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Thursday, August 28, 2008

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          Tapia Family Offers Thanks
        THE FAMILY OF REYNALDA TAPIA would like to thank all the people who attended the rosary and funeral services, as well as those who brought food, flowers and cards, and had our mother and the family in their prayers.
        Special thanks to Father Young, Father Hyginus Onata, Kathy Lucero, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Society and Harris Hanlon Mortuary.
        Thank you all.
        PETE AND MARTHA TAPIA
        MARK AND MARGIE OLIVAS
        DAVID AND MAY ORONA
        Moriarty
        Witnesses to Fall, Please Call Me
        AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER people have been warning me about the pride that goes before a fall, and yes it is sound advice, however, I wish someone had told me about the pride that comes after the fall. By this I mean the pride you have to muster up to cover your acute embarrassment of taking a hard spill in a public place. The combination of the surprise of suddenly ending up in a very awkward position in front of strangers, trying to take a mental evaluation of any seriously injured body parts and chastising myself for being such a klutz, must have addled my brain because my first instinct was to remove myself as quickly as possible from the scene. As soon as I was able to get up with the help of a stranger, I did the wrong thing and left the store.
        I made this mistake last July, after falling in the grocery store in Edgewood, of not getting the names and phone numbers of the people who saw me fall and especially the lady who helped me up and now a year later I am trying to find her and anyone else who was in Smith's on the afternoon of July 25, 2007, at 2:20 p.m.
        I was walking in the front of the store from the pharmacy toward the exit doors, and I was just passing the Wells Fargo Bank near Registers 2 and 3 when I hit water on the floor and I went down in the splits. The splits are fine when you are 15, but at 51, this can cause some serious aftereffects. I was unable to get up and a lady in line who was half my size was the only one to try and help me up. I asked her to please remember me if I had to find her sometime in the future, if I was in fact injured, and she said she would. Well, the time has come where finding witnesses to this accident means the difference of living with this painful, damaged knee or having knee-replacement surgery. If you were there in the store and saw my most embarrassing moment please contact me at 514-3708. And in the future if you find yourself in the same situation, please take the time to get the names and numbers of the people who saw it all. Thank you.
        RUTH ROBERTS
        Moriarty
        Store Not Being Run Honestly
        THERE SEEMS TO BE SERIOUS PROBLEMS with local thrift stores in the East Mountains. We donate goods to them with the idea that they will be sold for the benefit of the charities that they represent, but unfortunately the volunteers are just taking advantage of us to purchase for themselves, at prices that are just a pittance of what can actually be gotten for their charity if the public were allowed to purchase the items.
        As an example, I recently donated a great deal of tack and horse equipment to Walkin' N Circles Ranch for their horses and several expensive stereo VCR items to be sold in their thrift store. Instead of getting about $30 or $40 each, they were quickly given to a friend and claim were sold for $8 each.
        I also planned on buying a large sofa that was to be held till they opened next Friday (They are only open three days a week), and on Monday, three days later, was called that it was sold because the rules were that items can only be held for one day.
        Common courtesy and perhaps a degree of intelligence might have even meant a phone call to me and request that I come down to purchase the item promised to me. Even Talking Talons can give you several days to hold an item, and they are always open. I can only conclude that once again, a friend or acquaintance's desire superseded the proper and honest operation of the store.
        Having been a horseman and owned horses for 20 years, and as much as I would have liked to continue donations for the horses' welfare, I cannot in clear conscious continue to donate to this store. There are several church organizations and other "Honest Charity Stores" for the community to donate to.
        Walkin' N Circles Ranch needs to shut down this dishonest operation called Hug a Horse Thrift Shop.
        ALLAN KATZ
        Edgewood