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December 2012

Western New Mexico University Gallup Graduate Studies Center

Spring 2013 Course Schedule

WNMU-GALLUP SPRING 2013 Course Schedule

Course Cancellation-The university reserves the right to cancel courses not selected by an adequate number of students or not suitably staffed by qualified faculty.

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I’m also pretty sure that most of you reading this are in the same boat as me – even if you won’t admit it in print (as I have, here, I might add).

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On a personal level, I could literally go on and on about this topic.

That said, I want to talk about expectations in different and more universal – or cityversal – terms. I expect a great deal from our great city.

I expect that my children will enjoy growing up here – or that they soon will. I expect that those we elect will do the right thing in EVERY SINGLE CASE. I expect my colleagues to do the right thing in the work place and to make choices that not only benefit themselves, their workers and their families, but also their community.

I don’t think it’s too much to ask.

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I expect more from everyone. Listen, none of us will reach their potential on this planet – but I think we need to strive for it.

We need to find a niche in our community and work our best to keep that area of town moving forward.

Our heads should hurt from bumping into the ceiling of our potential.

Wow, that’s one of the lamest things I’ve written. But I’m going to leave it there as a beacon to myself to be better and less cliché. See, I’m even expecting more of myself right now.

Please join me in expecting more from everyone we come in contact with.

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Contributors

Features

24 Man’s Love of Flight 28 Quiet Zone 32 Zuni Mountain Trail Partnership 37 Map of Reservations 40 Surviving Loans 50 FoodCorps Report

Anonymous Jon Barela Erin Bulow Ernie Bulow Greg Cavanaugh Sanjay Choudhrie Patricia Darak Dr. Bera Dordoni Tommy Haws Kari Heil Joshua Kanter Larry Larason Lee Perlow Jean Philips Fowler Roberts Bob Rosebrough Bill Siebersma Be Sargent Chuck Van Drunen Betsy Windisch

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Gallup Journey Magazine 505.722.3399 202 east hill avenue gallup, nm 87301 www.gallupjourney.com gallupjourney@yahoo.com Editors Nate & Heather Haveman Chuck & Jenny Van Drunen

10 Work in Beauty Murals 14 Memories of Gallup 16 Holiday Flu Season 18 Rounding the Four Corners 20 Driving Impressions 22 West by Southwest 26 8 Questions 30 Adventures in Parenting 38 Money & You 44 Lit Crit Lite

Illustrator Andy Stravers

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6 Thoughts 34 El Morro Theatre Schedule 36 Best of 2012 Survey 42 News from Care 66 43 Izzit?!

47 Sudoku 48 G-TOWN, 87301 52 Community Calendar 54 Opinion Poll 56 People Reading Journey 61 ArtsCrawl Schedule

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his is the final article about the Work in Beauty Murals on the Gallup-McKinley County Detention Center, deemed appropriate for those walls as they were built to house people who cant find meaningful work.

I have saved four people for the last.

Dedication in September 2009 Above, Fred and Sister Rose Marie Cecchini, Master of Ceremonies.

On the right, Eugene Merrill, passionate about the eradication of thistle.

Eugene Merrill (at top of mural) is a Ramah rancher who has studied his land with an eye to preserving its health and beauty, learning the lessons that long observation will bring.

Then four students whose work for the environment has been discussed in previous articles.

In the middle, Fred Johnson, Navajo EPA, discussing erosion with Mark DePauli, Gallup’s foremost environmental engineer.

At the bottom of the mural, amid the corn stalks, Amy Halliday, local grower and organizer for Work in Beauty, Inc., a non-profit that grew out of the murals’ idea.

People probably would never believe the amount of work it took to make these murals a reality. As an artist, I made it my life, just as I had with the ten murals that preceded them. The difference was that now that I had sold my foundry in Boston to MIT, I no longer needed to make a living from this work. And still I let nothing be easy.

At left is the process that preceded the portrait of Amy in the Three Sisters section of “Corn Beans and Squash” and the same process for Fred Johnson’s portrait.

Mark DePauli, probably not considering himself an environmentalist (We joked that he was in the mural because he threw a bale of hay in an arroyo.),

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“Memories of Gallup” will share interviews by Bob Rosebrough with some of the extraordinary people who have made Gallup such a historically rich and culturally beautiful place to live.

By Bob Rosebrough

Memories of Gallup

His Work Was Everyone Else’s Play

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An Interview with Joe Vargas, Part 2 of 2

ack hammering trenches to build the golf course. I ask Joe about some of the projects that he saw from start and he mentions Gallup’s golf course, which was built while Joe was still working his way up in the Parks Department. Joe says, “At the time we weren’t a big department. It wasn’t like they were going to hire big contractors to go out and build the course. It wasn’t that we were working with a million bucks. We were working with a hoe and a shovel and hose.”

Joe remembers an engineer named Scott who “was like General Pershing. He’d stand on top of the hill where the pro shop is now and he’d stand looking down on the whole thing and he knew everything.” Some of the challenges at the golf course were evident from the beginning. Of the effluent water used to irrigate the course, Joe remembers professionals saying, “Yes, it’s usable, but it hasn’t gone to that next step to really make it a lot better to grow grass.” And of the soil conditions, Joe says, “You know, we had to go out there with a jack hammer to get down deep enough to put the lines in, okay, and grass is supposed to grow? I don’t think so.”

White shoes in the mud at Ford Canyon. One of Gallup’s crown jewels, Ford Canyon Park, was a group effort from the start. Joe says, “It was made possible by different entities pitching in like Wingate Ordinance, El Paso Natural Gas, and Hamilton Construction that put their loaders to work leveling it because it was a canyon.” Joe has a vivid memory of how he and Bert Giovanetti unintentionally shamed the State’s Director of Parks and Recreation into getting his shoes and suit muddy when they were showing him the construction during a rainstorm. Years later when the director came back to Gallup he told Joe, “I can still remember coming to visit you guys to realize what you wanted to do. Bert jumps out of the driver’s seat and he gets into the mud and you jump out of the passenger seat and you guys are pointing to different things. It made me feel bad that I was going to sit there

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looking from inside the pickup, so I had to get in the mud with you in white shoes and dressed up like I was.”

Father Dunston and Waylon Jennings. One of Gallup’s legends is Father Dunston who started the Southwest Indian Foundation. Joe says, “Father Dunston missed his calling. Instead of being a priest, he should have been a director of big things to happen.

He used to bring in Waylon Jennings for his fundraising dances. In fact, I can’t say where I heard it. I think it was on a TV program that I heard Waylon Jennings say he made his start in Gallup, New Mexico.”

Father Dunston “made a lot of money available that people didn’t realize. He brought the Women’s National AAU Tournament to Gallup. He promoted a lot of things. He was the greatest priest in the world, but he always used to say, ‘You know what? When I have my collar on, I’m Father Dunston. When I don’t have my collar on, I’m Fred.’ He wanted to be treated just like any other individual.”

Locked in the Chinle gym at night. Joe is now in his fiftythird year refereeing basketball in the Gallup area and in those years he has handed out his share of technical fouls. One stormy winter night he called a technical on Gallup lawyer, Lynn Isaacson, in a city league game and ejected him from the gym. Isaacson was outside scraping snow and ice off the Gallup Mid School gym window trying to peer in to watch the finish of the game. Joes says, “Whenever I go over there, Jay Mason says, ‘Why are you here? To call another technical on Isaacson?’ Danny Lujan [who later worked as a referee with Joe for years] will tell you I called a technical on him too.” Joe remembers a city league regular warning a new player, “Hey, be quiet. He kicked out his brother [Benny Vargas] the other night. So he won’t give you no break here.”

Of the many refereeing stories that Joe has, perhaps the wildest one took place in Chinle. In a tough, close game the Chinle High School coach was riding Joe’s partner hard. After a warning by Joe, the coach “jumped off again. I slapped him with a T and sat him down.”

From that point, the coach “behaved a little bit better, but you could still hear the crowd and the wives raising heck with us.”

Chinle lost by one or two points and after the game the coach’s wife had Joe and his partner trapped inside the locker room “until she got tired of yapping at us. About ten minutes later we peeked out. The gym was dark and we said, ‘It’s time to get out. Let’s go.’ We go out there to the front door and it’s chained. All the lights are out. The gym is about twelve steps up and you can see the ground about ten feet down. I said, ‘I’m the smaller of the two of us. Grab my arms and I’ll jump and get the ground and find a way to get you out of here. I found some trash cans and stuff so that my partner could get down.”

Directing traffic during the mayor’s kidnapping. During the 1973 kidnapping of Mayor Emmet “Frankie” Garcia, Joe says, “I was coming down on Coal going west. Manuel Gonzales [police chief ] comes around the corner and they were marching Frank toward the corner where Ferraris have their shop now. They were turning right there and Manuel Gonzales sees me and says, ‘Joe, stop right there. They’ve got the mayor.’ Manuel gave me a whistle and he said, ‘Just keep traffic going. I’ve got the police coming, but keep it going.’ So here I am: Johnny Cop directing traffic.

“They took the mayor into the sporting goods store and, at the time, there was a little park where the Chamber of Commerce is now and there was a little wall. People were peeking over the wall. I was directing traffic until I heard the first shot fired. Shortly after that, I saw the mayor bust out. I stopped directing traffic and went to hiding.”

Rescuing the veterans’ plots at Hillcrest Cemetery. One of Joe’s proudest memories is building Veterans Park at Hillcrest Cemetery. When the cemeteries were added to Joe’s responsibilities, “the first thing we saw were the

Joe does what he often does. He gives credit to others. stones falling over. The sad part was that these people gave their lives for us and nobody was taking care of their gravesites. I went to the Lion’s Club and asked them if they would help in doing something.” The city crews and the Lion’s Club leveled the area, moved rock and planted grass. Rollie Mortuary contributed a plaque and Senator Pete Domenici found a way to contribute eleven gravestones for the unknown soldiers and then came out for the dedication. With heartfelt emotion, Joe says, “You look back at that and the neat thing is that those soldiers gave their lives for Gallup and to this day, the Veterans Park is still there, and we’re still having our ceremonies up there.”

Midnight skinny-dipping at the Ford Canyon pool. One night at 2:00 am, Joe got a call at home from the police who told him that a bunch of people were swimming at the Ford Canyon outdoor pool where the volleyball courts are now. Joe went down and saw a bunch of “kids, girls and boys, swimming and they saw the police and everybody started running and jumping fences.” Joe recognized some of the kids as being summer lifeguards at the pool who worked for him. “I could recognize some of them and I’m not going to say they were all undressed, but they were pretty close to being half dressed anyway. Everybody disappeared and we didn’t make an effort to stop them. We just wanted to scare them off.”

The next morning Joe went to the pool and called the head lifeguard into his office. “I told her, ‘I’ve got a bunch of clothes in a bag. If somebody’s missing their clothes and belongings, just tell them to see me. I’ll give them the clothes.’ Those clothes stayed in that bag forever. Nobody claimed them.”

Before concluding the interview, Joe does what he often does. He gives credit to others. He says, “The people that worked for me; the mayors, councilors and city managers; the citizens who gave me ideas; and the other city department heads all did everything they could to keep the Parks and Recreations Department at its best.”

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Surviving the Holidays (aka Cold and Flu Season)

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et’s see, planting season is past, harvest season is over – it must be cold and flu season! Oh boy!

People with weakened immune systems are always on the front lines for attracting those myriad cold viruses and making them feel at home as they settle into the host’s body. Thank heaven for doctors and antibiotics, right?

Step 2: Adjust Habits Most people feel pretty healthy most of the time, yet still battle viruses every cold and flu season. Their immune systems aren’t seriously damaged, but they’re not robust, either.

Why? The answer usually lies in their daily habits. For example, do you:

Wrong! Colds aren’t caused by bacteria, which are what antibiotics fight. They’re triggered by viruses. Science currently has NO drugs that kill these viruses. None. Nada. Ninguno.

Nessuno. Even penicillin has no effect on the myriad of cold and flu viruses – that’s right, myriad. There is no single cold virus or one flu virus. There are scads of them. Oodles.

Flocks. Too many to name or even count.

1. eat too much sugar and junk food?

2. live with too much stress?

3. not get enough sleep?

4. focus on your problems (negative thoughts) rather than on gratitude?

5. not drink enough water?

6. have toxic overload?

7. all or a combination of the above?

And while they can only replicate inside a living organism, they can live for hours on the items we touch daily – phones, pencils, computer keyboards, light switches, car-door handles, public washroom spigots, shopping cart grips, mugs, rugs, lugs – in short, just about everything, everywhere. Anyone who has been in contact with a virus and touched anything in their world has left that virus living on those objects.

How quickly you bounce back from a cold or the flu is typically defined by lifestyle habits, not by over-the-counter (OTC) cough and cold remedies or fever reducers. In fact, as long as your temperature stays below 102 degrees Fahrenheit (38.9 degrees Celsius), there is no need to lower it. A slight fever may be uncomfortable, but unsuppressed it will help burn out the virus so you can get rid of it more quickly.

That leaves you with two choices: 1) wash down your path through the world with antiseptic wipes every time you venture out of the house, or 2) build and strengthen your immune system so viruses cannot get a comfortable grip on your body. How do you do that?

The body is an intelligent machine whose primary job is to stay alive, which it does by staying healthy. In other words, the body’s goal is to survive by maintaining good health.

When we suppress temporary symptoms with OTC pain-relief medications, including aspirin and Tylenol (acetaminophen), we also suppress our body’s ability to produce its own virus-destroying antibodies. An aspirin a day may be useful in men trying to control angina, but even this supposedly benign drug has been linked to such lung complications as pulmonary edema (fluid buildup in the lungs) when taken in excess.

Step 1: Avoid Antibiotics Hey! Want to know a good way to turn a cold into pneumonia? Load yourself up with antibiotics. They won’t kill the cold, but they will make you susceptible to all sorts of bacteria, which will respond to antibiotics – just not the one you’ve been taking, because your body is already used to it. Plus, you’ll become a carrier for spreading not only the virus you still have but the new bacterial infection as well, so you can make more people more sick.

Using antibiotics when you’re not fighting a bacterial infection increases your susceptibility to developing (and spreading) an antibiotic-resistant infection. In fact, the steep rise in antibiotic-resistant infections such as MRSA is directly attributable to the over-prescribing of those drugs along with the excessive use of them in agriculture. Antibiotic-resistant infections now claim more lives each year than AIDS ever caused, and are costing the American healthcare system more than $20 billion per year.

So forget the antibiotics!

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Reserve aspirin and acetaminophen for those absolutely necessary situations, such as when you have a temperature greater than 105 degrees F (40.5 degrees C) or severe muscle aches.

Step 3: Stock Up Clients have asked what to have on hand for immune boosting during cold and flu season. My arsenal includes free use of:

The body is an intelligent machine whose primary job is to stay alive, which it does by staying healthy.

• Coconut oil • Raw garlic • Loads of cayenne tonic in a raw, apple-cider vinegar base • Oscillococcinum®, a very effective homeopathic flu remedy by Boiron, available in health-food stores and even some grocery and drug stores (use at first sign of flu) • Flu Solution™ by Dolisos • Alpha CF™ by Boericke & Tafel • Florammune® Echinacea by Flora Laboratories, Inc. • Ferrum Phos, a homeopathic that reduces fevers gently and safely and helps the body return to health naturally • Echinacea combined with Golden Seal in homeopathic, herbal, or tea form • Sambucus (elderberries), an herb that stops the flu virus replication in many cases • Hot herbal teas that make you feel cozy and nurtured and help ease symptoms • Slippery elm tea for a sore throat; add licorice root for sweetness • Noni juice • Fermented foods (filled with probiotics) such as sauerkraut, kimchee, miso, etc. This is not, however, the greatest time for pasteurized yogurt, as it produces mucus despite its probiotic activity.

• Plenty of pure, fresh water. Water is essential for the optimal function of every

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By Dr. Bera Dordoni, N.D. cell and system in the body, helps with nose stuffiness and dry throat, and loosens secretions. Your urine should be a light, pale yellow; if it’s not, drink more water to flush out the toxins.

• Hourly vitamin C until symptoms subside • Extra vitamin D3 for several days • Drink chicken soup Chicken soup? That old wives’ tale?

Yes, chicken soup contains cysteine, a natural amino acid that can thin lung mucus and make it less sticky so it expels more easily.

For best results, make fresh soup or ask a family member or friend to make it for you.

Processed canned soups won’t work as well. Use lots of hot and spicy peppers, some ginger, garlic, and onions. The hot spices will trigger a sudden release of watery fluids in the mouth, throat, and lungs, which, again, helps thin respiratory mucus for easier coughing and expelling.

When a Cold Isn’t a Cold Viruses aren’t the only cause of feeling cruddy. When clients visit me during cold and flu season, I look at the big picture of what often causes illness. Gunk. Clogging. Toxic overload. Piling it on without getting it out. In other words, constipating the body.

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Sometimes if the immune system is overloaded with toxins, the body presents as if it has a cold, but in reality it is just detoxing rapidly all the accumulated mucus buildup and junk.

This happens when the immune system is strong enough to release the toxic overload through whatever elimination channels it can use. No virus is taking hold; the body is just cleansing and repairing itself.

Do not suppress this detox with medication. Just rest and pay attention to the lifestyle factors noted above to recover quickly. Altering those daily habits will significantly reduce the chance of ‘catching’ a cold or flu.

If you are not moving your bowels after every meal, you are likely constipated, which negatively impacts the immune system and may mask as a cold or flu. Cleanse or detox this condition rather than add more junk food to relieve the aches and pains. A colontherapy specialist can assist with this.

A Nasty Coincidence Sugar is everywhere during the holiday season, which just happens to fall smack in the middle of cold and flu season. We can’t get away from the cookies, season-special candies and ice cream flavors, cakes, brownies, spiked punches, etc. of the Thanksgiving, Chanukah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice, and New Year celebrations.

All those goodies make avoiding sugar – artificial sweeteners included – even harder when you feel yourself coming down with a virus, but sugar and processed foods are particularly damaging to the immune system. Eating them at a time when the immune system requires boosting, not suppressing, only makes us all the more susceptible to ‘catching’ something.

And despite the flurry of extra activities and plethora of parties, cold and flu season is also the time to get some extra sleep, do mild (not overly taxing) exercise, and address any stress issues that are keeping you from experiencing a relaxed, happy holiday season. Don’t wait until a virus takes hold; do this the moment you first feel yourself getting any bug, as that’s when immune-enhancing strategies will be most effective.

Step 4: Take Control Health food stores are wonderful places when your body needs a little extra nurturing.

Those of you within 100 miles of the Gallup area will find La Montañita Co-op just the place to find what you need with friendly, helpful, extremely knowledgeable management.

Membership buys benefits. If you must drive a great distance, call them first to see if they have what you want at (505) 863-5383; they’re located at 105 E. Coal St. in Gallup. They carry many natural products and books and literature that can help you on the road to health.

One of those titles is I Have a Choice?!, my own primer on building and strengthening the immune system. If you can’t find it in your local health-food store, email me at bastis@ bastis.org or visit www.bastis.org.

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By Larry Larason

A Ge r m an B urrito ?

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Celebrating Street Food

had an epiphany of sorts the other day. It started me thinking about street food. I’ll explain my insight later, but first, what do I mean by “street food”?

Street food is food that is convenient. You don’t have to sit down to eat it. You can hold it in your hand to munch on as you walk down the street, or hold it in one hand as you drive your car with the other. A burrito is a perfect example, although when you get one in a restaurant it is usually swamped with chili and grated cheese, which destroys its one-handed convenience. A burrito is an enchilada packaged as street food. An egg roll is a Chinese burrito; these days most egg rolls are pretty small [and probably just off the Sysco truck], but I remember back in the mid-twentieth century getting some that were at least as big as burritos. Consider the hot dog: the bun fits well in one hand – unless you put chili on it, then it becomes a gloppy mess. I’ll use the burrito as the standard here because I’m sure that all of you reading this are familiar with them.

Sandwiches are also convenient food. You put something greasy or gooey between slices of bread to keep the messy ingredients off your fingers. I consider a sandwich too mundane to be called an “invention,” but the man usually called the inventor of the sandwich was John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich. Many of his contemporaries considered him a despicable character; he was a member of the Hell Fire Club, for instance, but he was also influential as First Lord of the Admiralty and other positions, so historians are more cautious in their judgment. Legend has it that in 1762 he was gambling late at night and became hungry; he had a servant bring him some roast beef between two slices of bread so that he wouldn’t get his fingers greasy and ruin the deck of cards he was using. On similar subsequent occasions he did the same, and his name became attached to such a concoction. It is likely that workmen in the lower classes had been building such creations for a long time before him, but his name has stuck.

The snack is not the only thing named after the Earl. He financed Captain Cook’s voyage in 1778 when he discovered the mid-Pacific islands. Cook

named them the Sandwich Islands in honor of the Earl; they are now known as Hawaii. But there are still others in the Atlantic near Antarctica called the South Sandwich Islands. Sandwich, by the way, is a place name in Kent, England; the word means place on the sand. Sandwich is one of the oldest towns in England, with a modern population of nearly 7,000.

The way sandwiches are served today, with meat and veggies hanging outside of the roll, sort of defeats the purpose of a sandwich – keeping your fingers clean.

The last time I tried to eat a Subway while driving, I got a lap full of lettuce.

So, what led me to my epiphany and thoughts about street food? Well, let’s have a little more history before we get to that. In 1762 Catherine the Great, impressed by the efficiency of German agriculture, invited German farmers to settle in Russia. She promised that they would be allowed to maintain their language, religions, and customs; in addition, they would be exempt from military conscription. Those who answered the call mostly settled near the Volga River.

Catherine died in 1796. The promises she had made to the German settlers remained in effect until 1871, then the settlers came under pressure to assimilate and the ban on military conscription was lifted. By 1875 many were looking to migrate to the Americas, especially the pacifist Mennonites.

By 1900 at least 100,000 had left the Volga region to settle in the U.S., Canada, Argentina and Brazil. In the U.S. they favored the plains because this region resembled the land they had left behind. They are credited with the introduction of winter wheat to the U.S. Two famous descendants of the Volga Germans are the bandleader Lawrence Welk and Senator Thomas Daschle.

Where I grew up in Oklahoma there were many Russo-German families. They brought with them a recipe that I dearly loved: bierocks. It’s fairly simple in concept, but tedious to make. A bierock is a mix of hamburger, cabbage and onion sometimes with a dash of allspice, seasoned with salt and black pepper, encased in yeast bread forming a square “bun” about 4-5 inches across. These

Legend has it that in 1762 [the 4th Earl of Sandwich] was gambling late at night and became hungry; he had a servant bring him some roast beef between two slices of bread so that he wouldn’t get his fingers greasy and ruin the deck of cards he was using . . . and his name became attached to such a concoction.

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one-dish-meals were available at most church socials and bake sales in my home town, and I looked forward to them eagerly.

In those days no one knew how to spell bierocks. The spelling I preferred was berox. There are still variant spellings; the one I’m using seems to be the most popular on the Internet. The Volga Germans in Argentina call them piroks, a name probably related to pierogis, the panSlavic filled dumplings. When I lived in Nebraska, I found there was a similar food called a runza; it was the same thing as a bierock, except for the shape – more like a hot dog bun. A chain of eponymous restaurants covers most of Nebraska now. I had my first non-traditional bierock at a small eatery in Pagosa Springs, Colorado; the owner of the place, from Darrouzett, Texas, as I recall, served some with green chili in the filling. Unfortunately, he was only in business for about six months.

So, the epiphany . . . My wife made some bierocks recently. This was after she had discovered that she could use frozen bread dough instead of laboriously making it from scratch. I was eating one of her creations when I was struck by the thought “this is a German version of a burrito!” That started me thinking about all the stuffed, or filled, bread recipes around the world – street food.

A Cornish pasty is another filled sandwich from England. The ingredients are meat [originally venison, now hamburger and/or ground pork], onion, potato, and swede. The latter is the name given to turnips or rutabagas in England. This recipe is considered “traditional,” but the English weren’t eating many potatoes, which came from the Americas, until about 1870.

[How long does it take to establish a tradition?] The pasty is in a pastry crust that is usually folded over into a “D” shape, like an empanada or fried pie.

Well, I could go on, but I’m sure you have the idea. The concept of food stuffed in an edible crust or wrap has cropped up in many places, in many times. Cooks adapt favored local ingredients and create a variation of the basic plan of portable meals. You can make them at home to put in your lunch pail, or purchase them from a street vendor, but convenience is their supreme virtue.

Note: If you want a recipe for bierocks or runzas you’ll find many on the Internet.

John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, 1783, by Thomas Gainsborough

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D r i v i n g

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here’s no doubt that technology and luxury are just as expensive these days as ever, with many of you likely encountering this during your holiday shopping right now.

The Terrain Denali you see here is a case in point. Three years ago I drove a 2010 Terrain when it first came out, and generally liked it, especially since it was a big improvement over the vehicle it replaced, the Pontiac Torrent. That Terrain was front-wheel drive, a 4 cylinder and the base SLE model . . . oh, and about 25K on the sticker. The Denali you see here is 39K on the sticker, so what’s the difference? And is it worth it?

Frankly, if you’re asking the question above, then likely the answer is no, given that the 14K difference is enough for a very nice, used, second car. But, of course, that’s not the whole picture. If that were the logic everyone followed when purchasing a car, we’d all be driving 1994 Civics. What the Denali trim does best is take Yukons, Sierras, Acadias, and now the Terrain, from typical plebian status to specialized patrician levels. So how does it do that?

Appearance Refinement: On the exterior the Terrain receives the now ubiquitous Denali treatment of a massive, chrome, egg-crate front grill, matched with bejeweled headlamps and driving lights. 19-inch, satin-chrome wheels fill the wheel wells, and chrome mirrors and other accents abound. Most prominently, however, are the DENALI badges on the doors that remind fellow drivers that this is not your average cute ute. On the inside, the Denali treatment adds wood accents in the doors, a mahogany steering wheel, à la Buick, unique perforated leather with contrasting stitching and DENALI embossed in the seats. Altogether the package gives the Terrain a nicer feel in the key places most users experience.

Technology Integration: The Denali Edition brings 4 driver aids to the Terrain. While I tend to think of my eyes, years, and attention as my driver aids, many drivers do find them useful. Essentially the driver aids work in the car’s 4 directions. Monitoring movement to the rear is the cross-traffic sensor that alerts the driver of oncoming interference when backing up by chiming and flashing a light in the backup camera monitor. This aid is quite helpful when backing out of obstructed parking spots, like at the grocery store. To the sides are blind spot detection and lane departure warnings. Lastly, to the front is collision avoidance, which has three levels of driver selectable range.

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By Greg Cavanaugh

From Plebian to Patrician

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S S I O N S Altogether the package gives the Terrain a nicer feel in the key places most users experience.

While I tend to think collision avoidance means paying attention, the system will alert you if you are about to hit something by flashing warning lights and sounds and priming the brakes. The only time it came on for me was when approaching a relatively steep incline with a drainage in front of it. Suffice it to say, it did somewhat remind me to slow down and not scrape the front air dam.

In the dash is GM’s Intellilink infotainment system that integrates XM satellite radio, apps such as Stitcher and Pandora, and a touch screen for controlling it all. While not as powerful as Ford’s Sync, the system works just fine, though curiously, does not include any navigation.

The Drivetrain: While it is not unique to the Denali, it certainly fits with its character as refined and powerful. In 2009, I drove both the 2.4-liter, direct-injected 4, and the 3.0-liter directinjected V6. At 182 HP, the 4-cylinder (particularly in FWD guise) made for a fairly efficient CUV at 32 mpg highway.

While by no means a speed demon, I found the 4 to be perfectly adequate. This year GM dropped the 3.0-liter as the V6 option and replaced it with their ubiquitous 3.6-liter DI, used in everything from the Acadia to the Camaro. At 301 HP and 272 lb.-ft. of torque, it is quite a motor, but I had two issues with it (besides the $1,750 premium it adds to the Denali’s sticker).

Firstly, by opting up to the 3.6-liter, the Terrain’s mileage becomes full-size-like at 16 mpg city and 23 highway, 19 combined. These are essentially the same numbers as other 3-row CUVs. Secondly, likely to help gripe number one, GM has calibrated the throttle tip in so slowly that it feels like the Terrain is driving around with the parking brake on. If you put your foot in it, the Terrain with get moving just fine and after a couple of days I began to adjust, but initially I was very surprised by the Denali’s perceived lack of oomph.

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The basics of all Terrains are still there, with solid layout and ergonomics, adequate cargo space (made more versatile by a sliding second row), and an attractive package. To those basics the Denali adds elements of technology, luxury and class that allow the Terrain to compete with other compact/mid-size SUVs from high-end-only brands from the Germans, Japanese and even GM’s own brand, Cadillac. In that regard the Terrain Denali comes off as almost a good deal and an entry step in for many buyers to that ever-exclusive luxury market. *** A special thanks to all the guys at Rico Auto Complex for this test drive. ***

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The Case for Daisy P

Not too long ago I wrote the opinion that Daisy Hooee had not had much influence on the work of Leo Poblano – this was largely based on published writing about the two of them, and the lack of known work by Daisy. Since then I have talked to many people in Zuni and looked closely at a large number of pieces and I apologize for minimizing her effect on modern Zuni jewelry.

Unfortunately most of the living participants in Daisy’s life in the middle of the last century were children at the time. They remember happenings quite well, but have no idea of the exact year they took place.

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orn in 1905 – though various writers have the date anywhere from 1900 to 1910 – as Daisy Healing, the famous potter had an astonishing life and career. As Daisy Hooee she still stirs controversy in the village of Zuni, where she spent most of her adult life. One wonders why such a famous lady is so hard to pin down, and why even some of the basic facts of her life are so elusive.

Her father Willie Healing was Hopi, her mother Annie, daughter of the legendary Nampeyo, was Tewa. Though the Tewas of First Mesa have intermarried with Hopis for three hundred years, they have maintained their own language and culture through the centuries and resent being called Hopi.

Daisy started going blind as a young girl and a rich California socialite, Anita Baldwin, took a liking to her. Not only did Baldwin restore Daisy’s sight, she changed the young girl’s life in a marvelous way.

After an education in California, Daisy’s mentor took her to Europe and enrolled her in art school in Paris. The young Tewa girl was on her own in the bohemian capital of the world.

When Baldwin came back to retrieve Daisy from Paris, the two of them took off on a world tour and Daisy got a real education in the world of art. As the saying goes, you can’t take the mesa country out of the girl, and she returned to her family in Polacca, Arizona.

It sounds like she was never really happy with her marriage to Ray Naha, nor the tiresome duties of housekeeping and child rearing. She had three children before she left Ray and Above: Sam Poblano returned to her family. Life in Hopi didn’t last long following said this portrait of Daisy her divorce, but the next move is hard to pin down. Daisy is was not his work. said to have landed in Zuni in 1939.

The Hopi census of 1937 lists her as an unmarried head of household with three children so that date may be correct. The Zuni census of 1940 lists Leo Poblano with a Zuni wife and children – number three of five, possibly.

There are many versions of how Daisy came to Zuni, and the defining moment is either Ceremonial or Shalako depending on the teller. But it seems that Ernest Jamon, a famous runner and jeweler, among other things, was being initiated into a clown fraternity in Hopi.

Ernest, known as Colechi, invited her to stay with his family in Zuni.

The Jamon house is the rambling stone building just south of the bridge in Zuni and at the time it was home to a large number of creative people.

The patriarch, Charley Jamon, had invited his daughter, known as Mrs. Wallace, to move in about the same time. The Wallace girls included famous jeweler and Olla Maiden Eleanor Ahiyite and Effa Boone, well-known potter who had a daughter with legendary silversmith Horace Iule. That daughter, Myra, would marry Above: This dancer has into the Vacit family and then hook up with Lee Tucson. Effa the carved face that is later married Jimmie Boone who was known for his antler Daisy’s trademark. carvings.

Charley’s son Benny would become a skilled smith with his Navajo wife and his children, in turn, were important silver workers. Being part of that huge and talented extended family must have been exciting, indeed. The words

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talented, famous and even legendary run through the crowd.

When Daisy decided to live with Leo Poblano, Charley gave her a parcel of land some distance to the southeast of the village. Leo’s main source of income at the time was livestock, though he had parttime work as a local policeman, and carved fetishes on the side. Dates for this period are as elusive as snipe.

One of Leo’s nieces recalls visiting at their house and says that Daisy had one of the best gardens in the village, including peach trees.

She was also an excellent baker. Their only close neighbors were the Ed Beyuka family.

When John Kennedy arrived in Zuni in 1943 he said Daisy and Leo were already turning out superior inlay. Kennedy was only able to tolerate his partnership with C. G. Wallace for three years before he broke it off and moved back to Gallup. In those three years the Kennedys developed a close friendship with Daisy and were buying her large pots and jewelry.

In the Ceremonial edition of the Gallup Independent, August 1948, there is a prize-winning piece by Daisy and Leo on the front cover, and the caption says, “The Rainbow [Man] was made by Daisy and Leo Poblano who designed the first inlay figurines.” The headline above that photo credits Ted Weahake [sic] with the first inlay work in 1932.

The article was written by J. Wesley Huff, the editor of the Independent at the time, and he quotes Teddy extensively from personal interviews. This important article is seldom cited in the literature.

That would seem to give credit for the first human figures in Zuni inlay to the Poblanos, as opposed to the popular Knifewings and Rainbow Men. Carol Fowler’s juvenile biography of Daisy credits Leo with teaching her how to make the figures. That book is so full of misinformation it would be tedious to detail all the errors, but some of them are pertinent here.

Fowler, who actually interviewed Daisy for her book, states that all three of Daisy’s children lived with Leo. In fact, son Ray stayed in Polacca and later pursued his own successful art career, dying tragically young. She consistently calls Leo a “silversmith” though neither he nor Daisy worked in silver. Their pieces were set by other artists, many of them by friend Dan Simplicio.

Fowler, noting Daisy’s move from pottery to stone work, states that it was unusual for Pueblo artists to change mediums. On the contrary, most Zuni artists are adept at several arts; Teddy Weahkee did silver, stone carvings, hide painting, and easel painting. Daisy never quit making pottery at any point in her life.

It is Fowler’s assertion that the clay near Zuni was inferior and that forced Daisy to import her material from Hopi. It is different – several kinds of different – but hardly inferior. Experts have ruled that some of the best clay in the country comes from the mesas around Zuni.

It is industrial grade (high firing) and amazingly clean. Daisy just wanted a particular color for her pots.

Fowler also describes Daisy as whanging away with chisels to carve her figures. Considering the tallest one was only a few inches high, it is a ridiculous assertion.

Several writers have insisted that the only grinding wheels in the village of Zuni were primitive hand-turned contraptions. In reality, at least two carvers had motors. Teddy Weahkee used a gas motor from a washing machine. Leo and Daisy supposedly had a lawnmower motor. Shirley says it was a regular gas powered machine that Daisy had purchased with money from her pottery. When she and the girls left Leo they left the motor and everything else behind. By 1947 Leo was with Ida Vacit. and

Shirley Benn especially regrets that her mother’s

Left: Daisy Hooee Georgiana Kennedy.

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notebook of designs was left behind in the little stone house. It has never surfaced.

In 1945 John and Georgiana Kennedy gave Daisy a photograph of an employee named Amy Chuyate in Zuni ceremonial dress and asked her to recreate it in stone. It was such a success they gave her pictures of their son and daughter. There has never been any suggestion that these were collaborative pieces in any way.

Her depiction of a Hopi maiden, said to be her first figurative creation, was mounted on a silver box. It was featured anonymously in the August 1952 issue of Arizona Highways. It was on display at Maisel’s in Albuquerque for many years. Daisy herself, dressed as an Olla Maiden, graces the back cover. She was a beautiful woman even after she started to grow stout.

Her Shalako figure, also mounted on a box, drew the wrath of some religious leaders. They objected to the public display of the sacred figure. Daisy pointed out that photos and paintings were already public.

In that case, they ruled, you can’t do it because you are Hopi. She didn’t make any more of them.

Daughter Shirley says she also made Kumanche figures, various Hopi maidens and even a Harvey Girl. Daisy drew the figures directly on the stone and then shaped them.

Many Zunis were aware that Daisy was carving figures for C. G. Wallace, presumably using equipment in his shop. Those same people recall that Wallace, an inveterate womanizer, hit on Daisy relentlessly.

When Daisy had enough and quit him, Wallace angrily assigned her pieces to other carvers of the time, mostly to Leo.

In Wallace’s inventory there are thirty carvings attributed to Leo, only four to Daisy. It is clear that the assignment – by Wallace – of the ten figures in the American Indian Art article in the winter issue 1993 is doubtful at best.

Figure four is identified by Shirley Benn as her mother’s work and this is confirmed by others who remember seeing the piece. If some dealers are correct in asserting that Zunis will tell Melikas whatever they want to hear, there is further proof of Wallace’s deception. Some years ago Bob Bauver and Marty Streuver traveled to the Heard Museum to look at these pieces. Figure four is actually signed by Daisy.

Daisy’s real contribution to Zuni was threefold: she added dancing to the Olla Maiden routine, which made them even more popular; she revived pottery making at the village and devoted many hours to teaching the art to young people; and she created a whole new jewelry form with her figures.

Here is another of the Daisy Poblano mysteries: which pieces are hers? Since C. G. Wallace blackballed her from his collection and pieces were almost never signed, how can we tell which pieces belong to her?

How much collaboration went on?

High relief faces are definitely hers.

There is another group of pieces with incised facial features darkened with a mixture of soot and adhesive that are very sophisticated and artistic, but I can’t get anyone to conclusively say they belong to Daisy.

A few months ago I reproduced half a dozen items, three of which were attributed to Leo’s brother Sam, with whom I have spent a good bit of time

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lately. To begin with, Sam denies that any of the pieces attributed to him were actually his creation. “I made Knifewings and dragons,” he told me.

He meant dragonflies. In reality he didn’t make a lot of jewelry at all.

The next choice would be Eddie Beyuka, or any of his several family members who do figurative inlay. His ex, Madelaine, does maidens, but they are her own creation. She showed me some of her old patterns recently, though she wouldn’t let me reproduce them. Years ago, she made a number of different and very sophisticated dance figures, somewhat on the order of her son Jonathan Beyuka’s work.

When they split up, Eddie had to teach himself how to cut stone and do inlay. Philbert works in the style of his father. None of them would take credit for any of the pieces I was showing around. The only person who would claim them was Veronica Poblano. She stated that all of them were the work of her father Leo.

When Daisy left Leo she returned to the Jamon Above: Carving house for a while. The girls went off to boarding school attributed to Leekya but and Daisy took a housekeeping job with the Kennedys in signed by Daisy.

Gallup. They had gone back to town in 1946 and lived a couple of years in a house at the end of Logan Street near Ford Canyon. A few years later they moved to a place on Green Street. It had a basement and Daisy joined the family who set up a workshop for her downstairs.

At that time, 1948 or ’49, she was still making jewelry. Mrs. Kennedy doesn’t remember how long Daisy stayed with them in Gallup, but at some point she began her courtship with Sydney Hooee, who had a wife and small children at the time.

Daisy eventually built a Shalako house south on Pia Mesa Road and she and Sydney lived there. Sydney was another prominent jewelry maker, mostly cluster work, and Daisy helped him cut and set stones.

Hooee would occasionally be gone for periods of time as a firefighter and Daisy would turn out rings and other small jewelry pieces for grocery money.

Leo Poblano was killed in 1959 fighting a fire in California. It was in the foothills north of Los Angeles, not Long Beach as generally reported. He was the victim of “friendly fire” when a lump of fire retardant fell on him, not a burning tree as usually Above: Daisy’s first claimed. He was working because, in spite of his growing maiden piece, featured in fame, his jewelry didn’t bring in enough to keep his family.

His widow, Ida Vacit and her daughters were left behind.

1952 Arizona Highways.

Daisy Healing Naha Poblano Hooee was not his widow as reported. They had split more than a decade before.

The first figurative work in Zuni jewelry seems to have been the creation of Daisy Poblano. There are numerous distinctive variations emerging in the years immediately following Daisy’s Hopi maiden box and artists like Ed Beyuka and John Lucio did magnificent work.

Later artists like Dorothy and Bruce Zuni, Dixon Shebola and Martha Hustito, Shirley and Virgil Benn, would get even greater imagination and detail into their creations. Ida Vacit and Veronica Poblano would carry on the work of Leo Poblano.

It is still difficult to date or attribute figurative pieces from the forties and fifties and Leo Poblano couldn’t have made all of them. I don’t believe there is any reliability in C. G. Wallace’s defective, aging memory.

If anyone can help me with this information please call 505-879-0980.

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Above: Maiden Grinding, incised face style, erroneously attributed to Sam Poblano.

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By Anonymous

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will admit that I’ve been a dickhead in my life. Several times, in fact. Some of those times are a little more pronounced than the others. The latest proof of that? The title to this story, for one, which is inspired by Amelia Earhart, who proved that as a woman you can achieve fame by falling hopelessly short of the mark, never to be seen again. So while I might be a dickhead, I have also walked the path of Amelia, but unlike her, I lived to offend another day. I’ve also learned the value of sarcasm and satire, how to roll with the punches, how to have fun and how to ensure others have fun in the process. Most importantly, I can take it as well as I give it.

Being born country and raised country, if nothing else, can offer an explanation for the reasons why or how a seemingly normal kid can end up growing up without the inherent fear or respect for man or beast that most others have, and still reach an age you’d only expect from someone that lived in accordance with our societal laws. It’s tempting to want to pigeonhole this entire topic in one spot with the word “commonsense,” but that wouldn’t be accurate, not in my opinion anyway. Just because a person isn’t afraid of something doesn’t mean he isn’t aware of the dangers it possesses. It just means that he doesn’t value them or give them any consideration when deciding on such matters.

NOTE: Though their mental organizational chart might list it as the equivalent of working in the mail room, fear and, more accurately, extreme fear, will eventually work its way up the emotional ladder of the bravest of men to the position of CEO. More on this later.

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Though my wife wouldn’t agree with my choice of noun here, I have, on rare occasion, achieved what could only be called perfection regarding the following subject. The perfection I’m talking about, and one of my most memorable trips with my small family, took place a couple years ago in southern Utah on a section of road called the Devil’s Backbone. To this day, when I think about this road just outside of Boulder, Utah, I can’t help but smile.

But I digress; the focus here is man and his eternal quest to be able to fly over his neighbors’ house and know that, if he were so inclined, he could drop a rock through their roof. The impetus here is flight and how I woke up one day and decided that I wanted to go the way of the Wright Brothers. So after careful thought and consideration and about 10 minutes on eBay, I was well on my way to achieving that dream. Soon I would be free to fly on the winds like a bird. I couldn’t have been more excited, but as you might expect, my wife was very upset, or at least I think she would have been if she had known. But again, I digress.

“Who in the hell does something like that?” I believe were my wife’s exact words, “and expects to live?” also was

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mentioned a few times. Not one to be discouraged, I kept on with the assembly of my brand new (to me anyway) ultralight airplane, complete with emergency chute and helmet.

NOTE: If you’ve ever put a dresser or bike together on Christmas Eve, then you have a pretty good idea of what it’s like to put a dresser or bike together on Christmas Eve, and not the slightest idea of what putting together a plane is like on any day, period. That in itself should have prevented me from getting to the point of piloting a plane on a one-way trip to a place called Fear with Regret with his friend, You’re Dead, riding shot gun.

Once the assembly had begun and I had become sufficiently bored with double checking things, I decided to call my brother to come give me a hand just to be on the safe side. Also because he was a helicopter mechanic in the Marines, and we all know how helicopters are exactly like ultralights. It made perfect sense. Still does, really. After a little breakfast and an informal development of a flight plan, my brother and I committed some serious time to checking and rechecking all of the critical components needed to stay in the air once there. After a bit we stepped back and admired the fruits of our labor.

Looking back now, as proud of our work as I was, this is also where I encountered my first major problem: everything went together without a single issue and I had nothing to stop me from flying off into the wild blue. Not unless you count the fact that I’d never flown before as a reason. But again, I digress!

The morning was still early when I taxied the small blue plane onto the even

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smaller dirt road where the Brigadier General and I kicked the tires, tugged on a few things and stuck our fingers in our mouth and held them in the air as if it would have mattered or changed what was about to happen at all.

NOTE: After demonstrating his proficiency at being able to assemble an aircraft on short notice, my brother was advanced to the rank of Brigadier General in what could only be called a battlefield commission.

After exchanging some verbiage that sounded, to me, very flightish, I lowered myself into the seat of the plane and gave the Brigadier the classic two thumbs up, which meant, “I’m ready to die.” And his thumbs up back to me clearly, “I know you are; I’m so excited.” In retrospect, this thumbs-up session is probably the most ironic/moronic thing I’ve ever done, next to actually putting distance between myself and the earth in a plane I’d built the very same morning, which I had purchased over the internet just a few days before that. But not including those things, the thumbs up was, in fact, pretty moronic; once again I digress. Right after receiving the aforementioned thumbs up, I hit the electric start, the plane came to life and I began my maiden voyage down the “runway.” And just like all of the times before, on YouTube, the ultralight lifted into the air and I was flying.

Leonardo da Vinci said the following about flying: Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. Well one thing is for damn sure, Leo had never been on the kind of flight I was in the throws of, or that would have read a little differently. My best guess is that I was about 150 to 200 feet off of the ground when Leo and I had a parting of ways over our collective thoughts regarding flight.

Seeing that a crash was inevitable, I calmly prepared for the worst.

As quickly as it had begun, I felt the pains of loosened teeth and tasted the blood that came with it. I hadn’t even crashed yet, so if the loose teeth and blood was from gritting my teeth in anticipation of the approaching ground, what was crashing going to feel like? Well that’s a great question and the short answer is that it’s worse. The long answer is it’s really loud and really fast. But don’t worry, your brain speeds up its ability to process information to such a degree that you’re painfully aware of every little detail, so that when it’s over, you can clearly remember how you came to be standing beside a wrecked airplane wearing just a belt, part of a pant leg, both boots, and just one of the two socks you were wearing just seconds ago.

After my rapid “landing” technique had ended and the plane had safely come to a stop, followed a few seconds later by me, I was met by the Brigadier General, now-turned-medic and if necessary battlefield surgeon, who grabbed me by the . . . belt and dragged me from the wreckage, saving me, I’m sure, from a fiery death, only to die a death much worse at the hands of my wife. Through my one good eye, the one that was blurred by dirt, blood and sweat, I could see her running to help me, or at least I thought it was help. But then it hit me . . . her hand that is . . . mostly in the face, which was good because I had just fractured my skull in at least a hundred places.

Looking back on the event, I can see a couple of areas that I could have approached differently. But then again, what would I have been doing if it wasn’t this? Something dangerous I’m sure.

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A. Well, I love New Mexico. I love its people and its culture. I’m a native New Mexican and jobs are the priority of the day. It’s a great opportunity and privilege to serve.

Q. What do you enjoy most about your job?

A. I love the fact that I get to meet so many folks. I get to meet with business people and job creators. I get a great deal of satisfaction when we do create jobs and put people to work.

Q. What is the biggest challenge of your job?

A. Making New Mexico competitive in a variety of aspects when it comes to economic development. Many states have moved to making their own jurisdictions much more competitive when it comes to taxes and regulation and we need to continue that notion that competitiveness is key to job creation. We also need to balance the need for a balanced budget with tax competitiveness.

Q. What are your thoughts about Gallup’s future?

A. Gallup has a very bright future. It has a great work force, excellent leadership, infrastructure, rail and highway. Gallup has excellent local government and I think it has a very bright future for itself.

Q. What is your top priority for economic development in New Mexico?

A. To create jobs and make sure that, especially, native New Mexicans have every opportunity to stay in this state that we love and see that parents and grandparents can keep their kids in New Mexico.

Q. What do you enjoy doing in your off time?

A. I enjoy running and exercising and watching my kids play sports.

Q. What is your favorite movie?

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Q. What famous person would you like to trade places with?

A. I wouldn’t trade places with anybody. I have been very blessed to have the life I have. I wouldn’t trade my family, my friends, my opportunities or my parents for anything.

Q. Well, then tell me some famous figure that you respect?

A. Jesus Christ, for one. Secondly, politically speaking, Jack Kemp. I’m a fan of Jack Kemp. He was able to articulate, in a very reasonable manner, positions that I happen to agree with. I got to work with him in Washington when I was a young assistant. My political mentor was Joe Skeen, whom I admire and had a great deal of respect for when I was a young assistant for him.

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11/20/12 11:47 AM

Why YOU Are WRONG XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX You Think That if the Trains Don’t Blow Their Horns it Will Be More Dangerous.

Wrong!

A common misconception is the belief that if the trains no longer blew their horns in a Quiet Zone it would make our downtown crossings even more dangerous. It is certainly true that our 2nd and 3rd Street rail crossings are dangerous. In fact, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) says an average crossing in the U.S. has a risk assessment number of about 14,000, while our downtown crossings have a risk number of 106,000!

So currently our downtown crossings are 750% more dangerous than the U.S. average!

This high number is likely due to the 7 pedestrian fatalities that have occurred near these crossings in the last 10 years. It is reasonable for folks to assume that if the train didn’t blow its whistle, that risk would increase, and consequently fatalities would increase. And you would be correct in that regard if a Quiet Zone simply silenced the trains. In fact, the FRA calculates that if trains simply quit blowing their horns, our risk assessment would go up to 176,000, about 166% more dangerous.

The FRA and federal government, however, aren’t so stupid to simply let communities increase their risk. It is, of course, just the opposite. To create a Quiet Zone, the city must improve the crossings with supplementary safety measures that MUST make the risk assessment lower than the crossing was with the horns blowing. If Gallup were to implement the proper Quiet Zone supplementary safety measures and upgrade the crossings to these higher levels of public protection, then the FRA rates our risk number at 31,000!

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That’s correct, with the horns not blowing our downtown crossings go from a risk assessment of 106,000 to 31,000.

This is 340% safer.

Not 50% safer, not 100% safer . . . 340% SAFER !

It would be hard to argue against making our public safer, especially at critical crossings that essentially split our town in half. Even if the trains weren’t silenced,Home improving| our Help | Contact | logoff dovensword@yahoo.com public safety should be done regardless by upgrading these crossing.

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By C. Van Drunen

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX You Think That the City Can’t Afford the Liability of Quiet Zone.

Wrong!

Currently our city has liability insurance via the New Mexico Self-Insurers’ Fund. The City needs this general liability coverage for its parks, properties, and operations. This is done to protect the City in case it is negligent in some capacity and therefore liable for damages. Even if they are not liable they may need a costly legal defense to prove that. It is true that the City could be liable for an accident that occurred in the Quiet Zone, but the City would first have to be negligent in some capacity in order to be sued for damages. In the unlikely event that the City was negligent in some capacity of the Quiet Zone, AND an accident occurred, AND it lost in court . . . then the City would be required to pay the damages that the court awards.

This is where liability insurance kicks in. The city would not actually pay the damages or legal fees; rather the liability insurance for the crossings would. The question, of course, is how much does it cost to get liability insurance on our Quiet Zone crossings? According to Milan City Manager, Marcella Sandoval, their liability insurance costs with the New Mexico Self-Insurers’ Fund, “did not increase at all” with the addition of their Quiet Zone crossing to their policy. (Yes, Milan has a Quiet Zone!)

Currently the City does not have a quote for this extra insurance from the New Mexico Self-Insurers’ 11/25/12 12:57 PM Fund. (Why not? I have no idea.) But research on Quiet Zones across the country shows that municipalities pay marginal amounts to get this extra insurance. It makes sense that this added cost would not be prohibitive since the crossings themselves must be made safer to implement a Quiet Zone to Print This Page begin with (see opposite page).

Gallup’s closest comparison in terms of liability of a Quiet Zone would be Flagstaff, AZ. They are similar to Gallup in the number of cars that cross the tracks daily (10,000 for Gallup and 12,000 for Flagstaff ) and they are both one-way streets that connect the downtown area to another part of town. Yet most interesting is that the risk assessment numbers for Flagstaff are similar in terms of before and after Quiet Zone implementation. Flagstaff has a current risk assessment of 27,000 with its Quiet Zone andHome has been able to procure reasonable liability insurance.

Gallup’s Quiet Zone risk | Help | Contact | logoff dovensword@yahoo.com assessment is 31,000, which means we are certainly within similar range of risk and would be able to, likewise, procure reasonable insurance coverage.

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ecember? December? How is it December already? Well . . . let’s see. What was the last thing that I clearly remember? It was a warm Saturday in April, and my children and I were sitting outside in the backyard, discussing which vegetables to plant in our garden.

My son, typically, liked the idea of planting tomatoes. “Let’s plant all tomatoes, Mommy. Okay? I really love tomatoes. I could eat them forever and ever!”

My older daughter, 9, agreed with hit . . . to a point. “Yeah! Lots of tomatoes. But, I want green peppers, too. Let’s have green peppers, okay?”

My younger daughter, 5, agreed to the tomatoes and green peppers, but she wanted even more variety. “What about my mystery plants? I’m really good at growing them.”

We all laughed as we remembered the previous year’s planting. While the three of us ‘older’ farmers were noisily sectioning out our seeds and then going into the house to clean up after finishing our ‘perfect’ garden, my younger daughter quietly deployed her special pack of seeds. Not realizing until after the fact what she had done (planted an entire package of seeds in a relatively tiny area), I expressed great surprise. “Did you do this all by yourself?” “Yes, Mommy. I waited until I had privacy.” The two older kids asked if I was upset. “No way! I think it’s great!” I gave my younger daughter a hug, looked directly into her big blue eyes, and thanked her sincerely for helping Mommy.

She knew that I meant it, and gave me the biggest hug that she could manage. “Now,” I said, smiling down at her, “let’s water our farm, shall we?”

Sure enough, two weeks later, her sprouts were the only ones poking their tiny heads above the soil.

As for the other crops, they struggled to keep up with the amazing growth of their neighbors, but to no avail. They had to settle for being average. It seems that we were going to have to content ourselves with an unexpected bumper crop of my daughter’s amazingly quick-growing and heavyyielding plants. Yes, my daughter planted . . . zucchini. It’s not her favorite vegetable (although she has valiantly nibbled a slice now and again), and I don’t really think that she realized that her parents craved it. She just picked out the seed package with the prettiest picture. Then, she was happy to find out that the seeds were extremely large and easy to plant.

Pretty soon, it was harvest time and every day we had a basket of delicious vegetables. Anytime we wanted a snack, we just made a little trip to our own personal little farm.

The term ‘bumper crop’ doesn’t even begin to describe all of those beautiful zucchini. From everything that I’ve read, we were supposed to pick them when they reached about six inches long.

But, I started letting them grow about four inches longer than that. So, while the girls were busy picking tomatoes, and my son was enjoying his broccoli plants, I would sidle up to the zucchini vines with my cutter at the ready. Snip, snip, snip. Delicious.

As the growing season wound down, the tomatoes disappeared, the peppers were decimated, and the broccoli went to seed. The only thing left was . . . zucchini. Two per day, every day. We were all sad to see the last of them. The kids, because they got excited for anything that could be picked and then eaten immediately. Me, because it meant no more yummy zucchini.

Still laughing happily at the memory, I asked my youngest daughter if she would again plant her ‘mystery’ crop. “Okay, Momma, I’ll do it just for you.” Then she skipped over to the container of seed packets, and picked out the zucchini. She waved the small envelope above her head and skipped

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around, singing her special planting song. After that, we all got to work and finished quickly. But, alas and alack, the harvest for this year was not as robust as the previous year. Not even the mystery plants.

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Now, I’m standing here, looking at the backyard and the forlorn garden, empty of greenery. December has stolen into the air, and there will be no more outside fun without layers and layers of insulated warmth. Soon, there will be the big snowfall and winter games; too soon, I think.

I turned away from the back door as the sound of laughter drifts out of one of the children’s bedrooms. Another game invented, another laugh-fest commences. My husband is busy rereading his self-authored book, The Psychic Golfer, and is fully engrossed. The pets are curled up in front of the heating grates. It’s wonderful.

But . . . I’d sure like some zucchini right about now.

December has stolen into the air, and there will be no more outside fun without layers and layers of insulated warmth.

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Zuni Mountains Trail Par

INTRODUCTION

Tucked away in Northwest New Mexico is a charming range of small mountains called the Zuni Mountains.

Rising some 9,256 feet over stately Ponderosa forests, Aspen-lined canyons, and green-topped mesas, with the Continental Divide weaving through her flowery wet meadows and flowing streams.

Native peoples, conquistadors, early land grant settlers, miners, loggers and ranchers have come in contact with this land. In the early 1900s much of the Zuni Mountain Range was purchased for watershed protection and placed under the care of the US Forest Service. Forest and meadow conditions have gradually improved since then and the Zuni Mountains are once again becoming a jewel.

Vision:

The Zuni Mountains are a premier year-round recreational destination with a system of connected, nonmotorized trails.

The Zuni Mountains offer trail experiences for mountain bikers, hikers, cross-country skiers and equestrians on narrow single-track and double-track routes. Families, novices and expert recreationalists have plenty of ways to play in and enjoy the forest for varied lengths of time. Visitors and nearby residents enjoy close-tohome forest recreation through community gateway trailheads encompassing the Zuni Mountains.

This vision is achieved by:

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1. A partnership of communities – Cibola and McKinley counties, state, tribal and federal governments, and affiliated interests wanting to improve the quality of life and sustainability of the Zuni Mountains, and dedicate local, state, federal and grant funding to projects and management.

2. The Zuni Mountain Trail Partnership coordinates volunteers and youth corps members for trails and forest health projects.

3. Outfitters offer an array of services from guided tours and full-service resort facilities to primitive campsites.

4. Surrounding gateway communities that have responded with increased recreational related businesses such as guide services, bike sales, repair and service, lodging, camping and RV supplies.

5. Initiatives and organizations to plan, design, build and maintain specific trail systems.

6. Designing trail experiences for specific user groups.

OBJECTIVES

1. Establish a mountain biking and hiking trail system throughout the Zuni Mountains that reduces resource impacts from user-created singletrack routes.* This system provides a number of trailheads accessing stacked loop trails**, when feasible, and offers experiences for beginners, intermediate, and advanced mountain bike riders.

2. Create new gateways that provide close-to-home recreation opportunities for the public in the Zuni Mountains.

3. Create and sustain strong and diverse partnerships that support increased recreational visitation, recreational tourism, economic development, trail stewardship, and new trail development.

Decommissioned roads may be utilized by mountain bikers and hikers when converted to singletrack routes.*** 4. Heritage resources such as mining and railroad logging are abundant and important in the Zuni Mountains. Trails shall be designed to protect heritage resources through routing and or interpretive opportunities.

5. The trail system must address visitor risk and safety by appropriate trail location and design, minimizing road crossings, addressing potential user conflicts by separating non-compatible uses, and locating and developing trailheads with user safety in mind.

6. The trail system shall respect private property rights. Trails will not be designed to terminate at a private property boundary and trails crossing private property require legal public easements.

7. Consider and analyze trail routes identified in alternative development as additional corridors requiring field analysis (with data supplied for location). This includes routes from Twin Springs to Ramah and Pasture Hollow. *Single Track is defined as a non-motorized route designed and used by mountain bikers and hikers. **A stacked loop trail system is defined as a series of loops that build on each other, utilizing easier loops close to the trailhead and more challenging and technical loops further out, providing trail users with travel choices. ***A single track trail is one where users must generally travel in single file. The tread is typically 18-24 inches wide although it can be narrower. Singe track trails tend to wind around obstacles and blend into the surrounding environment.

FUNDING SOURCES & ENTITIES Secure Rural Schools Northern New Mexico Resource Advisory Committee (RAC): The Northern NM RAC oversees and approves the counties’ usage of Title II Secure Rural Schools Funding.

The RAC has invested in providing NEPA Services to designate hundreds of miles in the Zuni Mountains.

The RAC has also funded trail maintenance and road closure projects.

NM Recreational Trails Program (RTP): The NM RTP provided vital funding to the development

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Quaking Aspen Trail

Sheetrock Tank and improvement of the Hilso Trailhead and a 26-mile ZMTP trail system. McKinely County received a second award in 2010 related to ZMTP trail and trailhead work in the Ramah Lake area.

SOME NUMBERS AND DATES Current miles of mountain bike and hiking trails at the Hilso Trailhead is 26.

Proposed miles of trail is approximately 250. Trails would extend from the west side of the Zuni Mountains near Ft. Wingate to the east side near Grants. This stacked loop system would provide riding opportunities for beginner, intermediate and expert levels.

Start date for NEPA planning is October 2012 with Open House meetings in Ramah, Gallup, and Grants.

Completion of NEPA planning is September 2013.

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El Morro Theatre www.elmorrotheatre.com • 207 W. Coal • 505-726-0050

December Schedule Happy Holidays to One and All from the El Morro Theatre/City of Gallup!

Saturday, December 1, 2012 No Kids Matinee Movie Today Saturday, December 1, 2012 Show Time: 7pm Noche de Recuerdos con Antonio Reyna General Admission: $15.00 Tickets On Sale Now at; Millennium Media(KKOR) 300 West Aztec Gallup, NM (Upstairs) www.antonioreyna.com or at the door the night of the show For more information please call: (505) 238-4555 Noche de Recuerdos con Antonio Reyna comes back to the beautiful El Morro Theater for its 4th year. Joining Antonio on stage this year, back by popular demand, is Mariachi Raices De America from El Paso, TX... They are guaranteed to mesmerize the audience with the most beautiful, melodic sounds of Mariachi. Baile Ilusion of Pojoaque, NM will illuminate the theater with the beautiful colors of the ballet Folklorico and joining Antonio as his special guest this year is Anita Lopez, from Las Vegas, NM. She is going to WOW you…

Thursday, December 6, 2012 Show Time: 7pm Ladies Night Movie: A Christmas Kiss Rated: NR 88 minutes Starring: Laura Breckenridge, Elisabeth Rohm and Brendan Fehr Admission: Adults: $5.00 Children 12 & under: $3.00 Wendy is an aspiring designer and assistant to her callous boss Priscilla. Unfortunately, Wendy’s dreams of impressing her boss get complicated when she realizes that the mysterious man she kissed in a falling elevator is Priscilla’s boyfriend, Adam. As the holidays approach and Adam and Wendy’s friendship grows, Priscilla is forced to take drastic measures to make sure her engagement goes forward as planned. Will Wendy and Adam connect before it’s too late?

Friday, December 7, 2012 Show Time: 6:30pm Classic Christmas Movie: Disney’s A Christmas Carol Rated: PG 96 minutes Voice Talents by: Jim Carrey, Bob Hoskins, Robin Wright Penn Admission: Adults: $5.00 Children 12 & under: $3.00 Jim Carrey plays four separate roles in this updated version of the Charles Dickens’ classic. The old miser Scrooge must face the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet-to-Come. The spirits must help bring kindness to his otherwise cold heart and remind him of the man he used to be.

Saturday, December 8, 2012 Show Time: 1pm Kids Matinee Movie: Disney’s Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups Rated: G 88 minutes Voices Talents by: Danny Woodburn, Joey Bothwell, Jennifer Elise Cox ADM: Adult: $2.00 Children 12 & under: FREE! When Mrs. Claus travels to Pineville, the playful Santa Pups stow away on her sled. Taking mischief to a whole new level, they begin granting joyful wishes to Pineville’s boys and girls, but something goes terribly wrong - the Christmas spirit begins to disappear. Now the Santa Pups and Mrs. Claus must race to save Christmas around the world. From the creators of Disney Buddies, this magical, heartwarming tale is brimming with hope, cheer, and Christmas spirit.

Friday, December 14, 2012 Show Time: 6:30pm Classic Christmas Movie: Trans-Siberian Orchestra: The Ghost of Christmas Eve Starring: Michael Crawford, Ossie Davis, Jewel Kilcher, Allie Sheridan Rated: NR 46 minutes Admission: Adults: $5.00 Children 12 & under: $3.00

We will also feature a local performer before the showing of The Ghost of Christmas Eve.

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THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS EVE is a unique fantasy trip through the magic of Christmas. Narrated by award-winning actor Ossie Davis, the production takes us on a journey of a runaway little girl’s decision to return to her family after she enters a rundown theater for shelter and encounters an old caretaker who guides her on her journey. This magical story - which features appearances from Atlantic recording artists Jewel and Michael Crawford - was filmed entirely on location at the newly refurbished and historic Loews Jersey Theatre in Jersey City, New Jersey, and includes performances of such tracks as “O Come All Ye Faithful,” “Good King Joy,” “Christmas Canon,” “Music Box Blues,” “Promises To Keep,” and “This Christmas Day,”.

Saturday, December 15, 2012 No Kids Matinee Movie Today Saturday, December 15, 2012 Show Times: 1:30pm 4:00pm Lodgers Tax, Gallup BID, City of Gallup and Knifewing Productions present: THE NUTCRACKER BALLET performed by Festival Ballet Albuquerque Choreographed by Patricia Dickinson Wells Admission: $12.00/adults $10.00/children 12 & under Tickets On Sale Now at; El Morro Theatre 207 West Coal Ave. Gallup, NM For more information please call: (505) 726-0050

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Wednesday, December 19, 2012 Show Time: 6:30pm Box Office Opens: 5:45pm Gallup Firefighters Annual Christmas Show Come join the Gallup Firefighters for an evening of magic, dance and fun with Craig Davis and Company.

At The Door: Adults: $10.00 Children 12 and under: $8.00 For more information and to purchase tickets please call (505) 2423544 Thursday, December 20 and Friday, December 21, 2012 Show Time: 6pm Foundations of Freedom Dance Studio Program Advance: $4.00/person At The Door: $5.00/person Tickets available at Foundations of Freedom Dance Studio Please call (505) 879-0489 for more information or check www. elmorrotheatre.com for updates.

Saturday, December 22, 2012 Show Time: 1:00pm Kids Matinee Movie: Arthur Christmas Rated: PG 100 minutes Voice Talents by: James McAvoy, Hugh Laurie, Bill Nighy, Eva Longoria ADM: Adult: $2.00 Children 12 & under: FREE! Set on the Christmas night, the film tells a story about the Santa’s clumsy son, Arthur Christmas, who, when he discovers that the Santa’s high-tech ship has failed to deliver one girl’s present, goes on a mission to save the Christmas.

Saturday, December 22, 2012 Show Time: 6:00pm Turquoise Classic Cowboy Christmas Concert Featuring Twang Deluxe, 191 Band and Larry Emerson and Heartbeat.

General Admission: $15.00 Couple: $20.00 Advance: $10.00 ea (only till 12 noon day of the show) For more information please call: (928) 313-1770 Saturday, December 29, 2012 No Kids Matinee Movie Today See you in the New Year!

Meet the Elite Team

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1. Please submit your photos via email (gallupjourney@yahoo. com), or bring a disc to the journey office (202 east hill).

2. FIVE photos per entry.

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&You

Money

By Tommy Haws Tommy Haws is the Senior Vice-President of Pinnacle Bank in Gallup. He has over 12 years of Banking and consumer credit experience.

He is a loan officer and also oversees the day to day operations of the three branches of Pinnacle Bank in Gallup.

Where Do We Go From Here?

T

he votes have all been counted. The elections are over and now the campaigning must stop and governing begin. There are huge issues facing the country and it is now that the rest of us are waiting. For the most part, things are exactly as they were before the election: There was a lot of money spent to end up right were we are, one party in control of the White House and the Senate, the other controlling the House of Representatives. A sure recipe for stalemate. But that is what we voted for, apparently.

Fiscal Cliff Much has been said in the national media regarding the so-called “fiscal cliff.” It is called that for several reasons, but primarily because it is a deadline, set by Congress and the President in 2011, to get a budget compromise in place. If this does not happen by the end of 2012, there will be automatic spending cuts, tax increases and other dramatic changes that would come into play automatically.

There is a great deal of angst over this because the cuts and tax changes in place could potentially affect each of us. At the heart of the impasse is the fact that the Senate has not passed or proposed a budget in four years. The House’s budget is rejected by the Senate and would be rejected by the President through veto and the White House will not propose a budget that either house could pass. The gridlock is exacerbated by the fact that the current deficits that the government runs now will cause the government to reach its debt capacity very soon – meaning the shortfalls in revenues compared to spending must be financed through this issuance of bonds, but there is a limit to the amount of debt the government is allowed to issue by law. Unless Congress increases the debt ceiling, they cannot issue further debt instruments and that might cause the government to be unable to fund some of its programs or pay its obligations to third parties – effectively defaulting.

Entitlement Spending and Tax Increases At the heart of the problem to resolve these issues is the fact that there is very little desire to compromise with either party.

The Republicans want to cut entitlement spending and the Democrats want to raise taxes, especially on the highest wage earners. Neither of them wants to offend the core base of their parties so they are not wanting to have a voting record that will

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reflect something that will come to haunt them in future primary elections.

Entitlement spending has continued to increase for the last few years as more and more are chronically unemployed and in need of assistance. Those against tax increases argue that there are already enough taxes and that those in the highest brackets pay a large portion of all taxes already and to increase them would cause them to not hire or invest in the economy. Pending nationalized health care is also a big unknown that has caused some skittishness in the markets, too.

Some Good Signs Albeit more anemic than is wanted, it is a fact that our economy is in a growth mode. There are new jobs being added to the economy each month. Some argue that it is not fast enough, but there is an upward trend instead of a downward one. The stock market, although sluggish in November, is up. It is good to see gas prices falling instead of rising again. Holiday shopping seems to be robust so far this year. In all, there are some good fundamentals to hold on to. Our economy is enormous and the rest of the world actually benefits from a strong USA. So, let’s hope these good things continue.

As for Money and YOU – well, all of the things that I have written about in the past apply. Make and keep a budget, live within your means and work to reduce your debt, make yourself marketable and useful to be able to get the jobs you want, and it will all work out.

I hope that our national leaders can work out common sense compromises, strategies and government policies that avoid the direction of our national debt and deficits. This will work together for our good if we move forward. The skills needed to run for office and those needed to govern are not always the same skills. I hope our elected officials can look past politics and use sound economic principles to govern our great nation.

Where do we go from here? The eternal optimist in me wants to answer, onward and upward.

As always, I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

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Merry Christmas from everybody at Glenn’s

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2013 Senior of the Year Contest Entry Ballot Senior’s Name: _________________________________________________ Senior’s Phone Number: _________________________________________ Reasons for nomination/How are they special to you/Gallup: ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ You can only vote one time. Your vote will be anonymous.

Voter’s Name: __________________________________________________ Voter’s Phone Number: __________________________________________

*Must be at least 70 years young *Currently living in Gallup *Lived in Gallup for at least 35 years Methods of Voting: -Mail to: PO BOX 1027 Gallup, NM 87305 Drop off: 101 W. Aztec Ave. Gallup, NM 87301 -www.rosebroughlaw.com

All Fields Are Mandatory. Voting ends December 18, 2012. The 2013 Senior of the Year will have their photograph and interview published in the Gallup Journey Magazine.

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Quick Loan Survival 101

by Jean Philips

Don’t Be Fooled by Coyote Tricks.

Don’t Cross the Coyote’s Path.

Resist the urge to get a holiday loan or other quick loan when you don’t really need one. Be patient or find another way to get cash. It’s just like turning the car around when the coyote crosses the road in front of you. You can find another way than a high-interest, high-fee loan that gives fast cash and possible long-term troubles down the road.

Try getting a loan at a bank or asking relatives and friends for help.

Feed Yourself First...

Not the Coyote.

Take care of yourself and your family first. Never stop paying for rent or other basic needs so you can pay off a quick loan. If you have a title loan and other small loans, you should keep up payments on your title loan to avoid a repossession, but only after covering your shelter, food, job transportation and other basic needs.

Lenders try to scare you into using your rent and gas money to pay them. What they don’t tell you is that the law protects you from having to sacrifice your own health and welfare to pay off a loan. Even if a lender sues you and wins, you may not have to pay. Under New Mexico law, even if a lender gets a court judgment against you, it can’t force you to pay if your only income is retirement income, veteran’s benefits or other government benefits.

If you have a job, the first $300 a week that you earn before taxes (that’s a full-time job at minimum wage) is safe, and the law limits how much a creditor can take above that. If you were already sued and lost, get advice from a lawyer on your rights.

Send in a Bear to Fight Coyote!

Tell Coyote to Stop Howling!

See a lawyer to find out what options you have if you are in deep with Coyote. A lawyer can help you fight against quick loan injustices and give you the confidence and knowledge to make a good plan to help you move on with your life. If you think you can’t afford a lawyer you may qualify for legal services from places like NM Legal Aid at 1-800-524-4417 or DNA People’s Legal Services at 505-786-527 (Crownpoint) or 928-871-4151 (Window Rock).

If a small loan company sends your account to a debt collector, tell them to leave you alone. Debt collectors (companies or people that collect debts for others) aren’t allowed to contact you if you send them a letter asking them to stop. It’s also illegal for them to say they’re going to send you to jail just for not being able to pay. If a debt collector’s bothering you, see a lawyer. Don’t let a lender or a debt collector intimidate you into giving them money you need for your basic needs. Report abusive behavior to the Attorney General at 505827-9100, and see a lawyer.

Don’t Cross the Coyote’s Path!

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Peace. Love. Coffee.

Try our new Design Your Own Menu... the freshest idea in Gallup!

Introducing new evening hours Monday: 7-3 Tuesday: 7-8:30 Wednesday: 7-3 Thursday: 7-8:30 Friday: 7-3 Saturday: 7-8:30

The Coffee House 203 West Coal Avenue • 505-726-0291 Facebook.com/thecoffeehousegallup

Mason& Isaacson Attorneys at Law

505 722 4463 • 104 E. Aztec

A big thank you to the thirty-plus runners and walkers who came out for the Turkey Trot and Cranberry Walk held on Thanksgiving morning.

We are in the final steps leading to the ground breaking for Hooghan Hozho’. Watch for our ground-breaking event.

Hooghan Hozho’ will have 45 units along with space for a coffee shop (that we will use as an employment training facility), an early childhood development center and office spaces for support services.

We shot a short movie last month. We hope to have a premier event in the next month or two.

We are working on a couple of housing projects that build on our experience with Hooghan Hozho’. These projects are in conception and feasibility analysis at this time. These projects will provide homes to working and low-income families.

Given the current environment for funding, a majority of the funding will be through loans, since very few grants are available.

Until next month stay well and do good!

We have been known to update our blog once in a while, it is found at care66.blogspot.com. I can be reached at Sanjay@ care66.org.

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Lit Crit Lite A look at some books available at your local public library

By Kari Heil

W

ill Wiles is a British architecture and design journalist, but his debut novel, Care of Wooden Floors (2012), is not an architectural treatise, obviously. The book does begin with quite a bit of description of a stylishly minimalist flat: think Ikea, but the expensive version – clean lines, white walls, and lots of blond wood. The flat has all unsealed natural wood floors, which figure heavily in the plot. The floors are almost a character in the story, and a sinister one at that. It’s a funny thing to say – that the floors are sinister, but that’s how the narrator begins to perceive them after a few days apartment-sitting for his friend, Oskar.

Oskar is one of the book’s two main human characters, though he never appears in person since he is in Los Angeles working out the details of his divorce. Readers become very familiar with the absent Oskar by inhabiting his apartment, so to speak, with the narrator, and through the narrator’s recollections of their university days together and their strange friendship in the ten years since then. Oskar is a highly successful composer, best known for a piece called “Variations on Tram Timetables.” From this title, we can guess that his music is as minimalist as his apartment’s décor.

We learn fairly early on that Oskar also is extremely compulsive and controlling about order and cleanliness in his apartment and in his life. He leaves very exact, extensive, and, frankly, condescending instructions for the flat-sitting narrator via long notes hidden in various places, eerily predicting where his friend will poke around in the flat and what he might need to know at a particular moment. The fastidious Oskar leaves a note about precisely what his friend should do for the two cats, Shossy and Stravvy, but he leaves multiple, detailed notes about how to protect the apartment’s precious wooden floors – increasing in weird intensity and seeming omniscience as the narrator finds them.

The book’s other main character is the narrator, of course, whose name we never know.

An Englishman, he finds himself lost in more ways than one in Oskar’s home city in a formerly Soviet eastern European country. The narrator, a writer, wants to produce something artistic, like a novel; but he earns his income by writing copy for local government pamphlets about garbage collection and the like. He is a pitiful figure, but sympathetic. It seems that he is smarter and more interesting than his job requires, but he also is lazy and has gotten nowhere in his career despite his lofty aspirations. It’s a bit surprising that Oskar and the narrator, so very different from one another, ever became friends at university. By the narrator’s account, Oskar latched onto him when everyone else in their shared house had made it clear that they wouldn’t tolerate Oskar’s persnickety ways.

This book is as sparse as Oskar’s flat, though maybe not quite so tasteful and refined; Wiles adds a very light sprinkling of minor secondary characters – only five, if you include the cats. The action takes place almost exclusively in Oskar’s bare but beautiful apartment. Wiles’s limiting choices are strangely effective, and the simple plot quickly becomes compelling, if not too surprising. The story unfolds over the course of just one

Wiles’s limiting choices are strangely effective, and the simple plot quickly becomes compelling, if not too surprising.

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disastrous week that the narrator spends in Oskar’s immaculate flat.

I’m not really giving anything away if I reveal that bad things happen to the floors. Of course bad things happen; how could they not? It’s unavoidable, given that the narrator is a bit careless, maybe a bit more careless than the average person, and Oskar’s apartment is absolutely pristine in every detail. The narrator also has some bad luck along the way: too much wine and the capriciousness of cats figure into some comic-tragic developments.

Care of Wooden Floors is a funny book in many respects, but slowly, it develops into both a slapstick farce (oops! – there goes the wine!) and a psychological thriller along the lines of a Poe or Kafka short story. Actually, the narrator even refers to Poe’s “The Telltale Heart”; it’s a little disappointing that Wiles didn’t leave that reference and parallel implied – rookie mistake. But the insight Wiles provides into the narrator’s increasingly unbalanced mental state is fascinating.

Again, readers might think, “He should just stop drinking red wine!”

But that’s too easy a solution for this book and for this somewhat ridiculous narrator.

For the Kiddos Boot & Shoe (2012) is the newest book from the fine children’s author and illustrator, Marla Frazee. Over the course of her successful career, she’s done more illustrating than authoring, so it’s not surprising that her pictures are what really shine in Boot & Shoe. The simple but expressive pencil and gouache illustrations of these two almost identical pups are so sweet they may give you a toothache. As for the narrative, Frazee gives us a simple story about what it means to belong together. Boot and Shoe were born in the same litter, and they live together in a cute little cottage with both a front and back porch. When they can’t find one another in the usual places around the house and yard one day after a wild squirrel chase, they get very sad and droopy; but happily, they are reunited in the end of the story, with much tail wagging and funny little leaps of joy. Boot & Shoe is light fare for the younger crowd, but it’s a nice reminder of how deeply reassuring a true connection with another creature can be.

Things inevitably spin out of control for the narrator, as one small spill leads to another, larger one, and then to even worse consequences of his actions and his characteristic inaction. He can’t possibly be held responsible for all that happens, as he keeps telling himself. Throughout, while leading his poor narrator through a series of unfortunate events, Wiles commendably combines a kind of comedy of errors with searching interior monologue.

Care of Wooden Floors has things to say about how people fail to understand each other, the futility of trying to live someone else’s life, and the dangers inherent in perfectionism. It’s a good book to pick up if you have a slightly strange sense of humor and enjoy a dip into true mania and obsession with a little look over the precipice into madness.

The story’s conclusion is unexpected, but it’s the least important aspect of the book. What matters about this novel is how Wiles reveals familiar pathways in the minds of Oskar and the narrator and how each wellcrafted character is, in his own particular way, botching the job of living.

This recognition and realization both disturbs and comforts me, which is what a good book often does, I think.

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Recycling Update and Green Holiday Tips Recycled Arts & Crafts Fair a Success!

About 160 people attended this year’s event to celebrate America Recycles Day. MCRC appreciated the assistance from the Peace Corps Fellows and others who volunteered. The Silent Auction surpassed expectations. MCRC will be able to make a substantial donation to the Jim Harlin Community Pantry from the proceeds.

Awards Applications

Billy Moore, Executive Director of NWNM SWA, spoke about the current state of recycling. In 2012 the SWA landfilled about 300 tons of material daily; recycling about 25 tons, mostly corrugated cardboard, every 2-3 weeks. MCRC thanks you for recycling. Keep up the good work! More convenient recycling is coming. Watch for the opening of recycling bins within the city in the very near future.

Soroptimist International is an international volunteer organization working to improve the lives of women and girls, in local communities and throughout the world. Soroptimist International of Gallup is currently accepting applications for the following awards. All applications are due on or before December 15, 2012. Award winners will be honored during the annual “Live Your Dreams” Banquet to be held on January 19, 2013 at El Rancho Hotel.

Reuse, Reduce, Recycle & Go Green this Season Be a more caring and responsible citizen of planet Earth. *Buy local, watch for sales, and art & craft fairs. *Buy used at the various thrift stores and flea markets in town.

Women’s Opportunity Awards The Women’s Opportunity Awards program is Soroptimist’s major women’s education project. Through the program, clubs assist women who provide the primary source of financial support for their families by giving them the resources they need to improve their education, skills, and employment prospects. This year the award will be a minimum of $1000.

The WOA application can be downloaded at www.soroptimist. org and please email the completed application to sigallup@ soroptimist.net.

Gifts *Homemade gifts: mustard, jelly, cookies, drink & soup mixes placed in reused jars. *Reuse all wrapping paper and bows from last year. *Save wrapping paper, bows, ribbon from this year for next year’s gift giving. *Wrap gifts in towels and materials that are functional as well as decorative. *Decorate gifts with items from nature’s bounty.

Soroptimist Violet Richardson Award Named for the president of the first Soroptimist club, the Soroptimist Violet Richardson Award honors girls who are making a difference through volunteer service. Each year, Soroptimist clubs honor girls who donate their time and energy to causes that make the community and world a better place, such as working to end discrimination and poverty, assisting women and children who are victims of domestic violence, or mentoring young girls.

Soroptimist Ruby Award: For Women Helping Women The Soroptimist Ruby Award: For Women Helping Women acknowledges women who are working to improve the lives of women and girls through their personal or professional activities. Their efforts help to promote the issues that are important to the Soroptimist organization. Honorees are women who have worked in extraordinary ways to benefit women and girls. Examples of the type of work honored include: spearheading an effort to open a domestic violence shelter, working to secure health services for low-income women, starting a mentoring program for at-risk girls, or lobbying companies to provide on-site child care. Past award winners’ pictures are on display at RMCHCS.

Look for the triangular recycled logo on these products. Local grocery stores carry a variety of these recycled items. If you don’t find them, speak with the manager or purchasing agent. Sometimes these items will be a little more expensive so look for the sales!

For more information you may call Connie Benally, Treasurer at (505) 870-5721 or Geraldine Arviso, President at (505) 721-9121.

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Great Green Stocking Stuffers *Pencils, Pens, Notebooks made from recycled materials *Halogen, LED, or CFL light bulbs *Crank flashlights (no batteries needed)

Entertaining *Purchase plates, cups, napkins, paper towels made from recycled paper or are biodegradable. *Purchase paper plates and cups over plastic, unless you plan to wash and reuse (add bleach to your wash water). *Purchase recycled aluminum foil and then reuse / recycle when possible.

Decorations When buying new light strands look for the low-energy-use strands.

Light strands that are broken or unwanted can be recycled at the Community Pantry, keeping them out of our landfill! All types of string lights are accepted, including icicles and LEDs. Bulbs are okay.

Place them in the box behind the pantry (near the hoop houses) 24/7 along with other recyclables.

For questions about what, where, when, and how to recycle your electronics, paper items, plastic, glass in our region contact Betsy (722-9257 / 879-2581 betsywindisch@yahoo.com) or Gerald, Chair, McKinley Citizens’ Recycling Council (722-5142 or gohactivities@aol.com). You can find the Where to Recycle fact sheet on the City of Gallup and NWNMRSWA web sites. http://gallupnm.gov/ DocumentCenter/View/191 and http://www.nwnmrswa.com/recycling-update.html.

VITA Tax Help Have you seen some of the tactics that lending institutions use during tax season? Want to do something proactive? Catholic Charities of Gallup will be starting its VITA Tax program again in February and is in need of volunteers to prepare taxes for individuals. Through the program, those who qualify are able to receive free tax help. Volunteers need not have had prior experience preparing taxes. Catholic Charities will train all those who are interested. The tax program schedule is built around the availability of volunteers. To get involved, please contact us at (505) 722-4407, extension 100.

87301 Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial Community Reception Saturday, December 8 at 7 pm 206 W. Coal Ave. On Saturday, December 8, starting at 7:00 pm, a community reception will be held by the Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial Board at 206 West Coal Ave, Gallup, NM. The festivities will include entertainment and Ceremonial memorabilia available for purchase.

Members of the Board will be at the reception and they are eager to gather input and share future plans. This event being held during December’s Arts Crawl.

For more information, contact John Beeman, Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial Board President, at (505) 726-9100 or john@johnbeeman.com.

Intersection for Gallup Community Concert Series Thursday, December 13, 7 pm Gallup High School Auditorium The Gallup Community Concert Series will present the outstanding New York trio, Intersection, including violinist Laura Frautschi, cellist Kristina Reiko Cooper, and pianist John Novacek on Thursday, December 13, starting at 7:00 pm at Gallup High School’s Kenneth Holloway Auditorium. These three have forged a powerful connection with audiences worldwide.

An essential component of their concert activity has been their guest appearances, often televised, with major orchestras such as the Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra, the Osaka Symphony, the Yomiuri Orchestra and the Tokyo Philharmonic. This trio concert will bring a varied program of repertoire from all parts of the music world. Solos and duos add to the variety of each performance.

An evening with Intersection is a virtual collaboration between artists and audience. Don’t miss this unique group. Tickets may be purchased at the door, if you are not already a member of the concert series, $40.00 will get five adults into the concert. If you are already a member of the series, remember that each ticket is good for five punches. Should you have any questions, call Antoinette Neff, Executive Director, at (505) 862-3939. Follow Gallup Community Concert Association on Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Gallup-Community-Concert-Association/188563434516468 ?ref=ts.

December Library Events Annual Mitten Tree Project Help decorate the library’s holiday trees with new mittens, scarves and hats to help keep Gallup’s children snug this winter. Battered Families, Inc. will receive all donations. Mitten Tree decoration will start December 1 and run through December 19.

Aromatherapy for the Holidays Monday, December 3 at 6:30 pm at the main library, Dr. Linda Hite will explore the soothing qualities of aromatherapy. Participants will mix essential oils to take home. Supplies will be provided. Registration required. Class limited to 15. To register, call the main library or stop by in person.

December Film Series, Co-sponsored by the Gallup Film Foundation Wednesday nights starting at 5:30 pm. Refreshments served.

December 5 – A Christmas Story (1983) December 12 – A Christmas Carol (2009) December 19 – National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989) December 26 – Christmas with the Kranks (2004)

Santa Claus is Coming to the Library Saturday, December 8, from 2 to 4 pm, the Children’s Branch will host Santa Claus. Parents and/or caregivers are encouraged to bring cameras to snap a picture of their children with old St. Nick. As Santa only has a short time at the library, registration is required and will start December 1. Parents may register their children by calling the Children’s Branch or by coming in person.

Winter Stories Told by Martha Shelly and Jean Whitehorse Wednesday, December 12 at 4 pm, join the library in welcoming Martha Shelly, First Lady of the Navajo Nation, for a very special program. Mrs. Shelly will tell Coyote tales and will be available for photographs and questions. Don’t miss this rare opportunity.

Octavia Fellin Public Library 115 W. Hill Ave., Gallup (505) 863-1291 Children’s Branch 200 W. Aztec Ave., Gallup (505) 726-6120

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Coordinated Approach to School Health grant to buy a season of local vegetables for us from the Work in Beauty Community Supported Agriculture program. Every Friday we came to school with a variety of in-season, local produce (onions, potatoes, garlic, greens, potatoes, beets, chiles, tomatoes, herbs) and fixed up a tasting. We’ve cooked roasted root crops, garlic mashed potatoes (twice), simple vegetable

October was physical. For a week straight we cultivated the land behind the Juvenile Detention Center (JDC) for winter planting.

The JDC plot is over an acre of semiproductive land without a consistent caregiver. With adequate attention the space can be a boon to the local food economy. We recruited the help of Garth from Holiday Nursery to help rip up all the overgrown weeds, amended the soil with manure from

trip to the farm!

A November highlight at Oñate came from inside the classroom with the third graders. Erin Farver invited FoodCorps to come discuss some of the utilitarian uses of plants preceding a Navajo mother’s accounting of her experiences as a youth and now mother with medicinal and spiritual herbs. To be frank, I didn’t really have a clear picture of what our activity might

We always stress that the food was grown in Gallup by a person . . .

Oñate Elementary, Church Rock Academy, and Uplift Community School. So what have we done?

October, or Farm to School Month for the school foodies, was a four week experiment for us. The Farm to School movement is a push for more localized production and sourcing for school cafeterias. Local food is good for the local economy, it’s fresher (read yummy), and lowers our carbon footprint.

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soups, with general acceptance. In the last week a fourth grader remarked as I came around with the pot of soup, “Mr. Josh, I have no idea what that is but I bet it is delicious!” If I can remember, I try to preface cafeteria tastings with things like, “I’d love for you all to try this, and if you don’t like it, that’s fine! But please, keep your ‘Ews!’ and ‘Yucks!’ for recess!”

We always stress that the food was grown in Gallup by a person, a friend of ours, Amy Halliday.

Red Rock State Park, and tilled it all in for overwintering. Then, Melissa and I sectioned off a 500 sqft rectangle and toasted to planting it with garlic. A lot of garlic. We bought a hundred and twenty pounds of it from our friend Jesse Daves of Amyo Farms in Albuquerque with the proceeds from Crumby Bread Company, our weekend fundraising project. It was destined for the hands of 50 fourth graders from Juan de Oñate: a Halloween morning field

look like but I was grateful they asked, so I quickly said yes. Time went by and I still hadn’t figured out what this utilitarian use lesson would be; FoodCorps is all about planting and eating, not using! I think it came to me over one of those big stir fries – where you’ve got all this aging produce in your refrigerator and it’s got to get out – one of those.

Orange and purple cauliflower, green bell peppers, lots of okra, orange carrots, jalapeños, onions and garlic

Melissa (below center) and Joshua (opposite page) enjoy helping to educate the children.

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. . . and a beet. A beet. Man, the whole thing became red. Everything!

It was pretty shocking to see how quickly the purple leeched out and permeated the contents of the pan. It planted a seed in my head.

It wasn’t until the next morning that I knew our utilitarian activity would be plant dyes. I came in with pomegranates, persimmons, coffee beans, beets, vinegar, a VitaMix, and

At Uplift, Melissa also works with the second and third graders. Her first project tasked them to build eight raised beds, five by three feet. The combined classes formed into teams, or crews, and devised strategies. The theme of a crew is prominent at Uplift – forcing students there to work with peers to accomplish tasks bigger than an individual could do alone. The

my camping stove and conjured up four natural dyes with the students.

N.B. If you are trying this at home, skip the persimmons. The next day we came back and used the dyes like watercolors and painted them onto construction paper. The more porous the paper, the better it works.

Overall, it was a great project. And yes, the beets dye exceedingly well.

Melissa splits her time between Church Rock Academy and the new charter school, Uplift Community School.

At Church Rock, Melissa works with the second and third grades in a focused, longitudinal approach. She works with the staff to coordinate her lessons with theirs, making the interventions more seamless. Students are learning all about garlic right now: how to plant it, what we can make with it, how it helps us. Melissa is also working to better use the new hoop house at Church Rock by recruiting families to come deposit their animals’ manure for soil amending. If you, too, have a surplus, get in contact!

Finally, on November 7, FoodCorps brought FoodPlay, a traveling theatre troop performing hilarious and engaging skits about nutrition for youth.

boxes were then planted with cold season crops: lettuces, carrots, beets, broccoli, kales, and more.

Melissa is guiding her students to think seasonally in their plantings. As awesome as year-round local tomatoes would be, it’s not something our climate can support.

Leading up to the Thanksgiving recess, Melissa asked her students to search through cookbooks in groups and present their best seasonal meal. The class will cook one of those meals upon their return after Thanksgiving.

Stay tuned for more FoodCorps happenings.

We would like to acknowledge a multitude of people in Gallup who make our service possible. Thank you, Rick Chavez of Glenn’s Bakery for opening his doors to Crumby Bread Co. every week for our project. Thank you, La Montañita Co-op for your support.

Thank you, Holiday Nursery for donating seeds for our gardens.

Thank you, Youth Conservation Corps for your labor. Thank you, Gallup. joshua.kanter@foodcorps.org melissa.levenstein@foodcorps.org

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December Community Calendar Sunday ONGOING

Support Class for Parents of Teens at First United Methodist Church from 6:30-7:30pm. Info: 8634512.

Poetry Group, call Jack for more information (including location) at 783-4007.

Psychic Playtime with RedWulf at the Old School Gallery 1st and 3rd Sundays, 7-9:30pm. Tarot, drum journeys and more tools to explore your inner self. $1 donation. Info: RedWulf @ 505-7834612.

Tai Chi at Old School Gallery, 9:30am. Info: Reed at 783-4067.

Coyote Canyon Women’s Sweat Lodge Ceremony on Sundays, 1-4pm, potluck dinner. Located 3 miles east of Highway 491, Route 9 junction, 1 mile south of Route 9. The ceremony is for wellness, stress reduction, purification and cultural sensitivity. All women are welcomed. For more information, call 505 870-3832.

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The Gallup Community Choir presents Handel’s Messiah, selections from the Christmas section and the Hallelujah Chorus, at First United Methodist Church (Gallup) at 4 pm.

Free admission. You may even join in from the audience, so bring your voices and your books (if you have one). Donations for the Jim Harlin Food Pantry will be accepted.

Advent Festival of Lessons and Carols at 4:00 pm at the Church of the Holy Spirit (1334 Country Club Drive). Join us as we prepare for the coming of the Christ Child with music, quiet, lessons, and beauty. For more information, call (505) 8634695.

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Gallup Firefighters’ Association presents A Holiday Evening of Magic, 6:30 pm at El Morro Theater. Show starts at 6:30 pm, adult tickets $10, child tickets $8. For more information, call (505) 242-3544.

Monday ONGOING

Battered Families Services, Inc. has a women’s support group that meets weekly. A children’s support group is available at the same time for children six years of age and older. Info: 7226389.

Codependents Anonymous, 6pm at First United Methodist Church, 1800 Red Rock Drive, library room. Info: Liz at 863-5928.

“Teen Survivors of Dating and Domestic Violence” support group meeting, 6:30-8:30pm.

Info: 722-6389.

Capoeira adult class, 6:30-7:30 pm at Foundations of Freedom. For information, contact Chelsea Fairbank at chelsinator99@ yahoo.com.

Community Yoga beginner/adv beginner class is 5:45 to 6:45 pm at Foundations of Freedom (115 E. Coal). Cost is $6. Info: 728-8416 or gallupyoga@gmail.com.

The Gallup York Rite Masons hold their monthly meeting on the 1st Monday of each month at the Gallup Masonic Center (4801 E. Historic 66 Avenue) at 7:30 pm. A short program and light meal are held before most meetings at 6:45 pm.

All York Rite Masons are invited to attend. Info: GallupYorkRite@yahoo.com.

Lebanon Lodge #22, A. F. & A. M. meets the 2nd and 4th Monday of the month at 7:30 pm at the Gallup Masonic Center (4801 E. Historic 66 Avenue). An informational program and meal are presented before the meeting at 6:45 pm. All Masons are invited. Info: lebanonlodge22@ yahoo.com.

Tuesday ONGOING

Quilt Club Christmas Potluck at Gallup Service Mart, 6:30-9:00 pm. Bring your favorite dish and join other quilters in the area for a potluck. Bring projects you are working on or have completed to share with the group. For more information, call 722-9414.

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Adult chess club at Camille’s Sidewalk Cafe in Gallup, 5-7pm.

Cancer support group, for information call 8633075 or 863-6140.

Gallup Al-Anon meetings at First United Methodist Church, 1800 Red Rock Drive (next to GIMC).

Tuesdays at 12 noon and Thursdays at 7pm in Conference Room #1.

Studio Drawing Class at ART123, 7-9pm on WEDNESDAYS. $10 for non-members, $5 for members. Students need to provide their own materials. For more information, call 575-7796760 or email steve.storz0@gmail.com.

ZUMBA Fitness Classes at Window Rock Sports Center starting at 5:30 p.m.. For more information email r_roanhorse@yahoo.com or call Ralph Roanhorse at (505) 862-2970.

Gallup Solar Group open community meetings.

6pm at 113 E. Logan. For more information, call Be at 726-2497.

Tai-Chi-Chuan, taught by Monika Gauderon at RMCH Vanden Bosch Clinic, 5:00 pm.

Beginners are welcome. For more information, contact Monika Gauderon at 775-3045.

Spay-Neuter Discount Clinic for Low Income Pet Owners at the Gallup McKinley County Humane Society, N. Highway 491. Call 863-2616 for an appointment.

Overeaters Anonymous meeting for beginner and returning, 6:30-7:30 pm at Church of the Holy Spirit (1334 Country Club Drive). For more information, call Linda at (505) 863-6042.

ZUMBA Fitness Classes at Chee Dodge Elementary School starting at 5:30 p.m. For more information email r_roanhorse@yahoo.com or call Ralph Roanhorse at (505) 862-2970.

Open yoga classes 9:30-10:30 am at Foundations of Freedom (115 E. Coal). Cost is $6. Info: 7288416 or gallupyoga@gmail.com.

Alicia’s Zumba Fitness Classes will be held from 6:45 to 7:45 pm at Wowie’s Gym (1500 South 2nd Street, Gallup). $5/class or $30/10 classes.

Your first 2 classes are FREE! Info: Alicia Santiago (505) 236-9564.

Faith Chapter #69, Order of the Eastern Star, meet the 3rd Tuesday of the month at 7 pm at the Gallup Masonic Center (4801 E. Historic 66 Avenue). Light meal before most meetings at 6:15 pm. Info: Robert 505-615-8053.

Alicia’s Zumba Fitness Classes will be held from 6:45 to 7:45 pm at Wowie’s Gym (1500 South 2nd Street, Gallup). $5/class or $30/10 classes.

Your first 2 classes are FREE! Info: Alicia Santiago (505) 236-9564.

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Chanting workshop with Genevieve and Redwulf 2nd and 4th Wednesday each month at the Old School Gallery. Free. Chants from around the world 6-7:30 pm.

Meditation Circle. All faiths welcome. Free.

Time to get connected, get focused, let us meditate. 7pm. Limited space. Please RSVP leave message (Maria) HealinGifts Holistic Shoppe/Wellness Center 106 W. Coal Ave., downtown Gallup. For information, call 505 863-3772.

Four Corners Yoga (601 W. Coal Ave.) is offering free community class at 6 pm. All donations will be remitted to Adopt an Elder.

For information, call 505-863-6463, email fourcornersyoga@yahoo.com or friend us on FB @ fourcornersyoga. *All classes are hot and 90 mins. CHANGE YOUR BODY . . . CHANGE YOUR LIFE!

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CPR Recertification Course, 1 – 4 pm, RMCH 3rd floor solarium. Participants must have a current card. Pre-registration required. For more information or to register, call Terry Fuhs at 8637145.

Habitat for Humanity Community Board meeting 6 to 8 pm at Comfort Suites (last hotel on East Hwy 66). Call Bill at 722-4226 for info. All welcome!

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Christmas Eve at the Church of the Holy Spirit (1334 Country Club Drive, Gallup) at 7:00 pm. O Come, All Ye Faithful! Join us for this beautiful candlelit service of Lessons and Carols and Holy Communion. Bring your family and friends and plan to stay afterwards for fellowship, eggnog, cocoa, and cookies. For more information, call (505) 863-4695.

Advent Taizé Worship Service, a time of silence, Scripture, music and prayer. 4:00 pm at Westminster Presbyterian on Boardman Drive. Call Sustainable Energy Board meeting in the 863-5011 for more information.

Mayor’s Conference Room, 3-5pm, on the fourth Monday of each month. For info/agenda, email brightideas98@gmail.com.

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14th Annual NCI New Year’s Eve Sobriety Pow Wow at Miyamura High School Gym. Gourd Dance from 12 noon to 5 pm, Grand Entry at 6 pm, Diné Shoe Game at 7 pm. A non-perishable item, school supplies or toy item gets you in. Please no chairs allowed; bleacher seating is available.

This is an alcohol and drug-free event. For more information, contact Edmond at (505) 722-2177.

Gallup Indian Medical Center will be giving flu shots to adults and children 3 yrs and older through December from 9:30 am to 5:30 pm, Monday-Friday on the 1st floor - Day Treatment Room. This is for IHS beneficiaries only. Contact information call 722-1411 or 722-1367.

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Connections Inc. 100 E. Aztec Gallup, New Mexico offers the following FREE programs: Access to recovery New Mexico A free substance abuse treatment program. For info: Call Randy at 505-863-3377 Ext: 108 Mon-Fri 8am-5pm Child and Adult Care Food Program Are you babysitting any kids under 13 years old in your home? We can pay you MONEY for the food that you feed the kids in your home. For more Info Please call 505-863-3377 Ext: 105, 102 or 1-800-527-5712 Senior Companion Program / Retired and Senior Volunteer Program For more information, Contact Claudette at 505-722-3565 or 505-870-8567

December Community Calendar Friday

Thursday ONGOING

Moms Supporting Moms at Church Rock School, 9-11:30am.

Toastmasters at Earl’s Restaurant, 6:30am. Info: Dale at 722-9420.

Substance Abuse Support Group, CASA, at Gallup Church of Christ, 7pm. Info: Darrel at 863-5530.

Community Yoga, beginner/athletic beginner level.

6:20 pm, Catholic Charities/CIC. 506 W. Rte. 66.

Info: Gene at 505-728-8416.

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Sports Page hosting GLBT Night every Friday! Friday nights will be a place to celebrate and be yourself! For more information contact: Raiff Arviso; rca87121@gmail.com, Sports Page - 1400 S. 2nd St, Gallup, NM (505) 722-3853.

The weekly Old-Fashioned Hootenanny, at Camille’s Sidewalk Cafe, every Friday, starting at 6:30PM. Acoustic musicians are welcome to sit in with the regular players.

Gallup Al-Anon meetings at First United Methodist Alicia’s Zumba Fitness Classes will be held Church, 1800 Red Rock Drive (next to GIMC).

Tuesdays at 12 noon and Thursdays at 7pm in from 6:45 to 7:45 pm at Wowie’s Gym (1500 Conference Room #1.

South 2nd Street, Gallup). $5/class or $30/10 Divorce Care Support Group, Thursdays at 7pm.

Location to be determined. For more information, call or email Dan at 505 878-2821 or dkruis@yahoo.com.

classes. Your first 2 classes are FREE! Info: Alicia Santiago (505) 236-9564.

Saturday ONGOING

Overeaters Anonymous meeting at 11 am, at the First United Methodist Church, 1800 Red Rock Drive, library room. Info: Liz 505-863-5928.

Children’s Library Events: 10:30am Mother Goose on the Loose, 12pm Puppet Show. For more information, call 726-6120.

ZUMBA Fitness Classes at Wowie’s Activity Hall on the corner of Maloney and 3rd Street starting at 11:00 a.m.

For more information email r_roanhorse@yahoo.com or call Ralph Roanhorse at (505) 862-2970.

Yoga class beginner/advanced beginner. 10 am at Foundations of Freedom (115 E Coal). Info: 728-8416 or gallupyoga@gmail.com.

Habitat for Humanity Yards Sales (weather permitting) 12 to 3pm, Warehouse Lane. New & Used: Tables, furnaces, camper, microwave, TVs, cabinets, paint, doors, sinks, ceiling fans, lights, exercise bikes, blinds, etc.

Call Bill at 505-722-4226 for information. Re-modeler’s & contractor’s donations accepted.

Alicia’s Zumba Fitness Classes will be held from 9 to 10 am at Wowie’s Gym (1500 South 2nd Street) in Trademark Square in Gallup. $5/class or $30/10 classes. Your first 2 classes are FREE! Capoeira children’s classes 11:30 am – 1 pm at Foundations of Freedom. For information, contact Chelsea Fairbank at chelsinator99@yahoo.com.

The Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit (1334 Country Club Dr., Gallup) hosts support meetings for Type 1 and Type 2 diabetics from 5:30-6:30 pm on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays. For more information call 863-4695.

ZUMBA Fitness Classes at Window Rock Sports Center starting at 5:30 p.m.. For more information email r_roanhorse@yahoo.com or call Ralph Roanhorse at (505) 862-2970.

Open yoga classes 9:30-10:30 am at Foundations of Freedom (115 E. Coal). Cost is $6. Info: 728-8416 or gallupyoga@gmail.com.

Intermediate yoga class, 7 pm at Foundations of Freedom (115 E Coal). Cost is $6. Info: 7288416 or gallupyoga@gmail.com.

Have you seen the homeless around Gallup and wanted to get involved?

Alicia’s Zumba Fitness Classes will be held from 6:45 to 7:45 pm at Wowie’s Gym (1500 South 2nd Street, Gallup). $5/class or $30/10 classes. Your first 2 classes are FREE! Info: Alicia Santiago (505) 236-9564.

Diabetes Education Classes, first four Thursdays of the month, 4-6pm, RMCH 2nd floor library. Contact: Carolyn at 863-1865.

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Christmas Bazaar at the Ft. Defiance Presbyterian Church from 5 to 7 pm. Navajo Tacos, hot dogs, soda, frybread, red chili pasole, and a bake sale. Also, a clothing room, crafts for sale and a white elephant sale. NO VENDORS OUTSIDE, PLEASE! For more information, please contact Dona Etsitty at (928) 871- 5053.

Catholic Charities is offering free meals to all who come to the Catholic Indian Center from 6:30 to 8:00 am, Monday through Friday. We are in need of volunteers to sign up for one day a week to set up and cook breakfast for these men and women.

If you are interested in helping, call the Catholic Indian Center For more information at (505) 722 4407, ext. 100.

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Noche de Recuerdos, 7 pm at El Morro Theater. General admission is $15 at the door. Don’t miss this unforgettable event!

Gallup Film Foundation meeting at 6 pm at The Red Mesa Center.

The community is invited to the First Thursday Healing Service at the Church of the Holy Spirit (1334 Country Club Drive, Gallup) at 7:00 pm.

This Christian service of prayer, anointing, and laying on of hands, followed by Holy Eucharist, is open to everyone who longs for healing of body, mind, spirit, and/or relationships – for yourself or for those you care about. For more information, call (505) 863-4695.

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2nd Thursday of the month Survivors of Homicide Support Group meets 6-8pm. For more information, call Deborah YellowhorseBrown at 870-6126.

The RMCHCS Breastfeeding Support Group will meet at 7 pm on 2nd Thursday of each month in the RMCH Library – 2nd Floor. For more information, please call Mary Ippel at 505-863-7025.

Intermediate Sewing Class (Part 3) at Gallup Service Mart, 6-9 pm. Continued from Oct. and Nov. class. Binding, both bias and straight grain will be discussed and demonstrated along with making labels for your quilt. For more information, call 722-9414.

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Third Thursday Diabetes Support Group at Church of the Holy Spirit (1334 Country Club Drive, Gallup). For all people who suffer from Type 1 or Type 2 Diabetes. For more information, call (505) 863-4695.

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Crownpoint Rug Weavers Association 1st Annual AIDS Walk starting at old Heilig-Meyers building at 1 pm, ends at ART123. For more Auction at Crownpoint Elementary School. information, call (505) 863-9929.

Viewing 4:00-6:30 pm, auction 7:0010:00 pm. For more information, visit McKinley Citizens’ Recycling Council Meeting, 2 pm at 508 Sandstone Place - Indian Hills. Call 722-5142 for crownpointrugauction.com. more information.

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Hands of Hope Pregnancy Center and Coffee House invite you to have a “Cup for Life.” Come for breakfast burritos, breads, coffee, tea, sandwiches and more between 7 and 10 am. Half of all receipts donated to Hands of Hope. For more information, call (505) 722-7125.

Red Rock 4-H presents Breakfast with Santa! 9-11 am at the Gallup Community Pantry. $5 includes breakfast and a photo with Santa. All proceeds go to the Community Pantry. Please help us raise funds to support this important cause!

Roosevelt Elementary is having a craft sale from 9 am to 3 pm. For more information, contact the school at 721For more information, call 863-1291. 4100 or Valencia Chato at 409-1902.

Annual Festival of Trees on display! Tree giveaway to be held at Rio West Mall at 5 pm. Ticket sales, December 1-8 at Mall Office and Center Court. Proceeds will benefit Soroptimist of Gallup’s projects, which include the Community Pantry and various scholarship programs. For more information, contact Geraldine Arviso, President SI of Gallup at 721-9121.

A Not So Silent Night, Christmas RockFest featuring Guilty Wilson, 6 pm at Q & A Billiards at Rio West Mall.

This is an alcohol and drug-free event for all ages. Free admission.

Brad Lynch presents “Cowboy Christmas” at Boyd’s Arena in Vanderwagen, NM. For information, call (505) 862-2635.

ArtsCrawl, Downtown Gallup, 7-9 pm. See page 61 for complete schedule of events.

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Red Rock Elementary School is hosting its annual Red Rock Craft Fair from 9am to 4pm. Come to the largest craft fair of the season with over 60 vendors! For more information, call 505-870-7083.

Dr. Marco’s Italian classes are continuing each Thursday at the Knights of Columbus Hall, starting January 17, 2013 for 8 weeks. 5:30 pm Beginner Class, 6:30 pm Intermediate Class, and 7:30 pm Conversational Class. Private lessons also available.

Family discounts apply. For information please call (541) 761-4980. Grazie e ciao!

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Opinion Poll 1) What’s your favorite Christmas carol?

2) What is your favorite Christmas memory?

3) What are your End of the World plans? (December 21) 4) What’s something “new” you would like to see in Gallup in the coming year?

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1) Jingle Bells 2) Getting toys 3) Unanswered 4) A kids’ day

1) Silent Night 2) Lots of snow 3) Enjoy life 4) A new golf course

George

1) Frosty the Snowman 2) The year I went to Antarctica … no dogs 3) Find a snow ball 4) A snowman rescue center for the summertime

Laura

1) Jingle Bell Rock 2) Growing up with my brother and sisters 3) Living life to the fullest 4) Economic growth

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Cal

1) Joy to the World 2) Spending time with grandparents as a kid 3) Go shopping 4) More kindness and less hate

Janice

1) Go Tell it on the Mountain 2) Getting my first bike 3) Find a Twinkie 4) Infrastructure

Gabe

1) Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer 2) Four-wheeling on the Rez 3) Get up and milk the cows as usual 4) A nice European-style bakery

Wayne

1) The chipmunks’ song 2) Being with my family 3) Bottoms up 4) Everybody to get along

Ernie

1) Grandma Got Run over by a Reindeer 2) My son’s third Christmas 3) Laughing at everybody who took it seriously 4) Politicians that actually do something for the people

Nayee’eji Fierce MMA/Jiu-Jitsu “Fiercely Protecting Love”

Check out our new location!

2000 E. Hwy 66 (behind Dairy Queen) Self-Defense • Knife Fighting (Navajo/Apache) Kickboxing/Boxing • Jiu-Jitsu/Submission Grappling

Elishia

1) Away In a Manger 2) When I got about ten gifts in one Christmas 3) I don’t want to plan that 4) Maybe an amusement park for children

On Call Jazz benefit performance for The Thai Burma Border Health Initiative Train Station 2nd Floor Friday, December 14 @ 7pm Sir Henry Chimney Sweep and Dryer Lint Cleaner Protect your Home from a Chimney Fire and Dryer Lint Fire

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TODAY! 505-722-7280

Private & Group Training (505) 879-1865 • www.mitchellmma.com • 2000 E. HWY 66

DeWayne Helfenbein 25 Years Experience

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1. Daniel and Magdalena Rehberg, Margaret Araza and Rudy Araza (all from Ramah) read the Journey in front of St. Peter’s Cathedral, Rome.

2. Bill Krzymowski reads his Journey on stage at the Philharmonic Hall in Berlin while rehearsing for the concert of the World Doctors Orchestra in October.

3. Dennis Peterson, Laurel Peterson, Evelyn Richards and Ralph Richards read

their favorite community magazine while standing in front of Dromoland Castle.

4. Alex Lopez (right) and Evelin Leon (left) read the Journey at Disneyland for Alex’s 13th Birthday.

5. Marie Johnston took a break to read the Gallup Journey after hiking to the top of a waterfall at Solstice Canyon in Malibu, California.

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1. “Another day on the block”. . . Ana Mataya and Ryan Hudgeons reading the Journey in a cell at Alcatraz Prison.

2. Ron Polinder and Rick Kruis glance at the

Journey with Michael Le Roy, new President of Calvin College at Le Roy’s inaugural reception.

3. Gallup women golfers, Lisa Henley, Marilou

Condrey, Shirley Frazier, and Shirley Wilson enjoy time out with the Journey during a day of golf at Glacier Club Golf Resort in Durango, Colorado.

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and Brandon and Scott Bonaguidi flip through the Journey at the Lion King Musical in Albuquerque, NM.

5. Roleen Billie Milton, Michelle Justice and Tina

Venker celebrating birthdays and true friendships while in Saint Louis, MO attending the Madonna MDNA concert. “A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.” - Fr. Jerome Cummings

6. Marie Johnston recently traveled to Crested Butte, CO. The weather wasn’t good for hiking but she did get some reading in!

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CHECK OUT OUR STARTING LINE UP When it comes to consistent plays, Toyota has the best overall brand value of any full-line manufacturer for 5 years in a row.1

CAMRY, POINT GUARD:

PRIUS LIFTBACK, SHOOTING GUARD:

With its 25/35/28 estimated MPG,2 the 2012 Camry leads by example as the best-selling car in America.3 More scoring opportunities for Toyota!

Barring its tiny carbon footprint, nothing is “small” about Prius. With 50 estimated MPG,4 this leaner, greener hybrid is the most prolific scorer in the lineup.

RAV4, SMALL FORWARD:

TUNDRA, POWER-FORWARD:

Highest-possible moderate overlap frontal and side crash test ratings in its class.7

Named “Most Dependable Large Pickup,5” the hefty Tundra plays with skill and stability.

SIENNA, CENTER: Named 2012 Best Overall Value of the Year.6 The 2012 Sienna is this year’s MVP.

Visit your Toyota Dealer today!

SEE YOUR TOYOTA DEALER:

AMIGO TOYOTA

2000 S. Second, Gallup (505) 722-3881

www.toyota.com

Options Shown. 12012 IntelliChoice, www.IntelliChoice.com; Popular Brand. 22012 EPA-estimated mpg 25 city/35 highway/28 combined mileage for Camry 4-cyl. Actual mileage will vary. 3MotorIntelligence.com, CY 2011 sales. 42012 EPA-estimated mpg 51 city/48 highway/50 combined mileage for Prius Liftback. Actual mileage will vary. 5The Toyota Tundra received the lowest number of problems per 100 vehicles among large pickups in the proprietary J.D. Power and Associates 2012 Vehicle Dependability StudySM. Study based on 31,325 consumer responses measuring problems consumers experienced in the past 12 months with three-year old vehicles (2009 model-year cars and trucks). Proprietary study results are based on experiences and perceptions of consumers surveyed October-December 2011. Your experiences may vary. Visit jdpower.com. 62012 IntelliChoice, www.IntelliChoice.com:Minivan. Based on 2012 model year study. 7Based on Insurance Institute for Highway Safety moderate overlap frontal and side crash tests. www.iihs.org

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Come downtown and check out ArtsCrawl! The shops, restaurants, and galleries will be open late, and live art, dance, and music will be performed on the closed streets! Featured artists of the month are SxOxL, revered local rockabilly band drawing a loyal cult following, as well as fiber artists, Francie Stark and Kathy Boye, who will be knitting, crocheting, etc. and will have gifts for sale.

Live Art & Music in the Street!

PARTICIPATING VENUES

HealinGifts & Dragon World, 106 W. Coal Ave. HealinGifts: Self-serve tea bar available, starts at $1 per cup.

Specializing in high quality products including juices, teas, and all important herbs and supplements that are affordable and work!

Dragon World: oriental gifts, such as swords, nun chucks, jewelry, lucky bamboo, geisha dolls, and crystals.

Sammy C’s Rock N’ Sports Pub & Grille, 107 W. Coal Ave. Entertainment and great sports and music memorabilia, over 3000 signed pieces!

Foundations of Freedom, 115 W. Coal Ave. Live music, open dance, and break dancing performances.

ART123, 123 W. Coal Ave. “Monster Slayer” by Kjell Boersma

Open Studio/Outsider Gallery, 123 W. Coal Ave. A Project of Disability Services, Inc., working to create an inclusive community. !!!ART GIFTS!!! Contemporary fine arts and crafts, unique, one-of-a-kind and handmade, created by various artists. Featured Solo Wall: “UNTITLED” new acrylic paintings on canvas by Floyd Nelson.

The Coffee House, 203 W. Coal Ave. Open for business with house specials and local art featured.

Peace. Love. Coffee.

Inter-Tribal Ceremonial Office, 206 W. Coal Ave. Hosted by Ceremonial Board President, John Beeman, “Meet the New Board,” Everyone welcome & refreshments.

Beeman Jewelry Design, 211 W. Coal Ave. Featuring new designs for Christmas.

Makeshift Gallery, 213 W. Coal Ave. Showing new and unique handmade Christmas decorations, cards and gifts, including those made by our newest artist member, Jill Farkas. Jill is showing her photographs, creates Milagros cards and makes recycled art. We are open from 10 am to 9 pm on ArtsCrawl Saturday.

Planet Mar’s, 213 W. Coal Ave. (located in the back of Makeshift Gallery) Gallup’s only vintage clothing shop.

American Bar, 221 W. Coal Ave. Come hang out at a classic, local establishment, in business since 1938.

The Industry Gallery, 226 W. Coal Ave. “Off The Wall Art Show” featuring 30 artists from Gallup.

Crashing Thunder Studio, 228 W. Coal Ave. “On the Beach,” Photographs by Milan Sklenar

Windsong Studio, 233 W. Coal Ave. High-end family, commercial, and portrait photography with plenty of props and backgrounds to meet your individual needs, at affordable prices! Stop in and enter your name in a drawing for gift certificates!

Bill Malone Trading Company, 235 W. Coal Ave. Traditional Native American art including jewelry, rugs, and more!

Coal Street Pub, 303 W. Coal Ave. Open 11 am to 11 pm. Saturday’s dinner special is the Crab Broil! Live music by Summer Wages. Marla De Armond Chavez is the featured artist showing one-of-a-kind jewelry and handmade gift items.

That’s Sew Right, 102 S. Second Street Sewing alterations, princess dresses, customized traditional clothing and Native ware for women and girls, as well as men’s ribbon shirts, and jewelry.

Tressie’s Hair Salon, 104 S. Second Street Door prize and 10% off select retail items.

Youth Art Display, 305 S. Second Street Displaying the work of promising young artists of the Gallup and McKinley County area.

Camille’s Sidewalk Café, 306 S. Second Street Offering free hot chocolate from 6 to 9 pm. Featured art from Gallup Headstart with over 40 canvases from their “Painting with Male Role Models” (dad, grandpa, brother, uncle) project.

Lot 66 Décor, 201 W. Highway 66 We buy and sell most anything – new or used. Home furnishings, antiques, furniture and more! Receive 10% off with this flyer!

Angela’s Café, 201 E. Highway 66 Come for food, drink, music, art, and a beautiful atmosphere in the historic train station.

This month featuring the vocal talents of Charlene.

For questions or more information, artscrawlgallup@gmail.com or check us out on Facebook www.facebook.com/ArtsCrawl.

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Holiday Shopping HOURS & EVENTS SUNDAY

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Nov. 26 10am–9pm Santa 11am–7pm

Nov. 27 10am–9pm Santa 11am–7pm

Nov. 28 10am–9pm Santa 11am–7pm

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Nov. 22 MALL CLOSED Happy Thanksgiving!

Nov. 23 6am–10pm

Nov. 24 10am–9pm

Santa 11am–8pm

Santa 11am–7pm

Black Friday Event 5pm

< Festival of Trees Begins on Friday

Nov. 29 10am–9pm Santa 11am–7pm

Nov. 30 10am–9pm Santa 11am–7pm

Dec. 1 10am–9pm Santa 11am–8pm

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Dec. 8th 5pm: Tre e Giveawa y

Balloon Glow 6pm

Dec. 2 Noon–6pm Santa Noon–6pm

Dec. 3 10am–9pm Santa 11am–7pm

Dec. 4 10am–9pm Santa 11am–7pm

Dec. 5 10am–9pm Santa 11am–7pm

Dec. 6 10am–9pm Santa 11am–7pm

Dec. 7 10am–9pm Santa 11am–7pm

Santa 11am-8pm

Dec. 9 Noon–6pm Santa Noon–6pm

Dec. 10 10am–9pm Santa 11am–7pm

Dec. 11 10am–9pm Santa 11am–7pm

Dec. 12 10am–9pm Santa 11am–7pm

Dec. 13 10am–9pm Santa 11am–7pm

Dec. 14 10am–9pm Santa 11am–7pm

Dec. 15 10am–9pm Santa 11am–8pm

Pet Photos

Trees Go on Display Nov. 23rd Dec. 1st-8th: Ticket Sales (Mall Office & Center Court) Proceeds benefit community projects by:

Breakfast w/Santa 9am • Festival of Trees Giveaway 5pm

Craft Market Begins

Dec. 16 Noon–6pm Santa Noon–6pm

Dec. 17 10am–9pm Santa 11am–7pm

Dec. 18 10am–9pm Santa 11am–7pm

Dec. 19 10am–9pm Santa 11am–7pm

Dec. 20 10am–9pm Santa 11am–7pm

Dec. 21 10am–9pm Santa 11am–7pm

Dec. 23 11am–7pm Santa Noon–6pm

Dec. 24 8am–6pm

Dec. 25 MALL CLOSED Merry Christmas!

Dec. 26 10am–9pm

Dec. 27 10am–9pm

Dec. 28 Dec. 29 10am–9pm 10am–9pm

SUNDAY Dec. 30 Noon–6pm

moNDAY Dec. 31 10am–6pm

tUeSDAY Jan. 1 New Year’s Day Noon–6pm

Santa 11am–6pm

Craft Market Final Day

BReAkfAst wIth sANtA Crafts, Songs with Santa, Breakfast, Games & More!

Dec. 22 10am–10pm Santa 11am–8pm

Saturday Dec. 8th

9am–10:30am

Call the Management Office to RSVP. Space is Limited!

Proceeds benefit Miyamura Skills USA

Dec. 8 10am–9pm

505.722.7281 $5/per child, $6/per adult

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Be a part of our NEW EVENT and gain access to mall foot traffic and clean indoor display areas. More information available at RioWestMall.com

ViEW ORiGiNAL HANDCRAFTED ARTS & CRAFTS!

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Available All Season Long • Near Food Court Entry

Gallup Cultural Center

No Longer Gallup’s Best Kept Secret!

Open 8am - 5pm • 201 E. Highway 66

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Mariachi Christmas

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Saturday, December 8

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