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New Mexicans celebrate medieval culture By Christian Marquez @chrstn_marquez Editor’s note: This article is part of a multimedia package, which includes a video produced by Christian Marquez accessible on our website and on the Daily Lobo YouTube page, username: dailylobo. Every year, for the last 10 years, El Rancho De Las Golondrinas undergoes a physical transformation from a working hacienda into a medieval village for the Santa Fe Renaissance Fair. Over the past weekend, the 200-acre farm was overtaken by hundreds of knights and ladies dressed in their best 16th century attire. The fairgoers were greeted by various forms of period-appropriate entertainment including their most dangerous sports such as jousting, rapier fighting and armored combat. However, for most of these sportsmen, their game lasts longer than just the weekend. “It’s the most physically demanding thing I’ve ever done, and that’s coming from a guy that has been to war twice,” Thrond Arnold said. “It was brutal.” The Armored Combat League is a national sport league which
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A performer during the 10th Annual Santa Fe Renaissance Fair blows bubbles for children during fair performances on Sept. 16, 2017. The Renaissance Fair was held at the historic El Rancho de Las Golondrinas.
Candidates discuss crime UNM maintains its VOLLEYBALL
By Nichole Harwood @Nolidoli1
The eight balloted Albuquerque mayoral candidates gathered Friday, Sept. 25 in Smith Brasher Hall at Central New Mexico Community College to answer city residents’ questions. The candidates — Ricardo
Chaves, Brian S. Colón, Michelle Garcia Holmes, Wayne Johnson, Timothy “Tim” Keller, Daniel “Dan” Lewis, Augustus “Gus” Pedrotty and Susan WheelerDeichsel — treated each other in a friendly manner after taking to their podiums, with Garcia Holmes and Johnson taking a selfie, while Wheeler-Deichsel and Pedrotty spoke before the broadcast began.
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Mayoral candidates, Gus Pedrotty, right to left, Susan Wheeler-Deichsel, Ricardo Chaves, Wayne Johnson, Michelle Garcia Holmes, Brian Colón, Tim Keller and Dan Lewis debate at Smith Brasher Hall on CNM’s main campus during the KOB Channel 4 Mayoral Debate on Friday, Sept. 15, 2017.
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Local broadcast station KOB hosted the forum, using reporters positioned at four locations across the city to develop and deliver questions from the community. Crime was the main focus for a large part of the forum, with questions concerning how the candidates plan on handling crime in Albuquerque and what they think is causing the city’s systematic crime rate. “First, we have to rebuild the morale in the police department,” Colón said, in response to a question regarding APD. “We will not have 400 officers if we do not save the culture. We’ve got to make sure everyone knows that the APD is on its way to becoming the gold standard law enforcement like it once was.” Garcia Holmes said during her former service at the police department, she served under five different mayors, giving her the opportunity to see the mistakes they made. “The city needs more community policing,” she said. “Community policing is important. To work into a good community policing model, we need to get to 1,300 police officers. We can do this, Albuquerque,
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two-to-one record By Aaron Cowan @AaronTCowan The University of New Mexico’s volleyball team has consistently won two out of every three tournament games every week for the past month. That trend continued at the Blue/Gold Invitational in Toledo, Ohio where the Lobos beat Youngstown State and Tennessee Tech but dropped a match to the Toledo Rockets, putting their record at 8-4 for the regular season. UNM started strong in the morning game at the Blue/Gold Invitational against Youngstown State University — a team they faced and beat just two weeks earlier — at the Glory Road Invitation in El Paso, Texas. The results were virtually identical, with UNM posting a three-set sweep against the Penguins 25-21, 25-19 and 25-18 in the Savage Arena. On offense, Mariessa Carrasco led with 10 putaways, followed by Lauren Twitty with nine kills. Victoria Spragg knocked in eight more
kills, while Yasmin Tan and Ashley Kelsey each contributed six. Hailey Rubino, who had lead the team to victory two weeks earlier, was out due to injury, so Kelsey, who usually plays libero, stepped forward into a front row role. Defensively, Carson Heilborn dominated with 33 assists. Twitty and Carrasco notched 10 digs each, followed closely by Kelsey who recorded nine digs and Heilborn who put in seven more. Spragg, Carrasco and Heilborn also all tallied two blocks each. The evening game against the invitational host, the Toledo Rockets, proved more challenging. The Lobos dueled through three close sets, winning the second, but lost momentum in the fourth and final set, resulting in scores of 21-25, 2523, 22-25 and 15-25. Still, UNM had some standout performances. Twitty led the team with 14 kills and 10 digs to notch her fifth double-double of the season. Carrasco followed with eight kills, along with Carly Beddingfield
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