Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Bob Hunger, a Red Cross volunteer, stands by his Emergency Communication Response Vehicle outside the Red Cross office in downtown Clovis. After the tornado on March 23, the Red Cross deployed one of nine ECRVs. (CNJ staff photo:Andy DeLisle) A replacement car window, food and water, items for the baby, a place to sleep — the list of unique needs goes on and on. More than a dozen residents waited hours Thursday at the Curry County Fairgrounds to meet with representatives from local agencies offering disaster relief. Just s... Full story
Plummet. Spike. Drop. Level out. The next few years of Cannon Air Force Base’s proposed transition to a Special Operations base look like a chart of the stock market. Over the next six to seven years, Cannon population numbers will drop significantly when the F-16s leave and the base prepares for restructuring, spike during a construction phase, and then begin to level out as the base gets a solid footing between 2011 and 2014, according to a summary of the recently r...
The Cannon Air Force Base Environmental Impact Statement is based on a three-prong proposal by Air Force Special Operations Command. The EIS studies the effect of those proposals on the surrounding environment, scrutinizing everything from air, noise and water impact to potential socioeconomic outcomes. Two of the proposals offer variations of restructuring scenarios for utilization and expansion at Cannon Air Force Base. One provides for expansion and renovation along the... Full story
This year’s congressional debate over immigration has begun with the introduction last week of a House bill that would stiffen enforcement and worker verification procedures, set up a guest worker program and offer a path to citizenship for the 11 million to 12 million workers who are already in this country illegally. If President Bush wants a successful outcome on an important issue before he leaves office, he would do well to aggressively support this bill, with some key modifications, or something like it. He may have u... Full story
Elijio Sena trains at the Roy Walker Community Center on Thursday afternoon. Sena is scheduled to fight in the super-heavyweight division of the state Golden Gloves tournament this weekend. (CNJ staff photo: Andy DeLisle) Until the fighters start actually showing up, beginning this morning, Chuck Haas can never quite be sure how good the turnout for the state Golden Gloves boxing competition will be. But the 83-year-old Clovis resident, who’s been involved in Golden Gloves for 60 years, knows by now how to estimate and he f...
—The Salvation Army has begun to see a decline in volunteer support and in-kind donations. As the Clovis community moves into day seven of the recovery efforts, the pressures of long-term resolutions for the tornado survivors begin. The long-term recovery phase needs support from the community in terms of volunteer assistance, in-kind and monetary donations. Survivors’ needs remain to be furniture, new clothing and small appliances. —To drop off donations visit The Salvation Army Donation Warehouse at Curry County Fairg...
At 52, Portales resident Jimmy Stratton thought he’d never have the opportunity to play football again. When he heard about the first annual Eastern New Mexico University alumni football game he wanted to play — but there was a slight misunderstanding. “I thought it was going to be alumni versus alumni,” Stratton said. “I didn’t know it was going to be against the Greyhounds themselves.” But the thought of playing against men young enough to be his sons didn’t stop Stratton. “I had already made up my mind to play. It didn...
A Portales woman still wrestles with demons that had their roots in the Iranian hostage crisis more than a quarter-century ago. Trudy McKeel is the widow of John D. McKeel, a Marine guard at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, one of 52 Americans held hostage for 444 days starting in November 1979 following that country’s Islamic revolution. She shared her story of her husband’s attempt to move on with his life and his tragic death during Wednesday’s Portales Rotary Club meeting. Mrs. McKeel said she moved to Portales from...
Plummet. Spike. Drop. Level out. The next few years of Cannon Air Force Base’s proposed transition to a Special Operations base look like a chart of the stock market. Over the next six to seven years, Cannon population numbers will drop significantly when the F-16s leave and the base prepares for restructuring, spike during a construction phase, and then begin to level out as the base gets a solid footing between 2011 and 2014, according to a summary of the recently released Air Force Environmental Impact Statement Draft. W... Full story
A replacement car window, food and water, items for the baby, a place to sleep — the list of unique needs goes on and on. More than a dozen residents waited hours Thursday at the Curry County Fairgrounds to meet with representatives from local agencies offering disaster relief. Just shy of a week since a tornado devastated hundreds of Clovis lives, reality is setting in, according to Mary Lombrana, a family services coordinator with the Salvation Army. “A lot of them are having a hard time accepting they have nothing,” she s...
The Environmental Impact Statement is based on a three-prong proposal by Air Force Special Operations Command. The EIS studies the effect of those proposals on the surrounding environment, scrutinizing everything from air, noise and water impact to potential socioeconomic outcomes. Two of the proposals offer variations of restructuring scenarios for utilization and expansion at Cannon Air Force Base. One provides for expansion and renovation along the western, already developed side of the flightline at Cannon, and the other...
Last week, I had surgery on my ankle in Lubbock. An antibiotic was prescribed as a precautionary measure to avoid infection. Within 30 minutes of taking the first pill, I began to sneeze. I must have sneezed 20 times. I noticed my hands had turned red and my face had too. My fingers began to tingle and it spread to my toes. My ears pounded and I thought they would burst. I felt helpless and I realized something was terribly wrong. The deluge of rain pouring down made visibility zero as my husband drove frantically to the...
I have a checkered driving history, which reveals more than my driving habits over the past two decades. It speaks volumes about each three-year increment, the time my insurance company goes back to count tickets. My friend Bernard says I’m a crazy driver, usually while telling me to slow down, watch the road or not tail other cars. My only defense is, “If you think I’m a bad driver now, you should have seen me 10 years ago!” I know I have a driving problem. It’s like something happens to me when I get behind the wheel. I... Full story
Editorial Let’s say government officials want you to turn over a piece of your property to them for free. Let’s say you refuse, arguing that you have no legal requirement to do so. And let’s say the government officials then embark on a harassment campaign to intimidate you into giving them what they want. Should that be legal? We know the Fifth Amendment protects the public’s right to keep government off their property. But is it implicit in that right that government agents cannot abuse their power to harass you? This is...
I love a parade. From the time I was little, I can remember watching parades at one time or another. My far back memories take me to Missouri when we would always go to parades in downtown Kansas City. It just takes an occasion to throw a parade. Each time I stood on the sidewalk for the upcoming parade, I could hardly wait for the excitement marching down the street toward me. There would be bands, cowboys, clowns on scooters, clowns juggling and clowns walking on stilts....
A subscription to The Clovis News cost $1 per year. … The Clovis Rifle Club was “preparing to have some good target matches soon,” The Clovis News reported. … The Clovis National Bank promoted itself as “better than the law requires.” … Streets were filled with wagon loads of wheat, maize, kaffir and feterita, mostly raised north of town, on their way to the newly completed Clovis Elevator. … Model Grocery advertised apples for $1.65 to $1.75 per box....
“Clovisites join mankind across the world today in paying homage to the risen Christ, recalling the supreme sacrifice the Son of God paid on the cross at Calvary 2,000 years ago for the redemption of humanity,” the Clovis News-Journal reported. … Barnes Cleaners at 1500 Thornton announced coin-operated dry cleaning was available. Four blankets could be dry cleaned for eight quarters. … “Lassie” and “Ed Sullivan” were among the night’s television options....
Dr. Gil Knutson and Gorilla Poggi were preparing to square off against Ace Freeman and Olan Boynton in an Australian tag-team wrestling match at the Clovis Armory. Ringside seats were $1.75, and available at Duckworth Drug and Busy Bee Café. … Wanda Wilson was student of the week at Clovis High School. … The “Legal Control Committee” was encouraging voters to favor legal alcohol sales in an upcoming election....
I have a checkered driving history, which reveals more than my driving habits over the past two decades. It speaks volumes about each three-year increment, the time my insurance company goes back to count tickets. My friend Bernard says I’m a crazy driver, usually while telling me to slow down, watch the road or not tail other cars. My only defense is, “If you think I’m a bad driver now, you should have seen me 10 years ago!” I know I have a driving problem. It’s like something happens to me when I get behind the wheel. I... Full story
You kick a few things around in your head as you hunker down in the hallway of your home, wondering if a tornado is going to come whirling out of the dark, rainy night and slam into your house. That’s the way it was last Friday night, The Night of the Tornado. For us that night was probably like many other folks’ around town: Watching TV, the weather guy comes on and says a twister is headed for Clovis and then the eerie, spooky wail of tornado warning sirens in the night. We did what the experts said, sat in the middle of... Full story
