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hat awful phrase I can’t has been rearing its ugly head around our house lately. It started with the five-year-old, but it’s a contagious thing to say in frustration or tiredness, and the two-year-old has even muttered it a few times. As a parent, it’s really sad to hear your children, so full of life and potential, completely give up and fall back on I can’t. In response, I say the first thing that comes to mind – probably because I heard it so much as a kid myself – Do your best. It’s been overused and I think we’re all somewhat immune to what it really means to do our best. Even our young kids shrug it off like it makes no difference whether or not they put forth their best effort. I wonder, when’s the last time I really did my best? What does my best look like? As we age and take on more roles and responsibilities, it becomes increasingly difficult to give my all in everything. I find myself doing good-enough-for-now way too often. *
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We’re on the other side of May 21, 2011 now. The world didn’t end, as some predicted. I didn’t give much acknowledgment to their warnings, but I’d be lying if I said it never crossed my mind in the days leading up to that Saturday. Especially in those daily on-the-fence moments, deciding between doing yet another endless chore or spending time with my kids, I would think, What if this is it, our last chance to read this book? or paint a picture? or play outside? Priorities become pretty clear when the end is in mind. Doing my best may not be as important as doing the best thing. I don’t want to live with a shadow overhead in fear thinking that today could be my last. But maybe if I thought that tomorrow was the end, I would live my best life today. H.H.
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4 Thoughts 30 El Morro Theatre Schedule 41 Sudoku 44 Circle of Light 45 IZZIT?! 47 News from Care 66 49 Arts Crawl Schedule 50 G-Town 52 Community Calendar 54 Opinion Poll 55 Rodeo Schedule 56 People Reading Journey 62 This is My Job
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The Work in Beauty Murals #4 Middle Right Panel of Work of Heart. Recycling in Gallup Demonstrated by Girl Scout Troop 3505 and Others
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Hoisting cardboard box – Jenna is now a sophomore at Christian Academy in Florida, active in church and community orchestras, expanded from violin and piano to include guitar and cello. She is interested in pursuing a career in medical forensics or criminology. Juggling plastic bags – Kayla is now a sophomore at Holbrook Indian Boarding School. She has been very active in mission trips for several years now. The trips are 1-2 months long and Kayla has enjoyed seeing and helping out in many parts of the US. Raising a glass bottle – Rachel is a sophomore at Miyamura and continues to be active as a Senior Girl Scout, often works with younger children and animals and is considering careers in one of those directions. She has started plans to work on Gold Award for GS. Holding stack of paper – Monica is a sophomore at Miyamura, strong in academics, very athletic/active in sports. She remained a part of Girl Scouts until last year. She has been part of Shock New Mexico, a Native American girls basketball team that travels throughout the US for three years now. She plans on being a pediatrician. Monica is also the girl holding the rabbit in the Navajo Code Talker mural. With armload of newspapers – Claudia was a Brownie and Junior Girl Scout. She is currently a sophomore at Miyamura. Jude Sweeney, Scout Leader, gave this report on the accomplishments and dreams of Gallup Troop 3505 When girls hit the high school years, academics, music, dance, sports, boys and
By Be Sargent cell phones become a big part of their lives, and it is difficult to remain very active in Girl Scouts. Our Troop 3505 has changed over the past couple of years, gaining some different girls and some girls moving on to different geographic locations or interests. The girls have attended Girl Scout camp in Prescott and the Oxford Leadership Program. Primarily funded by our annual Girl Scout cookie sales, we have been able to have some wonderful experiences as a troop. We traveled to Idaho for the National American Indian Scouting Association meeting hosted by the Shoshone/ Bannock tribes, visited Arches and Capitol Reef National Parks, the Olympic Training Park, Salt Lake City and had a star-gazing experience at the only night-sky National Park, Natural Bridges. Last year we visited the London Bridge, boogie-boarded, snorkeled, and seakayaked the Pacific Ocean and explored the wonders of San Diego. Recently we purchased our airline tickets to fly to Chicago for their amazing 4th of July fireworks and summer events and visit the Shedd Aquarium, Museum of National History and see the area from the top of a skyscraper. Although this is a busy time in their lives, the girls are active in community service including several recycling events, tree planting in Bluewater, and winning the Gallup 2009 Trash Cleanup award. Most of the girls are completing the preliminary work necessary to work on their Gold Award (equivalent to Eagle Scout in Boy Scouting). Girl Scouts will celebrate their 100th year beginning this fall, started by Juliette Gordon Low in 1912 with a group of 18 girls, having been influenced by Lady and Lord Baden Powell, the founder of Boy Scouts. It is exciting for us to be part of the centennial year of this world-wide organization and hope we are able to participate in some of the centennial events. Quilting, A Beautiful Way Of Recycling Embedded among the Girls Scouts, this part of the painting must be considered now a memorial to Mary Pecoraro who died on May 9, 2011. She worked at Wingate and BIA and was also a homemaker. She will be missed by five children, five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Josephine Yurcic, on Mary’s left, is 91. She is Mary’s first cousin. As a housewife she has done “everything under the sun,” plus crocheting, knitting, fishing, hunting and being a Girl Scout Troop Leader. Her family at this point is too numerous to count. Composting, Basic Recycling Sandy Young, Gallup’s Queen of Composting, is shown at the top of this section. She is composting table scraps in her composting bin to make soil for the tomatoes behind her. Sandy’s formula is, “Grind everything up and keep it moist with water from your roof and you will have compost in one month.”
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Musical Meditation
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t was really quite extraordinary. For a bit less than two weeks, with radar sensitivity, the children had been acting out the community energy post the tragic, violent death of a child on the reservation. By Wednesday they had settled down a bit, as had the community, as the young one had been memorialized and funeralized on Monday. But Friday had brought in the last day of kindergarten before the Christmas holiday vacation. So they had gone squirrelly again. In anticipation of handing out presents, we instructed them all to lie quietly on the carpet and take a rest.
response of “I can feel it!” Even their Diné teacher dozed into it a bit. I sat on just observing in amazement as the most hyperactive children lay as quietly as the more placid. After it was all over, I told the little rapt listeners when they did this they brought goodness to the earth and to themselves. I added that this was also the place where they could feel into when they were trying to decide if something they wanted to do was right or wrong. One little girl popped up, making a connection, and said in consternation, “I don’t know how to pray.” I assured her she just had.
I put on Louie Gonnie’s CD, Elements: Meditation Songs from the Diné, and told them, “Listen to the music through that place just below your belly buttons.” One must be very careful around this kind of thing, as the Navajo boast two religious views here, expressed quite in opposition of one another, Christian and Native traditional. But I figured human meditation is universal. For fifteen minutes, until I quietly turned down the sound, they lay, their small hands instinctively catching the music in their bellies. Not one of them moved an inch after their initial surprised
While this exercise had not been planned, we just needed to settle the kids. I could not but hope afterward that a seed may have been planted, something they would remember as they grew surviving any dysfunction or violent loss challenging their innocence while growing up on the rez. Thank you, Mr. Gonnie. more later . . .
I figured human meditation is universal.
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ART 123
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ART123 Summer 2011 June 11 Perpendicularities A 3-dimensional installation of art and music by Fitz Sargent and Dan Philips. 7-9 pm. July 9 Photography Group Show A group show featuring photography by noted member artists. 7-9 pm. August 13 The Kanobis Amplifier Research Facility An installation of mixed media, electronics, original electronic sound-scapes, and performance art by artists Steve Storz. 7-9 pm. September 10 TBA Paintings by Ric Saracino. 7-9 pm. October 8 Día de los Muertos Group Show Multi-media group show celebrating the Day of the Dead. 7-9 pm. All events to be held at ART123, 123 W. Coal Ave., Gallup. Call Fitz Sargent at 207 522-9107 for further details.
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rt is everywhere. It’s produced and appreciated by just about everyone regardless of age, ethnicity or economic status. Art can be fun, it can serve to challenge or question, it can communicate beyond the limitations of spoken words. Art saturates our lives. It’s in the food we eat, in the music we hear, in the buildings we live in, in the clothes we wear. For as long as there are people to create and enjoy it, there will be art. Gallup is bursting with art in all its various forms. Think Native American jewelry, rugs, baskets, pottery and paintings, roadside sculptures, larger-than-life murals, etc. We’re immersed in it, yet some in our community have begun to feel that something is needed to further what is already going on, something to draw the creators and appreciators of these various forms together. So recently, several area artists and prominent business people alike decided to create a hub for the downtown art scene. ART123 occupies a portion of the building on the corner of 2nd and Coal, sharing space with The Open Studio and Outsider Artist Gallery. ART123 functions as a cooperative, where members pay dues and offer their time in order to make their vision a reality. Still a work in progress, their mission states: ART123 exists as an art incubator for Gallup area artists and art appreciators within their membership. Through creative activities at their downtown facility that are open to youth, teachers and professional artists who wish to become members ART123 seeks to ignite the community at large with vibrant, interactive, positive activities in the arts. It’s a gallery, as well as a place to meet and work, offering participatory art in the form of visual art, food, music and more, for everyone’s benefit. “It’s an active, open, cool kind of place,” describes ART123 member, Fitz Sargent. He and fellow member Steve Storz explain with shared excitement the role that an organization of this type could play, not only within the art community, but the Gallup community at large. They imagine art as a potential melting pot where age, income and background are secondary to
Steve Storz and Fitz Sargent
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Community Art from the Grand Opening
They imagine art as a potential melting pot where age, income and background are secondary to an interest in art.
an interest in art. “After all,” says Storz, “pure art is derived from everywhere, all things.” This is not an exclusive group, in fact, they want to include as many as possible, bridging the gap across all those things that get in the way of people interacting and creating. However, they do take art seriously and hope to engage the community at various levels, from potato stamping to museum-grade shows. Having already opened its doors to the public in April, members have led curious participants of all ages in painting, making origami hats and cooking wontons. The schedule of exhibits and participatory events is planned through October and will feature new artists’ work during Arts Crawl and for the remainder of each month (see sidebar for schedule). The truth is, this isn’t the first time a group of artists has tried something like this in town. That said, the cooperative is moving forward with something fresh. “It’s about what we can do, not about what we can’t,” insists Sargent. The positive momentum has spread to roughly twelve artists and several local business owners who have offered their talents and resources. ART123 is on the path to becoming a non-profit 501(c) (3) organization. Along with that, they are in need of board members with experience in grant writing, public relations, marketing, and coordinating events and volunteers. Storz, who is a gallery consultant and accomplished artist, moved to Gallup last fall from Taos. His knowledge and experiences with other non-profits in the arts have been great assets to ART123. Most important to the success of such an endeavor is the members’ willingness to commit to be involved and to put in the time. Art is everywhere, but many have a hard time seeing it or recognizing their own part in its creation. For some, the idea of art can be overwhelming and quickly bring to mind definitions and qualities reserved for “artists.” The members and supporters of ART123 want to expose the truth and provide a lens through which to see everyone as an artist in one way or another.
A couple of the origami hats with potato stamps from the May Arts Crawl
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Highfalutin’
by Eli Gjeltema Three Gallupians take a wrong turn at Albuquerque and wind up in a strange, urban habitat – New York City. These are their words.
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n March 2, 1972, at 01:49:00 Coördinated Universal Time, an Atlas-Centaur rocket boosted off from Cape Canaveral. Packed in its innards lay a very special shipment, the first satellite destined to explore the outer solar system: Pioneer 10. NASA loaded the thing with gizmos: a Quadrispherical Plasma Analyzer, a Charged Particle Instrument, a Helium Vector Magnetometer, an Imaging Photopolarimeter, and
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other assorted whosits and whatsits with names straight out of mass-market paperbacks with glowing alien life-forms and death-ray-toting androids on the cover. Also included in the satellite’s 569-pound bulk was a gold-anodized aluminum plaque, not much bigger than that paperback. Etched on its surface is an ultra-condensed summary of human existence: a man and woman standing next to a diagram of our place in the universe, with a map of where Pioneer came from.
The forces that shaped and molded us, that gave us our vectors and charged our particles, have stamped their own marks into our psyches.
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This fall, Benjamin Alford, late of the lower bunk, will be studying the philosophy of science in pursuit of a master’s degree at Indiana University in Bloomington. It’s right up his alley, the path he was born to travel, but it’s still bittersweet to see him ride it away from the wild city we once co-occupied. Gabriel Kruis is sticking around. He, too, will plunge into higher education, seeking an MFA in poetry. His institution of choice is accessible by subway, though: Hunter College, part of the City University of New York, is just off the 6 train on the Upper East Side. As for me, I’ve got one more year of law school, and the end is in sight. I’m working this summer at a large law firm in Midtown, a block away from the blinding lights of Times Square that incubate the clutch of directionless tourists nestled within its irregular boundaries. Gazing down from the window of the 34th floor, I feel a long way from home. Pioneer 10’s original mission was to gather information during a flyby of Jupiter, but after that task was complete, it kept on cruising. The probe is now shooting toward Aldebaron, all the while carrying with it the plaque marking its source, a continually lingering element of its creators. In the same way, though Ben, Gabe, and I live in worlds far removed from Gallup, Navajoland, and the high mesas, the forces that shaped and molded us, that gave us our vectors and charged our particles, have stamped their own marks into our psyches. We carry them wherever on this broad earth we crawl. Who knows? Perhaps someday we will carry them into space. The last signal from Pioneer 10 was received on Earth on January 23, 2003. The probe was then 12 billion kilometers away. But though it has ceased to wink backwards at us, it keeps on going, streaming toward the interstellar medium. This is our last transmission, but like Pioneer 10, we are still following our trajectories: the long arcs that spring from Gallup, New Mexico, and curve like rainbows to land somewhere beyond the horizon. Good readers, this is Highfalutin’, signing off.
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Gardening by Sid Gillson
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une is here. Are we finally ready to plant our family garden?
In the middle of May as I sit down to write about gardening, it is dreary, overcast and cold outside. For the past two days, the evening temperatures have been in the low 30s. Daytime temperatures have been in the mid 50s. The wind has been blowing with gusts up to 50 miles per hour. Rain, snow squalls and a scattering of ice pellets cover the ground where our gardens will be. Garden seeds and plants cannot thrive in such an environment. This would not be a good time for planting our garden seeds. We have assurance that every year the plants on Mother Earth will put forth flowers, fruits and seeds. The plants die and return to the earth, scattering their seeds in the ground. The gentle warmth from the sun returns in the spring and brings forth new life and nourishment. We are here to enjoy and celebrate that resurrection of life and nourishment. We cannot control all of these wonders but we can be in a vital relationship with that recurring new life process. So now let’s finally plant our family garden on the high plateau where many generations before us have been nourished from the earth. Let’s help our children, grandchildren, friends and neighbors learn and understand that our food and life energy comes from the earth and the plants in our own gardens. Last year, in August, the kindergarten students from Rehoboth Christian School came to visit and explore our garden. I was walking through the garden rows showing one group of students the vegetable plants when we came to tomatoes growing in wire cages next to the sun-warmed water barrels. One little girl stopped and looked at a tomato plant with a big cluster of bright red tomatoes. I asked her, “What are those?” She got closer and looked intensely at the tomatoes. She grinned and said, “Apples?” I smiled and replied, “They are red like apples but they are really red tomatoes.” Several children in our group went ahead of us and enthusiastically named the other vegetables as we walked along the rows. I asked, “How did you know the names of those vegetables?” They smiled and replied, “We grow those in our garden at home.” Later we washed several tomatoes and cut them into small pieces so each child could have a taste of home grown tomatoes.
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We cannot control all of these wonders but we can be in a vital relationship with that recurring new life process. It is important for us and our children to know and understand where our food, such as bananas, pears, corn, lettuce, pineapple, and wheat bread, comes from and how it is grown. For example, what does a cow or chicken eat and where does it live before it becomes our Happy Meal. The produce department in our local grocery store could be a learning laboratory for us and our children. I may not know where some of the fruits and vegetables come from or how they are grown. How do we get sugar from beets, chocolate from cocoa plants and how are those plants picked and processed? What plant does cinnamon come from? How do potatoes grow? How do Brussels sprouts grow and how are they harvested? A small garden in our back yard enables us and our children to learn about the life and growth processes that sustain us. Even a small garden requires some physical effort, daily monitoring, fertilizing, watering and protection from invasion just like many other important aspects of our lives. When it is time to harvest, even a small crop of vegetables from our garden, there is a sense of pride and celebration. A gardener never knows all there is to know about growing, maintaining and harvesting vegetables. Each year we find out that some things did not happen the way we expected. Then we try to discover and learn a better way. Through this process you become an expert on how to grow a garden where you live and that is challenging and rewarding. Before you start your garden, if you have not done so already, go to the Internet and review the “Gardening on the High Plateau” articles in the April and May issues of the Gallup Journey. That information will help you to get ready for planting. If you have already planted some seeds in the middle of May, but they did not come up as expected, you could get more seeds and replant them. Now that the weather is warmer they will likely germinate. If you transplanted plants from pots and they wilted or some of the leaves froze, get some more and plant them in the shade and protect them from wind and the hot sun with shade cloth spread over a support. When your seeds sprout and the plants begin to come up check on them every morning and later in the day. Look to see if they are erect and not drooping. Droopy and dull colored plants need water. Keep your new sprouting plants watered as they have short roots and will quickly dry out in the wind and hot sun. Water in the evening when the water will soak in deep and not evaporate as quickly. However, if your plants are droopy or dull in the morning water them as soon as possible. It is desirable for your young plants to display noticeable growth every 2 or 3 days. If they do not grow and appear dormant they may need more deep watering and protection from the sun and wind. One can get free used scrap tires to make a barrier from the wind and sun. Use a short blade utility knife to cut off the rims around the tire tread. Turn the tire tread rings inside out and drive a galvanized nail through the center of the tread to make a figure
eight shape. Bend the pointed end of the nail over so it will not come out of the tire. Place the tire figure eights along your plant row close to the new emerging plants. Place the tire in a position to protect the plants from the prevailing wind and provide shade from the hot sun in the afternoon. The tire figure eights absorb heat during the day, which will be radiated to the plant sprout in the cool of the night. The two flat rims cut from the tire can be used between the rows to hold down mulch. (See the YouTube videos in the May Journey for a visual reference.) The use of temporary tire parts may not be “pretty,” but they work. Remove the figure eights when the plants are reaching over the top of the tire. The lush plant growth hides the rims covering the mulch between the rows. Join the local Community Garden Club to share your ideas and to learn from other area gardeners. Develop a system for collecting the abundant rainwater in the fall. Learn about the many different ways to gather and compost vegetable and fruit scraps from your kitchen. You can also use grass trimmings and leaves from your yard and neighborhood as mulch. Your fellow Garden Club members will gladly exchange ideas about the many different composting methods used in our community. Our unique high plateau weather is the most important and changing factor for our gardens. We have access to many excellent resources to anticipate weather changes so we can prepare to protect our gardens and utilize our rainwater. The Gallup Independent provides a daily “Five-Day Forecast for Gallup and Vicinity.” The sections entitled, “Almanac, 24 Hour Conditions, Temp. Trends,” provide information that will be useful for anticipating and dealing with our changing climate as it affects our tender garden plants. One can access “Weather Underground” and other weather web sites on the Internet to have access to current weather information and to learn about historic weather records for comparison with current conditions. Previous yearly and daily information is especially helpful in the fall months as we prepare to protect our garden plants from freezing. The local Farmers’ Market will again be providing an opportunity for people from our area to buy and sell locally-grown garden vegetables every Saturday morning in Gallup’s downtown walkway. This is a great opportunity to meet other gardeners, share ideas, learn about other gardens and buy and sell local garden produce. Gallup news outlets will provide more information regarding the Farmers’ Market beginning dates and market hours. If you have questions or comments regarding gardening or this article, enter them at gallupjourney.com.
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The Beat Goes On
H. Haveman
in one of the poorest counties in the country requires some creativity and a strong belief that this community deserves them. For example, after ten years of occupying various spaces around town, the school needed a permanent facility, but with a state-wide freeze on bricks and mortar for new building at the time, GGSC found a builder who was willing to construct a building and rent it to the school.
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t the end of this month, Western New Mexico University’s Gallup Graduate Studies Center (WNMU-GGSC) will say goodbye to Chair and Professor, Dr. Patricia Maguire who has been connected to the school since the early days of its establishment in Gallup more than twenty years ago. Helping to provide higher education for locals seeking to improve themselves and their communities has been passionate work. At the end of a significant career, Maguire has no intentions of quitting. After serving in Jamaica during a tumultuous time, from 1977 to 1979, Maguire and her husband Cal Marshall returned to the US, but with a passion for justice and equality. After a short time, during which Maguire began her doctoral studies at the Center for International Education at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, the couple began to look internationally and with the Indian Health Service (IHS) for job openings. Marshall accepted a nursing position with IHS and the couple moved to Gallup in 1984. Almost immediately, Maguire dug in and started teaching women’s studies at UNMGallup as an adjunct professor and volunteering with Battered Families Services while working on her dissertation. Meanwhile, in 1984, WNMU developed an arm of their Extended University in Gallup to offer graduate and professional development courses for area teachers, administrators, and special educators. In 1988 Dr. Maguire was hired as its third director. Though she jokes about receiving nothing but a Rolodex and a box of files upon taking the job with WNMU, the challenges of operating an organization at the periphery have been ongoing throughout the past 23 years. Fighting for resources
As elements of education shift and change, being attentive to the needs of the community has also been paramount. GGSC offers a variety of bachelors and masters degrees in an array of fields, including education, educational leadership, counseling, social work and psychology. Weekend and online classes cater to working adults who are committed to keeping up in their field or are passionate about a new career. Good relationships have formed with the local school district and Teach For America. And the Gallup Center was one of the first to collaborate with Peace Corps in offering the Fellows/ USA program to former Volunteers for reduced tuition in their graduate courses. Dr. Maguire looks back at her years at GGSC with pride, but is quick to say, “Nothing of value happens alone. You have to have a team.” WNMU’s School of Education recently received the highest level of accreditation in the state from The National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE). This is due, in no small part, to the team of faculty and staff who have trained hundreds, if not thousands, of local teachers, counselors and principals. Throughout all the programs offered, the faculty has weaved in concerns about social justice and equity with excellence in education, along with a blend of theory and practice. Knowing the good work that graduates are out there doing in Gallup and in reservation communities is the greatest reward for Dr. Maguire, who says, “That’s where the beat goes on.” Other than a one-year stint in Sitka, Alaska, the Maguire-Marshalls have enjoyed living in Gallup, a place where they’ve found meaningful work, a diverse community with great people, and an ideal environment in which to raise their two daughters, Molly and Megan. Dr. Maguire has deliberately put off planning for retirement, wanting to stay focused on finishing the school year, but imagines that she and her husband will volunteer locally in some combination with international work. Her concerns for justice and equality have not faded and she anticipates leaving her office in order to pursue interests in food sustainability, hunger, and adult literacy. For Dr. Patricia Maguire, retirement is not the end of work, but simply a new setting in which to make a difference.
Knowing the good work that graduates are out there doing in Gallup and in reservation communities is the greatest reward.
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The Saga of the
Road Pirates Motorcycle Club . . . agents of skill who simply rode their beasts on racetracks and in the vast country of Enchantment as they were meant to be ridden.
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by JK Solo Hoover Editor’s note: Although Gallup Journey does not condone or encourage the actions or behaviors depicted below, we appreciate the story and wanted to share it.
nce upon a time in the West, there existed a fabled and, perhaps infamous, group of motorcyclists known as the Road Pirates. Based primarily in Gallup and New Mexico at large, they were not your stereotypical gang of outlaw lawbreakers, other than bending speed limits into the triple digits on a regular basis. They rode superbikes, irritatingly described as “crotch rockets” by the citizenry. Many would agree that, at least unofficially, they held the mantle of pride as the best, fastest group of bikers in the state. They had the trophies and track time records to prove it. Basic cruising speed, in the wide open, was 100 mph.
wheelies, cavorting about, immaturely profiling. Oh, and sober, too, were the Road Pirates, well prepared and experienced for the undertaking. (High-speed mistakes are entirely unforgiving.)
“It feels slow after awhile.” -UFO (Road Pirate founding member)
It all began in the mid-1990s when the Road Pirates came into being. Young men devoted to superbike riding at a high level of skill, both in real track competition and highway burning, informally recruited by the biker grapevine. Women were allowed, but none subscribed. An elite group devoted to speed and performance; one had to earn a Road Pirate skull logo posted on the tail of the bike.
It was also proven on the open highways by the way they ‘ate alive’ anything in their path of road-devouring travel. “Those Road Pirate guys, they really burn it.” -Gallup City official They did these acts not as “stunts,” so shamelessly portrayed in the sensationalized media, but as agents of skill who simply rode their beasts on racetracks and in the vast country of Enchantment as they were meant to be ridden. Riding 150-plus-horsepower machines as originally conceived, akin to Indy Cars in power to weight ratio, looking with scorn upon the squids who’d usually be seen only in the urban environment: helmetless, popping
“Those dudes, we see ’em down in the mountains all in a group taking a break. Then they get on their bikes and pass everybody!” -A Harley HOG Club member
Authors note: All names and nicknames below have been changed and/or deleted to protect the semi-innocent. All, however, is true. And since the individuals depicted herein are local business leaders, skilled tradesmen, and educators, each is covertly wearing, under starched collars, a large RP skull-emblazoned T-shirt.
Captain Nemo, the reclusive leader of the RPs put it to words succinctly with the club motto, “Speed Limits? We don’t care about no stinking speed limits.” The Coronado Trail, rising from the Arizona desert floor to the forested crest of Blue Vista mountain country, was their prime domain. The Road Pirates figuratively owned that road that few have traveled; treacherous even for a slow moving cage of four wheels, but nirvana for adept sport riders with more than 2,000 curves in the first 50 miles of the ascent. No guard rails, blind corners of all speed levels and necessitating usage of all gears inherent in a modern superbike race machine. Highly challenging, dangerous, demanding the utmost of practiced skill, awareness, and courage. All in all, a 600-mile round trip, returning to Gallup with few impediments in the entire full-day journey such as police patrols, traffic, stoplights, cities, or boredom. “We’d try to catch them down there, but we’d probably crash and die trying.” -Arizona Highway patrolman Fool hardy some say. Perhaps, for even the stoutest of riders fell prey to age, or physical decline, common sense, or the most debilitative affliction of all – marriage and family life. Ah, God blesses the women for saving us from ourselves. Well, maybe. Each of the Road Pirates today still own machines of two wheels. Few, though, ride much at all anymore except for the most hard core, the original leaders of the group, charter founding members, per se. And they ride slower, or on slower machines, and rarely frequent the race tracks any longer. With that, the group has dwindled, lost interest, fallen apart. It’s sad but life, as we all find to be true, moves on and all must change. Steve McQueen was asked years ago as he sat in winter solitude, gazing at his souped-up Triumph in his Malibu garage, “What are you doing?” The actor/racer said, “Just waiting.” Spring is here once more, and the open road beckons to each of us in its own fashion. It’s time to say, “Let’s ride!” and rise up again from that desert like the Phoenix. Hail the Road Pirates! Riders of Renown.
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A Third Generation of Indian Traders
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The Legacy of ‘Bear Man’:
by Ernie Bulow photo by Erin Bulow
Young Chunky Tanner
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oseph Tanner was born in Utah in the formative years of the Mormon Church and his father Seth, the legendary “Bear Man,” was recruited to help settle Arizona for the church. Half of Joseph’s brood of thirteen were born in the tiny, remote village of Tuba City. It was a place without a railroad, improved highways of any kind, telegraph or regular mail service. The only way in or out was to cross the deadly Colorado River. The Navajos were still dangerous if they felt they were wronged, and prospectors were numerous in the Colorado-Little Colorado territory. They envisioned untold riches, still hoping to find the fabulous wealth of gold the Europeans had been seeking for nearly four centuries. In the early 1900s the government bought out the Mormon colony at Moenkopi and forced them to move elsewhere. Seth stayed in Arizona but Joseph took his family to the Farmington area where several colonies of Mormons had settled. J.B. had been in the trading business, spoke several Indian languages, and immediately fell to work, establishing his family on the frontier. Half of his children would stay in the trading business in the Four
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Corners: Northern New Mexico and Southern Utah and Colorado. The children – already Foutzes on their mother’s side – would extend their ties to the area by marrying into other trading families including the McGees, Hatches, Hunts, and Stolworthys. Nora Ethel (b. 1891), who went by her middle name, was a beautiful girl. She married Willard Stolworthy in 1915. The Stolworthys and Foutzes owned the wholesale business called Progressive Mercantile. They didn’t run trading posts themselves, but financed others. Their standard deal was to front an enterprising young man with enough goods to last a year. It was up to him, usually, to build some sort of post to trade out of. He was expected to pay back his stake the first year, and could keep 25% of the net profits. If the young man wished, he could buy up to half of the post with those profits. Eventually he would own the whole place. Sometimes it worked out, and sometimes it didn’t, but Progressive Merc was somewhere behind most of the trading posts in the area, much like C. N. Cotton in Gallup. Donald Tanner (b.1895) took over his father’s extensive freighting interests, making the transition from ox-teams and wagons to trucks, basing
All it took to make a trading post was four walls and some sort of roof. Plumbing and electricity hadn’t been invented yet. his business in Long Hollow, Colorado, where there was a flour mill. He also had interests in Ignacio and Bayfield – dryland wheat and pinto beans were being developed at the time for high altitude. His sons Halworth and Harold soon joined the business. Harold ended up with the pinto beans, Halworth with the flour company. Harold drove a freight truck from Colorado to Gallup when still in his early teens. The flour mill story is more than interesting. When Donald’s mill in Bayfield burned down he decided against rebuilding it, so his boys were on their own. Cortez Milling Company was failing when Halworth and a man named Bill Palmer bought it. The equipment was aging already in the 1950s. They had two brands of flour, Red Rose and White Rose. The “formula” of dryland red wheat that became Bluebird Flour was considered a second-grade product. In the Southwest the only flour that a Hopi, Zuni or Navajo will buy is Bluebird, the only brand in the country packaged exclusively in cloth sacks, which have been used for everything from shirts to curtains and pillowcases. The mill runs at full capacity (there’s not enough product to supply the local Wal-Mart) and the same machinery from the 1800s is still in operation. The mill is still owned and operated by Tanners – Trent and his brother Gary. The huge popularity is due to the high gluten content of the flour. The word gluten is Latin, for glue, and gives elasticity to the dough, allowing it to be pulled into large, flat rounds suitable for fry bread. It also helps the dough rise – a boon at high altitude. Another of Donald’s sons, Colin, bought into the famous Navajo mecca, T & R Market north of Gallup. The “T” does not stand for Tanner. Colin once won a Baby Beauty Contest. Donald’s wife Mamie was killed in a car accident when the boys were still young. Arthur (b.1897) was one of the many Tanners who would own – or run – the Aneth Trading Post on McElmo Creek where it flowed into the muddy San Juan. There were many Paiutes in the area as well as Navajos. Klara Kelly translates the Navajo name of the place as “‘One Who Can Barely Make It’ – a trader, probably one of the Tanners.” The place went by several names in the early years and had to be pretty dismal in those days. All it took to make a trading post was four walls of rock,
50th Anniversary of Joseph Baldwin and Nora Foutz Tanner with all 13 children. usually abundant on the spot, and some sort of roof. Plumbing and electricity hadn’t been invented yet. Ruel Lehi Tanner, who went by the name Chunky, would also take his turn at Aneth. Though he had been engaged to a Burnham girl from the area, he married Stella McGee, which connected the Tanners to yet another trading family. Chunky left for southern Arizona where he worked for an ice cream company. Stella, far pregnant with her first child, joined him as soon as he could send her the money. She would forever consider the move a miracle because her first-born named JB (no periods) was more than a month premature. “He was so little he fit in a shoe box,” she said. “We fed him with an eyedropper.” Because they were in Phoenix they had access to a well-equipped hospital. “That’s what saved his life.” They soon moved back north, stopping to see Pappa Joseph in Gallup. Chunky turned down an offer to work for his dad, but he soon ended up out at Aneth, trading his new Model A for a half interest in the post. He spoke very fluent Navajo and when he was mad he spoke fast and loud. The Indians called him “The Little Man Who Is Hard to Get Along With” for this reason. Ruel, like his father before him, bought lambs and old ewes and put them on pasturage in Colorado. He made a lot more in the livestock business than he did trading. Stella, whom the locals called “Little Mother,” tells some interesting things about life at Aneth. They still got their water from the river and it was silty as ever. She describes pouring a can of condensed milk into a barrel of muddy water. They stirred it up and all the dirt settled to the bottom. Conditions at Aneth were still exceedingly primitive. The boys remember keeping huge bull
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Q. What got you interested in applying for the vacant city manager’s job? A. My wife Lisa and I really wanted to come back to New Mexico and, initially, we wanted to go somewhere closer to our grandkids in Lubbock, but the pull of Gallup was very strong. We know so many people here and we enjoyed our time here before so much. Q. What do you enjoy most about your job? A. The variety, opportunity to make a positive impact, and the challenge. Q. What is the biggest challenge of your job? A. I would say doing my duties in a way that maintains trust and good will among the reasonable people involved. Q. What is your number one priority coming into this job? A. To ascertain what the mayor and council want done and to do it well. Q. What do you see Gallup’s highest potential as being? A. Given where we are in our country’s history and our economy, I think now is a time to build on our strengths and I think Gallup’s strengths are Native American trade, culture and all the opportunities that I-40 and the railroad present. Q. What do you enjoy doing in your off time? A. I got tremendous enjoyment my first week here from just hiking. I love the new trails. After spending the last eight years in Hobbs, NM and Tulia, Texas, I have an incredible appreciation for natural beauty. I appreciate the natural beauty of Gallup and just being out in it. Q. What is your favorite movie? A. My favorite movie of all time is Chariots of Fire, because it combines the importance of faith, perseverance, and the glories of competition. Q. If you could trade places with one famous person, who would it be and why? A. C.S. Lewis, because I would love to have the incredible intellectual and communication gifts that he had and I would love to be in a situation where I had the time and the ideal setting to use those gifts along with his writing companions: J.R.R. Tolkien, Dorothy Sayers and Charles Williams. He was a uniquely gifted person who lived at a critical time in history.
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...Tanner continued from page 23 snakes in the warehouse to control the rodent problem. Visitors sometimes got a good scare. Stella deserves her own place in Tanner history. She was an excellent cook and baked bread and sweet rolls that they sold to the Navajos and Paiutes who came to trade. Later, when they built a trailer court just south of Durango she opened Stella’s Café – known far and wide for her fried chicken and mouth-watering pies. She would run restaurants in several places, Ruel Lehi “Chunky” and including a spell at Keams Stella McGee Tanner Canyon. Everyone agreed it was the best food around. Ellis Tanner claims he plucked as many as fifty chickens at a time to keep his mother supplied. Chunky and Stella had one daughter and seven sons and all of them stayed in the Indian trading business. Chunky’s father had homesteaded down near Chaco Wash at a place called Whiterock. Chunky took land nearby at a place called Crimson Hills, northwest of the trading post at Tsaya – short for a Navajo name that meant “water under a rock.” There was a cave there, hiding a steady spring. Chunky continued in the footsteps of his father and grandfather when it came to water, the most precious commodity in the Desert Southwest. They had built, or improved, an irrigation system at Tuba City, and Joseph Baldwin had done the same in the San Juan valley. J. B. had put in a water system at a place the Mormons called Jewitt Valley, now known as Waterflow and Hogback. The first thing J. B. did at Tanner Mesa was build a dam to create a small reservoir. They did the same thing at the two homesteads. Ellis tells a story of how far Chunky would go to get water. There was a wash where the sand stayed damp, but there was no flowing stream. He and his dad buried drain tile to create a French Drain. A French drain is usually used to pull water away from a wall or structure. In this case it took the seepage from the wet sand and coaxed it into a cistern. Ellis didn’t particularly enjoy ditch digging. Ralph was the baby of the family and as such a favorite son and he started traveling with his father J. B. when he was very young, traveling down to Arizona to visit the turquoise mines. When he grew up he partnered with brother Chunky at Aneth. It seemed like all the Tanners had to put time in out there. Ralph was stocky and hairy and as strong as his grandfather. Family legend has it that he could walk as well on his hands as on his feet and once proved it by traveling the equivalent of seventeen blocks to the old Shiprock Hotel. Ralph liked to wrestle and the Utes called him “Bear” which carried on the family tradition. Ralph would own many businesses in Cortez by the end of his life. He owned ranchland near Durango with his brother Chunky, where, like his father and brothers before him, he fattened sheep he picked up from the Navajos and then shipped them off to the Eastern markets. Though other Tanners kept in or near the Indian Trading business, it would be Ruel Lehi’s six sons who would provide the next generation of the Tanner dynasty.
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formative Syd Barrett days, the group era of the 70’s, and the final post-Waters tours.
Monday thru Friday, June 6th thru June 26th, 2011 Summer Musical Theatre Camp Accepting children ages 6-15 Camp limited to 50 students only. Participants will be performing: MEANWHILE BACK AT THE RANCH Adapted by Michelle Moore from the book by Trinka Hakes Noble. A hilarious story about Rancher Hicks and his wife, Elna and what happens when he goes to town to see “what’s up” Camp runs from June 6 thru June24 with performances on June 25, and 26 Runs daily-Monday thru Friday 9am-12pm Fee: $25/Child Auditions will be held on Monday, June 6th at 9am 3 weeks filled with Drama, Music, Improv, set building and more. Interested High School students are welcome to work as assistants and possibly earn credit for future references. Call Michelle Moore for more information (541)2333939
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A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao’s cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he fell in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.
Saturday, June 11, 2011 Show Time: 1 pm Kids Matinee Movie: Justin Bieber Never Say Never Rated: G 105 minutes Starring: Justin Bieber Admission: Adults: $2.00 Children 12 & under: FREE From small town boy to global super-star, Never Say Never follows Justin Bieber’s journey from his early years, to his rise from break-out internet sensation to global super-star, culminating with a sold-out show at the famed Madison Square Garden. More than just a concert, Never Say Never is a captivating, cinematic event featuring all-star musical talent including, Usher, Jaden Smith, Ludacris, and more! Saturday Evening, June 11, 2011 Show Time: 8 pm Evening Movie: True Grit Rated: PG-13 110 minutes Starring: Matt Damon, Jeff Bridges Admission: Adults: $5.00 Children 12 & under: $3.00 Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld), is determined to avenge her father’s blood by capturing Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin), the man who shot and killed him for two pieces of gold. Just fourteen, she enlists the help of Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges), a one-eyed, trigger-happy U.S. Marshall with an affinity for drinking and hardened Texas Ranger LaBoeuf (Matt Damon) to track the fleeing Chaney. Despite their differences, their ruthless determination leads them on a perilous adventure that can only have one outcome: retribution. Tuesday, June 14, 2011 Show Time: 8 pm An Evening of Pink Floyd with HOUSE OF FLOYD America’s #1 Pink Floyd Show! For the past 5 years, HOUSE OF FLOYD has been performing the music of Pink Floyd and has gained a strong following for their unique ability to enthuse both the hard-core fans of the early, adventurous Floyd, and those who enjoy the songs and soundscapes that later brought them widespread appeal. This group of S.F. Bay Area musicians & technicians capture the essence of each of the various Pink Floyd eras, from the
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Saturday, June 18, 2011 Show Time: 1 pm Kids Matinee Movie: Disney’s Sleeping Beauty Rated: G 75 minutes Animated Feature Voice Talents: Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Barbara Luddy Admission: Adults: $2.00 Children 12 & under: FREE Classic Disney film. Princess Aurora sleeps for 100 years before being awakened by a prince’s kiss. Saturday Evening, June 18, 2011 Show Time: 7 pm Independent Movie: Mao’s Last Dancer Rated: PG 117 minutes Starring: Chi Cao, Bruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan and Joan Chen Admission: Adults: $5.00 Children 12 & under: $3.00
Saturday, June 25, 2011 Show Time: 1 pm Kids Matinee Movie: Open Season 2 Rated: PG 76 minutes Voice Talents: Joel Mc Hale, Mike Epps, Steve Schirripa, Sean Mullen (II), Crispin Glover Admission: Adults: $2.00 Children 12 & under: FREE Falling head over hooves in love with Giselle, Elliot’s road to the altar takes a slight detour when Mr. Weenie is kidnapped by a group of pampered pets determined to return him to his owners. Boog, Elliot, McSquizzy, Buddy and the rest of the woodland creatures launch a full-scale rescue mission for their sausage-shaped friend and soon find themselves in enemy camp: the world of the pets. Led by a toy poodle named Fifi, the pets do not plan to let Mr. Weenie go without a fight. Can a toy poodle REALLY bring down an 900-pound grizzly bear? Will Elliot ever marry Giselle? Friday, July 01, 2011 Show Time: 7 pm Evening Movie: Golden Globe Winner Barney’s Version Rated: *R 134 minutes Starring: Paul Giamatti, Rosamund Pike, Scott Speedman Admission: Adults: $5.00 Children 12 & under: $3.00
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Barney Panofsky is a seemingly ordinary man who lives an extraordinary life. There is his first wife, Clara, a flame-haired, flagrantly unfaithful free spirit with whom Barney briefly lives “la vie de Boheme” in Rome. The “Second Mrs. P.,” is a wealthy Jewish Princess who shops and talks incessantly, barely noticing that Barney is not listening. And it is at their lavish wedding that Barney meets, and starts pursuing, his third wife, the mother of his two children, and his true love. With his father, Izzy as his sidekick, Barney takes us through the many highs, and a few too many lows, of his long and colorful life.
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by Brett Newberry AKA The Business Doctor
Brett is a CPA and Profitability Consultant with Newberry & Associates, Ltd. He has been a CPA and Business Consultant for more than 25 years in Gallup. His passion is to help the small business owner improve their business operations and impact their income and quality of life.
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or managers to be effective in organizations they must have good communication skills. Effective communication improves efficiency and productivity in the workplace, which ultimately impacts the bottom line. Unfortunately, many managers do not have any significant training in this area. Many business owners and managers feel that these skills are overrated and unnecessary. However, if these skills are developed and used properly, then the manager will add value to the organization in some way. I am going to provide you a checklist that should help you deal with your employees or co-workers and improve their work environment. Clarify the purpose of the communication at the outset. Is it a meeting to make decisions, a briefing session to impart information, or a brainstorming session to generate new ideas? Some tasks are done better in groups, while others are best left to individual or written communications. Set a time limit, even for an informal encounter, even if it is an unwritten one. Be realistic about what you can expect to achieve within the group. You need to always be sensitive to the pressures on other people’s time. Group communication works best when all the people present have a legitimate reason for being there, have something to contribute to the discussion, and have an interest in the outcome. Postpone a discussion if the right people can’t be present; delay is better than an inconclusive debate. For most group discussions, five is recognized as the optimum number for effective debate and decision making. In a group of this size members can adopt different roles, and a single member can be in the minority without undue pressure to conform. If you are leading a group, make clear what people’s roles are, why they are there, and what they are expected to contribute. As a member, define the contribution you expect to make and your authority for making it. Make clear whether the authority is personal (a function of your own position) or vested (you have been asked to speak on behalf of someone else).
If you have agreed to be part of a group, be active in it. Take full responsibility for its success or failure, be energetic, and make positive contributions. If you have nothing to contribute, admit it and step down – don’t waste other contributors’ time. Take up a clear position on issues, but be willing to listen to rational argument and be prepared to change your mind. If you do, explain why. Groups work effectively only if participants are open to new information and different points of view. Give all members the opportunity to speak, even if you have doubts about the likely wisdom of their views. Don’t put your own ideas ahead of the group’s overriding objective. Speak slowly, clearly, and directly in short sentences. Structure your arguments logically. Think what you are going to say, say it, and summarize what you have said. Link your comments to what has already been said by other contributors. Use gestures to reinforce your key messages and nonverbal signals to convey attitudes and expressions. Make eye contact with each member of the group. Use non-threatening but positive body language and convey an impression of calm and confidence. Even if you believe the group is making the wrong decision, stay calm and don’t become emotional defending your own ideas. Stress points of agreement and minimize areas of disagreement with a view to finding a way forward. The key to effective group communication is mutual respect. If you believe someone is wrong, criticize the idea, not the person. It is important that you bring the communication to a conclusion. Casual encounters in particular often take longer than necessary because the purpose of the communication and its agenda are unclear at the outset. Until next time, The Business Doctor
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DAM REDE For the next few months Gallup Journey will take a look at some hypothetical improvements that could be done to enhance the general quality of life for the citizens of Gallup. For the most part we will be looking at existing city assets that could be modified to serve the everyday life of Gallup citizens. Of course these are just ideas that will ultimately hinge on money, legalities, and the public itself. Yet they are ideas that are certainly within the realm of reasonable reach.
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n a recent trip to Cortez, Co, I was impressed with ponds that surrounded many of their municipal parks. There is something special about walking, playing, or just being around a bit of water. For a moment I erroneously lamented the lack of ponds in our town. But a pond does exist within Gallup city limits, and in fact is on city property. Funny how I had driven by it almost daily on S. 2nd St.; it is rather hidden in the valley just east and out of sight. But she is there nonetheless. This pond exists because of the large million-dollar dam that was built during the Rosebrough administration. The dam was built because of flash flooding that would rip through the downtown area on its way to the Rio Puerco. Now when it rains the water is collected in the dredged valley, and slowly metered out via an underground pipe. The result is a rather large (by New Mexico standards) pond that appears to stick around year round. While not very deep, about 4-5 feet in the middle, it does cover an impressive amount of real estate. I personally did not check the depth due to proper warning from City Director of Public Works, Stan Henderson, that the pond is currently full of leeches. Truth be known, the area is currently off limits to the public. But it appears that both Stan and Mayor Jackie McKinney are interested in recreational options for the roughly 14 acres of land. “I’d love to see us utilize that area for positive activity,” Jackie muses while perusing the ownership maps of the surround area. While nothing is certain, it is painfully obvious that this
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property represents Gallup’s best option for a public water feature. The hard work is already done (building the dam). Surrounding land owners would likely see property values increase and folks living in that area would have a park or recreational area where there currently is no city park nearby. Here are some distinct possibilities for the Gallup Dam Redemption Area. 1.Perimiter walking trails. Access roads already exist. 2. Courts. The top of the dam itself is a flat concrete floor with easy access and built-in seating that is larger than a full size basketball court. Install lights and put in fence for basketball/tennis courts. Or put a gazebo up there with some picnic tables and grills. The view is great. 3. Park. General playground equipment installed near the south end of property. 4. Access. Trailheads and easements so community access can occur in neighboring subdivision. 5. Fish. Stan says an aerator needs to be installed to sustain fish. But when it rains the south mouth of the canyon has a 15-ft waterfall. Why not oxygenate the water by pumping it back over the waterfall? 6. Ice Skating. Valley location limits direct winter sunlight making skating possible if someone could shovel the snow off it. Low water depth also makes it safer. 7. Dog Walk/Park. Who doesn’t enjoy watching a dog chase a stick into a pond?
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Kindness W hether big or small, gestures of kindness always result in something good. When someone does something nice for you, something you didn’t ask for and maybe don’t deserve, it may bring a smile to your face, brighten your day . . . or change your life. After living in Texas for 27 years, Norman Atchison decided to return to his roots in rural northwest New Mexico. He and his family came back to the very place where Norman received a remarkable gift, a place where he spent almost his entire childhood – Manuelito Navajo Children’s Home. What began as a preaching mission to the Navajo over fifty years ago quickly found its missionaries caring for children whose parents could no longer support them. When Norman was sixteen months old, his parents found themselves unable to provide for their family and took their children to the Home. At the time, in the early 1960s, the mission was relocated from its original site in Manuelito, NM to its current location 2.5 miles west of Gallup. Within the first ten years, cottages were built to accommodate children and their house-parents, and an administration building and gymnasium were also erected. In its early years, MNCH cared for as many as 70 children at a time. Norman remembers his youth fondly. His house-parents were L.D. and Norine Atchison, who gave over 25 years of their lives to the Home, caring for and loving many children as their own. Now, Norman and his wife, Cathy, are devoted to providing the same support and affection to the children who live in their home on campus. They are one of two sets of house-parents who care for children fulltime. Ranging in age from 3 to 16, the six children under the Atchisons’ care live as a family, complete with chores and the freedom to decorate their bedrooms. Having experienced first-hand what life is like for the children, Norman knows the importance of helping them to understand that they’re not alone. “We try to give them hope for a better life,” he says. Because of more stringent state regulations, Manuelito Children’s Home can now care for up to 24 children in three residential cottages. So while the focus on supporting the children under their care remains, the Home also runs Gallup Christian School on its campus. In 1982 the Gallup Church of Christ established the school and housed it in the church building. In 1997, the school was relocated to the MNCH campus. The school offers faith-based instruction to its 55 students, kindergarten through 12th grade. The staff at the Home is equally involved with the school. Jim Christian, executive director of MNCH, also serves as the school’s principal. And, in addition to being a house-parent, Norman also coaches basketball and teaches art and P.E. at the school. Since the beginning, MNCH has relied solely on private donations from churches, businesses and individuals to stay in operation. They also accept non-
Above: Gallup Christian School and gymnasium Right: Norman with his own house-parent, Norine Atchison. Bottom: Gallup Christian School on the campus of Manuelito Navajo Children's Home. monetary donations, such as food, clothing, furniture, electronics and school supplies. The Home has maintained relationships, through the Church of Christ, with groups all over the country who have come year after year to paint, fix roofs, and do yard work. This summer about a dozen mission groups will come to help with maintenance on campus and run a vacation Bible school program. In July, MNCH and Gallup Christian School look forward to their biggest local fundraiser, the 18th Annual Wild Thing Bull Riding event. For many years, staff, students and volunteers have handled parking and concession at the two-night event, raising thousands of dollars for the everyday operation of the Home and school throughout the rest of the year. The bullriding event has become known as one of the greatest shows in the Southwest and has continued to grow year after year. Come to Wild Thing performances at 8pm on Friday, July 8 and Saturday, July 9 at Red Rock Park. Not only will you get to enjoy a night of music, fireworks, and non-stop action, you’ll be helping to support a great cause! For over fifty years, the people at Manuelito Navajo Children’s Home have been making a difference in the lives of the children who are left in their care. Norman Atchison is proof that the love and generosity shown at MNCH are the gifts that keep giving. “I just want to give back what was given to me,” he says gratefully.
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That’s So
Gallup T
Contributed by Cal Marshall
here are many places in our community that contribute to making Gallup a special place in which to live. One of them for me will always be the Harold Runnels Swimming Complex. For a town the size of Gallup to have not one but two municipal swimming pools is a rare enough occurrence. To have a pool with the facilities offered by the North side pool is rare indeed. It has a 6-lane, 25-meter swimming pool that is accessible most of the day for lap swimmers. It also has a separate 16-foot deep diving tank, a 2-foot deep infant/therapy pool, and a small exercise/weight room. One of the nicest features of this city-operated facility is a tiled steam room scented by frequent application of eucalyptus oil on request. The steam room is continuously in use all day and offers a marvelous end to a workout experience. Patrons often visit the steam room after using the exercise room or swimming laps in the pool or jogging or biking in the surrounding open areas. It is a wonderful way to wind down after a good, strenuous work out. One of the unique features of a trip to this steam room is the frequent use by Native American senior citizens who really seem to enjoy the fragrant, steamy experience. It is not unusual in the evening to pass by the door of the steam room and hear a gathered group of elderly Native American men gently chanting together as they communally enjoy a steam bath. Where in the world but here would all these elements come together to produce such a unique and wonderful experience? That’s so Gallup.
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Gallup is special; that’s no secret. It’s unlike any other place I know, but in its quirkiness I find a community in which I love to live, work, and raise a family. What is it that’s so unique? What is it that makes Gallup Gallup? What does our town have that makes me smile, shake my head, and say, “That’s so Gallup.”? We’re asking for you, our readers, to answer these questions! Submissions can be in the form of photos with captions or written anecdotes that illustrate some point about life in Gallup. Email to gallupjourney@yahoo.com or send to 202 E. Hill Ave. Please keep it positive!
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Adventures in
Parenting
by Patricia Darak
Life Goes On
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Mommy?” “Hmm . . . ?” “Mommy? Mommy? Wake up, Mommy. I had a bad dream.” “Mmm . . . okay. Here, snuggle up with me under the covers.” “Okay.”
Twenty seconds went by. Then, in the stillness of the darkened bedroom, his small voice whispered dramatically.
“I love you, Mommy.” “I love you too, honey.” I gave him a small kiss on the top of his head, then snuggled him closer and tucked a little more of the blanket around him. Almost immediately, we fell back asleep, our breathing becoming regular and deep, and both secure in the knowledge that ‘Mommy’s here.’ In the morning, my son had no memory of the bad dream – which was good, I suppose – or how he managed to wake up in a bedroom down the hall from where I had put him to sleep the previous night. (But, that’s okay with me. Truth be told, it’s more than okay. Being able to provide comfort to my young son’s tender heart brings me a deep joy and peace. I am so very blessed that I’m here and able to love him.) A few hours later, after his younger sister woke up and they had both finished breakfast, they were washed, dressed, and ready for school. Driving along, I slowly became aware of a deep discussion transpiring between the two booster-seated children in the back. Apparently, there was a question about the difference between a ghost and a soul. My little girl wasn’t sure, but she thought that they were different things. But, my son, using his patient teacher voice, was informing her that, in fact, ghosts and souls were the same thing, “. . . because they’re both white and they both float.” His sister replied, “Oh. Okay.” I then asked my son if he was sure about his assertion. “Yes, Mommy.” “How do you know?” (I admit, I was rather curious.) “Because my big sister told me.” Hmm. So, evidently my children had been having some deep philosophical discussions betwixt themselves. I replied with a profound, “Oh, really? Okay.” And we drove on.
Arriving at the school, we disembarked and made our way into the building; my son held open the door. As my daughter and I walked through the open doorway, my son remarked, “Ladies first.” Before I could thank him, he zoomed ahead while laughing and proclaiming that he was, in fact, the winner. After checking my daughter into her preschool classroom, kissing her goodbye, and giving her a ‘queen’s wave,’ it was time to drop off my son. Instead of the dignified ‘royal’ dismissal I received from his sister, my son gave me a bear hug and demanded that I stay with him until he had finished checking himself in. Then, after his teachers had been greeted, his folder turned in, and his hands washed, he gave me another big hug and sent me off with a solemn promise to see me after school. Leaving his classroom, I walked back down the hall toward the lobby, stopping briefly to peek into my youngest daughter’s classroom. She was in the middle of a toy negotiation with her best friend, both of them giggling. Smiling, I continued on down the hallway. Before I left, I stopped at the lunchroom door to wave at my oldest daughter. She turned toward me, waved, and then came over to hug me. I asked if she was having a good day. She said that she was, and that she would see me after school. “Okay,” I said. Smiling, she went back to her lunch table and resumed eating. Now I had about two-and-a-half hours to get my various errands finished. “Let’s see,” I thought, getting out my to-do list. Quickly figuring out which end of town that I would be heading toward first, I buckled my seat belt and started my vehicle. I briefly closed my eyes, breathed deeply for a minute, and gave thanks for our calm life. Two hours and twenty minutes later, I was parked in front of the school, and used the five spare minutes to check my phone for text messages and e-mails. Satisfied that nothing Earth-shattering was imminent, I headed into the school to pick up my educated angels. I had just enough time to get a drink from the water fountain before my oldest daughter’s class arrived. Giving her a hug, we headed down the hallway to collect her younger siblings. Then, after signing them out and saying their goodbyes to their friends and teachers, they were ready to go home and have a snack. Our journey over, we settled in at home, finishing our snacks and chattering about our day. Thinking ahead to tomorrow morning when, more or less, we get to do it all over again, I gave a small sigh and smiled. The family is together, their father is on his way home from work, and life goes on. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Just a brief note to recognize one of the best teachers I (and my children) have ever known. My son’s pre-kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Judy Blomquist, is retiring at the end of this school year after 30 years of teaching. We will all miss her, and we are all so grateful for her kindness, her generosity, her gracious spirit, and her immeasurable patience and love. She made learning fun and exciting, and encouraged her students to respect themselves and each other. Thank you, Mrs. Blomquist, and may you have a lovely retirement. You deserve the best.
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U.S. Air Force photos by Master Sgt. Paula Aragon/ RELEASED
Members of the 203rd Red Horse team out of Virginia Beach and three Navajo Code Talkers pose for a group photo before the groundbreaking ceremony on 18 May 2010 (left). Lt Col. Pete Garner slowly makes his way around the domed building removing shingles on 18 May 2010. His team started this project just two days ago and has re-shingled half of the building in record time (right).
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ver 40 years ago on a windy spring day, Sister Marijane Ryan, a Franciscan Missionary of Mary, had her first breakthrough when her first patient, an 8-year-old Navajo boy, crippled by polio, took his first steps. Her joy would have been overwhelming if it weren’t tempered by a nagging curiosity. Who was that Navajo grandpa who had been watching her therapy sessions over the past several weeks from a distance? She was soon to find out . . . As soon as the boy took his first steps, the old man quickly left in his horse and carriage. The next day he returned with his 3-year-old grandson, who was suffering from cerebral palsy. Luckily Sister had learned a bit of Navajo while working with her first patient and was able to piece together that the old man was a local medicine man who had been watching to see if her strange methods would be effective. As soon as he saw those first steps he decided she was worthy to help his young grandson, too. In a short time, Sister Ryan had 25 patients. “Sistah,” as the locals called her, was originally from Boston, but was sent to the reservation mission to care for a fellow nun, who was stricken with cancer. It was quickly discovered that she had experience with physical therapy and soon a family brought her her first patient. Little could she have known in that first few months that her service to those first needy children would be the foundation for over 40 years of loving service to the neediest children and adults on the Navajo Reservation. Sister Ryan saw an unmet need and soon was well on her way to establishing St. Michaels Association for Special Education (SMASE) to meet that need – a need that continues to exist today and, thanks in large part to Marijane Ryan, continues to be met. Within a few years of her bringing this great need to light the Franciscan Brothers had donated a plot of land and SMASE had its first home and was eventually privatized and turned over to a board of governors. Over the past 40 years, on that 10-acre campus, in the spirit of Sister Ryan’s service, hundreds of children and their families have obtained the loving care they so needed to maintain their dignity, and live the fullest lives possible.
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The school and home, whose mission is to “promote and provide a coordinated accessible system of quality services for Navajo children and adults with developmental disabilities and their families,” is the only private school within the Navajo Nation certified by both the Arizona Department of Education and Diné Division of Education. And over the last 40 years SMASE has become nationally recognized as a leader in providing excellent education and therapy services in a rural setting. With all the accolades the school has received, you would think it was housed in a modern, efficient and beautiful facility. You would be right on only one count. While the campus is in one of the most beautiful parts of the vast Navajo Reservation, the facilities, comprised of donated modular buildings and hogans built by hand by volunteers and staff, are far from modern and efficient. The majority of the student population consists of students that have moderate to severe disabilities. This means that many of the students require extraordinary medical care, which, in turn, requires many medications and medical devices. Some children require feeding through a feeding tube, and many require special equipment to help them breathe, which can be especially difficult for them in the hot, dry, dusty spring. The nursing station was simply too small to accommodate all of the students and medical equipment. In many cases the nurses had to administer care in a classroom environment; when students with fragile health did not feel well, there was no sick bay for them to go rest quietly. The buildings are also spread around the 10 acres and connected only by walking paths, few of which are paved. This makes for difficulty pushing wheel chairs, especially in the winter and muddy spring. The list goes on and on. The staff, a hardy and loving crew, has dealt with the difficulties and inefficiency of the campus for many years, and come to accept them as the way things had to be. That is, until a couple years ago . . . In May of 2010, the story of SMASE entered a new chapter. After 40 years of piecing together a school with whatever resources were available, the school is now getting help from an unlikely partner. Just
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like Sr. Marijane Ryan did when she first arrived on the reservation, the National Guard seems, to many, to have appeared out of nowhere to fill a much overlooked need. Through the Department of Defense Innovative Readiness Training program (IRT), over 200 Air National Guard, Navy, and Marine Reserve troops have descended upon the capital of the Navajo Nation and have begun to rebuild the SMASE campus. To those at SMASE, they have not appeared out of nowhere; their presence and work has been the result of over three years of careful planning and research. The partnership materialized in 2008 at a most opportune time. The school was planning its 40th anniversary of service, and had been desperately trying to upgrade its facilities for years. With help from some folks over at the Southwest Indian Foundation, SMASE made necessary contacts with the IRT program at the Pentagon in 2008. From that time onward, the IRT teams have been making the annual trek to provide engineering and design support with the plan of beginning construction in the summer of 2010, just in time for the 40th anniversary of the school. The best part of SMASE teaming up with the military reserves is that the school gets all the labor for free. The idea behind the Innovative Readiness Training program is to send military reserve units to disadvantaged communities that have needs that line up with the specific units’ training requirements. This is training that the military has to provide the troops to prepare them for field operations, but rather than build
something and tear it down, the military designed the program to provide services to needy communities at a lower cost, both for the military and local communities. The work completed by the reserve teams so far has included a new campus design plan, a brand new nursing facility, classroom remodel and retrofitting, remodel of vehicle maintenance facility, and site grading and drainage solutions. On tap for the remaining years is an ambitious plan to build at least four more permanent buildings, pave all roads, build more sidewalks, and bring in brand new and updated utilities infrastructure. Even though St. Michaels would not have been able to pull off such a project without the help of the IRT program, it still must come up with large sums of money to cover all the materials for the project over the next four years. This means a bit of scrambling for the administration. Although the school does receive some monies from government agencies for services it provides, it relies heavily on private donations to fund its programs and welcomes all assistance offered. If you are curious to see the project in action, the campus is not too far from here and I encourage anyone who is interested to stop by and have a look, they are always happy to receive visitors.
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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.
Virginia Yazzie-Ballenger is a top award-winning fashion designer. Among her awards are Best of Class/Division from places like the Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial in Gallup, New Mexico, and the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona. Her work has been featured in the Smithsonian catalog and on QVC. Her designs are a blend of traditional Navajo with a contemporary flair. All her items are handmade. Her inspiration comes from many sources including family, and especially memories of her grandmother and mother who taught her how to sew. In 1984 she, along with her husband, opened Navajo Spirit Southwestern Wear in Gallup, New Mexico, carrying her own line of fashions. Virginia was one of the 2002 Winter Olympic Torch Runners. In 1998 Virginia participated in the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian’s Native Artist Fellowship Program.
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Lit Crit Lite A look at some books available at your local public library
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on DeLillo’s novels speak in a soft, murmuring voice, which provides insight into the condition of Americans. DeLillo’s latest novel, Point Omega, whispers the scary reality of the American condition on almost every one of its scant 128 pages. This novel reads like a poem, its language washing over the reader and occasionally lulling him/her into accepting the condition detailed on its pages. There are many thoughts, theories and writings about Point Omega, and a novel so heavily studied can be quite intimidating to many readers. However, part of the fun of Point Omega is reading the novel and discerning some of the ideas for yourself, and then you can compare your ideas to what the professional writers are saying in their articles.
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The opening scene of the novel is a perfect example of something that a reader will need to discern. The setting is the video gallery on the sixth floor of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Playing in this gallery is 24 Hour Psycho, an experimental film by artist Douglas Gordon. The experimental film is the actual Alfred Hitchcock film, Psycho, slowed down to play over a 24 hour period. This slowing down makes the famous shower scene, which takes only a few seconds in the original, last about forty-five minutes. In this scene, is DeLillo saying something about art and life? Why would anyone need or want to watch Psycho for 24 hours? At about the time the reader begins to answer this question the opening scene ends and the main characters are introduced. Jim Finley, a videographer in his early thirties, has traveled to
This is an idea DeLillo is using in most of his fiction: replacing reality with something more palatable.
the California desert to meet Richard Elster, a 73-year-old war advisor taking retreat in a desert wasteland. Finley’s goal is to convince Elster to star in a film, which would consist of Elster describing his work on the various wars in which the U.S. is involved. The film is to be one continuous take with Elster seated in front of a gray background speaking about his experiences. There will be no other scenes. Here too, the reader needs to question the point and purpose of such a film. It is during this questioning that DeLillo opens up the character of Elster. Elster was given the task of creating new realities around the conflicts that involved the U.S. Elster describes it as, “careful sets of words that resemble advertising slogans in memorability and repeatability. These were words that would yield pictures eventually and then become three-dimensional.” In other words, Elster was in charge of creating a picture of the war for the Americans in America; this picture would replace the reality of the wars in foreign countries. This is an idea DeLillo is using in most of his fiction: replacing reality with something more palatable. And this is why Finley’s film would involve one take of Elster; there would be no alternate reality in film, just Elster speaking on his experiences. Finley assumes that it will take a few days to convince Elster to make the film,
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but Finley quickly loses track of time and stays on with Elster for several weeks. During Finley’s stay, Elster’s daughter Jessie arrives from New York. Jessie is fleeing a boyfriend who was causing problems. With the introduction of Jessie and Finley’s weak flirtations, the novel begins to wind down to its eventual conclusion. Elster and Finley have many conversations throughout the novel, and in one such conversation Elster introduces Finley to the idea of the omega point. According to philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, whom Elster quotes, the omega point is the point of maximum complexity and consciousness towards which humanity is headed. Teilhard de Chardin assumes that this omega point will merge humanity with God’s awareness. Elster sees things differently. He says, “We are all played out. Matter wants to lose it self-consciousness. We’re the mind and heart that matter has become. Time to close it all down. This is what drives us now.” In other words, humanity is headed to more and more uncertainty and undoing. When the reader considers this against the wars that Elster has worked around, a bleak picture of the military and the wars is pieced together. Wars will continue to be fought and humanity will continue to spin out of control, and men like Elster will continue to paint a picture depicting an alternate reality showing life in some sort of control. That is the basic outline and picture of Point Omega. It sounds quite heavy and overwhelming, but it really is an enjoyable, thought provoking read. It challenges the reader to consider the things he/she hears or reads. Are these stories the true reality, or a created reality? This conspiracy can be interesting and can make for some great conversations. The reader may also enjoy finding other reviews and writings of Don DeLillo and comparing those to their own thoughts about the novel. There are plenty of writings on the Internet and in publications to give anyone a picture of DeLillo’s work. Even if you are not a literary expert, it is fun to dive into the world of Don DeLillo, and Point Omega is a good starting point.
enovations at the Lexington are under way. Asbestos abatement should be completed sometime in June. We will probably have some sort of ground-breaking ceremony soon after the asbestos abatement is completed.
The CARE 66 Gran Fondo, i.e. big ride, is scheduled for Saturday, September 17. We will also have events for kids at the Courthouse Square. Ride options are for approximately, 66, 40 and 20 miles. Start training now! Collect donations from your friends, co-workers and family so that you can earn a classy CARE 66 coffee mug. Last week a delegation from the Navajo Nation visited CARE 66. Mel Begay, Leonard Tsosie, Edmund Yazzie, Charles Damone, and President Ben Shelly’s Deputy Chief of Staff visited. Representative Sandra Jeff also visited with CARE 66. We had heart-to-heart conversations about the mission of CARE 66 and how we can help Navajo communities.
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.
We have also had extensive conversations with Aneyva Yazzie, the CEO of Navajo Housing Authority, and have met with the Board of Commissioners of Navajo Housing Authority. Theresa Lee will be joining us as Finance Officer this month. We are very excited about having her join our management team. We are also always looking for board members. If you are interested, please send me an email to set up a meeting and talk. 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 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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by Sandra McKinney
LITTLE LUCY This is one of those happilyever-after stories that brought many facets of animal love into the picture.
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thoughtful Christmas present and love at first sight turned into three weeks of worry, concern and hope.
My dear friend Shirley received a Humane Society adoption fee as a Christmas present from her daughter Joanna. Shirley wanted a small lap dog and on January 14, we found the perfect little pup for her. I took the Dachshund/ Chihuahua (doxie/chi) mix pup to Shirley on Friday afternoon and told her to keep the little girl over the weekend to see how they got along. On Sunday evening Shirley called me to let me know she had named the dog Lucy and really liked her, but that the little dog was very sick and coughing. It was a holiday weekend and we could not get the pup back to the Humane Society until Tuesday. When Little Lucy arrived back at the Humane Society on Tuesday morning, it was noted that she was running a very high fever of 105° and had a severe cough. Lucy was diagnosed with tracheobronchitis, which is also known as kennel-cough. But this was a very serious form of the disease and it could have developed into pneumonia and possibly death. The pup was seriously ill. After veterinarian attention, Lucy went to one of our Angels of Mercy, foster-mom Marilyn. For three weeks, Little Lucy received antibiotics and antihistamines, plus oral cough syrup. Shirley was so concerned about Lucy and called regularly to learn about her status. One day before we went to visit Lucy, Shirley wore a blanket so that it would get her ‘smell’ on it. Shirley left that blanket at Marilyn’s so that Lucy could sleep with it and would not forget her. Marilyn is just one of the foster-moms who work with the Humane Society and takes in sick or injured animals. She has been known to nurse litters of tiny motherless pups, abandoned kitties, injured dogs and cats, even birds with broken wings. Marilyn has that extra-special instinct that tells her how to care for animals in need. With the guidance and knowledge from veterinarians, Marilyn is able to sustain life in an animal that otherwise might not make it. Three weeks after Lucy went to stay with Marilyn, Shirley was finally able to bring her back to her forever home. We think that Lucy was about nine months old at the time of her adoption. Because she was an older pup and the disease was caught early, along with the loving care from Marilyn, Lucy was able to fight for her life. This is one of those happily-ever-after stories that brought many facets of animal love into the picture: Shirley, who wanted to adopt a shelter dog; Joanna, who gave the adoption Christmas present; me, as a volunteer who wanted to bring together a good person and a homeless pup; the veterinarian, who knew the disease and how to treat it; Marilyn, who has the love and patience to nurse a sick animal back to health; and the Humane Society staff who rescued the little pup to begin with. What is that saying? . . . ‘It takes a village.’ Well, it definitely does take a multitude of folks who are willing to help the abandoned and abused animals of our community. Little Lucy is a solid testament to that statement!
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A Capoeira roda at Foundations of Freedom dance studio starting at 7:30pm. All ages welcome and anyone who wants to observe is welcome. Free for everyone.
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“Perpendicularities” A 3-dimensional installation of art and music by Fitz Sargent and Dan Philips.
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El Morro Theater, 207 W. Coal Ave.
True Grit (2010), the story of a tough U.S. Marshal who helps a stubborn young woman track down her father’s murderer. Showing at 8pm. $5/adult, $3/kids 12 and under.
Beeman Jewelry Design, 211 W. Coal Ave.
Open for business. Hand-made, one-of-a-kind, custom jewelry created by John Beeman using high quality gemstones, ancient beads, and unique findings from around the world.
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The OCC Problem - Be Part of the Solution RECYCLE Old Corrugated Cardboard Old corrugated cardboard makes up a significant percentage of Gallup’s garbage. This OCC is hauled from your home / business to the Gallup Transfer Station on Hassler Valley Road, where it is dumped. It is then re-loaded and transported to the Red Rocks Landfill in Thoreau. This is the path of all of your garbage, but what is different in this case is that clean OCC is 100% recyclable! Your City Solid Waste Department has taken the initiative to be part of the solution. Bins with bright yellow lids, intended to capture more of the OCC, are now part of our cityscape. Two bins have been placed at the Larry Brian Mitchell Recreation Center (the old Rainbow Recycling Center site) on Maloney for collecting the public’s OCC. These 8-yard containers hold approximately 1,200 pounds each. These are for CARDBOARD ONLY and please BREAK DOWN BOXES! Place only CLEAN OCC in the bins. DO NOT place other items in the bins. Contamination increases labor and reduces the monetary value of the OCC. Corrugated Cardboard is also accepted at the Recycling Center, the Gallup Transfer Station, the Community Pantry, and Gallup Recycling, but at LBM the bins are available 24/7/365. Add “Recycle OCC” to your daily, weekly, monthly “to do” list. Gallup is not a large town, so no matter where your errands take you, you will probably pass by or near the Recreation Center.
Family Summer Reading Carnival This year’s library carnival will be held Saturday, June 11, 10am – 2pm in the parking lot behind the Children’s Library on Aztec. Designed for families, this is a great time for children to register for the library’s Summer Reading Program “One World Many Stories.” Children will explore different countries and cultures and find out that reading is fun. The Carnival will include a double-high slide and castle jumper, the Smoke House from the Fire Dept., games from the Recreation Dept., the ever-popular Beauty Shop, prizes and much more. Family Afternoon Specials Throughout the months of June and July, the Children’s Library will host Friday afternoon movies at 3pm. Enjoy a relaxing afternoon with a movie. Saturday, June 18 at 3pm, African Interments with Camilla Dodson Presentation describes the role of music in traditional African society using drumming for communication, ceremony, oral history, spiritual expression and entertainment. Music is an everpresent part of life. Several kinds of drums are used in this presentation, and the audience will have a chance to interact. The program is partially funded by the NM Humanities Council. Saturday, June 25 at 3pm, Under One Sky Join singer and storyteller Sean Etigson for a multicultural journey that outlines the essential qualities of heroism through stories and songs. Mr. Etigson mixes music and storytelling to pass on the wisdom and humor of different world cultures. Every story is an adventure and he brings magic to the art of storytelling. For more information regarding programs please contact the Children’s Library at (5050) 7266120 or email childlib@ci.gallup.nm.us. You can also pick up a calendar of events for the Summer Reading Program at both buildings. AT THE MAIN LIBRARY 115 W. Hill Ave.
If the program is successful Adrian Marrufo, City Solid Waste Director, has plans to increase the number of OCC public bin locations. Let’s work together to reduce our solid waste by increasing the volume of OCC recycled. When we do, money is saved on landfill space and energy costs, and precious natural resources have an extended life. For more information about public or commercial OCC bins call 863-1212. For more information about recycling other papers and other types of materials contact Betsy at 722-9257 / 8792581 / betsywindisch@yahoo.com. or Gerald at 722-5142.
Hands-on Artifacts of New Mexico and Road Show On Tuesday, June 21 from 9am to 7pm, Chuck Hannaford, Archaeologist with the Museum of New Mexico, will offer a wide range of artifacts from well over 12,000 years ago in this hands-on exhibit. This is also an opportunity to bring in your curious artifacts from the past and have an archaeologist help you with their identification, use and, if possible, give you an estimated value. The ever-growing New Mexico archaeological record currently is represented by nearly 160,000 officially recorded sites These sites include 12,000-year-old Clovis spear points left behind by the earliest Pleistocene big game hunters, 3,000-year-old Archaic rock shelters bearing witness to the initial tentative experiments with agriculture, the religious monuments of Chaco Canyon and fragments of chain-mail armor form the Spanish Entrada. For further information, please call the library at (505) 863-1291 or email library@ci.gallup.nm.us.
Kiwanis Flower Sale!
Saturday, June 11, 8am – Noon Courthouse Plaza The winds are beginning to fade and the sun is getting hot – summer is on the way and it’s time to pull out that green thumb! Kiwanis Club of Gallup will be holding its 2011 Flower Sale on June 11 from 8 am to 12 Noon at the Courthouse Plaza, downtown across from Camille’s. The Club is offering a variety of flowers and plants, including geraniums, petunias, dianthus, lobelia, daisies, gaillardia, snapdragons, chili peppers, and tomatoes. Kiwanis is a global organization committed to changing the world through service to children and communities. Around the world Kiwanis members help shelter the homeless, feed the hungry, mentor the disadvantaged, and care for the sick. They develop youth as leaders, build playgrounds, raise funds for pediatric research, and much more. All funds raised through the flower sale will go to benefit Kiwanis Youth Projects. Tickets are $20 each and can be traded for 3-dozen bedding plants or 3 geraniums (4.5” pots). Sales are first come, first serve, so come early to get the best colors and varieties and to support a great cause!
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To purchase your tickets and for more information, contact Christina Nye at (505) 722-6986 or a Kiwanis Club of Gallup member.
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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. Support Class for Parents of Teens at First United Methodist Church from 6:30-7:30pm. Info: 8634512. Poetry Group, call Jack for more information (including location) at 783-4007. Psychic Playtime with RedWulf at the Old School Gallery 1st and 3rd Sundays, 7-9:30pm. Tarot, drum journeys and more tools to explore your inner self. $1 donation. Info: RedWulf @ 505-7834612. 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. Coyote Canyon Women’s Sweat Lodge Ceremony on Sundays, 1-4pm, potluck dinner. Located 3 miles east of Highway 491, Route 9 junction, 1 mile south of Route 9. The ceremony is for wellness, stress reduction, purification and cultural sensitivity. All women are welcomed. For more information, call 505 870-3832. Chronic Pain and Chronic Illness 12 Step Support group. Meets every Sunday from 4-5 PM at the First United Methodist Church, 1800 Red Rock Drive, front entrance conference room. For info call 863-5928 or chronicpainanonymous.org.
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Special guest speaker, Steven Cartwright, at Stronghold Church (106 W. Aztec Ave.). For more information, visit www.tphd.org and www.strongholdchurch. com. The McKinley Citizens’ Recycling Council monthly meeting will be held on Sunday instead of the regular Saturday meeting. Citizens join us at 2pm at 508 Sandstone Place, Indian Hills subdivision to hear updates on recycling in our city and county. Help increase the awareness in our community to Reduce-Reuse-Recycle! For directions and more information contact Gerald 722-5142 / Betsy 722-9257 or 8792581.
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A Taize worship service will be held at 4 pm at Westminster Presbyterian Church on Boardman Drive. This hour service is offered by the ecumenical community to renew one’s spirit and soothe one’s soul through scripture, prayer, chant, and silence. Take time to walk the Labyrinth before or after the service. The Labyrinth may be accessed on the right as you ascend the drive to the church on the hill. For more information call Linda (9055254) or Betsy (722-9257).
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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.
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Cancer support group, for information call 8633075 or 863-6140.
Tai-Chi Taught by Monika Gauderon at RMCH Vanden Bosch Clinic. 6pm for beginners. $60/ month.
Crafty Kids at 3:30pm at the Children’s Library. For more information, call 726-6120.
RMCHCS Diabetes Education Classes – First four Tuesdays of the month, starting at 6pm. RMCHCS 2nd floor library. For more information, call 7266918.
Tai Chi Chuan with Monika & Urs Gauderon at Old School Gallery, east of Ramah on Hwy 53, at 5PM. $50/month. Info: Monika @ 775-3045.
Community Yoga, beginner/athletic beginner level. 6:15 pm, Catholic Charities/CIC. 506 W. Rte. 66. Info: Steph Asper (717) 357-0231 .
“Teen Survivors of Dating and Domestic Violence” support group meeting, 6:30-8:30pm. Info: 722-6389.
Ladies’ MTB ride at High Desert Trail System starting at Gamerco trailhead at 6PM. Come to exercise, socialize, and have fun!
Capoeira classes offered at Foundations of Freedom Dance Studio, Mondays and Thursdays at 8pm, $5. For more information, call Chelsea at 808 344-1417. Zumba Fitness Dance Class at Foundations of Freedom Dance Studio (115 W. Coal) at 6:30pm. For more information email zumbagallup@ yahoo.com or call Stephanie at (814) 282-6502. Capoeira Classes at Foundations of Freedom Dance Studio, Mondays and Thursdays at 8pm. For information, contact Chelsea 808-344-1417 or capoeiraguerreirosnewmexico@yahoo.com.
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Preschool Story Time, 11:30am at the Children’s Library. For more information, call 726-6120.
Codependents Anonymous, 6pm at First United Methodist Church, 1800 Red Rock Drive, library room. Info: Liz at 863-5928.
Sustainable Energy Board meeting in the Mayor’s Conference Room, 3-5pm, on the fourth Monday of each month. For info/agenda, email brightideas98@gmail.com.
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Adult chess club at Camille’s Sidewalk Cafe in Gallup, 5-7pm. Gallup Al-Anon meetings at First United Methodist Church, 1800 Red Rock Drive (next to GIMC). Tuesdays at 12 noon and Thursdays at 7pm in Conference Room #1. Zumba Fitness Dance Class at Foundations of Freedom Dance Studio (115 W. Coal) at 6:30pm. For more information email zumbagallup@ yahoo.com or call Stephanie at (814) 282-6502.
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. Gallup Solar Group open community meetings. 6pm at 113 E. Logan. For more information, call Be at 726-2497. Youth Group Meeting, “THE LOFT”, at First Baptist Church from 7-8pm. Info: 722-4401. 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. Habitat for Humanity work sessions. Call 7224226 for times & locations. Summer Belly Dance classes at Foundations of Freedom Dance Studio (115 W. Coal Ave.), June 15 – August 5. Wednesdays 5:30pm - 6:30pm & Fridays 6pm - 7pm. Only $5 per class. Benefits include stress relief, improved posture/muscle tone, strengthening, and boost is self-confidence!
Red Rock Chapter ABATE of NM (American Bikers Aimed Towards Education) meets every 4th Tuesday of the month at 6:30pm at Gallup Fire Station #2 (911 N. 9th St.). For more information, call (505) 409-5311, 863-9941 or 870-0951.
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Celebrate the publication of Bitter Water: Diné Oral Histories of the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute at Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock, AZ at 11am. More than a collection of stories, poetry, and prose, Bitter Water is a chronicle of resistance as spoken from the hearts of those who have lived it.
Hand Appliqué class at Gallup Service Mart, 6-9pm, $30. Two-part class will cover preparing your fabric and templates for appliqué and hand appliqué the design of your choice onto a quilt block. For more information, call 722-9414. Quilt Club at Gallup Service Mart, 7pm-9pm. Come join other quilters in the area to share projects you are working on or have completed. Class newsletter for the months of July, August and September will be given out and discussed at this meeting. For more information call 722-9414.
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Hand Appliqué class at Gallup Service Mart, 6-9pm, $30. Part 2 will cover the actual hand appliqué of a design to fabric. Various stitches and knots for hand appliqué will be taught. For more information, call 722-9414.
The Diabetes Education Classes for June will be June 7, 14, 21 and 28 from 6 to 8:30pm in the RMCHCS 2nd floor library. Patients will need doctor’s orders and insurance preauthorization. Patients can bring up to 2 family members for no additional charge. Beginning Sewing – Part 3 at Gallup Service Mart, 6pm – 9pm, (continuation from April and May classes) Part 3 will be determined by students. For more information, call 722-9414.
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Special guest speaker, Bishop Jim Bolin, at Stronghold Church (106 W. Aztec Ave.). For more information, visit www.trinitychapel.org and www. strongholdchurch.com.
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Gallup-McKinley County Humane Society $10,000 Reverse Raffle. $50 donation includes one chance at winning 1st, 2nd or 3rd prize. Drawing will be held at the Humane Society from 4:30 to 7pm. Snacks will be served. Purchase tickets at Humane Society, Cedar Animal Medical Center, Mystique Salon, Hair Hut, Connie Merrill Massage Therapy or Sandra McKinney at 722-0514. Quilt As You Go – Part 3 at Gallup Service Mart, 6pm-9pm (continuation from April and May classes). This class will focus on putting the borders on and completing your quilt. For more information, call 722-9414.
Connections Inc. is offering two programs: Access to Recovery New Mexico, a free substance abuse treatment program. For info: Call Randy at 505 863 3377 Ext: 108, Mon-Fri 8am-5pm. And, are you babysitting children under 13 years old in your home? The Child & Adult Care Food Program can pay you money for the food that these children eat in your home. For more information, please call 505 863 3377 or 1 800 527 5712. Summer Camp at Broken Arrow Bible Ranch. Registration tables open Monday afternoons at 1pm each week (pre-register for a guaranteed place). Call 505 788-5526 for more information.
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Game Day, 3:30pm at the Children’s Library. For more information, call 726-6120. Moms Supporting Moms at Church Rock School, 9-11:30am. High Desert Mesa Workgroup meets to scrapbook and more Thursdays 1-3pm at the Rehoboth Post Office. Info: LaVeda 722-9029. 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. 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. Toastmasters at Earl’s Restaurant, 6:30am. Info: Dale at 722-9420.
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Movie Day, 3:00 pm at the Children’s Library. Overeaters Anonymous meeting at 11 am, at the First United Methodist Church, 1800 Red Rock Drive, library room. Info: Liz 505-863-5928. For more information, call 726-6120. Summer Belly Dance classes at Foundations of Freedom Dance Studio (115 W. Coal Ave.), June 15 – August 5. Wednesdays 5:30pm 6:30pm & Fridays 6pm - 7pm. Only $5 per class. Benefits include stress relief, improved posture/muscle tone, strengthening, and boost is self-confidence!
Preschool Story Time, 11:30am, 3pm Summer Program activities at the Children’s Library. For more information, call 726-6120.
Sports Page hosting GLBT Night every Friday! Friday nights will be a place to celebrate and be yourself! For more information contact: Raiff Arviso; rca87121@gmail.com, Sports Page - 1400 S. 2nd St, Gallup, NM (505) 722-3853.
Group road bike ride, starts at Sammy C’s downtown at 2pm. Info: Lloyd at 970-946-6155.
Habitat for Humanity work sessions. Call 722-4226 for times & locations. High Desert Mesa Workgroup meets to scrapbook and more Saturdays 10am-1pm at the Rehoboth Post Office. Info: LaVeda 722-9029.
Capoeira Classes at Foundations of Freedom Dance Studio. Kids’ class 12-1:30, adults’ class 1:30-3:00. For information, contact Chelsea 808-344-1417 or capoeiraguerreirosnewmexico@yahoo.com
Substance Abuse Support Group, CASA, at Gallup Church of Christ, 7pm. Info: Darrel at 863-5530. Community Yoga, beginner/athletic beginner level. 6:20 pm, Catholic Charities/CIC. 506 W. Rte. 66. Info: Gene at 505-728-8416. Gallup Al-Anon meetings at First United Methodist Church, 1800 Red Rock Drive (next to GIMC). Tuesdays at 12 noon and Thursdays at 7pm in Conference Room #1. Divorce Care Support Group, Thursdays at 7pm. Location to be determined. For more information, call or email Dan at 505 878-2821 or dkruis@ yahoo.com.
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Treaty Days Celebration Golf Tournament in Grants, NM at Coyote del Malpais Golf Course. Four-man scramble, shotgun start at 9am. Welcome all golfers seeking good golf, good times and great prizes! Register by June 1, entry fee $85. For more information, please contact Dot Upshaw at 928 206-9454 or Jerry Nez at 928 206-9927.
Coming up in July . . . July 4 - “Stars and Stripes 4th of July Celebration” at Gallup Sports Complex, Noon-10pm. Come to enjoy fireworks, food booths, watermelon, country and rock bands, Gourd Dance, game booths, face painting, hip-hop DJs and more. For more information, call Clear Channel Radio at 505 863-9391. July 31 - The Gallup Slavic Lodges presents Polka Picnic with “John Smoltz & The Diamond Kings” at Wildlife Picnic Grounds in McGaffey, NM, Noon – 5pm. Advance tickets are $15/adult, $10/children ages 7-11, children under 6 are free. At the gate, $5 more per person. For tickets, call Shirley Baker 505 722-5555, Katie Bolf 505 863-6402/505 870-5172 or Darlene Yocham 505 863-5773/505 862-1990.
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A∆K’s- Mother Hubbard’s Team Relay For Life Mega Garage Sale at Gallup Cultural Center, 9am-2pm. presents Concert of Gallup Musicians, 7:00pm at First United Methodist Church Hilso Trailhead Dedication, 11am-3pm, mile 3 on Hwy. 400 in the Cibola National Forest. - 1800 Redrock Drive. All Donations Spreakers, provided lunch, booths, hiking, biking, and more! benefit Relay for Life (American Cancer Society). Come support the fight against cancer! Natural Topbar Beekeeping with Les Crowder Weekend Workshop in Gallup, NM Saturday and Sunday, June 11 and 12, 10am – 5pm. Learn to keep bees in your backyard! This indepth workshop will cover all aspects of topbar beekeeping, from honeybee biology to raising queens The Very Famous FUMC and harvesting honey. Students will have an opportunity to work with active topbar hives to learn Get Info and Get Organized with Uplift Used Book Sale starts June 10, 5–7pm various techniques of spring, summer and fall hive maintenance. All levels of students are welcome Community School, meeting at Gallup at First United Methodist Church (1800 to attend. The cost of the workshop is $130. To register, please contact Katie Wilson by e-mail Children’s Library, 5-7pm. Our first Red Rock Drive, Gallup). Ends June akwilson@wildblue.net. For more information about classes and the instructor, please visit www. draft charter application will be ready a 20. Bring your used books to the church fortheloveofbees.com. In conjunction with the seminar, a film screening of Vanishing of the Bees month before the deadline in July. We weekdays Mon – Thurs. by 3:00pm. will happen at the Gallup Cultural Center on the evening of June 11 starting at 6:30pm to be followed want to share it with you. This is both a by a Q&A session with Les Crowder. public meeting for interested families and Volunteers are needed to help unpack community members, and an opportunity the boxes on Thursday the 9th, Friday the 10th, and Saturday the 11th. Book Kiwanis Club Flower Sale, Courthouse Plaza 8am-Noon. $20/ticket gets 3 dozen bedding plants for those of you with expertise in areas sale hours: M-F 5-7pm, Saturdays 8am- or 3 geraniums. Other flowers and plants include petunias, dianthus, lobelia, daisies, gaillardia, of administration, law, and education to snapdragons, chili peppers and tomatoes. For more information, contact Christina Nye at 505 722contribute to the document. Whatever your 2pm, Sundays Noon-2pm. For more information, or to volunteer to work at 6986 or a Kiwanis Club of Gallup member. area of interest in this year’s application, the sale, contact Carol Bodenhausen at we hope to get things rolling with your 505 870-4009. ARTS CRAWL DOWNTOWN GALLUP, 7-9 PM. See p. 49 for schedule. help in the month of June.
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Crownpoint Rug Weavers Association Auction at Crownpoint Elementary School. Viewing at 4 – 6:30 PM, auction Stellar Bowling at Gal-a-Bowl! American Cancer Society Relay for Life Team Fundraiser, 2011 Men’s Health Conference at at 7 – 10 PM. For more information, 6-8pm at Gal-a-Bowl (1900 E. Aztec Ave.). $20/person pays for shoes and bowling, ages 6 and up. Howard Johnson Hotel in Gallup, 8amvisit www.Crownpointrugauction.com. Snack bar available and door prizes! For more information, call Eileen at 722-9433, Betsy at 7225pm (registration starts at 7:30am). FREE 9257 or Joyce at 863-3075. Incentive for a full day’s attendance. Health Booths, FREE Health Screenings, FREE Confidential HIV Testing. For 4th Annual Brooke Linelle more information or to Pre-Register: 505 Spencer Memorial Basketball Wingate High School 1972-1989 Class Reunion, 12-7pm at McGaffey Picnic Grounds. 722-1741. Sponsored by Navajo Health Tournament, June 17 & 17 at Gallup Will include some retired teachers, coaches, etc. A drug/alcohol free event. For more information, Education Program-Gallup. High School gym. 18 U Boys & Girls, contact Ashen Dayea (1972-1982) at 505 879 3244 or Marlene Halona Spencer (1982-1989) at 505 double elimination. Team admission 879 0277. 2nd Thursday of the month Survivors of $180, $50 non-refundable deposit Homicide Support Group meets 6-8pm. secures your spot in the bracket. The Great Aggie Shootout at Gallup Shooting Range. $50 entry fee includes Friday evening preFor more information, call Deborah For registration, call 928 409-0041. party, Saturday breakfast and shooting, and gift. Proceeds benefit McKinley County Centennial Yellowhorse-Brown at 870-6126. Tournament held in conjunction with The Scholarship and Aggie Athletic Club. Range Safety Officers on-site to assist those who have never Family Violence Program, The Domestic shot trap. Sponsored by Gallup Alumni Association, hosted by Gallup Shooters Inc. Trap Club. Sign The Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit Violence Program, NN Office of the up online at www.AggieAthleticClub.com/trapshoot or contact Joyce at Adobe Self Storage in Gallup hosts support meetings for Type 1 and Medical Investigator and RMCH Grief 505 722-7511. Type 2 diabetics from 5:30-6:30 pm on Counseling Program. the second and fourth Thursdays at 1334 In Loving Memory of the Peshlakai Angels 2nd Annual Bike Run. Starting in 2 locations, both Country Club Drive in Gallup. Information ending in Santa Fe. For more information, call Darlene 505 870-6969, Arnold 505 801-2396, from the American Diabetes Association Antonita 505 409-9259, Lacey 505 870-5649. will be presented and local health-care Tohatchi Health Center Health professionals will often be available. For Fair, 9am-1pm. Free health screenings, more information call 863-4695. educational health booths, activities for all ages, door prizes and refreshments! Fun walk/run at 7:30am (registration). For more information, call Marty Holyan-Whitehair, MSW at 505 7338372/8100.
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1. Staying home and gardening. 2. Yes, I have. 3. Lemonade. 4. Red Rock.
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Work. No. Grape soda. Red Rock.
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1. Get a car. 2. No. 3. Corona, just kidding I don’t know. 4. Red Rock.
Brandon
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1. Work out. 2. No. 3. Cantaloupe juice. 4. Slim Jim.
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Work. No. Orange juice. Slim Jims.
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SCHEDULE 6/2-11 2nd Annual Treaty Days Celebration & PRCA ProRodeo Info: www.navajonationfair.com 6/2-4 2011 Sells & Sells Production Rodeo Rough Rock Arena • Rough Rock, AZ Info: 928 675 0637 or 928 675 0634
Jen
1. Visiting with family, traveling. 2. Yes. 3. Water. 4. Red Rock.
6/4 Youth Bull Riding Quemado Heritage Arena • Quemado, NM Info: 505 328 1363 6/5 Bahe’s Open Bullriding Smooth Rock Arena • Sage Brush, NM Info: Abel 505 728 0965 or Brannon 505 870 6517 6/11 Casper Baca Rodeo Company presents Bares, Broncs & Bulls Stampede Grants Rodeo Ground • Grants, NM Info: 505 287 9534
Xavier
1. (Hang out with) friends, (do) sports, and travel. 2. No. 3. Sprite. 4. Red Rock.
6/12 V Bar S Open Bull Riding Rabbitbrush Arena • Rabbitbrush, NM Info: 505 285 7344 2nd Annual A/T Cattle Co. Bull Riding Challenge Thomas’ Rodeo Arena • Many Farms, AZ Info: Alvin Thomas 520 560 4450
Omega
1. Go to Orlando, Florida. 2. Yeah. 3. Cherry-limeade from Sonic. 4. Red Rock.
Marvin
1. Plan to go to Missouri, coach football, and goof off. 2. Yes, I have. 3. Diet Coke. 4. Red Rock.
6/15-18 Gallup Lions Club Rodeo Red Rock Park Gallup, NM 6/19 Cleveland’s Bares, Broncs and Bulls Open Show Rodeo Timber Ridge Rodeo Arena • Pinedale, NM Info: Alvin 505 979 3810 6/26 Arviso James New Mexico Jr. Bullriding Challenge Ralph Johnson Memorial Arena • Ganado, AZ Info: 928 206 6155
The Worm
1. Eat dirt and do the “worm.” 2. Yes, almost got stepped on. 3. Apple tree water. 4. I’m a vegan.
To see your event listed on the Rodeo Schedule, please email: gallupjourney@yahoo.com or send via snail mail to: 202 east hill avenue, gallup, nm 87301
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3. Terri (Holloway) Currier, Pat Holloway and Katie Fuhs at the Metropolitan Opera in NYC at Time Square.
2. 2009 Notre Dame Graduate and current World Teach Volunteer Benford Beco Begay and his English students at Leiyang Number One Middle School in Leiyang, Hunan Province China read the Gallup Journey.
4. Broken Arrow Bible Ranch staff travel to Occidental, California for the wedding of Luke and Kristen Prins.
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5. Brian and Chelsea Decker take a break to read their Journey on their graduation day from Brigham Young University in Provo, UT.
6. Ken Riege, the manager of the Platinum-AwardWinning Comfort Suites of Gallup, hanging out and sharing the Gallup Journey with Mr. Steve Joyce the President of Choice Hotels International at the 57th Annual Choice Hotels Convention in Boston, MA. 7. Kent & Ginny Wilson read the Journey at Churchill Downs, site of the Kentucky Derby.
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Gallup newcomers, Carole and Rick Livengood-Tilley, catch up while visiting Canyon De Chelly on their second wedding anniversary.
Travis Hall reads the Journey in London, England at RAF Croughton Air Force Base.
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Walk-In Registration (through July 28, 5pm) Gallup Chamber • 103 W. Hwy 66
Just Tri It! What is the Gallup Family Fitness Series?
A Family-Oriented series of events designed to give families a chance to exercise and develop fitness habits in a fun, non-competitive atmosphere. The events are recreational and not competitive; participation will be rewarded and not results. Each event will be low cost and include healthy post-event fruit and snacks. The Gallup Triathlon is the first event of the 2011 Gallup Family Fitness Series!
Gallup Triathlon July 30
Ceremonial Parade Run/Walk/Bike August 13
Squash Blossom Run/Walk/Bike September 24, 25
Pack The Peak Pyramid Trail October 16
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The Fifth Generation 4Runner with 40/20/40 split reclining and fold-flat second-row seat and improved driver comfort. Not that you need to be pampered, you elementhardened, modern-day Davy Crockett. Find out more at TOYOTA.COM/4RUNNER AMIGO TOYOTA 2000 S. Second, Gallup (505) 722-3881
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17,000 ft. “Office-window” view of Mt. Taylor. Interesting to see how the Mt. is cratered. From the air you can see how tall it could have been before it blew. Some estimates say 25,000 ft.
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Paul works for Eagle Air Med, a fixed-wing EMS air transport company, providing critical and non-critical care transport throughout the Navajo Nation. They have bases in Gallup, Chinle, Kayenta and a base in Alamosa, CO. Paul transports patients from remote facilities to larger hospitals with a higher level of available care. Patient care is provided by one flight nurse and one flight paramedic. The nurse and paramedic are highly trained professionals with years of EMS and critical care experience. The size and geography of the Navajo Reservation make driving patients around impractical. A 7-hour drive to Phoenix can be accomplished in 50 minutes with one of Eagle Air Med’s 350-mph Beechcraft “King Air” turboprop planes. There are two of these planes based in Gallup with full crews ready to go within 30 minutes of a call. The Gallup-based planes also serve the surrounding areas such as Zuni, Crownpoint and Window Rock. Paul has been flying for more than 10 years and has accrued over 4000 hours of flight time. Paul is required to have an intensive, ongoing training program consisting of flight tests every 6 months as well as annual training. Paul and the crew fly in all sorts of weather and in remote mountainous locations, often times at night, so a well trained crew is essential. As a pilot, Paul is constantly working at staying proficient and safe, the learning process never stops.
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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There is a tremendous amount of responsibility resting on the shoulders of an air-ambulance pilot . . . and you can’t beat the view from this office.
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Wanna Get Faster?
Speed Training Program is three times per week for eight weeks.
505-863-4199 • 1900 E. HWY 66 • 9am - 6pm
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The summer Nightly Indian Dances have been happening in the Gallup area for 28 years. Visitors to Gallup can take the opportunity to visit and learn from the many different dance groups. Welcome! We are glad to have you as part of the ongoing history of Native America. Sit back and enjoy the show!
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7:30 am - 5 pm Best Mexican food since 1982
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