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Reunion of the Masters & Southwest Indian Foundation Announce Our 2010

$25,000

Scholarship and School Awards Program

The 5 Categories:

Special Education • Kindergarten • 6th Grade 7th & 8th Grades • 9th & 10th Grades • 11th & 12th Grades • Each school may select up to 15 pieces per category, e.g., 15 pieces for K thru 6th and 15 pieces for Special Education, one per student. This will be enforced due to limited space in the gallery.

• All mediums accepted.

• Drawings and paintings must be matted and no larger than 24 inches by 24 inches. In addition, they must have a 2 inch by 3 inch exhibition card firmly attached to the front of the piece with the following information: name of piece, grade level, name of school the student attends, medium, and price (if student wishes to sell their piece).

• Submissions must be received at the Gallup Cultural Center by Friday, October 22, 2010.

• Winners must agree to leave their pieces for exhibit at the Cultural Center until the following year’s submission deadline: all other art work must be picked up by March 4, 2011.

• The Reunion of the Masters is a coalition of Native American Artists, however, in the spirit of community, this competition is open to all races.

• ALL submitted pieces MUST be sponsored by a school art program.

For more information contact: Jeremy Boucher (505) 863-4131 jeremy@cia-g.com

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ur redesigned website has launched. You can check it out, nay you must check it out, by hopping on the information superhighway and navigating to www. gallupjourney.com. Trust me; you’re going to love it.

Some of my favorite things about the site are as follows: #1 – You can now flip through a digital copy of the magazine. Log on and see what I mean by clicking on the magazine’s cover on the main page.

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#2 – We’ve got tons of People Reading the Gallup Journey photos loaded up. I think we have pretty much every photo from the last three years. So, if you have been featured in the magazine reading your copy of the Journey in an awesome location in the last couple of years, log on and find yourself! Maybe even leave a little note on the bottom about which picture is yours, who you are, and where you were! #3 – Awesome design. And we can create a site for you now, too.

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#4 – Our new blog. Three or four of us are going to be taking turns writing on the Journey blog daily. I’m sure you’re all going to love to read what we have to write about, so log on and start reading! #5 – Money. We may or may not give you money for going to our site. The only way to find out is by logging on yourself and searching for cash. #6 – Our online portfolio. I’ve been looking forward to doing something like this since we launched our last site five years ago. Well, we finally got it done and I think it works very well. So, if you’re wondering what else we do (besides the monthly magazine), check out the portfolio for some other design work that we have created.

Well, that’s about it. Sorry about the obvious, and somewhat shameless, self-promotion that you’ve just read. But hey, sometimes you’ve just gotta do it, you know?

Please go to our new site. We’re very proud of it and would love for you to love it, too.

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God Our Advertisers Our Writers Our Parents Opinion Poll People Whitney Family #1 Whitney Family #2 Shopping Locally buy.build.believe

Money & You Rounding the 4 Corners West by Southwest Driving Impressions 8 Questions Adventures in Parenting Highfalutin’ TFA Profiles Lit Crit Lite Food

Contributors Alan Beamsley Erin Bulow Ernie Bulow Greg Cavanaugh Sanjay Choudhrie Patricia Darak Heather Donley Elijah Gjeltema Tommy Haws Kari Heil Rob Koops Larry Larason Amanda Potts Fowler Roberts Andy Stravers Chuck Van Drunen

October 2010: Volume 7, Issue 10 All Rights Reserved. No articles, photos, illustrations, advertisements, or design elements may be used without expressed written permission from the publisher, Gallup Journey Inc. This publication is distributed with the understanding that the information presented is from many sources, for which there can be no warranty or responsibility by the publisher as to accuracy, originality, or completeness.

It is distributed with the understanding that the publisher is not engaged in making product endorsements, recommending health care or treatments, providing instruction, or recommending that any reader participate in any activity or behavior described in the publication. The opinions of the contributors to this publication belong to them and do not reflect the opinions of the editors or publishers.

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By Chuck Van Drunen This Photo by Dr. Alan Beamsley A Gallup Sunrise.

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Roxanne will answer your questions!

Stop by: Calvin Hall, Rm 228 • 8am - 5pm • Monday - Friday If you’re at the Zuni Campus, Roxanne will be available on October 13 and November 17 from 9am to 4pm, to provide information on the UNM Gallup Bachelor & Graduate Programs.

Appointments are always welcome.

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October 2010 Events & Programs: 9th - Rock the Rocks @ 10 am 13th - Ts’aa’ - Navajo Basket @10 am

27th - Traditional Diné Harvest Time @ 10 am

Exhibits: Gallery 1: Béésh łigaii’ootsid So‘nahálingo disxos Silver Stars Gallery 2: Hwéeldi Baa Hane’ Our Stories of Fort Sumner Gallery 3: Hózhóógo ‘Iiná A Beautiful Life Gallery 4: Hastiin Ch’ilhajíní dóó Diné bi Naat’áani Bahane’

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Chief Manuelito Middle School 1325 Rico Street • (505) 721-5600

Moving towards excellence Active, positive participation Valuing our community

Staying safe and healthy

Chief Manuelito Middle School Receives Grant Award The staff of Chief Manuelito Middle School is pleased to announce that Chief Manuelito has been selected to receive the Navajo Coordinated Approaches to School Health (NCASH) grant. The NCASH program seeks to improve health and academics in schools through the following tools: • Increase the number of students who participate in moderate to vigorous physical activity at least 150 minutes per week, • Implement the Diabetes Education in Tribal Schools (DETS) designed to reduce the effects of childhood obesity and Type II diabetes, and • Raise the number of families and community partners actively working with the school to improve physical activity and dietary practices.

Specifically at Chief Manuelito, this two year initiative means that a number of activities designed to improve and support healthy habits are coming to our school both during and after the school day. Starting this year and due to NCASH, all sixth grade students will undergo a Body Mass Index (BMI) check to help students and families assess overall health. Additionally, all physical education students will be evaluated for overall fitness with a goal for improved fitness throughout the class and the DETS program will be taught to all eighth grade students during the 2010-2011 school year.

After school activities are also coming for the Chief Manuelito community. Starting on Wednesday, October 13, 2010 (and continuing on the second Wednesday of every school month), Chief Manuelito Middle School will be offering Open Gym nights. Open Gym nights will offer time to use the school gymnasium and provide volunteer parent classes. Also starting in October, there will be a Chief Manuelito walking and jogging club meeting Thursdays after school with more details to follow. Lastly, part of the NCASH grant allows the school to purchase weight and aerobic training equipment for student and community use. Please stay tuned for more details on the weight room and the jogging club.

The Chief Manuelito expectations are summarized in the four MAVS (Moving towards excellence, Active positive participation, Valuing our community, and Staying safe and healthy). The receipt of the NCASH grant allows the Chief Manuelito community to continue “Staying safe and healthy”. Please join us in celebrating this grant and the healthy lifestyles that it can create and support.

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by Amanda Potts

Gypsy Grunge Girl

in a Mundane World

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had just moved into my new empowered-single-woman apartment, surrounded by boxes filled with the mementos of my youth and the pieces of life I’d acquired during my tenyear marriage. While sorting through the remnants of my life, deciding what I should keep, sell, or toss, I came across my old boots. I thought about the journey they’d made to get here, and the one I’d made to get to this point.

“What on earth do you have those for?” my now-ex-husband exclaimed when I’d first shown them to him shortly after our marriage.

“They’re the boots I wore in high school. Back when I was workin’ my look.” He looked at me like I’d lost my mind, then rolled his eyes. It was a pretty standard reaction each time I insisted on packing them up and taking them with us as we moved from Ohio to Detroit to Gallup. I didn’t care.

I smiled rather smugly to myself now as I laced up my boots and slipped into my old teenage attitude.

When I turned twelve, I hit puberty hard. It was a head-on collision, and I was left in the midst of the wreckage of bad skin, frizzy hair, no fashion sense, and hormones-gone-wild. Every day was a new reason for tears, drama, and the wailing lament, “No one understands me!”

Junior high didn’t get much better. Oh, those were the days – everyone for himself and fighting for his place in the hierarchy of the pack.

Darwin could have skipped his voyages and dropped in on seventh and eighth graders to witness survival of the fittest. I had known almost all of these people since kindergarten, and now here we were, clustering together like herd animals on the savannah, hoping some other group or lone individual would

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fall prey and be picked off by the lions and hyenas.

When I got to high school, I was given the opportunity to attend writing institutes in the summers following my freshman and sophomore years. They were week-long writing camps for high school students. It was like coming home. We were all highly dramatic and full of our importance and genius as teenage writers. We were misunderstood together. We shared our stories, our thoughts and feelings, our laughter and tears. We were writers writing.

Through those experiences I transformed myself. No longer did I need to blend in with everyone else. We had known each other for most of our lives. Now I wanted everyone to know I was different, and I didn’t care.

If I had known of Goth back then, I know that’s where I would have been drawn. But it was the ’90s and grunge and the hippie revival were in full swing – the decade of Lollapalooza and Woodstock 2. Being securely insulated in the rural Midwest, no one in my small town really embraced either of those movements.

In my attempt to develop my grunge-alternative persona, I immersed myself in music. I played Blind Melon and Nirvana, listened to Pearl Jam and Red Hot Chili Peppers until my tapes were worn out. I wrote stories and poetry that were too deep for the conventional masses to really understand. As far as I was concerned, most of the people I knew were not deep enough to get what I was trying to do and say in my writing.

I emphasized my new attitude with a new look. The grunge movement was exactly what it sounded like – ratty flannel, ripped jeans, and clunky boots. My look was more of grunge-gone-wrong. I couldn’t bare the

I knew without a doubt, that whatever I did, I wouldn’t be leading that provincial, domestic life that I had grown up with. unwashed bed-head look, so I tried to keep it as simple as possible, combing through my hair, making sure I had bangs over my half-Zuver forehead. I did have the requisite flannel shirt. It was red and black plaid and, like any favorite clothing, it got softer and more comfortable every time I wore it.

Unfortunately, instead of a cool band shirt underneath it, I wore a t-shirt sporting a giant Minnie Mouse, believing that coordinating the colors was appropriate. My mother refused to let me leave the house in jeans that actually had holes or were frayed, so I settled for finding pairs that looked faded and worn. Of course I wore my big, clunky, clodhopper boots.

But that wasn’t the only side to me. After all, I was deep, full of all sorts of intense thoughts and feelings! Unfortunately, my other fashion efforts didn’t fare much better. I obsessed with expressing my emotional turmoil by wearing all black. But not in the cool anti-establishment way I actually admire in some of my students now. No, I wore a black turtleneck, black stirrup pants, and tennis shoes. Looking back, it wasn’t quite the Jack Kerouac-beat generation look I was going for. But I decided it still got my point across just fine.

Then there was my “hippie revival” look. My mother referred to it as “Bohemian-peasant-farmer.” What did she know? She was one of the unenlightened. I would wear a long broomstick skirt with a sleeveless silky top that came down in two pieces over my skirt. Finishing this haute couture ensemble was – you guessed it – my boots. Those big, brown, clunky clodhoppers that looked ready for a day of farming. I’m sure my mother took one look at me and envisioned me wandering through potato fields outside of some Bulgarian village, my mind as drifty as my skirt.

Those boots were a constant part of my various experiments to my look throughout high school. My boots and my black fingernail polish. I loved my black fingernails. No one else in my school wore it, and it became part of my signature look. But I would only wear it on my pinkies. It screamed (in my mind), “I am alone and no one understands me!” I knew that someone out there knew the meaning behind my look, as if it was all part of some secret society code, like the Illuminati or the Shriners. I was sure that any day I was going to run into the right people who understood exactly who I was and what I meant. They’d take one look at me, recognize me as one of their own, and invite me to come live with them. I pictured a group of creative souls gathered together in the lofts of New York in the Village, meeting in coffee houses for poetry slams and readings of Kafka and Sylvia Plath. I knew without a doubt, that whatever I did, I wouldn’t be leading that provincial, domestic life that I had grown up with.

The sounds of canned laughter on TV jarred me out of my reverie into the present. I untied my boots and put them back into their box, replacing them with plain white tennis shoes that have become my everyday shoes. I was about to toss the box onto the Goodwill pile, but something stopped me. There was no way I could risk seeing those boots on the feet of someone who couldn’t possibly understand their importance. So I set the box in the bottom of my closet, and marched out into the living room. As I grabbed my car keys off the holder, I could see my ex-husband, ever-clueless about who I really was, aghast at my leaving in the middle of organizing, demanding to know where I was going while leaving the bedroom in such a state of disarray. It was like he was in the room with me. “Where are you going? I thought you were organizing the bedroom.”

“I’m going to Wal-Mart,” I would inform him.

“What do you need at Wal-Mart?” He’d look into the bedroom and notice the boxes strewn all over. “What about the boxes all over the bed!”

I held up my middle finger to the image sitting on the couch, taken aback by my new attitude. “I’m going to get fingernail polish.”

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Celebrating the Marine Corps's birthday in Iraq, 2006.

U.S. Marine Corps

Birthday

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he United States Marine Corps has a long and rich history, throughout which American freedoms have been established and defended. The very founding of our country was made possible in part by the formation of the Continental Marines in 1775.

On November 10 of that year, at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia, the Second Continental Congress resolved that “two battalions of Marines be raised� to fight for independence on land and at sea. The date, almost 235 years ago, is considered the U.S. Marine Corps’s Birthday. Across the globe, this is a day when current and former Marines come together to celebrate their remarkable story and experiences.

One of the most illustrious events in Marine history occurred during WWII with the formation of an elite unit of Navajo Code Talkers. The original twenty-nine young men were responsible for developing an intricate code, which allowed regiments of Marines to communicate quickly, concisely, and above all, securely while engaged in combat in the Pacific. It saved countless lives and helped end the war. Though few of these heroes are alive today, their service in the Marines will forever conjure up feelings of pride and accomplishment for their families and fellow Marines alike.

Honor and tradition are powerful principles held strongly by the Marines, and many people enlist in the Corps following a sense of familial duty.

Gallupian, Michael Kozeliski had no prior connections to the armed forces.

For him, joining the Marines was an important decision, but one he made while climbing the political ladder in Washington D.C. Though he had been considering military service as a significant venture from which he could always return to a career in politics, the events of September 11, 2001 solidified his thinking. Beginning in June 2002, Kozeliski went to Officer Candidate School and Artillery School. From there he was based at Camp Pendleton and deployed to Iraq twice as an Infantry Officer.

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This is a day when current and former Marines come together to celebrate their remarkable story and experiences.

Ball

In 2007, Michael returned to Gallup, proud to have worn the Eagle, Globe & Anchor along with so many who had served before him. As a Marine, he experienced the strong bond of loyalty and tradition that distinguishes those who serve in the Corps. As an officer, it was his duty to ensure the success of those under his charge. And now, as a reservist working for the Marine For Life program, it is his responsibility to help connect Marines coming out of active duty with opportunities for a successful civilian life.

By way of maintaining one of the foremost customs that the U.S. Marine Corps observes, Kozeliski is planning a Birthday Ball to commemorate the November 10 event. Current and former Marines and their families, as well as Navy personnel who served with Marine units, are invited for dinner, dancing, and cake, of course! The cake cutting ceremony is an important part of the birthday celebration. By tradition, the first slice of cake is given to the oldest Marine present, who in turn hands it off to the youngest Marine present, symbolizing the old and experienced Marines passing their knowledge to the new generation of Marines.

The 235th Marine Corps Birthday will be celebrated at the Knights of Columbus Hall (200 Apache Circle). Dinner and program from 6 to 8PM, live music and dancing from 9PM to 12AM. Admission is $25/person, $40 per couple and includes dinner, drink, cake, ball ceremony, live music, dancing and door prizes! Free door prize chances will be given for each toy brought for Toys for Tots. Dress is business casual or, if Marines would like to come in uniform, Dress Blue Alfas is preferred.

RSVP before October 15 and get a free gift with ticket, available at the door.

For more information, contact the Gallup Marine Ball Committee at (505) 609-8762 or email gallupmarinecorpsball@gmail.com.

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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.

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This is Gonna Hurt a Little . . .

I had to make the choice that meant some pain now as opposed to the possibility of something worse later.

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he hardest thing I had to do as a young father is hold my sweet little girl down as a nurse shoved a large needle into her thigh and gave her an inoculation. I will never forget the look on her face as she looked up at me and seemed to say with her expression, “Are you gonna just sit there and let them do this to me?”

Sometimes it is hard to take our medicine. It is hard to get through the short painful things in our lives in order to get to the better results in the long run. I kept telling myself that a few moments of tears were better than seeing her suffer from a disease that could cripple or kill her later. Even if it was hard – I had to see the big picture, focus on the long run and make the choice that meant some pain now as opposed to the possibility of something worse later.

First day of economics 101 tells us that economics is the study of scarcity – how we manage scarce resources. On a macro level, that is what is going on in our larger economy either world-wide or nationally. But I do not want to talk about that right now. Let’s get personal.

Have we inoculated ourselves against our own personal economic diseases? Do we take a little pain now in order to be better off later? Here are some examples of what I mean.

The courage to say “I can’t afford it.” It has been said that in a marriage the three most important words are “I love you” and the second most important words are “We can’t afford it.” Some studies have shown that 70 to 90% of divorces in America can, in one way or another, be traced to money issues. That may be high, but in my experiences, I have seen that it is definitely a player in most every case.

Uncontrolled consumer debt and spending will always catch up to us and put us in our own little debtors’ prison. While debt is a tool, if it becomes too much to handle it will swamp us. The short-term pain of putting off something that we cannot afford, saving for a large purchase or other “inoculations,” will help prevent the disease of burdensome debt. Sometimes the hardest thing I have had to do as a lender is to say something like, “Your debt to income is too high and I cannot make the loan.” More than once, that has ended up being a very good thing.

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Pay yourself first. Every financial advisor will tell you that your budget should always include savings, retirement programs other sort of putting money away for the future. It is one of those things that seem to hurt now (not taking full advantage of your current income), but will pay off later as you invest that money or even just have the principal put away for use later. IRAs, 401K, Stock Savings, Profit Sharing, or any other program will help you be disciplined. In addition, there are other more traditional plans like savings accounts, CDs or other instruments that can secure your money for a rainy day or retirement. Remember the easiest money to save is money you never see, so find out if your employer offers a payroll deduction program to put money away.

Insurance. A dear friend of mine years ago lost her husband suddenly and tragically in a car crash. He left four small kids at home with no insurance or other arrangements. He was young enough that he thought he had time. The mom had to struggle through a great deal in order to get into her own again. A few dollars a month could have saved a lot of the pain and angst during that already difficult transition. Call it a small inoculation to prevent a possible huge disease in the future.

Education. In our world, there is not a lot that can be done with a high school diploma only. Technical training, college, degrees and certifications drive opportunities, advancements and raises. The pain of sacrifice in order to get a degree, gain a trade or other educational opportunity will pay itself back over and over during a career. To always be learning is a quest of a lifetime. Most employers offer continuing education – take advantage of all you can learn in order to improve your situation.

Just like I had to do with my little one when she was tiny and getting her immunizations against future disease, I had to have the long view of her good health in order to allow her to get poked and hurt for a short time, current sacrifice will reap more benefits in the future as we apply some common sense.

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Geology on the go:

Thoreau to Farmington, NM 371

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his route takes you across the central San Juan Basin, a relatively flat, but not entirely featureless region about 7,800 square miles in extent. The basin is a depression on the Colorado Plateau that formed during the Laramide Orogeny and filled with sediments washed down from the mountains that pushed up around it.

The basin presently supplies about ten percent of the nation’s natural gas and holds reserves estimated at more than 50 trillion cubic feet.

Passing through the ridge north of Thoreau you encounter Crevasse Canyon Formation; this is a catch-all name for a complicated group of lagoonal and deltaic sediments, some of which contain coal. This formed as the Cretaceous sea retreated, but it is restricted to the south side of the basin and southern New Mexico.

Road Log Take Exit 53 off I-40 onto NM 371 at Thoreau. Trading posts in Thoreau once supplied most of the silver jewelry sold in Harvey Houses along the railroad.

Milepost 3. Cliffs to the north display Triassic Chinle Formation at the base through Cretaceous Dakota Sandstone at the top. The butte nearest the road is Jurassic Entrada Sandstone capped by Todilto Limestone, also Jurassic in age.

Milepost 4. Cliffs on the left are Entrada and Todilto over Chinle. A thin, white stripe separates two members of the Entrada. The upper member is sandy, while the lower one is silty. Notice how differently the two portions weather.

Milepost 6. Todilto Limestone is being mined on a ridge to the west.

Another mine is located east of milepost 7. The Todilto Formation consists of limestone overlain in part by gypsum. No one is sure whether the Todilto formed in an arm of the Jurassic sea or in a freshwater lake because diagnostic fossils are not present. The gypsum formed after the lake or bay had shrunk, so it does not appear here. Both rocks were deposited in arid conditions, and typically lie between windblown sand deposits.

Milepost 7. Mesas of Jurassic Morrison Formation capped by Dakota Sandstone are on both sides of the road.

At the crest of a hill past milepost 8, the road cut is in the Dakota Sandstone.

Mancos shale, covered with alluvium, forms the valley.

Hosta Butte appears at 10:30. It is named for a man from Jemez who was one of the guides for the Washington Expedition in 1849. He was with Lt. Simpson during his visit to Chaco Canyon and seems to have been the source of the legend that the ruins there were built by Montezuma and his people before they went south to found the Aztec empire. Hosta also guided W. H. Jackson to Chaco in 1877, although by then he was nearly blind and was accompanied by his grandson, who helped him

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find his way. Jackson is the one who named the butte for the guide. The USGS map of 1886 named it “Mesa Butte,” a remarkably silly name.

Milepost 13. Smith Lake is on the west. The lake is man-made and ephemeral. I’ve only seen water here after a heavy rain; it is shallow enough to be called a puddle. The Blackjack uranium mine operated about two miles west during the 1960s and ’70s.

Milepost 15. The base of the mesa on the right is Gallup Sandstone, overlain

by Crevasse Canyon Formation.

Cross the Continental Divide, 7890 feet in elevation, at milepost 16.

Milepost 17. In the cliff on the right the Crevasse Canyon Formation interfingers with Point Lookout Sandstone.

Milepost 18. Cross Satan Pass. Because it was so rough, the early Spanish settlers named it “Cañon Infierno.” Now that the road is paved, you’ll find it heavenly to travel.

The many faults in this area probably account for the gap in the cliffs traversed by Satan Pass. All the rocks here are Cretaceous. At the summit of the pass start watching for honeycomb weathering in the sandstone on the east side of the road.

It is especially noticeable near milepost 19.

Milepost 21. The flat valley ahead is eroded into the Mancos Shale, although it doesn’t show much at the surface because it is covered with alluvium. The road travels across the Chaco Slope, where the rocks dip gently away from the Zuni Mountains into the San Juan Basin.

Milepost 23. A Chacoan outlier, Kin Ya’a, is visible on the right at 3:00.

The “spire” jutting up is part of the wall of a four-story tower kiva. Kin Ya’a is included in the Chaco Culture Heritage Park.

Kin Ya’a

The brownish wall of a tower kiva is one of the few walls exposed at this unexcavated site. To visit the ruin, turn right on the dirt road just south of the propane plant, 0.2 miles past the milepost. If the gate is unlocked you may proceed about one mile, keeping Kin Ya’a in sight, on very rough dirt tracks to a parking spot by the fence. This is Navajo grazing land; if you go to see this Chacoan outlier, close the gate behind you.

Kin Ya’a was constructed between 1060 and 1109. The pueblo had 42 rectilinear rooms and 7 round rooms, probably kivas. Four kinvas were stacked to make the tower, the top of which may have served for line-of-sight signaling.

Clustered nearby are ruins of 80 home sites or “unit pueblos.” This ruin is sacred to the Navajo because one of their four original clans lived around here.

by Larry Larason

Subterranean coal fires are burning all around the world even now, especially in India and China. One such fire in Australia has been burning for at least 2000 years.

Milepost 24. Intersection with a road to Crownpoint is on the west. The main road to Crownpoint lies ahead beyond milepost 25. This community grew up around the Pueblo Bonito Indian School, which was started in 1909. Later the Eastern Navajo Agency was located here. The monthly rug auctions at Crownpoint attract both trading post operators and tourists.

Junction with NM 57 to Cuba. This is the turnoff for Chaco Canyon. About 14 miles east of here a very rough, unpaved road goes north to take you to the park’s visitor center. A preferable route goes north from Pueblo Pintado, where the ruins of a Chacoan outlier are worth a visit, as well. The ruin there had more than 150 rooms in several stories, and there are smaller ruins within a mile of the great house. After abandonment it was re-occupied briefly by Mesa Verdeans. In Navajo legend it was the meeting place of a clan that joined the tribe after fleeing from enemies.

Chaco Culture

The origin of the name “Chaco” is unknown. It may be regional Spanish for desert. The map drawn by de Miera, who accompanied Domínguez and Escalante in 1776, labels the area “Chaca,” but does not indicate the ruins. James Simpson provided the first written description of Chaco Canyon after he spent several days looking over the ruins while part of the Washington Expedition in 1849. William H. Jackson visited the canyon in 1877. He shot 400 photographs, but the film, possibly spoiled by the heat, would not develop. Richard Wetherill did some minor excavations at Pueblo Bonito and Pueblo del Arroyo before he moved in and homesteaded in 1897. He opened a trading post and continued to excavate the ruins until his death in 1910.

The next several miles are on the Menefee Formation – like most Cretaceous rocks, not very colorful. The landscape is mostly flat, but there are some erosional features to interest you. Also, watch for rocks stacked into cairns on hill tops. Some of these are believed to be prehistoric, marking routes to and from Chaco Canyon.

Milepost 39. You can glimpse the valley of the Chaco River toward the east at several points ahead.

To visit the Chacoan outlier of Kin Bineola you need to turn east just before milepost 44. Proceed 4.7 miles on this route [Navajo 7059]. Turn east across an earthen dam and follow this route for 0.6 miles to a parking area. This outlier is as large as some of the great houses at Chaco Canyon, with 195 rooms and 10 kivas covering about 10,000 square feet. It was occupied between 850 and 1150.

Archaeologists have found many unit pueblos and road segments surrounding it.

Milepost 51. Buttes on the west ahead are capped by mudstone of the Fruitland Formation burned into red clinkers by the subterranean combustion of coal.

Natural sub-surface fires in coal beds usually start where erosion has exposed the coal to air at the surface. Because it often contains sulfur, coal may spontaneously combust under certain conditions, or lightning strikes may ignite it. Subterranean coal fires are burning all around the world even now, especially in India and China. One such fire in Australia has been burning for at least 2000 years.

Milepost 56. Cross a bridge over the Chaco River. This used to be called “Chaco Wash.” Why the name was changed is a puzzle to me. You’ll be lucky to see any water in the “river.” The small community of Lake Valley is on the east. The lake in the name (the USGS labels it “Juan’s Lake”) is small and ephemeral. You are just about due west of Chaco Canyon at this point. Between here and there are ruins of some small single story buildings with masonry that indicates Chacoan affinity; oddly, there are no kivas at this site.

Between mileposts 62-63 is a turnoff toward the north that goes to a trail head for the De Na Zin Wilderness Area. “De Na Zin” means “Standing Crane.”

The name comes from a petroglyph found in the canyon.

Milepost 63. Note coal beds on the west in a pretty badlands decorated with more of the red clinkers, which are sometimes mined for gravel called “red dog.”

The term “red dog” is not limited to the Southwest; similar rock occurs anywhere coal

has burned below the surface. For the next few miles, road cuts display Fruitland formation and Pictured Cliffs sandstone.

Cross De Na Zin Wash at about milepost 69. The sides of the wash are in the Fruitland Formation underlain by Pictured Cliffs and Lewis Shale. The stream here is sometimes erroneously labeled Coal Creek on maps. It flows west to join the Chaco River.

Milepost 70. The road to the east [Route 7290] gives access to Bisti Badlands along Gateway and Hunter Washes. “Bisti” is Navajo for “in the clay.”

Bisti – De Na Zin Wilderness

This wilderness area was originally created as two separate units, but they have now been joined. The parking area is about three miles in. This road is washed out on the north side, where a fence prohibits driving a loop back to the highway. There are no trails in the weirdly eroded moonscape of Bisti. It is easy to get lost, so focus on landmarks to guide on if you plan to hike here. Take lots of water.

The Bisti Badlands are Kirtland Shale overlying Fruitland Formation. The Fruitland sand and mud stones were deposited in a swampy, delta-plain situation along the shore of the Cretaceous sea as it retreated eastward. They include much coal. The Kirtland was laid down later as the sea continued its retreat. De Na Zin Badlands are upstream [east] from Bisti and also higher in stratigraphy. Kirtland Shale forms the lowest beds and is topped by the Ojo Alamo and Nacimiento Formations. In 1995 the skull of a crested, duck-billed dinosaur, Parasaurolophus, was found in De Na Zin. It is one of only five specimens of this species known to science.

If you don’t have time to visit Bisti, watch for some of the badlands erosional forms along the road ahead, especially around milepost 72. An electrical relay station and pipeline compressor station are near milepost 74.

Milepost 77. The turnoff to the northern part of Route 7290 leading to Bisti travels about three miles across boring surroundings then drops you into the badlands.

It ends at a washout about a mile into the canyon. Bisti Trading Post burned in 1971 and a few concrete remains of it are found near where you have to turn back.

Milepost 88. As you come down from the edge of the mesa, notice the badlands in the Nacimiento Formation on the right. These rocks appear similar to those of the Fruitland.

The mountains on the northern horizon are the La Platas that rise west of Durango. Sleeping Ute Mountain is seen at 10:30.

Milepost 93. The circular irrigated plots on both sides of the road are farmed by the Navajo Agricultural Products Industry.

Milepost 98. Ship Rock peeks up at 9:00 from behind Hogback Mountain, which defines the edge of the San Juan Basin.

After you pass an antenna farm, you get glimpses of Head Canyon on the east. The road descends to the San Juan River flood plain through road cuts in the Ojo Alamo Sandstone and Kirtland Shale. Notice the crossbedding in the road cuts.

Farmington was preceded by a town called Junction City located between the Animas and San Juan Rivers east of their confluence. After losing a bid to become the county seat, it faded as Farmington grew. Farmington began in 1879 north of the San Juan River and soon became a busy trading center where stockmen and others came to purchase vegetables and hay. It is still a regional center of commerce, but after oil and gas were discovered in the San Juan Basin in the late 1940s, the agricultural emphasis has given way to an industrial one. During the oil boom of the 1950s, the population of Farmington increased by a factor of seven.

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Southwest

The Man with the “Big Eyes”

West by

Brother Simeon:

by Ernie Bulow

photo by Erin Bulow

The Navajos have gotten some strange English names from traders and teachers and priests and the military and they enjoy returning the favor. They gave Simeon the Navajo name “Big Eyes,” which would seem to refer to his camera work. The word can also be translated as “Bulging Eyes” which isn’t so flattering. In Zuni the term refers to someone who can’t find his nose on his own face.

St. Michaels in 1901 was a peculiar place anyway. The three original priests, soon to be joined by the even stranger but intellectually gifted Father Berard Haile, were hardly typical padres. For one thing, in just three years they had mastered the very difficult language of the Navajo and begun compiling several dictionaries. They were much more interested in learning Navajo and Navajo customs than they were getting on with the business of being missionaries. This really impressed the local tribesmen, including some important leaders.

Brother Placid, the oldest of the original three, left St Michaels and its hard conditions, replaced by Haile. Father Berard jumped into the work and expanded its scope immensely, covering a great deal of Navajo language, religion and practice in his research – he would publish 20 books. His masterwork, a study of the Navajo chant The Nightway was published years after his death, and had little support from the Franciscans who had grown tired of his obsession.

Schwemberger with his camera, 1907.

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eorge Charles Schwemberger, descended from Austrian immigrants, born in Ohio shortly after the Civil War, arrived at the fledgling Mission at St. Michaels in 1901. Though he was thirty-five years of age, he had been within the Franciscan organization since boyhood, but he never desired to be ordained, satisfied to be a “lay brother” to the priests. He was called

Simeon.

He requested the move to the “Indian Mission” himself, probably looking for a bit of adventure. The role of a brother at the time was little short of slavery and the Mission at St. Michaels, Arizona Territory, was primitive to say the least. Just a few years before the three Franciscans were housed in a roofless, abandoned trading post, at the beginning of a severe winter.

Brother Simeon was expected to do all the cooking, housework, gardening, and, time permitting, repair broken things and help with the building going on at the new school.

He also did the laundry, took care of the animals, polished the silver, baked bread and sang in the choir. He was an accomplished plumber and electrician, both very useful around the mission.

Mother Katherine Drexel, soon to become a saint, was traveling with a companion named Sister Ignatius, who was quite taken with Simeon and wrote some kind words about him, detailing his load of work, his manly appearance – his was short and muscular – and also noted he was a jokester and liked to play tricks. All period photos show him as rather swarthy complexioned.

The famous Padre Anselm Weber was less impressed, finding his cooking barely edible, his housekeeping dreadful and his attitude insubordinate. Putting up with him for ten years must have been very annoying for Fr. Weber.

What little written word we have about Schwemberger reflects this dual response to him for the rest of his life. People either loved the man, or found him surly, disobedient even dishonest – not good traits for a man of the cloth. With all of his work, it is hard to imagine how he found time or inclination to discover and excel at the art of photography, but he did.

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Schwemberger is best remembered today for his photographs documenting this powerful ceremony, known to outsiders as the Yei Bi Chai.

So, early in the last century the new mission was manned by Anselm Weber, a politician and peacemaker, who kept the Navajo safe and considerably expanded their Reservation; Berard Haile, linguist and anthropologist; Juvenal Schnorbus, builder and mason who traveled around the Reservation building churches with his own hands; and Brother Simeon who was best at taking photographs. Luckily for us on all counts.

Schwemberger seems to have clashed with the hard-headed Weber from the beginning, and it is surprising they let him buy the large camera and supplies to feed it and turn out images. The Franciscans would get a good return on the small investment, since they have used his photos in many publications over the years.

Notorious museum curator Stewart Culin used a number of his images in his field reports and the famous J. B. Moore Catalog, The Navajo 1911, is full of his wonderful photographs of The People, taken in 1906. In 1986 I helped create a facsimile of the document, which had become a major collector’s item. I wrote a fairly long introduction, never once mentioning the photographs. I knew they were good, but I didn’t know anything about Schwemberger and I gave my attention to Moore and his Indian blankets. Now even the reprint is scarce.

Simeon was stricken in 1909 by a midlife crisis. He fell in love with one of Padre Weber’s cousins. Apparently Simeon’s kitchen skills could no longer be tolerated and they imported a cook. She ran off to avoid his attentions, so Simeon moved to Gallup to pursue her.

She returned neither his affection nor ardor. He had to give up when she married another man. Schwemberger was not prepared for life outside the Franciscan order, but he took his photography seriously and had been making money at it for some time. There is no documentation that he was ever given permission to leave the OFM or marry.

He took the camera and glass plate negatives with him when he left St. Michaels. Weber considered this a clear case of larceny and never forgave him for the theft. The mission didn’t get any of it back until Simeon’s death. Some contend he always meant to return them, others that his family did so later. Neither is true.

He opened a shop in Gallup he called The Indian Arts Studio, which didn’t last very long.

He was, however important enough to be written up regularly in the Gallup newspapers of the time.

When he decided to join his brother in Florida, the October 21, 1910 issue of The McKinley Co. Republican thought it was newsworthy. In part they wrote, Schwemberger

. . . “has the reputation of being the highest priced photographer in the Southwest.” They said his negatives were worth ten thousand dollars. The piece went on to note that he was fluent in Navajo and very well liked by the Indians, giving him access to images nobody else could get. They badly butchered the spelling of “Yehichi.”

Though successful, acquiring orchards and land and helping his brother build a tourist camp, he didn’t last long in Florida and was soon back in Gallup. For the next couple of years he worked for various traders including McAdams and J. L Hubbell, with whom the relationship was somewhat strained. Then he married a twenty-two-year-old girl from Chicago.

He was forty-five and working at a remote trading post. She tried to back out when she discovered there would be no church wedding. Apparently she didn’t take to the reality of Reservation life in those years. It wasn’t a long romance.

She wrote a friend who shared the letter with the Gallup paper, saying she was changing her name and moving to Oregon. Change in climate. She had already been estranged from Simeon for a year, living in California. He was able to get the marriage annulled.

Before she took off, however, the two of them launched a successful enterprise – Navajo Ta-La-Wush – a powdered yucca root for washing hair. The Navajos brought in the yucca and Sim and his bride ground it up and packaged it. The stuff was even advertised in Cosmopolitan Magazine – in the want-ad section.

Schwemberger, who called himself Sim, opened a trading post next. It was on the north side where the Catholic school was built. Again the business was apparently quite successful due to the goodwill he had with the Navajos. He built a hogan for overnight guests, and eventually had half a dozen of them behind the store. His widow and her new husband ran the post for a decade after he died. It is gone without a trace and I have never seen a photograph of it.

When he applied for a trading license, his old enemy Father Anselm, unknown to him, started an aggressive and tireless campaign to have his application rejected, slandering him mightily to men in high places, apparently mad enough to write dozens of letters. Sim got the trading permit anyway.

Above: This could be any number of elections between 1903 and 1908. Father Anselm Weber casts his vote, Schwemberger is seated next to him. Sam Day is seated with a Colt revolver on his hip. Frank Walker and Dan Mitchell complete the group.

Below: Pole Climber, photographed by Schwemberger.

He had married a second time, to Margaret Sandy and had a daughter Eunice who still lives in Gallup.

When he died in January 1931 in the old St Mary’s Hospital in Gallup, he left everything to his wife and daughter. Margaret soon remarried to Carmen Chiaramonte who sold both the camera and hundreds of glass plates to a Gallup photographer named Peter Havens. Chiaramonte stated that she wanted to get rid of anything of Sim’s.

Remember some years before the newspaper had estimated their value at ten thousand dollars. After a long wrangle with the Franciscans, who actually owned the photos, Havens sold them back for the sum of fifty dollars.

It is hard to follow the biographies of early photographers in Gallup. I don’t know anything about Havens. Schwemberger sold his business to J. R. Willis, there is mention of him in a letter to Sam Day Jr. dated 1910. (He didn’t actually move to Gallup until 1918.) In another letter to Day he critiques some of his photos, which were apparently not properly exposed.

Willis sold the store to Tom Mullarky, and the Mullarky heirs sold it to Nello Gaudagnoli. He had in his possession a number of the glass plates, which he allowed Sim’s biographer, Paul V. Long to copy.

Over the years I have come across a number of Schwemberger images not in the official collection.

There is a series of candids of some Anglos visiting Canyon de Chelly and the Day Trading Post. Only one has his stamp, but they are all of the same folks, printed on the same stock cards.

There is also a photograph of the village of Zuni that there is no mention of in the literature. I have another photo of a nearly naked Navajo climbing a pole. In early times there were several traditional pole climbing events from Hopi to Taos, but there is no information on this one. The climber has a big grin on his face.

Few other famous photographers spent so few years at their craft, and produced such a small number of images – less than two thousand, they say. His photo postcards – the large part of his business, along with a few albums – fetch two hundred up on the collectable market. Scholarly essays question his right to photograph the Navajo at all, and a few have suggested that, like Curtis, he manipulated his images.

He is accused of draping his subjects with strands of silver beads and turquoise. Where would a lay brother get that kind of wealth? And why bother? Some writers say his photos of the Yei-Be-Chai should be suppressed for religious reasons. E. S. Curtis’s similar photos are outright fakes – sacred masks worn by the Day boys just for the occasion.

In reality, Simeon Schwemberger had a natural talent, coupled with unusual access to his subjects. His photographs are among the best of the genre. He certainly belongs in the pantheon of Gallup colorful characters.

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Hillerman Memories:

By Erin Bulow

Visits to the Hillerman Household

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will always remember the times I spent at Tony’s house with my parents.

I didn’t know then he was a famous author, I always thought of Tony as a friend. It wasn’t until I was ten I realized this man who had done so much in his life was a big author besides a great friend. Toward the end of our visits Tony would always call me over to his desk and then he’d open his drawer and sneak a candy bar into my hand. When Christmas time came around I would always get a present in the mail from him. For many years I got drawing books of different types, from superheroes to dinosaurs. The last present I got was the best and most valuable one I ever received: his old wallet with a twenty-dollar bill inside. I still carry it around and I always will.

He went from working on a farm in Oklahoma to being a best-selling author. Tony Hillerman was born in Sacred Heart, Oklahoma on May 27, 1925. He worked on the Hillerman farm as a young boy until he left to serve in World War II as a mortar man in the 103rd Infantry Division. That earned him a Silver Star, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart. After returning he worked as a journalist (1948-1962), got his master’s degree, and taught journalism at the University of New Mexico (1966-1987). He went on to write 30 books throughout his career.

His wife, Marie Hillerman, and I always went to her garden in the backyard to pick tomatoes and other homegrown fruits and vegetables. I think now that liking to grow radishes and tomatoes came from my experience in the garden with Marie during our visits. In the springtime Marie and I went out to plant what we would soon harvest.

These memories have been swarming in my head for the past month and I am now happy to put them on this piece of paper to show others what it was like for me to spend time with an author/war hero and a sweet lady who loved our visits. Now I’m thinking this weekend I need to see her so we can go to the garden and harvest tomatoes like old times.

In Tony’s office one day he and my dad started on how old age had caught up to them.

Tony started to tell his story of what “old age” did. He was going to the courthouse to pay a parking ticket one day. “I parked two blocks away from the federal building.

I came back two hours later to find my Jaguar was still running. I came home to tell Marie and she just shook her head and said ‘You are getting older Tony.’ I just laughed.” My father started to laugh also, but I was a bit confused on how leaving an

expensive car running in Albuquerque was funny. Then he told me it’s funny how no one a Jaguar when it’s two blocks from a federal building; carjacker thought it was bait.

I looked at him: “Ohh.” Then my parents laughed, so did Tony.

He told a new story every time we visited. I think my favorite story he told us was when he was a young boy. His father owned a farm, but besides the farm he owned a little country store on a rural crossroad. They sold gas, too. Since back then you had to hand pump gas, you had to always watch the pumps to make sure you didn’t have gas stolen. Anyways, it was late at night when he heard a car pull up. His daddy went out to fill up the long, black Packard. Tony, a little boy, was watching through the blinds.

As his father finished, the car peeled out fishtailing. As gravel was kicking up he saw a hand reach out the window with a wad of money. At the last minute they threw out the money, paper fluttering in the dark sky. Word went around the next day that famous bank robbers passed through the county, and soon they realized, “We got a midnight visit from Bonnie & Clyde.”

My saddest birthday was in 2008. During my birthday party on October 26, after I blew out my candles and had a piece of cake. The phone rang and it was Marie.

Thinking she called to wish a “Happy Birthday,” she told me Tony had passed away at noon. After I gave the phone to my mother, I sat on the couch and cried the rest of the night. I spent Halloween at his funeral. I never told anyone this. We visited him three weeks before. He told his stories as he signed a few books for my dad. As we were leaving, he gave my dad a box of books he was supposed to sign. Looked at me and my dad and said, “I am not feeling so good. So if anything happens, I don’t want you to lose these, just in case.” He hugged my parents and me; I never thought that would be the last time I’d hug him. I got my last candy bar from him that day. I wish I’d known.

This man who had done so much in his life was a big author besides a great friend.

Erin Bulow also wrote last month’s fictional short story, “A New Beginning”.

Hi, or I should say keshi. I’m Erin Bulow, a young artist, writer, and photographer. I am 14 years old and I am half Zuni Pueblo and half white. The great difference is that I am an albino Indian. I’m starting my freshman year at Hiroshi Miyamura High School. Since I was little I’ve been around books and many famous mystery authors like Tony Hillerman, Mickey Spillane, James Lee Burke, Michael Connely, Margret Cole, Steve Brewer, and many others including my father Ernie Bulow. They have all encouraged me to write, but the two most important people who I looked up to in writing are my father and our friend Tony Hillerman. I was only six when I went to my first book show in Austin, Texas. Since then I have been to the Left Coast Crime’s Mystery Conventions in Las Vegas, Nevada, Pasadena, California, Monterey Bay, California, plus many other great destinations. At age nine I had my first photo published in the Gallup Journey for my dad’s article and his profile picture. Since then I have had many photos printed in several publications.

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Driving Impressions:

by Greg Cavanaugh

2011 Buick Regal CXL

Taking a trip across the pond M

erkur. Contour. LeMans. What types of feelings do these cars conjure for you? While the idea of taking a European car, rebadging it and bringing it to the US is not new, the aforementioned list demonstrates the difficulty of doing it well. I’ll make no excuses here; the 2011 Buick Regal is precisely a rebadged and tweaked Opel Insignia. Fortunately, this one will likely go down in automotive history as a successful implementation of this idea.

Here’s why.

First and foremost is the ride and handling. The new Regal is taut. Borderline rough. An inherent characteristic in most European cars is a very firm and controlled ride and Buick left it in when they brought the Insignia across the pond. I’ll admit that it took some getting used to and initially I didn’t like it, I just couldn’t wrap my head around the idea that I was driving a Buick that felt

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like this . . . it just seemed a bit contradictory. After a day or two, however, I began to appreciate the Regal’s penchant for bouncing only once over a bump and for staying true to where it’s pointed when cornering on an off ramp.

Where many cars get downright wallowly after many miles, the Regal will only be getting more comfortable and still in control.

Handling is not the only European trait left in this car either. I’m still not quite sure where this car fits in the car classifications or just exactly which other cars it intends to compete with; the new Regal is truly a European-sized car. While it’s certainly not a compact car, compared with today’s midsized offerings like the Accord, Camry, and Fusion it’s a good bit smaller. Frankly, I like the size.

Out here in the West we tend to think big, but the Regal fits nicely wherever it goes. Up front the Regal is comfortable and out back it offers a fairly generous trunk. But where the Regal’s dimensions are compromised is in the back seat, made no more apparent than when I put my daughter’s car seat back there.

While the car seat fit without too much adjustment needed to the front seats,

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Out here in the West we tend to think big, but the Regal fits nicely wherever it goes.

The Regal is sharp. The styling is largely carried over from Europe, but with a Buick grill and some interior work.

The interior is very attractive and fully functional, but I found some of the materials a bit low-end, namely the center console that seems to move a bit too much than it should when you lean on it. The leather seats, with their contrasting stitching are awesome.

The Regal uses European-esk power. No diesel unfortunately, but no heavy, thirsty V6 either. Using the same direct-injected 2.4 liter 4- and 6-speed transmission as the GMC Terrain I drove previously, it’s quite frugal at 19/30 via EPA estimates and while no one would call this car fast, power is adequate.

I found the Regal’s use of this engine a bit buzzy at times and the throttle tip-in is slow enough that it takes some adjustments to your driving style, but never did I feel like I was really wanting for more power. For those that do, Buick will later be releasing the GS version that will feature a turbo-four, making horsepower somewhere north of 250. This should match nicely with the Regal’s suspension tuning.

When you look at Buick’s current lineup in showrooms, it’s clear that the brand has changed. From the Regal on up to the LaCrosse and Enclave, their image is gaining traction for buyers well below retirement age as stylish, luxurious and smart. Now with the Regal firmly in showrooms and buyers’ driveways, we just may need to add “sporty” to the Buick name as well.

Specs: Vehicle Type: 4-door, 5-passenger Sedan Powertrain: 2.4 liter DI 4-cylinder 182 HP/172 lb-ft, 6-speed automatic transmission, front-wheel-drive Wheelbase: 107.8 inches Overall Length: 190.2 inches Height: 58.4 Width: 71.6 Curb Weight: 3681 lbs.

Fuel Economy: 19 City/30 Highway Base Price: $26,995 LogBook: -Dash gauges are quite small and take some getting used to.

-Rear visibility is severely limited.

-There’re a couple of “tricks” to the front end that make it appear shorter than it actually is . . . clever.

-A good looking car; I kept checking it out from inside the house.

-Trunk uses the old fashioned style hinges, but now they’re enclosed so you can’t crush your groceries with them.

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Questions

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For

By Fowler Roberts

Diane Denish

New Mexico’s Lieutenant Governor Q. Diane, what got you interested in politics in the first place?

A. As a young girl I lived in a small community and everyone pulled

together to improve that community. That’s what politics should be.

Q. What have you enjoyed most about serving as Lt. Governor?

A. Traveling to all corners and communities to hear from New Mexicans

from all walks of life.

Q. What has been your biggest frustration with being Lt. Governor?

A. The Lt. Governor has limited ability to “set the agenda” for the administration. As a result, I haven’t been able to do as much for New Mexico as I would like!

Q. What would be your two top priorities if elected Governor?

A. Job creation, and to transform, reform and improve education to create a 21st-century workforce for New Mexico.

Q. What do you see Gallup’s future being?

A. Exciting! It’s a center for multi-cultural tourism and a regional center

for growth.

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

A. Reading, traveling to remote parts of New Mexico, biking and spending

time with family and girlfriends!

Q. What is your favorite book/movie/musician and why?

A. My favorite book is Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner and my favorite

musician is Willie Nelson.

Q. If you could trade places with one famous person, who would it be and why?

A. Warren Buffet. He is grounded in place and principle and is putting

his wealth to work for good causes (education, third-world disease control, etc.). He believes in partnering for powerful change.

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Tufa Casting is one of the earliest forms of Navajo jewelry making. It refers to the porous stone that is carved and used as a mold to form the structure of the piece. Aaron Anderson has been making jewelry using this method for the last ten years.

He takes pride in the genuine materials and craftsmanship that he incorporates into his pieces. Each final product is sold along with the tufa stone that it was made from as a guarantee that it is one-of-a-kind.

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Adventures in

Parenting

by Patricia Darak

A Week’s Worth of Fun Playing in the mud . . . should be required activities for active children.

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unday night: It’s full-on dark outside and the two older children are enlarging the hole that they have been digging, all day long, in the garden. Other than a single bulb lighting their work area, they are content to dig in murky conditions. To add to their enjoyment, their dad encouraged them to fill their trench with water so that they would be digging in mud instead of boring old dirt. In fact, when I glance out the back door to check on their progress, I can only dimly see two muddy shadows moving in a sludgy puddle.

Of course, this makes me very happy. I’m still extremely closely intertwined with my own inner child, so I can fully appreciate my own children and their organic play habits. And, after they are done playing, they each get both a shower and a bath; a quick shower to rinse off the mud, and a nice lengthy warm bubble bath to get them squeaky clean and ready for their pajamas.

After that, it will be tooth-brushing time, then into bed for a story, a cuddle, and a kiss.

As long as the weather stays warm, they can do this every evening. After all, playing in the mud, as well as tree climbing and drawing with chalk on every available outside surface, should be required activities for active children. It keeps them occupied in a constantly changing imaginative atmosphere, and makes for a really simple cleanup.

Now that they are getting older (seven, five, and three years old), I can see their diverging interests. Although they still like to play in each other’s company, there are some days when they would rather just have “private time” than deal with their siblings.

That’s fine. I mean, who wouldn’t love to be able to claim “private time” and have everyone leave them alone for a little while?

Two hours later, the house is quiet. Everyone is sleeping; everyone except Mom, that is. _____________________________________________________________ Monday evening: Homework and dinner finished, the three kids climb among the branches of the tree in our front yard. Three bouncing shapes silhouetted in the last golden rays of the setting sun, laughing and gesturing with various untethered limbs, invite me outside to play. Putting aside the laundry, I amble

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outside. Before long, I, too, am laughing and singing along with the group. A spontaneous chalk-art exhibition appears, and we run around, leaving a trail of chalk-dust in the air. A good time is had by all, and we make our way inside to begin our nightly ritual of settling down for the night. _____________________________________________________________ Tuesday morning: Up before the dawn, I shower and dress for the day ahead. Checking the time, I step quietly into my oldest daughter’s bedroom and watch her for a few moments as she sleeps the sleep of the innocent and loved. Sighing softly, I walk over to her bed and sit down carefully on the edge. As I gently wake her, I murmur softly, “Good morning, darling,” and hug her. As her eyes open, she gives me a smile of such sleepy beauty that I am momentarily taken aback: she’s magnificent.

A scant thirty minutes later, we are on our way to her school, traveling the early-morning distance while singing along with the songs on the radio. Fully awake now, my daughter broaches several different topics of discussion for a rapid-fire, yet thorough, conversation. As always, I’m more than happy to talk about anything she wants, and I do.

Fifteen minutes later, we arrive at the school. As I turn off my vehicle, my daughter and I smile at each other.

“Here we go.” _____________________________________________________________ Friday afternoon: The arrival of the weekend has started early, and backpacks, shoes, and grievances are shed as soon as the three kids and I walk into the house. Then, before another moment is wasted inside, the three of them are outside. As if by prior arrangement, one starts filling up their kiddy pool with water, another launches a massive search for all of her water toys, and the third supervises the other two. Anticipation crackles in the air, and laughter issues forth, full volume. Except for snacks every thirty minutes or so, they are fully engaged outside. Every once in a while, I stroll out to check on them (even though I can clearly hear exactly what’s going on), and join in wherever I can.

Today was a nice day, hopefully, with many more to come.

by Elijah Gjeltema Three Gallupians take a wrong turn at Albuquerque and wind up in a strange, urban habitat – New York City. These are their words.

Highfalutin’

Them’s Fightin’ Words

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f all topics that rouse our passions, language is one of the most democratic. It may be the most popular subject behind “politics” and “kids these days” among literate folk. Perhaps it’s because it is woven into experience of the world in such a fundamental way – it is the most cerebral way we interact.

It’s like an old friend, and like old friends, we get attached to it. Too attached, sometimes. For many, using language improperly is more than just distracting or irritating, it’s Wrong. So wrong, in fact, that we don’t think twice when someone says they’d like to strangle someone for using “infer” rather than “imply.” In 2008, two touring “grammar vigilantes” were arrested at the Grand Canyon for defacing a historical sign whose transgressions include misplaced apostrophes and a description of an “emense westward view” of the canyon. [The word is noted in the Oxford English Dictionary as an old and not uncommon variant of “immense.”] Perhaps police investigators should start a “pedant registry” – if rhetoric is any indication, angry language mobs should be the usual suspects in any case involving the interpersonal application of violence.

Language purists in France are so dedicated to their self-appointed knightly role that they established the Académie française to protect the vulnerable French language from the corrupting forces of the world. Members of this illustrious cabal are actually granted the title of “immortals.” Many English speakers pine for a similar establishment to safeguard our mother tongue against the blood-curdling horrors of “late-nite drive-thrus” and the like. In the absence of such an elite department, we have to settle for the codified wisdom of a few self-appointed sages. Fowler’s Modern English Usage and Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style form the core of the canon. Their proclamations have protected generations of English readers from the insidious split infinitive [present in the English language since at least as early as the biblical translator John Wycliffe, in the 14th century] and the pernicious passive voice [though just what the passive voice is they do not seem to know themselves]. More recently, Lynne Truss found success with her “zero tolerance” punctuation manifesto Eats, Shoots & Leaves in which she condemns, among others, those who misplace apostrophes: such sinners “deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave”.

Language sticklers are, I think, basking in a sort of self-satisfied feeling that they and the language they use are civilized and proper. Stickling is a way to separate the wheat from the chaff. This superior attitude is justified, you see, because anyone, after all, can just go out and learn the rules. Those who don’t do so must be either lazy or unintelligent and hence deserving of scorn and punishment. I believe this attitude, though superficially defensible as encouraging adherence to lofty intellectual standards, is in fact a kind of discriminatory thought just as low, base, and unjustified as any other. Indeed, it is often a kind of camouflage for less socially acceptable forms of prejudice: it is often claimed that the Black English pronunciation of “ask” as [æks] is sign of profound laziness. Of course, switching the /k/ and /s/ sounds is hardly a reduction in speech effort, so accusations of sloth are wildly misplaced. But more importantly, this kind of attitude is nothing more than racism wearing a fake moustache – judgment based on pronunciation is no more legitimate than judgment on skin color. No one calls the English lazy for leaving out /r/ sounds. This sneaky meanness is not obvious. The masses of grammar snobs hardly realize the dark side of their craft. The disguise is an excellent one. Even the wolf thinks he’s a sheep.

In the Southwest, of course, we’ve had our own history with language discrimination masquerading as high-minded “education” incentives. Native American children sent to boarding schools were beaten for uttering a few words of their mother tongue under the pretense that it would spur them to learn English more quickly – it was good for them, you see, because it helped them to learn the more civilized, better language. But what makes a language better, really? Is it adherence to artificial, pompous decrees of Right and Wrong? I think it is something else – expressiveness, variety, and authenticity.

Language is an identity marker. That is precisely why it is such an easy tool for discrimination. But it is a good thing, as well – the way we talk and the things we say reflect our rich and diverse experiences. Variation is not something to be stamped out, shunned, or stifled; it should be celebrated and cherished.

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Many English speakers pine for a similar establishment to safeguard our mother tongue against the blood-curdling horrors of “late-nite drive-thrus” and the like.

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ElOctober Morro Theater Schedule

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KIDS! Come dressed in costume during the Kids Matinees and receive a FREE Kiddie Drink OR Kiddie Popcorn! Kids Matinees ONLY! Drawing after movie for fun stuff!

Saturday, October 2, 2010 No Kids Matinee.

Saturday, October 2, 2010 Doors: 6pm Show Time: 7pm Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with a concert featuring The Masters of New Mexican Folk Music!

This concert will feature the best musicians in the various folk genres of our state. The concert will feature three masters of Hispanic Folk Music from Northern New Mexico: violinist Lorenzo Martinez, guitarist, vocalist, and violinist Cipriano Vigil, and accordionist and guitarist Antonia Apodaca and her Trio Jalapeno. They will be performing the traditional Hispanic music of the bailes, or dances, such as cunas, valses, chotizes, and cuadrillas; and the old folk tunes, such as romances, dècimas, cuandos, and trovos.

Admission: Adults: $10.00/person Children 12 and under: $8.00 Saturday, October 9, 2010 No Kids Matinee.

Saturday, October 16, 2010 Show Time: 1pm Kids Matinee movie: Disney’s The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad Rated G 68 minutes Voices by: Bing Crosby, Basil Rathbone, Eric Blore, Pat O’Malley, John McLeish Admission: Adults: $2.00 Children 12 & Under: FREE THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS follows the wild ride of J. Thaddeus Toad, squire of Toad Hall. Smitten with motorcars, the wealthy and reckless sportsman soon drives his close friends Mole, Rat, and Angus MacBadger into a worried frenzy!

Then meet Ichabod Crane, the spindly schoolteacher who dreams of sweeping the lovely Katrina off her feet -- until Brom Bones, the town bully, gets involved.

Saturday, October 16, 2010 Show Times: 6:30pm and 8:00pm Premiere Movie: Never Land

Rated NR 40 minutes Filmed in New Mexico!

Admission: $3.00/person Saturday, October 23, 2010 Show Time: 1pm Kids Matinee movie: Mad Monster Party Rated NR 94 minutes Animated Feature Voices by: Boris Karloff. Allen Swift, Gale Garnett, Phyllis Diller, Ethel Ennis Admission: Adults: $2.00 Children 12 & Under: FREE! After discovering the secret of destruction, Baron von Frankenstein is retiring as head of the World Wide Organization of Monsters. He’s handpicked his mortal nephew Felix to be his successor, and his fellow monsters are less than pleased.

Even though Felix politely declines to carry on this family tradition, the monsters band together and doublecross one another in comic attempts to expel Felix from the group.

Saturday, October 23, 2010

7th Annual UFO Film Festival Doors open: 4:00 pm Show starts: 5:00 pm- 11:00 pm Special Guest: Art Campbell www. ufocrashbook.com El Morro Theatre 207 W. Coal Ave. Gallup, NM 87301 Adults: $10.00/person Seniors and Students: $7.00/person For more information, Call Chuck Wade: (505)979-1138 www. chuckwadeufo.com

Thursday, October 28 thru Sunday, October 31, 2010

El Morro Haunted House Open Nightly from 8pm to 12am Admission: $8/person

COME, IF YOU DARE! Saturday, October 30, 2010 No Kids Matinee.

For questions/comments on events contact Beverly @ 726.0050 207 W. Coal

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by H. Haveman

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Oneof a Kind

ohn Beeman has been in Gallup for almost a year. Like so many others, he came to visit, fell in love with the place, and decided to make it his home. However, the path Beeman took to get here was anything but conventional. He’s lived in the Middle East and the four corners of the United States. He pursued music at a young age, despite a debilitating disease. A career as a librarian helped create remarkable opportunities for travel and meeting influential people. At first glance, it may seem that none of that has anything to do with the fact that he’s in Gallup, designing jewelry and operating a shop downtown, but John contends that this is the culmination of many things coming together.

Born in Kansas City, the youngest of three boys, his father was a music educator at the collegiate level and his mother was a registered nurse and later a real estate broker. At the age of two-and-a-half, now living in Wayne, Nebraska, he was diagnosed with polio, which primarily affected his left arm and shoulder. Nevertheless, at the age of ten, John began playing the piano. When a doctor asked, “Who told you you could play the piano?” He responded that no one ever told him he couldn’t. And so it went. John received abundant familial support and encouragement in all of his pursuits, without any questions concerning his abilities or restrictions. John grew up feeling complete love and acceptance from his family, and recalls a special relationship with his paternal grandmother.

As an adolescent, John was a constant doer: waking up to walk the dog or weed the garden before breakfast and school, returning after lessons or from a part-time job to help with dinner and socialize with his family, and going to bed only to do it all again without complaint. When John set his sights on something, he would go full-tilt until it was accomplished. And life has continued in this fashion. John has always been one to undertake new challenges and seize opportunities.

He grew to be a fine pianist and organist with a bachelor’s degree in music and earned a master’s in library sciences. Beeman worked for several years in the library systems at

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the University of South Florida College of Medicine and College of Fine Arts – a job that afforded him the chance to meet world-class musicians and talents from around the globe. He was in the Tampa-Hillsboro County Public Library System when a good friend urged him to consider a job opportunity in Saudi Arabia.

Being the adventurous person that he was, John accepted and spent the following three years working for Saudi Arabia Parsons Limited in an effort to build an industrial city at the Red Sea end of the oil pipeline. Upon arriving in the arid desert, John was overwhelmed at the hustle and bustle and under-whelmed at the prospect of spending the next few years in a 7 x 11 room on what, at that time, was no more than a construction site. During his time in the Middle East, however, he took on his new responsibilities as administrative supervisor of office services and then coordinator of administrative offices for the power and water departments with zeal. Organizational skills gained through his schooling as a librarian came in handy, but John was learning on the job, for the most part.

When he was asked to direct the local chorus, he hesitated at the prospect of taking on too much and getting burned out, but accepted, as he was inclined to do. This turned out to be the biggest blessing he can recall from his three years abroad. He formed wonderful, lasting relationships with people from around the world, many with whom he still communicates.

Coming back to the U.S. after such a wonderful experience was difficult, but necessary.

He returned to Florida, but when his father passed away and his mother was living comfortably in an assisted-living facility, he decided to move to Snohomish, Washington where he knew friends. Settling into life, the Pacific Northwest was very wonderful for a time. He worked in several libraries and then took on a new career in real estate, something he was exposed to as a teenager when his mother was a broker. The new occupation was exciting and life was good.

He responded that no one ever told him he couldn’t . . . John has always been one to undertake new challenges.

Then, in 1999 doctors found a tumor in John’s neck. During three surgeries over four years, it was removed and his neck and back were fused in several places. The surgeries were performed in New York, so John found himself traveling back and forth a lot. During this time his interest in fine jewelry was piqued and he began buying beads and findings and forming relationships with people in the industry.

Ending up in Gallup was a fluke of sorts. John came to visit a friend who had recently moved here for a job. He loved it and promptly bought a home. He found himself renovating at the end of 2009 and moving in earlier this year. The way things have come together to bring him to this point, in a very unforced, organic way, create a certainty within John. Life’s doors have flown open, clearly revealing the path ahead, which for now means creating jewelry and running a shop downtown.

John’s jewelry making is surely an art form. For all his talents, this is the only time in his life that he finds himself creating simply because he cannot stop. He can see a collection of beads and almost instantaneously visualize a finished piece in his head. It comes together quickly and in a process that is intensely focused. Yet, Beeman finds himself strangely unmoved with no great feeling of satisfaction at finishing a piece. When the work is complete, he’s done with it; there’s no going back to tweak or change anything. Each piece is one of a kind.

After creating so much, he felt as though he should try to sell his work. However, selling is not the primary objective.

John says, “I do this for me because it gives me joy. I’m sending it out with the hope that it gives others joy. I hope it does.” He wants his shop to be welcoming, he hopes that people will visit and enjoy just being there with no pressure to buy or spend a certain amount of money. He also wants people to feel that there’s a way for them to have something that gives them joy. No one should go away empty-handed because of what they can’t afford.

The shop, Beeman Jewelry Design, is located at 211 W. Coal Ave. downtown. It is dedicated to a close friend, Robin Harrington, who was John’s inspiration. She was a dear, sweet old woman who passed away last June. She loved soft colors and fine things. She loved John and his jewelry. Her mantra was that the past is past and we don’t know what tomorrow will bring, so we must experience joy each and every day. John has adopted this idea as his own and it has served him well.

John’s jewelry is inspired by the raw materials themselves: beautiful, vibrantly colored stones and delicate beads made of the finest elements. The end results are breathtaking. Similarly, it seems, his life has been inspired by the raw materials that make up who John is. It is precisely because of the adversity he’s faced, the strong relationships he’s been blessed with, and his willing and adventurous spirit that remarkable opportunities and successes have come his way.

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UFO Film

Festival: Search for Truth

by H. Haveman

Chuck Wade at the Plains of San Augustin dig in 2005.

What was found that summer night in 1947 was actually the remains of an alien craft.

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or decades, if not centuries or millennia, people on earth have claimed witness to unexplained lights in the sky, flying objects, and beings not of this planet. Worldwide there exist thousands of testimonies and an abundance of government documentation in support of the existence of extraterrestrial life.

In our country alone, there have been hundreds of sightings during the last century. During the night of February 24-25, 1942, less than three months after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, a flying craft was seen above Los Angeles.

Thought to be another attack, the U.S. military was up in arms and began launching artillery shells at the aircraft for almost an hour. However, the military was never shot at and the object disappeared. The entire incident was declared a false alarm.

In the state of Washington on June 24, 1947, Kenneth Arnold claimed to witness nine unusual objects flying in a chain over Mount Rainier. The sighting made headlines and based on Arnold’s descriptions of the crafts, the media quickly coined the term “flying saucer” to describe such objects.

In July 1947, New Mexico was the site of what is now known as The Roswell Incident. Over three days, July 2, 3, and 4, a series of bright lights were witnessed in the skies of central New Mexico, stretching from the Capitan Mountains to the Plains of San Augustin (the current location of the Very Large Array, or VLA, a multi-dish instrument used for a variety of astronomical investigations). Ranchers, campers and a handful of others who were in this desolate area at the time claim to have seen debris from crafts and the bodies of extra-terrestrial beings.

The military arrived to investigate and quickly explained the findings as being the remains of a downed weather balloon. The whole incident was swept under the rug and nearly forgotten for over twenty years. However,

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in the late 1970s, former military personnel, present at the discovery, publicly revealed details about the event, contributing to the belief that what was found that summer night in 1947 was actually the remains of an alien craft. The resulting media fascination with UFOs and intelligent life from outer space continues today and pressure on the government to officially disclose information pertaining to such events grows stronger.

While Roswell was where the crash was officially reported, the town of Corona, New Mexico was probably the first place to receive the information from witnesses. Corona was, and still is, a very small town – one square mile in area – where word traveled fast and news of a flying saucer was often repeated and not easily forgotten. Chuck Wade was just seven years old and living in Corona in July 1947. He vividly recalls the days following the UFO discovery, personally knows eyewitnesses and has heard their accounts numerous times over the last sixty years. Needless to say, the Roswell Incident made a deep impression on Wade.

Today, Wade and his wife Nancy live in Gallup. Chuck spent his working days as a civil engineer and general contractor. And after thirty years of service in the U.S. Navy, he was able to retire early to pursue his main interests: discovering sources for alternative energy and proving the existence of alien life. The two go hand-in-hand in many respects and with Wade’s scientific background and desire to find the truth, life remains busy during retirement.

Chuck has kept himself occupied by reading books, attending conferences, and surrounding himself with people who have expertise in ufology. In March 2004, Chuck met Dr. Art Campbell, a researcher and the keynote speaker at the Aztec UFO Symposium. The two discovered much in common and met later that spring in the Plains of San Augustin along with Wade’s wife, brother and a small group of friends. They reconvened in 2005 at the same place for the same purpose: an archeological dig at the 1947 crash site. The group was

successful in finding fragments of debris, which appear in nature to be like that of aluminum foil. The fragments have since been analyzed and are chemically unlike any substance known on earth. To Wade’s knowledge, he and Dr. Campbell are the only people to be in possession of any remains from the Roswell Incident, besides, he contends, the U.S. government.

For Wade and others who believe in the existence of UFOs and alien intelligence, much frustration has resulted during years of study and research. Though many countries have disclosed their files on extraterrestrial occurrences and sightings, the United States still has not. And many are skeptical, if not critical, of the ideas that ufologists are putting forward. It’s clear that Wade’s frustration comes from a desire to learn, to gain knowledge about these life forms and put their technologies into practice. Wade is convinced that the UFO found in New Mexico was able to run without the use of oil. “If they can do it here [on earth], then we can do it here.”

In an attempt to get the public involved and informed, Chuck helped start Gallup’s UFO Film Festival. Now in its seventh year, the festival will take place on Saturday, October 23 at El Morro Theater. Three documentaries will be shown and Dr. Art Campbell is the featured speaker. Also in attendance will be last year’s speaker, Mr. Gerald Anderson, who witnessed first-hand as a five-year-old the alien craft and bodies at the Plains of San Augustin in 1947. The event is not only for those who accept and believe; it’s also for those who may be doubtful. The films are informative and will prompt engaging discussion.

The 7th Annual UFO Film Festival’s features will begin at 5:00, 6:15 and 9:45PM. Dr. Campbell will discuss his findings from the UFO crash at the Plains of San Augustin at 8:10PM. Admission for the entire evening is $10 for adults and $7 for students and seniors. For more information, visit www. ufocrashbook.com and www.ChuckWadeUFO.com. This event is sponsored by The Gallup Herald.

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Corps Year: 2010 Undergraduate: Bates College Hometown: Rochester, NY Teaching Community: Gallup School: Washington Elementary Grade/Subject: Fifth Grade Why did you join Teach For America · New Mexico?

Whenever someone asked me as a child what I wanted to be when I grew up, my answer was usually the same: a teacher. While my response to this question varied over the years, working with youth remained a passion. I joined Teach For America to support the national movement to strengthen the education of youth, thereby enabling them to take their future in their own hands. I chose TFA New Mexico, in particular, because I was drawn to the rich cultural diversity of the area.

What personal goals have you set for yourself?

A major personal goal is that when my students graduate from fifth grade this year and go on to the middle school, I can confidently say that I have done everything in my power to prepare them.

What kinds of goals are your students trying to achieve?

My students are working towards making one-and-a-half years of growth in reading by learning a number of reading strategies to strengthen their comprehensive reading skills. They have also set a goal to read 1,000 books as a class this year which divides out to about 60 books per student or oneand-a-half books each week. My students are striving towards earning an 85% or higher on the NMSBA for both math and reading this year.

Elisabeth Mussler

Corps Year: 2009 Undergraduate: Utah State University Hometown: Thatcher, ID Teaching Community: Crownpoint School: Crownpoint High School Grade/Subject: High School Biology Why did you join Teach For America · New Mexico?

I joined TFA New Mexico because I am a huge believer in the power of education to change lives. I was interested in education, but did not pursue it as an undergraduate student.

TFA gave me the unique opportunity to serve in a new community and gain experience in education.

What personal goals have you set for yourself?

I want to instill a love of learning in my students. I want them to understand that education isn’t just for other people, it is for everyone. I also want to finish my full licensure this year.

What kinds of goals are your students trying to achieve?

My students are all working toward being able to think, communicate, and act like scientists.

What is it like to teach in Crownpoint?

I am so grateful that I teach in Crownpoint. It definitely is a rural area, but we do have advantages like Bashas’ and the hospital!

What is it like to teach in Gallup?

I really enjoy teaching in Gallup. I feel that there is a great sense of community and I find it neat that I am able to drive just a few minutes down the road to see my students’ soccer games or bump into them at the local flea market.

Do you spend a lot of time around where you teach?

Yes, definitely. I go to Gallup for classes and Farmington sometimes for groceries and entertainment, but there are great people in Crownpoint and interesting things to see in this area.

What has been the most memorable moment of your teaching experience?

During the first week of school I taught a lesson on malleable intelligence and we had a meaningful discussion on our class potential if we work really hard. To support this mindset and also our goal to be leaders of our school, my fifth graders adopted and modified a previously existing chant to create our own class motto: “Work Hard, Get Smart, Be A Leader, Woo Woo!” My students enthusiastically chanted it all day, while swinging on the swings at recess and waiting to line up in class. One student said to me, “I just can’t stop saying it!” The raw enthusiasm for learning and the sense of class unity that I saw that day was one of the most memorable moments of my teaching experience thus far. It motivated and excited me to put all my energy into teaching them everyday and ensuring that their drive for learning continues and develops. As William Butler Yeats stated, “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” It seems the fire is already in my students and I hope that the fuel of my teaching makes it grow even stronger!

What has been the most memorable moment of your teaching experience?

My students are constantly saying the most hilarious things – too many to count. One of the more memorable moments was a day that I had on wide leg pants and a cricket somehow jumped up my pantleg. I thought it was a spider, though, and I’m sure it was quite a spectacle as I ran out of the classroom.

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There was a day this year that my students were working on a group project and I got to just take a step back and observe their interactions. It was a great moment to see my students working together, discussing, digging into the content, and really seeming to enjoy it. At that moment, I got those teacher warm-fuzzies and realized how lucky I was to be part of this amazing process of educating young minds.

by Two Gallupians At Large in Nigeria

The Sound of Music in West Africa

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ur Boeing 737 landed with a roar in Abuja on August 28, connecting a link in the chain in our lives that had been broken on January 1, 1995 when we left Nigeria to live in The Gambia. A driver had been sent to meet us and two others at the Abuja airport. The four-hour drive to Jos was alternately nerve-wracking and incredibly beautiful depending on whether you looked through the windshield at the horrendous driving patterns or out the side at the majestic scenery of southern Kaduna and Plateau states. (One of our friends in the US once heard me say we were going “Jos” and thought I said “Jaws” perhaps anticipating the death-trap they assumed we were entering.)

A week before we left the US I got a forwarded message, created by a Nigerian lamenting the sad state of affairs in his beloved country. It was a gloomy litany of everything that is wrong: bribery, corruption, economic failure, scamming (the local name is “419” a number rather like “chapter 11”), immorality, and social breakdown. It was a good preparation for our coming. We arrived to find a Nigeria swarming with vigorous, noisy, beautiful people struggling creatively to survive the massive changes that are sweeping the nation. In other words, it was the worst of times; it was the best of times, and if I had to tell a tale of two cities, it would not be Gallup and the Jos of today. They might have been comparable forty years ago: about the same size, ethnically diverse, set in a scene of boulders, plateaus and canyons.

Now the little valley where we used to explore the stream tumbling between the rocks is chockablock with houses. You can hardly find the stream, and the urban monster, thick with fleas, has spread at least a half mile beyond our old home on the edge of town. It has spread even more on the west side where the population has ballooned with the influx of folks moving out of the Muslim-dominated north side of town. Gallup has grown. Jos – like the other state capitals – has exploded. You could look it up, but I’d guess it has grown at probably ten times the rate Gallup has, leaving electricity, water, and other public services in the dust.

We drove onto the campus where we used to live (NBTT, Old Airport Road) on July 29 with a day or two to prepare for the workshop that was to start on Monday. The trees and shrubs we lived with 18 years ago are all twice as big. Some new ones have been added. It’s a veritable paradise, with more birds than ever, including two I couldn’t even identify. One of the local thrushes welcomed us with a medley so startlingly beautiful that we began to doubt the world-champion status of our Gallupian mockingbirds. That was the beginning of our very melodious stay in Nigeria.

The infrastructure set up by a Non-Government Organization decades ago has crumbled.

Submersible pumps are expensive, so now instead of pipe-borne water we have a plastic 40-gallon barrel outside the door, filled by young lads who pump it from a borehole nearby.

It is primitive, but what I noticed is that one of them sang as he worked. We heard lots more music when we attended a big celebration in a Berom village an hour away – the dedication of a recently completed Bible in the Berom language. The music varied from traditional Berom to modern gospel in English to an old European hymn translated into Berom. A day later we unfortunately missed a choir concert at the Church of St. Piran on the Plateau. (St Piran is the traditional saint of tin miners). The group performed selections from Mozart’s Gloria. Last Sunday we heard a concert by the renowned artist Panam Percy Paul right here on campus. It was loud enough that we didn’t even have to leave the house.

Yesterday I took a group from our workshop to the Museum of Traditional Nigerian Architecture and we also toured the cultural museum as well, and my group were all excited to find their own pottery, basketry, carving – and musical instruments, which included drums of course, but also flutes and strings and zithers made from elephant grass. I didn’t see the traditional Kuteb kutarong, which is a strung bow that a person plays by cupping

his mouth over one end of the bowstring and tapping on the other end with a stick, producing a sound vaguely like a Jew’s harp.

We were delighted today to be entertained in a big city church by three groups from some Naraguta villages outside of town. They were the real thing – pentatonic, leaderresponse, and accompanied by powerful drumming and a sustained tuba-like sound from an instrument that I have never seen the likes of before. It consisted of a hollow metal (?) tube about an inch in diameter and 15 inches long, connected to a perfectly round calabash about 16 inches in diameter, which served as the resonator. A six-inch hole at the bottom of the calabash let the sound out. The music of all three groups was unique, accompanied by creative choreography and dancing. The dignified city folk at the big church were so moved by the performance that a number of portly ladies could not resist breaking out of their pews and joining the dance. One or two even broke into ululation, a phenomenon that you’ll have to come to Africa to experience. I can’t do it any more than I could do Mongolian throat singing. That all of this took place in a church is a testimony to the African church’s role in preserving traditional music. The story among Navajo, Zuni, Hopi, and most other Native American churches is, alas, a painfully opposite one.

You may get the idea that I’m claiming that Africa is a continent rich with musical tradition. I have barely scratched the surface, but let me close with what’s got to be a record for creativity. There is a genre of music played in Ghana that has escaped the attention of musicologists for decades. It is called Honk Horn Music, or more correctly Por Por Music (pronounced paw paw) and it is played only at the funerals of members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers. Decades ago when vehicles had rubber-bulb horns (“honk-horns”), and vehicle drivers on remote roads would have breakdowns in the night, they would make camp by the edge of the road and beat their tire irons and toot their horns to drive away the evil spirits and the wild animals. To make it interesting they beat rhythms and eventually developed ensembles that started performing for the funerals of drivers. The old bulb horn gave way to more flexible enema bulbs. What makes this special is that one of our own musicologists at UNM (Main Campus), Prof. Steven Feld, is responsible for bringing this to light.

I’ve got a couple of weeks left in Nigeria and I’m making a trip to Taraba state, where, if I’m blessed, I’ll hear some more great music. I probably won’t hear the sound of the Kuteb ukob (a type of flute); it is only allowed to be played in dry season. Nobody would be foolish enough to play it now and endanger the crops. Nor will I hear much whistling, because that would invite evil spirits. And probably not the calabash overturned in a tub of water; I have only seen that in Guinea Bissau. It would be nice to hear the Kuteb specialty: a band of five one-note flutists tromp around in a tight circle and play a complex melody rather like a bell choir does. But who knows what will be around the musical corner? It could be the notched stick-and-calabash instrument that I once heard in Tiv-land and would have sworn (until I saw it being played) that it was a grunting pig. Not exactly beautiful, but very African! And we close with this bit of African advice for today: Ka ji kida da kyau kafin ka shiga rawa. “Listen to the beat well before you enter the dance!”

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Update: City’s Progress on Train Quiet Zone

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by C. Van Drunen

t appears that the Mayor and City Councilors are moving forward with the initiative to silence the train horns in downtown Gallup. At a recent City Council meeting the Council okayed $15,000 to hire Molzen-Corbin & Associates to do an assessment of the 2nd and 3rd Street crossings for quiet zones. This assessment could take up to 60 days, and their recommendations on the feasibility of the project will guide decisions from there.

In a recent conversation with City Councilman Mike Enfield, he states that “a Quite Zone will move forward but will probably take a good year to year and a half till it’s all finished.” City Attorney/Manager, Dave Pederson, is also currently in discussions with other municipalities to see how they have created Quiet Zones in their communities. “It’s been difficult to pin down some details, but I’m continuing to call and ask how certain aspects of the Quiet Zones were established,” Pederson states.

Regardless of the details and finances involved, it appears that the city is fully engaged in the effort. Martin Neal, who spearheaded the initiative says, “In personal meetings with the Mayor and each Council Member, they all have said they support establishing train Quiet Zones throughout Gallup.”

Four-hundred-and-ten train Quiet Zones have been established in cities across the United State, with twelve already in New Mexico. Hopefully Gallup will be next.

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Lit Crit Lite

by Kari Heil

A look at some books available at your local public library

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his past summer, I read two books about World War II that completely engaged my imagination and that I continue to think about even now, months later. Corelli’s Mandolin (1993) by Louis de Bernières and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2008) by Mary Ann Shaffer (assisted by her niece, Annie Barrows) both take place on islands occupied by Axis forces during WWII. Most Americans have seen and heard and maybe even read quite a bit about WWII; but these two books reveal faces of that epic war that I’d never seen before. (The movie version of Corelli’s Mandolin is NOT recommended, by the way; no one, not even Bernières himself, seems to have much good to say about it.)

Bernières and Shaffer craft great characters and tell affecting stories; but the wonderfully evoked settings are what have most stayed in my mind all this time. Corelli’s Mandolin, set on the island of Cephallonia, the largest of the Ionian Islands in Greece, reveals a culture full of tradition and humor, shaped by azure sea and intense sun. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, which takes place on the Channel Island of Guernsey, off the coast of France, conjures up an idyllic pastoral landscape of wide green fields and rocky ledges above wild waves. I want to visit both places.

The two books are very different, despite their superficial similarities. Corelli’s Mandolin, Bernières’s best-known work, is essentially a love story that spans fifty years, from the 1940s to the (almost) present day. I don’t think it is strictly

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a chick book, however. It is romantic, sweeping and grand, but also very honest about the ugliness of war and how war can turn people ugly. There is a large cast of characters, including a deranged, raging Mussolini. (The Il Duce sections, I have to admit, can be pretty hard to get through.) Bernières also weaves in a lot of Cephallonian history – ancient, modern, geologic, political, religious and social, as interpreted by a quirky but loveable old doctor – and includes extensive secondary character development, all of which augments the book’s richness.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is a novel composed of letters exchanged among a group of friends, new acquaintances and neighbor-enemies in London and Guernsey. The letters collectively produce a coherent narrative about the power of community and illustrate how a terrible situation can bring out the best in people. The letters to and from various individuals hold together to flesh out the main characters and their relationships, as well as show the effects of the war on people in the Channel Islands and London.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is definitely lighter fare than Corelli’s Mandolin, and easier reading; but both books have their own very sad, suspenseful, frightening, and funny moments.

These are not typical WWII sagas, as these stories transpire (mostly) away from the battles and the front lines. Still, both books convey a sense of the devastation and the horror of war, even for those at home. Corelli’s Mandolin and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society are not really “home

At the heart . . . is the idea that making and enjoying art can help people survive.

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veryone in our family loves the book My Dog is as Smelly as Dirty Socks (2007) by Hanoch Piven. It is an unusual book in that many of the illustrations are photographs of pictures made by arranging (and gluing?) a wide variety of objects on paper to compose faces. The faces are surprisingly expressive!

The narrator is a little girl who describes what each member of her family is like and what objects fit their personalities and characterize them. After each description, with a turn of the page, we see that family member’s portrait, and we realize that the objects that were included in the little girl’s account of that person are now his or her facial features. The little girl says that her daddy is “as jumpy as a spring” and “as playful as a spinning top,” for instance – and we see that two springs are his eyebrows and the top his nose on the next page.

The portrait of Schmutz the dog is especially hilarious, of course. Apart from the pure silliness of it all, the book also emphasizes that each person in the world is unique and special. The final page spread encourages young readers to think about what their family members are like and what funny objects could be part of their family portraits. Piven gathers small collections of “things that say” a certain personal characteristic; for example, he proposes that a ruler, some number magnets, or an owl could say “smart” in a portrait.

front” novels, either, as the people in Cephallonia and Guernsey faced soldiers every day, experienced violence, and witnessed atrocities, in addition to enduring hardships like complete isolation and near starvation.

At the heart of both Corelli’s Mandolin and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is the idea that making and enjoying art can help people survive war and can unite people in beautiful ways.

For Corelli, his fellow soldiers, and their friends on Cephallonia, and for the hodge-podge group of people who form a book club on Guernsey, art transcends the war. It is music and song for Corelli, books and letters for the members of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Why do we make music and listen to it? What is the point of writing or reading? Bernières’s and Shaffer’s books suggest some answers: we play and sing and read and write to escape, sometimes, or to feel alive and human and empowered through what we create, or to remind ourselves that there is beauty in the world.

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By Heather Donley

My son learned that food does not grow on shelves but comes from plants of all shapes and sizes.

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uying locally is just a good thing to do. It’s good for the environment, saving fossil fuels and reducing air pollution by cutting down on the lengthy and common transportation of produce from faraway places.

It’s good for the community, supporting local farmers and creating valuable ties between food consumers and food producers. Buying locally is also a healthy thing to do, allowing us to eat food that is in season, as well as food picked at its peak of ripeness and therefore fresher than store bought produce. But best of all, buying locally just makes sense considering we are what we eat. Shouldn’t we know more about the fuel we put into our bodies?

Joining the Gallup CSA (community supported agriculture) this past summer provided me with a peace of mind that at least the produce I fed my family was indeed a quality product. Purchasing a share and supporting food grown in Gallup was definitely a great thing to do, and as the long days of summer come to a close, and we find ourselves heading into the fall season, I mourn the end of the growing season, the end of my crate of garden goodies, and the end of enjoying fresh produce. More importantly, I mourn the end of buying food grown in a transparent manner.

Belonging to the CSA meant more than simply having fresh food to eat, though I loved that part immensely. It meant feeling a connection to food in a way that just doesn’t happen in the grocery store. At the supermarket, it’s difficult to get to the bottom of, say, the produce department – where the food was grown, how it was grown, who grew it, and when it was harvested. The quality of the fruits and vegetables is at times questionable, though there is no face behind the product and therefore no one to question, no answers to be had.

But at the Gallup Farmer’s Market, where my son and I regularly picked up our generous share of rainbow veggies every Saturday for the past three months, it was easy to connect with the individuals directly responsible for growing our food.

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gardens from where my food came, the composition of the soil, what chemicals were or were not used on the land, as well as how they managed pests. I could easily find out when food had been picked as well as what produce might be available in the coming weeks. Even better, I was allowed, in fact invited, to visit the gardens where my family’s food was grown. There were no closed doors, no barriers to educating myself about what my family and I were eating.

And so, my son and I volunteered our time on Wednesdays to help weed one garden in particular. For that brief 45 minutes once a week, we plunged ourselves into backyard nature. We dug in the soil, pulled up weeds by the roots, got dirt under our fingernails, and watched bugs buzz in and out of flowers, all while having our coffee, juice, and snack in amongst the vegetation. In the process, we got to see how our food was cared for. My son learned that food does not grow on shelves but comes from plants of all shapes and sizes. He saw how onions grow straight and tall, cabbage grows in the middle of a huge array of leaves, and broccoli bears resemblance to flowers. Even at such a young age, he connected with food. Certainly, this experience will help him on the way to developing an appreciation and admiration for food cultivation.

So, I write this to express my gratitude to the Gallup CSA and all the people who made it possible for my family and I to take a part, however small, in growing nutritious food for our table. We will miss our Saturday market mornings. We will miss the vegetable surprises that awaited us at the Farmers’ Market. We will miss the fun we had together, my son and I, washing the colorful produce out on the back patio, dunking zucchini, potatoes, and peppers in one bucket of water to the next, scrubbing them clean enough for my son to sink his teeth into (even the jalapenos). I will miss watching his delight in learning how to peel tomatillos, snap green beans in half, and devour tomatoes the size of an orange. I thank you for the wonderful food and the good times! Until next year.

Juliana Dooley

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El Morro Valley Ranch Oven Roasted Veggie Pasta Servings: 4-6 Ingredients: 1 head of garlic with top cut off to expose cloves 1 onion, roughly chopped 4-6 cups of mixed vegetables roughly chopped (some ideas include: zucchini, summer squash, beets, turnips, carrots, peppers, tomatoes, corn, beans, broccoli, cauliflower) 3-5 tbsp. olive oil Salt and pepper 3 cups cooked pasta 1 cup cubed cheese (some ideas include: mozzarella, pepper jack) ¼ cup basil leaves, torn into small pieces Juice of ½ lemon Directions:

1. Place head of garlic, chopped onion, and chopped mixed vegetables in a bowl. Toss with olive oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper.

2. Spread all vegetables on 1-2 cookie sheets lined with parchment paper and place in a 350 degree oven. Roast for 1 hour or until all vegetables are tender.

3. Meanwhile, cook pasta, drain, and place in a mixing bowl.

4. Add roasted vegetables, cubed cheese, basil leaves, and juice of lemon. Toss well and salt and pepper to taste. Serve hot.

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he Gallup-McKinley County Chamber of Commerce has been staying busy and working hard. Some of their initiatives, like the building remodel, are obvious improvements. Other tasks may be under the radar, but are affecting Gallup and its citizens in positive ways, just the same. Following are some of the things that the Chamber is doing now.

McKinley-Gallup Day On February 10, McKinley-Gallup Day will be celebrated in Santa Fe. A reception will be hosted, outstanding citizens will be honored and some important legislation will be addressed. The legislation seeks to allow chambers of commerce and their members to obtain health insurance for their employees. This legislation began in Gallup and has gained the support of every chamber in the state.

Remodel The Chamber building is getting a new look, both inside and out. Located at 106 W. Historic Highway 66, large shrubs kept much of the building hidden from view, but not any more. Drive by and see for yourself! Executive Director, Bill Lee, gives credit to the Board of Directors for doing the good work that needed to be done. Stop in this month to see the finished product with new stucco and landscaping outside, new paint, lighting, and flooring inside. Special thanks are also due to the Gallup Lions Club for their hard work in removing, refinishing and reinstalling cabinetry in the often-utilized Code Talker Room.

Fireball Run Fireball Run Adventurally: The American Heroes Challenge ran from Henderson, Nevada to Galena Illinois. The participants – many powerful business leaders – competed along to way to complete all the assigned tasks and to get to the finish line in Galena first. The required tasks take them to various cities along the route where they dropped flyers of missing children to raise awareness and have an opportunity to meet dignitaries and get to know each town they stop in.

Community Roundtable Senator George Muñoz will be in Gallup October 6-7 and 20-21 between 4 and 7PM each day. If you have an item of concern that you’d like to bring to the Senator’s attention, please contact the Chamber of Commerce by calling (505) 722-2228.

Gallup is the only town in New Mexico where the contestants stayed overnight.

The City also had a team involved in the race. Director of Economic Development, Pete Kelly, and Chamber Executive Director, Bill Lee, had the chance to work with and establish relationships with many of the contestants, reminding them of business opportunities here. Though the race was completed last month, it will be televised at a future date and Gallup will get some great promotion.

Leadership Workshop and Seminar Gallup-McKinley Chamber of Commerce is bringing Dr. John Maxwell’s “Five Levels of Leadership” to town. This is a world-class presentation about improving the quality and level of leadership for employees in every position of a business.

October 15 at Red Rock Park is sure to be fun and highly interactive. Sign up by October 5 for early-bird registration and a $50 discount. Buy tickets until October 18, $175 for Chamber members and $225 for prospective members.

Web-based Data Program The Chamber of Commerce has recently revamped its website, thegallupchamber. com. One very useful component of the new site is a business directory featuring the 320 Chamber members. Each business has access to and is able to update its own page. Locals and tourists alike should seek out the “Hot Deals” section for useful coupons and discounts. This is a brand new system, which will constantly be updated and changed. Check it out often!

Tourism Association of New Mexico Tourism is a big part of Gallup’s economy. In fact, tourism is the largest private sector employer in the state of New Mexico, providing over 110,000 jobs. Bill Lee currently serves on the Executive Committee for the Tourism Association of New Mexico, giving Gallup a voice at the state level.

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Circle of Light Mural:

Anselm Davis (d.)

In 1994, Ellis Tanner commissioned Navajo artist, Chester Kahn, to paint murals of prominent Navajos on the walls of his business, Ellis Tanner Trading Company. He wanted to inspire Navajo youth with positive role models while encouraging them to take pride in their culture, language, history, and traditions.

The seven-year mural project was completed in 2000 when Ellis established the non-profit organization, “Circle of Light.” The group’s objective is to foster a strong sense of cultural pride and self worth in Navajo youth and to continue their education, along with non-Navajos, about the rich history, culture, language, and positive contributions of the Navajo people. Please stop in to Ellis Tanner Trading Company and see the faces of Navajo achievement. Gallup Journey Magazine intends to feature a section of this mural every issue. For more information on the “Circle of Light” please call 505.726.8030 or go to www.navajocircleoflight.org.

Anselm Davis (d.) was the first Native American Church Roadman on the Navajo Nation during the early days of its introduction to the tribe. A Roadman is an ordained priest of the Church who officiates over ceremonies. The Peyote religion is a pan-Indian movement that blends both Indian religious beliefs and Christianity. Members partake of the Peyote cactus as religious sacrament.

Originally introduced into the Plains Indian cultures from Mexico in the mid1800s, the Peyote religion spread to the Southwestern tribes in the early 20th century. Initially, the Navajos were strongly opposed to the new religion, and a struggle between traditional Navajos and members of the Native American Church (NAC) raged for decades. Eventually, many Navajos began using Peyote.

Today the largest chapter of the Native American Church is located on the Navajo Nation and the Peyote religion is practiced alongside traditional Navajo religion as well as several Christian sects.

Ellis Tanner Trading Co. 1980 Hwy 602 • Gallup, NM • www.etanner.com • (505) 863-4434

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TOWN Zoo BOO and Navajo-Gallup Solar Family Day Saturday, October 30, 10AM-5PM Window Rock, AZ On Saturday October 30, from 10AM– 5PM, the Navajo Zoo is holding its 2nd Annual, FREE event for children of all ages! Come in costume for costume contest, games for kids, inflatable slide, playground, face painting, and other fun events. Call Navajo Zoo at 928-8716574 for more information.

On the same day right next door, from 12–4PM, Gallup Solar is hosting its 3rd Annual event at the Navajo Nation Museum! This event is also FREE and we invite you to join us in a day of family fun and hands-on activities. Come tour our exhibits and demonstrations to learn about weatherization, conservation, hydrogen cars, green building, bee keeping, solar hogans, carbon reduction, using a solar pathfinder and much more! Plus, enter contests and win prizes. Bring the whole family – unlock the creative potential and keep your curious children engaged and asking questions! For more info call Be Sargent at 505-726-2497.

Sordid Lives by Del Shores November 4, 5, & 6, 8PM

October Library Events Monday October 11 the library will be showing Buena Vista Social Club at 6:30pm. This film pays tribute to the Cuban band that has made an impact on various people and places. The members are reunited to record one last CD and takes viewers on a tour from Havana to the streets of New York City. The film paints a vivid portrait of the members’ passion for music. In Spanish with subtitles. Refreshments will be served.

Book Discussion at the Octavia Fellin Public Library On Tuesday, October 12 at 6:30pm, The Tattoo Artist by Jill Ciment will be discussed in the Southwest Room of the Main Library.

Refreshments will be served. This universally acclaimed work is the story of two rich American Marxist artists losing all their money in the Great Depression who decide that they can regain their fortune through “privative art trade” with South Seas tribes.

Ciment explores loss of individual identity, creation, destruction, vanity and finding something that has no name. Ms. Ciment has been awarded two NY State Foundation for the Arts Fellowships and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. She is a professor at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Copies of the book are available at the library. For more information please call the library at 863-1291 or email library@ci.gallup.nm.us.

Monday October 18 the library will present The Fight in the

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El Morro Area Arts Council will be featuring Sordid Lives next month! Eden Gloria directs a local cast in the uproarious satire of Texas White Trash. When she trips over her lover’s wooden legs, Grandma Peggy meets her maker, and now her family is showing up for her funeral.

This play is adult themed with adult language.

Purchase your Sordid Lives tickets in advance! Tickets go on sale October 2. Seating is limited and this Special Event is expected to be SOLD OUT. Purchase tickets in advance by cash, check or credit card at the Gallery or by mailing a $12 check to Old School Gallery (PO Box 296 - Ramah, NM, 87321). Tickets may be reserved by calling the Old School Gallery at (505) 783- 4710, Thurs - Mon, 11 - 5 pm. Reserved tickets must be paid for by November 1st or they may be sold to those on the waiting list. Note: The Ancient Way Café will close at 5PM on the 4th and will NOT be open on the 5th and 6th.

Fields at 6:30pm. This film is a documentary that pays tribute to the late Chicano civil rights activist Cesar Chavez. The film documents his life from birth to the founding of the United Farm Workers Union in 1962. Chavez became a follower of Ghandi with the same belief of non-violent protest to get his point across to the masses. Refreshments will be served.

Spooktacular: Join in the Halloween Fun at the Children’s Library On Saturday, October 30 the Octavia Fellin Children’s Library will present Spook-Tacluar: A Day of Halloween Fun. There will be a costume and painted Jack-O-Lantern contest, Halloween movies, scary creatures walking around the library and a party with surprises. Spooktacular starts at 1:30pm with movies geared for ages 8-12. The party for children of all ages starts at 3pm. It will include the costume and pumpkin contest, tricks, lots of treats and surprises along the way. For more information please call the Children’s Library at 726-6120 or email library@ci.gallup.nm.us.

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What You Did Not Know and Were Afraid to Ask About Jury Duty Your employer cannot threaten or coerce you, or deprive you of employment (fire you) because you are summoned to jury duty. An employer cannot make you use annual leave, vacation leave or sick leave for time spent on jury duty; however, the employer does not have to provide extra paid leave for you to attend jury duty. You may, at your option, use accrued leave at your employment to serve on jury duty.

Jurors are paid for their jury service. Jurors who reside more than 15 miles outside the city limits of Gallup receive 32¢ per mile for travel to and from the courthouse, and all jurors are paid at the highest prevailing state minimum wage rate, which is presently $7.50 per hour, for their actual time in the courthouse on jury duty.

The district court does not provide transportation to and from the courthouse. You must provide you own transportation.

The district court does not provide day care or babysitting service and does not reimburse jurors for the same. This is the responsibility of the juror.

If you do not speak English, that does not disqualify you from jury service. The State of New Mexico will provide an interpreter to any juror who does not speak English.

When you are chosen for one month of jury service, you do not report every day to the courthouse, but only report on days when a jury trial is scheduled. There is a good chance that you will report only once, or not at all, in your one month of jury service.

Recycling Update How important is it to reduce, reuse, recycle?

It is very important. We know in GallupMcKinley County we are limited in the items we can recycle. But, there are a lot of items WE CAN RECYCLE. Before you throw away that newspaper, cereal or corrugated cardboard box, think about how trees grace your life, offer habitat for animals and shade for weary hikers, provide oxygen for us to breathe, and clean the polluted air that makes its way to us from the Four Corners coal plants. Every time we use the back of a piece of paper before it is tossed or recycled we have extended its life and saved the life of another tree.

Everything isn’t as easy and neat as in larger cities, but Gallup has opportunities to recycle.

As citizens are made aware it is hoped that people will take seriously the energy and cost savings recycling offers and the benefits to the environment.

Gallup’s Recycling Center at the NWNM Transfer Station on Hasler Valley Road is open Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday from 8AM to 4:30PM. Make it a habit to save the following items: Corrugated Cardboard, Newspaper, White Paper, White Shredded Paper. The Mixed Paper Category includes Catalogs, Magazines, Junk Mail. They accept

Aluminum and Steel/Tin Cans, and Electronics.

Remember all items must be clean and sorted by type.

The Community Pantry (Hasler Valley Road at Maloney) accepts many paper products, as well.

Call 726-8068 for a list and times for drop-off.

Check with the local recyclers to find out what they are buying. Use recycling as a fundraiser for your favorite charity, school group, or organization.

To Learn More About Recycling Save this Date – Saturday, November 6 Gallup will celebrate America Recycles Day and NM Recycles Month at the Recycling Center from 10AM to 2PM. Save your recyclables to bring that day. Vouchers for fun items will be made available to every car bringing recyclables.

For more information about the who, what, where, when, and how to recycle contact Betsy Windisch, Recycling Coordinator-Connections, Inc. (722-9257 / 879-2581) or Gerald O’Hara, Chair-McKinley Citizens’ Recycling Council (722-5142 / 870-1314).

CROP Walk

Sunday, October 17 Community Food Pantry, 2PM

On Sunday, October 17 at 2PM the Gallup community will join together to raise awareness about the hunger and poverty in our midst by walking in the 14th Annual CROP Hunger Walk (Communities Responding to Overcome Poverty). For a couple of hours and a couple of miles, friends and neighbors, four-legged companions and parents pulling children in wagons will walk side by side, in unity, for those who are needy all over the world. The Walk begins and ends at the Community Food Pantry (junction of Maloney - Hasler Valley Road & Miyamura Overpass). Transportation will be provided for those needing respite from walking or for whom walking is not feasible. Refreshments provided.

A fourth of what is raised by donations remains in our community to aid our hungry through the work of the Community Pantry.

The Pantry provides free produce and / or commodities to over 7,000 families; 2,000 of which have been added in the last 18 months. In addition, the Pantry provides free produce, as well as food and supplies at a minimal cost to over 50 agencies in GallupMcKinley County.

CROP Hunger Walk funds benefit the overall work and interfaith ministry of Church World Service -- working in some 80 countries to help those in need help themselves through refugee assistance, selfhelp development programs, advocacy, and disaster relief.

Catholic Charities, and First United Methodist, Rehoboth Christian Reformed, and Westminster Presbyterian churches would like other congregations, faith communities, businesses, youth groups, civic organizations, athletic teams, and individuals to join them in this great cause. You can help by making a donation or by soliciting donations from colleagues, friends, family, and neighbors. If only half of the people living in Gallup gave $1, over $10,000 could be raised. No gift is too small; 50 cents can feed a family for a day.

Donations will be taken for this event through the end of November.

To request a speaker, CROP literature (posters, informational DVDs) and / or for more information on how you can help alleviate hunger locally and globally contact: Sally (863-4284), Sr. Mary (722-4407), Susan (863-9232), Betsy (722-9257) or visit www.cropwalk.org. Donations can be made online to support the Gallup CROP Walk.

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Gallup Community Concerts October 5 and 25 Gallup High School Auditorium, 7PM The Gallup Community Concert Association presents two concerts in the month of October for family enjoyment. The first is a FREE concert being sponsored by The Gallup Independent on October 5 and the second concert is October 25. Both concerts will be held in the Gallup High School’s Kenneth Holloway Auditorium and begin at 7PM. Join us for a night of FREE entertainment on October 5 to enjoy a wide variety of catchy original songs, bluegrass, traditional, Irish, country, gospel and old-time music performed by the Redhead Express. The 9-member Walker family showcases four daughters’ beautiful harmonies, Mom and Dad’s vocal depth, backup and guidance to the ensemble, and features the three young sons who also play and sing. They are now in the midst of a 20 plus-concert tour of the Midwest and audiences are wowed by their energy, maturity and skill level. It’s all for your enjoyment compliments of The Gallup Independent.

On October 25 members of the series will enjoy the only international father and son piano duo known as Simon & Son. Pianists Peter and Saling Simon will present a dazzling evening of keyboard acrobatics, popular and classical music and humorous concert tales about travels on the world concert stage. In addition to the wonderful piano duets played by this unique and innovative team, you’ll see Saling at the piano with Peter playing the clarinet and sometimes Saling will take over the drums and execute a magnificent version of the famous drum solo of “Wipeout.”

No tickets are required for the first opening performance on October 5, however for the remainder of the season, tickets will be sold at the door, which will include: Simon and Son (piano duo)-10/25; Edgar Cruz (guitarist)-1/17; Intersection Trio (violin, cello, & piano)-2/1; River City 6 (brass ensemble)-3/31; and the Marlins (vocalists and band)-4/14. Memberships will also allow you to attend the concerts of the SW Community Concerts in Cortez, CO without costing you extra and without causing the loss of a punch. These concerts and dates will be listed on your tickets.

Season memberships cost as follows: $40 for an adult, $15 for students 18 years and under, family membership is $90 (2 adults + school age kids), single parent family membership is $50 (1 adult + school age kids) For further information you may contact either Joyce Graves at 505-863-3075 or Peg Franz at 505-722-5671.

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News from CARE 66 L

ast Month 14 riders raised over $2750 for CARE 66 by riding between 23 and 66 miles. It was a beautiful day and we rode in the beautiful countryside around Gallup. Thank you very much to the following riders for doing this for us: Amber Abuch, Jessica Benally, Timothy Pikaart, Don Tamminga, Barbara Kamps, Victor Martinez, Kris Pikaart, Jaylyn Gough, Pete Kelly, Sanjay Choudhrie, Tom Gifford Dirk Hollebeek, and Bruce Schuurmann.

Naturally we couldn’t have done it without our Board members: Sr. Rose Marie Cecchini, Patrick Keptner and Jane Ann Polich. Our Chief Operating Officer, Carl Smith and his daughter, Ashley, also drove a support vehicle and made sure that we had water and food. Our Board Chair, Pete Kelly, rode 40 plus miles – a first for him. Congratulations, Pete, and thank you to all who helped make this a success. Our corporate sponsor was the Coal Street Pub. Please say thank you to Ramon and eat a meal there.

Stay tuned for more events!

Last month I attended a Board retreat for the New Mexico Coalition to End Homelessness. It was both energizing and tiring. The Coalition as it’s called, helped us complete Chuska Apartments and is working with us on the Lexington Hotel. They also provided a lot of guidance to CARE 66 when we first started up.

We have been deeply concerned about the fact that New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority (which is the state housing agency) does not consider that there is a need for affordable housing in McKinley County because our population growth rate is lower than that of the state. We hope to work with them to identify indicators that provide a truer definition of housing need than population growth.

Thank you again for your support in this endeavor of bringing prosperity to this area and making hope possible.

Until next month stay well and do good!

To find out more about CARE 66 go to www.care66.org, we also have a blog at http://care66.blogspot.com, which we have been known to update once in a while. Sanjay can be reached at Sanjay@care66.org.

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gallup area Rodeo Schedule

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10/2 2nd Annual Rodeo Billy Bullriding Classic Whiteriver, AZ Turkey Creek Rodeo Arena Info: Bobby Billy JR 928.434.5648, 928.338.1763

10/10 Lewis & Sons Bullriding Pinedale, NM 3.5 miles south of 2nd Canyon Rd. Info: TJ Lewis 505.786.7324

10/2-3 99th Annual Shiprock Fair and Rodeo Info: Debbie Williams 505.809.0059

10/16 2nd Annual C.I.Y. Wooly/Calf/Steer Riding Challenge Ralph Johnson Memorial Rodeo Arena Call in the night before (10/15), 5-10PM Info: 929.587.2981, 587.1888

10/9-10 1st Annual Largos Saddle Roping Haystack, NM Haystack Rancho Arena Info: Tim Largo 505.972.4523, 505.240.4523 10/10 2nd Annual Bucks 4 Cash Bull Riding Ramah, NM Cuttin Corners Arena Info: LJ Peshlakai 505.495.9141 or Cash 505.686.3610

10/21-24 6th Annual IIFR Finals Farmington, NM McGee Park Info: www.iifrodeo.com, Ed Bitsui 505.264.5207 10/29-31 All Indian Rodeo Arizona State Fair Info: www.azstatefair.com/exhibitors/exhibitors.aspx believe • gallup

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October Community Calendar Sunday

Monday

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Sunday MTB Ride meets at mile marker 3 trail head on NM 400, 7 miles south of I-40, Exit 33. During months when the forest is inaccessible this ride meets at the East Trail Head of the High Desert Trail System.

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.

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

Info: 863-4512.

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

Poetry Group meets at Inscription Rock Trading at 11am, just east of Ramah on Route 53.

Tai Chi Chuan with Monika & Urs Gauderon at Old School Gallery, east of Ramah on Hwy 53. 5pm/advanced and 6:30pm/beginners. $50/ month. Info: Monika @ 775-3045.

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 @ 505-783-4612.

Plateau Science Society meets the 3rd Sunday of every month at the Red Mesa Center at 2:30pm.

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

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The Westminster Presbyterian Church, located off South Boardman Drive, will host the October Taize Worship Service at 4 pm. This special ecumenical service features prayer, music, scripture, and silence. For information about Taize, contact Linda at (505) 905-5254.

For transportation, directions, or childcare, contact Betsy at 863-4512 or 722-9257.

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CROP Hunger Walk begins at Community Food Pantry at 2pm. For more information, read GTown article.

Old School Gallery - FREE Art Exhibition Opening & Reception, 3-5pm. “Threads of Time,” featuring the Visual Journals Group in the Artists Quarter. For more information, call (505) 783-4710.

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Preschool Story Time, 11am at the Children’s Library. For more information, call 726-6120.

AL-ANON support group for family and friends of alcoholics. Every Tuesday at 12pm, first United Methodist Church (library). Info: 1-888-4ALANON or www.al-anon.alateen.org.

Wednesday ONGOING

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

Explore & Expand at 11am at the Children’s Library. For more information, call 726-6120.

Tai-Chi Taught by Monika Gauderon at RMCH Vanden Bosch Clinic. 6pm for beginners. $60/ month.

Join the weekly mountain biking crew. Meet at 6pm at the east trail head of the High Desert Trail System. Everyone welcome. For more information, call 505-722-7030.

RMCHCS Diabetes Education Classes – First four Tuesdays of the month, starting at 6pm. RMCHCS 2nd floor library. For more information, call 7266918.

Gallup Solar Group open community meetings.

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

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

Info: 722-6389.

Community Yoga, beginner/athletic beginner level.

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

Info: Chris at 505 870-4112.

Youth Group Meeting, “THE LOFT”, at First Baptist Church from 7-8pm. Info: 722-4401.

Sustainable Energy Board meeting in the GJU conference room, 3-5pm, on the fourth Monday of each month. For info/agenda, email brightideas98@gmail.com.

Ladies’ MTB ride at High Desert Trail System starting at Gamerco trailhead at 6PM. Come to exercise, socialize, and have fun!

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.

Yoga at Old School Gallery, 9:30am. Everyone welcome. Info: 783-4710.

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

Fiber Arts Group 1:30 pm at the Old School Gallery. Call for schedule of classes 783-4710.

Law Enforcement Appreciation Day service at Emmanuel Baptist Church, 10:30am. For more information, call (505) 722-7312.

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Relay For Life Ups and Downs Team is sponsoring a Spa Day! 11am - 7pm at UNM Cosmetology Dept. Manicures, pedicures, facials are $5 each. Walk-ins welcome. For more information, call 863-7561.

Breast Cancer Awareness Month – Mammogram Screenings, October 11-13, RMCHCS Radiology Dept. 1st floor, 8am-5pm. In recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, don’t forget to encourage all the women in your life to get a mammogram screening. Special gifts and opportunity to win a drawing for all women who stop by for a mammogram screening.

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Diabetes Self-Management Education, Tuesdays in October at 6-8:30pm, RMCHCS Hospital Library 2nd floor.

Offered for patients and up to two family members or friends. For individual appointments, call 505-726-6980.

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Eric Shaw, Prasana Yoga teacher, and former Gallup resident, will present the lecture, Where Yoga Poses Come From, at the Catholic Indian Center, 506 West Historic Highway 66-Gallup. The lecture will begin at 6:30 pm; donations accepted.

Brett Turner performing at El Rancho’s 49er Lounge, 7pm.

Gallup Community Concerts presents Redhead Express at Gallup High Auditorium at 7pm. For more information, read GTown article.

Quilt Club, 7pm – 9pm, Free. Come join other quilters in the area to share projects you are working on, have completed or would like suggestions on how to complete. For more information, call 722-9414.

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Habitat for Humanity of Gallup Board of Directors meeting at 6pm.

Committee reports will be given during the board meeting. Anyone interested in working with a committee is encouraged to attend.

WE NEED NEW INVOLVEMENT NOW IN ORDER TO CONTINUE OUR WORK!!

PLEASE JOIN US!! Bethany CRC, 1110 S. Strong Dr. Info: 722-4226 or habitatgallup@ yahoo.com.

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Gallup Community Concerts presents Simon & Son at Gallup High Auditorium at 7pm. For more information, read GTown article.

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If you didn’t get the chance to start practicing in September, it’s not too late to join us! The Gallup Community Choir began rehearsals at the First United Methodist Church, 1800 Red Rock Drive. The performance of John Rutter’s Magnificat will be Sunday, Dec. 5. Singers can order their copy of the vocal score at Amazon.com. Looking forward to hearing lots of voices this year! For more information, call the church office at 863-4512.

October Community Calendar Friday

Thursday ONGOING

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

School visits, 10am-3pm, after-school games, 4pm at the Children’s Library. For more information, call 726-6120.

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Native American Gathering – talking, drums, Christian worship. 1st and 3rd Fridays at 7PM at First United Methodist Church.

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.

Preschool Story Time, 11am and Crafty Kids, 3:30pm at the Children’s Library. For more information, call 726-6120.

Habitat for Humanity work sessions 9am to 3pm, at 501 High St. Info 722-4226.

High Desert Mesa Workgroup meets to scrapbook and more Thursdays 1-3pm at the Rehoboth Post Office. Info: LaVeda 722-9029.

High Desert Mesa Workgroup meets to scrapbook and more Saturdays 10am-1pm at the Rehoboth Post Office. Info: LaVeda 722-9029.

Flea Market on old Hwy 666, just north of Gallup. Info: 722-7328.

AL-ANON support group for family and friends of alcoholics. Every Thursday at 7pm, first United Methodist Church (library). Info: 1-888-4ALANON or www.al-anon.alateen.org.

Group road bike ride, starts at Sammy C’s downtown at 2pm. Info: Lloyd at 970-946-6155.

Gallup Farmers’ Market meets in the Downtown Walkway (between Coal & Aztec), 8:30am-12pm. July through October. WIC and Senior checks accepted.

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

Ramah Farmers’ Market open for the season, 10am – 1pm. The Ramah Farmers’ Market is located next to the Ramah Valley Diner on Route 53, ½ mile west of downtown Ramah, New Mexico.

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

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

Yoga at Old School Gallery, 9:30am. Info: 7834710.

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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RMCHCS Breast Feeding support It’s that time of year again! The group, 7pm at RMCH 2nd floor library.

First United Methodist Church (FUMC) For more information call 863-7026 or Used Book Sale is going on now through 722-7009.

Saturday, October 9. If you have gently used books, records, cds, to donate, 2nd Thursday of the month Survivors of please bring them to the stage area of the Homicide Support Group meets 6-8pm. church. FUMC is located at 1800 Red For more information, call Deborah Rock Drive, at the corner of Nizhoni Yellowhorse-Brown at 870-6126. and Red Rock Drive. Can you volunteer to help with the sale, or help with packing up on the 9th? Contact Carol Bodenhausen at: 505-870-4009.

Schlep Bag, 6pm – 9pm, $16 includes pattern. Make this fun versatile bag Angela’s Cafe will host an art show to for a great Christmas gift. You can make benefit Habitat for Humanity. The art this for your grandkids for a fun overnight show features sketches of Gallup by bag, or maybe a teenager’s weekend bag. local artists who meet on Wednesdays to Or a bag for yourself or a friend that holds draw Gallup scenes. On Call Jazz will everything. It is great for an extra bag at provide live music at Angela’s Cafe at a flea market or shopping trip; fits in your the train station. The exhibit will be up purse. A great bag for any use and easy to for two weeks. For more information, make. Instructor: Shelly Young Level: All call Tammy Iralu at 505-722-7206.

For more information, call 722-9414.

Oktoberfest 2010 at Sammy C’s Rock ’n Sports Pub & Grille, featuring live music with German band “Swing Shift,” special El Morro Haunted House, October German menu (in addition to regular 28-31, 7pm-midnight. $8 per person. menu), and Beer Garden. Make your NOT RECOMMENDED FOR YOUNG reservation for October 1 or 2 now by CHILDREN. For more information, visit calling 863-2220. elmorrotheatre.com.

Battered Families Services, Inc. – Domestic Violence Awareness Events, October 1-3, including “Decorate Your Office Purple” contest, 9-mile Healing Walk, DV Awareness Walk, entertainment in Courthouse Square, and Candlelight Vigil. Call Fran (7265724) or Angela (726-5731) for more information.

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Crownpoint Rug Weavers Association Auction at Crownpoint Elementary School. Viewing at 4 – 6:30 PM, auction at 7 – 10 PM. For more information, visit www.

Crownpointrugauction.com.

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Women’s Conference “Fruit of the Spirit,” at First Baptist Church, 2112 College Drive, Gallup. October 15 at 5:30pm and October 16 at 8am. $35 per person for both days. For more information, call Sharon Stalcup at 8633107 or 870-0149.

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Fall Garage Sale from 8 to 11am at the First Baptist Church Gym, (2112 College Dr, Gallup, use the west side entrance). There will be a huge assortment of household items and adults’ and children’s clothing. Proceeds of the sale will benefit the Hands of Hope Pregnancy Center. For information call 722-7125.

Childbirth Education Class, 9am-1pm at RMCHCS Hospital Library 2nd floor. To register, call 505863-7026.

El Morro Village Ancient Way Arts Trail Fall Festival joins with the Ramah Farmers’ Market Harvest Festival in El Morro Village for fun and festivities, 10 am - 6 pm. Live Music, delicious food, fresh produce, entertainment, crafts fair, art displays, contests & more.

McKinley Citizens’ Recycling Council meeting at 2pm, 508 Sandstone Place in Indian Hills. For more information, contact: 722-5142 / 722-9257 Habitat For Humanity invites you to the dedication or its Fourth House at 2pm, 501 N. High St. (west of Larry Brian Mitchell Rec. Center). Tours of the House will be given before and after the Dedication. Refreshments will be served. For more information, call 722-4226.

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Gallup Farmers’ Market Harvest Festival! 8:30 - 11:30am, on the downtown walkway between Coal and Aztec, across from the Courthouse Plaza. As the growing season comes to a close, we invite you to join us in celebrating the fall harvest with pumpkin carving, face painting, music, vendors, and more! For more information please email gallupfarmersmarket@yahoo.com.

Old School Gallery El Morro Area Arts Council annual membership meeting, potluck dinner and art raffle at 5:30pm. For more information, call (505) 783-4710.

ARTS CRAWL, 7-9pm, Downtown Gallup.

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RMCHCS and Safer New Mexico Now will host a car seat fitting station at no charge! At Wal-Mart, 11am-1pm. Call 1-800-231-6145 to set an appointment. Conducted by RMCHCS and the Gallup Fire Department.

Quilter’s Wallet, 9am– 4pm, $45 includes pattern. This is a quilted wallet using a modified quilt as you go log cabin design. This wallet will hold credit cards, a writing pen, checkbook, cash, and coins with a see-through ID window pocket for your license. Instructor: Debbie Jamison Level: Intermediate Potluck Location to be determined Call store for details at 722-9414.

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Old School Gallery - FREE Fiber Arts Festival, 11am-3pm. Handcraft displays, demonstrations of spinning, knitting, crocheting, basketry, quilting and felting. Try your hand at some or just visit with the crafters. There will be food & drinks available with proceeds going to El Morro Area Arts Council. For more information, call (505) 783-4710.

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Navajo Zoo – ZooBOO! 10am-5pm in Window Rock, AZ. This 2nd Annual, FREE event is for children of all ages! Come in costume for costume contest, games for kids, inflatable slide, playground, face painting, and other fun events. Held in conjunction with Gallup Solar “Family Day” at Navajo Museum 12-4pm. Call Navajo Zoo at 928-871-6574 for more information.

Overeaters Anonymous Workshop “Plan of Action,” 10am-2pm at Bethany Church, 1110 South Strong, Gallup. Bring your own lunch. Free and open to the public. For information and registration, call Julia at (505) 863-5928.

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1. Clarence Monroe reads the Journey with some awesome polar bears at the San Diego Zoo. 2. Lynn Anner-Bolieu, of Juniper Hills, NM, David Grafton, and Georgette Toews (Lynn’s sister) of Grasonville, Maryland, reading the Gallup Journey in Grafton Galleries in Easton, Maryland.

3. Louise and Joe Schaller read the Journey with granddaughter Alex Nail at Washington State University, Pullman.

4. Sam and Max Faz enjoy their Journey with a Blue Man Group member in Las Vegas this past summer.

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2. Jared and Tyler Payton check out the Journey at A Very Large Array near Socorro on Labor Day. 3. & 4. Sue and Philip Eddy read the Journey with some past Presidents at Mount Rushmore.

5. Tina Martinez & her fiancee read the Journey between innings at the Yankees/Rangers game on 9/11 in Arlington, TX. 6. Chad Meekhof, Nick Damp and Dana Chimoni take a break from hiking down in Zuni to read the Journey.

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hen Mac Whitney first came to Gallup five years ago and started working for the magazine, he probably never guessed that Gallup Journey would be one of his web design clients one day. After spending a couple great years here, Mac and his wife moved to Denver where he enrolled in the graduate Web Design and Development program at the University of Denver.

He’s now been doing web design for two years and through it getting involved in some really unique and progressive projects. He loves the idea of creating a functional, organized and well designed website for a small business or organization to use as a resource to help them grow.

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AN EVENT IS BREWING

GALLUP’S SECOND ANNUAL

October 23, 2010, 6:30-11:00 at Angela’s Café Con Leche Proceeds to benefit Knights of Columbus

Tickets now on sale at Angela’s Café Con Leche, Advocate Law Center, Mystique and CNET. Join us for Food-Drink and Dance

Sponsored in part by: Advocate Law Center, P.A.

Visit our Rug Room:

One of the largest in the area.

Also showing pottery, baskets, and jewelry.

Tools of the Trade • Mac Pro • Adobe Creative Suite - Dreamweaver, Photoshop etc.

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for wireless mouse • patience for battling browser inconsistencies • coffee, snacks, and plenty of water • breaks: doing dishes, house projects, or jumping jacks

Richardson’s Trading Co. Since 1913 505.722.4762 • 505.722.9424 fax • rtc@cnetco.com 222 W. Hwy. 66 • Gallup, NM 87301 www.richardsontrading.com

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El Morro Haunted House Thursday, October 28 through Sunday, October 31 El Morro Theatre • 207 West Coal Avenue • Gallup, NM 7pm to 12 midnight, nightly • Admission: $8/person*

*Not recommended for young children.

www.elmorrotheatre.com