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ADOPT ME!

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Up for adoption at the Gallup McKinley Humane Society is Chico!  She is a heeler mix and her ID number is 13764.  The humane society is located at 1315 B. Hamilton Road next door to the Cedar Animal Clinic. Call 505-863-2616 for more information.

Camille’s Teacher of the Month: Susan Bongers

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Former substitute SHARES THE joy of teaching

Each month, Camille’s Sidewalk Cafe in Gallup chooses and recognizes one local teacher within the Gallup area for the Teacher of the Month award.

Teachers are nominated by students, to those who feel they deserve the recognition for their effortless determination to help local students become more than they expect.

Camille’s presents teachers with an award for their excellence in teaching. For the month of December, Camille’s chose Susan Bongers, a sixth grade teacher at Gallup Middle School, who was pretty ecstatic when told she was chosen for Teacher of the Month.

“I got the call at school and was so excited, I quickly went back...

‘The Space Between Us’ launches into silly teenage-romance orbit

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Rating: «« out 4 stars

Running Time: 121 min.

I think it’s fairly safe to say that I’m really not the target demographic for a teen romance feature. Still, one can see how a love story spanning incredible distance might succeed and create a lot of drama if done properly.

Unfortunately, The Space Between Us is a long and lumbering effort that can’t quite get a handle on its tone, juggling some disparate elements in an awkward fashion. It may work well enough for youngsters, but most adults will find themselves rolling their eyes.

The bulk of the story deals with 16-year-old Gardiner (Asa Butterfield), the first person ever born on Mars. It’s an unexpected pregnancy (NASA...

DVD/Blu-ray Roundup for Feb. 3, 2017

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Hello! It’s time once again to take look at what’s arriving on DVD and Blu-ray. This edition includes some notable releases in a variety of genres that will interest many readers. So if you can’t make it out to the movies this week, be sure to give one of these titles a try!

BIG NEW RELEASES!

Boo! A Madea Halloween - The latest in Tyler Perry’s long-running series features the actor playing three roles, including that of the title character. This time out, Madea must endure the holiday chaos and set some misbehaving teenagers straight. Of course, she also encounters a few frights along the way. As expected, reviews weren’t very strong, although they didn’t...

Hundreds of women from NM go to D.C. to make their voices heard

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WHAT NOW? SOME ASK

Hundreds of women from around various towns and municipalities in New Mexico headed to Washington, D.C., this past weekend – not to attend then President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, but the Women’s March on Washington Jan. 21.

The event, which drew an estimated 500,000 people, was organized as a way to appeal to the incoming administration to respect diversity and human rights.

According to the event’s national website, the goal was to “join in diversity to show our presence in numbers too great to ignore.”

The event followed an inauguration of a president who, while campaigning, vowed to build a wall between the United States and Mexico...

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