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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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The Communication Department at Eastern New Mexico University is looking to reboot its radio station after one-and-a-half years of being off the air. The department is hoping to start streaming content from its website in the upcoming fall semester. Even though ENMU has just finished building its new professional-grade radio station, the Communication Department is in fundraising mode to pay for licensing fees for the online streaming. Roger Gatchet, the faculty supervisor for the program, said that the station will not... Full story
After 14 hours of relentless walking around Eastern New Mexico University's Greyhound Arena, participants in the Portales Relay for Life finally got to stop at 5 a.m. Saturday. With 37 teams and over 370 participants, the Relay raised about $9,000 so far. Mark Clark, co-chair for the event, said money raised from the silent auction has not yet been accounted for and it is likely the total will be closer to $20,000, about what it was last year. Christina Calloway: Portales News-Tribune Locals provide country and bluegrass...
Editor's note: This is the second in a three-part series on Eastern New Mexico University music students' recitals. Christopher Yee is a junior studying music education at Eastern New Mexico University. Last week he gave his vocal recital at Buchanan Hall, and after he graduates, Yee is thinking about becoming a music teacher. Yee grew up in Las Vegas, N.M., and became interested in choir after being recruited to be the singer in a band in middle school, which he followed up with choir in high school. As a baritone, Yee is...
Delaney Swift, a freshman from Portales High School, has been competing in Destination Imagination since the third grade. She and her PHS teammates won first place at the secondary school level for their improvisation challenge, Change in RealiTee, at the statewide competition in Albuquerque two weeks ago. Destination Imagination is a creativity and problem solving competition for students in grades elementary through college. The students are placed in teams and each team is given a challenge that they must then solve and...
Editor's note: This is the first in a three-part series on Eastern New Mexico University music students' recitals. Jared Aragon spent his spring semester at Eastern New Mexico University preparing for his composition recital, which took place Wednesday. The recital featured five pieces of music composed by Aragon, who also played the pipe organ and piano for the performance. Aragon grew up in Bosque with parents who owned a music shop, and after taking piano lessons for four years, was inspired to start writing music. "My... Full story
Pam Atherton has had an illustrious career as a radio host, voice-over artist, media consultant and public speaker. Atherton grew up in Los Angeles, where she was a child actress until she took college classes as a high school student at Rio Hondo College in California, which sparked an interest in journalism. Atherton has written articles for the Huffington Post and spends her time between Denver, where she gives motivational talks and seminars, Los Angeles, where she works as a voice-over artist, and her home in Clovis...
It's only the second year into Portales High School's media studies class, and the students are already making their own superhero film. "Oliver Score is our superhero who hears music in his head," said Hannah Christensen, a senior at PHS. "Doctor Trouble (the villain of the piece) gets mad because the world is too loud, so he creates this evil device that silences everything." The students working on the film are part of the advanced media arts class and have been part of the program for more than a year, gaining experience...
Greyhound Arena was bustled with vendors and shoppers Saturday at the Just for Women Seminar. "So many women are excited to get out of the house and have their own thing," said Amanda Carter, a vendor for Pampered Chef. Like some of the other vendors, Carter works a separate full-time job and acts as an independent consultant for a larger company in her spare time. Pam Atherton kickstarted the event with a keynote speech about how women should empower themselves to do the things they want to do. Jillian Holbert: Portales... Full story
Wesley Brown, along with his wife Linda, was recently awarded the Floyd Lions Club Citizen of the Year at this year's Floyd Jamboree for his services as the sound designer of the show. He grew up in a family of farmers, and when he was 14 he started his own farming business. As a result of being a farmer, Brown became an avid builder of not only farm equipment but of four and five-string fiddles. He currently lives on a farm equidistant between Clovis, Portales and Melrose with his three children and his wife of 25 years. Her...
Natalie Moctezuma, an Eastern New Mexico University graduate student majoring in communicative disorders, has been working since the summer on her research comparing the immediate hydrating effects of water versus flavored water. "Flavored water is so popular nowadays, and voice experts are saying drink eight glasses of water a day, and if you don't like water, just flavor it, but we don't know if there's a problem in doing that," Moctezuma said. She'll be presenting her findings at the 39th annual Eastern New Mexico Universi... Full story
Children jumping and swinging Easter egg baskets eagerly awaited the start of the Easter egg hunt Saturday at the Softball Complex. Carmen Polk brought her nephew Josiah, who hoped to find Laffy-Taffy, bubble gum, and chocolates in the little plastic eggs. Notorious for its short and furious duration, Carmen expected the egg hunt to last 10 minutes at most. "I think it's gonna last 25 to 30 minutes," Josiah predicted. Joshua Lucero: CMI correspondent photo 5-year-old Kayden Beaty makes a dash to find Easter eggs during the... Full story
Robert Restaino has been armed with an ultrasound machine and a blood pressure cuff for the last year gathering and analyzing data for his study about metabolic syndrome in women. The Eastern New Mexico University biology student is still looking for participants for the study, which will compare the vascular health of women with and without metabolic syndrome and specifically measures vein dilation in two major arteries of the body. According to Matthew Barlow, an assistant professor at ENMU overseeing the study, metabolic... Full story
Yoayaid Rodriguez and Alejandra Acuna are high school juniors who drove from Hobbs to participate Saturday in Eastern New Mexico University's annual Junior Preview Day. "We'd kind of like to know more about the college," said Rodriguez. "I'm interested in studying criminal justice," said Acuna, "and they have a lot of great programs here." Prospective students, parents, professors and ENMU student presidential ambassadors gathered at the campus union building in the ballroom to listen to University President Steven Gamble....
Tim Case, a senior at Eastern New Mexico University studying film, has directed, produced, written and sound edited for six short films. Originally from Albuquerque, he came to ENMU five years ago because he heard that there was a new film program just getting off the ground. Although he has directed many films, his primary goal is to become a screenwriter for both Hollywood and independent films. What was directing your first film like? "Middle Age Hero" was really rough at first. I was really inexperienced and it was...
Zoe Morrison, a Portales High School student, will be singing "I Feel Pretty" from Westside Story for her first performance Thursday at the 63rd Annual Floyd Jamboree. "I've been watching the Jamboree since I was in second grade and am excited to finally be a part of it," said Morrison. Morrison is one of two new acts to join the Floyd Jamboree line up. "Most of our acts are old acts," said Fred Patterson, event chairman, "We have a fairly long performance list so it doesn't give us a lot of room without cutting somebody... Full story
Yacaranday De La Torre, an eighth-grader at Portales Junior High School, captured her third Spanish Spelling Bee title last week. She is one of 10 school winners and runnerups at Portales schools who advanced to Thursday's districtwide bee. "I was born in Mexico," said De La Torre, who won the title Thursday, "so it's a great opportunity to be able to spell and do stuff like this." Henry Montano, the director of Federal Programs for Portales Municipal Schools, helped organize the districtwide event. Montano said the bee was...
The Altrusa Club hosted its first Char-i-Tea event Saturday to raise money and donate books for a new library at the New Mexico Baptist Children's Home. Hosted at the home's Massey Center, Altrusa Club members and their guests dined on finger sandwiches and pastries and had a choice of tea or punch as a drink. Each table was helmed by a group of Altrusans who decorated it to match the theme of a book. Laurie Bohm used "Alice in Wonderland" as the theme for her table and used an antique doll from her grandmother as the centerp...
The 2013 Tumbleweed Classic cattle dog trials were held at the 21st annual New Mexico Ag Expo on Wednesday. Dogs and their handlers competed in four trials: The fetch, the Y chute, the maze, and the double-gated pen obstacle in the Roosevelt County Fairgrounds outdoor arena. In the fetch, the dog goes to the end of the arena and fetches the cattle and brings them to the handler through panels. Jillian Holbert: Portales News-Tribune Lilly with her handler Garland King herd cattle at Wednesday during the 2013 Tumbleweed...
Area troops in the Girl Scouts of the U.S. of America of New Mexico Trails gathered Saturday at the Memorial Building to celebrate World Thinking Day, a day to explore different countries around the world, according to organizers. World Thinking Day is Friday. Each troop picked a country to represent through food, clothing, pictures, facts and diagrams, and countries as varied as Madagascar and England were presented by the scouts. Jillian Holbert: Portales News-Tribune Girl Scouts of the U.S. of America of New Mexico Trails...
Sen. Stuart Ingle, R-Portales, has introduced a bill for the appropriation of funds to create a new master's degree in nursing education program at Eastern New Mexico University. SB 216 will allocate $180,000 per year for three years to ENMU's new program, after which time the program would become self-sufficient. "We're not asking for this funding forever," ENMU President Steve Gamble said, "but we need to hire a Ph.D. nurse in order to get the program running, and then student semester credit fees would fund it from then... Full story
