Chinle teacher backs stopping trip to California meeting
Betty Smith, a Chinle third grade teacher, supports canceling a planned rendezvous with students from AJ Heschel School in Northridge, Los Angeles, amid Yampa illness concerns. principal Shirley Levine and Chinle superintendent Mary Ann Hunter joined in the decision. Navajo leaders criticized the cancellation as discrimination while noting prior pen pal exchanges and cultural exchanges had occurred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chris
TBO
Gallup
Chinle
Los Angeles
Four Corners
Betty Smith
Los ‘Angeles
Shirley
Levine
Heschel
Los Angeles Times
Centers
For Disease Control
New Mexico
Department of Health
Mary ‘Ann Hunter
Chinle’ Unified School District
Smith
Navajo Nation
Marshall Plummer
California
Dally Jilen Dances at Redock State Park
An evening event at Redock State Park invites guests to a dance starting at 7 PM. Admission is four dollars per person.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dally Jilen
Redock State Park
Arices
Star Trek actors in both original and Next Generation
A concise list highlights three actors who appeared in the original Star Trek series and later guest starred or recurred on Star Trek: The Next Generation, illustrating cross-era casting connections and shared universe appearances.
Recipe book offers two Egyptian dishes
A brief index notes two Egyptian dishes featured in the recipe collection. Puppets vary as special teachers appear on Page 18, suggesting a related activity or listing accompanying the crafts section.
Mystery flu drug distributed to Northwest New Mexico hospitals
The experimental ribavirin drug, seen as a potential treatment for the Mystery flu, has been distributed to hospitals in Gallup Shiprock Farmington and Crownpoint as health officials warn against unroasted pinon nuts linked to rodent transmission. A 13 year old girl in New Mexico improves as the disease toll rises to 15 deaths across four states with new cases in Phoenix area. The drug was released two days after a northwest New Mexico woman died and spent hours at a Farmington hospital before transfer to Albuquerque where treatment was available.
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Ted Rushton
Gallup
New Mexico
Shiprock
Farmington
Crownpoint
John McKean
King
Tim Fleming
Gallup Indian Medical Center
Arizona
Phoenix
University Hospital
Annie Olson
Albuquerque
Hopi Tribal Council approves $5 million loan program
Hopi reservation gains a $5 million boost as the Hopi Tribal Council authorizes transferring funds from off reservation banks to the Hopi Indian Credit Association. Loans will back home building, education, business startups, and farm upgrades with lower, less restricted tribal money.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Wicoff
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Charley J. Wagner
HICA
Wager
Vernon Masayesva
Masayesva
Hdpi
BIA
Wagner
Car wash funds trip to papal visit for youth group
Saint John Vianney Church youth group in Gallup hopes to send 19 members to the World Youth Convention in Denver for a papal Mass with Pope John Paul II. They aim for a $4,000 goal through car washes, bake sales, and rummage sales, with a planned car wash today at 3408 Zia between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. The event backs a multi‑city Catholic youth conference August 11–15, drawing up to 600,000 attendees.
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Gallup
Saint John Vianney Church
Pope John Paul II
Denver
Dean Tim ‘Kelley
Saint John Vianney
Kelley
John Paul Ts
Zia
Lions Club Rodeo Promises Largest Amateur Event Yet
Gallup Lions present the 45th annual rodeo praised as the largest and best amateur rodeo in New Mexico. City proclamation invites guests to join weeklong festivities featuring parades hot air balloons Indian dance crafts food booths and competitions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ted Rushton
Gallup
Gallup Lions Club
New Mexico
Gallup Lions
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Elks Club
Dennis Skersick
Rlo West’ Mall
The
Elks
Tamara Viles
Indepen
Peterson Zah
Northridge
U.N
GSMC
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Santiago de Compostela
Spain
Czestochowa
Poland
Lions Club Rodeo
Mckinley
McGaffey Lake
Smith Lake
N.M
Lion's Club
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