Club notes — April 17

Portales Woman’s Club

The Portales Woman's Club, in conjunction with the national Prevent Child Abuse Awareness campaign and Roosevelt County, planted a pinwheel garden on the courthouse lawn.

Assisted by county commissioners Jake Lopez, Gene Creighton, and Rick Leal, the members of this long standing community service organization encourages the Portales community to join in this effort to end the ever-growing and devastating monster that is harming our children. If you would be interested in uniting with us in this and future service projects, please contact us at 575-760-0890.

Portales Kiwanis Club

Saturday members of the Portales Kiwanis Club and members of the community teamed up to clean the Kiwanis mile US hi way 70 southwest of the Roosevelt General Hospital. The semi-annual commitment of Kiwanis to help keep Portales and surrounding areas beautiful for residents and visitors is done in the spring and fall.

Mercedes Agogino, Dorothy Glover, Stephen and Karen Melby, Robert Elliott Steve Blakely, Jose Garcia, and Kenny Prince collected 15 bags of trash. Club members also collected 2 5-gallon buckets of aluminum cans to recycle into cash to help meet the $17,250 pledge for the Eliminate Project.

The Eliminate Project is focused on eliminating maternal and neonatal tetanus with the hope of saving millions of lives around the world. Kiwanis International is partnered with UNICEF in the Eliminate Project.

PRMC Auxiliary

Plains Regional Medical Center Auxiliary held its annual luncheon at the Days Inn on March 29.

Rhonda Murdock introduced Vince DiFranco, who gave the welcome. Kathy Mapes gave the blessing. After lunch, Cindy Landers introduced Norvil Howell, who shared his musical talent the three beautiful songs.

Vince DiFranco presented Helen Miles a Nambe bowl, symbol of New Mexico’s heritage, in honor of being selected auxilian of the year. Cindy Landers presented Helen a volunteer of the year pin. Landers presented Vivian Lake a pin for the auxilian of the month for February. Minnie Prince was the auxilian for March. Rada Winkles was presented auxilian of the month pin for April.

Landers and Murdock presented the hours of service and years of service awards.