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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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After a one-year stop last weekend in Clovis, the AAU girls state basketball tournament will not be returning for 2004. Coaches voted to bring the event to Albuquerque next year at a meeting held during the tourney. Thirty-eight teams came to Clovis for championships in six age divisions. When it came time to consider next year’s site, 14 coaches voted for Albuquerque, 12 for Clovis and three for Hobbs. According to AAU girls basketball chair Jane Miner, two coaches for Clovis teams and one for a Portales squad weren’t pre...
Samplings of recent calls received by the Clovis Police Department, according to police reports: A 44-year-old male from Clovis reported he had been assaulted between midnight and 1 a.m. on May 28 at the 800 block of Mitchell. According to the report, the man was jumped by four unknown males and received scratches and cuts on his knees and palms due to a fall. --- Clovis police responded Friday afternoon to a report of an “all-out brawl in which chairs were being thrown and a female was hitting the males with a plunger” at... Full story
Several years ago, I went to a women’s conference and heard an array of speakers. The keynote speaker really stood out because her speech was simple. She only said four things: --Life is made up of moments. --Some of those moments are good. --Some of those moments are bad. --And most of the time we can’t tell the difference. I really didn’t understand it then, but now, I not only understand, I really do believe it. Life is made up of moments, and those moments add up into...
Airabelle the Cow, a heifer-shaped balloon sponsored by the Southwest Dairy Farmers, will be one of many balloons launching Saturday. When 31 hot air balloons get ready to launch from Clovis on Saturday morning, John Sando hopes he will be aboard a special one named “The Desert Dancer.” “That would be awesome,” the Clovis teen said. “I’m like a military brat, so I’ve flown in a lot of things, but not a hot air balloon. It’s not as noisy as an airplane and it’s more of a natural thing because it’s not run by an engine. It ju... Full story
CLOVIS — A cowboy’s work still has to go on even when it rains. Naturally then, the rodeo does also. The first full night of the 33rd annual Pioneer Days PRCA rodeo went off on Thursday evening at the Curry County Mounted Patrol Arena — even if it wasn’t all as planned. No traditional parade of officials and rodeo queens took place before the competition, but a steady rain had stopped by the time Australia’s Lance Kelly went into the chute as the first bareback bronc rider. “There’s nothing more fun than a rodeo in the...
David Browder has been at the College National Finals Rodeo enough times to know a quality competitor when he sees one. By his standards, the Eastern New Mexico University rodeo coach sees three of them representing his team at this year’s CNFR. ENMU’s Chance Parsons, Kendra Jones and Dale Vickrey will be making their first appearance at the CNFR Sunday through Saturday in Casper, Wyo. But Browder thinks all three of them have a shot to compete despite their inexperience. “My philosophy is if you’re still breathing, you’ve...
