2024 True Heroes: Greg Hallstrom
ONE BUSY AFTERNOON during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Greg Hallstrom received a call at his Albuquerque office. A young man had been injured in a tragic car…
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Category: Culture
2024 True Heroes: Michael McCann
ABOUT 10 YEARS AGO, three Taos teenagers tragically jumped from the Río Grande Gorge Bridge over the course of just a few weeks. While youth suicide in Taos is all too common, the deaths left Michael…
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Ross Anderson Is Blazing Trails
W HEN ROSS ANDERSON placed second at the Pro Speed Skiing World Championships in 2001, he became the first person of color ever to stand on a speed skiing podium. The lesser-known form of ski racing is…
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True Heroes: Fernando Ruiz
CARLITO TRASK DEFTLY NAVIGATES tables in the crowded dining room of Escondido Santa Fe. The 28-year-old busser and food runner doesn’t shy away from talking with customers about his ankle monitor…
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2024 True Heroes: Ruth Gonzalez
RUTH GONZALEZ got the idea for her soothing socks from a co-worker, who gave her a Christmas present: microwavable socks to ease her aches and pains. The concept stuck with her for more than a decade…
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2024 True Heroes: Joaquín Luján
FOR JOAQUÍN LUJÁN, delivering freshly roasted green chiles to his neighbors is about more than just filling empty bellies. It’s an organizing strategy. “You start talking about green chile,” he…
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2024 True Heroes
Meet New Mexico Magazine's 2024 True Heroes on YouTube: @newmexicomag RAYMOND SANDOVAL The lifelong volunteer devotes himself to time-honored community traditions and creating new celebrations…
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2024 True Heroes: Raymond Sandoval
WHEN THE 50-FOOT Zozobra marionette collapsed in a fiery demise for the 100th time, Raymond Sandoval fell to his knees, overcome with emotion. He’d helped build the giant puppet with the Kiwanis Club…
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2024 True Heroes: Loren Anthony
EARLY LAST WINTER, the fresh snowfall was melting, mixing with the red earth and caliche to become a thick, treacherous mud. The air was bitter cold in the way it gets around Gallup, where…
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2024 True Heroes: Logan Fleharty
ON JUNE 17, the swift ferocity of the Salt and South Fork fires swept into Ruidoso, catching the people of the tight-knit mountain village off guard. “I’ve never seen so much heat and smoke so…
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