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Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Cadet Jonathan Nyce, a recruit for the San Juan County Sheriff’s Office, is sprayed directly in the face with pepper spray by Farmington Police Officer Reyes Flores on Friday at Safety City as part of the 25-week law enforcement academy training.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; The Atcitty family's hogan sits in the foreground of a wind-blown landscape showing Shiprock peak Thursday. The land pictured, called "txaash hedíín aahí" in Navajo, according to Teri Atcitty, means "dirt that comes together."

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Swim Rio Rancho’s Luis Conejo, 13, completes a turnaround in the consolation heat of Sunday’s 100-yard breaststroke at the Four Corners Championships Invitational at the Farmington Aquatic Center. Conejo, swimming to the cheers of a crowd of supporters from Rio Rancho, came in second in the race.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; The Carpenter family, from left, Danny, Krickitt, Kim and LeeAnn, sit at the table in their home in Farmington on Friday for an interview. The Carpenters have been the subject of media attention since a car accident in 1993 left Krickitt with amnesia, and Kim to care for her.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Alma Ballón, right, who sings a duet of “Go and Sin No More” with Jacqueline Sigala, expresses a serene look as she listens to Sigala’s part during a rehearsal of the Passion Play Ministries International production, “He’s Alive,” at the Farmington Civic Center on Thursday.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Nine-year-old Kyle Rippingale performs an “ollie” on a skateboard Friday in front of the community center at Sycamore Park. San Juan Safe Communities Initiative is trying to secure a grant from Pepsi to build a skate park at the site in south Farmington.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Farmington Police recruit Tyler Brown celebrates his 25th birthday by washing pepper spray out of his eyes and off his face Friday during the law enforcement academy training at Safety City.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Nine-year-old Celeste Rudolfo, left, and fellow Four Corners Aquatic Team member Claire Madera, 10, cheer on another teammate, 12-year-old Cheyenne West, as she races to the finish of her race Saturday at the 2010 Four Corners Championships invitational at the Farmington Aquatic Center

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Civil Air Patrol cadet Dominic Pile listens closely as cadet Senior Master Sgt. John Ellsaesser gives details on their next marching drill Thursday during their routine afternoon meeting at the Four Corners Regional Airport. The Civil Air Patrol’s Cessna 182 airplane, which is housed in the hanger where the cadets train, was recently repainted to make it easier to identify from the ground.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Game action from the San Juan County Fire Department against the Bloomfield Fire Department on Thursday at Aztec High School as a part of “Paint Our Town Purple.” The San Juan County Fire Department won the game, 41-10.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; The view past runway 25 at the Four Corners Regional Airport shows incoming stormy weather Monday. Part of the $975,000 the airport could receive in improvement funds if approved by City Council, with $926,000 of that coming from the Federal Aviation Administration, would go toward snow removal equipment.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Mary, played by Linda Harris, appears grief-stricken as she beholds the dead body of her son, Jesus Christ, during the Passion Play Ministries International production, “He’s Alive,” on Friday at the Farmington Civic Center.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Civil Air Patrol cadet Senior Master Sgt. John Ellsaesser, center, calls on volunteers to answer a question Thursday at the Four Corners Regional Airport during cadet training. Cadets Dominic Pile, left, and Christian West raise their hand to answer the question.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; A guardian angel, played by Ashley Lucero, appears from the background to help comfort Jesus Christ, played by Rick Bibo, in the garden of Gethsemane in the Passion Play Ministries International production, “He’s Alive,” on Friday at the Farmington Civic Center.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; In this photo from the groundbreaking of the Navajo Heritage Center at Navajo Ministries on Sept. 9, 2009, Marshall Plummer stands next to a horse he uses in a skit during the groundbreaking ceremony. Plummer, a former Navajo Nation vice president, died the night of March 25, in Scottsdale, Ariz.