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ou can’t miss the oil wells dotting the horizon on the drive between Counselor and Farmington in the San Juan Basin. On some days, it’s easy for residents of the area to let the bobbing heads of wells simply fade into the background. On other days, though, when the wind is right, there’s no escaping the odor of oil hanging in the air.

“Sometimes you pick up oil or gas smell and you just might not feel well, you might feel nauseated, you might notice a certain dryness in your throat, you might feel like throwing up,” says Robyn Jackson, the climate and energy outreach coordinator for Diné CARE, a Navajo grassroots group advocating for stricter regulations on oil and gas emissions.

Drilling for oil has been penetrating the San Juan Basin for nearly a century, contributing hundreds of thousands of tons of emissions to the “San Juan hotspot”—a giant, Delaware-sized cloud of methane that droops low over the area.

New Mexico has more than twice the national average of greenhouse gas emissions per capita. Methane gas, which makes up only 10% of emissions nationwide, accounts for 35% of New Mexico’s emissions, putting the Land of Enchantment among the country’s top methane wasters. Now, state, tribal and congressional leaders are fighting to reverse the tide.

On the Navajo Nation, an effort began in 2019 to create an air permitting program that would limit both the emissions of methane and volatile organic compounds. These byproducts of oil and gas production mix with air and turn into ozone, a pollutant that, in high concentrations, can cause or exacerbate respiratory illnesses.

The regulation effort has gained urgency due to the COVID-19 pandemic, says Jackson.

San Juan County is among a handful of oil-producing counties in the state to receive failing grades for air quality in a recent report by the American Lung Association.

Emissions from the energy sector are to blame. The Environmental Defense Fund released a report earlier this year showing that methane emissions on the

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Flaring at a gas plant in the San Juan Basin, home to the world’s largest methane gas cloud.

Navajo Nation are more than double the national average.

A health impact study conducted by the Counselor chapter of the Navajo Nation in 2020 found the majority of the chapter’s residents live closer to wells than the national recommendation and breathe air with higher levels of fine particulate matter than other oil-producing communities nationwide.

Jon Goldstein, director of regulatory and legislative affairs for EDF, has helped craft new regulations proposed by both the Navajo Nation and the New Mexico Environment Department.

Goldstein says the rules under consideration by the Navajo Nation Environmental Protection Agency would make the nation the first tribe in the US to wrest control of emissions from the federal government and would put the tribe ahead of most states in tackling the crippling consequences of air pollution.

Yet, regulating emissions that impact the health of tribal members is complicated by the fact that most of the oil production in the San Juan Basin occurs in what’s known as the “checkerboard” area, where reservation lands are broken up by plots of federally and privately owned land.

For the tribe’s air-permitting program to be effective in protecting human health in this complex region, the state and the federal government would need to follow similar rules.

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Last week, a bill introduced by US Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-New Mexico, that would reinstate Obama-era methane regulations passed the Senate; the House is expected to vote on the measure in coming weeks.

Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez voiced his support of the bill in a letter to Senate leaders.

“While the Navajo EPA is developing our own regulations to limit harmful pollution from these sources, federal new and existing source standards are also of vital importance since our air knows no boundaries and pollution from neighboring areas can still have a negative impact on tribal communities,” Nez writes.

On May 6, the New Mexico Environment Department released its final draft of proposed rules to limit the emissions of volatile organic compounds.

The new NMED rule would also reduce methane emissions by 45% by 2030, or over 851 million pounds annually—the equivalent of taking 8 million cars off the road, according to the agency.

While this will clearly make a dent in the state’s contribution to climate change, New Mexico Environment Department Secretary James Kenney says the primary purpose of the new rules is to protect human health.

“The public health aspects of this rule are paramount,” Kenney tells SFR. “They are the most significant thing that we’re doing under this rule.”

“The benefit to the communities who have suffered the longest from these emissions—the frontline communities in the counties in which oil and gas has not only been a boon for their economy, but it’s also been a bust for public health as well—will be huge. These frontline communities deserve the same clean air everybody else has,” says Kenney.

The announcement of the new proposed rule comes on the heels of a parallel regulation adopted by the Oil Conservation Commission on March 25 that prohibits companies from wasting valuable natural gas resources through venting and flaring methane—a change expected to bring in $43 million annually in taxes and royalties from the sale of the gas.

Kenney says NMED and the state’s Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department worked together to create a comprehensive emissions framework for the state with cohesive requirements that simplify industry compliance. He says the public also played a major role.

The first draft of the rule was released last year after dozens of public meetings.

However, environmental groups objected to exemptions for “stripper wells”—defined as wells that produce less than 15 barrels of oil per day—and other small producers with low individual emissions.

The problem with that, says Goldstein, is that the majority of emissions in the state come from wells that fall into the exempt category.

The final draft eliminates these exemptions.

Environmental advocates and industry groups say they are still reviewing the new draft, but so far environmentalists have announced their support while industry officials have not offered a clear position and appear to be taking a wait-and-see approach.

“New Mexico should be a leader in responsible energy development, and an appropriate regulatory framework will allow oil and natural gas to continue to deliver enormous fiscal and economic benefits to all New Mexicans while reducing emissions, safeguarding natural resources, and improving our environment,” New Mexico Oil and Gas Association Chairman Leland Gould said in a statement.

The proposed rule must go before one final NMED committee before it goes into effect. Officials expect a public hearing will take place in the fall.

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trip through New Mexico’s internet connectivity statistics paints a grim picture even as Santa Fe stands as a bit of a rosier outlier.

While lawmakers pushed to address the state’s digital divide in this year’s legislative session, the chasm between urban and rural New Mexico remains wide.

Families in Santa Fe not only have access to multiple options for internet service providers—a luxury not afforded to many New Mexicans—but the county also has one of the highest rates of broadband subscribers (89%) in the state.

Yet, the head start has not deterred Santa Fe Public Schools from pursuing even better connections to broadband for its students. The district aims to take steps officials say will improve students’ access to technology and the internet with the help of two programs from the Federal Communications Commission.

As COVID-19 gripped the state and remote learning took over, teachers and administrators noted the district’s preparedness to connect students.

Standing in the technology drive-through, where families can exchange devices from the district, Neil Weaver shows off one of hundreds of hotspots that SFPS has distributed to students.

“We were able to provide devices to students from day one of this pandemic,” Neil Weaver, executive director of digital learning for the district, tells SFR. The next step—getting students online—initially proved less onerous than SFPS expected, with 94% of families already connected to the internet.

But as the district learned, the degree of connectivity can vary widely between households.

“Just because a student is connected to the internet doesn’t mean that that student has sufficient internet connection to do the things that they need to do for an educational day,” Weaver continues.

Working with the data analysis organization Innive, funded by a grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the district studied student connection data and found that while most students could access the internet at home, their band-

width was insufficient to handle the number of online tools schools have used over the past year of remote learning.

Weaver says Santa Fe schools were ahead of the curve when it came to analyzing data on student connectivity. “This was really groundbreaking information that we were able to get from this study, to actually see the throughput that students were experiencing in their daily connection.”

Parents and siblings all working and learning from the same homes compounded the issue of broadband sufficiency, further stretching the already strained connections.

Through the FCC’s Emergency Broadband Benefits program, families can apply through one of several participating internet service providers for a $50 discount ($75 for families on tribal land) on broadband services if they qual-

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ify for these benefits. With over 70% of students in the district qualifying for free and reduced-price school lunch, one criteria for eligibility in the program, this sizable majority of families in SFPS can access these benefits.

At this point, however, school districts can’t act as an agent between internet service providers and families. To get Santa Fe’s students enrolled in the program, Weaver explains, “SFPS will put together a communication plan to encourage applicable families to apply on their own.”

Using the connectivity data SFPS applied to diagnose the bandwidth sufficiency issue, the district can identify families who would benefit from the program and contact them to explain how they could apply for these discounts— though these individuals will need to register for services on their own.

The second initiative hints at the future of Santa Fe’s schools—one in which more robust online learning options are available to students. To move forward with this idea, the district must confront another limitation of remote learning.

“We understand that devices have a huge impact on a student’s end experience with the internet. A $240 or $250 Chromebook is not the direction we’re moving,” Weaver explains.

“So we’re thinking about: Do we need to buy Chromebooks with more RAM, with more memory? Do we need to buy Chromebooks with bigger processors and better WiFi antennas so that students have a better internet experience?

So the cost of our devices will increase significantly per student.”

To cover the cost hikes, the district plans to tap into another FCC initiative, the Emergency Connectivity Fund.

Weaver hopes to start seeking reimbursements for devices purchased as early as July 1 from the $7.1 billion the FCC approved to address the lack of access to connected devices around the nation.

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“All of the stories that mingle among these pages are as true to history as one man can average out that truth, considering the fact that one of my natural instincts is to embellish just a little. Nevertheless, the story about my treasure chest is true, and if it doesn’t stir your spirit then I hope at least it brings a smile in one of your dreams.”

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— Forrest Fenn, The Thrill of the Chase

he story of Forrest Fenn’s hidden treasure began with words on a page in 2010 and a poem subject to interpretation. By its end a decade later, thousands— possibly hundreds of thousands—of people had searched for gold (metaphoric and otherwise) in the wilderness. Along the way, outlandish rumors grew, lives were lost and questions, not to mention litigation, mounted. Fenn took the answers to some of those questions with him when he died last September at the age of 90, just a few months after revealing someone had finally tracked down his secret trove.

Initially, Fenn didn’t want to pen The Thrill of the Chase himself, but he couldn’t interest any of his Santa Fe writer friends in the task. Reading JD Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye changed his mind, he told SFR in 2018. “I read that one and I thought ‘That is such a simple book,’ I said, ‘I can do that.’”

Journalist Daniel Barbarisi already planned to write a book about the treasure hunt when he sat down with Fenn for his own interview, but Barbarisi also wanted to experience the thrill of the chase. His own quest, starting in 2017, provides the narrative spine for his book, out this week: Chasing the Thrill: Obsession, Death, and Glory in America’s Most Extraordinary Treasure Hunt.

One might think nothing remained to say about Fenn’s treasure hunt. One would be wrong. Barbarisi provides both new detail, depth and context to a story he says may not be quite over. “I think there are enough people scratching at it and digging at it who really want every bit of information still that this story is going to continue for a while,” Barbarisi tells SFR. “It’s mostly over, but it’s not 100% over yet.”

This week, SFR presents an excerpt from Chasing the Thrill, accompanied by an interview with Barbarisi, a former Wall Street Journal reporter and senior editor at The Athletic (Barbarisi’s first book, Dueling with Kings, looks at the inside world of the daily fantasy sports industry). The interview has been edited for clarity and concision.

SFR: Did you have any idea how complicated and bizarre this story would end up being?

Daniel Barbarisi: No, I really did not. I think that from the very first note I heard about it in 2017, I was first of all shocked that it existed at all, and even more

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stunned that it had escaped my notice for seven years; the idea of a treasure hunt existing in the real world blew my mind. Once I knew that had happened and was happening, I said, ‘I have to get inside this thing. I have to be a part of this and tell the story of it,’ but I definitely did not understand what a complex and multilayered story it was and even in some ways continues to be.

You begin the book and continue throughout providing historical context for treasure hunting, all the way back to the start of civilization. What conclusions did you reach about its appeal to people? Is it something built in our DNA that we want to find hidden stuff, trace hidden stories?

I think that is a big part of it. We want to be a part of something bigger than ourselves. Everyone wants the value of the treasure, of course, but I think a lot of treasure’s allure is a chance to be a part of history and part of a bigger story.

We want to be a part of something bigger than ourselves. Everyone wants the value of the treasure, of course, but I think a lot of treasure’s allure is a chance to be a part of history and part of a bigger story.

-Daniel Barbarisi

During your first interview with Forrest Fenn, you talked with him about that idea of legacy, and he seemed annoyed by that line of inquiry. But now that the hunt is over and he’s gone, what do you think his legacy is or will be?

He was very averse to the idea that this was about him in any way. He liked to say it was about getting people off their couch. I’m sure there was an element of that, absolutely, but I think it’s hard to say this treasure hunt was not also about him and the legacy he did want to leave and the things he wanted people to think about and believe in. I think his legacy is certainly going to be as someone that created something that had value and it made people do a lot of things. It’s very hard to say it was a universal good or a universal evil. I don’t think it was either of those things. There were good things about it and there were things it made people do that were not so good. Those are all wrapped up in what he created and in his own legacy as well. I don’t think there’s any way at this point that you can divorce the two.

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For many of the hunters, Fenn looms as this larger-than-life figure.

What do you think their reverence of Fenn revealed?

He certainly set himself up as that godlike figure. And in so many ways, he was larger than life. The guy’s story was great: from fighter pilot to art dealer to all the people he hobnobbed with to this guy who decides he’s going to do what seems like this crazy lark. Fenn was so good at packaging himself. He’s so expert at telling his own story, and you tell your own story enough times it becomes the story, and then everyone wants to be part of that story and be close to the figure in it. Fenn’s hunt is so much about Fenn. You can’t solve it without knowing about Fenn and learning everything about him and making him into a part of your life. It’s not just about walking into the wilderness and finding a box.

You dig into Fenn’s excavation of the San Lazaro Pueblo, and his approach in general to artifacts, which has wrought a great deal of division in the archaeology community and beyond. Did you reach a conclusion on his methods?

Journalist Daniel Barbarisi searched for the treasure himself as he conducted research for Chasing the Thrill: Obsession, Death, and Glory in America’s Most Extraordinary Treasure Hunt.

I don’t know if I reached a conclusion of any certainty. I think a lot of people have a lot of opinions on it: Whether it’s a question of whether some things he did [that are not] acceptable now

were acceptable then, and to what extent he did those things. Certainly, the things he was accused of when the [Bureau of Land Management] and the FBI raided his house [in 2009], I think, that was not there to the extent they thought it was. The question of what he was doing in the 1960s…even the early ’70s, those are absolutely areas worthy of exploration and I think there’s a lot of questions to be had about those things.

Did any of the folks searching for the treasure care about those issues?

Honestly, no. I don’t think most of them cared about that one bit. I think in a lot of ways that made him seem a little more roguish and more of a guy who explored and found and did what he wanted.

The internet plays a huge role in Fenn’s treasure hunt: the blogs, the videos. Is it safe to say the chase wouldn’t have evolved into such a phenomenon without it? Did it serve it or hurt it?

I think there’s no question it would not have been as big without the internet.

It allowed hunters to coalesce into a community…and that does take it to another level. The ability for people to look up things on Google Maps, go down internet rabbit holes, explore random theories about figures from the 1870s and whether that might mean something to this line or that.

It wasn’t that easy to do that before the internet. As with anything, it can have its down sides as well. There were certainly instances of that and a lot of negativity in the community and negativity on those [online] boards that, to some degree, continues to this day.

You delve into the details of the people who died searching and Fenn’s reaction at the time, which was defensive. Do you think it mattered more to him than he let on?

I think it mattered a great deal to him, but his treasure hunt also mattered a great deal to him, and he was in a position about having to care about multiple things at once. I think he believed this treasure hunt was a force for good and something that should continue, and yet that was in conflict with the idea that people were losing their lives on this treasure hunt. I think he absolutely cared a great deal, but I think he also understood in his own mind he CONTINUED ON PAGE 16

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Certificate, Teacher Certification — Elementary Education

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Jasmin A. Chaclan-Holguin

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Associate in Science, Computer Science

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Certificate, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counseling

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Associate in Arts, Psychology*

Certificate, Medical Assisting***

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Certificate, Liberal Arts for Transfer

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Certificate, Teacher Certification — Elementary Education

Certificate, Media Arts***†

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Associate in Applied Science, Paralegal Studies*

Certificate, Community Health Worker Training*

Certificate, Nursing Assistant

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Certificate, Medical Assisting†

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Certificate, Controlled Environment Agriculture***

Certificate, Community Health Worker Training

Jodie Holmes

Certificate, Early Childhood Development

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Certificate, Expanded Functions Dental Auxiliary

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Certificate, Teacher Certification — Secondary Education

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Certificate, Community Health Worker Training

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Certificate, Teacher Certification — Elementary Education***

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Certificate, Early Childhood Development

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Certificate, Interior Design

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Certificate, Interior Design

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Certificate, Teacher Certification — Secondary Education

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Associate in Applied Science, Paralegal Studies

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Certificate, Computer Hardware and Software, Certificate, Web Development

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Associate in Arts, Teacher Education

Ryan Garcia

Certificate, Welding

Carrol Geisler

Certificate, Business Administration

Krista Gellis

Certificate, Community Health Worker Training

Yvette Kay

Brandon Miller

Certificate, Nutrition

Vincent Milosevich

Certificate, Welding Technologies*

Alondra Miramontes Gonzalez

Certificate, Community Health Worker Training

Francisco Miranda

Certificate, Early Childhood Development

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Associate in Applied Science, Nursing*

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Certificate, Early Childhood Development

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Certificate, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages*

Associate in Applied Science, Nursing

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Certificate, Teacher Certification — Elementary Education, Certificate, Teacher Certification — Secondary Education

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Alejandro Martinez

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Certificate, Dental Assisting

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Certificate, Expanded Functions Dental Auxiliary

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Certificate, Liberal Arts for Transfer*†

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Certificate, Teacher Certification — Special Education***

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Certificate, Nursing Assistant

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Associate in Science, General Engineering and Engineering Technology*†

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Certificate, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

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Gabriel Pendas

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Chelsie Mumpower

Patrick Valencia

Jennifer Perez

Certificate, Architectural and Interior Design Software

Certificate, Teacher Certification — Secondary Education

Associate in Arts, Psychology**

Erica Sandoval

Certificate, Dental Assisting

Associate in Applied Science, General Studies†

Certificate, Early Childhood Development

Liliana Santos

Associate in Applied Science, Nursing**

Certificate, Nutrition***

Certificate, Teacher Certification — Secondary Education*

Certificate, Teacher Certification — Elementary Education

Certificate, Teacher Certification — Special Education**

Associate in Applied Science, Media Arts

Jayden Peters

Erika Pina Vazquez Juan Pineda Lima

Associate in Applied Science, Medical Assisting, Certificate, Medical Assisting

Kim Pineda

Steven Portillo

Michael Powdrell Ethan Price

Horacio Puertas-Juarez

Certificate, Expanded Functions Dental Auxiliary

Associate in Science, Biological Sciences*†

Associate in Applied Science, Controlled Environment Agriculture, Certificate, Controlled Environment Agriculture*†

Certificate, Paralegal Studies

Certificate, Early Childhood Development

Certificate, Community Health Worker Training

Associate in Applied Science, Nursing**

Certificate, Nursing Assistant*

Certificate, Teacher Certification — Elementary Education*

Certificate, Teacher Certification — Secondary Education

Associate in Arts, Business Administration

Kimberly Mendoza

Certificate, Teacher Certification — Elementary Education

Maria Meyer

Certificate, Teacher Certification — Early Childhood**

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Associate in Arts, Early Childhood Education Certificate, Community Health Worker Training

Certificate, Early Childhood Development

Naresa Budd

Associate in Applied Science, Nursing

Mariana Diaz Carlos

Certificate, Nursing Assistant

Natanael J. Dominguez

Gloria Burrola

Associate in Applied Science, Computer and Information Technologies**

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Associate in Applied Science, General Studies**

Certificate, Early Childhood Development** Certificate, Architectural and Interior Design Software, Certificate, Architectural and Interior Design Technologies

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Associate in Arts, Business Administration***

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Certificate, Nursing Assistant

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Associate in Science, General Engineering and Engineering Technology

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Associate in Applied Science, Controlled Environment Agriculture

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Certificate, Community Health Worker Training, Certificate, Home Health Aide**

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Associate in Applied Science, Nursing

Certificate, Teacher Certification — Secondary Education

Alyssia Ogas

Certificate, Teacher Certification — Elementary Education*

Certificate, Nursing Assistant

Associate in Applied Science, Nursing

Certificate, Architectural and Interior Design Software

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Certificate, Liberal Arts for Transfer**

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Certificate, Early Childhood Development

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Mateo D. Wester

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Certificate, Community Health Worker Training

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Luke Sheppard

Phillip Westen II

Associate in Applied Science, Welding Technologies*

Certificate, Computer Hardware and Software, Certificate, Web Development

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Certificate, Teacher Certification — Elementary Education*

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Adam Weinberger

Associate in Applied Science, Nursing**†

Certificate, Teacher Certification — Secondary Education

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Arley Dial

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Karen Weber

Jason W. Quiroga

Certificate, Expanded Functions Dental Auxiliary

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Carlo Alberto Vera Ramirez

Certificate, Community Health Worker Training

Certificate, Teacher Certification — Elementary Education***

Fernando Medina-Sarmiento

David Brian Schmiderer

Tanya Varela

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Certificate, Dental Assisting

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Giavanna LaFerriere

Timothy Sawyer

Stephanie VanCuren

Associate in Applied Science, Nursing

Certificate, Expanded Functions Dental Auxiliary

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Michael Sapp

Diana Valenzuela

Kimberly Quinn

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Certificate, Teacher Certification — Special Education***

Victoria Muniz

Jazmin Alexsandra Urbina Basoco

Certificate, Dental Assisting

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Kevin Tsosie

Nicolette Sanchez

Certificate, Teacher Certification — Secondary Education

Allison Kruczek

Selina C. Trujillo

Certificate, Early Childhood Development

Certificate, Liberal Arts for Transfer*

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Darrien Green

Alexandra Trujillo

Certificate, Early Childhood Development

Certificate, Teacher Certification — Elementary Education

Teresa Deuel

Denise Trejo Ornelas

Madeley Sanchez Calles

Certificate, Emergency Medical Technician — Intermediate

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Liliana Trejo

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Emily Perez

Associate in Applied Science, Early Childhood Education

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Keven Sanchez

Associate in Applied Science, Nursing**†

Certificate, Community Health Worker Training

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Certificate, Early Childhood Development

Certificate, Teacher Certification — Secondary Education

Victoria Perea

Certificate, Early Childhood Development

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Dora Tortorici

Certificate, Early Childhood Development

Associate in Applied Science, Computer and Information Technologies, Certificate, Computer and Network Security

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Associate in Applied Science, Computer and Information Technologies

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Ruben Torres-Cruz

Certificate, Paramedicine

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Certificate, Architectural and Interior Design Software*

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Associate in Arts, Spanish Language*

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Certificate, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counseling

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Certificate, Spanish Language**†

Certificate, Architectural and Interior Design Software

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Simon Mudge

Certificate, Community Health Worker Training

Kathryn Klein

Associate in Arts, Liberal Arts

Nicholas Taylor

Certificate, Teacher Certification — Early Childhood

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Miquela Martinez

Jennifer Gonzalez

Nataly Pena

James Patrick Taylor

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Maria Celeste Martinez

Certificate, Teacher Certification — Elementary Education

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Certificate, Teacher Certification — Secondary Education

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Certificate, Paramedicine**

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Certificate, Expanded Functions Dental Auxiliary

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Certificate, Early Childhood Development**

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Certificate, Community Health Worker Training

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Hali Moore

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Certificate, Emergency Medical Technician — Basic

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Certificate, Dental Assisting

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Damaris Tarango Alvidrez

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Certificate, Teacher Certification — Elementary Education** Associate in Science, General Studies*

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Certificate, Liberal Arts for Transfer**

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Certificate, Nursing Assistant

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Associate in Arts, Psychology

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Monica Robbins

Certificate, Teacher Certification — Elementary Education

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Certificate, Welding

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Certificate, Welding Technologies

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Certificate, Web Development***

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Certificate, Dental Assisting

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Certificate, Nutrition*

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Certificate, Community Health Worker Training

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Callahan Jobe

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Certificate, Early Childhood Development

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Certificate, Teacher Certification — Secondary Education***

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Certificate, Early Childhood Development

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Richard Encinias

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Associate in Applied Science, Certificate, Medical Assisting

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Certificate, Expanded Functions Dental Auxiliary

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Certificate, Controlled Environment Agriculture**

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Certificate, Medical Assisting

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Certificate, Liberal Arts for Transfer

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Certificate, Nursing Assistant

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Certificate, Computer and Network Security

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Manika Callewaert

Certificate, Building Science and Construction Technologies*†

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Certificate, Emergency Medical Technician — Basic

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Certificate, Teacher Certification — Early Childhood

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Certificate, Medical Assisting

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Certificate, Teacher Certification — Special Education*

Associate in Arts, Accounting, Associate in Arts, Business Administration*

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Certificate, Nursing Assistant

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Certificate, Dental Assisting

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Hope Bakker

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Associate in Applied Science, Paramedicine**

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Certificate, Welding***

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Certificate, Teacher Certification — Special Education***

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Certificate, Accounting Specialist

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Certificate, Community Health Worker Training

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Ana Finley

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Certificate, Teacher Certification — Elementary Education

Associate in Science, General Engineering and Engineering Technology*

Stephen Federation

Jasmin A. Chaclan-Holguin

Deyonce Baca

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Dale Jenkins

Associate in Science, Computer Science

Kelly Jenkins

Associate in Applied Science, Welding Technologies**

Certificate, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counseling

Associate in Science, General Engineering and Engineering Technology*

Kaylene Jacquez

Associate in Arts, Psychology*

Certificate, Medical Assisting***

Veronica Aymacana

Amanda Barela

Certificate, Liberal Arts for Transfer

Certificate, Teacher Certification — Special Education**

Adriana Castro Estrada

Certificate, Teacher Certification — Elementary Education

Certificate, Media Arts***†

Bryan Hill

Associate in Applied Science, Paralegal Studies*

Certificate, Community Health Worker Training*

Certificate, Nursing Assistant

Associate in Arts, Business Administration

Certificate, Medical Assisting†

Associate in Arts, Business Administration

Certificate, Controlled Environment Agriculture***

Certificate, Community Health Worker Training

Jodie Holmes

Certificate, Early Childhood Development

Margie Castro

Certificate, Expanded Functions Dental Auxiliary

Jamie Farrow

Miranda Chavez Lorena Chavira Nona Collins

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Associate in Arts, Photography, Certificate, Fine Arts Photography**

James Creighton

Certificate, Teacher Certification — Secondary Education

Julia Claire Crowley

Associate in Applied Science, Nursing

Nataly Cruz Marquez

Certificate, Community Health Worker Training

Marisol Da Camara

Associate in Applied Science, Allied Health, Certificate, Nursing Assistant

Tyler S. Dalmas

Certificate, Teacher Certification — Elementary Education***

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Estrella Flores Liliana Flores

Certificate, Early Childhood Development

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Certificate, Interior Design

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Certificate, Interior Design

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Jay Garcia

Certificate, Teacher Certification — Secondary Education

Melissa Anahi Garcia

Associate in Applied Science, Paralegal Studies

Raul Garcia

Certificate, Computer Hardware and Software, Certificate, Web Development

Rodrigo Garcia

Associate in Arts, Teacher Education

Ryan Garcia

Certificate, Welding

Carrol Geisler

Certificate, Business Administration

Krista Gellis

Certificate, Community Health Worker Training

Yvette Kay

Brandon Miller

Certificate, Nutrition

Vincent Milosevich

Certificate, Welding Technologies*

Alondra Miramontes Gonzalez

Certificate, Community Health Worker Training

Francisco Miranda

Certificate, Early Childhood Development

Khali Lukee

Associate in Applied Science, Nursing*

Associate in Arts, Early Childhood Education

Associate in Science, Computer Science**

Stephany Marquez

Certificate, Early Childhood Development

Certificate, Building Science and Construction Technologies***

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Melissa Montez

Certificate, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages*

Associate in Applied Science, Nursing

Catalina Marrufo

Adrianna Mae Montoya

Certificate, Teacher Certification — Elementary Education, Certificate, Teacher Certification — Secondary Education

Associate in Arts, Accounting, Associate in Arts, Business Administration

Associate in Applied Science, Computer and Information Technologies, Certificate, Application Development

Associate in Applied Science, Nursing Certificate, Architectural and Interior Software Certificate, Interior Design

Alejandro Martinez

Alexandra Martinez

Certificate, Dental Assisting

Andrea Martinez

Certificate, Expanded Functions Dental Auxiliary

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Richard Morley

Certificate, Liberal Arts for Transfer*†

Associate in Arts, Film*

Certificate, Film

Martha Gonzalez Erives

Certificate, Teacher Certification — Special Education***

Sergio Gonzalez

Certificate, Nursing Assistant

Ruby Grajeda-Chavez

Yamileth Koerdell Sanchez Avery Krebbs

Associate in Science, General Engineering and Engineering Technology*†

Kelsey McCaffrey

Certificate, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

Andrea Mckillip

Gabriel Pendas

Associate in Applied Science, Nursing

Jade Perea

Chelsie Mumpower

Patrick Valencia

Jennifer Perez

Certificate, Architectural and Interior Design Software

Certificate, Teacher Certification — Secondary Education

Associate in Arts, Psychology**

Erica Sandoval

Certificate, Dental Assisting

Associate in Applied Science, General Studies†

Certificate, Early Childhood Development

Liliana Santos

Associate in Applied Science, Nursing**

Certificate, Nutrition***

Certificate, Teacher Certification — Secondary Education*

Certificate, Teacher Certification — Elementary Education

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Associate in Applied Science, Media Arts

Jayden Peters

Erika Pina Vazquez Juan Pineda Lima

Associate in Applied Science, Medical Assisting, Certificate, Medical Assisting

Kim Pineda

Steven Portillo

Michael Powdrell Ethan Price

Horacio Puertas-Juarez

Certificate, Expanded Functions Dental Auxiliary

Associate in Science, Biological Sciences*†

Associate in Applied Science, Controlled Environment Agriculture, Certificate, Controlled Environment Agriculture*†

Certificate, Paralegal Studies

Certificate, Early Childhood Development

Certificate, Community Health Worker Training

Associate in Applied Science, Nursing**

Certificate, Nursing Assistant*

Certificate, Teacher Certification — Elementary Education*

Certificate, Teacher Certification — Secondary Education

Associate in Arts, Business Administration

Kimberly Mendoza

Certificate, Teacher Certification — Elementary Education

Maria Meyer

Certificate, Teacher Certification — Early Childhood**

Certificate, Teacher Certification — Elementary Education**

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Certificate, Teacher Certification — Special Education**

Associate in Arts, Early Childhood Education Certificate, Community Health Worker Training

Certificate, Early Childhood Development

Naresa Budd

Associate in Applied Science, Nursing

Mariana Diaz Carlos

Certificate, Nursing Assistant

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Gloria Burrola

Associate in Applied Science, Computer and Information Technologies**

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Associate in Applied Science, General Studies**

Certificate, Early Childhood Development** Certificate, Architectural and Interior Design Software, Certificate, Architectural and Interior Design Technologies

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Rebecca Pearl Effel

Associate in Arts, Business Administration***

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Associate in Applied Science, Nursing *Honors, **High Honors, ***Highest Honors, †Phi Theta Kappa

Certificate, Nursing Assistant

Leonardo Guzman

Certificate, Welding Technologies

Bridgette Hall

Linda M. Harlow

Sophia Hegmann

Erick Lamonda

Associate in Applied Science, Sustainable Technologies

Heather S. Lapahie Paige Leslie

Andre LiRosi

Aracely Lopez

Andres Medrano

Leslye Melchor Jimenez Claudia Mendez

Abibatu Sillah

Associate in Science, General Engineering and Engineering Technology

Sandra Corina Silvas Jeanne Dawn Singer Zachary Smith

Maria Musgrave

Associate in Applied Science, Controlled Environment Agriculture

Britany Noble

Certificate, Community Health Worker Training, Certificate, Home Health Aide**

Certificate, Welding**

Sophia Odney

Associate in Applied Science, Nursing

Certificate, Teacher Certification — Secondary Education

Alyssia Ogas

Certificate, Teacher Certification — Elementary Education*

Certificate, Nursing Assistant

Associate in Applied Science, Nursing

Certificate, Architectural and Interior Design Software

Devin O’Neel

Alondra Ornelas Evelyn J. Ortega

Rui Ping Wheaton

Certificate, Liberal Arts for Transfer**

Ian R. Widrick Martinez

Gabrielle Rael

Certificate, Early Childhood Development

Associate in Applied Science, Controlled Environment Agriculture*

Mingma Sherpa

Mateo D. Wester

Associate in Applied Science, Controlled Environment Agriculture*†

Certificate, Community Health Worker Training

Certificate, Early Childhood Development

Michaela Medina

Luke Sheppard

Phillip Westen II

Associate in Applied Science, Welding Technologies*

Certificate, Computer Hardware and Software, Certificate, Web Development

Karina Gutierrez Madrid

Certificate, Teacher Certification — Elementary Education*

Maria Sepulveda

Adam Weinberger

Associate in Applied Science, Nursing**†

Certificate, Teacher Certification — Secondary Education

Certificate, Accounting Specialist***

Associate in Arts, Fine Arts*†

Certificate, Teacher Certification — Elementary Education**

Certificate, Teacher Certification — Special Education**

Associate in Applied Science, Paralegal Studies

Michael A. Browne

Arley Dial

Lana Scholtz

Karen Weber

Jason W. Quiroga

Certificate, Expanded Functions Dental Auxiliary

Associate in Arts, Psychology

Associate in Applied Science, Nursing*

Carlo Alberto Vera Ramirez

Certificate, Community Health Worker Training

Certificate, Teacher Certification — Elementary Education***

Fernando Medina-Sarmiento

David Brian Schmiderer

Tanya Varela

Paulina Quintana

Certificate, Dental Assisting

Mariah Brown

Giavanna LaFerriere

Timothy Sawyer

Stephanie VanCuren

Associate in Applied Science, Nursing

Certificate, Expanded Functions Dental Auxiliary

Lila Grenningloh Bernabeu

Michael Sapp

Diana Valenzuela

Kimberly Quinn

Associate in Applied Science, Exercise Science**

Certificate, Teacher Certification — Special Education***

Victoria Muniz

Jazmin Alexsandra Urbina Basoco

Certificate, Dental Assisting

Associate in Arts, Fine Arts, Associate in Applied Science, General Studies*

Cynthia McNabb

Kevin Tsosie

Nicolette Sanchez

Certificate, Teacher Certification — Secondary Education

Allison Kruczek

Selina C. Trujillo

Certificate, Early Childhood Development

Certificate, Liberal Arts for Transfer*

Certificate, Architectural and Interior Design Software, Certificate, Interior Design

Darrien Green

Alexandra Trujillo

Certificate, Early Childhood Development

Certificate, Teacher Certification — Elementary Education

Teresa Deuel

Denise Trejo Ornelas

Madeley Sanchez Calles

Certificate, Emergency Medical Technician — Intermediate

Cy Brower

Liliana Trejo

Associate in Arts, Early Childhood Education

Emily Perez

Associate in Applied Science, Early Childhood Education

Associate in Applied Science, Nursing**

Associate in Applied Science, Certificate, Controlled Environment Agriculture

Keven Sanchez

Associate in Applied Science, Nursing**†

Certificate, Community Health Worker Training

Cheyenne Treadwell

Certificate, Early Childhood Development

Certificate, Teacher Certification — Secondary Education

Victoria Perea

Certificate, Early Childhood Development

Associate in Arts, Accounting, Associate in Arts, Business Administration*

Dora Tortorici

Certificate, Early Childhood Development

Associate in Applied Science, Computer and Information Technologies, Certificate, Computer and Network Security

Associate in Arts, Fine Arts**†

Associate in Applied Science, Computer and Information Technologies

Associate in Applied Science, Film Production*

Ruben Torres-Cruz

Certificate, Paramedicine

Associate in Science, General Engineering and Engineering Technology*

Certificate, Fitness Instructor Training

James B. Muir Jr

Alicia Mujynya

Certificate, Architectural and Interior Design Software*

Josiah M. Sanchez

Associate in Arts, Spanish Language*

Associate in Science, General Engineering and Engineering Technology, Associate in Applied Science, Controlled Environment Agriculture*

Alejandro Tenorio

Certificate, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counseling

Associate in Science, General Engineering**

Certificate, Spanish Language**†

Certificate, Architectural and Interior Design Software

Cristobal Sanchez

Simon Mudge

Certificate, Community Health Worker Training

Kathryn Klein

Associate in Arts, Liberal Arts

Nicholas Taylor

Certificate, Teacher Certification — Early Childhood

Associate in Applied Science, Criminal Justice

Miquela Martinez

Jennifer Gonzalez

Nataly Pena

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something I envisioned when I was going into it. The level of conspiracy theories in the search itself was something that shocked me, absolutely. I’ve asked a lot of questions about that to myself: Is this intrinsic to this phenomenon or is this something that reflects something going on in the larger world outside? It did feel like the growth of conspiracy theories within the hunt were mirrored by their growth in the outside world but, at the same time, there were also conspiracy theories in this thing six, seven years ago before I was involved.

I somehow missed the entire ‘Me Too’ element of the treasure hunt and didn’t know women had accused Forrest Fenn of sexual misconduct. Did that make you feel differently about him and the hunt? And why do you think it didn’t get bigger play?

It’s a tough question; it’s a tough problem. It’s something I think people don’t want to talk about because it does color and inform one’s feelings on the treasure hunt. I think a lot of people want this hunt to be simple; they want it to be a kindly wise old man hid a treasure and it inspired people to dream big and search the wilderness.

It’s not that. It’s much more complicated and human than that. And yes, that whole thing and the information I gained and the interviews I conducted—some of which are in the book and some of which, frankly, are not—definitely colored my feelings on the hunt

had to be the one who stood up for his hunt or it might go away.

When you went searching yourself, did you have a journalistic approach or were you fully in it?

I think I got in it a little faster than I expected to. I was not intending to be fully detached from this, but I definitely fell deeper than I expected. When you’re back home and searching for stuff on Google, it’s easy to be kind of academic, but when you’re in the middle of Yellowstone or New Mexico or Colorado and you have a partner who is really sure that the treasure is over the next hill, you start to believe in it; those feelings are tough to shake.

How would you characterize the other Fenn treasure hunters?

These are certainly people who were searching for something, and I don’t mean a treasure chest. In a lot of cases, these are people who wanted to find

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something to dream on in their lives.

A lot of them were people who had something to prove, to show they were good enough and smart enough and could solve this thing…and that would answer a lot of questions about them in their lives and prove a lot of people wrong. For the most part, I liked the people who were treasure hunters.

These are good people. There’s a small fraction, unfortunately, that gets a lot of the attention for doing some of the wrong things…but most of the people who were searching were doing it for the right reasons: They wanted to believe in something. They wanted to be a part of something.

Have you thought about what would have happened if Fenn had died before Jack Stuef found the treasure?

I definitely have thought about it.

Assuming it had remained out there for a long period of time, I think there would have been a diminishment of interest in it. Fenn’s presence in the hunt is really what set this apart on so many levels—the fact that you could actually get access to him, you could, in so many ways, talk to God, made a huge difference in this treasure hunt.

It wasn’t just, ‘I’m going to find the box,’ it was…’I’m going to find the box and tell Forrest Fenn.’ Certainly that was the case for Jack.

You were able to identify and interview Stuef and wrote about him at the end of 2020 for Outside magazine in “The Man Who Found Forrest Fenn’s Treasure.” Was your book not finished at that point?

There were lots of rewrites over the last year. That was all done on a schedule I think would make many publishers very wary. The reality was, I had finished a version of it, essentially right at the end of May 2020, because at that point there was no reason to

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Forrest Fenn’s famed treasure is not the only thing he hid. Fenn showed off a set of bronze jars on a visit to his home in 2018 and told SFR he planned to hide those too.

and on Fenn himself. As for why larger media may not have touched that, [it’s] because it changes the impression of the hunt and I think that complicates what a lot of people would like to be an easy story.

The searcher community has numerous conspiracies and, without giving anything away, you ended up figuring in one of them. Was that stressful? Was it inevitable?

I don’t know about inevitable. It was unpleasant, that’s for sure. That’s not

This photograph of the chest and its contents appeared in Fenn’s book, The Thrill of the Chase, along with a poem that provided clues for treasure hunters.

think someone was going to find the treasure in the next week. And then, boom, that happened. At that point, it was like: ‘OK, we’ve got to push this thing back. And I have to figure this out because there’s no way what I had as the ending is going to be the ending.’ So, I basically lopped off the final chapters at that stage and set about chronicling what was happening as best I could and that was the case for the next six months. But the book release date was essentially the same throughout. So, it was just a matter of trying to figure out the story and figure out everything that was happening and cross fingers that it all sorted itself out by the absolute drop-dead date of getting anything in, which was around the beginning of 2021. The Outside article, revealing Jack’s identify, figuring out who he was—that all happened on an incredibly tight timeline.

You’re one of a few people who has seen the treasure. What was that experience like?

Even doing what I did, in theory chronicling the search, doesn’t mean I wasn’t emotionally invested. I very much was. I never thought I was going to find the treasure. I was a pretty terrible searcher, even if my partner was kind of pretty good. But the chest itself had taken on such a significance in my mind…[as]…a kind of MacGuffin. It is that, but it’s also something that really matters. It’s not about the monetary value of it; it’s about the importance it has and takes on in the minds of everyone involved. So, finally getting the chance to see it and touch it and lay hands on it, and not just confirm that it was real but to actually feel it and to handle those nuggets and touch the dragon bracelet and these things that had to this point been imaginary. It was honestly an incredible feeling. I had definitely never felt exactly like that before, because it really was like the figment of someone’s imagination suddenly brought to life on a table in front of me and placed in my hands. I felt very privileged to get to go through it, to touch it and feel it. And it brought me a real sense—I don’t want to say closure because that’s somewhat it but that’s not 100% it—of finally myself really being a part of this thing as well. I didn’t maybe realize that I wanted that...until I was there in that room and touching this thing and feeling like now I was a part of its story.

PROLOGUE June 7, 2017 “Do you hear that?”

My treasure-hunting partner, Beep, kept his eyes glued to the map. “Hear what?” he asked me without looking up.

“It sounded like thunder,” I said, glancing up at the sky, which minutes before had been clear and blue and pristine.

Now it was blackening, suddenly ominous.

We were standing on the side of State Road 68 a few miles north of Pilar, New Mexico, several hundred feet up the highway from the Rio Grande Gorge Visitor Center. In front of us stood an impenetrable mass of rock and brush, right where the map said the trail leading to Agua Caliente Falls was supposed to be.

Except it wasn’t there. It didn’t exist.

A rumble echoed through the canyon, unmistakable this time. Before Beep or I could say another word, the skies opened up and the raindrops began to fall—not a polite, drizzly rain, either. These were big, heavy drops, a cascade of water coming out of the sky with no warning and shocking suddenness.

“Run for the car!” I shouted, and we tore off toward the parking lot, a quarter mile up the road.

Eighteen-wheelers rumbled by as we scampered along the shoulder of the highway back to our rented Ford Explorer. Yanking open the doors, we tumbled inside, out of breath, wet, and already defeated. We hadn’t even gotten to our search area yet.

“How did we not think to check the weather?” I asked, mostly rhetorically.

“It’s the desert. I thought the weather was always the same here,” Beep said, looking perplexed. A pasty Canadian, he was shivering in the passenger seat in a gray fantasy sports T-shirt and black gym shorts, fully unprepared for the deluge. At least he was wearing a boonie hat he’d purchased because it seemed like good hunting gear, its floppy brim partially hiding his people-pleaser eyes. Just as well. I figured he’d be looking at me with disappointment for my embarrassing lack of preparation.

Quite the auspicious start to our careers as treasure hunters. Treasure hunters. It still sounded crazy. A few months before, Beep had discovered the tale of Forrest Fenn, a wealthy New Mexico art dealer who claimed to have hidden a treasure chest worth millions somewhere in the Rocky Mountains north of Santa Fe. In 2010, Fenn published a book and a poem that promised to lead searchers to the treasure—if they could figure out the poem’s nine clues.

Beep had become completely obsessed with the chase, and I’d followed him down the rabbit hole.

We’d flown into Albuquerque the day before, and made our way up to Santa Fe later that night. Then early the following morning, Beep and I had stowed our newly purchased treasure-hunting gear and jumped into the car for the twohour drive north through the wilds of New Mexico, the kind of place that isn’t really barren but is still sparse enough that you mostly lose cell service. Once outside of 83,000-person Santa Fe, the starkness of the landscape is stunning: flat and broad for miles and miles in every direction, until that land runs into mountains far in the distance on each side. We’d theorized that Fenn’s treasure must be somewhere among them—that chest and its cache of gold, diamonds, emeralds.

Driving toward those peaks, the only markers of civilization we saw were the periodic small towns, just hamlets really—a bar, a general store, maybe a school. In between them was nothing—nothing, except crosses at regular intervals along the highway, marking spots where unfortunate drivers had crashed. There were more of them than I’d ever expected, more than I’d seen along any other stretch of highway anywhere. They were our constant companions as we drove, pacing the distance between the only true landmarks on this journey: Native American tribal casinos. They rose out of the plains like the palaces of ancient kings, massive and elaborate and blinking with lights and signs and promises of riches. There was so little along this route, and yet one of these strange oases appeared every fifteen miles or so, and the parking lots were all packed. Who were all these people? Where did they come from? They’re a bit like us, I figured, hoping to strike it rich—just in the form of plastic chips, not gold coins. And probably just as unlikely to realize their dream.

As we’d made our way to the search spot, I’d found myself growing more confident in our “solve”—our solution to Fenn’s poem, our step-by-step route to the treasure. It had actually felt as if the treasure was within reach. The spot we were seeking was barely marked—it didn’t even show up on Google Maps, the world’s current digital arbiter of what is legitimate and what is not. We’d found the location on a United States Geological Survey map, listing Agua Caliente Canyon and, a few miles’ hike away, Agua Caliente Falls. We’d zeroed in on the sites for two reasons. First, Agua Caliente means “hot water” in English. In the first line of Fenn’s poem, the all-important verse that is supposed to lead searchers to the treasure, he advises seekers, “Begin it where warm waters halt/And take it in the canyon down.”

Many people have taken that instruction literally—seeking out a spot where a river changes in temperature, or where a hot spring hits another body of water. But what if Fenn was just playing with words? What if, instead, he wanted us to start where “warm waters halt” in a different way— to begin where Agua Caliente Canyon ends, and then follow the canyon itself off into the wilderness? From there, we’d make our way to Agua Caliente Falls, which could be the site of “heavy loads and water high,” one of the other clues in the poem.

This seemed like a pretty good idea when Beep and I were hashing it out back east, I from my home in Boston and he from his outside Toronto. But now that we were on the ground, hiding in our car, our internet searching seemed remarkably naïve.

“It’s a lot easier to do it from your computer,” Beep said, giving voice to my thoughts.

Excerpted from CHASING THE THRILL: Obsession, Death, and Glory in America’s Most Extraordinary Treasure Hunt by Daniel Barbarisi. Copyright © 2021

by Daniel Barbarisi. Excerpted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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Astute Santa Feans might recall how the Santa Fe School of Massage recently shut down after decades of training massage therapists, but they might not know Washingtonbased school Bodymechanics (bodymechanics-school.com) took over the old space on Agua Fría Street with its own curriculum. This marks the third campus in the school’s quiver and the first in New Mexico.

Owner Shari Aldrich tells SFR that in 10 months and with a part-time commitment, new students can be massaging it up. We checked with Aldrich to get the inside scoop on what’s what with Santa Fe’s newest massage school. (Alex De Vore) Would you say there’s a singular mission when it comes to Bodymechanics, or does it go further than that?

I would honestly look at it from three perspectives: The overriding mission of mine is to help a million people get out of pain—mentally, emotionally, physically and financially. I’ve been through all of those, and it drives me to want to help people. As far as the students coming in, the mission is to create exceptional massage therapists with solid technique, good marketing, good communication skills and strong critical thinking skills. The third mission is to educate the public on the benefits of more natural health care. In 2013 I was doing an extreme mud run and lost a finger...after getting stuck on an obstacle. That injury directly related to how I honed in on this mission.

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Do you think we’re all longing for more touch after the long pandemic, and do you think massage therapy will have to evolve now that we all know how quickly a virus can lose control?

I would definitely say that touch depravation is bad, and studies have shown that people can die without touch. We like to say we’re not first-line defenders, but we’re certainly second-line defenders in helping with people’s mental wellbeing and health. As far as evolving through COVID, as an industry, massage therapists have always been conscious of hygiene, and that part hasn’t changed. And it won’t change, and that is definitely something we emphasize in our program. As far as the evolution of massage therapy, I don’t know there’s going to be a lot of change unless we keep wearing masks. As an industry, massage therapists took [the pandemic] very seriously. We are the only industry in the field that is being alone with someone in a room for an hour.

When it comes to the educational aspects, have you noted any kinds of change in who wants to learn how to massage and why? I’d imagine there are lots of people setting out to help others at this point, and massage seems a good entry point.

In the last two months, it has actually been intense with people who are interested in the program.

I just started a class in Tumwater [Washington] with 17 students, and a full class for me is 18. Through COVID, our classes were averaging about eight students, and to see that change was inspiring, actually.

To see the people coming in, there were those who were choosing something that’s more fulfilling for their soul and heart than only working for a paycheck. We’re getting professional people who are phasing to massage because they want to help their spouse or their community. It’s a 10-month program with staggered starts through the year. I’ll be offering a full scholarship for one student and everyone else who applies and is accepted [before the June cohort] will get a $3,000 discount—so they should call soon. The overriding idea is to be helping people out of pain.

History and architecture nerds—this one’s for you, because it can be exciting to come across a plaque or a bridge proclaiming a structure was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps. Or maybe that’s just us. For those who can’t get enough local/historical secrets hiding behind every wall and faux-adobe facade, the Historic Santa Fe Foundation presents Salon El Zaguán with National Park Service architect Charles Vickrey and historical preservationist Flynn Larson. The speakers will touch on the National Park Service’s Old Santa Fe Trail Building—a hidden landmark built by the Conservation Corps nearly a century ago. The talk explores its original purposes, architectural functions and design, as well as its eventual decay and subsequent rehabilitation. Just think—when you’re driving on Old Santa Fe Trail, you could nudge to your passenger to say you know all about the original adobe bricks in that building over there. (Riley Gardner) The Story of the National Park Service’s Old Santa Fe Trail Building: 3 pm Thursday, May 20. $10 (free for members). historicsantafe.org

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The tomatoes? Maybe Tuesday markets don’t have quite the magic of the Saturday version, but they do have the important quality food part. The kind of food that’ll get us off our takeout/comfort food living, at least for a meal or two. Plus, we need to support our local farmers, so let’s go buy some eggs and peas and root vegetables or whatever, and make healthy choices. If you’re anxious about all the people coming and going, you can check out some of the farmers and produce in advance on the website and plan for a quick trip chock-full of safety protocols. (RG) Farmers Market Tuesdays: 8-11 am Tuesday, May 25.

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ART OPENING SAT/22 IT MUST BE SOMETHING IN THE OILS There’s something soothing about watching an artist work. For oil painter Dena Tollefson, it might be in the textures. Part of a series of visiting artists, Tollefson hosts a live painting event at Canyon Road Contemporary Art to show off a technique she developed and calls “daubism,” whereby she mixes oil paints into what she calls “daubs,” or small dollops of paint, and then applies them with a palette knife or serving spoon. In the light, ridges from the daubs create the illusion of movement, and new layers emerge as viewers observe from different vantages.

Tollefson’s show, titled Divine Energy, should be a treat for people interested in seeing artists in that this-is-how-I-do-this period. (RG) Dana Tollefson: Live Artist Painting: 11 am-3 pm Saturday, May 22. Free.

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What culture, you may ask? Furry culture—which, when boiled down to its simplest definition, is about anthropomorphized animal-based characters.

There can be a sexual edge or not, but regardless, it’s a subculture that has long been the butt of lazier jokes from kink-shaming types.

Bruce has embraced the furry lifestyle and culture for over a decade, both with his white-tailed deer character Atmus, and as a documenter of participants, purveyors, observers and makers within the world of furries, its events, conventions and communities—as well as the people to whom Bruce has grown close while exploring within its constantly evolving existence. But whereas a reductive glimpse at furry life might come down to people in costumes, Bruce sees it more as a subject bursting with artistry, commentary and closeness among its proponents and practitioners.

“It’s very novel-looking, and a lot of people approach my photographs with a

curiosity and a sense of humor—which is fine, because as an artist and as a person, I think it’s a very effective Trojan Horse,” Bruce says. “If you get people laughing and smiling, you get them interested, and then you can get to what you’re trying to say.”

Bruce does just that with his newest exhibit at Santa Fe’s Ellsworth Gallery, which opens this Saturday. In 2019 at Ellsworth, he delved into the aspects of his own fursona Atmus in a smaller show.

This time out, Bruce goes wider with New Fauna, a series of photos from the last decade or so that provide more insight into Atmus and Bruce’s own journey, as well as glimpses into the lives of his fellow furries.

“Where I like to push people is to say, ‘Look at this fun thing, look at the possibilities in allowing yourself, as an adult, to have fun and not conform to a normal society which says you have to grow up and start being serious and you need to be afraid of your fantasies,’” he explains.

“It will feel a little bit like closing a chapter so I can start the next one. I have plenty more plans and I’m excited to start making some work that reflects on the anxiety of COVID directly.” (Alex De Vore) TOMMY BRUCE: NEW FAUNA OPENING 5 pm Saturday, May 22. Free.

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Already a longtime supporter of arts, artists and those who consume the arts, the foundation’s move couldn’t have come at a better time. With NFTs dominating current arts conversations and museums shifting more toward virtual offerings, Art Vault’s marriage of traditional fine arts, digital works, film, sculpture and all points in between feels both relevant and progressive while maintaining a grip on actual physical works. At this point, one can’t underestimate how badly we need to get out into the world and find little bits of beauty, either, and Art Vault’s

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Yes, you could see many of the works from Art Vault on a screen in your home, but unlike workshops, lectures or even just classic static images shared virtually, simply stepping inside the space feels adventurous. Formerly Gallery Fritz, the two-story space fits snugly beside hotshot Santa Fe galleries like Blue Rain and Evoke Contemporary. But under the watchful curatorial eye of Jason Foumberg, the foundation’s Chicago-based curator of digital art, Art Vault is currently spanning centuries and mediums in a way that ought to attract anyone from fine art purists to the SITE Santa Fe faithful, digital lovers and internet-savvy nerds. In a word, it’s excellent, but even more exciting than the ­concurrently running Networked Nature and Saint Somebody is the idea that an outfit like Thoma—which offers up free exhibits, collaborates with schools and awards grant and scholarship opportunities for artists, among other things—now has the room to properly spread out.

“It was our pandemic project,” Foumberg tells SFR of the new space’s creation. “We really began thinking about it while we were all working at home, and the space became available, so

we curated it and installed it slowly.”

Granted, the scope of the Thoma Foundation’s collection is shrouded in some mystery, but is reportedly ­massive.

Still, to conceive, plan and execute a cutting-edge space within a single year is frankly impressive. Still, Foumberg says, the process felt almost tedious to Thoma staff thanks in part to Carl Thoma’s ­ usiness roots. b “When I’ve worked at museums, it’s like trying to steer a very large ship,” Foumberg explains. “Carl thinks more like an entrepreneur—he wants results and he wants them quickly. [Art Vault] has that startup energy.”

Startup does feel an appropriate line to draw. Intriguing pieces and audio abound right from the start. Encompassing an an entire wall a few steps from the door, Los Angeles-based digital installation artist Jennifer Steinkamp’s “Blind Eye 1” projects a looming, evolving birch forest. Nearby, Austrian team Sommerer & Mignonneau’s “Eau de Jardin” features an algorithm that responds to touch via hanging plants. COVID restrictions bar visitors from touching said plants just yet, but that’s hopefully coming soon. Elsewhere on the first floor, computer-generated

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Within the second story’s Saint Somebody exhibit, Foumberg has all but dissected hundreds of years worth of religious iconography with neo-classical takes on the likes of Bosch, bizarre video loops, contemporary santeros and even an 18th-century painting of Saint Augustine that feels creepy in the best way. Hidden within “Saint Augustine in His Study” by an unknown painter are any number of esoteric secrets, and assuming one ends their visit at this particular painting, its anachronistic presence feels like a full circle punctuation to the show—or at least a reminder that devotional art need not be steeped in absurd levels of faith anymore.

New York City’s R. Luke DuBois stuns with “[Pop] Icon Britney,” a constantly changing portrait that somehow both canonizes and humanizes the fraught pop icon, while his fellow New Yorker Carla Gannis upends “The Garden of Earthly Delights” with “The Garden of Emoji Delights,” a recognizable but equally terrifying surrealist triptych packed with the weirdest bits of modern day’s hieroglyphic-like form of communication.

There is, in fact, so much going on with Art Vault’s opening that a singular column couldn’t possibly expound its hidden and not-so-hidden treasures. I cannot wait to see where it goes from here.

“It’s not just the love of art; it’s making sure people benefit from seeing it,” Foumberg adds. “[We want it to be] new to them, we don’t have artspeak, we come together in a thematic way; art can be as much a part of our lives as tech can. [Carl and Marilyn] Thoma want to do good, they want to do service; we know it’s great art.

My big question is, how do I get people to go see Art Vault?”

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Ramblin’ Café Depending on whom you ask, never having sampled a breakfast burrito from Ramblin’ Café is a criminal offense. You wanna talk about spicy yet flavorful chile? This is your mecca, and the restaurant does it all from an unassuming strip mall on Second Street. Take yours smothered ($7.50) or hand-held ($5.50), but don’t forget about your other options, including the egg sandwich with chorizo, ham, sausage, bacon or without ($5.75) or the morning pan fry, two eggs your way with the requisite meats, red or green chile and, refreshingly, guacamole made in-house.

But say you’ve gone at lunchtime, and say you want to get more substantial, a combo between breakfast and lunch? Ramblin’ has you covered with a rich carne adovada dish served with eggs however you like and toast or tortilla ($8.99), the hearty breakfast with eggs, pancakes, potatoes, meat and bread ($10) or the Fred special, six egg whites and one yolk with beans, cheese, red or green (or both) and a tortilla ($11). It’s affordable, it’s where the locals go, it’s everything you ever wanted in a diner-like breakfast/brunch joint. You won’t find them on social media, and they don’t need an official site—everybody knows Ramblin’ Café is worth it already. (Alex De Vore)

Izmi Sushi Bar This jewel box of a sushi bar on Marcy Street is just the right size for its vibe: intimate without being cramped, elegant but accessible. Offset by yellow walls and pendant Tiffany-style lamps, soundtracked by mellow jazz, the semicircular booths along the picture windows offer a cozy streetside perch.

Since Izmi changed chef-ownership in 2018, its menu has expanded to more than 20 special and classic rolls, respectively, along with a host of appetizers and dinner entrees, but the food quality and service remain stalwart. Downtown lunchers frequent the daily specials or snap up chicken, shrimp, tofu or veggie tempura bento boxes ($12-$14); others go for the udon, ramen or soba noodle soups ($10). While the miso soup ($2) routinely needs more tofu and wakame, its warming, complex broth is a balm on a foggy day. The sushi is the star of the show, as evidenced by a recent shared 7x7 entreé (seven sashimi and seven nigiri, chef’s choice, $28), which showed off dazzling cuts of tuna, red snapper, yellowtail, salmon, bigeye tuna, shrimp, salmon belly and eel alongside vinegar-kissed nigiri rice.

One such pristine experience might make a person prone to ordering omakase every time at Izmi—but go ahead, get that spicy tuna roll you know you want, too. They have two different versions ($9-$12).

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Meat-eaters and vegetarians alike can find common ground here, be it a simple vegetable ramen with miso broth and fried tofu ($10.95) and, if you’re smart, an item or two from the sides menu plopped on top, like green chile tempura ($2.50). Our companion stressed over their options before landing on the shoyu ramen with thin-sliced pork and crisp veggies ($10.95), but noted that smaller appetites need not fret, especially with takoyaki and chicken karaage on the menu ($5 and $6.50, respectively).

By the end, sharing desserts like chewy mochi (in strawberry, vanilla and green tea) or fried bananas with vanilla gelato rounded out the night with something sweet but not overbearing, and believe us when we say that saving some of the noodles for later only ups the flavor factor. Oh, and while you’re there, don’t even feel bad about slurping, friends—it’s a sign of respect. (ADV)

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Frankie (Maya Hawke of Stranger Things) lives a monotonous life as a disrespected bartender with dreams of making mainstream online content—whatever that is—but things haven’t quite panned out. After meeting Link (Andrew Garfield), an eccentric drifter with contempt for people’s low entertainment standards, the two hatch a plot to degrade the beautiful people ­industry by infiltrating it, with Link becoming the i­nfluencer type he’s long despised.

Despite its head-scratching setup, Mainstream is an energetic if perplexing ride. It can be ­funny and shocking, yet the more versed you are in modern internet culture, the less shocked you’re bound to be by its machinations.

Like Garfield’s character here, influencers are often good-looking winners of some cosmic genetic lottery who are rewarded for ultimately doing very ­little (“Viewers aren’t looking for entertainment, they’re just horny,” one character muses). There’s a lot to unpack there, and plenty to criticize, but rather than dive into a more astute or nuanced analysis of the what and why of influencer culture, Mainstream’s commentary comes across like the crotchety old person screaming at youths who embrace a system put into place long before they could

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Is it distinctly American to take traumatized survivors of horrific events and thrust them into the spotlight? In an age during which political activists inhabit a specific layer of internet celebrity, Us Kids asks (but doesn’t answer) what the psychological of fame born from tragedy might be.

Springing out of the 2018 Parkland, Florida, shooting, the March for Our Lives event in the same year became emblematic of our depravity.

Seeing kids cut down in their prime was horrific—but the moment survivors stepped beyond mourning and into politicking, the American ­audience stripped their youths in exchange for expectations and impossible standards.

Filmmaker Kim A. Snyder’s documentary constantly reminds us that, yes, Emma González, David Hogg and their classmates were children when first thrust into the limelight. With a particular focus on the more outspoken students-turned-activists, we follow

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their post-shooting summer vacation as they embark on an activist tour of America’s more conservative enclaves. Armed gunmen threaten to storm their homes, wannabe cowboys lurk in hotel hallways brandishing pistols and, in turn, the media brands the young activists as heroes.

Reality, however, presents survivors grappling with deep mental anguish, PTSD, depressive disorders and suicidal ideation.

Us Kids is a standard political documentary with flashy media clips, tweet overlays and inspirational music—but it focuses on its subjects’ pathos rather than pretending at objectivity, as if we’re only here to confirm suspicions we ­already had. Like most progressive documentaries on subjects that emerged during the MAGA era, melancholy hangs over optimism and inspirational tales, but I’m not entirely convinced by the broader claims of the effect March for Our

work within it. What the film hints at, however—like how race, socioeconomics and corporate forces fuel marketing in terrifying ways and keep the capitalist juggernaut going—is unceremoniously pushed aside for the more obvious points about internet celebrity. The messaging feels murky, and if director Gia Coppola hoped to hold a mirror up to society, she has done so fleetingly; audiences will either already jive with the film’s message with little need for prodding, or they’ll file it under “OK, Boomer.”

Coppola has a cinematic eye that feels otherwise absent within the contemporary indie scene, but while she can build a great frame and direct actors, her film suffers from the horrid c­ reative decision to bring on realworld influencers like Jake Paul, Casey Frey and others. Maybe these small cameos were meant to add realism, but giving such people the very audience Mainstream is out to critique is bizarre. Why did Coppola think this would work?

Garfield is insane here, however, and totally in his element playing Link with an astonishing devotion that occasionally inches past too far.

He’s the kind of actor who’d have chemistry with a flagpole, so for any Garfield stans in search of his increasingly bizarre roles, this is the sweet spot. This is his film, too, even if Coppola’s m ­ essaging feels so 2005.

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Lives had on youth voter turnout. Call it cynicism, but this isn’t a data documentary, and it’s a pity Us Kids lacked the confidence to stay grounded in its behind-the-curtain aspects.

How can we know the long-term implications of the march and the Parkland students’ seeds of activism in just three-plus years?

If anything, Snyder’s work reminds us that many Americans are dependent on activists to do our dirty work. Collectively, we can check in and ask ourselves how exploitative we’re being to survivors and why we demand that survivors pick up the mantle instead of allies and accomplices.

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Here Are the Young Men from filmmaker Eoin Macken seemingly believes itself philosophically rich, though the sad truth is that it winds up feeling more emotionally bankrupt.

Matthew (Dean-Charles Chapman of Game of Thrones), Kearney (Finn Cole) and Rez (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo of Sing Street) roam the streets of Dublin carousing and drinking, dabbling in hard drugs and having the type of tedious Socratic gab sessions most youths have when they’re feigning worldliness. Amidst the booze and the waxing philosophical come debates about what it means to be truly free and, for them, freedom seems to be an existence beyond any and all authority—like an Ayn Rand novel on ecstasy informed by those too young to understand objectivism’s myriad inherent flaws.

Thus, when the trio witness a tragic accident during one of their binges, reactions vary from terror to pleasure, and young Kearney’s emerging psychopathy begins an irrevocable split just as the boys realize freedom is ultimately beyond their control. Macken’s setup is unquestionably intriguing, but those who came for a c­ hallenging look at disparate psyches

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should take note—much of the promise of Young Men is sacrificed early on to focus on murder, drugs, and drawn-out sequences of partying and drama involving “the girl;” Anna Taylor-Joy of The Queen’s Gambit, who gives a hell of an effort here despite being given too little. Gross.

Macken’s tale does strike impressive notes, particularly in how some performances come off so well with hardly any motivating factors scene by scene or line by line. The central theme of individualism runs amok, however, becoming a mere vehicle for getting to the flashy guts the director evidently finds appealing: hypnotic drug-fueled raves and meta-commentary on the American brand of capitalism told through an exposition-spouting TV show that exists solely within the boys’ minds.

A society built on individual rights as a screen for anarchy feels like a great thesis for a story to build upon, but when it’s clear the minds behind the film don’t believe in what they say and only want to dazzle with impressive camera tricks, you get 90-ish minutes of actors playing support pillars to a poorly constructed narrative that winds up straining beneath the weight of its considerable promise. If the only message is “things suck,” what’s the point in all the effort, anyway? (RG)

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries playwright Samuel Beckett wrote the play Waiting for Godot. At one point in the tale, the character named Estragon suggests it might be possible, even desirable, to “dance first and think afterwards.” In response, the character named Pozzo says, “By all means, nothing simpler. It’s the natural order.” With that in mind, and in accordance with astrological omens, I am going to encourage you to dance first and think afterwards as much as possible in the coming weeks. In my opinion, your ability to analyze and reason will thrive to the degree that you encourage your body to engage in enjoyable free-form play. Your power to make good decisions will grow as you take really good care of your physical organism and give it an abundance of pleasure and release.

meaning, “If only we were stupid, we would be so happy.❞ In the coming weeks, I am asking you to disprove that folk wisdom. According to my analysis of the astrological potentials, now is a favorable time for you to explore ways in which your intelligence might enhance and deepen your enjoyment of life. Your motto should be: “The smarter we are, the happier we will be.”

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Sometime soon I invite you to speak a message similar to what poet Kenneth Rexroth once delivered to a special person in his life.

He wrote, ❞Your tongue thrums and moves / Into me, and I become / Hollow and blaze with / Whirling light, like the inside / Of a vast expanding pearl.❞ Do you know anyone who might be receptive to hearing such lyrical praise? If not, create a fantasy character in your imagination to whom you can say it. On the TAURUS (April 20-May 20): As you enter a phase other hand, maybe you do know a real person who when gradual, incremental progress is the best progress possible, I offer you the concluding lines of Taurus would appreciate an earthier, less poetical tribute. If poet Adrienne Rich’s poem “From a Survivor”: “not as so, please convey it; something akin to this: “Your a leap, but a succession of brief, amazing movements, influence on me amplifies my ability to be my best self.” Now is a perfect time to honor and extol and each one making possible the next.” I especially want to call your attention to the fact that the small steps can reward those who move you and excite you. be “brief, amazing movements.” Don’t underestimate SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Author Aldous Huxley the power of minor, subtle, regular breakthroughs. said, “I can sympathize with people’s pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Here’s a public service about somebody else’s happiness.” To that I reply, “Other announcement for you Geminis from the planet and god Mercury: You’re under no obligation to be the same people’s pleasure and happiness bored you? Maybe you person you were three years ago, or six months ago, or were suffering from raging narcissism and an addiction to cynicism.” In any case, Sagittarius, I hope you won’t be last week—or even five minutes ago, for that matter.

Mercury furthermore wants you to know that you have like Huxley in the next few weeks. I believe you could been authorized to begin a period of improvisation and glean useful insights and derive personal benefits from experimentation, hopefully guided by a single overriding knowing about and appreciating the joys of others. directive: what feels most fun and interesting to you. In CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn businessthe coming weeks it will be more important to create man Howard Hughes (1905–1976) had great success yourself anew than to know precisely who you are. early in his life. Working as a film director and aviaCANCER (June 21-July 22): As a Zen Buddhist priest for tion pioneer, he became a wealthy philanthropist. But as he aged, he became increasingly eccentric and 47 years, Kōshō Uchiyama was knowledgeable about the power that illusions can wield over our imaginations. reclusive. For the last 10 years of his life, he lived in expensive hotels, where he placed strict and often “If we’re not careful,” he said, “we are apt to grant ultiabsurd demands on the hotel staff. For example, if he mate value to something we’ve just made up in our called on room service to bring him a meal that heads.” I won’t tell you the examples from my own life included peas, he would measure the peas with a that prove his point, because they’re too embarrassing. ruler, and send back any he deemed too big. I do hope And I’m happy to report that I don’t think you’re anythat you Capricorns will also have an intense focus on where near granting ultimate value to something you’ve mastering the details in the coming weeks—but not as just made up in your head. But I do advise you to be on intense or misguided as that nonsensical obsession. the lookout for milder versions of that phenomenon.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Leo-born professor Sibelan Forrester is an expert on charms, spells, and incantations in Russian folklore. She wrote, “An empty place where no one can see or hear what one says is the proper locus for working magic.” Spells often start with these words, she added: “I rise up, saying a blessing. I go out, crossing myself, and I go to an open field.” Whether or not you have Russian heritage, Leo, I see the immediate future as being a good time for you to perform magic in an open field with no one else around. What might be the intention of your magic?

How about something like this: “I ask my guides and ancestors to help me offer my most inspired largesse so as to serve the health and inspiration and liberation of the people whose lives I touch.”

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Spiritual author Stephen Russell wrote, “Don’t mask or deny your vulnerability: It is your greatest asset.” That’s an exaggeration, in my opinion. Vulnerability is a greater asset than your intelligence, compassion, and creativity? Not in my view. But I do recognize the high value of vulnerability, especially for you Virgos during the next three weeks. “Be vulnerable,” Russell continues. “Quake and shake in your boots with it. The new bounty and beauty that are coming to you, in the form of people, situations, and things, can only come to you when you are vulnerable—open.”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian author Charles Dickens (1812–1870) was famous and popular. Audiences packed the halls where he did public lectures and readings. His favorite way to prepare for these evening events was to spend the day drinking a pint of champagne, as well as generous servings of rum, cream, and sherry with eggs beaten into the mix. I don’t have a problem with that—whatever works, right?—but I suggest a different approach for your upcoming appointments with greater visibility and prominence. Like what? How about sexy meditations on the gratitude you feel for your expanding possibilities? How about fun fantasies focusing on how you’ll use your increased clout?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In his upcoming book The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, John Koenig proposes that we begin using “monachopsis,” a word he coined.

He defines it as follows: “the feeling of being out of place, as maladapted to your surroundings as a seal on a beach—lumbering, clumsy, easily distracted, huddled in the company of other misfits, unable to recognize the ambient roar of your intended habitat, in which you’d be fluidly, brilliantly, effortlessly at home.”

Even if you have spent too much time lately experiencing monachopsis, my dear, I predict this malaise will soon dissipate and give way to an extended phase of being fluidly, brilliantly, effortlessly at home.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): My friend Jenny’s Swedish grandmother used to say to her on a semi-regular basis, Homework: Tell me your three most brilliant and “Åh tänk om vi vore korkade, vi skulle vara så lyckliga,” useful opinions. Go to FreeWillAstrology.com

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He is a 15-year-old domestic short-haired male cat who weighs 10 lbs. Lord Chico came to SFAS after his previous guardian could no longer care for him: now he is ready for a loving family to call his own. He will let you know when he is ready to receive attention and cuddle but it will be on his own terms. Lord Chico is a sweet guy who wants a family that will give him the time and patience he needs to be himself. Lord Chico’s adoption fee has been paid for by a guardian angel until 5/23/21!

Meet CHAMP! He is 60 lbs. and about 8 years old, walks well on a leash and is housebroken.

Don’t tell the other dogs in the shelter but he might be the Director Of Shelter Operations’ favorite dog! He can be a bit shy when meeting new people but SFAS has nice spacious yards so he can stretch his legs and show off his skills and manners. Champ’s adoption fee is paid for by Mrs. Vigils class at Nino Otero Community School.

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LEGALS LEGAL NOTICE TO CREDITORS/ NAME CHANGE STATE OF NEW MEXICO IN THE PROBATE COURT SANTA FE COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARY LIDA BOWKER, DECEASED. No. 2021-0091 NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative of the estate of the decedent. All persons having claims against the estate of the decedent are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of any published notice to creditors or sixty (60) days after the date of mailing or other delivery of this notice, whichever is later, or the claims will be forever barred.

Claims must be presented either to the undersigned personal representative at the address listed below, or filed with the Probate Court of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, located at the following address: P.O. Box 1922, Santa Fe, NM 87504 Dated: April 27th, 2021 Loretta Joan Bowker /s/ Loretta Joan Bowker P.O. Box 1922 Santa Fe, NM 87504 505.230.9311 lidabowker@gmail.com merlene.bowker@yahoo.com FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT COUNTY OF SANTA FE STATE OF NEW MEXICO No. D-101-PB-2021-00102 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF EDUARDO L. SERRANO, Deceased.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of this estate. All persons having claims against the estate of the decedent are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of any published notice or sixty (60) days after the date of mailing or delivery of this notice, whichever is later, or the claims will be forever barred.

Claims must be presented either to the undersigned Personal Representative at the address listed below, or filed with the Probate Court of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, located at the following address, 100 Catron Street, Santa Fe, NM 87504.

Dated: May 12th, 2021 Gino Serrano, Personal Representative, 47 C Comanche Drive, Santa Fe, NM 87508.

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SERVICE DIRECTORY STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF TERESITA DE JESUS ARAGON, AKA TERRY A. GONZALES, AKA TERESA GONZALES Case No. D-101-CV-2021-01087 NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. The Petitioner Teresita de Jesus Aragon, AKA Terry A. Gonzales, AKA Teresa Gonzales will apply to the Honorable Maria SanchezGagne, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, as per the sixth amended notice at 9:00 a.m. on the 24th day of June, 2021 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Teresita de Jesus Aragon to Terry Gonzales.

Kathleen Vigil, District Court Clerk By: Breanna Aguilar Deputy Court Clerk Submitted by: Teresita de Jesus Aragon Petitioner, Pro Se STATE OF NEW MEXICO IN THE PROBATE COURT SANTA FE COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF RAMONA NORWOOD, DECEASED. No. D-101-PB-2021-00107 NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative of the estate of the decedent.

All persons having claims against the estate of the decedent are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of any published notice to creditors or sixty (60) days after the date of mailing or other delivery of this notice, whichever is later, or the claims will be forever barred.

Claims must be presented either to the undersigned personal representative at the address listed below, or filed with the Probate Court of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, located at the following address: 100 Catron, Santa Fe, NM 87501 Dated: May 11th, 2021 /s/ Charles Norwood Charles Norwood 4129 S. Meadows Road #814 Santa Fe, NM 87507 505.577.7090

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STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF NICOLLE NEILL JENSEN Case No. D-101-CV-2021-01089 NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. The Petitioner Nicolle Neill Jensen will apply to the Honorable Francis J. Mathew, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, as per the sixth amended notice at 11:30 a.m. on the 15th day of June, 2021 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Nicolle Neill Jensen to Nicolle Neill Jensen Roen.

Kathleen Vigil, District Court Clerk By: Breanna Aguilar Deputy Court Clerk Submitted by: Nicolle Neill Jensen Petitioner, Pro Se STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF NOAH BENCE ROSSETTER Case No. D-101-CV-2021-01088 NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. The Petitioner Noah Bence Rossetter will apply to the Honorable Maria Sanchez-Gagne, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 9:10 a.m. on the 24th day of June, 2021 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Noah Bence Rossetter to Noah Bence Rossetter Roen.

Kathleen Vigil, District Court Clerk By: Breanna Aguilar Deputy Court Clerk Submitted by: Noah Bence Rossetter Petitioner, Pro Se

STATE OF NEW MEXICO SANTA FE COUNTY FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT No.: D-132-PB-2020-00142 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARK LAWRENCE ONSTAD, DECEASED. NOTICE TO CREDITORS Philip J. Dabney has been appointed Special Administrator of the Estate of MARK LAWRENCE ONSTAD, deceased. All persons having claims against this estate are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or the claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented either to the Philip J. Dabney, Esq. at 3500 Trinity Drive, Suite B-4, Los Alamos, NM, 87544 or filed with the First District Court Clerk at 225 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87544.

DATE : 5/17/2021 /s/ Philip Dabney PHILIP J. DABNEY, Esq. STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME CAROLTA JARAMILLO Case No.: D-101-CV-2021-00930 NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. The Petitioner Carlota Jaramillo will apply to the Honorable Kathleen McGarry Ellenwood, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 10:50 a.m. on the 28th day of June, 2021 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Carlota Jaramillo to Shirley Carlota Jaramillo.

Kathleen Vigil, District Court Clerk By: Maureen Naranjo Deputy Court Clerk Submitted by: Carlota Jaramillo Petitioner, Pro Se

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