Santa Fe New Mexican, May 19, 2013

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Ride home goes awry

Sunday, May 19, 2012

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Balancing beliefs

For those who take public stand on gay marriage, issue involves faith, ideas of public good By Anne Constable The New Mexican

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Patient stuck in disabled ambulance plans legal action after bill arrives By Bruce Krasnow The New Mexican

Robin Durnell had spent five days at Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center recovering from surgery and it was time to go home. Because she needed supplemental oxygen and was unable to walk, she arranged with Rocky Mountain EMS, a private ambulance company based in Santa Fe, for what should have been a routine trip home. It was Dec. 10, 2012. The wind and snow had already caused one of the Rocky Mountain rigs to get stuck earlier that day. Schools had been on a two-hour delay, and wind and ice slowed snow removal all over Santa Fe. Overnight temperatures were dropping to a record low of minus 3 degrees. Durnell didn’t know any of that when two Rocky Mountain medical workers wheeled her from Christus into the back of the ambulance at 5:50 p.m. for the 3.7-mile trip to her home on Camino Cerrito, which sits on a narrow side street off Canyon Road behind Cristo Rey Church. It was about 6 degrees outside and it would be some three hours before Durnell would get home — and that would happen only after she herself called the regional 911 emergency dispatch and asked that a city of Santa Fe Fire Department paramedic crew come and take her from the back of the Rocky Mountain ambulance, which had become lodged between her mailbox and an adobe wall. “I am the patient. I need somebody to get me out of this ambulance and into my home,” she told a

Please see RIDE, Page A-5

ON OuR wEBSITE u Hear the 911 audio recordings at www.santafenewmexican.com.

Santa Fe Mayor David Coss, right, and Councilor Patti Bushee and City Attorney Geno Zamora voice their support for same-sex marriage rights in March. Last month, Coss, the father of a gay daughter, and Bushee, the only openly gay member of the City Council, introduced a resolution supporting samesex marriage in New Mexico. CLYDE MUELLER/THE NEW MEXICAN

The [church] is very much split, just the way even our “ own community is. There are those who say, ‘Stay out of the

bedroom,’ and others who say, ‘We [the clergy] need to speak more publicly.” The Rev. Adam Lee Ortega y Ortiz, of the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi

By Barbara Rodriguez The Associated Press

DES MOINES, Iowa — It’s all about the odds. With four out of every five possible combinations of Powerball numbers in play, someone was almost sure to win the game’s highest jackpot, a windfall of hundreds of millions of dollars — and that’s after taxes. The problem, of course, was those same odds just about guaranteed the lucky person wouldn’t be you. Lottery officials said Saturday night that a ticket

sold in Florida matched all five numbers and the Powerball for the jackpot. The prize goes to an estimated $475 million for Wednesday. The chances of winning the prize were astronomically low: 1 in 175.2 million. That’s how many different ways one could combine the numbers when playing. Lottery officials estimated about 80 percent of those possible combinations have been purchased. The winning numbers drawn Saturday night were: 10, 13, 14, 22 and 52, with a Powerball of 11. Officials conducted the drawing live from Tallahassee, Fla.

10-13-14-22-52 PB: 11 “This would be the roll to get in on,” Iowa Lottery CEO Terry Rich said earlier Saturday. “Of course there’s no guarantee, and that’s the randomness of it, and the fun of it.” That didn’t deter people across Powerball-

Today

Moms and dads sharpen their own educational skills at Santa Fe Public Schools’ pilot Parent Academy. LOCAL NEwS, C-1

Mostly sunny and windy. High 75, low 43.

Robin Durnell and her dog, Henry, at their Santa Fe home Thursday. A trip home from the hospital took longer than expected after the ambulance transporting her got stuck in the snow and ice on her street. JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN

Classifieds E-6

wINNINg NumBERS

Schooling parents

PAgE D-6

Upset in Baltimore

Calendar A-2

Please see BELIEFS, Page A-4

One ticket matches all six numbers in Powerball

Obituaries

Index

ayor David Coss was getting ready to run for public office for the first time when the pastor at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church took him aside during Holy Week and asked him to become a lector, a lay minister who reads from Scripture during the service. Coss considered whether such a ministry would conflict with his political ambitions and raised the issue with the priest, the Rev. Nathan Libraire. “Oh, get over yourself,” Libraire told him. Despite the priest’s assurance, Coss, a Roman Catholic, revealed the internal conflict people of faith feel when they become active in public affairs: how to reconcile personal beliefs with notions of the public good. Since being elected to the City Council in 2001 and mayor in 2006, Coss has been involved in a number of issues on which his church has taken a position — most notably marriage equality. Last month, Coss, the father of a gay daughter, and Councilor Patti Bushee, the only openly gay member of the council, introduced a resolution supporting samesex marriage in New Mexico and urging county clerks to issues licenses to gay and lesbian couples. The Catholic Church holds that marriage is a “life-long bond between one man and one woman.” And Catholic politicians who continue to publicly support redefining marriage, the church says, can be deemed guilty of “manifest grave sin” and be denied the sacrament of Holy Communion. None of that has happened to Coss.

Oxbow’s wire-to-wire win Saturday over Kentucky Derby winner Orb ended of any hopes for a Triple Crown attempt at the Belmont Stakes. SPORTS, D-1

Lotteries A-2

Neighbors C-8

Opinions B-1

Police notes C-2

Editor: Rob Dean, 986-3033, rdean@sfnewmexican.com Design and headlines: Kristina Dunham, kdunham@sfnewmexican.com

Ann Chaparro, 85, May 13 Carl Chunko, 58, March 23 Elva June Buchtel McConnell, 91, May 13

Real Estate E-1

Sports D-1

Larry Dean Jobe, 57, April 26 Ernesto Sandoval, 91, Santa Fe, May 17 Priscilla T. Vigil, 66

Please see POwERBALL, Page A-4

Pasapick www.pasatiempomagazine.com

Eldorado Studio Tour The 22nd anniversary tour showcases more than 100 artists in 72 studios; self-guided tours 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; brochures, and maps available 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the preview gallery, La Tienda Exhibit Space, 7 Caliente Road, eldoradostudiotour.org. More events in Calendar, A-2 and Fridays in Pasatiempo

PAgE C-2

Time Out/puzzles E-16

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