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Wayde Morgan, 16, of Crownpoint High School, is a United Health Care youth intern leader, a member of the National Honor Society and peer helper. His hobbies include reading, running, and becoming a community health educator. “I would like to go in the field of medicine and obtain a M.B. with a...Features
Gallup Rotary Club Seniors of the Month for October
Wayde Morgan, 16, of Crownpoint High School, is a United Health Care youth intern leader, a member of the National Honor Society and peer helper. His hobbies include reading, running, and becoming a community health educator. “I would like to go in the field of medicine and obtain a M.B. with a...Glenn Ratmeyer named commended student in the 2016 National Merit Scholarship Program
Chris VanSlooten, principal of Rehoboth Christian High School, announced today that Glenn Ratmeyer has been named a Commended Student by the 2016 National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC).About 34,000 Commended Students throughout the nation are being recognized for their exceptional academic promise. Although Glenn will not continue in the 2016 competition for National Merit Awards, Commended Students are placed among the top 5 percent of more than 1.5 million students who entered the 2016 competition by taking the 2014 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.
Ratmeyer has attended Rehoboth Christian School since Kindergarten. He lives in Gallup, NM and is son...
R.I.P. City Councilor Cecil E. Garcia
Feb. 6, 1950 - Oct. 19, 2015Cecil Garcia, the former Gallup City Councilor for District 4, passed away Oct. 19 in Phoenix due to a blood disorder. He was 65.
Garcia was born in Grants, NM on Feb. 6, 1950. His family moved to Gallup when he was a child.
A graduate of Gallup High School, Garcia has worked in the mines and was also employed as a Teamster truck driver.
As of recent, he was self-employed as the owner/operator of Garcia’s Landscaping.
In his spare time he enjoyed weightlifting, biking, sports, and the arts. Cecil leaves behind his wife Debbie, his three daughters who live in the Phoenix area, and grandchildren.
He served as the Councilor for District 4 from March...
PETS OF THE WEEK
GMHS has numerous adorable dogs and puppies, and beautiful cats and kittens currently available for adoption.
$20 adoption fee for adult cats this month!
Visit and adopt one of these deserving furry friends
at Gallup-McKinley County Humane Society: 1315 Hamilton Rd #B, Gallup, NM. Information: (505) 863-2616.
Assistance for an addiction, not punishment
Traveling the road from what may be an exposure death caused by an overuse of alcohol to the NCI-run Detox and Treatment Center stirs up a lot of memories from 60 years in Gallup.Once the journey is complete, however, it is uplifting to realize the gains that have been made in my adopted city and area, especially in the work, knowledge, compassion, and continuing efforts of a small group of people handling a very bad situation on a daily basis.
Dr. Kevin Foley is the ultimate leader of this band of persistent caregivers, directing his 38 employees in two distinct areas – detox and long term treatment – in an effort to combat the alcohol addictions that often...
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