 87501 peter@wirthlawpc.com By: /s/ Peter Wirth Peter Wirth STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DEIRDRE HALLARAN LEBOUTILLIER, Deceased. No. D-101-PB-2021-00066 NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that MEGAN LEBOUTILLIER has been appointed Personal Representative of this estate. All persons having claims against this estate are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or the claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented either to the Personal Representative in care of Karen Aubrey, Esq., Aubrey Law Firm, LLC, Post Office Box 8435, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-8435, or filed with the First Judicial District Court, Santa Fe County Judicial Complex, Post Office Box 2268, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-2268. Dated: March 24, 2021. AUBREY LAW FIRM, LLC By: /s/ KAREN AUBREY P. O. Box 8435 Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-8435 (505) 982-4287; facsimile (505) 986-8349 ka@karenaubreylaw.com

STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE IN THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT Case No.D-101-PB-2021-00048 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF NICOLASA LOPEZ DE MONTOYA, DECEASED. NOTICE OF HEARING BY PUBLICATION TO: UNKNOWN HEIRS OF NICOLASA LOPEZ DE MONTOYA, DECEASED, AND ALL UNKNOWN PERSONS WHO HAVE OR CLAIM ANY INTEREST IN THE ESTATE OF NICOLASA LOPEZ DE MONTOYA, OR IN THE MATTER BEING LITIGATED IN THE HEREINAFTER MENTIONED HEARING. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of the following: 1. NICOLASA LOPEZ DE MONTOYA, deceased, died on August 22, 1943; 2. HENRY JEROME MARTINEZ filed a Petition for Adjudication of Intestacy, Determination of Heirship, and Formal Appointment of Personal Representative in the abovestyled and numbered matter on February 23, 2021, and a hearing on the abovereferenced Petition has been set for May 17, 2021, at 9am at the Santa Fe County First Judicial District Courthouse located at 225 Montezuma Ave., Santa Fe, New Mexico, before the Honorable Judge Bryan Biedscheid. 3. Pursuant to Section 45-1-401 (A) (3), N.M.S.A., 1978, notice of the time and place of hearing on the above-referenced Petition is hereby given to you by publication, once each week, for three consecutive weeks DATED this 5th day of April, 2021. /s/ Kristi A. Wareham, Attorney for Petitioner KRISTI A. WAREHAM, P.C. Attorney for Petitioner 708 Paseo de Peralta Santa Fe, NM 87501 Telephone: (505) 820-0698 Fax: (505) 820-1247 Email: kristiwareham@icloud.com STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF EVELYN BELTRAN Case No.: D-101-CV-2021-00649 NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. the Petitioner Evelyn Beltran will apply to the Honorable Matthew J. Wilson, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 9:45 a.m. on the 26th day of April, 2021 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Evelyn Beltran to Evelyn Dominguez Beltran. Kathleen Vigil, District Court Clerk By: Desiree Brooks Deputy Court Clerk Submitted by: Evelyn Beltran Petitioner, Pro Se

FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT COUNTY OF SANTA FE STATE OF NEW MEXICO No. D-101-PB-2021-00070 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF HARRY LUSTIG, DECEASED NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION FOR FORMAL PROBATE OF WILL AND FOR FORMAL APPOINTMENT OF PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE TO: ALL UNKNOWN HEIRS OF HARRY LUSTIG, DECEASED; AND, ALL UNKNOWN PERSONS WHO HAVE OR CLAIM ANY INTEREST IN THE ESTATE OF HARRY LUSTIG, DECEASED, OR IN THE MATTER BEING LITIGATED IN THE HEREINAFTER MENTIONED HEARING. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of the following: 1. HARRY LUSTIG, Deceased, died on March 17, 2011; 2. Lawrence J. Lustig filed a Petition for Formal Probate of Will and for Formal Appointment of Personal Representative in the abovestyled and numbered matter on March 24, 2021; and, 3. A hearing on the abovereferenced Petition has been set for May 14, 2021, at 10 a.m. at the Judge Steve Herrera Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87501, before the Honorable Kathleen McGarry Ellenwood. All Division X hearings are conducted by Google Meets. (Remote Access) The Court prefers counsel and parties to participate by video at http://meet.google.com/wofcofz-tuq. If it is not possible to participate by video, you may call: 1 (563) 503-5060 and enter the PIN: 818 230 380#. Pursuant to Section 45-1-401 (A) (3), N.M.S.A., 1978, notice of the time and place of hearing on the above-referenced Petition is hereby given to you by publication, once each week, for three consecutive weeks. DATED this 30th day of March, 2021. Lawrence J. Lustig, Petitioner THE CULLEN LAW FIRM, P.C. Attorneys for Petitioner 2006 Botulph Road P.O. Box 1575 Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504 (505) 988-7114 (office) (505) 995-8694 (facsimile) lawfirm@cullen.cc 1ST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF Calilah Ananda Case No.: D-101-CV-2021-00636 NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, the Petitioner Calilah Ananda will apply to the Honorable Matthew J. Wilson, District Judge of the 1st Judicial District at the Santa Fe County District Court, 225 Montezuma, Santa Fe, 87501 at 10:45 a.m. on the 30th day of April, 2021 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Calilah Ananda to Calilah Truelove. By: Leticia Cunningham Kathleen Vigil, Deputy Court Clerk Submitted by: Calilah Ananda Petitioner, Pro Se

STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF LOUIS RAYMONDO BERNADINO APODACA Case No.: D-101-CV-2021-00474 NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. the Petitioner Louis Raymondo Bernadino Apodaca will apply to the Honorable Bryan Biedscheid, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 3:00 p.m. on the 19th day of April, 2021 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Louis Raymondo Bernadino Apodaca to Gina Apodaca. Kathleen Vigil, District Court Clerk By: Bernadette Hernandez Deputy Court Clerk Submitted by: Gina Apodaca Petitioner, Pro Se STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF EVELYN KATE FRANCES ROMERO AKA FRANCES MARTINEZ AKA FRANCES E MARTINEZ Case No.: D-101-CV-2021-00556 NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. the Petitioner Evelyn Kate Frances Romero, AKA Frances Martinez, AKA Frances E. Martinez will apply to the Honorable Maria Sanchez-Gagne, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 9:10 a.m. on the 27th day of April, 2021 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Evelyn Kate Frances Romero, AKA Frances Martinez, AKA Frances E. Martinez to Frances Evelyn Romero. Kathleen Vigil, District Court Clerk By: Jill Nohl Deputy Court Clerk Submitted by: Frances E. Martinez Petitioner, Pro Se STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF EMILY BELTRAN Case No.: D-101-CV-2021-00650 NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. the Petitioner Evelyn Beltran will apply to the Honorable Maria Sanchez-Gagne, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 9:10 a.m. on the 4th day of May, 2021 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Emily Beltran to Emily Dominguez Beltran. Kathleen Vigil, District Court Clerk By: Desiree Brooks Deputy Court Clerk Submitted by: Emily Beltran Petitioner, Pro Se

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