Illness forces Wingate Elementary teacher Barbara Storm to leave area
Barbara Storm has taught at Wingate High School over a span of twenty years and is now retiring so that she can recover from a stroke she suffered in November. © 2011 Gallup Independent / Cable Hoover

By Vida Volkert
Staff Writer

FORT WINGATE — In the summer of 1989 Barbara Storm was unemployed and broke. She was camping at Red Rock Park during the Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial, when Dan Garner, the assistant principal of Wingate Elementary School, showed up at her tent.

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