Hunters learn: Safety first
Tom Purdom
Staff Writer
GRANTS — Twenty ordinary people from age 10 to 30 completed
an intensive three-day course Sunday afternoon which could save
their lives or the life of someone else.
Having completed the New Mexico Hunter Education Course, these
20 are about to enter the mystical world of the outdoors from
firearms safety to hunter ethics to respect for nature.
The students met from 6 to 10 p.m. Friday, then from 8 a.m. to
5:30 p.m. Saturday and again from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Sunday at
the Cibola National Forest Mount Taylor Ranger Office on Lobo
Canyon Road.
It was no three-day picnic not for the students or the cadre of
volunteer instructors who gave up their weekend to help create
new shooters and hunters.
The teachers were: Chuck Hagerdon, Mount Taylor District ranger
and his wife, Marsha Hagerdon, also a National Forest Service
employee; Jerry Lee, a course instructor; Harry Hall, deputy for
the Cibola County Sheriff's Department; and Craig Sanchez, the
area game ranger.
In April 1976, a new state law went into effect which made it
illegal for anyone under age 18 to hunt or shoot a firearm without
supervision unless the person successfully completed a hunter
education course. Since then more than 136,000 students successfully
completed the class.
To get a better idea if the program helps, just look at the statistics.
In 1976 there were 23 New Mexico hunting accidents. The following
year the number dropped to 13 and in 1999 the number of New Mexico
hunting accidents was three.
The first courses keyed in on hunter safety only how to safely
carry a firearm, how to cross fences with one, when to load the
weapon, when it should be unloaded and other hunter-safety issues.
Today, firearm safety is still a major part of the course, but
it now goes much deeper. For example, the students in Grants also
learned about wildlife management, survival, wildlife identification,
game care, hunter ethics and responsibility.
Hagerdon said all students pre-register for the course and because
of the intensity of the course, Hagerdon distributes the
handout material two weeks in advance so students can get a jump
on it.
On the last day students were given a written test and a manual
proficiency test. Students must score at least 70 percent on the
written test and 75 percent on the proficiency test.
"For the proficiency test we include shooting positions,
firearms safety and we even do a mock hunting trip where we have
to cross fences," Hagerdon said.
Taking the course does not automatically mean a hunter certificate
is given. Some students do fail the tests each class, but not
many, and the ones who do are automatically signed up for the
next hunter education class.
"We've had students as young as 8 years old, but we don't
recommend children take the course until they are at least 10
years old," Hagerdon said.
Just look at one of the questions students must answer: "What
are the three most compelling reasons for adhering to the highest
standards of responsibility and ethics?"
The instructors want students to learn two very important lessons:
Each student should learn to take responsibility for himself or
herself as hunters.
Each student should learn to take responsibility for others.
"As a hunter and sportsman I believe in promoting responsible
hunting and I believe the future of hunting lays in hunters being
responsible, ethical and safe," Hagerdon said. Another lesson
is to nurture the hunter's responsibility to landowners to protect
the future of hunting, he added.
Hagerdon said responsible hunters should always maintain a keen
respect for wildlife and earth's natural resources. "These
values are what I want hunters to walk away with from this class,"
Hagerdon said.
This year two classmates were father and son Patrick Gallegos
Sr., 30, and Patrick Gallegos Jr., 10. For the father, the class
was a bit more difficult than he anticipated, but the elk and
deer hunter passed it with flying colors.
"I'm glad to see all these kids taking the course,"
he said."We'll be out in the woods with them."
For the son, the course was not as difficult as he had anticipated,
and he enjoyed himself.
Dad said, "I've never gone through it and it was a good time
for him (junior) to go through it ... so, we decided to do it
together."
Savanah Barnum, 12, was one of two young women in the class. The
other was Leona Lea Leo, 14.
A young woman who likes to hunt antelope on her father's land
north of Grants, Savanah took the class because she wants to know
more about hunting and she wants to be a safe hunter. Her 10-year-old
brother Elbert took the course too and a beaming dad was there
to see his kids through it all.
For Savanah, the most difficult part was the testing at the last
of the course. "I was kinda nervous," she admitted with
just a hint of a smile.
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Heartbreak and humor ride with Gallup
officer
Andrea Egger
Staff Writer
GALLUP — Gallup Police Officer Krissy Leekity carried a baby
wrapped in a blanket out of the Gallup house.
"I'm going to need some help," she said. "I've got
two more."
A little 5-year-old girl walked to the police car while Leekity placed
her two baby brothers into the car.
"My mommy said she was coming back for us," the little girl
said. "She lied."
The children's father called 911 to have the children picked up Saturday
night. He asked that they be taken to the Christian Child Care Center,
a home in northern Gallup where children are cared for on an emergency
basis. Obviously, the father had been through the system before.
He admitted to a dispatcher, and later, the police, that he has a
crack addiction and that he had been drinking alcohol. He and his
wife, who was also drinking, had an argument. She left, but not before
she told the children she'd be back for them.
Hours later, the mother hadn't returned, and the father decided he
couldn't care for the children.
Despite the father's attempt to do the right thing, Leekity arrested
him and charged him with child neglect because he was drinking and
using cocaine around the children.
"It's so sad. It's one of the toughest things," Leekity
said, after the children were safely at the Christian Child Care Center.
"We do it for the kids. We try to get them out of a bad situation."
She learned that the family was also familiar to Social Services.
Leekity said that every day, police have to take children away from
their parents. Whether it's a DWI charge and children are in the car
or a family fight that lands both parents in the slammer, children
in Gallup often have to be taken away.
Last weekend, the Christian Child Care Center took care of 30 children.
While child abuse and neglect is a daily occurrence for Leekity and
other officers, it's not something they ever get used to.
The hurt on the children's faces isn't erased easily.
Leekity has mixed emotions about it. She's happy to be able to take
the children taken to a safe place, but she wishes they didn't have
to go through the pain.
The children were just one of the many calls Leekity handled Saturday
night. Another memorable one, especially because it involved one of
Leekity's pet peeves bad attitudes towards cops was a drunken person
Leekity arrested for shoplifting a $10 watch.
The man got mouthy in the back seat of the police car. "You should
be out catching bank robbers, not arresting me for stealing a dumb
watch I mean, accidentally taking it."
Leekity tried to suppress giggles at the man's uh mistake. "I
just let them talk, then I write it down in my report," she said.
Leekity believes in the signs at stores that detail how shoplifters
are prosecuted, any age. She always arrests shoplifters. The youngest
person she's arrested for shoplifting was age 9.
One of Leekity's pet peeves is the way the community complains to
police officers about getting a ticket or being arrested for what
they perceive to be a petty crime. People often bring up a recent,
unsolved case like the man's reference to the recent bank robbery
at Bank of America downtown. People complain that police should be
out protecting the public and not stopping them for speeding or other
crimes.
Leekity wishes people would understand that she has a job to do. If
people are breaking the law, she has to do something about it.
Leekity has been a policewoman in Gallup for nine months. It's been
her lifelong dream to be a police officer.
Leekity's most memorable job as a police officer was getting shot
at a few months ago. She and another officer were investigating a
complaint of shots fired near the Rio Puerco across the street from
Zecca Plaza.
While investigating the scene, she and another officer found two men
shooting at something in the ditch. The other officer called out,
"police!"
Just then, bullets whizzed by Leekity.
She and the other officer dropped to the ground, then later joined
other officers in chasing the fleeing suspects. They were captured
without further gunfire.
The suspects later said the shots fired at the officers were an accident.
Leekity doubts this, remembering how close those shots cruised by.
It was only after the incident was over that Leekity could stop and
think about the fact that the bullets could have hit her. "You
don't have time to be scared. In order to survive, you have to make
split-second decisions," she said.
Leekity has to always be aware of what's going on around her.
Whenever she goes to crime scenes like domestic violence calls, she
is constantly on the alert. Where is she going to park so she has
easy access to her car? Who is going to be her back-up? How is the
team going to work together to diffuse the situation non-violently?
"Everything they teach you at the academy comes back to you in
a split second," Leekity said.
A native of Zuni, Leekity left a Las Vegas, Nev., correctional job
to go to UNM-Gallup's police academy, where she met instructors and
Gallup Police lieutenants Calvin Wiggins and Richard Perez.
Their stories led her to apply to the Gallup Police because the variety
of calls officers receive in Gallup is good training.
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Lawyer: Car dealer didn't grasp laws
Andrea Egger
Staff Writer
GALLUP — Gallup car seller Doug Bishop simply misunderstood the
requirements of being a car dealer, his Albuquerque attorney said.
"He never intended to do anything wrong," Peter Schoenburg
said. "It was a misunderstanding on his part."
Schoenburg waived Bishop's arraignment today in McKinley County Magistrate
Court, where Bishop was to face 60 felony charges of false evidence
of title or registration and three misdemeanor charges of having no
car dealer's license. Bishop hired Schoenburg last week.
"He's done everything to cooperate with the authorities,"
Schoenburg said.
Schoenburg filed a motion Friday in Santa Fe District Court so Bishop
wouldn't have to appear there to face a restraining order against
selling vehicles. Bishop has agreed not to sell vehicles until he
has a license, Schoenburg said.
Bishop has not returned several phone calls to the Independent.
Bishop was charged in March with the case involving 54 people who
bought either one or two vehicles from Bishop. Each of the 60 charges
involves a different vehicle.
New Mexico State Police Criminal Agent Henrietta Soland determined
Bishop did not hold the title to these vehicles. She doesn't know
where he got the vehicles or how he obtained them with no title.
Soland investigated the case after a resident tried to register her
vehicle at the local Motor Vehicles Division only to learn that Bishop
is not a licensed dealer. Soland went to Bishop Cars, which was located
at Bishop Optical, 1500 S. Second St., and asked the employees to
show their dealer's license.
When they couldn't do so, Soland filed her criminal complaint against
Bishop on March 15 in McKinley County Magistrate Court.
The next week, she and other agents with the state police obtained
a restraining order from Santa Fe District Court and shut down the
car shop. They confiscated 37 vehicles, which are parked at the state
police office on N.M. 118.
The state police has worked with the 54 people to get them registration
for their vehicles. Soland said she has told residents who owe money
to Bishop for their cars that the judge in the case will determine
whether they still have to pay on their purchase agreements.
Those who purchased vehicles from Bishop aren't in any trouble with
authorities, Soland said. "They didn't know what they were buying,"
she said.
The restraining order was filed in Santa Fe District Court because
Santa Fe is where the Motor Vehicle Department is based.
A person who wants to sell cars has to apply for a license and pay
a fee.
Bishop had tried to get blank permits from the Motor Vehicle Department
in Gallup in the past, and they wouldn't give them to him because
he wasn't licensed. The department staff gave him an application for
license, but he never filled out the form and returned it.
Schoenburg said he knows this allegation has been made but he doesn't
know anything about an application. He said he can't comment on the
allegation.
When Soland confiscated records, she also confiscated blank registration
permit forms.
"I have no idea where he got them. It wasn't in Gallup,"
she said.
The permits could only have come from a branch of the Motor Vehicle
Department. The blank permits don't show which agency gave them to
Bishop.
Most of the vehicles Bishop sold were older models, from 1974 to 1990.
The state police also are investigating whether Bishop sold the vehicles
for four or five times higher than the price he paid.
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Area cowboys win averages
Santiago Ramos
Staff Sports Writer
CHURCH ROCK — Grants' barrel racer Lindsay Elkins and the Crownpoint
team roping combination of Reid and Cauy Francisco won the averages
in their respective events during the Gallup High School Rodeo Sunday
afternoon at Red Rock State Park.
Elkins captured her first average win ever in the barrel racing, placing
second during both rodeos while the Francisco team placed second during
the first rodeo and third in the second rodeo.
James Gililland of Alamogordo and Julie Jones of Bosque Farms were
the all-around cowboy and all-around cowgirl.
First rodeo
Elkins placed second in the barrel racing during the first rodeo with
a 17.688 second run. Gallup's Tori Vanderwagen took first with a winning
time of 17.645. Yolanda Nez of Kirtland finished fifth (17.814) and
Sunny Storer of Fort Wingate was eighth (17.954). Gallup's Chelsee
Byerley, who had a comfortable 56-point lead over her nearest competitor
in the season standings, posted an 18.638 and Renee Tolino had a 20.090.
"I'm having a better year this year than last year," Elkins
said. "I'm using three new horses."
Elkins, a Grants High junior, uses Clue in the barrels, Barbill in
the poles and Kip in the goat tying.
Elkins also competes in the poles, where she put herself out of contention
with a five-second penalty during both days after knocking over a
pole down. She also received another five-second penalty for losing
her hat during the goat tying.
Gallup High sophomore Chelsee Byerley, who leads in both the barrel
racing and pole bending season standings, said she had to use a different
horse, Powder, her sister's Cassidy horse, in the barrel racing when
her horse, Shoo Fly, was injured during last week's rodeo in Bosque
Farms.
"He hit the gate," Byerley said of her horse. "He's
okay now. He's taking a break."
Byerley, who placed in the top 25 in the barrel racing during the
National High School Rodeo Finals as a freshman last year, said she
expects to have Shoo Fly back for this weekend's rodeo at T or C.
"The horses I used this weekend were out of shape because they
haven't been run in two years," said Byerley who was the barrel
racing state champion last year and just missed qualifying for nationals
in the poles after a fall during the state finals last year.
The team of Reid and Cauy Francisco placed second with a time of 9.15
in the team roping competition. The team of Joshua Brown of Albuquerque
and Cooper Wimberly of Moriarty took first with a 7.76. The team of
Whitney Robinson of Mesilla Park and Ty Trujillo of Bloomfield finished
sixth (12.59) while the team of John Boyd of Window Rock, Ariz. and
Donnie Barney of Sanders, Ariz. was seventh (12.66). The teams of
Lionel and Travis Long, the team of Chris Walterschied of Thoreau
and Gary Rodriguez of Belen, the team of Yolanda Nez of Kirtland and
Lyle Arviso of Tsaile, Ariz. and the team of Jermaine Bryant and Lamuel
Yazzie, all posted no times.
The Crownpoint brother team roping duo of Reid and Cauy Francisco
took the team roping average with a second place in the first rodeo
with a 9.15 and a third in the second rodeo with a 9.78.
"I feel we have the confidence to go to nationals," Reid
said. "We're roping real good."
"We have a good shot at going to nationals," Cauy agreed.
"We're making the best of my last year of high school competition."
The team of header Reid, a sophomore at Crownpoint and heeler Cauy,
a senior at Crownpoint, was trailing the team of
James Gililland and Ty Trammell in the season standings by nearly
double, 140 to 72 points heading into the Gallup rodeo.
Cauy pointed out that he's been using a new horse, Zillion.
"He's bringing my money in," Cauy said. "He's my million
dollar horse."
During the first rodeo, Roy Littleton of Hatch placed first in the
saddle bronc with a 67; Will Morris placed first in the bull riding
with a 75; James Green of Socorro placed first in the bareback with
a 68; Nancy Velasquez of Blanco, who plans on competing on the rodeo
team at Eastern New Mexico next year, placed first in the pole bending
with a 21.034; Billie Joe Herring of Clovis placed first in the breakaway
roping with a 2.76 and Brett Acuna of Santa Fe placed first in the
calf roping with a 10.13.
Gallup's Byerley placed seventh in the poles with a 21.751, Shiprock's
Lacey Begay had a 22.779, Fort Wingate's Sunny Storer had a 28.015,
Grants' Elkins had a 28.605, Gallup's Vanderwagen had a 34.442 and
Window Rock's Alicia Becenti had a 38.782.
In the goat tying, Ya-Tah-Hey's Arlita Long took first with an 8.44
and Elkins finished eighth with a 10.28.
Vanderwagen placed seventh in the breakaway roping with a 13.12 with
Nez ninth with a 19.88 after a plus 10.
Sanders' Donnie Barney placed 10th in the calf roping with a 12.39.
Lyle Arviso had a 13.56, John Boyd had a 14.26,
Clayton Curley had a 22.68 and Lamuel Yazzie had a 28.96 (with a plus
10).
Lyle Arviso took first in the steer wrestling as he wrestled his steer
down in 6.27 seconds. Amos Gruber of Ya-Tah-Hey was second with a
14.02. Travis Long had a no time.
Second rodeo
During the second rodeo, Jordan Davis of Silver City took first in
the bull riding with a 73 score, Roy Littleton of Hatch who won the
average took first in the saddle bronc with a 70 and Stetson Herrera
of Marble, Colo. took first in the bareback with a 69.
The team of Francisco and Francisco placed third in the team roping's
second rodeo. The Francisco pair posted a 9.78 second run. The team
of Chris Walterschied of Grants and Gary Rodriguez won the second
rodeo with an 8.83. The team of Ty Trammell and James Gililland took
second with a 9.44. The team of Lionel and Travis Long placed seventh
with a 16.79 (plus 10).
Elkins placed second in the barrel racing with a 17.470 second run.
Robinson took first with a 17.287. Velasquez was fifth (17.797), Nez
seventh (17.887) and Vanderwagen ninth (18.120). Storer posted an
18.974, Byerley an 18.221, Renee Tolino a 19.888. Lacey Begay had
a no time.
Velasquez, who is second to Byerley in the season standings in both
the barrels and pole bending, says she still wants to be the state
champion in her events. She was the pole bending state champion last
year.
"I want to be first," said the Bloomfield High senior who
finished 32nd in the barrels at nationals last year. "But Chelsee
(Byerley) has a good horse."
Dusty Chavez won the steer wrestling as he wrestled his steer down
in 8.36 seconds. Lyle Arviso, Julio Mitchell and Travis Long all posted
no times.
Billie Jo Herring won the breakaway roping with a first place run
of 3.42 seconds. Vanderwagen finished a very close second, just 0.01
of a second back, at 3.43. Long placed sixth. Nez and Storer had no
times.
Gallup's Vanderwagen, who is in her third year of high school competition,
is fifth in the barrel racing season standings and sixth in the breakaway
roping season standings but by just six points out of fourth place.
"I'm having a better season than last year," said the Gallup
junior who won the barrel racing first round and took second in the
breakaway in the second round. "I'm more confident with myself."
James Gililland won the calf roping as he roped and tied his calf
in 10.65 seconds. Sanders' Donnie Barney placed second with a 11.46.
Lamuel Yazzie was fourth (12.41), John Boyd eighth (14.29) and Curley
ninth (14.36).
Julie Jones won the goat tying with a 7.88. Grants' Jenna Lucero placed
second with an 8.11. Elkins had a 13.36 (plus 5).
Vanderwagen finished 11th just out of the top 10 with a 10.76. Long
had a 11.24 and Nez had a no time.
Lucero, who was on the cover of the National High School Rodeo Times
publication last fall, is leading in the Rookie of the Year season
standings and is third in the breakaway roping season standings, fifth
in the poles and sixth in the goat tying.
Lucero finished third in the breakaway roping during the first rodeo,
second in the goats and fourth in the poles during the second rodeo.
"I'm real excited about being second in the breakaway roping
since I'm a freshman," said Lucero who played point guard on
the varsity girls basketball team.
Lucero was in second place in the breakaway season standings last
fall when her horse, Chief, went down and needed surgery. Lucero said
she had to use nine different horses while her regular horse was out
of action for four months. Lucero said she's back to using Chief this
spring but admitted that he still"needs to put on some weight."
"Hopefully I can beat Julie Jones and Kenna Armitage," Lucero
said. "They're pretty hard to beat."
Jones also won the poles with a 21.02. Storer was third with a 21.562
with Grants' Lucero fourth (21.684). Byerley took fifth (21.791).
The next high school will be this weekend at T or C, 10 a.m. on Saturday
and 9 a.m. Sunday.
Gallup's Chelsee Byerley won the pole bending average at the Farmington
Rodeo held March 17-18. Byerley won both rodeos with winning times
of 20.764 and 20.240.
Gallup's Tori Vanderwagen posted a winning run of 17.164 in the barrels
and a second place run of 3.35 in the breakaway roping. Vanderwagen
also took fourth in the goat tying with a 9.28 while Arlita Long was
third in the goat tying's second round with an 8.54.
Lyle Arviso took second in the first rodeo of the steer wrestling
with an 8.85 while Julio Mitchell was fourth with a 13.41.
Travis Long placed third in the second rodeo with an 8.20 while Arviso
was fourth with a 16.82.
The team roping combination of John Boyd and Donnie Barney won the
second rodeo of the team roping competition with a winning run of
6.90.
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Probe into motor office continues
Audit finds irregularities
Tom Purdom
Staff Writer
GRANTS — A few loose ends in the state probe of the local motor
vehicle division office kept the investigation from completion Friday,
so exactly what happened and any potential charges are still up in
the air.
New Mexico Motor Vehicle Division spokesperson Victoria Bransford
said the investigation is nearing completion, but it still is not
done. Bransford said a division auditor, as well as a certified law
enforcement investigator, have been looking into the office and its
activities. Investigators spent more than a week in the office poring
over books and talking to witnesses.
Bransford would not go so far as to say exactly which infractions
are being probed; however, last week MVD Deputy Cabinet Secretary
Jim Burleson did not rule out possible illegal activity with commercial
driver license transactions and possible embezzlement in the office...
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Packard drops aircraft side
Larry Di Giovanni
Staff Writer
FORT DEFIANCE, Ariz. — At its peak in 1995, Packard-Hughes Interconnect
employed about 500 people inside its plant here on Navajo Route 54.
Employment is now down to 91.
Packard-Hughes took over the plant in 1993, constructing aircraft
wiring assemblies. Also made are wiring assemblies/wiring harnesses
for the defense industry, including radar and aerospace applications.
The company is a defense subcontractor for Raytheon and Boeing.
The company's roots, however, are assembling wiring harnesses for
automobiles a car's, truck's or heavy-duty vehicle's complete electrical
system. Packard-Hughes has more than 200 such plants around the world,
and has been in the business for 80 years...
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Census adds 30,000 to Navajoland
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The nation's largest Indian tribe
got a lot larger, as did most New Mexico reservations counted in
the 2000 Census.
Some pueblos saw their on-site populations spurt by more than 50
percent.
Navajo officials were encouraged by 2000 Census numbers adding more
than 30,000 people to the tri-state reservation's population, now
counted at 180,102, including all racial and ethnic groups. Total
Native American population on the Navajo reservation in New Mexico,
Arizona and Utah was 173,631, compared with 143,405 in 1990, up
21 percent.
These preliminary numbers don't include tens of thousands of Navajos
living off-reservation and don't account for Hopi Indians living
on Arizona's Navajo reservation. The statistics don't show when
residents of one reservation turn out to be Indians from another
tribe; such refinements were expected to trickle out of the Census
Bureau by early summer...
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Shiprock places fourth in own tournament
Staff report
SHIPROCK — Shiprock fell to Farmington 13-10 Saturday afternoon
in the third place game of the Shiprock Baseball
Invitational.
The game was tied 10-10 after six innings when the Scorpions pushed
across three runs in the top of the seventh off Shiprock relief
pitcher Dewayne Dale for the win.
"Against Farmington we didn't let up," Shiprock coach
Kirk Olson said. "Everything was good. It wasn't a tough loss.
It just was Dewayne's day."
Dale surrendered three runs on two hits along with two walks and
a hit batter in the seventh. Shiprock starting pitcher Harley Billy
pitched six innings and gave up 10 runs on seven hits while striking
out five and walking one...
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Plans set for trek across Navajo
Jim Maniaci
Diné Bureau
WINDOW ROCK — This year's trans-reservation walk-a-thon will
begin April 17 and end in early May, covering more than 200 miles
from Torreon in New Mexico to Dennebito in Arizona.
The fifth annual Walk Across the Navajo Nation will begin at Torreon,
reaching Standing Rock two days later. After a 10-day break, the
pedestrian trek will begin again at Standing Rock, between Crownpoint
and U.S. 666.
Most of the journey will be over Bureau of Indian Affairs roads,
with short stretches on U.S. 666 and U.S. 191 from Chinle.
Schools and clubs can contact a local organizer as a special program
has been developed by the sponsoring Navajo Nation Journey to Wellness
Committee...
Kirtland pulls out title victory
Santiago Ramos
Staff Sports Writer
SHIPROCK — Kirtland Central, Window Rock and Grants all triumphed
during the second and final day of the 2nd Annual Shiprock Softball
Invitational.
Tournament MVP and Big Stick Award Winner Cary Moone of Kirtland
Central pitched the Lady Broncos to a 2-1 win over Shiprock Saturday
afternoon in the championship finals.
Window Rock blanked Menaul 5-0 in the third place game while Grants
held on for a 2-1 win over Sandia Prep in the consolation finals.
In the seventh place game, Moriarty stopped Wingate 8-1...
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Deaths
Aristeo Arellano Rangel
YAH TA HEY — Services for Aristeo Rangel, 75, will be held at
10 a.m., Monday April 2 at Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church.
Father Diego Mazon will officiate. Burial will follow at Gallup City
Cemetery.
A rosary will be recited at 7 p.m., Sunday, April 1 at Rollie Mortuary.
Rangel died March 28 in Gallup. He was born July 7, 1925 in Mentmore.
Rangel was a member of the Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church.
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urvivors include his daughter, Rosalie Alderete, Sandra Aragon, Lydia
Rangel, Maria Cruz Rangel and Mary DeLaO all of Gallup and Annie Garcia
of Albuquerque; sons, Alan Rangel, Joe Rangel and Mark Rangel all
of Gallup and Lupe Rangel of Farmington; sisters, Juanita Martinez
of Los Angeles, Calif. and Cruz Rangel of Albuquerque; brothers, Ignacio
Rangel and Santiago Rangel both of Gallup and Ramon Rangel of Los
Angeles; 26 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren.
Rangel was preceded in death by his parents, Jose and Josefa Rangel;
son, Aristeo Rangel Jr., Pete Rangel; daughter, Mary Elizabeth Rangel
and brother, Salvador Rangel.
Pallbearers will be Heath Aragon, John Meister, Christopher Rangel,
Josh Rangel, Scott Rangel and Brian Salazar.
Rollie Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.
Yvonne Boyd
REHOBOTH — Services for Yvonne Boyd, 64, will be held at 1 p.m.,
Monday, April 2 at Rollie Mortuary Palm Chapel. Pastor David Toppen
will officiate. Burial will follow at Sunset Memorial Park.
Boyd died March 29 in Albuquerque. She was born July 12, 1935 in Rehoboth
into the Meadow People Clan for the Black Streak People Clan.
Survivors include her husband, Francis Morgan of Pinedale; son, David
Boyd Jr. of Rehoboth; daughter, Glynnannac Mae Boyd of Rehoboth; mother,
Esther Yazzie of Rehoboth; sisters, Marilyn Juan of Lake Valley, Marjoire
Tom of Window Rock; Carolyn Lansing, Marie Livingston, Irene Yazzie
and Roselyn Yazzie all of Rehoboth; brother, Willis Yazzie of Twin
Lakes and one grandchild.
Boyd was preceded in death by her husband, David Boyd Sr.; sister,
Ruth Duboise; brother, Marion Yazzie Jr.; grandmother, Tahnabah Hale
and parent, Leonard Tsinnjinnie.
Pallbearers will be Pete Anderson, James Lansing, Roland Livingston,
Herman Tom, John Yazzie and Willis Yazzie.
Rollie Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.
Johnnie Kee
VANDERWAGEN — Services for Johnnie Kee, 63, will be announced
at a later date.
Kee died March 29 in Gallup. He was born Jan. 19, 1938 in Fort Wingate
into the One Who Walks Around You People Clan for the Edge Water People
Clan.
Rollie Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.
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