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A flash flood last summer caught a troop of Boy Scouts sleeping in their tents at Philmont Scout Ranch. One died, others barely escaped. Interviews and documents reveal an ordeal of terror and raise questions of oversight.

Facility conditions vary, from lush lawns to dead grass and trees, unmade repairs By chris Quintana the new Mexican

Long a popular spot for residents to play with their children, walk their pets or indulge in that rarest of New Mexico pleasures, strolling barefoot on grass, Monsignor Patrick Smith Park has always been one of the city’s more lush parks.

Tucked between Canyon Road and East Alameda Street, the 5-acre property is hemmed by stately cottonwoods running along the Santa Fe River. But today, even after one of the wettest summers the city has seen in years, the park’s grass has withered into a brownish yellow husk that crunches under foot, thanks to delays in replacing a faulty irrigation system. The only plants that grow reliably are weeds. Goatheads abound, and gophers have invaded.

“Even our dogs no longer like it,” Bonnie Atlas, a nearby resident, complained in a recent letter to the city Parks and Recreation Department, which is responsible for maintaining more than 500 acres of developed and undeveloped land in the city’s 63 parks.

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Thousands enter Syria to assist ISIS Volume of volunteers casts doubts about effectiveness of global effort to stem flow By eric schmitt and somini sengupta the new York times

WASHINGTON — Nearly 30,000 foreign recruits have now poured into Syria, many to join the Islamic State, a doubling of volunteers in just the past 12 months and stark evidence that an international effort to tighten borders, share intelligence and enforce antiterrorism laws is not diminishing the ranks of new militant fighters.

Among those who have entered or tried to enter the conflict in Iraq or Syria are more than 250 Americans, up from about 100 a year ago, according to intelligence and law enforcement officials.

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gentle rain was falling over their campsite as 13-year-old Alden Brock and seven other Boy Scouts climbed into their tents in the dark of night, capping off the second day of their long-awaited wilderness adventure at the Philmont Scout Ranch in northeastern New Mexico, a Disneyland of sorts in the Scouting community.

Some 1,300 miles from their homes outside Sacramento, Calif., the boys from Troop 380, as well as the four adults accompanying them on a 12-day trek through rugged mountainous terrain, settled into their sleeping bags at about 10 p.m.

Bursts of lightning and bangs of thunder occasionally stirred the campers from their sleep as the light drizzle intensified throughout the night of June 26. But no one was too concerned about the small streambed an estimated 13 feet below their campsite.

“We didn’t really acknowledge it as, like, a big problem,” Theodor Morrow, a 19-year-

old college student and first-year camp ranger assigned to supervise the Scouts, later told investigators.

The decision proved deadly.

At about 4:30 a.m. — an hour after the National Weather Service had issued a storm alert for the region — a massive surge of cold water that sounded like a fast-moving train jolted the campers from their sleep, leading to a frantic effort to escape a ferocious flash flood that would claim Alden’s life and shake the core of one of the nation’s largest and most prominent youth organizations.

Police reports and audio interviews obtained by The New Mexican under a public records request paint a chaotic scene of boys and chaperones struggling in the dead of night — with no warning — to get out of their tents as the floodwaters swept their campsite away. According to witness accounts, their tents became makeshift cages, clinging to their bodies like Saran Wrap and forcing some of the campers to rip holes with their teeth in a desperate attempt to get out alive.

“You could hear people yelling, but you couldn’t understand what they were saying,”

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Michael Evans, one of the adults, later told police.

The aftermath stunned even veteran law enforcement officers.

“The actual little creek that runs down through there isn’t any more than a foot and a half, 2 feet wide, and the area of destruction had to be, I’m guessing, at least 50 yards wide, maybe wider,” Colfax County Sheriff Rick Sinclair said in an interview.

“They estimate that the wall of water that came down through there was anywhere between 8 and 12 feet. You could see the folded-over willows and the damage that the force of the water actually did on its way through. Crazy,” he said. “Crazy.”

New Mexico State Police investigated the incident. But their investigation didn’t draw any conclusions, including whether the ranch erred by allowing the troop to camp so close to a streambed that, according to Please see TraPPeD, Page A-7

Around 11 a.m., about 61/2 hours after he was swept away, Alden Brock was found about a mile downstream from the campsite in a tangle of brush. The Office of the Medical Investigator said he drowned and classified the manner of death an accident.

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The boys reportedly chose the spot to set up camp, about 13 feet from the stream. Scout Andrew Evans drew a sketch for investigators of the location of the tents. At the bottom of the circle is a box with “LR” and “AB” — the tent shared by Logan Reed and Alden Brock. At 4:30 a.m., a ferocious flash flood swept through the campsite.

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Feds: Axle from duck boat ‘sheared off’

U.N. meeting on women’s rights brings more discord for U.S., China

SEATTLE — The left front axle of the duck boat involved in a deadly Seattle accident was “sheared off,” but federal investigators said Saturday they don’t know if it was damaged before the collision with a charter bus that killed four international college students.

National Transportation Safety Board Member Earl Weener said the axle will be sent to a federal lab for further examination. Weener said it’s too soon to know how the axle was damaged, or if it happened before the collision.

Witnesses have said they saw the duck boat’s left tire “lock up” Thursday as it swerved into a charter bus carrying international students over a bridge.

Four North Seattle College students from Austria, China, Indonesia and Japan were killed.

By Somini Sengupta the new york times

UNITED NATIONS — After the South China Sea and cyberspace, the rivalry between the United States and China has found a new front: women’s rights.

On Sunday, President Xi Jinping of China is hosting, along with the United Nations, a summit meeting to recognize the 20th anniversary of a landmark women’s rights conference in Beijing — never mind, as critics point out, that China imprisoned five prominent feminist activists this year.

Some 74 presidents and prime ministers are scheduled to attend the meeting, including Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan.

President Barack Obama will not be among them.

Instead, his ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, will be leading the U.S. delegation. But at the same time, Power is using the occasion to highlight a campaign to shame China and several other countries for jailing female leaders.

The U.S. campaign, which bears the hashtag #Freethe20, takes up the cause of 20 imprisoned activists abroad, and it comes after an unsuccessful lobbying campaign to include activists among the speakers at the summit meeting. While women’s rights activists welcome the White House’s commitment to gender equality, they note that the United States has also lagged on women’s issues and has not ratified the leading global treaty on the rights of women and girls. The campaign has involved plastering the facade of the U.S. mission with an enormous poster that bears portraits of women who are political prisoners and is visible to the leaders entering the U.N. building across the street. Three of the 20 are from China.

The tensions over the summit meeting coincided with a state visit by Xi to Washington last week and the announcements of bilateral agreements on cybercrime and climate change.

The parallel tracks illustrate what Xenia Wickett, who directs the U.S. program at Chatham House, an international affairs institute, calls a “textured relationship” between China and the United States, with cooperation on areas of mutual interest, like climate change, but discord on issues like human rights.

To both presidents, the women’s summit meeting is important for domestic political reasons, she said. For Xi, the meeting is a chance to show an audience back home that China is a leader on the world stage, even if it does not convince the world that China has overnight become a champion of women’s rights.

For Obama, Wickett said, attending the gathering would be politically costly. “America is in campaign mode. It’s bash China time,” she said. “President Obama would be condemned for attending an event like that, particularly in the political environment we have today.”

Instead, Power’s campaign has gained backing in Congress, with a supportive resolution sponsored by Rep. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H. Musimbi Kanyoro, president of the Global Fund for Women, said she was disappointed that Obama would not be at the meeting.

“I would have liked him to be there,” she said. “His voice in regard to women, which has been good, would influence the discussion at that table.”

Kanyoro said she hoped that the United States would “invest heavily” in a shared agenda to promote gender equality at all levels. She expressed the same wish of China, saying she was not troubled by its prominence at the summit meeting.

Stalemate in battle for Ramadi raises doubts

an U.n. peacekeeper stands guard may 11 in front of the Greek and Turkish Cypriots inside the U.n.-controlled buffer zone that divides the Cypriot capital nicosia. Suicide bombings, improvised explosive devices and combatants with little regard for the rules of war are making the work of nearly 125,000 U.n. peacekeepers look more and more like counterterrorism operations. PETROS KARADJIAS/ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

As U.N. peacekeeping shifts to counterterror, U.S. steps in obama to persuade other countries to send money, people and high-tech tools to missions in volatile areas around world

U.N. closer than ever to the sensitive issue of electronic surveillance.

The U.N. mission in northern Mali is already a testing ground for these approaches. Peacekeepers seek to calm a vast region of the Sahara, but 40 have been killed in little over two years. Only the U.N. mission in Lebanon, where peaceBy Cara Anna and Menelaos Hadjicostis keepers have operated since 1978, has more total deaths. the associated Press Alarmed by the toll in Mali, the U.S. military stepped UNITED NATIONS in to help the U.N. mission counter improvised explosive devices. And several European countries staff an intellilong a quiet cease-fire line in Cyprus, U.N. gence cell there, unprecedented in U.N. peacekeeping, that peacekeepers handle an increasingly old-fashanalyzes input from unarmed drones, sensor-equipped ioned job: actually keeping the peace. The last attack helicopters and special forces. deadly incident was in 1996. Today’s challenges include keeping poachers and rogue farmers out of no Soon, the mission will be using long-range drones, a senior man’s land. “Most of the time we don’t wear weapons,” U.N. official told reporters on Thursday, speaking on condisaid the force commander, Maj. Gen. Kristin Lund. tion of anonymity because the details were private.

In some places, trendy bars and cafes touch the walls of Far from the decades-old mandate of the Cyprus misthe buffer zone. “Club Med,” some peacekeepers call their sion, where force is only used in self-defense, U.N. peaceposting. They know the job has become far more dangerkeeping now seeks the kinds of tools recently used in the ous almost everywhere else the U.N. has forces — notably war in Afghanistan.

Mali, where al-Qaida-linked fighters have claimed responThe goal is “small units of high quality,” said Jim Della-Giasibility for deadly attacks. coma, deputy director of the Center on International CoopSuicide bombings, improvised explosive devices and eration at New York University and a former U.N. political combatants with little regard for the rules of war are mak- affairs officer. Engineering, air support and improved medical ing the work of nearly 125,000 U.N. peacekeepers look facilities for wounded peacekeepers are other needs. more and more like counterterrorism operations.

Obama’s effort comes amid a peacekeeping crisis. In Some U.N. member states balk at sending their troops recent weeks, the mission in Central African Republic into such conditions to protect civilians. Others ask how has faced multiple allegations of sexual abuse, including heavily armored U.N. troops can promote peace. And new against minors, that prompted Secretary-General Ban Kiallegations of sexual abuses by U.N. peacekeepers expose moon to take the unprecedented step of asking the head of deep gaps in training and accountability. mission to resign.

President Barack Obama takes on these issues next The uproar is a long way from U.N. peacekeeping’s Monday when he chairs a U.N. meeting aimed at persuad- being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1988. As the ing European and other countries to send money, people United Nations marks its 70th anniversary, its credibility is and high-tech tools to peacekeeping missions in some of at stake, U.N. officials have said. the world’s volatile places, from South Sudan to the Golan “Critically, we cannot be the source of additional sufHeights on the Syria-Israel border. fering,” Ban said this month, threatening repatriations and It’s a high-profile attempt to shove the “blue helmets” — more. But his intention to publicly name states whose now engaged in 16 missions at a cost of $8.2 billion — into soldiers face credible accusations of sexual abuse puts the modern times. world body in a bind: Angry countries might withdraw their troops from missions, leaving civilians even more The new peacekeeping vision calls for special forces, vulnerable. unarmed drones and intelligence work that brings the

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China vows billions of development dollars, debt forgiveness China’s president on Saturday pledged billions in aid and said Beijing will forgive debts due this year in an effort to help the world’s poorest nations, as world leaders begin to seek the trillions of dollars needed to help achieve sweeping development goals.

President Xi Jinping spoke at a global summit that on Friday launched the

nonbinding goals for the next 15 years.

China’s president vowed to help other countries make the same transformation. Xi said China will commit an initial $2 billion to establish an assistance fund to meet the post-2015 goals in areas such as education, health care and economic development. He said China would seek to increase the fund to $12 billion by 2030.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani arrived Saturday and immediately was encouraged by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to have Iran step up to

help achieve political settlements to the grinding conflicts in Syria and Yemen, where Iran has influence. The Islamic republic is a top ally of the Syrian government of President Bashar Assad and supports Shiite Houthi rebels who have held parts of Yemen for months.

Iran’s president said in his address that the recent deal with world powers on its nuclear program “has created suitable conditions for regional and international cooperation,” including on protecting the environment.

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WASHINGTON — A summer of stalemate in the effort to reclaim the Iraqi provincial capital of Ramadi, despite U.S.backed Iraqi troops vastly outnumbering Islamic State fighters, calls into question not only Iraq’s ability to win a test of wills over key territory but also the future direction of Washington’s approach to defeating the extremist group.

The Ramadi standoff, with no immediate prospect of an Iraqi assault on the city, drags on even as the U.S. prepares to makeover its approach to countering IS in Syria and congressional Republicans cite Ramadi as evidence of a failed American strategy. Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona, a leading critic, says it’s clear the U.S. is not winning, “and if you’re not winning in this kind of warfare, you are losing.”

The Obama administration insists patience will pay off, even in Ramadi, where in May, IS won control against a much larger Iraqi force, shattering claims by U.S. military officials that the group was on the defensive across Iraq.

Afterward, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said the Iraqis, who had no U.S.trained soldiers with them and had fled Ramadi, “showed no will to fight.”

The loss of Ramadi carried special significance for veterans of the long U.S. war in Iraq. Dozens of U.S. troops were killed there during the counterinsurgency fight to restore Iraqi government control in 2006; hundreds more died in combat across Anbar province.

Syria rebels to withdraw from town in cease-fire BEIRUT — Syrian rebels said Saturday they were preparing to withdraw from a besieged town near Syria’s border with Lebanon as part of an unusual U.N.-backed cease-fire involving Iran and Islamist insurgents.

The agreement, reached last week, marks the culmination of weeks of talks held in Turkey to end a brutal siege against rebel-held Zabadani by the Syrian military and Lebanon’s Iranianbacked Hezbollah militia.

Under the deal, rebels linked to the Islamist Ahrar al-Sham group have in turn agreed to halt attacks on the progovernment villages of Foua and Kfarya in the northwestern province of Idlib.

The truce highlights the growing influence wielded over President Bashar al-Assad’s government by Iran, which negotiated the agreement on behalf of the Syrian leader, according to officials familiar with the exchanges. The agreement, they say, will be implemented over six months and involves the planned evacuation of rebels and civilians and the release of government-held prisoners.

As Indonesia prospers, air pollution takes toll Jakarta, Indonesia, has long had a problem with air pollution. To address it, it phased out the use of leaded gasoline 10 years ago.

But as the economy has grown at a rapid clip over the last decade, the number of vehicles in the capital has soared, with more people able to afford them.

And air quality has gotten worse. A study by the University of Indonesia Faculty of Public Health found that 58 percent of all illnesses among people living in the city were related to air pollution as of 2011, up from 35 percent a decade earlier.

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Boehner departure leaves uncertainty in Congress

By Jonathan Weisman and Michael D. shear The New York Times

WASHINGTON — At the White House, a stunned President Barack Obama expressed hope for bipartisan progress as turmoil among Republicans ended Rep. John A. Boehner’s speakership.

On Capitol Hill, the conservatives who had again felled one of their leaders rallied to name the terms for the next person to wield the speaker’s gavel.

John Boehner And on Wall Street, fear set in at the prospect of another showdown over the government’s ability to pay its debt, support its export businesses and simply keep its doors open.

Boehner’s sudden announcement Friday that he will step down from the speakership and leave the House on Oct. 30 has thrown Washington into deep uncertainty.

His resignation is likely to herald an even more combative stretch in the nation’s capital, emboldening conservatives to defy Obama on looming decisions regarding spending, debt and taxes.

Some in Congress and the White House hold out hope that Boehner’s departure and the election of a new speaker will break the fever among conservatives, who have been plotting his downfall for over a year, and grant his replacement a grace period.

But more prevalent is a sense of dread that an already bitter and divisive political atmosphere is about to get even worse.

The Republican presidential primary has been dominated by outsiders like Donald Trump, Carly Fiorina and Ben Carson, who have castigated their party’s leadership in Washington. Now, with conservatives claiming Boehner’s demise as a political victory, many expect his successor to face tremendous pressure to bring that combative spirit to the halls of Congress, and to instigate a showdown with the president over budget limits and the debt ceiling at the end of the year.

Uncompromising conservatives on and off Capitol Hill are demanding the elevation of one of their own to confront the president at every turn. And lawmakers who had pressed to get rid of Boehner warned Friday that they would not buckle in their defense of those spending limits, even in response to veto threats by Obama that could lead to a Christmastime stalemate and government shutdown.

Boehner’s decision is likely to smooth a short-term path around a government shutdown at the end of the month. But the real showdown looms on Dec. 11, when a stopgap spending bill expected to pass this week would expire, and Congress and the president will have to find a way to fund the government through September 2016 and raise its borrowing limit.

The new speaker, elevated to the country’s third-highest constitutional post by a conservative rebellion, will face demands from those same rebels to extract concessions from a president who has little to lose by standing firm.

At stake for conservatives will be the one clear victory they have scored since the tea party revolution of 2010: firm statutory limits on spending signed into law in 2011, which Obama has said he can no longer abide.

In turn, the Republican Party, already wrestling with the effect of Trump’s populist insurgency on its chances at the White House, could find itself with the political challenge of justifying to moderate voters yet another Washington crisis, prompted by an even more obstreperous, confrontational House majority.

“Having been hoisted to the speaker’s chair by what was essentially a revolt,” David Axelrod, a former senior adviser to Obama, predicted, the next speaker will not have the freedom to compromise with the president.

“This group is not installing him to pursue compromise and mutual cooperation,” Axelrod said.

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Republicans confront a base that can’t be satisfied GOP transforming into party that embraces ‘outsiders’ like Trump

By David Weigel

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The Republican Party came into 2015 in enviably good shape. Not since the Roaring Twenties had it elected so many members of Congress, and it had never controlled so many state legislatures.

Its presidential field was the strongest in memory and the most racially diverse in history.

Democrats, meanwhile, were led by a lame-duck president and his aging, would-be successors.

Then came a topsy-turvy summer of presidential politics led by the unexpected popularity of Donald Trump.

And rather than fading away as many predicted, it has led to an even more tumultuous autumn: Just in the past week, onetime rising star Scott Walker dropped from the presidential race and House Speaker John Boehner stepped down. Both were undone by forces from within.

Boehner’s final act was an attempt to stop conservatives from triggering a shutdown fight over the defunding of Planned Parenthood. That has been put off, but only for now. Approval of the GOP-led Congress is in the teens, even among the Republicans who voted for it. People who have never won elections — Trump, Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina

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— command higher support than the rest of the GOP presidential field put together and share an ability to force unwelcome topics into the news cycle.

All that is clear at this point is that the Republican Party is undergoing a volatile transformation. It is a party that knows what it doesn’t want far more than what it does. It has endured a yearslong skin-shedding, beginning with the election of President Barack Obama and growing even more intense at the end of his presidency, without having any idea what its next form will be.

The unrest was evident at this weekend’s Values Voter Summit, an annual gathering of social conservatives where, when Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., announced Boehner’s resignation, a ballroom’s worth of activists rumbled with applause. Donald Trump mocked Boehner as a weakling that nobody really liked. Gov. Bobby Jindal, R-La., called on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to follow Boehner out, for “the surrender caucus” to put down the gavels.

“That’s one down, that’s 434 more to go,” said Jindal, a former congressman. “Folks, it is time to fire everybody in D.C.”

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Clinton on blitz to post big fundraising number

By Anne Gearan and Matea Gold The Washington Post

Boehner’s departure was the third, and hardest, in a series of establishment body blows.

The first was former Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s departure from the presidential race. Never a frontrunner, he’d studied hard after his 2012 implosion, and he’d called Trump a “cancer on conservatism.” Voters didn’t heed him.

The second blow came when Walker, the Republican governor of Wisconsin who had emerged as a tea party hero in 2010 after taking on that state’s public unions, ended his presidential campaign.

Neither man was an “insider,” and both disdained Washington.

Neither could capture the anger of Republican voters.

“If the country were looking for a courageous, hard-working, relatively quiet person, you couldn’t do better than Scott Walker,” said Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker. “The minute he gets up and says, ‘I’ve won three elections,’ they say, ‘Next person.’ Trump changed the world. He ignited the legitimacy of being angry, noisy and aggressive.”

WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential contender Hillary Rodham Clinton is mounting an intense press to stockpile campaign dollars in the final days of the quarter, aiming to build a war chest big enough to eclipse what is expected to be a healthy fundraising haul by Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont.

Clinton attended five fundraising parties in and just outside New York City on Thursday and Friday, including one at the home of the wealthy corporate takeover chieftain who was a model for the Wall Street procedural Barbarians at the Gate.

There were also events in Baton Rouge, La., Little Rock, Ark., and Dallas in recent days, and more such events are planned for early this week.

It remains to be seen whether Clinton will match the record $46 million she raised during the previous quarter. But during a conference call Friday with her campaign’s top fundraisers, campaign manager Robby Mook said the finance operation is hitting all its goals, including for both

low-dollar online contributions and $2,700 max-out donations, according to a person on the call.

He also urged bundlers to each bring in additional $2,700 donors before Sept. 30, when the campaign fundraising period ends.

Slipping badly in polls conducted in the crucial early-voting states where she has spent the most time and money, Clinton seeks a big, attention-getting number that underscores her overall front-runner status and reassures nervous supporters. She also needs the money: She has committed to spend $4.1 million on television advertising this fall, on top of $2 million already spent in Iowa and New Hampshire.

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Pope extols America’s founding ideals in Philadelphia Pontiff, in broad global terms, warns religious freedom is under threat

By Nicole Winfield and Michael R. Sisak The Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA — He spoke at Independence Hall, where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were signed.

He stood at the very lectern Abraham Lincoln used to deliver the Gettysburg Address. And he stepped forward to the stirring strains of “Fanfare for the Common Man.” In a scene rich with historical symbolism, Pope Francis arrived in the City of Brotherly Love on Saturday, offering warm and affectionate words of welcome to immigrants and extolling America’s founding ideals of liberty and equality.

“Those ringing words continue to inspire us today,” the pope said of the Declaration of Independence, “even as they have inspired peoples throughout the world to fight for the freedom to live in accordance with their dignity.”

He cited the abolition of slavery, the growth of the labor movement and the fight for racial equality as proof that “when a

Pope Francis kisses a baby as he arrives in Philadelphia on Saturday before delivering a speech in front of Independence Hall. ToNy GENTIlE/Pool PHoTo vIA AP

country is determined to remain true to its founding principles, based on respect for human dignity, it is strengthened and renewed.”

At the same time, Francis warned that religious freedom is under threat. But it was not the hard-hitting discussion some conservative American bishops may have wanted to hear.

Loath to get dragged into domestic culture wars, the pope did not mention gay marriage, abortion or governmentmandated birth control coverage by name, speaking of threats to religious liberty in broader, more

global terms.

He decried “a world where various forms of modern tyranny seek to suppress religious freedom, or try to reduce it to a subculture without right to a voice in the public square, or to use religion as a pretext for hatred and brutality.”

Using the occasion instead to embrace other causes close to his heart, Francis encouraged immigrants in the crowd of 40,000 to celebrate their heritage and traditions, and he assured them they are of value to America.

“By contributing your gifts, you will not only find your place here,

you will help to renew society from within,” the first pope from Latin America said in his native Spanish.

On Saturday night, tens of thousands gathered on the wide Benjamin Franklin Parkway for a music-and-prayer festival featuring Aretha Franklin, Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, actor Mark Wahlberg and comedian Jim Gaffigan.

Francis was cheered by crowds on the sidewalks as he made his way to the site in his popemobile.

Francis came to Philadelphia to close out the World Meeting of Families, a Vatican-sponsored conference of more than 18,000 people from around the world.

He found a city practically under lockdown, with blocked-off streets and checkpoints manned by police, National Guardsmen and border agents.

There had been fears that visitors might be scared away by the security, and, in fact, train ridership was lower than expected, some streets were eerily quiet, and a vendor of pope sunglasses cut his price from $15 to $10 for lack of business.

It remains to be seen if the expected 1 million people turn out for Francis’ final Mass in the U.S., on the Parkway on Sunday.

Earlier in the day Saturday, the pontiff arrived from New York at the Philadelphia airport, where a Catholic high school band launched into the theme song from the Philadelphia-set movie Rocky. Among those greeting him was Richard Bowes, a former Philadelphia police officer wounded in the line of duty. Francis also kissed the forehead of a 10-year-old boy severely disabled

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Then Francis celebrated a Mass for about 1,600 people at the Cathedral Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul, saying in his homily that the future of the Catholic Church in the U.S. requires a much more active role for lay Catholics, especially women.

“It means valuing the immense contribution which women, lay and religious, have made and continue to make to the life of our communities,” he said.

Francis has repeatedly said women should have a greater role in Church leadership, though he has rejected the idea of ordaining women. By calling for more involvement of women and the laity, he seemed intent on healing one of the major rifts in American Catholicism that have alienated many from the Church.

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Parks: City cites insufficient funds rick Smith, including the irrigation budgeted $1.4 million for fiscal system, but the city later altered year 2013-14, but it only spent Patrick Smith Park is just one that amount to $100,000. A June 10 $980,000 on parks maintenance. example of the uneven condition city document tracking the status City officials budgeted $2.3 million of the city’s parks, even after votof projects in the 2012 parks bond for fiscal year 2014-15 but spent just ers approved $30 million in bonds indicates some upgrades such as $675,000 on parks upkeep. in 2008 and another $14 million in a dog park, additional trees and Andy Hopkins, a budget analyst 2012 for improvements to parks a paved parking lot had not been with the city, said it’s not unusual and trails. In total, about $21 million completed, but the report makes for the city to spend under its of that was targeted for parks. At no mention of the long-delayed budget. He said the discrepancies Frenchy’s Field Park along Agua irrigation system. involve two factors. First, the city Fría Street, a row of apple trees Maestas said he is eager to get budget has some positions that planted to great fanfare in 2010 is the park back to its normal state. can take a long time to fill. Those dying because of a faulty irrigation But he warned that other parks vacancies result in a temporary system and inconsistent watering. could be affected by the city’s bond savings. Second, the city plans for At Herb Martinez Park off Camino woes. capital improvement projects, such Carlos Rey, the grass is marred by “This may not be the only projas a new irrigation system, but large patches of brown, graffiti cov- ect that gets caught up in recoveroften projects are delayed, resulters many of the tables and weeds ABOVE: Dead grass covers the ing from the 2008 bond controing in what appear to be savings. are sprouting up everywhere. ground at Patrick Smith Park versy,” Maestas said.

Hopkins said when budgeted as the Rev. Duncan Lanum of Yet just a few miles away from money goes unspent, it returns to Santa Fe walks his dog, Sadie, Herb Martinez, visitors to Ragle A labyrinthine budget its original source. Money from the on Sept. 17. The park is one Park off Zia Road enjoy verdant general fund returns to the general example of the uneven condiCity officials maintain the sufswaths of grass and impeccably fund, and money pulled from a tion of city facilities, even after fering parks are a result of an maintained ballfields. voters approved $30 million in parks bond goes back to the bond. underfunded and overstretched City councilors and officials bonds in 2008 and another On paper, Hopkins said, it might don’t blame the city’s parks depart- parks department. Ross said parks $14 million in 2012 for improvelook like the parks department isn’t employees don’t just manage the ment for the lackluster facilities. ments to parks and trails. spending all it can, but the reality is parks — they’re also in charge of They instead cite overworked LuIS SáNCHEz SATurNo/THE NEW MEXICAN different. maintaining the medians within crews and insufficient funds.

“It’s a moving target,” he said. city limits, and they’re responsible “They’re a hell of a lot better LEFT: It’s a mystery who “We plan as best as we can.” for the upkeep of trails running than they were in 2006,” City painted the instructions on Hopkins said the parks budget through the city.

Councilor Ron Trujillo said of the the sidewalk, but a bench at At the same time, the City Coun- is one of the most complicated in parks. “I think our parks guy do a Frenchy’s Field Park needs the city.

Oscar Rodriguez, the city’s cil regularly approves more money hell of a job.” repairs. Inconsistent watering new finance director, is attempting for parks than the department, for has also strained apple trees But critics remain unswayed. to simplify the budget to make it various reasons, gets around to at the park.

“I think our parks look betmore transparent, but it will take a spending. ter, but we didn’t get the capital CLydE MuELLEr/THE NEW MEXICAN while, Hopkins said.

The Parks and Recreation improvement we should have By far, the city spends the great- frequent them. Smaller parks, like Miles Park. The rodents dug and gotten with $21 million,” said Bette Department has about 197 full- and Defenders est amount on water. Usually, the burrowed, leaving the field pockBooth, a longtime advocate for the part-time positions. About 77 of Calle Lorca and Monica Lucero, Anna Hansen, a member of marked. City crews have since city’s parks and the chairwoman of those are devoted to the parks divi- department spends about $1.5 mil- are lower on the list. the parks advisory committee, lion annually on water for the city’s the Parks and Recreation Advisory sion. But about 17 positions were dealt with the problem, but TruRarely, Ross said, do parks sufpointed to Ashbaugh Park off park. In 2013-14, the city budgeted vacant as of earlier this month, Commission, an appointed panel jillo said these types of incidents fer as much as Patrick Smith. If Cerrillos Road as one of the city’s $2.2 million for water but only that advises the City Council about according to budget spreadsheets common. are someone complains about a park, successful projects. The park was provided by the city. The division’s spent $1.8 million. It budgeted the state of city parks. Booth said These park woes come at a the department will send out parks a “nightmare” in the mid-2000s, budget for this fiscal year (2015-16) $1.8 million in 2014-15, then spent the city has only completed eight time when Santa Fe’s elected polia crew to investigate the complaint. Hansen said. But since then, bond only $1.5 million. Ross said a is about $5.8 million, down from of the 23 slated park projects that cymakers will have to deal with funds have allowed crews to rejuThe goal, Ross said, is to create a an approved budget of $7.4 million combination of this year’s rainy were supposed to be paid for by a projected budget shortfall of up venate Ashbaugh Park.

The back weather and the city’s attempt to four years ago. crew that could respond to emerthe 2012 parks bond. to $15 million in the coming fiscal lot is bright green, and the city conserve water is responsible for Still, that $5.8 million is $2 milgency situations, but those plans year. Mayor Javier Gonzales has the falling usage. City officials have had to be shelved because of finan- was able to install a bridge that lion more than the parks division Patrick Smith Park asked what the city would need links the park to a nearby trail. actually spent the year before. said in the past that increasing cial constraints.

After The New Mexican began to do to trim its budget, and he Hansen said the city also has The city budgeted $6.15 million water rates have constrained the Carter, a former parks and recasking questions about the conquestioned if the city would need created several new parks, such for parks in fiscal year 2014-15, yet it parks department. reation director in Clovis before ditions at Patrick Smith Park, as Cielo Vista off Agua Fría Street to cut back on its park care. only spent $3.7 million by the year’s Ross said park maintenance is taking over the Santa Fe position in and the Water History Park and city crews installed signs on the “The hard decisions are going end. It budgeted $7.2 million for performed on a hierarchical scale. grounds that read: “Please excuse January, spoke to The New MexiMuseum on Upper Canyon Road. to have to be made,” Booth said. the 2013-14 financial year, but spent Regional parks, like Ragle or the our appearance as we are remodel- only $6.1 million. can about Patrick Smith Park but Park officials, Trujillo said, can’t “Are we going to give parks the Franklin E. Miles Park, are given ing.” referred follow-up questions about plan for everything. Consider the resources they need to maintain The story’s the same for the top priority because of their size The signs also encourage people maintenance budget. The city mole infestation at the Franklin E. our parks?” the city parks to Ross. and the number of people who to visit other nearby parks until the work is completed. The city crews were supposed to install an irrigation system, the signs say, but “unforeseen” circumstances delayed that project. The new system should be installed by spring 2016.

The park’s original system had failed, said Rob Carter, who took over as the director of the city’s Parks and Recreation Department in January.

Those “unforeseen” circumstances and the reason for the park’s barrenness are tied to the questions about how the city handled the 2008 parks bond, said Joseph Maestas, a city councilor whose district includes Patrick Smith Park.

In an effort to save jobs as the recession hit, the city veered from its normal policy of using contractors for capital improvements and steered bond money to pay the salaries of parks maintenance The care you need, when you crews that worked on improvements. Questions about how all need it, right in your neighborhood. that money was spent, however, and what was accomplished have created controversy at City Hall.

In March, an outside accounting firm, REDW LLC, found that the capital improvement program paid for by the 2008 bond was administered so haphazardly that parts of it were never implemented or were not properly accounted for.

The city of Santa Fe has put out a request for bids for a full, independent audit of the 2008 bond.

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That meant the city had to hire a contractor to install the irrigation Monday – Friday Monday – Friday system at Patrick Smith Park.

City spokesman Matt Ross said 9:00am – 7:00pm 9:00am – 8:00pm the search for a contractor follows Saturday Saturday – Sunday a long-delayed archaeological study. Initial costs for the survey 9:00am – 4:00pm 9:00am – 6:00pm were too expensive, Ross said, and Holidays it took city crews nearly a year and a half to find a contractor who 10:00am – 4:00pm could perform the study at a reasonable price, about $10,000.

Carter said he often receives Our urgent care centers treat patients with colds, flu, minor injuries including cuts complaints about the dehydrated Patrick Smith Park. His “number and sprains, stomach issues, urinary tract infections, fractures, minor head injuries one priority” is to rejuvenate the and injuries from car accidents. CHRISTUS St.Vincent urgent care centers also provide land. He has put out a bid for a contractor, but all the submitted flu and tetanus shots as well as school and employment physicals. bids were over the $67,000 earmarked for the project in the 2012 bond. The city will have to transfer about $30,000 in additional funds from the 2015-16 budget to cover No appointments necessary. Walk-ins welcome. the costs, and that will take more time, Carter said. stvin.org/urgent-care The 2012 bond initially called for $140,000 for improvements at PatContinued from Page A-1

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the National Weather Service, had flooded before.

A rain gauge installed about 4.4 miles downstream has recorded at least five other significant flooding events in the past 100 years where the peak flow was at least 2,000 cubic feet per second, or 7 to 9 feet deep, most recently in July 2006. The highest peak flow recorded at the gauge — 5,200 cubic feet per second — was in August 1929.

Kerry Jones, a warning coordination meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Albuquerque, said it’s still unclear how big the flash flood was in June because the gauge broke.

“There was at least a four-foot rise in 90 minutes until we think the gauge was blown out or damaged. There was lot of debris, as you can imagine,” he said.

“There was anecdotal evidence and reports from folks that it could’ve been as high as 20 feet,” Jones added. “It was a tremendous amount of water.”

The state police investigation is now closed. In police interviews, investigators called the deadly flood a freak accident that couldn’t have been prevented.

“It was an unfortunate incident that occurred, and unfortunately that group of Boy Scouts got caught up in it,” state police spokesman Sgt. Chad Pierce said in an interview.

The police report states that a campsite farther upstream flooded regularly and “was closed for the safety of the scouts,” but it doesn’t indicate how far upstream or if a specific event prompted its closure.

The Philmont Scout Ranch declined to answer any questions and referred inquiries to the Boy Scouts of America, which also declined to answer any questions, including whether any alerts were issued that night, what emergency procedures were in place, whether the organization had investigated the incident and what, if anything, could have been done to prevent Alden’s death.

“The passing of Alden Brock earlier this summer was a tragic accident and our staff continues to mourn the loss of this exceptional young man,” the Philmont Scout Ranch said in a statement issued by the Boy Scouts of America.

The organization also declined a request by The New Mexican to tour the site.

“We’re not scheduling any onsite media availability at Philmont Scout Ranch at this time,” it said in an email.

Alden’s father, Roger Brock, declined a request for an interview.

“Not at this moment,” he said by telephone.

In the last 10 years, at least 46 Boy Scouts, adult leaders or guests have died during Boy Scout outings, including four this year, according to a search of news accounts and public records.

Joel C. Simon, a Houston lawyer who sued the Boy Scouts on behalf of the parents of a 10-yearold who was struck and killed by a golf cart during a recruiting event in Texas in 2012, said the family deserves to know what happened.

“I think the family … certainly is entitled to answers and whether those need to come from a lawsuit or elsewhere, I don’t know,” he said. “I feel horrible for the family.”

In his experience with the Boy Scouts of America, Simon said the organization “seemed to believe that the law didn’t apply to them.” The Boy Scouts, he said, need more oversight, “particularly when dealing with our nation’s most valuable resource: our children.”

“At the end of the day, every child who engages in Scouting should come home to their family,” he said.

The Boy Scouts of America, he added, “should know, especially on their property, where it is safe and where it is not safe for children to be located.”

In its statement, the Boy Scouts said the organization has more than 100 years of experience conducting outdoor activities.

“We place great importance on creating the safest environment possible for all of our participants,” according to the statement. “Additionally, we have worked with leading meteorologists in the space program to develop a hazardous weather module that teaches adult volunteer leaders how to respond to extreme weather conditions.”

After the incident, ranch comptroller Steve Nelson told

Eleven-year-old pallbearer Russell Brock, with other family members, accompanies his older brother’s casket at Alden Brock’s memorial service. CourTESy pHoTo

The New Mexican that Philmont employees monitoring the weather reached out to crews by radio to make sure everyone was safe.

“We have people that are in our radio room 24 hours a day, and they were monitoring the weather on our weather system,” Nelson said in a June interview.

“It’s difficult to tell when you’re sitting here what may be happening up there, but it looked like it was something we needed to be concerned about.”

But state police investigators said Scouts from Troop 380 told them they weren’t equipped with radios.

Exactly when the radio warning went out is unclear, but Nelson said after it was issued that “we found out that there were some that were in trouble.”

State police said Christopher Heden, a Philmont ranger, told them he “was notified to check on the camps in the area because of the weather” at about 3 a.m, though he wasn’t sure about the time. Another ranger, Isabelle Herde, told police she was notified to check on the camps at about 4:15 a.m. As she approached the camps, she had to stop because the flooding had washed out a footbridge that crossed the stream.

She told police she began yelling at the campers to get up but wasn’t sure if they could hear her through the rushing waters.

She then said a “a wall of water came down the canyon washing everything away,” according to a police report.

The boys in Troop 380 hardly stood a chance.

“Be prepared” is the motto of the Boys Scouts of America, an organization that has had more than 110 million members since it was founded in 1910.

But nothing could prepare Alden and the other boys for the chain of events that awaited them at campsite No. 12 in the Indian Writings camp, one of the oldest at the Philmont Scout Ranch.

The 137,000-acre ranch south of Cimarron, described as the Boy Scouts of America’s largest national High Adventure Base, draws more than 22,000 campers each summer.

Alden, a curly-haired “adrenaline addict” who had set his mind on becoming an Eagle Scout, was among the scores of boys and young men who arrived at the ranch in the summer for an adventure that had been in the works at least 18 months. The ranch recommends that participants start a physical training program at least six months before arriving.

“Backpacking five to 14 miles daily, for 12 days with a 35-50 pound pack, at elevations ranging from 6,500 to almost 12,500 feet, requires great physical strength and endurance,” according to Philmont’s itinerary guidebook.

The ranch’s “guide to adven-

ture” cautions participants of a long list of dangers on the mountain, including flash floods.

“Small streams can become raging rivers in a few minutes or even seconds. It is important to be alert to the possibility of flash floods and take steps to avoid a dangerous encounter. Pitch your tents on higher ground. During and after periods of heavy rain, stay away from natural drainage areas,” the guide warns.

Before setting out on their trip, Troop 380, from the Golden Empire Council in California, received a safety briefing that included what to do in the event of a flash flood.

Morrow, who was assigned to lead the Scouts on the first three days of their trip, told them about the warning signs. It will sound like a train, and the smell of fresh-cut grass will fill the air, he advised.

“He definitely mentioned that it’s a potential,” Evan Frenklak, 17, told an investigator, adding that the “main thing” that Morrow advised was to get to higher ground.

In a brief telephone conversation, Morrow said he would consider a request for an interview.

“It’s obviously, like, a touchy thing, so I’m going to think about it,” he said.

In an email the next day, Morrow declined a request for an interview, saying he would talk about the incident only if all survivors from Troop 380 agreed to do so, too.

“The members and I talked after the flood about keeping the experience more to ourselves, and I am unsure how they feel about this,” he wrote. “I want to respect their wishes as they knew Alden far more than I did.”

The morning of June 25, Alden and the rest of the troop left base camp. After a day of hiking, they camped overnight and set out June 26 for another day of hiking and activities, including a trailbuilding exercise.

After reaching the Indian Writings campsite, the boys showered and ate dinner.

“Everybody was in really good spirits,” Benjamin Heningburg, one of the adults accompanying his 14-year-old son on the trip, said in a police interview.

As the group prepared for bed, rain started to fall.

“It was raining, but it wasn’t anything bad,” Frenklak told police.

Witnesses gave conflicting accounts about how they chose the campsite. One of the adults, Michael Evans, told investigators the boys made the decision.

“We were happy to get it,” he said, adding that it was “pretty level” and had a “nice growth to it.”

Jonathan Traum, another adult on the trip, said the camp was about 30 to 40 feet away from the creekbed. Initial reports said the campsite was about 18 to 20 feet above the creek, which is

first one behind. typically about 2 to 3 feet wide Morrow told investigators that and about a foot deep. But state Alden and his tent mate, Logan police investigators estimated Reed, may have been in the first that the site was about 13 feet tent. But he was unsure. above the streambed, and that Logan felt the rush of water the wall of water had risen about hit his head. Immediately, he 2 feet above the site. turned to Alden and woke him Frenklak said he didn’t up, warning him of the impendremember who chose the No. 12 ing danger. campsite.

“We started trying to get out “But it was obviously a bad of the tent,” Logan told investiplace to put it,” he told police.

“We were looking more like how gators. “We couldn’t get to the zipper.” to avoid bears. We didn’t even As the two boys struggled think about flooding.”

Heningburg didn’t think much to get out of their tents, Alden stayed relatively calm. about the location, either.

“Don’t panic,” Alden told “We sleep by creeks a lot,” he Logan. said.

Alden, an active kid who Jones, the meteorologist, said played soccer and was the capthere were “multiple waves” of tain of his school’s wrestling rain that night. team, tried to open the zipper, “But there were two distinct according to Logan. waves of heavy rain-producing “We floated down the stream, storms that moved through the I guess, for a little bit,” Logan area,” he said. recalled. “I guess there was a The first hit about 3:30 a.m., prompting the National Weather hole in the bottom of the tent, and I slipped out of that.”

Service to issue a “special Before he slipped out, Logan weather statement” highlighting told Alden about the hole in the the threat, he said. The next big tent. wave hit about 30 minutes later.

“I said one last time, ‘Alden, “The storm motions were virthere’s a hole in the tent!’ ” tually parallel to the drainages,” Logan said. he said, adding that the earlier He said he went underwater storms had already saturated the “for a while.” When he resurground. faced, he said, he “never saw the George Elliot, an Alabama tent after that.” scoutmaster whose troop was Logan clung to a patch of at the Philmont base camp that reeds downstream until he was night, told a television station found at sunrise. the storms were “unbelievable.”

“I just sat Heningburg, a there for the self-described light rest of the sleeper, woke up to night,” he said. the sound of water at about 4:30 a.m.

The floodInitially, he thought waters also “maybe that’s how snagged two it sounds,” as he other boys, had never camped Christopher there before.

Nunes and But then he Christian heard a cracking Heningburg. sound and told Christian his tent mate, told police he Evans, the father of was inside a another Boy Scout waterproof on the trip, “Let’s sleeping bag go check this out.” and didn’t feel By the time the water until Heningburg got up, Camper Evan Frenklak Christopher water had rushed woke him up. into the tent and was starting to “We were both screaming, drag it away.

‘Help!’ while trying to find the “The tent was moving, as zipper of the tent,” said Chrisbig as I am,” Heningburg, who tian, adding that Morrow had is 6-foot-3 and weighs nearly tried to grab hold of their tent.

250 pounds, told police.

As he floated downstream, Heningburg and Evans started Christian said, he tried to stay screaming. above water. He said he man“Everybody out! Everybody aged to grab onto a pole, where out! Get out of your tents! Out! he stayed for about 10 minutes, Out!” screaming for help.

Morrow, the ranger assigned “I had to do something to the troop, woke up to water in because there was logs like pilhis tent. ing up in front of me,” he said.

“I went straight for the zipper Christian said he grabbed the of my tent and got right out,” he roots of a tree trunk, “but that said. broke,” and he drifted about Morrow tried to hold onto 100 feet. He kept grabbing at the other tents as they started weeds until he was able to plant to float away. As he yelled for his feet on the ground and pull everyone to stay calm and seek himself out. higher ground, Morrow ran Another Boy Scout, Max to a tent and tried to find the Rybarczyk, 14, said he and his zipper but couldn’t. In the distent mate, Benjamin Keefer, also tance, he saw another tent start14, were stuck in their tent when ing to float away and left the they, too, were unable to find

… it was “ obviously a bad

place to put it [the campsite].

We were looking more like how to avoid bears. We didn’t even think about flooding.”

the zipper. Max said he had to push his face against the tent to breathe.

Andrew Evans, then 15, scrambled out of his tent and could hear Max and Benjamin yelling for help, prompting him to hold onto their tent.

“My feet were getting numb at this point,” Andrew recalled.

“I could barely feel anything, and my legs were like collecting debris all around them.”

Traum, one of the adults, ran to their aide.

“No one could find the zippers,” Max said, “so Jon Traum, he ripped open the tent with his teeth.”

Michael Evans, Andrew’s father, told police he didn’t think the campsite was dangerous when they chose it.

“I saw nothing wrong with it,” he said. “It looked fine to me, but it wasn’t.”

Morrow, who said he had been on a seven-day training trek to prepare to be a ranger and then took a test afterward to make sure he had learned all the skills, told police that Indian Writings was a designated campsite.

“That’s where you set up your tents,” he said.

“At the time, I thought it was a safe campsite,” he added toward the end of his police interview.

“But, you know, with that severity of [the flash flood], there was really nowhere safe.”

Michael Evans choked up several times and cried during his police interview.

“They gave us their kid,” he said, referring to Alden’s parents, Roger and Cindy Brock. “I just wanted him to have a chance.”

When Alden was unaccounted for, Philmont dispatched a team to the scene at 5:20 a.m. The ranch didn’t notify state police until about 9:40 a.m. In June, Nelson, the ranch comptroller, said Philmont didn’t contact authorities sooner because the ranch “had plenty of resources that were on scene that were taking care of the search at that point.”

At about 11 a.m., about 61/2 hours after he was swept away, Alden was found a mile downstream in a tangle of brush. The state Office of the Medical Investigator said he drowned and classified the manner of death an accident.

Benjamin Heningburg said he kept searching the edges of the water for Alden.

“When I was out there searching and searching and searching, I was thinking in my mind, ‘Every freaking second that goes by is leading to the inevitable,’ ” he said.

At Alden’s memorial service, attended by some 800 people, the youngster was described as cheerful and a good kid with a joyful heart. His little brother, Russell, led the casket, wearing a Boy Scouts uniform.

Contact Daniel J. Chacón at 986-3089 or dchacon@ sfnewmexican.com. Follow him on Twitter @danieljchacon.

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ISIS: New assessment finds volunteers have doubled in past year

By Ben Hubbard

The New York Times

IZMIR, Turkey — A multimillion-dollar shadow economy has developed in Turkey to profit from the massive human tide rushing toward Europe. Much of this new economy is visible in the streets here, where smugglers solicit refugees, clothing stores display life vests and inner tubes, and tour buses and taxis shuttle passengers to remote launch sites along the coast.

Money is flowing through Izmir, the third largest city in Turkey, now a grim hub for migrants and a boom town for residents. Hidden from view is an extensive smuggling infrastructure, with makeshift “insurance offices” that hold migrants’ money, covert factories that churn out ineffective life vests and underground suppliers of cheap rubber rafts that sometimes pop or capsize during the voyage to Greece, stranding or

courted tourists pack in people for $10 a night for spots on the floor. Others sleep on sidewalks or under bridges.

Shops do swift business in backpacks and hip packs. One store has men’s suits in one window and a family of mannequins wearing orange life vests in another. An employee who would not give his name said he sold 80 vests a day, for $13 each. Stacks of new life jackets lined the walls of a basement storehouse next door.

The largest profits, however, go to powerful Turkish smugglers on the coast who oversee the boats.

A men’s shop in Izmir, Turkey, sells life vests, capitalizing on a Most passengers pay $1,200, and bustling ‘raft economy.’ TylEr HICkS/THE NEW york TIMES one person selected to pilot each drowning people at sea. hood, where they clog sidewalks raft rides free. Children go for half price. Most rafts hold 45 pasInternational monitors say that with heavy bags and are often sengers, earning the smugglers a while migrants pump cash into the snared by smugglers on arrival. total of nearly $60,000. Even after formal economy, the biggest winMigrants gather near the Sinpaying commissions, the cost of ners are well-organized criminal bad Restaurant, which is named the boat and motor and bribing networks that probably pay off the after a folkloric Arab sailor but authorities to look the other way. now overflows with modern voy- officials, smugglers can net more Thousands of migrants flock agers seeking cheap meals. than $30,000 for each successful daily to the Basmane neighborNearby hotels that once crossing.

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say are more positive trends. The more than 7,000 military strikes on Tuesday, a public accounting against Islamic State in Iraq and that comes as U.S. intelligence Syria have largely contained the analysts have been preparing a group in its core territory, they confidential assessment that consay, and international efforts cludes that nearly 30,000 foreign to strengthen border security fighters have traveled to Iraq and and share information about Syria from more than 100 countries suspected fighters have largely since 2011. A year ago, the same stopped the Islamic State from officials estimated that flow to expanding at the accelerated pace be about 15,000 combatants from it did in the summer of 2014.

80 countries, mostly to join the Other indicators also suggest Islamic State. that the Islamic State’s ability to That grim appraisal coincides recruit and retain followers may with the scheduled release on be slowing.

Tuesday of a six-month, bipartiA small but growing number san congressional investigation of defectors from the Islamic into terrorist and foreign fighter State are risking reprisals and travel, which concludes that imprisonment to speak out about “despite concerted efforts to stem their disillusionment with the the flow, we have largely failed extremist group, according to a to stop Americans from traveling report published this month by overseas to join jihadists.” the International Center for the Other parts of the Obama Study for Radicalization at King’s administration’s policies on Syria College London. and for combating the Islamic “ISIS no longer has the State have suffered significant momentum in its core territory of setbacks, as well.

Syria and Iraq,” said Peter NeuA $500 million Pentagon effort mann, director of the center and to train rebel forces to take on the a professor of security studies at Islamic State in Syria has produced King’s College. “It’s no longer the only a handful of fighters. Russia ever-expanding jihadist utopia has defied U.S. attempts to block that it seemed to be.”

Moscow’s buildup of a new air In Britain, more than 750 people base with warplanes in Syria — a have traveled to take part in topic Obama will discuss with terrorist-related activity in Syria President Vladimir Putin of Russia and Iraq, up from about 500 a at the U.N. on Monday. And in a year ago. About half of those have break in continuity for the mission, returned home, raising fears they John R. Allen, the retired four-star could carry out attacks on British general who since September soil. And since September 2014, 2014 has served as the diplomatic 34 countries, including the United envoy coordinating the coalition States, have arrested foreign teragainst the Islamic State, has told rorist fighters or aspirants. The the White House that he will step United States has active criminal down at the end of the year. cases against almost 50 foreign The focus on shortcomings in fighter suspects. the global effort to combat the The U.N. Counter-Terrorism Islamic State, also known as ISIS, office has recommended that is playing out as tens of thoucountries take urgent measures sands of refugees flee strife in the to disrupt travel by would-be Middle East and North Africa, fighters. At the moment, only including many seeking to escape five of 21 high-priority countries the violence in Syria and oppres- surveyed require advance passion in areas under the control of senger information or passenger the Islamic State. name records, making it virtually A year ago, Obama and other impossible to flag suspects who top U.S. officials spent a great deal might be flying to conflict zones of diplomatic capital rallying sup- in incremental steps, rather than port for a legally binding Security taking direct flights that would Council resolution that would invite scrutiny. compel all 193 U.N. member states Most countries have passed laws to take steps to “prevent and sup- to restrict “incitement” to terrorist press” the flow of their citizens acts, but in some places those laws into the arms of groups that each are so broad that they prevent free country considers to be a terrorist expression. Most countries, howorganization. ever, do not have laws that enable But this month, Tina S. Kaidthem to prosecute those suspected anow, the State Department’s top of planning travel to a country to counterterrorism official, offered commit terrorist acts or receive a sobering summation of the for- terrorist training; of the 21 couneign fighter problem. “The trend tries, only five had such laws. is still upward,” Kaidanow said.

Amid the spate of new laws, “We’re going to see that for the human rights groups warn of a whole gamut of reasons.” Mainly, possible backlash if governments she added, because of the Islamic go too far in muzzling dissent State’s unprecedented ability to and, in turn, send even more of recruit and to radicalize followers their citizens into the arms of over the Internet and on social radical extremists. media.

Efforts to stop fighters from At the U.N. meeting on Tuesrallying to the side of the Islamic day, chaired by the president, State put the greatest scrutiny the heads of state and governon countries like Turkey, whose ment from Iraq, Nigeria and Nor- long porous border has allowed way will speak; all told, 104 coun- thousands of militants to cross tries have been invited to the into Syria and Iraq. Turkey has event. Iran has not been invited, openly supported some rebels U.S. officials said. who have sought to unseat Syria’s Despite Pentagon reports president, Bashar Assad, but that coalition strikes have killed lately it has faced the direct ire of about 10,000 Islamic State fightthe Islamic State. ers, the group continues to Under stiff international presreplenish its ranks, drawing an sure, Turkey has increased detenaverage of roughly 1,000 fighttions, arrests, and prosecution ers a month. The government of suspected foreign fighters, several months ago last publicly increased its information sharing assessed the flow at “more than with allied partners, and is taking 25,000,” including at least 4,500 steps to improve the security of from the West. Given the region’s its border, Western officials said. porous borders, U.S. officials “Turkey has turned a corner, emphasize that their figures are having recognized the impact of rough estimates not precise head this problem on its own society,” counts, based on allies’ reports said Thomas Krajeski, a former on citizens’ travel and other intel- U.S. ambassador to Yemen who ligence, which vary by country. last week completed a yearlong “By now there is a ‘network tour as the State Department’s effect’ where friends, family are senior adviser on foreign terrorist bringing along other friends and fighters. family,” said Daniel L. Byman, a Germany, Morocco and Tunisia counterterrorism expert who is a have all passed new laws criminalprofessor at Georgetown Univer- izing support to terrorist groups, sity and a fellow at the Brookings fighting or training in conflict Institution. areas, or recruitment for such In a new bipartisan report after acts. France has passed a new law a six-month investigation, the since last year’s Council resoluHouse Homeland Security Com- tion that prevents French citizens mittee criticizes the administraand residents from leaving French tion and its allies for failing to do territory if they are suspected of more to combat the threat from intending to join a terrorist group. foreign fighters.

Perhaps most far-reaching, a “Foreign partners are still shar- new law requires Internet coming information about terrorist panies to provide the French suspects in a manner which is government with metadata in ad hoc, intermittent, and often real time, at the request of intelincomplete,” says the 85-page ligence agencies, in suspected report. Its release is timed to terrorist cases. the meeting at the U.N. “There Still, France finds itself reeling. is currently no comprehensive Its prime minister, Manuel Valls, global database of foreign fighter told the French Parliament this names,” it says. “Instead, countries month that 1,800 French citizens including the U.S. rely on a weak, and residents are believed to patchwork system for swapping be enlisted in jihadist networks individual extremist identities.” worldwide. Among them close to Some counterterrorism ana500 are still in Syria and Iraq, and lysts have identified what they 133 have died in combat.

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Afghan pilots: Planes unsafe Mexicans march on anniversary U.S. defends aircraft supplied to build country’s air force

By Rod Nordland The New York Times

KABUL, Afghanistan — Col. Qalandar Shah Qalandari, Afghanistan’s most decorated pilot, recently took command of what was meant to be the building blocks of his country’s new air force: a squadron of shiny U.S.-made attack helicopters, intended to solve the chronic lack of close air support for Afghan troops.

Sixteen of the armed MD-530 scout helicopters were rushed here this year to great fanfare, and a dozen more are to join them.

But Qalandari was not impressed. “This plane is a total mess,” he said. “To be honest, I don’t know why we have this plane here.”

Qalandari tossed a map on the table, showing the effective range of the helicopter from its Kabul airfield: In summertime, its maximum altitude with a full load of fuel and ammunition is only 7,000 to 8,000 feet, he said — meaning it cannot cross most of the mountain ranges that encircle Kabul.

“It’s unsafe to fly, the engine is too weak, the tail rotor is defective and it’s not

armored. If we go down after the enemy we’re going to have enemy return fire, which we can’t survive. If we go up higher, we can’t visually target the enemy,” Qalandari said. “Even the guns are no good.”

Each helicopter carries two .50-caliber machine guns, mounted on pods on either side of the craft’s small bubble cockpit.

“They keep jamming,” one of the colonel’s 10 newly U.S.-trained pilots said.

Qalandari is not the first Afghan official to complain about the woeful state of efforts to build an air force to replace the Americans in carrying out airstrikes, medical evacuations and transport missions in a country with poor and dangerous roads. U.S. officials have long seen the aspirations as unrealistic, while Afghans have complained that their allies have ignored their views about what they need to fight the Taliban. U.S. officials hailed the MD-530 as a quick — and realistic — solution to Afghanistan’s air force needs.

Already, one of the new helicopters has crashed, while a U.S. pilot was flying with an Afghan trainee. While the crew escaped, the aircraft was destroyed.

“When my pilots fly in this, only God and I know what they’re going through,” the colonel said. “And I don’t know whether they’ll make it back.”

of 43 students’ disappearance

By Mark Stevenson The Associated Press

MEXICO CITY — Thousands of people marked the one-year anniversary of the disappearance of 43 students by marching down Mexico City’s premier avenue in an atmosphere of defiant hope Saturday.

Activists said the movement might bring justice for Mexico’s disappeared, though only two of the students’ remains have been identified

by DNA analysis of charred bone fragments.

While the march was smaller than past demonstrations, the case has helped publicize the thousands who have gone missing since Mexico’s drug war started in 2006.

Peace and anti-crime activist Maria Guadalupe Vicencio wore a skirt made of a Mexican flag splattered with fake blood. The names of three disappeared activists from her violence-plagued home state of Tamaulipas were written across her shirt.

Vicencio said the students’ movement “sets an example for all Mexicans to wake up, and not be silent.”

In a meeting with the parents of the 43 missing students earlier this week, President Enrique Peña Nieto promised to create a special prosecutors’ office to investigate all of Mexico’s disappearances.

More than 25,000 people disappeared in Mexico between 2007 and July 31, 2015, according to the government. Unidentified bodies often turn up in clandestine graves of the kind used by drug gangs to dispose of victims. But most people disappear without a trace.

The 43 students from a radical teachers college disappeared on Sept. 26, 2014, after a clash with police in Iguala, a city in the southern state of Guerrero.

Six other people were killed at the hands of the police during the disturbances.

According to Mexico’s former attorney general, local police ille-

gally detained the students and then turned them over to the local drug gang Guerreros Unidos, which then allegedly killed them and incinerated their remains.

A group of independent experts assembled by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights took apart that version earlier this month, saying the funeral pyre simply couldn’t have happened at the small area of a garbage dump where prosecutors say it did.

“For me, the parents of the students have taught us a lesson, about keeping hope for change alive,” said Carlos Martel, a business executive who attended Saturday’s march with his wife.

The parents of the missing students — many of them barely literate farmers — marched silently at the head of the demonstration. They have refused to accept the government’s version that their sons are dead and have called for a new investigation under international supervision.

Iran vows legal action after deadly Saudi hajj disaster “They have to know that we will pursue the trial of Al-Saud for the crime they have comTEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Satmitted against the hajj pilgrims urday vowed to take international through international courts and legal action against Saudi Arabia’s organizations.” rulers over the crush of Muslim Neither Iran nor Saudi Arabia pilgrims at this year’s hajj, which is a state party to the Internakilled at least 769 people, includtional Criminal Court, and only ing 136 Iranians, and has led to an the court’s prosecutor can file escalation of tensions between charges. Iran could try to file a the regional archrivals. case at the International Court of The pilgrims suffocated or Justice, which handles disputes were trampled to death Thursday between nations but does not when two massive crowds conmete out criminal justice. verged on a narrow street, in the Saudi Arabia has not worst disaster to occur during the responded to the Iranian accusaannual pilgrimage in a quartertions regarding the convoy. Saudi century. Shiite Iran has accused Interior Ministry spokesman Sunni Saudi Arabia of mismanag- Maj. Gen. Mansour al-Turki told ing the pilgrimage, which annuThe Associated Press that a VIP ally draws some 2 million people convoy traveling through Mina from 180 countries. on Thursday, which included Iranians comprise the largest foreign dignitaries, had nothing group of casualties identified to do with the incident and was so far. Iranian state TV says a in a different part of town. He former ambassador to Lebanon, said VIPs use their own roads in as well as two Iranian state Mina.

TV reporters and a prominent Iran and Saudi Arabia are bitpolitical analyst are among those terly divided on a host of regional still missing. The semi-official issues and support opposite sides Fars news agency said a former in the wars raging in Syria and ambassador to Slovenia was Yemen. The accusations of misamong the dead. management of the pilgrimage “Under international law, this strike at a key pillar of the Saudi incident is absolutely subject to royal family’s prestige — King prosecution. The Al-Saud must Salman holds the title of the “cusbe responsive,” Iran’s State Prostodian of the two holy mosques.” ecutor Ebrahim Raisi told state Iran’s President Hassan RouTV, referring to Saudi Arabia’s hani began an address to the ruling family.

U.N. General Assembly on Saturday by expressing “regret He said Saudi authorities over the heart-rending incident,” blocked a road used by hajj pilemphasizing the “need for swift grims to allow a royal convoy to attention” to an investigation into pass through, causing the deadly convergence in the town of Mina “this incident and other similar incidents in this year’s hajj.” on the outskirts of Mecca.

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‘Every object has a story’ in ‘Roadshow’ Popular PBs series begins airing episodes shot in albuquerque

By Robert Nott the new Mexican

In the 20 years that PBS’s Antiques Roadshow has aired, viewers have watched collectors assess everything from rhinoceros horn libation cups to a vampire kit with a stake and silver bullets.

The rhino cups cost the owner less than $6,000 and are now worth over a million bucks. The vampire kit turned out to be a fake.

The show, which tours major cities around the United States to appraise antiques brought in by residents, has attracted a loyal following of people who want to know if that Navajo blanket they

bought at an auction for $50 is worth 100 times that amount.

Now fans of the show can see what New Mexicans brought to the Roadshow in a series of new episodes shot in Albuquerque last year. The first episode airs at both 7 and 8 p.m. Monday on New Mexico PBS affiliate KNME Channel 5.1. The show’s Oct. 5 and Oct. 12 episodes, also set in Albuquerque, will air twice in a row as well.

Among the New Mexico offerings on the show are an original jacket and program from the 1969 Woodstock concert that a Native American man found in the mud after the three-day event ended.

The man, part of an Institute of American Indian Arts contingent who attended Woodstock, recalled that they stayed in teepees on the site, “so we were dry!”

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state game Commission to review request to release 10 wolves in southern n.M. Jane Peterson is surprised by an appraisal of her oil painting titled The Answer during an Antiques Roadshow shooting session in Albuquerque for a series of episodes that begin airing Monday. The find turned out to be worth somewhere between $2,000 and $2,500.

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$2,000 and $2,500.

Antiques Roadshow executive producer Marsha Bemko, who has been with the show since Season 4, said such stories are what make the program so popular with viewers.

“It appeals to people on differ-

ent levels,” she said in an interview from Boston, where the show is produced. “We’ve got those antique junkies. They are watching, they are learning. And nobody on the show is a star, really. These Please see stoRy, Page C-4

wine & Chile Fiesta celebrates 25 palate-pleasing years

By Staci Matlock the new Mexican

The State Game Commission will decide Tuesday on a federal agency’s proposal to release more Mexican gray wolves into the wild in Southern New Mexico.

A few months ago, the state Game and Fish Department denied a request by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for a permit to release up to 10 captive-raised wolves. The agency, which appealed the department’s decision to the seven-member commission, has said the release is essential to building a healthy population of the endangered species.

Wildlife advocates plan to turn out in force for Tuesday’s meeting at the Embassy Suites Albuquerque Hotel and Spa, hoping to persuade the commission appointed

by Gov. Susana Martinez to approve the permit. They will rally at the hotel at 8 a.m.

“Mexican wolves are protected by the state Wildlife Conservation Act as well. Conserving and protecting our carnivores is part of the mandate of the Game Commission,” Mary Katherine Ray, wildlife chairwoman of the Rio Grande Chapter of the Sierra Club, said in a statement.

The Mexican gray wolf was once common throughout the Southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico. But by the 1970s, the wolf was considered extinct in the Southwest and was listed as federally endangered. In 1998, Mexican wolves were released for the first time in the Blue Range Wolf Recovery Area in New Mexico and Arizona. Currently, about 110 Mexican gray wolves roam southwestern New Mexico and southeastern Arizona.

“This population has exhibited a strong growth over the last four years,” Joy Nicholopoulos, deputy director of Please see Decision, Page C-3

if you go What: state Game Commission meeting to vote on Mexican gray wolf release permit for the u.s. Fish and Wildlife service When: 9 a.m. tuesday Where: embassy suites albuquerque hotel and spa, 1000 Woodward Place Ne, albuquerque More info: the agenda for tuesday’s meeting is available at the Game and Fish department website, www. wildlife.state.nm.us. More information about the Mexican gray wolf recovery program is available at the agency’s website, www.fws.gov/southwest/es/ mexicanwolf/ Jacqueline Milburn of the Grgich Hills Estate Winery serves wine to J.L. Rizaud of Venezuela during the Wine & Chile Fiesta’s Grand Tasting on Saturday. About 3,000 wine and food lovers gathered for the fiesta finale at The Santa Fe Opera to sample fare from more than 80 of Santa Fe’s best restaurants and vintages from 100 wineries from across the world. Photos By luke e. MoNtavoN/For the NeW MexiCaN

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ow in its 25th year, the Santa Fe Wine & Chile Fiesta has become a major draw for tourists and a boon for the local economy. The weeklong event culminated with Saturday’s Grand Tasting at The Santa Fe Opera, where 100 world-class wineries showcased their vintages and scores of restaurants offered samples of spicy cuisine.

The event has grown from about 300 fiestagoers in 1991 to more than 3,000. And city of Santa Fe tourism director Randy Randall said about 60 percent of the people who attended fiesta events last week had come from out of town.

According to Randall, Wine & Chile attracted as many lodgers to downtown

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hotels this year as Indian Market and the Traditional Spanish Market. “It was really hard to find a room this weekend in downtown Santa Fe,” he said.

Randall said he’s been on the board of directors for the nonprofit that runs the Wine & Chile Fiesta for 21 years. During Saturday’s Grand Tasting, he wore a football jersey with his last name on the back and a “25” on the front, indicating the event’s milestone anniversary.

Doug Perrin, attending Saturday’s tasting with his wife, Dana, held up his wine glass and said it’s the Santa Fe couple’s third year attending the fiesta.

The couple were enjoying listening to music and watching passers-by, Doug Perrin said. He felt relaxed.

“There’s not many places where you can feel like that for five minutes — much less 45,” he said.

By Uriel J. Garcia the new Mexican

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Federal grant to benefit Española arts, ag center

By Bruce Krasnow the new Mexican

A vision for a new community center that brings together rural agriculture, fresh food and healthy living received a big boost Friday from the U.S. Department of Commerce, which awarded $1.4 million to a group hoping to open an arts and food hub in downtown Española.

Planning for the Hunter Arts & Agricultural Center goes back to

2012. The start of construction is still pending environmental cleanup at the 2-acre site that formerly housed the old Hunter Ford at the intersection of Española’s two main highways — U.S. 84 and 285.

But Todd Lopez, executive director of Siete del Norte Community Development Corp., said the federal grant will help the project move forward.

The application advanced with the support of Chicanos por la Causa, a nonprofit community

development corporation in Phoenix that provides technical assistance to Hispanic communities.

“This is not an overnight effort.

These things take time, and we have strong partners,” said Lopez, who added that both the city of Española and Rio Arriba County have helped secure state capital outlay funds for the initiative.

“This will help us with momentum, it will help us with attention, it will help us gain the confidence of other partners.”

The project award comes under the U.S. Department of Commerce Department’s Economic Development Administration program.

“The Obama Administration is committed to helping communities bolster their local industries to further their economic development plans,” U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker said in a statement.

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The National Labor Relations Board has ordered Horseman’s Haven Café, a New Mexican restaurant on Cerrillos Road, to pay one of its cooks about $2,000 in back wages.

The worker and immigrant rights group Somos Un Pueblo Unido said Friday that the board had awarded the payment earlier last week to Jose Valtierrez-Villa.

The decision comes in an ongoing dispute between cook Valtierrez-Villa, 46, and his employer. Valtierrez-Villa had filed a complaint with the labor board after the restaurant earlier this year cut his hours to 29 hours a week from 59 hours a week.

He claimed his hours were cut in retaliation for a wagetheft complaint he had filed with the city of Santa Fe. That complaint said Valtierrez-Villa’s boss, Horseman’s Haven owner Kim Gonzales, had been paying him $7.10 an hour, while the city’s minimum wage was $10.84.

After Valtierrez-Villa filed his complaint with the city, he told the labor board, Gonzales began paying him the minimum required rate of pay but cut his hours in half.

“All workers deserve to earn a living wage,” ValtierrezVilla said in a statement issued by Somos Un Pueblo Unido. “No one should be punished for standing up for their rights as workers.”

Gabriel Ibanez Guzmán, staff attorney for the organization, said Valtierrez-Villa’s complaint with the city still hasn’t been resolved. But she said after the cook’s complaint was filed with the city, Gonzales began paying him and other employees the minimum wage.

An employee at the restaurant said Friday afternoon that Gonzales had left for the day and couldn’t be reached.

Earlier this summer, Gonzales had denied that Valtierrez-Villa and four other men who had filed complaints with the city were employed at the restaurant.

The restaurant owner’s lawyer said in a letter to the city that the men could be involved in “some elaborate form of fraud or coercion.”

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FUNERAL SERVICES & MEMORIALS MARGARET ANN COATES HILL APRIL 2, 1942 - SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

RUBEN EUGENE SANDOVAL Ruben Eugene Sandoval affectionately known as "Pops" or "Grandpa" passed away on Wednesday September 23, 2015 following a lengthy illness. Ruben was born on January 10, 1941 to Manuel and Angelina Sandoval.

Ruben was preceded in death by his; wife Marie Dorilla Sandoval, son Ruben Eugene Sandoval Jr., great granddaughter Lillian Faith Barisano, father Manuel, mother and stepfather Angelina and Carmen Garcia, brothers Amadeo, Trinidad, Frank, Leo, Manuel and sister Fella, and in-laws Concepcion and Della Trujillo.

Ruben went to Santa Fe High and joined the United States Army, upon return from duty; Ruben used the GI Bill and received a Bachelor of Arts from the College of Santa Fe and a Master of Education from New Mexico Highlands University. Ruben spent 25 years teaching at Alvord and Atalaya Elementary schools where he enjoyed coaching the basketball and wrestling teams. Upon leaving the teaching profession, he held various jobs throughout Santa Fe, where he found comfort in meeting and spending time with friends, co-workers and customers. Over the years, Ruben spent time at various school functions, taking care and spending time with his grandchildren and great grandchildren, participating in the Santa Fe Fiesta Council, helping with the Caballeros de Vargas and of course going to the casino.

Ruben is survived by his daughter’s: Donna Wallis (Chris), their children Joshua, Franchesca great grandchild Abigail Barisano, Nicole great grandchild Brasen Yearly, Sean, and Marissa; Pamela Trujillo, her children Patrick and Ashley Martinez; Debbie Quintana, her children Bertram, Tanya and Ernest (Angelica Sanchez); Angela Sandoval and her children Chris (Desiree) great grandchildren John Sisneros and Evany; Ariel (Jose Cordova) great grandchildren Jeremiah and Xyden; Cynthia Marquez (Abel), their children Abel, Rebekah great grandchildren Marques Jackson and Manolo Baeza, Arian, Azi, great grandchildren; stepson Lawrence Trujillo and Ruben’s sister Judy.

Serving as pallbearers will be his grandsons: Joshua, Sean, Patrick, Bertram, Ernest, Chris, Abel, Arian and Azi. Public viewing will take place at Berardinelli Mortuary on Monday September 28, from 2:00- 4:00. A rosary will be recited at St. Anne Catholic Church on Monday September 28th beginning at 7:30 pm. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Tuesday September 29th at 12:00 noon at St. Anne Catholic Church, immediately followed by burial at Santa Fe National Cemetery.

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ARTHUR J. JARAMILLO ARTHUR JOSEPH JARAMILLO, 72, a longtime resident of Pojoaque Valley passed away surrounded by his family on Sunday, September 20, 2015. He was preceded in death by his parents, Joseph and Drucilla Jaramillo; brother, Joseph Jaramillo Jr., sister, Drucilla Sandoval. Arthur was born on March 19, 1943 in Los Angeles, California to Joseph and Drucilla Jaramillo. When he was four years old he moved with his family to New Mexico where he grew up in Los Alamos and where he graduated from high School in 1961. After he graduated he joined the Iron Workers Local Union 495, where he would eventually retire from. Arthur enjoyed watching the NBA and was a Lakers fan. Some of his other hobbies included tinkering with his cars, especially his ’65 Mustang, photography, working on his yard, and keeping up with his grandchildren. His grandchildren were his pride and joy. He enjoyed watching his grandchildren grow up, playing sports, and spending as much time with them as possible. Arthur will be forever in our hearts and dearly missed.

Arthur is survived by his wife, Linda Jaramillo; daughters, Valerie and Arleen Jaramillo; grandchildren, Jackie and her husband Nick Martinez, Andrew Jaramillo, and Matthew Gallegos; brother, Earl Jaramillo; close nephew, Ken Atkinson; and several nieces, nephews, and other family members. A rosary and a celebration of life will be held on Tuesday, September 29, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. in the Sangre de Cristo Chapel of DeVargas Funeral Home & Crematory.

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In Memory of a Loved One, To lose someone I loved so much brings pain beyond belief there are no words to ease my pain my sadness and my grief I feel I’ve lost someone so close so wonderful and dear I think about your special ways and wish that you were near But although you have left this world you’ll stay within my heart guiding like an angel even though we are apart For love is everlasing and so are my memories -your legacy that’s always there to light the way for me Gone but never forgotten Missed by his sons Isiahs, Domonic, Deion, mother, step-father, sister Olympia, and her kids.

Margaret Ann Coates Hill lost a battle with cancer on Sunday, September 13, 2015. She was born April 2, 1942 in San Antonio, TX, while her father, Robert Coates was based at Fort Sam Houston during World War II. After the war they settled in Indianapolis, IN, where her father practiced law. Her mother, Ruth Ina Margaret Allison Coates was an artist, children’s book author and poet. She has one sister, Nancy Loker of Sterling, VA, and two brothers, David Coates of Camby, IN and Steve Coates of Indianapolis, IN. She grew up in Indianapolis. She attended Crooked Creek Elementary until 1956, North Central High School until 1960 and Hanover College until 1965. She graduated Cum Laude with degrees in Russian Studies and Geology.

She moved to Santa Fe in 1965 with her former husband, Richard Polese. She worked for Vergara Printing Company and the State of New Mexico. She also had a long career with the Mountain Bell Telephone Company (later Qwest) and the State of New Mexico finally retiring in 2004.

She is survived by her husband, Alan Hill; daughter, Tamsin Jill Clark and husband Eric Clark; grandchildren, Lindsey and Gavin Clark; three step-sons; many grandchildren and greatgrandchildren. In lieu of flowers, please donate in her memory to the Santa Fe Animal Shelter or the Kindred Spirits on Highway 14 (505-471-5366) or a local Cancer Society. A greater gift to her would be for you to adopt a shelter animal.Memorial service will be celebrated on October 10, 2015 at 10:00 am at Berardinelli Family Funeral Service.

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Cleo graduated from St. Joseph’s College on the Rio Grande and then began her teaching career at the Placitas Elementary School in El Rito. She then taught first grade at Mountain Elementary School in Los Alamos for over 30 years. She belonged to the NM Educators Association and many other Education and Civic Organizations. She was a member of St. John’s Parish in Santa Fe and was an active member of the Catholic Daughters of America.

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Urban E. Rogers, 92, passed away quietly on September 23, 2015. He was preceded in death by his wife, Vernice, son, Kevin, grandson, Zachary, and daughter-in-law, Jann.

He is survived by his 5 other children, Jo (John) Fowler, Tim, Steve (Ginger), Carol, David (Annette), daughter-in-law, Laura, 13 grandchildren, and 6 great grandchildren.

Urban is remembered for his love of his family and friends.

He enjoyed national parks, biking, and other outdoor activities. He was a kind and gentle person.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Urban’s memory to the Presbyterian Hospice Medical Services, 1400 Chama Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87505-3372.

There will be a mass at St. Francis Cathedral at 11am on Thursday, October 1 with burial at 12:45pm at the Santa Fe National Cemetery.

Robert Crowley Tedrow, 67, Santa Fe, died Saturday, September 5, 2015.

Bob was born in Bartlesville, Oklahoma to Robert and Betty Tedrow, and lived in Oklahoma, New Jersey, Brussels, and London before settling in Santa Fe. He worked as an accountant for Phillips Petroleum Company and for the State of New Mexico in the Education Department and the Land Office. Bob was committed to his community and to local politics, always working hard for the candidates and causes he believed in. Bob is survived by his daughter and son-in-law, Martha and Dan Conway, two grandchildren who were the light of his life, Luke and Charlotte; two brothers, Richard Tedrow and Roland Tedrow; two sisters and their husbands: Joan and Jerry Gilson and Elizabeth and Marion Reno; and many nieces, nephews, and great nieces and nephews.

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Services will be Oct. 2, 10:00 at Rosario Chapel, 599 Rosario Blvd, Santa Fe. Arrangements, Rivera Family Funerals.

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Dianne Loomis, whose death was reported earlier by the Santa Fe Opera, will be buried with her deceased husband on Tuesday September 29, 2015 at Olivewood Memorial Park, 3500 Central Ave, Riverside, CA. Mass will be at 10:30AM at Saint Francis De Sales Catholic Church, 4268 Lime St., Riverside, followed thereafter by a reception at the Mission Inn, 3649 Mission Inn Ave, Riverside.

She is survived by her Mother, Sister, Brother and many loving nieces and nephews.

The family expresses their profound thanks for the many supportive and loving messages received prior to and since her death from her many friends in Santa Fe. We know you will miss her as do we and her many friends in California.

Extraordinary efforts to save her life were expended at the City of Hope Hospital, Duarte, California, and the family would be grateful to any of her friends who might like to contribute to this wonderful institution which does so much for patients suffering from cancer.

Betty L. Gray, 89, a long-time resident of Santa Fe, passed from this life on September 23, 2015 at home, surrounded by her family, after a long illness. She is survived by Gene, her husband of 71 years; sister Carol Whenry of Albuquerque; children Tom Gray (Penny Ports), Don Gray (Susan) Jane Gray (Byron Treaster); grandchildren, Andrea Gray, Ryan Gray (Lauren), Meredith Treaster , Sarah Treaster and several nieces and nephews. Betty was a long-time member of the First Baptist Church and had interests in travel, gardening and volunteer work. Betty was a loving wife, mother, and grandmother who will be remembered and missed by those who knew her. The service will be held at First Baptist Church in Santa Fe 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, September 29, 2015. A private interment will be held in Albuquerque. In Lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to FBC’s Landscaping Fund.

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Renovation could fuel economic engine Resort’s upgrades could add $350 million in investments to area

By J.R. Logan The Taos News

TAOS — The general contractor for Taos Ski Valley’s massive base-area renovation went looking for workers at a job fair in Questa and found far more prospects than he expected.

“It was a little sobering,” said Doug Clark, business development director of Jaynes Corp. “I had no idea there was going to be that many people there.”

About 100 people attended the job fair, double what he expected and another indication of a region in need.

Taos Ski Valley is in the first phase of a massive renovation that could mean an estimated $350 million in investments by owner Louis Bacon during the next decade. The project is being hailed as an economic jolt for a region that’s languished since the onset of the recession seven years ago.

Between 2006 and 2011, Taos County’s construction industry shed more than 700 jobs. Then, in June 2014, Chevron announced it was shuttering its Questa mine, leaving another 300 people without work.

So, in what’s been an otherwise depressing or at least disappointing economy, many see the hundreds of millions of dollars in private investment at the resort as a welcome change. And there are hopes that the projects planned at the resort will put people to work — not just in the short-term, but long into the future — and fuel the regional economy.

“The impetus of this project is going to have an effect that

A crane lowers steel girders into the newly constructed lower half of the Taos Ski Valley’s new hotel. The first phase of a renovation project on the mountain — worth about $60 million — includes the construction of the 80-room hotel in the heart of the base area. KATHErINE ElgI/THE TAoS NEWS

ripples out in multiple layers,” said Gordon Briner, CEO of Taos Ski Valley Inc. The initial gain of the yearslong investment would be putting construction crews to work.

Earlier this year, they got to work on the first phase — worth about $60 million — which includes the construction of an 80-room hotel in the heart of the base area. Prep work on the site has been finished, and crews are hanging steel girders and pouring structural cement as the building’s skeleton is created.

Clark says Jaynes Corp. believes it has an obligation to the community to hire locals. The resort says it shares that philosophy. But as others have found, in Taos County at least, that hiring local is sometimes easier said than done.

For instance, when Taos County was building its $36 million administrative and judicial complex in 2011, government officials offered incentives if the

contractor hired more than half the workforce locally. But for most of the project, it struggled to get more than 30 percent or 40 percent from in and around Taos.

Kit Carson Electric Cooperative also made an effort to get locals on crews installing fiberoptic cable. A lot of local excavators got work digging trenches, but the co-op found there weren’t enough people with the necessary certifications to do some of the more specialized — and better-paying — work.

At the moment, Clark says about 70 people from the area have been hired by either Jaynes Corp, Taos Ski Valley Inc. or one of the subcontractors and suppliers. He expects that number to climb to as high as 150 locals once the work becomes less specialized. Painters, carpenters and plumbers will be needed to build the hotel.

An economic development analysis prepared for the resort predicted that the development would directly employ 185 people

in 2015 and 364 people by 2018.

In 2015, wages for those construction jobs were expected to directly add more than $19 million to the economy.

The report pointed out that construction jobs are often seasonal. But it also said the commitment by the resort to several years worth of projects could mean some consistency, and some people may be tempted to move to Taos to help with the project.

Though previous project managers have found it hard to find local crews that had the necessary skills or could pass a background check, Clark says one of the biggest challenges across the state has been finding capable workers who are still in construction.

“We have lost so many folks who didn’t just leave the state but left the industry,” Clark said. “It hasn’t been as easy as you would think. There’s not this pool of talented folks just waiting to get in because a lot of those folks just left. They had to find something else.”

Clark says he’s seen a strong work ethic among those who found a spot on a crew at the ski valley. “This is such a high-profile project for the state that nobody wants to let anybody down,” Clark said.

Jaynes Corp. and the resort plan to hold a job fair in Taos, perhaps next spring, to find workers when construction of the hotel accelerates.

Once built, it could create permanent jobs. New visitors and new revenue — an estimated $19 million a year to the resort alone — will be key if the resort’s investment is to pay off for the company and for the regional economy.

This story first appeared in The Taos News, a sister paper to The New Mexican.

Grant: Warehouse to help small-scale producers ment said in its statement.

“In our rural communities, we community to develop its agricul- still have a wealth of land and tural and arts industries.” water resources, we still have hisThe money will help fund torical knowledge with regards the renovation and redevelopto local agriculture,” Lopez said. ment of a two-building complex, But what Northern New Mexico including structural repairs and improvements to bring the facili- lacks is the infrastructure for farmers to bring their products to ties up to code.

“This will help increase access market, he said.

Small farmers in Northern to secondary markets and offer affordable healthy foods and veg- New Mexico do not have the etables for Northern New Mexico volume of products to enter families,” the Commerce Depart- wholesale markets. The centralContinued from Page C-1

ized warehouse would allow small-scale producers to pool resources. It also would offer processing machines, as well as bagging and labeling of fruits and vegetables so they can be sold directly to consumers.

Plans include space for a grocery store, a business incubator, an urban farm and rehearsal space for arts organizations, as well as a pavilion-like farmers market.

But the group still needs more money to move ahead with con-

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the Fish and Wildlife Service’s Southwest Region, told the State Game Commission in August.

“Additional releases from a more genetically diverse captive population are required to improve genetic health of the wild population.”

Advocates say denying the permit may violate the federal

Endangered Species Act. An attorney for the state told the Game Commission in August that Game and Fish Director Alexa Sandoval was abiding by state law when she agreed with staff and denied the permit to release the wolves into the wild.

Sandoval and staff said the federal agency lacks a recovery plan, and without one the state can’t determine how wolf releases

might affect elk and deer populations.

In other agenda items, the commission will hear reports on the Gold King Mine spill on the San Juan River, final elk and turkey hunting rules for the Valles Caldera National Preserve, conservation efforts for the threatened lesser prairie chicken and an update on a proposed hunter access agreement with the State Land Office.

Winners announced in statewide newspaper contest The New Mexican

The New Mexican staff won several awards for its writing, design and advertising efforts in the 2014-15 NMPA Better Newspaper Contest.

The awards were handed out during the 107th annual NMPA convention at the Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort and Spa on Saturday. Judging was completed by the South Dakota Newspaper Association.

The contest is sponsored jointly by the New Mexico Press Association and the New Mexico Associated Press Managing Editors.

The New Mexico APME Mem-

ber of the Year, which is given for outstanding cooperation, went to the Farmington Daily Times.

Former New Mexican reporter Patrick Malone won the Public Service award for a series of stories on missteps at the Los Alamos National Laboratory that led to leakage problems at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in southeast New Mexico. Malone also won the Investigative Reporting award for a similar story, “From LANL to leak.”

City editor Milan Simonich won the Column award for his story, “Industrial hem measure’s future rests with governor.”

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Business Writing award for his story, “A dollar store divide,” while former reporter Margaret Wright won an Environmental and Agriculture award for her story, “Illegal dumping threatens Northern New Mexico’s sensitive sties and waterways.”

A review by Jennifer Levin, “An act of re-discovery,” won a Review award, while The New Mexican staff received top honors for Design and Typography.

The New Mexican’s advertising department received awards for Best Revenue Idea or Marketing Idea and for its Retail Advertisement, Supplements and Special Sections.

struction and a clean bill of health from the New Mexico Environment Department and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which is assessing the site for contamination. Former uses included not just the car dealership but a dry-cleaning shop.

“Remediation has to take place,” Lopez said. “Construction activity is pending that.”

Contact Bruce Krasnow at 986-3034 or brucek@ sfnewmexican.com.

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Police: DWi suspect hit historic site Police say a man who crashed a pickup into the support beams of a commercial building on East Palace Avenue early Saturday morning was under the influence of alcohol.

Santa Fe Police Department Lt. James Lamb said officers chased the the truck, driven by Jesus Bencomo-Zubiate, at high speeds and through traffic signals at around 2 a.m. before the truck crashed into the support pillars in front of the historic Prince Patio compound, which houses the Shed Restaurant.

“I think he knocked out three of them,” Lamb said of the pillars.

Two passengers riding with Bencomo-Zubiate were released, he said.

Bencomo-Zubiate, however, was charged with aggravated DWI, criminal damage to property and reckless driving, according to online records, and was booked into the Santa Fe County jail.

According to Breathalyzer tests, Lamb said, BencomoZubiate had a blood-alcohol content of at least 0.19, more than twice the legal limit.

Fire crews fixed the historic building’s support beams, he said.

storm raises havoc in san Juan County AZTEC — A heavy thunderstorm that rolled through San Juan County late Friday night washed out roads, knocked out electric power and led to evacuation fears.

Areas east of Farmington were hardest hit by the storm.

The San Juan County Office of Emergency Management released an alert warning residents to avoid driving in areas around Flora Vista and Crouch Mesa due to flooded roads and fallen power lines.

Lisa Pemberton, an employee at the flooded Dino Mart gas station, said trash cans blew away.

“It was like a hurricane came through,” she said.

Maryann Alaniz, another employee, said some drivers had their tires pop when they struck debris, and multiple people got stuck in the parking lot.

Authorities opened the McGee Park Convention Center as a shelter for those who might have been driven from their homes by rising water. A shelter was also set up at Bloomfield’s First Baptist Church.

Sandbags that had been positioned around the convention center in preparation for Saturday’s 4 Corners MessFest were repurposed to divert water from the building.

Water was knee deep near the Aztec Public Library. The library staff had been working late because of a cooking class in the building’s courtyard.

youth ranch suing state police officer ALBUQUERQUE — A Southern New Mexico ranch for troubled youth is suing a state police officer in federal court over his investigation of abuse allegations.

Scott and Colette Chandler, who operate the Tierra Blanca Ranch Youth Program, filed a complaint last week against New Mexico State Police Officer Felipe Gonzales.

According to the suit, they allege authorities and state child welfare workers used a ranch employee’s accidental death as a way to launch an investigation on behalf of a disgruntled parent.

The couple says state officials entered the ranch without a search warrant and interviewed youth residents without permission.

The embattled ranch previously settled a lawsuit against the state in February 2014 and agreed to some state oversight.

The New Mexico State Police did not immediately return a message seeking comment Saturday.

albuquerque men accused of iD theft ALBUQUERQUE — New Mexico State Police say two Albuquerque men are in custody for alleged identity theft and debit card fraud at casinos.

Police announced Friday that both 36-year-old Chris A. Garcia and 36-year-old James Rogers have been booked into jail.

Agents with the state police Investigations Bureau in Albuquerque looked into a large amount of fraudulent debit card transactions that occurred at several casinos.

The investigation took several weeks to complete and revealed there were at least 35 victims whose debit card account information was fraudulently used.

State police say about $58,000 in cash was fraudulently obtained at numerous casinos in Bernalillo, Sandoval and Cibola counties by the two suspects.

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She said part of the show’s appeal is that it invariably doubles as a history lesson. “You cannot watch a season of Roadshow without learning where the Civil War occurred. You learn in little bits.

Every object has a story to tell.”

Albuquerque is one of the cities on what Bemko calls the short list of “three-timers” in that the program first filmed there in 1996 and again in 2002.

She said last year’s Albuquerque program attracted 5,147 people, who each brought two items, the limit for the show. Over 14,000 people applied to be on the Albuquerque show, she said.

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How to watCH u Three episodes of Antiques Roadshow shot in Albuquerque last year will air beginning Monday, Sept. 28.

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is not knowing what is going to happen or what sort of objects — including fakes and reproductions — will appear.

“It’s guerrilla TV in its own way,” she said. “We are stuck with the footage that we have and we have to make that work, and I like that sense of living on the edge.”

Once people hit the proverbial jackpot on the show with a valuable antique, one would think they would immediately put it on the market and reap the financial benefits. Bemko says her research indicates that isn’t the case.

“People don’t usually sell it,” she said. “But a majority of the items we see are inherited items.

Maybe it’s been in your family for hundreds of years. Do you really want to sell that? Do you really need the money?”

Plus, she said, if you sell it at auction, you have to give up 20 percent of the price for a seller’s premium, and if a dealer sells it for you, they will take close to half the total price.

“The day you sell it, you can’t afford to buy it back with what you sold it for,” she said.

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will see about 20 people with their objects. The producers do not like to let people know in advance whether they will end up in the final cut — though the guy with the Woodstock jacket is a given.

“The look on his face typifies a very joyous moment for somebody,” Bemko said of that man.

“If you think he’s gonna part with that jacket, no way.”

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Las Cruces airport fuel operator returns LAS CRUCES — A Las Cruces aviation company is providing fuel service again at the airport after being shut down late last year.

The Las Cruces Sun-News reported that Southwest Aviation Inc. relaunched its refueling operation at the Las Cruces International Airport this week following upgrades to its fuel storage facilities.

City officials say the temporary closure of the fixed-based operator’s fueling operations was not related to an August

2014 air ambulance crash.

Federal safety investigators say the aircraft got the wrong fuel at the airport before it took off and crashed, killing all four people aboard.

Southwest Aviation owner Hal Kading, however, is questioning the motivation for redtagging his company.

Kading says it occurred in November 2014 right when a second operator started at the airport.

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Twin polygamous towns host Ghost-hunting couple, Reno man memorial for 13 who drowned all died from gunshot wounds return fire, Triplett said. to appear in court in December Negotiators made contact with regarding their pending divorce.

SPARKS, Nev. — The inves- Mark Constantino almost immePeople who knew them gave tigation into the deaths last diately and last talked to him mixed accounts of their relationweek of a ghost-hunting couple about 1:15 p.m., he said. A short ship. Janice Oberding said she in Nevada has determined a time later they heard a single became friends with the Conmale roommate of the woman gunshot and the SWAT team stantinos while teaching a class was fatally shot in the head in rushed in. on ghost hunting and spirituality a Reno home several hours The manner of death has yet to at the Truckee Meadows Combefore police found the parabe determined pending the com- munity College in 2012. She said normal investigators in a barpletion of the autopsies, Triplett she was shocked to learn of the ricaded apartment. said Friday. killings.

Debra and Mark Constantino Washoe District Court records “We drifted apart and our had appeared on the Travel show Debra Constantino obtained friendship ended,” Oberding told Channel’s series Ghost Advena restraining order that was served the Reno Gazette-Journal. “But I tures, including episodes shot on her estranged husband last know at one point she loved him at the Mustang Ranch brothel week, and the two were scheduled very, very much and he loved her.” near Reno. They were found dead Tuesday at their adult daughter’s apartment across town in Sparks after a twohour standoff that ended when a SWAT team burst through the door to find their bodies.

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HILDALE, Utah — A survivor so young he stepped on a stool to reach a podium microphone, remembered his heart “whacking like a jackhammer” in the moments before a flash flood swept him and his family away nearly two weeks ago.

Joseph Jessop Jr. spoke Saturday during a rare public memorial service hosted by two oftensecretive polygamous towns on the Utah-Arizona border that typically shun outsiders and loathe government interference.

The public memorial was a surprise because funerals are typically handled discreetly, with no invitations extended to outsiders, including family of the deceased, if they aren’t members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

It was held in the same lush park surrounded by rich red rock canyon walls where sisters Josephine Jessop, Naomi Jessop and Della Black are thought to have been on Sept. 14 with their 13 children before driving down the canyon during a flash-flood alert.

The neighboring towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz., hosted the afternoon memorial service at the top of a canyon road in Maxwell Park where a few hundred people gathered, including Utah Gov. Gary Herbert.

Husband and father Joseph N. Jessop Sr. lost children as young as four or five years old that day: Rebekah, Melissa, Naomi, Ruth, Valient, Velvet and “Sweet” Caress.

A heartbroken Sheldon Black Jr. remembered his wife Della, “she did everything for me. She knew exactly what I needed,” his “little angel,” LaRue Black who would throw her arms around his neck and squeeze him, and his “sweet precious angel,” Melanie Black.

Saturday, he recalled his 6-yearold son Tyson Lucas Black, with his “beautiful, heavenly smile,” wanting to join him to do electri-

Onlookers watch as crews clear mud and debris Sept. 15 from a road following a flash flood in Colorado City, Ariz. Two polygamous towns on the Utah-Arizona border hosted a rare public memorial Saturday for women and children swept away in the deadly flash flood. RICk BoWMER/ASSoCIATEd PRESS fIlE PHoTo

cal work, climbing the ladder, using the drill, not wanting to goof off. Tyson is presumed dead but remains missing nearly two weeks following the flood. On Saturday, teams of specially trained dogs still searched for him.

Three young boys, including Joseph Jessop Jr. and two sons of Sheldon Black Jr., survived.

Black Jr. said he was overwhelmed with everything everyone had done to help. Hundreds of volunteers from various government agencies and independent groups descended on the town to search a stretch of several miles for any sign of the women and children.

There was no mention of religious persecution this time.

Nearly two weeks prior, the two grieving husbands and fathers read from statements during a press conference that offered profuse thanks for the support offered them during the tragedy but also called for the end to what they called “religious genocide” and asked that they be allowed to practice their religion in peace.

The majority of the 7,700 people living in the towns, including the women and children killed in the flash flooding, are believed to be members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, or

FLDS, a secretive sect led by the now-imprisoned Warren Jeffs.

Both councils and mayors of Hildale and Colorado City are also appointed by the church.

A religious rift in the town has divided families, with those who remain in the sect at odds with former FLDS members who were cast out of the church or left on their own.

The search and rescue effort following the flood represented the first time in years that many had exchanged words, let alone worked side-by-side. Ex-members of the sect or those who don’t follow Jeffs’ church have remained skeptical that the tragedy may unify the town, but the memorial gave them reason for cautious optimism.

“It’s good to see you all,” the young Jessop Jr. said to the hundreds gathered, at the outset and end of his brief remarks, perhaps not realizing his simple and genuine greeting illustrated something larger. Long split families and neighbors hadn’t seen each other in quite a while, until now.

Even Don Barlow, 83, the first mayor of Colorado City, Ariz., and among the first exiled from the community by Jeffs spent time after the service mingling with people he hadn’t seen in some time, even learning he and Utah’s Gov. Gary Herbert are cousins.

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By Jacqueline Devine Alamogordo Daily News

ALAMAGORDO — The 2016 presidential elections just got more interesting. Actor Jesus Payan Jr. has just announced that he is running for president as a Democrat. Payan, who is known for his roles in the television hit series Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, calls the Tularosa Basin and Alamogordo his home.

Payan was born in Madrid, Spain, to American parents on a military base. His father is a 20-year veteran of the U.S. Air Force. Payan is a U.S. citizen, a choice he made when he was 18 years old.

Payan said his parents married in El Paso and were immediately stationed in Spain. “I had the choice to be Spanish or American,” he said. “I chose American.”

He spent the first part of his childhood in England, he said, and then his family moved to California. “We were later stationed at Holloman Air Force Base,” he said. “We were stationed there four separate times, and eventually my grandmother wanted to live here. We ended up buying property up here, and I went to high school here. I’m an Alamogordoan. This is where I call home.”

Payan denied that his bid was a publicity stunt and said he is serious about becoming a presidential hopeful.

“I take it very seriously. I’m studying hard on legislation, Congress, how to write policies, immigration reform and the list goes on. I’m making sure I see everyone’s point of view. I have many people — because of my acting career — that write me from other countries. At first they would say they love my show Breaking Bad, but then it changed,” he said. “I started getting messages asking for advice and prayers for natural disasters that have happened and wars.

“I have people writing to me from Australia, Japan, Morocco and all over Europe because of Breaking Bad. I just can’t see this unique situation that I’m in and not use it in a positive way.”

Payan said part of his decision to run for president is based on his experiences of growing up as a minority. He said he has been targeted his whole life because of his ethnicity.

“I’ve been targeted by police,” he said. “Later, as an adult still targeted by police … when I went to go ask for help by my own government and officials here, I was met with disrespect and mocked for my race. That was a huge part of it. The other part was when Bill Richardson was running for president, he had me go with him to a few of his campaign speeches as a person to watch out for, and I was representing all actors from New Mexico. That was my first taste of politics.”

Payan said he is not against the police, but wants to fix a system he believes is broken, especially when it comes to Native Americans.

“I am not for hating police, I’m not for revolution,” he said.

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“If it takes me to become the president of the United States to help the people of this country that is dealing with racism, oppression and so much other things, then so be it. I’m going

to do that.”

Payan said “the last straw” was the mine wastewater spill that tainted the Animas and the San Juan rivers. “I visit a lot of reservations, and I see so much death and suicides,” he said. “…

The fact that these people gave up their land for us as a nation and they’re being treated like this by their own government is unacceptable.

“When I heard the elders crying that they were losing their culture, there was hopelessness in their tears that just broke my heart because I’m Native American myself. I’m not just a Chicano. It hit me at home. Our people have lost their history, and it’s horrible.

At that point, I stood up and I said I was so upset with our country, and I said I was going to stand up for all of them. For every Native American nation, for every minority and every person regardless of their skin color.”

Payan also said he is ready to face Republican candidates and challenge their idealogies. One candidate he would like to face is Donald Trump, who has made several comments targeting Mexicans.

“He is in no way president material in my eyes,” Payan said of Trump. “The only thing I hear from his supporters is that he speaks his mind. Well, drunk people speak their minds. It does not make them presidential material.”

The wave of support for Trump, after his disparanging comments, is “a mockery to our system,” he said.

Payan’s platform includes racial equality, ending the war on drugs, rebuilding infrastructure and ending homelessness and hunger in America.

Payan also said he will no longer play stereotypical roles in Hollywood films or TV series, as it fuels a negative image of minority people.

“I vowed a year ago to no longer play negative roles in film or television. … This is not about publicity for me, this is not about fame. I’ve gone to the point in my life and all the philanthropy I’ve been doing that I see so much pain.”

ON THE WEB u To learn more about Payan’s campaign and platform, visit his Facebook page at www.facebook. com/JesusforPresident2016.

93 percent contained after blackening 110 square miles east of to brace for more fires San Francisco. The fire started in Amador County but caused most of the destruction in neighboring The Associated Press Calaveras.

SAN ANDREAS, Calif. — FedThe fire in Lake County killed eral authorities vowed to help four people and destroyed more residents recover from one of than 1,900 structures, most the most destructive wildfires of them homes. It charred in memory in California, and 118 square miles and was 92 perfire officials called again for cent contained. improved evacuation planning in Officials warned residents to preparation for future fires. prepare for more wildfires.

Officials from the Small Busi“We’ve got to focus as comness Administration and the munities on evacuation planFederal Emergency Management ning and heeding evacuation Agency appeared at a news con- This Sept. 15 file photo shows the remains of Barbara McWilorders,” said Ken Pimlott, direcliams’ home in Middletown, Calif. McWilliams was found dead ference in San Andreas, urging tor and chief of the California in the ruins of her home which was destroyed by a wildfire, residents of Calaveras County to according to officials. KENT PorTEr/THE PrESS DEMoCrAT vIA AP Department of Forestry and Fire register for help with temporary Protection, known as Cal Fire. housing as they clear debris and “These fires this summer are Director of Finance Michael declare major disasters in Calirebuild. spreading at critical rates.” fornia. The declarations clear the Cohen said in a letter notifying “When your home burns up, Dispatch logs released Thursway for release of federal money state lawmakers of the spending. day showed the small Lake all of your memories are gone,” “Immediate action must be taken County Sheriff’s Office was said Timothy Scranton, a federal for cleanup and recovery.

In addition, California’s Depart- to safely remove huge amounts coordinating officer assigned to strained as it moved to evacuate of burned debris to eliminate the people while flames sped across ment of Finance announced the wildfire. “So we want to be threat to lives, public health and Friday that it was transferring there to help you through these the mountainous county. safety.” $10 million from the state’s rainy very difficult times.”

Some residents ignored evacuday fund to help pay for cleanup The fire in Calaveras County The fire, along with another ation orders, with people in at involving the two fires. killed at least two men and massive blaze in Lake County least two instances arguing with destroyed about 860 structures, “The devastation caused by north of San Francisco, prompted or threatening would-be rescuincluding 475 homes. It was these fires is extraordinary,” ers.

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California regulators restore emissions-cutting fuel rule The move to restore the program is not related to Volkswagen drawing international attenSACRAMENTO, Calif. — tion for violating separate federal California regulators on Friday and state rules that regulate restored ambitious rules to cut emissions from vehicles. transportation fuel emissions The passage was a boost 10 percent within 5 years. for Gov. Jerry Brown, who has The rules further strengthen vowed to intensify his fight California’s toughest-in-theagainst climate change after the nation carbon emissions stanoil lobby helped kill a Demodards, but oil producers warn the cratic legislative proposal earlier changes could drive up costs for this month to slash statewide consumers at the gas pump. petroleum use by half in 15 years.

The California Air Resources Unlike other rules the state Board voted 9-0 to re-adopt its has adopted requiring cleanerlow-carbon fuel standard. The burning fuel or more fuel-effiregulations have been on hold cient vehicles, the standard calls since 2009 because of a court for counting all the pollution fight. The board says the change required to deliver gasoline, diewould cost a typical commuter sel or alternative fuels to in-state $20 to $24 extra in 2017, increasconsumers — from drilling a ing to $52 to $56 annually in 2020. new oil well or planting corn to The rules require producers to delivering it to gas stations. cut the carbon content of fuels In addition to tailpipe emis10 percent by 2020 to help the sions, it includes factors such as state meet its emission-reductions whether an ethanol factory uses goals. coal or natural gas to power proEnvironmentalists and some duction or an oil rig uses diesel business groups say the plan will encourage greater use of cleaner biofuels and electric vehicles. Oil producers say it’s unworkable and too costly.

“The transportation sector is and will remain the largest source of greenhouse gases in the state of California but we’ve made some serious strides and we need to continue to build on those actions,” Mary Nichols, chairwoman of the board, said before the vote.

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Some see ‘blood moon’ as world’s end Mormons, along with members of other religions, prepare to hunker down Sunday evening

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SALT LAKE CITY — A rare confluence of a lunar eclipse and a supermoon set to happen this weekend has prompted such widespread fear of an impending apocalypse that the Mormon Church was compelled to issue a statement cautioning the faithful to not get caught up in speculation about a major calamity.

Sunday night’s “blood moon” and recent natural disasters and political unrest around the world have led to a rise in sales at emergency-preparedness retailers. Apocalyptic statements by a Mormon author have only heightened fears among a small number of Mormon followers about the looming end of time. The eclipse will give the moon a red tint and make it look larger than usual. It won’t happen again for 18 years.

It’s unclear how many Latter-day Saints buy the theory, but Mormon leaders were worried enough that they took the rare step last week of issuing a public statement cautioning the faithful not to get carried away with visions of the apocalypse.

Leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints told its 15 million worldwide members that they should be “spiritually and physically prepared for life’s ups and downs,” but they urged them not to take speculation from individual church members as doctrine and “avoid being caught up in extreme efforts to anticipate catastrophic events.”

The Mormons preparing to hunker down Sunday night aren’t alone. Some from other religions also fear a doomsday scenario. A Christian pastor in Texas has written a book predicting a world-shaking event.

Storing away enough food and water in case of disaster, job loss or something worse is part of the fundamental teachings of the Mormon religion. Many homes in Utah are equipped with special shelving for cans of

By Scott Smith

The full eclipse of the moon will last more than an hour and be visible, weather permitting, from North and South America, Europe, Africa and western Asia.

Showtime on the U.S. is 8:11 p.m. MDT; that’s when the moon, Earth and sun will be lined up, with Earth’s shadow totally obscuring the moon.

This eclipse marks the end of a tetrad, or series of four total lunar eclipses set six months apart. This series began in April 2014.

By Brady McCombs

This Sept. 13 image provided by NASA shows the moon, left, and the Earth, top, transiting the sun together, seen from the Solar Dynamics Observatory. A total lunar eclipse will share the stage with a so-called supermoon Sunday evening. NASA/SDO vIA AP

beans, rice and wheat.

The belief that regular history will someday end, bringing a second coming of Jesus, is embedded in the minds of Mormons and the church’s official name.

Though most Latter-day Saints probably haven’t even heard of this latest theory tied to the blood moon, the church’s decision to address it publicly is significant and shows leaders felt the need to reassert their authority on the matter, Mormon scholars said.

“For it to filter up to that level and for them to decide to send out a policy letter means that they felt there was something they needed to tamp down on,” said Patrick Mason, the Howard W. Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate University in California.

Kevin Allbee, spokesman for Utah-based Emergency Essentials, said his company has seen a steady rise since June with sales up 200 percent to 300 percent. He attributes it to a variety of events leading to more anxiety, including the earthquake in Nepal, Russian’s intervention in the Ukraine and economic concerns in Greece and China. He said it goes

well beyond Mormons in Utah. The company does most of its sales online with customers outside the state.

The public pronouncement by the church comes after leaders earlier this month sent a memo to teachers in the church’s religious education system for high school and colleges telling them to be wary of Mormon author Julie Rowe’s books.

Rowe writes about and speaks to audiences about a near-death experience in 2004 when she says she crossed over into the Spirit World and was shown tragic upcoming world calamities and told she would be expected to tell others in the future. “That time has come,” her website proclaims. It is believed her teachings have fueled some of the speculation.

The church memo says that while Rowe is an active member of the religion, her books are not endorsed and should not be recommended as a teaching resource.

Rowe’s publisher, Spring Creek Book Co. in Idaho, did not return requests for comment.

She issued a statement to The Salt Lake Tribune, which reported on the rise in apocalyptic worries among some Latter-day Saints.

Rowe said she doesn’t intend to make her comments church doctrine, but she chose to share her story to help people prepare for the “times we live in by increasing their faith in Christ and by looking to our prophet and church leaders for guidance.”

Advised to rest, Dalai Lama cancels U.S. tour Spiritual leader had planned Colorado stop

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MINNEAPOLIS — The Dalai Lama canceled his U.S. appearances for October after doctors at Minnesota’s Mayo Clinic advised him to rest, his office said Friday.

The 80-year-old Tibetan Buddhist leader was at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester last week for what was described as a routine checkup.

“The doctors have advised His Holiness to rest for the next several weeks,” his office said in a statement on its website Friday.

“We deeply regret the inconvenience caused by this decision and apologize to all the people who have worked so hard in organizing the visit as well as to the public.”

The statement gave no more details about the Dalai Lama’s condition and representatives did not immediately respond to an email from The Associated Press seeking additional comment.

The University of Colorado and the Tibetan Association of Colorado had announced earlier Friday that the Office of Tibet in Washington, D.C., informed them a planned visit would be canceled. The Dalai Lama had been scheduled to appear at the university Oct. 20-21.

Besides the trip to the school in Boulder, Colo., the Dalai Lama’s schedule had listed appearances in Salt Lake City and Philadelphia next month.

Mayo Clinic, where the Dalai Lama has made regular visits in past years, on Thursday confirmed his most recent visit for evaluation but released no details, as is routine. Mayo spokeswoman Ginger Plumbo said Friday she had no further information to release and

The University of Colorado said the Dalai Lama has canceled U.S. appearances next month following a checkup at Minnesota’s Mayo Clinic. University officials said doctors advised the 80-year-old holy leader to rest and that they were told he would be returning to India.

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been to the clinic and had had no health complaints. Rigzin told AP test results were fine and the Dalai Lama would soon be returning to Dharamsala, India.

The Dalai Lama had been scheduled to make two appearances at the University of Colorado on Oct. 20-21. The first was an event open only to students, faculty and staff, and the second appearance was a public teaching and talk on training the mind and compassion.

University of Colorado event planners were notified by the Office of Tibet about the cancellation Friday morning, university spokesman Ryan Huff said. The visit had been in the works for nearly two years.

“We’re certainly saddened by this news but we also hope the Dalai Lama’s health improves very quickly and someday he may be able to come to campus,” said Huff, who acknowledged that it would take a long time to plan another visit.

Scientists: Calif. drought taking toll on sequoias

The Dalai Lama also was scheduled to receive an award from the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia on Oct. 26.

The center’s president and CEO, Jeffrey Rosen, said officials are working with the Dalai Lama’s office to see if a representative can accept the award in his absence.

“Our thoughts and prayers are with the Dalai Lama as he recovers his strength,” Rosen said.

Lobsang Tsering, president of the Utah Tibetan Association, said the Salt Lake City visit from Oct. 17-19 included an invitation to a world relations conference, a public talk at the University of Utah and a dedication of the new Tibetan Association Community Center.

Tsering said when he learned of the cancellation, “my heart dropped.” But he said that for Tibetan people, “the most important thing is the well-being of His Holiness. And we all know he needed a rest.”

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SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — Giant sequoias growing in California’s Sierra Nevada are among the largest and oldest living things on Earth, but scientists climbing high up into their green canopies say they are seeing symptoms of stress caused by the state’s historic drought.

Patches of brown, dead foliage are appearing more than in past years, say researchers studying the iconic trees, which only grow naturally in the Sierra Nevada. By taking stock of groves that are most vulnerable, scientists say they can better manage the forest through the hotter, drier droughts expected in the future.

“They’re beautiful, majestic trees,” said Koren Nydick, a National Park Service ecologist and part of the research team focused on the treasured trees.

“People come from all over the world to see the giant sequoias.”

Some living more than 3,000 years, giant sequoias grow to nearly 300 feet tall. There are other trees that live longer and some that grow taller, but researchers say the giant sequoias are unique for their size and longevity.

Roughly 75 distinct groves that grow mostly in the southern Sierra Nevada were critical to founding the Sequoia National Park 120 years ago.

They have endured past wildfires and droughts, but Nydick said this fourth year of drought in California is marked by a record-low snowpack and some of the hottest temperatures recorded in the park.

The data they collect will be another important piece of information helping forestry officials to identify which groves need to be thinned

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through prescribed burns to allow in more sunlight and give certain trees a larger share of the scarce underground water.

Nydick said that a single tree can require up to 800 gallons a day.

Anthony Ambrose, a tree biologist with the University of California, Berkeley, hiked deep into the Giant Forest east of Visalia one day recently and dropped his heavy backpack stuffed with a climbing harness and 600 feet of rope. “I’ll be climbing this tree,” he said.

Ambrose and his team collected foliage from 50 of the giant sequoias for testing and retrieved gauges they installed weeks earlier from several of them to measure temperature and humidity.

Within a few minutes, Ambrose had inched his way up the tree and out of view from the ground.

“It’s a really humbling experience because you feel just so small in the face of this thing that’s so big and so old,” said Ambrose, noting an emotional tie he feels with the giant sequoias. “If there’s some impacts from drought or climate change on the trees, we need to understand that.”

Scientists will link information they have collected from the individual trees with field surveys done by U.S. Geological Survey researchers observing thousands more trees on foot and overhead images collected from a plane operated by the Carnegie Airborne Observatory.

Combing their research, scientists say they’ll be able to identify patterns of drought stress revealed in the trees.

While the drought is taking its toll, Ambrose said it’s not causing an abnormally high numbers of giant sequoias to die, like millions of other conifers throughout the state.

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Elisabeth Wagner, agent for Theodora Portago, owner, proposes to amend a previous approval to construct a 1,641 sq. ft. residential structure to the maximum allowable height of 18’ with square footage, massing, and other changes. (David Rasch).

2. Case #H-09-022. 1301 Canyon Road Unit B. Downtown & Eastside Historic District.

Mark Little, agent for Elizabeth Keefer, owner, proposes to amend a previous approval to remodel a non-contributing residential structure. (David Rasch).

3. Case #H-15-073B. 800 Gildersleeve Street. Don Gaspar Area Historic District. Andrew Lyons, agent for Roxanne and Brian Morgan, owners, proposes to construct a 177 sq. ft. carport addition to a height of 10’7”on a primary façade, a yardwall with pedestrian gates and vehicle gates, and change windows on a contributing residential structure, and to construct a 659 sq. ft. addition to a height of 19’2” where the maximum allowable height is 15’ 1” on a contributing accessory structure. Five exceptions are requested to construct an addition on a primary elevation (Section 14-5.2(D)(2)(c)) and less than 10’ back from another primary elevation (Section 14-5.2(D)(2)(d)), to make a new opening on a primary elevation (Section 14-5.2(D)(5)(a)(ii)), to exceed the 50% footprint standard (Section 145.2(D)(2)(d)), and to exceed the maximum allowable height (Section 14-5.2(D)(9)). (David Rasch).

4. Case #H-15-092. 540 East Alameda Street Unit 7. Downtown & Eastside Historic District. Carlos Kinsey, agent for Gayle Mill and Philip Haworth, owners, proposes to construct a 971 sq. ft. free-standing accessory structure to a height of 12’6” where the maximum allowable height is 16’4” and to remove fencing and yardwalls on a contributing residential property. (David Rasch).

5. Case #H-15-093. 125 West Coronado Street. Don Gaspar Area Historic District. Clyde Gossert, agent/owner, proposes to increase height of yardwalls from 34” to the maximum allowable height of 41” and construct a yardwall to 6’ high with pedestrian gates on a noncontributing residential property. (David Rasch).

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Dan Boone, agent for Robbin and Alice Dawson, owners, proposes to construct a stuccoed yardwall to the maximum allowable height of 5’6” and a coyote fence to a height of 8’on a non-contributing residential property. (David Rasch).

7. Case #H-15-095. 805 Apodaca Hill. Downtown & Eastside Historic District. D. Maahs Construction, agent for Lori Robinson, owner, proposes to remove non-compliant windows and replace them with compliant windows on a non-contributing residential structure.

(David Rasch).

8. Case #H-15-096. 1005 East Alameda Street Unit B. Downtown & Eastside Historic District. Eric Enfield, agent for James and Jean Wickstead, owners, proposes to construct 2,883 sq. ft. of additions to a height of 13’ where the maximum allowable is 16’ on a noncontributing residential structure. (David Rasch).

9. Case #H-15-097. 302 Sena Street. Don Gaspar Area Historic District. Sofia Marquez, agent for Mark Khano and Julie Gallegos owners, proposes to construct a 2,160 sq. ft. residential structure to a height of 15’ where the maximum allowable height is 15’8”.

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10. Case #H-15-091. 1133 East Alameda Street. Downtown & Eastside Area Historic District. Salomon Velasquez, agent for Paul Rochford and Michael Violante, owners, requests designation of primary elevations and proposes to construct additions totaling 638 sq. ft., a 4’ high yardwall and vehicle gate, replace windows, and remove an overhang on a contributing residential structure. Two exceptions are requested to change a window to a door (Section 14-5.2(D)(5)(a)(i)) and to construct an addition within 10’ of a primary façade (Section 14-5.2(D)(2)(d)). (David Rasch).

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A well-behaved kid in six simple steps T he following statement is true: A child’s “It’s very simple, really,” I said. “Children do natural response to the proper presentawhat they are told. Your son is not doing what tion of authority is obedience. you think you are telling him to do. The only logical conclusion to draw, therefore, The following statement is also is that you are not telling him to do true: Most of today’s parents — I’d anything. Instead, you are doing estimate over 90 percent — do not what most parents do these days: act like authority figures. pleading, bargaining, bribing, cajolA woman tells me her 5-year-old ing, reasoning and explaining. That does not do what she tells him to do. sort of approach invites complaining, I disagree, pointing out that children arguing, and disobedience.” almost always do what they are told.

“You’re absolutely right,” she said.

“I’ve never heard of a 5-year-old “I’m doing all of that.” who would not do what he is told,” I say. “Now, I’m not suggesting that This very frustrated mom had John you’re going to get 100 percent been trying to correct the wrong Rosemond obedience, even under the best of person, which is why none of her Living With circumstances. In my experience, corrections had worked. In less than Children however, 85 percent obedience is the five minutes, I taught her the simple lowest score you’ll get if you follow art of telling. my advice.”

First, and contrary to the advice “Well,” she replies, “my son won’t do anygiven by most parenting pundits, deliver thing I tell him to do, ever.” instructions from a fully upright position. Do “Please don’t be offended, but I’ll venture not bend over, grab your knees, and “get down that the problem is not your son; rather, it’s to the child’s level.” That is a pleading posture you.” and as a result, one’s voice takes on a pleading “How so?” character.

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PORTLAND, Ore. amantha McVey brought her 4-month-old daughter, Ruby, to The Children’s Clinic for a routine checkup and vaccinations. But within minutes of sitting down with Dr. R.J. Gillespie, McVey was describing her turbulent childhood with a drugaddicted father who spent time in prison.

“How do you think that affects your parenting now?” Gillespie asked.

“I don’t want my kids to have to go through that,” said McVey, 23.

McVey told the doctor she considers herself a good mom but occasionally loses her temper and yells at Ruby’s 5-year-old sister, Madison. “Sometimes I get to the point where I’m crazy,” she said.

Gillespie is among a growing number of pediatricians across the country going beyond the typical well-child visit and delving deeper into the history of families like McVey’s. The goal is to prevent children from experiencing traumatic events that can interfere with their brain development and increase their risk of physical and emotional problems in adulthood.

A growing body of research shows that children who experience abuse, neglect or other “toxic stress” have a greater likelihood of developing chronic diseases when they get older.

In response, the American Academy of Pediatrics is urging doctors to intervene by identifying and offering assistance to parents and young patients they believe to be at risk. The academy has not endorsed a specific screening tool, and doctors around the country, including in California, Massachusetts and Maryland, are trying different approaches.

Gillespie and the doctors in his practice are trying to identify parents who have had traumatic upbringings to help prevent them from raising their children in the same way.

“Most of what we learn about being parents obviously comes from how our parents treated us,” Gillespie told McVey during her recent visit. “We’re trying to understand where parents are coming from so we can find the people who might need a little bit more help.”

Gillespie’s former partner, Dr. Teri Pettersen, has left the practice to get the message out. She now does training for the Oregon Pediatric Society on the issue of toxic stress and the role of doctors in preventing it.

“We were trained to deal with diabetes,” Pettersen recently told a crowd of doctors and other staff of the Providence Medical Group in Portland. “We were trained how to deal with hypertension. I don’t think anybody was really trained on how to address some of these adverse childhood experiences.”

But, she said, “if we are not going to do it, who is?”

PerSuaSive reSearch Between 1995 and 1997, researchers conducted a seminal study on toxic stress, based on more than 17,000 patients in San Diego.

It showed that adults who had more dysfunction in their homes as children were more likely to have cancer, chronic lung disease and heart disease, as well as depression and substance abuse problems. Patients were asked questions about childhood, including whether a parent was mentally ill, imprisoned or alcoholic and whether they suffered physical or sexual abuse.

Researchers from Kaiser Permanente and the the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that people with four or more “adverse childhood experiences” were twice as likely as those with none to have cancer and four times as likely to have emphysema. The reasons are complex, but one explanation is that such stress leads to unhealthy lifestyle choices, such as smoking. Also, it can affect hormones like cortisol in a way that ultimately damages the body’s organs, and can alter how genes are expressed and the brain develops.

More than 50 research articles have been written based on the data from the Kaiser Permanente patients, who are still being followed. Researchers have found that later-life problems can be reduced if children are able to develop a healthy relationship with a parent or caregiver, or get certain clinical treatments. (Kaiser Health News is not affiliated

Second, use the fewest words possible. The more concise the instruction, the more authoritative it sounds. So, if you want a child to pick up his toys, simply say, “I want you to pick up your toys now and put them where they belong.”

Third, do not explain yourself. Explanations invite resistance. They stimulate argument.

Fourth, if a child asks for an explanation, say, “Because I said so,” which is simply an affirmation of the legitimacy of your authority.

Fifth, do not end an instruction with, “OK?” Remember, you are giving direction, not asking your child to consider a suggestion.

Sixth, when you have delivered the instruction, turn around and walk away. Do not stand there, supervising. That, too, invites pushback.

In June 2013, on the first day of a three-day family conference in South Carolina, I spoke on this very subject. On Day 2, numerous parents reported to me that this very simple approach was already working.

Right. Reread the first sentence of this column.

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Sunday, Sept. 27 HERE AND THERE: MODERISM EVERYWHERE: Go on a treasure hunt that paves the path between the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum and the New Mexico Museum of Art. Make art, look at art, have fun. There will be hands-on activities, artist demonstrations, live music, gallery games, and plenty of opportunities to explore the museums at your own pace from 1 to 4 p.m. Admission is free for families at both museums; Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, 217 Johnson St.; New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Ave. LEONORA CuRTIN WETLAND PRESERVE: Interstate 25 Frontage Road, adjacent to El Rancho de las Golondrinas.

Thirty-five-acre nature preserve; open 9 a.m.-noon Saturdays and 1-4 p.m. Sundays through November, santafebotanical garden.org, 471-9103, no charge.

MINA FAJARDO FLAMENCO DANCE STuDENT SHOWCASE: Teatro Paraguas Studio, 3205 Calle Marie. Choreography by Fajardo, with singer Fernando Barros Lirola and guitarist Chuscales, 7 p.m., $20 in advance at brownpapertickets.com.

COMMuNITY FARM MARKET: 1829 San Ysidro Crossing.

Volunteer-run enterprise that supplies the Food Depot, noon to 2 p.m. through Nov. 1, 983-3033.

Monday, Sept. 28 NATuRE PLAYTIMES: Toddlers, preschoolers and their caregivers are invited to the Pajarito Environmental Education Center in Los Alamos to explore the natural world from 10 to 11 a.m. Each Playtime features a craft, story and outside activity; no charge; 3540 Orange St.; call 662-0460.

tuesday, Sept. 29 BOOKS AND BABIES: Children can come and enjoy books, songs and finger games from 10:30 to 11 a.m. at the Main Library, 145 Washington Ave.; call 955-6783.

PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: Stories, rhymes, songs, crafts and more for children ages 2 to 5 from 10:30 to 11:15 a.m.; Oliver La Farge Branch Library, 1730 Llano St.; 955-4860.

SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET: Seasonal market, 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Railyard, 1607 Paseo de Peralta, no charge, santafefarmersmarket.com.

SOuTHSIDE FARMERS MARKET: Santa Fe Place, 3-6:30 p.m.

Tuesdays through September, santafefarmersmarket.com.

Wednesday, Sept. 30 BOOKS AND BABIES: Children can come and enjoy books, songs and finger games from 10:30 to 11 a.m.; Oliver La Farge Branch Library, 1730 Llano St.; 955-4860.

PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: Stories, rhymes, songs, crafts and more for children ages 2 to 5 from 10:45 to 11:30 a.m. at the Southside Branch Library, 6599 Jaguar Drive; 955-4863.

AFTER-SCHOOL READING CLuB: Designed to encourage reading for pleasure and enjoying the library, for elementary students in grades K-4. Activities include reading aloud, writing stories, games and crafts. Parents must register their child at the beginning of each semester. From 3 to 4:30 p.m. at the Vista Grande Public Library in Eldorado, 14 Avenida Torreon, next to the El Dorado Community School, 466-7323.

thursday, oct. 1 BOOKS AND BABIES: Children ages 6 months to 2 years can enjoy books, songs and finger games from 10:45 to 11:15 a.m. at the Southside Branch Library, 6599 Jaguar Drive; 955-4863.

CHILDREN’S STORY HOuR: Readings from picture books for children up to age 5; 10:45 to 11:30 a.m. at Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo St.; no charge, call 988-4226.

Friday, oct. 2

A growing body of research shows that children who experience abuse and other stressors have a greater likelihood of developing chronic diseases when they get older.

In response, the American Academy of Pediatrics is urging doctors to intervene by screening parents and young patients who could be at risk. ERIC RISBERG/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

More pediatricians are examining family histories for signs of trauma that could cause chronic disease with Kaiser Permanente.)

Dr. Andrew S. Garner, who is leading a work group for the American Academy of Pediatrics, said the science about toxic stress is clear. The harder part, Garner said, is figuring out how pediatricians can best use the research — especially how to have conversations about tough childhoods without alienating families. “We’re struggling to try and translate what we know into what we do in clinical practice,” he said.

That’s what Gillespie and Pettersen set out to do.

‘So nice to get advice’ At The Children’s Clinic, where stuffed monkeys hang from cut-out trees in the lobby and children flip through colorful storybooks, they created a survey in 2013 asking parents about their past experience with abuse, neglect, bullying, foster care and neighborhood violence.

“We really want to be about prevention,” Gillespie said. “If we can be a little more upstream and prevent that cycle from repeating itself that will be the ultimate success.”

Parents are also asked to complete a separate questionnaire to measure their resilience — their ability to bounce back from difficult situations — so doctors can identify potential strengths to build on. The clinic, which serves a mostly insured population of diverse ethnic backgrounds, has screened more than 2,000 parents so far. About 40 percent indicated one traumatic childhood experience; 8 percent had four or more.

The most common was separation or divorce, followed by substance abuse and mental health issues in the family. The doctors offer tips on parenting or discipline to families who seem most in need. They also try to connect them with parenting classes or support groups.

At the beginning, Gillespie said it was difficult to bring up such personal questions, and he knows that not all parents are completely honest about their upbringing. But he said over time, the screening has led to important conversations that wouldn’t have happened before, including about domestic violence. “I couldn’t go back to where we were before,” he said.

Several doctors in his office expressed skepticism at first, saying screening would take too much time and would open a can of worms.

But they later said knowing more about their

patients was helpful, and now 27 of the 28 providers use the screening, Gillespie said.

Others in Portland say poor families may not have the means to follow up on referrals to counseling or social services. And some argue that asking invasive questions can retraumatize families. They say pediatricians should instead focus on educating all families in their practices.

But McVey, who brought in her daughter for a checkup with Gillespie, said she was glad to learn more about how her past could affect her children. “You may not realize that just because someone in your family had a drug problem that your kids may suffer from that,” she said.

McVey remembers her father, who died earlier this year, having violent outbursts. Once, when she was 12, he left her alone in a hotel room to go get high. “As a kid, it’s tough watching your parent spiral out of control,” she said.

McVey said she doesn’t touch alcohol or drugs and tries to be patient with her daughters. But sometimes Madison can be really hyper — jumping off furniture and accidentally breaking dishes. “I yell at her, she starts crying and I start crying,” she said.

Gillespie suggested to her that Madison may also be trying to get her attention. As you play together, he said, praise her consistently. But as soon as Madison starts jumping on the couch, Gillespie said, you should immediately become silent. “She is probably going to stop because she is going to want to go back to the talking mom,” he said.

“It’s so nice to get advice on how to handle this,” McVey said afterward.

Another parent, 33-year-old Sarah Pike, who filled out the survey during a recent visit, marked “yes” to the questions about being emotionally and physically abused as a child.

“I was really afraid to become a parent,” Pike, 33, told Gillespie, as her infant daughter Payton rolled over on the exam table. “I was afraid that I was going to be a really mean person.”

“What do you think kept that from happening?” Gillespie asked.

“Remembering the torture I went through as a child and not wanting my children to be treated like I was,” Pike responded.

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DIANNE THE MAGICIENNE: Come and be amazed by cool tricks from 4 to 5 p.m. at the Oliver La Farge Branch Library, 1730 Llano St.; 955-4860.

FAMILY FuN NIGHT: Free event at Holy Family Episcopal Church, 10A Bisbee Court in Santa Fe; dinner, games arts and crafts from 5 to 7 p.m. Everyone is welcome. Call 424-0095.

MAKE A HOT-AIR BALLOON TRADING CARD: The New Mexico History Museum welcomes families for a workshop from 5 to 7 p.m. During the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, learn about the art of trading cards made and shared by hot-air balloonists, then make one of your own. This allages, drop-in workshop is free.

GARDEN SPROuTS: Stories and hands-on activities for children ages 3 to 5 with a caregiver from 9 to 10 a.m., weather permitting; sponsored by the Santa Fe Botanical Garden and Railyard Stewards. Meet at the Santa Fe Botanical Garden on Museum Hill, 725 Camino Lejo; $5 suggested donation; free to members and children under 12.

PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: Stories, rhymes, songs, crafts and more for children ages 2 to 5 from 11 to 11:45 a.m. at the Main Library, 145 Washington Ave.; call 955-6783.

STORY TIME: Bring your infants, toddlers and preschoolers for stories, songs and crafts at the Vista Grande Public Library in Eldorado, 14 Avenida Torreon, adjacent to El Dorado Community School. This program meets Friday mornings at 11:30 a.m.

Saturday, oct. 3 DIANNE THE MAGICIENNE: Come and be amazed by cool tricks from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the Main Library, 145 Washington Ave.; call 955-6783; or 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the Southside Branch Library, 6599 Jaguar Drive; 955-4863.

SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET: Seasonal market, 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Railyard, 1607 Paseo de Peralta, no charge, santafefarmersmarket.com.

Sunday, oct. 4 LEONORA CuRTIN WETLAND PRESERVE: Interstate 25 Frontage Road, adjacent to El Rancho de las Golondrinas.

Thirty-five-acre nature preserve; open 9 a.m.-noon Saturdays and 1-4 p.m. Sundays through November, santafebotanical garden.org, 471-9103, no charge.

ongoing groups MOMS OFFERING MOMS SuPPORT: Local chapter of the international MOMS Club offers support and activities for stay-at-home mothers. Visit santafemomsclub.weebly.com.

FIRST-TIME MOMS OVER 40: Support group to explore the complex physical, emotional and spiritual issues that come with raising children as mature women. Call 471-0928.

MANY MOTHERS: Provide in-home support to new mothers who are adjusting to the many changes a new baby brings.

Call 983-5984, email info@manymothers.org or visit www. manymothers.org.

What’s hot for Halloween?

PARAMUS, N.J. — Expect to see a lot of Michelangelo, Donatello, Leonardo and Raphael this Halloween.

Some of the most popular costumes are expected to be based on the reptilian superheroes after the 2014 release of the film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, according to Steven Silverstein, CEO of Spirit Halloween, a chain of more than 1,150 pop-up stores devoted to costumes and décor for the holiday. Children love the Turtles, and so do adults who watched them on TV and in movies when they were kids, he says.

Girls are expected to choose costumes based on the Disney TV movie The Descendants, the story of the children of Disney characters such as Cruella De Vil and Cinderella.

Adult costumes and accessories based on TV shows like The Walking Dead are expected to sell well. Costumes based on superheroes like the Avengers or Batman should also be brisk sellers, Silverstein says.

For those with gorier tastes, Halloween fare also includes bloodied zombies and ghouls and characters from slasher movie classics like Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th.

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Faces & places The New Mexico Restaurant Association honored the ProStart Program and a Santa Fe High teacher earlier this month, when it announced the winners of the 2015 Hospitality Industry Awards.

ProStart, administered by the Hospitality Industry Education Foundation, is a high school curriculum that teaches culinary, management and hospitality education in 35 high schools in New Mexico, including in Santa Fe. The ProStart Teacher of the Year is Molly Lithgow from Santa Fe High School.

Taos High School was recognized as the 2015 Culinary Team, and Silver High School was recognized as the 2014 Management Team. The 2015 Hospitality Cup went to Taos High.

The cup is presented to the school with the best overall score in state competitions. uuu

On Sept. 18, Gov. Susana Martinez honored seven New Mexico artists and art supporters with the 2015 Governor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts at the New Mexico Museum of Art. The 2015 honorees are: William Clark of Las Cruces, music; Catalina Delgado-Trunk of Albuquerque, papel picado; Vincent N. Figiola of Las Cruces, painting; Virgil Ortiz of Cochiti Pueblo, ceramic and design; Irvin Trujillo of Chimayó, weaving; Edgar Foster Daniels of Santa Fe, major contributor to the arts; and Eric Renner and Nancy Spencer of San Lorenzo, major contributors to the arts.

The chairman of this year’s Selection Committee was New Mexico Arts Commissioner Glenn Cutter of Las Cruces. Members included Arts Commission Chairwoman Sherry Davis of Santa Fe and Arts Commissioners Charmay Allred of Santa Fe and John Rohovec of Silver City.

New Mexico Arts Deputy Director and Art in Public Places Program Manager Chuck Zimmer also served on the committee. New Mexico Arts Executive Director Loie Fecteau

served on the committee in a nonvoting capacity. uuu

The Jewish Federation of New Mexico, an Albuquerque-based, multifaceted social service organization that serves the needs of New Mexico’s Jewish community through guidance, philanthropy, education and social action, has appointment of Zachary Benjamin as its new executive director.

He will be responsible for implementing new strategies for communication, Zachary development, donor Benjamin appreciation and outreach, with the goal of improving Jewish life throughout New Mexico.

Benjamin worked previously for the National Association of Realtors, a nongovernment real estate organization based in Chicago. Prior to working for the association, Benjamin built cultural competence programs for hospital executives across the nation as the education and membership program specialist for the Institute for Diversity in Health Management at the American Hospital Association in Chicago. He managed the organization’s nationwide scholarship and internship programs, and implemented marketing, member relations and development strategies for the association.

Benjamin attended Northwestern University in Chicago, where he received a Bachelor of Science with a concentration in media and politics and Chinese language and culture. He also possesses a Master of Arts from Columbia University in New York with a focus on regional studies, including East Asia and Chinese foreign policy.

Benjamin is currently a candidate for a Doctor of Philosophy in communication at the University of Illinois.

Benjamin also has been involved in organizations and boards, including the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s Windy City Club, the Israel Bonds Chicago New Leadership Program Board and Northwestern University’s Alumni Admissions Council.

Send uS Your newS The New Mexican welcomes your submissions to our Celebrations page.

We’re happy to publish your announcements of special recognitions and personal achievements for the Faces & places column, as well as your announcements of weddings, engagements, milestone anniversaries and new babies. Please send your announcement, along with a photo (220 dpi, and at least 4 inches wide), to service@sfnewmexican.com.

Book aims to help kids think about homelessness

By Christina Barron The Washington Post

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eing hungry isn’t something a lot of kids have to imagine. Nearly 1 child out of 5 in the United States lives in a family that has trouble getting enough food. That means five kids in your homeroom might have gone to bed last night with a rumble in their stomachs.

Author Katherine Applegate has met some of those kids while visiting schools to talk about books. At one school — the Monarch School in San Diego — the issue of hunger was inescapable. The school was entirely for kids who are homeless.

“It was a pilot project that took off, and it’s miraculous for these kids,” Applegate said from her home in North Carolina. “There are showers, a free-clothes closet, counseling.”

And Monarch provides breakfast, lunch and snacks to its 450 students in kindergarten through 12th grade.

“Their resilience takes your breath away,” Applegate said.

Seeing those kids and others like them made the author want to write about homelessness.

But Applegate also had another idea bouncing around.

“I had this large, hairy cat in my head,” she said.

The two came together in a new book called Crenshaw. It’s the story of Jackson, a fifth-grade boy whose parents struggle to pay the bills.

“I wanted Jackson’s family to be a working-poor family — a loving [married couple] trying as hard as they can as parents,” Applegate said.

Jackson, his sister and his parents live in an apartment. His dad had lost his job after becoming sick. His mom’s job teaching music had been eliminated. They work several part-time jobs, but there’s little money to cover the basics, including food.

“Back in the old days, when we always had food in the house, I would whine if we were out of my favorite stuff,” Jackson says. “But lately we’d been running out of everything, and I had a feeling my parents felt lousy about it.”

As the situation gets worse, Jackson

finds a distraction: Crenshaw the cat.

Crenshaw isn’t a typical cat. He’s huge, he talks and only Jackson can see him.

He’s an imaginary friend, and Jackson hadn’t seen him for Katherine several years. CrenApplegate shaw’s reappearance CourTESy is disturbing.

MACMIllAN “I am not an imaginary friend kind of guy,” Jackson insists. “At my age, it’s not good to have a reputation for being crazy.”

But Crenshaw won’t go away. The cat takes a bubble bath in the middle of the night.

He insults the family dog. And he mysteriously urges Jackson to tell the truth, ssomething the boy h hasn’t been heariing from his pareents during tense tiimes at home.

“Sometimes I ju ust wanted to be trreated like a grownup p,” Jackson says.

“II wanted to hear the truth, even if it th wasn’t a happy truth.”

Applegate said that parents sometimes try to hide the truth about serious issues, thinking their kids won’t notice.

“When we have financial struggles, kids are so much more aware of things than we want them to be,” she said.

Honest conversations can help within a family and also within communities, Applegate said.

“Hunger and homelessness aren’t things we always want to talk about,” she added.

She said she hopes that her book will spark action — including giving to canned-food drives — and appreciation.

“I hope kids feel gratitude for what they do have,” she said.

Applegate also wanted to let kids know that having a friend like Crenshaw isn’t something to worry about.

“I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism,” she said. “It’s pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me.”

El mitote A Santa Fean is set to appear on the popular PBS show Antiques Roadshow.

The show came to Albuquerque earlier this year, and the next three episodes feature New Mexico citizens showing off their antiques and other valuables in the hope the goods might be worth a fortune.

A tipster told El Mitotero that Santa Fe’s own Theo Raven, the owner of the downtown oddities shop Doodlet’s, will be on the show.

But it’s unclear if she will appear on Monday’s edition or the Oct. 5 or Oct. 12 episodes.

Keep an eye on PBS, and let El Mitotero know if you spot any other Santa Feans on the program. uuu

The Australian edition of Vogue recently visited New Mexico and featured the state for an October article called “Mexican Wave.”

Of particular interest, the magazine commissioned a crew and a model to shoot several images with New Mexico’s mesas serving as backdrops.

You can check out this blog post, anoteonstyle.com/new-mexico-beauty, which features most of the images.

Model Waleska Gorczevski looks flawless, but congrats to photographer Will Davidson for making the landscape the true star. uuu

We may not be seeing Ethan Hawke for a while in Santa Fe. Someone spotted the star catching a flight at the Albuquerque International Sunport on Sept. 19 with a woman.

Hawke is starring The Magnificent Seven, a remake of the Western with the same name.

Remember to send your sightings, photos or selfies to elmitote@ sfnewmexican.com.

on our webSIte u Follow the El Mitote blog at www.santafenewmexican.com/ news/blogs/neighbors.

© 2015 by Vicki Whiting, Editor Jeff Schinkel, Graphics Vol. 31, No. 43

A flower grows at the end of a stem of a plant. That’s one kind of stem.

Today, businesses are interested in kids knowing knowi about another kind of STEM..

This STEM S is spelled from the first letter ter in the words:

In these magic square puzzles, you fill in the missing numbers so thhat each row and column and diagonal adds up to the same nuumber.

Look at the exam le then tr the ones below.

Only one of the shapes below can be folded into a box with four sides, a top and a bottom and no extra flaps. Work with a family member to take a guess. Then, carefully cut each shape out and see if you guessed correctly!

Circle the things that are made using science, technology, engineering or math.

Hypothesis:

(What do you think will happen?)

Investigate:

1. Hold the straw by its side and try to quickly stab it through the potato.

Materials:

2. Repeat stabbing the potato with a new straw. But this time, place your thumb over the top of the straw, covering the opening.

uncooked potato

Sports Page Math

Find all of the scores of the winning teams on the sports page.

Add up the scores.

What do you get?

Observe:

What happens?

2 plastic straws

Observe:

What happens?

Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Use strategies of the reading process to follow written directions.

STEM learning is often hands-on and fun. It is experiments, making and testing things, fixing things and more. YOU be the scientist and try this cool experiment!

ANSWER: Did you circle every item? STEM is needed to make all the things we use every day!

STEM subjects help people to better understand the world around us. And they help us to solve problems we see in the world. STEM workers solve problems such as how to clean up rii rivers, how to make clean energy, how to fight deadly diseases, how to make computers and how to explore space.

SCIENTIST HYPOTHESIS COMPRESS PEOPLE WORLD STRAW MATH SPACE TESTING OBSERVE SOLVE AIR STEM TIME

A S W S K H S M I T H Y P O T H E S I S E T S A R R E B S I V B M R C L A D T T R N I B P E D W E N E A H O K Y T I M E S J E V L O S F D I B P G N I T S E T C O V C O M P R E S S

Science Fiction Story

Science fiction stories imagine what the future could be like. Look through today’s newspaper for a science-related article about something that might have been considered science fiction 100 years ago.

Standards Link: Research: Use the newspaper to locate information.

Standards Link: Research: Use the newspaper to locate information.

ANSWER: C. (A & E will also make boxes but have an extra flap.)

Describe a normal day in the year 2050. Do kids still go to school?

Do people drive cars? What new inventions have been created?

Do people vacation on the moon?