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Local teen dies at Duke City concert Girl’s father says ‘peer pressure and drugs’ contributed to death
Hannah Bruch
KELLY GARRETT, 1944-2013
Acclaimed singer had roots in Santa Fe
By Chris Quintana
The New Mexican
A 14-year-old Santa Fe girl died after a late-night concert in Albuquerque on Saturday night that she shouldn’t have been able to get into. Hannah Bruch was attending Foam Wonderland, a 16-and-over concert at Expo New Mexico that featured
a foam cannon and thumping electronic music. New Mexico State Police received a call at about 1:50 a.m. Sunday saying that a security guard had found her unresponsive. Paramedics treated Bruch, but she died en route to University Hospital in Albuquerque. No cause of death has been released, but Larry Bruch said Monday that his daughter “did
not die from natural causes. Peer pressure and drugs killed Hannah.” The elder Bruch said he heard rumors about Hannah trying ecstasy, an illegal drug that acts as both a stimulant and hallucinogen, while at the concert and believes that contributed to her death.
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Nuts about chocolate Candy man Chuck Higgins opens new sweet shop downtown near the Plaza. LOCAL BusINEss, A-9
Farming talk blooms
City Council considers resolution to promote urban agriculture, produce stands
By Tom Sharpe
The New Mexican
Kelly Garrett, who died last week at age 69, grew up in Santa Fe singing at church, at school and around her family home on Acequia Madre, before going on to a career as a vocalist on Broadway, television and records. Her sister said she died in Albuquerque from complications from throat and tongue cancer. Garrett was born Ellen Boulton on Kelly Garrett March 25, 1944, in Chester, Pa., to Jack Boulton and Sabina Griego. Her parents met when her father, a merchant marine, went for a minor operation at a hospital in Galveston, Texas, where her mother, a native of Pecos, was a nurse. In 1946, her parents moved to New Mexico because her father loved it after visiting his in-laws. The family lived near La Cienega, then on Garcia Street in town before buying a house on Acequia Madre in 1952. Kelly attended St. Francis Cathedral School and the Loretto Academy. “She sang when she was little. She would sing anywhere she could,”
Poki Piottin pulls weeds Monday at Gaia Gardens. As Piottin continues to negotiate with the city about how his urban farm can continue to grow vegetables legally, city councilors are weighing a resolution to promote urban agriculture in the city. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN
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Today Thunderstorm in the afternoon. High 86, low 58. PAGE A-12
Obituaries Laverna Marie Goldtooth, 53, Santa Fe, July 20 Michael Hutchison, 68, Santa Fe, July 23
Robert McMillan Stuart, 81, Aug. 6 Dulcinea S. (Duddy) Wilder, 100, Aug. 9 Patrice (Pat) Foster Williams, 83, Aug. 6 PAGE A-8
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perators of an urban farm in Santa Fe’s Bellemah neighborhood are still negotiating with the city about how they can continue to legally grow vegetables. Meanwhile, city councilors are weighing a resolution that would order staff to look for ways urban agriculture can be integrated into land uses in the city. The City Council’s Public Works Committee on
Monday recommended approval of the resolution, but councilors said the idea is not intended to pave the way for Gaia Gardens, which is working to resolve city code violations identified earlier this summer. “I don’t have a problem supporting local agriculture, but what I don’t want to do is reward bad behavior,” said Councilor Chris Calvert. Gaia Gardens had already stopped selling produce from a farm stand along the Arroyo de los
Chamisos when it received a letter in June that also ordered operators to stop hosting school groups and other volunteer helpers. One of the six alleged code violations had to do with makeshift housing that property owner Stuart Jay Tallmon put up on the land without a permit. The city also found that the nonprofit garden founded by farmers Poki Piottin and Dominique Lozo was operating without a business license.
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Immigration debate renews fence controversy By Christopher Sherman The Associated Press
LOS EBANOS, Texas — If Congress agrees on a comprehensive immigration reform bill, it will probably include a requirement to erect fencing that would wrap more of the nation’s nearly 2,000-mile Southwest border in tall steel columns. But the mandate would essentially double down on a strategy that U.S. Customs and Border Protection isn’t even sure works. And the prospect of the government seizing more land offends many property owners here in the southernmost tip of Texas, where hundreds of people already lost property during the last fence construction spree. “I’m still totally against it,” said Aleida Garcia, who was among the Los Ebanos residents whose land was taken back in 2008, when this hamlet surrounded on three sides by
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Cotton farmer Teofilo ‘Junior’ Flores drives his truck along the border fence that passes through his property in Brownsville, Texas, in September 2012. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO
the Rio Grande was slated to get a U-shaped segment of fencing. Given the choice, Garcia said, she would rather have more agents
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patrolling the area. At least that would create some jobs, she added. The region’s lawmakers appear to agree. Three Democratic congress-
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men from the Texas border who support immigration reform have announced that they would not support any bill conditioned on the construction of more border fence. “It doesn’t do what proponents think it does,” said Rep. Filemon Vela, of Brownsville, who resigned from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus in protest. “Building more fence makes no sense to me.” The fence’s backers say it’s a common-sense solution to keeping people from crossing the porous border. The strip of land bisecting Garcia’s La Paloma Ranch was eventually returned after the bi-national agency that monitors border treaties said the fence couldn’t be built in a flood plain. But those objections were dropped last year, and the U.S. government has resumed planning
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Two sections, 24 pages 164th year, No. 225 Publication No. 596-440