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Show r M 3 S S AG E # 2 Father Liebler Brother Juniper from at He l en Sturg e s Joan Eskell HAT ROCK VALLEY RETREAT CENTER P.O. Box 157 Me xican Hat, Utah 84531 March, 1967 Gree tings to all our fri ends, old and n ew! I t is now six months since our #1 MESSAGE went out, and we hope you have all b een well and wishing f or more n ews of ~s. As you see , we have a name . No longer do we refer to our place . as OlJ e to. We us ed to, Just b ecause we a r e near LOJato Trading Post and OlJato Wash (or "Moonlig ht") but soon aft e r we s ent out our Message # 1 we learned that the Nava JOs c a lled this a r ea Ts e Bich-ah Bi ko, or Hat Rock e y, a name derived from the massive rock on ~ which dominat es the Valley. Not only ve a . name but we have a status : Hat RocR V~~~:~ ¥" . Re tr eat Cent e r is now a non- prof it corpor ili~l~.J-c~ Utah law. Our attorn ey , while discla imi ng e xpertn ess in tax matt ers offers the opinion that d eduction of contributions e ven in 1966 would not b 8 challe ng ed. OP ERAT IO ~ WA T ERTANK is the caption for t his issue 's picture . It s hows a group of Na vaJOS with Br Juniper and P of P&F s ervice with truck a nd winch r a ising the 3,000 gallon iron wat er-ta nk to a he i g ht that will insure proper pr e ssure in the hous e . Up to now we have ha d to b e content with two 50-ga llon drums. "0 ye we lls, bless ye the Lord!" All he r e a re well. We work hard and long . Perhaps not as hard a nd long as we would like to think, but we ge t a lot of fun out of saying "I didn't have time to ••• " as a standard excuse f or almost any shorta g e of accomplishment. Joan had a bout with flu, but , b e ing Joan, came out on top. Br. Juniper had a few bad days but at pre s ent writing is tops. Fa ther and Hel en can't get any sympathy e xc ept for a f ew a ches a nd pa ins which t he y a r e quite sure have nothing to do with advanced y ears. If The Nava JOs know we are he r e . Is a ca r or tr uck broken down? Is a loving husband Dr a drunk b eating up his loving wif e a nd childre n? Has a baby a na s a l he morrage or did some small children mis s t he school bus? He r e ' s the place to comA. Once the school bus br oke d own, a nd where did t he driver go? You g ue ss ed it. All we could do wa s to ta ke him to th e AdVen ti s t hospita l whe r e there is a t e lephon e , by which he g ot a promise of help from the ma in t e nance man at the Kay enta school, 22 mile s away. Ne xt morning the b us we nt by our place rig ht on time. " Ev e r t ry to g uess a lady's a ge ? We call ed on one the oth er day a t the r eque st of her gran dda ug ht e r (recently baptized) whos e g u ess was "'bout a nunnerd." It mea nt urging the Falcon over 8 miles of sandy, hig h-c e nte r ed tra ils and along wa she s where th ere we r e no trails, but it was worth the effort. A b ea utiful canyon, frames in red rock, studd e d wi th Juniper and pinyon, two |