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pring is almost here. Which means one thing: Wind. It’s coming and it’s coming fast. When we moved to Gallup almost ten years ago, someone described the seasons here as summer, winter, and wind. And after almost ten years of living here, it’s still one of those things I just can’t get used to or see the silver lining in. I’m already looking forward to June. We got a puppy last fall from the Humane Society. She’s actually made an appearance or two in the magazine. For the most part, she’s a really great addition to the family. She keeps our older dog active and helps get us outside more often. She’s very affectionate. Very. She’s also big. Her body’s outgrown her intelligence and I have to remind myself often that she’s still just a puppy. I’m looking forward to when she’s a little less energetic and a bit better behaved. What am I saying? Like life would be perfect if that wind would just die down and the puppy would stop chewing on everything? Just skip over the next three or four months? When I spell it out like that, it sounds ridiculous. Yet, how do I reconcile feelings of impatience with the present, this gift of time and place that is now? I really want to live my life, this life, and not wish it away for some “better” version. I want to be satisfied in this moment. To really be present in life and not rushing through it. To find fulfillment despite my circumstances. It has to start now. Right now. Right now, the puppy is sleeping, warm and wheezy. The wind is blowing, but I’m inside. Right now is good. H.H.
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Contributors Erin Bulow Ernie Bulow Greg Cavanaugh Sanjay Choudhrie Patricia Darak Dr. Bera Dordoni Amy Halliday Kari Heil Steve Heil John Hoy Rob Koops Larry Larason Brett Newberry Steve Petranovich Vladimiro Pino Fowler Roberts Be Sargent Karen Stornelli Andy Stravers Melanie Van Dorp Chuck Van Drunen Betsy Windisch
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4 Thoughts 27 IZZIT?! 34 El Morro Theatre Schedule 40 News from Care 66 45 Sudoku 48 ArtsCrawl Schedule 50 GTOWN, 87301 53 Rodeo Schedule 54 Community Calendar 56 Opinion Poll 58 People Reading Journey 62 This Is My Job
8 Work in Beauty Murals 18 Driving Impressions 20 West by Southwest 22 Rounding the Four Corners 24 8 Questions 28 my rambles 30 Adventures In Parenting 36 Money & You 46 Lit Crit Lite
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10 Thoreau Library 12 Gallup Growers 14 Skin 16 Crazy Ideas That Just Might Work 26 Words From The Web 32 The Other Nigeria 38 Dey & Nite 40 Mayor’s Fur Ball 42 Gallup Robo Team
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e are halfway through this series on the Work in Beauty Murals, painted on the walls of the Gallup-McKinley County Detention Center, over a five-year period from 2005 through 2009. The murals depict Work of Heart, Mind and Strength for the Earth. The entire project is called The Work in Beauty Murals, inspired by the Navajo prayer, Walk in Beauty. There was something that said this had to be done, to try to represent the spirit of our community and the spiritual intention behind the murals. The artist’s power seems overwhelming. To be able to choose from the community a group of humans to symbolize caring for the earth and the process of painting this scene became a huge personal responsibility. For me, these are strong and enduring hearts that take us forward. I asked each for a statement or “what do you see in the flame?” Sandra Begay-Campbell Sandra preferred to send this link to a wonderful video: http:// pbskids.org/dragonflytv/scientists/scientist55.html. This link can also be accessed from the Gallup Journey website, gallupjourney. com.
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Left: Two sketches for the Circle of Elders on the left panel of Work of Mind. Sister Rose Marie Cecchini on the left and filmmaker Norman Brown on the right. Warning to artists: Don’t let your sketches be too good! You may have trouble living up to them!
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Norman Brown “I’m honored and blessed to be included in a visionary group of Gallup locals who view the world as one family. My hope is that in these tough times of economic and political changes, and natural upheavals, we cherish and embrace our shared humanity and show compassion towards our fellow man. This is the test of our generation, to work together for humanity. Our future unborn will hold our success as an example within their lives and dreams with pride. No matter how big the fight or the enemy, your shield is the conviction of dedication, perseverance, commitment, and sacrifice, and the weapon is unrelenting love for the land and people.” Martin Link “Gallup, with its diversity of cultures, wide range of educational levels, spiritual philosophies and political affiliations, has always been a place brimming with vitality and intellectual and artistic stimulation. Sitting around a table with several other local Gallupians will inevitably lead to a lively, but always civil, discourse.”
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BOOM! Poor Boy Wings Above: from the top and clockwise: Sandra Begay-Campbell, scientist; Norman Brown, filmmaker; Martin Link, historian; Mervyn Tilden, activist; and Sister Rose Marie Cecchini.
Mervyn Tilden “I have been a life-long radical activist for civil, human, religious and environmental rights for all, as well as a civilian lobbyist to the local, states, Navajo Nation and federal governments. I have served as a protector of sacred sites, animals and the less fortunate in life, speaking for those who cannot speak for themselves. Above all I put action behind my words, so that is what I am known for: being a ‘man of my word.’ My vision for the future is to utilize all of my experience, wisdom, knowledge, understanding and continued education for the benefit of human kind and creation. I strive to live upright as best as I can, always seeking justice and showing mercy thereby presenting a standard by which these things can be established as a means of living in peace and harmony while instilling hope in the hopeless.” Sister Rose Marie “What do I see in the flame? The flame reminds me of the origins of all being. We are the first generation of humans to know the story of our origins – with the flaring forth of the Universe 13.7 billion years ago. Out of the depths of infinite mystery and Divine Love, all things came into being with a spiritual dimension infused within the increasingly complex evolutionary direction. “As we humans grow in conscious awareness of all that brought us to life, awe at the wonder of Creation and gratitude for the gift of existence, we become, in a real sense, the Universe reflecting back upon itself. So, the flame reminds me of our sacred life journey on Earth and that we are always held in unconditional Love, regardless of the twists and turns our paths may take. “Whatever small thing I am able to do to express gratitude for the gift of life, including our one interrelated community of life on Earth, I regard as a sacred trust to express love for the Source of Being, love for all people and all Creation. From this flows the energy to promote energy efficiency, renewable energy, protection of water, air, land, for present and future generations, as visible ways of manifesting God’s love and care for all people, for all Creation.”
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Thoreau Library Opens Doors to the World By Karen Stornelli
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“A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.”
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ne scene is an otherwise average documentary sticks clearly in my mind as a moment of such basic and universal humanity that you’re left speechless. A journalist traveling around the US drives through the Navajo Nation. He meets a young mother living in a seemingly isolated area with her family, without electricity or running water, unemployed and lacking opportunities to change her situation. He asks, “What do you most need in your community?” The young woman sighs a most dignified, knowledgeable, weary sigh and says, “a library.” Today the Thoreau Community Center is offering just that. The budding library – including a collection of children’s, young adults, and adult fiction and non-fiction – is intended to reach residents of not only Thoreau, but also Smith Lake, Mariano Lake and Baca/Prewitt. There are only a handful of public libraries in the Eastern Navajo Agency, and this new library will be the only public library within a 30-mile radius, meaning hundreds of square miles. Little by little, it can become an excellent complement to the State Library’s Rural Bookmobile, which stops in the area once a month. In short, and as countless community
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residents have said, “We need this.” Thoreau Community Center was opened in 2010 as a forward-looking response to the tragic loss of area youth through suicide. The center’s first goal is “to inspire hope, joy and progress,” and it does so daily through computer training courses, Native flute classes, free internet access, and the after-school program for youth, to name a few. And what better way to inspire hope, joy, and progress than through the free flow of knowledge, ideas, and experience that books can provide? A mere three months ago, youth could browse through some 30 books; today they have 3,000 titles to choose from. Three thousand books through which to escape, travel, question, feel, learn, and be inspired. This library is taking shape the way the Thoreau Community Center has from the start: as a truly collaborative, community effort. Initiated by an AmeriCorps Vista volunteer with a passion for books since early childhood, the library gained momentum as residents of the area stepped up to help. After only a few months, the Center’s collection is now on the path to recognition by the State as a developing library.
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Growing Growers in Gallup to Build the Local Food System
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rowing vegetables and fruit in Gallup takes spunk, but maybe you or someone you know has it, demonstrating such verve each spring and summer in the garden. Every garden starts with vision and planning, whether containers on a patio, raised beds on the roof, or a backyard plot too big to hand dig. Gallup nonprofit Work in Beauty, Inc. encourages local gardeners to dream big, expand their vision, and plant enough to sell this year. Anyone interested in expansion who can grow without chemical fertilizers, pesticides, or herbicides is invited to contact us about what produce we can buy, how much, and when. And if growing organically sounds like a stretch, give us a call – we’re here to help. (We also can advise about drip irrigation and season extension.) Work in Beauty, Inc. will buy quality local produce wholesale from many growers in order to build our CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) shares. This diverse supply makes for a strong local food system. Some growers prefer to sell their produce wholesale all at once rather than take the time and the risk to sell directly to customers, while others prefer in-person contact with their customers. Every market gardener likes to have options to help insure that everything goes to market and nothing goes to waste. The Work in Beauty CSA is a local distribution system in which members pay in advance for shares of in-season, locally grown vegetables. Their shares are packed in boxes and distributed weekly. Members may join for one or more of the four 8-week seasons (and one 4-week season) to suit their needs. This year, our CSA will be distributing locally grown, inseason vegetables for 36 weeks from April through December.
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Every market gardener likes to have options to help insure that everything goes to market and nothing goes to waste.
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A CSA allows people to eat what grows nearby, inseason. CSA members typically enjoy the adventure of discovering new vegetables in their boxes, providing their bodies with the nutrition of seasonal produce, and supporting good stewardship of land by farmers close to home. Meeting other members and making the acquaintance of the growers themselves are other perks. Work in Beauty, Inc. is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization committed to the development of sustainable green livelihoods. Amy Halliday, our CSA coordinator, organizes the growing and the distribution of CSA produce. Please contact Amy at (505) 862-9517 if you are interested in either growing for the Work in Beauty CSA this year or subscribing to the CSA to get your weekly box of local produce. Donations are accepted for supporting the work of improving our region’s food security. Donations may also be dedicated to provide CSA memberships to those who would not be able to afford them otherwise.
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Our Largest Organ
hat a remarkable organ. Skin. Covering every part of our body, it certainly qualifies as our largest organ. Except for our face, though, we tend to take our skin for granted – until it bothers us, that is. If our skin develops a rash, we notice it. If it itches, we scratch, moisturize or cover it with a steroid cream to suppress the itch. Dry, oily, wrinkled – now our skin has our attention! Beyond that, though, how many of us realize the extreme importance of this “backup” organ? Fact: Approximately 15-20% of the average adult’s total body weight is skin. Fact: Skin is filled with billions of cells, thousands of sensory points, sweat glands, sebaceous glands -- each performing its own function for keeping the skin healthy. Fact: Skin is a protective barrier, our first line of defense against foreign invaders, infections, dehydration, injuries and other outside elements. Fact: Skin has an enzymatic detoxification process similar to the liver – in other words, it helps us clean out. Fact: Topical nutrients applied to the skin are absorbed and transferred directly into the bloodstream. And that’s where the problem comes in. Nondiscriminatory Skin does not discriminate between natural and synthetic chemicals – it absorbs whatever is applied to it. When you shower without a filter on your showerhead, you absorb more undesirable elements through your skin than you would if you drank straight tap water. Here’s why: All the stuff in regular tap water that made you start drinking bottled or filtered water – especially large amounts of chlorine – is being absorbed through your skin in your bathtub. You cannot escape the chlorine; it is used to disinfect municipal water systems, just like it is added to backyard swimming pools to disinfect the pool. You know better than to drink pool water. You probably take a shower after getting out of the pool to rinse off the chlorine – but did you realize you’re merely rinsing off with more of the same? Chlorine chemically bonds with the proteins in the body, causing dry skin and hair and irritating the eyes. Inhaled directly into the lungs via shower
vapor, it can contribute to a number of other health problems, such as cancer and reproductive dysfunction. What can you do? Use a shower filter to trap the chlorine, dirt, and smells inherent in tap water before it gets to your body. Scary Problem, Delightful Solution Once you have a shower filter, all you have to do is exfoliate. Yup, that’s the answer. Whether dry, oily or “normal,” your skin needs to be exfoliated regularly. Sloughing off dead surface cells oxygenates the skin and revives its texture by clearing out congested sebaceous or “sweat” glands and opening up clogged pores. Clogged, dirty pores resist nutrient absorption and hold in toxins. Open, clean pores allow for nutrient absorption and toxin release. And it feels so good. There are salt scrubs. There are sugar scrubs. You can purchase them in health-food stores, or you can make your own. I love making my own because I can add a few drops of my choice of essential oils. When I want to feel invigorated I’ll use rosemary and orange oils added either to mineral salt or sugar, depending on which base I want at the moment. If I’m taking a shower or bath just before going to bed, I use my salt scrub with lavender oil, which is soothing and relaxing. Why the salt as opposed to the sugar before bed? Think minerals: a good mineral salt will provide you with extra relaxing minerals such as calcium and magnesium that just might help enhance your sleep. Promises Promises . . . Oily skin may keep you from wrinkling, as so many of our mothers promised us, but it sure doesn’t keep us from breaking out. We start learning early to hide our blemishes with a cover-up. What we don’t realize is that the cover-ups only cause further breakout! It seems everyone has skin issues. We either want to retain our youthful, healthy skin, or get rid of acne and blemishes. Of course, we can certainly find enough products lining the store shelves that promise wrinkle-free, blemish-free, spot-free, line-free skin. The problem is, a lot of those commercial “beauty-in-a-jar”
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products are not cruelty-free – they were tested on animals in painful, unnecessary experiments. And the ingredients – most of which we cannot pronounce – often consist of various rancid animal byproducts. Even worse, an amazing number of the creams and lotions advertised on television and in “finer salons or department stores” are petroleum-based! You know petroleum – it’s the stuff you put in your car tank! Healthy, radiant skin needs to breathe. Read the label on the creams and makeup you purchase. Natural ingredients are organic, like our skin and bodies. Synthetic ingredients, obviously, are not – they’re chemicals that can harm our delicate skin. Some of the more commonly used synthetic ingredients found in brand-name products are: · Propylene Glycol: used in cosmetics as a humectant, surfactant, and solvent; used in cars as antifreeze and hydraulic brake fluid. Petroleum-based, it can cause allergic and toxic reactions, and is being studied for its link to cancer when applied topically. · Mineral Oil: used in place of fruit and vegetable oils such as avocado or apricotkernel oil, because it is cheaper and more stable, it acts as a solvent on the skin (making it inappropriate for dry skin) and clogs the pores (making it inappropriate for oily skin). Applied topically to “normal” skin, it prevents the large organ from breathing. · Isopropyl Alcohol: a synthetic alcohol produced by the hydration of ethylene – usually petroleum-based. · SD Alcohol: “SD” stands for “specially denatured,” meaning chemicals were added to render the alcohol poisonous to drink. The number following (i.e., SD Alcohol “40”) refers to the particular chemicals added to determine in which products the alcohol should be used. · Paraffin Wax: a petroleum byproduct. Think candles. · Triethanolamine: used to create emulsions. Toxic due to over-alkalinity. · Methylparaben, propylparaben: synthetic preservatives that can produce allergic reactions. · Stearic Acid: usually an animal byproduct, which can cause allergic reactions. · Sodium Stearate: 92.82% stearic acid. Used in creams and lotions. · Sodium Laurel/Laureth Sulfate: used in hair-care products, this synthetic detergent that strips the hair and scalp of moisture can make dandruff and oily hair worse!
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You won’t find any of the above-listed bad ingredients in natural skin-care products. Instead, you’ll find botanicals such as tea tree oil and grapefruit seed oil and alpha hydroxy acids taken from bilberry, apple, orange, lemon, grapefruit and sugar cane that help exfoliate dead skin cells very gently. You’ll also find essential oils of lavender, cypress, orchid, chamomile and peppermint as well as many other wonderful, natural ingredients in these moisturizing, cleansing, soothing, delicioussmelling, feel-good (and good-for-you) products for both men and women. My very favorite products that use only these above-mentioned ingredients are from Nonie of Beverly Hills. They’re competitively priced and worth every penny because they are so natural. The only preservative they use is grapefruit seed oil. If you want something very simple that is wonderful for your body, inside and out, get a jar of extra virgin coconut oil and apply that to your skin on a daily basis. It absorbs nicely, has great health benefits of its own (read the article at http:// www.bastis.org/coconut.htm for more information on the health benefits), and smells divine. The more ingredients that are organic, the better. “Why is organic so important?” is a question I am often asked. My answer: because organic recognizes organic, and knows what to do with it and how to use it. Meaning . . . ? Did you know that you, and every living thing, is an organic thing? Not necessarily grown without pesticides, as we might assume is the meaning of ‘organic,’ but grown into recognizable cellular patterns. That means our bodies recognize foods that are fruits, vegetables and the like . . . all grown into cellular patterns. Put something on your skin that is organically based, and your body can make good use of it while still breathing, but put something like mineral oil on it and you suffocate your skin, clog it up, and might very well experience the breakouts that often accompany cheap, toxic ingredients. If the skin absorbs unhealthful ingredients for many years, much deeper health issues can result from the absorption into the vital organs over a long period of time, with their cumulative effects. So, be good to yourself by being good to your skin. Read labels. If they contain some of the above-mentioned toxic ingredients, put the jar back and find one with more natural ingredients. Demand better products from the stores where you make most of your purchases; talk with management. Their job is to please the customers. Check out La Montañita Co-op in Gallup or your local healthfood store where they have some nice skin-care products on their shelves filled with delicious-sounding ingredients, most of which are edible. This is the only package you get to be wrapped in this go-around, so preserve it with good foods and don’t take it for granted.
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“CRAZY IDEAS THAT JUST MIGHT WORK” This is the title of a series of stories/ideas on what could be done in Gallup. For the next few months (and maybe more, if we’re really creative) we are going to put forth some ideas we think would benefit our community. The ideas we showcase will always be for the good of Gallup . . . at least what we think is good for Gallup. Some of the ideas may be, as my grandpa says, “from way out in left field.” And some ideas may be fairly easy to both conceptualize and complete. We aren’t asking that all of these happen - just that we open a dialogue to continually move Gallup forward.
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s you probably remember from last month (or maybe not, depending on if you read February’s Crazy Idea), I love dogs. We have two awesome dogs. Last month, I recommended that the City of Gallup invest in doggie poop bag dispensers and to place one at every park in G-TOWN. And trust me, this is a good idea. There are lots of dogs in Gallup and folks love to walk them to their neighborhood park to let them play where, sometimes, poop happens. Anyway, I’m getting away from myself. I really want to talk about plans for a Gallup Dog Park. A place where dogs are free to run and jump and splash and play and have an all-around good time. Thankfully, we have so many great people in Gallup! I say that because this project is actually going to happen. There’s even a beautiful sketch of what it’s going to look like! I mean, this is a really great thing for our community . . . I’m sure everyone is as psyched as me, but if not, I’m sure you’ll get there! You’ll be hearing more about the proposed location and how you can help make this dog park a reality in future issues of the Journey (and hopefully other places, too!).
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Camry. It looks fully acceptable, marginally better and will offend no one. The Hybrid model gets a blue Toyota badge on the grill, and the SE has some sporty additional bodywork. The interior is spacious, comfortable, easy to use . . . and forget. The buttons in the center stack, as well as their labeling, are still cartoonishly large, but function well. The LE has an easy-to-use touchscreen infotainment system. The gauge cluster uses an RPM-like gauge to show average MPG. The steering wheel tilts and telescopes making adjustments easy. The chassis is well sorted and has a nice ride without being overly soft and, after only a few miles of driving, it fades from memory. The steering is neither precise nor vague. The 2.5-liter, 4-cylinder engine and 6-speed automatic in the LE go about their business like perfect little soldiers and always get the job done, providing adequate power, 178 hp/170 lb. ft. and, combined with extensive weight shedding, good gas mileage: 25 city / 35 highway. The Hybrid adds batteries and electric motors to bring the mileage count to 43 city / 39 highway. The Hybrid’s electric motor pulls strongly from a stop. So that’s it. Sort of.
Toyota has tried to inject some fun into the camry . . . well, just a little. Firstly, Toyota has changed the Hybrid’s place in the lineup. No longer a higher end model, it represents a stunning deal, only $2,000 more than the LE. Interestingly, it’s less than $2,000 dollars more than a base Prius as well and much more spacious. Pretty cool. Secondly, the Hybrid uses the adoption of the Prius’s over-promising EV Mode button, which attempts to “lock” the car into electric only mode. Just as with the Prius, if you manage to go faster than 15 miles per hour, or push the accelerator with anything more than a feathery touch, the engine will kick on and the car will say “excessive speed” or “excessive acceleration.” Always funny, always ridiculous. I still can’t figure out its intended use. Thirdly, both the LE and the Hybrid use Toyota’s Smart Key. It takes only a couple days of use to realize just how great it is. Put the key in your pocket, walk to the car, pull on the handle to unlock, get in the car, put your foot on the brake, push “start” to start the car, reverse and do the opposite when done. It’s great!
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Mysteries of Zuni Jewelry:
Part Two
Above: Marietta Soseeah at her workbench. Right: Marietta Soseeah’s Knifewing Bracelet.
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t probably shouldn’t be surprising to discover that correcting the many errors in C. G. Wallace’s collection notes is turning out to be a daunting task. But since Wallace is virtually the only source of information on the general history of early Zuni jewelry making, the dealers and collectors have been taking his word for so long that this information seems to be set in hard cement. Is there any chance that pieces assigned to John Gordon Leak will be given back to their maker, John Leekity? Add to that the strong sense of privacy among the Zunis, and their cultural aversion to publicity and notoriety, and the problem gets much worse. Several people told me that kokko (katsina) inlay pieces attributed to Red Leekela were in fact made by other people – the main contender being Walter Nakatewa. Living in the same house with him because they had married the beautiful Nakatewa girls were Hugh Bowekaty, Douglas Lesense and Bryant Waatsa, all famous jewelers. There is a lesser figure of a horse attributed to Walter in the Sotheby catalog, representing a much different style of work. Hugh Bowekaty had no hesitation about attributing the horse figure to Celestine Coochi. And so it goes. Without the help of the few surviving metalsmiths and the families of other notable artists, there isn’t much hope of setting the record straight. Sometimes well-meaning family members either have the stories wrong, or feel that the truth is better left buried. Everyone in Zuni insisted that Morris “Red” Leekela never made any jewelry at all, let alone the katsina pieces attributed to him. The one dissenting voice belongs to Leonard Martza, one of the oldest living jewelers himself. Once the article was published, and circulated around Zuni, there was suddenly a chorus of disagreement. Charles Hustito recalled Leekela working for both Wallace and John Kennedy, buffing and doing repairs. Other older craftspeople said that Red had most certainly done jewelry, and the katsina figures in particular. So why had Morris stopped doing any work for a substantial period of his later life? In the old days the eight Shalako houses were even more of a community
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project than they are today. They were traditionally built of native stone, by excellent Zuni masons, and finished in the old flat-topped style with huge beams (vigas) to support the roof. Crews of men from the kivas were assigned to the details to collect the raw materials. Morris Leekela was in the forest with the wood crew when a tree fell on him and crushed his leg. Red was hurt pretty badly and he walked from then on with a significant limp. The rumor that ran through the village was that the spirits were punishing him for making inlayed religious figures. His nephew Mike Leekela doesn’t think that was why he stopped doing inlay, but others think it was. Mike does recall his father, Howard, another silversmith, talking about some Salamopia figures Red made, which were equipped with bases so they could function as free-sanding sculptures – a common practice with large figures made today. The contested pieces in the Wallace catalog are Salamopias (warriors of the six cardinal directions). It is quite likely that the bad accident in the forest caused Morris Leekela to stop making jewelry, and the circumstances of the rumor would account for the family denial that he ever did so. Neva Cellicion, his sister who made inlay pieces with her husband Arnold, initially said he did not make any jewelry. She recently changed her mind. Neva’s sister, Marietta Soseeah, became the family matriarch upon the death of their mother. As was the custom in those days, when the two unmarried brothers returned from the warm – Morris and Dewey – they lived in the family home. Marietta’s daughter does not remember Uncle Red making any jewelry from that time on. She does have a handsome bracelet her mother Marietta crafted, using the exact same knifewing figure her sister made. Marietta is better known for her sunface pieces. The final word on Morris Leekela’s jewelry career comes from John Kennedy who does not remember anyone by that name ever working for him. Any career Red may have had in Zuni silverwork had to occur before the Second World War. Even more daunting is identifying and finding information on the group of silversmiths listed as active in 1940 by John Adair. In his book Navajo and
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Pueblo Silversmiths, Adair lists nearly one hundred and fifty names. In spite of the eccentric spelling, Itaike for Edaaki, Lickity for Leekity, and the amazing Liki Dieusee for Leekya Deyuse and so on, about one fourth of the names are easily decipherable as major artists. Another fourth can be identified by older Zunis. The other half of the list has already passed into limbo. (A note: the name Leekya is also on the list.) Family names are especially intriguing. There are quite a few Sheekas and Shebolas, but most Zunis don’t recognize the individuals. The Sheeka name has come down through time in several variations, notably Sheyka, as represented by the fantastic inlay work of Porfilio and Ann. Daughter Lenette says Ann actually made most of the jewelry, which is suggested in their entry in Who’s Who in Zuni Jewelry. On the other hand Adair lists only one Calavaza and that is the unknown Clarence. Dan Simplicio’s sister was active at the time as were her two sons Juan and Jose. Juan and his wife Effie are quite famous today. Adair did not list any jewelers who did only lapidary work, so many famous names don’t make the cut, including Teddy Weahkee who appears in the text with a deviant spelling. One error that persists obnoxiously in the literature is the name of the first significant female silversmith, Della Appa. Adair lists her as Della Casi and the name Della Casa Appa is still the general usage. Her husband, who was governor for a while in mid-century, was Ka’asi Appa. Somehow his first name got attached to his poor wife and stuck. She was also one of the most famous olla maidens and performed widely. Three of the names are curiously elusive because the men themselves are known in Zuni: Okweene Neese, Bowman Peywa and Steve Gia (Adair’s spelling). Uquine Neese has few known pieces, but they are spectacular and original. Neese had apprenticed with Horace Iule, his next door neighbor. A squash of his is featured in the second of the Arizona Highways special issues, August 1974. It can be found on page 23 of the feature “The Arizona Highways Hall of Fame Classics.” It is a classic indeed. In the November 2011 issue of New Mexico Magazine another of his masterpieces is featured, but not attributed to Neese, in the section on Richardson’s in Gallup. Trader Pat Kelsey confirmed this necklace as Neese’s some years ago. Three of his nieces still live in Zuni, but little is known about him and there don’t seem to be any surviving photographs of the man. The family says it is because he moved to California “a long time ago” and didn’t have any children. Adair gives him half a dozen pages in his book, but concentrates on his working techniques. Steve Gia is a similar proposition. He grew up next door to Teddy Weahkee and was one of the early Zuni smiths who liked tufa casting. His son Willie still has a couple of his molds, his ladle, his rolling mill and his draw plate. Silver making in those days was work intensive. Gia was one of the elite Hot Shot firefighters and a well-known runner. His fire fighting took him permanently to California and he never made any more jewelry. When he finally came home he found his wife – another accomplished silver worker – living with another man. He moved in with the Neese family. Bowman Paywa – current spelling – did some spectacular inlaid pieces with his wife Louise, specializing in knife-wings and rainbow men. The family made traditional bread in the outdoor ovens – probably his wife did the making – and it was so popular in the village of Zuni they got many orders. The bakery business became so good, and so lucrative, he gave up silver work, built bigger ovens and his son Jim carries on the business today.
Above: Bowman and Louise at Workbench. His daughter Lena Tsethlakai – who still makes jewelry today – said he built an oven so big it would hold ninety loaves at one time. “At least six people could sit up inside it,” she recalls. In the 1958 thesis by Kathryn Sikorsky, Recent Trends in Zuni Jewelry, Bowman Paywa was one of her halfdozen major informants. Toward the end of his life he revived his jewelry making, but it wasn’t enough to reinstate him in the hierarchy of Zuni silversmiths. He may yet get the respect his work should command. Don’t forget Louise working alongside him. Albert Uquine Neese Squash Paywa, Bowman’s brother, Blossom Necklace. is not on the list, though Courtesy Bill Richardson he was a prominent artist and smith. One of the greatest responses to last month’s article concerned the overdue respect for the role of wives in the Zuni Jewelry world. Many families maintain that the women, unknown for the most part, were often the genius behind the work, as well as the major portion of the labor. Dorothy Zunie did almost all the work and Bruce Zunie took all the credit, “and cashed the checks,” his family adds. WANTED Please share any information you have on early Zuni jewelers. It would be nice to set the record straight. Share photos, examples of work, or stories, with Ernie Bulow, 505-879-1109. Thank you.
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By Larry Larason
Potash
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hile I was sprinkling some de-icer crystals on the shadowed part of my driveway, I wondered, “Just what is in this stuff?” I figured it wasn’t salt [sodium chloride, NaCl], so I checked the bag and found it was potassium chloride [KCl]. Potash. Potassium is one of the three nutrients needed by all plants, and potash is used as a fertilizer, so when the snow melts and dissolves the potash, it fertilizes the weeds that grow wherever it runs off. Hmmm. Well, that’s better than using sodium salt, which is bad for plants. We want healthy weeds instead of no ground cover, I guess. In the Four Corners we don’t hear a lot about potash, but in the region around Carlsbad it’s a big deal. The mining companies in southeast New Mexico employ about 1000 people. And the mines contributed more than $3 million annually in severance tax to the state budget in 2000 through 2004. Potash may not be as glamorous as gold or silver, but it is a moneymaker, and demand is increasing worldwide. Why does it have such a dumb name? Because in the old days the way to produce it was by soaking wood ash in a pot or kettle. When the ashes were removed, a chemical rind called pot ash containing salts of potassium was left in the kettle. It was used in making glass and soap, as a fertilizer, and was a valuable commodity then. The first patent in the United States was granted in 1790 for an improvement in the making of potash. The name of potassium was adapted from potash: drop the H, double the S, add “–ium” to denote an element, and, importantly, put the accent on the second syllable or it will sound funny. As early as the 1600s in England, spreading wood ashes on the soil was recommended to improve crop yields, although the reason it worked wasn’t understood. Potassium was only discovered in 1807. In some wetter parts of the country spreading wood ash on the garden is still a good idea, but most people don’t burn much wood these days.
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Now, most potash is mined. Seawater contains potassium salts, not as much as sodium salts, but enough that it can become concentrated when the water evaporates. I wrote about the process in an earlier column about the Pennsylvanian age salt deposits in Utah [GJ: August, 2006], but here is a brief recap: When seawater is isolated and evaporating it cannot hold the dissolved minerals. First the carbonates precipitate out as limestone [calcium carbonate], then the sulfates as gypsum/anhydrite. Finally, as more water evaporates, the chlorides drop out as sodium and potassium salts. New Mexico’s salt and potash were deposited during the Permian Period, but the process is much the same. Nearly 90% of potash is used as agricultural fertilizer. Mined potash is contaminated by sodium salt, so it must be purified by a variety of means. Several potassium compounds fit under the potash umbrella, including potassium carbonate and sulfate. Different compounds are preferred as fertilizer for different crops and soil types, but the important point is to add water-soluble potassium to the soil. Plants cannot grow without it, and it is quickly depleted by intensive agriculture. The mines in New Mexico were first worked in 1931. These mines still supply almost 80% of our domestic potash production. Since the potash is shallowly buried, it is mined in shafts and tunnels less than 2000 feet deep. In other locations, Utah and Michigan, where it is deeper, it is extracted by solution mining: water is pumped down into the salt strata, left in place for up to a year in order to dissolve the salt, and then the brine is brought to the surface and evaporated to yield crystalline salts. The 425-square-mile ”Potash Area” in New Mexico has been considered a strategic resource since 1934. As such, it is mostly protected from drilling for petroleum or gas. This decision was reinforced in 1973 when gas leaking from a well caused an explosion in a mineshaft that injured ten miners. New regulations were put in place soon after. The rising price of oil has led to about five oil wells per square mile in places just outside the Potash Area,
The 425-squaremile “Potash Area” in New Mexico has been considered a strategic resource since 1934. but comparatively few within it. Horizontal drilling may enable the oil industry to tap the petroleum reservoirs, which are much deeper than the salts. The price of potash and worldwide demand for it has been rising as well, so it is wise to protect this resource. Potash is also mined near Moab, Utah. The deposits are deeper there, 2000-3000 feet. The original mine was worked with heavy equipment, but the tunnels were about 100 degrees F, and the rocks contain dangerous gases. After an explosion killed 18 workers, the company converted to solution mining. U.S. production is only about 1/5 of what is used in our country. The rest is imported, mostly from Saskatchewan, Canada. So any newly discovered deposits are tempting targets for mining companies. Arizona has potash in the Holbrook Basin; exploratory drilling has revealed that maybe as much as 25% of the national reserves are located there. Unfortunately, much of it lies beneath the Petrified Forest National Park. In 2004 Congress expanded the boundaries of the Petrified Forest; however, they never appropriated the money necessary to purchase the private and state land inside the new boundaries. At least one rancher with 64,000 acres was willing to sell to the government, but now he is getting antsy. In fact, he has leased with a potash exploration company, which is drilling wells to assess the potential. Stay tuned for some interesting legal questions. The salt that underlies and interfingers with the potash has uses as well. Table salt is produced by solution mining near Glendale, Arizona. And solution cavities are used to store liquid petroleum gas. There are eleven of these storage caverns near Holbrook. The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant [WIPP] stores radioactive waste in tunnels cut into salt beds in the southeast quadrant of New Mexico’s Potash Area. And speaking of radioactivity, potassium has an isotope, 40K, that is radioactive. Bags of potassium chloride used as a salt substitute for high blood pressure patients, are radioactive enough to use in classroom demonstrations of atomic decay. If you’re squeamish, like me, there are things going on in your body all the time that you’d really prefer not to think about; here’s another: at least 4000 potassium atoms break down every second somewhere beneath your skin. Kaboom! But you can’t live without potassium. So enjoy your mutations!
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By N. Haveman
“Some of My Thoughts on Pearl Jam” is what this column should be titled because I’m about to give you some of my thoughts on Pearl Jam. You know, I’ve been making a real effort to use this space to write about stuff that I think is important to our community. Unfortunately, I’m really tired and can’t seem to think straight. So I’m going to go back to the early days and ramble on about stuff and just hope you like it. I’m nothing, if not a multitasker. I find it really hard to sit here and type and not do something else (listen to music, watch PJ20, etc.). Right now, I’ve chosen to watch the latter for the ninth or tenth time. I’m addicted to Pearl Jam - I can’t (and won’t) deny it. I’m fascinated by their origin and their music. They’re incredible. Yes, they are the best band ever. What’s more, one of the greatest living directors (okay, that’s a bit of a stretch) was at the helm of PJ20 - Cameron Crowe - of Jerry Maguire and Almost Famous fame. Two phenomenal films, by the way.
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My wife and the Farvers made fun of me just a couple of nights ago for being a Pearl Jam nerd. That’s funny – as if I would take that as an insult! Hahaha, jokes on them. If I had to pick a favorite Pearl Jam tune, I’d probably pick “Off He Goes” – which is on my favorite album, No Code. But if I was honest with myself, Ten was their greatest accomplishment. That one is good from beginning to end – especially after a few years have gone by. That’s right; go grab the tape and your Walkman and start listening. I can remember driving home from a youth group retreat in my parents’ Astro van listening to Ten. It must have just come out and I was in charge of turning the music down during “Why Go” and “Jeremy” – we never made it to “Porch.” You see, Eddie throws some swear words into a couple of the songs and my mom would not have approved . . . let me amend that – she does not approve. Those youth group retreats were good times. Dan, Matt, Steve and I were the Four Horsemen. We ran our youth group with reckless abandon and probably even implemented some sort of class system . . . we were total jerks.
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At some point, we must grow out of that. Probably after we get kicked around ourselves for a while, because those guys are now the cream of the crop. Growing up, my sister Becky always wanted me to be a U2 fan (which I am) – going so far as to make (and I’m not sure how this happened) a Blue and Yellow – and not Green and White - U2 sign that she hung on my door. (She went to Michigan State.) I thought I was cool for having that sign on my door. It wasn’t the case and I’ll tell you why. I didn’t know the band. I was a poser. I had hijacked their bandwagon with a homemade sign. The only album I had was Achtung Baby, which I can assure you is NOT their best work. Again, please remember that this is a true rambles and I have no idea what I’m even writing about. But I think there’s a connection coming – and I’m going to try to make it right now. I love Pearl Jam. I know a vast amount of their catalogue – and it is extensive. Now, do I know as much as the aforementioned Steve? Or as my brother-inlaw?
But I am no poser about my love for Pearl Jam. I hope your musical tastes are as important to you as mine are to me. Okay, never mind. There was no great connection. Shoot, I really thought I was on to something. Anyway, I hate to break it to you, but you’re dumber for having read what I just wrote, so I’m going to end with a couple of facts for your Pearl Jam archives. #1 – The current members are as follows: Eddie, Stone, Mike, Jeff and Matt. #2 – They will always support Ralph Nader if he runs for president – but don’t hold that against them. #3 – Stone has the coolest hair of any person on the planet. And that statement is right now. No matter when you read this – his hair is cooler than anyone else’s anywhere. #4 – Their best song is “Off He Goes” from No Code. * *Yes, this was mentioned once before, but needed to be mentioned again.
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The Conversation “So, if some things are real in a pretend story, then why can’t other things be real?”
“Mom, are basilisks longer than the house?” “Basilisks?” “Yes, basilisks.” “Hmm . . . I think so. Wait. Are they even real? What do you think, son?” This is the usual routine. I find out how much my kids think they know about something, and then I fill in the gaps. “They are real. They’re like long snakes. They’re like water snakes, Mom. They can breathe under water. They can live under water.” “So, do they have gills?” “Of course, Mom. If they didn’t they would have to keep coming up to the air like dolphins.”
“So, if some things are real in a pretend story, then why can’t other things be real? Huh? Why?” “Some things are just made up to make a good story. That way, the story is more fun.” “Well, what if the stuff that isn’t real now will be real in a few years? Jets can fly, so why can’t broomsticks? Some computers have pointer sticks, so why can’t there be magic wands? Isn’t science kinda like magic?” “Sure, you could look at it that way. In fact, that’s a great way to look at it.” “And don’t you tell us that every invention started with someone saying, ‘what if ’ and figuring out how to do it?”
“Have you ever seen a basilisk?”
“Yes, I guess I do. And it’s true, you know. It happens all throughout history.”
“Yes, I have. Don’t you remember we saw it in that Harry Potter movie?”
“So, why can’t someone just make all that stuff? Can we look up basilisks and see if they’re real?”
“But, Harry Potter is a pretend story. Remember?”
“Okay, that’s a good starting point. Let’s see . . . basilisk, basilisk. Here we are: basilisk. ‘A mythological serpent or dragon with lethal breath and glance.’ Hmm . . . or, a ‘large tropical lizard.’”
He looks at me for a moment. “Is London real?” “Yes, it is. It’s a city in Great Britain.” “Are those big red buses real? The kind with upstairs and downstairs?” “Well . . . yes. London has double-decker buses. We’ve seen them in magazines.”
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“See! They are real! I told you!” “Well, the Harry Potter basilisk isn’t real. But, the lizard is.” “What’s a mytho-, mytho-”
“Mythological.” “Yes, that. That’s what I was trying to say. What is it?” “Mythological means that something is true, but only in a story or a legend.” He sits very still, thinking as hard as he can. “Was Grandma really alive?” “My Mom?” “Uh huh.” “Yes, you know she was. I tell you about my memories of her all the time.” “And Grandpa? Was he really alive?” “Yes, he was. You’ve seen his pictures. Why?” “Well, aren’t memories just stories that someone tells?” “Yes, but memories are real.” “Always? Are they always real? All the time?” “Well, sometimes memories get fuzzy. Even with things that you try to remember all of the time.” “So, if they get fuzzy, then they’re not all true. Right?” “Well, for the most part, they are true.”
“So, what’s the difference between a fuzzy remember and a mytho-, mytho-, a legent?” “Legend. And, not much difference, really. Good point.” “So, maybe basilisks were real a long time ago, but they died out and all that’s left is the stories. I bet that’s where the Harry Potter writer got the idea.”
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“What’s a theory?” “A theory is an idea about something that hasn’t yet been proven.” “So, do you believe me? Are basilisks real?” I looked into his large soulful brown eyes, which were staring straight into mine, and let go of whatever minimal resistance my “logical” side was putting up. “Yes, I believe you. Maybe they were real. Who really knows? Who is still around from the time the myth started?” “Probably nobody. They’d be pretty old or even dead, Mom. I bet basilisks were alive when dragons were alive.” “Dragons?” “Well, if basilisks were maybe real, then dragons were maybe real, too. There’s a lot of dragon stories . . . They had to come from somewhere, right?” “Um . . . “ “So, who knows? Maybe everything is real. How do we know, Mom? How do we know for sure?” “Well, archaeologists and paleontologists can dig up bones and run tests to find out what they are.”
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“Like in Jurassic Park? Like Alan Grant? That’s what he does. He digs up bones and tries to put them together like a puzzle. Dr. Ellie helps him.” “Uh huh. Alan Grant is an archaeologist and Dr. Ellie is a paleobotanist.” “What’s that?” “A paleobotanist is like an archaeologist, but for plant fossils.” “Oh! Cool! Okay.” “Yes, I think it’s cool, too. What else do you want to talk about? Dinosaurs? Swamps? Anything?” “Nothing. I’m done. I know what movie make-believe is. But, it doesn’t mean that it’s not kinda real.” “Honey, I like the way your brain works.” “Thanks, Mom. I do, too.” He hugs me, and then goes into the other room. I’m glad he’s thinking about stuff like that; it makes me proud. A few minutes later, he calls to me from the other room. “Mom! Can we watch Lord of The Rings?” Oh, yes; I like the way his brain works. My brain works that way, too; I am a gigantic nerd, after all. All three of my kids have that nerd DNA, thank goodness. I break out into giggles, then head into the other room to watch the movie with him. His two sisters are already seated and waiting. And, as if on cue, “C’mon, Mom! Hurry!”
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s we strode across the parking lot at the National Police Headquarters in Abuja, our guide pointed to a pile of vehicle carcasses in the distance, burnt and twisted by a bomb blast a few months ago – the insidious work of BOKO HARAM, who now seem to hold all of Nigeria in suspense as everyone wonders where the next blast will be. A bit later, on the fourth floor, while I was chatting with the Deputy Commissioner of Police, he pointed out an article in that day’s newspaper that claimed the police had recaptured a major Boko Haram operative in Yola. He immediately phoned a colleague who said he didn’t think it was the guy that had escaped from them in January. Paper says the movement is fracturing from within: certain ethnic groups complaining of not being chosen as suicide bombers. People outside of Nigeria seem to know two things about the country: 1. Boko Haram bombings, and 2. It’s the scam capital of the world. Do you know anybody who has not received a letter saying somebody in Nigeria wants to give them a million dollars? Just send bank account number? For a different view of Nigeria, I’m including a chunk of my “Africa Journal” for January-February 2012: Feb. 3, 2012 It’s been a good day. I got a new spoon! The other night I was trying to cut my boiled yams into bite sized chunks and the flimsy spoon bent at a right angle. They’ve carefully kept knives and even forks away from me, so I had to gnaw my way, rat-like, through the rest of the meal. Speaking of which, I’m sharing the old pilot’s house at Lupwe with a family of creatures that may be Ratatouille’s kin. I’ve not seen one yet, though, and apart from one night when I left a loaf of bread out and they came down and gnawed through the wrapper, they’ve kept to themselves up above, dancing and scurrying the night away. Sometimes it sounds like a track meet up there. The house brings back memories. The pilot loved reptiles. He had a crocodile pit with a nine-foot long crocodile in it. I remember because early one morning the beast escaped once and came to my house. I saw a bunch of people out front so I went out onto the veranda. They seemed to be looking at my feet. I looked down and there was this toothy crock – only about eight feet at that point. The croc eventually developed a hernia, and a surgeon, Dr. Channer from the local hospital, was called to operate. They strapped him to a board (the croc) for the event. He escaped a couple more times and the neighbors with pre-school children made the pilot send Toothy to a zoo in Jos. He took him there in his plane! Time doesn’t allow me to tell about the pythons he kept inside the house and what he fed them. Ah bliss! Along with the sound of a dog munching the chicken bones I just threw out, a whisper of cool air just came through the window behind me – sweet relief from the sultry stillness of the evening. In the short time span that I have been here the weather has changed from the dryness of January and cool nights to the clammy humidity of February. I arrived in time to take an early morning walk and observe clusters of little kids crouching around burning piles of leaves and cornstalks around their houses, warming up from the cold night. I slept with a blanket. I was even treated to a night time “bushfire” that zigzagged up the ridges on the mountain across the road. That season is now past; we’re into what we call “bazara,” sweating season. I keep a rag nearby to wipe off my keyboard. A walk now includes an upper body workout as you wave your arms around vigorously to keep the flies away. On Jan.18 I traveled with four Nigerians to the state capital, Jalingo, about 4-5 hours away on reasonable tarred road. We met at least 30-40 herds of cattle – escorted by Fulanis on the move toward the lower Benue valley. Oh for a chance to walk with them a mile! (Except for the flies!) It was like Jacob sending his flocks and herds to Esau; they just kept coming. The larger cows – or a donkey in a few cases – are loaded with kitchen stuff: pots, pans, mats, stools. The womenfolk trudge along with stacks of decorated calabashes on their heads. Little boys help with the cows, steering them around farms and off the road as best they can, though it was obvious from the state of the road that quite a number of herds had spent time there! The
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girls help the women carry stuff. A couple of two-year-olds had the privilege of being pushed along by Dad on the seat of a bicycle. Several herds had young ones that weren’t making it. At least one calf was being carried across the shoulders of his master, and we met another young herder sitting face-to-face with a calf, apparently trying to talk it into continuing the journey.
The way back was another story. About half way home, in a desolate stretch of road with no cell phone coverage, the fan belt broke. We managed to flag down help, and two of us went on ahead by local commercial transport, a beat-up Peugeot station wagon. It had no seat belts but the driver seemed to be on friendly terms with all the police, the militia, and the Road Safety officers along the way, so the belts weren’t an issue! The others ended up towing the vehicle to the next town and also came home by local small bus service. For them it was frustrating and tiring. I managed to write a report while waiting, and then enjoyed the scenery and the humanity wherever the vehicle stopped. Marrarraba was the best. We stopped at the crowded exit of a major bus station. Vendors, passengers, officials, hawkers, assorted rapscallions and an awesome assemblage of other humanity surged, teemed, pulsated around me. The color, the sound, the smell, the sheer intensity of it all was intoxicating, kaleidoscopic. Just when I was about to burst from the glory of it all, three Fulani women, graceful as sailboats in a harbor crowded with jet skis and tugboats, drifted through the throng on their way to meet their families outside the town. Rural Fulanis are the epitome of “otherness” in Nigeria, vaguely like Gypsies, but without the stigma (well, a different sort of stigma). There are many clans, each with a different hairstyle and clothing, including the men. My epiphany was brief; our driver picked up three more passengers and we were bouncing down the road again. I had forgotten how beautifully golden a bundle of dry grass could be. We passed hundreds of them, freshly cut and bound, standing in rows in nearly every homestead, ready to be rolled onto an old leaky roof or onto a new roof-frame of sorghum stalks. A few were still on their way home from the fields, on the heads of cyclists nearly buried by their load, or in carts or tied precariously on the backs of motorcycles. After cutting, people plait the stalks, a few at a time, into a 40-foot-long, loose mat with a single seam, and roll it up. The buyer, or the house-repairer, secures one end into one of the spars of the conical roof and unrolls the bundle, working his way upward. Several bundles will be used on a new roof, and when he gets to the top he will run a rope around the loose ends of the grass forming a Tintinesque tuft. Then he will find an old metal pan
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with the bottom rusted out and put that round the tuft, come down, and go in to enjoy the coolest, quietest roof you’ve ever slept under.
Morning walk Tuesday. On Bika road I turned off east and walked through the fallow rice fields, which stretch out gold and lazy to the east and south along a valley. Two large herds of cows were grazing on the stubble. Birds were plenty: Abyssinian rollers, longtailed shrikes, a coucal, graceful cattle egrets zapping bugs stirred up by the cows. A man carrying a log turned out to be someone we knew as a boy – a confirmed kleptomaniac in those days – now the sole surviving son, occupying the family dwelling in Bika and making a sparse living selling firewood. Electrical power is our challenge. Amazingly, the solar panels left behind by
a previous resident are still working and I have the best light on the campus, but no wall power and no 12-V adapter for my laptop. We manage to get through each day on the quixotic national grid and the slightly more cooperative project generator. The “gen” did fine until the second to the last day, when it got aggressive and burned out my adapter and that of the project. My assignment was two-fold: finish a dictionary and consult with a team translating the book of Genesis into the local language, Kuteb. Right from the get-go the Kuteb Genesis provided fodder for debate – or stream of consciousness meandering: what did the spirit/wind from God do over the water? No satisfactory word for “hover.” I grinned dreamily as I remembered the speaker I had heard in New Mexico read it as “hoovering” (British for vacuum-cleaning) and from there I drifted to the speculation that the only hoovering the Bible talks about will happen at the Rapture, and we’ll probably not say “Hoover me up, Dad” but “Beam me up, Dad; I’m ready!” I start awake to hear someone asking me a question: Can the Hebrew word mean “covering?” Yes, it can, but no, that won’t fly well because it is not something continuous. What about just kyang ikyi (“walking”)? Well, do spirits walk? Well, literally, it is “walking,” but almost anything can kyang ikyi, even without legs. Birds do it in the sky. Cars do it. So spirits probably can too, so – that’s it until a better word comes. The spirit of Rimam (the Creator) was walking-moving over the water. Then there was the firmament, which needed some careful negotiation between Hebrew cosmology, local African cosmology, and modern science. The Hebrew word suggests a piece of metal flattened out. It had to be strong enough to hold the water in the sky. Kuteb tradition holds that there’s a big flat skin up there: apwa. We’re going with that, with a footnote. The translator begins laboriously keying in the change with the hunt and peck method. My mind begins to kyang ikyi again. Along the road on the way down from Jalingo, two little goats on a log rear up, come down and butt heads – all in the three seconds it takes us to pass. Nice little show, guys. Was it just for me? The chicken tracks in the cement floor of a room I was in looked like a line of arrows pointing toward the door. Was that for me? That heron that labored into flight over the Bika rice fields that stretch, golden, palm-lined, up the valley as far as you can see – she seems to know where she’s going. Is her flight intentional? Was I supposed to be inspired by that? Intentionality, is that not the key to the ultimate Unified Field theory? Molecules & Metaphor, fact and fiction. Yes, that’s IT! Someone bumps my shoulder. Oh, yes. Hagar, Bilha, Zilpah – concubines. Are they isa in Kuteb? Illicit wives? Mistresses? Or actual “co-wives” of a lower status? The institution doesn’t exist here. The problem in this case was not so much accuracy (uwa “wife” would have been close enough in the context) but the translators’ fear of providing support for polygamy by using the word “wife.” Translator types a footnote. I fiddle with my pencil, thinking about Dr. Walter Mitty and his amazing surgery on, what was it again, a Fulani cow? Or was it a baby goat? Everybody should have a flock of goats. There’s nothing cuter than a day-old goat, except maybe a two-day old goat, or better yet, two of them. They are nimble, frisky, exuberant. They seem born to frolic. They’d as soon go sideways as forwards. They leap straight up just for the fun of it. A flock of 8-10 live on the campus where I am staying. Of course, to get kids you have to put up with the less pleasant aspects of goat husbandry, particularly the noisy courtship behavior. Billies have a well-deserved reputation. Another bump on the shoulder. “We’re in chapter 25. What do we do about Abraham, where it says ‘He died, an old man full of years’? We don’t say that about people when they are old.” Well, what do you say? “We say, ‘He wore out his walking stick and died.’ Nice idiom. Go for it. Our prayer for Gallup Journey readers: May you wear out your walking stick!
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Show Time: 1 pm Kids Matinee Movie: Hugo Rated: PG 127 minutes Sacha Baron Cohen, Ben Kingsley, Asa Butterfield Admission: Adults: $2.00 Children 12 & under: FREE! An orphaned boy secretly lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station and looks after the clocks. He gets caught up in a mystery adventure when he attempts to repair a mechanical man. Saturday, March 10, 2012 No Kids Matinee Today Saturday, March 17, 2012 Show Time: 1 pm Kids Matinee Movie: Happy Feet 2 Rated: PG 100 minutes Animated Feature Voices by: Elijah Wood, Robin Williams Admission: Adults: $2.00 Children 12 & under: FREE! The world’s most famous tap-dancing penguin, Mumble, and the love of his life, Gloria now have a son of their own, Erik. Erik is struggling to find his own particular talents in the Emperor Penguin world. But new dangers are threatening the penguin nation, and it’s going to take everyone working- and dancing – together to save them. Friday, March 23, 2012 Show Time: 7pm Miyamura High School Talent Show The second annual Miyamura High School talent/art show is open to all MHS students as well as local 8th grade students that are future MHS students. Admission is $5.00 or $4.00 with a canned good for the food pantry. Doors open at 6:30. Please call (505) 726-0050 or go to www.elmorrotheatre.com for more information Saturday, March 24, 2012 Show Time: 1 pm Kids Matinee Movie: Disney’s The Muppets Rated: PG 98 minutes Starring: Amy Adams, Jason Segel, Chris Cooper Admission: Adults: $2.00 Children 12 & under: FREE! On vacation in Los Angeles, Walter, the world’s biggest Muppet fan, and his friends Gary and Mary from Smalltown, USA, discover the nefarious plan of oilman Tex Richman to raze the Muppet Theater and drill for the oil recently discovered beneath the Muppets’ former stomping grounds. To stage The Greatest Muppet Telethon Ever and raise the $10million needed to save the theater, Walter, Mary and Gary help Kermit the Frog reunite the Muppets, who have all gone their separate ways.
Based on Michael Shaara’s Pulitzer Prizewinning novel The Killer Angels, GETTYSBURG dramatically depicts the three most courageous days in American history as experienced by the leaders of the Confederate and Union armies. With painstaking attention to detail and utilizing one of the largest scale period motion-picture sequences in history, this epic film renders both the devastating losses and the human dimension of the Civil War with heart-rending passion and unrelenting power. Saturday, March 31, 2012 Show Time: 1 pm Kids Matinee Movie: A Turtle’s Tale: Sammy’s Adventures Rated: PG 88 minutes Voices Talents of: Dominic Cooper, Gemma Arterton, John Hurt, Kayvan Novak, Robert Sheehan Admission: Adults: $2.00 Children 12 & under: FREE! A sea turtle who was hatched in 1959 spends the next 50 years traveling the world while it is being changed by global warming. Tuesday, April 3, 2012 Show Time: 6:45 pm Evening Movie: Gettysburg Part 2 Rated: PG Starring: Tom Berenger, Martin Sheen, Jeff Daniels, Sam Elliott, Richard Jordan, C. Thomas Howell Admission: Adults: $5.00 Children 12 & under: $3.00 Saturday, April 7, 2012 Show Time: 7pm Juan Siddi Flamenco Theatre Company Since 2007, acclaimed Spanish choreographer Juan Siddi has brought together exhilarating, authentic, international flamenco singers, musicians and dancers for unforgettable performances that have thrilled audiences worldwide. Recognized for his remarkable stage talent, artistry, and stunning choreographies, the Santa Fe legend Maria Benitez passed the artistic torch to Juan Siddi in 2008. Shortly thereafter, his Flamenco Theatre Company was selected to be the sole presentation for the acclaimed flamenco summer seasons at the Maria Benitez Theatre in Santa Fe, NM. The company’s dynamic shows have met with much success and astounding enthusiasm from national and international audiences, the local community and the press. In 2012, Juan Siddi Flamenco Theatre Company can be seen on national tour throughout the United States.
Advanced Tickets, Tickets at the Door Adults: $15.00/person, Adults: $20.00/person Tuesday, March 27, 2012 Show Time: 6:45pm Children 12 and under: $10.00, Children 12 and Evening Movie: Gettysburg Part 1 Rated: PG under: $12.00 248 minutes Starring: Tom Berenger, Martin Sheen, Jeff Daniels, Credit Cards Accepted: Visa, Master Card Sam Elliott, Richard Jordan, C. Thomas Howell Admission: Adults: $5.00 Children 12 & under: $3.00
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The ABCs of 529 Plans S
everal years ago I wrote an article in the Gallup Journey about 529 plans. I thought this was a good time to revisit the issue.
If you are already saving for college, you have probably heard about 529 plans. 529 plans are revolutionizing the way parents and grandparents save for college. Americans are pouring billions of dollars into 529 plans, and contributions are expected to increase dramatically in the future. Where did these plans come from, and what makes them so attractive?
A 529 plan is a college savings vehicle that has federal tax advantages. There are two types of 529 plans: college savings plans and prepaid tuition plans. This article will only focus on college savings plans since those are the only plans offered in New Mexico.
Can 529 funds be used for general living expenses while at college? No. The federal definition of “qualified education expenses” that most colleges use doesn’t include general living expenses (i.e. phone charges, transportation). To be covered, expenses must be for something required for enrollment and attendance (i.e. books, lab fees, tuition), and most living expenses don’t fit into this category. Withdrawals for nonqualified expenses will generally be subject to income tax and an additional 10% federal penalty tax on earnings.
College savings plans let you save money for college in an individual investment account. These plans are run by the states, which typically designate an experienced financial institution to manage their plan. To open an account, you fill out an application, choose a beneficiary, and start contributing money. However, you can’t hand pick your own investments as you would with a Coverdell Education Savings Account, custodial account, or trust. Instead, you typically choose one or more portfolios offered by the plan, the underlying investments of which are exclusively chosen and managed by the
Can a 529 account have more than one beneficiary? A 529 account can have only one beneficiary. If you have more than one child, you may want to open a 529 account for each. Alternatively, you could open one 529 account and after funds have been withdrawn for your first child’s college expenses, change the
Congress created Section 529 plans in 1996 in a piece of legislation that had little to do with saving for college. The law on 529 plans was later refined in 1997, 2001, and 2006. 529 plans have emerged as one of the top ways to save for college. Section 529 plans are officially known as qualified tuition programs under federal law. The reason “529 plan” is commonly used is because 529 is the section of the Internal Revenue Code that governs their operation.
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plan’s professional money manager. After this, you simply decide when, and how much, to contribute. When it’s time for college, the beneficiary of your account can use the funds at any college in this country.
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When it’s time for college, the beneficiary of your account can use the funds at any college in this country. designated beneficiary of the remaining funds to your second child. However, this change of the designated beneficiary could have gift tax consequences. There is favorable federal gift and estate tax treatment related to contributions to a 529 plan. Contributions qualify for the $13,000 annual gift tax exclusion. And with a special election, you can contribute a lump sum of $65,000 to a 529 plan, treat the gift as if it were made over a five-year period, and completely avoid gift tax. Your plan contributions aren’t considered part of your estate for federal tax purposes. You still retain control of the account as the account owner but you don’t pay a federal estate tax on the value of the account. There is no federal income tax deduction allowed related to contributions made to a 529 plan. However, if you contribute to a New Mexico 529 plan and you are a resident of New Mexico, then you are allowed to deduct those contributions on the New Mexico income tax return. New Mexico offers two 529 college savings plans: Scholar’s Edge and The Education Plan. The Scholar’s Edge Plan can be purchased through a financial advisor and The Education Plan can be purchased directly or through a financial advisor. I have used 529 plans to fund the college education of my children, and I continue to use 529 plans to fund the future college education of my grandchildren. My oldest grandchild will not be ready to start college for another 7 years. However, since the cost of college education continues to rise approximately double the annual inflation rate, you can never start too early funding a 529 plan! Until next time, The Business Doctor
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Music Lessons Dey & Nite
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usic is everywhere. It’s at home, at work, in the car, at the store, and on our phones. It’s part of almost everything we do. Sometimes I feel as though I actually know some of my favorite musicians. They’ve accompanied me through ups and downs. Echoed my deepest emotions and offered words of encouragement when I needed to hear them. Now, with the click of a mouse I can hear their familiar voices, see them perform, and read about their personal lives. But my hunch is that many of the musicians I regard for their melodies and lyrics are not like the confident, energetic image they exude on stage and I’d probably be let down if I ever had a coffee with them in real life. When I met with the “Twin-Pop” sensation, Dey & Nite, I was familiar with their website and Facebook page and I had watched them sing several songs on YouTube. There was no doubt that these young women had beautiful voices, but past that I didn’t know what to expect. Suffice it to say that during the hour or so that we talked, it was easy to tell that their beauty went way beyond what was seen and heard on the internet. I was overwhelmed by their kindness and down-to-earth demeanors. Dey and Nite Gomez were born and raised in Gallup by their Mexican American father and Spanish Arapaho Indian mother. They were exposed at a young age to jazz and classical music, and greats like Michael Jackson, The Beatles, Mariah Carey, and Stevie Wonder by their musician father. So when they began to show interest in music, it was no surprise. Though identical twins with similar talents, interests, and career paths, Dey was very shy as a young girl, playing the piano and singing harmonies while Nite eagerly stood in the spotlight.
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At the age of fourteen, Nite knew that singing was the only thing she wanted to do. At that point, she wasn’t thinking about a career in the music industry. The only thing she knew was this is what she loved. “This is it!” Dey broke out of her shell somewhat and the girls began singing in church, writing music, and performing together at local talent shows and competitions. A year after graduating from high school, the sisters moved to Albuquerque where they held jobs, but wrote and recorded music as much as they possibly could. Very quickly, they realized that if they weren’t singing, they weren’t happy, and began discussing the possibility of a career in music. Encouraging of their daughters’ dreams, their parents decided to support a move to Los Angeles. After living and working in L.A. for eight years, Dey and Nite have experienced the music industry and can say with authority that it’s tough out there. “If you’re looking for the place where dreams come true, you go to Disneyland, not Hollywood.” Leaving a small town and moving to a place where anything goes – the crazier the better – the biggest challenge is staying true to yourself. In the male-dominated industry, being a woman is difficult, too. Dey & Nite refused to sing about sex and drugs or compromise their beliefs in order to get ahead. They constantly had to fight for their own music. “At least we have each other,” Nite comments. The twins also point to their parents’ unconditional love and support as being an essential part of their survival in the music business. As if repeating their mother and father’s advice, they reveal how they’ve overcome the challenges of the industry: surround yourself with people who will tell you the truth; find the best you have and go with it; believe in yourself. Dey and Nite developed a thick skin after repeatedly hearing ‘no,’ but they also began to hear ‘yes.’
Leaving a small town and moving to a place where anything goes – the crazier the better – the biggest challenge is staying true to yourself. In 2009, Dey & Nite released their first album, self-titled with six original songs. They have performed with the young, talented Paula DeAnda and recorded a song called “In the Mood” with popular hip-hop artist, Baby Bash. The twins toured Australia, Mexico and Brazil with the well-known, platinum female artist Hilary Duff as the sole backup singers for “The Dignity Tour.” They have four new songs available on iTunes and are currently working on a new album due to be out this summer. And recently, they’ve dabbled in some acting. The Holt Hamilton film, More Than Frybread, made its New Mexico premiere last month at El Morro Theatre in Gallup. This mockumentary follows the contestants of the first ever State of Arizona Frybread Championship. Dey and Nite played twin sisters Sunshine and Stormy Smith. Though it was new and somewhat nerve-racking, Dey said, “Travis (writer and director) was so calm, you never even knew if you messed up.” While they enjoyed the experience, Dey and Nite are sticking to music for now. They were, however, inspired to be able to work with others who were passionate about pursuing their dreams. Inspiration is what keep Dey & Nite going. Their own role models are people who inspire and create hope in others, whether through music or words or actions. After God and their parents, Dey lists singer/songwriters Carole King, Michael Jackson and Taylor Swift and Nite mentions Oprah. They’re also deeply grateful for and moved by our country’s troops who serve without the expectation of recognition. The sacrifice they make is “bigger than anything.”
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And now, Dey & Nite is providing inspiration to others. Whether singing the national anthem at a Major League Baseball game or speaking to a group of young people about bullying or showing respect, they recognize that “what comes out of your mouth is so important.” Recently, they broke into the Canadian music market and developed a strong fan base. Their song, “Walk it Out” made it to #1 and spent twenty-seven weeks on the Aboriginal Music Countdown Top 40. The twins describe the song as somewhat controversial. “It deals with addiction, but the message is to get your ‘strong walk’ on.” They’ve received a great response from fans via their website (deynite.com), Facebook and Twitter, which they feel are important to update personally.
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rescued and are now sheltered at the Gallup-McKinley County Humane Society. Tickets are now on sale at $60 per person and may be purchased at the Humane Society, Cedar Animal Hospital, Mystique Spa and Salon at 509 S. Third St., Hair Hut at 1654 S. Second St., or from the following individuals: Sandra McKinney – 722-0514, Millie Dunning – 722-5142, DeeAnn Leyba – 870-1716, Connie Merrill – 863-2299. We have one Platinum table available for $1200 to seat ten. This table will be served first, and receive two bottles of wine and have attendants at their table for the evening, plus other special treatment, and will also include advertising for their business. In addition, there are Gold tables available at $800 for ten. Gold tables will be served second, plus advertising and other special service. Our Silver tables for ten will be sold at $650 each, which will provide a reserved table to allow your party to sit together. Don’t miss out on an amazing night of fun, plus a great opportunity to help the animals on March 10, 2012!
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To find out more about CARE 66 go to www.care66.org, we also have a blog at http://care66.blogspot.com, which we have been known to update once in a while. Sanjay can be reached at Sanjay@care66.org.
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Work on Hooghan Hozho’ is the next phase of the dream after the Lexington Hotel. This project will be a mixedincome, i.e. it will provide market-rate apartments and affordable apartments for low- to moderate-income families. It will also provide space for a coffee shop, an Early Childhood Development Center, support services and CARE 66 administration, if all goes according to plan. We are confronting the nitty-gritty details that all projects have in abundance, while we study the city code, our building plans, and beg for money. Until next month stay well and do good!
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t’s a cold and icy Tuesday evening when I arrive at the vacant building. I’ve been invited to learn more about a robot and its creators who are busily working as I open the door. Once inside, I survey the echoey space: metal folding chairs surround a table holding a mess of papers and boxes, a laptop, wires and tools, and a half-eaten bag of chips; a countdown flip chart sits off to the side showing 3 days left to work; a woman observing the activity turns to greet me and introduces me to Gallup Robo Team. The team consists of nine students from Gallup High School and Gallup Catholic High School: Esmeralda Arreguin, Donovan Chase, Joe Farrell, John Farrell, Geo Gonzales, Jason Kezele (team captain), Breandan Moore, Peter Roberts, and Isaac Wenning. The robot they designed, appropriately named “Detour,” was created after much trial and error. Detour will compete this month at the FIRST Robotics Competition – Utah Regional at the Maverik Center in West Valley City, Utah.
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FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) was founded in 1989 by Dean Kamen, an inventor and entrepreneur, in order to inspire young people’s interest and participation in science and technology. The FIRST Robotics Competition challenges teams of high school students and their mentors to solve a common problem all under strict rules, limited resources, and time limits. Teams are challenged to raise funds, design a team “brand,” hone teamwork skills, and build and program robots to perform prescribed tasks against a field of competitors. It’s as close to “real-world engineering” as a student can get. Marisa Hutchinson, Unit Director at Gallup’s Boys and Girls Club, got the ball rolling last August by applying to the competition after attending a webinar about it. She and the other team mentors, Greg Frostad and Karl Lohmann, have an interest in the sciences and a passion for helping the youth succeed academically and in their future careers. Good relationships have also been established with several local businesses and sponsors, including JC Penney, Comcast Cable, Controlled Air & Metal, and Home Depot, which have offered financial support and expertise to the team. Hutchinson speaks highly of the FIRST program, which challenges students to communicate and collaborate in order to build a working robot almost completely from scratch. Each of the students on Gallup Robo Team had to demonstrate their interest and ability to commit to working seven days a week, after school and on weekends, for six weeks. During the “build season,” team members spend time drawing up ideas for robot parts, working with size and weight constraints, and finally, building, assembling and programming their robot. The result of all this hard work will be a robot that can compete in a basketball-type game called “Rebound Rumble” with and against robots made by other high school teams from around the world.
Members of Gallup Robo Team working on their robot, “Detour” (left and above). Twenty-eight teams were involved in the inaugural competition in 1992 in a New Hampshire high-school gym. Today, there are 2500 teams preparing to compete with their robots in district and regional competitions throughout the US, Canada and Israel, all hoping to make it to the championship in St. Louis, April 25-28. FIRST redefines winning by rewarding teams for excellence in design, demonstrated team spirit, gracious professionalism and maturity, and the ability to overcome obstacles. Scoring the most points is a secondary goal. Winning means building partnerships that last. That said, there are significant rewards at stake. Many colleges and universities, professional associations, and corporations offer college scholarships to high school students on FIRST teams. This is official recognition of the knowledge and technical and life skills these students have gained from participating in a FIRST competition. For 2012, supporting companies, organizations and individuals are making available over 664 individual scholarship opportunities with a total value of over $14 million! According to the students on Gallup Robo Team, spending so much time away from friends and family has been one of the biggest challenges of participating in the competition. However, the time has not been wasted. They have consulted with local engineering professionals and been given the opportunity to learn and use sophisticated software and hardware; they’ve gained invaluable life skills and knowledge and been given the chance to earn scholarships for college. Though the students may not realize it yet, the benefits of participating in FIRST Robotics Competition are long-term, reaching into life after high school and college. Especially in a world increasingly more dependent on technology where jobs in the sciences and engineering will need to be filled, these students are doing much to prepare themselves for the future. For now, though, the students on Gallup Robo Team are celebrating their completed robot and looking forward to seeing how Detour performs in competition.
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Lit Crit Lite A look at some books available at your local public library
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eek Love (1989) by Katherine Dunn is a very engrossing, very strange story. Dunn’s writing is masterful and beautiful and startling, but be warned: the two-part plot revolves around some disturbing characters and events. So please forgive me if the following is unsettling or upsetting. I think this book may be worth reading in part because of its shocking perspective; being provoked into a change of view may be the point of the book.
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Dunn doesn’t write about the kind of geeks who wear pocket protectors and tape their glasses together; the geeks in her book are people who bite the heads off live chickens at carnivals (“geek” from the actual, original definition). In the traveling carnival of Dunn’s book, Binewski’s Fabulon, the geeks usually are clean-cut college boys who have dropped out or are just moonlighting for a summer, and they are merely a tame side-show to the more thrilling and outrageous acts: Arturo the Aqua Boy (Arty), who has fins instead of arms and legs and spouts philosophy while swimming in his tank, and Electra and Iphigenia (Elly and Iphy), the lovely piano-playing Siamese twins.
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These are the three most show-worthy of the genetically engineered Binewski children, whom their father, Aloysius, calls his “dreamlets.” Al and his wife, Crystal Lil – who, before marrying Al, was an enthusiastic geek for a season – had a vision of saving the financially faltering carnival by producing their own brood of wonderful freaks to attract paying customers. Lily dutifully followed various drug regimens and endured chemical exposures during all her pregnancies in the hopes of producing really unique children – and she did: first Arturo, then the twins, then Olympia (Oly), a hairless humpback albino dwarf, the narrator of the story. When the Binewskis’ fifth child, Fortunato (Chick), is born, he seems perfectly normal – a “norm,” as Arty disdainfully calls people without any special deviation. But as it turns out, Chick is telekinetic, more remarkable than any of his siblings. He first reveals his great mutation as a hungry newborn, when he uses his mind power to pull his mother to himself so he can nurse. Chick and Oly don’t have their own acts; they support the family from behind the scenes, where
Don’t expect anything conventional or warm and fuzzy: this is geek love, after all. Oly’s unwavering devotion and Chick’s hidden talent come in handy in many ways, and where they both unwittingly play integral parts in the dissolution of the family. As we get to know the Binewski family, we get caught up in the twisted, fascinating, fantastical world of the carnival freak show. But Binewski’s Fabulon and the carnies’ nomadic lifestyle are just the colorful backdrop for Oly’s love story. Don’t expect anything conventional or warm and fuzzy: this is geek love, after all. Dunn’s Binewskis are self-proclaimed, proud freaks of nature, and their relationships, fittingly, do not conform to the norm, either. Dunn’s portrayal of the Binewskis’ geek love reveals not run-of-the-mill romantic or familial love, but something more complex. Oly loves her big brother, Arty, despite his obvious deformities, which might be repellant to anyone else, but also despite his unrepentant meanness, his hunger for power, his manipulative maneuvering within the family, and his blatant disregard for anyone else’s needs or desires. Arty is a terribly smart, cruel person who intentionally hurts others, but Oly loves him because he needs her. She serves him slavishly. Dunn forces readers to reflect on the nature of unconditional love as we wonder how Oly can be so loyal to Arty, even though she knows about the unconscionable things he does. In his late teens, Arty more fully formulates his personal philosophy of freak-dom, gathering a cult following as he preaches from his tank. Crowds of people begin to travel with the carnival and do whatever Arty commands to achieve “peace, isolation, purity.” There is an element of macabre comedy in how Dunn deals with the cult of Arturism: the more people lose of themselves, literally, the more elevated they are in the cult, the closer they are to becoming like their leader. Without giving too much away, let’s just say Dunn’s Arturism offers a cutting satire of the cult mentality. But Dunn’s treatment of the philosophy behind Arturism is serious: Arty’s speeches to his faithful followers deal with issues like spiritual wholeness, losing the self to gain freedom from the world, and transcendence over the body. In fact, when one reporter calls Arty a “transcendental maggot” with a “maniacal ego,” Arty uses it to serve his own purposes and responds to the press that, yes, he is “the Transcendental Maggot, and that his power to thrive in the decaying frenzy of the planet [is] available to all those who [are] willing to accept it” (p. 189). Eventually, the critical reporter becomes a devotee of Arturism himself, if a somewhat reluctant and skeptical one. The book’s narrative alternates between Oly’s memories of her childhood in the Fabulon, the spread of Arturism, and the ultimate destruction of the Binewski family dream and Oly’s account of her present-day, adult life in Portland, Oregon. Grown-up Oly reads stories on the radio (under a pseudonym) and watches over her drug-addled, senile, mostly blind mother, who doesn’t know who Oly is anymore. Oly also spies on her own daughter, Miranda, who does not know Oly except as her
downstairs neighbor in the rooming house. Even as a child working for the family carnival, Oly always was good at hiding her feelings, disappearing into the background, and being invisible, despite her singular appearance. Everyone associated with the show formed an extended family, self-contained and self-sustaining; the caravan of trucks and vans always passed through the world, from town to town, without outsiders really touching them. Oly lives a similarly isolated life as an adult; though she longs for the kind of belonging she had in her tightly knit nuclear family as a child. In fact, Oly never really has a friend until she decides she must protect Miranda from a monstrous stranger, Miss Lick, who wants to facilitate Miranda becoming less attractive to men and thus less susceptible to being sexually exploited. Oly befriends Miss Lick with the intention of stopping her from “helping” Miranda as she has “helped” many other young women in the past. Miss Lick imagines that she can enable these young women to live up to their potential and become high-achieving professionals by paying for them to have extensive surgeries that produce severe physical disfigurements, and by compensating them with loads of cash to make up for the loss of physical beauty. Though Oly never draws the connection, Miss Lick and her sick form of philanthropy clearly parallel the functioning of Arty’s cult, as both rely on self-hate and self-mutilation to reach a higher plane of existence. Are the freaks morally superior to the norms, to the rest of us? That’s one question Dunn seems to ask. In a way, Dunn’s readers are like people who go to the carnival to gape and gawk, to be scared and amazed, and to be confirmed in their normalcy in contrast to the carnies. When we read Dunn’s book, we are like spectators who can’t look away from the freaks for fear of being freaks ourselves. Dunn’s book is a gruesomely enthralling freak show that leaves me a bit uneasy about the world we live in and my place in it.
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MARCH ArtsCrawl S a t u r d a y , M arch 1 0 , 7 - 9 p m
In addition to all the businesses that will be open for ArtsCrawl, Coal Street will be closed from 2nd Street to 3rd Street, allowing art enthusiasts to stroll freely among the shops and galleries. Live music and artists, as well as activities for the kids (or the kid in you) will be offered on the street.
This month stop by to see Ric Sarracino and have your caricature sketched. Also check out 15-year-old singer, Sky Larose, performing round dance songs. Foundations of Freedom, 115 W. Coal Ave. Capoeira Roda at 7:30 pm - Come in and watch, play Brazilian instruments, or practice ‘playing’ Capoeira with the group. Music and songs in Portuguese will be accompanied with players performing martial arts, dance, and acrobatics. ART123, 123 W. Coal Ave. “Celebration: It’s Your Art” ART123 Gallery is celebrating its one-year anniversary in Gallup, NM. Make your own art! Live performance by Discotays! Open Studio/Outsider Gallery, 123 W. Coal Ave. (East Room) A Project of Disability Services, Inc. working to create an inclusive community. One-of-a-kind, handmade, contemporary fine arts and crafts.
Featuring: new paintings by Jay Dickens, Robert Martinez, & Floyd Nelson, contemporary bead jewelry by Frances Martinez, and beadwork by Lionel Yazzie. Also featuring: fine contemporary silver jewelry by Leaf Ashley, fiber art by Leah Kostopolos, paintings by Rossi Bright, photography by Bill Keeler, Amy Bertolaccini, JJ Gamalobo, and Raven Bright, photography, Nichos, Milagros Cards by Jill Farkas, fine contemporary silver jewelry by Michael Schmaltz.
The Coffee House, 203 W. Coal Ave. Open for business with house specials and local artists featured. Downtown Conference Center, 204 W. Coal Ave. Local artists’ marketplace. Beeman Jewelry Design, 211 W. Coal Ave. Hand-made, one-of-a-kind, custom jewelry created by John Beeman. Enjoy drinks and treats and check out a clip of the new website in advance of its launch. Makeshift Gallery, 213 W. Coal Ave. Open 10 am – 9pm, offering unique and affordable handmade gifts. Renee Post is the featured artist; she creates paintings, stained glass, and ceramic items including pottery and jewelry. Gallup Film Foundation, Downtown Walkway Stop by and check out the featured movies and local film submissions. Klopfer Professional Building, 224 W. Coal Ave. Stop in to visit and enjoy the mid-20th-century print collection and Native American art by Bruce Watchman and Albert Benally. The Industry Gallery, 226 W Coal Ave. Brian Weeks’s art collection, hip hop underground art. Cheap-O-Depot Books and Things, 227 W. Coal Ave. Lots of new books in stock and a special display with art books. Bill Malone Trading Company, 235 W. Coal Ave. Traditional Native American art including jewelry, rugs, and more! Stop in and be serenaded by the Little Sisters of the Poor Navajo Class. Donations welcome in support of the Little Sisters. Youth Art Display, 305 S. Second Street Displaying the work of promising young artists of Gallup and McKinley County. This month will feature Lincoln Elementary and Turpen Elementary students, from art teachers Rachel Schali and Edley Jang. Camille’s Sidewalk Café, 306 S. Second Street Offering free hot chocolate, 6 – 9 pm. Angela’s Café, 201 E. Historic 66 Live music, 6 – 8 pm, art show featuring Tine Hayes and his students from Miyamura High School, as well as photography from John E. Farley of Santa Fe - “A Year or So in the Life of New Mexico,” an uncensored look at life in the Land of Enchantment.
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TOWN Uplift Community School Announces Open Enrollment Be among the first to join our family! Enrollment is now open for our area’s newly funded public charter school. Enrollment Request Forms are being accepted for students entering grades K-4 in August 2012. This first enrollment period is from February 18 and will run through March 16. If necessary, at the close of the first enrollment period, a lottery will be held for grades that have enrollment requests that exceed the 24 students per classroom capacity. There will be more open enrollment periods if needed, but enroll early as space is limited. Enrollment Request Forms are available online at www.upliftschool.org or on the community board at the Octavia Fellin Public Library Children’s Branch, 200 W. Aztec in Gallup. The March Community Meeting will be posted at www.upliftschool.org. Questions? Email: coordinator@upliftschool.org or Call: 505-862-1865.
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2012 Women’s History Month
Did you start an online business in 2011? If so, you might have income and expenses that affect your federal income tax return. Here are three items to consider.
MAIN BRANCH – 115 W. Hill Ave., Gallup Film Series, “Women in History” – Co-sponsored by the Gallup Film Foundation, Wednesday nights starting at 5:30 pm March 7 – Three Sovereigns for Sarah, This film provides valuable insights concerning the truth of the Salem Witch Trials. March 14 – One Woman, One Vote, This documents the passing of the 19th Amendment by one vote. March 21 – The Journey of Sacagawea, This film explores the life of Sacagawea through oral history and discusses the mystery that surrounds her.
• Home office deduction. Do you use part of your home or apartment on a regular or exclusive basis for conducting your web business? Do you have a separate studio or other freestanding building where you work exclusively in your business? Do you store your business inventory in a specific place in your home? Answer yes to any of those questions and you may be able to deduct part of the cost of utilities, insurance, and repairs made to your home. • Payments to independent contractors. Paying a vendor to create your website or handle administrative tasks means you may need to file information returns – generally Form 1099 – to support your deduction. You’re required to send copies to the vendor, as well as to the IRS. • Documentation of expenses. Though your business is online, you probably use your vehicle for work-related errands or sales calls. Track your mileage to determine whether you should calculate a deduction based on actual expenses or the standard mileage rate. For 2011, the standard rater for business miles was 51¢ from January 1 through June 30. The rate increased to 55.5¢ from July 1 through December 31. Another expense to document: Telephone use. For a land line, you can deduct the cost of long distance business calls. The regular monthly charge is not deductible unless you have a dedicated business line. For your cell phone, keep records of business usage so you can deduct that portion of your bill or plan. Give use a call for rules on claiming other expenses related to your online business, including merchant fees, start-up costs, and website development. Contact us at 505-863-9575 or petrocpa@hotmail.com.
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Senator Pauline Eisenstadt, the first woman to serve in both the NM House and Senate! Saturday, March 24 at 2pm. Senator Eisenstadt will share her experiences in politics and discuss her book, A Woman in Both Houses. A reception and book signing will follow. CHILDREN’S BRANCH – 200 W. Aztec Ave., Gallup The Cat in the Hat will visit the Children’s Branch Saturday, March 3 starting at 2 pm. The afternoon events will include meeting the Cat in the Hat, a special Dr. Seuss story time, a Make Your Own Cat in the Hat craft, and the Cat in the Hat movie will play at 4 pm. All activities are free and open to the public. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT – Annual Poetry Contest The Octavia Fellin Library is pleased to announce that the 6th annual Poetry Contest is just around the corner. Starting March 20, poetry submissions will be accepted at the Main Branch (115 W. Hill) or the Children’s Branch (200 W. Aztec). Entries will be accepted through April 21. Contest Categories are as follows: 1st, 2nd & 3rd grades; 4th, 5th & 6th grades; 7th & 8th grades, high school and 18 years and above. Requirements for submission: Type or print poems on 8 ½” x 11” paper. Name, category and contact information must be included on back of submissions or on separate sheet of paper. Teachers are requested to submit the top 5 poems if this is a class assignment. The Awards Ceremony will take place Saturday, May 12 at 3 pm at the Main Branch.
87301 2012 Young Writers’ Contest Reception Friday, March 30, 5-7 pm Old School Gallery in El Morro Writers of poetry and prose from elementary schools and high schools in Pine Hill, Ramah, and Zuni will give public readings of their work at the Old School Gallery. Some students will receive awards for their efforts, and all will be honored. Musicians from local schools will also perform. Please show your support for the young people of our community. The event is free, and all are welcome. Refreshments will be served. The Old School Gallery is on Route 53, about one mile east of El Morro National Monument, between mile markers 45 and 46. Please call the Gallery at (505) 783-4710 with any questions.
Wooly Riding Championship Series Sponsored by Gallup Lions Club Originally, the Gallup Lions Club was approached by T&R to help put on a small wooly riding event for their Customer Appreciation Days. The response was tremendous and prompted the beginnings of the Wooly Riding Championship series. Now in its fourth year, the WRC continues to grow. The event provides the youth an opportunity to compete in a lively and safe environment that allows them to practice their techniques. The WRC prides itself in having the most talented riders – some as young as 2 years old. Proceeds from the WRC have gone back to the community to benefit youth and youth organizations. To date, more than 380 area youth have benefited from an eye-screening camera, purchased with the help of Eye Associates of New Mexico that allows for early detection of correctable vision problems. This year’s WRC events and information: Date Entry Event 03/24/12 T&R Feed, 9-11:30am T&R Feed, 12:00pm 04/21/12 T&R Feed, 9-11:30am T&R Feed, 12:00pm 05/26/12 T&R Feed, 9-11:30am T&R Feed, 12:00pm Entry Information: • Entry fee $20.00. • No late entries accepted. • Proof of age required upon entry; participants must be 7 years of age or younger as of 3/24/12. • Each date’s winner automatically qualifies for ride-off at the Lions Club Rodeo on Saturday night, 6/16/12. • Helmets and vests are mandatory. No spurs allowed. • Riders must ride for six seconds. Additional rules, regulations and prize information posted at galluplionsclubrodeo.com.
Bottom Line Duo To Perform Saturday, March 3 at 7:00 pm Gallup High School Auditorium Mark your calendars to plan to attend the upcoming Gallup Community Concert. Bottom Line Duo, one of three internationally touring bass and cello duos in history, will be performing on Saturday, March 3, 2012 beginning at 7:00 pm. This is a husband and wife duo, Traci and Spencer Hoveskeland, performing at the Kenneth Holloway Auditorium at the Gallup High School. This is an evening of classics and pops to be enjoyed. The Bottom Line Duo will deliver a program with roots in chamber music and an amazing repertoire of modern and popular sounds, blended together with a large portion of humor and fun. A Norwegian-American man and a Welsh-Belgian American woman with 18 years of marriage produce a program of tremendous virtuosity, intimacy, entertainment, fun, and laughter. If you already have a season membership, you received a pass allowing you to bring a guest, so be sure to invite someone early. Memberships can be purchased at the door. You can use one membership for five people to get into this one concert, or plan to attend the final concert of the season and divide the use of the membership. A $40.00 adult membership is good for 5 punches. Student memberships are $15.00. For more information please contact Antoinette Neff, Executive Director at 505-862-3939 or e-mail: toni@ nizhonimusic.com and you can also follow GCCA on Facebook by using this address: www.facebook.com/pages/ Gallup-Community-Concert-Association/1885634345164 8?ref=ts.
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Recycling Opportunities Expand for McKinley County There are now more opportunities to recycle in our area thanks to a grant from the New Mexico Recycling Coalition, which received funding from the Department of Energy American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Around the state six new recycling processing centers will come online by the end of the year. In McKinley County, traditional household and business recycling items such as corrugated cardboard, paper, newsprint, junk mail, catalogs and magazines, aluminum and steel cans, and plastic bottles #1 and #2 can now be recycled at the Northwest New Mexico Regional Solid Waste Authority Gallup Transfer Station on Hasler Valley Road. The transfer station is located between Gallup Sand & Gravel and the Juvenile Detention Center. Accepting recyclables Monday – Saturday, 8 am – 4:30 pm. Electronics (call 863-5776 to get a list of items) and telephone books are collected at the transfer station as well. Though these items were not covered under the ARRA funding, the City of Gallup wants your telephone books! The City has placed a bin for their collection at this site. Electronics are heavy, often bulky, and highly recyclable. Look for the big green trailer at the transfer station for these items. Recycling saves landfill space and our planet’s finite natural resources. Saves energy that it takes to harvest new materials, and it creates more jobs. Though already in place, a recycling program campaign will be launched by the NM Recycling Coalition in our area. The recycling program will be complemented with outreach materials based on the Wild West “wanted posters,” where the “wanted” items in this case are the recyclables. Getting Started For first time, recyclers, setting up your recycling collection at home is an important first step. Start by placing a trash can or tub just for recyclable items next to your main kitchen garbage can. Place the cans and bottles here. Make sure containers are empty and rinsed of any food residue. No need to remove labels, but please remove those lids.
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Set up an outdoor larger tub in your trash can area to empty this smaller container into. Next, create a dry, convenient location to collect your recyclable papers. Your newspaper, office paper, junk mail, catalogs and magazines can be recycled together. You do not need to worry about envelope windows or if the catalog is stapled or glue bound. Collect paper in brown paper bags (which can then be recycled with the corrugated cardboard), canvas shopping bags, plastic crates or tubs. Corrugated cardboard must be broken down at time of recycling. This item can be stored inside or out. Pizza boxes or any waxed-coating boxes are not acceptable. Local Recycling Information Here is a list of items that you can recycle with this new program. Please note that these items must be sorted by the resident and placed into the correct container at the drop-off. You may collect in any type of bag or container, just empty it at time of drop-off into the collection container and use again. • Corrugated Cardboard (collapsed) and Brown Paper Bags • Mixed Paper (which includes office paper, newsprint, junk mail, catalogs and magazines) • Aluminum Cans • Steel / Tin Cans (canned pet and other foods) • Plastic Bottles #1 and #2 with necks (Look for the number in the triangle on the bottom of the bottle.) Contact the NWNMRSWA at 863-5776 for more information. Want to get involved? Contact Gerald (gohactivities@aol.com / 722-5142) or Betsy (betsywindisch@yahoo.com / 722-9257) with the McKinley Citizens’ Recycling Council to find out how you can help spread the word and distribute recycling program information. Contributions to this article were made by English Bird, Executive Director and Jessi Just, Community Recycling Outreach Specialist, New Mexico Recycling Coalition (jessi@ recyclenewmexico.com).
Gallup’s Comfort Suites Hotel Wins Prestigious Award The Comfort Suites hotel of Gallup, NM was recently announced as a recipient of a prestigious 2012 Platinum Hospitality Award from world lodging leader Choice Hotels International, Inc. Platinum Award status represents a tremendous accomplishment for a hotel and its entire staff. As a top performing property among the company’s more than 4,900 U.S. franchised hotels, the Comfort Suites hotel is among the top percentage of properties within the Comfort Suites brand. As one of the company’s top franchised hotels operating under the Comfort Suites flag, the hotel has demonstrated an exceptional focus on guest satisfaction and dedication to providing superior service. Comfort Suites of Gallup is the only Choice Hotel in New Mexico to receive this award twice and is currently ranked #4 in the nation of over 600 Comfort Suites. Congratulations to the staff at Comfort Suites of Gallup!
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March/April RO D E O S C H E D U L E
03/11 Get Tough Bullriding Association Membership Drive 2nd Canyon Pinedale, NM Mariano Arena Info: Peterson Long 505.977.2377, Vincent Mariano 505.713.8338 2012 C-C Arena Buckle Team-Roping Coyote Canyon, NM 3.5 miles east Route 9 from Hwy. 491 junction Info: 505.728.4120 03/17 Wild West Days Bronc Riding Challenge Ganado, AZ Ralph Johnson Memorial Rodeo Grounds Info: Ferguson Joe 928.797.1747 (after 6pm)
03/24 Wooly Riding Championship Series Gallup, New Mexico T&R Feed Info: galluplionsclubrodeo.com and see story on p. 51 03/24-25 Spring Round-Up Rodeo Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation Info: 480.789.7162, www.ftmcdowell.org 03/25 5th Annual Ashton Jones presents Riding with the Big Boys Bull Riding Challenge Standing Rock, NM AJ’s Arena Info: Ceejay 505.979.9018 04/12 Long’s Get Tough Bull Riding Tsa-Ya-Toh, New Mexico JW Long & Sons Arena Info: Peterson Long 505.977.2377 or Vincent Mariano 505.713.8338 04/21 6th Annual Oak Springs Saddle Bronc Challenge Oak Springs, AZ Info: 928.309.0164
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March Community Calendar
Sunday ONGOING
Support Class for Parents of Teens at First United Methodist Church from 6:30-7:30pm. Info: 8634512. Poetry Group, call Jack for more information (including location) at 783-4007. Psychic Playtime with RedWulf at the Old School Gallery 1st and 3rd Sundays, 7-9:30pm. Tarot, drum journeys and more tools to explore your inner self. $1 donation. Info: RedWulf @ 505-7834612. Tai Chi at Old School Gallery, 9:30am. Info: Reed at 783-4067. Coyote Canyon Women’s Sweat Lodge Ceremony on Sundays, 1-4pm, potluck dinner. Located 3 miles east of Highway 491, Route 9 junction, 1 mile south of Route 9. The ceremony is for wellness, stress reduction, purification and cultural sensitivity. All women are welcomed. For more information, call 505 870-3832.
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ONGOING Battered Families Services, Inc. has a women’s support group that meets weekly. A children’s support group is available at the same time for children six years of age and older. Info: 7226389. Codependents Anonymous, 6pm at First United Methodist Church, 1800 Red Rock Drive, library room. Info: Liz at 863-5928. “Teen Survivors of Dating and Domestic Violence” support group meeting, 6:30-8:30pm. Info: 722-6389. Sustainable Energy Board meeting in the Mayor’s Conference Room, 3-5pm, on the fourth Monday of each month. For info/agenda, email brightideas98@gmail.com. Zumba Fitness Dance Class at Foundations of Freedom Dance Studio (115 W. Coal) at 6:30pm. For more information email zumbagallup@ yahoo.com or call Stephanie at (814) 282-6502. Chronic Pain and Chronic Illness 12 Step Support group. Meets every Monday from 5-6 PM at the First United Methodist Church, 1800 Red Rock Drive, library room. For info call 863-5928 or chronicpainanonymous.org. ZUMBA Fitness Classes at the Juggernaut (412 N. 9th Street) starting at 5:40 p.m. For more information email r_roanhorse@yahoo.com or call Ralph Roanhorse at (505) 862-2970. Family Game Night at Octavia Fellin Public Library’s main branch at 5:30 pm. Children’s Jazz classes: Pre and Beginning, 3:30 and 4:00 at FOF Dance Studio, 115 W. Coal. Email mamakismet@yahoo.com for more info or stop by the studio.
Full Moon Gathering. Join others on the evening of the full moon to honor the Divine, to learn about different beliefs and customs, and to learn about healing modalities. For information about the monthly topic, location and time, contact Wayne: 879-0230.
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DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME BEGINS A Taize’ worship service of music, Scripture, silence, and prayer will be held at Westminster Presbyterian Church, Boardman Drive at 4 pm. This hour service is offered by the ecumenical community for personal reflection and spiritual renewal. Take time to walk the Labyrinth (on the right before the final ascent to the church on the hill) before or after the time or worship. Music for Taize’ is performed by members of The Westminster Winds (Loline Hathaway - English Horn and Oboe, John Mezoff - Bassoon, Kathy Mezoff - Harpsichord) and guest performers. For more information or child care call 722-9257.
Capoeira classes offered at Foundations of Freedom Dance Studio, Mondays and Thursdays at 8pm, $5 (first class FREE). For more information, call Chelsea at 808 344-1417, email info@capoeiraguerreirosnm.com or visit www. capoeiraguerreirosnm.com..
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The RMCHCS Auxiliary is hosting a Masquerade $5 Jewelry and Accessories Sale in the hospital main lobby from 7 am to 4 pm, March 12-13. For more information, call 505-863-7325. Quilt Club at Gallup Service Mart, 7-9 pm. Come join other quilters in the area to share projects you are working on or have completed. Class newsletter for the months of April, May and June will be given out and discussed at this meeting. Free. For more information, call 722-9414.
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Music & Movement (ages 1-3) 12 noon, Knitting Club at 4:00pm at the Children’s Library. For more information, call 726-6120.
Cancer support group, for information call 8633075 or 863-6140.
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Tai-Chi Taught by Monika Gauderon at RMCH Vanden Bosch Clinic. 6pm for beginners. $60/ month. RMCHCS Diabetes Education Classes – First four Tuesdays of the month, starting at 6pm. RMCHCS 2nd floor library. For more information, call 7266918. Community Yoga, beginner/athletic beginner level. 6:15 pm, Catholic Charities/CIC. 506 W. Rte. 66. Info: Steph Asper (717) 357-0231 . Adult chess club at Camille’s Sidewalk Cafe in Gallup, 5-7pm. Gallup Al-Anon meetings at First United Methodist Church, 1800 Red Rock Drive (next to GIMC). Tuesdays at 12 noon and Thursdays at 7pm in Conference Room #1. Zumba Fitness Dance Class at Foundations of Freedom Dance Studio (115 W. Coal) at 6:30pm. For more information email zumbagallup@ yahoo.com or call Stephanie at (814) 282-6502. ZUMBA Fitness Classes at Window Rock Sports Center starting at 5:30 p.m. For more information email r_roanhorse@yahoo.com or call Ralph Roanhorse at (505) 862-2970. Red Rock Chapter ABATE of NM (American Bikers Aimed Towards Education) meets every 4th Tuesday of the month at 6:30pm at Gallup Fire Station #2 (911 N. 9th St.). For more information, call (505) 409-5311, 863-9941 or 870-0951.
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Manga Club (ages 9-13) 4:30pm at the Children’s Library. For more information, call 726-6120. Studio Drawing Class at ART123, 7-9pm on WEDNESDAYS. $10 for non-members, $5 for members. Artist Steve Storz will teach ages 14 through adult in various drawing techniques utilizing Abstract, Art Brute, Minimalism, contour line, and others. Students need to provide their own materials. For more information, call 575-779-6760 or email steve. storz0@gmail.com. Gallup Solar Group open community meetings. 6pm at 113 E. Logan. For more information, call Be at 726-2497. Spay-Neuter Discount Clinic for Low Income Pet Owners at the Gallup McKinley County Humane Society, N. Highway 491. Call 863-2616 for an appointment. FREE ZUMBA Fitness Classes at Chee Dodge Elementary School starting at 5:30 p.m. For more information email r_roanhorse@yahoo. com or call Ralph Roanhorse at (505) 862-2970. Intermediate YOGA classes, 6:45pm at Foundations of Freedom (115 W. Coal). Everyone welcome - $6 suggested donation. For more information, call Gene at (505) 728-8416 or email at gallupyoga@gmail.com. Chanting workshop with Genevieve and Redwulf 2nd and 4th Wednesday each month at the Old School Gallery. Free. Chants from around the world 6-7:30 pm. Toddler Tumbling: 11:00 - 11:45 and Break Dancing all ages: 5:00 - 6:00 at FOF Dance Studio, 115 W. Coal. Email mamakismet@yahoo. com for more info or stop by the studio.
GALLUP’S ANNUAL RELAY FOR LIFE EVENT is on June 15. For more information, to join a team, be a sponsor, make a donation, or about the Relay, call Linda 722-2175 or Joyce 863-3075.
Habitat for Humanity Gallup meetings, 6-8 pm, Comfort Suites Hotel. Call Bill at 722-4226 for scheduled meeting days of each month & info. Volunteers needed.
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PFLAG Gallup planning meeting at the Coffee House, downtown Gallup, 10am-12 noon. For more information, call 505-713-2828 or email gaygallup2010@gmail.com
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One Block Wonder at Gallup Service Mart, 6-9 pm. A continuation of January’s and February’s classes. For more information, call 722-9414. Rehoboth High School Choir Concert at Rehoboth Church at 7 pm.
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In conjunction with Martin Link’s UNM-G course, “The Civil War in the Southwest,” the epic film Gettysburg will be shown at the El Morro Theater on two evenings. The motion picture is over 4 1/2 hours long, and is divided into two parts. Part One will be shown on Tuesday, March 27, and Part Two on Tuesday, April, 03. For both performances doors will open at 6:15 p.m. There will be a brief introduction of the part to be shown at 6:40, and the movie will begin at 6:50 p.m. The movie, produced by Turner Pictures, is based on Michael Shaara’s book, The Killer Angels, and stars Sam Elliott, Martin Sheen, Jeff Daniels, Tom Berenger, Kevin Conway, Stephen Lang and Richard Jordan. Admission will be charged.
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Film Series at Octavia Fellin Library, “Women in History” – Co-sponsored by the Gallup Film Foundation, Wednesday nights starting at 5:30 pm. Three Sovereigns for Sarah, This film provides valuable insights concerning the truth of the Salem Witch Trials.
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PFLAG Gallup Support Meeting, Parents Families Friends of Gays Lesbians and Transgender, 6-8 pm in the RMCH Solarium 3rd Floor (1901 Red Rock Drive, Gallup, NM). For more information, call 505-713-2828 or email gaygallup2010@gmail.com Film Series at Octavia Fellin Library, “Women in History” – Co-sponsored by the Gallup Film Foundation, Wednesday nights starting at 5:30 pm. One Woman, One Vote, This documents the passing of the 19th Amendment by one vote.
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Film Series at Octavia Fellin Library, “Women in History” – Co-sponsored by the Gallup Film Foundation, Wednesday nights starting at 5:30 pm. The Journey of Sacagawea, This film explores the life of Sacagawea through oral history and discusses the mystery that surrounds her.
Connections Inc. 100 E. Aztec Gallup, New Mexico offers the following free programs: Access to recovery New Mexico A free substance abuse treatment program. For info: Call Randy at 505-863-3377 Ext: 108 Mon-Fri 8am-5pm Child and Adult Care Food Program Are you babysitting any kids under 13 years old in your home? We can pay you MONEY for the food that you feed the kids in your home. For more Info Please call 505-863-3377 Ext: 105, 102 or 1-800-527-5712 Free Counseling for Children and their Families Mental Health Counseling for issue if divorce, abuse, domestic violence, behavioral problems at home and at school. Contact: 505-863-3377 Ext: 107, 110, 103. Senior Companion Program / Retired and Senior Volunteer Program For more information, Contact Claudette at 505-722-3565 or 505-870-8567
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ONGOING Tween Crafts (ages 9-13) 4:00pm at the Children’s Library. For more information, call 726-6120.
Movie Day, 3:00 pm at the Children’s Library. Overeaters Anonymous meeting at 11 am, at the First United Methodist Church, 1800 Red Rock Drive, For more information, call 726-6120. library room. Info: Liz 505-863-5928.
Moms Supporting Moms at Church Rock School, 9-11:30am.
Sports Page hosting GLBT Night every Friday! Friday nights will be a place to celebrate and be yourself! For more information contact: Raiff Arviso; rca87121@gmail.com, Sports Page - 1400 S. 2nd St, Gallup, NM (505) 722-3853.
Toastmasters at Earl’s Restaurant, 6:30am. Info: Dale at 722-9420. Substance Abuse Support Group, CASA, at Gallup Church of Christ, 7pm. Info: Darrel at 863-5530. Community Yoga, beginner/athletic beginner level. 6:20 pm, Catholic Charities/CIC. 506 W. Rte. 66. Info: Gene at 505-728-8416. Gallup Al-Anon meetings at First United Methodist Church, 1800 Red Rock Drive (next to GIMC). Tuesdays at 12 noon and Thursdays at 7pm in Conference Room #1. Divorce Care Support Group, Thursdays at 7pm. Location to be determined. For more information, call or email Dan at 505 878-2821 or dkruis@yahoo.com. 2nd Thursday of the month Survivors of Homicide Support Group meets 6-8pm. For more information, call Deborah Yellowhorse-Brown at 870-6126. The Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit (1334 Country Club Dr., Gallup) hosts support meetings for Type 1 and Type 2 diabetics from 5:30-6:30 pm on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays. Information from the American Diabetes Association will be presented and local health-care professionals will often be available. For more information call 863-4695. Children’s Ballet classes: Pre and Beginning, 4:00 and 4:45 at FOF Dance Studio, 115 W. Coal. Email mamakismet@yahoo.com for more info or stop by the studio. ZUMBA Fitness Classes at Window Rock Sports Center starting at 5:30 p.m. For more information email r_roanhorse@yahoo.com or call Ralph Roanhorse at (505) 862-2970.
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3rd Annual Coyote Hunt sponsored by Gallup Lions Club. Check-in March 1, 3-7 pm at Gallup Lions Club (3300 E. Aztec). For more information, call Matt Hughbanks at 505 879-2053 or Trace Griffith at 505 879-0189.
Belly Dance classes, at Foundations of Freedom Dance Studio (115 W. Coal) Fridays at 6:30 - 7:30. New students welcome anytime! $5 per class + one time non-refundable registration fee $20. Stress relief, improved posture/muscle tone, core strengthening, and fun! More info? Call Leaf at 722-2491. Meditation and Prayer Circle for healing and health! Limited space at HealinGifts lobby (807 Metro Ave., Gallup), 7-7:30 pm. Bring your yoga mat. Suggested love offering: $5.00. RSVP please. (505) 863-3772. More info at website: http://store.healingifts.com. The weekly Old-Fashioned Hootenanny, at Camille’s Sidewalk Cafe, every Friday, starting at 6:30PM. Acoustic musicians are welcome to sit in with the regular players.
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Capoeira Classes at Foundations of Freedom Dance Studio. Kids’ class 11:30 am-1 pm ($5), *last weekend of the month there is a Portuguese language class, after the kids’ class, from 1-2pm. First class FREE! For information, contact Chelsea 808-344-1417, email info@capoeiraguerreirosnm.com or visit www.capoeiraguerreirosnm.com. Children’s Library Events: 10:30am Preschool Story Time (ages 1-5), 11:30am K-3 Challenge (ages 5-9), 12:30pm Chess Club (ages 7-13), 3pm Drop-in Crafts (ages 3-9). 4pm movie (March 10: Ella Enchanted, March 17: Because of Winn Dixie, March 24: Home on the Range, March 31: Mars Needs Moms). For more information, call 726-6120. ZUMBA Fitness Classes at Wowie’s Activity Hall on the corner of Maloney and 3rd Street starting at 11:00 a.m. For more information email r_roanhorse@yahoo.com or call Ralph Roanhorse at (505) 862-2970. Beginner to advanced beginner YOGA classes, 10-11am at Foundations of Freedom (115 W. Coal). Everyone welcome - $6 suggested donation. For more information, call Gene at (505) 728-8416 or email at gallupyoga@ gmail.com. RMCHCS College Clinic has Saturday clinic hours from 8 am to 12 pm through March. The additional clinic hours are for established patients with acute illnesses; appointments preferred but walk-ins accepted. For more information, call RMCHCS College Clinic at 863-1820. Natural Health Classes: Herbs A-Z Uses, 4-5 pm at HealinGifts Herbs (807 Metro Ave., Gallup). For more information, call Maria at 505-863-3772. Habitat for Humanity Yards Sales every Sat., 9 am to noon (weather permitting): windows, doors, tile, shingles, sinks, tubs, ranges, lights, coolers, etc. Call Bill 505-722-4226 for location.
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Deadline: March 20 Call: 722.3399 Email: gallupjourney@yahoo.com
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Dordt College Choir Concert at Rehoboth Church at 7 pm.
The RMCHCS Auxiliary Thrift Shop, located at 650 VandenBosch Pkwy in Gallup, has a wide selection of clothing, household items, books, and other items at unbelievably low prices. Hours are Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, 12 pm – 4 pm. For more information, call 505. 726.6941.
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Looking for some great bargains? Come and shop at Hands of Hope’s Spring Garage Sale from 8 to 11am! Located at the First Baptist Church gym, 2112 College Dr., Gallup – use the west side entrance. There will be a huge assortment of household items and adult and children’s clothing. Proceeds of the sale will benefit Hands Caribe is playing at Angela’s Café con Leche, of Hope Pregnancy Center. For information, call 722-7125. 7-9 pm. The Cat in the Hat will visit the Children’s Library starting at 2 pm. The afternoon events will include meeting the Cat in the Hat, a special Dr. Seuss story time, a Make Your Own Cat in the Hat craft, and the Cat in the Hat 14th Annual Celtic Festival of the Arts & movie will play at 4 pm. All activities are free and open to the public. Spirituality, March 9 at 7 pm and March 10 Beginning Sewing Part 3 at Gallup from 11:30 am to 7 pm at Gallup Catholic / songwriter Amy Shreve in concert at Grace Bible Church (222 E. Boulder in Gallup) at 6 pm. Free Service Mart, 6-9 pm. A continuation of January’s High School. For more information about the Singer event – please come! For more information, call 722-5114. and February’s classes. For more information, call activities of The Friends of the Celts including 722-9414. the annual Celtic Festival of the Arts & Gallup Community Concert Series presents Bottom Line Duo, a husband and wife duo playing the cello and Spirituality, March 9-10, call Martin 863-6459 bass, at Gallup High Kenneth Halloway Auditorium at 7 pm. For more information, call Antoinette Neff at 505 / Betsy 722-9257. 862-3939 and read G-Town article on p. 51.
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“20th Anniversary for Sobriety” The public is invited to NCI (2205 E. Boyd Ave., Gallup) for a captivating Open House to learn On Call Jazz is playing at about NCI function and services from 10 am to 3 Angela’s Café con Leche, 7-9 pm. pm. There will be food and door prizes. For more information, call 505 722 2177. Fix a Leak Week event at McKinley County Courthouse Rotunda (207 W. Hill), 12:30-5:30 pm. Be one of the first 300 participants with your most current GJU bill in order to receive a FREE showerhead, aerator and toilet leak detection packet. Gallup Film Foundation regular public meeting at Red Mesa Center (105 W. Hill in Gallup) from 6:30 to about 8 pm. Library Film Series, Gallup Film Scrawl, Navajo Diné films, film preservation, Filmmaking Workshops, etc. We need your films and we need volunteers! For more information, write to P.O. Box 2906, Gallup NM 87305 and visit gallupfilmfoundation.org and Facebook (filmscrawl).
“Pump Up the Volume Against Cancer” – Relay for Life Cancer Research Fundraiser Navajo Taco Sale at Grace Bible Church, 11 am-1 pm and 5-7 pm. $6 includes drink. Friday Movie Extravaganza at NAN-Gallup office (101 E. Hill), 1-5 pm. Free movies (Prayers for Bobby, Two Spirits, The Help, The Birdcage), popcorn, pizza, HIV testing. For more information, call 505 863-9615.
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The monthly McKinley Citizens’ Recycling Council Meeting will be held at 508 Sandstone Place in Indian Hills beginning at 2 pm. The public is encouraged to attend. MCRC welcomes your comments and concerns about recycling in our area. Recycling reduces energy consumption, saves our natural resources and space in the landfill. Volunteers are needed to help spread the word in our community. For more information contact Gerald (722-5142) or Betsy (722-9257).
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ArtsCrawl, Downtown Gallup, 7-9pm. See page 48 for complete schedule of events.
March Mayhem: Andrew Tennison vs. Coda “The Navajo Kid” Yazzie at Howard Johnson (West Hwy. 66 in Gallup) at 7 pm. Tickets on sale at Sammy C’s, Extreme Ground ‘N’ Pound, Howard Johnson. Weigh In March 9th at Sammy C’s at 6 pm. Dirty Birds Motorcycle Club sponsoring Benefit Poker Run & Dance for Bone Marrow Transplant for Antoinette Martinez at KC Hall. Sign up at 11 am, last rider out at 12:30 pm. Entry fee $25/rider, $5/passenger, dance only $10. Raffle, prizes, lunch for riders, music, etc. all open to public. For more information, call 505 879-7872, 505 870-0563 or 505 870-3713.
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2012 Entrepreneur Expo – A ST. PATRICK’S DAY free one-day event to showcase the creative and inventive spirit of the region’s population in order to inspire, support and elevate entrepreneurial ideas and inventions. At Senator Pauline Eisenstadt, the first woman to serve in both the NM House and Senate, at the Snap Bag workshop at Gallup UNM-Gallup campus, 8:30 am – 4 pm. For Octavia Fellin Library at 2pm. Senator Eisenstadt will share her experiences in politics and discuss her book, A Service Mart, 6-9 pm. Use a metal tape measure more information contact Al Henderson at Woman in Both Houses. A reception and book signing will follow. and your choice of fabric to make this bag in a few ahenderson@gallup.unm.edu or 505/863-7634 hours. Come have fun learning a quick and easy pattern. $15 plus pattern. For more information, 2012 Young Writers’ Contest reception, call 722-9414. readings, music, and awards at the Old School Gallery in El Morro, 5-7 pm. For more information, call 505 783-4710 and read G-Town article on p. 51.
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Opinion 1) What improvements should be done to Gallup? 2) What year did New Mexico earn its statehood? 3) If you could be any animal, what would it be?
4) If you could be in any movie, what would it be? Alex 1) more entertainment 2) 1915 3) saber tooth tiger 4) Transformers
Daniel 1) everything 2) 1912 3) a fox 4) Footloose
Julio 1) not so many drunk people 2) 1886, I think 3) koala 4) District 13
Kelly 1) the roads 2) 1912 3) a kitten 4) American Graffiti
Luke 1) new golf course 2) 1912 3) a leopard 4) Back to the Future Part I
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Trestan 1) a nice place for playing music . . . for bands 2) 1917 . . . wait 1912 3) a flying squirrel 4) Fight Club or Transformers
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1) fix the roads and finish the park by the dam on 2nd street 2) 1912 3) grizzly bear 4) American Graffiti
The Outlaw 1) preserve our saloons (bars) 2) I'm in New Mexico??? 3) a wild stallion 4) a John Wayne or Roy Rogers western
Xavier 1) fix roads, sports stores, mini golf and music stores 2) 1912 3) peacock 4) Harry Potter
Gator 1) less graffiti, the paint makes me sick when I hang out on the walls 2) before I was born 3) a bigger lizard . . . Godzilla 4) Uh . . . Godzilla
Alec 1) school lunches and roads 2) 1492 3) a dog 4) Beetlejuice
Feather 1) roads need to be fixed 2) 1912 3) a wolf 4) Resident Evil
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People read Gallup Journey in the darndest places! send photos to: gallupjourney@yahoo.com or 202 east hill, 87301
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1. Some unidentified folks read the Journey at an awesome party! 2. Angel Hernandez standing in front of Monumento a la Revoluciรณn in Mexico City. 3. Paisley K. Hillstrom (left) and Yvonne Sandoval (right) are enjoying the Journey while visiting Jerusalem, Israel.
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4. Cal Marshall and Pat Maguire read the Journey while waiting for a ferry on a visit to Catalina Island in California. 5. Calvin (left) and Patricia Largo (right) reading the Journey at The Vegas Shoot, an International Archery Shoot in Las Vegas, NV.
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Left and Right: Ray (right) and Ranae & Rhiannon Chavez (left) read the Journey at beautiful Diamond Head State Park in Honolulu, HI. Above and Below: 6th grade students from Chief Manuelito Middle School stopped to read the Gallup Journey with Senator George Mu単oz and Governor Susana Martinez.
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This Is My Job:
TOOLS OF THE TRADE • must be mission-minded • patience • perseverance (knowing ideas may not succeed the first time) • curiosity (keep asking why) • ability to communicate • ability to deal with conflict
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ARE 66 is a local non-profit organization whose mission is to create opportunities to end homelessness in the Gallup community. While this is accomplished daily by providing support services and a variety of housing opportunities to their clients, the big picture is kept in the mind of Executive Director, Sanjay Choudhrie. His day-to-day duties are many and varied, but can be summed up in the alternative title he claims: Chief Inspiration Officer. Choudhrie spends his time listening, providing resources, crunching numbers, writing grant proposals and strategic plans, all in order to convince, encourage, and inspire others that every person deserves a home. Being mission-minded is a necessity of this job, and so is having thick skin, a tolerance for conflict and the ability to thrive in high-stress circumstances. Choudhrie has been the Executive Director at Care 66 for seven years and feels that everything up to this point has prepared him for the job, including earning a business degree, working on the janitorial crew in seminary, an education in business and theology, and marriage. But that’s not to say that he isn’t still attending workshops, reading, and taking classes to improve his abilities to connect with and maintain relationships with clients, staff members and benefactors. While the pressures of working as an executive director can be isolating, Choudhrie loves the people he works with and for. He also enjoys working hard and creatively for something worthwhile. believe • gallup
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Downtown Murals Zuni Mural
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