Articles from the July 5, 2003 edition

Savage/Richards Rod and Scotty Savage of Portales announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Summer Savage, to Philip Richards of Lubbock, son of Tommy and Brenda Richards of Lubbock. The couple will exchange vows at 5 p.m. Saturday at Faith Christian Family Church, 3401 N. Norris St., in Clovis. The reception will be at the Campus Union Ballroom at Eastern New Mexico University. The bride-elect is a 2003 graduate of South Plains College. The prospective groom is a 2003 graduate of South Plains...

Jim Lee

Well, here it is the sixth of July. It doesn’t seem possible, does it? It’s hard to believe history has claimed half of the year 2003 already. A year sure goes by quickly when we’re having a good time. And I’m having a real good time this year. A highlight of the first half of 2003 came recently when I attended a wedding. Normally, I wouldn’t call a wedding a high point of any half year. Like most guys, I generally look forward to weddings like I look forward to funerals or having a tooth drilled without anesthesi...

Bob Huber

Hey, you fun-loving, glassy-eyed, patriotic young squirts who each summer evening toss empty beer cans on our lawn. You’re in deep doo-doo. If you have any sense at all, you’ll get out of Dodge before sundown, because you’ve made my wife Marilyn mad. I’ll tell you, guys, when she gets mad, the entire world and a dozen galactic time zones are in jeopardy. I had hoped never to see her in this mood again. The last time was after a thunderstorm ruined one of her flower beds. A three-year drought followed. Mother Nature was no...