Profile: House Appropriations & Finance Committee Chair; Legislative Finance Committee Vice Chair Patty Lundstrom - 6:11 am
Rep. Patty Lundstrom, D-Gallup, takes the oath of office on the House floor on the first day of the 2021 legislative session. Luis Sánchez Saturno/The New Mexican
By DANIEL J. CHACÓN
An overnight success? Hardly. Her first venture failed miserably.
“We were broke at the end of it,” the Gallup Democrat, now 60, recalled in a recent interview. “We had to close up shop two weeks early.”
But the experience operating a concession stand at the government-owned swimming pool in the village of Milan, where she grew up proved valuable for the ambitious self-starter. Looking back, she said it offered lessons that helped shape her.
Luis Sánchez Saturno/The New Mexican
Patricia A Lundstrum, D-Gallup, takes her oath of office on the house floor during the first day of the legislative session on Tuesday, January 19, 2021.
At 16, state Rep. Patty Lundstrom started her own business.
An overnight success? Hardly. Her first venture failed miserably.
“We were broke at the end of it,” the Gallup Democrat, now 60, recalled in a recent interview. “We had to close up shop two weeks early.”
But the experience operating a concession stand at the government-owned swimming pool in the village of Milan, where she grew up proved valuable for the ambitious self-starter. Looking back, she said it offered lessons that helped shape her.
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A tweet and video sent out by Grant’s Bryan Hernandez caught the eye of an official with the Spiral All America Classic All-Star Game, which resulted in Hernandez being asked to play in the event in Florida. (Courtesy of Bryan Hernandez)
You never know when a special teams play might pay off.
For Bryan Hernandez of Grants High School, this was true in more ways than one.
The senior returner last year put a piece of video on social media, a return of a punt for a touchdown that he attached to a tweet. Little did he know, an official with the Spiral All America Classic All-Star Game saw the tweet, and the video.