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Show Page B3 Heard Around the West - How embarrassing for the Los Alamos National Laboratory! Despite being a hush-hus- h facility for nuclear weapons research, the lab harbored a squatter who lived in a furnished cave on the premises for approximately four years. Roy Michael Moore, 56, didnt exactly live rough. The Albuquerque Journal reports that hed equipped his at the bottom of a steep canyon with amenities such as a glass front door, a bed, and electricity-generatinsolar panels with batteries and lights. Smoke wafting up from the canyon from his g stove gave Moore away to a Department of Energy Police arrested the secret tenant for trespassing, and employee. after spotting ten marijuana plants growing near the cave, they added drug charges as well. DOE spokesmen admitted that findfacility was ing someone holed up in the midst of a decommisadded in cave a the was but that pretty strange, sioned part of the labs 40 square miles.' COLORADO - Newspapers keep bulking up, what with dozens of glossy inserts from stores, along with announcements of the latest sales on ground beef and paper towels. But the Colorado Springs Gazette took inserts to a new level Dec. 19, by wrapping its daily around the Bible and delivering both the news and the New Testament to 91,000 subscribers. The promotion cost the International Bible Society $36,000, and the group says other cities, such as Seattle, Denver, and Santa Rosa, Calif., may be targeted next. Asked whether the Christian Bible and the news really fit together, the Gazette publisher likened the distribution to giving out laundry detergent without necessarily endorsing it. The analogy amused the citys alternative weekly, the Independent, which headlined one of its stories, The gospel according to the Gazette. Then there was the future promotion envisioned by Independent columnist Rich Tosches: Fresh off the roaring success of its Lets Throw Bibles Into The Jews Driveways program, the Colorado Springs Gazette strikes a deal with the Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region and stuffs a kitten into each plastic delivery sack. CALIFORNIA - Immigration and customs officials must be breathing easier after the stressful holiday season. This is when a million or more Mexicans drive south to visit their families pied-a-ter- re g wood-burnin- top-secr- - Thursday, February 3, 2005 500,000 or so exiting through San Diego into Tijuana while the second grade, concluded: I dont know what I want." evicted from their winter through the 1,951 miles of porous border between Mexico and the United States. Hu- COLORADO Volunteerism defines Americans as much as anything, though in the West it can take novel forms. About 60 people volunteered in Boulder, Colo., to save turtles drained irrigation canal to drug dealers head north by Betsy Marston, regional news analyst NEW MEXICO - et big-bo- x man trafficking slows down as the year ends, though U.S. Border Patrol agents were amazed by one familys ingenuity: A toddler was stuffed in a reports The New York pi-nat- a, Times. The family was deported. Agents also nabbed 90 wild parrots that had been smuggled into the United States, repatriating them to Mexico. One cynical border official predicted that the birds would probably make their way back to Los Angeles after Three Kings Day. WYOMING Maybe they were coached just a little, the elementary school kids who - wrote to Santa Claus last month in Jackson, Wyo. But surprisingly, many olds wanted something besides the latest video game, or a Barbie doll and a big house for Barbie. Among the scores of kids whose letters were printed in the Jackson Hole News&Guide, several stood out for their compassion, asking for the whole wide world to never get sick and for the war in Iraq to end in peace. The phonetic spelling was fun, with one boy asking for a moutin bick. We also liked the jibe from second-grade- Nicole r Nickas, who advised Santa to cut down on the cookies. But only Cheyenne Gamick, also in New Services Available... Allen Memorial Hospital is proud to announce the addition of a Board Certified Obstetrician and Gynecologist to our staff. Dr. Jon Landeen received his medical degree at Cornell University. He comes to our community from Logan, Utah where he has been in practice for many years. His practice in Moab will concentrate on gynecology. For inquiries and future appoint- - Moab Regional Medical Clinic 380 North 500 West, Suite 2 Moab, Utah 259-742- (Dr. 5 Landeen will be sharing office space with Jon Landeen, M.D. me ABLE CHANNELS' FEBRUARY 7, 2005 MONDAY EVENING 6:00 I 6:30 BROADCAST STATIONS 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 ciated Press. Then they escorted the turtles to a new canal had sprung numerous leaks and had to be drained for repairs. Marston Betsy tbetsymhcn.org) is editor of Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News. Tips of Western oddities are always home in a nearby pond. The appreciated. home. waded stinky mud of a Turtle-helper- s into the grab hundreds of the hibernating animals, reports The Asso- |