Gallup Sun

Welcome to another look at the highlights arriving in stores this week on Blu-ray and DVD. Beyond the run of new releases, this is a fantastic week for great older features making their debuts in high-definition. So if you can’t make it out to the movies this week, be sure to give one of these flicks a try!

Big New Releases!

The Angry Birds Movie - The video-game franchise makes its film debut in this animated comedy. Viewers are promised an explanation as to why the birds are so ill-tempered; it may have something to do with monstrous green piggies that arrive on their island. The movie did well at the box office, but like many game adaptations, it garnered mixed notices...

Event still one of NM’s largest

Throughout the 95th annual Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial’s Preview Night at Red Rock Park, residents and event organizers mixed and mingled at one of New Mexico’s most renown happenings.

Gallup’s Ceremonial is one of the Indian Capital’s top draws for tourism.

“Everything is going very well,” Dudley Byerley, president of the 2016 Ceremonial, said midway through the event. “There are people here from not only Gallup and McKinley County, but people from all over the state and from parts of Arizona and elsewhere.”

Throughout the evening event, Byerley chatted with citizens, business owners, representatives from civic groups, and...

Alternative programs help students complete degrees

You’ve heard it before. A college student moves to a larger city to finish a degree at their new university’s main campus, but is met with a hang-up. Not all of their credits from their previous school will transfer to the new location. The student who returns to their smaller hometown to wrap up their degree at a branch campus of a major university is often faced with the same predicament.

This can be frustrating for students who want whatever help they can get in finishing their degree. To transfer older credits that are withheld from their new program can be extremely costly, especially for students who don’t want to pay...

Dawncinea Marie Moreno is currently 10 months old and competed in the Enchanting Miss Mini National Finals at the MCM Elegante Hotel in Albuquerque. She was the only contestant from Gallup. She received the larger pink crown and trophy for Enchanting Miss Royal Supreme. The smaller pink crown is for Enchanting Miss Mini Princess. A medal was given to her for most beautiful in her age group, which was 0 - 18 months. The two crystal crowns are for first runner-up for the mother-and-daughter event.

The Enchanting Miss Mini National Finals was a three-day-long pageant from July 22 - 24. The first day was just finalizing registration and the second day was the opening ceremony at 9 am...