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Bobbi Salinas, celebrated writer and Chicana activist, dead for months in Santa Fe home before remains are discovered
Opera close-up The Santa Fe Opera offers fans a rare glimpse of the magic behind the scenes. LOCAL news, C-1
Local author’s lonely ending
Drowsy driving fatalities frustrate officials Some say risk greater than DWI, but no way to make law on sleepiness By Frank Eltman
The Associated Press
MINEOLA, N.Y. — It probably happens to most drivers. Heading home after an overtime shift, and the eyelids flutter. Up all night with a sick baby, and you rest your eyes for just a moment on the way to dropping off the kids at school. Drowsy drivers often make it safely to their destination, but for some, the consequences are devastating. “To this day, I still hear my boys crying out, yelling for Daddy, when they were told the news,” says Jackie Califano, the widow of a New York police officer killed when a suspected drowsy driver plowed into his parked cruiser in 2011. “The pain we experienced is beyond description and continues to be.” More than 11,000 deaths were attributed to drowsy driving from 2000 to 2010, statistics show.
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Louis Ponce, brother-in-law of Barbara ‘Bobbi’ Salinas-Norman, walks Friday through the apartment at Zia Vista Condominiums, where he found Salinas’ remains on Monday. Salinas may have been dead ad a year or more before her body was found in the unlocked apartment. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN
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arbara Salinas-Norman was a Chicana activist, a bilingual teacher, an author, a publisher and an artist. She was “intelligent,” “inspiring,” a “trailblazer.” But her life had begun to unravel, and this once wellconnected woman apparently died alone in her Santa Fe home, where her body lay undiscovered
for several months behind an unlocked door. Her decomposed remains were found Monday at the Zia Vista Condominiums on Zia Road. Police originally speculated that Salinas had been dead since October, but family and friends said Friday they thought Salinas, 70, might have died long before that — a year or more ago. According to a preliminary autopsy, she died of natural causes.
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Survivors begin life after amputation By Lenny Bernstein The Washington Post
BOSTON — Paul Norden needs a break. He is winded, sweating heavily after a stint on a stationary bicycle and the slow walk to a padded treatment table. It is hard work for Norden, who lost his right
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Mother’s Day through eyes of a new mom
Time to get gardening
Etiquette expert Bizia Greene returns after maternity leave to offer tips on how to help a newborn become a compassionate child. neigHBOrs, C-8
Payne’s Nurseries owner gives some tips for planting droughtfriendly flowers, vegetables and herbs.
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BOSTON MARATHON BOMBING
Boston Marathon bombing victim Paul Norden works with physical therapist Kristen Vito at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Charlestown, Mass. Norden and his brother, J.P., each lost a leg in the bombing.
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Los Tres Cerdos: Nacho, Tito and Miguel — Salinas’ version of The Three Little Pigs — won the Tomas Rivera Award in 1999.
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leg that Monday afternoon in April. “I used to say, ‘I’ll never go to a gym,’ ” he says with a weary smile. “Now I’m stuck here.” He is in Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital’s large, state-ofthe-art gym for his afternoon physical therapy session. Just a few short weeks ago — a
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lifetime ago — Norden, 31, was clambering on the very roof above his head, a “tin knocker” who helped attach sheet metal to the new $225 million facility.
Obituaries Fran Redinger, 90, Santa Fe, May 9 Angie D. Rael Rael, Santa Fe, May 6 Jessie C de Baca, 78, La Baca Cienega, May 6 Malcolm Withers, 92, Withers Feb. 16
Now, Norden and 21 other survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing, including two of Norden’s boyhood friends, are among its first inpatients. As Norden rests, Adam Soiref, a physical therapy intern, takes advantage of the break to show him how to
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Passport to the Arts Canyon Road Merchants Association’s public-art event at Canyon Road galleries and businesses continues with a Mother’s Day brunch, 11:30 a.m., The Compound Restaurant; details available online at visitcanyonroad.com, or call 795-5703.
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