Gallup Sun

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Running Time: 114 min.

I’m not entirely sure that anyone was clamoring for it, but this week we’re receiving yet another sequel. The follow-up to the 2012 Snow White film is called The Huntsman: Winter’s War. Unfortunately for fans of the first film, the heroine is merely mentioned in passing and only seen once (from behind). Instead, this movie is focused primarily on the title Huntsman (Chris Hemsworth).

Viewers will get a lengthy prologue narrated by what sounds like an uncredited Liam Neeson. We’re told that Ravenna (Charlize Theron), villainess from the first film, also had a sister named Freya (Emily Blunt). Devastated by the sudden death of...

April 6 was the Grand Opening for the re-established Veterans Services Office in Gallup and the ribbon-cutting was attended by a fairly large crowd of veterans interested in what Director Jack Fox had to say. The new office is located inside the Ford Canyon Senior Center and will be open about six days a month and staffed by Tyra Saavedra, who is also the VSO for Grants.



The New Mexico Department of Veterans’ Services Network of Care for Service Members, Veterans & Their Families is a one-stop-shop for virtually all services, information, support, advocacy, and much more. This public service is an attempt to bring together critical information for all components of the...

As Vivian Franco speaks to her class with a radiant mile, it’s clear that she loves her job of teaching. Her voice echoes her enthusiasm for teaching, which likely earned her the title of Camille’s Sidewalk Café Teacher of the Month.

Folks that stroll into the café can nominate someone who has inspired them. What’s tough is picking a winner out of numerous winners.

As Franco speaks to her students, what’s not immediately obvious, or at least during this visit, that her classroom, smaller than a traditional class of around 30 students, is a special education class.

“It’s basically a Level D class, lower functioning students with disabilities,” she said, adding that...

These days, it might seem like Gallup has more to laugh about than ever, and that’s because it does.

Just take Isiah Yazzie, for example. He’s tall, slim and full of political humor. The Navajo-born Yazzie was part of a quartet that performed April 9 at the Gallup Downtown Conference Center. Also on stage with Yazzie were

“I’d say that most of my stuff has its basis in politics,” Yazzie, 22, said. “Everything I do is based on something from a real life experience.”

Yazzie, who graduated from Gallup’s Rehoboth Christian School in 2012, went off to college at Trinity Christian College in Chicago to pursue a degree in communications, but later left to enroll at an...