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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Maurine Thomas, co-leader of the Clovis chapter of Taking Off Pounds Sensibly, eyes her weight during the group's weekly weigh in. Kimmie Davis has done it all. She got married, raised a family, went back to school to finish her degree. She did boy scouts and sporting events. “I did everything but take care of me,” Davis said. A month and 9 and 3/4 a pounds later, Davis is on her way to being healthier. She’s doing it with the help of the Clovis chapter of Taking Off Pounds Sensibly. Davis...
Six weeks since heavy equipment was used to ransack a budding housing development, there are still no leads. Workers arrived at the development early Sept. 19 to discover a front-end loader and dirt compactor were used to damage three houses on Carmel Street, northwest of the Clovis Civic Center. At the time, Delma Crisp, of Crisp Custom Homes estimated damage at $600,000. Police Capt. Patrick Whitney said Friday there has been little progress in the case. “We have no idea,” h...
PNT Staff Photo: Clarence Plank Mark Brewer of Portales rakes peanuts into a grate, which are carried to a shifter that takes out rock, vines and leaves on Saturday at Sunland, Inc. With the harvest about halfway there, this year’s peanut crop is good to average, according to people in the know. The harvest began in September and most peanuts are expected to be in before Thanksgiving. “I’ve seen worse, I’ve seen better,” Leonard Stanton, plant manager for Portales Select Peanut Co., said. Stanton said the quality of peanut... Full story
A new agreement is funding classes and internships for Eastern New Mexico University students planning to work in public child welfare. The university and the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department have established at Title IV-E Traineeship Stipend Program. ENMU will receive money from Title IV-E of the Social Security Act every year to provide special courses in child welfare and field experience with stipends for participating students. Donald Holden, regional CYFD manager, said in a news release the... Full story
Samplings of recent calls received by Clovis-area law enforcement officers, according to reports: About 9 a.m. Oct. 14 an officer responded to a school in the 1900 block of Thornton Street for a report of criminal sexual contact. The principal said he had been contacted by an assistant principal from another campus regarding a female student being touched inappropriately by a male student. He provided the officer a written statement from the girl saying a male student had been touching her inappropriately on the bus and... Full story
Carol Ainsworth’s fourth-period art class at Lindsey Middle School has won the Roosevelt General Hospital Infection Control Poster Contest. Their prize is a pizza party. The other three classes that participated will receive cookies. The contest challenged Ainsworth’s sixth-grade students to design posters with information and graphics on the importance of hand washing in preventing the spread of disease. Each class submitted a poster they’d created together earlier this month.... Full story
Local sports enthusiasts are thinking pink. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and local teams are joining professional sports teams in attracting attention to the issue by wearing pink. Michael Doerr, athletics director at the Portales Recreation Center, said game officials are wearing white T-shirts with pink ribbon logos and coaches are sporting pink ribbons. “What I am doing is dressing our coaches and referees of city league sports in anything pink,” Doerr said. “We just wanted to show that we are a little aware...
A new agreement is funding classes and internships for Eastern New Mexico University students planning to work in public child welfare. The university and the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department have established at Title IV-E Traineeship Stipend Program. ENMU will receive money from Title IV-E of the Social Security Act every year to provide special courses in child welfare and field experience with stipends for participating students. Donald Holden, regional CYFD manager, said in a news release the... Full story
Kimmie Davis has done it all. She got married, raised a family, went back to school to finish her degree. She did boy scouts and sporting events. “I did everything but take care of me,” Davis said. A month and 9 and 3/4 a pounds later, Davis is on her way to being healthier. She’s doing it with the help of the Clovis chapter of Taking Off Pounds Sensibly. Davis said she went to a meeting and signed up after five minutes in the door. “The group helps you with love. They don’t tell you ‘don’t do that or you have to do this....
With the harvest about halfway there, this year’s peanut crop is good to average, according to people in the know. The harvest began in September and most peanuts are expected to be in before Thanksgiving. “I’ve seen worse, I’ve seen better,” Leonard Stanton, plant manager for Portales Select Peanut Co., said. Stanton said the quality of peanuts his company is getting from eastern New Mexico and western Texas is average or better, while the amounts the harvest yielded are average but less than he expected. Sunland Inc. CEO... Full story
CANYON, Texas — Freshman Jacob Lozano of Hobbs finished 11th in a time of 26 minutes, 27 seconds over eight kilometers, leading the Eastern New Mexico University men’s cross country team to a third-place finish on Saturday in the LSC Championships, hosted by West Texas A&M. With 109 points, the Greyhounds finished behind only nationally-ranked Abilene Christian (33) an Tarleton State (75) in team standings. It was the best finish for the Hounds in the history of the program, topping fourth-place showings in 2005-06. K... Full story
Freedom New Mexico CANYON, Texas — Freshman Jacob Lozano of Hobbs finished 11th in a time of 26 minutes, 27 seconds over eight kilometers, leading the Eastern New Mexico University men’s cross country team to a third-place finish on Saturday in the LSC Championships, hosted by West Texas A&M. With 109 points, the Greyhounds finished behind only nationally-ranked Abilene Christian (33) an Tarleton State (75) in team standings. It was the best finish for the Hounds in the history of the program, topping fourth-place s...
Freedom New Mexico Southeastern Oklahoma scored the final two points of the third set on Eastern New Mexico University attack errors, and the Savage Storm went on to claim a 25-22, 22-25, 26-24, 25-9 Lone Star Conference volleyball win over the Zias on Saturday at Greyhound Arena. The Zias trailed 20-11 in the third game, but went on a 12-3 run to pull even, then tied it again 24-24 on an attack error by the Savage Storm. After Southeastern (20-11, 5-4 LSC) got the last two points to go up 2-1 in games, the Savage Storm...
PORTALES — Southeastern Oklahoma scored the final two points of the third set on Eastern New Mexico University attack errors, and the Savage Storm went on to claim a 25-22, 22-25, 26-24, 25-9 Lone Star Conference volleyball win over the Zias on Saturday at Greyhound Arena. The Zias trailed 20-11 in the third game, but went on a 12-3 run to pull even, then tied it again 24-24 on an attack error by the Savage Storm. After Southeastern (20-11, 5-4 LSC) got the last two points to go up 2-1 in games, the Savage Storm scored...
Freedom New Mexico KINGSVILLE, Texas — Eastern New Mexico University has still never won at Texas A&M-Kingsville, but the Greyhounds are certainly getting closer. Junior running back Fred Winborn rushed for 263 yards and three touchdowns, but the Javelinas had to hold on at the end Saturday night to beat the Greyhounds 38-31 in a Lone Star Conference South Division game. ENMU (2-7, 0-5 South) nearly rallied all the way back from a 28-7 second-quarter deficit, but came up short in dropping its 13th consecutive game...
The following cases were closed through the Magistrate Court from Sept. 29 to Sept. 30.... Full story
Freedom New Mexico KINGSVILLE, Texas — Eastern New Mexico University has still never won at Texas A&M-Kingsville, but the Greyhounds are certainly getting closer. Junior running back Fred Winborn rushed for 263 yards and three touchdowns, but the Javelinas had to hold on at the end Saturday night to beat the Greyhounds 38-31 in a Lone Star Conference South Division game. ENMU (2-7, 0-5 South) nearly rallied all the way back from a 28-7 second-quarter deficit, but came up short in dropping its 13th consecutive game...
There’s only one word to describe Old Stub — weatherbeaten. He got his name years ago when a coyote played dead till he got to him and then bit off the end of one finger. Stub’s blue eyes have faded from looking at the sky for rainclouds, and his skin is dented from years of blowing dirt. His nose is a bit off-kilter on account of a bronc kicked him, and his legs are stove-up. He explains that bow legs are from shoeing horses, not riding them. It’s holding all that weight on your knee while you work that does it. His g...
Andy Warhol was the first to claim, in 1968, that we’ll all have our 15 minutes of fame. Some are just more impatient than others on getting their time. I’m all for new media and burgeoning technology that can instantly put any of us in front of an audience of millions instantly but trying to manufacture instant fame isn’t cool at all. Lately we’ve seen lots of manufactured “news” stories instigated by people who think they’ve got something to gain by capturing news headlines. Most recent was the case of the so-called “ba... Full story
Freedom New Mexico Secretary of state Hillary Clinton, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner and four straight days of intensive discussions with Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry provided the pressure. The result was to convince the current and probably future President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, to agree to a runoff election Nov. 7 between Karzai and his chief opponent, Abdullah Abdullah. That may have been the least-worst option available, but then none of the likely options...
Freedom New Mexico Secretary of state Hillary Clinton, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner and four straight days of intensive discussions with Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry provided the pressure. The result was to convince the current and probably future President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, to agree to a runoff election Nov. 7 between Karzai and his chief opponent, Abdullah Abdullah. That may have been the least-worst option available, but then none of the likely options...
Andy Warhol was the first to claim, in 1968, that we’ll all have our 15 minutes of fame. Some are just more impatient than others on getting their time. I’m all for new media and burgeoning technology that can instantly put any of us in front of an audience of millions instantly but trying to manufacture instant fame isn’t cool at all. Lately we’ve seen lots of manufactured “news” stories instigated by people who think they’ve got something to gain by capturing news headlines. Most recent was the case of the so-called “ba... Full story
USAF photo: Airman 1st Class James Bell Col James Cardoso, 27th Special Operations Group commander, hands the 73rd Special Operations Squadron guidon to Lt. Col. Kevin Cabanas, 73 SOS commander, on Oct. 23. Col. William Wolfe relinquished command of the squadron after heading it since Feb. 15, 2008....
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Tom Udall, D-NM, today reported that the Senate has passed key defense legislation that includes significant funding for New Mexico’s military installations and national laboratories that provide critical support of the nation’s defense. The 2010 Defense Authorization Bill, which passed the House earlier this month, was approved by the Senate 68-29 and now goes to the president for his signature. Defense spending must approved through this authorization bill before funding can be released; the...
Don McAlavy has written poetry since he was a farm boy at his family’s home 16 miles north of Clovis. He fell off the first horse he rode, herding “woolies” with his father. As a gangling long-legged youth he worked on the Joe Bailey ranch in the Frio Draw and learned the truth about cowboys. They didn’t all sing and play the guitar and chase outlaws. Most of them could be found building corrals and fences, and least here in Curry County. For the past 44 years he has earned a living as a printer in Clovis and spent his ext... Full story
