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’ve been doing this 30-day challenge with my friend Mr. Bob Gato. We gave each other tasks to do every day for 30 days. The tasks are simple enough to not feel overwhelming, but also serve to better our lives. For example, I gave Mr. Gato the task of painting a 2” by 2” square each day. He must spend at least 20 minutes painting the box, but must finish one each day. His task to me was to listen to classical music for 15 minutes every day and write down my thoughts about the different pieces and composers styles, etc. Pretty flashy, eh?! This past month has been crazy busy. And not “work” busy, either. I’m talking “vacation” busy. We head back to Michigan each year for a week or two in the summer and this year was epicly busy. Is epicly a word? Anyway, you get the idea. We had so much stuff planned for our time in Michigan that the drive to and from Michigan was maybe my favorite part of the vacation - because it was fairly relaxing. As you’ll see in the latter pages of this issue, there’s no Opinion Poll. I could be wrong, but this may be the first time since August 2004 that we haven’t had one within the pages of the Journey. I know that people love to look at who’s been asked the questions, but we need to breathe some new life into that particular segment of the magazine. If you have any bright ideas on how to do this (or if you’d like to submit some questions) email me at the address listed below the Ancient Way Café ad to the left of where your eyes are currently reading this run on sentence. Maybe we could do some sort of online-question-answer thing? or a text-your-photo-and-answer thing to me or something? I don’t know. Email me your brilliant ideas on that and we’ll go from there. THANKS! -nh
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8 Work in Beauty Murals 10 The City of Hope 12 Unusual Art Installation 16 CSA Jobs 18 Hummingbird Chronicles 28 Scratching Where It Itches 32 Gardening 34 That’s So Gallup 36 Charity Invitational 16 38 Catch That Kid! 50 Cycles of Life
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20 Driving Impressions 22 West by Southwest 24 Rounding the Four Corners 26 8 Questions 31 Money & You 46 Lit Crit Lite
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4 Thoughts 30 El Morro Theatre Schedule 41 Sudoku 42 News from Care 66 44 Circle of Light 45 IZZIT?! 48 G-Town 51 Arts Crawl Schedule 52 Community Calendar 55 Rodeo Schedule 56 People Reading Journey 62 This Is My Job
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Shantysa Joe Skateboarding Skateboarding is a difficult sport requiring courage, agility, imagination, practice, creativity and grace (like dance). Often skateboarders are not given the space or respect they deserve. I, for one, would rather see skateboards than cars in downtown Gallup. The skateboarder pictured here is Shantysa Joe. She graduated from Gallup High in 2007 and is now in her third year at the Institute of American Indian Art in Santa Fe. She still uses a skateboard to get around. Her majors are printmaking and photography. Her art is directed toward young people growing up on the reservation. Through art she “encourages young people to go where they want to go and not let anything hold them back.”
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Biking Everyone who reads the Gallup Journey knows more about biking that I do. But there’s no question that biking is the greenest sport there is because it is actually replacing cars on the road. For more information on biking in and around Gallup, check out the following: www.gallupwaypoints.com www.dawntilduskrace.com www.squashblossomclassic.com
Ballooning The balloon in the mural is Nizhoni. Designed in 1984 by Sharon Wallace, it now belongs to the Red Rock Balloon Rally. And it does use quite a lot of gas to get up and away. But as Peter Procopio says, “It adds to the quality of people’s lives when you look up and see something like that.” Maybe it’s yellow, not green, but I thought it was too beautiful not to paint. For more info go to www.redrockballoonrally.com and volunteer to help December 2, 3 and 4. You may very well get a ride!
Some Green Sports of Gallup: Top Right Panel Work of Heart Finished mural with spiral starting at skateboarder.
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Back to the Process of Mural Making All three murals have central panels depicting the environment flanked by panels full of activity. Work of Heart is special in that all activity is voluntary or from the heart. I wanted to convey that in the structure of the mural. A spiral starting from the heart, Shantysa Joe, skateboarder, widens to encompass everything. The heart is on the right side as though the mural itself were a person looking out. An idea so subjective can be torture to express but after many sketches I felt I could go ahead with it.
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City of Hope
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his week I read an online piece at the CNN website written by a high school senior in Joplin, Missouri. It brought back to mind some, literally, unwritten business I need to take a stab at now.
My oldest daughter, Gen, and I journeyed to my second daughter’s doctoral graduation in Cincinnati, Ohio in early June. Joplin was on the way. We decided to stop in, just to see for ourselves what we had been hearing on the radio and through discussion. Despite all the coverage, neither of us owns a TV, so we weren’t at all prepared for what we surveyed. Perhaps nothing could have prepared us. Not knowing Joplin, after we got off the freeway, we didn’t see much damage at all. Perhaps it had all been hype. But then, by instinct, I turned off onto one street and floored the brake. Holy Malolly! Mile after mile of devastated neighborhoods, as far as the eye could see. Anything that might have been standing was leveled. The skyline was as clear as ours here in the high desert. Stunned, neither Gen nor I could speak. The city and FEMA had done a good job clearing the streets so folks could access home sites, but the sites themselves were way beyond any angry statement by Mother Nature. In her mighty ramp she had been downright apathetic, crushing everything, indiscriminant of value. Only the angels could have saved as many as had been within the dereliction. We saw two women, one standing in a yard looking overwhelmed and indecisive while an older one sat in a truck out front. The highest point left standing on the property was the bathroom commode flushing the sky. Gen cautioned me to stay back (as grown kids will do) and respect the privacy of the two. But the more I watched the more I realized something was terribly wrong. The younger woman kept calling out a name . . . and no one was answering. I went to see if I could help. As it turned out, her husband had
gone down into the basement of the trashed home 15 minutes earlier, and hadn’t emerged. She was worried, as should be. I started down to find him in his foolishness, meeting him on the way up. Turned out this was his childhood home. His mom was the woman in the truck. He was grieving. Mom was counting her blessings. Seems the couple had taken her out of a nursing care facility not two days before the storm hit. She was home with them when the institution got leveled . . . and most of her old friends with it. They told me stories of heroism. One man had been out running errands with his two small children. When he saw what was coming he pulled into the local Home Depot and took cover, his children nestled, one in each arm. Home Depot got razed. All three were unearthed, still nestled together, gone. There was the young manager of the local Pizza Hut who corralled his patrons and employees into the walk-in fridge. There was no room left for him, so he secured them inside and tied himself to the handle. Everyone in the unit lived. They never found him, just his hands that were left dangling from the fridge door. He is remembered with sadness and enormous pride . . . he gave the biggest gift anyone can . . . a hard decision to make, but he had. Back to the woman’s grieving husband. He had been traumatized, having been assigned to triage that night at the local hospital. He knew a lot of the folks coming in. He was the one who had to wheel the ones that didn’t or weren’t going make it down to the morgue. He re-suffers the nightmare nightly. When the woman found that I write, she told me folks had to know what was REALLY going on in Joplin. I asked her what THAT might be. Her job position wouldn’t permit her to say.
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Above: The high school in Joplin, Missouri following the May 22 tornado. Left: Behind the high school.
After we left the scene, both Gen and I were badly shaken. “I’ve GOT to dance this off,” I told her. An old kid from Motown, it’s my way of really praying hard and shaking things off. Gen remembered a place up off the interstate, so off we went. Ran into a FEMA guy there. I asked him the unanswered question. He apparently knew to what I was referring but he wouldn’t answer either; not allowed. When he introduced us to a construction fellow, the response was the same. NO ONE was talking. Katrina smack. I danced hard, by myself, in the middle of that dance floor for hours that evening. Good thing the DJ was good.
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The next morning an insurance guy in a parking lot by the grocery store was taking claims. I inquired. He seemed to acknowledge with his eyes there was SOMETHING not right, but wouldn’t say a word. HIS job. WHO was the threat here? Why so many good people doing everything and doing nothing?
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We took one last look in the morning light, driving by what was left of the high school and its surrounding neighborhood, including the Home Depot. I took pictures, including the signage identifying the buildings. “OP High School” was all that was showing of the original lettering on the school. Someone had added “H” and “E” to make it read, “Hope High School.” I wondered how much hope there was when nobody would talk about the subsequent threat, whatever it was. On the way back from the graduation, we planned to stop and find the proverbial man on the street and find out what the story on the ground might be. However, some folks who love us called to inform us about the black fungus virus of some sort going around Joplin that was leaving folks dehydrated and vacuum packed, from the inside out, black ash sifting from opened lacerations. Morbid death; à la science fiction. We decided to bypass, for the moment, until we could find out more. Maybe that move assigned me to the ranks of the chicken hearted. Sure feels like it. The situation really needs someone like me to have the guts and get the word out. Praying for Joplin feels cowardly, empty by comparison; makes me feel guilty. Still do it though. More later…
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Unusual art installation at ART123 in September What:
The Kanobis Amplifier Research Facility (an installation by Steve Storz)
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ART123, 123 W. Coal Ave.
When:
Reception at Arts Crawl Saturday, September 10, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Exhibition:
September 10 through October 1, 2011
Who:
Artist Steve Storz, with special guest performer Greta Carson
The Kanobis Amplifier Research Facility, an installation of electronic apparatus, drawings and performance, including special guest performer Greta Carson, daughter of noted author David Carson (Medicine Cards: The Discovery of Power Through the Ways of Animals), will open with a reception on September 10 at the monthly Arts Crawl at ART123 in downtown Gallup, New Mexico. The installation is the work of artist Steve Storz, a recent voyager from Taos who works in steel and electronic sculpture and drawings. Storz, born in 1960, originally from the industrial Gulf town of Texas City, recalls his first awakenings as an artist when he picked up a rusted spring from the alleyway behinds his parents’ home. The spring started a collection in a junk drawer in his, normally, immaculate room. By the time he had entered early adulthood, his first electro-mechanical sculptures, monster heads with moving mouths and lights in their entrails, had been shown in the first science fiction convention in Eugene, Oregon where most of his ordinary schooling occurred. During the ’80s and ’90s he maintained a cavernous studio in a San Jose cannery left over from the 1930s. The nearby Silicon Valley became a mountainous supply of electronics and castoff industrial materials that became reshaped and combined into mechanical and electronic sculptures inspired by mad-scientist oddness. His work included large-scale installations for haunted houses, nightclubs, film and performance art companies, electronic and steel sculptures, avant-garde music, drawings, and the World’s Largest Top Hat (Guinness Book of Records 1990). Steve continues to concentrate on sculptures made from steel and electronics, in addition to drawings in graphite, ink and oil pastel, which form a basis for much of his work. No explanation, but a lot of speculation, surrounds The Kanobis Amplifier Research Facility installation that looks to be a distressed wooden shed. Inside the shed sometimes is a man working at a very complex electronic console. Surrounded by glowing screens, blinking lights, piles of papers, charts and diagrams, books with power cables snaking out of them, the man appears to be doing some sort of research about whatever the Kanobis Amplifiers are. The word Kanobis sounds vaguely Egyptian. On the walls of the gallery near the shed will be mounted drawings that were done by the artist that are his own interpretations about the work going on in the shed.
“It would be most rewarding to have more questions than answers at the conclusion of the show.”
“This is the first phase of a larger installation I plan to complete by next year,” stated Storz. He declined to give many more details, but did say, “It would be most rewarding to have more questions than answers at the conclusion of the show in October. What are, who are, the ‘Kanobis’? Is it a race of humans . . . aliens? What is the man in the shed doing with all that weird equipment? Is this some new kind of technology? Is this art?” The exhibit will run from September 10 through October 1. The artist has infused a large portion of mystery and wonder into this exhibit. Surely, it’s an experience not to be missed! To see more of the artist’s work, visit www.stevestorz.com. And be sure to follow the events of ART123 in Gallup on Facebook. Gallery hours are Thursday 12 to 5, Friday 12 to 7, Saturday 10 to 5 or by appointment by calling 207-522-9107.
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Does the Work in Beauty CSA Create Jobs?
If all of Gallup depended upon local food production, many full time jobs would be created.
By Elspeth Iralu
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Photos by Eugene and Be Sargent
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ork in Beauty, Inc. is a non-profit organization formed to create jobs that sustain, heal and harmonize with the environment.
Our primary project, the Work in Beauty CSA (Community Supported Agriculture), provides local produce to paying members on a weekly basis. CSA members receive fresh vegetables every Saturday throughout three growing seasons: spring, summer and late summer from gardens on the north side, downtown, Chihuahuita, 491 North and the west side. In its first three years the CSA was a volunteer organization. All monies went towards building the gardens. This year, our fourth, we buy vegetables from the local growers pictured below and distribute their produce to our members. To make growing for the CSA a full time job depends upon the response of the community. If all of Gallup depended upon local food production, many full time jobs would be created. As the real costs of transportation, handling, packaging and refrigeration are reflected in the price of food on the grocery store shelf, buying and selling produce locally will be more feasible and sensible. Our method of handing you a box of veggies each Saturday may become the cheaper route. Shares are still available! Call Amy at (505) 979-2693 for more information.
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The Hummingbird
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n the clement weather of spring and summer I am drawn to my back yard, a place of wonder and beauty. Yes, even in the high desert of Gallup, New Mexico there are patches of greenery and abundant life. I am struck with awe, without fail, as I enter that realm. I look up to see an azul sky, accented by wisps of clouds resembling pulled cotton that slowly glide across the firmament and frame the cragged silhouette of the hogback mountains; a calm serenity of the sky contrasted by the stark severity of the landscape. So different but each complimenting the other and all ingredients combined are so . . . breathtaking. “Hello, Lord,” are the words that escape my mouth. I know every time I experience that level of beauty and wonder that God is behind it, and is telling me “Good morning, child, just look at the gift I made for you today.” It never gets old. The canvas prepared by the Master’s stroke has infinite and awe-inspiring beauty. And with that stunning yet serene opening act, the Lord then shows me the other side of His personality, the one with an acute sense of humor. The rest of the show begins, having some semblance to a big top performance with the grace of the aerialists and the antics of the clowns. Yes, you know what I am talking about – the hummingbird show. I have always had an affinity for hummingbirds. This year that attraction has blossomed into love mixed in with a good dose of fascination. For some reason unbeknownst to me, the hummers have chosen my backyard this year as their haven and hang out. They have come to my feeders in droves and at times have even instilled a little bit of fear into my unexpecting human guests, who feel the scene reminiscent of the Alfred Hitchcock movie The Birds. The hummers dart back and forth between feeders and trees all day long consuming massive amounts of my homemade hummingbird feed. I concoct a 50/50 mix of sugar and water that, perhaps with the love mixed in, sends out some sort of pheromonal attractant. I have tried to count them (a seemingly impossible task given their speed and nimbleness) and think I probably have counted some of them two or three times, hard to tell. But at my very worst computation level there has to be at least 12 to 15 of them at any one given moment. There is a strong likelihood that at other times even more than that. I remember my father telling a story of his first encounter with these amazing creatures. He was a small child, lying in a field of tall grass on a summer’s day. Suddenly a creature he had never seen before appeared above him, hovering for only a few seconds and then darting away. That presence so mystical, he thought it was a fairy. So just what is it about them that makes them so magical? Perhaps it is their unique ambiguity. Their wings are a dichotomous mystery, so delicate yet so strong. They maintain their flight and maneuverability by beating their wings at an incredible 80
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wing beats a second, while moving them in a figure-8 pattern. These appendages are a mere blur to the human eye, appearing as transparent ghost wings in any picture I can capture them in. They move and maneuver with incredible speed. And of course, the sounds they create are their namesake. Humming birds in motion sounds like little purring wind-up toys, interrupted by their salutational chirps or territorial twerps in a language that only they can understand. There are their intrinsically endearing and mesmerizing features: their button black eyes, iridescent feathers that constantly change colors, and tiny, black wiry appearing feet. There is their behavior, comical and inquisitive. If I position myself closely to their feeders and stand very still, they arrive to nosh only a few inches from my face. At first, they seem to either not know or care I am there – the sugary nectar’s attraction outweighs any threat I pose. If I move a bit they alarm, uniformly freezing for a millisecond and instantly exit en masse, resembling a blast of air scattering fine sand in the wind, immediately and collectively stampeding the substantial hummingbird herd. They wait a few seconds and perch up in the trees or on the electrical wires and then return haltingly and inch back to the feeder. They wonder what kind of creature I am and seem to send in a scout who very keenly checks me out. Hummingbirds’ eyes are positioned on each side of their head, so in order to get a good glimpse, they have to turn their head to one side. The scout’s head moves up and down, literally inspecting me from head to toe as he/she hovers in a jerky semi circle in front of me. It has then discerned that my intentions are honorable and I am trustworthy. Either that, or the conclusion after studying me is that I am too old and out of shape to pose any real threat to their safety. They can outrun me if necessary. The rest move in, one or two at a time and begin to eat. We repeat this scenario every time I change the feeders. They seem to move with and without purpose, darting up to the feeder, moving to the left, shifting up and down, reversing their motion all within milliseconds. Their hyperactive movements and harried behavior serve as reminders of why we should limit the intake of sugar on slightly more evolved beings – children. I’ve seen birthday and day care parties with the same level of frenzied madness after the cake, ice cream and massive amounts of candy have been digested, when the demon sugar is circulating in the blood stream and bathing the brain. Children eventually poop out. Hummers don’t. They do their dance all day long, sunrise to sunset, sunshine or rain, garnering my fake nectar as their seemingly sole purpose. Their consumption level is mindboggling. I have to re-fill up to 6 cups a day of hummingbird swill into my feeders. They are full in the morning and empty when I come home from work ten to twelve
hours later. Quite a feat when you stop to think that their tongues appear to be roughly the length and circumference of a very thin sewing needle. How many times would one have to insert and withdraw a sewing needle into just even one cup of sugar water before depleting it? Again, if this requires an accurate computation, I don’t think I can count that high – bazillions to gazillions is the range I am thinking.
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Given that I have four feeders with four to six feeding stations each, you would think that there would be plenty of room for my twenty-ish hummers. Not so. They rotate their preference, but tend to favor one or two of the four feeders on any given day. They have their favorite ones, just like we humans have our favorite feeding troughs and hangouts. Is there some mystical hummingbird logic to this? The scientific part of my brain analyzes and knows there is no difference in the recipe. They are mixed by the same hand using the same recipe. But still, they insist on fighting for a spot on one feeder. Perhaps they are more like us than we know, using some mental process akin to our human concept of popularity: If there’s lots of activity in one place, then it must be the best and I want it. Or, is it so relatively simple-minded and void of any cognitive processing that a gnat could challenge it? It’s there so I eat it. When it’s gone, I move on. I have read that they are quite intelligent and can memorize and recognize human faces. It’s hard to imagine that level of intelligence in a being with so many meaningless actions and in such a cutesy package. Kind of like Goldie Hawn. I have grown to recognize some of the frequent flyers at my hummingbird club, demonstrating distinct personalities and behavior sets. There is the territorial bully that doesn’t really eat at the feeder but chases any other hummer that comes near it. True to their bully nature, they leave rather quickly when I show up as the larger contender. There are the brave (or stupid, see above) ones who will risk eating at the same feeder with the bully, over and over again, no matter what. There are the youngsters that are surprisingly smaller than the average humming bird and some that are more curious than the others. If you watch them long enough you can discern colors, plumage and yes, faces. Now that school is starting, the harbinger of fall, I am counting the days until my seasonal jester troupe leaves me, one by one, to their southern abodes. These small creatures will fly thousands of miles to winter in Central and South America. Do they have as benevolent benefactors as I in their tropical homes? I think they probably have to “rough it” and do what hummingbirds are supposed to do – collect their nectar from the plentiful flowers they find in that sultry region of the world. Will they now resent having to work so hard for so comparatively little reward? Have I created North Americanized hummingbirds that like fast, mass-produced food and don’t eat to live but live to eat? Are they showing up in Mexico with the hummingbird equivalent of a beer belly or McDonald gut? Have I expedited the de-evolution and a downward spiral of the hummingbird population? The fact that I wonder about such things leaves me to question my sanity. You are probably wondering the same by now. Don’t worry, I won’t be donning any hummingbird head hat, loud neon colored dresses or necklaces and earrings with hummingbirds encased in them. Even I know where to draw the line from unusual to bizarre. I’m not “the crazy hummingbird lady” of Gallup quite yet. So it will be with great sadness that I will pack away my hummingbird feeders for the winter, and hang my hummingbird wind chime as a poor substitute for the real thing . . . then start the countdown for the return of the hummers. I think this summer I have provided enough fun and sustenance to implant in their reported intelligent bird brains my locale for next spring’s jaunt up into New Mexico sun. Heck, if my reputation is as good as I think it is, they may even bring a few of their new found South American compadres to the swingin’ club scene at the Usrey cabana. Hmmmm, I wonder how margarita mix would go over in the feeders next year?
Have I created North Americanized hummingbirds that like fast, massproduced food and don’t eat to live but live to eat? Are they showing up in Mexico with the hummingbird equivalent of a beer belly?
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Driving Impressions: 1995 Beechcraft King Air 90
Altering space and
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’ve been able to plop my rear in quite a few transportation devices over the years. During my time with the Gallup Journey I’ve driven two true sports cars, a range of trucks and SUVs, and a bevy of luxury sedans and small cars. I’ve also driven a host of personal watercrafts, boats, and even a few motorcycles in my day. But this was easily my coolest test drive to date and, at over $2 million, my most expensive. First a caveat to this entire article: I never actually had control of this vehicle at anytime, nor any influence over its journey. I did, however, sit in the copilot’s seat and receive a play-by-play of everything that was going on and that was plenty cool for me! Powertrain: Utilizing twin Pratt & Whitney turboprops, producing 550 hp a piece at sea-level, the variable pitch props of the King Air tear into the air like angry badgers. The hefty price tag of the King Air allows engines that pull the modestly heavy plane as if attached to the tail end of a hurricane. Even in high elevation airstrips like Gallup’s Municipal Airport, the King Air shows no signs of a struggle with gravity and allows it to easily operate into and out of the small airstrips in our area. Pulling back on the stick produces stomach churning climb rates to quickly get the King Air up to cruising altitude. A host of instruments help the pilot to ensure the turbines are running at their full potential.
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Running at almost 700 degrees Celsius, monitoring the ridiculously high internal temps of the turbines themselves helps the pilot push them to the edge for optimal performance. Performance: Get your mind around this. That trip to Albuquerque for your kid’s soccer tournament? Less than 40 minutes from takeoff to landing. That weekend getaway to Phoenix? Your almost 5-hour drive is whittled down to 70 minutes! (IKEA here we come!) The King Air 90 literally alters your sense of space and time. Our trip to Albuquerque had us seeing ground speeds of over 230 knots (264 mph!) Within moments of our turn from west to east at takeoff, it seemed we were already approaching Mt. Taylor. (And if you don’t think of the peak as a dormant volcano . . . see it from the air!) Handling can best be described as “jet-like.” Banking angles are limited more by your passenger’s stomach than the King Air’s riveted aluminum airframe. The King Air is able to dive into and out of relatively small airstrips, making it highly sought after for our rural area. All that performance, however, comes at the price of economy, although economy is not any airplane’s particular strong suit. With a fuel burn rate of about 75 gallons an hour, that quick trip to Phoenix is going to cost you over $300 in fuel . . . each way! While a full tank will get you some 1,200 miles away at 384 gallons, don’t ask about the price. Ergonomics: The price does little to tell you just how poor the ergonomics of the King Air really are. One would suspect that for a price of 15-20 homes in Gallup, the King Air would be basking in walnut veneers, burled and brushed aluminum switch gear, and seats and panels clad with leather from golden cows. The reality is the King Air is tight and cramped. A particularly large tube moving through the sky reduces speed, fuel economy and payload, so the King Air chooses dimensions just big enough to keep its customer base from looking elsewhere. The pilot and co-pilot sit about a foot apart and finagling your feet over the seat, next
to the stick, all without smacking your head on the overhead console packed with expensive gauges and switchgear requires the skill of Mary Lou Retton. The view is limited by the small windshield and small side windows, but of course, once in the air, it’s spectacular nonetheless. Interior: Passengers fare only slightly better in the King Air than their pilots. Depending on configuration, the King Air will carry about 7 people. The King Air is often purchased for its particularly high payload capacity so passengers can bring relatively heavy luggage, keeping it small, as space is still a premium. The King Air utilizes a fully pressurized cabin allowing comfortable, mask-less cruising, even in high country like the Four Corners region and at altitudes up to 31,000 feet. The King Air can even be configured in such a way as to carry a stretcher in Med-Flight situations. Believe it or not, in the aircraft world, the Beechcraft King Air 90 represents high value. Airplanes are ridiculously expensive to own and operate but the King Air 90 provides its owner/operator with practically light jet performance for lower initial cost and lower fuel consumption. Flying in the front seat of a small airplane with a friend to answer every one of my annoying questions is really the best way to get from point A to point B. Doing it all in the King Air makes it all the more incredible. Special thanks to P.B. for the ride-along and tutorial . . . you made a short, balding man giddy like a schoolboy.
Banking angles are limited more by your passenger’s stomach than the King Air’s riveted aluminum airframe.
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Zuni Silversmith
Dan Simplicio Sr:
Challenging Tradition
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ore than forty years after his death, Dan Simplicio’s designs are familiar, but they were boldly innovative in his day and changed the aesthetics of Indian jewelry forever. His bold execution is still strikingly visual half a century later. Simplicio came of age in an era when there were many innovators. Zuni jewelry was still feeling its way, and creative juices were flowing. Leekya Deyuse was experimenting with setting carved stone in silver jewelry; Leo Poblano was creating fine mosaic inlay; Bryant Waatsa was popularizing a style of needlepoint that would become “Zuni Jewelry” to the outside world; and Juan De Dios was perfecting technique for his generation. Juan (whose name was spelled a variety of way including Didios) taught a whole generation of silversmiths. At the time, limited tools were available and Juan is remembered for sending kids around the village to pick up charcoal. In the traditional bread ovens oxygen is limited so good charcoal is produced in the fire. De Dios heated his charcoal to a high temperature with the use of bellows and all of his silverwork was done with this awkward heat source and melted coins. Juan was paraplegic and his students created a studio atmosphere where everyone shared ideas. The De Dios style involves silver-mounted stones cantilevered out from the bracelet base, which gives his work a very distinctive look and makes the turquoise the leading element. De Dios apprenticed his nephew Dan along with others who would become famous jewelers of the period. Dan Simplicio began silversmithing with primitive techniques and limited tools, factors his son thinks contributed to his creativity. “He made his own plate, drew his own wire, everything was done by hand,” says Dan Jr. who is also a metalworker and fine fetish carver. Simplicio carved and tempered his own stamps from scrap steel. There were swaging troughs cut into his hand-made anvil to make triangle and half-round wire. One of his leaf stamps became almost a signature element of his work. He said later he got the idea for the distinctive leaf from his time in Europe during the war. He was fascinated by the Roman laurel leaf wreaths given to heroes of battles.
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To make wire he beat a lump of silver into a thick pencil – annealed it to make it soft, and then drew it through a steel plate with a series of graduated holes. The silver had to be softened again for each step of the drawing process. Every piece he created was the result of many, many hours of labor. C. G. Wallace, the controversial trader from Zuni, encouraged originality and brought cash money into the pueblo. He is said to be the first importer of coral and by 1936 was bringing it to Zuni in large quantities. Though most stone workers in the village cut the material up and used it in inlay, Simplicio came up with the idea of mounting the oxblood coral in silver housing, maintaining its original branching look. Then Dan combined the red with quality nuggets and his distinctive silver leaves. The result was pure Dan Simplicio and is still easily recognized. Other Zunis like Robert Leekya and Chester Mahooty were influenced by this technique. Leekya is still known for his large nugget sets. Dan learned the art from Juan and he, in turn, taught the next generation of metalsmiths including Juan and Jose Calavaza. Dan’s sister Ruth Calavaza became famous and his brothers Mike and Chauncy were notable jewelers. Their children, in turn, swelled the number of artists. Simplicio is best known for these free-form pieces, but he worked in pretty much every technique of his day. He was an influential tufa caster and some of his best jewelry had a cast base. Though he mined his own tufa – a fine-grained volcanic ash stone – near the village of Zuni, he would put more than one design on a block, or carve both sides. “He had a mine on the north edge of the reservation,” says his son. “It was small and it was destroyed when they built the new road up the hill.” There are several places south of Gallup where good tufa is found.
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By Ernie Bulow
Captions
photo by Erin Bulow
Far Right: Classic Dan Simplicio silver work (Courtesy of Perry Null Trading)
Right: Dan Simplicio in World War II Above Right: A Dan Simplicio Jr. cast from one of his father’s original molds Far Left: Dan with Casting Left: Octavia Fellin’s bead necklace
Though casting heavy silver is considered a Navajo thing, Simplicio’s work was distinctively Zuni for the most part. Many of his existing molds show variations of a lacy flower design found on pottery. He also used some prehistoric forms taken from rock art. Dan Jr. has a charming piece that is either a frog or horny toad. Like many Native Americans of his generation, Simplicio had at least two birthdays of record: Aug 10, 1911, or maybe 1917. His father was known as Old Man Simplicio and Dan doesn’t know his grandmother’s name. Daniel’s sister, Ruth Calavaza was photographed by Burton Frasher and one of her iconic images, distributed as photo postcards, shows her working on jewelry. Another shows her in traditional costume, taking bread from an outdoor oven. When Dan enlisted in World War II, he was inducted with a lot of Gallup men, including a number of Slavs. They bonded in the service and he wrote letters home for the men who were not literate in English. He won a bronze star with oak cluster for rescuing a number of fellow soldiers under heavy fire, dragging them back to safety one at a time. Eventually he suffered a terrific wound to his thigh. The Germans were experimenting with metal-clad wooden bullets. It might have been a lead-saving move, but there was also the element of fragmentation. The wooden bullets splintered on impact, creating a messy, dirty wound – an early form of biological warfare. Daniel sat alone in a foxhole for three days with nothing to eat or drink. Though it started to rain, the water he was lying in was too muddy and contaminated with his blood for him to drink. He said later he just kept reciting Hail Marys and Our Fathers. Dan was pretty well out of blood when he was finally picked up. After his return home he spent months in rehabilitation, some of it in Bruns General, the Army hospital in Santa Fe. Octavia Fellin was running the library at the hospital and paid special attention to the Gallup boys. It was there she met Daniel Simplicio. She recalls that in 1945 they had a thousand patients there, mostly from the Southwest. When they closed down the facility she was supposed to move to another hospital in San Francisco, but she made a visit to her folks in Gallup and never left town again.
“A couple of years later a man came walking into the library,” she recalls. “He asked me if I remembered him. It was Dan and I asked him what he was doing.” Dan told Octavia he was working as a silversmith and she asked him to make her a necklace. “I told him to keep it simple,” she said. “Some time later he brought in this necklace of silver beads.” That was 1950 and Ms. Fellin still has the beads. “I never wear anything else,” she told me. “I love it so much.” For years Dan created collectors’ items for C. G. Wallace in Zuni. Eventually he went to work for John Kennedy in Gallup. Dan Jr. says he found a pay stub from that period. “My dad was making $1.50 an hour.” Simplicio was a house silversmith for Kennedy for years, along with several Navajos. Mary Morgan was just one smith who copied his style. It seems that the influence went both ways. He used the silver snake motif in his jewelry at that time and it is still seen in the work of Effie Calavaza. The Navajo smiths were spooked by the use of rattlesnakes in jewelry. Simplicio built himself a stone house in Zuni. “Away from the restrictions of living with the wife’s family, many Zunis found the freedom seductive,” says his son. The Simplicio house became a party zone. Dan Jr. believes the switch to the Anglo type of family unit contributed to alcohol use among the Zuni and other Southwestern tribes. The war had also been a large factor. Weirdly, the leg kept bothering Dan, reinfecting often. “I remember seeing him lance the wound himself. I was just a kid and it was terrible,” recalls his son. In 1970 the bullet hole took a hard blow in a scuffle. Dan was taken to the hospital but a blood clot ended his life. Dan Jr. was only thirteen. His mother, Esther Romancito survived her husband by just one year. Dan Jr. and his siblings spent the next years in Albuquerque. Dan Simplicio has carved his niche in the history of Southwestern Native jewelry and his contribution isn’t likely to be forgotten. Fortunately, his distinctive work has found its way into museum collections across America and Europe.
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A Dangerous Earthquake Zone? L
ast spring my wife and I took a trip to some places we had wanted to visit for quite a while. After stopping to see family in Oklahoma, we continued to Cahokia State Park in Illinois, the archaeological site of what was once the largest Native American city north of Mexico. Then we continued to New Madrid, Missouri, site of the strongest earthquakes in the center of North America. You may recall that last spring [2011] the Mississippi River was in flood. The New Madrid town museum is situated at the base of the river levee. We took time to walk up some steps to the top and look at the river. It was like an inland sea. A few locals, probably worried about flooding, climbed up beside us for a look and left without saying a word. Our last stop on the trip was the Crater of Diamonds State Park at Murfreesboro, Arkansas. [No, I didn’t find a diamond.] Some time later I mentioned the New Madrid earthquake to a friend. He had never heard of it. Maybe most of you haven’t heard of it either, and since this is almost the 200th anniversary of the event, here’s the story.
Today New Madrid [pronounced MAD-rid] is a small town of less than 3500 people but with a long history. European settlement began in the 1780s around a trading post while the region was still under Spanish control. The population was never large due to natural disasters such as flooding. [The town has moved three times.] Citizens expected floods since the town was built in a swampy area next to a powerful river, but no one expected earthquakes. The first record of an earthquake in the area was mentioned in his journal by a missionary travelling with French explorers near the future Memphis in 1699. The residents of New Madrid were almost certainly unaware of this. We talk about the New Madrid earthquake, but it was actually a series of quakes occurring over a period of eight weeks beginning on December 16, 1811 at 2:30 am. Slippage of about 30 feet along 90 miles of the Blytheville Fault threw people from their beds and toppled chimneys. Most estimates of
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the magnitude of the tremor place it at 7.5 to 8.0 on the Richter scale. More than 50 aftershocks followed of magnitude 5.0 or more. Magnitude 5.0 is considered moderate; things may rattle on shelves, but little damage occurs. Still, shaking by the aftershocks caused wet sand and river sediments to liquefy; two nearby towns sank into the muck and one person went missing. Aftershocks continued almost daily until January 23, 1812, when another large tremor struck. This one was felt from Canada to Mexico. The North Carolina legislature adjourned, thinking the quake had been local. People living in the region reported that the ground seemed to shudder constantly until February 7. Early that morning the largest of the quakes pushed a 20 square mile portion of the flood plain upwards about 30 feet, and related subsidence created Reelfoot Lake in Tennessee. The Mississippi River was blocked by the uplift and had to cut through the sediment in a series of waterfalls. What was left of New Madrid was destroyed by this last quake and the subsequent flooding by the river. It would be rebuilt later. The region that felt the ground shaking of the New Madrid quakes was about 2.5 million square kilometers; that’s ten times the size of the area affected by the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. One phenomenon of the quakes in this area is what is called sand boils, or sand volcanoes. These happen when the shaking liquefies sand saturated with water beneath a layer of clay under the surface. Pressure causes the slurry to be ejected upwards through the clay to form a ring of sand around a crater on the surface. There are thousands of these in the region. Farmers can recognize them because they hold water poorly, making bare spots in tilled fields. One such bare spot now hosts a cell tower built atop a concrete pad two feet thick. It has been dubbed the “Richter dipstick” because sand boils are unstable and, in a big quake, this 700-feet high tower is likely to sink or fall over. Why did earthquakes of such magnitude occur in the middle of the continent?
Thousands of microquakes still occur in the New Madrid seismic zone each year.
By Larry Larason Several explanations have been offered, but the most convincing one, to me, relates to deeply buried scars in the continent’s basement rocks. The Mississippi River flows for much of its distance through an ancient rift zone. The rift dates back to when the supercontinent of Rodinia, containing most, if not all, of Earth’s landmass broke up about 750 million years ago. As it split apart, cracks formed in what would become North America. Though the continent did not separate, the deep rent in the “foundation” remained. Covered by sediment it was probably quiet until the formation of another supercontinent, Pangaea. Then, faults defining the rift were reactivated, especially as Pangaea began breaking up about 175 million years ago. Some volcanism occurred during both of these episodes. One result of that volcanism is the diatreme that is now the Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas. The existing rift was then reburied by sediment and lay mostly quiet again until recently, although geologists have found evidence of other large earthquakes in the New Madrid seismic zone at 300, 900, and 1400 C.E. Death and destruction during the New Madrid quakes of 1811-12 were minimal because there were few people living in the region at that time. If a swarm of similar earthquakes occurred today, the result would be catastrophic. Will it happen again? Probably, but not soon. USGS monitoring equipment detects little strain on the faults in the region. On the other hand, small aftershocks, the type felt only by seismographs, have continued since the 1800s. The thousands of micro-quakes each year may be relieving pressure that otherwise might lead to a severe temblor. Most earthquakes occur near tectonic plate boundaries. Those in the middle of a continent are poorly understood. Not all the earthquakes in the Midwest occur in the New Madrid seismic zone. There are many buried faults in the center of the country. A similar area in Illinois/Indiana is called the Wabash Valley seismic zone. Earthquakes have taken place all across southern Illinois and adjoining Missouri and Arkansas, including Saint Louis and Memphis. Clearly, the region along the central Mississippi River is unstable.
The region that felt the New Madrid quakes was about 2.5 million square kilometers; that’s ten times the size of the area affected by the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.
New Mexico has a rift of its own. Do we face comparable dangers? Our rift is not as old as the one in Missouri. The Rio Grande Rift formed during the Miocene, 23 to 5 million years ago, as a part of the basin and range development. The majority of the quakes in our state are associated with the rift, but none have shown the power of the ones at New Madrid. Socorro is the most active spot, possibly because magma is slowly rising in the rift about 12 miles below the surface. Overall, New Mexico is considered a moderate seismic area. If you’re interested in earthquakes you can find a great deal of information on the WWW. For example, the USGS has an earthquake tracking site. “The Great Earthquake at New Madrid,” a nineteenth-century woodcut from Our First Century (Devens 1877).
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Richard Koontz McKinley County Manager
Q. Richard, what got you interested in applying for the County Manager position? A. I’ve lived in Gallup for the last sixteen years and I’ve gotten to know the City and County environment and I feel I have job skills and abilities that would be really helpful to the Navajo people and the people of Gallup and everybody here. Q. Although you are new to your job, what have you enjoyed about the job so far? A. I’ve been busy - eight to five and beyond. There’s a lot of challenges here to test my abilities. I don’t mind challenges; I like to take on new things. Q. What do you see as the biggest challenge of your job? A. I’ve only been on the job four days so basically just learning the government structure and everything that management of the County entails. Q. What do you hope to accomplish in terms of relationships between McKinley County, the City of Gallup and the Navajo Nation? A. Number one, I’d like to see lines of communication open. I’d like to see coordination on comprehensive planning. I’d like to see joint efforts on the issues that are common to all three entities: land issue, community development and coordination of infrastructure like roads and waterlines. Q. What are your top priorities as the new County Manager? A. In the interview process, the Commissioners let me know what they feel the priorities are. Number one is to get the County a little better organized. Also to make sure we have adequate staffing in key positions. We want to make sure to get qualified people. We also want to be customer service oriented. Those seem to be the priorities that were laid out for me. Q. What do you enjoy doing in your off time? A. Mainly, I just like to spend time with my family. My wife and I like to take walks. I like to run. I like to be outside - out in the forest just for leisure purposes. Q. What is your favorite music? A. Basically, I like Christian music, contemporary and alternative rock. I like the group Third Day. Their music is based on the Bible but they make it culturally relevant to this day and age. We always think of Christian music as old organ grinding hymns, but groups like Third Day appeal to the public and I like that. Q. If you could trade places with one famous person, either living or dead, who would it be and why? A. I’m a boxing enthusiast so I guess someone like Mohammad Ali or Evander Holyfield who were great boxers and had great talent. They showed what they could do with the skills that God gave them and I like that.
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Scratching Where it Itches in Education G
allupians have been bombarded once again with a spate of reports in The Independent on the general failure of our schools to achieve AYP, and even an editorial (July 27) that insists that someone must take responsibility. Teachers, parents, and administrators all blame each other, and everyone blames Washington, it seems. We need to change something, but what? And who is going to tame the tiger? We can find clues to success right around us if we read. Our paper carries an insert “American Profile.” The cover story in the last one was entitled “A Bookcase for Every Child,” by Marti Attoun. It featured a small Arkansas town where the citizens got together to promote literacy by making sure every child had a bookcase stocked with books, and volunteers who encouraged kids in the Head Start program. These people sense that literacy is pretty basic to everything else that happens in school. Can we do that here in McKinley County? How about a local version of Peace Corps in which high school or college kids read to little kids in laundromats while their parents wash clothes? Or how about this: The Independent carried a great article on August 4 by Rasha Madkour. It was about bilingualism, something that all of us – Anglos, Hispanics, and Native Americans – need to read because we have more potential for bilingualism than many other states do. Some quotes:
Text and illustration By Robert Koops Koops is adjunct instructor for the Bachelor & Graduate Programs at UNM Gallup. His course, Linguistics 440/540 is required for teachers seeking to get an endorsement for Teaching English as a Second Language, but is open to anyone who is interested in learning about language - their own and that of others.
Language – the more the better – is the main secret, according to Berman. How does this fit with our education system? Are teachers then off the hook? Albert Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over but expecting different results. I am convinced our teachers are doing their best to improve students’ scores, but they are simply not scratching where our society itches. They are like people putting buckets under drips instead of finding where the water is coming from and stopping it. Instead of pointing fingers, it might be more useful to study carefully where the problem lies and propose solutions. Here’s how it goes: Johnnie does poorly in reading and math from kindergarten onward, until he drops out in high school. Billy does well, right from the start, and goes on to college. Kids who are bad at reading and math don’t usually catch up. The best their teacher can do is to keep them from falling farther behind. People say our schools are failing, but in fact, the teachers hardly have time to teach; they are all just doing educational triage – patching up wounded intellects. The problem starts at home.
Research over many years now shows that success in school depends on language input in the first three years “. . . today’s parents see the benefits of of a child’s life. In other words, before he or she goes to I am convinced our teachers being fluent in more than one language and they school. look for ways to encourage it.” [This doesn’t sound If the problem occurs before kids get to school, why are doing their best to like McKinley County – yet!] invest our state money where the problem is? One improve students’ scores, but not program that offers hope is FACE, Families and Children “. . . scientific research suggests that they are simply not scratching in Education. We need to strengthen that, expand it, and bilingualism is good for you, making the brain encourage parents to enroll. where our society itches. more flexible . . . [it] may even slow the onset of The first three years of life are the most important for Alzheimer’s.” nurturing a child’s full potential: that’s when they start One of our local publications, Leading The Way forming attachments, developing a sense of self, and (August ’11 issue) just featured a young mother learning to trust. If a child’s first three years determine his success in school, teachers can’t from Pueblo Pintado who is doing what author Madkour advocates: making sure her simply turn their backs and say it is not their problem. We obviously need educational child is bilingual. Leading The Way is to be commended for its steady output of material triage experts to be trained, just like ER staff. But, as Berman says, “there are critical encouraging the preservation of Navajo language and culture, while recognizing the value windows of opportunity that parents can take advantage of – if they know how.” Read of English as a language of wider communication. her book, SuperBaby: 12 Ways to Give your Baby a Head Start in the First Three Years. Bilingualism is all well and good, but it is not in itself the key to success. You need to Somehow we need to get these ideas out to our community in culturally appropriate ask: Where does bilingualism start? At home, of course, if at all. And the key, according formats. to many recent studies of child development, is LANGUAGE – any language. If you’re an educator, read instead Disrupting Class [2008] by a teacher named Clayton Christensen. It is all about learning and it addresses our school problems as a societal Dr. Jenn Berman, a popular child psychologist, says that problem, not as a school problem. Let me summarize his chapter on early childhood “The first three years of life are the most important for nurturing a child’s here. full potential: that’s when they start forming attachments, developing a sense of self, and learning to trust. During this time, there are critical windows of Christensen lists a lot of reforms that need to be made in schools but then tackles the real opportunity that parents can take advantage of – if they know how.”
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problem: “. . . starting these reforms in kindergarten, let alone elementary, middle, or high school, is FAR TOO LATE.” Up to 98% of education spending, he says, “occurs after the basic intellectual capacities of children have been mostly determined.” So why bug teachers with these facts? Home life is not their problem. Or is it? First, if they are held responsible for “leaving no child behind” – and even eliminating poverty! – then what happens before school starts is really important to their success. You teachers, if the parents of your students directly control your success as a teacher, it makes sense to think about how we as communities can enhance the home environment. What kids need (and what healthy kids have), according to Christensen, is: a. intellectual capacity b. strong, positive self-esteem (related to identity), and c. curiosity – a life-long motivator for learning Intellectual capacity is determined in a child’s first three years of age. How? Researchers have studied verbal and physical interaction between parents and children. Their results? On average, parents speak 1500 words per hour to their children. Talkative parents (often college-educated) average 2100 words per hour. What the researchers call “welfare families” averaged 600 words per hour in the studies. By the age of three years, some kids have heard as many as 48 million words, while others have heard as few as 13 million. Further, the most important time for parental verbal input is in the first year – when kids often don’t even show evidence that they understand what they hear. Parents who only talk to their infants after they can speak (around one year) are making a serious mistake. The research shows that children who aren’t spoken to at a young age suffer a “persistent deficit in intellectual capacity” compared to other children. A fascinating sideline here is that giving orders to children – Eat your food! Sit down! Get out of there! Do your homework!, etc. – does not count as brain food. The author calls that “business talk.” What the kids need, according to those who did the studies, is “language dancing” – face-to-face interaction in which the adults use adult chatty language, “as if the infant were listening, comprehending, and fully responding.” Adults, the author says, should ask questions that stimulate infants to think deeply about what is happening around them. You might ask, Why not just set the kid in front of a TV? Sorry, you can’t language-dance with a television set. The studies show that TV soon becomes background noise to an infant; it is no more engaging than a business meeting would be. Give-and-take is crucial. For the scientific-minded, Christensen goes into the neurology of language dancing – what happens in a child’s brain as it hears all this language. The author cites many studies that show the same conclusion: it all goes back to interactive language in the first three years – any language, and the more the better. Some of us have looked at the generational repetition of poverty, illiteracy, drug-use, unwanted pregnancy, and crime, and we lose heart. Are language-deprived kids destined to grow up and inflict the same fate on their children? Is it hopeless? The authors say, No! One reason for hope is that the level of income, ethnicity, and level of parents’ education does not determine the cognitive capacity of their children. “It is all explained by the amount of language dancing, or extra talk, over and above business talk, that the parents engage in.” Some low-income people in the studies talked a lot to their infants and these children did well later in school. Some rich business people talked very little to their kids and the kids did very poorly later on. Furthermore, the race of the parents MADE NO DIFFERENCE in these studies.
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A few states have begun to get the right idea, but fall short: For example, Massachusetts is trying to legislate universal pre-school. The Head Start Program is a good effort. But in both cases there is not nearly enough face-to-face language dancing of the kind that only parents can accumulate day after day. Much language in kindergarten, the authors say, is business talk. What to do? The authors ask: Can we teach children how to be parents before it happens? Can effective parenting be taught in high schools? Can it be grounded in some basic studies of cognition and child development? If talks on drugs, STDs, and teen pregnancy are considered important in our schools, why not talks on the importance of chatting with babies? Back to our schools: Einstein, who gave us the definition of insanity, also said, “In solving a problem, you need to use a different kind of thinking than what got you into the problem.” In the words of the authors of Disrupting Class, “. . . if we persist in believing that the problems of our schools can be solved by only improving schools, we will never succeed.”
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oller Coasters have nothing on the US economy over the last few weeks. We have gone from a threatened default and debt crisis to several 400+ point swings in the US stock Market and a downgrade from one of the bond rating agencies of US treasuries. And that was just week 1 of August!
Let me give you my take on all of these in my own meager way and hope to make some sense of it. Debt Ceiling It was said that on August 2, 2011 that the US was in danger of defaulting on its credit obligations if the Congress did not authorize a raise in the US debt ceiling. Both sides of the political aisle had a heyday accusing the other side of causing the problem and claiming that there was no way to get out of it unless the other side gave in to demands. Throw in the fact that the approval rating of the congress, president and everyone else are in the basement and there are a gaggle of people wanting to sit in the White House next year – the political pitch was fevered. It could have been a chance to deal with the problem, but instead they “kicked the can down the street” and we will be in the middle of all this while we are roasting our turkeys for Thanksgiving again this year. For what it is worth, I do not believe – and I have a lot of company in this – that the US government would ever not pay its obligations to its debtors. It would have caused a global meltdown that nobody wants to see or be a part of. There are mechanisms that would have prevented it, but the scare was to make sure that the problem gets addressed. Many feel we have a spending problem more than an income problem, but the situation is laid out that we are definitely spending more than we receive in revenue and therefore something must be done to address it long term. This leads to: Debt Rating The US has always enjoyed rating agencies’ highest bond ratings: AAA. Standard and Poors recently downgraded US debt to AA+. Many saw this as a black eye and a warning that we are all in trouble and these rates were going to immediately spike. I mean even France had a better rating than we did. Then . . . rates went down instead of up. At least in the short term, there was no spike in these rates and they even went down.
There are a couple of explanations for this. First, there is no place else in the world where there is the capacity and safety of the US. We might be shaky, but so is the rest of the world. Even a country like France, who might carry the higher rating on paper, does not have the capacity to take on the massive amounts of debt that the US has from foreign investors. In effect, then AA+ became the new AAA and life moved on. That is not to say that there should be no concern for the downgrade; there should be. We are traveling down a road that leads to default eventually and that is what the downgrade is telling us, among other things. It should be our wakeup call. No person or family can move forward in life spending more than they make and the governments of the world cannot do so, either. Europe is feeling the effects of this now and Japan is also very vulnerable. This is not just a US problem; it is becoming a global one. Stock Market Swings I have discussed the uncertainty in our economy in past articles. Uncertainty leads to volatility. And we did see a very volatile stock market recently that underscores that. Often stock markets have a very reactionary and instable feel as they hear bad news. With so many stocks being set on buy and sell orders that are triggered by movement in the stocks, a downward slide for a while can become an landslide in a matter of moments. Same with going back up. One thing to always remember is that usually no money is lost until there is a sale, so watching your 401K on a daily basis could result in only the stock for antacids going up. Get with a financial planner, make a plan and work the plan. Review it with them often and see where you are going. What is coming next? That is above my pay grade. However, I think rates will continue low for the short and maybe even medium term. Savings rates are continuing to drop, but so are borrowing rates. Mortgages are very low, so if you’re looking to refinance, this is a prime time to do so. There are good things happening in the economy, but the news will mainly report the bad. Politics will be, well, political for the next year. The tone will be nasty and that will drive down consumer confidence. I encourage you to be involved in the selection of our leaders. Our right to vote is one of the most treasured gifts bestowed upon us by great sacrifice of our founders. But every right has an associated responsibility. We have the responsibility to make an informed vote. Our economic roller coaster ride cannot last forever.
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Gardening High Plateau
By Kevin Buggie Buggie is a 2nd grade teacher at Chee Dodge Elementary, owner of Black Diamond Canyon Farm, and ’96 graduate of Gallup HS
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ost gardens come about as a result of quiet, solitary hours spent working the soil and tending the crops in the backyard. Not this one. At times it’s anything but quiet, and it’s existence is directly the result of hundreds and hundreds of hands collectively moving dirt, rigging fences, building beds, sowing seeds, turning wrenches, and many swift keystrokes on a computer. This is no regular garden. It’s our school garden at Chee Dodge Elementary (CDE) in Yah-ta-Hey, 5 miles north of Gallup. The project was envisioned 7 years ago and began under the direction of kindergarten teacher, Liz Caravaca. She secured the first funding in the form of small grants from the National Garden Association and Public Utilities of New Mexico. Partnering with New Mexico Youth Conservation Corps (YCC), under the direction of Karl Lohmann, an acre of rolling sand and sagebrush was cleared and fenced.
Staffing turnover that seems an inevitable part of school life in Gallup took its toll on the garden’s progress in the next few years and the garden space hosted only a few small rows that served a good purpose, but didn’t quite live up to the garden’s potential. Meanwhile, the national trend of increasing obesity among students significantly affected CDE; biannual body mass index (BMI) measurements of all students backed this up. Kindergarten teacher, Marilyn Ellison of Manuelito, saw the same patterns in the surrounding community and knew, “We had to start increasing the daily consumption of fruit and vegetables, along with access to exercise.” Enter Navajo Coordinated Approach to School Health and the addition of a couple veteran teachers who understood the incredible academic resource a school garden could be. Those teachers, Stacey Lovell (4th grade) and Cindy Arsenault (3rd grade), working with Ms. Ellison, wrote a Coordinated School Health (CSH) proposal for an ambitious $40,000 wellness campaign at CDE
. . . an outdoor learning space where real-world experiences let students actually apply concepts they’ve learned . . .
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A - Overview shot of the garden. B - YCC crewmembers Fernando Garcia, Scotty Valenzuela, Travis Ashley, Tyler Begay, and John White frame-up the greenhouse. C - 2nd graders Olivia, Chiara, Alana, and William measure and graph the height of their broccoli seedlings. D - 5th graders Dale, Nathaniel, and Tyler construct raised beds with perfect 90-degree corners. E - Peppers in the raised beds. F - Onion sign.
from the Boys and Girls Club, worked hundreds of hours as they constructed the greenhouse, rabbit-proofed 800 feet of the garden fence, and put in another 2000 feet of rows we’ll sow with carrots, lettuce, and spinach this fall semester. These young men and women were an impressive sight to see as they worked meticulously through the hot July and August sun, never once fudging safety rules or cutting corners. My returning students also thought they were pretty cool, firmly establishing them as role models this community can be more than proud of. So now the little hands really get to work. Students will continue to plant, monitor, harvest, and eat vegetables throughout the school year. They’ll be practicing math, writing, and reading skills while engaged in science and social studies lessons in the garden, all while they’re also practicing interpersonal skills, building character, and growing healthy bodies in ways equally important to any academic lesson. Students will also have an opportunity to make connections between these lessons and their Navajo culture at our traditional harvest festival in late September. CDE principal, Edie R. Morris of Tohatchi, aptly describes the fundamental importance of this project and others like it around our state and the Navajo Nation in saying, “Serving a child comprehensively is the key to success.”
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That’s So
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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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here are many aspects of life in Gallup that make it a very interesting place in which to live. The scenery is spectacular. The weather is invigorating yet very comfortable most of the year. The opportunities for outdoor activities are endless. One of the most unique qualities of life here is the wonderfully diverse population that has decided to build their lives in Gallup. Gallup is blessed by being a “border town” for several large tribes of Native Americans. The Navajo, Zuni and Hopi tribes all live in close proximity to town on their ancestral lands. Their combined weekly shopping trips to town provide the life blood of our economy. Each tribal group possesses a rich culture, tradition, language and history that is vibrant and alive and at least partially accessible by interested city dwellers. The city also boasts of a lively Latino community that has been a constant component of Gallup for a long time. Indeed, some members of this citizens group are descendants of Spanish families that settled in New Mexico on land granted by the king of Spain more than 400 years ago. Other Spanish speaking residents immigrated more recently from Central and South America. Even more recently arrived are residents with family ties in both Gallup and Mexico that came seeking better lives for themselves and their children. These segments all blend to create rich and lively Latino and Hispanic flavors to our cuisine and city. In addition to the Native American and Latino portions of the city’s population, there is a marvelous assortment of residents of other ancestries. With the construction of the railroad, many Irish workers moved into the Gallup area and started families and later businesses of their own. Czechoslovakian and other Eastern European families found Gallup a good place to put down roots and ride out the war and depression years. Japanese, Chinese, and
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Filipino families came first with the railroad and in later years as healthcare staff at both hospitals. More recently Middle Eastern businessmen settled into the trading post segment of the economy with great success. Professional staff members at both RMCH and GIMC come from all over the world and integrate into the local community, bringing a truly international flair to the city. Each of these groups adds to the flavor and culture of our town. With such a rich mixture of cultures and ethnicities one can figuratively take a trip around the world without ever leaving Gallup. Native American residents venerate their heritage with pow-wows and the annual Inter-Tribal Ceremonial. There is a Celtic festival near St. Patrick’s Day when everyone claims some measure of Irish ancestry. There is also a polka picnic during the summer months for Slavic families. Italian American families celebrate their traditions at the Prince Luiggi gathering each year. African-American residents celebrate Kwanza during the holiday season. Local Muslim citizens observe Ramadan and have built a Mosque in town to worship together. Returned Peace Corps volunteers converted into teachers in the local schools hold an annual “Festivus” to celebrate the cultures of countries where they have served. Plans are underway for a festival celebrating the wide variety of cultures found in Gallup at a public event planned for the fall of 2012. (Contact Sue at sklopfer@gmail.com for more details.) Wherever they came from and whenever they arrived, it is this wonderfully varied collection of residents that help form the warp and fabric of life in Gallup. Each culture contributes its own celebrations, holidays, music, food and customs to the mixture that makes up the city. Perhaps it is this very tolerance and acceptance of diversity that makes life in Gallup so interesting and leads local residents to remark, “That’s so Gallup.” Contributed by Cal Marshall
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RMCHCS Charity Invitational This year’s Charity Invitational Honeree, Marylin Hathaway
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very fall there are certain events Gallupians look forward to and one such event is the annual RMCHCS Charity Invitational. The Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services (RMCHCS) Auxilians and the RMCHCS Foundation have been hosting Charity Invitational for the past 16 years and this year it takes place on Friday, September 16 and Saturday, September 17. Charity Invitational is a weekend of fun activities that can be enjoyed by folks of all ages. Activities begin early Friday morning at the Fox Run Golf Course, as golfers tee off at 7:15 am for the Charity Invitational Golf Tournament. The afternoon tee time begins at 1:00 pm. The format is a four-person scramble and prizes are given for the highest three scores in both net and gross categories. Breakfast and lunch are provided as well as other gifts and prizes. Two events will take place on Saturday morning: a run/walk and a competitive trap shoot. The run/walk begins at 8:00 am at the High Desert Gamerco Trailhead. There will be two courses: a four-mile hike and a seven-mile fun run. The four-mile hike is geared for families with prizes along the way. This a great opportunity for friends and families to spend a beautiful Saturday morning enjoying magnificent scenery while getting good exercise and raising money for a great cause. The Trap Shoot begins at 9:00 am at the Gallup Shooting Range with all participants shooting in the preliminary round. The top five shooters will compete in a final round. Each participant will receive a collectable shooter’s patch. Prizes and raffles will add to the fun. The Charity Dinner Ball is the culmination of a weekend full of activities. The Dinner Ball will take place at Howard Johnson on West Highway 66. The event begins with
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cocktails at 6:00 pm followed by dinner at 7:00 pm. Two local groups, On Call Jazz and Over the Limit, will provide live music during dinner and after dinner, respectively. Charity Invitational’s long tradition includes choosing an honoree, a community member who has been very involved in supporting the work of RMCHCS. This year’s honoree is Marilyn Hathaway. Mrs. Hathaway moved to Gallup in 1989 when her husband, Dr. James Hathaway, a pathologist by training, joined the RMCHCS staff as a Laboratory Medical Director. Ms Hathaway’s commitment to healthcare and to RMCHCS is evidenced by her many years of service with the RMCHCS Auxiliary. The Auxilians are a volunteer group, fondly known as the “pink ladies.” They provide important services for the hospital such as running the hospital gift shop, the thrift shop, manning the information desk and organizing Gallup’s community blood drives. They are also very involved in RMCHCS’s Community Health Fair and Charity Invitational. In addition, the Auxilians provide scholarships for students who are enrolled in healthcarerelated programs. Mrs. Hathaway has an RN, BSN degree from Ohio State University and retired from nursing when she moved to Gallup. However, she redirected her passion for healthcare by joining the RMCHCS Auxilians and ended up serving four terms as president. Mrs. Hathaway also served on the New Mexico State Auxiliary Board for six years and as president of that board in 2001-2002. As an Auxilian, she was instrumental in organizing the Auxilian Thrift Shop, which is located on RMCHCS’s East Campus on Vanden Bosch Parkway and served on the RMCHCS Community Health Fair Committee for twenty years. She has also served on the Charity Invitational committee since its inception.
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The Hathaways have been happily married for 52 years and have three children and eight grandchildren. Just recently they were devastated by the unexpected loss of their son, Dr. James Hathaway, a veterinarian in Fort Collins, Colorado. The Hathaways are extremely grateful for all the support they have received from their Gallup friends during this very difficult time. The Charity Invitational Committee is very pleased to bestow the title of Honoree on Marilyn Hathaway in recognition of her many years of service to RMCHCS and the Gallup community. The purpose of Charity Invitational is to raise money to help support projects for RMCHCS to improve healthcare in our community. This year, funds raised by Charity Invitational will help RMCHCS with the purchase of digital mammography equipment. The RMCHCS Breast Center has done an excellent job serving the women of Gallup and McKinley County with mammography screenings. By having the latest in digital mammography equipment, this community will have access to the same level of care one would find in any large city. It is a known fact that early detection and faster intervention leads to higher survival rates for those who have been diagnosed with breast cancer. Digital mammography equipment provides high quality computer images that can be read quickly and can be sent electronically for further review, if needed. In addition, the new digital mammography equipment will also have the capacity for image-guided breast biopsies called stereotactic breast biopsy procedures. This minimally invasive procedure, which is an alternative to open surgery biopsy, has a high accuracy rate, is less painful and has a much quicker recovery time. Currently, one must travel to Albuquerque or even farther for this procedure. RMCHCS employees are raising money within the organization to help reach the $289,000 goal for Charity Invitational by participating in several activities. On Saturday, September 10, RMCHCS will be hosting its second annual employee mushball tournament. Later this fall there will be an employee bowling tournament and a spa day. All proceeds raised by these events go to support Charity Invitational. It is not too late to get involved in Charity Invitational and join in the fun. Sponsorship opportunities and individual tickets for the Golf Tournament ($300), Run/Walk ($50), Trap Shoot ($50), and Dinner Ball ($100) are available. For more information, call 505-863-7283.
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Catch the Kid in Gallup! The chance to find clues leading to the arrest of Billy the Kid!
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illiam Henry McCarty was about twelve years old when he, along with his widowed mother, stepfather and brother, moved to Silver City, New Mexico in 1873. While little is remembered about McCarty’s early years, he was able to make a name for himself, albeit notorious, in his short lifetime. Billy the Kid caused ruckus throughout the state, and was thought to have killed as many as 21 people. He was eventually shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in 1881 near Fort Sumner, New Mexico, where his gravesite still exists. Though the Kid was brought to justice 130 years ago, the fascination with this outlaw is stronger than ever. His image is a paradoxical one – a combination of infamous outlaw and beloved folk hero. In fact, the only official photo of him known to exist, a ferrotype, was sold at auction for $2.3 million in June. New Mexico hasn’t let go of its claim to Billy the Kid’s fame. Earlier this summer, Governor Susana Martinez launched “Catch the Kid,” a campaign to boost tourism in the state. The promotion offers a $10,000 grand prize reward to the search “posse” that first completes a series of challenges in a scavenger hunt-like contest throughout the Land of Enchantment in order to obtain an arrest warrant for the outlaw.
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“Catch the Kid” began in July and continues through the end of September, luring residents and tourists with the chance to interact with one of our state’s most notorious historical figures and compete for weekly prize giveaways in addition to the grand prize. More details about the contest, in addition to travel deals and discounts, and updates from Billy the Kid himself, are posted on CatchTheKid.com. On Saturday, September 10, Gallup is hosting Wild West Day! Activities are planned for the entire day starting with a hot air balloon mass ascension and family trail ride in the morning, followed by a trap shoot, community rock climbing, the chance to build the world’s largest Navajo taco. Later in the day, a Billy the Kid movie, The Left-Handed Gun, will be shown at El Morro Theater at 11, 2, 5 and 8 o’clock, Indian dances, music, a guitar contest, and cowboy poetry will be sure to entertain. The day will end with a sunset hike up Pyramid Rock trail at Red Rock Park and Wild West Arts Crawl & Shoot Out downtown, where many shops will be open for business. Participants in “Catch the Kid” may also get the chance to find clues leading to the arrest of Billy the Kid! For more info, visit TheGallupChamber.com or CatchTheKid.com. [Background image is a tintype from 1879 or 1880.]
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y the time you read this, the work of renovating the Lexington Hotel will have begun. We hope to announce a grand opening celebration in next month’s update.
On September 17 CARE 66 will host the second annual Mother Road Bicycle Classic. There are four rides: long (approx. 66 miles) medium (approx. 40 miles), short (approx. 20 miles) and very short (approx. 12 miles). Proceeds from this ride will help us finish the renovation of the Lexington Hotel. You can sign up for $66 and enjoy one of the rides.
To find out more about CARE 66 go to www.care66.org, we also have a blog at http://care66.blogspot.com, which we have been known to update once in a while. Sanjay can be reached at Sanjay@care66.org.
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AND you can collect pledges from your friends and family to support this ride. If you don’t ride you can sponsor a rider. If you don’t know a rider to sponsor you can sponsor me. The routes we have selected are very scenic and beautiful. More information is on our blog care66.blogspot.com. We will begin at the Courthouse Square in downtown Gallup and will parade around the Courthouse to begin our rides. Yes, there will be a kids program at the Courthouse Square. If you don’t think you can ride the entirety of your chosen course you can do it as a team. (You will need to arrange transportation and pick-up yourself.) CARE 66 is looking for affordable office space in the downtown area, since there is not enough room at the Lexington for our admin staff. Please call or email me if you have any ideas or leads. Until next month stay well and do good!
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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.
This section of the mural salutes all those who work in and play a role in the economic stability and growth of the Navajo Nation. The Navajo people have contributed greatly to the overall economy of the United States through their work in building and maintaining the railroads, in the electronics and computer industries, uranium and coal mining, gas and oil drilling, the numerous surrounding electrical generating power plants, and in logging and farming.
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Lit Crit Lite A look at some books available at your local public library
by Seth Weidenaar
M
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There are several parts of Kafka’s novel that will be especially thrilling for readers in this context. The first is the driving moment of the story, on his thirtieth birthday a man named Josef K wakes up to find police officers in his apartment arresting him. The arresting officers refuse to tell him what crime he has committed. They finally reveal that they are a part of a larger organization that they do not fully understand, and they cannot let K become too knowledgeable about this organization, partly because they themselves do not know and partly because K is not supposed to know anything. This is the start of Kafka’s brilliant creation of paranoia; he wants you to attempt to form an understanding about his novel, but he makes that impossible and he continues this throughout the novel. Does this not sound like a wonderful work to read in a memorandum? The photocopied pages would arrive in your classroom or staff mailroom in a yellow envelope, one of those really important looking ones. You would consider yourself lucky to receive such communication that arrives in such important packaging. Upon reading, you would begin to attempt to form an understanding of K’s situation, and you will not be able to do this. Then
[Kafka] wants you to attempt to form an understanding about his novel, but he makes that impossible. you will attempt to form an understanding about why it was sent to you, you will not be able to do this either. Maybe this activity will not be completely enjoyable, but schools have a way of producing situations beyond understanding that you are probably attempting to form an understanding of anyway, so why not give this a try? Another fitting scene from the novel is K’s speech to the court. K’s is called to be cross-examined by the accusing court, and the crossexamination is to happen on a Sunday. K cannot find the courtroom; he was only given the number of a large apartment building. When he finally finds the courtroom, the examining judge rebukes him for being late. K replies by saying that he is here in court now and the proceedings can begin. The audience applauds and K thinks that they are applauding for him. He launches into a speech about the corrupt nature of this court system and how it is torturing his being. The audience appears to be interested in his speech, and K continues to speak as long as he has such an interested audience. Then he realizes that all the members of the audience are wearing identical badges, they are all a part of the corrupt system he is railing against. When he stops speaking the judge tells him that he has thrown away any advantage he had in the case with his speech. Again, Kafka is playing with the subject position of his novel. K assumes that he is the subject of the situation he is in. When everyone applauds he assumes that he is a charismatic speaker and interesting person, he assumes the people want to hear more from him. When the audience amusedly listens to his ramblings, he assumes that they are deeply moved by his oratory, only to find out that he is not the subject after all; he is only the object of an accusation he does not understand. You, the person reading the novel, again attempt to form an understanding about the novel’s events, only to have them change to something more bizarre. As K finishes his speech a woman’s scream interrupts him, and she is chased by a man in the back of the courtroom. This is hardly the decorum that is practiced in normal courtrooms, but this is Kafka’s purpose, to continue making impossible any form of understanding. By making this impossible, any prediction about what will happen becomes equally impossible, and there are some really strange events that happen to poor K. These are only two of the many literary situations that Kafka used to induce confusion and paranoia amongst his readers. I did not have space to dive into explaining K’s dealings with women, or the man with the whip hiding in the closet of K’s office; if only there was more space. You will just have to trust me that this would be a semi-perfect read for someone working in a school. Kafka sought to illuminate the impersonal and illogical bureaucratic systems that surrounded him in the early 1900s. Perhaps we do not have impersonal or illogical bureaucratic systems surrounding us in schools (personally I have only heard stories of this, I have not experienced it), but reading The Trial would still be a great exercise for our minds, and this might be more beneficial to all our area’s teachers. The mass paranoia would be fun, but not nearly as beneficial.
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TOWN Boy Scout of America in the Zuni MTN District
65th Navajo Nation Fair WR, Arizona September 5-11
My name is Susan Wilson and I am the Field Service Associate for the Zuni Mountain District. I work part time for the Boy Scouts of America and we are gearing up for a great new year. If you have any questions or comments regarding Scouting please feel free to contact me at swilson@ bsamail.org and I will do my best to answer your questions or find the answer. I’m striving daily to learn new things and get to know new people in our area. I’ve lived in Gallup for almost six years and have a Cub Scout of my own. I love the Scouting Program and all that it offers the boys. We are a non-profit organization that services Boys and Girls ages 7-20. Our Cub Scouts are 7-10 or in the 1st to 5th grade. Our Boy Scouts are 11-17. Our Venturers are Girls and Boys 14-20. We are always looking for ways to be involved and for volunteers to help us continue to bring this great program to the boys. I would LOVE to hear your Scouting success stories. Some recent or upcoming events: Pack 40 (Cub Scouts) had their annual fall membership Round-Up on August 30 at the First United Methodist Church. Troop 40 (Boy Scouts) recently assisted in a refurbishment project of the TDFL fields using their own resources in conjunction with the project. Finally, we are all gearing up for our annual Fundraiser. Popcorn sales begin September 3. There will be Show and Sell Booths at local stores, as well as the boys going door-to-door. Please support the boys and this great program.
By Delilah Goodluck Every year in early September the “World’s Largest Native American Fair” showcases the Navajo Nation and its people. More than 100,000 people come from across the Navajo Nation and the world to renew their friendships, enjoy the food, and see the display of the arts and culture of the Navajo people. 2011 marks the 65th anniversary for the Navajo Nation Fair. In spirit of the harvest season “Seasons of Change; Brings New Beginnings” is the theme of this year’s fair held September 5-11. Highlights include the singing and dancing of the Social Song and Dance; the bright colors and fast moves of, arguably, the largest inter-tribal powwow in North America; cowboys and cowgirls from across the Navajo Nation and throughout North America competing in the legendary AllIndian Rodeo; Miss Navajo Nation crowning at the night performance, a much-loved cultural event; the who’s who of the Navajo Nation showcasing their parade floats down Highway 264 following this year’s Grand Marshal, Notah Begay III; and the anticipated fair tradition, the free BBQ that will be held Thursday, September 8.
TWO GREEN COMPANIES Bio-PAPPEL and Growstone By Betsy Windisch Two companies in our area are using recycled materials as the basis for the products they produce. Both companies partner with existing government facilities to capitalize on the reduction of energy, water use, and the cost of raw material and transportation.
New this year is the Energy Expo & Career Fair, the Expo will include a youth science fair and an Energy Trade Show; Nizhoni Arts Market presented by Fire Rock Casino and Navajo Artisan Competition, highlighting some of the Navajo People’s best artisans and encouraging up and coming artists with the hopes of obtaining the $5,000 Best of Show award; Extreme Native Bull Riding, cheer on the riders for a chance to win $10,000; Hawaiian Family Luau, experience a different cultural celebration and the Navajo Transit “Park and Ride” services, ride the shuttle for $1 and get $1 off fair admission. Park and Ride lots located at Navajo Nation Museum and Navajo Nation Administration Building One.
Bio-PAPPEL (formerly Durango-McKinley Paper) in Prewitt is a mill that makes paperboard for boxes. Their production is extensively supported by the recycling of old corrugated containers (OCC). Using OCC to make new corrugated cardboard boxes demonstrates a wise use of natural resources. Every time you recycle a corrugated cardboard box you save a tree, energy and water. In Gallup OCC can be dropped off in those yellow-lid bins around town, at the Recycling Center – NWNM Regional Transfer Station in Gallup, and at the Community Pantry. Did You Know that nearly three-fourths of all corrugated boxes produced in the U.S. are recycled, a 50 percent increase over just 10 years ago! Do your part and recycle that OCC and help Bio-PAPPEL continue to be a viable employer in our area.
This is your invitation to experience the singing, dancing, livestock and arts and crafts that are essential to the Navajo way of life and to the fair.
Bio-PAPPEL’s business vision is based on “three pillars: competitiveness, environment protection and social responsibility.” This is also evident by the fact that the mill in Prewitt is strategically situated next to a power plant. The power plant supplies steam
Please visit www.navajonationfair.com for full schedule of events. For more information call 928-871-6642.
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National Library Card Sign Up-Month September is National Library Card Sign-Up Month and the Octavia Fellin Library will introduce new library cards with key chain tags. In addition, all members of our community are invited to be a part of the special month by having their picture taken and sharing 3 reasons why they love their library. Get a library card and have spectacular adventures. AT THE MAIN LIBRARY Our Stories Are Our Power – For Teens On September 10, the library will initiate a special program for teens (ages 13-18) called Our Stories Are Our Power. Participants will learn how to tell about their unique experiences growing up in Gallup using photography, oral tradition and blogs to produce a short film. Four workshops will be presented by experts in the workshop areas. Completed films will be shown at a “Red Carpet Gala.” Sign up starts September 1. For additional information please contact the library at (505) 726-6120 or email childlib@ci.gallup.nm.us or library@ci.gallup.nm.us. Free Basic Computer Classes The library is offering free basic computer classes this month starting September 13. Classes will cover fundamental information about computers and students get hands-on experience with equipment and techniques. Seating is limited to 7 participants. Registration is required. To enroll or for further information call (505) 863-1291 ext. 14021 or email libref@ci.gallup.nm.us. Author Program Saturday, September 24 at 12 noon - Carolee Dean, author of Take Me There and Comfort. AT THE CHILDREN’S LIBRARY New Programs – Music + Movement, Road to Reading & More The library’s children’s branch will offer a number of new programs starting in September as follows: Saturday, 9/17 at 10am is Music + Movement for parents and children (ages 1-3) featuring songs, stories and games that promote learning. At 11am, Road to Reading for parents and pre-kindergarten children (ages 4 -5) will help parents and children prepare for kindergarten using a fun, interactive approach focusing on the 6 skills reading specialists have determined are key for kindergarten success. Registration is required for both of these programs. Call (505) 726-6120 or email childlib@ci.gallup.nm.us. Other new programs for ages 9-13 include Knitting Club starting 9/6 at 4pm, Book Club starting 9/14 at 4pm and “Tween” Crafts starting 9/8 at 4pm.
to dry the paperboard and water to the paperboard mill. An end product, paper sludge, can also be used as a compost material. To tour the Prewitt mill contact John Shaw, Technical Manager (876-2100 / 876-2190 / jshaw@biopappel.com). Tours must be limited in size due to safety considerations. Growstone is a company that makes a soil amendment from recycled glass containers. Growstones are manufactured in Albuquerque. The plant is located at the City of Albuquerque landfill where the recycled glass is taken directly from the recycling trucks. The glass containers are first crushed into small glass pieces and then ground into a fine powder (the size and feel of flour.) This “glass powder” is the main component of Growstones. A natural foaming agent is then added to the “glass powder” before it is heated and expanded in kilns. The final product is a rigid, porous glass foam, which is crushed into irregular shaped aggregates. Growstones can be used in two ways. The material can simply be used as a soil enhancement for the cultivation of potted crops, container gardens, flowering beds and/ or landscapes. When mixed at a 10-30 % ratio, depending on plant material and climate, they hold moisture and reduce runoff. The second application is for use as a hydroponic growing substrate/media. Growstones are engineered to give balanced air and moisture. For more information about this product refer to the web site growstone.com.
Because Growstones are manufactured using up to 99% waste materials, they replace stripmined materials like pumice, perlite, and stonewool, reducing environmental degradation. At the same time, since the product largely consists of recycled bottles, a large amount of waste is given a new life, keeping it from the landfill. In addition, the medium can be sterilized and used again or simply added to soil to improve texture, structure, and aeration. Growstones are not organic due to the process of making glass bottles, however the product fits with a sustainable agriculture/horticulture program. Along with their sister company, Earthstone in Santa Fe, whose products include green technology building materials and consumer products, they are fulfilling their mission to REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE! To tour Growstone, contact Patrick Beare, VP of Sales & Marketing, (897-1665 / 306-4801) patrick.beare@growstone.com. A tour of the City of Albuquerque recycling center, adjacent to the Growstone plant, would be an important addition to any tour. Contact Bobby Sisneros, City of Albuquerque Solid Waste Department (761-8100) bsisneros@cabq.gov. For the overall picture of solid waste in our area consider a tour of the NWNMRSWA Gallup Transfer Station and/or the Red Rocks Landfill in Thoreau. Contact Gary Ford, Operations Manager, NWNM Regional Solid Waste Authority, (905-8400 / 905-8401 / 290-1287) gford@co.mckinley.nm.us.
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Cycles of Life
By Anthony Fleg
Youth Turn Their Homemade Bikes into Healing Ride Across New Mexico
For many, the journey they were about to begin was the biggest trip of their lives.
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Franchesca Sisneros (Diné/Hispanic), a high school student at NACA who, along with her fellow youth taking part in the Cycles of Life program, built her bike that she will now use to ride across the state. “I am thankful to have this opportunity because I know that a lot of youth do not have chances to do something like this.” “We are learning first-hand the power of critical thinking linked with action through taking an indigenous perspective on health and education,” says Jake Foreman, the program’s creator. “We are creating a space that supports, encourages, and strengthens youth to realize their innate potential as compassionate leaders for our Mother Earth through service, exercise and exploration of our local community.” In addition to learning bicycle maintenance and working to build bikes that are “funky and fresh” the youth have learned how to make traditional-style waffle gardens, did an energy audit on a local building, and learned more about green energy initiatives in our region. Cycles of Life was made possible because of “loving service” and lots of committed partners, says Jake. Entities involved in the Cycles of Life Program include community members in the Zuni, Laguna NACA and the NACA Conservation Corps, NM Game and Fish, the Sierra Club, UNM CLPS Program, Molina Healthcare, the Native Health Initiative, and Instituto Sostener. Participants hope that this program is one that will continue for many years to come.
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Arts Crawl & Shoot Out
Downtown Gallup Saturday, September 10 In addition to the events below, the following businesses will be open:
Makeshift Gallery, ART123, Cheap-O-Depot Vintage Books, Gallup Service Mart, Outsider Gallery, Beeman Jewelry & Design, The Coffee House, Crashing Thunder Studio, Bill Malone, Maria’s, Uniform Station, Gallup Vision Source, Persinger Industries, Jet-Site Optical, Indian Touch of Gallup, Native American Traders, Zuni Traders, Denny Pino’s, Silver Dust Trading, Apache Trading, Silver House Trading Co., Indian Gallery, Trade-N-Post, and more!
Foundations of Freedom, 115 W. Coal Ave. Capoeira Roda at 7:30pm
ART123, 123 W. Coal Ave.
“The Kanobis Amplifier Research Facility” an installation by Steve Storz. Opening reception, 7-9pm, featuring guest performer Greta Carson. For more information, see story on p.12.
El Morro Theatre, 207 W. Coal Ave.
Billy the Kid movie, The Left Handed Gun (1958), starring Paul Newman, Lita Milan and Hurd Hatfield. Showing all day at 11am, 2pm, 5pm and 8pm. FREE!
Makeshift Gallery, 213 W. Coal Ave.
Arts Crawl will have a western theme at Makeshift Gallery. There will be cowboy caviar, Western costumes and a blacksmithing demonstration in the back parking lot. Watch out for men wearing six guns! There is always something different at Makeshift Gallery.
For a complete schedule of Wild West Day events, see p. 39. illustration by Andy Stravers
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September Community Calendar Sunday ONGOING
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. Tai Chi at Old School Gallery, 9:30am. Info: Reed at 783-4067. Coyote Canyon Women’s Sweat Lodge Ceremony on Sundays, 1-4pm, potluck dinner. Located 3 miles east of Highway 491, Route 9 junction, 1 mile south of Route 9. The ceremony is for wellness, stress reduction, purification and cultural sensitivity. All women are welcomed. For more information, call 505 870-3832.
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Battered Families Services, Inc. has a women’s support group that meets weekly. A children’s support group is available at the same time for children six years of age and older. Info: 7226389. Codependents Anonymous, 6pm at First United Methodist Church, 1800 Red Rock Drive, library room. Info: Liz at 863-5928. 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. “Teen Survivors of Dating and Domestic Violence” support group meeting, 6:30-8:30pm. Info: 722-6389. 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. 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.
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.
Tuesday ONGOING
Preschool Story Time, 2:00pm, Knitting Club at 4:00pm at the Children’s Library. For more information, call 726-6120. Tai-Chi Taught by Monika Gauderon at RMCH Vanden Bosch Clinic. 6pm for beginners. $60/ month. RMCHCS Diabetes Education Classes – First four Tuesdays of the month, starting at 6pm. RMCHCS 2nd floor library. For more information, call 7266918. Community Yoga, beginner/athletic beginner level. 6:15 pm, Catholic Charities/CIC. 506 W. Rte. 66. Info: Steph Asper (717) 357-0231 . Ladies’ MTB ride at High Desert Trail System starting at Gamerco trailhead at 6PM. Come to exercise, socialize, and have fun! Adult chess club at Camille’s Sidewalk Cafe in Gallup, 5-7pm.
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Plateau Sciences Society will meet at 2:30 at Red Mesa Center, next to the public library. Special guest, Rachel Kaub, manager of KGLP public radio, will be speaking.
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Quilt Club at Gallup Service Mart, 7-9pm, Free. Come join other quilters in the area to share projects you are working on or have completed. Class newsletter for the months of October, November and December will be given out and discussed at this meeting. For more information, call 722-9414.
Book Club and Explore & Expand 4:00pm at the Children’s Library. For more information, call 726-6120. 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.
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. 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.
65th NAVAJO NATION FAIR in Window Rock, Arizona, September 5-11. For more information, please visit www. navajonationfair.com for full schedule of events. For more information call 928-8716642 and read G-Town story on p. 48.
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Cancer support group, for information call 8633075 or 863-6140.
Gallup Al-Anon meetings at First United Methodist Church, 1800 Red Rock Drive (next to GIMC). Tuesdays at 12 noon and Thursdays at 7pm in Conference Room #1.
Capoeira classes offered at Foundations of Freedom Dance Studio, Tuesday and Thursdays at 8pm, $8 (first class FREE). For more information, call Chelsea at 808 344-1417, email info@capoeiraguerreirosnm.com or visit www. capoeiraguerreirosnm.com..
A TAIZE’ WORSHIP SERVICE is held on second Sundays at 4 pm at Westminster Presbyterian Church, Boardman Drive. This hour service is offered by the ecumenical community for spiritual renewal and meditation through scripture, prayer, chant, and silence. For more information, call Linda (905-5254). 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.
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Navajo Nation Department of Agriculture hosts the 2011 Agriculture Conference at Nakai Hall in Window Rock, Arizona, September 20-22. For more information, please call 928-871-6605 or visit www.agriculture.navajo-nsn.gov.
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PFLAG Gallup (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) Free Family Movie Night! Showing Prayers for Bobby at 6-8 pm at RMCH Solarium, 3rd floor. Popcorn and beverages served.
Gallup Film Foundation meeting at Red Mesa Center at 6:30pm.
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A CROP (Communities Responding to Overcome Poverty) potluck dinner meeting will be held at the Catholic Indian Drop-In Center at 5:30 pm. The community is invited to attend and learn more about the annual walk to raise funds to help feed the hungry and assist the needy here in McKinley County and around the world. For more information, contact Hilda (726-8068), Sally (863-4284), Betsy (722-9257). Art Ziemann, Church World Service Regional Director, Rocky Mountain Office, will be our guest speaker.
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No Sew Fleece Throw workshop at Gallup Service Mart 6-9pm, $15 includes pattern. Join two pieces of fleece to make this wonderful throw. No sewing experience needed – come for an evening of fun and create a soft and warm throw for your favorite person. For more information, call 722-9414.
1st ANNUAL RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITY CLEANUP Please join the City of Gallup in cleaning up our neighborhoods! Residential utilities customers within City limits can place all unwanted junk, bulk items, appliances & furniture curbside away from any hazards by 8am on the SATURDAY designated for your neighborhood. City crews will dispose of items that day. SEPTEMBER 10 – SOUTH SIDE – Areas south of Philipina Ave. & Country Club Dr. to NM 564 and Mossman neighborhood. SEPTEMBER 24 – EAST SIDE – All areas east of Boardman Ave. to Vanden Bosch Pkwy. For more information, contact CITY OF GALLUP SOLID WASTE DEPARTMENT at (505) 863-1212.
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Tween Crafts 4:00pm at the Children’s Library. For Movie Day, 3:00 pm at the Children’s Library. more information, call 726-6120. For more information, call 726-6120. Moms Supporting Moms at Church Rock School, 9-11:30am. Sports Page hosting GLBT Night every Friday! Friday nights will be a place to celHigh Desert Mesa Workgroup meets to scrapbook ebrate and be yourself! For more information and more Thursdays 1-3pm at the Rehoboth Post contact: Raiff Arviso; rca87121@gmail.com, Office. Info: LaVeda 722-9029. Sports Page - 1400 S. 2nd St, Gallup, NM AL-ANON support group for family and friends of alcoholics. Every Thursday at 7pm, first United (505) 722-3853. Methodist Church (library). Info: 1-888-4ALANON or www.al-anon.alateen.org. Fall Belly Dance classes, at Foundations of Freedom Dance Studio (115 W. Coal), begin The weekly Old-Fashioned Hootenanny, at August 25. Thursdays 7:30-8:30pm and FriCamille’s Sidewalk Cafe, every Thursday, starting at 6:30PM. Acoustic musicians are welcome to sit days 6:30-7:30pm. Only $5 per class. Benefits in with the regular players. include stress relief, improved posture/muscle tone, strengthening, and bringing your sexy Toastmasters at Earl’s Restaurant, 6:30am. Info: back! Dale at 722-9420. Substance Abuse Support Group, CASA, at Gallup Church of Christ, 7pm. Info: Darrel at 863-5530. Community Yoga, beginner/athletic beginner level. 6:20 pm, Catholic Charities/CIC. 506 W. Rte. 66. Info: Gene at 505-728-8416.
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Overeaters Anonymous meeting at 11 am, at the First United Methodist Church, 1800 Red Rock Drive, library room. Info: Liz 505-863-5928. Habitat for Humanity Yard Sales every Sat., 8 am to noon, corner of E. Pershing & High St. on the north side. You can drop off your donations of household items then or call if you need someone to pick up, 7224226. We have some new fluorescent ceiling fixtures, used elec. range, doors, windows, & even a batterypowered scooter! See www.habitatgallup.org or call 722-2446 for more information. 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 11:30am ($5), beginning Portuguese classes 12:30pm, Adults’ class 1:00pm ($8). First class FREE! For information, contact Chelsea 808-344-1417, email info@capoeiraguerreirosnm.com or visit www.capoeiraguerreirosnm.com. Gallup Farmers’ Market in the downtown walkway (Coal Ave. between 2nd and 3rd), 8:30am – 11am. Children’s Library Events: 10am Music & Movement, 11am Road to Reading, 12:30pm Chess Club, 2pm Song & Stories (ages 6-9). For more information, call 726-6120.
Connections Inc. 100 E. Aztec Gallup, New Mexico offers the following free programs:
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.
Access to Recovery New Mexico A free substance abuse treatment program. For info: Call Randy at 505-8633377 Ext:108 Mon-Fri 8am-5pm.
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.
Child and Adult Care Food Program Are you babysitting any kids under 13 years old in your home? We can pay you MONEY for the food that you feed the kids in your home. For more Info Please call 505-863-3377 Ext: 105,102 or 1-800-527-5712.
Fall Belly Dance classes, at Foundations of Freedom Dance Studio (115 W. Coal), begin August 25. Thursdays 7:30-8:30pm and Fridays 6:30-7:30pm. Only $5 per class.
Free Counseling for Children and their Families Mental Health Counseling for issues if divorce, abuse, domestic violence, behavioral problems at home and at school. Contact: 505-863-3377 Ext: 107, 110, 103.
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2nd Thursday of the month Survivors of Homicide Support Group meets 6-8pm. For more information, call Deborah Yellowhorse-Brown at 870-6126. The Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit hosts support meetings for Type 1 and Type 2 diabetics from 5:30-6:30 pm on the second and fourth Thursdays at 1334 Country Club Drive in Gallup. Information from the American Diabetes Association will be presented and local health-care professionals will often be available. For more information call 863-4695.
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Grand Stand quilt workshop at Gallup Service Mart, 6-9pm, $15 plus cost of pattern. Use a panel or your favorite theme fabric. The fabric is then surrounded by a solid border and accent blocks in the second border, with a final border in a single color again. Easy to make and it makes a great baby or lap quilt. For more information, call 7229414.
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Huge indoor garage sale to benefit Relay for Life/The American Cancer Society. An event of Mother Hubbard’s team held at the Gallup First United Methodist Church, Friday and Saturday, September 2 and 3 (8AM - 2PM). To donate items call Kay, 863-5013 or Colleen 1-505-250-9536 or drop off at the church Thursday after 4 or Friday anytime.
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Introduction to Yantra Yoga at Catholic Charities Hall (503 W. Hwy. 66). 9/9 introductory talk and demonstration, FREE. 9/10-11 beginners’ course, 10am-noon, 3-5pm, by donation. For more information, visit www.yantrayoga.org. Crownpoint Rug Weavers Association Auction at Crownpoint Elementary School. Viewing at 4 – 6:30 PM, auction at 7 – 10 PM. For more information, visit www.Crownpointrugauction.com. JASTA featuring Jamey Jasta singer of the legendary band HATEBREED and Kingdom Of Sorrow as well as the host of MTV’s Headbangers Ball performing at the CPR Event Tent located west of Basha’s in Window Rock, AZ during the Navajo Nation Fair. The show starts at 7pm so be early for a good spot. Tickets are on sale now for $15 at: DAY CUSTOMS - 928-871-3488 and THE JUGGERNAUT - 505-726-8104.
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1st Annual Cruisers for Christ car show at Joshua Generation for Jesus (1375 Elva Drive). Categories include: best show, under construction, best lowrider, best motorcycle, old school, 4x4, all eligible. Games, music and food. For more information, call Serafin at 505-728-8678. The McKinley Citizens’ Recycling Council Monthly Meeting will be held at 2 pm. Citizens are invited to 508 Sandstone Place (Indian Hills subdivision) to hear updates on recycling in our area. Help increase the awareness in our community to Reduce-Reuse-Recycle! For directions and more information contact Gerald 722-5142 / Betsy 722-9257 or 879-2581. 12th Annual Garden Tour – Come see the beautiful flower and vegetable gardens of Ramah! Tour will assemble at the RAMAH FARMERS MARKET SITE in front of the Museum on the corner of Bloomfield and Lewis in downtown Ramah at 2 pm. $5.00 per person. Bring something to drink and a snack, sunscreen, and a hat. We will be car-pooling to the garden sites. For more information call Jackie (RFM) at 505-783- 4440 or Genevieve (EMAAC) at 505-783- 4710.
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WILD WEST DAY! See schedule on p. 39.
The Gallup Christian Home School group invites home schooling families to join them for a backto-school kick off picnic at Ford Canyon Park from 11 am to 1 pm. Bring a potluck dish to share and drinks and paper products for your own family. Meet other home schooling families and find out about the year to come. We meet together regularly for field trips, fun activities, support, and co-op classes. For more information you can call Katrina Marti at 505-728-7883.
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ARTS CRAWL in downtown Gallup, 7-9pm. For event details, see p. 51. 2nd annual Mother Road Bicycle Classic to raise funds for Care 66’s Lexinton Hotel renovation. There are four rides: long (approx. 66 miles) medium (approx. 40 miles), short (approx. 20 miles) and very short (approx. 12 miles). You can sign up for $66 and enjoy one of the rides or sponsor a rider. More information is on our blog (care66.blogspot.com). Activities for kids at the race start at Courthouse Square. 4 Corners Tour de Cure, a bicycling event to raise funds for the American Diabetes Association. For more information and to register, visit tour.diabetes.org, select NM and Farmington. Native American Art Auction at Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site in Ganado, AZ (Hwy. 264 at Hwy. 191). Preview at 10-11:30am, auction begins at 12 noon (daylight savings time). Baskets, rugs, pottery, katsina dolls accepted M-TH, 8am-4pm during auction week. For more information, call 928-755-3475 or visit friendsofhubbell.org. Red Rock Motorsports presents Scott Costley 23 Benefit MX Memorial Race at Gallup OHV Park, September 17-18. For more information, visit redrockmotorsports.org or call Greg (505-870-7278), Charlie (505-488-3440) or Todd (505-870-0261).
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Squash Blossom Classic, September 24-25 at High Desert Trail System. On Saturday, the Screamer mountain bike race, on Sunday, the 4.5-mile and 1-mile fun run (in conjunction with the Gallup Family Fitness Series) and the Kent Hodges Memorial Half Marathon. For more information, visit www.squashblossomclassic.com. The Navajo Health Education Program presents the: 3rd Annual Arizona vs. New Mexico Volleyball Tournament, September 24 & 25 at Chinle High School in Chinle, AZ. Entry Fee: $80.00 (nonrefundable), Open Co-ed 6-on-6 tournament, with an 8 person roster. For registration or for more information, please contact Jeremy @ 505-733-8332.
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SEPTEMBER RODEOSCHEDULE
9/2 White Mountain Apache Fair/Rodeo presents Open Master’s Rodeo Info: Victor Wallace 928.434.5132 9/2-4 S-B Summer Classic Flagstaff, Arizona Crockett Ranch (formerly Flagstaff Hay & Grain) Info: Dave 928.606.0447 or Cody 928.266.8226 9/4 Mooney’s 2nd Annual Bull Riding Pinedale, New Mexico Mooney’s Arena Info: 505.862.2609 or 505.862.1919
9/7-11 65th Annual Navajo Nation Fair Indian Rodeo Window Rock, Arizona www.navajonationfair.com 9/10 Fall Classic Bull Riding Ganado, Arizona Coolfield Rodeo Arena Info: 505.870.7877 or 505.713.1553 9/15 Get Tough Rough Stock Riding Series II Pinedale, New Mexico Mariano’s Arena – 2nd Canyon Info: 505.726.8258
6th Annual Ultimate Ranch Cowboy Horse Competition Crystal, New Mexico Mile Marker 14 NM Hwy. 134 Info: 505.777.2009 or URCHC@yahoo.com
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
9/17 Wayne L. Yazzie Memorial Bullriding Crownpoint, New Mexico Crownpoint Rodeo Ground Info: J.W. Yazzie 505.786.7963 or 505.567.4485 9/24 8 Seconds to Glory Bullriding Tsayatoh, New Mexico Circle (S) Arena Info: Sammie Largo 505.713.2650 or Sheldon Largo 928.797.1718 9/25 Jimmy Woody Bull Riding Challenge Springstead, New Mexico Gray’s N Hoods Arena Info: Ray Garcia 505.879.6787
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1. Mallery Garner and travelers from California at the Painted Desert National Monument, Arizona. 2. Esther Voss and Short Holwerda reading, of course, the Gallup Journey in front of Union Station in Washington, DC. 3. Rob Koops reads the Journey with some friends in Jos, Nigeria. 4. (L-R) Pat Beaver, Janelle Martinez, and Sammi Beaver read the Journey on Flathead Lake, Montana while visiting together.
5. Teresa and John Dowling, Karen Head from Albuquerque, and Arlene High read the Journey on a Turkish Yacht while sailing through the Islands of Croatia. 6. Physical Therapists and Doctors of Physical Therapy read the Journey from Four Points Sheraton Chicago, IL. Left to right: (standing) Jeremias Torres II, Dr. David Thomas, Kevin Dusenbruy, Robert Daniel Cullum, Nora Mas, Erin Dinsmare, Monique Serpas, Michael Koch, Dr. Michael Irwin (instructor), (sitting) Jerome Canama and Lynn Torres.
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the Gallup Journey in Buena Vista, Colorado for Toyota’s Colorado Rock Crawling Take Over at the entrance of Carnage Canyon. 5. Phyllis and Bruce Tempest enjoy the Journey in front of The Crail House in Crail, Scotland.
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