hi all. here’s a few photos from last week — with some more recent photos to come soon…hello weekend! Monday is my “Friday,” my last day of work before my days off, so i feel a little guilty being in such a TGIF mentality. i just hope i get weekend weather — it threatened to snow here a couple times last week.
enjoy the photos.
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Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Tanitha Holyan, 11, walks home over two miles away with her brother, 6-year-old Gabriel Scott, along Navajo Route 571 after being dropped off by separate buses Thursday outside Shiprock. A change in some of the Central Consolidated School District bus routes, adding several miles to some children's walk between their bus stop and home, has raised concerns from community members over the safety of the affected students.
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Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Six-year-old Morgan Cristello, who plays on the PB&J youth girls softball team, runs through a gauntlet of high-fives from local high-school players on Monday at Ricketts softball field No. 3, during the opening ceremony for the Four Corners Fast Pitch Association.
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Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Piedra Vista shortstop Sheasia Yazzie, center, shows her enthusiasm for the procession of young girls running through as part of the opening ceremony for the Four Corners Fast Pitch Association on Monday at Ricketts softball field No. 3. Yazzie said the flowers she is holding were a gift from her "best bud," 10-year-old Hannah Sayyeau.
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Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Officer Tayna (CQ) Benally, center, and Sgt. Ron Foreman, both with the New Mexico State Police, investigate the scene of a two-vehicle collision Sunday at the intersection of County Road 7010 and N.M. 371. A man, not involved in the accident, stands behind the vehicle that struck a car that failed to yield while trying to cross N.M. 371.
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Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Special Olympics New Mexico San Juan County participant Tanisha Lewis, right of center, reacts after hearing she was named athlete of the year Friday at Heights Middle School during the opening ceremony for the area Special Olympic meet.
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Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Three-year-old Sam Dearing, center, of Farmington, waves excitedly to his family while getting a lift on a 60-foot crane operated by San Juan Signs' Ramon Gonzales on Saturday at McGee Park during the Farmington Moms’ Club Touch-a-Truck charity event benefiting ECHO Food Bank.
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