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We are everyday peopleRemember the Sly and the Family Stone song from years ago?One verse says

I am no better and neither are youWe're all the same whatever we doYou love me you hate meYou know me and thenYou can't figure out the bag I'm inI am everyday peopleWe gotta live together!

Wandering among more than 120,000 people in San Juan County, we pass by strangersevery day and know only their faces, the way they walk or what they wear.

They are everyday people — the man who rides his bike down the street with every-thing in his basket, waving at everyone he passes; the neighborhood guy with a little dog, abig cigar and a serious face who takes a walk every night at 9 p.m. sharp; or the womanwho wears the funky hats at the coffee shop counter.

We wonder: What are their stories?People do extraordinary things every day. They share their time, resources, and love.

They show incredible strength and courage. They inspire us by their example. Quarterly,we collect stories about real-life everyday people, written by local writers who are also cu-rious about people’s stories.

It’s people who make up our community. We hope you know some of our everydaypeople and that you come away thinking “Wow, I see that guy every day and I never knewthat about him.”

Maybe through these chance connections we can create a community with fewer andfewer strangers.

After all, we are all just everyday people.

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SUMMER 2013 | MAJESTIC LIVING | 7


DeBRA MAyeUx, of Farmington, is an award-winning journalist with recognitions from the Associated Press of new Mexico and colorado andthe new Mexico Press Association and the coloradoBroadcast Association. She has covered storiesthroughout the Southwest and in Mexico and Jordan, where she interviewed diplomats and theroyal family. After nearly 20 years in the business,she recently opened her own freelance writing andmedia business. Mayeux enjoys the outdoors, reading and spending time with her family. She isthe coordinator of Farmington Walk and Roll, a Safe Routes to School organization. She is marriedto David Mayeux and they have three children: nick, Alexander and Peter.

LAURen DUFF is a recent graduate of the gaylord college of Journalism and Mass communication atthe University of oklahoma. She received her bachelor’s degree in print journalism with a minorin international studies. While in college, Duff was a reporter at the university newspaper, theoklahoma Daily, and interned in Washington D.c. as a communications intern at the national Petrochemical and Refiners Association. originallyfrom Dallas, Texas, she moved to Farmington daysafter graduating college and has fallen in love withthe area. Duff enjoys traveling, writing, and cheering on her alma mater. BooMeR SooneR!

MARgAReT cHeASeBRo has been a freelance writerfor over 30 years. Her articles have appeared inmany magazines across the country. She was a correspondent for the Albuquerque Journal andworked for several local newspapers. She has fourpublished books of children’s puppet scripts. A former elementary school counselor, she is aReiki Master and practices several alternative healing techniques. She enjoys playing table ennis. She and her husband live near Aztec.

Tony BenneTT grew up in Farmington. He received his bachelor’s degree in photography from Brooks institute. Heowned and operated a commercial photography studio in Dallas for over 20years. He was also team photographer for the Dallas cowboys for 10 years. now back in Farmington, Tony wants tobring his many years of photo experienceto photographing families, weddings,events, portraits, and more, to his hometown………and SKi ! He teaches at San Juan college.

JoSH BiSHoP is a recent graduate ofSan Juan college with an associates de-gree in Digital Media Arts and Design.He currently works at Majestic Mediaas a video producer and photographer.

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Ron PRice owns and operates Productive outcomes, inc. He offers a variety of services including dispute resolution, adoption home studyinvestigations, and workplace training. Ron alsoprovides marriage education and enhancement tocouples planning marriage or who wish to remainhappily married. Ron is happily married to MaridellPrice, a Registered nurse at the San Juan RegionalMedical center. They have been married 30years. Ron has a BA in Sociology from the University of Rhode island, and a Master’s Degreein counseling from the University of new Mexico.



summerfeatures:

12 Golf and life

A non-profit organization in San Juan County combines golf and

life skills to help kids ages 5 through18 become well-rounded

individuals.

By Margaret Cheasebro

20 Knowledge is power

New Mexico women are

concerned about their safety.

With muggings, drug-related

shootings and assaults

happening throughout the

region, learning to protect

oneself and one’s family is an

important part of life.

By Debra Mayeux

26 Teaching &

preaching

His father is a

pastor, his brothers

are studying to be

pastors and, on his

mother’s side of the

family, there are 38

ordained pastors

and/or foreign

missionaries. The

Rev. Guy Mackey

was destined to

wear a collar.

By Debra Mayeux

30 A healing way

of being

Energy should move

freely through the

body like smooth

flowing traffic.

By Debra Mayeux

36 Life’s twists

and turns

Douglas Pendergrass of Flora

Vista has seen his share of

injuries.


40 Life’s creative process

Imagine waking up in the

morning and seeing stone

castles perched on top of

rolling hills, seagulls flying

above, and mountain peaks

peering through wispy,

grapefruit colored clouds.

By Lauren Duff


44 Airbrush and engines

Kaitlyn Youell, 22, grew up a cowgirl with a hankering for painting. She raised

and showed steers and sheep, while keeping a horse and goats for pets.

By Debra Mayeux

50 The heart of the river

Dr. Bob Lehmer, 73, loves

the outdoors. He loves

the rivers that run

through Aztec, Bloom-

field and Farmington, and

he loves working with

people.


56 Centuries-old partners

There were hitching

posts on Main Street in

historic downtown Farm-

ington.

By Debra Mayeux

62 Talking and caring

Communication can be found at

the heart of any solid relationship,

and for two people as busy as

Barb and Rick Tedrow it is the glue

that holds their lives together.

By Debra Mayeux

66 New Mexico

Mission Of Mercy

Dentistry is a profes-

sion that requires

caring individuals

who want to have an

effect on another

person’s life.

By Lauren Duff

70 Ministry on Wheels

You know the old expression “Don’t

judge a book by its cover?”

By Ron Price

74 Monument honors

Code Talkers

Navajo Code Talkers and some of

their descendants were among

many to attend the March 21 dedi-

cation in Santa Fe of the first

Navajo Code Talkers monument in

New Mexico.


IN THIS ISSUE6 From the Editor 80 Coolest Things



Story by Margaret Cheasebro

Photos by Tony Bennett

A non-profit organization in San Juan County combines golf and life skills to

help kids ages 5 through18 become well-rounded individuals.

The First Tee, a national organization begun in 1997, has 200 chapters in 720

locations worldwide. It spread to San Juan County in 2005.

Tom Yost is executive director of The First Tee of San Juan County, N.M. He was

once the assistant golf professional at San Juan Country Club and later head golf

professional at Riverview Golf Course.

“We teach aspects of the game of golf so kids improve their golf game,” he

said. “Within that, we tie a life skill lesson plan into whatever we’re talking about.”

Training free to students

The training is free. The First Tee raises its operating money through avenues

such as federal and private grants and donations from local businesses, national

corporations and individuals. Its annual operating budget is about $140,000,

which covers equipment and travel costs, salaries and benefits, marketing and

public relations.

Through its National School Program, The First Tee has a presence in six San

Juan County elementary schools and at the Farmington Boys and Girls Club. The

schools include Animas, Bluffview and McKinley in the Farmington School District,

Ruth N. Bond in the Central Consolidated School District, and Central Primary

G lf

&

First Tee combines both in character building lessons for kids

l i f e

and Blanco in the Bloomfield School District.

The National School Program involves train-

ing physical education teachers in The First Tee

curriculum, developed by great minds in the

fields of physical education, life skills and char-

acter values. It also provides schools with age

appropriate plastic golf clubs and tennis balls

that stick to a target, making them safe for

school use. The equipment comes from SNAG

Golf, which stands for Starting New at Golf.

Merrion supports program

Through a generous donation from the

Merrion Oil and Gas Foundation, Yost plans

to have the equipment in 15 San Juan County

elementary schools by the end of 2017.

“The First Tee is about building character,

and it uses golf to do that,” said Neil Merrion,

who is on the Merrion Oil and Gas Foundation

board. “It fits in with what our foundation was

originally set up to do. We want to support

things that improve the community, get more

people involved in athletics, and build

character.”

For schools without a National School

Program, every fall and spring The First Tee

staff teaches golf and life skills in as many

elementary, middle and high schools as

possible that request it. They also offer

after-school programs at several schools and at

the San Juan County Juvenile Detention Facility.

They also work with Big Brothers, Big Sisters

and Special Olympics.

In its core program, The First Tee provides

summer programs from early June to

mid-August that teach golf and life skills to

junior golfers at Riverview, Hidden Valley, San

Juan Country Club, and Civitan golf courses

in San Juan County, and at Conquistador Golf

Course in Cortez, Colorado. Golf

professionals at those courses have been

trained by The First Tee to teach its curriculum.

Impact 8,000 kids

“We impact about 8,000 kids in San Juan

County every year,” Yost explained. “About

7,500 of those kids are either National School

Program kids or in the in-school program that

we run. Another 500 are in the after school

The First Tee coaches encourage youngpeople to follow these behaviors whileplaying golf and in other aspects of life.

Respect for Myself

• I will dress neatly and wear golf or athletic shoes.• I will always try my best when I play orpractice.• I will keep a positive attitude and catchmyself doing something right regardless ofthe outcome.• I will be physically active, eat well, getenough sleep, and take care of myself so Ican stay healthy.• I will be honest at all times, includingwhen I keep score and if I break a rule.• I will use proper etiquette and maintainmy composure even when others may notbe watching.

Respect for Others

• I will follow all instructions and safetyrules.• I will keep up with the pace of play onthe golf course.• I will be friendly, courteous and helpful.• I will remain still and quiet while othersare playing and have fun without beingloud and rowdy.•I will be a good sport toward otherswhether I win or lose.

Respect for Surroundings

• I will keep the golf course and practiceareas clean and in as good or better shapethan I found them.• I will clean and take care of my and oth-ers’ golf equipment.• I will be careful not to damage anythingthat belongs to others.

First Tee Code of ConductTaken from the Parents’ Guide to The First Tee.

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and core programs.”

If students get As and Bs on their report

cards, they can get recognized on The First Tee’s

A-B Honor Role and receive a certificate.

Their program is built on a foundation of nine

core values: honesty, integrity, respect,

responsibility, courtesy, confidence,

perseverance, judgment and sportsmanship.

Those core values are encompassed in each

of five program levels.

PLAYer introduces kids to the game of golf,

to basic life skills, and to The First Tee’s Code

of Conduct and Nine Core Values.

PAR focuses on interpersonal communication

and self-management skills.

BIRDIE emphasizes goal setting.

EAGLE stresses resilience skills, conflict reso-

lution and planning for the future.

ACE helps participants focus on setting goals

for golf, career, education and giving back to

the community.

Kids prove their skills

To progress from level to level, kids must

prove they have attained certain golf and life

skills.

“They’ve got to show us they’re able to apply

the life skill lessons we’ve taught,” Yost said.

“Application is what we’re looking for.”

In the higher levels, participants have a

chance to qualify for scholarships based on golf

or life skills, to play with professional golfers at

Pebble Beach, improve their skills at the

International Junior Golf Academy in Hilton

Head, S.C., or to meet executives on the

Coca-Cola campus in Atlanta, Ga.

There’s a Life Skill and Leadership Academy

every summer where those fortunate enough to

be selected spend a week participating in

championship golf, life skills, activities and

career exploration on a university campus. They

live in a dorm and meet other The First Tee

participants from around the world.

Helps advanced players

An eight-day PLAYer Advanced Academy helps

advanced players, who are pursuing collegiate

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Members also may participate in The FirstTee Outstanding Participant Summit that recognizes exemplary achievement in a varietyof areas from academics to community service.

The First Tee also offers RBS Achievers ofthe Year awards for participants who haveovercome life challenges while upholding theNine Core Values.

It’s not easy to qualify for those opportuni-ties because kids must compete with other FirstTee members around the world.

Patrick Gregoire, a home schooled highschool student in Farmington, was selected as aTop 100 participant in 2011 to attend the National Lifeskill and Leadership Conference atArizona State University.

“He really enjoyed the week,” said hismother, Shari Gregoire. “It opened up possibil-ities for golf in the future for him. It made himreally want it.”

Life skills came in handy

Patrick became involved in The First Teewhen he was 11. Now 17, he has learned lifeskills that have helped him through challenging

situations.“Anything you do in life is not just about the

sport or the skill of it,” Gregoire said. “It’sabout the character you build while you’redoing it, and the person you become throughthat experience. And that’s what The First Teestresses, the life skills.”

Those life skills impressed Tina Pacheco-White as well. Her son Asa, 10, became in-volved in The First Tee when he was 6 yearsold.

“When he came home after the first time ofdoing it, he told me he learned what integritywas,” she recalled. “He told me integrity isbeing honest with your golf shot if anyone islooking or not. That set off a light bulb withme. It’s pretty unusual that a 6-year-old coulddescribe what integrity is.”

She was so impressed with the program thatshe became a First Tee board member.

Bluffview most recent addition

The most recent school to receive the Na-tional School Program is Bluffview Elementary.Through that program, that school’s physical

education teacher, Kathy Lund, was trained byThe First Tee, and the school received golfequipment.

“The National First Tee program in theschools benefits students in several ways,” saidBluffview principal Sha Lyn Weisheit. “It willprovide students with a recreational life skillthat they can use into adulthood. The FirstTee’s nine core values correlate nicely with ex-pectations for students as they strive to im-prove their current academic levels, and theywill help students as they interact with one an-other and with people in the community.”

Lund loves the program.“I consider it a tremendous opportunity for

Bluffview students,” she said. “It helps studentsbecome responsible, productive citizens. TomYost has done a fantastic job getting studentsinvolved in The First Tee in many differentschools, donating numerous hours to help stu-dents learn the game.”

Yost caddied at 11

Yost grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. He enjoysthe world of athletics. From the time he was

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little, he loved every sport. “When I was 11, a kid moved in next door and

got me hooked on golf,” he said. “I started caddy-ing when I was 11. Every job I ever had after thatwas golf related. I played golf on my high schoolteam. I got some offers to play at small schools,but I wanted to work in the golf industry.”

He came to San Juan County after his friendMike Stark, then head golf professional at San JuanCountry Club, contacted him in Cincinnati. Starkand Yost met in high school and attended NewMexico State University’s Professional Golf Management program.

“Mike called and said, ‘I need an assistant. Doyou want to come out?’ That was in 2000, and Ihooked up my truck to a U-Haul and drove the 27hours to Farmington,” Yost said.

In 2001, the head golf professional job atRiverview opened up, and Yost took it.

Stark eventually left golf to become Chief Operating Officer of San Juan County. He’s onThe First Tee board.

Golf is lifetime game

“The program gives kids an opportunity to learna game they can play for a lifetime,” Stark said. “Interms of an athletic program, it’s unheard of in itsuniqueness. It combines what you can learn in agame and life skills to provide you so much guidance in the game of golf and in your life. I’venever been a part of anything else that had thatability.”

Yost and others brought the program to SanJuan County because “we saw a niche that wasn’tbeing met in our market with junior golf,” he said.

Chapter began in 2002

The First Tee chapter started in 2002 when SanJuan College and Central Consolidated SchoolDistrict owned Riverview Golf Course. At first, itcame under the umbrella of the college’s 501(c)3status. Now it has its own 501(c)3 designation.

Making business plans and meeting other re-quirements followed. It took two or three years toraise the necessary operating budget before TheFirst Tee began teaching kids in 2005.

Eventually, working at Riverview Golf Courseand getting The First Tee off the ground, stretchedYost too thin. So he resigned from Riverview andbecame The First Tee executive director.

“It’s my passion,” Yost said. “I’m paying forwardwhat people gave me the opportunity to do whenI was younger.”

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Story by Debra Mayeux


New Mexico women are concerned about their safety. With muggings, drug-related

shootings and assaults happening throughout the region, learning to protect oneself and

one’s family is an important part of life.

A San Juan County Sheriff’s deputy brought a woman’s safety class to the area 13 years

ago, and since then Connie Johnston has trained more than 600 area woman how to pro-

tect themselves and their children.

Last summer, she used her knowledge and experience to open Safer-U, a business that

teaches everything from handgun basics to conceal-carry classes to reality based crime pre-

vention and shooting training for area residents.

Margie Poff, of Farmington, signed up for the Handgun 101 class followed by the con-

ceal carry class. “My husband doesn’t own a gun, so I have to protect my family,” Poff

Johnston teaches women about guns, safety and self defence

said, adding she also enjoys recreational

shooting.

Poff joined a class of 25 out on the B-

Square Ranch, where Johnston has set up a

shooting range. It was a quiet, sunny after-

noon until the bullets began flying out of their

chambers into multiple targets set up amid the

bluffs. While some practiced their shooting

techniques with six of Johnston’s trained law

enforcement professionals, others sat in lawn

chairs enjoying the scenery and snacks.

Everyone was outfitted with guns, holsters,

safety glasses and air plugs to protect them-

selves and their senses. “There is a focus on

safety, and we’re learning from professionals,”

Poff said. “We really need these professionals

to teach us how to operate the guns.”

Professionalism was important to Johnston,

when she decided to start up Safer-U.

“Customer service is paramount,” she said,

of her law enforcement trained instructors.

“Teaching civilians is not the same as teaching

cops, and the instructors have to have a desire

to teach and be patient.”

Johnston became a law enforcement officer

13 years ago when she joined the San Juan

County Sheriff’s Office. She worked there for

five years, then transferred to the Farmington

Police Department. She later returned to the

county, where she helped Sheriff Ken

Christesen develop the Women Against Crime

Program at the county. It is offered free to

area women as an eight-week class.

Women Against Crime focuses on personal

responsibility and awareness, because 85

percent of personal protection is awareness,

according to Johnston. The class covers how

to recognize threats and avoid them, as well as

providing information about sexual assault and

drugs.

“We bring in heroin, methamphetamine,

cocaine, paraphernalia and prescription

drugs,” Johnston said. This allows students to

see what the drugs look like and also hear

about signs and symptoms of use.

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program is teaching mothers how to protect

their children from Internet predators, and

how to deal with a solicitation from an

Internet predator if it is received.

There is a day of shooting at the Wildlife

Federation and a focus on developing a

personal protection plan. “If we don’t have a

plan, unfortunately, we freeze and do

nothing,” Johnston said. “Those seconds are

imperative, so if you put something in a plan

that is what you will do.”

Johnston had been teaching this course for

so many years, but she wanted to reach a

larger audience. She and colleague Nick

Bloomfield talked about reaching out to the

non-law enforcement public and offering

people the same type of class. They wanted

to decrease the likelihood of a person being

victimized and also create partnerships with

the general public when it came to fighting

against crime.

“We wanted to offer programs that gave

options to law-abiding community members

to increase their safety,” Johnston said.

This led to the creation of Safer-U, and

Johnston was able to find instructors, because

they were her colleagues. Her instructors are

Nick Bloomfield, Dave McCall, Carlos Loomis,

Reyes Flores, Dustin Parsons, Scott Facka and

Matt Anthony.

“It’s a unique concept – a group of law

enforcement that’s banded together to teach

citizens,” she said. “It’s inspiring when we

have cops on the range teaching 25 citizens

about handgun safety. It makes us proud of

what we do.”

The San Juan County Sheriff’s Office

promotes a community policing model that in-

cludes such programs as Neighborhood Watch

and partnering with community members to

make neighborhoods safer. “Law enforcement

thinks we cannot provide protection for our

community by ourselves, so we’ve got to work

at keeping our community safe by working to-

gether with the community,” Johnston said.

This can be done by arming trained civilians

with handguns, and “having guns in key places

when the threat comes through the door.”

This is one of the reasons for Johnston

offering reality based training to San Juan

County through the Safer-U business. Reality

based training typically had been available toSUMMER 2013 | MAJESTIC LIVING | 23

law enforcement and the military, but it

recently became available to businesses

that train civilians in the proper use of

handguns and safety.

In this program, participants are given

guns that hold only non-lethal rounds.

They will receive classroom training,

followed by scenarios, where the student

will have to decide when to shoot. They

also will have to deal with finding cover,

shooting moving targets, addressing the

threat and the inevitability of equipment

malfunctions.

“We take all of that, teach it all, and

they practice it and learn it,” Johnston

said. At the end of the class everyone will

be given a non-lethal firearm and

scenarios. They will have to go out, ad-

dress the scene and control the scene. “It

gets them moving and thinking. It forces

decision making.”

This type of training requires protective

gear for both the instructors and the

students, and it will also afford the student

the opportunity to go through the scenario

multiple times until they get it right.

The students also receive instruction on

liability issues, including the civil and crimi-

nal cases that can result from shooting a

handgun even in the case of self defense.

“It really makes you think,” said David

Greenwood, who was taking the conceal

carry class. “This was a Christmas gift for

me, and I’m really enjoying it.”

He sat alongside Sabrina Stratton, who

took the class better to protect herself

after she became the victim of a crime.

“This has given me a lot of good pointers

and information to think about,” she said.

“This whole thing is empowering – to learn

from people who do this every day – peo-

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His father is a pastor, his brothers are studying to be pastors and,

on his mother’s side of the family, there are 38 ordained pastors

and/or foreign missionaries. The Rev. Guy Mackey was destined to

wear a collar.

Mackey, 40, is the priest at St. John’s Epsicopal Church in Farm-

ington. He came to the area four years ago from Mansfield, La.,

where he pastored a church for eight years. When he arrived in

Farmington, St. John’s was struggling and ready for a spiritual leader,

he quickly filled that role as founding member of the Anglican Order

of Dominicans.

The Dominicans are a Roman Catholic order of teachers, and

Mackey along with his father the Rev. Jeffrey Mackey received the

Roman church’s blessing upon establishing the Episcopalian order,

according to Jack Yerby, parish administrator at St. John’s.

“The Dominican’s strong point is teaching and preaching – Father

Guy is good at that,” Yerby said. “He has excellent sermons. We post

them on our website and we get a lot of great comments about

them.”

Mackey took this gift of “teaching and preaching” one step fur-

ther when he was commissioned as a chaplain in the New Mexico

State Guard. “My assignment is to be a chaplain for the National

Guard at the Farmington Readiness Center,” he said.


Father Guy’s talents serve himwell as National Guard Chaplain

Mackey had learned about the New Mexico

State Guard from the late San Juan County

Magistrate Bill Vincent, who was a commis-

sioned officer in the guard. In his sermons

Mackey preaches about volunteering and

putting oneself out there to help others in

need. When the opportunity arose for him to

become Farmington’s only State Guard

Chaplain, he took it.

“I talk a lot about having my people take

the Gospel – the Love of Christ – to other

agencies,” he explained. “There are certain

niches where only a priest – only a clergyman

– can go. If you want to take care of

soldiers, you have to take the oath, put on

the uniform, and do it.”

Mackey served in the U.S. Army Reserve

when he was younger, so he knew what it was

like to be a citizen soldier. He knew that

they too need ministry and church services,

but he also knew they would better accept

him if he joined the State Guard.

Once signing on, Mackey was assigned to

serve one weekend of every month at the

National Guard Readiness Center, near the

Four Corners Regional Airport. He arrives at

the center with the other citizen soldiers and

takes classes and training, and serves right

beside them. Sometimes his work includes

doing vehicle checks and maintenance. Other

times he is training how to handle injuries in

a volatile situation. This includes learning

how to wrap wounds and tie tourniquets.

“I want to be familiar with them and their

duties, so I understand what they are doing,”

Mackey said. He also provides them with

church services while at the facility. “Services

on duty may be the only time they go to

service at all.”

The duties of a chaplain, however, are

more than once a month on weekends. “The

chaplaincy can go outside of the guard. It is

not limited to people in uniform,” Mackey

said. He is on call for the families in case of

accidents or illness, and he also can provide

personal counseling.

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Mackey will soon be

trained to counsel

soldiers suffering from

post traumatic stress

disorder, and according

to Yerby the parish-

ioners at St. John’s are

“very supportive” of

Mackey’s service.

The service truly is a

part of Mackey’s

makeup. He was raised

in the Christian and

Missionary Alliance – a

church that he said is

part of the “Holiness

Movement.” It is an

evangelical church with

a heavy focus on

missionary work. At one

time this church had

more missionaries in the

field per capita than any

other church in America.

Mackey’s youth was

spent learning the

importance of reaching

out to others in a

missionary type capacity. He was the eldest

Mackey child, and when his father converted

to Episcopalian in 1993, it took Mackey a cou-

ple of years to accept it.

Once Mackey decided to become an Epis-

copalian in 1995, he was off to the seminary

two months later. He said the church felt right,

because it focused on the “idea of the Holy

and Powerful God.”

There was the Liturgy of the Mass, the

priests wore vestments, and God was treated as

the Almighty and the Powerful One.

“I made a change in action to what I be-

lieved,” Mackey said. When you walk into an

Episcopal Church it is silent, parishioners are

prayerfully awaiting the Mass. Then the bell

rings, everyone rises; hymns are sung and the

Mass begins. “The attitude of awe and respect

is present in the room.”

He refers to himself as a “young traditional-

ist” – someone who looked back further in

history for a spiritual and church-related

tradition, and he found it in the Episcopal

Church, where his preaching focuses on

teaching a congregation of 130 people.

At St. John’s, “big picture politics” are left

at the door. The parish life is about a

relationship with God. “St. John’s is a church

of people who study,” Mackey said. “I really

am a teacher at heart, so I fit in.”

He brings the same teaching spirit to the cit-

izen soldiers of the New Mexico National Guard

one weekend of every month, and whenever

they need him – he is their chaplain.

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of being

getting it back on track.

The 68-year-old Farmington woman be-

came a doctor of Oriental Medicine and

opened a clinic in 2007, after searching for

the perfect occupation. “I never really found

a career I liked,” St. Clair said, “but after I

had a couple of Chinese doctors work on me

it just grabbed me. I wanted to do this for

people.”

In Chinese medicine, the doctor places tiny

needles in proper places on the body to

make the energy flow. “This releases energy

that is stuck and gets it where it needs to be,”

St. Clair explained. “Energy is removed from

one place where it is stuck and stagnating to

areas that are deprived.”

Acupuncture can be used to treat many dif-

ferent health conditions. It helped St. Clair

and that is why at the age of 50 she enrolled

at the Portland College of Oriental Medicine

in Portland, Ore., so she could become a

doctor of Oriental medicine. She studied

under Wei Li, a renowned acupuncturist and

author, who wrote the book “Clinical

Nephrology and Chinese Medicine.”

Li began practicing Chinese Medicine at

the age of 17. She wrote that its influence

came from the principles of Confucian ideol-

ogy, which “emphasizes the need to preserve

the wholeness of the body throughout life

and death.”

There also are Taoist ideologies in Chinese

medicine, and these deal with a description

of the universe as “a collection of interde-

pendent yet polar natural forces” such as the

Yin and Yang. This means that man can achieve

ideal health through “perfect harmony with

the natural forces surrounding him.”

These two theories promote the use of

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to ailments, and St. Clair said those medical

modalities helped her, so she decided to

study them to help others.

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She later moved back to Portland, but returned to Farmington. “I always

knew I wanted to be in Farmington,” said St. Clair, who spent most of her

professional life in Santa Fe.

She had owned a bakery, worked for a publishing company and worked

in a bank, but helping people through alternative medicine and doing that in

San Juan County was her goal. St. Clair returned to Farmington in 2009 and

opened the Four Corners Acupuncture Clinic in an office neighboring Mesa

Family Practice. She remained there for a few years, until she had a brush

with death.

St. Clair was at a retreat in the mountains north of Denver when she had

an unexplainable and severe nose bleed. An air ambulance had to fly into

the mountains to get her and take her to the Swedish Medical Center in

Denver. “I was classified in critical condition, and I felt terrible, and so

weak” she said.

St. Clair could no longer work and once again closed the clinic to return

to Portland. Her teacher Wei Lee cared for her until she could once again

give acupuncture and Chinese medicine a go.

“I love working with people. I missed the clinic, so I came back,” St. Clair

said. “I like helping people; I find it very satisfying.”

This time around, St. Clair was able to design and develop the clinic she

always wanted with color and atmosphere representative of Chinese medi-

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peach, an element of warmth and representative

of heart.

There is green in one of the procedure rooms

representing the liver and gall bladder, two very

important organs in Chinese medicine.

“There is a lot of white and shades of white

for the long and large intestine,” St. Clair ex-

plained. Yellow in the kitchen area represents the

stomach and spleen, while blue in the herb room

is for the kidney, urinary tract and bladder.

The new clinic is located at 1515 E. 20th St.,

Suite F, in Farmington.

St. Clair stays busy performing acupuncture

treatments on people with varying ailments. She

uses needles from China and Japan. “It is New

Mexico law that they are only used once,” she

said.

The needles barely penetrate the skin and are

never inserted into blood vessels. They are

placed along lines of energy to stop blockages

and redistribute the energy throughout the body.

“I love Chinese medicine because it’s effective

and the results can be achieved without putting

chemicals in the body – chemicals that don’t re-

ally belong there,” St. Clair said. “It can be used

for many health conditions, and if I feel I can’t

help somebody I refer them to someone else.”

St. Clair has had success in treating patients

with allergies, infertility, pain, Hepatitis C, skin

rashes, headaches, colds and coughs, among

other things.

She helped Mary Beth Yates with insomnia.

“Rhenna came highly recommended to me,”

Yates said. “She is such a calm and gentle person

in addition to having a sense of humor.”

All of this is included with her skill, and Yates

said that “brings a benefit to the healing process.

There’s something about that that is very special

– a healing way of being.”

Yates sought treatment from St. Clair earlier

this year and has already seen success. She also

appreciates that St. Clair is not a “pushy” per-

son. While St. Clair believes in Chinese medicine

she presents treatments as an option. “She also

gives you a lot of information and is very knowl-

edgeable.”

Some of this knowledge comes from being a

student and practitioner of Chinese medicine,

but St. Clair also has experienced Chinese medi-

cine at its heart in Asia. She has traveled to

China twice. She went with a friend, traveling the

Silk Road.

“It was just fascinating,” she said. Her second

trip was through Southwest China, and she trav-

eled “gradually higher in elevation until she made

it into Tibet.”

St. Clair, who is a practicing Buddhist, visited

shrines and monasteries along the way. “The

people were interested in meeting us and we

were interested in meeting them,” she said,

adding she visited an Oriental Medicine clinic

while there and spoke with some of the doctors

practicing in China. What she discovered was

that their skills and education were very similar

to her own.

Someday St. Clair would like to study Viet-

namese acupuncture, and there also is Japanese

acupuncture. Each is a bit different, but all have

the same philosophy of “treating the energy, the

spirit, the mind, the emotion and the physical

body all at the same time,” she said.

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Douglas Pendergrass of Flora Vista has seen his share of injuries. From

knee injuries while playing high school football and steer wrestling to a bro-

ken back while working for an offshore drilling company, all of which re-

quired surgery, he knows what it feels like to hurt.

When doctors told him he’d be 20 to 25 percent disabled after breaking

his lower back, he didn’t accept their prognosis. He didn’t know how he’d

get back to 100 percent, but he believed the answer was out there some-

where.

The twists and turns of his life led him to attend chiropractic school. After

practicing as a chiropractor in Texas for several years, he went to work for

AIRROSTI (Applied Integration for the Rapid Recovery of Soft Tissue In-

juries). As he learned their techniques and received treatments for his own

soft tissue injuries, he beat the doctors’ bleak odds about his future.

“I don’t think I’m even 1 percent disabled,” he said. “Always search for

something that’s going to help you. It’s out there most of the time.”

Prefers smaller community

Pendergrass came to Flora Vista in 2012 when his wife, Toni, was hired as

president of San Juan College. She grew up in Aztec. Pendergrass grew up in

rural Texas towns. They both wanted to raise their children in a small town

atmosphere.

“We thought it was really important for our kids to be around agriculture

and to have a great education with smaller classes and lifelong friends,” Pen-

dergrass said. “There’s nothing like growing up in a small town where you can

make lifelong friends.”

The Treatment Room

When he moved here, Pendergrass started his own business, The Treat-

ment Room: Muscle and Sports Therapy, at 2300 E. 30th St., Suite 102 B,

in Farmington. He treats soft tissue injuries in people of all ages.

“It’s strictly soft tissue work, primarily focusing on fascia,” he explained.

Fascia is soft tissue that covers each muscle.

“Fascia can be tricky at times,” he noted, “because there are a lot of dif-

ferent things it can do. Falling on an outstretched arm could be different

than treating something that’s just a pull, because your fascia can lock into

positions. What we hope is that when we injure ourselves, the fascia will

bounce right back to its normal position. But since it has very little blood

supply, it doesn’t have the same healing capabilities as the muscles do with

blood enriched tissue. I realign fascia to restore the normal functionality.

Then your body’s capabilities of healing will increase.”

Lucky to have him here

Jesse and Stephanie Hickey, co-owners of Animas CrossFit, a Farmington

gym, have both been treated by Pendergrass.

“From my viewpoint as a physical therapist, I think we are extremely lucky

to have Dr. Pendergrass in our area,” Stephanie said. “At this time, there’s

no one doing work like he’s doing. He approaches body work from an array

of techniques. I experienced immediate and lasting results after 30 or 40

minutes.”"

Jesse didn’t realize he was having discomfort when he did lunges.

“He did manual therapy on me, and when I did lunges after that I felt so

Past injuries help Doug Pendergrasstreat soft tissue injuries

Life’s

and


much better,” said Jesse. “My sacrum was out of place, and he put it back in

place.”

Gayle Dean, executive director of the San Juan College Foundation, went

to Pendergrass with a sprained ankle.

“I had swelling, pain and very little flexibility,” Dean said. After two treat-

ments I was walking normally and even running. Dr. Pendergrass explained

everything as he worked on my ankle, so I was able to continue the exercises

at home. I believe his expertise made a huge different in my recovery.”

Works with athletes and others

About a third of Pendergrass’ patients have been athletes in many differ-

ent sports.

His clients range in age from preschoolers to people over 80. They come

with wide ranging issues from plantar fasciitis and rotator cuff injuries to

back and knee injuries. Soft tissue treatment works for about 90 percent of

them, he said, unless they have a significant tear that requires surgery. Even

people with degenerative issues can be helped to some degree.

“I can understand when my patients talk about knee or shoulder pain,” he

said. “A lot of these things I’ve experienced myself. I know what questions to

ask. Then I can treat them or send them in the right direction. Sometimes

they need surgery. It’s important to work closely with other physicians in the

area. The most important thing is the person’s wellbeing, getting them to the

right person to get the job done.”

Agriculture, rodeo background

Pendergrass didn’t start out planning to become a chiropractor. Born May

17, 1968, in Houston, Texas, he moved to Del Rio, Texas, when he was 2

and grew up there until he was 16 when his grandmother died. Then the

family moved to El Campo, Texas, about 70 miles from Houston. There, he

graduated from high school in 1986. His family owned a ranch with cattle,

sheep and goats. He was involved in 4-H and Future Farmers of America.

During high school football, he played defensive and offensive tackle and

offensive guard. He also wrestled steers in high school and college, placing

third in state in the Texas Youth Rodeo Association.

A humble man, he doesn’t talk easily about his accomplishments.

“I could hold my own, I guess,” he said.

Texas Aggie

He earned a bachelor of science degree from Texas A&M University in

College Station, Texas.

“My dad was a proud graduate of Texas A&M University,” Pendergrass

said. “He told my brothers, sister and me that we could attend any college

we wanted, but his money was going to Texas A&M!”

After college, he worked at different jobs, one for an offshore drilling

company. During a 1997 rig accident, he broke his lower back without real-

izing it.

“I worked for 10 months with a broken back,” he said. “It got to where I

couldn’t move any more. I ended up having surgery. They fused it – rods,

screws, bolts.”

He spent much time recovering at home in Del Rio. Then he moved to

Austin and began doing bid work for a friend who owned a large landscap-

ing company.

Visits Ruidoso

During his growing up years, Pendergrass spent summers with his family in

Ruidoso to escape the Texas heat and because his father raced horses. So it

was natural for him to go to Ruidoso over Labor Day weekend in 2001 to

watch the All American Futurity. The decision was life changing, because

there he met Toni.

“She had just finished up at the University of Texas in Austin with her dis-

sertation,” he said. “She was in Ruidoso with her mother and father, and I

met her there. I called her when I returned to Austin. On our first date, we

attended a University of Texas game.”

UT was a rival of Pendergrass’ Texas A&M alma mater.

“I gritted my teeth, sat through it and made it out of there in one piece,”

he said with a laugh.

He and Toni were married May 1, 2004, in Ruidoso.

“We knew we wanted a family, and we started having kids immediately,”

he said. “We’ve been blessed with three beautiful children, a son and two

daughters.”

They’re ages 8, 5 and 1. Both parents pitch in with household duties.

Career change

After he met Toni, he decided to go to chiropractic school. The decision

resonated with his family’s medical background.

“I come from two generations of MDs,” he said. “My great-grandfather

was a medical doctor in the horse and buggy days. My grandfather was a

medical doctor in the military, and my mother is a pharmacist.”

His father, who didn’t choose a medical career, was a district judge for

the state of Texas for several years.

In chiropractic school, Pendergrass had access to therapy on a regular

basis.

“It drastically improved my health,” he said.

Graduates as chiropractor

At first, the family lived in Dallas, where Toni worked at El Centro Col-

lege, Dallas County Community College District. In 2006, Pendergrass

graduated from Parker College of Chiropractic in Dallas.

Later they moved to Houston when Toni became Vice President of Learn-

ing at San Jacinto College, South Campus, in Houston.

Pendergrass began working as a chiropractor in Houston. Always inter-

ested in learning more, he began checking out AIRROSTI, a company he had

heard about in chiropractic school.

“I started looking at the doctors who were working for the company, and

six of them were my classmates,” he said. “I called them up individually and

they said, ‘They have a lot of trade secrets, so I can’t tell you much about it,

but if you’re fortunate enough to be hired, it’s amazing.’”

That convinced Pendergrass. After going through an extensive interview

process, he was hired by AIRROSTI and learned about their soft tissue tech-

niques.

Amazed by new technique

With soft tissue work, people often get better after two treatments, he

said. More challenging cases can take five or six treatments, a very different

outcome than that which he found in his traditional chiropractic practice.

Toni is proud of her husband’s skills. “He’s worked with MDs to help

people recover from soft tissue injuries,” she said. “Usually he just has to

treat people one to three times and they’re out of pain.”

Because AIRROSTI had no job for him in Houston, Pendergrass worked in

San Antonio and went home to see his wife and kids on weekends.

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Story by Lauren Duff

Imagine waking up in the morning and seeing stone

castles perched on top of rolling hills, seagulls flying

above, and mountain peaks peering through wispy, grapefruit

colored clouds. This is the world Lola Brown lives in each day

since local artist Steve Myers painted every inch of her “castle” – a

process that took ten years to complete.

“Lola’s Castle,” located near the San Juan Country Club in Farmington is

a masterpiece in itself and Myers was able to transform Brown’s vision, which

has brought joy to her life since her husband, Carl, passed away in 2002.

But long before embarking on this ten-year journey, Myers has made a name for

himself in the art world and is known for his western artwork that has been show-

cased in countless galleries throughout the United States.

An artist’s past

Myers, 61, is a native New Mexican. Growing up in Farmington, he was able to en-

trench himself in the American Indian culture, which has been a major inspiration for

his artwork.

When Myers was younger, he painted landscapes of the enchanting New Mexico

scenery. “I have been a painter and landscape artist all my life,” he said.

In 1970, Myers graduated from Farmington High School and then studied Western

Art at Scottsdale Community College in Arizona.

“My biggest influence was John Hampton, founder of the Cowboy Artists

Association,” Myers explained.

As a way to add variation to his landscape paintings, Myers decided to

move back to the Four Corners and paint the oil field scenes.

Eventually, he broadened his art skills and learned how to mold clay,

which would be transformed into bronze sculptures.

Myers’ clay molds were cast at a foundry, a factory that produces

metal castings. The complexity of casting hindered Myers’ ability to do it

himself, he explained.

From murals to bronze Myers

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His sculptures, which mainly represent Ameri-

can Indian culture, were sold in various galleries

throughout New Mexico and Arizona.

Myers returned to Farmington permanently

ten years ago to be with his “significant other,”

Margaret Walters, and take a break from the

galleries. It was during this time, he met the 85-

year-old Lola Brown.

Living in the painting

What began as one mural eventually turned

into one continuous landscape painting on

every wall space in Brown’s home, which is

equivalent to 6,000 square feet. “When I got

done with the first mural Lola loved it and she

looked at the other wall and said what about

that one,” Myers said with a grin.

10 years later, Brown’s home looks as

though it is in another time period. Paintings of

castles, sparkling oceans, and sunrays reaching

through clouds wrap throughout each room.

“As the painting grew, my relationship with

Lola grew,” Myers explained. “This painting be-

came my life and Lola’s life.”

The murals on each of the walls are massive:

12 feet high by 30 feet long, 9 feet high by 24

feet long.

Myers learned to paint these large dimen-

sions when he worked for an Albuquerque-

based billboard company in the late 1980s.”We

painted the billboards by hand. I painted for

Coors, Chevrolet, Nike, and every whiskey com-

pany,” Myers explained. I think I was one of

the very last pictorialist in the billboard world,

and that gave me the ability to paint on that

scale.”

Brown moved into the home in 2003 after

her husband passed away. Through the devasta-

tion and pain, Brown was able to heal when she

and Myers began to brainstorm the different

scenes that would be painted on her walls.

“I loved every minute of it and I can’t fathom

sitting here without any of this,” Brown said.

“Lola knew nothing about the painting

process, but this made her get up in the morn-

ing and think about the creative process,”

Myers explained. “The creative process is the

healthiest state of mind to be in. An unhealthy

state of mind is when it is stagnant.”

Myers said this ten-year project is the perfect

example of art therapy, where studies have

shown it can assist in the healing process.

According to the American Art Therapy Asso-

ciation, “Art therapy is a mental health profes-

sion in which clients, facilitated by the art

therapist, use art media, the creative process,

and the resulting artwork to explore their feel-

ings, reconcile emotional conflicts, foster self-

awareness, manage behavior and addictions,

develop social skills, improve reality orienta-

tion, reduce anxiety, and increase self-esteem.”

Brown said the paintings in her home “brings

back memories” from traveling around the

world three times. “Steve is a wonderful artist;

he is number one. He understands what you


want when you tell him.”

“I lived up on scaffolding and she wouldn’t

mind it. Lola preferred to live in an art mess,”

Myers said.

A different art media

Even though Myers grew up as a painter, he

eventually taught himself a different art tech-

nique.

Myers began sculpting after meeting Vic

Payne, a Santa Fe sculptor. During his first year

creating western bronze sculptures, Myers sold

65 sculptures.

After selling his paintings and bronze sculp-

tures in galleries in Scottsdale, Santa Fe, Albu-

querque, and Taos, Myers decided to move back

to Farmington permanently in 2002.

Since then, he has created several sculptures

that can be seen around the city.

There is a life-size sculpture of two teenagers

with their arms stretched out holding birds at the

Farmington Public Library. Alexandra Caldwell

and Evan Caldwell were Myers inspiration for this

statue. In 2002, they died in a tragic car acci-

dent but their legacy lives on through the sculp-

ture.

“The birds represented the rising of the

spirit,” Myers explained. “Evan was a photogra-

pher, so you can see a camera around his neck

and Alexandra was a dancer.”

The sculpture was completed in 2004 and it

graces the library’s grounds.

Recently, another one of Myer’s sculptures

was installed at Ricketts Park, just in time for the

Connie Mack World Series this summer.

The sculpture is a 13-foot-tall baseball

catcher. Myers said the sculpture represents a

“generic” 17-year-old Connie Mack player.

“I was involved in this project because I was

involved in Connie Mack when I was younger. It

was a thrill for me to leave my legacy at that

field where I played as a kid,” Myers explained.

The sculpture took Myers one year to com-

plete.

Other sculptures by Myers that can be seen

around Farmington include one at the Boys and

Girls Club and a life-size sculpture of Brown’s

husband, Carl, which stands outside the pro shop

at the country club.

Carl had a huge influence on San Juan Coun-

try Club’s inception after he donated the land

where the golf course and the clubhouse are lo-

cated today.

Myers also has been working on a series of

acrylic paintings that portray orchestra women.

“The women represent passion and the instru-

ments represent the music that is shown in the

artwork.”

Myers is devoted to his artwork, but if he is

not sitting behind an easel or chipping away clay,

you can find him swinging a 9 iron on the golf

course fairway or fly fishing in the San Juan River.

“As far as the future, I don’t know what the

future holds for me,” Myers said with a

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Kaitlyn Youell, 22, grew up a cowgirl with a hankering for paint-

ing. She raised and showed steers and sheep, while keeping a horse

and goats for pets.

While this 2008 Kirtland Central High School honor graduate en-

joyed a rural life, she would paint on anything she could find and

shared her desire to be an artist with family members. Her parents

supported her endeavor, but one aunt told her no one would ap-

preciate Kaitlyn’s art until after her death.

Kaitlyn decided to prove this aunt wrong, and she did just that by

Kaitlyn’s artistic talents merge withher love of fast cars

going from showing sheep to showing cars.

By the age of 16 Kaitlyn was working as an apprentice in a local

body shop, where she not only learned how to do body work on ve-

hicles, she also learned how to paint and detail cars.

“You start off by sanding it and prepping the surface using wax

and paint remover,” she explained. The paint is applied and once

the artwork is finished and approved by the vehicle’s owner, a clear

coat is applied to give it flawless shine.

Kaitlyn, who works as a phlebotomist at San Juan Regional Med-

ical Center, completed her first car while studying in the auto body

program at San Juan College. She convinced her husband, Mike

Youell, to let her experiment on his Mustang.

Her parents didn’t think she could paint a car, but Mike was sup-

portive.

“When my husband trusted me with his car, that opened the art up

for me,” Kaitlyn said. “He expected just flames, and it came out to

be more than flames.”

The Mustang is a work of art that has been showcased in car

shows throughout the area. It not only has flames, there are skulls

and full Grim Reaper on the hood. “I was excited. I didn’t expect it

at all,” said Mike, who has always collected cars. “I like to stick out

as I drive around town.”

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Sticking out became easy with Kaitlyn

around to airbrush the family cars. She even

airbrushed their son’s skateboard and Power

Wheels Escalade. “Everyone always likes her

work. They go to her because they trust

her,” Brandon Youell, 11, said.

Soon after completing the Mustang, Kait-

lyn painted a pink Chevy Camaro with tigers

on it. People saw her work and started com-

ing to her. “She’s amazing. I’ve had a lot of

airbrush work done over the years – nothing

compares to what she has done,” Mike said.

Kaitlyn has even garnered the attention of

Ilene Roth, the wife of the late Ed “Big

Daddy” Roth. She was invited to the Rat

Fink Family Reunion each summer in Manti,

Utah, by Roth’s wife, Ilene Roth. “She only

invites the top artists, and that was a big

honor. I was extremely excited,” Kaitlyn said.

This small, quiet woman has immersed her-

self in a world of fast and furious sports car,

not only driving and riding, but painting

them out of the Youell family garage, making

the entire effort a family affair.

“We’re trying to teach Brandon too, and

we try to do something different every

time,” Mike said.

The Youells have a lot of fun at car shows.

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They love everything with engines, and Kaitlyn

can turn anything with an engine into a show

piece that is truly something special. She has

done guitars, motorcycles, skateboards and T-

shirts.

“I did a motorcycle – Harley Davidson Fat

Boy – with 32 skulls on it,” Kaitlyn said.

“That guy was proud of that bike,” Mike

said.

When Kaitlyn takes on a project she gets

ideas from the owner and then shares her own

ideas as well. “They tell me what is going on

in their head and we intertwine – we mix it,”

she explained.

Once she paints the vehicle, she shows the

owner the artwork before completing the

project. Once it’s perfect, the clear coat is

applied. “The clear coat is like a piece of

glass that goes on a picture,” Kaitlyn said.

Kaitlyn had been staying busy with her day

job at the hospital and her painting on the

side when, unfortunately, fate stepped in and

did not allow her to go to the event. Kaitlyn

was in an October 2012 head-on collision on

Browning Parkway. She was driving her dream

car, a 2010 Mustang GT, when she was hit by

a drunken driver.

“They had to cut her out with the jaws of

life,” Mike said.

Kaitlyn’s knee was fractured and torn, her

leg crushed and her nose was broken. While

she was lucky to be alive, it took a while for

her to recover physically and mentally. “It

broke my heart. I was terrified of the thing I

love – driving cars,” she said.

A friend gave her a boost of confidence by

reminding her to “Never drive faster than her

guardian angel can fly.” Kaitlyn took the ad-

vice and, when she was able, began driving

again. Now she is ready to rejoin the car show

circuit and get back to painting.

“Look for us at the car shows and be ex-

pecting more things,” Kaitlyn said.

For more information about her work, Kait-

lyn can be reached at 505.215.2606, or

Mike’s number at 505.609.4896.

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Dr. Bob Lehmer, 73, loves the outdoors. He loves the rivers that run

through Aztec, Bloomfield and Farmington, and he loves working with

people.

Since he arrived in Farmington in 1972 as the only orthopedic sur-

geon in San Juan County, he has played important roles in the commu-

nity. From volunteering as a doctor at football games to playing a

leadership role on the Parks and Recreation Commission, Lehmer has

promoted recreation and helped to make river environments enjoyable

places to hike, picnic and learn about nature.

When he was named Humanitarian of the Year by the Farmington

Chamber of Commerce on January 11, it surprised him.

“It was totally unexpected,” Lehmer said. “There are so many good

people. I don’t deserve it any more than anybody else here. We’ve had

Mutt and Fern Foutz donated 26 acres of land for river trails in 1987, which helped to get the now extensive trail system rolling.

Lehmer’s passion, dedication haschanged the face of Farmingon

of the river

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so many good people work on our river projects and do other things in

the community.”

No surprise to others

His award didn’t surprise people who know of his tireless community

involvement.

Ed Horvat, San Juan Regional Medical Center’s Emergency Medical

Services manager, believes the community wouldn’t have some of the

things it now enjoys without Lehmer.

“He was on the Parks and Recreation Commission for 32 years,” Hor-

vat said. “He’s had a hand in probably every program, every event, every

project that the commission did during that time. It would be hard to

say what wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for him.”

Almost single handedly, Lehmer raised about $350,000 in private

donations for the River of Fountains at the west end of Berg Park.

Nearly 200 feet long, it features 45 computer controlled pop jets, leap

jets and bursting jets in which children and adults can play.

“On a warm day, hundreds of kids are over there,” Horvat said. “That

is without a doubt something that wouldn’t exist without him.

“He’s low key. He never draws attention to himself. It’s never about

him. It’s always about the quality of life for everyone who lives here.”

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Lehmer is also active with the Rotary Club in its program Don’t Meth

with Me, which educates San Juan County fifth graders about the dan-

gers of methamphetamines and other drugs.

“It’s really making an impact on young people not to get involved in

drugs,” Lehmer said.

Greatest love is outdoors

But his greatest love is the out of doors, a love that came early to

him. He enjoyed the

green agricultural setting of Champaign, Ill., where he grew up with a

sister six years his senior.

His father, who was in the radio and television repair and sales busi-

ness on the University of Illinois campus, was Lehmer’s Boy Scout master

and played an active role in his baseball activities.

But his father died of a heart attack at the age of 44 when Lehmer

was only 15. His mother, who’d been a stay-at-home mom, went to work

in the records department of a multi-specialty medical clinic to support

the family.

Lehmer found positive guidance from his father’s brother, an obstetri-

cian, for whom Lehmer was named.

Attends medical school

Attracted by his uncle’s work as a doctor, Lehmer attended medical

school at the University of Illinois in Chicago, and took a medical intern-

ship at Kings County Hospital in New York. He’d already decided to be

an internist when he had a rotation in orthopedics during his last six

weeks of medical school.

“I fell in love with it,” he said. “I knew that’s what I wanted to do.”

It was 1966, and the Vietnam War was in full swing.

“They were drafting everyone,” Lehmer said. “They had a thing called

the Berry Plan. It was a deferment for doctors. They drew your name

out of a hat.”

“He was on the Parks and Recreation Commission for 32 years. He’s had a

hand in probably every program, everyevent, every project that the commissiondid during that time. It would be hard tosay what wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for

him.”

– Ed Horvat

Lehmer got the Berry Plan, which deferred

him from military service until he completed his

residency at Downstate University in Brooklyn,

N.Y.

He married during that five-year residency.

His wife suffered from severe post-partum de-

pression and died when his daughter was 9

months old. When he finished his residency in

1970, the military wouldn’t send him to Viet-

nam because he was a single parent. Instead,

he practiced at Great Lakes Naval Hospital in

Great Lakes, Ill., where his uncle had served as

a doctor in the 1950s.

In Navy at Great Lakes

He served at Great Lakes from July 1970-

July 1972.

“It was a busy place,” he said. “We were

getting air evacs twice a week with probably

50 wounded patients. They would fly them

over from Vietnam.”

At Great Lakes, he met John Romine, who

was his Chief of Orthopedics.

Romine thought about taking a job as an

orthopedic surgeon in Farmington when he left

the Navy, but he chose a faculty position at

Northwestern University in Illinois instead.

So Charles Martin, then an administrator at

San Juan Regional Medical Center, asked

Lehmer to come to Farmington. After visiting

Farmington with his new wife, Peggy, Lehmer

was drawn by the skiing and hiking opportuni-

ties. That marriage eventually ended in divorce,

and Lehmer wed Gloria Mascarenas in 1998.

Only orthopedic surgeon

He began practicing in August 1972 as the

only orthopedic surgeon in Farmington, which

at that time had a population of about

25,000.

“I was overwhelmed,” he said. “I was on call

every day. It was very, very difficult.”

So in March 1973, he called Romine and

asked him to become his partner. Romine ac-

cepted and began practicing with Lehmer in

August 1973.

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At first, they worked in a county office build-

ing on Lake Street. In 1975 they bought two-

and-a-half acres on 20th Street, where they built

Orthopedic Associates. Over the years, they

added Bob Grossheim to their practice, then

Bob Stemsrud, Pete Saltzman, and finally Dennis

Kloberdanz.

After 40 years in practice, Lehmer retired in

August 2012. He’s still involved with SJRMC as a

member of the hospital’s Partnership Committee.

It focuses on how SJRMC can positively interact

with the community.

Involved in recreation

Lehmer has always been involved in recre-

ation. In 1979, he accepted an appointment to

the Parks and Recreation Commission, a volun-

teer position that he held for 32 years until he

resigned in 2011. He’s still down at the parks

commission once a week talking with architect

Roger Drayer about river trail development.

His interest in developing connections be-

tween parks along the river began in 1984 when

a graduate student named Pru Larson did an in-

ventory of the city’s open spaces for her mas-

ter’s thesis.

“I was fascinated by her study,” Lehmer said.

“I told her, ‘We need to do something about our

rivers in Farmington because they’re such an

asset to the community. Every great city has

rivers flowing through it. We’re ignoring what we

have.’”

He has pictures of the river in 1984.

“It was neglected,” he said. “Old couches and

trash cars lined the river banks.”

Wants a trail system

At that time, Boyd, Berg, Animas and Westland

parks were along the rivers. Lehmer wondered

how those parks could be connected with a trail

system.

In 1985, he mentioned his idea to then parks

director Bob Hudson.

“Bob was a wonderful visionary,” Lehmer said.

“You brought an idea to him, and he could fig-

ure out how to achieve the goal. At the time, we

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had a lot of pressure from people who wanted

a golf course, soccer fields, and an indoor

swimming pool. So Bob said let’s form all these

study committees and see what we come up

with.”

River Reach Foundation begins

Following up on a suggestion by Farmington

architect Bill Freimuth, the city applied for a

R/UDAT (Regional Urban Design Assistance

Team) study by the American Institute of Archi-

tects. The AIA sent a team to the city, which

met with residents and recommended a nine-

mile river trail system as well as the formation

of a non-profit organization to spearhead the

plans. That was the beginning of the River

Reach Foundation, and Lehmer served as its

first president.

In 1987, a quarter percent gross receipts tax

with a five-year sunset clause passed over-

whelmingly, which provided about $12 million

for an aquatic center, the Pinon Hills Golf

Course with land donated by San Juan College,

a soccer complex on Fairgrounds Road, and

money to develop a trail system along the river.

As Lehmer and others talked up the trail sys-

tem, people began donating land along the

river.

Lehmer doesn’t wave his own flag

“Bob had credibility, and he caused people

to donate large tracts of land,” said Farmington

resident Evert Oldham, who served on the

River Reach Foundation in its early days. “Bob

listens. He’s very quiet. He’s thoughtful. He’s a

very wise person, and he understands politics.

He is not there to wave his own flag. He’s

going to pass the credit around. You’ll find his

leadership in every aspect that somebody else

is getting the credit for.”

Five years later, in 1993, another gross re-

ceipts tax passed, which provided money to

build the Farmington Boys and Girls Club,

more soccer fields, the sports complex on La

Plata Highway, the museum at Gateway Park,

and money to buy land along the rivers.

Today, Lehmer sees so much that still can be

done to develop the river.

Mutt and Fern Foutz donated 26 acres of land for rivertrails in 1987, which helped to get the now extensivetrail system rolling.

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Called Old Man River

“I’ve heard him called Old Man River, which probably sums it up, be-

cause he’s relentless in his pursuit of it,” said Freimuth. “He’s stayed on

the River Reach Foundation continuously. He never left it.”

“I’m in love with the river,” Lehmer said with a smile. “Two-thirds of

the surface water in New Mexico passes through Farmington.”

Two of his passions are to put a bridge from Gateway Museum across

the river to a central park, where horse and bicycle trails could be de-

veloped.

“Maybe we could set up a village and bring in Navajo weavers, a

blacksmith, and a general store,” he said. “We could have stage coaches

and robberies and show what the Wild West was like.”

Wants to connect downtown and river

His other passion is to see six blocks of downtown Farmington devel-

oped from Broadway to the river, where a new convention center could

be built.

“Right now that area is a hodgepodge,” he said. “You see empty lots,

lots for sale, old buildings. The river needs to be a part of downtown.

We need to get the city and private people to buy into a project to de-

velop that all the way to the hospital, over to Behrend, to bring that all

together and create a revitalized urban renewal area. We could connect

our civic center to a new convention center and put in a diversion canal,

greenways and parks along there. People would have restaurants. They

would want to live there. They’d have hotels, theaters, things like that.

The city of Farmington would be changed. It’s a huge project. I wish I

was 20!”

Parks along river are string of pearls

He also hopes to see trails developed along the river between Aztec

and Farmington.

“I think we can do it,” he said. “It’s a natural thing to connect what

we have. The parks along the river are like a string of pearls. We need

to connect those parks and create an outdoor amenity for people to

enjoy the natural beauty that we have.”

It’s something his six children and seven grandchildren could enjoy.

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warmth.

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with. Gosh, there are so many neat people you meet. They always have

such great ideas. You bring all those ideas together, and you can create

something pretty wonderful.”

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There were hitching posts on Main Street

in historic downtown Farmington. People

would ride their horses along the road and

highways to get into town and back. It wasn’t

too long ago that San Juan County not only

looked like the Old West, it was the Old

West.

The 21st Century has brought a lot of

changes to Northwest New Mexico, and one

of the most notable has been the disappear-

ance of the horse as a means of travel. In re-

cent years, horses and their riders have been

limited to trails on public and private lands,

and the bonds between the horse and rider

have dwindled to weekend rides for recre-

ation instead of transportation.

The hitching posts have disappeared in

Farmington to make way for cars, and motor-

ized recreation vehicles have taken to the

Group keeps areahorse and rider teams out on the trail

Centuries-old


hills where horses once roamed. The North

American Trail Ride Conference, or NATRC,

would like to preserve and promote the

good old days of distance riding through its

annual trail rides.

San Juan County is in District 3 of the

conference. This district is quite active put-

ting on trail rides for sport and recreation.

Members follow the North American Trail

Ride Conference Mission Statement – “pro-

mote horsemanship and horse care as they

apply to the sport of distance riding by of-

fering a variety of challenging and educa-

tional experiences designed to strengthen

horse and rider partnerships.”

The people who turn out for NATRC sanc-

tioned rides say they do it for the love of

the sport and the bonding experience with

their horse. They have several opportunities

to ride throughout the Southwest, including

rides in Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico

with three rides a year in San Juan County.

“The thing about these rides – there’s a


lot of places you get to ride where normally

you wouldn’t,” said Jerry Sims, a national di-

rector for NATRC Region 3. The riders have

had the opportunity to ride on private

ranches and even at the U.S. Air Force Acad-

emy in Colorado Springs. “We get to ride on

the grounds and spend the night.”

The NATRC is divided into six regions

across the U.S. Riders compete within their

own region as well as in other regions. They

earn points for the rides, and those points

are tallied up at year’s end for awards.

“The riding season is different in different

places,” Sims said, explaining that the NATRC

gives riders an option to stay on horseback

all year, if they so desire.

One of the first locally sanctioned rides

was in 1973 at Navajo Lake. “We’re the sec-

ond longest consecutive ride in the country,”

said Dr. Bill Cumberworth. He and his wife,

Judy, started the ride when they moved to

the area from Albuquerque. They partnered

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This year, Cumberworth’s daughter Cathy

Cumberworth was the chairwoman of the ride,

which took place during Mother’s Day week-

end out at the lake.

Only weeks before the Navajo Lake ride,

there was a Piñon Mesa Trail Ride in La Plata.

There were some 50 riders who traveled from

all over the region to ride. Most rolled in on

Friday, April 19, and spent the night, so they

could take off early Saturday morning on the

trails.

The riders consist of horseman of all ages

and abilities, and there also are some 25 to

30 volunteers helping each ride without get-

ting on the back of a horse.

“It’s a very friendly group of people.

“It’s very family oriented,” Sims said. “We

have kids whose parents rode, and the kids

have grown up and become riders.”

There also are families that ride together,

such as Kathy Pape and her 10-year-old

daughter Emily Pape, who traveled up from

Bosque Farms with Kathy’s mother, Lorraine

Cordova. They represented three generations

of riders and horse enthusiasts participating in

the ride for the love of their horses, the out-

doors and companionship.

“I got my first horse when I was 5,” said

Kathy, who ended up earning the award for a

first-time rider in the Piñon Mesa event.

Kathy had attended a riding clinic taught by

Sims and he convinced her to come out for

the ride, she said. “We thought why not take

the girls out with the boy horses.”

Kathy shared her story as she sat atop Wran-

gler, a 9-year-old Mustang. Her daughter Emily

was riding 14-year-old Kolt, who she said likes

to “buck her off,” and Grandma Lorraine was

riding a 21-year-old Quarter Horse named

Cody.

“I would like to live on horseback,” Emily

said, who was excited to meet new people and

new horses. “There are so many horses and the

horses can get to know each other.”

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Her mother Kathy said the sport is a

“friendly” one, where there is adventure and

the pleasure of meeting new friends and

learning horsemanship skills.

Lorraine, who said she rides all of the time,

had one goal for the day, saying, “When the

little thing stays on top of the big thing it’s a

good ride.”

The NATRC rides are all about safety, ac-

cording to Sims, who is a horsemanship judge

– an honor he said one has to earn. Sims had

to complete nine different rides with nine dif-

ferent judges to receive this certification.

“You see how each one judges, and some

are better than others,” Sims said.

During the NATRC rides there is a horse-

manship judge, who rates the rider. There also

is a judge and veterinarians who keep an eye

on the horses to make sure they are not

stressed. The horses also are checked on Fri-

day, before the ride, and on Sunday, after the

ride, to see if they are still healthy and hy-

drated.

“I don’t even watch the horse. I pay atten-

tion to what the rider is doing,” Sims said.

“The veterinarian watches the horse.”

His goal in being a horsemanship judge has

been to educate riders about safety for them-

selves and their horses. “I try to teach the

younger riders to become a partner with their

horse, because you’re a team.”

Cumberworth added that the sport should

be used as a “teaching experience for riders.”

Sims, who got involved with the NATRC

through his wife, Beth, in the 1990s, became

a judge and a national director so he could

give something back to the community and the

sport. “I felt I could really give something

back to the sport by teaching people,” he

said.

“I don’t care what you’ve done in the past

or you are the top trainer in the world,

NATRC will teach you something. We never

stop learning,” Sims said, of the activities and

rides. “You’re going to learn something – and

a whole lot.”

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Communication can be found at the heart of

any solid relationship, and for two people as

busy as Barb and Rick Tedrow it is the glue that

holds their lives together.

Barb and Rick were high school sweethearts at

Belen High School. He was a senior and she was

a junior when they began dating. The next year

Rick was off to the University of New Mexico,

and soon after she graduated from high school,

Barb followed.

The couple married in 1996 and started a

family three years later while Rick was still study-

ing to become a lawyer. During this same time,

Rick’s parents decided to move from Belen and

head north.

“Instead of me moving away for college, my

parents moved away and left me behind,” he

said. His parents came to Farmington, and when

Rick visited he knew he would someday move his

family here and build a life in the area. “I fell in

love with it.”

Rick’s first job in Farmington was an internship

with then District Attorney Sandra Price and at

the law firm of Tully and Jolley. He went back to

Albuquerque to finish up his degree, and they

Lots of love, great scheduling keeps Rick andBarb Tedrow’s busy liferunning smoothly

and caring

had to convince Barb’s family that the move

would be okay.

It has worked out so far, as Rick is now the

San Juan County District Attorney and Barb is

the owner and operator of two daycare centers

that serve 250 children in the community.

Looking back on what the Tedrows have ac-

complished since coming to San Juan County,

Rick admitted it has been a long tough road

filled with sacrifices. “Rick graduated from law

school and was delivering pizzas,” Bard said.

“Barb and I both worked to build the busi-

nesses,” he said. “Our kids, when they were

young, spent time in daycare. We took out sec-

ond mortgages and used credit cards to finance

our business, but we saw something and ran with

it.”

Their first business venture came when Barb

bought an All-State Insurance business. She later

bought Gold Star Academy childcare, and the

business stole her heart. She recently opened

Smiling Faces Child Care Center, which is on

track to become a non-profit childcare facility.

Smiling Faces on West Elm Street in the heart

of Downtown Farmington was built by George

Coleman, because he believed in Barb’s dream

of providing quality services for children in need.

She filed for a non-profit status to expand child-

care into a full-fledge child development pro-

gram that offers New Mexico Pre-Kindergarten,

childcare, home visits, counseling for families and

children and developmental services to children

with special needs. The non-profit program will

be called Family Assistant Children Educational

Services, or FACES First.

“Once we are given our non-profit status we

will be able to expand services,” she said. This

work came from her connections with New Mex-

ico’s Children Youth and Families Department.

She listened to their needs, and they listened to

her advice when it came to developing early

learning programs that benefit children from

birth through kindergarten.

In a way, the childcare business has brought

Barb closer to Rick’s world, because he sees the

end result of children that do not receive a good

start in life.

“We, over the last four years, worked together

at the state level and collaborated on services

for children, because children who have better

programs throughout their childhood, I don’t

have to deal with later on,” Rick said. “One of

the ideas behind this, is hopefully it will not give

me as much work as DA, because we are focusing

on prevention.”

Barb’s job was to work with CYFD and state

legislators to create better programs, and Rick,

as the president of the New Mexico District At-

torney’s Association, was able to bring in the

state’s 14 district attorneys to work with the state

in crime prevention that begins at birth.

Rick also has helped manage the business be-

hind the scenes. “He does the bookkeeping, pays

the taxes. He has always been supportive and

said that I could do this,” Barb said.

She returned the support when he made a run

for San Juan County District Attorney. “I love

campaigning,” Barb said. “You put me in a meet-

ing with people smiling and laughing – I love it.”

She also is ready to go out and put up yard

signs and visit with her husband’s constituents.

Rick enjoys the visiting as well. “As district attor-

ney, you can put the politics aside,” he said.


“We’re here for everyone in San Juan County

and we attempt to bring justice and do what’s

right.”

While Barb does what is right for kids, Rick

also is making a difference in the lives of chil-

dren through coaching. “Sports – that’s my fa-

vorite thing in the world,” he said.

Rick coaches ball teams for his three chil-

dren, and he even helps out with other teams.

“I believe that kids who are involved in activi-

ties – sports, music, arts, theater – they don’t

come through my office. They have goals. They

have structure,” he said.

Rick has coached baseball, softball, football

and soccer during the past 11 years. “I’m trying

not only to help my kids, but other kids as well.

My kids have a two-parent home,” he said,

pointing out that children from single parent

families sometimes can use extra help and sup-

port.

However, with both Barb and Rick working

and traveling to Santa Fe for different activities

and business, how does the couple manage

their children?

It’s easy because of technology, Rick said.

“The key to a happy marriage is texting.”

He texts Barb to let her know if he is on

track to pick up the kids and get them to

school or extracurricular activities, and she texts

him to let him know her schedule. They also sit

down and talk about their schedules.

“We use calendars, and we let each other

know when the other one has to be gone. It’s

taken years, but we’ve learned to use calen-

dars,” Rick said.

“We don’t have time to fight, because we

never see each other,” he joked.

They also split up their responsibilities. Rick

typically is gone in January and February for the

state legislative session, so when he gets home

Barb has jobs and chores get done that he to

take care of. He also doesn’t coach in Novem-

ber and December, because his kids don’t like

basketball.

Barb also has to travel to Santa Fe, after

being appointed to the Early Learning Advisory

Council, on which she serves as the public pol-

icy chair. “It’s a lot of work,” she said. This led

her to be involved in the formation of Shared

Services, a members-only website for child care

providers. It offers training, resource material,

and insurance and human resources information,

as well as how to become an accredited facility

and train teachers. She also was asked to serve

on the national board for Shared Services.

And she is president of San Juan Rotary Club

and serves as the early childhood liaison for San

Juan Safe Communities. Rick serves on the

board.

They open their home in August to Connie

Mack World Series ball players and have been

acting as a foster family to them for the past 14

years. Rick also serves as the legal counsel for

the Connie Mack World Series Committee.

The Tedrows attend First Presbyterian

Church.

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ission f ercyNew Mexico

Story by Lauren Duff


Dentistry is a profession that

requires caring individuals who

want to have an effect on an-

other person’s life. Whether it is

reconstructing someone’s teeth

or giving someone a brighter

smile, dentists are devoted to their patients.

Four local dentists are going the extra mile and redefining what

it means to care for the community. Dr. Charles Schumacher, Dr.

John McNeill, Dr. Jennifer Thompson, and Dr. Julius Manz are co-

chairs of this year’s New Mexico Mission of Mercy in San Juan

County, an event that will provide free dental care services to

area residents.

An estimated 1,500 adults and children will receive dental

services during the two-day event, which will begin Sept. 13 and

last through Sept. 14 at McGee Park in Farmington.

“The whole event is pretty amazing. It is not just about treating

the patients, but there is a lot of emotion going on,” Manz said.

“It is a very uplifting event in itself, and the amount of energy

and business and work going on is pretty awe inspiring.”

The beginning

Although they all ended up in the same area to practice den-

tistry and will be this year’s New Mexico Mission of Mercy co-

chairs, Schumacher, McNeill, Thompson, and Manz have different

stories to tell regarding how they became interested in the pro-

fession.

Schumacher is originally from Kansas City, Mo. When he was

young, Schumacher visited his uncle, who was a dentist, and

“learned about (dentistry) through that angle.”

He attended Westminster College in Fulton, Mo., for his under-

graduate degree and then went to dental school at University of

Missouri Kansas City, graduating in

1986. “When I was in college I

knew I wanted to go into a health

profession and I didn’t know if I

was going to track medicine or den-

tistry, so I started working for a

local dentist and thought that was going to be a great pathway for

me and here I am.” Schumacher has been practicing dentistry in

Farmington for 27 years.

McNeill, a retired oral surgeon, went to Georgetown Dental

School and graduated in 1971. He completed his oral and maxillo-

facial surgery residency in California and eventually moved to

Farmington in 1979. He retired from the practice in 2010.

McNeill said he enjoyed the profession because he was able to

“help people on a daily basis and interfere with their lives in a

positive way, and give them back something that they somehow lost

or need.”

Born and raised in Farmington, Thompson received her under-

graduate degree at Duke University in North Carolina. She then be-

came involved in the University of North Carolina Dental Program

and graduated from there in 2008. Thompson now is a dentist at

Thompson Dental Group with her mother Donna M. Thompson,

D.D.S.

Four local dentists improving lives throughbenevolent outreach

“I have a mother, father and two uncles who

are dentists,” she said. “I didn’t think I was going

to be a dentist, I had my engineering degree, but

dentistry is beautiful and combines so many

things.”

Manz was born and raised in Alamogordo,

N.M., and graduated from the University of New

Mexico in 1985. He did not go to dental school

immediately. Instead, he worked as a nuclear

power submarine officer in the United States

Navy. “I retired as a lieutenant commander and

then I went to dental school at the University of

Colorado.” He graduated from dental school in

1998 and is now the director of the dental hy-

giene program at San Juan College. Manz also will

be the New Mexico Dental Association president

starting in June.

“I think we all like working with our hands and

manipulating and doing fine tasks like that. Those

were all things that really interested me in getting

into the profession,” he said.

Mission of Mercy

Mission of Mercy began in 2000 with the first

event in Virginia. New Mexico was the fifteenth

state to launch Mission of Mercy with the help of

the New Mexico Dental Foundation.

At the time, Schumacher was the president of

the New Mexico Dental Association and was in-

strumental in bringing Mission of Mercy to the

state.

Schumacher said he and a couple of other As-

sociation members were invited to the Kansas Mis-

sion of Mercy in Garden City five years ago. “As

soon as we walked through the doors, we just got

so excited and said we have to do this in New

Mexico. This is just a wonderful thing to do for

the communities.”

In 2010, the first New Mexico Mission of

Mercy occurred in Albuquerque. “The idea was to

spread this around to different areas of the

state,” Schumacher said. The second Mission of

Mercy was held in Las Cruces in 2012.

During the two events, 3,722 patients were

helped by 3,200 volunteers, and more than

$2.2 million in free dental care was donated.

Now, the event is coming to San Juan County.

“Charles (Schumacher) is responsible for bringing

this to the state. It also made sense for him to be

the leader here in Farmington. He recruited the

rest of us and we have recruited more people so

it has grown,” Manz said about the four co-chairs

and volunteers.

An estimated 200 dentists from New Mexico

as well as other states will volunteer their time

and effort at the Mission of Mercy in San Juan

County.

All dental care services offered at the event

are free and people who wish to receive these

services do not need to have medical insurance.

Manz said also that immigration status will not be

checked and “Everyone is welcome.”

“If you are willing to stand in line, we want to

treat you,” Thompson said.

Patients experiencing pain will be treated first


at the event. “We will deal with that whether it’s the extraction of a tooth,

root canal, or a filling that needs to be done,” Manz explained, adding

that dentists also can restore front teeth if necessary. “We won’t be able

to do everything, but we will do the best we can.”

Patient education also will be available at the event. “A large part of it

is for the future. We want to increase awareness of their dental health and

give them resources so they can follow up,” on their oral health, Schu-

macher explained.

A giving community

Organizing the Mission of Mercy in San Juan County has been a “com-

munity endeavor,” Manz explained. “I think even more so than the events

in Albuquerque and Las Cruces. We are pretty proud about that. Farming-

ton is a very giving community.”

More than 15 local businesses have donated to the event, with the

three largest sponsors being San Juan County, Delta Dental, and Cono-

coPhillips.

The Mission of Mercy is looking for local volunteers to help with the

event. Volunteers will assist with hospitality and serving food, greeting pa-

tients, registration and escorting patients, serving as translators, and help-

ing with security, parking, and data entry. Volunteers must be available

from Sept. 12 through Sept. 15.

“I would like to say how grateful we are to all the volunteers and all the

people who have donated. We have had a lot of people who are helping

us and we are grateful for that,” McNeill said.

For anyone interested in being a volunteer, visit

www.nmdentalfoundation.org.

On the university medical team

As positions with AIRROSTI became avail-

able closer to Houston, Pendergrass moved

his way back home until he worked with AIR-

ROSTI in a clinic at the Baylor College of

Medicine in Houston. He also worked with

athletes at nearby Rice University as part of

their medical team.

“Any sport that Rice had, I worked with

them,” he said. “A lot of people would have

surgery. Post operative, they’d come to me

and I’d increase their range of motion.

Sometimes I’d work side by side with their

physical therapist, whatever it took to get

them back to 100 percent.”

Awesome guy

Dr. Paul Unger, a chiropractor who works

for AIRROSTI Rehab Centers in Texas, prac-

ticed with Pendergrass for awhile.

“Dr. Pendergrass is an awesome guy,”

Unger said. “He’s a really good doctor, very

wholesome, caring and compassionate about

his patients and his community, and is always

willing to give back. He’s very bright and

very good at what he does. I hope the com-

munity wraps their arms around him and

takes advantage of his knowledge and his

ability to heal injuries very rapidly.”

Hard to leave friends

When the family moved to Flora Vista,

Pendergrass gave up his work with AIR-

ROSTI, which does not operate in New Mex-

ico.

“It was hard to leave a lot of good

friends I met and trained with and so many

doctors I got real close with,” he said, “but

it’s best for our family.”

His office hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, and half a

day on Friday. He spends Wednesdays and

part of every Friday letting people know

who he is and what he does.

“I never dread a day of work,” he said.

“It’s exciting to me. It’s very fine work, mak-

ing people feel better.”

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You know the old expression “Don’t judge a

book by its cover?” Hopefully, after reading this

article you’ll be less likely to judge a motorcycle

“gang” member by his or her appearance.

While there certainly are notorious motorcycle

groups in our society that have long been associ-

ated with crime and scandal, there is a lesser-

known group of motorcyclists worldwide who are

the exact opposite. The group is the Christian

Motorcycle Association.

This organization’s vision is “Changing the

world, one heart at a time.“ It was founded in

Arkansas in 1975 by Herb Shreve and now has

reached into all 50 states with approximately

1,236 chapters and 162,050 members. CMA has

also gained a worldwide influence with at least

one chapter in 32 other countries.

The local chapter was formed by Dwayne and

Mary Jo Albin around 1983, and currently has a

membership of 50 plus, with 35 actively and reg-

ularly involved.

Jerry Smiley is the current president of the

local chapter, known as the Sonshine Roadrun-

ners. He and his wife, Kay, have been active mem-

bers since 1996 and Jerry has been president for

10 of those 17 years. While they are both enthu-

siastic participants now, it was not always that

way.

“I didn’t use to like motorcycles until the Lord

told me ‘this is your husband’s heart and a min-

istry I have called him to so quit griping and go

riding,’” Kay recalls.

Jerry, on the other hand, always loved motor-

cycles “CMA gave me an opportunity to do min-

istry and ride at the same time.” He appreciates

that “CMA makes ministry easy. We show up at

rallies, set up a booth and people come to us.”

According to Jerry, part of their ministry in-

cludes giving out “coffee 24/7, water, literature,

basic toiletries, measuring blood pressure, and

prayer.”

“We hang a banner at our booth which reads

‘Need prayer? Ask here,’” Kay said. “It is amazing

how many people will come to us requesting

prayer for themselves or for their family.”

CMA has developed an organizational structure

to help ensure chapters are conducted in an ethi-

cal and appropriate fashion throughout the world.

Each of the 50 states has a state coordinator who

is responsible for making sure chapter members

adhere to the guidelines, policies and procedures

of the organization. The State Coordinator for

New Mexico is Roy Morrow of Bloomfield. He

oversees the 11 chapters in the state.

Roy has been involved in CMA since 2001.

“First I got a motorcycle and thought I’d just ride

around and have fun.” At that time in his life Roy

“was drawn to the 1 percent lifestyle” which he

describes as being “motorcycle clubs.” “But then I

met Jesus and my interests changed,” he said.

It was soon thereafter he was introduced to

CMA. “It just seemed like a perfect fit.” Now Roy

describes CMA as “a part of my life, my ministry.

It’s what I feel God has called me to do.” He ap-

preciates the opportunities to do good for oth-

ers, primarily motorcycle riders “at rallies and

everywhere to and from.”

Another facet of CMA organizational structure

in America is National Evangelists who are assigned

to various regions of the country.

Hiram and Sharon Villasenor of Aztec hold that

position for the Rocky Mountain Region, which

CMA: ‘Changingthe world, oneheart at a time.’

Ministry on


includes Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Ari-

zona and New Mexico. In 1995 they had become

empty-nesters and were looking for something to

occupy their time. Hiram bought a motorcycle

and was soon invited to check out CMA. About

that same time a missionary couple visited his

church and they too were members of CMA. You

might say the “handwriting was on the wall.”

After being members for just a year and a half,

Hiram was asked to take on the position of state

coordinator, which he did for about five years.

The call then came to the position of full time

paid staff as Regional Evangelist.

Though he has certain official duties “Most of

what we do is equip our members to reach out to

their community to make a difference for Christ,”

he said.

As if they didn’t have enough territory to over-

see, Sharon adds that because Hiram is bi-lingual

they have had the opportunity to carry the CMA

ministry to Spain, Peru, Mexico, Argentina and

Paraguay. While there they help to train and

equip local chapter leaders to encourage and

serve their members.

Though they wouldn’t trade their lives for any-

one, Hiram and Sharon said, “We’re gone so much

that when we visit our own church people think

we’re visitors.”

A huge component of CMA is an annual

fundraising event called “Run for the Son” which

is a 100-mile ride held the first Saturday of May.

In 2012 the combined efforts of all members

raised nearly $4 million. The goal for 2013 was

to reach $5 million. CMA has partnered with vari-

ous organizations around the world to make sure

these funds are spent appropriately. One such

partner is Missionary Ventures, an organization

that works to provide indigent pastors in poor

countries with transportation. Many of these pas-

tors are responsible for large territories and their

primary mode of transportation is by foot.

Funds from CMA have been used to provide

boats, horses, bicycles and even a camel. By far

the preferred donation, however, is a motorcycle.

Local members Craig and Carrie Siegel have had

the privilege of being present when deserving

pastors received their gift. Craig recalls a time in

Peru when a pastor rode a bus for 13 hours to

attend an event at which we surprised him with a

motorcycle.

“The wonder and gratitude on this man’s face

was just one more reminder of what a great or-

ganization CMA is,” Craig said.

His fellow CMA associates regard Craig as

being a top-notch fundraiser for the Run for the

Son. Among his fundraising secrets is that he will

do just about anything to help the cause. This

past January he was promised a donation if he

would jump in the Animas River on New Year’s

Day. Suffice it to say collecting the money gave

him a much warmer feeling than the experience of

earning it.

Many local CMA members have been involved

for several years. Chris and Lynette Honneffer are

relative newcomers, having joined in 2010. They

said they participate because “We get to spread

the Good News of life in Christ by being our-

selves and having fun in the process,” Chris said.

“How good is that?”

Marlena Dee has been a member since 2005.

While much of her past is not something she

boasts about, Marlena is thrilled to be able to go

to prisons and tell inmates, “This is what God did

for me and He will do the same for you.” She

feels God is using her past mistakes as a walking

testimony and it is her deepest hope that some-

one might learn and benefit from her experi-

ence.

Margie Boyd has been involved in CMA since

2001. She always enjoys wearing her colors into

restaurants or stores. She never gets tired of the

experience when people come up to us and ask

us to pray for them. She also values her opportu-

nities to go into women’s prisons. “They realize

that we’re not all perfect and there is hope for a

better life.”

The “colors” is the official patch that denotes

membership in the association. It is so much

more than simply an insignia or a decoration. The

colors serve as a mark of identity and purpose.

Ask any member what it means to wear the

colors and you’ll likely receive a passionate re-

sponse.

“When wearing the colors I get to take the

Lord’s work wherever I go. I get to show the

world what He has done for me and what He lets

me do for Him,” said Kerry Eagle, a member with

his wife Sandy, since 2006.

Any one is welcome to ride with the CMA and

participate in their events, but to be a member

and wear the colors involves a process where a

prospective member can check out the organiza-

tion and vice versa. Jerry Smiley suggests a per-

son interested in joining CMA should come to at

least three meetings to make sure they are a

good fit for us and us for them.

One factor they especially consider is if they

feel this person will be a good representative of

the chapter and our Lord.

The Sonshine Roadrunners chapter meets at

8:30 a.m. on the first Saturday of each month at

the Golden Corral restaurant. In the coming

months a lot of time will be devoted to the up-

coming Western National CMA Rally scheduled

for Chama, July 16 through 20.

For more information contact Jerry or Kay

Smiley at 505.334.3618 or at

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Monument honors

Code Talkers




Navajo Code Talkers and some of their descendants were among

many to attend the March 21 dedication in Santa Fe of the first

Navajo Code Talkers monument in New Mexico. It rests in the Santa

Fe National Cemetery at 501 N. Guadalupe St.

The project was the brainchild of Aztec resident Zadeea Jean Har-

ris, state regent of the National Society Daughters of the American

Revolution and a member of the DAR’s Desert Gold Chapter in

Aztec. Its 83 members make up the third largest DAR chapter in the

state. Both larger chapters are in Albuquerque.

Because every state regent must have a project, Harris chose the

Navajo Code Talkers.

“I started doing research and found there was no monument to

them in New Mexico,” she said. “There are murals, and I think there’s

a bronze somewhere. So I decided to raise money to put up a monu-

ment in their honor. We only have 23 code talkers left, so I felt a

real urgency.”

Harris’ tireless efforts createlasting tribute to WWII heroes


General reads governor’s speech

New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez had planned to attend the dedi-

cation. When she was unable to come, Brigadier General Andrew Salas,

Adjutant General, New Mexico National Guard, read her speech.

“For decades, our Code Talkers have been an incredible source of

pride for all New Mexicans and all Americans who value the contributions

they have made to the cause of peace and freedom around the world,”

her speech started.

“This elite group of Marines was recruited from the Navajo Nation to

devise a unique military communications code based on their native Navajo

language,” the speech continued. “This code proved to be unbreakable

and played a major role in bringing an end to the war. Allied forces were

able to systematically attack Japanese forces without being detected in ad-

vance, protecting and saving the lives of untold numbers of their fellow

U.S. servicemen and innocent civilians. Their courage and intelligence

guided them through some of the heaviest combat in the Pacific theater,

passionately defending not only their beloved Navajo Nation and fellow

Navajo people, but the United States of America as well.”


During the early months of World War II, Japanese intelligence experts

broke every code that U.S. forces could devise. Not only could they an-

ticipate American actions, they also sabotaged messages and issued false

commands to ambush Allied troops.

Phillip Johnson, the son of a Protestant missionary who had grown up

on the Navajo Reservation and spoke Navajo, heard of the crisis and sug-

gested to military officials that the Navajo language had potential as an in-

decipherable code. It had no alphabet and was almost impossible to

master without early exposure to the language. After top commanders

saw his impressive demonstration, they let him begin the Navajo Code

Talker test program.

Formed in 1942, the elite unit of Navajo Code Talkers was made up of

29 Navajo Marines who created the code. Over time, there were about

420 code talkers. The code became the only unbroken code in modern

military history. Its use in the Pacific theater saved thousands of lives and

hastened the war’s end.

The code began with about 200 terms and by war’s end had grown to

over 600. With the code, Navajo Code Talkers could communicate in 20

seconds what it took 30 minutes for coding machines of the time to do.

It consisted of native words that resembled military terms. For exam-

ple, “turtle” in Navajo became the code word for “tank,” and the Navajo

word for “chicken hawk,” a bird that dives on its prey, became the code

word for “dive-bomber.”

To supplement those terms, words could be spelled out with Navajo

words that represented the first letter of the word’s English meaning. Sev-

eral different Navajo words stood for each letter of the alphabet so the

code couldn’t be cracked by excessive repetition of one word. For exam-

ple, the letter “A” was represented by several Navajo words, among them

“Wo-la-chee,” which means “ant,” “Be-la-sana,” meaning “apple,” and

“tse-nill,” which means “axe.”

How the code was developed

Bill Toledo


Tribute to Code Talkers

Albuquerque resident Latham Nez, grandson

of 92-year-old Chester Nez, the only code

talker of the original 29 still alive, came to the

dedication.

“It was very well attended,” Latham said. “We

got to see the actual monument. It’s a great

tribute to the Navajo Code Talkers.”

He’s happy it is located in the state’s capital.

“Growing up, I heard a lot of stories about

my grandfather and what he did,” Nez said. “I

had trouble with it myself. I asked him why did

he fight for a country that tried so hard to take

his language and heritage away from him. He

told me what happened when he was young. He

didn’t want to see it happen to his children or

anybody else. That was mainly why he volun-

teered.”

Judith Shiess Avila of Albuquerque spent three

years listening to Chester Nez’s stories about

World War II. She used those stories to co-write

with Nez the book, Code Talker.

Grateful to DAR

“I was shocked that there was no monument

in New Mexico to the Code Talkers,” Avila said.

“I was very grateful the DAR wanted to fill that

gap. I think it’s something we should have, and I

think we need more monuments to the Code

Talkers.”

Avila also attended the dedication. Eight days

later she made a Chautauqua series presentation

about Navajo Code Talkers at San Juan College’s

Little Theatre.

She told the audience it was the challenge of

Nez’s growing up years on the Navajo Reserva-

tion that made him strong and resourceful.

Those were important qualities to his fellow

Marines, and they helped to make him a success-

ful Code Talker.

Came home in silence

When Harris decided that her DAR state re-

gent project would be a Code Talkers' monu-

ment, she began studying about what they did.

“They had to keep silent until 1968 when the

code was declassified,” said Harris. “Until then,

the code was still being protected. They were

heroes, and they couldn’t say they were heroes.”

Navajo Code Talkers created the code them-

selves. They used Navajo words that bore some

resemblance to military terms and developed a

code the Japanese were never able to crack.

However, Japanese knew the code had some-

thing to do with the Navajo language. They man-

aged to capture some Navajos who were not

code talkers and made them listen to the code,

Avila told the Chautauqua audience. To those

Navajo prisoners, the code sounded like gibber-

ish. They were no help to the Japanese.

Many fund raisers

Desert Gold Chapter regent Judith Wooder-

son admires the way Harris handled monument

fund raising.

“Zadeea is a very energetic, enthusiastic sup-

porter of veterans and what they do for our

country,” she said.

DAR members from across the state and the

nation donated money for the Navajo Code

Talkers project. The Desert Gold Chapter’s con-

tribution was a fund raiser raffle for a Betsy

Ross Madame Alexander doll with an entire

wardrobe sewn by Farmington resident Pat Gif-

ford.

“We had a committee that researched the

clothes Betsy Ross would have worn,” Wooder-

son said. “A lady in Albuquerque won the doll.

That doll made about $2,700 for the monu-

ment project.”

Hummingbird pins big sellers

Another fund raiser involved the sale of hum-

mingbird pins.

“My logo for my state regency is the hum-

mingbird,” Harris said. “I chose it because I’m a

malignant melanoma cancer survivor, and the

hummingbird is the logo of the Wings of Hope

Melanoma Research Foundation. It’s been a

great seller, because everybody loves humming-

birds.”

They also earned a $2,600 URS Community

Giving Grant awarded to people who do com-

munity service projects in northern New Mexico.

Money left over from the monument fund

raising project went to Henderson House in Al-

buquerque, a transitional house for homeless

women veterans and their children.

Harris loves national cemeteries

Harris wanted the monument to be in a na-

tional cemetery because she loves them.

“I cry. I read their names, and I feel blessed

to live in this country where we recognize and

have a final resting place for our veterans,” she

said. “People who go to a national cemetery un-

derstand the monuments and the reasoning for

them.”

When Harris contacted Santa Fe National

Cemetery Director Cliff Shields about putting

the monument there, he was excited.

“I told her there are a lot of monuments at

all of our national cemeteries, but we will prob-

ably be the only national cemetery that honors

the code talkers with a monument here,” Shields

noted. “How appropriate it is to have a Navajo

Code Talker monument at this cemetery with the

Chester Nez, last of the original 29

nearby Navajo Nation being the largest Native

American reservation on the planet.”

Many hurdles to jump over

Harris had to jump over many hurdles to

make the monument a reality.

One hurdle was easy. When she proposed

the idea to New Mexico DAR members, they

gave her enthusiastic support.

Getting permission to use the words

“Navajo Code Talkers” took a little longer. She

wanted to include them on a 24-inch by 12-

inch bronze plaque displayed on the monu-

ment.

“I had to get permission from the Navajo

Code Talkers Association to use ‘Navajo Code

Talkers,’ because it’s protected,” she said.

¬¬¬¬Keith Little was president of the as-

sociation when she made her request in No-

vember 2011. He died in January 2012, so she

didn’t get permission until sometime after a

replacement president was named.

Contacts U.S. Mint

She faced more hurdles.

“I wanted to use the Congressional

Medal of Honor that the Code Talkers received

in 2001,” Harris said. “To use it on the monu-

ment, I had to get permission from the U.S.

Mint. When I emailed them, they said, ‘We never

give permission,’ so I said, ‘This is my story,’ and

I explained how important the monument was.”

A conference call with their lawyers

and representatives ensued. They wouldn’t give

her permission unless the Marines allowed her to

use their logo and the Navajo Code Talker logo,

both of which appear on the Medal of Honor.

“That took a little while,’ Harris said.

“Finally, I got approval from everybody.”

National Cemetery guidelines

The monument itself had to meet National

Cemetery guidelines.

“It’s got to be exactly like the other special

monuments that are already there,” Harris said.

“I was glad about that, because I couldn’t design

anything.”

She chose Family Craft Memorial, Inc. of

Farmington and Durango to create the monu-

ment because of their enthusiasm and willingness

to work with her.

“I love being involved in anything that recog-

nizes our military and the people who serve our

country,” said Elaine Clarence, manager of Fam-

ily Craft Memorial’s Farmington office and

bookkeeper for the business.

They’re like rock stars

The project has taught Harris how much peo-

ple care about Navajo Code Talkers.

“They’re like rock stars,” she said. “If one of

them is going to be somewhere, people show

up. They’re in their 80s and 90s, and people

love them. They should be getting the recogni-

tion and, sadly, most of them are gone. I’m re-

ally blessed to know how much people love and

respect them and appreciate what they did.”


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