Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Tonya Garner: CNJ staff writer Highlights from Tuesday’s Curry County Commission meeting: - The La Casa Senior Center requesting funding to improve services for area senior citizens. The commission would accept bids and serve as contractor if the funds are granted. - Commissioners Tim Ashley and Pete Hulder were chosen by lottery to serve on the Local Redevelopment Committee. Commissioner J. Albin Smith will serve as alternate. The purpose of the redevelopment committee is to design and make recommendations if Cannon c...
Bobbie Collins Services: Have been held. Bobbie L Collins, 68, of Tucumcari, died Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2005. He was born on Sept. 24, 1936, in Clovis. He attended his first year of school in Clovis and later moved to Grady with his family. He graduated from Grady High School in 1954. He was a member of the Church of Christ. He served his country in the US Army. He was preceded in death by his father, Herbert J. Collins; and a brother, Derrill B. Collins. Survivors include his mother, Nina Joe Collins of Tucumcari; three sons,...
The Eastern New Mexico University women’s soccer team will conduct a clinc for youngsters age 6-13 at 3 p.m. on Aug. 28 at the ENMU soccer practice field. Zias coach Travis McCorkle and players will conduct the clinic. Youngsters are asked to bring a soccer ball, shin guards and water....
Eric Butler: PNT Correspondent CLOVIS — When asked about his prolific amount of victories as a softball coach, Guy Leeder has a relatively simple explanation. It’s not a superb expertise in men’s slow-pitch softball, according to Leeder, but that he’s merely outlasted almost everyone else while compiling in excess of 2,500 wins. “It sounds like a lot, but it started in 1969 so it wasn’t any overnight deal,” Leeder says. But his players say there’s a bit more to it than that. “In the lower classifications, sometimes it’s al...
Tonya Garner: Freedom Newspapers Becky Rowley was named interim president of Clovis Community College during Wednesday’s special meeting of the college’s Board of Trustees. Regents voted to approve the motion to name Rowley to the position. Four voted yes while Regent Robert Lydick chose to abstain. Lydick was unavailable for comment. The board did not comment on whether or not anyone else was considered for the position. Rowley, the college’s executive vice president, will succeed Beverlee McClure, who last week accep...
Commissioner of Public Lands Patrick H. Lyons announced that for the fiscal year of 2005 the New Mexico State Office’s beneficiaries were paid $471 million, or $92 million more than fiscal year 2004, according to a press release. “Oil and gas revenues earned by the Land Office and paid into the permanent fund were extremely high due to strong oil and gas prices,” Lyons said in the release. Lyons says the continued strength in commodity prices will carry over to the next fiscal year and he expects continued interest in the L...
Elwanda Mieas, 70 Services: Memorial services are planned in Lubbock. Elwanda Williams Mieas, 70, of Lubbock, died Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2005, at University Medical Center in Lubbock. She was born on Jan. 6, 1935, in Portales, to Clifton and Ineta Williams. She lived in Clovis a number of years and worked for a lawyer and at the Allsups offices. She moved to Lubbock in 1985 and worked for an insurance company. Survivors include a daughter, Debbie Dover of Dallas; a son, Lonnie Mieas of Lubbock; a sister, Jerri Miller of Clovis;...
The woman who died in Tuesday's crash on South Prince Street was pregnant, officials said. Guadalupe Esquibel, 27, of Clovis, and her unborn son perished in the crash that involved a 1993 Pontiac and semi-tractor trailer. Three passengers remained in a Lubbock hospital on Wednesday night; one was treated and released from the hospital in Clovis. Esquibel was one of five occupants in the car that collided with the truck traveling south on U.S. 70, according to a Clovis Police Department press release. Traffic Officer David Les...
Tony Parra: PNT Staff Writer FLOYD — Floyd School students headed into the hallways of their school on Wednesday greeted by new faces from the teaching staff and a new face at the top. For new Floyd School Superintendent Paul Benoit it was his initiation into a Floyd school day. Benoit began his tenure as superintendent of Floyd Schools on July 5 and was selected for the position in March. “It was a great day,” Benoit said. “I visited some classes and got a positive tone from students and teachers.” Benoit is the third sup...
Kevin Wilson: PNT Managing Editor TEXICO — As the eight remaining entities of the Ute Water Project move forward, their respective members continue to work to make sure the loss of four entities doesn’t set them back. Many of the issues brought up during Wednesday’s Eastern New Mexico Rural Water Authority meeting at Texico’s city hall dealt with keeping the pipeline project in line for the remaining eight entities. The $300-million project, which members will count mainly on federal dollars to fund, includes buildin...
When asked about his prolific amount of victories as a softball coach, Guy Leeder has a relatively simple explanation. It’s not a superb expertise in men’s slow-pitch softball, according to Leeder, but that he’s merely outlasted almost everyone else while compiling in excess of 2,500 wins. “It sounds like a lot, but it started in 1969 so it wasn’t any overnight deal,” Leeder says. But his players say there’s a bit more to it than that. “In the lower classifications, sometimes it’s all about beer drinking and having fun,...
Clovis high school junior goalie Josh Bussen clears a corner kick in front of junior teammate Luis Miranda during practice Wednesday at Yucca Soccer Complex. (CNJ staff photo: Eric Kluth) Fourth-year Clovis High boys soccer coach Shaun Gill thinks team chemistry could help the Wildcats achieve a spot in postseason play this year. The Cats (6-14, 0-8 District 4-5A in 2004) open the season Friday in a six-team invitational at Yucca Soccer Complex. They face Ruidoso at 3 p.m. and Aztec at 7 p.m. in pool matches. The opposite...
The death last week of Peter Jennings, the debonair longtime anchor for ABC’s evening news program, prompts some thoughts on the changing condition of journalism in the United States today, especially electronic journalism. The last year has seen longtime anchors at all three major networks leave. Does this mean the passing not only of a personal era for Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather, but the passing of an era in which three celebrity journalists could have such influence and power? If so, it will not be an u...
Johnny Curtis Services: Have been held. Johnny Mack Curtis, 57, died Thursday, Aug. 4, 2005, in Lubbock. He was born on Jan. 11, 1948, in Hickory, N.C., to Cloyd and Mamie Curtis. He married Pauletta Guss on Dec. 26, 1967, in Portales. He was the store manager at Bunk’s Feed Barn for more than 23 years. He was active in his church and was the music director. He played bass guitar in a country/western dance band called The Country Gentlemen. He was a member of the Lions Club for many years. He was preceded in death by his f...
Maybe I am seeing things, but my impression from going through hundreds of airports since Sept. 11, 2001, is that too many Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screeners are plainly gung-ho. Yes, they perform their jobs eagerly, often seeming to relish that bit of power it gives them to order people around. I am not one of the most cooperative folks at these security checks, mainly because I believe most of it fits the expression, “Closing the barn doors after the horses have fled.” All this might have made sense bef...
“Why is there an Ebony? If some white guy started a magazine called Ivory, you blacks would riot in protest.” Give me a dollar for every white guy who ever asked me that and I’d be too rich to write columns for a living. The point of the question, of course, is that white folk are oppressed by pernicious double standards. It’s a silly argument and I’ve explained why many times in this space. But today, rather than answer the issue behind the question, I’d like to answer the...
