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SERVING CLOVIS, PORTALES AND THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES EasternNewMexicoNews.com State vaccinating about 9,000 people per day ❏ Official says new NM Human Services Department or lower — green for both, yellow for each of the two necessary Phase 1B over 151,000 persons secretary, who gave a vaccine for one, red for neither. doses. But Heerding said the clinic 75+ and nearly 600,000 16+ with vaccines to be available update webinar on Wednesday. “I feel like we’re seeing every will continue as long as the state is co-morbidities, who are currently On top of the vaccine distribu- possible sign that things are getting supplying doses. eligible to receive a vaccine. in coming months. tion increase, Collins said a number better here,” Scrase said, noting Also discussed in the webinar: ■ The recent decrease in positive of new vaccines will be available in that New Mexicans still need to ■ New Mexico is still only vac- cases, Scrase said, is attributable to By Lily Martin the coming months. Vaccines cur- remain vigilant about mask wear- cinating members of Phase 1A and the vaccination of 10% of the pop- STAFF WRITER rently completing their third phase ing and social distancing to contin- select groups from Phase 1B, ulation. He added they are seeing [email protected] of trials before they can be ue the positive trends. including persons 75+ and those approximately 580 cases a day in approved include the one-dose As of Friday, the state had 16+ with underlying health issues. the state while vaccinating 9,000. New Mexico is vaccinating Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which administered 319,832 of the Other groups in Phase 1B include “I’m not good at sports analogies approximately 9,000 people per has a 72% efficacy rate, and the 324,575 vaccine doses it has frontline essential workers and vul- but this feels like the beginning of a day, a pace nearly double what the Novavax vaccine with an approxi- received. Of those, 77,691 were nerable populations. fourth-quarter comeback,” Scrase state was doing three weeks ago. mate 89% efficacy rate. second doses. “Because we have limited supply said. This increase is due to a federal An updated report on the state’s Locally, Emergency we have to prioritize groups with Cases, hospitalizations, and vaccine distribution increase of 6% “Red to Green” county-based Management Director Dan the goal of reducing morbidity and deaths are all decreasing signifi- this week on top of a 16% increase reopening will be released this Heerding said the COVID-19 vac- mortality and really looking at cantly, so much so that Scrase said last week. week. Counties operate under three cination clinic at the former equity,” Collins said. hospital workers are getting time The data is according to Dr. sets of public health orders based Raintree grocery store had given The state estimates that in Phase off for the first time in 11 months. Tracie Collins, New Mexico’s on whether they meet gating crite- 5,683 doses over 15 days. 1A there are over 20,000 residents ■ New Mexico is third in the Department of Health secretary- ria of eight daily cases per 100,000 The clinic is ideally set up for an of longterm care facilities and U.S. for COVID-19 testing, follow- designate, and Dr. David Scrase, residents and test positivity of 5% eight-week cycle, with four weeks 138,000 healthcare workers, and in ing Illinois and Connecticut. Clovis votes to renew 2011 gross receipts tax ❏ Qualifier added to allow money to be used for ‘other city of Clovis water projects.’ By Kevin Wilson EDITOR [email protected] CLOVIS — Facing a 10-year renewal of a gross receipts tax to offset costs for the Eastern New Mexico Rural Water System, Clovis City Commissioners on Thursday decided a little flexibility was a good tool to navigate unknown waters. The commission, by a 7-0 Inside vote, renewed a 0.25% gross receipts tax first implemented ■ Clovis in 2011, but added a qualifier that money acquired through approves airport the tax could go toward “other name change city of Clovis water projects.” — Page 2A The original tax was imple- Courtesy photo mented with the caveat that Matt Chandler, longtime Chiefs fan, at Arrowhead Stadium with family members before an October 2019 game. Pictured money must go to the ENMR- WS — better known as the Ute Water Project, are from left, top row, Chandler, Lillian Chandler, “Modern Family” actor Eric Stonestreet, Sofia De Groot and Lola De Groot; with plans for a pipeline from the Ute Reservoir bottom row, Murray Chandler, Mechi Garbarino, Michael Chandler, Nina De Groot. Chandler said the family has season tick- in Quay County to provide potable water to ets and the trips from Clovis to Kansas City are consistently great family memories The family is hoping for a second con- Clovis, Portales, Texico and Elida. secutive Super Bowl victory today. “The water issues we're facing are complex,” Clovis Mayor Mike Morris said. “As we seek solutions as a city, (along with) the water authority and other entities that are at work try- ing to find the longterm solutions to our water issues, it's possible it could be wise to create some flexibility in how this money is used.” Super Bowl ready Morris suggested the addition of the city water projects clause, along with a requirement ❏ Fans and families prep between the Chiefs and San Francisco De Leon is actually in Tampa right now, the fund always maintains a minimum balance 49ers, Kansas City is the favorite for most but not to go to the game. He planned the of 1.5 times the city's most recent annual obliga- to watch Chiefs battle oddsmakers at between 3 and 3.5 points — trip to visit family a few months ago, and tion to the authority. close enough for both fan bases to be con- about a half-dozen family members plan to Mayor Pro Tem Chris Bryant and Buccaneers today. fident. order pizza and wings for a watch party Commissioner Juan Garza, the city's representa- Count Chiefs fan Matt Chandler and rather than try to find tickets in the four- tives on the six-member authority board along By Kevin Wilson Bucs fan Steve De Leon, both longtime figure range due to pandemic-related with former Clovis Mayor David Lansford, EDITOR residents of Clovis, as confident fans. Both capacity restrictions. wanted to include references to acquisition of [email protected] are planning to root on their teams at fami- The last few seasons, De Leon said the water and domestic water supply projects. A team looking to establish legendary ly gatherings, and both are predicting a win Bucs lost more one-possession games than District 1 Commissioner Leo Lovett had con- status will cross paths today with a team for their squads. they should have because they had issues at cerns the term “domestic” could be too far- full of players who have reached that status De Leon, who has been in Clovis for quarterback and kicker. When news came reaching, and did not want a situation where already — albeit in a different place. about 22 years, grew up in the Tampa area out that Brady was signing a contract with water would be sold for commercial use. There In an unpredictable season due to the and has been a Bucs fan since the 1980s. the Bucs, De Leon wasn’t concerned about was disagreement among commissioners, but it COVID-19 pandemic, there are some very He’s watched some forgettable teams, but having a 43-year-old quarterback because was never heated, and Bryant noted that any use familiar faces. The Kansas City Chiefs, he also got a Super Bowl win in 2002 over the 43-year-old was Tom Brady. of the money outside of authority obligations with quarterback Patrick Mahomes, are the Oakland Raiders and he now gets to see “I was very optimistic,” De Leon said. “I would require a separate approval process from looking for their second-consecutive cham- the Bucs become the first team to play a knew he had a lot left in him. He wanted to the commission. pionship. Standing in their way are the Super Bowl in their home stadium. prove to the world it wasn’t just the Patriots Morris said the “domestic” back-and-forth Tampa Bay Buccaneers, with quarterback “I was military, so I traveled every- and the coach (Bill Belichick).” was an argument about something that might or Tom Brady making his 10th Super Bowl where,” De Leon said. “I ended up in While he’s not going to Raymond James might not matter a few years from now, but “the appearance and first not involving the New MacDill (Air Force Base in Tampa) and I Stadium himself, De Leon thought it was a minimum balance, we have to have that in England Patriots. decided that was my team. I loved going to Following last year’s essential pick-em games. I’ve been a true fan since then.” GAME on Page 3A CLOVIS on Page 3A

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By Kevin Wilson In other business at the meeting: nomic development projects. Monday cert benefitting New Mexico’s food ■ All votes during the meeting were Howalt clarified to commissioners ■ Clovis-Carver Public Library banks, including the Food Bank of EDITOR Stitch Addicts stitch — 6:30 p.m., via Eastern New Mexico — 5-10 p.m. [email protected] 7-0, with the commission meeting for that the ordinance wouldn’t take effect the second time since the Jan. 20 resig- for five days, and he was tasked to chair Google Meet. Contact Sara at swilli- Event will be streamed live at [email protected] to RSVP or to CLOVIS — City commissioners on nation of District 4 Commission R.L. the Friday EIB meeting. www.foodforlove.org, Thursday approved a name change “Rube” Render. ■ obtain Google Meet link. Information: https://www.facebook.com/food- A proclamation was read for 211 575-763-9687 bankenm, and on YouTube. Dozens of from Clovis Municipal Airport to The commission is tasked to pick his Month in the city. Erinn Burch, execu- Clovis Regional Airport. replacement by Feb. 19 from a pool of musicians, singers, and songwriters tive director of the United Way of Tuesday scheduled to participate. The concert is applicants who reside in District 4. Airport Director James Harris said Eastern New Mexico, said 96% of ■ “The Negro Baseball free, but viewers will be encouraged to the airport was already operating as a Render said he planned a move to Texas Americans can reach some type of help Leagues” — 2 p.m., ENMU Reads donate to the New Mexico Association regional airport, with no other commer- to be closer to family. by dialing 211. Facebook page. Video presentation by of Food Banks. Donations may be cial flights offered within 100 miles, Applications were due to the city Locally, those calls go the United ENMU African American Affairs. Video made during the event or anytime on and the name would help drive more manager’s office on Feb. 10, but Way office, which answered a record presentation celebrating the centennial the “Food for Love” website. business to the airport. Howalt said applications with a Feb. 12 2,333 calls in 2020 and distributed of the Negro Baseball Leagues shared Information: www.foodforlove.org Commissioners voted 7-0 with due date were mistakenly sent out and more than $100,000 from COVID relief by author, Byron Motley, about his late Commissioner Helen Casaus making an the city will honor any applications sent father, Bob Motley, who was the last grants and donations. Feb. 14 offhand remark about possible flights to in by then. surviving umpire from that era. Learn ■ Valentine’s Day Dallas. Harris said staff was working on Citizens who apply will be able to “When times are tough,” Burch said, more about Bob Motley’s story at it, with Howalt noting an asterisk is make their case during the commis- “finding the places that help can be a https://www.teambrownapparel.com/le Feb. 15 challenge.” gends-bob-motley. Information: ■ needed because they’re at the mercy of sion’s Feb. 18 meeting. ■ Presidents Day the Federal Aviation Administration ■ Commissioners gave final Morris encouraged those watching http://www.facebook.com/ENMURead the meeting to keep track on a trio of s/ Feb. 16 that runs the Essential Air Service pro- approval to an ordinance removing vot- ■ gram. ing positions for the city manager and bills — House Bill 139, which provides Virtual Afterschool S.T.E.A.M. ■ Mardi Gras “We’re looking to see if it’s some- the Clovis Industrial Development a larger role for legislators during emer- (Science, technology, engineering, ■ “Storytelling Through Blues arts, math): “Paper Heart Corporation on the Economic Incentive gency declarations; Senate Bill 74, a and Gospel” — 7 p.m., via Zoom. thing we can change; no promises,” Structures” — 4:30 p.m., Portales Howalt said. Board. largely similar bill to HB 139; and Free Black History Month presentation Senate Bill 49, which would allow Public Library Facebook page. Open by Freedom Singer Bettie Mae Fikes, Howalt also noted the airport would The rationale for the move was to to kindergarten-sixth grade. Materials hold a ceremony for Denver Air eliminate conflicts of interest for the municipalities of 35,000 or more to use “Voice” of Selma, Alabama. Sponsored available in advance for pickup while by ENMU African American Affairs. Connections bringing in a 50-seat jet — positions, which make recommenda- economic development tax dollars for supplies last. Information: 575-356- a first for the airport’s EAS routes. tions to the City Commission on eco- recruit and retain retail business. Registration information available at: 3940 https://www.facebook.com/events/461 634288330684. Information: Wednesday ■ http://www.facebook.com/ENMURead Virtual preschool storytime s/ Parade honoring health workers to be held “Bee Mine” — 10:30 a.m., Portales ■ Virtual Afterschool S.T.E.A.M. Public Library Facebook page. following the parade, will be broad- nity to get involved by making paper (Science, technology, engineering, By Lily Martin Preschool storytime and craft. arts, math): “Building Blocks” — cast on 101.5 FM and posted on the hearts to drop off during the parade Materials available in advance for pick- STAFF WRITER 4:30 p.m., Portales Public Library chamber’s Facebook page. up while supplies last. Information: [email protected] or by displaying signs on their vehi- Facebook page. Open to kindergarten- 575-356-3940 The ceremony is slated to include cles as they drive through. sixth grade. Materials available in ■ “Black Theater” — 7 p.m., via CLOVIS — A community celebra- remarks from Clovis Mayor Mike Homemade cards or gifts, individual- advance for pickup while supplies last. Zoom. Free Black History Month pres- tion of local healthcare workers is set Morris, Curry County Commission ly wrapped snacks, gift cards, and Information: 575-356-3940 entation by Jim Harvey, executive to take place Thursday evening out- Chair Robert Thornton, PRMC ■ Deadline to return ballots for monetary donations were also sug- director of the Albuquerque Center for side of Plains Regional Medical Hospital Administrator Jorge Cruz the Portales Municipal School gested and can be dropped off at the Peace and Justice, on the relationships Center. and Chamber President Laura Leal. District mail-in school bond election parade site for PRMC staff to pick between the performing arts experi- Hearts for Healthcare Workers is A group of businesses in the chamber — 7 p.m., Roosevelt County Clerk’s up. ence and civil rights struggles. being organized by the Clovis/Curry have provided gift cards for all 625 Office, 109 W. First St., Suite 106, According to the parade route pro- Sponsored by ENMU African American County Chamber of Commerce, the employees at PRMC. Portales. Ballots have been mailed to vided by the chamber, vehicles will Affairs. Registration information avail- City of Clovis, Curry County, and “Our hearts are full just being able at: https://www.facebook.com/ all registered voters in the Portales Rooney Moon Broadcasting to show grateful for our healthcare workers,” join the parade by heading west on Municipal School District. Ballots may 21st Street, then travel on Dillon events/239693490941131. support for healthcare workers and Leal said in a chamber release. Information: http://www.facebook be returned by mail or in person to the staff who have provided care for the “Because of their courage and perse- Street and through the hospital’s .com/ENMUReads/ clerk’s office. Information: Johnny Cain, community throughout the pandem- verance, we’re able to be confident west side roundabout before heading ■ Teens and Tweens virtual pro- PMS superintendent, at 575-356-7000 ic. that we’ll always have someone to south along Martin Luther King gramming: “Chinese New Year Boulevard to the roundabout at the Paper Lanterns” — 4:30 p.m., Ongoing A driving parade will begin to take care of us, and we’re just happy ■ Pintores Art League Artist of form at 5:30 p.m. on West 21st to be able to honor them in this way.” main hospital entrance. Drivers will Portales Public Library Facebook page. Open to ages 9-18. Materials the Month displaying through Street. Programming related to the In addition to the gift cards, the exit the parade by heading north February at Clovis-Carver Public event, and the 6:30 p.m. ceremony chamber is encouraging the commu- (left) onto MLK. available in advance for pickup while supplies last. Information: 575-356- Library, 701 N. Main, Clovis, is Ed 3940 Martinez with pencil drawings, pastels and watercolors. Information: 806-946- Area meetings Thursday 9221 ■ Hearts for Healthcare Workers ■ New Mexico Department of Health Covid-19 vaccine registra- Meetings are subject to change Governments — 10 a.m., via to be shared with the board may be https://www.youtube.com/chan- — 6 p.m., Plains Regional Medical Center, 2100 N. Martin Luther King, Jr. tion — Sign up to receive Covid-19 due to coronavirus concerns Zoom. Join at https://zoom.us/j/ called in at 575-763-9200. nel/UC1bHckYttNQnmm6ymJhWa Blvd, Clovis. Car parade and apprecia- vaccine as it becomes available. 99295785060?pwd=ZDlwckpMZHh Information: 575-763-9654 XQ and a recording of the meet- Online registration at https://cvvac- Monday aR0kvcHpneXVwcXFmQT09. tion event to honor the 650 people who ing will be saved as a public cine.nmhealth.org/. Individuals who ■ Portales Municipal Schools work at PRMC. Community is invited to Meeting ID: 992 9578 5060; Feb. 16 have questions or would like support board — 6 p.m., virtual meeting. ■ video and linked from the county bring signs, decorate vehicles, deliver passcode: 166958. Information: Curry County Commission with the registration process--including The meeting is open to the public 575-762-7714 — 9 a.m., via Zoom. Information: website, https://www.roosevelt- cards, snacks, and gifts to hospital workers near main entrance. New Mexicans who do not have inter- through live webcast found at ■ City of Clovis Planning and https://www.currycounty.org/open- county.com, following the public Ceremony featuring music, remarks net access--may dial 1-855-600-3453, https://livestream.com/accounts/25 Zoning Commission — 3 p.m., government/meeting-portal or 575- meeting. Information: 575-356- from Mayor Mike Morris and other local press option 0 for vaccine questions, 937490 or on the Portales North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public 763-6016 5307 leaders will be broadcast at FM101.5, and then option 4 for tech support. Municipal School District website, Library, 701 N. Main, Clovis. No ■ Roosevelt County and on the Clovis/Curry County ■ Food Bank of Eastern New http://www.portalesschools.com. public access. The public is invited Commission — 9 a.m., Jake To place an item on the meet- Chamber of Commerce Facebook Mexico TEFAP (The Emergency Information: 575-356-7000 to view the meeting on Suddenlink Lopez Building, Roosevelt County ings calendar, call the newsroom page. Information: 575-763-3435 Food Assistance Program) regular dis- Chanel 10, www.cityofclovis.org, Fairgrounds, 705 E. Lime, Portales. ■ tributions: Clovis: 9:30-11:30 a.m. or Wednesday at 575-763-6991 or e-mail: “Dedication: A Faculty Recital” and on Facebook at City of Clovis, No public access. Livestream avail- until supplies run out Tuesday- ■ Eastern Plains Council of — 6-7 p.m., ENMU Reads Facebook NM (City Government). Questions able on YouTube [email protected] page. Video of a performance present- Thursday, 2217 E. Brady; clients may ed by Dr. Gregory Gallagher and Kayla visit two times a month. Portales: 9-11 Paulk of the ENMU Department of a.m. or until supplies run out Music. Information: http://www.face- ■ 1st, 3rd and 5th (when appli- book.com/ENMUReads/ cable) Fridays, La Casa Senior ■ Clovis-Carver Public Library Center, 1515 W. Fir; clients may visit Page Turners Book Club — 6:30 once per month. Income eligibility p.m., via Google Meet. Discussion: requirements apply at both locations. “What are you reading?” Contact Sara Information: www.fbenm.org or 575- at [email protected] to RSVP 763-6130 or to obtain Google Meet link. Information: 575-763-9687 To place an item on the events calendar, call the newsroom at 575- Saturday 763-6991 or e-mail: ■ “Food for Love” virtual con- [email protected]

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job of acquiring federal dol- Downward infection trend continues Clovis lars and it was good practice to keep some funding avail- BY THE STAFF OF THE NEWS state has measured each county based “We will come together again safely from Page 1A able to provide local matches. on whether they meet the two gating — and soon,” Collins said. “If people Lovett moved to approve The downward trend of COVID-19 benchmarks of 8 daily cases per are worried about hurting anyone’s there.” the ordinance with Morris' infections is continuing in Curry and 100,000 residents and test positivity of feelings by telling friends and family City Manager Justin suggestions, and the unani- Roosevelt counties, with neither county 5% or less. The state gives a green des- they won’t be attending a Super Bowl Howalt said keeping a bal- mous vote followed. reporting a double-digit day in new ignation to counties that meet both, yel- party, they shouldn’t be. Not attending ance was vital because at a The last two fiscal years cases so far in February, and only one low to counties that meet one and red to is the best way to show you DO care. certain point the city's author- saw just over $1.8 million double-digit day in the last week. counties that meet neither. Next year, we will all be able to cheer ity-related expenses would annually collected from the Friday saw the state report 670 new According to the state’s public on our favorite teams.” exceed what is gathered from tax, with $936,670 collected COVID-19 infections, including seven COVID-19 dashboard, since Jan. 25, Recommendations include connect- the tax. In the interim, he said in the first six months of the in Curry County and five in Roosevelt. Curry County has had 114 new cases ing with friends and relatives over the authority has done a good current fiscal year. None of the 29 deaths reported were and 3,155 tests. Roosevelt County has video chat services, making only as tied to either county. had 54 new cases and 1,156 tests. many grocery store trips as possible, Over the last week, recorded Jan. 30 That would be test positivity of 3.6% and supporting local businesses by to Friday, Curry County has reported 48 for Curry County and 4.7% for ordering takeout or delivery. new cases, with a high of 15 on Jan. 30 Roosevelt County. However, the state and a low of three on Tuesday. In calculates test positivity by removing Roosevelt County, there have been 35 duplicate tests, and that data is not seg- Rapid Response new cases, with a high of seven on regated in the public dashboard. Watchlist Tuesday and a low of three on Monday. There are several differences No Curry or Roosevelt establishment Of the 137 deaths reported statewide between public health orders in each was listed Friday on the Environment during the seven days, one was a local designation, but the yellow category Department’s Rapid Response report. That came on Sunday, as permits indoor dining at 25% capacity Watchlist. The list included 41 estab- Roosevelt County reported a female in and outdoor dining at 75% capacity lishments that have accumulated at her 60s with underlying conditions. with mass gatherings defined as 10 peo- least two rapid responses within 14 In the first five days of February, ple or 25 vehicles. Under the red desig- days. Curry has reported 27 cases while nation, only outdoor dining is allowed The state initiates a rapid response Roosevelt has reported 26. At that pace, at 25% capacity and mass gatherings Curry would report 152 new cases and are defined as five people or 10 vehi- when it learns of a positive COVID-19 Roosevelt 146. In January, Curry cles. case in a workplace. The state agency County reported 705 new cases, while initiating the rapid response will offer Roosevelt reported 260. direction to establishments regarding Super Bowl guidance testing, quarantining and isolating, dis- The New Mexico Department of infecting, and COVID-safe practices. Red to Green Health on Thursday issued public An establishment that reaches four When the state releases its “Red to health guidance ahead of today’s Super rapid responses inside 14 days is under Green” data on Wednesday, both Curry Bowl. Health Secretary-Designate consideration for a 14-day closure. and Roosevelt counties should be close Tracie Collins recommended watching However, no local establishment has to the yellow designation. the game only with members of the been closed under such a directive Every two weeks since Nov. 30, the household. despite exceeding the threshold.

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BY THE STAFF OF THE NEWS by gun violence, and I am praying for Officer SANTA FE — New Jarrott’s family and Mexico Gov. Michelle friends and for all first Lujan Grisham on responders who put their Thursday afternoon lives on the line to keep ordered all flags to half- us safe every single day.” staff in the state until sun- According to an NMSP down Tuesday in mourn- release, Jarrott was shot ing for an officer killed in after initiating a traffic the line of duty. stop near mile marker 101 A Friday release said east of Deming. A pursuit that New Mexico State was initiated against Police Officer Darian Omar Felix Cueva, identi- Jarrott was killed fied in the release as the Thursday on Interstate 10. shooter. Officers engaged “Officer Jarrott was a in a pursuit with Cueva dedicated member of the that covered nearly 40 State Police, a young man miles before a firefight with so much potential, a ensued that left Cueva father and a son and a public servant, a member with fatal gunshot of his community whose injuries. loss we cannot yet even One Las Cruces police begin to measure,” Lujan officer was struck by gun- Grisham said in a Friday fire, according to the release. “This is a NMSP release The officer tragedy. I have every con- was airlifted to a trauma fidence in his colleagues hospital in Texas where in law enforcement con- he was treated and tinuing to investigate this released for injuries incident and to get all the believed to be non-life facts to the public. I join threatening. New Mexico and the New Jarrott had served with Mexico State Police com- the NMSP since July munity in grieving this 2015, and was first certi- senseless loss, another fied as a law enforcement New Mexican cut down officer in December 2014.

Chandler said. Game The family has spent plen- ty of time around the Chiefs, from Page 1A and Chandler has spent lim- ited time around Mahomes great gesture of the NFL to due to other connections. give away a portion of its Some of his college fraterni- tickets to medical profes- ty brothers work with the 15 sionals who have been put and the Mahomies under so much strain during Foundation, and noted the the pandemic. foundation’s logo was Chandler, a district judge designed by Clovis native in Clovis, said he began Pat Ratledge. rooting for Chiefs in the The Chiefs were down 10 1980s because he liked with 6:30 left to the 49ers in Christian Okoye at running last year’s Super Bowl when back. Chandler started prepping He began going to Chiefs the kids for disappointment games in 2013. A few years like he’d seen more times ago as the family left the parking lot following a than he’d care to admit. Chiefs-Seahawks game one Their response? We’ve of the kids asked if they got Patrick Mahomes. He could do that every year. was happy to have lost that They’re season ticket hold- argument. ers now, although they don’t Chandler isn’t particularly always get to attend all eight surprised the Chiefs are back home games. in the championship game, “Our road trips from given their last few seasons, Clovis to Arrowhead but COVID-19 has produced (Stadium),” Chandler said, some strange events. “are just consistently the “This entire NFL season greatest memories we make has been, I would say, so as a family.” unusual with the COVID The trip is about 12 hours protocols and the games by car, and they’ve done it being moved back and forth as a multi-day trip and as a and certain players not being “leave just in time to pull in able to play. But (Chiefs before kickoff” adventure. A coach) Andy Reid, I feel, has particularly bitter memory done a good job keeping the came in 2019 when the team focused and on track.” Chiefs lost to Brady and the Both Chandler and De Patriots in the AFC champi- Leon are thinking it will be a onship in overtime. “We’re shoot-out, and wouldn’t be looking forward to a little surprised if both teams score revenge this weekend,” in the 40s. At a glance ■ Opinions on these pages PAGE 4A are those of their authors. ■ Letters to the editor should be on topics of public interest, Sunday not private disputes, and no more than 300 words. Feb. 7, ■ Contact Publisher David 2021 Stevens: The voice of Curry [email protected] OICESHE ASTERN EW EXICO EWS PINION AGE Phone: 575-763-3431 T E N M N O P and Roosevelt counties V and beyond

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Viewpoint Awful words don’t GOP will survive this upheaval warrant time in jail After losing a national elec- the governorships in 27 states need to get beyond Trump, tion, it’s natural that a politi- and both the governorship and who is a three-time loser now ouy Griffin is a divisive, self-aggrandiz- cal party goes through a peri- Rich state legislature in 22 of those. — in the 2018 midterms, in ing politician with a smart mouth that od of soul-searching and If we are going to consider his 2020 re-election cam- too-often spews hate. Lowry C internal turmoil. ◆ this geographically diverse paign, and in the Georgia spe- But he doesn’t belong in jail for employing dis- The Republican Party, collection of officeholders — gusting, racist words that are protected by the First Syndicated cial elections. In electoral though, has taken it to another columnist whose careers in many Amendment. level. instances pre-date Trump and terms, “all the winning” The case against the leader of the Cowboys for President Donald Trump will outlast him — a mere stopped circa November Trump political committee really is about free brought most of the GOP personality cult, the word 2016. speech. along for the ride during his put it, “Let’s form a new “cult” has lost its meaning. The temptation to splinter Griffin was arrested last month, accused of conspiracy-fueled attempt to Republican Party.” This The fortunes of our political from the GOP might be allur- prompted a Chris Cillizza breaching security lines at the U.S. Capitol during overturn the election. parties ebb and flow and their ing to elements of both the item at CNN headlined, the Jan. 6 riot. His loyalists have been iterations change over time, populists and the Republican Authorities have not suggested his actions were “Should Republicans disband scouring the landscape but they are deeply embedded traditionalists, but this a dead violent. The charge against him is a misdemeanor. the GOP?” searching for Republicans to institutions of our public life. end. A videographer with Griffin told authorities that censure or primary for insuffi- There’s been a spate of arti- As Dan McLaughlin, my The Republican Party is the Griffin got on a wall on the outside deck of the cient loyalty to him. cles by erstwhile Republicans colleague at National Review, Capitol, borrowed a bullhorn and led a group in The most famous announcing they are done points out, the Republican only plausible electoral vehi- prayer. Republican House freshman with the party. Party has, since its inception, cle for any sort of right-of- Those actions deserve a citation and a fine and mused not too long ago about Jonathan Last wrote a piece been a fusion of a classic lib- center politics in America. It the man probably should not be allowed back on a space laser starting the 2018 in The New Republic titled: eral wing with a more pop- is worth fighting over, and it Capitol grounds anytime soon. But the federal California wildfires. “The Republican Party is ulist, elemental conservatism. will be. magistrate judge who ordered him jailed without And Trump has maintained dead. It is the Trump cult What’s different about That struggle is sure to be bond until trial, claiming he is a flight risk who his hold on the party seeming- now.” Washington Post Trump is that he represents toxic and unpredictable — believes “violence is on the table,” was wrong. ly effortlessly. columnist Kathleen Parker the ascendance of the populist except for the fact that at the Tempting as it is to applaud Judge Zia Faruqui’s declared, “The party isn’t This dismaying chapter has wing after it had long been in end of the day the Grand Old decision, it’s frightening to think any of us can be led to declarations that the doomed; it’s dead.” a subordinate position in the Party will still be standing. locked up for something we might do someday or party is doomed or calls to This seems a mite prema- party. Even he, though, for filthy words we say. split it up. ture about a party that repre- retained key traditional policy A U.S. district court judge on Friday ordered A former chair of the sents roughly half the country priorities of the GOP, from tax Rich Lowry can be Griffin released pending trial. Judge Beryl Howell Washington state GOP wrote and is on the cusp of a major- cuts and judges to religious reached at: also made Griffin surrender his passport and barred in an op-ed in The Seattle ity in the House, tied 50-50 in liberty and abortion. comments.lowry him from carrying firearms as conditions of his Times urging, as the headline the Senate, and in control of That said, the party does @nationalreview.com release - much more reasonable given the situation. It’s true, as Judge Faruqui stated, that Griffin has a history of saying frightening things that warrant close scrutiny. “The only good Democrat is a dead Democrat,” Transgender order unfair to girls he said during a May event in Truth or Consequences. It’s not right. involved in a sport like swim- they’re afraid of being And in July, in a Facebook video critical of It’s not fair. Michael ming when she sees that trans- attacked or shamed on Twitter. those who support playing the Black National And, on top of all that, gender women are unfairly The transgender insanity Anthem at football games, he said: President Biden’s executive Reagan dominating it? Biden wants to impose on the “They want to destroy our country. … I got a order allowing transgender ◆ There can’t be 5 percent of entire country is already a real- males to compete against girls the American population who better idea, why don’t you go back to Africa and Syndicated ity in Connecticut, where a is going to destroy girls sports columnist honestly thinks it is fair for a form your little football teams over in Africa and few years ago two transgender you can play on a old beat-out dirt lot and you can in America. law that allows biological boys athletes racked up 15 women’s play your Black national anthem there. How about Almost every one of Biden’s to be able to compete against that?” The Associated Press reported. many executive orders to date girls in sports like basketball, state championship titles — they get to play dictator — and deprived a lot of girls of Most recently, Griffin said he planned to be in is going to be harmful in some which he did. track, soccer, swimming, golf Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20 and put a flag on way to our security, our bat- Republicans in Congress and tennis. any chance to win their titles House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desk and “there’s tered economy, or both. have barely made a peep about Everyone knows boys have and earn scholarships to col- gonna be blood running out of that (Capitol) build- Closing the Keystone Biden’s terrible executive more muscle mass and a larger lege. ing.” Pipeline, stopping construc- order, but do you know who bone structure than girls. Connecticut’s transgender Griffin has said he’s not promoting violence, tion of the border wall and the most conspicuously absent And even when boys take policy is still in the courts. But raising the federal minimum drugs to reduce their testos- only warning it’s a possibility. His “dead critics of this transgender mad- maybe, if we’re lucky, the U.S. Democrat” comment was meant only in a political wage to $15 an hour are a few terone levels and wait a year ness are? Supreme Court will eventually sense, he has said. of his terrible mistakes that before they begin competing America’s fathers. bring common sense back to It’s hard to know what’s in a man’s heart, but this come to mind. Where are they? as a transgender girl, they still is a good time to remember actions speak louder But the worst order Biden Where are the fathers who have physical advantages that the upside-down world of boys than words. Couy Griffin’s actions warrant public signed was the one saying bio- are willing to stand up and even the strongest, best-trained and girls sports. scrutiny and public humiliation. The words of logical males who have transi- fight for their daughters to be girls can never overcome. Otherwise, we might have to another famous politician, Harry S. Truman, matter tioned to females should be able to compete in school But of course these incon- start holding Transgender more: allowed to play on high school sports with other girls? venient biological realities Olympics or form a “Once a government is committed to the princi- and college girls sports teams. So far they’re AWOL. don’t mean a thing to the liber- Transgender Professional Golf ple of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only It was a dumb, divisive and But unless millions of al media pundits, feminists, the Association. one way to go, and that is down the path of increas- arrogant order for a unity pres- fathers — and mothers — ACLU and so-called progres- ingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source ident to make. unite in their anger, in five sive politicians in Washington. of terror to all its citizens and creates a country We know presidents resort years there’s liable to be no They applauded Biden’s Michael Reagan is the where everyone lives in fear.” to using executive orders when female sports at all in our pub- transgender executive order president of The Reagan they can’t get the stuff they lic high schools or colleges. like a North Korean stadium Legacy Foundation. Contact — David Stevens want through Congress. To What sane young girl is card section because they him at: Publisher paraphrase President Biden, going to want to get deeply agree it is “fair” or because www.reagan.com

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America could use another political hero lexei Navalny is what we need — Abut no longer have Christine — in the United States: A Flowers political hero. ◆ We have politicians, some Syndicated better than others. But each columnist one of them, from the lowli- est member of the school board trying to shove criti- become a constant crashing cal race theory down our cymbal to those who want to throats, to the president pale listen, who care to pay atten- in comparison to this tion and who cherish free- Russian dissident. dom. It motivated thousands For years, Navalny has and thousands all over the led a one-man crusade to world to march with his expose corruption in Russia. name on their lips, demand- He ran for office, losing in ing his freedom. Being black also means community what were universally con- After the riots on Jan. 6, sidered rigged elections. Democrats, politicians An open letter to African- dom white person makes On the other hand: Many He’s been targeted for snapped into action. They American people: news for doing good. years ago, I wrote a column death. Nonetheless, this sent out letters, they prom- February marks the 95th Leonard But it is different, being — not one I’m particularly patriot who was living safe- ised impeachment, they acted observation of what started Pitts us. Because for as much as proud of — that caused an ly outside of his native like protagonists of their own as Negro History Week and ◆ people pretend otherwise, uproar in Miami, even with- country returned to Moscow private Alamos with their later became Black History Syndicated the thing that most defines in the hallways of my paper, earlier this month, and was claims of courage under fire. Month. I wanted to use the columnist us as “Black” is not com- the Miami Herald. One day, promptly arrested. He is And they called for retribu- occasion to talk about what mon skin tone nor even at the height of the contro- now in jail, for what was tion, truth and “reconcilia- being Black means, about common ancestry. Rather, it versy, I get a call. This officially described as a 30- tion.” how it feels, being us. not limited to the celebrated is common experience — all brother I’ve never met has day term, but what might They pointed fingers at Hearing that, you’re prob- and powerful. Maybe you of us having gone through heard a rumor — untrue, as end up being a death sen- people who did not celebrate ably braced for a litany of remember a 2019 story some variation of the same far as I knew — that I was tence. the election of Joe Biden. depressing statistics, indig- old story of denial and deni- about to be fired. He has a Navalny’s archenemy, about Morehouse College Conservatives, even those nities and cruelties. But professor Nathan Alexander gration. In the broad out- group together, and they’re President Vladimir Putin, that’s not why I’m here. No, lines, I know what you’ve who had been critical of teaching a class with the ready to picket the building has some experience with Donald Trump, were in the I want to talk about commu- been through and you know on my behalf. silencing dissidents. Putin is infant daughter of his stu- glare of some pitiless klieg nity. the same about me. And this I thanked him and told suspected in the murders of dent, Wayne Hayer, strapped lights. They were outed, Lately, I find myself is what binds us. Oppression him no, but the gesture has vocal critics over the years, to his chest in a baby carrier shamed, shunned and in thinking a lot about Shonda from without creates cohe- always stuck with me. It including journalists who after Hayer was unable to some cases slandered. Rhimes, which is weird. sion from within. reminded me that I was part stepped too close to the find childcare. I exulted in Then the most powerful I’ve never met the lady, or Often, that bond expresses of something that would flame. those brothers for the way Democrat and third-most even watched any of the hit itself in the wake of tragedy always have my back. That And then there were the they refuted a hundred lies important person in the U.S. shows — “Bridgerton,” — George Floyd was my would stand in the gap for poisonings of political “Scandal,” “Grey’s about Black men in a single brother, Breonna Taylor was me. That took pride in me. I rivals, including former government, Nancy Pelosi, viral image. accused members of the Anatomy” — that have my daughter, Trayvon felt humbled by that. I felt KGB agent Alexander made her one of the hottest That pride speaks to a Martin was my son — but it GOP of being the “enemy uplifted. And that, ladies Litivenenko, who died in producers in television. And truth about being us, some- is not limited to that. We are and gentlemen, is the best of within,” poised to terrorize one of the first documented yet ... I’m so deeply invest- thing I think even well- bound in our joys and what it means, being us. I their Democratic colleagues cases of polonium poison- ed in her success, so all- meaning white people find achievements as well. am here for you. in the House. The speaker ing. Litivenenko was a fired proud of what she’s hard to grasp. Meaning how Not to sound naive or to And I know without ask- did this with the support of frightening example of achieved, you’d swear we profound is that sense of romanticize. We don’t — ing that you are always many in her caucus and other Putin’s reach, since he was were related. connectedness, of communi- nor should we — always there, for me. living in the U.K. at the progressives, like the petulant Same with Tyler Perry ty, that sense that each of us agree on everything. And I Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, time of his murder. building his studio complex, is all of us. I doubt your know Zora Neale Hurston Leonard Pitts Jr. is a Navalny was also the tar- who all but accused Ted Cruz Regina King winning her average white guy feels any was right when she said not columnist for the Miami get of a Putin assassination of trying to murder her. Oscar, Kamala Harris, tak- special investment in Brad all skinfolk are kinfolk; Herald. Readers may con- attempt. Last August, he It is extremely troubling ing her oath. But the pride Pitt’s successes or any par- there are some self-interest- tact him at: became sick during a flight that very few people on the and investment I speak of is ticular pride when some ran- ed scoundrels among us. [email protected] to Moscow. Evacuated to left have stood up to criticize Berlin and hospitalized, he this dangerous rhetoric, and was diagnosed with a nerve rail against the silencing of agent in his system, dissenting voices. ANOTHER VIEWPOINT irrefutable evidence of poi- One who did stand up was soning. Alexei Navalny, who So what has Navalny opposed the social media ban Not sure why I miss State of the State address done from behind prison on Trump and tweeted out, walls? Has he kept silent in “In my opinion, the decision By Walt Rubel And, obviously, a traditional State of affection that we can’t express any- to ban Trump was based on the hopes that he will be SILVER CITY DAILY PRESS the State address — where both sena- more. released and allowed to emotions and political prefer- tors and representatives squeeze into The House of Representatives has rejoin the resistance abroad? ences. Don’t tell me he was LAS CRUCES — Today I can the House chambers, along with family set its rules for this year’s session. No. banned for violating Twitter report that the state of our state is … members, friends, dignitaries, former And, as expected, it will conduct all of The day after his arrest, rules. I get death threats here TBD. dignitaries and working staff members its business on Zoom. The Senate sets Navalny’s network released every day for many years, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham broke — wouldn’t be possible this year. its own rules, but it will also rely heav- the results of a mammoth and Twitter doesn’t ban any- with tradition and skipped the State of I dislike all the ceremonial hoopla ily on communications over the inter- investigation into Putin’s one (not that I ask for it).” the State address, which has always that takes place in a typical legislative net. Nobody can say for sure what wealth, exposing a massive That is a profile in political been given by the governor a couple of session. In past years, I treated the impact that will have on the process. It web of corruption. courage, knowing that words hours after the start of each legislative State of the State address with mild is certain that both constituents and Some call this political are not bullets. It is therefore session. And I’m not sure why. disdain. The self-congratulatory orato- lobbyists will have to find new ways to courage foolish. What pur- not surprising that the man The governor did finally give the ry and insincere pledges of bipartisan make their voices heard. My fear is the pose, they asked, could his who shamed Americans for address Jan. 26 in a taped speech in cooperation can be a bit much. pros who already have well-estab- martyrdom serve? being intimidated by words is which the feed became frozen a few And so I’m not sure why I was dis- lished connections will find it easier to Last month, we celebrated using them, fiercely, in minutes in. appointed this year when it didn’t hap- get through. the birthday of Rev. Martin defense of his own people. The governor was reportedly con- pen. It’s just one more thing that we But I don’t know what I would do Luther King Jr. In life, he And he is doing it from the cerned about both the threat of civil can’t do in a year full of things we differently, given the current condi- was a force of nature and a depths of a prison cell. To unrest and the ongoing COVID-19 can’t do. tions. The safety of both lawmakers reckoning for the citizens of me, Navalny is actually free, pandemic. One of those threats turned Opening a legislative session with- and paid staff has to be the top concern two separate Americas who and my cowed and cowardly out to be overblown, but you can’t out a State of the State speech is a lit- this session. could not reconcile their dif- fellow citizens are the ones in blame the state, or the federal govern- tle like opening a baseball game with- And, I’m looking forward to this ferences without fury and invisible, philosophical ment, for being over-prepared after out singing the national anthem, fol- year’s State of the Union address more blood. And then, as a victim chains. such a woeful lack of preparation at lowed by the umpire shouting “Play than any of the past years. Not because of that fury and in the cru- Political heroes, past pres- the U.S. Capitol building Jan 6. ball!” You can do it, but it just feels I expect Biden to give a dazzling cible of that blood, he ent and future, would surely We don’t need a speech to know wrong. speech, but just because it will be a lit- became a myth that resonates agree. what the governor’s top priorities are The State of the State is more than a tle bit of normalcy. to this day. for this session. speech; it’s a big, noisy, happy, excit- That is what will happen to Christine Flowers is a She laid out her agenda in a press ing event where people reunite with Walter Rubel is the former opinion Alexei Navalny, if he does columnist for the Delaware release weeks before the session start- old friends who they only see at this page editor of the Las Cruces Sun- not leave that Moscow jail. County Daily Times. ed. Those bills have been introduced, time each year. It’s filled with hugs News. He lives in Las Cruces, and His voice, powerful as it was Contact her at: and we can follow their progress and kisses and handshakes and all of can be reached at: even across the oceans, will [email protected] throughout the 60-day session. the other physical gestures of human [email protected]

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Corlington Ln., Clovis, Defendant(s) upon entry http://www.portaless- April Phipps General Farm Town CORP., New Mexico88101, and of an order approving chools.com/ under Deputy Clerk Subdivision. All interest- is more particularly sale, an order of the RFP/RFI Bids. ed parties may obtain Plaintiff, described as follows: Court approving the Submitted by: copies of the subdi- v. terms and conditions of A Pre-Proposal /s/Evan Lee Rierson vider’s proposal and any JESUS NANEZ AKA THE SOUTH FIFTEEN sale. Conference will be held Petitioner Pro Se favorable or adverse JESUS M. NANEZ, FEET (S15') OF LOT on Friday, February, 12th opinions from the JULIE M. NANEZ FKA HELP WANTED LEGALS FOUR (4) AND THE Witness my hand this 2021 at 1:30 p.m. MST, Legal 8969 Roosevelt County JULIE BUCHAN, PAUL NORTH SEVENTY 21st day of January, at Brown Early February 7, 2021 Planning Department in ORTIZ, NORMA ORTIZ, Legal 8936 NICK GRIEGO & SONS FEET (N70') OF LOT 2021. Childhood Center, 520 W February 14, 2021 the Roosevelt County is hiring for a Heavy January 17, 2021 THREE (3) IN BLOCK 5th St, Portales, NM February 21, 2021 Courthouse. Defendants. January 24, 2021 Equipment Operator in FIVE (5) OF THE COLO- /s/ David Washburn 88130. Precautions will the Ft Sumner area. January 31, 2021 NIAL PARK SUBDIVI- DAVID WASHBURN, be taken to make sure NOTICE OF PUBLIC Roosevelt County NOTICE OF SUIT February 7, 2021 Must have at least 5 yrs SION, UNIT NO. ONE Special Master the state mandates for HEARING Planning Board experience. Apply online (#1), TO THE CITY OF 8100 Wyoming Blvd NE mass gathering numbers Roosevelt General STATE OF NEW MEXI- at www.ngsons.com or at STATE OF CLOVIS, CURRY Suite M-4, Box 272 and PPE are followed. Hospital (Roosevelt By: Johnny Montiel CO to the above-named NEW MEXICO 1155 Kimberly Ln Clovis, COUNTY, NEW MEXI- Albuquerque, NM 87113 General Special Hospital Defendant(s) Jesus NM. EOE IN THE PROBATE CO, as shown by the Telephone: (505) 318- RFPs must be sealed District) Johnny Montiel, County Nanez aka Jesus M. COURT official recorded plat 0300 and delivered no later Vacation of Easement Planner Nanez, Julie M. Nanez CURRY COUNTY NICK GRIEGO & SONS thereof, E-mail: [email protected] than Monday, March fka Julie Buchan, Paul is now hiring for 22nd, 2021 at 4:00 p.m. The Roosevelt County Legal 8971 Ortiz and Norma Ortiz, NO: 7010 Concrete Finishers & including any improve- Legal 8945 MST to Portales Board of Commissioners February 7, 2021 Laborers in the Clovis ments, fixtures, and January 31, 2021 Municipal School District, will conduct a public February 14, 2021 GREETINGS: IN THE MATTER OF area. Apply online at attachments, such as, February 7, 2021 L.C. Cozzens hearing on a Vacation of February 21, 2021 www.ngsons.com or at THE ESTATE OF but not limited to, mobile Administrative Office, Easement for the You are hereby notified JAMES PAUL FULLER, 1155 Kimberly Ln Clovis, homes. , (hereinafter the STATE OF 501 South Abilene Ave, Roosevelt General NOTICE OF PUBLIC that the above-named NM. EOE “Property”). If there is a NEW MEXICO Portales, NM 88130, Special Hospital District HEARING Plaintiff has filed a civil Deceased conflict between the COUNTY OF CURRY Phone Number (575) Subdivision on Tuesday Roosevelt General action against you in the legal description and the NINTH JUDICIAL 356-7000 to: March 2, 2021 at 9:00 Hospital (Roosevelt above-entitled Court and NINTH JUDICIAL NOTICE TO street address, the legal DISTRICT COURT a.m., in the Jake Lopez General Special Hospital cause, the general object DISTRICT COURT CREDITORS description shall control. Attn: Sarah Stubbs, Building, at the District) thereof being to fore- BAILIFF, SECURITY IN THE MATTER OF Director of Finance/CPO Roosevelt County Fair Replat of Tract A and close a mortgage on NOTICE IS HEREBY The foregoing sale will THE PETITION OF RFP 20-21-0001 Grounds. At this time all Tract C property located as 604 Opening Date: GIVEN that the under- be made to satisfy a KAYLIE KEMP Portales Municipal interested parties may Johnson St, Clovis, NM 11/6/2020 - Close signed has been foreclosure judgment FOR THE CHANGE OF Schools present their views The Roosevelt County 88101, Curry County, Date: 02/12/2021 appointed personal rep- rendered by this Court in NAME OF 501 South Abilene regarding the proposed Board of Commissioners New Mexico, said prop- Pay Range: $10.084 - resentative of the estate the above-entitled and KELCIE ROSE MOLINA Portales, NM, 88130 Vacation of Easement. will conduct a public erty being more particu- -$16.387 of the decedent. All per- numbered cause on Phone No: (575) 356- The proposed re-plat hearing on a Replat of larly described as: Target Pay: 12.605 to sons having claims December 28, 2020, NO: D905-CV-2021-23 7000 subdivision is in N/2 of S: tract A and tract C for the $13.865 against the estate of the being an action to fore- 3 T: 2S R: 34E in the Roosevelt General LOT THREE (3) IN decedent are required to close a mortgage on the NOTICE OF PETITION The Portales Municipal Roosevelt General Special Hospital District BLOCK FOUR (4), THE The NINTH JUDICIAL present their claims with- Property. Plaintiff’s judg- TO CHANGE NAME (OF Schools Board of Special Hospital District Subdivision on Tuesday CURRY ADDITION TO DISTRICT COURT, is in four (4) months after ment is in the amount of PERSON UNDER 14 Education reserves the Subdivision. All interest- March 2, 2021 at 9:00 THE CITY OF CLOVIS, accepting applications the date of the first publi- $135,637.95, and the YEARS OF AGE) right to reject any and all ed parties may obtain a.m., in the Jake Lopez CURRY COUNTY, NEW for a full-time perma- cation of any public same bears interest at bids and/or cancel this copies of the subdi- Building, at the MEXICO, ACCORDING nent Security Bailiff notice to creditors, or the rate of 4.5% per NOTICE IS HEREBY RFP in its entirety. vider’s proposal and any Roosevelt County Fair TO THE OFFICIAL position in Curry & (60) days after the date annum, accruing at the GIVEN that Kaylie favorable or adverse Grounds. At this time all RECORDED PLAT Roosevelt Counties. of mailing or other deliv- rate of $16.72 per diem. Kemp, Resident of the Legal 8967 opinions from the interested parties may THEREOF. ery of this notice, The Court reserves entry City of Clovis, County of February 7, 2021 Roosevelt County present their views QUALIFICATIONS whichever is later, or the of final judgment against Curry, State of New February 14, 2021 Planning Department in regarding the proposed Unless you file and serve claims will be forever Defendant(s), Lori L. Mexico has filed a the Roosevelt County Replat. The proposed re- a pleading or motion in • Education: High barred. Claims must be Day, for the amount due Petition to Change Name NINTH JUDICIAL Courthouse. plat subdivision is in N/2 response to the com- School Diploma or presented either to the after foreclosure sale, of her child in the Ninth DISTRICT of S: 3 T: 2S R: 34E in plaint in said cause on or GED. undersigned Personal including interest, costs, Judicial District Court, STATE OF NEW Roosevelt County the Roosevelt General before 30 days after the Representative at the and fees as may be Curry County, New MEXICO Planning Board Special Hospital District last publication date, • Experience: One (1) address listed below, or assessed by the Court. Mexico, wherein she COUNTY OF CURRY Subdivision. All interest- judgment by default will year of experience in filed with the Probate Plaintiff has the right to seeks to change the By: Johnny Montiel ed parties may obtain be entered against you. a security, law Court of Curry County, bid at the foregoing sale name of her child as fol- IN THE MATTER OF copies of the subdi- enforcement, or legal New Mexico, located at in an amount equal to its lows: From Kelcie Rose THE PETITION FOR Johnny Montiel, County vider’s proposal and any Respectfully Submitted, setting, of which six the following address: judgment, and to submit Molina to Kelcia Rose CHANGE OF NAME OF Planner favorable or adverse WEINSTEIN & RILEY, (6) months’ must have 417 Gidding Street #130, its bid either verbally or Kemp. Evan Lee Rierson opinions from the P.S. been in law enforce- Clovis, New Mexico in writing. Plaintiff may Legal 8970 Roosevelt County ment and/or security 88101. apply all or any part of its This Petition will be No. D-905-CV-2021- February 7, 2021 Planning Department in /s/ Elizabeth V. work. judgment to the pur- heard before the 00039 February 14, 2021 the Roosevelt County Friedenstein Dated: January 12, 2021 chase price in lieu of Honorable David P. NOTICE OF CHANGE February 21, 2021 Courthouse. Elizabeth V. Friedenstein • Experience cash. Reeb, JR., District OF NAME 2501 San Pedro Drive Substitution: Relevant /s/ Martha Fuller Judge, on the 22nd day TAKE NOTICE that in NOTICE OF PUBLIC Roosevelt County NE Bldg A Suite 102 post-secondary edu- Personal Representative In accordance with the of February 2021, at the accordance with the pro- HEARING Planning Board Albuquerque, New cation may substitute of the Estate Court's decree, the pro- hour of 9:00 am, at the visions of Sec. 40-8-1 Farm Town Subdivision Mexico 87110 for general experience Martha Ellen Fuller ceeds of sale are to be Curry County through Sec. 40-8-3 (Lot 2 and Lot 3) By: Johnny Montiel Phone: (505) 348 3200 at a rate of thirty (30) 3901 Springwood Drive applied first to the costs Courthouse, 700 N. Main NMSA 1978, the [email protected] semester hours’ Clovis, NM 88101 of sale, including the St. Suite 11, Clovis, New Petitioner Evan Lee The Roosevelt County Johnny Montiel, County Attorney for Plaintiff equals one (1) year of 575-769-0912 Special Master's fees, Mexico. Rierson will apply to the Board of Commissioners Planner experience. Education and then to satisfy the Honorable David P. will conduct a public IF YOU want success or other relevant expe- Legal 8951 above-described judg- Respectfully submitted, Reeb, Jr., District Judge hearing on a Summary Legal 8968 renting your home, just rience may not substi- January 24, 2021 ment, including interest, Kaylie Kemp of the Ninth Judicial Re-plat for the Farm February 7, 2021 ask Sharon how she tute for the six (6) January 31, 2021 with any remaining bal- Petitioner, pro se District at the Curry Town Subdivision Lot 2 February 14, 2021 rented hers. She used months’ of required February 7, 2021 ance to be paid unto the and Lot 3 on Monday February 21, 2021 County Courthouse, 700 the Classified ads and law enforcement February 14, 2021 registry of the Court in Name: Kaylie Kemp N. Main Street, Suite 14, Feb 22, 2021 at 9:00 and/or security experi- rented her home order to satisfy any Mailing Address: 1021 in Clovis, New Mexico at a.m., in the Jake Lopez STATE OF ence. STATE OF future adjudication of pri- Laurelwood Drive Apt. A 8:00am on the 22nd day Building, at the NEW MEXICO within days. NEW MEXICO ority lienholders. Clovis, NM 88101 of February, 2021 for an Roosevelt County Fair COUNTY OF CURRY COUNTY OF CURRY Phone Number: 602- Order for Change of Grounds. At this time all NINTH JUDICIAL NINTH JUDICIAL NOTICE IS FURTHER 702-1750 Name from Evan Lee interested parties may DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT COURT GIVEN that in the event Rierson to Leela Lee present their views that the Property is not Legal 8954 Suelane. regarding the proposed NO. D-905-CV-2020- No. D-905-CV-2020- sooner redeemed, the January 31, 2021 re-plat. The proposed re- 00109 00363 undersigned Special February 7, 2021 Shelly Burger plat subdivision is in Master will, as set forth District Court Clerk SW/4 of S: 32 T: 1S R: J.P. MORGAN MORT- SPECIALIZED LOAN above, offer for sale and LEGAL NOTICE 35E in the Roosevelt GAGE ACQUISITION SERVICING LLC, sell the Property to the highest bidder for cash Request for Proposals Plaintiff, or equivalent, for the pur- pose of satisfying, in the RFP NO: 20-21-0001 vs. adjudged order of priori- ties, the judgment and The Board of Education LORI L. DAY AKA LORI decree of foreclosure of the Portales Municipal DAY AND UNKNOWN described herein, togeth- School District is SPOUSE OF LORI L. er with any additional requesting competitive DAY AKA LORI DAY, IF costs and attorney's sealed proposals for the ANY, fees, including the costs construction of Brown of advertisement and Early Childhood Center Defendants. publication for the fore- Pre-K and Systems going sale, and, reason- Project for use by the NOTICE OF SALE able receiver and Portales Municipal Special Master's fees in School District. NOTICE IS HEREBY an amount to be fixed by GIVEN that on February the Court. The amount Project contract docu- 24, 2021, at the hour of of the judgment due is ments may be obtained 11:00 AM, the under- $135,637.95, plus inter- from the location(s) listed signed Special Master, est to and including date in the complete Request or his/her designee, will, of sale in the amount of for Proposal (RFP) which at the front entrance of $1,822.48, for a total may be reviewed at the Curry County judgment of www.nmschoolbuild- Courthouse, at Ninth $137,460.43. ings.org, NM E- Judicial District Court, Procurement/Bidding 700 North Main, Suite The foregoing sale may System or online at the 11, Clovis, NM 88101, be postponed and District website at sell all of the rights, title, rescheduled at the dis- and interests of the cretion of the Special above-named Master, and is subject to Defendant(s), in and to all taxes, utility liens and the hereinafter described other restrictions and real property to the high- easements of record, est bidder for cash. The and subject to a one (1) property to be sold is month right of redemp- located at 3517 tion held by the PAGE 8A ✦ SUNDAY, FEB. 7, 2021 LOCAL THE EASTERN NEW MEXICO NEWS

Area legislators share stories of session

By Kevin Wilson “I’m getting hundreds of emails a elections and whether registration dled by a handful of large multina- many in the medical field. ■ EDITOR day, I’m getting hundreds of texts a changes should be allowed only at tional corporations, and if they sim- Legislators were against the [email protected] day,” Crowder said. “If I don’t county clerk’s offices and not at ply decide not to work with New idea of a state-owned bank, noting return your calls, please be patient.” polling places. Mexico ranchers the price of cattle the push to create them is fueled by Area legislators addressed Rep. Martin Zamora, R-Clovis, When asked if there was any evi- immediately dips and the price of a push for legalizing recreational Wednesday’s Clovis-Portales leg- said a lawsuit is pending to restore dence of a rigged election in New beef in the stores immediately rises. marijuana. Because the drugs are islative breakfast with stories aplen- the legislative session to a model Mexico, Woods only offered a ■ Regarding a request by the still narcotics under federal terms, ty on just how strange it was to be closer than what currently exists, hypothetical scenario in which a governor’s office for legislators to in a legislative session where only with constituent services forced person would acquire information devote half of their capital outlay to federal banks can’t deal with profits legislators and staff were on site online and the Capitol fenced in and about deceased residents and relief, Crowder doubted it had resulting from their sales. and everybody else was participat- guarded by state police officers. exploit that information to make much momentum. ■ Crowder noted than an execu- ing via electronic means. “It’s a tough job to do, and it gets multiple requests for absentee bal- “I believe legislators are going to tive order from President Joe Biden Sen. Stuart Ingle, R-Portales, said tougher as we go,” Zamora said. lots delivered to one central fight that tooth and nail,” Crowder halting any new permits for oil and every arrival to a room feels like “Not only are we having to adapt to address. said. “I don’t anticipate that being gas leases on federal lands for 60 you’re the last person to find out the being computer programmers, but In a Legislature where Democrats in House Bill 2 by the time it gets to days could stall activity for a full meeting was canceled. we’re being fenced in the Capitol. hold healthy majorities in both the governor.” year and have impacts on New ■ “Inside the building, it’s like a We’ve got state police watching us houses, Crowder said he lives by a Legislators saw little chance of Mexico’s budget. ghost town,” Rep. Randal Crowder, so closely it’s unreal.” Calvin Coolidge quote that it’s killing any bills regarding mini- “Things always seem to work out R-Clovis, said. “I can walk all the Sen. Pat Woods, R-Broadview, more important to kill a bad bill mum wage increases, but they somehow,” Crowder said. “There’s way through the hallway, out to the said he’s been busier this year than pass a good one. would try to find ways to reach Rotunda, and not see anybody. It’s a thanks to his position on the Senate Chamber members generally pro- across the aisle. “There’s always a a fiscal cliff coming where we’re strange thing.” Finance Committee, which he vided messages of support, with chance,” Woods said. “If there was- going to have to tighten our belts to With people participating from likened to being fed information Clovis/Curry County Chamber n’t, we wouldn’t even bother to make the budget.” their homes and offices, through a fire hose. Woods didn’t President Laura Leal noting pleas- show up.” In closing, Clovis Mayor Mike Wednesday’s legislative breakfast know entering the session he would ure in advocating on the legislator’s ■ David Robinson, advocating Morris — who is a proponent of a wasn’t technically a breakfast. But be on the committee, and decided to behalf. Roosevelt County Chamber on behalf of Cannon Air Force bill that would allow larger munici- it was well-attended with more than carry nine bills. President Felicia Powell thanked Base, said the base wanted to have palities to recruit retail with eco- 100 people on the Zoom meeting at Woods noted that election securi- legislators for listening, but noted input on where wind farms may go, nomic development dollars — gave most points — easily exceeding ty was a concern, as he received there was a distinction between lis- not so much due to turbine heights thanks on behalf of the citizens. average attendance when the event hundreds of messages about rigged tening and hearing and hoped they but because necessary lighting “Part of the reason we can have elections. He offered an election is held in a Santa Fe hotel ballroom. would do both. could interfere with training mis- hope in spite of some of the adver- The legislators who attended security bill that he assumed would In other matters discussed at the sions. throughout the 90 minutes of dis- be killed, but was encouraged the virtual forum: Robinson also noted work was sity you’re describing … is because cussion said the lack of in-person secretary of state’s office reached ■ Rep. Jack Chatfield, R- ongoing to strengthen legislation we have full confidence that you attendance has not reduced their out with a willingness to hammer Mosquero, said he was hoping a bill passed last year on license reciproc- represent our values and our inter- distractions, because every person out disagreements. Sticking points, of his could help pave the way for ity for members of military fami- ests completely,” Morris said. “You who isn’t in the building still finds Woods said, included the ability to small in-state meat processing lies. This year’s legislation would have our full support, and our ways to reach out. change registrations the day of the plants. Much of that work is han- add 13 more job professions, with thoughts and our prayers.” CCC board approves 27 additional students eligible for graduation

By Lily Martin dent’s part or because and the Programmatic All-In they’re adopting the text- ty. 19. The term runs March 15 STAFF WRITER Institutional Research later Textbook Program. The books that they want to Campus Security Director to May 14, with most class- [email protected] identified the student as hav- Traditional program adopt. We do encourage the Freddie Salazar credited the es offered online. ing met requirements. includes all non-program- departments to stay with a security crew for their visi- Also during his report, CLOVIS — The fall Wednesday was the first matic courses which require textbook for a minimum for bility throughout the cam- Nwanko said the college is semester concluded nearly meeting for the board in a textbook. A $25 fee per three years unless they’re pus. discussing various funding ■ two months ago at Clovis 2021 to approve the updated credit hour will cover all just not available, and that is President Charles requests with state legisla- Community College. But its graduate list. rented text and lab materials, built partly in our MOU’s Nwankwo noted his one- tors including scholarships, graduating class has kept Also during the board which CCC estimates will with the public school sys- year anniversary was on the technology upgrades and the growing. meeting on Wednesday, the come out to a 38% savings tem.” horizon. Mesa Theatre renovation. The college’s board of board heard about the “All- for students. In other business at the “Exactly Feb. 17, I started ■ The school is recogniz- trustees on Wednesday In Textbook” option the col- Trustee Carolyn Spence meeting: my service as President of ing Black History Month approved a list of 27 addi- lege will implement in the raised the question of how ■ The board reviewed the this excellent college. tional students eligible for fall 2021 semester. often textbooks are updated 2019 campus security During this time we’ve con- with a series of free virtual graduation, bringing the fall The textbook service will in the rental program and report. Only one criminal tinued to meet the chal- and media programming. total to 277. The additional offer new options, including how they are chosen for incident was reported during lenges of this past year head- Also all month, the college’s 27 students received 14 a $25 per credit hour fee to classes. that year, a vehicle was on,” Nwankwo said. “This is Hispanic student organiza- associate degrees and 13 rent materials. The college “The instructors still have stolen while parked on cam- evident in the college’s fall tion Viva! is hosting a cloth- certificates of achievement. estimates 38% savings on the freedom to choose the pus property. That’s a drop graduation numbers.” ing donation drive through The list of students was average for students. textbooks,” Associate Vice from the 2018 report, which The college is still accept- in partnership with Hope’s submitted separately from Two options available to President of Enrollment included a sex offense, an ing enrollments for its Children Home. A clothing the primary list, due to either students are the Traditional Management and Student aggravated assault, and a upcoming second eight- donation box is located at a late application on the stu- All-In Textbook Program Affairs said. “Every year burglary on campus proper- week term through March CCC’s main entrance. Sunday Feb. 7, 2021 Your source for complete PORTS local sports coverage S THE EASTERN NEW MEXICO NEWS B 56 players sign letters for ENMU ❏ Coach Kelley Lee says he might have his most talented signing class ever. By Kevin Wilson EDITOR [email protected] PORTALES — From a numbers standpoint, national signing day went about like previous ones did for Eastern New Mexico University, with 56 players inking letters of intent to join the Greyhound program. From a talent standpoint, Kelley Lee thinks he might have his most talented signing class ever, in no small part due to the impacts the COVID-19 pandem- ic has had on football at the Division II level. With Division II schools largely sit- ting out the 2020-21 season due to the pandemic, and athletes not using up a year of eligibility, rosters are com- prised of five signing classes instead of the standard four. Similar issues at File photo Division I means far more players exist Ernesto Acuna signed with the University of New Mexico on Wednesday. Acuna was unsure what opportunities he would have than opportunities. with the combination of a knee injury in 2019 and the pandemic wiping out a fall football season. “The Division-I schools had a lot less to offer (in terms of scholar- ships),” Lee said. “The talent level available to Division-II schools increased. I think we’ve got a really Locals sign with colleges talented group.” Given the current situation, Lee said the approach was to cast a wider ❏ Three Wildcats sign recruiting net and get every position instead of filling specific voids. But national letters of intent. there are some positions where Lee feels the Greyhounds got better talent. By Kevin Wilson “I feel like our defensive backs, our EDITOR defensive line are a really talented [email protected] group,” Lee said. “And we did pretty CLOVIS — While it’s easy to get good at running back. I like the diver- wrapped up in it, Clovis football coach Cal sity in that group as well.” Fullerton insists national signing day is just The Greyhounds did lose a pair of another day on the calendar. Clovis commits late Tuesday, when But it’s fair to say Wednesday was no running back Jeston Webskowski and ordinary day for the Wildcat program, with linebacker Ernesto Acune got late three players signing national letters of offers from the University of New intent and two of them heading to Division- Mexico. Lee holds no ill will for kids I University of New Mexico. who break a verbal Division-II com- Ernesto Acuna and Jeston Webskowski, mitment to take a Division-I offer, and who had both made non-binding verbal said his program actually came out commitments to Eastern New Mexico pretty well because they picked up University, had the understandable change in players who would have signed D-I in plans when the Lobos came calling Tuesday normal years. night. Johnny Jimenez, meanwhile, stuck “Even though we lost a couple we with his verbal commitment and signed with would have really liked to have,” said Western New Mexico University. Lee, who can’t discuss unsigned Between Wednesday and the December File photo prospects, “we gained a few we weren’t expecting.” Division I early signing days, five Wildcat Jeston Webskowski takes off on a run, with a block from Johnny Jimenez (62) dur- seniors found their way onto college pro- The Green and Silver only ended up ing the 2019 Class 6A semifinal against Cleveland. Both players signed letters of signing one player from Curry or grams with four going Division I. intent Wednesday, Webskowski with the University of New Mexico and Jimenez Quarterback Chance Harris graduated in the Roosevelt counties — 6-foot-5 receiver fall and is already enrolled at Colorado Western New Mexico. Devon Bailey of Melrose — but there State, while Jaden Phillips now has a pair of was some local talent a little further ers that could help a Division-I at some who lost about half of his 2019 season to a down the road with 10 players from Clovis teammates joining him in point. I think the guys who signed are no- knee injury and still hasn’t played a down of Albuquerque. within 100 miles and 11 players from brainers and can help their programs right football this year due to the state barring ath- the Land of Enchantment. “I think it’s a testament to our coaching away.” letic competitions, had concerns he wouldn’t staff, a testament to our kids, a testament to “I feel great about the kid from Acuna and Webskowski told The News get looks. But going to Albuquerque with his our parents who let us coach their kids the Melrose (receiver Devon Bailey); I way they need to be coached and don’t have they were actually in the same room when friends is relief and joy all at once. think he’s a steal,” Lee said. many questions for us,” Fullerton said. they got separate calls from Lobo coaches “I’ve grown up with them since fifth “They trust us. Obviously, winning helps, making an offer. grade,” Acuna said. “We would always talk and that gets you noticed, but the way they “It was unreal,” said Webskowski, a 6- about how it would be amazing to play col- Inside practice and play, they deserve every ounce foot, 200-pound running back. “That’s a lege ball together.” of praise and credit they’re getting. phone call I’ve been waiting for my whole For Jimenez, who will keep on driving a ■ ENMU signing day class list “I played Division II. I’ve seen Division-I life.” — Page 2B athletes. There are some kids who are tween- Acuna, a 6-foot-3, 215-pound linebacker CLOVIS on Page 2B Melrose’s Bailey signs letter of intent with ENMU ❏ Bailey, Buffaloes hope Live to limit the crowd to coaching staff college offers if the 2020 baseball sea- and family members. son wasn’t wiped out by the pandemic. for eight-man state At 6-foot-5, 265, Bailey was an Bailey always aspired to play college imposing presence in Class 1A and football, but first believed he could as a championship repeat. eight-man football designations, as evi- freshman after decisively winning a denced by the small sampling of state drill against a senior classmate he By Kevin Wilson championship rings on his hand as he believed could play college football EDITOR signed his letter before a quartet of his himself. [email protected] coaches praised him. However, small-school players rarely MELROSE — An athlete of Devon Bailey’s litany of Melrose coaches get noticed without state champi- Bailey’s physical stature and ability are said that most kids his size tend to be onships, and those are rarely won as rarities for a school the size of Melrose. clumsy or gangly, but that was never a solo efforts. Bailey realized on Wednesday, while concern. “I want to thank all of the guys who fighting through tears of joy, a chance Track coach Casey Jackson said the lifted me up and pushed me to my lim- to play college football was even rarer. pandemic was probably the only thing its,” Bailey said, before rifling off about Bailey, who hopes to be a few weeks that prevented him from being a four- 10 off the top of his head. “I can’t thank away from an eight-man state champi- time state champion in hurdles, and any of you enough.” Staff photo: Kevin Wilson basketball coach Kevin Lackey Interest was varied between a few onship repeat with the Buffaloes, Devon Bailey, left, speaks during his letter of intent secured his next step in football by remarked on how Bailey has maturity Division II schools and a handful of signing ceremony as his mother, Mandy Harp, broad- signing a letter of intent with nearby beyond his years that has the Buffaloes NAIA programs, which made Bailey’s Eastern New Mexico University. currently defending a state champi- choice to stay local somewhat surpris- casts on Facebook Live for those who couldn’t attend The ceremony was held in the wide- onship on the court. Caleb King, who ing. Bailey admitted he wasn’t keen on due to distance or COVID-19 gathering restrictions. open school commons area, with his coached Bailey in football and baseball, Bailey will join Eastern New Mexico’s football program teammates watching through Facebook felt his star pitcher would have gotten BAILEY on Page 2B in the fall. PAGE 2B ✦ SUNDAY, FEB. 7, 2021 SPORTS THE EASTERN NEW MEXICO NEWS Farwell teams shore up postseason positions By Dave Wagner Senior Presley Agee led four lost by four points at home to Olton STAFF WRITER Farwell players in double figures with (21-1, 6-0) on Jan. 22, can return the [email protected] three 3-point baskets and 17 points, favor on Tuesday, it would likely set while sophomore Deavyn Bradley up a tiebreaker game for the district’s BOVINA — The Farwell boys and came off the bench for a personal-best top seed in the playoffs next week. girls basketball teams weren’t about to 15 points on five of the team’s season- “Like we tell our kids, ‘If you want take any chances of messing up their high 12 3-pointers. Freshmen Zavayia to be part of a district championship, postseason positions on Friday night. Benoit, making her first start with sen- you’ve got to win Tuesday,’” Steers The Steers, with a key clash for the ior guard Valaria Ruiz out, and Chloee coach Shane Perkins said. “We’ve got top spot in District 3-2A looming on Whitten each added 10. to step up and challenge them. Tuesday at Olton, made short work of Meantime, sophomore guard “Through three quarters, I was Bovina, rolling to an 87-48 victory Maryn Terry missed her second con- pleased with how we played. We knew over the Mustangs. Meantime, the secutive game, but could be back on they’d come out and play hard against Lady Blue limited Bovina to eight Monday, Turner said. He added that us, but we hit shots and defended first-half points — holding the Fillies she probably could have played on well.” scoreless for a stretch of nearly eight Friday if necessary. Nunez had four 3-point baskets and minutes spanning halftime — en route “We’re going to need her on defense scored all but two of his points in the to a 67-28 win. (against Olton),” he said. “We just did- first three stanzas. He said he was Farwell’s girls (18-9, 7-1 district) n’t want to put her in a position to get motivated by an inadvertent knee to shared the 3-2A title with Vega, and hurt (in Friday’s clash).” the head early in the game. they’ll have a tiebreaker game to deter- Jaelyn Smith, Agee and Whitten all “When someone hit me in the head, Staff photo: Kevin Wilson mine the district’s top seed in the hit 3s to help stake Farwell to a quick I kind of went into a different mode — Farwell guard Adrian Nunez goes up for the fast break layup in upcoming University Interscholastic 11-1 lead, and the Lady Blue never like Kobe (Bryant) with a ‘Mamba’ Friday’s game at Bovina. League playoffs at 7 p.m. (CST) on looked back. mentality,” said Nunez, whose previ- Monday at Canyon H.S. The Fillies (5-10, 2-6), who quali- ous high game was 20. “I was just hav- where just about anybody can do that Nunez said the Steers are ready for The Lady Blue, who had two play- fied for the No. 4 postseason position ing fun out there.” on any night,” Bovina coach Eric Tuesday’s rematch. ers out on Friday due to medical proto- from the district, were paced by 15 Nunez broke a 5-5 tie with his first Fierro said of the outburst by Nunez. “I feel like it’ll be a tough game,” he cols, and Lady Longhorns (17-7, 7-1) points from senior guard Ireydi Vela. trifecta of the game, then hit another to “We didn’t play very strong. We let the said. “Last time when they came back, traded wins on each other’s court dur- Farwell boys 87, Bovina 48 — Four make it 14-6. The Steers’ lead grew to fouls get to us.” we were kind of yelling at each other ing the regular season. players scored in double digits, led by 20 points midway through the second Eight players scored at least five (during the game), but this time I think “It’s always nice to finish tied for the a personal-best 27 points from junior period, and the foul-plagued Mustangs points for the Steers, with senior we have a pretty good chance.” district championship,” Farwell coach guard Leo Nunez, as the Steers (23-2, (8-6, 3-4) were never able to mount a Jonathan Mora added 13 points and Senior Jose Mata led the Mustangs Mikel Turner said. “We’ll see how it 6-1) kept their district hopes alive in a run. juniors Grayson Waldrop and Dustan (8-6, 3-4) with 18 points, and senior goes on Monday.” physical matchup. If Farwell, which “They’ve got enough ballplayers Sides 10 apiece. Fernando Martinez finished with 12. St. Ed’s sweeps ’Hounds in season-opening series BY THE STAFF OF THE NEWS outs in the bottom of the in the fifth when junior ond and a two-run homer in fourth and restored some Trevor Moses singled home the fifth. Baseball linescores AUSTIN, Texas — order, working 4 1/3 score- a run and another scored on The Hounds got on the Lone Star Conference (6) and Quintana; Holub, Garrett Phillips (6) Eastern New Mexico less innings and allowing a Hilltoppers error. board in the fifth when Saturday and Suriel Jr., Ainsworth (6). W — Holub (1- St. Edward’s 6, ENMU 3 0). L — Puga (0-1). DP — Eastern New University’s baseball team just one hit with three ENMU tacked on its final freshman Matthew Kory led ENMU 201 000 000 — 3 7 1 Mexico 1. LOB — Eastern New Mexico 6, St. became the school’s first strikeouts and no walks. tallies on a two-run, bases- off with a double, took third St. Edward’s 500 100 00x — 6 7 3 Edward’s 4. 2B — St. Edward’s: Chase Cos, sports squad to play since Both teams finished with loaded single by sopho- on an error and scored on Damian Acosta, Cooper Hamilton (4) and Matthew Giles, Zarlan Forde, Carlo Figueroa last March over the week- seven hits. Junior Nicholas more Andres Quintana with Andres Quintana; Jesse Reed, Jayson Flores 2. T — 2:45. sophomore Camden (6), Austin Essex (8), Eric Worden (9) and end, and the results were not Tamez went 2-for-4 for two out in the top of the Matthews’ single to left. Cullen Ainsworth, Omar Suriel Jr. (7). W — Second game pretty. ENMU with a pair of runs seventh off reliever Garrett Starter Jason Vasil took Reed (1-0). L — Acosta (0-1). Sv — Worden St. Edward’s 12, ENMU 1 After getting run-ruled scored, while Cullen Phillips, who had five the loss for the Hounds, (1). DP — Eastern New Mexico 2, St. ENMU 000 010 0 — 1 4 4 twice on Friday, though, the Ainsworh and Chase Cos strikeouts over the final Edward’s 1. LOB — Eastern New Mexico 6, St. Edward’s 132 123 x —12 12 1 allowing four runs (two St. Edward’s 3. 2B — St. Edward’s: Zarian Jason Vasil, Liam Sabiston (2), Alex Kuhn Greyhounds were a bit more each hit safely twice for the two frames. Shortstop earned) in one-plus innings. Forde, Blake Holub. T — 2:34. A — 100. (3), James Romero (6) and Jack Thompson; competitive in Saturday’s Hilltoppers. Daniel Hunt went 2-for-2 ENMU’s 36-game, all- Jack Granick, A.G. Ayala (7) and Ainsworth, Lone Star Conference series St. Ed’s starter Jesse and scored twice for the LSC schedule consists of 12, Friday Lucas Abbott (7). W — Granick (1-0). L — finale against host St. Reed went 5 2/3 innings for Hounds. First game Vasil (0-1). DP — Eastern New Mexico 2, St. three-game series, with dou- St. Edward’s 15, ENMU 4 Edward’s 1. LOB — Eastern New Mexico 5, Edward’s. Designated hitter the win. Three relievers Junior right-hander bleheaders on Friday and ENMU 000 020 2 — 4 5 2 St. Edward’s 8. 2B — Eastern New Mexico: Blake Holub highlighted the combined to hold the James Puga was chased single games on Saturday. St. Edward’s 018 105 x —15 12 3 Matthew Kory. St. Edward’s: Ryan Fedderson, Hilltoppers’ five-run first Hounds hitless the rest of during the Hilltoppers’ James Puga, William McBride (3), Robert Figueroa. HR — St. Edward’s: Morgan Allen Due to COVID-19 restric- Nidy (3), Colson Faircloth (5), Dempsey Battin (1). T — 2:20. A — 75. with a three-run double, and the way. third-inning eruption and tions in the state, the Hounds St. Ed’s went on to claim a Friday absorbed the loss. will spend their entire cam- 6-3 victory. St. Edward’s 15, ENMU 4 St. Edward’s 12, ENMU 1 paign on the road. In Friday’s games, St. (Game 1) — The Hilltoppers (Game2) — In this one, the Edward’s pitchers combined broke open a 1-0 game with Hilltoppers scored in all six Next weekend, the for 28 strikeouts — includ- an eight-run third. innings with 11 players Hounds are slated to take ing 13 by Holub in just five Ten players had at least combining for the team’s on rival West Texas A&M innings in the opener — en one hit, 10 drove in at least 12 hits. Meantime, eight in Canyon. route to 15-4 and 12-1 vic- one run and 13 scored at players drove in at least one tories. least one run in a well-dis- run and nine players On Saturday, ENMU tributed attack against five scored. Lady Blue turn back Westbrook broke on top with a pair of ENMU pitchers. Second Freshman right-hander BY THE STAFF OF THE NEWS the Steers had a much easier time in a late first-inning runs, but the baseman Carlo Figueroa Jack Granick went six addition late to their schedule, opening a 25- lead didn’t last long. and third baseman Eric innings for St. Ed’s, allowing FARWELL — Picking up a game to fill in 6 cushion at the quarter and never looking The game settled down Worden each collected a four hits with three walks and an open date last weekend, the Farwell girls back. the rest of the way. Left- pair of hits for St. Ed’s. seven strikeouts. Shortstop basketball team found itself in a pretty good Four players scored in double digits for hander Cooper Hamilton Holub allowed three hits Morgan Allen had three RBIs battle. Farwell (22-2) — junior Leo Nunez with 13 relieved ENMU starter and two runs (one earned). for the Hilltoppers with a The Lady Blue got a pair of 3-pointers and points, senior Jose Rodriguez and junior Damian Acosta with two The Hounds broke through bases-loaded walk in the sec- a personal-best 16 points from freshman Dustan Sides with 12 each and senior Leefe Chloee Whitten and used a strong second Actkinson with 10. For the Flames (3-10), quarter to turn back Westbrook 50-42 in a senior James Kreusel finished with nine game played on Jan. 30. points. ENMU signing day class Trailing 12-8, Farwell (17-9) outscored Boys Ranch 56, Bovina 46 — The homestand- Westbrook 19-9 in the second period to gain ing Roughriders (1-5, 1-5 District 3-2A) won Player Position Ht Wt City School control, then played the Class 1A Lady their first game a virus-plagued season, bolt- Wildcats (21-4) relatively even over the final Elijah Anderson DB 6-2 175 Peoria, Ariz. Sunrise Mountain HS ing to an 18-7 lead at the quarter and holding James Apsey DL 6-3 265 El Paso, Texas Franklin HS two segments. off the Mustangs (8-5, 3-3), who twice got Devon Bailey TE 6-5 205 Melrose Melrose HS Senior Presley Agee added 13 points for Ryan Barnett QB 6-2 190 Amarillo Tascosa HS Farwell, while Westbrook (21-4) got 19 within a couple of points. Tre Blake DB 5-10 180 Melbourne, Fla. EAU Gallie HS points from senior Bailey Connell and 12 Junior Angel Lara led the way for Bovina Tyree Cherry ATH 6-1 170 Fort Myers, Fla. Lehigh Senior HS from junior Reagan Hale. That duo com- with 15 points, including a trio of 3-point Trey Cross RB 5-8 175 Midland, Texas Greenwood HS bined for five 3-point baskets. baskets, while sophomore Darian DeLaRosa Adrian Dominguez OL 6-3 295 Wilmington, Calif. Banning HS In a girls game played on Tuesday night, chipped in 10 tallies. Kayson Elijah DL 6-2 250 Lufkin, Texas Lufkin HS Dimmitt handed Muleshoe a 37-35 setback Dimmitt 52, Muleshoe 36 — The Mules (5-11, Rogan Freeburg WR 6-1 175 Scottsdale, Ariz. Desert Mountain HS in District 3-3A at Dimmitt. 2-7) led by four points early, but struggled to Darrius Gregory OL 5-11 235 Rio Rancho Rio Rancho HS Despite the loss in their regular-season put the ball in the basket most of the night as Christian Griego OL 6-4 300 Los Lunas Los Lunas HS the district-leading Bobcats (11-8, 8-1) took Tre Griner ATH 6-3 180 Green Cove Springs, Fla. Clay HS finale, the Lady Mules (12-13, 7-5) had Markevion Haynes RB 6-1 215 Longview, Texas Longview HS already locked up third place in the seven- over. Zedekiah Henderson RB 5-11 190 Las Vegas, Nev. Shadow Ridge HS team district and will advance to a postsea- Three players finished with six points Sean Ivy DL 6-7 265 Las Vegas, N.M. West Las Vegas HS son contest this week. apiece for Muleshoe — juniors Jacob Reyes Adavion Johnson RB 5-10 180 Montgomery, Texas Montgomery HS In Tuesday boys contests: and Jeremiah Barron and sophomore Irvin Milton Jones RB 5-10 175 Katy, Texas Seven Lakes HS Farwell 93, Amarillo Flames 27 — At Farwell, Torres. Tyree Jones DL 6-5 205 Littlefield Littlefield HS Connor Kindrick WR 6-3 195 Orem, Utah Mountain View HS Marcos Lopez QB 6-1 195 Las Cruces Las Cruces HS my class.” and can always be counted Jaylin Marshall ATH 6-4 185 Amarillo Bushland HS Clovis on to attend a workout even Jace Martin OL 6-3 250 Midlothian, Texas Midlothian HS while there were inconsis- Lance McClain DL 6-3 225 Rosenberg, Texas Terry HS from Page 1B Coach says Jayden Minix DB 5-11 180 Carson, Calif. Warren HS tent messages about whether Fullerton, when asked or not a season would hap- Noe Moreno OL 6-2 305 El Paso, Texas Canutillo HS little past Albuquerque, real- about each signee, provided Davieon Morris RB 5-9 170 Irving, Texas MacArthur HS pen. ized he had a chance to play the following: “He wasn’t really good Chris Nevarez OL 6-2 305 Irving, Texas Irving HS Acuna: Ja'Calvin Newsom RB 6-1 200 Albuquerque West Mesa HS college football while doing Fullerton noted with our schemes at first,” Christian Opalsky RB 5-10 180 Summerland, Fla. Key West HS a completely non-football that Acuna’s best games for Fullerton admitted. “But Phadley Petigny DL 6-2 250 Naples, Fla. Naples HS activity. His parents and Clovis were the biggest, once he figured that out, and Jahiree Pittman-Anderson DB 5-10 180 Houston, Texas Alief Taylor HS grandparents operate farms against three Lubbock with his toughness, the sky Michael Remy WR 6-3 180 Coral Springs, Fla. Coral Glades HS and dairies, and a online schools and the second dis- was the limit.” Vi'ontay Robinson DL 6-2 265 Bellmead, Texas La Vega HS video of him tossing hay trict game prior to his injury. Webskowski: Fullerton Fernando Rubio DL 6-3 245 Roswell Goddard HS bales led to about eight col- “Not having a senior year said the Wildcats’ primary Karsten Rueckner DB 5-11 190 Las Cruces Centennial HS lege coaches messaging after hurting his knee is a running back leads by exam- Howard Russell RB 6-1 190 Leesburg, Fla. Phoenix Christian HS him. testament to how hard he’s ple, and has a following Mario Sanchez ATH 5-10 180 Denver City, Texas Denver City HS The 6-foot-2, 278-pound worked. He’s a strong without being loud or bois- Talon Sanders DB 5-10 180 Roswell Roswell HS guard anticipates having an leader, and I can’t say terous. Donte Searcy RB 5-11 200 Oakland, Calif. Berkeley HS opportunity with the enough good things about “(Fans) don’t see Jeston’s Kalon Smith DB 5-10 175 Houston, Texas Hightower HS Mustangs. Ernesto.” work ethic when the gates Micah Smith ATH 6-3 210 Hearne, Texas Hearne HS “They’re rebuilding,” Jimenez: The rare lineman are closed,” Fullerton said, Nate Stone WR 6-2 185 Roswell Goddard HS Jiminez said. “They’ve who started as a sophomore, “when people aren’t in the Ollie Swope OL 6-4 330 Amarillo Tascosa HS Judah Tait RB 5-9 200 Birmingham, Ala. Oak Mountain HS stacked their last class and Jiminez has been a leader stands or the weight room.” Harper Terry QB 5-11 180 Odessa, Texas Permian HS Greg Thomas ATH 5-9 165 Fort Myers, Fla. Dunbar HS Joseph Thompson RB 6-1 195 Albuquerque West Mesa HS run-heavy offenses. The talent are hard to find in Kaden Thurman DB 5-11 200 Amarillo Tascosa HS Bailey Greyhounds were third in football,” ENMU coach Malachi Torres RB 5-10 175 Friona Friona HS the LSC in 2019 with 5,146 Kelley Lee said in a school from Page 1B Jared Tufele LB 6-1 230 Henderson, Nev. Liberty HS yards of offense, but at 965 release, “and we have one in Kaniela Vimahi OL 6-3 285 Euless, Texas Trinity HS TJ Warren OL 6-3 280 Amarillo Palo Duro HS suiting up for the Green and passing yards were the only Devon coming to us from Khalil Whitaker DB 6-3 200 Ashley Ridge, S.C. Ashley Ridge HS Silver, because he’s a team under 2,000 in that cat- our backyard. He will bring Bryzai White TE 6-3 245 San Diego, Calif. Morse HS receiver and ENMU has one egory. a dual threat aspect to our Karston Williams OL 6-3 310 Carthage, Texas Carthage HS of college football’s most “Athletic, big bodied and tight end position.” PAGE 3B Sunday Feb. 7, 2021 IFE L THE EASTERN NEW MEXICO NEWS

Road to history: Adventures of a 50-year friendship

By Alisa Boswell-Gore Railroad Byway. CORRESPONDENT “It's quite an extensive tour of the eastern distance of more seaboard. Early on, we vis- than 2,000 miles ited the Harriet Tubman doesn't interfere A Museum (in Cambridge, with a half-century friend- ship and a shared passion Maryland),” Metcalf said. for history. The two women visited Just ask Linda Sumption the site that once housed of Portales and Jan Metcalf the plantation where of Bristol, New Tubman grew up as a slave Hampshire. and the general store “We were college where a rock was thrown friends. I eventually at her head, causing the moved to New Mexico, brain injury that plagued and Janet to Maryland then her for most of her life. New Hampshire, but we “It was almost like being get together and travel on hallowed ground in a together. You are fortunate sense, because it was the if you have friends for a beginning of Harriet lifetime, and Jan and I Tubman,” Sumption said. have been friends for a “You've read your entire lifetime,” Sumption said. life about this thing that “We've always shared a affected her for her entire strong interest in similar life, and here you are things,” added Metcalf. standing in front of the One of those common place where it happened,” interests - a passion for Metcalf said. “To me, that U.S. history, particularly was the remarkable piece civil rights history. of this. Any time you go to “When we were in col- a historical marker that lege, we went to a small, places you back in that conservative college in time is incredible. It makes South Dakota that was just you feel connected and about 100 percent white alive with history.” students, and we went There were unexpected there during the 1960s,” treasures along the way, Metcalf said. “The college including an old cemetery had decided to integrate with tombstones from the school, and there ended before the Civil War. up being about five Black The road to history is far students who came from from over for the long- all over the country. They time friends, who plan to were so isolated and alone continue their civil rights on that campus, in that part history tour of the U.S. of the world, and Linda “I would really like to do and I got to know them.” an ambitious civil rights Sumption and Metcalf Courtesy photos: Linda Sumption tour of the South,” said said becoming close Above: Linda Sumption poses with Sumption, adding there is friends with the students the Harriet Tubman mural, “Take my a new memorial dedicated gave them a deeper under- Hand,” at the Tubman Museum in to the history of lynching standing of the racial Cambridge, Maryland. that she would like to see issues within their country, in Alabama -- The Left: Sumption, left, and Jan Metcalf and it drove an interest and pose in front of the Brodess Farm plot passion for civil rights his- National Memorial for Peace and Justice in in Bucktown, Maryland, where tory. Tubman lived as a slave. “The civil rights move- Montgomery. ment was really interesting “Whenever we can, we'll to me and Jan as college get back to it,” Sumption students, and it proceeded said. “It will take planning throughout the years, and and coordination, and it last year, it continued as an will be at the top of our interest in the underground list.” railroad,” Sumption said. And the best part of So last January, these historic travels, the Sumption flew to Metcalf's two women said - being home in New Hampshire, able to experience it with a and the two women loaded good friend. up for a road trip to “I can't think of anything Maryland where they trav- better to do in my senior eled the countryside, visit- years than to get on the ing historic landmarks and scene of American history, buildings along the Harriet particularly civil rights his- Tubman Underground tory,” Sumption said. TV crime-fighting formula has changed over years

elevision crime fighting got his man. Criminal Information Center to of TV seconds. No need for war- has come a long way in The formula these days goes check on warrants and identity. rants; this is fast-moving TV Tmy time. Not all of the Karl something like this. The crime- Not today’s crime fighters. drama and good-looking cops in advances are that believable but fighting team is assigned a case They have the Internet at their the field need information. Terry and they all gather in the squad fingertips and apparently great then again Sgt. Joe Friday never ◆ Once the chase is on, Geek can dreamed he could carry a tele- room in front of a monitor that cell service and high speed tap into traffic cams and private Local covers an entire wall. The cap- Internet no matter where they are phone in his pocket. columnist security systems along the way In the days of television’s tain or lead investigator outlines in the field on a case. to be able to directly feed that Dragnet, Friday (Jack Webb) and the case while the resident geek If they encounter a new sus- information into the agent’s, on the team taps at a keyboard to pect in their travels they just his partner Bill Gannon (Harry always connected, earpiece. If a dime on the big guy. Or some bring up photos and background give a name to the geek, sitting the suspect is loose in a large Morgan), cruised the streets of sweet little old lady reported on everyone involved. The leader in front of the big monitor with Los Angeles in an unmarked and strange goings on across the assigns everyone out to different the boss looking over his or her building, Geek can quickly pull extremely inconspicuous sedan street. A stakeout would ensue tasks and locations in pairs. shoulder. Instantly, they know up a blue print and tell them how on the lookout for criminals. and Friday and Gannon would There are always at least two everything about the guy from to corner their man. They burned a lot of shoe leather catch the criminals in the act or pair on the job. where he was born and schooled Joe Friday had it tough folks. and knocked on many a door on at least with the goods on them. Friday and Gannon were on to what he had for supper last Maybe that’s why he only had the way toward getting their At the end of the show they their own without a computer night. Must be an Ancestry.com time for “just the facts ma’am.” man. showed the bad guys with heads geek. Heck, for most of the database on steroids. Finally they would get the big lowered in shame, having their series, even though they had a Geek character can hack into Karl Terry writes for Clovis break in the case when a co-con- mug shot made. It was usually police radio they didn’t even the guy’s bank account, his cell Media Inc. Contact him at: spirator got nervous and dropped boring work, but Friday always have NCIC, the FBI’s National phone and his emails in a matter [email protected] PAGE 4B ✦ SUNDAY, FEB. 7, 2021 LIFE THE EASTERN NEW MEXICO NEWS Mindfulness, growing herbs ahead on show nformation on re- lic, place in food processor entering the work- while it is running until Iforce, mindfulness, Sheryl minced. Pat dry lemon and growing herbs for cook- Borden balm, remove leaves and put ing will be the featured top- ◆ in food processor or blender. Put walnuts and salt on top ics on “Creative Living” Creative 9:30 p.m. Tuesday and noon Living of leaves. Process until fine- Thursday (all times ly chopped but still a bit Mountain). rough. With machine run- Lance Heft is a business- ning, slowly pour in olive man, author and entrepre- love Freekeh because it pro- oil. Stop machine and add neur and has written a book vides children with essential parmesan cheese. Process titled "Your Turn to Win." nutrients, and kids love the briefly to mix. Taste, add name and the flavor. She’ll Lance will talk about tips salt and pepper as needed. demonstrate several ways to for women re-entering the This pesto is light and lemo- incorporate Freekeh grains workforce, or working from ny, and a perfect pasta sauce into other recipes. She’s in summer. Also a great home in a “home-friendly” from Minneapolis. sandwich spread or as an business. He'll also explain Judy Novella is with a key point that prohibits Fairfield Processing Corp. appetizer. Lemon balm most people from pursuing in Danbury, Connecticut, brings a calm and peaceful their dreams. Heft is from and she will talk about the feeling. Collegeville, Pennsylvania. strict requirements regarding Michelle Ontiveros is a rayon from bamboo and How do I can oil with clinical mental health coun- how all products made from herbs? Can I can pesto? selor, and she’s going to bamboo are under close Herbs and oils are both explain what mindfulness is scrutiny by the FTC due to low-acid and together could and why it’s so important to deceptive claims about the support the growth of the keep us calm and self-regu- product. disease-causing Clostridium lated. She says it’s impor- Karla Stockli is the CEO botulinum bacteria. Oils tant to be aware of our for the California Fig may be flavored with herbs physical and emotional Advisory Board, and she’s if they are made up for fresh state. She’s from Clovis. going to talk about the many use, stored in the refrigera- Connie Moyers is a nutritional benefits of con- tor and used within 2 to 3 retired extension home suming fresh and dried figs. days. Fresh herbs must be economist, and she’s going Ounce for ounce, figs pro- washed well and dried com- to talk about growing herbs vide a nutritional punch that pletely before storing in the and then share some recipes is hard to match by any oil. The very best sanitation and ideas for using them. other fruit. Stockli lives in and personal hygiene prac- Some of her ideas include Fresno, California. tices must be used. Pesto is making pesto, cucumber an uncooked seasoning mix- salad, cilantro dressing, and ture of herbs, usually other tasty treats. Moyers Lemon balm including fresh basil and lives in Clovis. pesto some oil. It may be frozen Information on cooking 2 cups lemon balm leaves, for long term storage; there with Freekeh foods, using tightly packed are no home canning recom- rayon from bamboo in 4 garlic cloves mendations. (National sewing and crafts projects, 1 cup shelled walnuts Center for Home Food and the benefits of eating 1 teaspoon salt Preservation) fresh and dried figs will be 1 cup extra virgin olive the featured topics on oil “Creative Living” is pro- “Creative Living” noon 6 ozs. grated Parmesan duced and hosted by Tuesday and 2 p.m. cheese Sheryl Borden. The show Saturday. Fresh ground black pep- is carried by more than 118 Bonnie Matthews is the per PBS stations. Contact her co-founder of Freekeh Rinse lemon balm, let at: Foods, and she says parents soak until needed. Peel gar- [email protected] On the shelves The books listed below pregnant, she is thrust back Olshaker. In the fall of 1980, are now available for into the past when a new John Douglas was called in checkout at the Clovis- piece of evidence surfaces to the manhunt for a white Carver Public Library. The and the case is reopened. supremacist serial killer. A library is open to the pub- “The Missing American” highly mobile and experi- lic, but patrons can still by Kwei Quartey. When her enced sniper, the fugitive visit the online catalog at dreams of rising through the Joseph Paul Franklin was clovis.polarislibrary.com or Accra police ranks like her suspected of racially moti- call 575-769-7840 to late father crash around her, vated murders around the request a specific item for 26-year-old Emma Djan is country. Years later, after curbside pickup. unsure what will become of Franklin’s conviction and her career. Through a sym- subsequent confessions “A Woman’s Work” by pathetic former colleague, while in federal prison to a Marian Betancourt uncovers Emma gets an interview horrific array of other mur- the story of a remarkable with a private detective ders, Douglas sat across woman of the West. Esther agency that takes on cases of from Franklin for the first Morris (1812-1902) was a missing persons, theft, and time to complete the profile unique American woman infidelity. It’s not the future and understand what moti- whose life paralleled the she imagined, but it’s her vated his terrifying evolution dramatic events of the 19th best option. from hate speech to racially century: abolition, railroads, “The Friendship Cure: and religiously inspired Civil War, and suffrage. She Reconnecting in the killing. lived on three frontiers and Modern World” by Kate “Incredible made a difference on each Leaver. Whether best Archaeology” by Paul Bahn one. Ultimately, by organiz- friends, girlfriends, bro- guides a journey through the ing what may have been the mances, Twitter followers, second most important tea Facebook friends, or long- best archaeological sites the party in American history, distance buddies, there is so world has to offer. These she made it possible for much about friendship we sites tell a story spanning Wyoming to be the first either don’t know or don’t thousands of years, ranging place in America where articulate. Why do some from the well-known to hid- women could vote. friendships last a lifetime, den gems, handpicked for “This is How I Lied” by while others are only tempo- their desirability as destina- Heather Gudenkauf. Twenty- rary? How do you break up tions. Explore the cliff five years ago, the body of with a toxic friend? How dwellings at Mesa Verde, the sixteen-year-old Eve Knox can we live in the most con- Abu Simbel twin temples in was found in the caves near nected age and still find our- Egypt that commemorate her home in small-town selves stuck in the greatest Pharaoh Ramesses II and his Grotto, Iowa-discovered by loneliness epidemic of our queen Nefertari, the her best friend, Maggie, and time? What if meaningful Terracotta Army in China, her sister, Nola. There were friendships are the solution, the Nazca Lines in Peru that a handful of suspects, not a distraction? Leaver’s feature large geoglyphs in including her boyfriend, much anticipated manifesto the desert soil, and the hill Nick, but without sufficient brings to light what modern fort known as Maiden Castle evidence the case ultimately friendship means, how it can in England. Come along a went cold. For decades survive, why we need it and striking tour through human Maggie was haunted by what we can do to get the history! Eve’s death and that horrible most from it. night. Now a detective in “The Killer’s Shadow” — Summaries provided Grotto, and seven months by John Douglas and Mark by library staff THE EASTERN NEW MEXICO NEWS LOCAL SUNDAY, FEB. 7, 2021 ✦ PAGE 5B Weather to take turn for the frigid School menus a stick, cereal, juice, milk; Lunch, day through the coming work week, “The second front will bring an arctic Clovis elementary BY THE STAFF OF THE NEWS hamburger, oven fries, fruit, milk especially across eastern New Mexico, airmass with a long duration subfreez- Monday: Breakfast, waffles; Lunch, oven roasted drumstick, Wednesday: Breakfast, French Attention eastern New Mexico: It’s as a strong and broad long-wave trough ing temperature event possible across mashed potatoes, bravy, mixed toast sticks, cereal, juice, milk; time to start bundling up againas tem- carves its way into the central and east- much of the eastern plains through the vegetables, fresh kiwi, whole Lunch, personal pizza, corn on the peratures in the area are expected to dip ern US and a shortwave trough dives latter half of the week and into the southward into the western US. Models wheat roll, fresh veggies cob, fruit, milk down into the 20s this week. weekend. Depending on how the west- Tuesday: Breakfast, cinnamon Thursday: Breakfast, oatmeal Though today’s forecast calls for aren’t agreeing too well yet on the ern US shortwave trough develops, track, depth, or timing of the western roll; Lunch, french bread pizza, bar, cereal, juice, milk; Lunch, hot temperatures in the mid-60s, the warm there may also be a chance for snow to veggie cup, ranch dressing, chilled dog, pickle spear, carrots, fruit, weather will only last until Tuesday and US shortwave trough. However, they develop across parts of northern and are coming into some general agree- mixed fruit, fresh veggies milk a low of 21 degrees will cool every- western New Mexico on Wednesday ment on a couple of back door cold Wednesday: Manager’s choice thing down. fronts,” said the National Weather night,” the report said. Thursday: Breakfast, home- Dora schools From there Wednesday’s high will be Service’s local forecast discussion. In preparation for the upcoming cold made breakfast burrito; Lunch, Monday: Breakfast, in the low 40s, and Thursdays will hit in The first cold front this week is fronts, the lowest high temperature so baked ravoli, marinara sauce, sea- biscuit/sausage, or cereal, milk, the mid-30s. Nightly lows are expected expected to pass through the area far for this fall-winter was 25 degrees soned corn, mini carrots, ranch fruit; Lunch, chicken nuggets, roll, to be in the mid-teens by Wednesday, Monday night, causing a minor cooling on Oct. 27 according to the Agriculture dressing, chilled peaches, whole fruit, salad, mashed potatoes, and remain there steadily through the that will not carry over much into the Science Center at Clovis. The coldest wheat roll, fresh veggies gravy, steamed broccoli milk weekend. next day. temperature so far for this fall-winter Friday: Breakfast, banana Tuesday: Breakfast, sausage Snow is not anticipated for the area. Stronger fronts are expected stretch was 9 degrees reported on Jan. bread; Lunch, bacon cheeseburg- breakfast pizza, or cereal, milk, er, seasoned fries, veggie cup & “Temperatures will cool with each Wednesday night and Thursday. 12 and Dec. 31. fruit; Lunch, tacos, pinto beans, ranch dressing, chilled pears, fresh salad, (tostada chips hs), fruit, veggies milk, burritos Clovis middle/high school Wednesday: Breakfast, French Roswell Republican leaves party toast sticks, or cereal, fruit,, milk; Monday: Breakfast, waffles; Lunch, oven roasted drumstick, Lunch, hamburgers, cheese, let- By Daniel J. Chacón the week that he thought he government regulations of the state House of tuce, tomato, pickle, tater tots, had become a distraction to abortion unconstitutional. Representatives after the mashed potatoes, bravy, mixed THE SANTA FE NEW vegetables, fresh kiwi, whole salad, fruit milk the party — this wasn’t But proponents of the bill November general election. MEXICAN wheat roll, fresh veggies Thursday: Breakfast, because he was mad at the expressed urgency in repeal- But they are still outnum- biscuit/gravy, or cereal, fruit, milk, SANTA FE — A Roswell party — it was because he ing the measure amid con- Tuesday: Breakfast, cinnamon bered by Democrats nearly 2- roll; Lunch, french bread pizza, grab &go cereal; Lunch, pizza, Republican who voted in thought he has become a dis- cerns the U.S. Supreme to-1. green beans, salad, fruit, milk favor of repealing an anti- traction to the party,” said Court will weaken or over- veggie cup, ranch dressing, chilled “We were 24 members last mixed fruit, Jell-O, fresh veggies quated anti-abortion law has Townsend, who also said he turn the ruling with new year and we’re 24 members Elida schools left the GOP. Wednesday: Manager’s choice had received about 100 calls Justice Amy Coney Barrett again right now,” Townsend Monday: Breakfast, Cheese State Rep. Phelps about Anderson on Friday. giving conservatives a wide Thursday: Breakfast, home- said. omelet, tortilla, cereal, milk, juice; Anderson, who broke ranks The repeal of the abortion majority on the bench. made breakfast burrito; Lunch, Despite Anderson’s depar- baked ravoli, marinara sauce, sea- Lunch, lasagna, bread, sticks, with his party in the vote last bill, which makes it a felony Reaction to Anderson green beans, milk, fruit week on a 1969 bill that to perform an abortion in switching from Republican ture, Townsend said House soned corn, mini carrots, ranch criminalizes abortion, has New Mexico, has been a to “declined to state” gener- Republicans remain “very dressing, chilled peaches, whole Tuesday: Breakfast, Pancakes, changed his voter registration divisive issue among law- ated mixed reactions. united.” wheat roll, fresh veggies cereal, milk, juice; Lunch, tacos, to a “declined to state,” makers. “Rep. Anderson, straight “Would we have rather that Friday: Breakfast, banana beans, rice bread; Lunch, bacon cheeseburg- House Minority Leader Jim It went to the Senate floor up, is and has always been a Phelps stayed on board?” he Wednesday: Breakfast, er, seasoned fries, veggie cup & Townsend confirmed Friday. in 2019 but failed when eight decent man,” Rep. Angelica said. “Absolutely.” Breakfast burritos, cereal, milk, ranch dressing, chilled pears, “I received a letter from moderate and conservative- Rubio, D-Las Cruces, wrote Townsend said he’s known juice; Lunch, green chili cookie, fresh veggies him, and I have had a conver- leaning Democrats joined all on Twitter. “This doesn’t sur- Anderson for many years. stew/chicken, noodle soup, milk, fruit sation with him, and he has 16 Republican senators in prise me one bit, and says so According to Anderson’s leg- Portales schools left the Republican Party,” voting to keep the law on the much about who he is.” Thursday: Breakfast, Breakfast islative biography, he served Monday: Meals served prior Townsend said. books. In an email, John Block, pizza, cereal, milk, juice; Lunch, as a representative from Friday due to parent-teacher con- Anderson declined a chicken bites, mashed potatoes,, With six of those who founded the conserva- 1977-80 and has served again ferences request for an interview. gravy, corn, milk, fruit Democrats no longer in tive news website Piñon in the House since 2019. Tuesday: Breakfast, pancake on “Sorry,” he wrote in a text office, five of whom lost Post, wrote that Anderson’s “When the dust settles a stick, applesauce, juice; lunch, Floyd schools message late Friday. “Not their primary races in June to “vote against human life in over this, he’ll still be a chicken sandwich, romaine lettuce, Monday: Breakfast, sausage today as I have done more progressive candidates the womb is why his con- friend of mine, whether he cherry tomato, apple and biscuits, cereal, fruit, juice, enough.” who made the anti-abortion stituents forced him to relin- continues or resigns or what- Wednesday: Breakfast, cream milk; Lunch, bean/beef tostada, Anderson, 69, who repre- law a major campaign issue, quish his standing with the ever he does,” Townsend cheese bagel, sliced apples, juice; sents portions of the conser- the repeal is expected to head Republican Party.” refried beans, peaches, salad, milk said. “Phelps was a friend of lunch, cheeseburger, chips, car- vative Chaves, Lea and to the desk of Gov. Michelle “He must now resign and Tuesday: Breakfast, breakfast mine before this all started, rots, orange Roosevelt counties, sided Lujan Grisham this year. And allow local leaders to fill his Thursday: Breakfast, omlet burrito w/salsa, cereal, fruit, juice, with seven Democrats on the the governor, who made the seat with someone who truly and Phelps will be a friend of milk; Lunch, fish nuggets, mine when this is all over w/flour tortilla, banana juice; lunch, House Health and Human repeal one of her top legisla- represents the 66th District,” chicken leg, mashed potato, coleslaw, peaches, crackers, Services Committee in vot- tive priorities, is expected to he wrote. “The time for with.” salad, milk When the Republican cau- cucumbers sticks, roll, pear ing to repeal the abortion give it her approval. wishy-washy, and unreliable Friday: Breakfast, mini waffle, Wednesday: Breakfast, blueber- ban. The current New Mexico ‘Republicans’ in the House is cus spoke about Anderson ry muffin squares, cereal, fruit, changing his party affiliation, Mixzees dried fruit, juice; lunch, His vote drew criticism statute is unenforceable over.” chicken fajita burrito, refried beans, juice, milk; Lunch, chicken que- from his constituents, as well because of Roe v. Wade, the Anderson’s decision to Townsend said “every one of broccoli, frozen fruit cup sadilla, peas, carrots, chilled as calls for his resignation. landmark 1973 ruling that leave the GOP comes after them spoke highly” of pears, salad, milk “He had told me earlier in found overly restrictive state Republicans gained a seat in Anderson. Texico schools Thursday: Breakfast, scrambled Monday: Breakfast, Pop Tart, eggs, whole wheat toast, cereal, cereal, juice, milk; Lunch, PBJ, fruit, juice, milk; Lunch, Frito pie, Clovis High alum throwing hat in for NM seat chips, carrot sticks, fruit, milk corn, applesauce, cornbread, Tuesday: Breakfast, pancake on salad, milk By Lily Martin for me. It was building my name recog- Phoenix, and we need to make sure STAFF WRITER nition and getting out to the voters. We we’re creating opportunities here in [email protected] built my name ID from scratch and I New Mexico and not exporting our think that was my biggest detriment. I young people and our jobs elsewhere,” Senior calendar A Clovis High School alum has was up against an opponent who had Vander Dussen said. thrown his hat in the ring for New been around the Republican Party for The Republican Party of New Curry Resident Senior Meals ness, 2 p.m. adults with disabil- Mexico’s 1st Congressional District, decades,” he said. “I think this summer Mexico stated in a press release a nom- Association ities bingo, 6 p.m. virtual bingo should Rep. Deb Haaland be confirmed will be different because the ination deadline will be established if 901 W. 13th St., Clovis Wednesday: 9 a.m. virtual as Interior Secretary. Republican Party knows who I am, the and when a vacancy is created. The 575-762-9405 exercise, 2 p.m. adults with dis- All meals served with 2% Jared Vander Dussen, now of people of Albuquerque, which encom- nomination would be handled by its abilities bingo milk and tossed salad w/dress- Albuquerque, is one of six Republicans passes CD-1, know who I am and I central committee for CD-1. The dis- Thursday: 9 a.m. dance 2 fit- to express interest in the potential spe- think we can really make a difference ing trict includes most of Albuquerque and ness, 1 p.m. Facebook Live, 6 cial election. Democratic candidates within the district.” Monday: Spaghetti, blended have not yet been disclosed, and a date Vander Dussen’s key issues during Bernalillo County, Torrance County vegetables, tossed salad, garlic p.m. virtual Spanish bingo for Haaland’s confirmation hearing has his first run centered around conserva- and areas of Santa Fe, Sandoval, and toast, cake Friday: 9 a.m. virtual exer- not yet been set. tive approaches to the economy, immi- Valencia Counties. Tuesday: Chicken nuggets, cise Vander Dussen’s first run for public gration, government regulation, and The first announcement of candidates mashed potatoes, green beans, office came in 2019 when he rebuilding the middle class in New from the state GOP names Vander mushrooms, carrots, cookie Community Services Center announced a bid for the same seat. He Mexico. While continuing to back those Dussen along with Eddy Aragon, Peggy Wednesday: Pinto beans 1100 Community Way, did not make it past the 2020 primaries, stances, he is also looking towards the Muller Aragon, Michaela Chaves, with ham, potatoes with onions Portales but he hopes that the experience he state’s future generations. Ronnie Lucero and 2020 GOP nominee & peppers, cornbread, spiced 575-356-8576 gained last year will be beneficial mov- “We have a decreased opportunity Michelle Garcia Holmes. On Friday, apples Milk, coffee and tea served however, Holmes announced her with- Thursday: Breakfast for ing forward. here in New Mexico. Our young people daily “That was a huge building campaign flee to either Denver, Dallas or drawal from the race. lunch, scrambled eggs, sausage links, potatoes with Monday: Sloppy joe on bun, onions & peppers, pancakes low-salt green peas, tater tots, United Way calling for local award nominations and yogurt low-fat yogurt Friday: Steak fingers Tuesday: Beef tacos, BY THE STAFF OF THE NEWS ing in a 12-month period, will Volunteer Action Center volunteered in a 12-month w/gravy, roasted potatoes, Spanish rice, pinto beans, apri- be accepted through March 5. Coordinator for United Way, consecutive period and that blended vegetables, dinner roll, cots CLOVIS — The United Awards will be presented dur- said in the release. “Without have been certified through chocolate pudding Wednesday: Fried chicken, Way of Eastern New Mexico ing National Volunteer Week, the help of the many volun- United Way of Eastern New mashed potatoes, low-salt is calling for local nomina- April 18-24 in whatever for- teers in our local communi- Mexico and the Volunteer Friendship Senior Center gravy, green beans, slice white tions for the President’s mat current COVID-19 pro- ties, many of the agencies and Action Center. Certification 901 W. 13th St. bread, apple slices Volunteer Service Awards, tocols required. organizations would struggle is available at 575-769-7908 according to a UWENM “Volunteers are an integral to help those in need.” volunteerenm.org. All Facebook Live events are Thursday: Green chili release. part of many local organiza- Volunteers, from the age of For details about the on the City of Clovis Senior cheeseburger, ranch beans, Nominations for the tions and agencies and are the five and up, are eligible to be award, see the “President’s Center Facebook Page French fries, applesauce awards, meant to honor those unsung heroes, stepping in to nominated for the award. Volunteer Award” link at Monday: 9 a.m. virtual exer- Friday: Pork burrito, buttered who dedicated a significant help and assist to keep things Awards will be presented unitedwayenm.org or call cise, 1 p.m. Facebook Live corn & peppers, tossed salad amount of time to volunteer- running”, Casey Peacock, based on the amount of hours 211. Tuesday: 9 a.m. dance 2 fit- w/dressing, crackers, peaches Record snowfall and bad Valentine’s gifts in a snowdrift in the Texas to deliver feed to cattle cents, three jumbo rolls of another box of chocolates.)” Panhandle near the New stranded on the snow-bound Bounty paper towels for $1 FEB. 7 Mexico border. Plains. and Maryland Club coffee Happy 60th 1956: Recent snowfall, for 89 cents per pound. On this date ... which measured 13 to 17 birthday … inches, was believed to be a Bargains at 1956: A Continental Lose weight, 1981: The Clovis record for Curry County. the store … Kiwanis Club was celebrat- Trailways bus driver was “This was proven by por- Stansell’s Valentine … ing its 60th year in the city. recuperating in a Tucumcari ing through back files of the 1971: hospital after walking 13 Clovis News-Journal,” the Highland Super Market, 1981: A Clovis weight- The service club’s frater- miles through a blizzard to newspaper reported. located at Main and Manana loss center had an idea for a nity members had included of Curry County. bring aid to 15 passengers Newspaper records streets in Clovis, was the Valentine’s Day present: a U.S. Sens. Sam Bratton and Clovis’ Kiwanis Club held of his stalled vehicle. showed 11 inches had fallen place to shop for “lower Diet Center gift certificate. Carl Hatch, New Mexico its first meeting on Jan. 5, John D. Hearon was being in 1918, and that had food prices,” according to The Diet Center, located at Gov. A.W. Hockenhull and 1921, club records show. treated for “snow blindness, occurred over 21 days. its newspaper advertise- 1708 N. Prince, suggested: Charlie Scheurich, who is exhaustion and exposure,” Clovis Air Force Base ment. “Start someone you love on credited with parlaying his Pages Past is compiled the Clovis News-Journal was involved in “Operation Stansell’s offered the road to a happier, healthier, friendship with Gov. George by David Stevens. Contact: reported. His bus had stalled Haylift,” using helicopters Palmolive liquid for 49 thinner life! (It’s either that or Curry into the establishment [email protected] PAGE 6B ✦ SUNDAY, FEB. 7, 2021 THE EASTERN NEW MEXICO NEWS All-mail bond election doubles turnout so far

BY THE STAFF OF THE NEWS It is the district’s first such the 21,303 mailed to registered 1,009-316 and a general obliga- at Yucca Middle School, securi- election since 2019 changes to voters within the district. tion bond passing 1,149-215. ty fencing at Gattis Middle CLOVIS — With just under election law moved such elec- That’s a voter turnout of 14.7% The ballot includes a ques- School and roof and HVAC two weeks to go, the all-mail tions to mail. The Portales and so far. tion on renewing $10 million in replacements at CHS, Sandia bond election for Clovis Texico school districts have According to the Curry general obligation bonds ques- Municipal Schools has more previously held successful County Clerk’s office, voter tion and public school capital Elementary, the Student than doubled the turnout of the bond elections through the turnout was 6.4% for the last improvements act tax. Passage Support Center and the election that preceded it. process, and there are two such Clovis school bond election in of both questions would not iAcademy at Lincoln Jackson. The election is being held by elections in Roosevelt County 2017. However, that election change property tax rates. District-wide expenditures mail, with ballots due to the ongoing for the Portales and also featured two board mem- The funds would go towards would include maintenance and Curry County Clerk’s Office by Floyd school districts. ber elections, with one race renovations at Barry mail or in person 7 p.m. Feb. A CMS release said that as of contested. Both tax measures Elementary, building upgrades items including student 16. Results will be reported Thursday, the clerk’s office had overwhelmingly passed in at the Clovis High agricultural Chromebooks, classroom soft- later that evening. received 3,125 ballots out of 2017, with a tax levy passing farm, parking lot improvements ware and wi-fi routers. Relief package Obituaries Death notices picks up steam Valerie Jean (Gerk) Hinkle Rep. Javier Martinez, D- Age: 59 By Dan Boyd City of Residence: Las Cruces and Clovis, NM and Pilar Martinez Albuquerque, said during Thursday’s meeting of the Date & Place of Birth: April 24, 1961 ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL Senate Finance Committee. Date & Place of Death: February 1, 2021 Clovis, NM Occupation: Juvenile Probation Officer SANTA FE — A package The pandemic and restric- tions enacted in response to Services: Saturday, February 27, 2021 10:00 am of bills aimed at buoying Kingswood Methodist church, Clovis, NM. All attending New Mexico workers, it by the Lujan Grisham administration in an attempt MUST wear a mask inside. restaurants and bars hit hard In lieu of flowers, donate to The Colon Cancer Coalition by the COVID-19 pandemic to slow the virus’ spread have taken a toll on parts of Arrangements by Steed-Todd Funeral Home, (575) 763- is picking up steam at the 5541, steedtodd.com Roundhouse. New Mexico’s economy. A key Senate committee Statewide, taxable gross on Thursday approved two receipts from New Mexico’s pandemic relief bills without hospitality and food indus- dissent, including a measure tries were down by more that includes $600 rebates than $445 million — or for New Mexico workers 21.8% — over the previous who make less than $15 per year’s levels through the first hour and a four-month tax five months of the current holiday for restaurants, budget year, according to breweries, food trucks and state Taxation and Revenue other dining establishments. Department data. That bill, along with sev- The bills will take effect eral others, is expected to be immediately upon being voted on this week by the signed if they pass both leg- full Senate, while the House islative chambers with at could move rapidly on addi- least a two-thirds majority tional recovery measures. vote. The goal, top-ranking law- In all, Lujan Grisham has makers say, is to get the called for up to $475 million recovery package to Gov. to be spent on one-time pan- Michelle Lujan Grisham’s demic relief measures during desk this month so it can be the 60-day session that start- signed into law. ed last month, although she “It’s critically important has not stipulated to law- for us to move quickly with makers which specific pro- some very targeted relief,” grams should be funded. PAGE 8B Sunday Jan. 31, 2021 UNDAY READER S THE EASTERN NEW MEXICO NEWS

Getty Images: Jonathan Ernst Barack Obama bumps fists with Kamala Harris as they arrive for the inauguration of Joe Biden on Jan. 20. ‘In a different place’ ❏ Some see Harris as in opinion polls. The Democratic woman. polls. example, she’d rejected demands Party has recognized that it would “The feeling that we had then “I assure you, if Vice President for investigations into a pair of more willing to lean not have won the presidency, or was that the historical nature of his Biden had said the same thing, the police shootings of Black men in the pair of crucial Senate run-offs candidacy was obvious, that we reaction would be very different,” 2014 and 2015. into racial issues than in Georgia last month that gave it did not want (him) to get pigeon- she said. She has since positioned herself Obama. control of Congress, were it not holed as a candidate who was run- But Jarrett said she also believes as a leader in rooting out racial for high turnout among Black vot- ning to be the first Black presi- Obama’s tenure helped erode the bias in policing and opposing ers, Black women in particular. dent,” said David Axelrod, his double standard she saw and gave By Noah Bierman cash-bail laws. She spoke out “Politicians, or leaders, tend to chief political adviser. “We wanted both Biden and Harris unprece- forcefully after the videotaped LOS ANGELES TIMES follow the voters,” said Cornell him to be a candidate who was dented opportunity to discuss race death of George Floyd during an WASHINGTON — Barack Belcher, a pollster for Obama and running for president who was more frankly. arrest last May jump-started a Obama campaigned for president author of “A Black Man in the Black, which was different.” “In the current climate, people summer of nationwide protests for in 2008 with explicit advice from White House: Barack Obama and While recognizing the impor- would not be surprised by either a racial justice. his inner circle to downplay “any the Triggering of America’s tance of Rep. Shirley Chisholm’s President Biden or a Vice She and Biden remain under topic that might be labeled racial Racial-Aversion Crisis.” 1972 campaign as the first Black President Harris making a similar pressure, however, to push harder grievance” or to “do anything that “In 2008, we didn’t have hun- and woman seeking the comment,” Jarrett said. “We are on such issues — and certainly would box me in as ‘the Black dreds of thousands of our young Democratic presidential nomina- now talking about that in a way more forcefully than prior people on the street protesting tion, and of civil rights leader people were not a decade ago. ... candidate,’” he wrote in his recent Democratic administrations, racism and the sort of systemic Jesse Jackson’s runs in 1984 and In a sense, it’s progress.” memoir. including Obama’s. Many young racial issues that you see with the 1988, the members of the Obama Donna Brazile — who was the Just over a dozen years later, activists who have moved to the Vice President Kamala Harris was criminal justice system,” he said. team did not want their candidate first Black woman to lead a major Those issues were propelled to to be viewed as “making a state- party’s presidential campaign, forefront of civil rights advocacy ushered into the White House by over the last decade, while frus- the drumline of historically Black the “front and center,” polls ment” in a way that lowered when she managed former Vice showed, among voters who chose expectations that he could win, President Al Gore’s bid in 2000 — trated that Obama did not make Howard University, her alma more strides, recognize that even mater, to be the second in com- Biden and Harris. Axelrod said. said it’s too much to expect any The two Democrats have a Valerie Jarrett, a close adviser politician to fix systemic problems many Black voters were reluctant mand of an administration that has to pressure him because of the made closing the racial wealth gap friendship that began when Harris and friend throughout Obama’s that permeate the culture, the obstacles he faced as the first one of four policy “pillars.” was district attorney of San political career, said, “We never economy and the criminal justice Black president. Distinctions in tone, emphasis Francisco and a prominent Obama used the words ‘racial grievance.’” system. Asking Black Americans and perception between the supporter early on, when his presi- She went on, “I would describe it to fix racism, she said, is like “It was actually harder as an nation’s first Black president and dential bid was seen as unlikely. as sensitivity that, in order to get telling them to solve global warm- accountability organization to its first Black vice president are She traveled to Springfield, elected ... to govern effectively, ing, just because the floods hit the demand things,” said Hatch, the not easy to draw. Obama spoke Illinois, in February 2007 for his the country needs to see that you low-lying areas first. activist at Color of Change. “The personally and poignantly about campaign launch. Obama drew will govern for the entire country.” “We have to dispense with the Biden-Harris administration does- the nation’s troubled racial history criticism in 2013 for joking at an Obama spoke out about racism notion that Black people can n’t actually have that sort of veil — including in a 2008 event that Harris “happens to be, on many occasions during his uproot systemic racism in the of immunity from the Black com- Philadelphia speech sparked by by far, the best-looking attorney presidency, though mainly when United States of America,” she munity, and I think we expect to controversy over his pastor — and general in the country.” The con- events all but demanded that the said. “We don’t have the power to see promises fulfilled.” Harris similarly has been able to troversy, though mild, pointed to first Black president do so. He do that. We don’t control the insti- Alicia Garza, a co-founder of interpret her personal encounters the different set of challenges invoked his young self and his tutions. We’re not in charge.” Black Lives Matter who now leads with the country’s racial divide for Harris faces as a woman in poli- young daughters when an unarmed the advocacy groups Black Futures non-Black audiences. tics. teenager, Trayvon Martin, was ■ ■ ■ Lab and Black to the Future Yet many see Harris as willing They spoke several times during shot dead in 2012 in Florida by a Action Fund, said Harris uses the to lean harder into her public iden- the 2020 Democratic primary and self-styled neighborhood watch- Harris, whose Black father emi- language of the movement to talk tity as a Black woman and to place general election campaigns, man and delivered a stirring eulo- grated from Jamaica, wrote in her about racism as a structural prob- societal racial gaps higher on her according to advisers, including gy in 2015 for the nine people memoir that her Indian-born moth- lem. Obama and Biden, she said, agenda. That is widely interpreted when Harris was still a presiden- killed in a Black church in er, who had custody of Harris and were more likely to describe racial as an important marker in the tial candidate, and Obama, while Charleston, South Carolina, by a her sister, Maya, when the parents divisions as an issue of individuals country’s movement, spurred by a neutral, was widely believed to white supremacist. His Justice separated, “understood very well failing to understand each other. Trump presidency that placed favor Biden. An Obama aide said Department made efforts to that she was raising two black For example, Obama held a white racial grievance at its center, the former president has never change policing practices, includ- daughters.” She wanted to make “beer summit” with Harvard’s by a summer of nationwide explicitly advised Harris on how ing establishing a task force that sure “we would grow into confi- Gates Jr. and the white police offi- protests over the abuse of Black to address race on the political wrote a guidebook for police dent, proud black women.” cer who mistakenly arrested him, people in the criminal justice sys- stage. departments — initiatives that Harris came of age at Howard attempting to bridge that gap in were abandoned by the Trump University, the preeminent histori- tem and by a Capitol siege last understanding. Biden, as a presi- ■ ■ ■ administration. cally Black university, and cites month in which Donald Trump dential candidate, told a story of Advisers were cautious about her membership in Alpha Kappa supporters waving Confederate his reconciliation as a young man flags sought to overturn Joe Obama did not shy from drawing Obama into too many Alpha, a Black sorority, as forma- with a Black antagonist nicknamed Biden’s election. addressing the country’s history of such discussions. They expressed tive. Though she spent much of “Both of them are candidates racism. But he presented himself frustration in 2009 when his her adult life in San Francisco and “Corn Pop.” that act as translators on race,” as a bridge-builder and empha- remarks promoting his signature entered politics there as the district Harris, Garza said, understands said Arisha Hatch, vice president sized that he was raised by white healthcare plan, the Affordable attorney, she launched her presi- racism as a problem that “perme- and chief of campaigns at Color of grandparents in an America that Care Act, were ignored in the con- dential campaign in Oakland, with ates every aspect of our lives” and Change, a progressive political had begun the process of overcom- troversy over his comment that a jazz-funk band playing 1970s is not the result of a few white group that focuses on civil rights. ing its fraught history on race. He police acted “stupidly” in arresting protest music, and based it in nationalists and “fanatics.” But she “We’re just in a different place persuaded doubters during the a Black Harvard professor, Henry Baltimore, two cities known as worries that the Biden administra- as a country.” 2008 Democratic nomination con- Louis Gates Jr., as he tried to enter Black cultural and political cen- tion may lose its resolve to tackle test, including Black voters, that his home. ters. systemic racism as other crises ■ ■ ■ he could win a general election. Jarrett said she not only worried Harris had a mixed record on take precedence. He coolly dismissed overtly racist that Obama would lose momentum police reform during her years as a “I think the question is not so In the wake of police shootings lies promoted by Trump that he for the bill but was annoyed that a prosecutor and attorney general, much what her perspective on the of Black people caught on video, was not American and stereotypi- single sentence at the end of a and as a presidential candidate, question will be,” Garza said. It is, Americans of all races increasing- cal slurs from others that his wife news conference appeared to hurt she was forced on the defensive she went on, “What power does ly cite racial equity as a top issue Michelle was an “angry” Black his standing among white voters in for her tough-on-crime stands. For she have to address it?” PAGE 8B ✦ SUNDAY, FEB. 7, 2021 THE EASTERN NEW MEXICO NEWS Sunday, February 7, 2021 Comics Cl o v i s Me d i a In c .

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