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SERVING CLOVIS, PORTALES AND THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES EasternNewMexicoNews.com Man pleads on drug charges ❏ Prosecutors dismiss eight other charges in plea. By David Grieder STAFF WRITER [email protected] CLOVIS — A Lubbock man pleaded no contest this week to a drug trafficking charge from January, with prosecutors dis- missing five related charges as well as ensuing charges of bat- tery on a peace officer for which he had been scheduled a trial Thursday. Adebayo Isola, 31, was sen- tenced Monday to nine years in prison, part of a global plea The Charlotte News & Observer: Chuck Liddy agreement in which five other charges from Jan. 5 and three Corey Greene restocks 40 pound bags of ice in the freezer at Rose Ice and Coal Co. Thursday in Wilmington, North Carolina. A steady charges from April were dis- stream of sutlers were grabbing both dry ice and regular ice in advance of Hurricane Florence. missed. He is eligible for good- time at 50 percent and has pre- sentence confinement credit of 249 days, according to court records. Clovis police arrested Isola ‘Threat becomes reality’ early this year after receiving a BOLO (be on the lookout) from ❏ Florence begins water, and days of downpours Hurricane Center Director Ken tos of angry waves topped with Lubbock police regarding a kid- could unload more than 3 feet (0.9 Graham said. “The larger and the white froth. napping, Assistant District days of rain, wind. meters) of rain, touching off severe slower the storm is, the greater the Wilmington resident Julie Terrell Attorney Kristen Beltran said in flooding. threat and the impact — and we was plenty concerned after walk- court this week. By Jonathan Drew Florence’s winds weakened as it have that.” ing to breakfast past a row of shops Isola was charged then with THE ASSOCIATED PRESS drew closer to land, dropping from The hurricane was seen as a fortified with boards, sandbags and two counts of trafficking con- a peak of 140 mph (225 kph) earli- major test for the Federal hurricane shutters. trolled substances (a second- WILMINGTON, N.C. — The er in the week, and the hurricane Emergency Management Agency, “On a scale of 1 to 10, I’m prob- degree felony) and lesser big slosh has begun, and the conse- was downgraded from a terrifying which was heavily criticized as ably a 7” in terms of worry, she charges ranging from petty mis- quences could be disastrous. Category 4 to a 2. sluggish and unprepared for said. “Because it’s Mother Nature. demeanor to fourth-degree Hurricane Florence’s leading But North Carolina Gov. Roy Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico You can’t predict.” felony. edge battered the Carolina coast Cooper warned: “Don’t relax, last year. Forecasters’ European climate Four months later, Isola was Thursday, bending trees and shoot- don’t get complacent. Stay on As Florence drew near, President model is predicting 2 trillion to 11 charged with three counts of ing frothy sea water over streets on guard. This is a powerful storm Donald Trump tweeted that FEMA trillion gallons of rain will fall on battery on a peace officer the Outer Banks, as the hulking that can kill. Today the threat and first responders are “supplied North Carolina over the next week, (fourth-degree felonies) for an storm closed in with 100 mph (155 becomes a reality.” and ready,” and he disputed the according to meteorologist Ryan incident April 4 at the Clovis kph) winds for a drenching siege More than 80,000 people were official conclusion that nearly Maue of weathermodels.com. jail that sent one detention offi- that could last all weekend. Tens of already without power as the storm 3,000 people died in Puerto Rico, That’s enough water to fill the cer to a hospital with injuries to thousands were without power. approached, and more than 12,000 claiming the figure was a Empire State Building nearly her left wrist and arm. That offi- Winds and rain were arriving were in shelters. Another 400 peo- Democratic plot to make him look 40,000 times. cer returned to work within a later in South Carolina, and a few ple were in shelters in Virginia, bad. More than 1.7 million people in week, with some bruising. Isola people were still walking on the where forecasts were less dire. Schools and businesses closed as the Carolinas and Virginia were faced up to 4 1/2 years in jail if sand at Myrtle Beach while North Forecasters said that given the far south as Georgia, airlines can- warned to evacuate over the past convicted on those charges in Carolina was getting pounded. storm’s size and sluggish track, it celed more than 1,500 flights, and few days, and the homes of about trial. Heavy rainfall began after dark. could cause epic damage akin to coastal towns in the Carolinas were 10 million were under watches or Isola requested last week that Forecasters said conditions will what the Houston area saw during largely emptied out. warnings for the hurricane or trop- his defense attorney Ben only get more lethal as the storm Hurricane Harvey just over a year Around midday, Spanish moss ical storm conditions. Herrmann no longer represent smashes ashore early Friday near ago, with floodwaters swamping blew sideways in the trees as the Homeless after losing her job at him, and the latter served as the North Carolina-South Carolina homes and businesses and washing winds increased in Wilmington, Walmart three months ago, 25- standby counsel this week. line and crawls slowly inland. Its over industrial waste sites and hog- and floating docks bounced atop year-old Brittany Jones went to a Herrmann declined additional surge could cover all but a sliver of manure ponds. swells at Morehead City. Some of storm shelter at a high school near comment Thursday. the Carolina coast under as much “It truly is really about the whole the few people still left in Nags Judge Drew Tatum presided as 11 feet (3.4 meters) of ocean size of this storm,” National Head on the Outer Banks took pho- STORM on Page 3A over the plea hearing this week. Walk to benefit suicide prevention organization ❏ 5K event to take The event, which begins at the September to try to bring one of the Park walking trail, Chavarria said Fast facts Clovis Aquatic Center, is an offshoot organization’s walks to Clovis. there will be signs posted telling peo- of the American Foundation for “I hope and I pray that a lot of peo- ple how far they’ve walked. place from 10 a.m. to ■ What: Suicide prevention Suicide Prevention’s (AFSP) com- ple come out just because of the fact The walk is free to attend, though ■ 1 p.m. on Saturday. munity walks, which according to that it’s a big deal,” Chavarria said. donations will be accepted. The When: 10 a.m. Saturday the organization’s website, draw “It hits almost everybody. It’s hap- event’s website showed $4,013 of ■ Where: Aquatic Center, BY THE STAFF OF THE NEWS 250,000 people from the 400-plus pening now more then ever and I the $5,000 goal had been raised as of Hillcrest Park, Clovis communities across all 50 states believe it’s happening now more for Thursday afternoon. CLOVIS — The Out of the where the walks are held children and teens.” Chavarria said all of that money Darkness Walk scheduled Saturday Clovis Chairman Janette The 5K walk is set to take place will stay local, with funds going to in Clovis will attempt to bring some Chavarria said she has lost multiple from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., with registra- help pay for counselors and future light to the lives of people affected family members to suicide so she tion starting at 8 a.m. As walkers walks. She said counselors will also by suicide. reached out to the AFSP last make their way around the Hillcrest be at the event on Saturday.

Forecast: Today Saturday Sunday Index Calendars...... 2A Puzzles...... 5A Reach us at: High: 86 High: 81 High: 85 Classified ...... 8B Markets ...... 2A (575) 763-3431 Comics ...... 7B Obituaries...... 3A Low: 61 Low: 61 Low: 63 Voices...... 4A Sports ...... 1-3B PAGE 2A ✦ FRIDAY, SEPT. 14, 2018 LOCAL THE EASTERN NEW MEXICO NEWS Public record Events calendar The following marriage licenses Bryant, 20, of Carson City, Michigan County clerk’s office: Today ■ Paella on the Patio — Music were compiled from court records ■ Joshua Adam Regalado, 32, of ■ James Perkins, 55, to Jo ■ Pin-Ups on Tour: Operation by Mitch Gray, 6 p.m., Clovis Civic through Thursday at the Curry Portales, to Hortensia Rosario Garcis, Countryman, 60, both of Portales Portales — 7 p.m., VFW Post 9515, Center on the Plateau Plaza, 801 County clerk’s office: 30, of Clovis ■ Mauricio Almazan, 58, to Catalina 316 S. Main, Portales. Admission: Schepps Blvd. Admission: $30. ■ Vikto Paul Edens, 21, of Mykolaiv, Zalaz, 56, both of Portales $20-$50. Veterans admitted free Information: 575-935-5000 ■ while tickets last. Age 18-up. Ukraine, to Iris Janet Argueta, 19, of The following divorces were com- Zachary Turner, 20, to Zoe Morrison, 21, both of Portales Information: Sept. 22 Brentwood, New York piled from court records through ■ www.pinupsontour.com ■ The Petty Breakers – Clovis ■ Bradley J Cozine, 64, of Los Thursday at the Curry County district Donnie Roy, 25, to Brittany Reynolds, 29, both of Portales ■ Clovis Comic Con — 3 p.m. Community College Cultural Arts Angeles to Sunee Cozine, 74, of Phare, court office: to 7 p.m., Clovis Civic Center, 801 Series. 7 p.m., Marshall Auditorium, Thailand ■ Joseph McNally and Brandy Schepps Blvd. Tickets $10-$59. 100 Commerce Way, Clovis. ■ The following divorces were com- Leo Torres, 32, of Los Angeles, McNally piled from court records through Information: Text 850-612-2849 Admission: $15-$20. Information: ■ 575-769-4031 New Mexico, to Tracy Nicole Bentiez, Renelle Aucutt and Russell Aucutt Thursday at the Roosevelt County 25, of El Paso ■ Kara Bown and Kevin Bowie Saturday district court office: ■ ■ Clifford Ray Carnathan, 68, of ■ ■ Clovis Comic Con — 10 a.m. Sept. 25 Daniell Kittrell and Jered Kittrell Andrea Massey from Michael ■ Rotan, Texas, to Jessica Martinez Price, to 4 p.m., Clovis Civic Center, 801 Business Expo & Job Fair Massey Schepps Blvd. Tickets $10-$59. — 1 p.m. to 6 p.m., Clovis Civic 39, of Dallas The following marriage licenses ■ Information: Text 850-612-2849 Center, 801 Schepps Blvd. Pavlos Jordan Anastasiadis, 24, of were compiled from court records — Compiled by the Staff ■ Out of the Darkness Information: 575-763-3435 Jackson, Michigan, to Caroline Nicole through Thursday at the Roosevelt of The News Community Walk — 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Clovis Aquatic Center, 1700 Ongoing E. Seventh St. ■ Artist of the month — Artist of the month at Clovis-Carver Meetings calendar Sunday Public Library is Amy Armenta from SEPT. 14 ■ Fiesta de Familias — 5 p.m. the Pintores Art League. Today Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main to 8 p.m., free food, music, Lindsey Information: 575-762-6359 ■ On this date ... Curry County Commission St. Information: 575-769-7828 Park, Portales. Bring your own ■ High Plains Historical — 9 a.m. at Commission chair. Information: 575-356-6662 Foundation — rifle raffle. Henry 1963: Irving Weast Chambers, 417 Gidding St., Clovis. Sept. 24 Golden Boy. Tickets: $5 each or five ■ received a “queenly kiss” Information: 575-763-6016 Roosevelt General Hospital Thursday for $20. Drawing in December. from Sheryl Long, Miss board meeting — 5:30 p.m., Fred ■ Town Hall — Underage drink- Information: 575-309-9893 Maize Days, after winning Monday Anthony Conference Room, RGH, ing, 5:30 p.m., Clovis Community ■ the best beard contest at the Roosevelt County 42121 U.S. 70, Portales. College Auditorium, 417 Schepps The events calendar is a daily annual Friona gathering. Commission — 2 p.m at Information: 575-359-1800 Blvd. Hosted by Curry County listing of area events. To place an Weast had been growing Commission Room, Roosevelt Office Substance Abuse item on the calendar, call the County Courthouse, 109 W. First Sept .25 Prevention. Information: 575-763- newsroom at 575-763-6991 or e- “his bush” for two months, ■ St. Information: 575-356-5307 Clovis Municipal Schools 7725 mail: [email protected] the Clovis News-Journal board meeting — 5:30 p.m., CMS reported. Pages Past is compiled Tuesday district board room, 1009 Main St. Clyde Renner was runner- by David Stevens. Contact ■ Curry County Commission Information: 575-769-4300 up, while Bill Buth finished him at: — 9 a.m., Commission Chambers, ■ Portales City Council — Jail logs third. [email protected] 417 Gidding St., Clovis. 6:30 p.m., Memorial Building, 200 Information: 575-763-6016 E. Seventh St. Information: 575- Booked Wednesday-Thursday: 356-6662 The following were Thursday booked into local jails Clovis* ■ Eastern New Mexico Water The meetings calendar is a Utility Authority — 1 p.m., Sitterly daily listing of area events. To Wednesday-Thursday: ■ Richard Silva, 30 Professional Center, 801 Pile St., place an item on the calendar, ■ Tommy Sena, 21 Clovis. Information: 575-935-4262 call the newsroom at 575-763- Clovis ■ Francine Aguirre, 24 ■ Clovis City Commission — 6991 or e-mail: ■ ■ Augustus Morris, 27, Christopher Lopez, 30 5:15 p.m., North Annex, Clovis- [email protected] ■ child abuse - intentional (no Isaac Sena, 21 ■ death or great bodily harm) Emmanuel Mariscal, 41 ■ Dean Anderson, 29, ■ Martha Rodriguez, 31 LOCAL ROUNDUP failure to pay fines ■ Ricardo Guerra-Ponce, ■ Cordney Cooper, 27, 34 Road scheduled from US 70 to the railroad probation violation ■ Stephen Levenshown, tracks, according to a ■ Jeremy Leclear, 40, out 32 for chip sealing Curry County press of state fugitive ■ Augustus Morris, 27 CLOVIS — An overlay release. ■ Diana Meraz-Terrazas, of chip seal is scheduled Residents are encour- 42, failure to appear at time Portales for 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. and place stated in citation aged to seek an alternate ■ Tuesday for Curry Road 4 route and minimize use of Jesus Bustamante, 28, the road for three to four bond, court order Portales ■ Hector Calderon-Sotelo hours after the oil is ■ Hector Calderon-Sotelo applied. III, 28, bond III, 28, bench warrant ☎ Information: Contact John Viscaino, 44, sen- Road Superintendent Dennis tence completed Fury at 575-762-1501. Released The following were * The Curry County — Staff reports released from local jails Detention Center in Clovis does not disclose the rea- sons for release in its daily Markets briefings. Dow Jones: 26,145.99 +147.07 (+0.57%) — Compiled by the Staff Gold: 1,202.57/oz Silver: 14.22/oz Oil: 68.86/barrel of The News Closing Quotes Microsoft Corporation 112.91 Altria Group Inc 61.46 Newmont Mining Corp 30.22 AT&T Inc. 33.68 PepsiCo, Inc. 114.99 Atmos Energy Corporation 94.50 PNM Resources Inc 39.75 Bank of America Corp 30.14 Sears Holdings Corp 1.21 Lottery Bristol-Myers Squibb Co 60.79 Tenneco Inc 42.26 Citigroup Inc 70.15 Verizon Communications Inc. 54.94 Wednesday Chevron Corporation 116.30 Washington Federal Inc. 33.05 Delta Air Lines, Inc. 57.82 Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc 70.48 Edison International 68.41 Wells Fargo & Co 55.00 Powerball Exxon Mobil Corporation 82.32 Wal-Mart Stores Inc 95.12 Ford Motor Company 9.37 Xcel Energy Inc 48.45 6 28 48 63 64 General Electric Company 12.71 — NYSE, NASDAQ, Ino.com GlaxoSmithKline 39.33 Powerball: 24 These are the high and low prices Int’ Business Machines Corp. 148.95 for grain as reported by the N.M. Powerplay: 2 Intel Corporation 45.57 Dept. of Agriculture in Clovis. The Coca-Cola Co 45.83 Wheat 4.57 Southwest Airlines Co 62.36 Sorghum 5.99 Lotto Texas McDonald's Corporation 162.40 Corn: Bushel 3.96-4.07 Merck & Co., Inc. 70.83 Corn 100-wt 7.08-7.15 1 3 12 20 36 44

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Duke Energy Co. said Florence cal-storm-force winds up to 195 neared the coast created tension turn on each other or trash the Storm could knock out electricity to three- miles (315 kilometers). between some who left home and place.” quarters of its 4 million customers A buoy off the North Carolina authorities who worried that the Authorities pushed back against from Page 1A in the Carolinas, and outages could coast recorded waves nearly 30 feet storm could still be deadly. any suggestion the storm’s threat last for weeks. Workers are being (9 meters) high as Florence Frustrated after evacuating his was exaggerated. Raleigh. She said a hurricane has a brought in from the Midwest and churned toward shore. beach home for a storm that was The police chief of a barrier way of bringing everyone to the same level. Florida to help in the storm’s after- Scientists said it is too soon to later downgraded, retired nurse island in Florence’s bulls’-eye said “It doesn’t matter how much math, it said. say what role, if any, global warm- Frederick Fisher grumbled in the he was asking for next-of-kin con- money you have or how many gen- As of 8 p.m., Florence was cen- ing played in the storm. But previ- lobby of a Wilmington hotel sever- tact information from the few resi- erators you have if you can’t get tered about 85 miles (135 kilome- ous research has shown that the al miles inland. dents who refused to leave. gas,” she said. “Whether you have ters) southeast of Wilmington, its strongest hurricanes are getting “Against my better judgment, “I’m not going to put our person- a house or not, when the storm forward movement slowed to 5 wetter, more intense and intensify- due to emotionalism, I evacuated,” nel in harm’s way, especially for comes it will bring everyone mph (7 kph). Hurricane-force ing faster because of human-caused said Fisher, 74. “I’ve got four cats people that we’ve already told to together. A storm can come and winds extended 80 miles (130 kilo- climate change. inside the house. If I can’t get back evacuate,” Wrightsville Beach wipe your house out overnight.” meters) from its center, and tropi- Florence’s weakening as it in a week, after a while they might Police Chief Dan House said.

Obituaries REGIONAL EVENTS Funerals Today Sept. 24 Information: 505-352-7829 Wolf ■ E-40 ■ Lauryn Hill 8 p.m. Today Betty Eastland — 2 p.m. 7 p.m. 6:30 p.m. Sept. 30 Sunshine Theater, Kimbrew Barnett Jr. — at First United Methodist El Rey Theater, Albuquerque Isleta Amphitheater, ■ Ozzy Osbourne, Stone Albuquerque 10:30 a.m. at Lawn Haven Church of Santa Rosa Tickets: $24.50-$150 Albuquerque Sour Tickets: $25 Memorial Gardens Leo Martinez — 10:30 Information: 505-510-2582 Tickets: $34-$174 7:30 p.m. Information: 505-764-0249 Cemetery, Clovis a.m. at Our Lady of Information: 505-452-5100 Isleta Amphitheater, Randell Obenhaus —2 Guadalupe Catholic Church, Saturday Albuquerque Oct. 9 p.m. at Portales Cemetery Clovis ■ Tracy Byrd Sept. 25 Tickets: $59-$224 ■ Garbage Annie Willis — 2 p.m at Sept. 22 8 p.m. ■ Watsky Information: 505-452-5100 7 p.m. Lawn Haven Memorial Thala Stalls — 4 p.m. at Route 66 Casino, 7 p.m. Sunshine Theater, Gardens, Clovis St. Andrew Presbyterian Albuquerque Sunshine Theater, Oct. 5 Albuquerque Saturday Church, Albuquerque Tickets: $19-$49 Albuquerque ■Mat Kearney Tickets: $50 Information: 505-352-7829 Tickets: $20-$85 7 p.m. Information: 505-764-0249 ■ Cafe Tacvba El Rey Theater, Albuquerque Information: 505-764-0249 7 p.m. Leo Martinez Tuesday Tickets: $26.50-$101.50 El Rey Theater, Albuquerque July 21, 1956 - September 11, 2018 ■ Def Leppard, Journey Sept. 27 Information: 505-510-2582 Tickets: $30-$45 Fortunate Leo Martinez, 7 p.m. ■ Boy George and Culture ■ Jim Gaffigan Information: 505-510-2582 62, of Clovis, NM died Tuesday, September 11, Isleta Amphitheater, Club, Thompson Twins’ Tom 8 p.m. 2018, at University Medical Albuquerque Bailey Route 66 Casino, Oct. 11 Center in Lubbock, TX. A Tickets: $50-180 8 p.m. Albuquerque ■ Borgore visitation will be held at Information: 505-452-5100 Sandia Casino, Albuquerque Tickets: $45-$90 7 p.m. Muffley Funeral Home on Tickets: $35-$400 Information: 505-352-7829 Sunshine Theater, Saturday, September 15, Wednesday Information: 505-796-7500 ■ Cody Johnson Albuquerque 2018, from 2:00 pm to 5:00 ■ Suicidal Tendencies, 8 p.m. Tickets: $20 pm and Sunday, Septem- Madball Sept. 28 Sunshine Theater, Information: 505-764-0249 ber 16, 2018, from 1:00 pm ■ ■ to 5:00 pm. A rosary will 8 p.m. Dierks Bentley, Brothers Albuquerque Old Dominion be held at 10:00 am on Sunshine Theater, Osborne Tickets: $25 7:30 p.m. Monday, September 17, Albuquerque 7 p.m. Information: 505-764-0249 Amarillo Civic Center 2018, at Our Lady of Tickets: $23 Isleta Amphitheater, ■ Prince tribute “The Purple Tickets: $51-$91 Guadalupe Catholic Information: 505-764-0249 Albuquerque XPerience” Information: 806-378-4297 Church, 108 Davis, Clovis. Tickets: $35-$100 8 p.m. A memorial mass will be Sept. 20 Information: 505-452-5100 Sandia Casino, Albuquerque Oct. 12 held at 10:30 am on Mon- ■ Future Islands ■ Tickets: $30-$35 ■ day, September 17, 2018, Flight Facilities Slaves, Escape The Fate at Our Lady of Guadalupe 8 p.m. 8 p.m. Information: 505-796-7500 6 p.m. Catholic Church with Fa- Sunshine Theater, El Rey Theater, Albuquerque El Rey Theater, Albuquerque ther Chris Martinez officiat- Albuquerque Tickets: $20 Oct. 6 Tickets: $22 ■ ing. Stephan Martinez- Tickets: $25 Information: 505-510-2582 Magic Men Live! Information: 505-510-2582 Sanchez, Anthony Gallegos, Gerald Martinez Jr, Nicolas Information: 505-764-0249 7 p.m. Eberle, Isaiah Martinez-Villa, Tee Martinez, JJ Martinez, ■ Parkway Drive Sept. 29 El Rey Theater, Albuquerque Danny Fulcer will serve as pallbearers. Honorary pallbear- 6 p.m. ■ Tesla Tickets: $20-$150 ers will be his grandchildren and great-grandchild. Information: 505-510-2582 Leo was born July 21, 1956, in Clovis, NM to Fortunato El Rey Theater, Albuquerque 8 p.m. Martinez and Grace Tenorio Martinez. He was a Jack of all Tickets: $29.50-$35 Route 66 Casino, trades and a master of none. Leo loved playing BINGO, Information: 505-510-2582 Albuquerque Oct. 8 the lottery, drawing, riding his bike, and going to church. Tickets: $35-$68 ■ Trampled by Turtles, Actual His family will always remember him as a jokester. He Sept. 21 loved being a mentor and spending time with his family. ■ First Aid Kit, Julia Jacklin Leo was an avid Dallas Cowboys fan. Survivors include: two daughters; Shannon "Selina" Lopez 8 p.m. and Sonja "Jo Kelly" Martinez (Alvin Carver) of Clovis, NM, Sunshine Theater, the mother of his children; Juana Martinez, nine siblings; Albuquerque David "Chente" Martinez of Clovis, NM, Benjamin "Beej" Tickets: $25 (Coleen) Martinez of Albuquerque, NM, Jimmy Joe (Joann) Information: 505-764-0249 Martinez of Clovis, NM, Leona Cottman of Lawton, OK, Karen Semenec of Wichita Falls, TX, Barbara (John) Bat- tista of Wichita Falls, TX, Darlene (Darren) Ewing of Wichi- Sept. 22 ta Falls, TX, Rosemary (Gilbert) Villa of Clovis, NM, and ■ Fat Nick Rachel Martinez (Brian Hardy) of Lawton, OK, special 7 p.m. friend; Judith Armijo, goddaughter; Talisa Martinez, nine Sunshine Theater, grandchildren and one great-grandchild. He is preceded in Albuquerque death by his parents; Fortunato and Grace Martinez, one sisters; Maria Marcella Zielienski, two brothers; Robert Tickets: $20-$50 Martinez and Leo Dennis Martinez, son; Joshua Martinez, Information: 505-764-0249 and nephew; Eric Semenec. Arrangements have been entrusted to Muffley Funeral Home, 575-762-4435, www.muffleyfuneralhome.com Page 4A Friday Sept. 14, 2018 The voice of Curry and Roosevelt Counties OICES and beyond V THE EASTERN NEW MEXICO NEWS American journalists should emulate BBC prediction: subject is relatively narrow be resisted here. In the first shooting prove, both- did not come to that obvi- When the history — climate change — and place, climate change sideism isn’t just a journal- ous conclusion back when it Aof this era is writ- Leonard the intended audience is deniers would raise a squall. istic problem. But it is in mattered. ten, when future generations Pitts only the company’s own But journalists, addicted to journalism that it is Yes, reporters should wonder how a mostly edu- ◆ troops. But the point the conflict and confrontation arguably most consequen- strive for impartiality. They cated and largely literate memo makes should give and to a misguided idea of tial. Syndicated should strive to be open- nation became mired in columnist pause to all of us who con- what it takes to be “fair and One recalls with a gri- minded. But they should “truthiness,” when they ask sume or report the news. balanced” would likely also mace how reporters treated also strive to cover the how we became so mentally “Be aware of ‘false bal- be up in arms. Hillary Clinton’s sloppy world as fully and factually muddled that we lost the ance,’” it warns. “...To Never mind that neither handling of emails as an as they can. ability to identify facts and They’ll blame Donald achieve impartiality, you do fairness nor balance object of concern equivalent Trump for being Donald The BBC seems to have the capacity to care, they’ll not need to include outright requires us to report dis- to the racism, misogyny, reached a moment of, well Trump. deniers of climate change in credited and disreputable mendacity, ineptitude, igno- find many culprits. ... truth in that regard. They’ll blame Fox But they will also blame BBC coverage, in the same information. Never mind, rance and corruption that American journalists would “News” for feeding the many of us in the non-Fox way you would not have either, that winning the trail Trump like an odor. fearful a steady diet of hog- news media for our failure someone denying that debate is not the point for Indeed, a survey by the be well advised to emulate wash designed to make to be energetic advocates Manchester United won 2-0 climate change deniers any- Harvard Kennedy School’s them. Tomorrow’s histori- them feel beset, encircled for, and defenders of, the last Saturday.” way. No, they win simply Shorenstein Center found ans will record that we and put upon. actual, factual truth. They And isn’t that a novel by being included, thus that over the course of the helped lead the country into They’ll blame Alex Jones will blame us for surrender- idea? BBC reporters are wringing from us an implic- full campaign, Clinton actu- this mess. for spinning webs of con- ing to a boneless “both- henceforth free to report on it concession that they rep- ally received more negative The least we can do is to spiracy so bizarre and con- sideism” that simulates pro- climate change without resent a point of view worth media coverage than he did. help lead it out. voluted as to shame Fox fessional impartiality at the feeling bound to include hearing. Even when they do More. Mulder. cost of clarity and fact. those who insist it doesn’t not. Two years later, most of Leonard Pitts Jr. writes They’ll blame schools for Which is what makes a exist. They are free to treat As deniers of tragedies us would likely agree there for the Miami Herald. failing to teach young peo- new memo from the BBC facts as factual. from the Holocaust to the was no comparison between Contact him at: ple to think critically. such bracing reading. The Sadly, that notion would Civil War to the Parkland the two. Too bad more of us [email protected] Leftists have problem with Constitution, not Kavanaugh ne of the best about the powers delegated States is founded.” authorizing Congress to wrote, “Congress had not statements of how to Congress? Before we President Grover spend money for business unlimited powers to provide Othe Framers saw Walter answer, let’s examine state- Cleveland out-vetoed his bailouts, prescription drugs, for the general welfare, but the role of the federal gov- Williams ments of other possibly predecessors by vetoing 584 education, Social Security were restrained to those ernment is found in ◆ “misinformed” Americans. acts of Congress, including and thousands of other specifically enumerated.” Federalist Paper 45, written In 1796, on the floor of many congressional spend- spending measures in Syndicated Madison wrote: “With by James Madison, who is columnist the House of ing bills, during his two today’s federal budget. I respect to the words ‘gener- known as the “Father of the Representatives, William terms as president in the late found no such amendment. al welfare,’ I have always Constitution:” Giles of Virginia con- 1800s. His often-given veto Contrary to what our regarded them as qualified “The powers delegated by demned a relief measure for message was, “I can find no Constitution permits, by the detail of powers con- the proposed Constitution to and indefinite, and those of fire victims, saying the pur- warrant for such an appro- Congress taxes and spends state governments are few nected with them. To take the federal government are pose and the right of priation in the Constitution.” for anything upon which it them in a literal and unlimit- few and defined. Those and defined. Congress is to attend to not By the way, President can muster a majority vote. If confirmed, Brett ed sense would be a meta- which are to remain in the what generosity and human- Cleveland was a Democrat. But I found a constitu- morphosis of the Kavanaugh will bring to the ity require but instead what Were the Founding tional loophole that many State governments are Constitution into a character numerous and indefinite. U.S. Supreme Court a vision their duty requires. Fathers, previous congress- congressmen use as a blank which there is a host of The former will be exer- closer to that of the Framers In 1854, President men and previous presidents check, as well as justifica- cised principally on external than the vision of those who Franklin Pierce vetoed a bill who could not find constitu- tion to control most aspects proofs was not contemplated objects, as war, peace, nego- believe that the Constitution intended to help the mental- tional authority for today’s of our lives — namely, the by its creators.” tiation, and foreign com- is a “living document.” ly ill, writing to the Senate, massive federal government general welfare clause. Case closed: It’s our merce. ... The powers Those Americans rallying “I can not find any authority intervention just plain stu- The Constitution’s pream- Constitution that’s the prob- reserved to the several against Kavanaugh’s confir- in the Constitution for mak- pid, ignorant, callous and ble contains the phrase “pro- lem for leftist intervention- States will extend to all the mation are really against the ing the Federal Government uncaring? mote the general Welfare,” ists — not Brett Kavanaugh. objects which, in the ordi- U.S. Constitution rather the great almoner of public Article 1 of the and Article 1, Section 8 con- nary course of affairs, con- than the man — Judge charity.” He added that to Constitution defines the role tains the phrase “provide for Walter E. Williams is a cern the lives, liberties, and Kavanaugh — whom I approve such spending of Congress. Its Section 8 the common Defence and professor of economics at properties of the people.” believe would take seriously would “be contrary to the lists powers delegated to general Welfare of the George Mason University. Today’s reality is the his oath of office to uphold letter and spirit of the Congress. I examined our United States.” He writes for Creators polar opposite of that vision. and defend the Constitution. Constitution and subversive Constitution, looking to see What did the Framers Syndicate and may be con- The powers of the federal Was Madison misin- of the whole theory upon whether an Article 5 amend- mean by “general Welfare?” tacted at: government are numerous formed or just plain ignorant which the Union of these ment had been enacted In 1817, Thomas Jefferson [email protected] easternnewmexiconews.com THE EASTERN NEW MEXICO NEWS SOUTHWEST FRIDAY, SEPT. 14, 2018 ✦ PAGE 5A Closure of New Mexico solar observatory a mystery By Matthew Reisen and speculation. ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL Lifson said AURA is working with the proper authorities, but would not name them. SUNSPOT — The truth is out there — but The closure even caught Otero County nobody will go on the record about it. Sheriff Benny House by surprise. Rumors are swirling and authorities are “Some folks that work at the laboratory tight-lipped following the evacuation of an called us, asked us if we could send a deputy observatory in southwest New Mexico last to stand by while they were evacuating,” week. House said during a phone interview The National Solar Observatory in Wednesday. “All the employees were pack- Sunspot, near Alamogordo, was evacuated ing up and leaving.” Sept. 6, along with a nearby post office, and House said they didn’t get any more has remained closed since without explana- answers at the observatory, but staff mem- tion. bers told deputies the FBI had been there. According to the facility’s website, the “Nobody would give us any information observatory and surrounding area are closed on what was going on,” House said, before until further notice “due to unforeseen cir- the phone call cut out and repeated attempts cumstances.” to reach him again were unsuccessful. “The Association of Universities for FBI spokesman Frank Fisher would not Research in Astronomy is addressing a secu- confirm or deny the agency’s involvement rity issue ... and has decided to temporarily but referred all questions to AURA. vacate the facility as a precautionary meas- U.S. Postal Service spokesman Rod ure,” AURA spokeswoman Shari Lifson said Spurgeon called the situation “strange” after in a statement. “We have no further comment authorities walked into the nearby post office at this time.” without warning and told the clerk to evacu- In the Lincoln National Forest, the obser- ate. vatory has been involved in solar research “I wasn’t present ... so I’m not sure which since 1947. Since the closure, the news has law enforcement agency told us to evacuate,” spread nationwide with headlines like “I’m Spurgeon said. Definitely Not Saying It’s Aliens,” and light- He said no timeline was given on when the ing up internet message boards with fervor office would be able to reopen. PAGE 6A ✦ FRIDAY, SEPT. 14, 2018 SOUTHWEST THE EASTERN NEW MEXICO NEWS Domenici remembered at conference By Angela Kocherga ballooning national deficit, as well NMSU early college program, reform. across the aisle like Senator Pete — ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL as disposing of nuclear weapons asked about the shortage of fighter “I wasn’t trying to impress any- and build from there,” Brown said. before they could get into terrorist pilots. body,” Domenici said at the time. “I Any lasting solution must come LAS CRUCES — A year after his hands as the former Soviet Union “We’re working really hard on think it just puts a little heart, a lit- from Congress rather than court death, Sen. Pete Domenici’s legacy crumbled. our pilot production business. tle soul into the discussion.” battles or depend on which presi- loomed large at his namesake pub- “You never get credit for what Holloman Air Force Base is a key Alan Kraut, a professor of history dent is in office, according to lic policy conference. doesn’t happen or what you pre- part of that,” Wilson said, referring at American University, recounted Brown. “There was no better senator. No vented,” he said. to an expansion of F-16 fighter pilot the moment during his talk and said “The alternative is we continue to better man. And no better friend,” National security, midterm elec- training at the base near Congress and the president “might limp along with a broken, outdated, said former Georgia Sen. Sam tions and immigration were the top- Alamogordo. remember to interject a little heart antiquated immigration system that Nunn during opening remarks this ics for this year’s two-day confer- Wilson said the Air Force also and a little soul into the debate” nobody likes,” she said. week in a crowded hall at the Las ence, which ended Thursday and has to do a better job of retaining about immigration. A group of about two dozen Cruces Convention Center. was organized by The Domenici experienced pilots who leave the Kraut said fear of foreign-born demonstrators stood outside the The men served in Congress Institute at New Mexico State military when their service abroad people is part of America’s history. convention center on the first day of together for 24 years, arriving in University. takes a toll on family life at home. He said it has, at times, led to the the conference holding signs, Washington in the early 1970s dur- Regarding national security, Gen. On Wednesday afternoon, the rise of nativist, xenophobic and including one that read: ing the Watergate era. He noted that Stephen Wilson, vice chief of staff discussion shifted to immigration, racist groups. “Immigrants make America Great.” from 1973 to 1976 there were three for the U.S. Air Force, told the audi- another important issue for “All of this is a kind of echo of Organizers with “Justice for All” presidents: Richard Nixon, who ence the accelerated pace of tech- Domenici, who worked for “com- things past that is coming around said the goal was to send a message resigned; Gerald Ford, who nology development is leading to mon sense immigration” policies, again,” Kraut said of the current to conference participants about the replaced him; and Jimmy Carter, disruption that requires “all of us to Nunn said. backlash by some groups. plight of “Dreamers” and separated who beat Ford in the November think differently.” Several speakers mentioned that Theresa Cardinal Brown, director families. 1976 election. Wilson said changing threats also a 9-year-old Domenici was separat- of immigration and cross-border “Remember that the Dreamers “This is not the first time we’ve have forced America to adapt. ed from his mother, an undocu- policy at the Bipartisan Policy are in limbo,” said Cristen Biad gone through a little turmoil in “I contend as Americans we mented immigrant, who was taken Center in Washington, D.C., said Ismond of Justice For All. “They’re Washington,” Nunn said. “The thought completely different on away by FBI agents investigating extreme “either/or” positions pre- tired. They’re starting to lose hope.” Republic will survive.” Sept. 12, 2001,” he said. suspected Italian sympathizers dur- vent lawmakers from reaching a Jon Barela, CEO of the Nunn, a Democrat, said Wilson and other speakers took ing World War II. She was released compromise. Borderplex Alliance, in his talk Domenici’s pragmatic bipartisan questions from a panel of students and later became a U.S. citizen. “It’s not mass deportation or inside the convention center agreed approach led to “significant from New Mexico universities. Domenici told members of abolish ICE,” Brown said. Congress needs to “act quickly” to achievements,” including reducing Bowen Perry, a senior at Congress about his experience after “We need to support the middle protect Dreamers for both humani- “fiscal time bombs,” such as the Alamogordo High School in the a failed effort at immigration — those members willing to work tarian and economic reasons. THE EASTERN NEW MEXICO NEWS FAITH FRIDAY, SEPT. 14, 2018 ✦ PAGE 7A God’s greatness easy to understand y sister Susie and consider the presentation, God. No one or nothing can know? Have you not heard? John Piper addressed this I have a friend the unusual contents that challenge God’s greatness. The Everlasting God, the matter of God’s greatness Mwho lives in the Judy make a jar of anything God’s greatness is not a Lord, the Creator of the and he said it well: “If you Midwest, and we lovingly Brandon great? Is it the blend of fla- vulnerable example contin- ends of the earth does not don’t see the greatness of call her the Queen of ◆ vors? Is it the taste? What gent on a contest nor does become weary or tired. His God then all the things that Canning. Religion makes a jar of pickles great? his greatness hinge on the understanding is money can buy become She expertly and efficient- columnist I came away with this competition. No competi- inscrutable.” (Isaiah 40:28 very exciting. If you can’t ly cans food through all of thought: what is great to tion exists. His greatness is God is great because in see the sun you will be summer and fall. By state one is not great to another. not up for negotiation or his greatness he still loves impressed with a street fair time, she has fruits, What is great to the cook compromise. us. “For your loving kind- light. If you’ve never felt tomatoes and sauces, all didn’t even place in the may not be great to the So why is God great? ness is great above the thunder and lightning, types of vegetables, jams, other categories. I thought I taster. What is great to the God is great because he is heavens, And your truth you’ll be impressed with jellies, pickles, meats and had some great winning student may not be so great the highest authority. “O Lord reaches to the skies.” fireworks. And if you turn even seafood canned in cans but I guess it all to the teacher. What is great is the greatness and the power (Psalm 108:4) your back on the greatness beautiful jars. In our judg- depended on what the to the judge may not be that and the glory and the victory God is great because he and majesty of God you ment, she is phenomenal and judges considered great.” great to the contestants. and the majesty, indeed sent a Savior. “For God so will fall in love with a her talents are extraordinary. What my friend thought We use the word great everything that is in the heav- love the world that he gave world of shadows and Last week Susie visited great was not great in the when describing an experi- ens and the earth; yours is the his only begotten Son that short-lived pleasures.” with our friend about the eyes of the judges. ence or object and the very dominion, O Lord, and you whosoever believes in him God is our great God, the recent competition in her So I was bewildered. word indicates as above all exalt yourself as head over should not perish but have One who is approachable state fair where she entered What is the definition of and not up for competition. all.” (1 Chron: 29:11) everlasting life.” (John and can be known by all many of her prized canned great when looking at the Yet, when we toss around God is great because he is 3:16) who earnestly seek him in vegetables. Confident of canned food at a state fair? the word great, we have above all man-made gods. God is great because he hope. her expertise, Susie asked Consider pickles. Do the only human judges, stan- “For You are the Lord most looks at each of us merci- her how many first prizes judges look for the color of dards and perceptions so high over all the earth; you fully. “See what great love Judy Brandon writes she received. the pickles, how pretty the there is always room for are exalted far above all the Father has lavished on about faith for The Eastern She reported to Susie: “I jar is, how clear the liquid negotiation. gods.” (Psalm 97:9) us, that we should be called New Mexico News. only came away with two or how many whole spices Fortunately, that is not the God is great because he children of God. And that is Contact her at: third-place ribbons and I in the liquid? Or do they way it is with Almighty knows all. “Do you not what we are.” (1 John 3:1) [email protected] Real grace puts the focus on God mazing is exactly and so much more. And as And the list goes on. ment being that, having good we could possibly do what real grace we pile up adjectives, we Right down to us. given our lives to him, we comes through Christ’s Aalways is. Curtis should never forget this The real grace of Christ keep on accepting the gift power at work in our lives On the other hand, the Shelburne one: “scandalous.” always has within it a seri- he keeps on giving. and that what we might many counterfeits are pretty ◆ Read the Gospels with ous element of scandal. It How reckless is that? once have considered our much what we should Religion eyes wide open, and notice seems reckless. It seems Good luck trying to find own goodness is not our expect — “do-it-yourself” columnist how many of Jesus’ heal- “over the top.” Too good to that kind of grace in any own at all. schemes focused on our ings, miracles, teachings be a true. other world religion — or When we’ve accepted real power to occasionally strike were offensive to those who We can never plumb its in the world anywhere else. grace, the focus is never a tiny spark rather than on could never imagine God’s depths or exhaust its pow- Real grace both forgives again to be on us; the focus If we imagine that we can grace reaching so far, so ers. We’ll never fully com- and empowers even as it God’s power to always cre- is on God and joyfully giv- ate a nuclear reaction. Do-it- pay for it at all, it’s bogus. If low, so wide: prehend it, but even what refuses to allow us to focus ing him glory for what he yourself “grace” is an we think we can deserve it A woman caught in the we can see rocks us on our on ourselves. When we do impostor every bit as dan- even a little, it’s a sham. wrong bed in the embrace heels as Jesus reaches down poorly, fall flat on our faces has done and is doing — all gerous as the real thing is And perhaps worst of all, if of the wrong guy. A gal to forgive those we can’t yet again in attitude or by grace, all through his amazing. we reckon that we might who’d been through way imagine even God ever for- action, grace turns our focus Son. All for us, and not at The Apostle Paul points need less of it than someone too many husbands and was giving. Certainly not with- back to Christ, forgives, and all by us. to real grace in everything we consider morally below living with a guy she’d for- out some lengthy probation. gives him glory, reminding he writes, most notably us, we’re dishonoring Christ gotten to marry. An Maybe a written self- us that Christ at Calvary has Curtis Shelburne writes Romans and Galatians, and denying his cross. acknowledged loser hang- improvement plan. And a literally taken all of our about faith for The Eastern pounding the point home. If God’s grace is amazing, ing on a cross, a failed thief short leash, for sure. “badness” away from us. New Mexico News. we feel we must earn it in astounding, marvelous, unable to steal any more But Christ just keeps on When we do well, grace Contact him at any way, it’s not real grace. incomprehensible, eternal, earthly chances. forgiving, his only require- reminds us that everything [email protected] PAGE 8A ✦ FRIDAY, SEPT. 14, 2018 THE EASTERN NEW MEXICO NEWS Friday Sept. 14, 2018 Your source for complete PORTS local sports coverage S THE EASTERN NEW MEXICO NEWS B Rams to challenge Rockets ❏ Portales expects to see that plays tight formations. Staff photo: “They’re a high percentage of run Game day Eric Murray run-heavy attack tonight versus pass,” Rams coach Jaime Portales Ramirez explained. “You know what Portales (2-1) at Goddard (2-0-1) kicker from Class 4A Goddard. you’re getting when 7 p.m., Wool Bowl, Roswell Brandon you’re playing Goddard. On the air: KSEL 105.9 FM. They’re in double tight, Jimenez By Eric Murray Coaches: Portales, Jamie Ramirez, seventh double wing most of the kicks an STAFF WRITER season, 50-23 (77-64 overall). Goddard, Chris [email protected] time — that’s their extra point White, first season, 2-0-1. favorite formation.” Last week: Portales routed West Las Vegas during PORTALES — While it can cer- Ramirez says his defense will have 36-0 on the road. The Rockets won at Deming Wednesday tainly be said for any given opponent, to watch its keys and make sure it being a disciplined football team is 28-16 for their second-straight. practice. gets alignments and assignments cor- Last meeting: 2011, Goddard 56-15. The key. For Portales, tonight is certainly rect. The Rams Rockets lead the series 25-12-2 and have won no exception. Defensively, the Rockets show a play at The Rams (2-1) travel to Roswell 10 straight since Portales’ last victory in 1992. Goddard to take on Goddard (2-0-1) at 7, tonight. where they’ll face a run-heavy team RAMS on Page 3B Clovis seeking bounce ❏ Wildcats start Lubbock triple play with tonight’s contest at Monterrey. By Peter Stein STAFF WRITER [email protected] CLOVIS — The Monterey football team’s nickname — the Plainsmen — has the sound of a John Wayne or Clint Eastwood Western, maybe a Zane Grey novel. And tonight, Clovis High’s football team heads east to Lubbock, where the Wildcats will try to lasso their third victory of the season. With a 7:30 p.m. Central (6:30 p.m. Mountain) start at Lowrey Field, the ’Cats (2-1) are beginning a three-game stretch against Lubbock teams and trying to rebound from last week’s 20- 13 home loss to Rio Rancho, which was — in keeping with the Western motif — the Clovis good, the bad and the ugly for Clovis. There was the good: Some impressive plays for the Wildcats, like a third-quarter Staff photo: Kevin Wilson swing pass from quarterback Chance Harris Clovis freshman Nevaeh Coronado blasts a shot from deep to make it 4-0 in the first half of Thursday’s game at Yucca Middle to running back DeMarco Fitch, who then School. The Wildcats took a 10-0 victory to improve to 8-0. bolted down the right sideline for a 39-yard pickup to the Rio Rancho 7, setting up a touchdown. And a fourth-quarter dump-off pass over the middle from Harris to running back Andrew Jaramillo, which also turned into a 39-yard pickup to the Rams 7. Clovis makes it 8-0 And there was a third-quarter intercep- tion by Clovis linebacker Ian Yruegas, ❏ Wildcats heading east first nine minutes. returned to Rio Rancho’s 21. “I think we’re all confident, and I Finally in the 10th minute, Lynch scored There was the bad: Two consecutive for Friday, Saturday games think we’re passing very well. And her first goal of the night. sacks that pushed the Wildcats from deep Nevaeh Coronado — just a freshman but with ABQ High, Eldorado. we’re working together well as a already among Clovis’ most dangerous scor- CLOVIS on Page 3B By Peter Stein team.” ing threats — was next to hit paydirt, doing STAFF WRITER so in the 19th minute. An impressive left — Clovis sophomore Madison Lynch [email protected] crossing pass from Danielle Griego found Coronado open in front of the net, and she CLOVIS — Sometimes you can’t tell how Clovis sophomore striker Madison Lynch easily deposited the ball home to make it 2- a game is going to turn out based on the said after contributing four to that total. “We 0. team’s records coming in. But sometimes, have a long weekend.” Only three minutes passed before Clovis you kinda can. Clovis plays Albuquerque High today and scored again. It was on Lynch’s second goal Thursday’s Lovington-Clovis girls soccer Eldorado on Saturday. But as of Thursday of the night off a feed from Kelsey Kendall, game at Yucca Elementary School was one night’s win, not even halfway through playing out as a high-arcing shot that trav- for the kinda-can file. Power to 1-5 September, the Lady Wildcats of Clovis eled diagonally from left to right and sailed Lovington for making the trek were 8-0. from roughly 25 yards out and into the net. and playing great defense early “I think they’re trying to work the ball Three minutes after that, Coronado had on, breaking up some Clovis around, trying to be unselfish,” Sievers said time to set and kick one in from about 30 chances. But the undefeated about her team’s success thus far. “When we yards out, giving Clovis a 4-0 advantage. Clovis Lady Wildcats of Clovis were shut out people it’s easier on the keeper — I Alisha Manery rolled one in during the just too much for the Lady think we take the pressure off.” 28th minute. And in the 37th, Coronado — Wildcats of Lovington, and posted a 10-0 “I think we’re all confident,” Lynch said, off a Sofia Rico assist — booted one diago- victory, ending it in the 62nd minute on the “and I think we’re passing very well. And nally from right to left. Lovington goalie mercy rule. we’re working together well as a team.” Vanessa Cortez made a valiant effort to Staff photo: Kevin Wilson “We were hoping that we could take care Almost every possession Thursday night snare it, diving to her right, arm out- of business because we’ve got two tough belonged to Clovis, with the action staying stretched. But the ball bounced into the Clovis sophomore Jaden Phillips games in Albuquerque this weekend,” predominantly on Lovington’s end of the goal’s left corner, making it 6-0. fights for extra yardage after the catch Clovis head coach Traci Sievers said. field. The visiting Wildcats, though, denied as he is pulled down by Rio Rancho’s “We wanted to put the goal total higher,” the host Wildcats with sturdy defense for the SOCCER on Page 3B Andrew Lovato.

Area Scoreboard (All Times Mountain) Contact us Thursday Friday Friday/Saturday Saturday Managing Editor Kevin Wilson Prep football Prep football College volleyball Southern Nazarene at ENMU women, noon Melrose vs. Magdalena at Mountainair, Clovis at Lubbock Monterey, 6:30 p.m. Angelo State at ENMU, 6 p.m. Prep soccer 575-763-3431, ext. 320 Portales at Goddard, 7 p.m. Prep volleyball late Artesia at Clovis boys, 3 p.m [email protected] Texico at Capitan, 7 p.m. Dora at Evangel Christian Tournament, TBA Portales boys at Pojoaque, 1 p.m. Prep soccer Floyd at Hondo, 7 p.m. College cross country Portales girls at Pojoaque, 11 a.m. Menual at Dora, 7 p.m. ENMU at Texas Tech Open Staff Writer Peter Stein Clovis girls 10, Lovington 0 Clovis girls at Eldorado, 10 a.m. Olton at Farwell, 6:30 p.m. 575-763-3431, ext. 322 College soccer College volleyball Prep soccer Saturday [email protected] ENMU men 3, UT Permian Basin 1 Boys College football Tarleton State at ENMU, noon East Central at ENMU women, 7 p.m. Portales at St. Mike’s, 5 p.m. Texas A&M-Commerce at ENMU, 7 p.m. Prep volleyball Dora at Evangel Christian Tournament, TBA Staff Writer Eric Murray Prep volleyball Girls Prep football Portales at St. Mike’s, 3 p.m. Carrizozo at Elida, 4 p.m. Grady at Santa Fe Waldorf, 2 p.m. 575-356-4481, ext. 32 San Jon at Floyd, n Clovis at Albuquerque Academy, 4:30 p.m. College soccer Prep cross country [email protected] Texico 3, Logan 1 ENMU men at Lubbock Christian, noon Clovis, Portales at NMMI Invitational PAGE 2B ✦ FRIDAY, SEPT. 14, 2018 SPORTS THE EASTERN NEW MEXICO NEWS InIn briefbrief TEXICO TOPS LOGAN Greyhounds win Heartland opener ODESSA, Texas — Gabriel Peres and Aderi Arthur- Dede scored less than five minutes apart, and Eastern New Mexico made the most of a shooting advantage to top Texas Permian Basin 3-1 in the Heartland Conference opener for both teams. William Sutton also added a goal for the Greyhounds (2- 2, 1-0), who outshot the host Falcons 20-11 — including a 6-3 advantage in shots on goal. After the Falcons (1-3, 0-1) struck first with Santi Morales’ goal in the 21st minute, it was all Greyhounds. Peres knotted the score on a penalty kick less than six min- utes later, and Arthur-Dede scored off a cross pass from Jesus Garcia in the 31st minute. Sutton added the insurance goal in the 62nd minute when he cleaned up a rebound off Falcon goalkeeper Lucas Gomes. Ross Dalton made two saves for the Greyhounds. With the win, Eastern matched its division win total from last season (5-11-2 overall, 1-5 division). The Greyhounds continue their short Texas road trip Saturday against Lubbock Christian in a noon MDT tilt. — Staff report MLBMLB SStandingstandings The Associated Press • All Times Mountain AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away z-Boston 101 46 .687 — — 7-3 W-4 52-20 49-26 New York 90 56 .616 10 1/2 — 4-6 L-2 48-24 42-32 Tampa Bay 80 65 .552 20 8 8-2 W-1 46-25 34-40 Toronto 65 81 .445 35 1/2 23 1/2 3-7 L-3 37-37 28-44 Baltimore 42 104 .288 58 1/2 46 1/2 2-8 W-1 25-46 17-58 Central Division W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away Cleveland 82 64 .562 — — 5-5 L-1 44-28 38-36 Minnesota 67 78 .462 14 1/2 21 4-6 W-2 43-31 24-47 Detroit 59 87 .404 23 29 1/2 5-5 L-4 36-38 23-49 Staff photo: Kevin Wilson Chicago 57 89 .390 25 31 1/2 3-7 W-1 28-47 29-42 Kansas City 49 96 .338 32 1/2 39 5-5 L-1 27-46 22-50 Texico senior Baylee Sours sets the ball in the first game of Thursday’s match against Logan at the Texico Sports West Division Arena. Sours had 23 assists in the 25-18, 20-25, 25-23, 25-20 victory. W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away Houston 92 54 .630 — — 9-1 W-3 40-32 52-22 Oakland 89 58 .605 3 1/2 — 8-2 L-1 46-29 43-29 Seattle 79 66 .545 12 1/2 9 4-6 L-2 41-33 38-33 Los Angeles 73 73 .500 19 15 1/2 7-3 W-2 36-35 37-38 Texas 62 84 .425 30 26 1/2 3-7 L-2 32-43 30-41 COREBOARD z-clinched playoff berth S All times Mountain ■ Staff and wire reports ■ Report scores: 575-763-3431 Wednesday’s Games W L T Pct PF PA Houston 5, Detroit 4 STRIKEOUTS—Cole, Houston, 260; Colorado 6 15 6 24 31 50 Sports on TV Washington 1 0 0 1.000 24 6 Verlander, Houston, 258; Sale, Boston, 221; San Jose 4 15 8 20 41 52 Tampa Bay 3, Cleveland 1 Philadelphia 1 0 0 1.000 18 12 Bauer, Cleveland, 214; Severino, New York, NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for San Diego 5, Seattle 4 Thursday N.Y. Giants 0 1 0 .000 15 20 207; Carrasco, Cleveland, 206; Snell, Tampa tie. Oakland 10, Baltimore 0 AUTO RACING Dallas 0 1 0 .000 8 16 Bay, 195; Kluber, Cleveland, 194; Paxton, Boston 1,Toronto 0 6:25 a.m. — ESPNU, Formula One, South Seattle, 194; Clevinger, Cleveland, 191. Wednesday’s Game Minnesota 3, N.Y.Yankees 1 Singapore Airlines Singapore Grand Prix, W L T Pct PF PA D.C. United 2, Minnesota United 1 Chicago White Sox 4, Kansas City 2, 12 innings practice Tampa Bay 1 0 0 1.000 48 40 NATIONAL LEAGUE Saturday’s Games Carolina 1 0 0 1.000 16 8 BATTING—Gennett, Cincinnati, .321; Cain, Atlanta United FC at Colorado, 1:30 p.m. L.A. Angels 8,Texas 1 Noon — NBCSN, NASCAR, Monster Energy Cup Series, South Point 400, practice, New Orleans 0 1 0 .000 40 48 Milwaukee, .314; Yelich, Milwaukee, .313; LA Galaxy at Toronto FC, 5:30 p.m. Thursday’s Games Atlanta 0 1 0 .000 12 18 Zobrist, Chicago, .311; Freeman, Atlanta, .307; Montreal at Philadelphia, 5:30 p.m. Baltimore 5, Oakland 3 at Las Vegas 1 p.m. — NBCSN, NASCAR, Xfinity Series, North Markakis, Atlanta, .306; Martinez, St. Louis, Columbus at FC Dallas, 6 p.m. Boston 4,Toronto 3 DC Solar 300, practice, at Las Vegas W L T Pct PF PA .303; Arenado, Colorado, .301; Goldschmidt, Portland at Houston, 6:30 p.m. Minnesota at Kansas City, late 2 p.m. — NBCSN, IndyCar, Grand Prix of Green Bay 1 0 0 1.000 24 23 Arizona, .298; Baez, Chicago, .295. Minnesota United at Real Salt Lake, 7:30 Seattle at L.A. Angels, late Sonoma, practice, at Sonoma, Calif. (same- Minnesota 1 0 0 1.000 24 16 RUNS—Blackmon, Colorado, 108; p.m. Friday’s Games day tape) Chicago 0 1 0 .000 23 24 Carpenter, St. Louis, 101; Yelich, Milwaukee, Seattle at Vancouver, 8 p.m. Detroit 0 1 0 .000 17 48 99; Albies, Atlanta, 96; Arenado, Colorado, 96; New England at Los Angeles FC, 8:30 p.m. Chicago White Sox (Shields 6-16) at Baltimore (Ortiz 0-0), 5:05 p.m. 3 p.m. — NBCSN, NASCAR, Xfinity Series, West Harper, Washington, 93; Baez, Chicago, 92; Sporting Kansas City at San Jose, 8:30 p.m. Toronto (Estrada 7-11) at N.Y.Yankees (Tanaka 11-5), 5:05 p.m. DC Solar 300, final practice, at Las Vegas 4 p.m. — FS1, NASCAR, Camping World W L T Pct PF PA Goldschmidt, Arizona, 92; Turner, Washington, Detroit (Boyd 9-12) at Cleveland (Tomlin 1-5), 5:10 p.m. Truck Series, World of Westgate 200, qualify- L.A. Rams 1 0 0 1.000 33 13 90; Freeman, Atlanta, 89. Prep summary N.Y.Mets (Syndergaard 11-3) at Boston (Velazquez 7-2), 5:10 p.m. ing, at Las Vegas Seattle 0 1 0 .000 24 27 RBI—Baez, Chicago, 103; Story, Colorado, Thursday Oakland (Jackson 5-3) at Tampa Bay (Castillo 3-2), 5:10 p.m. 4 p.m. — NBCSN, IndyCar, Grand Prix of San Francisco 0 1 0 .000 16 24 102; Suarez, Cincinnati, 101; Arenado, Girls Arizona (Ray 5-2) at Houston (Keuchel 11-10), 6:10 p.m. Sonoma, practice, at Sonoma, Calif. Arizona 0 1 0 .000 6 24 Colorado, 100; Aguilar, Milwaukee, 97; Harper, Clovis 10, Lovington 0 Minnesota (Berrios 11-11) at Kansas City (Lopez 2-4), 6:15 p.m. 5:30 p.m. — NBCSN, NASCAR, Monster Washington, 94; Rizzo, Chicago, 92; Hoskins, Lovington 0 0 — 0 Energy Cup Series, South Point 400, qualify- Thursday’s Games Philadelphia, 89; Gennett, Cincinnati, 88; Clovis 6 4 — 10 Seattle (TBD) at L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 2-0), 8:07 p.m. Baltimore at Cincinnati, late Markakis, Atlanta, 88. Texas (Mendez 1-1) at San Diego (Lauer 5-7), 8:10 p.m. ing, at Las Vegas 7 p.m. — FS1, NASCAR, Camping World Sunday’s Games HITS—Markakis, Atlanta, 174; Freeman, Scoring summary Saturday’s Games Truck Series, World of Westgate 200, at Las Philadelphia at Tampa Bay, 11 a.m. Atlanta, 173; Gennett, Cincinnati, 173; Peraza, First half Detroit at Cleveland, 1:10 p.m. Vegas Houston at Tennessee, 11 a.m. Cincinnati, 168; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 163; C — Madison Lynch, 10th minute N.Y.Mets at Boston, 2:05 p.m. BOXING Indianapolis at Washington, 11 a.m. Story, Colorado, 163; Yelich, Milwaukee, 163; C — Nevaeh Coronado (Danielle Griego), Toronto at N.Y.Yankees, 2:05 p.m. 8 p.m. — ESPN, Jose Ramirez vs. Antonio Minnesota at Green Bay, 11 a.m. Blackmon, Colorado, 161; Baez, Chicago, 19th Oakland at Tampa Bay, 4:10 p.m. Orozco, for Ramirez’s WBC junior welter- Cleveland at New Orleans, 11 a.m. 160; Turner, Washington, 160. C — Lynch (Kelsey Kendall), 22nd weight title, at Fresno, Calif. Kansas City at Pittsburgh, 11 a.m. DOUBLES—Carpenter, St. Louis, 40; C — Coronado, 25th Chicago White Sox at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m. Miami at N.Y. Jets, 11 a.m. Markakis, Atlanta, 40; Story, Colorado, 40; Arizona at Houston, 5:10 p.m. COLLEGE FOOTBALL C — Alisha Manery, 28th 5 p.m. — ESPN, Georgia St. at Memphis Carolina at Atlanta, 11 a.m. Rendon, Washington, 39; Albies, Atlanta, 38; C — Coronado (Sofia Rico), 37th Minnesota at Kansas City, 5:15 p.m. CYCLING L.A. Chargers at Buffalo, 11 a.m. Freeman, Atlanta, 38; Baez, Chicago, 37; Second half Texas at San Diego, 6:40 p.m. 9 p.m. — NBCSN, Vuelta a Espaqa, Stage Arizona at L.A. Rams, 2:05 p.m. Cabrera, Philadelphia, 35; Arenado, Colorado, C — Lynch, 50th Seattle at L.A. Angels, 7:07 p.m. 19, from Lleida to Andorra, Spain (same-day Detroit at San Francisco, 2:05 p.m. 33; CTaylor, Los Angeles, 33. C — Lynch, 52nd tape) Oakland at Denver, 2:25 p.m. TRIPLES—KMarte, Arizona, 11; Baez, C — Griego (Aydan Everett), 61st NATIONAL LEAGUE DRAG RACING New England at Jacksonville, 2:25 p.m. Chicago, 9; Desmond, Colorado, 8; Hamilton, C — Coronado (Kendall), 62nd N.Y. Giants at Dallas, 6:20 p.m. Cincinnati, 8; Nimmo, New York, 8; Rosario, East Division 5 p.m. — FS1, NHRA, Dodge Nationals, qualifying, at Mohnton, Pa. (same-day tape) Monday’s Game New York, 8; CTaylor, Los Angeles, 8; W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away Shots on goal: Lovington 2, Clovis 15. EQUESTRIAN Seattle at Chicago, 6:15 p.m. Bellinger, Los Angeles, 7; Difo, Washington, 7; Corner kicks — Lovington 0, Clovis 4. Direct Atlanta 82 64 .562 — — 6-4 W-5 37-34 45-30 7 p.m. — NBCSN, FEI World Equestrian 4 tied at 6. kicks — Lovington 1, Clovis 3. Saves: Clovis, Philadelphia 74 71 .510 7 1/2 6 2-8 L-5 43-29 31-42 Games, Dressage, at Mill Spring, N.C. (same- Baseball HOME RUNS—Carpenter, St. Louis, 35; Ayden Dosher 2. Lovington, Vanessa Cortez Washington 74 73 .503 8 1/2 7 6-4 L-1 37-37 37-36 day tape) Arenado, Colorado, 34; Goldschmidt, Arizona, and Kiara Rivera 5. Records — Lovington 1-6, 33; Harper, Washington, 33; Story, Colorado, New York 68 78 .466 14 12 1/2 7-3 W-3 33-42 35-36 GOLF MLB leaders Clovis 8-0. Miami 57 89 .390 25 23 1/2 3-7 L-3 34-41 23-48 3 a.m. — GOLF, LPGA Tour, The Evian 33; Muncy, Los Angeles, 32; Suarez, The Associated Press Cincinnati, 32; Aguilar, Milwaukee, 31; Baez, Central Division Championship, second round, at Evian-les- Bains, France AMERICAN LEAGUE Chicago, 31; Hoskins, Philadelphia, 30. Volleyball W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away 7:30 a.m. — GOLF, LPGA Tour, The Evian BATTING—Betts, Boston, .340; Martinez, STOLEN BASES—Turner, Washington, 38; Chicago 85 61 .582 — — 4-6 W-1 45-26 40-35 Championship, second round, at Evian-les- Boston, .330; Altuve, Houston, .318; Trout, Los SMarte, Pittsburgh, 31; Hamilton, Cincinnati, Prep summary Milwaukee 84 63 .571 1 1/2 — 8-2 W-1 45-27 39-36 Bains, France Angeles, .315; Segura, Seattle, .310; Brantley, 30; Cain, Milwaukee, 27; Inciarte, Atlanta, 25; Thursday St. Louis 81 66 .551 4 1/2 — 5-5 L-2 39-33 42-33 10:30 a.m. — GOLF, European PGA Tour, Cleveland, .307; Smith, Tampa Bay, .303; Story, Colorado, 25; Jankowski, San Diego, Texico 3, Logan 1 Pittsburgh 72 73 .497 12 1/2 8 6-4 W-1 40-34 32-39 KLM Open, second round, at Spijk, Merrifield, Kansas City, .302; Andujar, New 24; MTaylor, Washington, 24; Peraza, Logan 18 25 23 20 York, .299; Duffy, Tampa Bay, .297. Cincinnati 63 84 .429 22 1/2 18 4-6 L-1 36-40 27-44 Netherlands Cincinnati, 22; Baez, Chicago, 21. Texico 25 20 25 25 RUNS—Lindor, Cleveland, 119; Betts, PITCHING—Scherzer, Washington, 17-6; West Division 1 p.m. — GOLF, Champions Tour, The Ally Challenge, first round, at Grand Blanc, Mich. Boston, 117; Martinez, Boston, 106; Bregman, Nola, Philadelphia, 16-5; Freeland, Colorado, Texico statistics W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away 4 p.m. — GOLF, Web.com Tour, Albertsons Houston, 100; Benintendi, Boston, 99; 15-7; Lester, Chicago, 15-6; Mikolas, St. Kills — Kaitlyn Roderick 12, Riley Colorado 81 65 .555 — — 7-3 W-2 41-33 40-32 Boise Open, second round, at Boise, Idaho Ramirez, Cleveland, 98; Trout, Los Angeles, Louis, 15-4; Chacin, Milwaukee, 14-7; Godley, Thompson 7, Baylee Sours 6. Assists — Los Angeles 80 67 .544 1 1/2 1 5-5 W-2 39-36 41-31 8 p.m. — GOLF, Asian Tour, Shinhan 93; Chapman, Oakland, 90; Stanton, New Arizona, 14-9; Greinke, Arizona, 14-9; Sours 23, Macey Tharp 4, Rachel Phipps 4. Arizona 77 70 .524 4 1/2 4 3-7 L-2 37-35 40-35 Donghae Open, third round, at Inchon, South York, 90; Springer, Houston, 89. Quintana, Chicago, 13-9; Taillon, Pittsburgh, Digs — Jasmine Davalos 17, Ashley Hill 12, San Francisco68 79 .463 13 1/2 13 0-10 L-11 39-33 29-46 Korea RBI—Martinez, Boston, 122; Davis, 13-9. Sours 6. Blocks — Roderick 5, Thompson 2. Oakland, 110; Bregman, Houston, 100; ERA—deGrom, New York, 1.71; Scherzer, San Diego 59 88 .401 22 1/2 22 5-5 W-3 27-45 32-43 MLB BASEBALL Aces — Hill 1, Davalos 1. Records — Logan Noon — MLB, Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs Ramirez, Cleveland, 99; Encarnacion, Washington, 2.31; Nola, Philadelphia, 2.42; 6-2, Texico 3-2. Junior varsity — Texico def. 5:30 p.m. — MLB, Regional coverage, Cleveland, 96; Bogaerts, Boston, 93; Lowrie, Foltynewicz, Atlanta, 2.66; Freeland, Logan 25-11, 25-13. Wednesday’s Games Washington at Atlanta OR N.Y. Mets at Boston Oakland, 90; 4 tied at 86. Colorado, 2.96; Mikolas, St. Louis, 2.99; Miami at N.Y.Mets, ppd. (5 p.m.) HITS—Martinez, Boston, 175; Lindor, Corbin, Arizona, 3.05; Greinke, Arizona, 3.11; L.A. Dodgers 8, Cincinnati 1 ROWING Cleveland, 170; Merrifield, Kansas City, 169; Wheeler, New York, 3.23; Williams, Pittsburgh, Transactions Pittsburgh 4, St. Louis 3 8 p.m. — NBCSN, FISA World Betts, Boston, 165; Castellanos, Detroit, 165; 3.28. Segura, Seattle, 165; Bregman, Houston, 162; Thursday Atlanta 2, San Francisco 1 Championships, at Plovdiv, Bulgaria (same- STRIKEOUTS—Scherzer, Washington, Brantley, Cleveland, 159; Rosario, Minnesota, 271; deGrom, New York, 239; Corbin, Arizona, The Associated Press N.Y.Mets 13, Miami 0, 1st game day tape) SOCCER 156; 3 tied at 154. 230; Nola, Philadelphia, 201; Marquez, FOOTBALL San Diego 5, Seattle 4 12:30 p.m. — FS1, Bundesliga, Dortmund DOUBLES—Bregman, Houston, 50; Betts, Colorado, 195; Foltynewicz, Atlanta, 186; National Football League Washington 5, Philadelphia 1 vs. Eintracht Boston, 42; Bogaerts, Boston, 42; Lindor, Greinke, Arizona, 185; Wheeler, New York, INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Signed OT Will Milwaukee 5, Chicago Cubs 1 Cleveland, 41; Andujar, New York, 40; 175; Godley, Arizona, 174; Gray, Colorado, Holden to the practice squad. Released RB Colorado 5, Arizona 4 Football Castellanos, Detroit, 40; Chapman, Oakland, 174. Jeremy McNichols from the practice squad. Thursday’s Games 39; Piscotty, Oakland, 39; Benintendi, Boston, Waived TE Erik Swoope. Activated DT Jihad Colorado 10, Arizona 3 38; 3 tied at 37. Ward from the practice squad. NFL standings TRIPLES—Smith, Tampa Bay, 9; Sanchez, Soccer OAKLAND RAIDERS — Signed DTs N.Y.Mets 4, Miami 3, 1st game AMERICAN CONFERENCE Chicago, 9; Kiermaier, Tampa Bay, 8; Johnathan Hankins and Clinton McDonald. Chicago Cubs 4,Washington 3, 10 innings East Hernandez, Toronto, 7; Span, Seattle, 7; 6 tied MLS standings Placed DT Justin Ellis on injured reserve. N.Y.Mets 5, Miami 2, 2nd game W L T Pct PF PA at 6. EASTERN CONFERENCE HOCKEY L.A. Dodgers 9, St. Louis 7 Miami 1 0 0 1.000 27 20 HOME RUNS—Davis, Oakland, 41; W L T Pts GF GA National Hockey League Friday’s Games New England 1 0 0 1.000 27 20 Martinez, Boston, 41; Ramirez, Cleveland, 38; New York 17 7 4 55 50 29 NHL — Suspended Nashville F Austin Miami (Chen 6-10) at Philadelphia (Eflin 9-7), 5:05 p.m. N.Y. Jets 1 0 0 1.000 48 17 Gallo, Texas, 36; Cruz, Seattle, 35; Lindor, Atlanta United FC 16 5 6 54 56 33 Watson for the entire preseason and first 27 Cleveland, 34; Stanton, New York, 33; Trout, New York City FC 14 8 7 49 51 38 N.Y.Mets (Syndergaard 11-3) at Boston (Velazquez 7-2), 5:10 p.m. Buffalo 0 1 0 .000 3 47 games of the regular season for domestic South Los Angeles, 33; Bregman, Houston, 30; Columbus 12 8 7 43 35 34 abuse. Washington (Scherzer 17-6) at Atlanta (Gausman 9-10), 5:35 p.m. W L T Pct PF PA Encarnacion, Cleveland, 30. Philadelphia 12 11 4 40 39 41 DALLAS STARS — Signed C Tyler Seguin Cincinnati (Harvey 7-8) at Chicago Cubs (Hamels 9-9), 6:05 p.m. Jacksonville 1 0 0 1.000 20 15 STOLEN BASES—Merrifield, Kansas City, Montreal 11 14 3 36 37 45 to an eight-year contract extension through the Arizona (Ray 5-2) at Houston (Keuchel 11-10), 6:10 p.m. Houston 0 1 0 .000 20 27 35; Smith, Tampa Bay, 33; Ramirez, D.C. United 9 11 7 34 45 45 2026-27 season. Signed D Ben Gleason to a Pittsburgh (Archer 4-7) at Milwaukee (Gonzalez 8-11), 6:10 p.m. Tennessee 0 1 0 .000 20 27 Cleveland, 32; Gordon, Seattle, 30; Betts, New England 8 10 9 33 40 42 three-year, entry-level contract. L.A. Dodgers (Buehler 6-5) at St. Louis (Flaherty 8-6), 6:15 p.m. Indianapolis 0 1 0 .000 23 34 Boston, 28; Anderson, Chicago, 26; Lindor, Toronto FC 7 14 6 27 45 52 ST. LOUIS BLUES — Activated F Robby Texas (Mendez 1-1) at San Diego (Lauer 5-7), 8:10 p.m. North Cleveland, 23; Trout, Los Angeles, 23; Orlando City 7 17 3 24 40 62 Fabbri off injured reserve. Mondesi, Kansas City, 22; 3 tied at 20. Chicago 6 15 6 24 37 52 Colorado (Anderson 6-8) at San Francisco (Stratton 9-9), 8:15 p.m. W L T Pct PF PA SAN JOSE SHARKS — Acquired D Erik Baltimore 1 0 0 1.000 47 3 PITCHING—Snell, Tampa Bay, 19-5; WESTERN CONFERENCE Karlsson and F Francis Perron from Ottawa for Saturday’s Games Cincinnati 1 0 0 1.000 34 23 Kluber, Cleveland, 18-7; Severino, New York, W L T Pts GF GA a 2019 or 2020 first-round draft pick; a 2019 L.A. Dodgers at St. Louis, 11:05 a.m. Cleveland 0 0 1 .500 21 21 17-8; Carrasco, Cleveland, 16-9; Happ, New FC Dallas 14 6 7 49 47 37 second-round draft pick; F Chris Tierney, Josh Washington at Atlanta, 11:05 a.m. Pittsburgh 0 0 1 .500 21 21 York, 16-6; Porcello, Boston, 16-7; Price, Sporting Kansas City 14 7 6 48 49 33 Norris and Rudolfs Balcers; D Dylan DeMelo Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs, 2:05 p.m. West Boston, 15-6; Verlander, Houston, 15-9; 3 tied Los Angeles FC 13 7 7 46 54 42 and two conditional draft picks. N.Y.Mets at Boston, 2:05 p.m. W L T Pct PF PA at 14. Real Salt Lake 13 10 5 44 48 46 COLLEGE Miami at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m. Kansas City 1 0 0 1.000 38 28 ERA—Sale, Boston, 1.96; Snell, Tampa Portland 12 7 8 44 40 36 GUILFORD — Named Marty Owens direc- Denver 1 0 0 1.000 27 24 Bay, 2.03; Bauer, Cleveland, 2.22; Verlander, Seattle 12 9 5 41 35 27 tor of cross country and track and field. Arizona at Houston, 5:10 p.m. L.A. Chargers 0 1 0 .000 28 38 Houston, 2.72; Cole, Houston, 2.88; Kluber, Vancouver 11 9 7 40 45 52 HAMILTON — Named Nanyamka Moore Pittsburgh at Milwaukee,5:10 p.m. Oakland 0 1 0 .000 13 33 Cleveland, 2.91; Morton, Houston, 3.15; LA Galaxy 10 10 8 38 51 54 women’s assistant basketball coach. Texas at San Diego, 6:40 p.m. NATIONAL CONFERENCE Clevinger, Cleveland, 3.16; Fiers, Oakland, Minnesota United 9 16 2 29 39 54 SAINT JOSEPH’S — Named Xaviar Colorado at San Francisco, 7:05 p.m. East 3.29; Price, Boston, 3.42. Houston 7 13 7 28 43 42 Dantzler athletics equipment manager. THE EASTERN NEW MEXICO NEWS SPORTS FRIDAY, SEPT. 14, 2018 ✦ PAGE 3B Seahawks to strike deal with Kendricks ❏ Linebacker recently is expected to be finalized in time for week to insider trading charges in depth. Seattle played the opener with- the offseason and the Browns said him to join the Seahawks for their Philadelphia, but his sentencing is not out starting linebacker K.J. Wright they made the decision to release him pleaded to charges Week 2 Game at Chicago. They expected to take place until January. due to minor knee surgery in late after learning more about his spoke to the AP on the The Browns released him Aug. 29, August, and All-Pro linebacker involvement. of insider trading. condition of anonymity after the charges were filed. While Bobby Wagner was an unexpected Federal prosecutors said because the team had By Tim Booth Seattle is signing Kendricks to bolster addition to the Seahawks injury Kendricks used tips from an acquain- not announced the sign- its depth at linebacker, it’s unclear report on Thursday with a groin tance to make about $1.2 million in THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ing. how long he may be able to play for injury. The uncertainty of Wagner illegal profits on four major trading RENTON, Wash. — The Seattle ESPN first reported the Seahawks as the NFL has yet to may have prompted Seattle’s move deals. Seahawks are expected to sign line- Kendricks’ deal with impose any discipline. with Kendricks. Prosecutors say his co-defendant, backer Mychal Kendricks to a one- the Seahawks. NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy The 5-foot-11, 240-pounder Damilare Sonoiki, was paid $10,000 year contract despite his recent guilty Kendricks signed a one-year con- said the situation is under review and recorded a team-high eight tackles in in kickbacks in the scheme from plea on insider trading charges. tract with the Cleveland Browns in Kendricks is currently allowed to sign last season’s NFC Championship 2014-2015, as well as perks like tick- Two people with knowledge of the June after winning a Super Bowl title and participate in activities, including against Minnesota and had four in ets to Eagles games and tagging deal told The Associated Press on last season with the Philadelphia games. Philadelphia’s Super Bowl win. along to a music video shoot or night- Thursday that Kendricks’ agreement Eagles. Kendricks pleaded guilty last Seattle’s reasoning is the need for Kendricks signed with Cleveland in club appearances. Titans limit starter

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Titans limited Marcus Mariota at practice Thursday and gave more work to backup Blaine Gabbert, and coach Mike Vrabel says they want to eval- uate which quarterback will give them the best chance against the Houston Texans. Mariota practiced fully Wednesday after an injured elbow knocked him out of Tennessee’s 27-20 opening loss in Miami, and Vrabel said the quarterback should play Sunday in the home opener barring any setbacks. On Thursday, Mariota’s snaps were pared back, leav- ing him limited in practice. Vrabel said Mariota remains the starter. “That could change,” Vrabel said. “We’ll see where things go here as we get clos- er to game day.” Two-time Pro Bowl left tackle Taylor Lewan Staff photo: Kevin Wilson remained at home for a sec- Clovis sophomore Danielle Griego works against Lovington defender Jasmine Casas in the first half of Thursday’s game. Griego had a ond straight day in the con- goal and an assist in Clovis’ 10-0 win. cussion protocol, and the Titans hope to re-evaluate front of Lovington’s goal. The that saw her dribbling a bit and drib- The game ended emphatically, him Friday. Right tackle Jack Soccer fourth was part of an impressive bling a bit more down the right side with a long blast by Coronado off a Conklin did not practice sequence in which Lynch dribbled — all the while with a defender on Kendall assist. Thursday after being limited From Page 1B down the right side before launching her — then putting just enough Win No. 8 was secure. And today, since being removed from the one diagonally left and in to give touch on a diagonal shot to sneak it it’s on to Albuquerque. physically unable to perform Lynch scored her third and fourth list at the end of the presea- Clovis an 8-0 lead. inside the left post. Aydan Everett “I think if we play as a team,” goals early in the second half. The son. third resulted from a scramble in Griego scored next, a nifty play had the assist. Lynch said, “we’ve got it.” Dennis Kelly, who started in Conklin’s place in the opener, did not practice Thursday because of illness. Wright to retire in Mets’ last homestand Cornerback Kenneth Durden also was added to the injury By Scott Orgera It would be his first major league Mets Chief Operating Officer Jeff “Despite more than two years of report with a hamstring that THE ASSOCIATED PRESS game since May 2016. Wright has Wilpon and Senior VP of Baseball hard work, three surgeries and a rehab limited him. worked to return from a litany of Operations John Ricco joined Wright assignment, his body’s still prevent- The Titans got some good NEW YORK — New York Mets neck, back and shoulder injuries that for an emotional news conference ing him from making it back. I’ve had news with a pair of rookie captain David Wright will return for have required surgery. prior to the club’s doubleheader many conversations with David and linebackers practicing fully. the team’s final homestand, making Although he’s not officially retir- against the Marlins to make the he’s told me that he wants to end this Rookie linebacker Harold what will probably be his last appear- ing, Wright is not expected to play announcement, ending speculation on year on our active roster.” Landry was back after miss- ance as a big leaguer. again after this season. whether the seven-time All-Star Wright’s contract includes salaries ing Wednesday’s session, and The Mets said that they plan to acti- “The way I feel right now and from would return. of $20 million this year, $15 million Rashsan Evans practiced for vate Wright when they return to Citi everything the doctors have told me, “David Wright is a Mets icon, one next season and $12 million in 2020. a second straight day. Evans, Field on Sept. 25 against Atlanta. The there’s not going to be an improve- of the finest players and people ever By reinstating him from the 60-day the 22nd pick overall, said he 35-year-old is scheduled to start at ment,” Wright said when asked if he to wear the uniform, Mets uniform or disabled list, it would likely lessen the expects to play Sunday after third base on the second-to-last day of could play beyond 2018. “So, yeah, I any uniform, and clearly our fan amount of insurance money the Mets missing the opener and all the season against Miami. don’t see that as a possibility.” favorite,” Wilpon said. could collect. four preseason games.

it sticks to every week, Game day gressing a lot,” Fullerton said of the soph- Rams whether it’s against a larger Clovis omore. “I think he’s made less mistakes school, smaller school or since the first game. ... Sometimes he’s From Page 1B fellow 4A opponent. From Page 1B Clovis (2-1) at Monterrey (1-1) got to let things go and just get into the At any rate, a win against 6:30 p.m. (MDT), Lowrey Field groove of the game, take a deep breath inside Rio Rancho territory into a punting variety of things. Ramirez a larger program would cer- On the air: KCLV 99.1 FM; KTQM 99.9 FM, every once in a while.” situation. There was Clovis turning the believes that Goddard runs tainly be a confidence- streaming online at kclvsports.com at Tonight, though the only Lubbock road a base 4-3 defense, but the booster, much like last ball over on downs after Yruegas’ pick. 999ktqm.net. And a game-clinching interception by game, is just the start of a three-game Rockets frequently change week’s 36-0 blowout victo- Coaches: Clovis, Cal Fullerton, second sea- stretch against Lubbock teams. After into either a 3-4 or a 5-2, as ry at 3A West Las Vegas. Rio Rancho’s Braxton Padilla when the son, 6-6 entering. Monterrey, Wayne well. ’Cats were only down a touchdown. Monterey there are consecutive home “With our returning vet- Hutchinson, fifth season, 28-21 (111-49 career) games against Coronado and Cooper. So “That’s all predicated, erans, they know how our There was the ugly: A botched snap entering season. it will be important to set the tone tonight from what I can tell, on play should be, because it’s with Clovis at the 7 much earlier in the Last week: Clovis fell at home to Rio Rancho game, a play that resulted in a turnover. against the Plainsmen, build some confi- down and distance,” been the same since they’ve 20-13. The Plainsmen evened their record with To beat Monterey tonight, the Wildcats dence. Ramirez said. “Sometimes, been here,” Ramirez a 28-21 win at Wylie. will need to go heavy on the good, light “I feel pretty good about it,” Fitch said. they’re just playing with explained. “With the other Last meeting: None. on the bad and the ugly. “I never want to overestimate a team, but their alignments. I think guys that hadn’t been play- Plainsmen players to watch: Jr. RB “No doubt. Penalties and stuff you they have a philosophy on ing, those guys kind of felt Damontrareis Lacy, Sr. DT Joshua Marquez I never want to underestimate them. So defense that motion causes like, ‘Hey, this is what it’s can’t control, but we can control our I’m always looking for who their head- commotion. They’re all supposed to be — when we turnovers and we can control our false- hunters are and keeping my team in the over the place. They send do things right.’ start penalties and stuff like that,” Clovis Thursday. “(We need) continous effort game.” high heat, and they’re a “Not that we did every- head coach Cal Fullerton said after throughout the game and just play as hard “Just being able to go across the border high-pressure defense.” thing perfect against West Thursday’s practice. “Our mental mis- as we can on every down. That’s about and play a team from across the state is takes, we’re going to have to cut down on Ramirez, per usual, wants Las Vegas, but, the end it.” exciting, to be able to test the level of those for sure. ... If we do make mistakes to establish the run and result was we got better as Though the ’Cats are making their first play,” Xaysaleumsack said. we’ve got to be going 100 miles per hour. then create balance on the game progressed and It will be interesting to see how Clovis We can’t be timid. and only trip outside of New Mexico this offense. However, he says the kids kept their motors. fares with that test. Tonight’s jaunt to that he’ll add some new “Win the turnover battle and the field season, they will see familiarity in their Right now, to me, we’ve Texas and the two home games that fol- plays this week to neutral- only played about two-and- position battle and I think it’ll give us a opponents, according to Fullerton. ize some of the things that a-half good quarters of decent chance to be in the ballgame.” “They’re similar to us,” he said. “They low are all just a prelude to Albuquerque Goddard’s defense will try football in that last game. If “Our coaches tell us to go out there and use their athletes, they spread it out really road contests against Sandia and defend- to throw at them. we can get it to where play like we’re on fire, do the best you well ... really good skill kids. They’re big ing state 6A champ Manzano in October. And while Goddard may we’re playing four good can,” Fitch said Thursday. “So we’ve just up front and they’re coached really well. “That’s why we did this schedule, to be a 5A school playing at quarters of what we call got to go out there and do our best.” All those West Texas teams are coached prepare us for our district,” Fullerton said. home, it doesn’t concern Ram football, then I think “We’re going to have to get turnovers well and Monterey’s no exception.” “We know it’s going to be a tough game Ramirez too much. He says everything takes care of on defense,” senior linebacker/running Harris will make his fourth straight (against Monterey) and we’re up to the that his team sets goals that itself.” back Khamphai Xaysaleumsack said start at quarterback. “I think he’s pro- challenge for sure.” PAGE 4B ✦ FRIDAY, SEPT. 14, 2018 THE EASTERN NEW MEXICO NEWS THE EASTERN NEW MEXICO NEWS NATION FRIDAY, SEPT. 14, 2018 ✦ PAGE 5B

Carbon Engineering photo via TNS Carbon Engineering's pilot plant in Squamish, Canada, sucks greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere. The firm plans to market a climate-friendly fuel made with the carbon dioxide it captures. Businessman wants to harness greenhouse gases

By Evan Halper how far world leaders should it does not affect the way you carbon out of the air and put it “The problem is not whether nation’s power plants and LOS ANGELES TIMES move toward embracing such and I behave,” said Carbon to use producing clean-burn- the technology exists to tackle industrial factories wouldn’t ideas will be a major focus. Engineering CEO Steve ing fuels for cars and jets. So carbon dioxide,” Sant said. make its way into oil fields. Or WASHINGTON — When “If you want to take action Oldham. far, it only has one pilot plant “But we have to show we can into cement production or Gaurav Sant thinks about how and do it fast and do it big, this “You can keep using the up and running. It plans to do it in a way that is economi- sneaker manufacturing, for the planet might dodge cata- is the way to go,” said Julio same car, keep driving your move into real-world produc- cally attractive.” that matter. There is just too strophic climate change, at the Friedmann, a leader of the kids to hockey practice. But tion in the next few years. Congress gave that quest a much of it. Most of the cap- front of his mind are not solar Department of Energy’s car- the carbon footprint for doing Such carbon removal or boost this year when it tured emissions are destined to panels or wind turbines or bon management efforts dur- it is eliminated.” “negative emissions” plants approved new tax breaks for be pumped back into aquifers electric cars. ing the Obama administration. For some environmental can only go so far in stemming carbon-capture and carbon- deep underground, where they It’s cement. “Every reasonable scenario” activists, that’s also a huge warming. Carbon Engineering removal projects. It was rare can’t escape into the air. Sant spiritedly talks of how that the United Nations drawback. They hope that the would need to build 60,000 of bipartisan action on climate That raises the bigger ques- Intergovernmental Panel on fight against climate change its plants to entirely offset change in Washington. cement production is exhaust- tion of who is going to pay to Climate Change has modeled will open the way to a funda- global emissions. Republicans, normally loath to ing the Earth, accounting for pull all that carbon from the air an absurd share of the green- for preventing warming from mental restructuring of the Other entrepreneurs have subsidize such innovation, becoming intolerable relies in global economy. Carbon cap- pushed ahead with different were attracted by the benefits it and put it underground if they house gases that industry get nothing tangible in return. spews into the air. The director part on fledgling technologies ture would make some of that techniques for reusing carbon could provide to fossil-fuel that divert carbon from the restructuring less urgent. extracted from the air. companies. That’s where policies like of a team of civil and environ- those California is developing mental engineering innovators atmosphere to massive under- One of the most practical The judges at the X Prize, a It’s a Faustian bargain for ground aquifers or pour it into uses of carbon that is captured competition to develop break- the climate movement. right now come into play. at UCLA, he poses an intrigu- Under the state’s climate ing question: products as varied as cement from the atmosphere, for through products that make Pipelines would be needed to blocks, stylish sneakers and example, is in oil extraction, use of carbon emissions, were ship all the carbon dioxide that action plan, companies are What if all those cement- increasingly going to face factory emissions blowing into kegs of beer. through a process in which impressed enough with Sant’s environmentalists want to Some techniques aim to carbon dioxide is injected into plans for cement to advance divert from the atmosphere, mandates to help lower their the atmosphere were instead capture carbon from the chim- underground oil reservoirs to the UCLA team to the finals of and the oil companies are net emissions. If they can’t get bottled up and transformed neys of power plants and push fuel to the surface. their $20 million contest. To motivated to build them. there on their own, another into a useful product? industrial factories. Others, Greenpeace points to this in kick off the competition, its “We need to stop using oil to option may be to pay a firm to More cement, in fact. But a like the units designed by warning that the carbon cap- sponsor, NRG Energy, com- meet our climate goals, so suck some carbon out of the air kind that barely has a carbon Carbon Engineering, a British ture movement is “a costly, missioned “the Shoe Without a adding more of it seems coun- for them. footprint at all. Columbia firm in which Bill risky distraction” at a time the Footprint,” a stylish sneaker terproductive,” said Noah Friedmann argues that the “We need transformative Gates is a major investor, focus should be on rapidly made from recycled carbon Deich, co-founder of the solutions” to global warming, Paris climate goals that almost involve giant vacuum-like replacing fossil fuels with emissions. Oakland-based Center for every world leader other than Sant says. “And this approach machines sucking carbon out solar, wind and geothermal At a Department of Energy Carbon Removal. “But this is a is fairly simple to implement.” President Donald Trump is of the air. energy. boot camp for entrepreneurs great transition strategy.” aiming to fulfill will push What Sant is talking about is Several of the technologies Another problem is that car- last year, one participant devel- Advocates at the Clean Air called carbon capture, and economies toward creative have seen their production bon capture technologies have oped a process for capturing Task Force, a Boston-based ways to embrace the technolo- after years of being dismissed costs plummet to a point that long been associated with the the hundreds of millions of group that promotes low-car- as an unrealistically costly gies. He looks at it like a makes them economically fea- “clean coal” movement. Some pounds of carbon dioxide that bon technologies, argue that sewage or garbage bill: People sideshow, it is increasingly sible, thanks to the brisk pace of the biggest carbon-capture escape during fermentation at oil pumped from the ground pay them, because if they don’t seen as essential to keeping of innovation and some new projects to date have involved beer factories and packaging it using carbon captured at facto- their community falls apart. global warming in check. tax breaks passed by Congress retrofitting coal plants, pro- in capsules that can be used to ries and power plants has a California stands at the cen- this year. longing the life of environ- carbonate the beverages. much smaller carbon footprint “How much are people will- ter of innovative efforts to Not everyone is sold on the mentally unfriendly coal ener- Others are racing to line up than conventionally extracted ing to pay to do this? Nobody develop carbon-capture and ideas, however. Indeed, one of gy. The results of such efforts venture capital to build pilot oil. knows,” Friedmann said. “But removal technologies. State the main factors that makes have been mixed. plants like the one Carbon “This cuts the emissions now you can do it,” he said, officials have begun working carbon capture appealing to But other climate groups are Engineering runs, with the aim associated with a barrel of oil pointing to a plant that recent- them into their climate action economists, engineers and rushing to embrace carbon of showing that the technology by nearly two-thirds,” said ly went online in Iceland that plans. entrepreneurs can make it capture and removal, reason- is viable and cost-effective. John Thompson, director of will suck greenhouse gases And this month, when Gov. deeply problematic to some ing that the technology prom- The centrist advocacy group markets and technology at the from the air and deposit them Jerry Brown welcomes offi- environmental activists. ises to accelerate development Third Way has published a Task Force. “This is a deep, underground for a fee. “You cials from around the world to “This will make a dramatic of climate-friendly fuels and map that identifies more than deep reduction.” couldn’t do this last year, and a global climate conference in difference” in preventing the products. 300 carbon-capture and The lion’s share of carbon now you can. That is worthy of San Francisco, the question of planet from overheating, “but Oldham’s firm aims to suck removal projects worldwide. dioxide extracted from the attention.” PAGE 6B ✦ FRIDAY, SEPT. 14, 2018 NATION THE EASTERN NEW MEXICO NEWS Pope OKs probe into US bishop as he meets delegation By Nicole Winfield four was Bransfield’s cousin, William Lori to take over said were “troubling” claims narians and priests came forward to THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Monsignor Brian Bransfield, secre- Bransfield’s Wheeling-Charleston against Bransfield, who was a report that they, too, had been tary-general of the U.S. Conference diocese temporarily. Lori said in a major fundraiser for the Vatican via abused or harassed by McCarrick VATICAN CITY — Pope of Catholic Bishops. statement that Francis had also the Pennsylvania-based Papal as adults. Francis accepted the resignation of Bishop Bransfield had been instructed him to “conduct an Foundation. The McCarrick affair — coupled a U.S. bishop Thursday and author- investigated for an alleged groping investigation into allegations of The revelation was the latest with revelations in the ized an investigation into allega- incident in 2007 and was implicat- sexual harassment of adults against twist in an incredible turn of events Pennsylvania grand jury report tions he sexually harassed adults, ed in court testimony in 2012 in an Bishop Bransfield.” in the U.S. church that began with detailing decades of abuse and adding awkward drama to an audi- infamous Philadelphia priestly sex No details of the allegations were the June 20 announcement that one cover-up in six dioceses — has ence with U.S. church leaders over abuse case. He strongly denied ever revealed and his diocese said it had of the most prestigious U.S. cardi- fueled outrage among the rank- the abuse and cover-up scandal abusing anyone and the diocese “no idea” where Bransfield was nals, Theodore McCarrick, had and-file faithful who had trusted roiling the Catholic Church. said it had disproved the claims. He after the Vatican ordered him to been accused of groping a teenage church leaders to reform them- The resignation of West Virginia continued with his ministry until he live outside the diocese. altar boy in the 1970s. selves after the abuse scandal first Bishop Michael Bransfield was offered to retire, as required, when Lori set up a hotline for potential Francis removed McCarrick as a erupted in Boston in 2002. announced just as the four-member he turned 75 last week. victims to call, said the Vatican had cardinal in July after a U.S. church Outrage has also been directed at U.S. delegation was sitting down The Vatican said Francis accept- instructed him to make the investi- investigation found the allegation Francis and the Vatican and has with Francis in his private study in ed his resignation Thursday and gation public, and vowed to con- credible. After news broke of the fueled conservative criticism of the Apostolic Palace. Among the appointed Baltimore Archbishop duct a thorough study into what he investigation, several former semi- Francis’ pontificate. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos to start charitable fund By Sally Ho and both by his parents’ Bezos Joseph Pisani Family Foundation and by his adopted hometown of Seattle, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS however mixed some natives SEATTLE — Amazon may feel about the city’s founder and CEO Jeff Bezos growing affordability crisis said Thursday that he is giv- that’s been largely attributed ing $2 billion to start a fund to the success of Amazon. that will open preschools in Bezos, and Amazon, have low-income neighborhoods been criticized in Seattle for and give money to nonprofits not doing more to help the that helps homeless families. needy and have become focal Bezos, whose stake in points in the booming Amazon is worth about $160 region’s angry debate about billion, says that he’ll call it traffic, housing prices and the Bezos Day One Fund. An homelessness. When Seattle Amazon.com Inc. spokes- passed a tax in May on large woman confirmed that the companies to fight the city’s money will all come from growing homelessness crisis, Bezos, though there are few Amazon balked and even details about how the fund temporarily halted construc- Abaca Press: Olivier Douliery will operate. tion planning on a new high- President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the Congressional Medal of Honor Society Reception in the East In a post to his Twitter rise building near its head- Room of the White House Wednesday in Washington, D.C. account, Bezos said one part quarters. City leaders quickly of the fund will give money rescinded the levy. to organizations and groups The fight soured many that provide shelter and food more locals on Amazon and Trump stirs up hurricane story to young homeless families. Bezos, and also overshad- The other part will launch owed the growing portfolio Trump’s claim that the death toll was and operate free preschools in of philanthropy they had By Calvin Woodward ANALYSIS and Lauran Neergaard no more than 18 when he visited Puerto low-income communities, done in the city. The most Rico, nearly two weeks after the storm, where “the child will be the notable involving more than THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Independent researchers at George ignores the fact that the U.S. territory’s customer.” $40 million to the local non- Washington University estimated 2,975 official death toll was raised to 34 later It’s not yet known what his profits FareStart — a hospi- WASHINGTON — President Donald excess deaths related to Hurricane Maria Trump is concocting a story that the death that day, Oct. 3. After that, it climbed to preschools will look like tality training program and in the six months following the hurricane, 64. With services devastated, most except that they will be based restaurant business that aims toll from last year’s Hurricane Maria in which hit last September. Puerto Rico Puerto Rico was invented by Democrats power out, many people desperate for on the teaching philosophy of to combat homelessness and Gov. Ricardo Rossello commissioned the food and water and roads impassable, it Maria Montessori, which poverty — and Mary’s Place, to make him look bad. Some fellow study and accepted the death toll as the Republicans dissociated themselves from was impossible to know how many died focuses on individual learn- whose mission is to find and best available. Rossello rejected the find- directly from Maria or from floodwaters his false claims and acknowledged the ing and social-emotional provide shelter for every ings of a different study that estimated or deprivation in its immediate after- veracity of an independent study that development. child. more than 4,000 died, saying he found the math. Bezos, who founded In addition to millions in attributed nearly 3,000 deaths to the 2017 GWU research with its lower number to That’s why the official death toll Amazon as an online book cash, both nonprofits have storm and its aftermath. be scientifically sound. remained relatively low until researchers store more than two decades been granted prime real estate A look at his statements: The study found that 22 percent more could examine death records and gain a ago, has seen his wealth surge in Amazon building spaces to TRUMP: “3000 people did not die in the people died than would have been expect- broader understanding of people’s cir- along with Amazon’s stock. do their work. two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico. When ed during that period in a year without the cumstances. Forbes magazine placed him “He’s a pretty amazing I left the Island, AFTER the storm had hit, storm. Its central finding has been rough- It took years to assess the death toll at the top of its list of billion- neighbor, him and they had anywhere from 6 to 18 deaths. ly corroborated by other, similar studies. from Hurricane Katrina in 2005 despite aires for the first time this MacKenzie,” said Mary’s As time went by it did not go up by much. A second phase will examine the circum- the relative accessibility of the Gulf year, surpassing Microsoft Place director Marty Then, a long time later, they started to stances of specific deaths to arrive at a Coast, for example. About 1,800 died co-founder Bill Gates and Hartman. “Although he has a report really large numbers, like 3000.... more precise number. from Katrina. investor Warren Buffett. global vision, they really This was done by the Democrats in order “We are scientists,” Dr. Carlos Santos- Trump was a one-man island in Bezos’ wealth has allowed have a local heart.” to make me look as bad as possible when Burgoa, the lead researcher on the study, attributing the Puerto Rican death esti- him to pay for side ventures, In the education realm, I was successfully raising Billions of told The Associated Press. “We are public mate to Democrats. House Speaker Paul including starting space Bezos is tipping his hat to the Dollars to help rebuild Puerto Rico. If a health people. We are committed to the Ryan, R-Wis., saw “no reason to dispute” exploration company Blue intensely private and media- person died for any reason, like old age, health of the population. We try to reach the estimate. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., Origin and buying The shy Bezos Family Foundation just add them onto the list. Bad politics. I the truth, and we try to understand what is tweeted his support of the 3,000 finding Washington Post newspaper. that is run by his parents. The love Puerto Rico!” —tweets Thursday. damaging the people in order to prevent and lamented that “These days even By choosing to focus his Amazon boss and his wife, THE FACTS: Trump’s denial of nearly disease.” tragedy becomes political.” Several other philanthropy on homeless- who have four children, both 3,000 deaths is baseless, however impre- Santos-Burgoa is a well-known expert Republican lawmakers from Florida sim- ness and early education, serve as the foundation’s cise estimated death tolls can be from a in global health, particularly Latin ilarly rejected Trump’s words. Democrats Bezos is likely influenced board directors. disaster. America. were outraged. 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Works! must be filed, in tripli- $650.00 per month, cate, with the State En- $650.00 deposit. gineer, 1900 West Sec- Please call 575-356- GARAGE SALE ond Roswell, NM 88201 5990 or 575-760-4007. within ten (10) days af- ROOSEVELT ter the date of the last 613 AVE. B, Portales 4 publication of this No- 1022 S. Abilene HOMES FOR SALE BR 2 BA, lrg kitchen & Sat. 8am-2pm tice. Facsimiles (faxes) CURRY COUNTY will be accepted as a living room, $750 mo Multi Family 2012 FORD FIESTA SE Call/text 505-488-1164 Garage Sale! 3 BR 2 BA home for Hatchback, auto, FWD, valid protest as long as 86,868 miles. Remote the hard copy is hand- sale by owner, 1925 617 AVENUE B, Portales th 1101 W. 18 St. keyless entry. $6,995 delivered or mailed and SF, 3 car garage, 3 BR 2 BA. $700 mo Sat. Only!! RB Toyota, 600 W. 7th postmarked within 24- excellent condition, Call/text 505-488-1164 7AM – 1PM. Calvary hours of the facsimile. 1 owner home, Street, Clovis, NM. Baptist Church in the 575-762-4551. Mailing postmark will be corner lot, Give. Advocate. back on Utah St. side. used to validate the 24- custom built home Volunteer. www.rbtoyota.com hour period. Protests by Ronnie Massey. LIVE UNITED. can be faxed to the Of- $245,000. 3401 Lew www.unitedwayenm.org fice of the State Engi- Wallace. 575-760-6761 neer, 575-623-8559. If no valid protest or ob- jection is filed, the State Engineer will evaluate the application in accor- dance with the provi- Reach sions of Chapter 72 4 BR, 2 BA, 2244 SF NMSA 1978. Only $189,000! 1417 Claremont Terrace Advertsing Freshly painted, new New carpet and interior GARAGE SALE Works! doors. Brand new roof CURRY COUNTY on Aug. 1st. 2 large living areas, big bed- 1005 ARMSTRONG Heights rooms - all with large Fri/Sat. 8Am, Various walk-in closets. The household items, boys wonderful kitchen bikes, clothes, décor. opens to dining and living room. Extra 1116 THORNTON large sunroom, lots of Fri/Sat 8:30AM - ?. storage. Expansive, Furniture, washer, and lovely backyard with misc items. Expand detached gazebo. Lo- th SPECIAL NOTICES cated close to shop- 1405 W. 9 St. Fri/Sat ping and schools. 7:30-? clothes, toys, your horizons and Call Holly Stockstill, household items and CLOVIS MEDIA INC. 575-791-9892. Cold- lots of misc fulfill your potential with a shall not be liable for well Banker Prime, failure to publish an ad, 575-769-1951. 2012 CAMEO Fri/Sat for typographical errors 8am-? Rugs, purses, new job. Many businesses in the or for errors in publica- clothes and lots of misc tion except to the extent CLOVIS AND items. of the cost of that por- PORTALES area are hiring. See our Classifieds tion of the ad wherein We want your 2017 KENT Pl. Fri/Sat the error occurred. Cost residential properties 7:30-? clothing, shoes, for the latest postings. adjustment is limited to to list and sell. Also furniture, mattresses & the first day insertion. seeking rural misc household items properties and