Local dignitaries sniff out the stinkiest shoes

The smell of victory and “de-feet” was in the air, as boys and girls ages 5-15 competed in the Odor-Eaters’ Rotten Sneaker Contest at Walmart in Gallup. The contest is a fun, family-friendly event to find the most rotten sneakers in all of greater Gallup.

Contestants’ shoes were judged by a panel of “odorologists” — expert sniffers from the Gallup community, which consisted of returning sniffer Sammy Chioda of Millennium Media, Inc., Amy Coats and Michelle Perez of Foundations of Freedom, and JC of radio station 93X FM. Together, they rated the shoes based on how bad they looked, and, of course, how rotten they...

Students who ride Bus 283 from David Skeets Elementary School have collected aluminum tabs from whatever cans they could to send to the Ronald McDonald House in Albuquerque.

The 65 students now have three-months’ worth of tabs. All who participated have worked hard in making this task a huge success.

“From the first day they were told about collecting these tabs and explained how it would help people in need, they were really excited,” Gallup-McKinley County Schools bus driver Kathy Garcia said. “The students are smart, loving, caring children, and they are perfect criteria for this job.”

Garcia will be delivering the tabs to Albuquerque in June.