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Gallup Independent (Newspaper) - May 16, 2017, Gallup, New Mexico
The Independent — Gallup, N.M. — Tuesday, May 16, 2017 — Page 5 LOCAL
moving carefully toward the fl ame.”
Charlie Yazzie, 12, of Pinehill, followed Brook’s
instructions and used a fi re extinguisher for the fi rst
time in his life. He left the trailer with a smile on his
face, in the direction of the hamburger stand, where
a multitude was in line waiting for a grilled ham-
burger or hot dog.
About 100 people, mostly local children and
families, attended the event to learn about safety
and support fi refi ghters, police, paramedics and
emergency personnel from various communities in
McKinley and Cibola counties, but mostly from the
Ramah-Pinehill area.
Brook and his colleagues — fi refi ghter emergen-
cy medical technician Dominic Sandoval and fi re in-
spector Nate Emerson — believe that knowing how
to properly use a fi re extinguisher could save lives,
especially when some fi re extinguishers discharge
completely in as little as eight seconds. They recom-
mend the public use one when the fi re is small and
contained and they have a fi re escape plan; otherwise
call 911 and leave the premises.
At another stand, members of the Gallup Civil
Air Patrol provided demonstrations about the con-
sequences of alcohol misuse and abuse. Members
of the public were invited to participate and wear
special goggles designed to distort vision in a similar
way alcohol may impair vision when a person is
intoxicated.
Gallup Civil Air Patrol Airman 1st Class Lewis
Rice called them “fatal vision goggles.” Sometimes
called “drunk goggles,” the fatal vision goggles are
an effective prevention tool when it comes to alcohol
impairment, he said. Participants who put on the
goggles were asked to walk on a straight line, and
everyone failed the test.
“I had to catch a couple of kids from falling,” Rice
said.
Some were asked to catch a ball, others to drive a
golf cart with the goggles on.
“They were running over the cones,” he said with
a laugh.
Presenters included El Malpais National Monu-
ment Wild Land Division fi refi ghters. About a dozen
children visited with agency fi refi ghter Lafe Sackett,
who was standing next to his fi retruck, and asked
questions about his fi refi ghting tools. Sackett said El
Malpais National Monument is always on Restriction
1, which means no fi res allowed outside designated
fi re rings and picnic areas with grills. Camping is
allowed only at campgrounds.
“Always pay attention to fi re restrictions in public
lands,” he said. “And if you are out camping, before
you leave make sure your campfi re is out.”
Ramah Navajo Police Chief Darren Soland said
Health and Safety Day at the school gave emergen-
cy response personnel an opportunity to show the
community that “public service is honorable and
that public service professionals are regular people
doing good things in the community every day. Also
of importance at these events, is to show kids that
public service employees, especially police offi cers,
are approachable and are here to help.”
The event was sponsored by Ramah Navajo
Prevention Program, Pinehill Emergency Medical
Service, Ramah Navajo Police Department, Ramah
Navajo Behavioral Health and the Pine Hill Clinic.
Cable Hoover/Independent
Visitors browse booths and demonstrations during Health and Safety Day at Pine Hill School in Pinehill Friday.
Health and safety
Bears Ears NHA
Rape kit
sidered the book-ends of modern An-
tiquities Act overreach because each
monument is more than 1.3 million
acres.
Meeting with tribal
leaders
The Navajo Nation Offi ce of the
President and Vice President stated in
a new release that Zinke met with tribal
leaders from the Bears Ears Inter-Trial
Coalition at the Bureau of Land Man-
agement Offi ce in Salt Lake City for the
fi rst offi cial meeting between coalition
leaders and Zinke May 7.
After the meeting Zinke said: “It
was an honor to meet with the lead-
ers from the Inter-Tribal Coalition
and I am grateful for their time. Trib-
al sovereignty matters and whether
it’s monuments, energy, education or
economic development, tribal consul-
tation will remain a key pillar during
my tenure as I ensure tribes have a seat
at the table.”
Navajo Nation Vice President Jona-
than Nez informed Zinke that tribes are
united in protecting Bears Ears because
tribal cultural resources also are pro-
tected and tribes have the right to gath-
er ceremonial herbs and medicines on
Bears Ears.
Nez added that ensuring the Nava-
jo people have access and are able to
perform traditional Navajo ceremonies
at Bears Ears is another primary con-
cern.
“We look forward to working with
Secretary Zinke to fi nd a path forward
for this very important sacred area,”
Nez said. “I appreciate the tribal lead-
ers being here as well. We all supported
and continue to support, the national
monument designation.”
Other tribal leaders that met with
Zinke were Navajo Nation Council Del-
egate Davis Filfred, Navajo Nation At-
torney General Ethel Branch, Ute Trib-
al Chairman Shaun Chapoose and Ute
Mountain Ute Tribal Chairman Harold
Cuthair.
Pueblo of Zuni Councilman Caleton
Bowekaty, who also serves as the Bears
Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition co-chair-
man, and Ute Tribal Legal Counsel Le-
land Begay attended the meeting with
Zinke by phone.
Zinke met with the Ute Indian Tribe
of the Uintah Ouray on Bears Ears,
energy development, sovereignty and
public lands May 3.
Utah senator criticized
Also prior to the Interior secretary’s
meeting at Bears Ears, the Utah Diné
Bikéyah, who support the designation
of Bears Ears as a monument, issued a
news release in response to statements
by U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, who
opposes Bears Ears’ designation.
Willie Grayeyes, chairman of the
Utah Diné Bikéyah board, said the De-
seret News reported that Hatch stated
that Native Americans in Utah “may
not understand” how a national monu-
ment designation restricts activities at
Bears Ears.
“They would be severely restricted
on what they could or could not do on
the land,” Hatch said. “I can just tell
you it will never cease until the far left
gets their way in locking up all these
lands in Utah, and we’re just not going
to allow that.”
“It is offensive that some people
think that Native Americans do not have
a will of their own, or if they do take a
position that their position is infl uenced
by a non-native person,” Grayeyes said.
“Native American people understand
the special and sacred landscapes at
Bears Ears National Monument better
than anyone. We have stewarded these
landscapes for thousands of years and
we are very pleased with the language
used in the proclamation that protects
the things we care about and gives us a
voice in our future
“It is no surprise that Senator Hatch
does not understand what he is working
so hard to take away from us,” Gray-
eyes said. “If he would just listen to us
he would stop fi ghting against what we
stand for because it is not a threat to
him or anyone else.”
As of Tuesday, Zinke has not re-
sponded to a request by U.S. Sen. Martin
Heinrich, D-N.M., to extend the public
comment period from 15 days to 60 days
and hold a public meeting in New Mexi-
co as part of his review of the Bears Ears
National Monument in Utah.
Heinrich noted that the monument
designation is also supported by the
pueblos of Acoma, Cochiti, Isleta, Je-
mez, Laguna, Nambe, Ohkay Owingeh,
Picuris, Pojoaque, Sandia, San Felipe,
San Ildefonso, Santa Ana, Santa Clara,
Santo Domingo, Taos, Tesuque, Ysleta
Del Sur, and Zia.
Continued from Page 1
A warrant for his arrest was
issued for failure to complete
DWI School in connection
with this case Feb. 20, 2003,
and canceled on the same day,
according to court records.
McCabe said the warrant
was canceled when he com-
pleted DWI School, and he has
since moved on and never had
any other encounters with the
law, other than traffi c citations,
such as a speeding ticket.
“To be honest, it was a turn-
ing point in my life,” he said.
“I would like the Navajo peo-
ple to know that you can make
mistakes like this and come
back. I haven’t had a drink for
almost seven years. I have ded-
icated my life to serving my
people. … I think there’s a lot I
can bring to the table.”
Legislation to confi rm his
appointment is pending with
members of the Navajo Nation
Council and may be reviewed
May 25, he said.
McCabe has been appointed
to serve as the certifi ed public
accountant and he holds a bach-
elor’s degree from Fort Lewis
College in Durango, Colorado.
An article in Indian Country
Today March 26, 2016, reports
McCabe co-founded Anuske-
wicz & McCabe in 2006, “one
of the very few Native Amer-
ican-owned and -operated ac-
counting fi rms in the U.S. and
the only one in the Southwest.”
The National Center for
American Indian Enterprise
Development recognized Mc-
Cabe’s fi rm with its “Amer-
ican Indian Business of the
Year award for its decade of
success handling tribal ac-
counting services,” accord-
ing to Indian Country Today.
The same article reports Mc-
Cabe earned his bachelor’s in
accounting from Fort Lewis
College in Durango, Colo-
rado, and started his career
as a staff auditor at a fi rm in
Albuquerque. He is a certifi ed
public accountant licensed in
Arizona and New Mexico and
has more than 19 years of ex-
perience in fi nance and public
accounting.
Continued from Page 1
Rhoads said he also informed Col-
lins that he had to submit the DNA test-
ing to the state lab immediately.
Rhoads said his secretary sent an
email to Collins March 16 asking him
if he sent the rape kit to the lab. Rhoads
said Collins did not respond and that
another email was sent April 11.
“Sgt. Collins replied that he was
waiting on the report from the state
crime lab,” Rhoads said.
When he emailed Collins again May 4
— fi ve days before Singh’s jury trial was
set to start, Rhoads said, “Collins replied
that the DNA sample in this matter (had
been) sent to the lab on April 28.”
That was incorrect, Spencer said.
The police investigation after
Rhoads made that statement to the
court revealed that the rape kit had been
sent to the state lab in February and that
it would have been sent even earlier if it
had not been for a changeover of per-
sonnel in the evidence offi ce.
Neither Rhoads nor other offi cials in
the DA’s offi ce were available Monday
to explain how the DA’s offi ce thought
the rape kit was not sent to the state lab
until late April. A clerk at the DA’s of-
fi ce said all of the offi cials were “out for
the day.”
Singh was working as a cook at
Bombay Restaurant and Buffet, 3405
W. Historic Highway 66, when he was
arrested and charged with criminal sex-
ual penetration in the second degree.
At the time of his arrest, he was
placed on $100,000 cash-only bond.
According to his arrest report, Gal-
lup Police began investigating a report
of a sexual assault Nov. 16 that occurred
in a room at Econo Lodge.
Gallup Police Offi cer Justin Benally
said he met with the accuser, who said
she was raped by a man name Major.
She did not know his last name. She
said her assailant was still at the motel
in Room 112.
The accuser told police Anokh
Singh had asked her if she wanted to
have a few drinks with him and Major
Singh in the motel room, and she said
yes because she “thought she could
trust them.”
The accuser said that while in the
room, Major Singh grabbed her, threw
her on the bed and raped her. She said
she told him to stop and yelled for help.
When no help came, she stopped resist-
ing. When he fi nished, she said she ran
out of the room and asked the clerk at
the front desk to call police.
The next day, police went back to the
room and found Major Singh there. He
was placed in handcuffs and arrested.
When the charges were dropped
against Singh May 5, Rhoads said that
if lab tests came in and implicated
Singh, sexual assault charges would be
refi led.
Continued from Page 1
School board
bers to voice their concerns. I
don’t think that’s an unreason-
able request.”
The board members ap-
proved the action item with a
4-1 vote. Mitchell voted in op-
position.
Facility Master Plan
The school district also
voted to approve the Facility
Master Plan, which will renew
older schools in the district that
are in need of replacement, ren-
ovations or system upgrades.
The fi ve-year plan is seek-
ing replacement plans for Gal-
lup Central High School, Gal-
lup High School and Red Rock
Elementary School. Also,
facility replacements would
include the Education Devel-
opment Center and Bus Main-
tenance facility.
Ron Triplehorn, director of
facilities and planning for the
district, provided the school
board with a brief report of the
completed plan.
Mortensen asked if the Fa-
cility Master Plan will be a
strategic piece-by-piece bid of-
fer to the contractor, or if it will
be bid out as a whole.
“Some will be bid out to
contractors, but mostly sig-
nifi cantly large projects, the
ones that are funded by the
state, those will be non-nego-
tiable because the state only
funds them when they’re in
a certain spot,” Triplehorn
said. “Projects that we fund
from the general obligation
funds, we can do those in any
order.”
The board unanimously ap-
proved this action item.
Executive session
The board discussed pend-
ing litigation by former Su-
perintendent Frank Chiapetti
concerning his contract in
executive session, but gave no
updates and took no action.
The board also discussed
a lawsuit fi led by the Gallup
Independent regarding the re-
lease of information concern-
ing the alleged investigation of
Chiapetti by the district. There
was no action regarding the lit-
igation.
Continued from Page 1
Continued from Page 1
“Also of importance at these
events, is to show kids that
public service employees,
especially police offi cers,
are approachable and are
here to help.”
— Chief Darren Soland,
Ramah Navajo Police
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