Santa Fe New Mexican, April 26, 2013

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Character buildings: Marco Petrus’ architecturally inspired paintings Pasa, inside The New Mexica n’s Weekly Magaz of Arts, Enterta ine inment & Culture April 26, 2013

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Claims pile up against ‘El Dentista’

‘Project Runway’ runner-up Taos Pueblo’s Patricia Michaels takes second place on the Lifetime channel’s reality series, but the fashion designer says she has more projects in the works. LOCAL News, C-1

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THE SELF-SUFFICIENT CITY

Sustainable sustenance

More patients come forward with stories of unlicensed practitioner By Nico Roesler The New Mexican

Former customers of “El Dentista,” a man who police say worked in Santa Fe as a mobile dentist without a license for at least five years until his arrest last weekend, are beginning to come forward and sharing painful stories. Five people have alleged they were victimized by 36-year-old Eliver Kestler, also known as Eliver Lopez, police public information officer Celina Westervelt said Thursday. A 45-year-old woman told investigators Wednesday that Kestler operEliver Kestler ated on her in January and caused a serious infection, Westervelt said. The woman told police she was referred to Kestler through acquaintances in January and called him to get a routine teeth-cleaning. Kestler arranged to do the cleaning at the woman’s house on Jan. 19. However, Westervelt said, the routine cleaning led to a serious operation after Kestler convinced the woman that four of her teeth needed to be pulled.

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Man gets two years probation in fatal stabbing By Nico Roesler The New Mexican

From left, Gurujiwan Khalsa and Oma Shorba of Khalsa Greenhouses in Española sell their produce at the Santa Fe Farmers Market on April 13. They sell year-round. PHOTOS BY JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN

Farmers market, community gardens play key roles in region’s ‘foodshed’

COmINg UP IN The serIes “The Selfsufficient City” is a six-day series celebrating Earth Week and the environment. Saturday’s coverage will focus on green jobs and sustainable technology training.

By Staci Matlock The New Mexican

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thriving Santa Fe Farmers Market, several community gardens and locally grown food in schools and restaurants are creating a little more food security for residents and connecting them with healthy produce. This food web is essential to a selfsufficient city. The challenge ahead is how regional farmers, ranchers and gardeners will cope with the ongoing drought while still trying to provide a local food supply. “Water is a huge concern,” said Sam Baca, program director with the Santa Fe Farmers Market Institute. The farmers market has vendors

If Adrian Gonzales successfully completes two years of probation, he’ll face virtually no legal repercussions for fatally stabbing Victoriano Moises ByrneGonzales in the throat at a Pojoaque mobile home park. Gonzales, 31, of Dixon pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of involuntary manslaughter and one count of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon under a plea agreement that called for a sentence of two years of supervised probation. Gonzales stabbed 21-year-old Byrne-Gonzales, no relation, after Byrne-Gonzales and a friend tried to break up a fight between Gonzales and his girlfriend at the Butterfly Springs Mobile Home Park on the night of Dec. 2, 2011. Byrne-Gonzales died at the scene. His friend, Santiago Cordova, was stabbed in the back by Gonzales, who then fled to Albuquerque, where he was later arrested.

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INsIDe u Composting correctly is an art form in dry Santa Fe. u Earth Week events.

Khalsa passes out samples recently at the Santa Fe Farmers Market.

from 15 Central and Northern New Mexico counties. The list of what they’re selling continues to grow, and an increasing number are finding ways to provide produce year-round.

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Meat, cheese, milk, fruits, herbs and a wide variety of vegetables are available at the farmers market two days a

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u School gardens connect youth, food sources. PAge A-5

Lucile Roybal, the grandmother of Victoriano Moises Byrne-Gonzales’ baby, and Jessica Roybal, 15, cry during Adrian Gonzales’ sentencing Thursday. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN

Land grant fight divides Arroyo Hondo residents By Russell Contreras The Associated Press

A legal dispute between heirs of the Arroyo Hondo founders and homeowners is preventing homeowners from selling property, refinancing mortgages or getting insurance policies. RUSSELL CONTRERAS/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ARROYO HONDO — Fernando Martinez’s family has lived on the Arroyo Hondo Land Grant for more than two centuries, passing property from generation to generation in the popular area near Taos. For the past couple of years, though, it has become impossible for Martinez or hundreds of others with homes in the mountainous Northern

Index

Lotteries A-2

Calendar A-2

Classifieds C-5, D-2

Comics C-8

Opinions A-7

New Mexico enclave to do much of anything with their properties. The 31-square-mile land grant, parceled out by the Spanish monarchy in the early 19th century to encourage settlement of the then-remote region, is at the heart of a bitter legal tug-ofwar that has thwarted property owners’ efforts to sell or refinance their homes, or even buy insurance policies, while pitting frustrated neighbors

Police notes C-2

Editor: Rob Dean, 986-3033, rdean@sfnewmexican.com Design and headlines: Kristina Dunham, kdunham@sfnewmexican.com

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Sports B-1

Time Out C-7

Obituaries Luella Childers, 91, Roswell, April 29 Michael Fleming Culbert, 47, April 19

Today

Flaviano Herrera, 97, Nambé, April 24

T-storm in p.m. High 71, low 40.

Margie S. Jaramillo, 60, Santa Fe, April 24

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