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CARMELLA PADILLA
Sharing handmade stories By Anne Constable
Hotshots honored Thousands turn out in triple-digit temperatures, lining highways and overpasses, to pay respect to Arizona’s fallen firefighters as their bodies are carried home in a somber procession. PAgE A-10
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International Folk Art Market The volunteers
Carmella Padilla was there at the beginning. Maybe even before, strictly speaking. She recruited Judy Espinar, then owner of the Clay Angel, to help with decorations for the gala opening of the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art in 2001. “[Judy] came in with gusto and did a bang-up job,” Padilla said. And then came payback
This is one in a series of profiles on seven of the market’s most dedicated volunteers. They are: Shelly Batt, Carmella Padilla, Benita Vasallo, Polly Arhendts, Hayward Simoneaux, and Zenia Victor and Gaylon Duke.
time. Espinar called and asked her to come to a meeting to discuss the idea of a folk art market in Santa Fe with her and some of the early market
masterminds, such as Tom Aageson, Charmay Allred and Charlene Cerny. Padilla subse-
Carmella Padilla at the Museum of International Folk Art last month. Padilla recently published a book to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the market. JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN
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Watching and waiting
Pecos Canyon residents, forest officials anticipate dangerous floods after fires
Feds focus on possible pilot error in crash Dead identified as teenage students; NTSB says final conclusions months away By Ashley Halsey III
The Washington Post
The investigation into the crash landing of a passenger plane in San Francisco came to focus more sharply on possible pilot error Sunday as the South Korean airline ruled out a mechanical failure and federal investigators sought to interview the cockpit crew. Two Chinese teenagers were killed and scores of other passengers were injured just before noon Saturday when the Boeing 777 airliner struck a seawall at the end of the runway tail first and then skidded about 300 hundred yards before catching fire. “We have talked with law enforcement officials who spoke with the pilots last night, and we hope to interview them soon,” Deborah Hersman, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, said Sunday after flying overnight to San Francisco.
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Kelly Shannon takes stock of damage to his property about a mile from where the Tres Lagunas Fire started. Burn scar experts expect the area will be at high risk of erosion, hazardous debris and flash flooding for a least a couple years. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN
By Staci Matlock
The New Mexican
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s thunderstorms roll overhead every afternoon, Pecos Canyon residents and forest officials are trying to prepare for the potentially devastating aftermath of two recent wildfires in the area. Some are piling up sandbags. Others are trying to gauge ways to divert sediment, ash and burned logs away from the Pecos River as heavy rains wash the debris down drainage channels. “It is a fact that it is going to happen,” said Eric Roybal, fire chief for the Pecos Canyon Volunteer Fire Department and one of those who fought the blazes. “We’re looking at flooding issues for the next two or three years. They’re talking about the possibility of some extreme flooding, to the point some of the bridges and
culverts on N.M. 63 could be damaged.” They had a taste of things to come over the weekend when storms dumped as much as half an inch of rain around the canyon and sent ash from the burn scar into the river. Pecos Canyon resident Kay Rice said the river near their house rose approximately three feet in the space of an hour beginning at noon Saturday. More rain fell on the canyon Sunday, leaving the Pecos River black with ash. Burn scar experts expect the canyon will be at high risk of erosion, hazardous debris and flash flooding for at least a couple of monsoon seasons due to potential runoff from the steep mountainsides burned by the Tres Lagunas Fire and the Jaroso Fire. They’ve recommended that the Santa Fe National Forest and the state Department of Game and Fish keep the popular
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Android phones find success in simplicity The latest pair of Google Play phones look familiar but come without all the bells, whistles and gimmicky features of their predecessors — a good thing for first-time smartphone users and those who want to feel in control.
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Lady Ella & Lady Day
Calendar A-2
The risk of death or injury for people within or downstream of the 10,220-acre Tres Lagunas Fire scar is “very high,” according to an assessment by a federal Burned Area Emergency Response team. The fire, started May 30 by a downed power line, burned from Indian Creek to Holy Ghost and Davis creeks and burned through Soldier Creek. People in the canyon could be caught in flash floods or injured by one of the burned trees at risk of being blown down. Peak flows are also likely to damage homes, roads, culverts and bridges near the river.
Showers, storms this afternoon. High 90, low 61.
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Pasapick Jazz vocalist Cristianne Miranda performs from the Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday songbooks, accompanied by the Bert Dalton Trio, 6 p.m., La Casa Sena Cantina, 125 E. Palace Ave., $25, 988-9232. More events in Calendar, A-2 and Fridays in Pasatiempo
outdoor recreational canyon closed to the public for two years.
Summer Scrub Club A Capital High School program engages youth in medicine, science and crime scene investigation training. EDuCATIOn, A-7
Comics B-12
Education A-7
El Nuevo A-8
Police notes A-10
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By Christopher S. Rugaber The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Hiring is exploding in the one corner of the U.S. economy where few want to be hired: temporary work. From Wal-Mart to General Motors to PepsiCo, companies are increasingly turning to temps and to a much larger universe of freelancers, contract workers and consultants. Combined, these workers number nearly 17 million people who have only tenuous ties to the companies that pay them — about 12 percent of everyone with a job. Hiring is always healthy for an economy. Yet the rise in temp and contract work shows that many employers aren’t willing to hire for the long run. The number of temps has jumped more than 50 percent since the recession ended four years ago to nearly 2.7 million — the most on government records dating to 1990. In no other sector has hiring come close. Driving the trend are lingering uncertainty about the economy and employers’ desire for more flexibility in matching their payrolls to their revenue. Some employers have also sought to sidestep the new health care law’s rule that they provide medical coverage for permanent workers. Last week,
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TECH, A-8
Opinions A-11
Temporary jobs become permanent fixture in U.S.
Tech A-8
Time Out B-11
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