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Udall vows to fight for downtown post office
Jackie Larson Bread’s beaded hatbox, titled Memory Keeper, took the top prize in the Beadwork classification before garnering the market’s highest award. The artist says the piece features the faces of her relatives.
Senator says facility’s move would be ‘disaster’ By Steve Terrell The New Mexican
U.S. Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., said Friday that he’ll try to pressure federal agencies in an effort to keep Santa Fe’s main post office at its current site on Federal Place because moving it would be “a disaster for downtown Santa Fe.” “Believe me, I’m going to do everything I can,” Udall told The Santa Fe New Mexican. “My belief is that Tom Udall [the post office] is the anchor for the historic district.” The post office has been in its current location since the 1960s. The U.S. Postal Service has said it needs to move the facility in order to save money. It currently rents from the General Services Administration. The Postal Service is proposing moving to Sanbusco Market Center or, in the alternative, the old First State Bank building at the intersection of Guadalupe and West Alameda streets. Udall said the large federal building across the street from City Hall that now houses the main post office likely would remain empty for a long time. “The GSA won’t find anybody to fill that,” the senator said. “I think it’s going to be a big eyesore. You get an empty building like that, and you don’t know what’ll happen. People start painting graffiti on it, windows get broken. It’s not a good situation. You don’t have the upkeep, you don’t have the maintenance.” The city government, which leases about 20,000 square feet in the federal building, plans to move most of
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INDIAN MARKET: BLACKFEET ARTIST TAKES TOP AWARD
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Santa Fe Pow Wow Dancers, drummers, singers, and artists’ booths, with Host Northern Drum Keres Nation and Host Southern Drum Thunder Crew, gourd dancing 5 p.m., grand entry 7:30 p.m., intertribal dancing until 10:30 p.m., Genoveva Chavez Community Center, 3221 Rodeo Road, $5, discounts available, 995-4009. More events in Calendar, A-2 and Fridays in Pasatiempo
Obituaries Adeline Olivas Sandoval, Aug. 10 Amy Marie Mathews, 52, Aug. 13 Zenas “Slim” Boone, 94, Los Alamos, Aug. 13 Gardner F. “Pete” Dowrey, 77, Santa Fe, Aug. 12 Patrice (Pat) Foster Williams, 83, Aug. 6 Jacob K. Frenkel, Santa Fe Page a-10
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State Supreme Court says cases should first be heard in lower courts By Barry Massey
The Associated Press
New Mexico’s highest court isn’t going to immediately decide whether gay marriage is legal in the state and instead will allow lower courts to first consider the issue. The state Supreme Court has denied requests by same-sex couples from Santa Fe, Albuquerque and other communities who had asked the justices to declare gay marriage legal. Two lawsuits were filed directly with the court to try to get a speedy decision, but the justices rejected them Thursday in brief orders without a detailed explanation. However, the justices said the gay marriage issue could be pursued in a lower court “with a right to request expedited review.” Rep. Brian Egolf, a Santa Fe lawyer handling one of the cases, said his clients — two Santa Fe men who were denied a marriage license — will file a lawsuit in state District Court soon. He said it was highly unusual for the Supreme Court to explicitly indicate there’s a right to get a quick ruling in a case. “We see this as a bit of a delay, but we’re seeing this as a very unique and much appreciated statement by the court recognizing the importance
Please see MaRRIage, Page A-5 Jackie Larson Bread, center, a Blackfeet tribal member from Montana, is announced as the 2013 Indian Market Best of Show winner during a presentation ceremony Friday at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center for her beaded hatbox. PHOTOS BY LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN
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ith more than 900 pieces from 400 artists vying for awards in the 2013 Santa Fe Indian Market, choosing a single piece as Best of Show is a daunting task. But after a day of judging by more than 60 jurors, Jackie Bread’s piece, Memory Keeper, emerged at the top of the list. Bread’s winning piece, which also won in the Beadwork classification, is a hatbox featuring a colorful beaded image of a Native American man. The box also contains two pouches with sepia-tone images of other faces, also made of beads. The faces represent Bread’s relatives, she said, and she thought of their past lives as she re-created their faces in beadwork. Because of that connection, Bread said, the award honors multiple generations. “They would be very flattered,” she said after the award was announced Friday at the Santa Fe Commu-
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On THe WeB u For a full list of market winners, visit our website, www.santafenewmexican.com. u For an Indian Market schedule of events, booth map and list of participating artists, visit our market guide online at www.santafenewmexican.com/magazines/ indian_market/.
nity Convention Center. A Blackfeet member from Montana, Bread said she has come to the annual market for the past 15 years and attended the Institute of American Indian Arts in
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New Mexico’s federally funded early-detection program for lowincome women is helping to take a bite out of breast and cervical cancers. LIFe & ScIence, a-9
Feds to slow flow of dwindling Colorado River By Ken Ritter and Paul Foy The Associated Press
After back-to-back driest years in a century on the Colorado River, federal water managers are giving Arizona and Nevada a 50-50 chance of having their water deliveries cut in 2016, unless the Rocky Mountains get more winter snow than in recent years. A U.S. Bureau of Reclamation operations plan made public Friday will, for the first time ever, slow the flow of water from the Lake Powell reservoir upstream of the Grand Canyon to the huge Lake Mead reservoir that provides almost all of the
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water for Las Vegas, Nev. But a bureau official said Lake Mead won’t reach a low point next year that would trigger cuts to Sin City’s main drinking-water supply. “What we’ve seen in the last two years are the worst consecutive years of inflow in the last 100 years,” said Terry Fulp, the bureau’s Lower Colorado Region director. “We’re going to slow Powell’s decline. That will hasten Mead’s decline,” he said. “But next year, we can adjust again.” The bureau that controls
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Houseboats are moored on Lake Powell in Bullfrog, Utah, in July 2006. After the driest years in a century on the Colorado River, federal water managers are announcing a historic step to slow the flow of water from Lake Powell to Lake Mead, lowering the level of the downstream reservoir. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO
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