Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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American Forces Press Service SAN ANTONIO — In working closely with the Office of the Secretary of Defense staff on a congressional action involving veterans submitting claims for Retroactive Stop Loss Special Pay, major command and wing level officials are working to inform veterans who were affected by stop loss. Eligible airmen include those who served on active duty while their enlistment or period of obligated service was involuntarily extended, or whose eligibility for separation or retirement was suspended during...
American Forces Press Service SAN ANTONIO — In working closely with the Office of the Secretary of Defense staff on a congressional action involving veterans submitting claims for Retroactive Stop Loss Special Pay, major command and wing level officials are working to inform veterans who were affected by stop loss. Eligible airmen include those who served on active duty while their enlistment or period of obligated service was involuntarily extended, or whose eligibility for separation or retirement was suspended during...
Courtesy photo This crew won a bombing competition in 1955 at Walker Air Force Base in Roswell. The base closed June 30, 1967. Event: Remembering Walker Air Force Base opening and dedication of the Walker Aviation Museum. When: 2 p.m. Sept. 18. Location: Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell Performing Arts Center, located on the Roswell Industrial Air Center, Roswell. Take U.S. 70 from Clovis through Portales, Elida and Kenna. When you reach U.S. 285 at the overpass, go south through town. When you enter RIAC, stay south on... Full story
Courtesy photo This crew won a bombing competition in 1955 at Walker Air Force Base in Roswell. The base closed June 30, 1967. Event: Remembering Walker Air Force Base opening and dedication of the Walker Aviation Museum. When: 2 p.m. Sept. 18. Location: Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell Performing Arts Center, located on the Roswell Industrial Air Center, Roswell. Take U.S. 70 from Clovis through Portales, Elida and Kenna. When you reach U.S. 285 at the overpass, go south through town. When you enter RIAC, stay south on...
Cannon Connections photo: Liliana Castillo Michelle Jeong talked about each ingredient as she added it to the recipe for salt and pepper shrimp during the demonstration. The smell of black bean sauce and five-spice powder filled the room as the Cantonese cooking demonstration began to heat up at the Airman and Family Readiness Center on Aug. 12 at Cannon Air Force Base. The demonstration was one of the two that occur monthly at the center and are intended to help give airmen and their family members the life skill of...
Cannon Connections photo: Liliana Castillo Michelle Jeong talked about each ingredient as she added it to the recipe for salt and pepper shrimp during the demonstration. The smell of black bean sauce and five-spice powder filled the room as the Cantonese cooking demonstration began to heat up at the Airman and Family Readiness Center on Aug. 12 at Cannon Air Force Base. The demonstration was one of the two that occur monthly at the center and are intended to help give airmen and their family members the life skill of...
Courtesy photo The 27th Special Operations Medical Support Squadron provided a team-building exercise at the Women's Medical Center on July 30. The Women's Medical Center is an obstetrics and gynecology office located across the street from Plains Regional Medical Center. On July 30, 27th Special Operations Medical Support Squadron journeyed to the Women’s Medical Center in Clovis to provide a team-building effective communication exercise. Capt. Melissa Petak, a Medical Support Squadron flight commander, Tammy Adkins, i... Full story
Courtesy photo The 27th Special Operations Medical Support Squadron provided a team-building exercise at the Women's Medical Center on July 30. The Women's Medical Center is an obstetrics and gynecology office located across the street from Plains Regional Medical Center. On July 30, 27th Special Operations Medical Support Squadron journeyed to the Women’s Medical Center in Clovis to provide a team-building effective communication exercise. Capt. Melissa Petak, a Medical Support Squadron flight commander, Tammy Adkins, i... Full story
I worked for a big cattle company in the northwest and we kept “cookhouse pigs” for the crew. Every spring, 30 or so little weaner pigs were brought from the sale barn and put in our pig facility, a long steel Quonset hut. I knew enough to vaccinate them for Erysipelas, but I put off castration until the summer help, my annual veterinary student, arrived. As soon as he got settled in I put him together with a strong Basque sheepherder named Juan Garay and led him to the Quonset. I would stay long enough to demonstrate on the... Full story
Extending water rights reservation fees for Ute Lake among 12 local entities is on the agenda today at a New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission meeting. Village of Logan Manager Larry Wallin said he expects no action will be taken during Friday’s meeting in Albuquerque. Wallin also said the contract has been extended twice before, and he does not foresee any reason it would not be continued. Continuing the reservation fee is an issue affecting the 12 entities in the Ute Reservoir Water Commission, including Clovis and P...
The stick horse race last year at the Live United on the Square Block Party is this week’s featured video. The relay race begins as Portales Deputy Police Chief Lonnie Berry, Sheriff Darren Hooker and then Fire Chief John Bridges take off on their wooden thoroughbreds down the street. The three make it safely to the end, round the barrel and head back. Midway on the return trip Bridges trips and falls, triggering a chain reaction causing Berry to fall, who almost takes out Hooker. The three get to their feet and make the r...
It’s coming. I can smell “fall.” The early morning dew and the robins’ “cluck cluck” tell me to get ready. I love the crickets’ sound and the beauty of the last rose of summer. I’ve already decorated the house. My husband says, “Leave this up until New Year.” What, and skip Christmas? No way. This time of the year, football season is just getting under way. I hesitate to say it, but I’m even beginning to like football. I used to say, “Who is winning, and I don’t care.” Yet with the males of my family, I am giving up. How... Full story
Glenn Beck has a dream. Beck envisions a country that will forever embrace the principles of integrity, truth and honor established by the men and women who founded the United States. He dreams of honoring great Americans who fought to uphold those principles — including Martin Luther King, Jr. Love or hate Beck, his dream is righteous. King used his “I Have a Dream” speech to exalt the self-evident truths of the Declaration of Independence and to proclaim the rights of individuals over the oppression imposed upon the... Full story
Do I search for hypocrisies among my adversaries? Only when it is too obvious to miss. And what if anything is wrong with hypocrisy? So what if you are a liar but make a big deal about condemning lying in your neighbor? Why is that a problem? In this era when major political figures denounce ideological thinking, why should one be consistent and show integrity? Those are not the virtues of sophisticates. Those are pedestrian ideals. As our president pointed out, “the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so l...
Friday Fall greens aeration ends — Whispering Winds. Poetry contest deadline — Community Center. Late Nighter — 9 p.m., Landing Zone. "You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown" homeschool group performance — 7 p.m.., Lyceum Theater. Free admission. Roosevelt County Fair — 8 a.m. to 1 a.m. Saturday. Roosevelt County Fairgrounds....
Jared Tucker Bluegrass music and an array of food followed the presentation of this year’s Roosevelt County Pioneer Awards at the Roosevelt County Fair. Lifelong Roosevelt County residents Joe Blair and Melvin and Marie Littlejohn were all chosen as this year’s award recipients. Blair, a WWII veteran and recipient of the 2008 Portales citizen of the year award, said he feels honored to win the award, but feels like there are other people who could have won it. “It’s quite an honor to be named pioneer of the year. I like th...
Grady residents are hoping a straight shot from Cannon Air Force Base is just the shot an economically- and population-depressed village needs. An upgrade of about eight miles of Curry Road Q is a project Mayor Wesley Shafer and others have proposed. The road improvements would allow motorists to bypass Clovis en route to the village, which has approximately 100 residents and is struggling to grow. “Our school is really hurting for students right now,” said Elmer White, president of the Caprock Village Economic and Com...
Judy Brandon: Religion columnist Last week, I was out shopping for a birthday gift and ran into Barbara in the town section. I had not seen her in months. She was with her 4-year-old granddaughter Maggie. Barbara and Maggie were shopping for Maggie’s birthday. Barbara had decided to let Maggie choose her own birthday gift. But the desires of little Maggie’s heart made it impossible for her to narrow her choices just to one. While Maggie was deliberating, Barbara and I cau... Full story
Good morning and welcome to the Freedom New Mexico Friday briefing. Horse performance Just in time for the Clovis Livestock Auction horse sale Saturday...a warm-up of osrts. It’s the auction’s annual fall performance horse demonstration 4 p.m. today at the Curry County Events Center. Back in time George Crawford will walk you back in time to the first discovery of Clovis Man on the North American continent. It’s 7 p.m. Saturday at Oasis State Park Group Shelter. Website of the day A link to everything Clovis schools, includin... Full story
CNJ staff photo: Kevin Wilson Jack Quaif of Clovis applies a tire to a 1973 Volkswagen Bus Monday afternoon at his shop. The vehicle, which was donated by his late friend Lonnie Cross, will be restored and donated to a family in need through the Bugs4Christ organization. Kevin Wilson: CNJ staff writer Jack Quaif’s life would probably be a lot easier if he had thrown in a CD instead of listening to the radio one May afternoon. But the auto shop owner is sure it wouldn’t be as rewarding, either. “Things happen for a reaso... Full story
Gary Mitchell: Religion columnist amos the churchmouse: a view from under the pew Editor’s note: Amos is a churchmouse, who types by hopping on the computer keyboard, but he can’t operate the capital shift, and he shuns punctuation marks – except hyphens and dashes. moody mouse preaches to the atheists boss i ran across a bit of history the other day about moody mouse the great evangelist of the 1870s and 1880s who not only traveled throughout this country but shook the british isles as well it seems that one eve...
Good morning and welcome to the Freedom New Mexico Friday briefing. Horse performance Just in time for the Clovis Livestock Auction horse sale Saturday...a warm-up of osrts. It’s the auction’s annual fall performance horse demonstration 4 p.m. today at the Curry County Events Center. Back in time George Crawford will walk you back in time to the first discovery of Clovis Man on the North American continent. It’s 7 p.m. Saturday at Oasis State Park Group Shelter. Website of the day A link to everything Clovis schools, includin... Full story
Saturday Matt’s Coffee House Inter-Denominational Concert — 7 p.m., First Methodist Church. Every third Saturday of the month. Free refreshments. Information: Vye Humphreys at 760-4071 or Matt Carter at 799-2696 Sunday Sunday School -- 8:30 a.m., Word of God Lutheran Church at The Chapel, 1500 Thornton. 356-3605. Worship Service -- 9:30 a.m., Word of God Lutheran Church at The Chapel, 1500 Thornton. 356-3605. Worship service — 8:30 a.m. and 11 a.m., Central Baptist Church Fellowship and donuts — 9 a.m., Cent...
Glenda Price We got some rain last night. First thing this morning I went out and checked my back yard rain gauge. It showed four tenths of an inch. As I emptied it so the next hoped-for rainfall could be measured, I celebrated. I even said, “Yippee” as I skipped around. Yes, they got too much rain in other parts of the world, and I’m sorry about that, but here in the American Southwest we treasure every drop, even when it sometimes comes a bunch all at once. When it rains at our place we get on the phone and call all the n...
Do I search for hypocrisies among my adversaries? Only when it is too obvious to miss. And what if anything is wrong with hypocrisy? So what if you are a liar but make a big deal about condemning lying in your neighbor? Why is that a problem? In this era when major political figures denounce ideological thinking, why should one be consistent and show integrity? Those are not the virtues of sophisticates. Those are pedestrian ideals. As our president pointed out, “the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so l... Full story
