Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Editor’s note: Where are they now is a weekly feature updating the lives of Eastern New Mexico University graduates. Mitch Paliga left Portales 30 years ago with a degree in music and a dream of playing saxophone professionally. The longtime Chicago-area resident will return to eastern New Mexico in August — for the first time since his Eastern New Mexico University days — as a member of actor Gary Sinise’s band, which is performing at Cannon Air Force Base. The band is called the Lt. Dan Band in tribute to Sinise...
Staff Writer [email protected] A church choir will accompany the symphony of bird and animal sounds at the Hillcrest Park Zoo this weekend. The Central Baptist Church “His Voices” choir is presenting a one-hour “Creation Celebration” concert 3 p.m. Sunday at a pavilion near the tiger exhibit. Admission to the zoo will be free for everyone from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. “The Hillcrest Park Zoo is such a wonderful facility where so much of God's creation is the featured attraction,” said Worship Pastor Damon Pearce in a press... Full story
linkBy: Curtis Shelburne Fear and faith. Both color our journey in this life. I hope we know ourselves well enough to just frankly admit that it’s no rare occasion when the former threatens to swamp the latter. It’s nothing new. In Mark 6:45-52, the disciples of Christ have gotten into a boat on the Sea of Galilee to go ahead of the Lord into the village of Bethsaida. Jesus himself has stayed behind to dismiss the crowd of 5,000, which he has just fed, and to go up on a mou...
link Amos the Church Mouse Illustrated by Gary Mitchell Editor’s note: Amos is a churchmouse, who types by hopping on the computer keyboard, but he can’t operate the capital shift keys, and he shuns punctuation marks – except hyphens and dashes. death by cheese pizza boss you may have heard by now that i m a marked mouse marcellus the mean nasty mangy ungodly cat has notified the church pew underworld that he has put my name at the head of his black mouse list – his top 10...
In 2009, only 46 percent of New Mexico children had received all the recommended vaccinations. In 2013, 65.7 percent of New Mexico children were fully up to date on their shots. And while that means 34 percent of children weren’t, it is important to recognize the effort that moved New Mexico from having less than half to almost two-thirds of its kids fully immunized. Yes, the vaccine rate (19 doses by age 2) can seem nonstop for pre-school children. And getting to the doctor or clinic is tough when you’re a working par...
Many people want “the rich” punished through taxation. They are seeking to use government to steal from the rich on their behalf — knowing it would be wrong to take it in person. link Kent McManigal Two of their favorite weapons are “estate taxes” and taxing “big business” more. Perhaps they mistake the tax collector for Robin Hood. The irony is lost on them. Robin Hood didn’t rob from the rich and give to the poor, as the socialist agenda has perverted the narrative. He reclaimed money from the thieves — the tax collectors ... Full story
The campaign to elect a president is well and truly under way. link Rube Render Prior to last Sunday, folks had been asking me, “So what do you think about the candidates for president?” The question Sunday was, “Are you getting ready for the elections in 2016?” Soon the question will be, “So who are you Republicans going to run for president?” The correct answer, of course, is, “Whoever wins the primary.” It goes without saying that nobody is asking, “Who are the Democrats... Full story
Following is a sampling of calls received by dispatchers for Clovis police, Curry County sheriff and area fire stations April 22. • 3:25 a.m.: Shots fired, 900 block of Sunrise Boulevard. • 3:32 a.m.: Shoplifting report, 2000 block of north Prince Street. • 5:03 a.m.: Failure to appear, Apollo and Mercury streets. • 6:24 a.m.: Burglary report, 1000 block of Mora Street. • 7:18 a.m.: Burglary report 1000 block of east Ninth Street. • 9:12 a.m.: Battery, 5100 block of north Thornton Street. • 9:59 a.m.: Battery, 1500 block of...
On this date ...link 1975: Mr. and Mrs. Joe Rogers of 2209 Moberly Drive in Clovis were looking for witnesses to the “senseless and cruel shooting of our house cat” on April 14. The Rogers’ said the injured cat “crawled almost home,” but their veterinarian was not able to save him. “As for the man who did it, go look in the mirror at yourself and see if you like what you see there,” they wrote in a letter to the editor. 1960: Student art was on display at the music buildin...
By: Judy Brandon link Judy Brandon Columnist Packed away in my treasures from the past is a white Bible that my parents gave me when I was 7 years old. Even though it is tattered, torn and missing a front cover from all the years, still today it remains one of my most prized possessions. This Bible has colored pictures in it placed throughout to illustrate Bible stories. When my Bible was new, I spent hours browsing through its pages, taking inventory of each picture. There is... Full story
