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Housing Authority to revamp Cerro Gordo complex Project raises fears of more crime in crowded east-side neighborhood By David J. Salazar The New Mexican
The Santa Fe Civic Housing Authority’s plans for a major renovation of the aging public housing complex on Cerro Gordo Road is set to go before the city Historic Districts Review Board on June 11.
Housing Authority Director Ed Romero said the plan for the Cerro Encantado site includes renovating existing homes, razing one apartment and adding 10 more to the complex, which he says “has a lot of vacant space.” Romero said the east-side project, which is aimed to create two-bedroom family homes, is part of an $8 million to $12 million plan to improve 120 housing units at five different sites in the city.
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BEFORE The Cerro Encantado public housing
complex on Cerro Gordo is shown Sunday. THE NEW MEXICAN
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Plans for the Santa Fe Civic Housing Authority’s renovation of the Cerro Encantado. IMAGE COURTESY THOMAS GIFFORD
SWAT ‘KitE CrazY’ fires tear gas to end standoff
TRES LAGUNAS FIRE
Aid pours in for crews
By Dennis Carroll
For The New Mexican
An armed 46-year-old Santa Fe man held off police for about five and half hours overnight Saturday and Sunday before a SWAT team disabled him with tear gas and crashed through the front door of his home, Santa Fe police said. Antonio Gallegos, 2111 Calle Ensenada, was booked into the Santa Fe County jail on charges of aggraAntonio Gallegos vated assault on a police officer, assault and battery against a household member, negligent use of a firearm, resisting or obstructing an officer, and interfering with communications. Police spokeswoman Celina Westervelt said no one was injured in the standoff and no shots were fired, other than the volley of five tear gas canisters. Five other adults had been in the home prior to the standoff, including Gallegos’ wife, who was not identified, Westervelt said.
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the many faces of democracy Interviews in Mongolia reveal range of views
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verybody wants to live in a democracy. Right? Isn’t that why we fought the British? And isn’t that what the 2011 Arab Spring was all about? Like most Americans, this is what I had assumed, until I started gathering the thoughts of people in one of the world’s newest democracies: Mongolia. This question of whether Paula Sabloff democracy is a Science in a universal human Complex World desire or a conceit of U.S. policy is, I think, a good one for my field, anthropology. It’s also a question that relates to the research of some of my
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Local volunteers help protect homes as blaze grows to 7,500 acres By Staci Matlock The New Mexican
Dan Radven and Jamie Hascall install a 12-foot commissioned kite recently for the Museum of International Folk Art’s new exhibit Tako Kichi: Kite Crazy in Japan. PHOTOS BY JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN
Folk Art Museum prepares to open vibrant new exhibit
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rews recently installed kites at the Museum of International Folk Art for a new exhibit, Tako Kichi: Kite Crazy in Japan, which opens Sunday and will run through March 2014. The art installation will feature more than 200 Japanese kites, ranging in size from 1 inch high to 12 feet tall. A single kite collector, David M. Kahn of New York, loaned the museum most of the kites on display. Traditional kites from Japan are made from a split bamboo framework and layers of handmade washi paper. The creations are often finished with colorful painted illustrations, legendary heroes and design elements that reflect Japa-
Nonperishable food and other donations were pouring in Sunday at Frankie’s at the Casanova Southwestern Grill on Main Street in Pecos for volunteer firefighters helping to battle the Tres Lagunas Fire. “We’ve sent seven truckloads of donations out since noon yesterday,” said Brian Sandoval, owner of Frankie’s. But New Mexico Forestry Division spokesman Dan Ware said the goods were not necessary, and he asked that community members hold off on contributing more donations. While the outpouring of support from the community was appreciated, Ware said, volunteer firefighters are able to access supplies from the base camp, along with other crews battling the blaze, and he didn’t want to see donations go to waste. Frankie’s, along with other eateries in Pecos, is a central gathering
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Exhibit designer Antoine Leriche prepares kites for the new exhibit at the Folk Art Museum.
nese folklore. The museum will host a workshop Friday on making and flying kites. Kite expert Scott Skinner is scheduled to teach people how to best fly the aerial toys, weather permitting.
Kites have been a popular pastime and festival activity in Japan for centuries. Felicia Katz-Harris, the exhibit’s curator, said tako kichi translates roughly to “kite crazy.” The New Mexican
Martha Russo The sculptor discusses her exhibit Cavities and Clumps: The Psychology and Physicality of Contested Space, 6 p.m., Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe University of Art and Design, 1600 St. Michael’s Drive, $10, discounts available, 424-5050.
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