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Kiwanis wants Zozobra blackout Group asks city to forgo live TV, Web broadcast to boost ticket sales By Steve Terrell The New Mexican
Because of declining attendance at the annual burning of Zozobra, the Kiwanis Club of Santa Fe is asking
classes Friday morning. But Santa Fe Mayor David Coss said Monday that he is inclined to go along with the Kiwanis Club’s wishes. “We asked [Kiwanis] to cut their ticket prices because $20 is too much for working families,” Coss said in an interview. “We asked them to not move it to Friday night because of public-safety issues. They’ve tried
the city not to provide a live broadcast and webcast of the fiery preFiesta event this year. For years, the city, in partnership with the Kiwanis Club and Santa Fe Community College, has broadcast the event for the benefit of elderly and disabled people who aren’t able to make the long walk from downtown to Fort Marcy Park and for schoolchildren who have to attend
hard to be very cooperative.” The mayor said he’d talk to senior staff about the request tomorrow. Zozobra was moved from Friday night — the first night of La Fiesta de Santa Fe — to Thursday in 1998 after a fatal gang-related shooting on the Plaza following the 1997 burning. Since the event was moved to Thursday, Zozobra revelers have
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Braving the blaze
Nonprofit wants judge to keep Lamy museum from booting restaurant By Tom Sharpe The New Mexican
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s flames from the Tres Lagunas Fire licked over a ridge north of her family’s home in Pecos Canyon on Friday, Kay Rice decided it was time to take the family dogs and leave. “I didn’t want to be in the way,” she said. Her husband, Scott Rice, and son, Connor, stayed behind, continuing to do what they could to protect their property after the fire broke out Thursday afternoon. The family had a pump and fire hoses left over from their days managing the Brush Ranch school and camp. They pumped water from the Pecos River to hose down areas near their barn and house. They helped describe the layout of structures to firefighters as they arrived on the scene, Kay Rice said. She said she wasn’t worried about her husband and son, who grew up on
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the property, staying behind. “They are smart enough to know when to drop the hose and leave,” Kay Rice said. “But I also knew my husband wasn’t going to leave [Friday]. He would do what he had to do to stay and defend the house.” She added, “This isn’t our second or third home. This is where we live. We raised our kids there.”
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A helicopter picks up water to help fight the Tres Lagunas Fire on Monday. There are six helicopters assigned to the Pecos Canyon blaze, which has grown to nearly 8,500 acres and was about 7 percent contained Monday night. PHOTOS BY JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN
Winds may send fire toward water supplies By Barry Massey
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PECOS — More than 900 firefighters were racing against increasing winds and dropping humidity levels Monday as they fought to contain two wildfires raging in the Northern New Mexico mountains. In the Santa Fe National Forest, the Tres Lagunas blaze had burned nearly 8,500 acres, or more than 12 and a half square miles, by late Monday, and firefighters were working to protect a group of homes in the Holy Ghost
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From left, Doug Pippen, his son, Justin Pippen, and Jimmy Powell mix fire retardant Monday near Monastery Lake to help battle the fire. Marty Posey works in the background. The crew, from Pecos Valley Wildfire LLC of Artesia, mixed 40,000 gallons of retardant on Monday.
Martinez: No federal probe into racetrack deal Despite statement by ex-campaign worker, governor denies FBI is investigating racino lease Staff and wire reports
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New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez said Monday that she’s confident there’s no federal investigation of her administration’s handling of a lease for a horse-racing track and casino on state land in Albuquerque. Martinez made the comments when asked
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about the FBI recently questioning her former campaign finance director, Andrea Goff. Goff said in a statement over the weekend she had answered FBI questions related to The Downs at Albuquerque — which in 2011 was awarded a 25-year lease of the racetrack and casino at the state fairgrounds — and other matters. She provided no details. In her statement, Goff insisted “none of the questions were related to recent investigation and indictment” of Jamie Estrada, Martinez’s former campaign manager. Estrada was charged last week with illegally intercepting email sent to the governor’s campaign computer system and lying to federal inves-
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The nonprofit that ran the Legal Tender restaurant in Lamy until Memorial Day wants a judge to stop the Lamy Railroad & History Museum from kicking the restaurant out. Learning Mind Inc., whose director is John Jednak, accuses the Lamy Railroad & History Museum Inc. of improperly canceling its lease on part of the museum building. According to a complaint for a temporary restraining order filed in state District Court on Friday by lawyers John Day and Brian Egolf, Learning Mind began operating the Legal Tender on Sept. 22, 2011, with an agreement to pay the museum 15 percent of its gross revenues. Over the next 21 months, Learning Mind paid the museum more than $24,000 while installing nearly $40,000 worth of equipment and other physical improvements to the building at its own expense, the complaint says.
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Canyon and prevent the fire from spreading east, where it could endanger a river watershed that supplies the city of Las Vegas, N.M. Some 140 homes, mostly cabins and summer residences, have been evacuated since late last week, and officials said the fire was too unpredictable to
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STAYING BEHIND: 8,500-ACRE FIRE: HARDY RESIDENTS HUNDREDS FIGHT FOR CONTAINMENT BATTLE FLAMES
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tigators. One of Estrada’s charges involves an email sent by Goff to the governor and others. Some of the emails, allegedly hijacked by Estrada, ended up in the hands of Martinez critics, including Independent Source PAC, which distributed hundreds of the emails to The New Mexican and other media. Some of the emails Independent Source PAC distributed were related to The Downs deal. These included messages sent by Albuquerque lawyer and Republican activist Pat Rogers, who represented The Downs at Albuquerque, to top administration officials.
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The novelist reads and signs his book, from A Serpent’s Tooth: A Walt Longmire Mystery, 6 p.m., Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo St. 988-4226. More events in Calendar, Page A-2 and Fridays in Pasatiempo
Obituaries Doris P. Stevenson, June 2 Eusebio Dean, 80, May 31 Consuelo Maes, May 29 W. Scott Andrus LeRoy C. Martinez, 71, Chimayó, June 1 Donald (Adonias) Ortega, 87, Los Alamos PAge A-9
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