Dilkon, Teesto chapters regroup after blazes

Dilkon, Teesto chapters regroup after blazes

In the aftermath of the twin blazes that leveled the Dilkon Chapter administration building and the Teesto Chapter House early Saturday morning, the chapters are doing what Navajos have always done better than anyone: jury-rigging.

According to an update filed Tuesday by incident commander Claudia Jackson, Dilkon Chapter employees were busy this week rigging partitions in the chapter house to house the chapter offices displaced by the fire.

The original plan had been to move into the Head Start building, which they had thought was vacant, but Head Start officials told them students had been enrolled and the school year was about to get under way.

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Cindy Yurth

Cindy Yurth was the Tséyi' Bureau reporter, covering the Central Agency of the Navajo Nation, until her retirement on May 31, 2021. Her other beats included agriculture and Arizona state politics. She holds a bachelor’s degree in technical journalism from Colorado State University with a cognate in geology. She has been in the news business since 1980 and with the Navajo Times since 2005, and is the author of “Exploring the Navajo Nation Chapter by Chapter.”

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