Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Karl Terry: PNT Managing Editor Eight years after its inception, the Altrusa Club of Portales’ Holiday Happening is beginning to look a lot like a solid holiday tradition. “It’s been really fun,” Sue McDowell, of Portales, said, as dessert was being served. “That’s real chocolate milk (in the vases) and real flowers,” she said indicating the elaborate centerpiece and other decorations at the table with a chocolate theme. The table titled “Holiday Decadence” was decorated by Judy White, Carol McDowell and Lisa Jaynes and e... Full story
Kevin Wilson: PNT Staff Writer In an area referred to as the kitchen, the Portales Fire Department has something more akin to a family living area with a small kitchen, numerous chairs and tables and a television. A good day for the members of the department is when there is no reason to leave the area, because it means there are no fires during their 7 a.m. to 7 a.m. shifts. Wednesday was certainly not one of those days, with a grass fire in the Floyd area that burned nearly 35,000 acres and required help from the PFD and...
Tony Parra: PNT Staff Writer There was a lot of jubilee from the people who saw the Christmas Jubilee Light Parade in Portales on Friday night. The Christmas Jubilee Light Parade floats traveled down Avenue C and Second Street and the people on the floats were greeted by smiling children’s faces and clapping from the audience. The Floyd students were on the float leading the parade. Raina Figueroa, a James Elementary student and her mother, Kim Figueroa, enjoyed the parade on Friday night. Kim said they will be spending C... Full story
Karl Terry: Managing Editor Wednesday was a day a lot of folks in Roosevelt County won’t soon forget. There’s no doubt the grass fire near Floyd was historic; it could have been tragic. As I drove to work Wednesday morning I noticed a strange-looking cloud to the northwest. The wind was starting to blow and I didn’t pay much attention to it because I thought it was just the start of another eastern New Mexico sand storm. In the office I could tell pretty quickly from the voices on the police scanner that there was a fire...
Jim Lee: Local Columnist I’ve been hearing a lot about the science-versus-playing-God controversy lately. I don’t exactly understand why it has to be a controversy. Maybe I’m dumber than a lobotomized rock, but I always thought God wanted us to make life better. Don’t we have a duty to work toward ending suffering? When I’m just lookin’ around, I see things that could be improved if somebody could figure out a way to do it, and I just assume God gave us big brains so we could. Is this cosmic ignorance? Does it make me a b...
President Bush’s speech at the Naval Academy on Wednesday was disappointing on several levels. First, of course, was that it was long on chest-thumping bravado and short on actual strategy, let alone details. Even more disappointing is that it suggests the president seems to see “staying the course” and being seen as unwavering as more important than finding a way to start reducing the number of U.S. troops in Iraq. There had been signs that the administration was dropping such hints. Last weekend White House press secre...
Police blotter The following is a sampling of calls taken by Portales Police dispatchers over the last week. According to the reports: Nov. 22 • At 11:05 a.m. a large grass fire was reported at 41952 U.S. 70. Portales Fire Department was dispatched. • At 12:16 p.m. a two vehicle auto accident was reported at the intersection of 18th Street and Avenue G. • At 12:57 p.m. a caller reported a car burglary on South Globe. • At 4:20 p.m. the Floyd Fire Department was dispatched to a loader on fire on Roosevelt Road A/E. • At 6:37 p...
PJHS News Music concert At 7 p.m. Tuesday in the high school performing arts center 185 junior high choir and band students will present their Christmas program. Band director Cindy Stone and choir director Franklin Smith say this should be a memorable program with Handel’s “For Unto Us;” Holst’s “In the Bleak Midwinter,” as well as a collection of other traditional and modern Christmas songs. There is no charge for family and the public to enjoy this presentation. Basketball schedule Monday finds all four of the girls’ team... Full story
Before he returned to active duty last year, Army Reserve Maj. Donald W. Robinson was a civilian trauma surgeon at Cooper Hospital in Camden, N.J., a city so violent it’s known as the “murder capital” of America. Nothing Robinson saw in Camden, however, came close to the horrors he and his surgical teams with the 86th Combat Support Hospital faced in Baghdad, from last December through July this year. “I expected to see a lot of penetrating trauma because those were the reports coming out of Iraq,” Robinson said in a phone i...
About eight years ago, when my wife’s cousin Sheila lived in Nevada, a pigeon decided to follow her brother home from fishing. No one thought too much of it until the dirty bird took up residence. Sheila and her husband Hank traveled a lot and began to haul the dirty bird right along with them. Their new pet was content to be holed up in his cage while on the road, but had the run of whatever motel room they occupied. The bird came to be known as Dufus. This was later changed to Dooters, which he goes by today. About 18 m... Full story
The longer the frustratingly indeterminate “global war on terror” goes on, the more threats to American freedoms present themselves here at home. This is an unfortunate but inevitable byproduct of any war, especially one with such hazy objectives. (Does anyone believe terror as a tactic of the weak in political struggles can be eliminated from the world?) If we are to maintain the freedom our leaders tell us our servicepeople are fighting for, we must be eternally vigilant. These observations are prompted by two recent new...
Samplings of recent calls received by Clovis-area law enforcement officers, according to reports: At 7 a.m. on Friday, police responded to the 500 block of Georgia Street in reference to a vehicle burglary. A man told police someone removed the CD face and stuck a key into the ignition of the vehicle belonging to his cousin. • • • At 8:30 p.m. on Friday, police went to the 900 block of Gamma Street regarding a car stolen in front of a business on the 1200 block of Seventh Street. The owner of the vehicle said she went a few f... Full story
The United Way of Eastern New Mexico has fulfilled 62 percent of a $482,005 community-wide goal for its 2005 fund-raising campaign, according to the agency’s Executive Director Erinn Burch. Burch said she is confident the remaining funds will be procured. To date, $301,656 has been donated or pledged. The bulk of United Way funds are donated through workplaces and corporations, Burch said. She said contributions from many major annual donors, including local banks, Eastern New Mexico University and Dillard’s have yet to be ad... Full story
A small Connecticut company has packed up and moved southwest to call Clovis home, according to the Clovis Industrial Development Corp. The Murk Brush Co. is a family-owned business that manufactures standard, made-to-order and custom-engineered brushes for industrial, commercial and trade applications. It specializes in designing brushes for new and unusual applications and, according to company literature, computer-aided design is available. Chase Gentry, executive director of the Clovis Industrial Development Corp., said...
Editor’s note: World War II officially ended Sept. 2, 1945, when the Japanese signed surrender terms. We’re honoring the war’s area veterans over the next several months with these brief profiles. Date of birth: Oct. 25, 1915 Dates of service: Oct. 18, 1941 to Aug. 15, 1945 Hometown: Clovis Lives in: Clovis Theater and location of service: Europe Branch: Army Rank: Technician 5th grade Unit and specialty: 254th Combat Engineers In his words: Burt Peterson was part of the offen...
U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., was in the region on Thursday and Friday and was present for a briefing at Clovis Community College with Air Force officials. The Air Force visited the area for four days to begin the process of finding a new mission for Cannon Air Force Base. Domenici has been in the Senate longer than any other New Mexican, and is chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and the U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development. He is also a member of the...
Staff and wire reports ALBUQUERQUE — New Mexico State President Michael Martin says if he’s going to be in the big leagues, he has to play like it. Eastern New Mexico University’s Steven Gamble insists his school is playing a different game. Martin and New Mexico Tech President Daniel Lopez were the two biggest spenders on airfare, lodging and meals out of six New Mexico university presidents, according to a copyright story in Sunday’s Albuquerque Journal. The newspaper examined hundreds of expense reports for the preside...
Nell Miller Services: 11 a.m. Friday at Wheeler Mortuary Chapel in Portales. Nell Miller, 80, of Portales, died Sunday, Dec. 4, 2005, at her residence in Portales. She was born Sept. 8, 1925, in Silverton, Texas, to Edna and Bill Miller. She grew up in Silverton where she attended school. She then moved to Pitchfork where she worked as a bus driver. She lived in various places working with pipeliners and also owned and operated several restaurants throughout the Southwest. Family members said she was a loving woman who...
Staff reports The United Way of Eastern New Mexico has fulfilled 62 percent of a $482,005 community-wide goal for its 2005 fund-raising campaign, according to the agency’s Executive Director Erinn Burch. Burch said she is confident the remaining funds will be procured. To date, $301,656 has been donated or pledged. The bulk of United Way funds are donated through workplaces and corporations, Burch said. She said contributions from many major annual donors, including local banks, Eastern New Mexico University and D...
Kevin Wilson: PNT Staff Writer Though it’s open to everybody, the 2006 Relay for Life will be like the inventions that Norville Barnes created in the 1994 film “The Hudsucker Proxy:” You know, for kids. The annual fund-raising event for cancer research is entering its first stages for 2006, and the stages will be done with a focus on youth. “It’s a real relay in every way,” said Dorothy Nelson, the American Cancer Society’s community relationship manager for Southeastern New Mexico. “There is going to be a survivor ceremony....
Tony Parra: PNT Staff Writer Eastern New Mexico University will be getting a visit on March of 2007, but the importance of the visit is signified by the more than two years of preparation by university officials for the visit. The Higher Learning Commission members of the North Central Association will be touring the campus to conduct a report which will be the basis of whether or not the university receives accreditation for another 10 years. A similar tour of the campus was done in the spring of 1997. The Higher Learning... Full story
Staff and Wire Reports ALBUQUERQUE — New Mexico State President Michael Martin says if he’s going to be in the big leagues, he has to play like it. Eastern New Mexico University’s Steven Gamble insists his school is playing a different game. Martin and New Mexico Tech President Daniel Lopez were the two biggest spenders on airfare, lodging and meals out of six New Mexico university presidents, according to a copyright story in Sunday’s Albuquerque Journal. The newspaper examined hundreds of expense reports for the preside...
Aimee Hilburn admits it’s a little hard not to look ahead this week. Hilburn and her Clovis High teammates have business to tend to tonight when the Lady Wildcats host Moriarty in a 6:30 p.m. matchup at Rock Staubus Gym. Looming this weekend, though, is the Mel Otero Invite at Rio Rancho and a possible rematch of last year’s Class 5A state finals against Mayfield. In addition, the Lady Cats will see either rival Portales or 5A state qualifier Highland in the second round, and could meet either Mayfield or Rio Rancho in the fi... Full story
