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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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Leader Expensive cleanup follows storm
INSIDE County, Navajo Nation cope with damage from last week’s snow
Deep on the — By Steve Lynn —
The Daily Times
received several feet of snow.
Storms left more than a foot of
sidelines SAN JUAN COUNTY — Storms
snow in Shiprock and its outlying
communities. Nation President Joe
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that battered San Juan County cities Shirley Jr. declared a state of emer-
and towns last week are raising snow- gency on the reservation Thursday.
Chieftains involve removal costs for local governments Authorities have plowed most of
as authorities continue to respond. the main roads on the reservation, but
bench players The heavy snowfall led the Navajo significant snowfall still exists on dirt
Nation to declare a state of emer- roads in the mountains, Manychildren
gency. said. Melting snow in other areas left
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Snow removal and flooding from large puddles, causing muddy condi-
melting snow on the Navajo Reserva- tions on dirt roads.
response helps tion is leading the Nation to spend Many residents called asking for
clean oil spill around $33,000 daily to operate snow their driveways to be plowed, she
removal equipment in what is being said. Authorities are asking residents
called “Operation 2010 Snowfall,” to get firewood from chapter houses

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said Selena Manychildren, spokes-
woman for the Emergency Operations
Center in Window Rock, Ariz.
works to fixed Authorities also are coordinating
damaged Picasso emergency operations from Shiprock
and Crownpoint, she said. The Navajo
Nation in Arizona will receive federal
instead of driving on treacherous
roads to gather it from the mountains.
People should call 911 during
emergencies. They can contact their
chapter houses if they need other
assistance, including notifying author-
ities of concerns about road condi- Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times

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aid for disaster relief, the Federal Emer- tions in their areas. Farmington Municipal Schools employee James Haley, a grounds foreman,
gency Management Agency announced shovels snow off the school bus loading zone at Country Club Elementary
moves ahead with Monday, after mountainous areas See Weather A2. School on Monday.
new road
construction
Shelter a
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Making the grade top priority
helps locals write Schools discuss American Indian education standards
resumés
for Animal
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announces new
programs for
League
— By James Monteleone —
middle class The Daily Times

FARMINGTON —Lead-
uA8. Witnesses ers of the San Juan Animal
League during its annual
see Ethiopian meeting Monday reiterated
plane crash the need to build a new ani-
mal shelter to reduce the
number of animals eutha-

uB1. Vikings,
nized in Farmington.
More than 6,285 animals
were euthanized at the Farm-
Favre ponder ington Animal Shelter in
future 2008, the most recent avail-
able data. Animals put down
in 2007 and 2008 represented
uB8. Protests
more than 73 percent of all
animals admitted at the
erupt in Venezuela Farmington shelter each year.
Just 18 percent of animals
over TV station San Juan College student Joey Tapaha, were adopted both years,

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Yesterday’s top-read
stories at
Daily-Times.com.
1. Winter weather
leaves many in Navajo
Nation stranded
2. Man in critical
condition after shooting
3. Farmington City
Council to weigh
subdivision
4. Durango airport looks
to expand
5. Farmington’s top
planner retires
21, solves problems through his scientific according to the data.
calculator Monday while studying for an “I guarantee you the No. 1
engineering physics class at San Juan message we’re sending loud
College’s Native American Center. and clear is that we want a
— B y E l i z a b e t h P i az z a — new regional animal shelter,”
The Daily Times said Animal League Presi-
dent Betty Berry. “And
FARMINGTON — Half of the American believe you me, we’re going
Indian students in Farmington Municipal to get it.”
Schools do not graduate high school, Founded in 1974 to advo-
according to data from the New Mexico Pub- cate creation of the current
lic Education Department. Farmington Animal Shelter,
The status of American Indian students the San Juan Animal League
was presented to more than 20 people attend- still is speaking for those ani-
ing a meeting of the Farmington Inter-Tribal mals that can’t speak for
Photos by Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times themselves, Berry said.
Indian Organization on Monday at the Farm- Deidra Mannie, 22, studies for an English class in a stairwell Monday
ington Civic Center. The Animal League oper-
at San Juan College. Mannie, a computer science major, graduated ates a number of community
The Farmington Inter-Tribal Indian Orga- from Farmington High School in 2006.
nization hosted the educational forum to animal welfare programs,

LUCKY NUMBERS
inform the community about how American DeAnna Yazzie,
including discounted
Indian students are performing at all levels of studying for a
spay/neuter clinics, rabies
education. vaccine clinics, pet food col-
health information
ROADRUNNER CASH American Indian students in all grade lev- lections for needy families,
2-6-7-19-20 technology class, emergency veterinary funds
Top Prize: $70,000 els did not meet 2009 proficiency goals in sits next to Kevin
reading and math, according to the data. and financial support for res-
Jensen, studying cuers of abandoned animals.
PICK 3 “Our board has a goal specifically looking for a conceptual The group’s spay/neuter
4-1-1 at Native American students,” said Farming- math class, in the program helped pay costs for
Top Prize: $500 ton Superintendent Janel Ryan. “What are the Native American
issues and what are we doing to improve?” 350 dogs and 260 cats to be
Center at San Juan treated, which Animal
The New Mexico Standards Based College on Monday.
Weather . . . B8 Assessment test, which determines the state’s League Committee Chair-
woman Donna Ogilvie called
See Standards A8. “our biggest and best year
See Shelter A2.

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Solving a financial crisis with pie
Classifieds B4
Plate at Childhaven auction sold for $50,000
— B y E l iz a b e t h P ia zza — paign in December, meeting percent cut was announced in
Comics B6 The Daily Times the agency’s fund-raising goal December.
Crossword B7 with one item. In addition, Childhaven
Obits A5 FARMINGTON — An Officials estimate the pie recently was designated a core
Stocks A6 unusual item that sold at a plate normally sells for $70 to service agency by the state,
Viewpoint A7 recent auction for more than $100. giving the program added
500 times its value helped one “At this time, it means responsibility of helping all
agency save several programs we’ll be able to keep all of our the children in San Juan
that were at risk after a series programs intact,” said Jamie County, but without any addi-
of recent budget cuts. Church, director of the Child- tional funding.
BP America purchased a haven Foundation. The situation left agency
handcrafted pie plate for About $50,000 of funding officials scrambling to make
Rebecca Craig/The Daily Times $50,000 at the 18th annual for Childhaven was cut by ends meet.
VOLUME122 This pie plate was auctioned off for $50,000 for Child- Childhaven Foundation state officials this year in two
NUMBER 179 haven’s phone campaign. “Phone for Children” Cam- separate cuts, and another 3- See Auction A2.