The Santa Fe New Mexican, Sept. 18, 2013

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State digs out after the floods

Towns across New Mexico begin mending in the wake of the storms.

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Game plan It just takes a couple of great dishes to pull together a tailgate spread. TAsTE, D-1

u Focus turns to the missing. PAgE A-6 u A toll on tourism.

Got bears?

Katherine Eagleson, executive director of The Wildlife Center in Española, would like to see community training programs on how to respond to wildlife in residential areas.

‘Live with them’

CLYDE MUELLER THE NEW MEXICAN

Storms kill 47 in Mexico One-two punch of hurricane and tropical storm hits Acalpulco. PAgE A-3

NAVY YARD RAMPAGE

Shooter’s troubles failed to raise flags Man had history of arrests, mental health issues, Navy discipline By Sari Horwitz, Marc Fisher and Leslie Minora The Washington Post

The Wildlife Center in Española has seen an influx of bears, most of them first-year cubs. While a few of the cubs were orphaned when their mother was killed by a vehicle, Executive Director Katherine Eagleson says the best way to deal with most bears and other wildlife found wandering in neighborhoods is to give them plenty of time to move on as they search for food sources. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN

As center manages influx of bears, director urges new tack on visitors from the wild By Staci Matlock The New Mexican

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atherine Eagleson, standing near cages holding three bear cubs, spoke about the recent influx of animals into The Wildlife Center in Española, where she is the executive director. Frustration was more than a little evident in her voice. “We need to spend a lot of time in the next year working with neighborhoods,

housing authorities and communities about how to live with wildlife,” she said. “The whole state of New Mexico is a wildlife corridor,” she added. “We need to help people learn to live with them.” Eagleson expects that over a period of weeks, her center, along with Española wildlife veterinarian Kathleen Ramsay, who founded the center, together will have taken in and cared for about two dozen bears, most of them first-year cubs. “It is an unusual number,” Eagleson said.

The center also is caring for five deer fawns, two elk fawns, one bald eaglet and a brown pelican, along with dozens of other animals. A few of those animals should never have ended up at the center, Eagleson said. They ended up at the facility because wellmeaning humans didn’t know when to leave wildlife alone. Bears, for example, wander into backyards

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Ahead of health network’s launch, state urges uninsured: ‘Be Well’ $7.5M campaign reaches out to consumers in 3 languages By Deborah Busemeyer For The New Mexican

The countdown has begun. If you don’t know about the state’s insurance network kicking off in 13 days, get ready to learn about it. The New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange is launching a massive, statewide campaign aimed at encouraging uninsured residents to sign up for coverage starting Oct. 1. Media ads in English, Spanish and Navajo will begin this week in a comprehensive effort to reach the 200,000 New Mexicans who don’t have insurance. The marketing agency BVK of Milwaukee unveiled the key strategies of its “Be Well” campaign Tuesday at an Albuquerque news conference. The federal government awarded New Mexico

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LEArn morE u To find out more about The Wildlife Center and discuss options for learning about wildlife, call 505-753-9505 or visit thewildlifecenter.org.

Pasapick www.pasatiempomagazine.com

hEALTh InsurAnCE ExChAngE

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Who benefits: Self-employed, owners of businesses with 50 employees or fewer, those buying insurance on their own who want more options, people who can’t afford insurance at their jobs. When it starts: Enrollment begins Oct. 1 and ends March 31, 2014, except for American Indians, who can enroll any time. How to enroll: Visit www.bewellnm.com. A 24-hour New Mexico call center will be established by Oct. 1.

Group show of work by Chilean artists and New Mexico artists of Chilean heritage, reception 5:30 p.m., El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, 555 Camino de la Familia.

an $18.6 million grant for marketing, outreach and enrollment activities. So far, the New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange is paying $7.5 million to BVK for marketing and $6.5 million to Native American Professional Parent Resources for outreach to American Indians and establishment of mobile enrollment sites. New Mexico’s challenge is to educate people

Comics B-8

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Lotteries A-2

Opinion A-7

Police notes C-2

Editor: Ray Rivera, 986-3033, rrivera@sfnewmexican.com Design and headlines: Cynthia Miller, cmiller@sfnewmexican.com

obituaries

Thunderstorms. High 79, low 53.

Chela Ananda, 76, Sept. 5 Donald R. Barnes, Sept. 13 Edwin Maurice Brenner, 90, Santa Fe, Aug. 18 Howard Irwin, 89, Santa Fe, Sept. 12 Joe Vela, 74, Santa Fe, Sept. 16

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Today

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Time Out B-7

Aaron Alexis’ friends in Fort Worth, Texas, watched him begin to slip away last summer. He was depressed, sleepless, increasingly withdrawn. The guy who loved to throw back Heinekens with his buddies now wanted mainly to be left alone. He told his friend Melinda Downs that he was seeing a counselor at the Department of Veterans Affairs, and Aaron Alexis that at one point he hadn’t slept in three days. In July, Alexis’ best friend, who had shared his home, told police Alexis had poured sugar into his gas tank to damage his car. Later that month, Alexis left Texas and headed north to work for a defense contractor. He had been assigned to seven different military bases in four states and Washington, D.C. — where he would use his valid pass to bring a newly purchased shotgun into the Washington Navy Yard and kill 12 strangers. Alexis had left a trail of police reports, arrest records, disciplinary

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Families struggle to make sense of senseless Nearly all 12 victims of shooting were over 50 The Washington Post

Above the sofa in Priscilla Daniels’ living room in southeast Washington, there’s a flower-festooned shrine to her 14-year-old son. He was shot and killed four years ago on a District of Columbia street. Now, after the mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard, Daniels, 46, has to hang another portrait, build another shrine. This time for her husband. Arthur Daniels, 51, a handyman working for a contractor, happened to be moving and installing furniture in Building 197 on Monday morning. He was shot in an eerily similar way to his teenage son: in the back while running from a gunman. That morning, Priscilla Daniels kissed her husband of 30 years and teased that they should stay in bed because it was raining. “Stay home with me,” she told him.

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