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MARCH CITY UPDATE FINAL PUBLIC COMMENT: LAND DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS

Mayor Jackie McKinney Councilor Linda Garcia Councilor Allan Landavazo Councilor Yogash Kumar Councilor Fran Palochak

The City of Gallup is conducting its ﬁnal Public Open House on the Land Development Standards which have been under development by the Planning & Zoning Department. This meeting will take place on March 29, 2018 at 6pm in the City Council Chambers at City Hall (110 W. Aztec Avenue). Call 505-923-3340 or email mbishop@bhinc.com with any questions regarding the Land Development Standards. This is the public’s ﬁnal opportunity for comment.

FIVE QUESTIONS WITH THE NEW DIRECTORS

The City of Gallup is excited to announce the addition of our new Director of Golf, Matthew Alcala, to the City staff, as well as announce the transition of Tammi Moe from Deputy Library Director to Director of the Octavia Fellin Public Library. Visit the Facebook pages of either of these departments to learn about the exciting programs and changes coming up in the future.

Five Questions for Matthew Alcala, Director of Golf @foxrungolfcourse, malcala@gallupnm.gov, 505-726-5422 1. Where are you from originally? Galveston, Texas 2. What is your experience prior to taking the position here in Gallup? I have been all over the state at various courses increasing my knowledge of turf. I’ve had the opportunity to work at multiple major pro golf events as well. 3. What is your favorite book and movie? I’m a fan of the Eragon books (the Inheritance Cycle) by Christopher Paolini, and the movie “Fury” from 2014. 4. What are three goals you have for your department now that you’re in this role? My goals are to get the golf course ready to open, improve the course conditions, and increase the revenues at the golf course to help reduce the strain of operations. 5. What do you look forward to the most about living in Gallup? I am really enjoying the scenery around town, getting to know people, and enjoying my peers at work. I look forward to getting to know the town and its people more.

Five Questions for Tammi Moe, Director of the Octavia Fellin Public Library @octaviapubliclibrary, tmoe@gallupnm.gov, 505-863-1291 1. Where are you from originally? Bitburg, Germany 2. What is your experience prior to taking the position here in Gallup? I have worked nationally and internationally as an Archivist and Digital Curator in libraries, archives and museums. I have an extensive background in qualitative and quantitative research design, implementation, and evaluation. I have been recognized for my achievement for my work in documenting human cultural heritage in the Arab world. 3. What is your favorite book and movie? My favorite book is “Cities of Salt”, a novel by Abdul Rahman Munif, and my favorite movie is a toss up between “Vanilla Sky” and “Fight Club”. 4. What are three goals you have for your department now that you’re in this role? My goals are connecting with the community in more meaningful ways, expanding the role of the library into a learning and cultural commons, and preserving and sharing the history of Gallup and McKinley County. 5. What do you look forward to the most about living in Gallup? Learning, growing, making a difference and Lollipop moments (based on the Ted Talk by Drew Dudley- the everyday opportunities of celebrating leadership as the everyday act of improving each other’s lives- look it up!)

OCTAVIA FELLIN LIBRARY SPECIAL PROGRAMS

Information: (505) 863-1291 or email tmoe@gallupnm.gov Ignite Gallup 2018 The Library is looking for STARS to Ignite Gallup. The first annual Ignite Gallup is taking place Saturday, April 14th, 7:00pm at the El Morro Theatre. Are you ready to tell the world what you are MOST passionate about? But make it quick! Selected present-ers are given five minutes and 20 slides to share their passions and expertise. Topic proposals are due March 15th. For more information visit octaviafellin.libguides.com/ignitegallup, call 505-726-6120, or e-mail childlib@gallupnm.gov.

HONORING THE HISTORY OF WOMEN: MARCH IS WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH Film: Suffragette

On Saturday, March 10th at 3:00pm, the Library will screen the Suffragette at the Main Library. Academy Award nominees Carey Mulligan and Helena Bonham Carter, and three-time Academy Award winner Meryl Streep star in this powerful drama, inspired by true events, about the women willing to lose everything in their fight for equality in early-20th-century Britain. The growing suffragette movement forever changes the life of working wife and mother Maud Watts. Galvanized by political activist Emmeline Pankhurst, Watts joins a diverse group of women who fight for equality and the right to vote. Faced with increasing police action, Maud and her dedicated suffragettes must play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse, risking their jobs, homes, family, and lives for a just cause. Refreshments will be served.

Assimilation and Mutilation: The Forced Sterilization of Indigenous Women On Tuesday, March 13th at 6:00pm, the Library will host Jean Whitehorse as she details the life of a boarding school student and explains how forced sterilization came about, affecting many Indigenous Women. Jean Whitehorse is an Outreach Specialist with the Crownpoint Outreach Center of the New Mexico State Library. She has been recognized for all her efforts providing much needed training to residents via the chapter houses. She has also advocated for Native American rights and was present at the IOAT.

Film: Victoria and Abdul @ the El Morro Theatre-Free Screening On Saturday, March 17th at 2:00pm, the Library and El Morro Theatre partner to bring you the film Victoria and Abdul. The film is based on the extraordinary true story of an unexpected friendship in the later years of Queen Victoria’s (Academy Award winner Judi Dench) remarkable rule. When Abdul Karim (Ali Fazal), a young clerk, travels from India to participate in the Queen’s Golden Jubilee, he is surprised to find favor with the Queen herself. The two forge an unlikely and devoted alliance with a loyalty to one another that her household and inner circle all attempt to destroy. Film is rated PG-13.

Three Films and Guest Speaker on Leonard Peltier's Fight for Justice “Warrior,” “Incident at Oglala,” and “I am the Indian Voice” @ The El Morro Theatre On Thursday, March 29th, at 6:00pm, the Library is honored to feature guest speaker Jean Roach at the El Morro Theatre and the three films she is bringing “Warrior,” “Incident at Oglala,” and “I am the Indian Voice.” Jean is Mnicoujou Lakota from the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. She is a board member of the International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee (ILPDC) and a survivor of the “1975 Oglala Firefight.” She will be in attendance to present the three films, as well as discuss her role in the ILPDC, current objectives, and more in this rare opportunity in Gallup. This event is complimentary and open to the public.

The City Welcomes Octavia Fellin Public Library Director Tammi Moe and Director of Golf Matthew Alcala

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Thoughts From The West End While putting away some tools after working on my car outside my house in downtown Gallup, I saw a man walking my way. The approaching man was a typical “sketchy” looking character with shabby clothes, a purple backpack with broken straps, and a shifty gait. Many times in the past just seeing someone of the “streetperson” demeanor would raise my blood pressure. It would bring back memories of my laptop being stolen off my kitchen table, or the night someone drove off with my diesel truck (yes I left a key in it), or the car radio that vanished and instead an aluminum bat was left on the passenger seat (yes I didn’t lock the doors…but it probably saved the glass). No matter, I courteously nodded and waved to the stranger as he passed. He waved back, and we were able to make eye contact. He continued on his trajectory past my house. I am not sure why but I decided to engage him, calling to his backside, I asked him where he was going? The stranger turned around and said he had just retrieved his backpack he had hidden near a drainage pipe. He pulled out a pair of sopping wet jeans and lamented their soggy condition. Surprising myself, I invited him inside to use my electric dryer to rectify his quandary. He pleasantly accepted my offer, and we sat at my kitchen table while the dryer whirled. I gave him a can of iced tea, and we just sat there waiting for the pants. After a minute of awkward silence, we talked. My stranger’s name was Virgil; he is a Yakama Native American from somewhere in Washington State. I’m not sure how they met, but he was/is married to a woman in Zuni that he hasn’t seen for 6

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nearly a decade, nor has he seen his high school-aged son since the third grade. He confesses to being an alcoholic, drug user, and states he recently had a stroke at Christmas time that now affects the dexterity in his hands. He says he is willing to work if I have any work. I don’t. My heart softens in hearing his story, and I curiously inquire, in the most non-judgmental way that I can, as to why he continues to drink, do drugs, and not engage his family? He just shrugs. I change my question to the future tense and simply ask if there is anything that would cause him to stop these anesthetizing habits? Without hesitation, he says he would be sober if he had a job. I look at him doubtfully? He insists, stating that he was completely sober and drug free when he had a job in Tucson for nearly two years. . .until he was laid off. DZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ The buzzer beeps on the dryer. I extract his dry pants. Thinking out loud, I asked him if he would show up sober for work tomorrow for $7.50/hour to pour new sidewalks around town. Excitedly he affirmed he would. I had to explain it was just an idea…not a reality. I gave him an extra can of iced tea for the road and he left. I looked out the window and watched him disappear down the street. The whole interaction made me think of a quote that I had read earlier in the day by a priest in Albuquerque: “We do not think ourselves into a new way of living, but we live ourselves into a new way of thinking.” How true… for both me and Virgil. -cvd

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38 Event Calendar

Voices of Gallup

Protection of Animals: Jay Mason

37 People Reading

10 Our Radio Public Radio: Jason Arsenault

40 Photography & the Southwest Vision: Eric Shaw

14 Radio Wave Legend Harrison Dehiya: Michele Reeves 17 Telluride Mountainfilm on Tour Coming to Gallup

42 Re-Discovering Gallup’s WPA Art Collection: Digging into the Past with an Eye Toward the Future: Rose Eason

18 Alice Perez,The Community Pantry & Hope Garden: Sandra McKinney

44 Your Life with Diabetes and the Process of Change: Jean C. Baltz BC-ADM, RD, CDE, MMSc, MSW

47 Ode to Linda

Why Worry? When God Provides: Palacios

22 Student Support at UNM-Gallup: Marilee Petranovich 26 West by Southwest: Ernie Bulow 29 Treasure Hunt

50 Advertising=Awareness: Jason Arsenault 52 CCRC, Inc. 56 Silver Stallion Bicycle Works,The Next Evolution: Scott Nydam

31 Walking In Beauty Thanks to our Contributors this month: Ernie Bulow Chuck Van Drunen David Conejo-Palacios Sandra McKinney

48 Charisse Buchanan: Sandra McKinney

Eric Shaw Jay Mason Michele Reeves Marilee Petranovich Jean C. Baltz Scott Nydam

Publishers: Daisy & Jason Arsenault Chuck & Jenny Van Drunen

Staff: Sandra McKinney Christine Carter

Managing Editor: Aileen Steigerwald

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VOICES OF We are a diverse community, and that diversity is shown in our radio station choices. Turn the tuning knob and you will come across English, Navajo, and Spanish-speaking stations. You will also have the choice to listen to Christian, rock, rap, country, and news stations. What each of these stations has in common is they employ disc jockeys. It is the job of the disc jockey to choose the type of programs that the station will play and to keep the listening audience from changing stations. If you listen to a station long enough, that voice on the other end can become very important to you, almost like they are part of the family. Gallup has a handful of voices we have brought into our families. Those voices bring us local and national news, keep us in the know, and play the music we love. Continue on to meet two of these voices. Also, let us know who your favorite radio voice is? Drop us a line at gallupjourney@gmail.com.

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radio station is member-supported, which means it depends on volunteers Public radio is the community’s and monetary donations. However, voice. KGLP 91.7 FM is Gallup’s what makes KGLP so cool is the public radio station and we are proud possibilities. to have it. The studio is located in the Rachel Kaub is the Station Manager basement of UNM-Gallup’s Gurley and she has her finger on the Hall. This is where it has been airing community’s pulse. Along with her its programs for the last 25 years. What nine-member board, she coordinates started as a small one room studio the station’s nationally syndicated and small office has evolved into a radio shows like Morning Edition with larger multi-room office/studio to our unique local programming shows meet the listener’s needs. Our public like Deer Tracks. Radio is not the only By Jason Arsenault

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thing that takes up Rachel’s time. This is the age of the internet and she has KGLP reaching its listeners through social media channels like Facebook and Twitter. This gives those dedicated to the program around the world, but out of radio frequency, access to an online live stream. Public radio is a juggling act that Rachel performs daily. Finding the right balance of nationally syndicated and local programming is always on the minds

to us will be delivered. We are the Adventure Capital of New Mexico, and it would be really cool if one of our outdoor enthusiasts had a weekly show about how to experience that adventure. How about a local sports fan that does a weekend show to catch us up on the local high school scores and schedules, something like the New Mexico Gameday on KOB TV. Many of our community leaders, as well as the Gallup Journey, promote local businesses. What if we had a weekly program which talked about businesses that Gallup needs and could support, a local program that you are plus the program shares how you willing to produce. would start a business like that. The I find myself listening to ideas are endless, but it takes us, the Morning Edition on my drive community, to be part of the program. to work. If I have to pick the Don’t worry; you don’t have to kids up in the afternoon it is develop a new program to get involved. always around Democracy The station is a potential learning tool Now time, and that show is available to you if you have an interest. perfect for those wanting the story behind the story. Splendid You can learn how radio works. Rachel announces when the station needs Table on Saturday mornings seems to have a way of getting volunteer help, or when an internship position is available over the airwaves you excited to try new foods. and social media. Being around the These nationally syndicated station, you just can’t help but find out programs are great, and I am what is going on in the community, able to talk about something I of Rachel and plus you get to hang with some pretty heard on public radio with my the board. Nationally syndicated shows sister who is 1000 miles away because interesting people. cost money, and with any donationTwenty-five years ago, a group of she heard the same program. However, supported entity, dollars can always my public radio station always delivers Gallupians brought public radio to be tight. Local programs are done by us. KGLP continues to evolve and it local programming that is unique volunteers and don’t have a monetary to my area. Deer Tracks, Jazz Hour, keeps bringing us programs we want cost, but you have to be able to find to hear. Radio is cool, and it seems Radio MAQAM, Rooted, and the someone willing to volunteer on a Green Chile Show are just a few of our to always be on. Of course, today we consistent basis, along with something locally produced programs, and these have multiple choices which we didn’t interesting enough that encourages have just 10 years ago. In another 10 definitely have a Gallup flavor. people to listen. KGLP is always years, who knows what radio is going We should all get involved with our prepared to hear from the community public radio station. Content is King to sound like. I do know that whatever on programming you would be is happening, KGLP is going to have a and when a number of us are making interested in, or if you have an idea for contributions, something meaningful voice in it. March 2018

2018-2019 Scholastic Eligibility 1. Use of Semester Grades Only: Scholastic eligibility will be determined by semester grades. Eligibility checks for those deemed unable to participate at semester will undergo checks at designated marking periods (6/9 weeks) during that semester. If they are passing at the 9 week marking period, they are eligible for immediate participation that semester. If they are eligible at the 6 week marking period, they are eligible immediately and will undergo an additional check on the next 6 week marking period as well. Fall 2018 eligibility will be based on 2nd semester grades from 2017-2018 school year. 2. No F’s: A student must have a minimum GPA of 2.0 and NO F’s in order to be eligible to participate in activities/athletics. This is a change from the past where a student was allowed one F. 3. Summer Courses: Beginning in the summer 2018, students may make up multiple courses to attempt to gain eligibility. Any class eligible for replacement based on local district policy can be taken and have the grade replaced to gain eligibility. The replacement classes are required to be the exact course that was listed on the official transcript (i.e. AP English must be replaced with AP English, etc.). 4. Cumulative Provision: The cumula tive provision may only be used at the beginning of the semester and must include all semester grades beginning with the 9th grade year. This provision may be used if the student has no more than one F grade at the semester.

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By Michele Reeves It is that time of year again—state basketball tournament time. For radio broadcaster Harrison Dehiya, it is a bittersweet transition. He enjoys delivering the play-by-play in the Navajo language to the folks back home on the Navajo reservation and to anyone who couldn’t be there in person. When the Arizona and New Mexico tournaments conclude for this school year, it also marks the start of Dehiya’s “off season.” He’ll have to preoccupy himself with other hobbies like camping, fishing, and hiking until the beginning of the next football season. His listeners know that they, too, will have to wait until September to hear Dehiya’s sports casting once again. Perhaps this time is also bittersweet for them. Who would have guessed that Dehiya’s humble beginnings would lead to such fame? He grew up in his grandparents’ hogan in Coolidge, about 20 miles east of Gallup. And, like a true traditionalist, Dehiya introduced himself with his clans. He is of the Ute clan, born for the Deer Spring clan; his maternal grandfather is of the Black Sheep clan, and his paternal grandfather is of the Mud clan. When I introduced myself as of the Towering House Clan, he interjected that his wife of 30 years, Becky, is also of the Towering House Clan. His last name is also uniquely Navajo and is not common. He helped his 14

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grandparents herd sheep, while still finding time to play sports as a Thoreau Hawk. After graduating in 1977, he left New Mexico for Muscogee, Oklahoma, for two years to attend junior college. It was upon his return to the Gallup area that Dehiya “walked into” the start of his career as a radio broadcaster. He tells the story as if it happened just yesterday, and it goes like this: It was a summer afternoon during monsoon season, and Dehiya was walking to the bus station to catch a ride back to Coolidge when it started to rain. It quickly turned into a down-pour, so Dehiya stepped into the next door along his path to keep from being drenched. It so happened that the door was, and still is, the entrance to the radio studio of KGAK. He small-talked with the secretary, and by the time the rain stopped, he had a job application in hand. The next day he was hired on-the-spot. At that time, the only Navajo speaking radio broadcaster was Harry Billy from a station out of Holbrook,

Arizona. However, he never thought of imitating him because Billy talked too fast. Dehiya knew he had to be himself, voice and personality. Years later, and after a short hiatus from broadcasting, Dehiya returned to the airwaves as one of the first radio announcers for the new Navajo Nation radio station, KTNN. Dehiya brought with him the idea to broadcast basketball games in his Navajo language. But in order to entertain all listeners, KTNN had to commentate in Navajo and English. So, Dehiya became the Navajo half of the dual-language broadcasting, partnering with several other sportscasters who did the commentary in English. He is quick to give a shout-out to the late Dustin Mortensen for being his partner for most of the six years he was with KTNN. Dehiya returned to KGAK and brought with him the desire to continue sportscasting local football and basketball games. When KGAK was sold to new owners, it became the only

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TELLURIDE MOUNTAINFILM ON TOUR COMING TO GALLUP The Thai Burma Border Health Initiative is excited to bring the highly acclaimed Mountainfilm on Tour to Gallup this March. The Tour offers a selection of culturally rich, adventure-packed and incredibly inspiring short documentary films curated from the Mountainfilm festival held every Memorial Day weekend in Telluride, Colorado. The tour will visit Gallup at the El Morro Theatre on March 10th with films that explore themes connected to their mission: using the power of film, art and ideas to inspire audiences to create a better world. The Thai Burma Border Health Initiative (TBBHI) is a Gallup-based non-profit dedicated to improving the health of Burmese minority groups living along the border with Thailand that was founded by a group of our local physicians. “I’ve been a fan of Mountainfilm for years because the theme of ‘celebrating the indomitable spirit’ definitely applies to the work our staff does in Burma and Thailand,” says Dr. Sam MacBride, Vice President of TBBHI. The organizers are bringing Mountainfilm to Gallup because they feel that same spirit infuses the people and community of Gallup. It is well known that community service workers and volunteers suffer from high rates of burnout. “Doing good work is often its own reward, but we can all use a good dose of inspiration once in a while,” notes Dr. MacBride. They expect these films will bring just that sort of inspiration and joy to folks of all ages. Mountainfilm began in 1979 and is one of America’s longestrunning film festivals. The festival is best described by one word: inspiring. Interest has grown so much that there are now over 150 showings of The Tour around the world from Anchorage, Alaska to Sydney, Australia and even Singapore. Gallup is one of the smallest communities to host a screening. The films in the festival cover many topics. There are insane outdoor adventure films, of course, but also some on issues such as water rights, education, immigration, food and social justice. “The topics

might sound heavy but, trust me, you’ll be laughing and will walk out in a better mood than when you came in,” Dr. MacBride promises. The event is more than just a film event though. Local co-sponsors Rosebrough & Fowles Law Firm and Gallup BID have helped to bring shows for students to Del Norte Elementary and Gallup High School on Friday, March 9th. There will also be a non-profit Expo at the El Morro Event Center between the showings on Saturday. There will be two shows on Saturday, March 10th (before and after ArtsCrawl). The 4:30pm show is a family friendly collection of inspirational and adventure shorts; the 8:30pm is pure adrenaline rush. Tickets will be available at the door at the El Morro Theatre. Each show is $8.00 per adult and $5.00 per child 12 and under. There will be no repeats and you can get a discount for attending both showings. The complete playlist is available at www.mountainfilm.org/tour/ schedule. March 2018

ALICE PEREZ The Community Pantry & Hope Garden

“Of all the things you can make in life, remember that you can make a difference.” ~ Noah BenShea teacher for Alice to learn from about office procedures, business, and people management. Throughout each of her jobs, Alice had great Alice Perez has a very strong drive and was always absorbing additional voice for our community, as she information and skills. She feels she is mostly states the motto of the Pantry: “No self-taught. Perez has some college training in Mother’s Child Should Go Hungry.” psychology and early childhood education. Alice has put her heart and soul It was during her time with the Chamber into the management of our Gallup that Perez received her certification that Community Pantry. allowed her to gain this position and to run When Alice took over the helm a non-profit organization. Alice is a 2015 of the Pantry, it had just recently graduate of the 96 credit-hour program from suffered the death of the Pantry’s the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation. founder, Jim Harlin. The pantry The Community Pantry has flourished building is now dedicated in the name under the management of Perez. It has of Jim Harlin. Tim Kelley who was actually helped her to not know the full history in charge when Alice was hired, had of the pantry. Instead of maintaining the same been struck with terminal illness. procedures, Alice came into the position with Alice knew she had big shoes to fill, a fresh outlook and has created new ways to and big coffers to fill, as well. Kelley generate funding and to help ease hunger in was there for a couple of months to our community. One of the biggest benefits guide Perez as she entered this new is that she has learned to research for grant position. opportunities and to write grants. Perez had been in the public eye for Some major points about the Pantry which many years before her position with Alice Perez wants to make known: The Community Pantry. She had A partnership has been created between The served with The Gallup-McKinley Community Pantry and Creamland Dairy. County Chamber of Commerce for Alice Perez in her office at the Community Pantry Creamland utilizes the big loading docks and 11 years and had been the director refrigerator space, plus office space. This rental of the Gallup Head-Start program, agreement generates an additional revenue source for the Pantry. as well as, worked with Gallup-McKinley County Schools, The Giant Creamland also provides food items to the Pantry to be distributed in Refinery, and The City of Gallup in her younger years. the food boxes. Alice attributes much of her early education to Fran Mundt, The Community Pantry boasts one of the largest commercial who was her mentor at The City of Gallup. Mundt was a great kitchens in Gallup. This fully equipped kitchen is often used by the Pantry, itself, for preparing benefit or fundraising meals. Organizations and individuals, who are holding fundraisers, use the large kitchen for their food preparation. Plus, YOU can rent the kitchen for your own food preparation for a family gathering or fund-raiser. Even some of our local restaurants make use of the kitchen for large catering jobs. This beautifully appointed kitchen deserves to be utilized. Please contact The Community Pantry if your organization could benefit from its use. The Hope Garden provides individuals with an opportunity to grow their own healthy fruits and vegetables. You supply the seeds or starter-plants. The Pantry supplies you with a growing box, the water, tools, and a wealth of education. You may keep all of what you successfully grow, or you can donate some or all of your crop to the Pantry to aid in feeding those in need. Not only does the Pantry help the hungry, but they also help people who have been in trouble with the law. Those The Gallup Community Pantry - The building is dedicated to founder Jim Harlin. who are court-ordered to do community service can work By Sandra McKinney

March 2018

Even in the winter months, volunteers are working the soil at the Hope Garden.

their hours at The Community Pantry. The Board of Directors for the Pantry has become very active with a hands-on approach for fund-raising initiatives. There is funding that comes from the City of Gallup and from McKinley County. These funds are very specific as funding from The City must be allotted to individuals only within the city limits, while funding from McKinley County can be used for needs within county boundaries. This requires special accounting programs specific for food banks. Food is never thrown away. If food is no longer worthy for human consumption, it is given to local farmers for livestock feeding. One of the ideas for the future is to develop a work-force education program, with certified instructors, and a Kids’ Kafe’ for after-school meals. Alice feels that her previous work-life was guiding her to this position. She loves her job, she loves that she can help people every day and all day, and she loves that she has the opportunity to be innovative and to grow her knowledge and abilities. Though not a Gallup native (Alice’s parents came here in 1980), she has definitely

Local women utilizing the kitchen at the Community Pantry to cook for a fund-raiser.

attached her roots here. When her parents moved back to Arizona, Alice stayed here in Gallup to build a life of her own. Alice met her husband Max Perez 33 years ago when she tried out for a local band as a singer. Her beautiful voice caught the full attention of Max who was a guitar player in the band. They are still making beautiful music and have four children; two daughters and one son together, plus a step-daughter for Alice, and five active grandchildren (whom Alice dotes on whenever possible). Some of Alice’s hobbies include vocal performances whenever possible, photography

for pleasure and for hire, and a great love of nature which means she truly enjoys the great outdoors that Gallup and our surrounding area has to offer. If you are interested in donating your time or expertise, The Community Pantry is always looking for volunteers to help feed the 3000 families who depend on the Pantry for assistance. Please stop by to visit with the effervescent Alice Perez to learn more about how you can help. Call 505-726-8068 to make an appointment. You can also find more information about The Community Pantry at www.the communitypantry.org. March 2018

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Why Worry? . . . When God Provides It was a sad and lonely man who walked the cold, windy, streets of Fort Defiance, Arizona. The chilly wind caused him to pull his jacket tight around himself. It also started him thinking, “How did I get to this place in my life?” Negative thoughts filled his mind. “I am nothing…I have nothing.” He even thought about the irony that both he and the wind were bitter. “Which of us,” he said to the wind, “carries a greater chill to those we meet?” As he walked on, he reflected on his life story…which is kind of like watching yourself on live television! While his mind scrolled through his past, his eyes glanced up at the lights which dotted the darkness and he remembered the hogan of his youth…back to the time when he was nine years old. Though living a life of poverty back then, it still represented happiness. Loving parents provided comfort, warmth and laughter. But today, walking in the cold, he remembered the thunder, which pierced his ears and lightning, which struck his heart as his father was taken from him—murdered. As if that wasn’t enough, within six years, his mother would be unable to care for him and at age 15, he would go to live with his brother. By 2011 he would lose her entirely. And, at the age of 25, he would lose the function of his kidneys and go on dialysis. “How did I come to be in this place?” he thought again. He turned the corner and now had to walk directly into the bitter wind. “Only one more mile to go.” he muttered. Dwayne’s thoughts turned now to the life of drugs and alcohol he had retreated to for solace. They had provided a brief haven from his memories. They provided the comfort he left behind in the Hogan of his youth. They provided an escape from worry.

Since the day of his father’s death, he worried. He had worried, always worried, about the rest of his life! The tears from his eyes froze on his cheeks. “I’m tired of being tired,” he thought to himself. “I’m tired of carrying this bag of anger on my back!” In that last mile on a cold, windy night, Dwayne Dennison changed his life. Like a spotlight from a helicopter above, it occurred to him, “Why worry…when God provides?” He felt the weight drop from his shoulders. He felt the anger drift away. He walked lighter. Though it was his last mile that day…it was also his first mile. During the next few years, he would receive help from his social worker friends and even others in need whom he in turn had helped. He went to UNM-Gallup and received his certification in Health Information Technology. And then, at the age of 35, his miracle happened. His kidneys spontaneously started functioning. They started working again at the same time the love in his heart restarted. Dwayne has a good job now. He has no anger. He recalls the love of his parents. He has his kidneys.

Why worry…when God provides.

—Palacios Look for more news of Unsung Heroes in the future. And if you know of any, send me the information at: dconejo@rmchcs.org.

March 2018

Student Support at UNM-Gallup

UNM G When students start their college journey, they can sometimes be surprised at the intensity of the coursework, as well as the expectations regarding time management, study skills, and workloads. Student service experts on the UNM-Gallup campus know that college can be challenging for students both in and out of the classroom, so there are many resources available to help navigate this next step in their education.

In addition to trained advisors, financial aid experts, qualified and caring tutors and a wide range of other student support options, UNM-Gallup is also home to the Accessibility Resource Center (ARC). The ARC is managed by Student Success Specialist Mary Lou Mraz who deals exclusively with a population of students who have disabilities that can include vision, hearing, mobility, learning, mental or emotional impairments. Students who have documented disabilities have access to services that can equalize their opportunities and make learning easier for them. The ARC, which serves approximately 115130 students at a time, offers both human resources and specialized equipment designed to improve access to campus classes and services. Examples include employees who can accompany students to class, take notes, and act as readers. As part of specific classroom accommodations, the ARC can ask that lectures and assignments be put into writing and that students have extra time or a distraction-free environment in which to take tests.

Equipment aids include a variety of video magnifiers that assist sight-impaired students. Both desktop and portable options give students the opportunity to read magnified lecture notes, textbooks, and academic or research documents. Other technical enhancements include scanners

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Spotlight on Accessibility Resource Center

GALLUP that digitize text and read it back to students. Services for students who have hearing impairments include amplification devices which can wirelessly tie into a student’s hearing aids. Mraz provides a copy of each student’s accommodation plan to their instructors each semester to allow for maximum accessibility.

Mraz notes, “In addition to our student workers in ARC, we also have an excellent response from the on-campus Center for Academic Learning. Their tutors meet one-on-one with students to help with test-taking skills and can give students the opportunity to navigate through hypothetical assignments or offer tips on the mechanics of essay-writing.” Feelings of being overwhelmed are common, especially among new college students. In a recent Chronicle of Higher Education report (Lipka, February 9, 2018), it was noted that more than 40% of college freshmen say they feel overwhelmed with all they have to do. This compares to less than 20% in 1985. This is another area where the ARC staff can be of assistance to students. According to Mraz, “Learning disabilities, depression, or anxiety can be quite disabling and can greatly impact a student’s ability to be successful.” To address this need, UNM-Gallup recently partnered with

the University of New Mexico Student Health and Counseling department (SHAC) to offer tele-therapy services. Through collaboration with Dr. Stephanie McIver, Director of Counseling and Therapy at SHAC, students at UNM-Gallup have access to private and confidential sessions with trained therapists who can counsel or refer students to local resources. According to Mraz, “UNM-Gallup is the only branch campus making use of this needed service. We also offer a University 101 class to all incoming freshmen which deals with many of these issues. This required class provides students with tools to help them adjust to the demands of college.” Student success is the mission at UNM-Gallup and many resources are in place to assure that any barriers to achievement are removed. Through a robust selection of services, strong academic supports, and an environment that believes every student can and should be successful, UNM-Gallup offers opportunities to start, continue, or complete your education. Call (505) 863-7500 or visit www.gallup. unm.edu for more information. For additional information, please contact: Marilee Petranovich mpetrano@unm.edu (505) 863-7770

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MY MOST UNFORGETTABLE CHARACTER

CARL GORMAN

CARL GORMAN’S HORSES ARE AS DISTINCTIVE AS WOODY CRUMBO. HE HAD A LIFETIME LOVE AFFAIR WITH HORSES.

CARL MADE ME A MUG WITH THESE DONKEYS CARVED INTO THE SURFACE.

CARL GORMAN WAS AS HANDSOME AS HE WAS CHARISMATIC.

ne day in around 1968, I left my classroom at Wingate to take my break when I found a handsome Navajo with a leonine head of white hair, holding forth in the lobby, completely surrounded by people. I knew a master storyteller when I saw one. When I asked who the man was, I was given a chorus of strange looks: who didn’t know Carl Gorman? In the summer of 1971, I was working for the Duke Oral History Project under C. Gregory Crampton at the University of Utah. I got a call from him saying, “Get your behind over to the Navajo Museum, and take your tape recorder and plenty of blank tape.” He wanted me to take my wife and second tape machine. We didn’t really know what was going on until we got there and our friend Martin Link explained. Considering the secrecy surrounding them, I at least knew what the Code Talkers were. But I quickly found that I didn’t know much. Over a three day period, I taped a bunch of these amazing men. The only person I know who got multiple tapes was Carl Gorman. After that, I crossed paths with this amazing man rather often, and I believe I can call him a friend. Early in life, he did well as a bootlegger on the Reservation. Then he was one of the few native traders. His father Nelson Gorman had a post near Chinle. Carl’s language skills were obvious—during the infamous stock reduction, he was used as a Navajo translator for the government—and he was one of the first Code Talkers taken. Born in 1907, he was older than most of the guys—he lied about his age to enlist—but he was needed to craft the original code. It is a fortunate person who has heard Gorman the storyteller. Over the years, I noticed an interesting thing: he never bragged on himself, and he had plenty to brag about. The Marines skipped through the Pacific, but the men only had to make every other island landing, except for the Code Talkers who made every landing, carrying a battery and phone as heavy as a car battery, along with pack, rifle, and the rest of the gear everyone else carried. Carl had more life experience than most of the men, but they all shared one thing—life as a Navajo. More than one man told me he just skipped basic training. The Navajos were in good physical condition and they all knew how to shoot so they jumped the queue, so to speak. Many of the men had little or no education. One man told me when he was six or seven his parents took him to the local trading post. It was the first time he ever saw an Anglo. Carl was ten years old by the time his parents decided to put him in school. In a letter home, he described the teachers as “mean as scorpions.” There is an excellent biography of Gorman—two actually—by Henry and Georgia Greenberg who spent quite a lot of time with him. It is full of Carl Gorman tales. One of Carl’s stories that upset a lot of white folks was about his treatment during his boyhood school days. For a personality like Gorman’s, it was inevitable he would get in trouble. What he had not expected was the treatment he received. He waited for a chance to escape. A friend found out what he was doing and tagged along, and then his younger brother Wallace joined them. They went over 100 miles on foot in February. He finished his education at the Albuquerque Indian School, and the policies there were not too different than what he had seen already. Until 1970, the official BIA stand was to make little Christian White Men out of the kids. Carl’s diploma said he was “A competent farmer.” At least he got to play football.

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HE PAINTED MANY CEREMONIAL SCENES LIKE THIS ONE PORTRAYING APACHE GHAN DANCERS. Getting to talk to these Code Talkers was amazing. Many stories I can’t repeat. Actually, I didn’t do much of an interview; I turned on the tape recorder and they talked. Their stories about the war in the Pacific were pretty horrific. The Japanese were dangerous enemies and the Navajos saw it all first hand. As many people know, the Japanese had made extensive tunnels on the islands they occupied. One Code Talker told me the story of clearing the heavily fortified burrows on an island. He was creeping along in near darkness when he came across a dead Japanese soldier. He was stepping over the body when it came to life. “He didn’t have any weapons, so he grabbed my leg and bit it; hung on like a bulldog. There was no surrender in those men.” The most famous story, and I heard him tell it, was when they sat on an island for some time. Carl was bored, and ever-adventurous, so he took off his uniform and made himself a loin cloth. He slipped through the lines where the Americans and Japanese faced

THIS IS A FAMOUS PHOTO OF CARL IN ACTION AS A CODE TALKER.

by Ernie Bulow

one another. Back in the hills, there were natives who had been decimated by the war. Gorman crept through two armed and dangerous lines. Apparently, he hit it off with the islanders and repeated his trek several times. Eventually he had to get caught, and luckily, it was the American side that captured him. But he was not out of trouble. The soldiers wanted to shoot him on the spot, though I can’t imagine how they thought the tall, handsome Indian was a Japanese spy. He did some fast talking and was escorted back to his unit. I don’t begin to do justice to his story, which had all the I TOOK A LOT OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF elements of a good novel: scary CARL OVER THE YEARS. THIS IS ONE at times, hilarious at times, and OF MY FAVORITES. always mesmerizing. The only plot element missing was romance, and given time, he might have added that one too. Who else would sneak past two armies out for blood? And then joke about it? After the war, he went through a period of anger at the treatment of American citizens who had served so bravely. Most Indians still did not have the vote, and signs pointed out that they were not welcome in bars. But Carl didn’t waste his energy on bitterness, but instead took advantage of the GI Bill to further his education on his own terms for once. He had been drawing all his life, but now he got into the Otis Art Institute. For years, he signed his work with his clan name, Kin-ya-onnie-beyeh. He started a Navaho Club in Southern California, but he realized he could reach more of his people back on the Reservation. In 1964, not long before I met him the first time, he became director of the Navajo Arts & Crafts Guild. In the late Sixties, things started to change for Indian tribes as they got more autonomy from the government and project money like the Office of Navajo Education Opportunity. He had two projects during this time that were of great importance. He created a traveling exhibit of traditional Navajo history with several original paintings. He organized an effort to tape record as many Hatathli—medicine men—as possible, before all their knowledge passed into the darkness. The original aim of the medicine man project was to put together a definitive Navajo mythology. The book was never produced for two reasons. First, it was agreed that no detail went into the book that wasn’t agreed on by all the participants. Turned out they didn’t agree on much. Then the money ran out and hundreds of hours of tape are stored for some future resurrection. I was always sorry that book didn’t come to pass. In the summer of 1970, I was allowed to copy some of the tapes. I gave them to Wingate High School for use by students. The following year I found out that the head of the art department had erased the tapes so they could be reused. Who could understand the “guttural gibberish” anyway? The spontaneous little stories were often the best. One day out of the blue, he told me about the first time he smoked marijuana. He was stranded in Gallup at a time when there were no rooms to rent. A Mexican fellow he knew offered to share his hotel room. At some point in the evening, the man took out some pot and rolled a nice one. Carl’s description of the two of them high was hilarious. Gorman fled the room half dressed. When Carl Gorman died in Gallup at the age of 90, the New York Times ran a generous obituary. In the first sentence, the writer says: “Carl Gorman, a gentle Navajo artist who talked his way valiantly through some of the fiercest fighting of World War II…” had passed away. The writer almost certainly did not realize how appropriate his statement was. He was talking about the Navajo code that was never broken, not the silver-tongued storyteller. I will never forget Carl Gorman the raconteur, teller of tales, Gorman the artist, the man who advanced the Navajo tribe in so many ways. - ernie@buffalomedicine.com

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Walking in Beauty

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PROTECTION OF ANIMALS By Jay Mason A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help. ~ Albert Schweitzer There is an underground railroad of which you might not know. Unlike the Civil War, when slaves were transported to freedom by 34

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a network of people who cared, today there is a network which transports animals from state-to-state to be placed in a stable home. I know about this network because my wife Kitty is part of it. At any time, she might be called to carry an animal from Holbrook to Gallup and beyond, as the animal, usually a dog, is taken to a new home. She can be called at any time. Evidently, there are not many volunteers along our portion of I-40. As usual, I am the last to know. I thought we were going out to dinner, but no, we are eating

Lota-Burger because a dog needs to get home. Please don’t get me wrong. I love dogs; I have had one my entire life. I had hoped for one year without a dog, but it looks like that dream will not be fulfilled. All of this activity makes me think about why we help animals. If there is a God (and I believe there is), then He made the world and all the creatures in it. It is not our creation; it is His creation. We are asked to be good stewards of this creation while we occupy it. One of those obligations of stewardship is to protect those animals in need of help. Most of us get that opportunity with domestic animals – dogs, cats, horses, etc. When we see mistreatment of an animal, something inside of us wants to help. It is a sign that we have a soul and that we are made in the image of God. What is it about a dog or a cat or a horse that makes us naturally want to be around them? My experience is mostly with dogs (cats love me, but I am not particularly fond of them). First, dogs don’t talk back; at least they don’t talk back in English. They communicate all the time; it is usually about food, a walk or the need to go out to the bathroom. But the essence of the relationship is unconditional love. Once a dog knows that you care about him, forget about it. You have a companion for life. I am sure that is true about other domestic pets. (I just think cats have a funny way of showing their love.) Pets have basic needs, and if you take care of those needs, they will be loyal and comfort you their entire life. Protection of animals is a growth industry in our time. There are organizations that protect every imaginable animal. As always, the best place to start is at home. In our beautiful, wide open spaces, we have many animals in need. Gallup McKinley County Humane Society does what it can with limited resources and incredible demand. Maybe someday there will be enough people and money to take care of the sick and abused animals around us. Life is full of surprises. Just this year a very generous woman who lived near Gallup and who had no family gave at her death almost a million dollars to a statewide organization that protects animals. We even show respect to animals that we hunt and eat. The domestic animals we eat in our time are treated much better thanks to the work of the famous autistic woman, Temple Grandin. She found that when animals are used for food, there is a proper way to treat them during their development and when their life is taken. Her calming techniques and stress reduction are used by livestock owners and slaughterhouses around the world. The good hunter shows respect to their prey as well in the hunt and always makes sure the food from the animal is used by someone. There is another group of animals which need protection: These animals are human animals. A society or civilization is judged by the way it treats its most vulnerable – namely, the very young and very old. We all know of elderly persons who have been mistreated or abandoned by their family. I have so many children and grandchildren; I pray that one or more of them will help take care of me when I am old. I have been named guardian and conservator for many elderly persons whose families are nowhere to be seen. They are deposited in nursing homes and the staff becomes their family. Every nursing home welcomes volunteers that want to spend time with the elderly. Another group of vulnerable humans that need help are the very young. Whether they are born or unborn, they deserve our respect. A baby’s heart begins to beat 18 to 24 days after conception. Science has proven that a baby in the womb produces brain waves at 6 weeks. Recent improvements in ultrasound make it possible for a parent to see a child very early on. Many operations are performed on unborn babies now that could not have been imagined 20 years ago. We need to encourage mothers to protect their babies and offer alternatives to those moms who decide they can’t take care of their child. I know from my own legal practice, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of couples who want to adopt children if another family cannot care for them. We will be judged both here on earth and later by God, how we respond to those who cannot speak or stand up for themselves. Our compassion should extend from the unborn child to those children born in difficult situations. All of us have a responsibility to help the vulnerable little ones created in the image of God. Life is a challenge. No one, even Jesus, promised our stay here would be easy. God’s creatures all around us need our help; it is one of the reasons we are here. Charity begins at home; after we have taken care of our own, there are many opportunities in life to help less fortunate animals, including humans.

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Events Calendar March 2 Gallup Poetry Slam Celebrate Women’s History Month with poems by women, about women and for women! 6:30 - 8:30pm, ART123 Gallery

March 3 WPA Art Tour 11:00am – 12:00pm Octavia Fellin Public Library (meet in the lobby) Learn about Gallup’s 1930s/1940s-era WPA Art Collection on a free, public tour. More info: www. galluparts.org/wpa-art

March 8 Wine & Painting 6:00pm - 9:00pm, ART123 Gallery More info and register: www.galluparts.org/wineand-painting

March 9 & 23 Lenten Season Before Easter Sunday Stations of the Cross Church of the Holy Spirit 7:00pm, 1334 Country Club Dr., Gallup, NM: Walk or sit as we journey in prayer with Christ through his arrest, carrying his cross, crucifixion, death, and burial. Lasts about 20 minutes with opportunities for prayers said aloud and silently. Contact Linda 505-863-6042 for more info.

March 10 Mountainfilm Tour- Gallup. Come enjoy a selection of culturally rich, adventure-packed, and incredibly inspiring short documentary films from the acclaimed Telluride Mountainfilm Festival. There will be two shows on Saturday, March 10th at the El Morro Theatre. The 4:30pm show is a family friendly collection of inspirational and adventure shorts; the 8:30pm is pure adrenaline rush. Details at www. mountainfilm.org/tour/schedule or on Facebook at Mountainfilm on Tour - Gallup, NM.

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March 10 ArtsCrawl: Time Travel 7:00pm – 9:00pm, Downtown Gallup More info on Facebook @ArtsCrawl Gallup

March 14 A Pi / Pie Day Fund Raiser for Cancer Research 10:00am to 2:00pm (or until sold out) in Camille’s Sidewalk Cafe Patio Room, 306 S. 2nd Street - Downtown Gallup. More Information: Contact Joyce Graves: 505-8633075 or Linda Shelton: 505-722-2175

March 16 Deadline for artists to apply for gallupARTS’ paid Native Artist-in-Residence program. More info: www.galluparts.org/native-air

March 20 The Gallup Interfaith Group 6:30pm, Westminster Presbyterian Church Bring food or drink for a shared meal. All are welcome in friendship and community! The church is located at 151 State Highway 564 (Boardman Drive - near Orleans Manor Apartments). For more information contact Steve Rogers (505-870-1942) or Pastor Lorelei Kay (wpcgallup@gmail.com). Free Navajo Rug Weaving Classes Free Weaving Classes, Tuesdays from 1:302:30pm at Sunset Hills Apts, 220 Rudy Drive Master weaver and instructor Lois A. Becenti specializes in the Two Grey Hills and Wide Ruins designs. This weaving project is to promote dexterity; it is also therapeutic and productive activity, and great for concentration! For more info, call 505-870-3832.

Octavia Fellin Public Library Events: Ignite Gallup 2018 The Library is looking for STARS to Ignite Gallup. The first annual Ignite Gallup is taking place Saturday, April 14th, 7pm at the El Morro Theater. Are you ready to tell the world what you are MOST passionate about? But make it quick! Selected presenters are given five minutes and 20 slides to share their passions and expertise. Topic proposals are due March 15th. For more information visit octaviafellin.libguides. com/ignitegallup, call 505-726-6120, or e-mail childlib@gallupnm.gov. Cultural-X-Change at the Library – Air! Food is the greatest of cultural common denominators. Recipes from our family and community gatherings are as integral to our sense of place as the games we played growing up, schools we attended, music we listened to and books we have read. You are invited to be part of a food history and recipe exchange at the Library! During the month of March, we explore the basic element of air in cooking and culture. The Library is looking for the unique tastes of our community. Do you have stories, recipes, or pictures to share that tell the story of Us? Please visit the Cultural-X-Change display at the Main Library during the month of February and share your food history and knowledge. For more information email tmoe@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291. Instagram Scavenger Hunt Beginning March 1st Throughout March, take part in a photo scavenger hunt. Pick up a “hunting guide” from the main Library and take pictures as instructed. Post your photos to Instagram using #ofplhunt and turn in your completed guide as entry to win prizes throughout the month. Follow us on Instagram @galluplibrary and get hunting! For more information please call 505-863-1291 or email libtrain@gallupnm.gov.

Children’s Library: March 21- Exotics of the Rainforest Exotics of the Rainforest visits the Octavia Fellin Children’s Branch Wednesday March 21st at 3:00pm meet indigenous birds of the tropical rainforest and learn more about this important ecosystem over Spring Break! March 24- Explora The Octavia Fellin Children’s Branch hosts Explora, the Albuquerque base science center, 1:00-3:00pm. Gear up for science, learning, and fun for the entire family. Children’s Library Weekly Events Tuesdays at 4:00pm: Maker Zone The Library provides the supplies; you supply the ideas. Join us at the Children’s Branch for creativity, innovation and fun. Open to all ages. Wednesdays at 10:30am: Story Time (ages 2-4). An active and engaging program for toddlers and preschoolers featuring singing, storytelling and toys.

Holy Week Services at Westminster Presbyterian Church 151 State Highway 564 (Boardman Drive)

March 25 Palm Sunday 10:30am March 29 Maundy Thursday Worship 6:30pm March 30 Good Friday 7:00pm Tenebrae Taize Service Service of Scripture, prayer, song and silence.

Thursdays at 4:00pm: Crafty Kids (all ages) Family-friendly crafts for all skill levels. Dr. Seuss, Cat in the Hat Mask - March 1st Assemble Ninja Turtle Doll – March 8th St. Patrick Necklace – March 15th Earth Day Rock Painting – March 22nd Hanging Bunny Nest w/ Easter Eggs – March 29th

April 1 Easter Sunrise 6:30am Celebrate the risen Christ on “The Point” at WPC with song! Dress warm!

Fridays at 2:00pm: Maker Zone We provide supplies; you supply the ideas. Join us at the Children’s Branch for creativity, innovation and fun. Open to all ages. Fridays at 4:00pm: Get Up and Game (all ages) Join us for family-friendly video games every Friday afternoon.

April 1 Easter Traditional 10:30am Share the sacrament of Communion in celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior!

Saturdays at 11:00am: Story Time (ages 2-4) An active and engaging program for toddlers and preschoolers featuring singing, storytelling and toys.

Contact: Rev. Lorelei Kay (505) 290-5357 wpcgallup@gmail.com

March 3rd -The Gallup Community Concert Association presents Grisha Krivchenia, Piano and Tara Khozein, Soprano as they release their new CD entitled “Finding Refuge Art Songs for Syrians in Exile” in the El Morro Theatre at 7:00pm on Saturday March 3, 2018. Taking a special interest in using art to amplify voices that might otherwise go unheard, this duo is presenting an exclusive performance in Gallup as Mr. Krivchenia continues on his West Coast tour. Membership subscriptions for the Gallup Community Concert Series will be available when doors open at 6:15pm. Get more information at gallupcca@gmail.com, (505) 862-3939, and on the Gallup Community Concert Association FaceBook Page.

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The McKinley County Health Alliance convenes on the second Wednesday from 11:00am-1:00pm at the New Mexico Cancer Center across from UNM-Gallup. All are welcome to attend to engage in discussions about health, education, economic, and environmental inequities to help facilitate change in those systems. For more information call (505) 870-9239. Wednesdays Co-Dependents Anonymous First United Methodist Church, 1800 Red Rock Dr, Gallup, in the library. 6:00-7:00pm. All are welcome; learn more at CoDA.org. Gallup Solar is hosting free classes about all things solar Wednesdays 6:00-8:00pm at 113 E. Logan. Call 505-728-9246 for info on topics and directions. Saturdays Overeaters Anonymous Meeting. Open to all. Every Saturday at 10:00am. First United Methodist Church, 1800 Red Rock Drive, Gallup. Meeting takes place in the Library. Feel free to call Liz 505-721-9208 with any questions. Habitat for Humanity work sessions held each week. Volunteers who want to serve on decision making meetings and who wish to volunteer at or help fund construction projects, call Bill Bright at 505-7224226 for details. Gallup Autism Support Group Meets the second Monday of each month. Do you have a child on the Autism Spectrum? Join with other parents to find support. Children welcome at meetings. Also find our group on Facebook. Meets at City Center Coffee/ Journey Church, (501 S. Third St) 6:00-7:30pm. For info call: 360-912-1953 Mondays Al-anon, Support for Families and Friends of Alcoholics. Sacred Heart Cathedral Family Center, 555 South Woodrow Dr., Gallup, NM. 12:00noon – 1:00pm Tuesdays Al-anon, Support for Families and Friends of Alcoholics. One Day At A Time Club. Next to Catholic Church, Ft. Defiance, Az. 6:00pm – 7:00pm Thursdays Al-anon, Support for Families and Friends of Alcoholics. Methodist Church, 1800 Red Rock Dr. Gallup, NM 7:00pm–8:00pm The City of Gallup’s Sustainable Gallup Board, meets on the first Monday each month from 3:30 to 5:00pm at the Octavia Fellin Library. Community members concerned about conservation, energy, water, recycling and other environmental issues are welcome. Call Bill Bright at (505) 722-0039 for information. March 2018

PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE SOUTHWEST VISION By Eric Shaw

Gallup is the center of its own art world, and New Mexico’s sense of enchantment inspires people to recognize beauty everywhere in the state. New Mexico helps artists make art—as the local production of jewelry, blankets, and figurines testifies to. The Southwest has influenced art worldwide, as well as locally. Famous painters like Georgia O’Keefe and great writers like D.H. Lawrence engaged the land. It’s captivated great photographers, too. I want to take you on a tiny tour of Southwest photographers—looking at three artists from past and present—one’s famous, one’s obscure, and one lives right in Gallup’s downtown. The philosophies and subject matter of these three will train us to see New Mexico in ways outside the norm.

Dorothea Lange, Raildroad Tracks, Southwestern New Mexico, 1933

Dorothea Lange, White Angel

The first is Dorothea Lange (1895 – 1965).

As a renowned Depression-era photographer, she isn’t known for pictures of the Southwest, but she worked here when depicting the refugees of the 30s Dustbowl and the 40s internment camps. She took some landscape pictures, besides. She was spirited when young, attending Columbia University and breaking out to travel the world at age 23. However, she was robbed when she hit San Francisco and ended up settling down across the bay in Berkeley— for the rest of her life! There, she married one of the Southwest’s famous painters, Maynard Dixon, whose way of depicting landscapes, in simplified geometries of gorgeous hues, call to mind the work of O’Keefe—though he lacked O’Keefe’s lyrical sense of abstraction and great adventurousness in color. Fifteen years in, she left Dixon and wed the UC Berkeley professor, Paul Schuster Taylor. Together, they toured New Mexico and other areas where Dust Bowl refugees settled. The Farm Security Administration paid for this work. Later the War Relocation Authority employed her to photograph the forced displacement of Japanese Americans—whose internment camps were often located in Southwest deserts. Her pictures powerfully influenced national policy toward dislocated farmers, and when she got back to Berkeley, her influential work continued through the founding of Aperture Magazine with Southwest photographer, Ansel Adams. There was no magazine like it. It supplied a rare platform for serious examples of photographic craft and was the first magazine of its sort since O’Keefe’s husband, Alfred Steiglitz, published Camera Work from 1903 to 1917. Of her work in this area, one writer said, “Her images of the Southwest are unconcerned with its beauty, depicting it as less of a place and more of a blank space between places.” 40

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Lange herself was critical of photographers who took advantage of the “obviously picturesque” Southwest — suggesting that it was too easy to take pictures here. Dorothea Lange, untitled internment camp photograph, c. 1942 Her picture, Railroad Tracks Southwestern New Mexico, ignores the commonplace bravura vision inspired by the dramatic scale of the state’s flatlands, rocks, and sky. Plain, but geometrically interesting, her photo successfully shows a “place between places.” She fought polio her whole life and said of it, “It formed me, guided me, instructed me, [and] helped me.” Eventually, esophageal cancer killed her. She died in San Francisco in 1965—the city that first restrained her wandering ways. She was 70.

Unlike Lange, Berlyn Brixner (1911 – 2009) isn’t known for his artistic or social vision.

But the wartime government paid his bills, just as it did Lange’s. His fame came from making a visual record of the Manhattan Trinity Test in Alamogordo, New Mexico—the first detonation of an A-Bomb. Seventy-three years ago, Bixner’s southwest vision rocked the world. His contribution is historical in terms of technique, as well as subject matter. When called to his role, he had to invent photo methods to reveal something brighter than the sun that existed for scant seconds. He came up with rotating mirror cameras (which could take pictures at hundreds of thousands of frames per second), and on July 16, 1945, he created some of the most famous Southwest images known.

Berlyn Bixner, Trinity Test photos, 1945

Though artifacts for history, these pictures also helped scientists resolve mathematical problems that required measurement of the fireball’s flicker-quick growth. The math guys got what they needed; he then found his niche with them. He stayed in the state, where he was born, working at Los Alamos the remainder of his vocational days. Before dying at 98, he nailed down meaningful patents and published more than 45 papers on technical aspects of photography. His lens innovations were employed on some of the farthest-traveling cameras ever. They were mounted on two Mariner missions to Mars.

Milan Sklenar, Landscape

Like Lange, local artist, Milan Skelnar (b. 1941) is known for helping other artists. He owns and directs Crashing Thunder Gallery on Coal Ave. His cameras have traveled pretty far, too. When he arrived in New York City from Czechoslovakia in 1984, he was interested in street photography. The Hungarian master of the camera, Andre Kertez, helped him see. When UNM gave him a professorship, he found himself traveling farther west than planned—and he landed where scant street material existed to catch his eye. Like Lange, he didn’t want to turn to the desert’s charms. “Because it is so beautiful, it is hard to photograph,” he said. But the local landscape had its way. He found a street photographer’s approach to it—one that played with horizon lines and the arrangement

of discrete elements in the frame—a little like the famous modernist, Jim Dine; a little like the way things jumble in a street. Sklenar’s photography tells stories of the landscape’s sparseness, even as it offers reverence to scattered desert elements, similar to how street photographers show us fleeting dramas on open sidewalks or how gallery curators put pictures on walls. Sklenar steered Czechoslovakian city vision toward Southwest sandscape. In the many roles he has played for Gallup—professor, photographer, and gallery director, Sklenar, like Bixner and Lange, has shown us Southwest visions unlike ones seen before. March 2018

RE-DISCOVERING GALLUP’S WPA ART COLLECTION: Digging into the Past with an Eye Toward the Future By Rose Eason, Executive Director of gallupARTS

A picture of Lloyd Moylan’s mural “Allegory--History of the Region” in the McKinley County Courthouse (painted in 1940).

A picture of the interior of the old McKinley County Courthouse (the Courthouse itself was built by the WPA and houses a large portion of the collection).

Lloyd Moylan “En Route to Ceremonial” Watercolor on paper, c. 1930s 42

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On your last visit to the Octavia Fellin Public Library, did you take notice of the paintings hanging on the walls? Has the finely carved oak furniture ever caught your eye? Watching the Nightly Indian Dances, you’ve probably enjoyed the beautiful backdrop the old county courthouse provides, but have you ever wondered about the building’s distinctive architecture? Were you aware that inside the old courthouse is a kaleidoscope of decorative wall paintings, tinwork light fixtures, colorful tiles, and stunning sand paintings? Perhaps one of Gallup’s best-kept secrets is its significant and impressive collection of artworks made during the 1930s and 40s as part of FDR’s New Deal Program, one of the largest such collections in the State. Under the New Deal’s Works Progress Administration (WPA), Gallup served as one of four federal art centers in New Mexico. The history of the WPA in Gallup is alive today in the form of a suite of over 90 artworks—ranging from architecture to paintings to decorative objects to murals— housed in four separate locations: the Library, the old county courthouse, the Gallup McKinley County School District, and storage. A treasure trove of Depression-era art is hidden in plain sight! gallupARTS, a 501(c)3 arts nonprofit serving Gallup and McKinley County, now hopes to restore the legacy of the WPA by re-discovering and re-unifying these artworks, and re-gifting them to the public to whom they belong in the form of an online showcase. gallupARTS recently received a $30,000 Digital Projects for the Public “Discovery” grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to design a one-of-a-kind virtual art exhibit of the Gallup community’s WPA art collection. gallupARTS envisions a community-oriented, informational, interpretive, dynamic, and creative web exhibit. Our work will be grounded in academic scholarship to highlight the historical, cultural, and artistic significance of Gallup’s WPA art collection. A multi-disciplinary team of expert humanities advisers including art historians, curators and historians from Gallup, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Denver will help guide development of the project. Additionally, we will be taking advantage of the opportunities a digital platform presents to think outside the box. We will be collaborating with local artists, activists, community elders, and others to incorporate a myriad of viewpoints, insights, and ideas into the exhibit in exciting and thought-provoking ways in order to expand our understanding of the WPA artworks on view. The exhibit might, for example, compare and contrast artwork done by artists currently living and working in the Gallup area with that done during the WPA. It might also include music, audio oral history recordings, video, photographs, and/or other material from Gallup today that complements and sheds new light on WPA artworks. A major ethos of the proposed virtual art exhibit is to treat the WPA artworks not only as historical artifacts but as living objects as well, and, in doing so, to deepen our appreciation of the past as it relates to the present. Framing our work is the question: What can we learn from the past that will help us achieve a better present and Harrison Begay “Taking Down a Finished Rug” future? One way to answer Casein on paper, c. 1930s

this question is: a lot. Fundamentally, Gallup’s WPA art collection is one of remarkable stories. Through their art, artists endeavor to tell stories—ones of places, people, times, cultures. The results are not documentaries, but idiosyncratic expressions informed by individual backgrounds and presented from unique points of view. True to form, Gallup’s WPA art collection is exceptional in terms of the diversity it represents. Gallup’s WPA artists include well-known painters of European descent from the East Coast and the West, mostly (and unfortunately) anonymous master Spanish/Hispanic woodworkers, recognized Native painters and (again, unfortunately) unnamed Native artisans. Importantly, Gallup’s WPA art collection is one of the few in the country that includes Native artist-created work. In terms of style, its artworks range from realistic to abstract, from decorative to historical, and from intimate to grandiose. One of the directives of the WPA to the artists in its employ was to create an “American” aesthetic. Toward this end, the diversity of artists involved in Gallup’s federal art center is remarkable and meaningful. At the same time, by putting such a mix of artists and approaches in dialogue with one another, the collection necessarily raises complex issues of representation, authority, and perspective. Whose stories are being told? How are they being told? By whom? For whom? To what purpose? Who has the right to tell what stories? We’ve all heard the expression “history is written by the victor.” What voices are excluded? What would they say if given the opportunity? We see Gallup’s collection of WPA art as the optimal context and venue not just for appreciating timeless artistry, but also for tackling tough issues raised by the past for the sake of community building. Our hope is that through the planning and development of this project featuring Gallup’s WPA art, we can, as community members, work together to uncover a richer and more inclusive

Free, Public WPA Art Tours (no registration required!): “Collection Overview: The 3 Stages of WPA Art in Gallup” Saturday, March 3rd from 11:00am - 12:00pm Octavia Fellin Public Library (meet in the Lobby) Gallup’s History as told through WPA Art & Architecture Monday, April 30th from 4:00pm - 5:00pm County Courthouse (meet at the entrance to the new County Courthouse)

Joseph Fleck “Pueblo Girl” (Westwind) Oil on Canvas, c. 1930s

Jozef Bakos, “Cottonwoods” Watercolor on paper, 1938-39

understanding of our shared history that will translate into a more equitable vision of the future. We are very much looking forward to getting the community involved in this project through a

variety of public programs. Stay up-to-date with gallupARTS’ WPA art website project at www. galluparts.org/wpa-art or on Facebook @ART123 Gallery and @ArtsCrawl Gallup.

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YOUR LIFE WITH DIABETES AND THE PROCESS OF CHANGE

By Jean C. Baltz BC-ADM, RD, CDE, MMSc, MSW It is an opportunity to build a trusting relationship Director Chronic Disease Management Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services with your provider. And learn of the many tools available to help you achieve the best possible health Your life with diabetes can be whatever you determine and wellness! it to be. You can think of it as an adventure of learning Or not; you may choose to ignore the symptoms, about your body’s processes, food and nutrition and accommodate to the lesser energy level, vision changes, how so much in your life impacts your glucose (blood pain and tingling in your limbs and choose to not seek sugar), enjoying the good times and rolling with and the most innovative care management. learning from the more difficult times.

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Accepting the need to change is very difficult and little is understood about the process of change. In fact, not much is known about why people change and even less about why changes last. There is little consensus on the definition of relapse or failure which is almost always a part of the change process. Change is not necessarily progressive or incremental and therefore not easily recognized or measured. It would not be inaccurate to state that every change process takes on characteristics of the person attempting change. Change is generally the result of a complex series of events and circumstances that are only partially related to a person’s choices and decisions. Change almost always requires some sort of constructive plan of action, as well as structured opportunities to attain desired objectives; commitment alone leads to frustration. With a new diagnosis of diabetes, there are many intrusions in your usual way of doing things; monitoring glucose, eating a healthy diet, reading labels, changing your usual diet content, amount and timing, taking prescribed medications at designated times, exercising, managing stress and anxiety, following complicated instructions when ill, scheduling and keeping appointments with your provider several times a year. It can all seem very exhausting. Knowing yourself is a key component to successful diabetes management. Working with a diabetes manager or educator can assist you in this process. This is termed the biopsychosocial assessment. It is an assessment to best determine how you learn, what your challenges may be and also your strengths. The biopsychosocial model is a way of looking at the mind and body as two important systems that are interlinked.

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Behavior and behavior change takes on a mind-body conflict. When you tackle “change”, knowing what personal obstacles may be encountered and what assets are available can better predict success. Consider the following as potential barriers to successfully implementing change (Bunker & DeLisle, 1991); • Lack of awareness that change is needed. • Inability to decide what needs to be done. • Lack of understanding about what is expected. • Inability to do what is expected. • Lack of willingness to give up what is perceived as valuable. • Reinforcement for remaining the same. • Lack of belief that what is offered is better than the status quo. • Feeling threatened by the anticipated outcome. • A low personal tolerance for change. • Tendency to cooperate in a way that is different from what others prefer or expect.

Lasting change is internalized; it becomes a part of the person; it is significant and transformative and results in altered thinking, feeling, and behavior, and remains stable until such a point it is no longer adaptive.

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Ode to Linda Oh dear this is really a sad occasion. We have lost an artist.

I am sure every one remembers when they saw their first Linda Bowlby art. We immediately felt the rightness of color and its form. Yes, that is yellow or is it butter or is in sunlight on the water? Purple! or is it the veins of an iris, an orchid, a cut plum? Often you would bypass color and see the painting as an entity in itself. Remember, Luxuriant Wet Soil generating life forms in green and gold. And she was only beginning. She was creating poetry with a trowel. She was fearless and confident. Linda’s work can not be defined as painting or sculpture, as

“Firebird” by Linda Bowlby

two dimensional or three dimensional because she SAW color as form. Paint is colored, literally, it is pigment ground into a medium. By itself is it color? To an artist color is much more than paint and is only seen when it becomes part of our experience. To create that experience, I think, is the job of a colorist, which I think Linda was. And I, for one, will never know exactly how she made these works. I was hoping to learn some of her secrets which I know she would have been happy to share her secrets. She was already teaching students in her gallery. She was a perfectionist and set for herself the highest archival standards. And she was becoming an Art Activist. She had just applied to be on the board of Gallup Arts. She had just bought and renovated the building that houses her Free Sprit Gallery and o p o. I think the best thing Gallup can do is to help promote the many serious artists we have. Linda was about to put all her energy and resources into this effort. It is a tragedy for her friends and family and our community that we have lost her. opo Gallery will be open during ArtsCrawl with a memorial showing in honor of Linda. March 2018

CHARISSE BUCHANAN

Nurse Practitioner Specialist

Charisse working after hours on some files at home By Sandra McKinney

Charisse Buchanan, NP, is a long way from Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa, where she was born, raised, and began her studies in the health-care profession. Charisse received a degree in Microbiology and a Master’s Degree in Food Science at The University of Pretoria. She presented her thesis on the study of low-fat cheese, using specific grains from Africa as the fat replacement. But, rather than remain in research and development for food companies, Buchanan wanted more direct-contact with patients and the medical field. Her father, Alan Buchanan, and mother, Teresa came to the United States in 2009. Alan had accepted a transfer to America as a mechanical engineer with the Timken Company in Canton, Ohio. Her father suggested to Charisse that she also come to America to gain her nursing degree. Charisse left behind all that she was familiar with in South Africa and moved to America. At least her parents were here to greet her and guide her in the new world of America. Working in the medical field must be in the younger Buchanan blood, as Charisse left behind her brother, Glynn, who is a dentist in Pretoria and her cousin, Francois, who is a neurosurgeon in in Bloemfontein of the Free State, South Africa. Arriving in Canton, Ohio, on December 30, 2010, Charisse celebrated the coming of the New Year 2011 as her welcome to America. She immediately enrolled at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, in the nursing program. She received an accelerated bachelor’s degree in nursing. Buchanan commented, “University studies are a bit more laid-back in America. In South Africa, we did not have summers off, vacations or breaks from college like here in America. In South Africa, getting your college degree was similar to working a job; we went to school from 8:00am to 5:00pm, five days a week.” Consequently, it 48

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Gizmo sporting his Bow Tie after attending Puppy Training.

was easy for Buchanan to stick with her studies and work the accelerated program at Kent State. After graduation from Kent State University, Buchanan worked at Mercy Medical Center in Canton, Ohio, as part of allowed training in America after completing a degree. “I learned that I could not get an American work visa with only my Registered Nurse degree, Buchanan explains. “So I returned to school and received my Certification in Public Health and then my Nurse Practitioner degree at the University of Akron, Ohio.” During summer breaks from school, Buchanan volunteered at a Community Clinic for indigent and underserved patients in Hartville, Ohio. Her work involved care for many of the immigrants who worked the farms in Ohio. Also during her own training time, she taught undergraduate nursing students. Buchanan graduated from the University of Akron with Honors and had many diverse experiences during her education. “It was then a question of what I would do next,” explains Charisse. “I went on-line to job-search sites and found that RMCH in Gallup, New Mexico, was hiring. I liked the idea of moving West and seeing a different part of America.” She accepted a position as an Adult/ Geriatric Nurse Practitioner with RMCH and came to Gallup, New Mexico, August 1, 2017. Charisse clarifies, “Adult/Geriatric medicine is for patients 18 years and older; children are not within my scope of medicine.” She further explains, “Internal Medicine is for adult care of chronic issues, such as high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, lung issues, and other maladies of the adult patient.” Charisse speaks Afrikaans which is one of 11 official languages of South Africa. She laughs and says, “I have not had the opportunity to use Afrikaans here in Gallup, but I am attempting to learn a few words of Navajo.” Hallo, my naam is Charisse, hoe kan ek jou help? (Hello, my name is Charisse, how can I help you?) Her father, Alan, was born in South Africa, but his family was from Scotland and he speaks English and Afrikaans. Her mother, Teresa, born in South Africa, speaks Afrikaans as a first language, plus English. So Charisse is bi-lingual in English and Afrikaans. To ease the pressures of work, Charisse enjoys the sport of running. She can often be seen running the streets and paths around Gallup. Pretoria is in northern South Africa and has a dry heat in the summers. The temperatures in summer are 80-90°, and winter temperatures rarely drop to 32°. During her time in Ohio, the elevation was about 1000 ft. above sea level. Buchanan explains, “I thought New Mexico was going to be something like Pretoria, South Africa; I did not register that Gallup is at 6500 ft.” She had to adjust to the higher altitude before she could pick up her running speed. The colder temperatures and a heavier workload this winter has curbed her running a bit, but she is greatly looking forward to spring and the opportunity to explore new paths and areas to run. One of the other big adjustment she had to make when coming to America was the change in driving habits. “The majority of vehicles in South Africa are standard transmission, as they are cheaper than the automatic transmission,” she explains. “Plus we drive on the left side of the road in South Africa. It was a huge challenge to get used to driving on the right side of the road in the big city of Canton, Ohio,” she muses. Shortly after Charisse arrived in Gallup, she thought it would be great to have a companion dog to join her on her runs. She adopted a tiny white pup who appeared to be part Maltese and part West Highland Terrier. She promptly fell in love with the little fellow and named him Gizmo. He immediately received his vaccinations, but alas, he came

Charisse with her little “Terrorist” Gizmo down with Parvo just days after his adoption. This little pup had a strong will to live and the perfect new human in his life. He was all of about 4 lbs. when he spent 11 days in the Animal Hospital fighting for his life. When he was able to come home, he still had medical hurdles to overcome with a very sensitive stomach from the ravages of Parvo. Charisse went into high nursing-mode and fed Gizmo a special diet, saw that he received his daily medications, and babied the little pup back to good health. “I now call him the ‘Terrorist’ as I spoiled him so much when he was healing, and he now has an abundance of energy and always wants to play. He has grown to about 15 lbs,” Charisse says with a sigh of relief. They are attending puppy-training classes, and he is very smart and becoming a fun companion for daily walks…and soon the daily runs! Buchanan feels that it was a good decision to come to Gallup. Besides enjoying our community and the surroundings, she is certainly enhancing her medical knowledge. She is sometimes called Dr. Buchanan, but mostly she is referred to as Miss Charisse at RMCHCollege Clinic. She is a wonderful new voice for our community and a big advocate for us for better health. If you have the pleasure to meet this young woman, please give her a big Gallup welcome. We just hope that it is under fun circumstances and not a visit to her office; but rest assured if it is in her office, Miss Charisse Buchanan will take very good care of your medical needs. March 2018

ADVERTISING = AWARENESS

By Jason Arsenault

Owning a small business can be tough. Not only can it be one of the most rewarding things you do in your life, but it also can be the most grueling venture you ever undertake. Many times, our business will come to define us; it becomes one-in-the same. Say you’re an accountant and you no longer seen in the eyes of your friends as the person who enjoys hiking, but now you are the person they are asking tax advice from. However, it takes some time to get to this ‘I have arrived moment’. In the beginning, it is all about finances. What is the cost of the space I will need? What equipment is essential for the job; do I purchase the equipment or lease? Do I need to hire employees? How much inventory should I have in stock? How much money do I need to keep this business afloat until it starts to earn a profit? We get so

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concerned with money that we often forget the most important question: How will I reach my customer? When you are a business owner, you need to think of yourself as a brand. Is it your desire to become like Dell Computer, rather than Gateway? This should always be a focus of your business throughout its life. You stop advertising your brand when you stop being a brand. You must make this financial decision, and then go with what makes sense for your brand and the best bang-forthe-buck. The first thing you need to figure out is who your customer is. If you want to open a restaurant here that serves a more expensive meal, it probably doesn’t make sense to put your brand-awareness dollars on social media. Expensive meal tickets draw an older crowd, not young people who spend the majority of their time on social media but fail to have the money to be a regular

customer at your expensive restaurant. However, if you are thinking about a food truck that serves $3 breakfast burritos, then social media is exactly where you put your advertising money. Updates on location, menu, and hours are perfect messages to deliver to your younger on-the-go crowd. It seems easy; you probably already think you know who your customer is going to be, but this is definitely an area where you do not want to make a mistake. Gallup is unique when it comes to creating a brand. You could go all out with a television ad, but does it really make sense to have something advertised to the whole state? If I am living in Albuquerque where the largest New Mexico market is, I probably will not make the trip to Gallup to buy an automobile or an enchilada dinner. Also, it is critical not to think of advertising as how many sales did I get. What you are doing is developing a brand. For example, you don’t want a potential customer saying they want a “GMC pick-up truck,” but instead you want them saying it is “time to go to Rico’s.” It is easy to think we are doing a good job because

Gallup is a small market. If you are in the food truck business, you probably have a chance of being successful because you will not have a lot of competition. Meaning, you can figure out what works, where to set up, times to be open and how to be reaching lots of potential customers that nobody else is reaching. The story could be completely different if you are ready to open your New Mexico food restaurant. Gallup is already home to some incredible New Mexico food dishes and this would be a more difficult market to break into. So, if you have very little competition and don’t do much branding, it opens the door for someone to compete. One of the things I enjoy most when I visit other towns is seeing what local businesses thrive. Communities that have a strong economic base have successful locally-owned businesses. Too often, outside brand-awareness-dollars are used for national chains that drive locally owned businesses out of the market. We are strong supporters of our local businesses and would love to be part of your brand-building campaign.

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“SUPPORTING ADULTS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES SINCE 1972” “Be a leading person - centered program that maximizes cultural, social, financial, and personal independence.” If you are looking for a program to get involved with or want to learn about the services provided by CCRC, this is one to get behind. They are located 35 miles northeast of Gallup, on the Navajo Nation in Brimhall, New Mexico. CCRC was established in 1972 to serve individuals with developmental disabilities throughout the Navajo Nation including New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah. The program serves over 50 residents, has a staff of over 100, and provides 18 houses for their community living program. Services include but are not limited to providing accredited jobs, life skills training, residential services, and work experience. There are three unique parts of this program: The first one is the Community Living Service which allows individuals to live in an integrated environment and improve 52

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their quality of life. They encourage independence by giving opportunities to be in natural environments. Some activities have included trips to Arizona for a baseball game, a PBR rodeo event, Observatory trips, concerts: activities that spark an interest in an individual and also fulfill an annual service plan made together each year. With this program individuals also receive support in training, nursing, nutritional counseling, community involvement and financial management. Employment Services allows participants to earn minimum wages in a variety of environments. Local businesses provide opportunities to development skills in a job-site setting. The purpose is to provide training in an area of interest. Job sites may include janitorial services, button manufacturing, firewood and coal sales,

Board Members (L – R): Ms. Angelita Benally, CCRC Board Secretary/Treasurer, Mr. John Hunt, CCRC Board Member, Mr. Harrison Bia, CCRC Board Vice-President Ms. Doris Woody, CCRC Board President

landscaping, vending service, food service, contracts with the postal service, farming, and the Coyote Canyon Trading Post. Areas of placement may be in the communities of Tohatchi, Window Rock, Gallup, and the surrounding area. Under this program is also an exciting Art Program. They have their very own art hogan and art program. Training is provided in several art mediums such as silversmithing, photography, bead making, painting, and weaving. This creates a long-term program that trains students each day. In a typical day, the art instructor will assist, on average, six art students. The art department travels to various shows and events throughout the year promoting what has been made. Art that is produced is for sale and all proceeds benefit the student artist directly. The third component is the Day Habilitation Services. This program provides individuals an opportunity to increase and maintain their independence. Each day a programmed activity is designed to meet the unique needs of each person: such areas as working on communication skills, self-help, leisure activities, recreation, pre-employment, and adaptive skills. During this time, individuals will be placed with a job coach who will continue to mentor them in becoming the best at whatever they may aspire to do; focusing on building independence in areas that increase their overall productivity in all they do. The overall goal of this program is to provide the best possible service; helping each individual reach the best quality of life. The program has a Board of Directors that helps foresee the goals of the program each year. If you are out in the area of Brimhall, be sure to visit the Coyote Canyon Café: They serve breakfast and lunch Monday through Friday, 8:00 am to 1:00 pm. For more information: Contact 505-735-2261 ajames@ccrcnm.org www.ccrcnm.org

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Striving to Meet the Needs of Many: RMCHCS Shows Its Strength

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Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services has been an integral part of Gallup and McKinley County for more than 30 years. Our goal has always been to provide the best possible service to the citizens of our area. This past year has seen many important breakthroughs. The opening of the Urgent Care Clinic in April made it possible for patients to be seen the same day for non-life threatening illness and injuries without an appointment. Serving these non-critical patients at our Urgent Care location has lessened the load on our emergency department, allowing the most serious cases to receive more expedient treatment. Since the fall, we have more than doubled the number of patients we can accommodate and are now able to accept most insurance. Occupational health testing is also available at this convenient location. RMCHCS received Acute Stroke Ready Certification from DNV-GL, its hospital accrediting agency, in May 2017. As an Acute Stroke Ready Hospital (ASR), this certification demonstrates RMCHCS’ commitment to excellence by complying with standards of care for the initial treatment of stroke patients when rapid action and proper medications can save lives and limit the long-term disabling effects of strokes. Our rooftop helipad has made transportation of such critically injured patients to and from our hospital much more efficiently. Behavioral Health Services has grown exponentially from a modest 20 inpatient addiction treatment program, when it first reopened, to an expanded 60 bed, multi-faceted series of continuing treatment and aftercare programs for drug and alcohol addicted patients. Recognized at the state level for our success rate, our program continues to grow.

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New Wellness Center opened in October 2017

Rehabilitation Services moved to the new Wellness Center across from the hospital in October 2017. The 9200 square foot working area includes private evaluation rooms, a specialty wound-care room, multi-stationed equipment, work space for physical therapy, private rooms for speech and occupation therapy, and restrooms with showers. The 1850 square foot lower floor will be dedicated to exercise programs and education. RMCHCS recently installed a state-of-the-art 600 series steam sterilizer with multiple programmable functions for intelligent control at the touch of a finger. It is ideal for wrapped and unwrapped porous and nonporous hard goods, towel packs and gowns, and liquids in self-venting or unsealed containers. The time it takes to sterilize has been reduced immensely compared to our previous sterilizer. RMCHCS also installed a new washer-disinfector. It has a variety of available programs, time saving features, and integrated process monitoring functions, such as spray arm rotation, flow meter controlled dosing, and circulation pressure monitoring to ensure good cleaning outcomes while maximizing efficiency. It provides a user-friendly system and comprehensive digital documentation to record cycle information. These machines have increased our performance, boosted morale, and increased productivity. We are able to handle larger case loads, which allows us to be more accommodating to the community and provide better health care service in a timely fashion.

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ArtsCrawl: Time Travel Saturday, March 10 7 – 9pm Downtown Gallup ArtsCrawl kicks off 2018 with a trip back to the future.

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Get in on the action of Mountainfilm on Tour before and toward the end of ArtsCrawl. Buy a ticket and see adrenaline-packed short films at 4:30pm and 8:30pm at El Morro Theatre.

• Historical re-enactors: get autographs from some of Gallup’s most famous celebrity visitors, who’ve time-traveled to ArtsCrawl from the Golden Age of Hollywood. • A “wedge weaving” demo by Kevin Aspaas, a weaver who is re-discovering old techniques. • Try your hand at drop spindles, spinning wheels and hip spindles in an interactive demo of different spinning, knitting and weaving traditions at Weaving in Beauty.

Then, jump to the future by: Celebrating Gallup’s next generation of artists with - The 4th Annual Youth Art Show at ART123 Gallery; and - A Youth Performance Showcase featuring Foundations of Freedom pre-ballet and belly dancers, Irish Step Dancers, the Gallup High Drama Club, Native singer Ryedale Largo, and slam poet Rowie Shebala. - Watching master makeup artist Goldie Tom transform a youthful face into an elderly visage in a stage makeup demo. - Making high-tech LED “throwies” (Google it!) with the Library in the Events Center. - Contributing to a larger-than-life-sized collage envisioning Gallup’s environmental future with the McKinley Citizens Recycling Council. - Checking out up-and-coming Native artist Nathan Nez and his show “Elements” opening during ArtsCrawl at LOOM Indigenous Art Gallery. - Having breakfast for dinner at Camille’s Sidewalk Cafe, which is dishing up special menu items. - Plus, jam out with Tommy Trash & the Alleycats outside Quintana’s, and shop artist vendors and downtown businesses.

ArtsCrawl Community Time Capsule Bring something (a memento, a token, a souvenir, etc.) to add to ArtsCrawl’s Community Time Capsule, capturing Gallup at this moment in time. You can also make something to contribute in a workshop from 7 – 9pm in the Events Center. We’ll bury the Time Capsule for future ArtsCrawlers to discover!

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SILVER STALLION BICYCLE WORKS, THE NEXT EVOLUTION By Scott Nydam

March 2018

I’ve lifted my head many times at hearing the same story of a professional cyclist retiring from their career, not knowing where to turn, and then starting a bike shop. Or, the other typical story is known as the “black hole,” where after riders quit, fall out of the public’s eye, and are never heard of again. It’s a hard thing to watch your “hero’s journey” diminish like the mighty Colorado River, some years not even reaching the sea. It’s understandable, really. A lot of the riders who have made it big started at a very young age. They were learned, groomed, and reinforced everything bicycle. It’s what they know; it’s what they love; it’s who they are — or is it? My short professional cycling career with BMC Racing Team was buffered by a late start in my mid-twenties and a sequence of crashes that forced me to pull the plug early. Now, coming from someone who “struggled” in school, who squeaked by in college, and “didn’t know what he was going to do with his life,” gross muscular activity became the venue where I was able to validate and believe in myself. But for me and so many others, if competition was what it was all about, after it all ended, wouldn’t everybody just walk away? The question I pose is what’s really the most important thing about this most important thing in people’s lives? After finishing racing, the ego became akin to a four-letter word to me. Racing the bike, something that I could at one time actout, or perform, suddenly became an artifact of which I could only talk about. I felt my own ego getting pulled below the surface, slurping for air any chance it could get. Suddenly my “hero’s journey” of follow-your-bliss-and-the-universe-will-open-doorswhere-there-were-only-walls-to-you had become abstract; I could

only talk about it. I continued to work with the team I raced for, traveling to races and camps, surrounded by all things bicycle that supported a rider’s racing career, including belief in oneself and ego. Working then for the BMC Development Team of 18-22 year old young men aspiring to go professional, I realized I was leading them down a dangerous path strewn with ridiculous international race industry standards and expectations. Like, for example, if our riders didn’t receive a next-year’s contract from one of the top teams in the world, they seemed to adopt the idea that they were a failure. Hmmm? Most of the riders never received a “call up” to the pro ranks, so I started asking some of them to write down three reasons why getting up in the morning and riding their bike for hours a day was an important and valuable thing to them. Without saying it, I was telling them something that I have grown to believe, that even for a professional, results are not the most important thing. Something that may be obvious to you, it wasn’t to me: the commercial bike shop industry is driven by race competition. It’s driven by teams and individuals and race events like the Tour de France. Its sexy; it’s hot; it’s what sells bikes. Now, while a lot has begun to change with the growing diversity of people on bikes and the type of events being offered, a lot still remains the same, and for good reason. Competition is exciting and any challenge that someone steps-up to is an opportunity for them to apply themselves, prepare and execute, and learn something. It’s the biggest challenges that help us learn our deepest truths. They help us add to ourselves, but also help us subtract and debunk some of the false beliefs we’d been carrying around for so long. The great opportunity in the bike industry is that there are also these black-sheep cooperative bike shops called Community Bike Organizations, or CBOs. There are well over 200 CBOs across the country but any given person is normally unable to name more than one or two of them because they are so non-commercial and woven into the community. They are outside bike shop standard; they are quiet, low profile, and generally tucked away in an affordable industrial location, in a back alley or something like that; they function to repair and keep bikes from going to the dump; they make bicycle riding approachable and affordable; they educate and advocate for all things bicycle. The other great opportunity is that there is this thing called NICA (pronounced like “bike-yah”) or National Interscholastic Cycling Association. NICA is taking over the country. This middle school and high school mountain bike phenomenon is being made available to schools or “composite” communities that are willing to put a team together, or to any individual rider who is willing to sling their leg over a bike. New Mexico is yet to create its own “NICA League,” but all of our surrounding states have leagues that we can compete in. Taos has a team that participates in Colorado, and Silver City has a team that competes not far from us in Arizona. Every rider is a “starter” and every rider that finishes contributes to the girls and boys team school. Everyone involved agrees with NICA’s vision; it sees a future where every American youth has the opportunity to build a strong body, mind, and character through cycling. To learn more about CBOs go to: www.experimentalstation.org/blackstone/ To learn more about NICA go to: www.nationalmtb.org

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Advertising=Awareness: Jason Arsenault

Charisse Buchanan: Sandra McKinney

Ode to Linda

Event Calendar

Photography & the Southwest Vision: Eric Shaw

Student Support at UNM-Gallup

West by Southwest: Ernie Bulow

Radio Wave Legend Harrison Dehiya: Michele Reeves

Your Life with Diabetes and the Process of

Re-Discovering Gallup’s WPA Art Collection Digging into the Past with an Eye Toward the Future: Rose Eason

Telluride Mountainfilm on Tour Coming to Gallup