Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Good morning and welcome to the Freedom New Mexico Tuesday briefing. Video game of the week Our own Jenna Zamie’s suggestion for a video game worth your while: Game: Kirby Mass Attack Genre: Platformer System: DS What is it? Kirby needs help reuniting with himself after an evildoer splits him into ten pieces. ESRB Rating: Everyone Web site: http://kirbymassattack.com Compiled from Gamespot.com Groundbreaking moment The renovation of the Hotel Clovis building kicks off 11 a.m. Friday with a groundbreaking on the east side o...
I recently made a call to a software company, asking for some help. I became a little annoyed when I thought the person on the other end of the line did not speak English well. I remembered a conference I had attended in Boston, when a presenter from Boston looked at me and said, “your language is so interesting.” My language? It is just plain old English. Well maybe not. I have picked up a few phrases that might be pretty common around here, but strange to others. My grandfathers response to “how are you”, was always... Full story
Sports • Today: Volleyball at Grady — JH, JV, V, 4 p.m. • Thursday: Volleyball hosts Clovis Christian, V, 5:30 p.m. • Friday: Volleyball hosts Vaughn, JH (A &B), 10 a.m. • Saturday: Volleyball hosts San Jon, JH, JV, V, 1 p.m....
Several Dora FFA students placed at the New Mexico State Fair. Winners were: • Kaly Cone — reserve grand champion steer, junior steer showmanship award; • Koby Cone — grand champion supreme heifer, senior heifer showmanship award, second in calf scramble plus $400 scholarship; • Gowan Hays — champion spot pig, reserve champion cross pig; • Kaitlyn Kircher — Class winner/sheep; • Vince Gardner – second place dairy heifer. Sports • Tuesday — JV & varsity...
Let’s do ourselves a big Depression-era favor. Let’s deport a taxpaying jobs creator just for fun. Let’s indulge anger and indignation, even if it eliminates jobs and throws a family into despair. Jeanette Vizguerra, 39, faces deportation after living in Colorado for 14 years. Vizguerra owns a cleaning company. She provides more sustainable jobs and prosperity than Solyndra, the defunct “green jobs” company that received a $535 million loan guarantee from President Barack Obama. Vizguerra and her employees pay taxes. Vi...
See You at the Pole? scheduled See You at the Pole? will be held Thursday. It is a National Day where junior high and high school students around the world meet who agree their school needs prayer as well as other things at meet at their school’s flag pole. College entrance exams scheduled Seniors interested in attending a four-year university must take a college entrance exam, either the ACT or the SAT. The next ACT will be given Oct. 22. Register until Sept. 30 to avoid a late fee.... Full story
Cannon Air Force Base will host an aircraft acceptance ceremony at 1 p.m. Thursday, marking the first MC-130J Combat Shadow II for Air Force Special Operations Command. Lt. Col. Paul Pendleton, commander of the 522nd Special Operations Squadron at Cannon, said the MC-130J can carry about 40 percent more payload and do it 15 to 20 percent faster than previous C-130J’s. The aircraft will be delivered from the Lockheed Martin plant in Marietta, Ga. The event is not open to the public.... Full story
Two Clovis High School graduates are being awarded the ACLU of New Mexico’s 2011 Guardian of Liberty Award for their efforts at organizing the school’s first Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA). The winners are James Walker and Steven De Los Santos. In a press release Monday, the ACLU noted the two “had attempted several times in the past to establish the club ... but were continually rebuffed by the administration.” The GSA was approved by the school board on May 4. Walker is a freshman at the University of New Mexico and De Los...
PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico University’s women ended a five-match losing streak against Midwestern State on Sunday, battling the Mustangs to a 1-1 Lone Star Conference tie at the ENMU pitch. In the first game of the doubleheader, Newman scored the deciding goal on a penalty kick with just under four minutes left and the Jets claimed a 2-1 non-league victory over the Greyhounds. Junior midfielder Kimberly Luna put the Zias (4-3-2, 2-1-2 LSC) in front in the 51st minute, bending a shot from the right wing past MSU g...
Freedom New Mexico Eastern New Mexico University’s women ended a five-match losing streak against Midwestern State on Sunday, battling the Mustangs to a 1-1 Lone Star Conference tie at the ENMU pitch. In the first game of the doubleheader, Newman scored the deciding goal on a penalty kick with just under four minutes left and the Jets claimed a 2-1 non-league victory over the Greyhounds. Junior midfielder Kimberly Luna put the Zias (4-3-2, 2-1-2 LSC) in front in the 51st minute, bending a shot from the right wing past MSU g...
Clovis man elected to board The American Seed Trade Association elected Blake Curtis of Clovis as first vice chairman of its Board of Directors for the 2011-12 fiscal year. Curtis is senior vice-president of Curtis and Curtis, Inc., a family-owned agricultural business in eastern New Mexico. The business was established in 1956 to supply native grass seeds to the area. A state legislator from 1986 to 1995, Curtis has served as president of the New Mexico State Seed Association and is currently serving under as a board member...
It’s time to clean up Portales again, according to Portales Deputy City Clerk Veda Urioste, who coordinates the annual Portales Tas No Mas, previously called the Trek for Trash. Urioste said this year, the city coordinated the event to happen the weekend before Eastern New Mexico University homecoming. “We kind of geared it towards cleaning up the town for homecoming next weekend,” Urioste said. “So, hopefully we’ll get some more ENMU students involved this year.” Urioste said the event has taken place for more than 10 yea... Full story
CNJ staff photo: Kevin Wilson Quality Liquid Feeds, which sells 750,000 tons of molasses-based liquid feed for dairy and feedlot animals annually, plans to open a production plant Nov. 1 in Clovis. A second tenant is in the process of calling the Clovis Industrial Park home. Dodgeville, Wisc.-based Quality Liquid Feeds plans to have a Clovis production facility open on Nov. 1. Renewable Energy Group was the first tenant in the 250-acre industrial park. “They were originally looking at the frozen fruits facility,” said Cha...
Freedom New Mexico Cannon Air Force Base will host an aircraft acceptance ceremony 1 p.m. Thursday, marking the first MC-130J Combat Shadow II for Air Force Special Operations Comman. Lt. Col. Paul Pendleton, commander of the 522nd Special Operations Squadron at Cannon, said the MC-130J can carry about 40 percent more payload and do it 15 to 20 percent faster than previous C-130J’s. The aircraft will be delivered from the Lockheed Martin plant in Marietta, Ga. The event is not open to the public.... Full story
Good morning and welcome to the Freedom New Mexico Tuesday briefing. Video game of the week Our own Jenna Zamie’s suggestion for a video game worth your while: Game: Kirby Mass Attack Genre: Platformer System: DS What is it? Kirby needs help reuniting with himself after an evildoer splits him into ten pieces. ESRB Rating: Everyone Web site: http://kirbymassattack.com Compiled from Gamespot.com Groundbreaking moment The renovation of the Hotel Clovis building kicks off 11 a.m. Friday with a groundbreaking on the east side o...
