Woodworking Holds Healing Powers for Veterans

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(SUNfoto by Louis McGill) Colonial furniture-making instructor Rik Gonzales stands among the work tables which he said he constructed out of scrap for his students to make up for the low budget Northern New Mexico college gave to the program. The college let go of Gonzales due to changes to the program this year.

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Vietnam War veteran Eloy Romero, 65, first enrolled in Northern New Mexico College’s colonial furniture-making course as a sort of therapy, but the experience soon turned into an act of cultural preservation. “I started having a lot of problems with…

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