Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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The national health reform bill, passed by the House in October, and the Senate version, to be debated early this month, pose no threat to current health care benefits provided to military families, retirees or veterans, say advocates for these beneficiaries as well as congressional committee staffs. The House-passed Affordable Health Care for America Act (HR 3962) states in Section 311 that “nothing” in the bill “shall be construed as affecting” authorities used by the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs to provide...
On a weekend out of Clovis, I had a lot of time to think about things ... mostly how the roadrunner pizza (pepperoni, sausage, green chili) should be featured everywhere and how commercials for a new season of “24” can always get me out of a bad mood. Here are some equally shallow things I pondered: • Tiger Woods has repeatedly declined police the opportunity to discuss a car accident he had in his gated community, to the point that local police dropped the investigation on Tuesday and gave him a citation for car...
Freedom New Mexico Freedom New Mexico Old man winter wasn’t expected to bring much snow overnight to eastern New Mexico. But look out. National Weather Service forecaster Mark Fettit said overnight and most of today not much in the way of snow should be happening in Clovis and Portales. “Once we get this one system out of the way,” Fettit said. “We have another system coming in that will be a cold front at first that is coming down from the north.” And that next front could bring light to moderate snow on Thursday, Fettit sa...
The Clovis Public Health Office plans to administer 2,000 free doses of the H1N1 vaccine Thursday. Gayla Jacquess, nurse manager at the office, said the vaccine is part of an allotment the Centers for Disease Control gives each state. The state disperses the vaccine to counties. The vaccines are given to four priority groups recommended by the CDC. The vaccine will be provided to children ages six months to 5 years old, anyone age 6 through 64 with a chronic disease, pregnant women and parents of infants less than 6 months. J...
Freedom New Mexico KENW-TV, the area’s local public broadcasting station, produced a special called Choosing Happiness After Divorce. The special will air at 2:30 p.m. Sunday. The special is based on the recently published book of the same name by Jane Thompson. The program is designed to help women regain their perspective in life after divorce and offers guidelines for redefining a woman’s relationship with her former spouse....
