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Success Story Chiles — a black-faced lamb that with Rudy Via's months of care, feeding and training won first place in his category — nibbles on Rudy's shirt at the Valencia County Fair's junior livestock sale Saturday. It was Rudy's first year to show. (Photo by Jay Flores/For the Journal)
Rowe Blaze Called Suspicious Firefighters spray foam on a tank holding 5,000 gallons of tar while responding Thursday to a fire in Rowe that destroyed a shed next to the tank and forced evacuation of a portion of the community. The fire is being investigated as suspicious, a State Police officer said. (Photo by Eddie Moore/Journal)
Beauty and Character Miss America Angela Perez Baraquio of Hawaii recieves a Character Counts banner from 9-year-old Miranda Duran, a Duranes Elementary School third-grader, at Sandia High School Theater during a Charater Counts program on Tuesday. U. S. Sen. Pete Domenici, center, invited Baraquio, an elementary physical education teacher, to New Mexico to celebrate the successes of the 7-year-old character-education program. (Journal Photo/Greg Sorber)
Terrorism Prevention An anti-terrorism high-explosion test by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency on Kirtland Air Force Base goes off Tuesday. The test will assist in the development of designs and guidelines for upgrading buildings to prevent structural collapse due to an explosion. (Journal Photo/Greg Sorber)
Get It Straight Gov. Gary Johnson talks to Robert Herrera in Los Lunas on Monday, during his annual anti-litter bicycle tour, after the boy asked him why he "supports marijuana." The governor told Herrera he opposes drinking, tobacco and marijuana use, but that he doesn't think people should be put in jail for smoking marijuana. Johnson made a stop at Raymond A. Gabaldon Intermediate School in Los Lunas as part of his Trek for Trash tour. (Journal Photo/Rose Palmisano)
Baby Shower Mother gorilla Matadi, 19, holds her 6-week-old baby, Mashudu, on Sunday at the Rio Grande Zoo. The zoo held a baby shower Sunday. Visitors had cake and punch, gave donations and gifts and participated in a raffle for stuffed toy gorillas. (Journal Photo/Allison Corbett)
Building Tradition Lorenzo Pimentel works in the family shop in Albuquerque. Fifty years ago, he was working "like a donkey" in bakeries to feed his family and had a hard time selling his guitars even locally; now the company builds instruments for musicians around the world. (Journal Photo/Allison Corbett)
Maquila Downturn Norberta ''Betty'' Rangel, 23, of Colonia Panfilo Natera in Ciudad Juárez, hasn't been able to work since losing her job making auto dashboards in July. She is one of nearly 27,000 maquiladora workers in Juárez to be laid off in recent months because of a sluggish U.S. economy. (Journal Photo/Rose Palmisano)
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