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PARADE OF HOMES
The exterior of Joseph and Valerie Montoya’s Platinum Sky Construction home, part of the Haciendas: A Parade of Homes tour. COURTESY JOHN BAKER PHOTOGRAPHY, SANTA FE AREA HOME BUILDERS ASSOCIATION
Tour features work of local homebuilders By Robert Nott The New Mexican
Joseph and Valerie Montoya received their certificate of occupancy to move into their new house in Las Campanas around 9 a.m. Friday — which was a relief, as their home is one of 13 houses on this year’s Haciendas: A Parade of Homes tour, which started at 11 that same morning. “We were ready to go!” Valerie Montoya said with a laugh Sunday afternoon in the final hours of the first weekend of the two-weekend event, which will continue from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The self-guided tour of 14 homes, sponsored by the Santa Fe Area Home Builders Association, allows homeowners and the members of their construction teams — including builders, architects and interior designers — to showcase the creative process behind their work. The tour, now 21 years old, used to feature upward of 40 homes before the 2008 economic recession hit and builders stopped creating homes on spec. “We
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INDIAN MARKET
Duo at helm of SWAIA aim to strengthen organization Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of articles highlighting some of the people who make Native art or are involved in producing Indian Market. More than 150,000 people are expected this week for the 92nd annual Indian Market. Most events are free and open to the public. Check out the calendar in the Indian Market supplement published by The New Mexican or visit the Southwestern Association of Indian Arts’ website, swaia.org.
By Anne Constable
The New Mexican
In Navajo cosmology, the Hero Twins, Naayéé’ Neizghání and Tóbájíshchíní, have many adventures and ultimately rid the world of various monsters. In the world of the Southwestern Association of Indian Arts, the twins are John Torres Nez, SWAIA’s chief operating officer, and Charlene Porsild, who was appointed chief business development officer just last month. The board of SWAIA, which sponsors the world’s largest exhibition and sale of Indian art, is hoping that John they, too, will slay some monsters Torres Nez and put the organization on more solid financial footing to better serve Native artists, including future potters, beaders, jewelers, weavers and filmmakers. The day after the 2012 Indian Market, SWAIA’s board of directors announced that it was not renewing its three-year contract with Executive Director Bruce Bernstein. Torres Charlene Nez, then SWAIA’s deputy director, Porsild was named interim director. But when he was asked how he would do things differently, Torres Nez told them, “This job is really too big for one person.” He suggested splitting it in two and
Meyer Harwood, left, and Asher Ullam compete in a three-legged race at the Barnyard Olympics at the Santa Fe Rodeo Grounds on Sunday. PHOTOS BY KATHARINE EGLI/FOR THE NEW MEXICAN
Barnyard antics, messy contests entertain all ages at fair By Robert Nott The New Mexican
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n this day of rapidly advancing technological progress, it’s refreshing to discover kids still want to be kids and fall in the dirt, throw water on one another and get egg on their faces. All that and more occurred when at least 50 people — including some funloving adults — took part in the Santa Fe County Fair’s Barnyard Olympics, designed to test participants’ skills in running three-legged foot races, engaging in egg tosses and relaying water from tub to pail. The roughly 90-minute event started at noon Sunday at the rodeo grounds on Rodeo Road. As 12-year-old Alexis Howard, one of the Barnyard Olympics organizers, put it, “You’re supposed to get wet and icky. That’s the whole point of having fun.” The contestants were separated by age range: 2- to 8-year-olds competed first, then 9- to 15-year-olds, followed by older teens and adults. In the three-legged race for the little ones, some of the tykes held hands as they ran, which meant that if one stumbled and fell into the dirt, the other naturally followed. This sort of thing happened a lot, in fact. One enterprising pair of 5-yearolds decided to run the race backward, resulting in some unexpected antics. Hailey Thompson, 7, joined Sarah
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Santa Fe Bandstand Traditional Brazilian maracatu group Nação Estrela Brilhante and Brooklyn-based music collective Nation Beat, 6 p.m., on the Plaza. More events in Calendar, A-2 and Fridays in Pasatiempo
Today A t-storm likely in the afternoon. High 83, low 57.
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Ashlyne Lucero, 7, competes in the water relay race at the Barnyard Olympics at the Santa Fe Rodeo Grounds on Sunday.
Marcus, 8, in the race. They did just fine on the first half, but upon turning at the midway point, they fell. “It was good until then,” Marcus said, stressing, “On the way down we kept saying ‘step’ so we knew what we were doing.” At the middle level of competition, 14-year-old Emily Rexer joined 12-year-
old Max Lenk in the three-legged race. The duo said their strategy was to make sure they stepped in sync. Asked what prompted them to take part, Lenk said, “Pride of winning,” while Rexer said, “My mom.”
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Immigrant rights movement at odds over group’s actions Decision by ‘Dream 9’ to leave and try to re-enter U.S. stirs national debate By Cindy Carcamo Los Angeles Times
TUCSON, Ariz. — When a group of young immigrant rights activists devised a plan last month to stage an unconventional protest at the U.S.-Mexico border to draw attention to the thousands deported under the Obama administration’s immigration policy, Lizbeth Mateo was a little afraid that onlookers would react negatively. The protest, after all, could
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have meant their deportation. Then the letters poured in. Hundreds of them. All positive and addressed to Mateo, 29, and other protesters who, as a result of their daring demonstration, were stopped, handcuffed and taken to an immigration detention facility in south-central Arizona. “You are crazy but we support you,” one person wrote to her. Even an official at the law school where she was
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accepted wrote to Mateo while she was in detention, promising to hold a spot for the student born in Mexico but raised in Los Angeles. But outside the walls of the Eloy Detention Center, a debate began to brew about the political implications of the actions taken by the “Dream 9,” as they have been called, five women and four men brought to the United States illegally as children. On July 22, the group — all Mexican nationals but American in almost every other way except legally — demanded
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