I knew this battle would be hard fought and not easily won. But, we just can’t give up the fight and hope everything just sort of works out. It won’t! Water rights are too critical to the survival and welfare of anyone.

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The following Memorandum was written by Hopi Tribe water rights attorneys Richard Monette and Joe Mentor. The Memo was submitted to the Hopi Tribal Council on June 15, 2012, the same day that the Council voted 11-4 to reject SB 2109 by adopting Hopi Tribal Council Resolution No. H-065-2012. The Memo outlines what they consider to be the legal implications for the Hopi Tribe if the Tribe endorses or rejects SB 2109. Click here to download the Memo as a PDF document. Used with permission.

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June 20 Notable Birthdays

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Actor Martin Landau (Ed Wood, Mission Impossible, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Tucker: The Man and His Dreams, By Dawn’s Early Light) is 84.

 

Actress Olympia Dukakis (Moonstruck, Steel Magnolias, Working Girl, The Cemetery Club, Death Wish) is 81.

 

Actor James Tolkan (Dick Tracy, Back to the Future, Serpico, Mary) is 81.

 

Actor Danny Aiello (Lady Blue, Moonstruck, Do the Right Thing, Ruby, Mistress, Me and the Kid, The Cemetery Club) is 79.

 

Actor Brett Halsey (Black Cat, Dangerous Obsession, Twice-Told Tales) is 79.

 

Actor John Mahoney (Frasier, Cheers, The Human Factor, Primal Fear, In the Line of Fire, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Ten Million Dollar Getaway) is 72.

 

Singer – bass guitarist Brian Wilson (The Beach Boys) is 70.

 

TV host Bob Vila (This Old House, Home Again with Bob Vila) is 66.

 

Actress Candy Clark (American Graffiti, Handle with Care, The Big Sleep, National Lampoon Goes to the Movies, Johnny Belinda, Blue Thunder, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) is 65.

 

Singer – songwriter – saxophone player Lionel Richie (Commodores; solo: Truly, All Night Long [All Night], Hello, Say You Say Me) is 63.

 

Actor John Goodman (Roseanne, The Flintstones, The Babe, King Ralph, Born Yesterday, Matinee, Raising Arizona, The Big Lebowski) is 60.

 

Bass guitarist Michael Anthony (Van Halen) is 58.

Actress Nicole Kidman (The Hours, Days of Thunder, Far and Away, Malice, Batman Forever, Billy Bathgate, The Portrait of a Lady, Eyes Wide Shut) is 45.

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On June 20…

1782 – The Great Seal of the United States was adopted by Congress.  William Barton designed the seal which consists of an eagle, an olive branch and 13 arrows, one for each of the original 13 colonies.

 

1837 – Princess Victoria became Queen Victoria of England on this day, following the death of her uncle, King William IV.  She ruled for 63 years until her death in 1901.

 

1858 – Author Charles Chesnutt (The Conjure Woman, The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, The Colonel’s Dream) was born in Cleveland, OH.

 

1863 – In the midst of the Civil War, 40 counties in western Virginia did not secede, and instead, formed their own government, officially entering the United States as West Virginia, the 35th state.

 

1900 – The Boxer Rebellion began in Peking in response to widespread foreign encroachment in China’s affairs.

 

1905 – Playwright and screenwriter Lillian Hellman (The Children’s Hour, The Little Foxes) was born in New Orleans, LA.

 

1921 – Alice M. Robertson of Oklahoma became the first woman to preside over the U.S. House of Representatives.

 

1924 – Audie Murphy, the most decorated GI of WWII [27 US decorations including Medal of Honor plus 5 decorations from France and Belgium]; actor: The Red Badge of Courage, The Unforgiven, Arizona Raiders, To Hell and Back, was born.

 

1977 – Oil began flowing through the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.

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“When someone wraps their own hate speech in a ‘god blanket’ it makes it easier for a subset of people to accept, and eventually it may even gather a following.  The problem is that anyone outside of that subset is turned away from not only that particular subset, but from the entire religion.”

– Dennis Mansfield, on his former friend Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association.

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June 19 Notable Birthdays

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Actor Louis Jourdan (Gigi, Three Coins in the Fountain, The VIPs) is 91.

Actress Gena Rowlands (Peyton Place, A Woman under the Influence, Night on Earth) is 82.

Actress Marisa Pavan (Diary of Anne Frank, The Rose Tattoo, What Price Glory?, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit ) is 80.

Singer Tommy DeVito (The Four Seasons) is 76.

Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar human rights activist and 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner, is 67.

Author Salman Rushdie (The Jaguar Smile, Midnight’s Children, The Satanic Verses) is 65.

Actress Phylicia Allen Rashad (The Cosby Show, One Life to Live, Murder, She Wrote) is 64.

Singer Ann Wilson (Heart) is 61.

Keyboardist Larry Dunn (Earth, Wind & Fire) is 59.

Actress Kathleen Turner (Body Heat, Peggy Sue Got Married, Romancing the Stone, The Jewel of the Nile, Serial Mom, Naked in New York, House of Cards, Accidental Tourist) is 58.

Singer – dancer Paula Abdul (Forever Your Girl, Straight Up, Opposites Attract, Promises of a New Day) is 50.

Actress Mia Sara (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Timecop, Caroline at Midnight) is 45.

Actress Robin Tunney (The Craft, Encino Man, Empire Records) is 40.

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On June 19…

1623 – Scientist – philosopher Blaise Pascal was born in Clermont-Ferrand, France.

1856 – Author Elbert Hubbard (A Message to Garcia, Little Journeys) was born in Bloomington, IL.

1865 – Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to announce that the Emancipation Proclamation was in effect, nearly 3 years after President Abraham Lincoln issued it, and all slaves in the state of Texas were free.  The event is now recognized and celebrated in Texas as “Juneteenth.”

1867 – Austrian Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, installed as emperor of México by French Emperor Napoleon III in 1864, was executed on the orders of Benito Juarez, president of the Mexican Republic.

1910 – The first Father’s Day was celebrated in Spokane, Washington; an idea credited to Sonora Louise Smart Dodd.

1911 – The first motion-picture censorship board was established in Pennsylvania.

1934 – The U.S. Congress established the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

1953 – Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed in Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, NY, two years after being convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviets.

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