Tuba City teen pushes plan for skateboard park
Robert Franklin, 18, leads a push to build a $50,000 to $80,000 skateboard park at Tuba City Youth Center with aid from Greyhills High School representatives and $12,000 pledged by local police. CACY backs the project as a valuable youth activity despite delays and a lack of timetable. Interested residents can donate via Pizza Edge or visit the Hogan behind the Chapter House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tuba City
Ariz
Robert Franklin
Franklin
Flagstaff
Tuba’ City
Greyhills High School
Pizza Edge
Tuba
City High School
Utah Valley State College
Brigham Young University
University of Utah
Vanessa Brown
CACY
Brown
Hogan
Ethics panel ousts two Aneth Chapter officers
The Navajo Nation Ethics and Rules Committee removed two of Aneth Chapter’s three elected officers for gross violations involving nearly $41,000 in unauthorized checks. Vice President Nelson Rockwell faces a hearing for alleged co-signing, while President Leonard Lee and secretary-treasurer Tina Lansing faced charges. Lansing Lee did not attend the hearing. A total of 83 questioned checks were written on the chapter’s bank account, including 61 payable to Lansing Lee or her husband, with 22 checks missing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Maniaci
Window Rock
Navajo Nation
Ethics and Rules Committee
Aneth
Nelson Rockwell
Leonard Lee
Areth Chapter
Tina Lansing
Duane Lee
Lansing Lee
Horse race led to massacre near Red Rock
Gallup report recalls a deadly tie between gambling and horse racing near Red Rock where 12 to 15 Navajos, mostly women and children, died on Sept. 13, 1861 after a dispute over a race at Fort Fauntleroy later Fort Wingate. Local residents seek Gallup City Council approval to use Red Rock State Park for a race track and casino. Local historian Martin Link emphasizes the historical gambling link and notes the broader debate on Navajo gaming in recent referenda.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Donovan
Piné
Gallup
Red Rock State Park
Martin Link
Ldeal
Navajo Tribal Museum
Fort Fauntleroy
Fort Wingate
Link
New year keeps Navajo cops hopping in 1999 2000
A roundup from Window Rock to Kayenta details New Year’s incidents including a hospital roof fire scare at Tuba City IHS, thefts at Tuba City Unified School District yard, a stolen 1990 pickup, botched self harm cases in Crownpoint, unlawful firearm arrests in Chinle, a firearm threat in Kaibeto, and a hit by alleged street accident near Kayenta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tuba City
Indian Health Service
Navajo. Nation Fire and
Tuba City Unified School District
Main Street
Quality Inn
Department of Criminal Investigations
Gallup railroader keeps moving after 45 years on Santa Fe
Fred Gallegos, 74, retired from railroad work yet remains active in Gallup. Beginning at 15, he shifted from coal mining to the Santa Fe Railroad in 1944 unloading mail bags and freight in a busy Gallup yard. He recalls 50 workers around the clock and the hard, dangerous days, including a pig burial near Ninth Street after a night train left hungry animals behind.
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Gallup
Fred Gallegos
Santa Fe
Gallegos
Fort Wingate
Santa Fe Railroad
North Ninth Street
Milan
Section
Ninth Street
Fre- Lee Gallup Railroader
Betas
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Gallup Parks Department
Mark Vince Smith Jr
Vince Begay
City of Gallup Department
Mark Ristmas
Aztec Avenue
Red Rock
Diné Bureau
Crownpoint
Johnathan Sloan
West Mesa
Sloan
Indian Health Service Hospital
Nathan Sloan
Chinle
Issac Michele
Old
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Mildred Michele
Issac
Kaibeto
Leslie Curley
Navajo Housing Authority
Curley
Kayenta
Cleovaughn Tsosie
Indian Health ‘Service
Tsosie
Utah
Nancy Watson
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