Blaze broken 817 firefighters battle La Jara Mesa blaze
About 817 firefighters from five states were closing in on containment of the La Jara Mesa wildfire in Cibola National Forest as of Sunday, with more than 3,384 acres burned since Thursday. Fire officials expect full containment by Wednesday and control by June 15, while investigators seek the cause.
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la Jara Mesa
Forest Service
Cibola National Forest
Mary Zabinski
Mount Taylor
Zabinski
la Jara Mes
Future in doubt for Ceremonial in Gallup
Gallup Inter-Tribal Ceremonial faces potential end as managing director Lloyd Colson calls a May 27 meeting at 3 p.m. in the Code Talker's Room of the Gallup-McKinley Chamber of Commerce. Citizens are urged to decide whether to carry Ceremonial into 2000 with community support or let it fade without corporate sponsorship.
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St. Ludescher
Gallup
Inter-Tribal Ceremonial
Lloyd Colson
Gallup-McKinley Chamber of Commerce
Ctizens
Colson
Mission
Bootleggers Are Targeted by Diné Task Force
Hope MacDonald leads Tuba City Chapter Planning Committee in eradicating bootleggers on the reservation. Since February the group has raided and turned over names to the Tuba City prosecutor. A task force estimates about 60 bootleggers operate locally with about half as full time.
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Bill Donovan
Window Rock
Hope MacDonald
Tuba City
MacDonald
Tuba City Area
Bur MacDonald
Begaye to Tour Navajo Mobile Vet Clinic Ceremony
Navajo Nation President Kelsey Begaye will inaugurate a $200,000 mobile veterinary clinic at Veterans' Memorial Park. The 60 foot unit offers free spay and neuter services to 110 chapters on the reservation, funded by sponsors and valued at about half a million dollars yearly.
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Window Rock
Navajo Nation
Kelsey Begaye
Veterans’ Memorial Park
Begaye
Mellon C. Willie
Babbitt Brothers sale on hold in Navajo Nation review
An extension to June 15 was granted by Babbitt Brothers Trading Co to address Navajo Nation procedures before the multi million dollar purchase of privately owned property in Tuba City. Don Hubbard of NNHE told the Economic Development Committee they are aiming to finish promptly. NNHE operates at Navajo, Kayenta, and Interstate 40 with the Navajo Nation Inn in Window Rock as its core.
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Babbitt Brothers Trading Company
Tuba City
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Don Hubbard
Navajo Nations Hospitality Enterprises
NNHE
Interstate 40
Navajo
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Kayenta
Navajo Nation Inn
Window Rock
NIHE
Lee Babbitt Brothers
Diné College earmarks funds for Tuba City site
Diné College plans a new campus in Tuba City funded by a state windfall. President Tommy Lewis says Arizona's law will allocate 15 million dollars to 1.75 million dollars annually to community colleges on Indian reservations, starting July 1, 2000, with a one tribe cap of 1.5 million the first year and rising later. State Sen. Jack Jackson helped pass the law.
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Ariz
Diné College
Arizona
Tommy Lewis
Jack Jackson
Jackson
National Indian Youth Leadership Project gets 240000 grant
Gallup reports the National Indian Youth Leadership Project Inc in New Mexico will receive 240000 for National Services via the New Mexico Commission for Community Volunteerism effective Oct 1. The funds support 20 AmeriCorps volunteers and reading writing and math programs in eight elementary schools with expanded tutoring in a middle and high school and area hospitals. Programs include weekend Reads and Project Reading Adventure along with GED help for juvenile detainees. The grant aims to reach about 1700 area parents and students.
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National Indian Youth Leadership Project, Inc
New Mexico’ Commission
AmeriCorps
Michael Heller
National Indian Youth Lead
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Families & Menthy Te
Whet
Families & Youth
Las Cruces
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Cibola County
Jimmy Baca
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