Gallup Sun

Gallup High SPECIAL ED TEACHER HAILED AS MOTHERLY

Camille’s Sidewalk Café selects a teacher every month to be recognized and celebrated from within the Gallup area. Nominees are selected based on votes from students and their families on how and why they feel their teacher deserves the award of  “Teacher of the Month.”

Louella Manlegro, a special education teacher at Gallup High School, received the honor this month. She spoke with the Gallup Sun about why she loves teaching students with special needs, how she got interested in a career in the classroom, and life in her native country, the Philippines.

EARLY YEARS

Calling herself a proud product of a Jesuit education...

This year’s theme: Visual Storytelling

Libraries across the country were shuttered last March when the COVID-19 pandemic was declared. While the country is gradually reopening, some libraries remain closed due to their state’s restrictions.

The Octavia Fellin Public Library, 115 W. Hill Ave., is one of them. In-person visits are still temporarily suspended and the library continues to provide curbside checkout services instead.

However, Octavia Fellin has continued to offer events and activities for visitors, albeit virtually through software like Zoom or Facebook Live. This is also where visitors can join their latest month-long event.

The library launched its first Virtual...

This year’s theme: Essential businesses need essential workers

International Workers’ Day, also known as Labor Day – a celebration of laborers and the working class, arrives every May 1. Observed all over world, it was also commemorated in Gallup with a free drive-by ice cream social hosted by SOMOS Un Pueblo Unido/Somos Gallup.

SOMOS Un Pueblo Unido/ SOMOS Gallup organizes low wage workers to improve working conditions, informs the community about labor protections, and supports campaigns to promote workers in McKinley County and throughout New Mexico.

The group set up the free ice cream social in the parking lot of St. Francis of Assisi at 214 W. Wilson Ave. and invited...

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This movie from Focus Features will be playing at open cinemas and drive-ins on May 14.

Over the past few years, several films have attempted to tell a story exclusively using social media. Such efforts have included the Unfriended horror series, as well as the 2018 John Cho thriller Searching. Writer/director Timur Bekmambetov (Night Watch, Wanted, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) was an executive producer of the first franchise and has now decided to try to create his own film set entirely on a computer screen. The result is Profile, based on a true story from French journalist Anna Erelle.

It doesn’t all work, but at...