Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Saturday was my final day at Eastern New Mexico University. Although I retired from full-time employment as media relations director on June 30, 2017, I have worked since on a one-year, quarter-time contract as a “feature writer.” I chose my title and wrote my job description, so it was a pretty good gig. Typically, I came in for two hours before heading to Greyhound Arena to play basketball. Since Doc Elder and I started the tradition 23 years ago, we must have played with 1,000 players. The only other regulars still aro...
Irma Anzaldua Leal Born: May 24, 1932, in Mercedes, Texas Career: Restaurateur Today: 'I just rest.' MULESHOE - At the end of a TV commercial for Leal's Mexican Restaurant, family matriarch Irma Leal receives and returns her son Victor's kiss on the cheek. Although she doesn't speak, the scene epitomizes the quiet strength, love and giving with which she has lived her 86 years. From the time she and her late husband, Jesse, opened a small tortilla factory in Muleshoe in 1957,... Full story
PORTALES - Those who know her professionally might be surprised to learn sociologist Chelsea Starr played in California rock bands in the 1990s. Growing up in Orange County, California, Starr had the perfect name to front a band. She was the singer, bass player and co-writer for Vegex. Vegex started out in the early 1980s as a post-punk band and morphed into an alternative band in the '90s. According to last.fm: "Chelsea Starr and Peter Gilabert started Vegex in 1984. They... Full story
