Tuba City Boarding School era ending<br>

“I remember that I was one of the only Hopis there, and I was made to feel like an outcast among so many Navajo students,” he said. “When my parents sent me a ‘care’ package filled with chips, cookies, clothes and a small battery operated toy, which were a big deal back then, way before computer games or CD players, it was another struggle just to keep that toy from getting stolen.

“I can remember that my parents sent me a little fire truck that ran on batteries and it was taken from me the very first day I got it. But I knew that someone in my dorm had it, because I could hear the little toy car siren at night, when it was supposed to be lights out. I was homesick already and that just made it worse. I knew right then I would never send my own children to boarding school.”

One Tuba City Unified School District administrator says he can remember shoveling snow from the sidewalks at the boarding school when it used to snow uptown Tuba. With the changes in the weather patterns in Tuba City, snow no longer falls heavy enough to shovel anywhere in Tuba City. Nowadays, snow at the most, it is a light sprinkling uptown.

He also said he remembers that he made several friends at the boarding school while shoveling those walks that have now become lifelong relationships. Although he hated shoveling snow back then, he said he has fond memories of some personal boarding school antics that make him smile now in his retirement age.

For more information on the demolition or construction, contact either Anthony Honanie at Tuba City Boarding School at 283-2330 or Wes Mason at ARVISO Contractors at 283-6441.

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