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City looks to CVB hire for changes Local tourism professionals welcome chief with experience in hotel industry
Religious pilgrims of diverse backgrounds carry on annual Good Friday tradition with trek to El Santuario de Chimayó
Emilio Martin of Albuquerque carries a cross for people whose names are written on it during the annual pilgrimage to Chimayó on Good Friday.
By Daniel J. Chacón The New Mexican
City Manager Brian Snyder and Jim Luttjohann, executive director of the Santa Fe Convention and Visitors Bureau, sat down at 4 p.m. Thursday for a face-to-face meeting in Snyder’s office at City Hall. Within 30 minutes, Luttjohann had submitted a one-sentence letter of resignation “effective immediately,” and in less than three hours, the city had announced that a new executive director was on board. “I wanted to make a move in what I believe is the right direction for moving the CVB and the city forward,” Snyder Randy said Friday. Randall The personnel change had already been in the works, indicating that Luttjohann, who had held the city job since August 2012, was about to be shown the door. The new executive director, Randy Randall, who has had a 45-year career in the tourism industry, including 10 years as general manager of the Eldorado Hotel, said he had been having discussions in recent weeks not only with Snyder but Mayor Javier Gonzales, who was elected last month.
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Colorado deaths stoke worries about pot edibles
Monica Ashley of Albuquerque takes a look at the Our Lady of La Vang statue outside the Santuario de Chimayó on Friday. View more photos at http://tinyurl.com/lfurbk6. PHOTOS BY LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN
By Uriel J. Garcia
The New Mexican
CHIMAYÓ urrounded by flowers, this white statue located near El Santuario de Chimayó is holding an infant Jesus. She is Our Lady of La Vang, the saint of Vietnam, and her statue was erected here in 2011 in honor of Vietnamese refugees. On Good Friday, thousands of Roman Catholics passed close to the statue as they visited the centuries-old Santuario to express gratitude to God and to take a scoop of dirt — which many say has the power to cure illness — from el pocito, a pit located in a
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By Sadie Gurman
The Associated Press
DENVER — A college student eats more than the recommended dose of a marijuana-laced cookie and jumps to his death from a hotel balcony. A husband with no history of violence is accused of shooting his wife in the head, possibly after eating pot-infused candy. The two recent deaths have stoked concerns about Colorado’s recreational marijuana industry and the effects of the drug, especially since cookies, candy and other pot edibles can be exponentially more potent than a joint. “We’re seeing hallucinations, they become sick to their stomachs, they throw up, they become dizzy and very anxious,” said Al Bronstein, medical director of the Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center. Studies are mixed about whether there is any link between marijuana and violence. Still, pot legalization opponents said the deaths are a sign of future dangers. Twenty-six people have reported poisonings from marijuana edibles this year, when the center started tracking such exposures. Six were children who swallowed innocent-looking edibles, most of which were in plain sight.
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Hugo Aragonez of Española carries a cross to the Santuario de Chimayó on Friday during the annual Good Friday pilgrimage. Aragonez carried the cross for the sake of tradition and for his family’s health.
Avalanche sweeps down Everest, killing at least 12 By Binaj Gurubacharya
The Associated Press
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KATMANDU, Nepal — An avalanche swept down a climbing route on Mount Everest early Friday, killing at least 12 Nepalese guides and leaving four missing in the deadliest disaster on the world’s highest peak. Several more were injured. The Sherpa guides had gone to fix ropes for other climbers when the avalanche struck an area known as the “popcorn field” for its bulging chunks of ice at about 6:30 a.m., Nepal Tourism Ministry official Krishna Lamsal said from the base camp, where he was monitoring rescue efforts. An injured survivor told his relatives the path up the mountain was unstable just before the avalanche struck at an elevation just below 21,000 feet. As soon as the avalanche hit, rescuers, guides and climbers
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rushed to help. Rescue workers pulled out 12 bodies from under mounds of snow and ice and were searching for the four missing guides, Lamsal said. Officials had earlier said three were missing. Four survivors were injured badly enough to require airlifting to a hospital in Katmandu. One arrived during the day, and three taken to the foothill town of Lukla could be evacuated Saturday. Others with less serious injuries were being treated at base camp. The avalanche struck ahead of the peak climbing season, when hundreds of climbers, guides and support crews were at Everest’s base camp preparing to climb to the summit when weather conditions are at their most favorable early next month.
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small side room lined with crutches. Native Americans and Hispanics have made Good Friday pilgrimages to the site since the early 1800s, but in recent years, Vietnamese and Filipinos also have made the trek to the Santuario de Chimayó, which is one of the most visited Catholic shrines in the country. One reason why Vietnamese have turned out more in recent years is because of the addition of the statue of Our Lady of La Vang. While Filipinos don’t have their own representations of saints at the shrine, the nearby chapel of El Santo Niño de Atocha, who
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Consider This Theater Grottesco presents a lighthearted showcase of theatrical styles through history, 7:30 p.m., Santa Fe Playhouse, 142 E. De Vargas St., $10, students $5, theatergrottesco.org, 474-8400.
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Obituaries JoAnn (Josephine) Tapia, 65, April 10 PAge A-10
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