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Red Ryder gone, but not forgotten

Editor’s note: This was the first column Don McAlavy wrote for the Clovis News Journal.

In 1965, Vora Hartley had purchased the old Westward Ho Motel on First Street in Clovis.

She had hired friends of mine, Tom and Celine Yelverton, to manage the pl...