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SERVING CLOVIS, PORTALES AND THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES EasternNewMexicoNews.com Officials discuss marijuana response ❏ Police chief raises concern of detecting intoxication. By Kevin Wilson EDITOR [email protected] CLOVIS — Recreational marijuana will be a reality in New Mexico, Clovis Mayor David Lansford said. The only variable for Clovis is how the city chooses to deal with it. Lansford addressed the Clovis City Commission at the conclusion of its Thursday meeting with news that Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has placed recreational marijuana legalization on the agenda for the 2020 legisla- Staff photo: David Grieder tive session. The 30-day session can only deal From left, Andy Chase Cundiff and Paul Saiz reflect on getting their professional musical start in the company of Norman with budgetary issues unless the governor’s and Vi Petty. office makes a special exception. With Democrats holding solid majorities in both houses, Lansford said he has no doubt Lujan Grisham will receive legislation that she wouldn’t have reservations signing. “It’s a tidal wave that’s going to go,” Lansford said. “I don’t see it not happening. What we’ll have to decide is if we allow it here, Studio reunion and if we do, how we’re going to regulate it.” He said as the local governmental body for ❏ the city, it will have three options: Alumni of Norman and Vi Petty Recording Studios gather in Clovis. ■ Opt-in: The city allows recreational mari- juana in its incorporated areas and decides on By David Grieder studio in 1981 by a vocal- ber of the group,” Dusty Clovis, came by to look zoning regulations for businesses that do offer focused quartet “Aslan” Neergaard told The News of fondly on the records it. STAFF WRITER ■ [email protected] made of siblings Craig Petty. And when Petty died “Saturday Night” and “Baby Opt-out: Marijuana will continue to be Bogard and Dusty Neergaard in 1984, “for us, that was Come Closer” that he and his illegal in the incorporated areas of Clovis. CLOVIS — The most and their spouses, Lynn Ann really the day the music group recorded with Petty in ■ Hybrid opt-in: The city takes no official famous alumni of the and Bill. died,” she added. 1979 and 1981, respectively. position on marijuana, and all regulations Norman and Vi Petty Craig, Lynn Ann and Craig and Dusty said they He was still impressed at regarding it are left in the state’s hands. Recording Studios are Dusty came in from New have copies of their record- how “down-to-earth” Petty At Lansford’s request, Clovis Police Chief known world-round, but Jersey for the occasion, join- ings somewhere and are hop- was even then, having Doug Ford addressed the commission on how there are many others who ing what Chase Gentry of the ing to convey them to the already worked with and such changes would affect law enforcement. recorded in the now-iconic chamber estimated to be over Rock & Roll Museum, in the supported legendary artists. Ford said this legislation has been anticipated space or worked with the 150 attendees from around Chamber basement, where “It was kind of like, when and he’s talked to police chiefs from Colorado. Those discussions have covered successes, mis- producing couple. the country and overseas. Saturday’s gathering was he walked in the room we steps and unintended consequences of legaliza- On Saturday, the The quartet — now miss- held. That underscores one stopped breathing,” said Clovis/Curry County tion. ing Bill Neergaard, who died of Gentry’s points in reflect- Andy Chase Cundiff, a radio A glaring issue Ford sees is figuring out if Chamber of Commerce host- in 1995 — were at the time ing on the “alumni” event — disc jockey with Petty in the drivers are under the influence of marijuana. ed its first alumni event to in their twenties, having the first of its kind for the ‘70s now living in Amarillo. The drug’s presence is currently verified via recollect on the space and grown up in Portales and museum — in that there is “He was already legendary.” blood draws, but two of his officers have taken people that produced the attended Eastern New still excellent music made Both Saiz and Cundiff con- drug recognition expert training. As far as what “Clovis sound” while shar- Mexico University. The trio decades ago at the studios tinued careers in music, but amount of drug in the system would be accept- ing stories and reminiscing reflected on the gravity of that remains largely undis- they were still soft for the able, Ford said that’s one thing the state would on old times. recording in a space that had covered. place where they got their have to determine at the time of implementation The years have a way of already hosted Holly, Roy “Realizing that there’s so start. The alumni gathering as, “there’s no national standard.” “goin’ faster than a roller Orbison and Bobby Vee (just much more music than we’ve continued Saturday after- Commissioner Rube Render said if you were coaster,” to quote the Buddy to name a few) and also on even tapped into in this noon with a visit to the old to “light up a doobie” the drug could stay in Holly and the Crickets song, the support and kindness museum,” Gentry said. studio on Seventh Street, your system for weeks. He asked Ford how that “Everyday,” recording at the they received from Norman Some records were already where attendees anticipated would factor into determining intoxication. Petty Studio in 1957. That and Vi. behind glass at the museum taking another crack at song was covered at the same “He was like a fifth mem- Saturday, and Paul Saiz, of singing some old standards. CLOVIS on Page 7A AMVETS post building closed until further notice ❏ Post under investigation for misappropriation of funds and violation of bylaws. By Mathew Brock trustee for the AMVETS Department of Gaming Commission came to the STAFF WRITER New Mexico’s Board of Trustees, the board’s attention two years ago, but was [email protected] post is under audit and he expects a never addressed by Post #14’s leader- final report to be delivered in two ship, prompting an investigation. CLOVIS — Members of the local weeks. But Post #14 Quartermaster Beth American Veterans (AMVETS) chapter So far, the audit has uncovered two Knight said the AMVETS Department showed up for their usual activities on liens on the building, according to an of New Mexico hadn’t given the mem- July 6 to find the locks of their local open letter from the Board of Trustees bers of Post #14 any information or post building had been changed. to members of Post #14 released instruction to rectify any problems AMVETS Post #14 in Clovis has Thursday. before it closed the building. Knight been closed until further notice while it The first lien is $12,000 in disputed said state AMVETS officials haven’t is under investigation by the district charges owed to the Gaming communicated clearly with the mem- Staff photo: Mathew Brock branch of AMVETS for misappropria- Commission from 2016 and the other is bers of the post since. tion of funds and violation of state and $8,000 in unpaid service fees to the city Knight said local AMVETS members AMVETS Post #14 building sits vacant while the post is national bylaws, officials said. of Clovis from 2010. under investigation by the AMVETS Department of New According to Rick Young, head Young said the $12,000 owed to the AMVETS on Page 7A Mexico.

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Mexico on Sept. 16. sex crimes was sentenced Thursday approved receiv- p.m., Room 143 or 145 (look for Information: 575-763-6016 “We’re excited that CLOVIS — The city of Friday to a six-year suspend- ing a state grant of $21,074 signs), Clovis Community College, ■ Portales City Council — 6:30 President Trump and his Clovis is continuing to work ed sentence through a plea toward conducting next 417 Schepps Blvd., Clovis. p.m., Memorial Building, 200 E. 7th team sees New Mexico as a out kinks with its new pay- agreement. year's Census. Information: 757-846-7509 St., Portales. Information: 575-356- state they can flip,” roll software, first discov- Rubel Encinias, 45, plead- The three county commis- 6662 Republican Party of New ered in July. City Manager ed no contest to one count of sioners present at Thursday's Tuesday Mexico Chairman Steve Justin Howalt said Friday criminal sexual contact of a meeting all voted to approve ■ City of Clovis Water Policy Sept. 19 Pearce said in a news release that issues are limited to minor in the third degree and the intergovernmental grant Advisory Committee — 8:30 a.m., ■ Curry County Health Council on Friday. public safety employees. was sentenced to a term of agreement with the state's Clovis City Hall assembly room, — 12-1 p.m., Commission Room, “We believe that New The city implemented six years in prison, suspend- Department of Finance and 321 N. Connelly, Clovis. Curry County Administration Mexicans are fed up with the new software to begin the ed in favor of supervised Administration. Information: 575-763-9654 Complex, 417 Gidding St., Clovis. socialist left agenda and are fiscal year, and numerous probation. He appeared in Commissioners Matthew ■ Curry County and Area Information: 575-763-6009 ready to stand with the employees saw delays in person Friday morning with Hunton and Paul Grider ■ Republican Women — 11:30 a.m., Clovis City Commission — President as he continues to their direct deposits over the his attorney Dan Lindsey were not present Thursday. K-Bob’s Steakhouse, 1600 Mabry 5:15 p.m., North Annex, Clovis- lower taxes, create jobs, July 4 weekend. during the plea hearing in the County Manager Amber Dr., Clovis. Information: 575-762- Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main increase pay and employ- There are a few remaining court of Judge Drew Tatum. Hamilton said the award was 1842. St., Clovis. Information: 575-769- ment opportunities for issues with pay stubs having Encinias was charged in "small, (but) will definitely 7828 women, minorities and those incorrect information on February 2018 with nine help with Census planning," Thursday who traditionally struggle to ■ City of Clovis Senior Services To place an item on the meet- pay and benefits, Howalt counts of second-degree and is a portion of funds dis- Committee — 3 p.m., Clovis City ings calendar, call the newsroom find good jobs.” said. All city employees are criminal sexual contact of a tributed across the state's 33 Hall assembly room, 321 N. at 575-763-6991 or e-mail: The RPNM release said paid through direct deposit. minor during a five-year counties. It comes with no Connelly, Clovis. Information: 575- [email protected] Trump plans to be at the While the city has moved period starting in 2012. Per requirement for county Santa Ana Star Center in Rio to Executime software, the agreement Friday, the matching funds. Rancho on Sept. 16. Howalt said the Clovis fire remaining eight counts were Roosevelt County also has Ticket information was and police departments are dismissed. a joint resolution with the city not immediately available. still using CCS as their Victims and family of vic- of Portales and a coordinated SEPT. 8 scheduling software. The tims spoke during the plea committee for 2020 Census Health insurance data files CCS exports are hearing Friday, asking Tatum outreach, Hamilton added. On this date ... not compatible with to keep with Chief Deputy Also at Thursday's meet- seminar set Executime, so administra- District Attorney Brian ing, commissioners: 1974: Mel Tillis, Tanya CLOVIS — A seminar tive assistants are having to Stover's recommendation for ■ Approved the updated Tucker, Charlie Rich and on health insurance for manipulate those files into a parole period of no less county personnel ordinance. Charley Pride were headlin- small businesses by Executime-compatible files than five years. Encinias will Hamilton said the updates ers for the upcoming Tri- BeWellnm is scheduled at before they go to the finance also join the lifetime sex were largely procedural as State Fair in Amarillo. the Clovis and Curry department. offender registration and pay the ordinance is "a living, Jim Stafford and Ronnie County Chamber of “What the crux of the court fines, and his parole breathing document." Milsap were also perform- Commerce this Tuesday problem has been is the will be re-evaluated every ■ Tabled a collective bar- ing. from noon to 1 p.m. importing and the export- five years for a period not to gaining ordinance, as the The shows were sched- Interested parties can ing,” Howalt said. “We’ve exceed 20 years, according state is reviewing proposed uled to run Sept. 16-21. RSVP online at found a temporary fix for it to court records. changes and commissioners Tickets were $3 to $6. bewellnm.com/shop/event- working with our Stover said the family was want to wait until that's done Fans still had time to order Pages Past is compiled RSVP, call 505-433-3498 or Executime software engi- satisfied with the agreement, before considering their own by mail by sending a self- by David Stevens. Contact email: neers, and now we’re work- which avoided the additional rendering of the ordinance. addressed stamped enve- him at: [email protected] ing with CCS on a more per- turmoil of victim testimony lope. [email protected] m manent solution.” in a trial. — Staff reports

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The folllowing marriage Barksdale, 21, both of licenses were recently filed Clovis at the Curry County Clerk’s office: The following divorces ■ Hector Alejandro were recently filed at the Trujillo Martínez, 36, and Curry County court clerk’s Kasey Leigh Martínez, 33, office: both of Clovis ■ ■ Joseph Johnson and Samuel Jacob Pearson, Rosemary Johnson 38, and Ashley Fay ■ Robert Chalk and Afton Montgomery, 28, both of Grace Vogel Portales ■ ■ Quincy Tarek Nora, 21, Jonathan Wood and Amber Wood of Wichita Falls, Texas, and ■ Joy Erin Hughes, 21, of Talissa Traverson and Clovis Richard Traverson ■ Juan Daniel Murillo, ■ Carol Jonene Roark 25, and Ashley Lynn Croy, and Jessica Nichole Roark 19, both of Clovis ■ Seth Sebastian Baker, — Compiled by the staff 23, and Sidney Alexis of The News

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By Kevin Wilson Facebook, and 200 people have meeting. nomic opportunity to utilize the air- requests. The events receiving the EDITOR indicated they plan to attend. The festival is set for 11 a.m. to 3 port and start leveraging it for the most included $12,820 for Clovis [email protected] Hanson’s family is on its second p.m., with Hanson hoping people benefit of the community.” Community College’s Cultural Arts assignment at Cannon Air Force will have a fun time and possibly Ron Ober of the Phoenix-based Series, $10,600 for the Christmas CLOVIS — The third weekend of Base, spending four years away discover something they like from a Policy Development Group said he Lights Parade, $10,000 for Original October will see more than a dozen from Clovis before returning. food truck they don’t see on their planned to send city officials a copy Team roping and $7,500 for down- food trucks crowd into Hillcrest “We fell in love with all of the normal commutes. of its survey, which indicated 70 town fall-winter events. Park for what organizers hope will food growth that’s taken place in “I think this is a good thing to percent of Clovis residents who fly ■ Clovis Civic Center Executive include celebration, networking your community,” Hanson said, have for Clovis,” Mayor Pro Tem go to Amarillo or Lubbock to catch and, of course, eating. “and we wanted to celebrate.” Juan Garza said. “We had a flight. Director Misty Bertrand said the Thanks to the Clovis City Hanson said the beer garden was Octoberfest, but it was during the “We flew into Lubbock this time center has seen fewer events due to Commission’s approval, there will well-received at the art festival and night. I feel like this is more limited commercially because we wanted to a combination of new private facili- also be a beer garden. wanted to have that featured in addi- (in hours). You have to be con- experience what the people of ties coming to the city, some events Via a 5-1 vote, the commission tion to 12 to 15 food trucks. Joining cerned, especially for the kiddos, Clovis experience,” Ober said, “and (Clovis Home and Garden Show) allowed a variance for the Oct. 19 Hanson at the meeting was Dakota but I think it’s a good thing to have.” hopefully that will change.” outgrowing the center space and 575 Foodie Fest that means Red Herrera of Red Door, who would In other business at the Thursday Bids for the ESA contract are due others (Milk Lovers Ball) on hold Door can sell its beer in a fenced handle the beer garden and keep two meeting: Sept. 25 and public comment will be until further notice. area of the park. security people at the beer garden ■ Officials with Advanced Air accepted through October before the The center’s loss for the prior fis- The company first established entrance. The plan is to only sell thanked the city for its hospitality City Commission will make its rec- cal year was $340,000, which itself in the Mainline Bowl building Red Door’s product, but Herrera during its Thursday community ommendation to the Federal Bertrand said was disappointing but in March, and has since purchased said wine made in New Mexico visit. Aviation Administration. in line with the average annual loss the Levine’s Building on Main could also be served if requested. The Hawthorne, California-based Boutique Airlines has the contract Street for an outdoor taproom and Commissioner Gary Elliott, who company intends to apply for the now and is expected to re-apply. for the center since it opened. The operated a beer garden at the recent has consistently voted against vari- Essential Air Services contract for ■ Commissioners approved loss has been between $200,000 and Under Over Art Festival at Hillcrest. ances for alcohol in multiple meet- Clovis Municipal Airport on Sept. $60,820 in lodgers tax disburse- $375,000 every year. Festival organizer Jenni Hanson ings this year, was the lone dissent- 25. ments, ■ The next meeting is scheduled said word of mouth has largely ing vote. “I think our main message,” busi- No changes were made to the for 5:15 p.m. Sept. 19 at the North taken care of promotion for the fes- “I just didn’t think it was neces- ness aviation consultant Aaron advisory board’s recommendations, Annex of the Clovis-Carver Public tival since she created the event on sary,” Elliott said following the Krieger said, “is we see a lot of eco- which included funding for 12 Library. No additions to local races made on filing day BY THE STAFF OF THE NEWS candidates were required to Tuesday was also the Position 2: James Carroll Schell Carolyn B. Spence Brandon M. Dewbre sign up in the county where deadline to withdraw from Position 3: Kodie D. Weese, CLOVIS — Tuesday’s fil- they were registered to vote. any race. Jason Queener was Gerald W. Garland Central Curry Soil and Water Elida School Board ing day for write-in candi- There were four such boards the lone candidate to do so, Conservation District Position 1: Chance Brendal dates for the Nov. 5 general — the Border Soil and Water pulling out of the Position 1 Texico School Board Position 1 Supervisor: Spencer Bradley Position 1: Sandymarie I. Pieratt, D. Pipkin election came and went, with race for the Texico school Position 2: Cody Ferguson Conservation District Derek Kyle Cain, Jerred Orson Position 2 Supervisor: Doyle no additions to any of the (Roosevelt and Chaves), board. The withdrawal leaves three running for the Cooper Zane Carpenter Floyd School Board local races for various edu- Grady school board (Curry Position 2: Troy Lance Teague, Position 5 Supervisor At-Large: cation and conservation and Quay), Melrose school position. All three positions Position 3: Marvin Leon Nall Chad H. Davis Erik R. Nelson Position 4: Ryan J. Bollema boards. board (Curry, Roosevelt and on the Texico board up for Position 3: Craig Rohrbach, Officials with the Curry, Quay) and Texico school election will be contested. Charles Bryan Vannatta Roosevelt County Border Soil and Water Roosevelt, Quay and Chaves board (Curry and The following candidates Portales School board signed up on filing day: Melrose School Board Position 1: Rodney O. Savage Supervisor 1: Virginia A. county clerks offices con- Roosevelt). Clemmons firmed nobody signed up for There were no signups, fil- Position 1: Barry L. Allen Position 2: Inez F. Rodriguez Curry County Supervisor 2: Thomas Luther any write-in position on ing day or write-in, for four Position 2: Joseph W. Reed Position 5: David R. Rankin Clovis School Board Position 3: Cedar C. Rush Holmes local boards. Tuesday was spots — the District 5 District 3: Paul S. Cordova Jr. Dora School Board the lone day to sign up as a Supervisor at Large position District 4: Shawn L. Hamilton Clovis Community College Position 1: Patrick O. Kircher Roosevelt Soil and Water write-in, following the regu- for the Border Soil and District 5: Terry Martin Board of Trustees Position 2 (two-year term): Conservation District lar filing date of Aug. 27. Conservation District and District 1: Laura Agnelia Leal Andrea L. King Supervisor 1: Mitzi V. Miller In cases where a board three positions on the House Grady School Board District 3: Lora L. Harlan Position 3: Tyrl A. Tipton Supervisor 2: Ricky G. Ledbetter served multiple counties, school board. Position 1: Kathy D. Edwards District 4: Raymond Mondragon, Position 5 (two-year term): Supervisor 5: George K. Hay Portales approves runway fund application

By Mathew Brock face designed for a 20- agreement made amends property up for bid again easternnewmexiconews.com year lifespan. STAFF WRITER for this discrepancy by and received two bids at Your source for local news and sports [email protected] Other highlights from waiving $1,290 in fees $4,000 and $16,020. Tuesday’s meeting and repair costs. According to Standefer, PORTALES — The include: The easement is now the sale will recoup the Portales City Council on • A request for funding pending signature from Tuesday approved an from Water Trust Board the Bickhams before city’s losses and was application for federal for the Portales Wellfield becoming effective. above the appraised value funds to reconstruct and Improvements Phase Two • The council approved of the property. improve both runways at project was approved. The the sale of the Benson The meeting ended with the Portales Airport dur- project is meant to expand Subdivision, Block 10, an executive session for ing its regular meeting. Portales’ existing well- Lots 3 and 4 for a high bid field and Phase One of the discussion regarding the The cost of the project of $16,020. would be over $3.6 mil- project will begin in purchase, acquisition or The city acquired the lion, with the Federal October. disposal of real property Aviation Administration Phase Two will use property through code or water rights. No action providing the bulk of the information found from enforcement action sever- al years ago and previous- was taken following the funds at $2,896,329. The test drilling in Phase One executive session. to start drilling new well ly put the property up for New Mexico Department The council’s next of Transportation Aviation sites and installing lines to bid to recoup costs, but Division would contribute power them. received no bids. meeting is scheduled for $678,994 and Portales The request will be for The city recently put the 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 17. would contribute $75,000, $3.3 million with a 10 per- officials said. cent match at $330,00 The reconstruction proj- from the FY2020 budget. ect would provide new • A sewer line easement runway surfaces for was granted to Lonnie and Runway 1-19 and Runway Leisha Bickham who own 8-26. According to the a property at 300 E. Lime application, both runways St. to allow them to tie have a pavement condition into the city sewer line index below 60, meaning through city property. they can no longer receive City Manager Sammy any useful maintenance as Standefer disclosed that they are. the property had paid for The reconstruction city sewer service for sev- would remove the asphalt eral years, but had not from the runways and received the service. Part replace it with a new sur- of the sewer line easement

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Viewpoint Gun violence issue cannot be solved Taking more care with ‘close enough’ A few years ago, I was at a seed or two stayed in the pep- torturous pain? All temporary by GOP or Dems gathering that wasn’t really a pers, but what’s the harm in fixes. For every waking hour potluck, but had a lot of friends Kevin that? The bacon stretched between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m., o one has all the answers regarding the and a lot of homemade food. enough I didn’t need the tooth- those seeds violently made recent spate of gun violence across the Close enough, right? Wilson picks, and they came out with their way out of my body. ◆ Ncountry. My friend’s sister brought just a little bit of browning on I’ll make jalapeño poppers But it seems unlikely government can end it. the family’s traditional jalapeño Editor the cream cheese. They were again, but I’m thinking of more We should stop asking government to end it. poppers. These weren’t the first perfect, and soon I had to justi- ingredients. Bacon, cream We have to end it ourselves. One on one. time I’d had the snacks, as I’d fy eating the whole lot. They’re cheese, jalapeño peppers. Plus That’s our only hope. spent longer than 30 minutes in appetizers, but I can’t be the rubber gloves for the hands. We’ve all heard the arguments from both sides New Mexico, but they were fourth ingredient. only one who’s ever just Plus a spoon to scoop out the of the political spectrum: easily the best I’d had. My time to replicate them ordered appetizers as a meal. seeds. Plus a flashlight and ■ We have to get guns off the streets and out “What do you think of the came last Sunday. My grocery Close enough, right? magnifying glass to check for of the hands of criminals. We need more/better poppers, Kevin? I saw you store, apparently reading my In the immediate aftermath any loose seeds. Plus some background checks. We need to make certain went back for seconds.” mind, offered a pack of bacon, of cooking, my fingers started Lava soap to sand off the layer kinds of guns illegal. a dozen jalapeño peppers and a ■ We need more law enforcement, backed by I said they were great, but I to burn a little, and the eyes I of my skin that might have package of cream cheese for military firepower. We need more responsible cit- was thinking, “These poppers swore I hadn’t touched were touched a jalapeño. Plus a glass $5. I knew a deal when I saw it, izens carrying weapons so they can take down the make me want to break up your starting to throb. That jalapeño of milk and a bottle of Pepto and on Wednesday I made my bad guys when they act. And bring back the death sister’s relationship so I can juice somehow got everywhere, Bismol. And a little bit of faith penalty. become part of the family.” first batch. and everywhere burned. you did it right this time. In a logical world, both concepts have merit. Close enough, right? I found the easiest recipe I A few hours later, those My three-ingredient popper But neither has a chance of working, especially in I didn’t have to pester my could for three-ingredient pop- jalapeño seeds I had disregard- recipe just got a few more a nation as divided and illogical as ours has friend for too long until he told pers, and it was painfully sim- ed announced themselves. That ingredients. But it’s close become. me the secret recipe. Just three ple. Halve the jalapeños, empty announcement was, “We’re enough, right? First, there is no way to remove guns from the ingredients: jalapeño peppers, out the insides, fill with cream fighting back.” What was face of the Earth or from the hands of criminals. cream cheese and bacon to cheese and wrap with bacon. painfully simple in the kitchen Kevin Wilson is editor of The Washington Post reported last year there are wrap it all up. Toothpicks are Hold them together with was now simply painful in my the Eastern New Mexico almost 400 million guns in the United States. the fourth item if you really soaked toothpicks, and bake at gut. News. Contact him at 575- That’s more guns than people. want to be technical, but you 375 degrees for 26-30 minutes. Glass of milk? A swig of 763-3431, ext. 320, or by Sure, government can track down all the regis- just let the items do their own It was a slightly messy, but Pepto Bismol? Praying to any email: tered guns and confiscate them. That might thing without help from a pesky good first attempt. Maybe a and all deities to please end this [email protected] reduce the gun population to a couple of hundred million, all of them belonging to lawbreakers. Neither Democrats nor Republicans want to live in that America. Britain’s left dangerous throwback Laws can make it more difficult for law-abid- ing citizens to own guns, but criminals don’t Tory Prime Minister Boris minister Tony Blair. When he any individual that attacks our obey laws, so let’s just stop asking government to Johnson has, to his credit, mounted an unlikely leader- class, we will come for you go there, at any level. seized the initiative in the bat- Rich ship bid in 2015, he found an with direct action.” As for more cops and more private citizens tle over whether Britain will audience, much as Bernie He has called Tory MPs packing more powerful weapons: That may Lowry truly exit the EU, and on what ◆ Sanders did in 2016. Now, the “social criminals.” This from decrease the odds for mass murder, but it terms. old-time religion is a few the man in line to become, in increases the odds of accidental shootings expo- Syndicated But no one can know how columnist lucky breaks away from our terms, secretary of the nentially. this high-stakes gamble will power. treasury of one of the great It’s important to remember that mass shootings turn out. Johnson just lost his Corbyn’s past, and present, banking centers on the planet. make headlines, but they’re still not “normal,” slender parliamentary majori- is littered with valentines to If McDonnell’s style of which is why they make headlines. ty, and the prospect of a new movement, and wished he left-wing thugs. He cozied up rhetoric has a grim revolu- An overwhelming majority of gun-related election looms. If things could send every vegetarian to the IRA in the 1980s when tionary cast, it’s for good rea- deaths in America involve one angry or depressed break the wrong way, the win- and teetotaler home “to do his it was trying to decapitate the son. In an interview with — or fearful individual shooting someone who did- ner could be opposition leader yoga exercises quietly.” British government by bomb- no joke — the Trotskyist n’t deserve to be killed. Suicide is No. 1 on that Jeremy Corbyn, a throwback Corbyn is, indeed, a vege- ing. He wrote for a pro-Soviet Alliance for Workers’ Liberty list, beating homicide more than 3-2. leftist redolent of the bad old tarian who rarely drinks. One newspaper during the Cold years ago, he said the most If we all take our guns out of our safes and our days of Britain’s self-imposed British newspaper relates that War. He called the Russian important influences on him closets and start carrying them on our hips a la stagnation. his favorite restaurant is a invasion of Ukraine “not were “Marx, Lenin and Billy the Kid, it might mean fewer victims in sit- It’s hard to exaggerate the spot “where he likes to eat unprovoked.” He’s said warm Trotsky, basically.” uations like the El Paso Walmart ... but it certain- threat represented by Corbyn hummus after taking part in things about Hamas and Corbyn has expressed simi- ly will mean more accidents and more deadly and Co. taking control of our demonstrations in Trafalgar Hezbollah, and can’t bear to lar sentiments, for example spur-of-the-moment decisions we wish we could most important ally. In U.S. Square.” His first wife reports condemn Islamic terrorism calling Karl Marx “a fascinat- take back. terms, Corbyn is a mashup of that he never took her out to without also criticizing the ing figure,” one “from whom Rejecting both ends of the politicians’ plans Bernie Sanders and the dinner, preferring to eat beans West. we can learn a great deal.” doesn’t mean we do nothing. Squad, mixing orthodox straight from a can to save It’s no accident that his At least they don’t leave We have to do something. socialist economics with a time. Labor Party has become lousy any doubt where they are It starts and ends with the way we talk to each hostility to U.S. foreign poli- He is a figure that time is with anti-Semites. coming from. other, the words we choose, our body language. cy and Israel. supposed to have forgotten. His left-hand man, John We have to stop calling each other names. He is a lefty caricature. He inveighed from the back McDonnell, shadow chancel- Rich Lowry can be We have to look for points we have in common George Orwell once com- benches against Labor’s turn lor of the exchequer, is fond reached at: and build from there. plained of “the smell of away from the old-time reli- of implicit threats of violence. comments.lowry We have to focus on issues, not political affilia- crankishness” in the socialist gion under moderate prime To wit, “Any institution or @nationalreview.com tions or nations of origin or religion. If someone disagrees with something we say, we can’t convince them by saying it louder and more aggressively. Mallard Fillmore Bruce Tinsley Both of our nation’s most prominent political Contact us parties are claiming God is on their side in the gun battles. Since their sides are so far apart, that Letters and columns seems unlikely. should be sent to: If you’re looking for Scripture to help decide Via mail what’s right in this deadly debate, try Ephesians Publisher 4:32: The Eastern New “Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, for- Mexico News giving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake P.O. Box 1689 hath forgiven you.” Clovis, NM 88101 Gun violence is not something government can Via fax resolve. We have to fix this ourselves. (575) 762-3879 Via e-mail — David Stevens [email protected] Publisher PAGE 5A Sunday Sept. 8, 2019 The voice of Curry OICESHE ASTERN EW EXICO EWS T E N M N and Roosevelt counties V and beyond California could learn from Kenya n the early 1970s California was Michael I America’s Nirvana. It was a sunny, well- Reagan run, happy and free-spir- ◆ ited place of limitless Guest opportunity where half columnist the young people in Flyover Country wanted to move to, enjoy and boasted about what they’d spend the rest of their do about the fact that 75 lives. percent of black kids in At the time, California are unable to California’s government read, write or do math at was a model for every their grade level. other state. Its infrastruc- Or that the only thing ture, educational system too many black and and growing economy brown kids are qualified were top notch. to do when they get out But that was a long, long political time ago. of the state’s public Since then, the schools is to steal a gun California Dream has and join a gang and start been transformed into the using it. Not proud of the current America California Nightmare by To be fair, public Democrats and their liber- schools have been failing am not proud to be an grandparents lived, or where just like everyone in every al ways. Now the Golden poor kids for decades in American right now. my mother lived when I was other country I know. State is famous for high every major city of I’m ashamed of our Janice born. How can I reclaim my America. And both parties I taxes, over-spending, politics in general, and of Bisset So much of a person’s own identity and shake off failed education policies, have failed to address the our national consumeristic ◆ daily life and world views this national shame? How overgenerous social wel- issue. identity that says if I want it Guest depend on circumstances far can I show the rest of the fare programs, a huge But if Harris and and I can’t buy it then I’ll columnist beyond an individual’s con- world that I extend my heart homeless population and Booker are serious about take it by force. trol. and my hand even if my bad environmental and fixing public education’s I’m not without hope, I’m trying to find a way country won’t? energy rules. ongoing failures, which I though. as an individual, seem to to say to my international I am not proud to be In other words, today don’t think they are, it’s Our history as a country have little control over. friends that I was born in linked with an image of the California is a social, fis- going to take much more is about more than its wars How can those of us who America, but that does not America our current politi- cal and economic s-hole. than repeating their and corruption of leadership are just trying to live each tell you who I am, what cal system portrays, or that Young people and even party’s standard solution day in a way that is kind makes me feel proud or of a new country that forced middle-class people can responsibilities. — pouring more money For instance, I’m proud of and meaningful reclaim our what makes me cringe from its way onto land that didn’t no longer afford a house shame. belong to it. But I am not into schools and the pock- my great grandfather, Ed stake in this country? or apartment in cities like I am the great grand- without hope that after a ets of the teachers unions. Archer, who staked a claim From where I stand, I Los Angeles or San daughter of a man who diet of crow, I will be able Offering more school need to acknowledge that it Francisco unless they on land outside of Kenna. raised sheep and goats on a to stand up, extend my hand choice to the parents of He didn’t kill anyone to get wasn’t me or my family want to live in a com- black and brown children homestead in New Mexico. and say to anyone from any- mune or in a tent on a it. He was just a man who who took this land away and opening more charter I am the kind of mother where: filthy downtown side- wanted to find a way to live from those who had first schools would be a start, who would turn the light “Please, come in and let walk. day by day. He lived with rights to it. I had no control but Democrats will never back on so my child could me get you a cup of tea The only demographic his wife and children in a over what happened in our see to shut her eyes. while we put our heads go there because they are that can still afford to live humble dugout until an country’s infancy. I don’t I am the kind of neighbor together and work to solve too fond of the teachers comfortably in California above-ground house could like it. I don’t like the idea who makes a cake for the the problems common to these days are Internet unions and their political be built. He was the kind of that someone can force a selfless and hardworking every single one of us, no millionaires and rich donations. man who would re-light the whole people out of their woman who lives next door matter where we happen to Hollywood celebrities. It’s always shocking to kerosene lantern for his place just because greed and because she did our yard be born.” Thanks to their famous me that a privately funded daughter because she said, entitlement so dictate. But I work, without being asked, leftwing politics and their school my wife and I “Daddy, I can’t see to close can’t change the past. when we couldn’t do it. Janice Bisset is a long- money, they’ve made have visited in the gigan- my eyes.” I can’t change where my I’m the kind of American time resident of Portales. California into a drive- tic slums of Nairobi, I’m tired of being identi- great- grandparents raised who struggles with health Contact her at: through ATM for the Kenya, is able to do a fied by our leaders whom I, their family, where my and money and relationships [email protected] Democrat Party. better and smarter job of Every Democrat run- educating its poorest kids ning for president comes than our schools do. out to La-La Land for a The kids from the slum fundraiser, grabs their all wear uniforms, read ANOTHER VIEWPOINT money, leaves ASAP on a lots of books and learn red-eye and pretends they English — because, as don’t see what a wreck school administrators will their pet ideas have made tell you, it is “the lan- Abuse should be made accountable of California. guage of success.” n the post-9/11 uni- Pellegrino says that, dur- immune to lawsuits, a law “Without recourse under Presidential wannabes The school officials in verse, airline passen- ing a screening, officers called the Federal Tort (the Federal Tort Claims) Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Nairobi know that getting spilled the contents of sever- Claims Act allows lawsuits Warren and Cory Booker Igers have no choice Act, plaintiffs like a good education — and but to subject themselves al containers in her baggage for wrongs committed by Pellegrino will have no rem- were here, holding “I hate speaking English — is the and were so rough in han- “investigative or law Trump” fundraisers, and their belongings to edy when (Transportation only sure way for their dling her belongings that her enforcement officers.” But a appearing at town meet- screening by agents of the Security Administration poor kids to get out of the Transportation Security jewelry and eyeglasses were three-judge panel held that officers) assault them, ings to promise what damaged. After she told the TSA officers weren’t cov- slums and achieve suc- Administration. wrongfully detain them, or they’re going to do about officers that she would ered by that exception guns and violence and cess. Sometimes that process is even fabricate criminal Why don’t we know intrusive; sometimes it’s report them to a supervisor, because it was designed to calling everyone in the two officers claimed she apply only to “criminal law charges against them,” the Republican Party a racist. that yet in California? even worse than that. judge wrote. Why don’t the left-liberal struck them. She denies enforcement officers.” Not one of them It is vital that travelers Ambro acknowledged the trio of Harris, Booker and having done so. The full 3rd Circuit per- brought up California’s who are manhandled or overwhelming majority of Warren get that? harassed by screeners be As a result of the TSA suasively rejected that argu- horrible broken educa- officers’ allegations, she was ment. Writing for the major- TSA officers perform their allowed to seek damages for tional system and how it arrested and charged by the ity, Judge Thomas L. Ambro jobs professionally “despite harms kids, especially Michael Reagan is the their mistreatment in a law- district attorney with 10 held that TSA agents are in far more grumbling than poor black and Latino president of The Reagan suit. crimes, including aggravat- fact officers of the United appreciation.” But those kids. Legacy Foundation. That would be possible ed assault, possession of an States. And he rejected the who do abuse their authority Neither African- Contact him at: under a welcome decision instrument of a crime (her idea that allowing lawsuits American candidate http://www.reagan.com handed down last month by must be held accountable. luggage), and making terror- against TSA agents would Civil suits for damages can a federal appeals court in istic threats. All the charges open the door to litigation Philadelphia. Reversing a provide justice for victims were eventually dropped or against federal employees of misconduct and also act “Now the Golden State is famous three-judge panel, the U.S. dismissed, and Pellegrino who conduct “administra- for high taxes, over-spending, failed 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals sued the TSA and individual tive” searches of products or as a deterrent. If, as seems ruled 9-4 that Nadine officers alleging, among premises for health and likely, the Justice education policies, overgenerous social Pellegrino could pursue a other things, property dam- safety violations. Unlike Department appeals this welfare programs, a huge homeless lawsuit claiming that TSA age, false arrest, false those searches, he said, sensible decision, the officers who searched her imprisonment and malicious searches by TSA officers Supreme Court should population and bad environmental and luggage at the Philadelphia prosecution. “often involve invasive refuse to reverse it. airport in 2006 had abused Although the federal gov- examinations of the physical energy rules.” their authority. ernment generally is person.” — Los Angeles Times PAGE 6A ✦ SUNDAY, SEPT. 8, 2019 THE EASTERN NEW MEXICO NEWS THE EASTERN NEW MEXICO NEWS LOCAL SUNDAY, SEPT. 8, 2019 ✦ PAGE 7A

sions with various state offi- possible after the investiga- Obituaries Clovis cials, a city that allows AMVETS tion in order to open the post recreational marijuana again. from Page 1A from Page 1A Funerals would see a spike in gross “We’re doing an audit Ford responded that while receipts taxes of around $3 consulted a lawyer Thursday right now and that will Tuesday Daniel Trujillo —10 per citizen per year based on determine what path we Venita Carter — 10 a.m. a.m. at Chavez Funeral marijuana is detectable in a afternoon on the matter. the anticipated 9% tax. For might take or what paths we at Melrose Methodist Church Home, Fort Sumner body longer than other sub- Young said the Board of stances, it’s still about deter- Clovis, that would be a little Trustees’ main concern is even can take,” Young said. mining what level of a drug below $150,000. getting the audit finished, “We’re still trying to figure equals intoxication and what “That’s not much money the liens resolved and other out what we can and can’t do level isn’t a concern. in exchange for the new issues corrected as soon as here.” Lansford said in discus- activity,” Lansford said. PAGE 8A ✦ SUNDAY, SEPT. 8, 2019 THE EASTERN NEW MEXICO NEWS ENMU officials hope for liquor license by end of October By Kevin Wilson month notice of its intent to seek morality, Tatum noted. could do the work, noting, “you’ve to have the project to the regents EDITOR the liquor license, primarily for the The regents were also notified on got domes like this all over the for final approval in their Dec. 11 [email protected] ability to serve alcoholic beverages a delay in roof repair work at country, and there’s not just one meeting. at banquets and weddings that may Greyhound Arena. Elwell said dur- company doing them.” Powell said Grancor is handling PORTALES — If all goes be hosted on university grounds. ing the recent pre-bid meeting, one If the university had to go to a demolition of a two-story dormi- according to plan, Eastern New Elwell said the signs were posted vendor threatened a protest of the court over it, Patterson said that tory for $248,000. He was unsure Mexico University hopes to have a until Sept. 2, and the next step is to request for proposal process might be worth the fight to get the on the spot about square footage, liquor license for its Portales cam- seek authorization through the because a clause requiring the roof roof the college wants. but said the dormitory would fit 60 pus granted by the end of October. Portales City Council. The matter to be “fiber-type roofing product or “If somebody’s dissatisfied to 80 beds. That was the timeline shared by has to be discussed in two meet- its equivalent” made it a sole- because they didn’t get the job,” The campus has $1.2 million Jeff Elwell, ENMU system chan- ings, with the hope that a public source process because only one Patterson said, “too bad.” from the state to work on electrical cellor and Portales campus presi- hearing followed by an up-or-down vendor had that capability. Elwell Elwell said the plan is to start the line replacement on the campus. dent, as the university’s board of vote. said the RFP is being rewritten to work in March, and have it finished There is no redundancy in the old regents work session Saturday Elwell said there were initial assuage those concerns. before commencement ceremonies wiring system, and a fuse blowout morning at the college’s adminis- concerns because the entire ENMU “They’re not sure (a protest) in May. a few Mondays ago meant the cam- tration building. campus is zoned as a residential would be successful,” Elwell said, In other business at the meeting: pus closed rather than make people With the meeting designated as a area, but he’s since been told by “but to avoid the possibility of that, ■ ENMU-Roswell President work inside on a 107-degree day. work session, no actions were counsel that the university was not they’re adjusting the language.” Shawn Powell updated the board The bid for the main electrical taken during the hour of open meet- subject to city zoning laws. Regents wanted to keep that lan- on various projects on his campus. work is around $800,000, Powell ing, or following the 75-minute Board President Ed Tatum said guage in, with Tatum arguing the The college plans to much of a said, and the college has the lati- executive session to discuss prop- the city council would be required “or its equivalent” portion gave $10.5 million project for its auto- tude to use remaining dollars on the erty matters and pending or threat- to vote, and anybody wishing to vendors a chance to argue why motive/welding building and phys- electrical systems for the automo- ened litigation. protest the decision could do so via their product was a better choice. ical plant building through tive and physical plant buildings. The university posted a sign on lawsuit within 30 days. The license Regent Dan Patterson found it reserves, and $3 million in general ■ The regents are scheduled to its Campus Union Building last can’t be voted down over issues of hard to believe only one vendor obligation bond money. He hopes meet again 9 a.m. Sept. 27. Officials: Roosevelt County Fair bigger than previous years By Mathew Brock events. The fair was moved even better than we expect- Sale held 60 auctions Friday shows. There were 2,294 Mark Clark, 25 riders were STAFF WRITER back a week this year, run- ed,” McAlister said. night, raising $131,350 for total projects entered this expected to show up for the [email protected] ning from Aug. 27-31 and The various livestock exhibitors from local Future year across the Home Arts, tournament, but none leading into Labor Day shows had good participa- Farmers of America and 4-H Fine Arts and Youth Arts appeared at the scheduled PORTALES — After a Weekend. tion with plenty of entries programs. Last year the shows. time Friday night. In the bustling week of activity on According to Fair Board across the board. Fair offi- show raised $134,975 from This year also saw the end, the only rider to make the fairgrounds, the rides President Wayne McAlister cials reported there were 132 58 auctions. antique tractor show return an appearance that night was have ground to a halt, the there were 7,417 tickets sold swine, 110 lambs, 20 steers, “This was one of the big- on Thursday for Pioneer Referee Laurel Leppke. smell of greasy fair food has at the gates. Friday saw the 32 dairy heifers, 220 poultry, ger fairs I’ve been to and Day, culminating in a few “I expect they’re all off up faded and the animals and most visitors with 2,451 69 rabbits and 101 goats there was just good energy tractor games that night. in the mountains or lakes for art projects have all been tickets sold. Fair officials entered into their respective and a good atmosphere this McAlister hopes to make a carted home by their respec- were unable provide num- shows this year. The Youth year,” said Ryan Craig, the regular event after the last the Labor Day weekend,” tive owners. bers for last year’s atten- Horse Show also had 40 Roosevelt County 4-H two years. Clark said. The Roosevelt County dance. entries. Coordinator. The new fair week did Making due, Leppke and Fair wrapped up Aug. 31 “The turnout for the fair Wrapping up the livestock The art shows also had cause a few difficulties how- her daughter Amanda White after a week of carnival has been good. The bands portion of the fair, the 31st more entries than previous ever. The annual Cowboy did laps on horseback for the rides, live music and other and entertainment have been annual Junior Livestock years, with more entries Polo event was canceled due small crowd before opening from older exhibitors into to a lack of riders. the outdoor arena for kick- the Home Arts and Fine Arts According to organizer ball. County redistricting undone BY THE STAFF OF THE NEWS The Supreme Court agreed, and also struck the entire realignment. CLOVIS — Back in July, the Secretary of Curry County commissioners have State’s office undertook a sweeping realign- returned to the following designations: ment of county elected offices, putting all ■ Bobby Sandoval, District 1 odd-numbered districts on presidential bal- ■ Ben McDaniel, District 2 lots and even-numbered districts on the ■ Chet Spear, District 3 gubernatorial ballot. In rare cases, elected ■ Seth Martin, District 4 officials were granted additional years on ■ Robert Thornton, District 5 their terms to make the math work out. Roosevelt County commissioners have Pretend all of that never happened. returned to the following designations: The state last week notified county clerks ■ Dennis Lopez, District 1 the previous status quo is the status quo again ■ Matt Hunton, District 2 after the New Mexico Supreme Court invali- ■ Shane Lee, District 3 dated the state-mandated redistricting Aug. ■ Tina Dixon, District 4 26. ■ Paul Grider, District 5 A group of eight district attorneys, includ- Also in Roosevelt County, the two-year ing Ninth Judicial District Attorney Andrea term extensions for Lee and Probate Judge Reeb, sued to prevent implementation of the Michelle Bargas have been rescinded. Lee, portion of House Bill 407, which would have who is term-limited, is slated to serve moved all DA elections to the 2022 guberna- through 2022. Bargas’ position will be up for torial election and grant eight district attor- re-election in 2020. neys two-year extensions. Those DAs feared The commissioners’ representation areas the extensions could later be struck down in did not change under the realignment, and in court, and any convictions won during those most cases commission districts simply fifth and sixth years would be at risk. switched from an even to odd number. PAGE 9A ✦ SUNDAY, SEPT. 8, 2019 CLASSIFIEDS THE EASTERN NEW MEXICO NEWS

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RECORDED PLAT v. ject to, the valuation of Petition for Permanent Legal 8319 Oklahoma Dr; Legal Time and Part Time THEREOF. the property by the Guardianship should be September 8, 2019 description being: WAGE LEVEL: MIN Carla R. Osborne, The County Assessor as real granted; and that M. University Heights, Block $14.52 to MID $18.16 The address of the real Carla R. Osborne Family or personal property, Patterson Law Firm, P. NOTICE OF A 4, Lot 21, Portales, PER HOUR DOE/DOQ property is 2213 Gidding Trust, DATED FEBRU- affixture of any mobile or C., 704 Mitchell Street, HEARING FOR A Roosevelt County, New St., Clovis, NM 88101. ARY 27, 2014, AND The manufactured home to Clovis, New Mexico ZONE CHANGE Mexico, submitted by DEPARTMENT: ROAD LEGALS Plaintiff does not repre- Unknown Spouse of the land, deactivation of 88101 is the attorney for Jace Bulls. DEPARTMENT sent or warrant that the Carla R. Osborne, title to a mobile or manu- the Petitioner. The Planning and Zoning POSITION: ROAD Legal 8300 stated street address is factured home on the Commission of the City Written testimony may MAINTENANCE EQUIP- August 25, 2019 the street address of the Defendants. property, if any, environ- WITNESS my hand and of Clovis, New Mexico be filed with the office of MENT OPERATOR – September 1, 2019 described property; if the mental contamination on official seal this 13th day hereby gives notice of a Planning & Zoning, any Full Time September 8, 2019 street address does not NOTICE OF SALE the property, if any, and of August, 2019. Public Hearing of certain additional information WAGE LEVEL: MIN match the legal descrip- zoning violations con- proposed changes, mod- may be obtained from $13.16 – MID $16.45 STATE OF tion, then the property NOTICE IS HEREBY cerning the property, if SHELLY BURGER ifications, and alterations the Memorial Building, PER HOUR DOE/DOQ NEW MEXICO being sold herein is the GIVEN that the under- any. CLERK OF THE DIS- in the Zoning District, in 200 East 7th Street, or COUNTY OF CURRY property more particular- signed Special Master TRICT COURT said City of wit: call 575-356-8449 prior Copies of the Position NINTH JUDICIAL ly described above, not will on September 24, NOTICE IS FURTHER to 3:00 p.m., Monday, Specifications and DISTRICT COURT the property located at 2019 at 9:00 am, outside GIVEN that the purchas- ( S E A L ) ZONE CHANGE FROM September 23, 2019. Qualifications are avail- the street address; any the front entrance of the er at such sale shall take [RS-7] – RESIDENTIAL able at www.currycoun- NO. D-905-CV-2019- prospective purchaser at Curry County title to the above- By: /s/ Ashley Dosher SINGLE-FAMILY DIS- /S/ Donna Rutherford ty.org. Please apply 00430 the sale is given notice Courthouse, 700 North described real property DEPUTY COURT TRICT TO [RS-7(C1)] – Planning Director online at www.currycoun- that it should verify the Main, Clovis, NM, sell subject to rights of CLERK RESIDENTIAL SINGLE- ty.org/job-openings/ PENNYMAC LOAN location and address of and convey to the high- redemption. FAMILY CARPORT Curry County desires to SERVICES, LLC, the property being sold. est bidder for cash all the Legal 8317 OVERLAY DISTRICT. obtain the best possible Said sale will be made right, title, and interest of Margaret Lake September 8, 2019 SAID ZONE CHANGE employees and affords Plaintiff, pursuant to the judgment the above-named defen- Special Master September 15, 2019 TO INCLUDE LOTS 1-6, equal opportunities for entered on July 29, 2019 dants in and to the fol- Pro Legal Services, LLC BLOCK 3 AND LOTS 33- employment to all. Curry v. in the above entitled and lowing described real 201 Eubank Blvd. NE, NOTICE OF INTENT 38, BLOCK 2 OF BEL- County does not discrim- numbered cause, which estate located in said Suite A1 MONT ADDITION. inate on the basis of DANIEL STODDARD was a suit to foreclose a County and State: Albuquerque, NM 87123 NOTICE IS HEREBY (Address of Zone race, color, national ori- AKA DANIEL J. STOD- mortgage held by the (505)715-3711 GIVEN to any and all Change 516 W 18th gin, sex, religion, age or DARD AKA DANIEL above Plaintiff and The South One Hundred interested persons, that Street) HELP WANTED disability JOSEPH STODDARD, wherein Plaintiff was Twenty Feet (S120’) of Legal 8307 pursuant to §4-37-7 JOY STODDARD AKA adjudged to have a lien Lot Six (6) in Block Two September 1, 2019 NMSA, 2007 compila- Notice is hereby given to CONSTRUCTION ALL against the above- (2) of the WHEATRIDGE September 8, 2019 tion, the County all interested parties and THE COMMUNITY PHASES. Experience JOY L. STODDARD AKA SERVICES Center JOY LYNN STODDARD, described real estate in ESTATES to the City of Commissioners of Curry citizens that a public need apply. Non-smok- the sum of $72,039.32 Clovis, Curry County, REQUEST FOR County, which is the gov- hearing concerning the (CSC) is accepting appli- er. House & trans. THE CLOVIS NATIONAL cations for a full-time BANK, A DIVISION OF plus interest from June New Mexico, as shown PROPOSALS erning body of and for Zone Change shall be Provided. 1, 2019 to the date of by the official plat there- the County of Curry, heard before the Senior Companion 806-678-9187 THE JAMES POLK Program Director. STONE NATIONAL sale at the rate of of, together with all The City Commission for State of new Mexico, Planning and Zoning 4.375% per annum, the improvements thereon, the City of Clovis is intends to introduce and Commission at the hour Applicants must undergo BANK, (FORMERLY and pass a nationwide DOING BUSINESS AS costs of sale, including with warranty covenants. requesting competitive consider for adoption at of 3:00 P.M. on the Special Master's fee, sealed proposals for the its regular meeting, Thursday, September background check and "PORTALES NATIONAL drug screening. BANK"), publication costs, and The address of the real following: which is scheduled for 26, 2019 in the Assembly Plaintiff's costs expend- property is 241 Tuesday, the 1st day of Room of the Municipal An application and job Defendants. ed for taxes, insurance, Wheatridge Dr, Clovis, PROPOSAL NUMBER: October, 2019 at the Building at 321 Connelly. and keeping the property NM 88101. Plaintiff RFP 19-0809-08 hour of 9:00 AM, the fol- description can be picked up 1100 NOTICE OF SUIT in good repair. Plaintiff included the manufac- MEDICAL EXAMINA- lowing described Legal 8316 has the right to bid at tured home, identified as TION SERVICES Ordinance, to wit: September 8, 2019 Community Way in such sale and submit its a 1999 Fleet mobile Portales, NM. CSC is an STATE OF NEW MEXI- EOE. The deadline to HOMES FOR SALE CO to the above-named bid verbally or in writing. home, VIN number NIGP COMMODITY ORDINANCE NO. 2019- MEETING NOTICE The Plaintiff may apply TXFLW12A80739FD12, CODES: 94855, 94874 04 apply is September 13, CURRY COUNTY Defendants Daniel 2019 Stoddard aka Daniel J. all or any part of its judg- as part of the collateral EASTERN AREA Stoddard aka Daniel ment to the purchase granted by the Mortgage CLOSING DATE: ADOPTING A NEW WORKFORCE DEVEL- 3 BR 2 BA price in lieu of cash. and Plaintiff holds a first SEPTEMBER 19, 2019 CURRY COUNTY PER- OPMENT BOARD MEDICAL home for sale by owner, Joseph Stoddard and SECRETARY/RECEPTI Joy Stoddard aka Joy L. equitable lien on said @ 2:00 P.M. MST SONNEL POLICY 1 car garage w/large At the date and time stat- manufactured home. The Eastern Area ONIST needed for a workshop. Needs TLC. Stoddard aka Joy Lynn busy medical practice. Stoddard, ed above, the Special Complete proposal pack- The meeting will be open Workforce Development $79,900 $5000 down Master may postpone Plaintiff does not repre- age can be obtained on to the public and any quarterly meeting will be Full time employment. 706-853-1273 Apply immediately. GREETINGS: the sale to such later sent or warrant that the Bidnet at www.bidnetdi- person or persons inter- held on Tuesday, date and time as the stated street address is rect.org. Please contact ested in the ordinance or September 17, 2019 at Please send your PRICE REDUCED! Special Master may the street address of the the Purchasing the subject matter there- 1:00pm at the NM resume to CMI PO Box OWNER FINANCE You are hereby notified 1689 Ad Reply Box 301 Merrill, Nice com- that the above-named specify. described property; if the Department with any of or any person or per- Workforce Connection street address does not questions at (575) 763- sons desiring to com- Center located at 111 N Clovis, NM 88101 ASAP pletely remodeled 3 Plaintiff has filed a civil BD 2 BA approximately action against you in the NOTICE IS FURTHER match the legal descrip- 9633. ment on the same are Main in Clovis, NM. If for GIVEN that this sale may tion, then the property A closed committee will urged to attend and be any reason a quorum of EMPLOYMENT 2400 sq ft. Brick home, above-entitled Court and OPPORTUNITIES WITH granite counter tops, cause, the general object be subject to a bankrupt- being sold herein is the evaluate proposals. The heard. the board is not present, cy filing, a payoff, a rein- property more particular- proposal information will the EAWDB will meet on CURRY COUNTY marble showers. thereof being to fore- $155,000 575-742- close a mortgage on statement or any other ly described above, not become public once an Copies of the proposed Tuesday, September 24, condition that would the property located at award has been made in Ordinance are available 2019 at the same time Curry County is accept- 2600 please leave property located as 200 ing applications until message Murray Dr, Clovis, NM cause the cancellation of the street address; any accordance with NMSA for review at www.cur- and location. This this sale. Further, if any prospective purchaser at 13-1-28. Proposals will rycounty.org or copies of announcement serves as September 13, 2019 for 88101, Curry County, the following position(s): New Mexico, said prop- of these conditions exist, the sale is given notice be reviewed, tabulated, the same can be picked notice for both meetings 209 PLAZA, CLOVIS at the time of sale, this that it should verify the scored and submitted to up at the County in accordance with the Great opportunity for erty being more particu- DEPARTMENT: ADMIN- larly described as: sale will be null and void, location and address of the City Commission for Manager’s Office at 417 Open Meetings Act. starter home or rental the successful bidder's the property being sold. award at a regularly Gidding Street, Suite Information on whether it ISTRATION income. 3bd/1ba home POSITION: OFFICE LOT FOURTEEN (14) IN funds shall be returned, Said sale will be made scheduled meeting. The 100, Clovis, New will be necessary for the with new appliances and and the Special Master pursuant to the judgment City of Clovis reserves Mexico, during normal board to meet on SUPPORT SPECIALIST HVAC system. New BLOCK TWELVE (12) WAGE LEVEL: MIN OF THE WHEELER- and the mortgagee giv- entered on July 29, 2019 the right to reject any or and regular business September 24, 2019 will Flooring $102500. Big ing this notice shall not in the above entitled and all proposals and to hours, upon request and be posted no later than $10.54 – MID $13.17 Mesa Realty, 575-456- GARRETT ADDITION, A PER HOUR DOE/DOQ SUBDIVISION OF A be liable to the success- numbered cause, which waive any informalities payment of a reasonable 5:00pm on Wednesday, 2000, Paul Stout, Broker PART OF TRACTS 7, 8, ful bidder for any dam- was a suit to foreclose a or technicalities. charge for copies, if any September 18, 2019 at NMREL 17843, 575-760- ages. mortgage held by the are requested. our website - eawdb.org. Curry County is accept- 5461. www.bigmesareal- & 9 OF WHEELER ing applications until HEIGHTS ADDITION, above Plaintiff and Bryan Jones ty.com NOTICE IS FURTHER wherein Plaintiff was CPO WITNESS my hand this All meetings of the September 15, 2019 for TO THE CITY OF CLO- the following position(s): VIS, CURRY COUNTY, GIVEN that the real adjudged to have a lien 3rd day of September, Eastern Area Workforce CLOVIS-PORTALES property and improve- against the above- Legal 8306 2019. Development Board are We want your residential NEW MEXICO, AS DEPARTMENT: SHOWN BY THE OFFI- ments concerned with described real estate in September 1, 2019 open public meetings. and rural listings. Broker herein will be sold sub- the sum of $71,869.67 September 8, 2019 /s/ Annie Hogland An agenda may be GRANTS DEPART- is life resident of Curry CIAL RECORDED PLAT MENT THEREOF. ject to any and all patent plus interest from July 1, September 15, 2019 Annie Hogland, County obtained 72 hours prior County and Clovis reservations, easements, 2019 to the date of sale Clerk to the meeting from the POSITION: COMMUNI- native. Were here for the TY PROGRAM COOR- Unless you file and serve all recorded and at the rate of 3.75000% IN THE NINTH Eastern Area Workforce long haul. Call Today! unrecorded liens not per annum, the costs of JUDICIAL DISTRICT Legal 8321 Development Board at DINATOR FOR PRE- Big Mesa Realty 575 a pleading or motion in VENTION PROGRAM response to the com- foreclosed herein, and all sale, including the COURT COUNTY OF September 8, 2019 110 W Country Club 456-2000 or 575 760- recorded and unrecord- Special Master's fee, CURRYSTATE OF September 15, 2019 Road, Roswell, NM and AND TEEN COURT 5461. www.bigmesareal- plaint in said cause on or WAGE LEVEL: MIN before 30 days after the ed special assessments publication costs, and NEW MEXICO will be posted along with ty.com. NMREL 17843 and taxes that may be Plaintiff's costs expend- REQUEST FOR applicable documenta- $15.64 – MID $19.55 last publication date, PER HOUR DOE/DOQ judgment by default will due. Plaintiff and its ed for taxes, insurance, IN THE MATTER OF PROPOSALS tion at our website – be entered against you. attorneys disclaim all and keeping the property THE GUARDIANSHIP eawdb.org. responsibility for, and the in good repair. Plaintiff OF LEGEND MON- The City Commission for DEPARTMENT: purchaser at the sale has the right to bid at TANO, MINOR CHILD. the City of Clovis is If you are an individual GRANTS DEPART- Respectfully Submitted, MENT WEINSTEIN & RILEY, takes the property sub- such sale and submit its requesting competitive with a disability and ject to, the valuation of bid verbally or in writing. Cause No. D-0905-DM- sealed proposals for the require assistance POSITION: COMMUNI- P.S. TY PROGRAM ASSIS- /s/ Elizabeth V. the property by the The Plaintiff may apply 2019-00259 following: and/or auxiliary aid, or if County Assessor as real all or any part of its judg- you would like additional TANT Friedenstein WAGE LEVEL: MIN Elizabeth V. Friedenstein or personal property, ment to the purchase NOTICE OF SERVICE RFP 19-0507-07 information or the agen- affixture of any mobile or price in lieu of cash. BY PUBLICATION ENGINEERING SER- da for this meeting, $10.28 – MID $12.85 BEAUTIFUL 3 BED- 5801 Osuna Road NE, PER HOUR DOE/DOQ Suite A-103 manufactured home to VICES please contact Tiffany ROOM 2 bath country Albuquerque, New the land, deactivation of At the date and time stat- THE STATE OF NEW NIGP COMMODITY Roth at 575-208-2157. home with 3 large shops title to a mobile or manu- ed above, the Special MEXICO TO: Unknown CODES: 92517, 92535, Curry County is accept- and 2 carports occupy Mexico 87109 ing applications until Phone: (505) 348 3200 factured home on the Master may postpone father of Legend 92588, 92567, 92531, Legal 8324 this 4 acre property. The property, if any, environ- the sale to such later Montano 92593, 92536 September 8, 2019 filled for the following property is also fenced in [email protected] position(s): Attorney for Plaintiff mental contamination on date and time as the for that quaint "Home the property, if any, and Special Master may GREETINGS: CLOSING DATE: LEGAL NOTICE Sweet Home" feeling. DEPARTMENT: SHER- Legal 8308 zoning violations con- specify. September 26, 2019 @ OF PUBLIC MEETING Contact Laurie Stone at cerning the property, if You are hereby notified 2:00 P.M. MST IFF’S OFFICE 575-791-9098 to tour this September 1, 2019 POSITION: SHERIFF September 8, 2019 any. NOTICE IS FURTHER that suit has been filed NOTICE: The Portales amazing property locat- GIVEN that this sale may and is now pending Complete proposal pack- Planning Commission DEPUTY – Full Time ed at 1902 Redwine #4 September 15, 2019 WAGE LEVEL: Certified September 22, 2019 NOTICE IS FURTHER be subject to a bankrupt- against you in the District age can be obtained on will conduct a PUBLIC Portales, NM GIVEN that the purchas- cy filing, a payoff, a rein- Court of Curry County, Bidnet at www.bidnetdi- HEARING on Monday, MIN $18.59 to MID $23.24 PER HOUR STATE OF er at such sale shall take statement or any other New Mexico, wherein rect.org. Please contact September 23, 2019 at title to the above- condition that would Anthony and Lillian the Purchasing 5:30 p.m. in the Council DOE/DOQ, Non-Certified NEW MEXICO $15.64 COMMERCIAL/BUS COUNTY OF CURRY described real property cause the cancellation of Whitman are the Department with any Chambers at the subject to rights of this sale. Further, if any Petitioners and you are questions at (575) 763- Memorial Building, 200 E INESS CURRY NINTH JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT: SHER- DISTRICT redemption. of these conditions exist, the Respondent in cause 9633. 7th Street. The following at the time of sale, this number D-0905-DM- A closed committee will item will be discussed: IFF’S OFFICE POSITION: COURT MUST SALE DUE to No. D-905-CV-2019- Margaret Lake sale will be null and void, 2019-00259 of said evaluate proposals. The illness, 10 commer- Special Master the successful bidder's court; that the general proposal information will 1. Submission of an DEPUTY 00116 WAGE LEVEL: MIN cial city lots. Make a Pro Legal Services, LLC funds shall be returned, object of said suit is kin- become public once an application for the reasonable offer. Call 201 Eubank Blvd. NE, and the Special Master ship guardianship of the award has been made in approval of a Final Plat $14.52 to MID $18.16 Idaho Housing and PER HOUR DOE/DOQ 530-822-9862 Finance Association, Suite A1 and the mortgagee giv- above-named minor accordance with NMSA of a Subdivision Albuquerque, NM 87123 ing this notice shall not child. The Petition was 13-1-28. Proposals will (County), Tisthammer DEPARTMENT: DETEN- LOST AND FOUND Plaintiff, (505)715-3711 be liable to the success- filed on July 29, 2019 be reviewed, tabulated, Subdivision Unit 3; Legal ful bidder for any dam- and a responsive plead- scored and submitted to description being: TION CENTER FREE PET ADS. 5 POSITION: DETEN- LINES, 5 DAYS, FOR v. Legal 8309 ages. ing is due within 30 days the City Commission for Southeast Quarter of September 1, 2019 of this service by publi- award at a regularly Section 27, T1S R34E, TION OFFICER – Full FREE. CALL 763-3431. Andrew Martin aka September 8, 2019 NOTICE IS FURTHER cation. scheduled meeting. The NMPM, Roosevelt Andrew N. Martin, New September 15, 2019 GIVEN that the real City of Clovis reserves County, New Mexico, Mexico Mortgage September 22, 2019 property and improve- Please be further the right to reject any or submitted by Aaron Finance Authority, ments concerned with advised that unless you all bids and to waive any Tisthammer and Russell herein will be sold sub- appear and respond informalities or technical- Tisthammer. Defendants. STATE OF ject to any and all patent within 30 days of the ities. 2. Submission of an NEW MEXICO reservations, easements, publication Petitioner application for the NOTICE OF SALE COUNTY OF CURRY all recorded and may request the Court Bryan Jones approval of a Variance NINTH JUDICIAL unrecorded liens not determine that his CPO for a carport at 105 NOTICE IS HEREBY DISTRICT foreclosed herein, and all GIVEN that the under- recorded and unrecord- signed Special Master No. D-905-CV-2017- ed special assessments will on September 24, 00159 and taxes that may be 2019 at 9:00 am, outside due. Plaintiff and its the front entrance of the Weststar Mortgage attorneys disclaim all Curry County Corporation, responsibility for, and the Courthouse, 700 North purchaser at the sale Main, Clovis, NM, sell Plaintiff, takes the property sub- and convey to the high- est bidder for cash all the right, title, and interest of the above-named defen- dants in and to the fol- lowing described real estate located in said County and State:

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Sunday Editor Sept. 8, Kevin Wilson 575-763-3431, ext. 320 2019 [email protected] Your source for complete Staff Writer Peter Stein PORTS 575-763-3431, ext. 322 local sports coverage S THE EASTERN NEW MEXICO NEWS [email protected] B Rio Rancho pulls away in second half ❏ Clovis takes its first The Wildcats (2-1) surprisingly Bailey Siverts added the point- Harris galloped 80 yards through game. never got into the Rams’ red zone, after, and the Rams led 7-0 when the Rams’ defense. The Rams scored the only points loss of season; Texas but made up for it with four touch- the first period ended. At halftime, the Rams held a 22- in the fourth quarter, on a 20-yard downs covering 60 or more yards. The Rams scored the first two 14 lead. Chavez to Rotert connection and a trio awaits Wildcats. The Rams (1-2), TDs of the second quarter on The teams traded the next four 1-yard run by Vigil. going 7 for 7 in the Vigil’s first 1-yard run and a 19- scores: Vigil went in from 5 yards The Rams’ defense — albeit giv- By Gary Herron red zone, also had yard touchdown pass from Chavez out and Harris found Phillips open ing up those four long touchdowns RIO RANCHO OBSERVER senior quarterback to Nick Rotert. Siverts added the in the secondary again, this time for — did its job for the most part, as Isaiah Chavez surpass Clovis PAT and Chavez tossed to Tyrese a 60-yard TD pass, and it was 28- Clovis managed only a minus-14 RIO RANCHO — Sophomore the century mark on Watson for a 2-point conversion, 22. rushing yards in the second half to running back Zach Vigil carried the the ground — until he took a 15- respectively, after those TDs. Chavez hooked up with Watson go with Harris’s 163 passing yards. ball 28 times for 167 yards, scoring yard loss while running out the Clovis got the first two of its four on a fade route, covering 7 yards, Eleventh-year Rams head coach four times on runs of 4, 1, 5 and 1 clock to end the game. long TDs in the second period: QB and the ’Cats countered with an 88- David Howes, who’d seen his team yard, as No. 7 Rio Rancho beat vis- Vigil started the scoring by cap- Chance Harris threw a pass to an yard TD pass from Harris to Jeston blow a 28-point lead at home in his iting No. 6 Clovis for the ninth year ping a seven-play, 62-yard first- all-alone Malik Phillips, which Webskowski — but those were the in a row, 48-28. quarter drive on a 4-yard run. went for a 65-yarder, and then Wildcats’ final touchdowns of the WILDCATS on Page 4B CHS boys win ❏ Lubbock Invite sees Maldonado finish in second. BY THE STAFF OF THE NEWS

LUBBOCK — For the second consecutive week, Clovis’ cross country pro- gram braved the heat to com- pete. This time, with an hour and a half road trip to boot. It was worth the heat and trekking to the Lubbock Invite, as Clovis’ varsity and junior varsity boys won team championships, the varsity with 56 points, the jayvee with 42. “I was really pleased overall with the Clovis effort,” Clovis head coach Mark Bussen said. “We ran the middle school (races) first, and so our (older) kids had to stand around, and it Staff photo: Kevin Wilson was pretty warm. You’re always curious how they’re Portales sophomore Eric Ramirez gets a hold of the jersey of West Las Vegas' Damien Gallegos in Friday's game at Greyhound Stadium going to perform, and they in Portales. The host Rams topped the Dons 46-7. competed. ... So we’re look- ing pretty good for the future. When you compete hard and have success, it’s a lot easier to come back next week.” Rams topple Dons Lubbock’s Isaac Alonzo won the boys varsity race with a time of 15:55. ❏ Portales takes 46-7 victory For the second straight week, Clovis’ Jerrick over West Las Vegas, moves Maldonado took second place, in this race with a time to 3-0; Goddard visits next. of 16:16. Teammates Colton Wolf By Peter Stein (seventh, 17:21) and Kyle STAFF WRITER Richardson (10th, 17:39) [email protected] joined Maldonado in the top 10. PORTALES — If you blinked, sneezed or Alejandro Chavarria visited the rest room at Greyhound Stadium (18th, 18:36) and Kannon Friday night, you may have missed something Brooks (19th, 18:37) posted big happen during one of the Portales football top-20 finishes for Clovis. team’s scoring drives. Leading the boys jayvee When the Rams had the ball against West Las championship charge were Vegas, they usually found the end zone quickly, Hayden Levy — who took and they certainly found it often. The result was fourth with a 20:37 time — a 46-7 rout for the Rams in their home opener, and Jase Nordgren — who on the strength of 33 first-half points, 20 in the was fifth at 20:50. first quarter alone. Portales’ first two scoring Donovan Gutierrez (ninth, drives took five plays combined, the next two 21:39) and Alex McBride lasted only seven plays each. And the Rams’ (10th, 21:40) joined Levy final scoring drive of the first half and Nordgren in the top 10. took just four plays. Defending state champion Oh by the way, Portales had Canyon won the varsity girls improved to 3-0 when it was all race easily, with 17 points over. compared to second-place Yet despite their blowout victo- Abernathy’s 110. ry, the Rams’ grade for themselves seemed to be Canyon’s Brianna Stewart in the B-plus-to-A-minus range. won the meet with a time of “I thought we played a good first quarter, a Staff photo: Kevin Wilson 11:59. decent second quarter, a sloppy third quarter Portales senior Wromiah Gbassagee applies the stiffarm to West Las Vegas linebacker Isiah Clovis’ girls placed 10th at and then finished up with a strong fourth quar- Deane. Gbassagee had 178 yards on 17 carries and three touchdowns in the 46-7 win. 252 points. Annalysse ter,” said Portales head coach Jaime Ramirez, “I’m pretty happy, but I agree with Wromiah own 25 and Gbassagee blocking it and setting Hamlett had the Lady who also served as human stretcher for West Wildcats’ best finish — — we could’ve done a little better, offensively Portales up at West Las Vegas’ 9. Las Vegas linebacker Mark Coca when the lat- eighth place with a time of ter was injured and needed to be carried off the and defensively,” said Rams junior linebacker The next two plays were one- and seven-yard 13:19. field late in the second quarter. Luciano Rodriguez, who snared two intercep- runs for Gbassagee, the third a fake handoff and “It’s hard to convince “I’m pretty pleased, but I think we could’ve tions off tipped balls and had a pass break-up on one-yard touchdown run by quarterback Baylor them that they can get out a done a whole lot better. We just need to get back the game’s first play from scrimmage. Diaz. Fernando Jimenez booted the extra point, little faster. I thought they to communicating right and we’ll get it done,” Still, Portales can’t complain too much about and with just 2:31 gone by, Portales led 7-0. could’ve gotten out a little said Rams senior running back Wromiah a 39-point victory. West Las Vegas, though, seemed ready to faster,” Bussen said of the Gbassagee, who contributed in all phases of the The Rams began their dominant night on Lady Wildcats. “But they’re game with 178 yards and three touchdowns on make a game of it early. The Dons began their 17 carries, to go with a sack and a blocked punt. West Las Vegas’ game-opening possession, which ended with the Dons punting from their RAMS on Page 4B INVITE on Page 4B PAGE 2B ✦ SUNDAY, SEPT. 8, 2019 SPORTS THE EASTERN NEW MEXICO NEWS Wildcat girls top Rams with 5-0 shutout ❏ Clovis moves to 6-1 Neveah Coronado with their 14 goals Ruben Tellez said. “We’re just a little the half, off an assist from Angelina up to fill a big role. combined, and midfielder Danielle thin right now on varsity. But I’m Lopez in the 37th minute. “I’ll be the first one to get on her,” on season with win. Griego. Yet the ’Cats were still able proud of the effort. ... They’re a good It was still a 2-0 game at halftime, Tellez said, “but I also told her, ‘You to piece together a 5-0 victory, thanks bunch of young ladies.” a relatively modest lead for the Lady know what? I’m proud you didn’t By Peter Stein in large part to Sofia Rico’s hat trick. Clovis’ young ladies, though, took ’Cats, and that margin held for more give up.’” STAFF WRITER “We’re kind of beat up right now,” care of business. than a quarter of the second half. But Neither did the Lady Wildcats, [email protected] Clovis head coach Traci Sievers said. “It was good, but it was mainly a Rico wasn’t done, scoring off a direct who got one last goal, this time on a “We’ve had to move some people team effort,” Rico said. “It was the kick from 20 yards out with 27:32 boot by Howalt off an assist from PORTALES — Both the Clovis around. Today we had lots of people team that helped me make those left in regulation. Aydan Everett in the 72nd minute. and Portales girls soccer teams had play different positions, so we’ve had goals.” Clovis struck again nearly five Both teams were soon ready to sol- their challenges when they played some flexibility.” Rico’s trifecta gave her 16 goals minutes later, when Kiyrha Lilly took dier on to their weekend competition, Thursday at Portales High School. “We collaborate well together,” this season, while serving as a nice a shot from the right side of the Rams each with its struggles, each with its Clovis’ may not have seemed so Rico said. “And we’re together as a dose of offensive adrenaline for goal. Portales senior keeper Jazmin determination. glaring, because a 5-1 record coming team, we play well together.” Clovis. Garza seemed to have caught the ball “I think it’s making our overall in can salve a lot of shortcomings. The Lady Rams, meanwhile, have Her goals were the Lady Wildcats’ at first, but it zipped through and into team improvement stronger,” Sievers Portales’ 0-3 made its struggles that had their own problems with num- first three of the game, the initial one the extreme left side of the goal with said of her Wildcats’ adversity. much more noticeable. bers and have also had to shuffle coming off assists by Illeana Griego 22:51 remaining in the second half. “You can’t knock their effort,” The Lady Wildcats were missing players around. . and Madeline Howalt with less than In Garza’s defense, she had never Tellez said of his Rams’ attitude. their top three scorers from last sea- “They play hard. They play their three minutes gone by. played soccer before this season, “They’re winning in other aspects of son — strikers Madison Lynch and hearts out,” Portales head coach Rico’s second goal occurred late in according to Tellez. But she stepped life.” Clovis, NMMI draw THE STAFF OF THE NEWS

ROSWELL — If the saying is true, that a tie is like kissing your sister, the Clovis boys soccer team broke out the Chapstick and gave sis a smackeroo Thursday night at New Mexico Military Institute. The Wildcats traveled to Roswell Thursday and trav- eled back with a 1-1 tie in the books. That stalemate was not quite what the ’Cats wanted, but it did mark their fourth straight game without a loss, and moved their record to 4-2-1. “I thought that we didn’t play to our strengths in the midfield, which is maintaining a lot of possession,” Wildcats head coach Greg Trujillo said. “When we maintain posses- sion we try to open teams up. And we didn’t do any of that.” Thursday’s game was scoreless through the first half. In the opening moments of the second half, the Wildcats looked as though they might finally gain an edge, when Staff photo: Kevin Wilson senior forward Alberto DeLeon was point-blank in Portales junior Ally Bridges dives to keep the ball alive in the third set of Tuesday’s match at Rock Staubus Gymnasium in Clovis. The Rams front of the goal with NMMI’s swept the host Wildcats 25-13, 25-18, 25-10. keeper beat. DeLeon’s shot, however, missed high. “We had a couple of oppor- tunities like that,” Trujillo said. Soon afterward, in the Portales pulls sweep half’s third and the game’s 43rd minute, NMMI junior ❏ Rams notch first victory serving was better until that last set. We strug- After Portales had built a 24-15 advantage, forward Daniel Angulo broke gled hitting the ball, though, like we did last time Clovis hung on yet again. A Skyler Jordan kill the scoreless tie. with 25-13, 25-18, 25-10 win. (against Artesia), and that hurt us. But I was brought the Lady ’Cats within eight, a Portales “(Clovis senior back) Jose pleased with our passing. We were scrappy, we return hit into the net made it 24-17, and a Mendoza tried to fake out the By Peter Stein just have a long way to go. We’re an inexperi- Tabatha Gallegos ace brought Clovis within just forward and missed the ball,” STAFF WRITER enced team with a long way to go.” six. Trujillo said, “So of course [email protected] Tuesday’s first set began with a 2-0 Portales The Rams, however, then closed it out to go up their forward got the ball and lead, but was quickly tied 2-all by Clovis. That 2-0. put it in.” CLOVIS — A Portales/Clovis rivalry clash is was the first of five ties early on in the set. The third set began with a Kameron Kelley ace The Colts’ 1-0 lead held for always fun, something to look forward to for After the Lady Rams broke out of the fifth tie to give Clovis the early lead. And after Portales 25 more minutes until the players, coaches and fans. (7-7), it was the start of four straight Portales tied it at 1, a Rams service error handed the 68th. It’s even more fun still for the team that wins points that made it 11-7. Wildcats a 2-1 edge. That, though, was the last “We finally connected on a those clashes. And in the case of Tuesday night’s Clovis closed to within 11-9, and after Portales time Clovis led in the set or the match. Portales couple passes on the right,” volleyball match at Rock Staubus won the next point, the Lady ’Cats pulled to tied it 2-2, went up 3-2, Clovis tied it 3-3, and Trujillo said. The ball soon Gymnasium, Portales was the team within 12-10. The Lady Rams, though, won four then the Rams took a 4-3 advantage and never came to senior halfback Cody having the most fun. straight to go up by six, and their lead never trailed again. They won three straight points, five Little in the middle, who Though each set was hotly con- placed the shot perfectly, shrunk below five again for the remainder of the of the next six to go up 8-4, and were on their tested early, the Rams were able to set. In fact, after the ’Cats won a point to make according to Trujillo, knotting way to a 25-10 victory to sweep the match. take control in each of them and the score 16-11, the Rams won eight consecutive the game at 1-all. Adrianna Garcia’s kill finished it off for Portales. rolled to a 3-0 sweep of Clovis — points to put themselves on the brink of winning After the score was still tied 25-13, 25-18, 25-10 — for their first victory of the set. A nice win for the Lady Rams, another chal- at the end of regulation, there the young season. A Portales service error made it 24-12, and lenge for the Lady Wildcats. Both teams headed weren’t many chances for “We’ve been talking a lot about executing a lot then Wildcats junior libero Camryn Barros kept into this weekend’s Moriarty Tournament with either team in the two over- of the things we’ve been working on in practice her team alive with an ace. But a Rheagan items to be addressed. time periods, just as there had- — working on some of our hitting stuff, our tran- Courtney kill closed it out for the Rams, giving “I still think our attacking can improve,” n’t been many in the first half. sition stuff,” Portales head coach Charity Gomez them a 1-0 set lead. Gomez said. “I know we had a ton of service “Defensively we played a said. “And we just really executed it well Teagan Faust started Portales off well in the errors (Tuesday), so we’ll try to minimize those really sound game,” Trujillo tonight.” second set with an ace. And after Clovis tied it 1- service errors.” said. “It was just about not For the Lady Wildcats, who finished their sec- 1, a Kinzie Davis point lifted the Rams back “We’ve got to go back to work every day,” generating scoring opportuni- ond match of the season still in search of their ahead. Chavez said, “and see what we can do.” ties today. We got caught up first win, they learned and grew from the defeat, Clovis tied it again before Portales then won Over the weekend, Portales played in the playing NMMI’s game. ... We saw improvement from their opener against the next three points in a row. The Lady Wildcats Moriarty Invitational, winning their first two weren’t able to connect and Artesia. soon shaved their deficit down to 5-4, but drew matches via sweep. The Rams topped Lovington put the ball on the gorund and “A little better. Our goal is we get a little bet- no closer as the Lady Rams never allowed them 27-25, 25-11, 25-21 on Friday, then dispatched connect on the things we do ter each game,” Clovis head coach Ruth Chavez to tie it again, nor did they relinquish the lead at tournament host Moriarty Saturday morning 25- really well when we play said. “I thought we passed better tonight and our any point in the set. 20, 25-19, 25-17. well.” The tie occurred two days after Clovis edged Lovington 1-0 on Lupe Meza’s goal. And that followed a three- game Labor Day weekend stretch in the Louie Cernicek Hounds claim soccer openers Tournament in Los Alamos, BY THE STAFF OF THE NEWS Colorado Mesa. Over in Ada, Vaz lofted a shot from 30 yards out about half an hour after Kierra Diaz during which Clovis went 2-1 Oklahoma, the women’s team took a over the Colorado Mesa keeper. pushed through the game’s lone — on a 1-0 loss to Los Lunas, The Eastern New Mexico 1-0 win to take their first season Junior keeper Ross Dalton didn’t score on the Caitlyn Schmidt assist. a 1-0 win over Alamogordo University soccer teams are both opener since the 2006 season. need any more help, stopping six Junior Whitney Dockweiler was and a 4-1 victory over home today. But they were road Junior midfielder Lucas Vaz led shots — including a stop on a first- solid in her debut at goal, stopping Valencia. warriors Thursday the way for the men’s team, with a half breakaway by Lawan Abury. four Tiger shots on goal. The Clovis will try to push its with both the men hand in both Greyhound goals. The Greyhounds will go for their Greyhounds outshot East Central unbeaten streak to five when and women winning In the 11th minute, Vaz connected second-straight win over a ranked 21-9 overall, with Desiree Morgas visiting Portales on Tuesday key contests. with senior Julian Trapp, whose opponent Sunday, with No. 3 Fort posting seven shots to lead Eastern. night, 6 p.m. It will be the ENMU In Grand Junction, hard shot was blocked by the Hays State coming for a 1 p.m. The ENMU women are in an Wildcats’ sixth away game in Colorado, the men’s team scored its Maverick defense but still trickled affair. exhibition situation today, facing a slate of 10 consecutive road third win over a ranked opponent in into the net. For the women, the third opening- Division I Abilene Christian in an 11 games between Aug. 30 and program history with a 2-0 win over Midway through the second-half, day win in program history came a.m. matchup. Sept. 21. THE EASTERN NEW MEXICO NEWS SPORTS SUNDAY, SEPT. 8, 2019 ✦ PAGE 3B Greyhound probation comes to end ❏ School served four Director Jeff Long said in a school ance reports to the NCAA. Also, final two years and it continued cases qualified for national tour- release. "It has been a total team the school was required to create over the last two years. naments or meets. The university years after reporting effort as we have moved through and implement compliance “A lot of the stuff was put in has had two athletic directors this process and are looking for- processes that verified full-time place by Dr. Gamble that we had depart since the probation period athlete ineligibilities. ward to many years of future suc- credits, academic and athletic eli- to continue and follow up on,” began and nearly all of ENMU’s cess in Greyhound Athletics." gibility and clearance for athletic said Elwell, who credited the athletic programs are with a dif- By Kevin Wilson Four years ago competition. work of numerous consultants, ferent coach than they were when EDITOR the college self- The university announced at the ENMU staff and current compli- probation started, but that sce- [email protected] reported to the beginning of the probation period ance officer Matt Grawrock. “We nario can be argued as the natural NCAA, and they that it paid a $3,500 fine and had a lot of changes in compliance attrition of college athletics. PORTALES — While universi- ENMU collectively deter- vacated its 2011 men’s soccer under (former athletic director) The university was required to ty officials insist much went on at mined 132 student-athletes in 12 Lone Star Conference regular sea- Greg Waggoner.” report its probation status on vari- the administrative levels, an aver- sports competed for Greyhound son championship, its 2011 men’s The probation impacted every ous public documents and inform age fan of Eastern New Mexico teams despite not clearing aca- cross country LSC and NCAA ENMU team except for rodeo, University didn’t see much impact demic or paperwork hurdles for Southwest Regional titles and which does not fall under the any athletic job candidate or while the college spent four years eligibility from 2008 to 2013. The wins in numerous sports during umbrella of the NCAA. potential student-athlete during in NCAA probation. college faulted a system that did those seasons. The school retained On the surface, the probation recruiting. And now it’s over. The universi- not include enough checks and its 2012 LSC men’s cross country didn’t seem to impact athletic suc- “I don’t know if that affected ty received word last week that it balances rather than individuals. title, as it still won the meet after cesses, particularly because it the decision of any coaches or any has satisfactorily completed the Steps the university and athletic factoring in the disqualification of included no postseason bans. With athletes to not come here,” Elwell probation period that started Sept. department were tasked with two ineligible runners. the exception of softball, every said. 1, 2015. included maintaining the full-time University President Jeff Elwell ENMU athletic team has compet- The violations constituted "We are extremely pleased to position of a compliance officer, said his predecessor, Steven ed in at least a Lone Star ENMU’s first infraction since it hear about the NCAA's recent hiring an athletic academic advi- Gamble, got the ball rolling on Conference tournament during the became part of the NCAA in decision," Interim Athletic sor and submitting yearly compli- most of the necessary work in his probation period, and in a few 1984. ENMU spikers split ❏ Team opens up at Cougar Classic in San Marcos. BY THE STAFF OF THE NEWS

SAN MARCOS, Calif. — Two matches and eight games in on the west coast, and Eastern New Mexico started its season with a split right down the middle. The Greyhounds won their opener Friday morning at the Cal State San Marcos Cougar Classic against Saint Martin’s, but the afternoon wasn’t as ENMU kind as Azusa Pacific took a four-set victo- ry over the green and silver. The Greyhounds had two more games scheduled for Saturday, in the early after- noon against Bentley and later that evening against tournament host Cal State San Marcos. Against Saint Martin’s: Junior Jasmine Gannon and Staff photo: Kevin Wilson senior Sarah Tuioti-Mariner Crosbyton sophomore Nick Doss is able to pull down Farwell runner Zach Lusk in the first quarter of Farwell’s 48-0 win Friday night. led the way, combining for 27 kills in an overall bal- anced effort for the offense. Gannon led the way with 15 kills and a .262 hitting per- Tigers, Buffs stay perfect centage with just five errors. Tuioti-Mariner, returning ❏ Elida routs Vaughn 66-13 The Tigers got scores from all over the place, Eighth-grader Michael Cardonita, who played from last season’s knee with Teagan Burton throwing four touchdowns quarterback in the second half, had a 5-yard run. injury, had 11 kills and four following win over Animas. and running for a 10-yard score on his own. Sena slid into the tailback position. of the Greyhounds’ 12 serv- Ferguson had touchdown runs of 50 and 15 yards The Buffaloes are back in action 6 p.m. ice aces. BY THE STAFF OF THE NEWS and scoring receptions of 55 and 15 yards. Thursday against Magdalena. The team got seven kills Will Haley also had a pair of long touchdowns, each from Adriana Puni and Entering the third week of action for New scoring a 50-yard run in the third quarter that Farwell 48, Crosbyton 0 — For better or Christelle Kialanda, along Mexico schools, and the second for those in the made it 54-7 and a 65-yard kickoff return to worse, the Steers haven’t been in a close game with five from Lauren Lone Star State, the eastern New Mexico area answer Vaughn’s final touchdown. yet. Bresnahan. Sophomore Rae Sapiga tied a career high had five undefeated teams in Clovis, Portales, The Tigers are at Carrizozo on Friday. Following the team’s 61-6 opening-week Melrose, Elida and Dora — the final one via for- with 27 assists. drubbing at Friona, the Steers impressed in their The Greyhounds jumped feit. NMMI 32, Texico 21 — The Colts improved to home debut. While Clovis fell from the ranks of the unbeat- 3-0 on the season, largely through a 22-point sec- out to an 8-3 lead in the sec- The Steers are at Olton Friday before returning ond set, following a 25-22 en, the rest did not. Elida stayed perfect on the ond quarter. home to host Texico. six-man season with a 66-13 win over Vaughn The Wolverines return home Friday to face win, but struggled to put the Thursday, Melrose routed Tatum 42-6 Friday, the Capitan, and head just across the train tracks Saints away. Eastern had Friona 69, Bovina 6 — The Chieftains picked Rams topped West Las Vegas and Dora was on a Sept. 20 to face Farwell on the road. four opportunities at match bye. up right where they left off last week, this time point, only to see Saint featuring the Mustangs on the wrong side of a Here’s a wrap on the regional football action Melrose 42, Tatum 6 — Tristan Sena threw a Martin’s ward all of them from the weekend: pair of touchdowns in the first quarter, 11 yards one-sided affair. off and end the set on a 3-0 to Devon Bailey and 6 to Dylan Valentine, and Jacob Baustista accounted for 266 yards of run punctuated by Elida 66, Vaughn 13 — Thursday evening ran in a 5-yard keeper in the second quarter. He offense and four touchdowns. He scored on runs Mackenzie Carter’s winning saw the Tigers trailing 7-6 early following the also added a 2-yard scoring run in the second of 5, 3 and 65 yards and also caught a 61-yard service ace. point after on a Vaughn kickoff return, but Elida half. pass from Jose Grado. Eastern pulled away with more than responded with 48 unanswered before The second quarter featured a 61-yard inter- Grado completed 11 of 19 passes for 184 an 11-2 run in the third set, eventually putting it away in the fourth quarter ception return from Logan DeVaney and the yards. and opened the fourth set on Colton Ferguson’s 15-yard touchdown run. Coyotes’ only score — a 10-yard reception for The Mustangs posted their lone touchdown in with a 6-1 advantage. A 5-0 “We were coming off of a quick turnaround Kivan Cardenas. the third quarter, when Cole Emery found run featuring kills from from the Animas game (Aug. 31),” Elida coach “I was really satisfied, especially defensively,” Fernando Martinez on a 50-yard connection. Kialanda and Gannon and Jereme Woodruff said. “Our biggest thing was to Melrose coach Caleb King said. “We did a good Emery completed 13 passed for 157 yards, but three Saints errors made it stay healthy and get a win. We had some guys job keeping them from moving the football. was hounded into 13 incompletions and five 22-12, and it was smooth playing minutes who hadn’t seen much time so They’ve got three or four fast kids, and we did a interceptions by the Friona defense. sailing from there. Kylie Coon led the Saints far.” really good job containing them.” Bovina travels to Smyer this week. with 16 kills, while Carter had 14. Against Azusa Pacific: The Cougars took advan- tage of an out-of-sync Greyhound attack, which Greyhound women fourth at Stampede only netted 12 kills through BY THE STAFF OF THE NEWS ing fifth (14:47.1) in the 4K race. Mayes (20:45.3, 63rd) and Elizabeth Also competing for the ENMU the first two sets. Overall for the women, who Mossay (21:02.8, 65th). men were Alejandro Chavez Eastern rallied from a 15- CANYON, Texas — Friday night scored 90 points, four of the five Lubbock Christian’s Amira (21:16.1, 30th), Ivar Moinat 7 deficit for a win in the saw the Eastern New Mexico cross scoring runners finished in the top Cunningham won the meet, crossing (21:31.2, 31st), Toby Kirk (24:11, third, but never led in the country teams begin their season, half of the 67-team field. the finish line in 14:48.9,, but 62nd), Shane Rinde (25:21.3, 65th). fourth after the Cougars with the women Kayla Sisneros finished 16th Colorado State-Pueble had the next The Buffaloes won the meet, with wiped out an early 2-0 fourth and the men (16:45.4), Lauren Griego 31st two finishers to score 58 points and three of the top seven finishers and ENMU lead. sixth at West Texas (17:41). Rounding out the beat out host West Texas A&M (59) 40 team points to top Lubbock Gannon had nine kills to ENMU A&M’s Buffalo Greyhound finishes were Caroline and LCU (68) for the team win. Christian (59). Wayland Baptist’s lead the Greyhounds, while Stampede. Bachman (18:17.6, 37th), Amalia For the men, Jessie Madrid fin- Dennis Kiptoo was medalist, fin- Julie Tucker added six. Rae The women’s side placed two of Delgado (18:21.3, 38th) Viridiana ished 10th at 20:03.1 in the 6K race, ished in 19:06.2. Sapiga and younger sister, the top five runners in fourth-place Ruiz (18:28.4, 41st), Sierra while Clovis native Jon Fuentes fin- The teams will be off this week freshman Qitana Sapiga, finisher Aminata Kenyawani Quinones (19:23.8, 54th), Esther ished 14th in his college debut at before heading to the Texas Tech each had 16 assists, two (15:30.1) and Evaline Cheptoo tak- Kipkoech (20:16.2, 60th), Tara 20:17.8. Invitational Sept. 21. aces and eight digs. 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Rams “I’m pretty pleased, TEXICO TOPS GRADY but I think we could’ve From Page 1B done a whole lot bet- next possession at their own ter. We just need to 41, quickly moved to their 46 by a Portales offside get back to penalty, and went to work communicating right from there. Sophomore run- ning back Damien Gallegos and we’ll get it done.” dashed for 18 yards on the — Portales senior next play to get West Las Wromiah Gbassagee Vegas rolling. Later in the drive, a 15- left sideline. Four plays yard pass from John Balizan later, Garcia converted a to a diving Omar Gallardo fourth-and-one from the converted a fourth-and-nine West Las Vegas 16, rushing situation while moving the 10 yards off a leftside pitch. Dons to Portales’ 20. After Two plays after that, another Rams offside penal- Gbassagee ran one yard for a ty, Gallegos scored, ducking score to give his team a 26-7 under Portales tacklers and advantage. The extra point darting into the end zone was too low, so the margin with a 15-yard run. stayed at 19 with 9:05 Balizan kicked the extra remaining in the half. point, tying the game at 7 Portales’ last score of the with 7:57 left in the first first half was set up by quarter. Rodriguez’s first intercep- Portales, however, needed tion off a tip. little time to go back into the “I was just focusing in,” lead — 27 seconds to be Rodriguez said. exact. The Rams began at As a result of his intercep- their own 36, and a first- tion, Portales began at the down pass was hauled in by West Las Vegas 39. Three a leaping Jalen Allen, but plays later, the Rams faced a didn’t count because it was fourth-and-14 at the Dons out of bounds. Gbassagee 43, and they converted with took a pitch on the next play, a 43-yard Diaz touchdown and picked his way through pass from Diaz to Dason a hole pried open by the Davis in the right side of the offensive line before finding end zone. daylight down the right side- Jimenez supplied the extra line. Gbassagee tore off a point, giving Portales a 33-7 64-yard touchdown jaunt, lead with 7:15 to go before putting his team ahead halftime. again. That score, thanks to some “It was good blocking,” missed opportunities, Gbassagee said. “As soon as remained the same until well I found a hole I was gone.” into the fourth quarter. It Jimenez’s extra point wasn’t until 5:20 remained made it 14-7 with 7:30 to in the game that Portales play in the first quarter. scored again, doing so on The Rams’ next posses- another one-yard Gbassagee sion began at their own 36. touchdown run. Jimenez’s Staff photo: Kevin Wilson The drive’s biggest play was extra point gave the Rams a Texico senior Gemma Martin tries to get the ball over the defense of Grady’s Teryn Foote in the Wolverines’ 25- a 23-yard pass from Diaz to 40-7 lead. With :53.9 left in the 11, 25-23, 25-9 victory to open the season. The Wolverines fell in their first two matches at the Moriarty Invitational, Kellan Hightower that set losing to Los Alamos 25-16, 27-25, 25-14 Friday and 25-23, 25-22, 14-25, 25-10 Saturday against Lovington. Portales up at the West Las game, sophomore Ethan Vegas 3. Jordan Garcia took Conrow — who wound up care of it from there, rushing rushing for 35 yards on just the necessary three yards for four carries — picked up the a score on the Rams’ next last 11 yards of that total play. with a touchdown run. The WhatWhat’’ss happeninghappening Jimenez’s third extra- extra point was blocked, but point attempt was partially the Rams’ night of domi- ■ Clovis Municipal Schools is selling a family Idsinga Dairy located at 43351 US Highway 70 12, and each respective camp will be held 9 blocked, and almost went nance was done. pass for the 2019-20 athletic year. in Portales. a.m.-4 p.m. with check-in and same-day regis- end-over-end through the Ramirez, though, looked The $130 pass will be valid for two parents The competition is expected to take five hours tration for $60 per player at 8:30 a.m. Each at the game as just a step, and three schoolchildren for admission to any and has four divisions — youth, adult mixed, goal posts anyway before camp will be limited to the first 40 participants falling a bit short. So the with much more work to be home game for any team in the Clovis district team and women. Entry fees range from $35 to Rams’ lead held at 20-7 late done as the season-long from middle school to high school, with the $175, and numerous raffles are held during the that register. in the first quarter. climb continues. exception of Clovis High School football games event. The Lil’ Hound Camp will be held 9 a.m.-noon The second play of the “We have a lot of improv- and playoff games in any sport. To register, contact Jeanette Orrantia at 575- for girls or boys, with registration beginning at second quarter was a West ing to do,” he said. “I Passes are available at the CHS athletic 226-6669 or by email at [email protected]. 8:30 a.m. Registration is $30 per participant. thought overall, we played Las Vegas punt, downed at office. Information: [email protected]. Portales’ 37, and the Rams’ good defense and we played Information: 575-769-4350, ext. 1023. ■ The Eastern New Mexico University soft- good enough offense to first play of that drive was a ball program will have a pair of camps this move the ball and score.” Sports events or sports-related activities 38-yard Diaz run down the ■ The Roosevelt General Hospital month — a prospect elite camps Sept. 21 and a Foundation is hosting its fifth annual skeet Lil’ Hounds Camp Saturday. to list? Call: 575-763-3431. Fax: 575-762- shoot to benefit RGH. Both camps are at Greyhound Softball Field. 3879. Drop it off at 521 Pile St, Clovis. Email: (15th, 28:09). The shoot is scheduled for 8 a.m. Saturday at The elite camp is for girls entering grades 9- [email protected] Invite Clovis’ top middle school boys finisher was Sammy From Page 1B Fuentes — 30th (13:40) out getting better each week; of 172 runners. The Lady that’s all I can ask. ... They Wildcats’ best middle school Non-varsitNon-varsityy updateupdate runner was Kira Tree — 96th work hard, they’re good touchdown for the Cubs, while Hayden accepts submissions from coaches girls.” (16:56) out of 280 competi- Seventh-grader Cubs Harris added the two-point conversion. for any junior varsity or middle Clovis’ jayvee girls were tors. tie 8-8 against Marshall The tie puts the Gattis record at 1-0- school sports performance. third, with three top-20 fin- Clovis returns to action The Gattis seventh-grade football 1. They’re in action again 4 p.m. ishes: Nashla Campos (11th, next Saturday at New team ended Tuesday’s game against Tuesday in Portales. 27:35); Yazmean Ledezma Mexico Military Institute in Marshall with an 8-8 tie. Submit information to (12th, 27:39) and Ava Munoz Roswell, beginning at 9 a.m. Mason Greathouse scored the lone The Eastern New Mexico News [email protected] COREBOARD S ALL TIMES MOUNTAIN • REPORT SCORES: 575-763-3431 15:43; 71. Odalys Olivas 15:53. 81. Tayden Portales 20 13 0 13 — 46 Killette 1-6, Montoya 1-5, Justin Paden 1-2. Cross country Curtis 16:08. Records — West Las Vegas 2-1, Portales Scoring summary 3-0. Prep results Junior varsity boys (3 mi.) First quarter Lubbock Invite Team results P — Baylor Diaz 1 run (Fernando Jimenez Softball Saturday 1. Clovis, 42; 2. Plainview, 65; 3. Monterey, kick), 9:29 Boys (3 mi.) 81; 4. Coronado, 88; 5. Wolfforth, 97; 6. W — Damien Gallegos 15 run (John Balizan kick), 7:57 Varsity team results Ackerly Sands, 124 Clovis Softball Association P — Romeo Gbassagee 64 run (Jimenez 1. Clovis, 56; 2. Lubbock-Monterey, 64; 3. TGIF Summer League Individual results kick), 7:30 Midland, 83; 4. Midland Lee, 131; 5. Frenship Final standings Winner: Jordan Flores, Plainview, 19:43 P — Jordan Garcia 3 run (kick blocked), Wolfforth, 133; 6. Lubbock, 174; 7. Plainview, A Division Clovis finishers: 4. Hayden Levy 20:37; 5. 1:50 231; 8. Crosbyton, 260; 9. Coronado, 275; 10. Team W L Jase Nordgren 20:50; 9. Donovan Gutierrez Ackerly Sands, 315; 11. Lenorah Grady, 321; 21:39; 10. Alex McBride 21:40 25. Aiden Olsen Second quarter Special Delivery-x 7 3 12. Slaton, 323; 13. Brownfield, 334; 14. New 23:22 27. Michael Tree 23:28. 28. Jakob P — Gbassagee 1 run (kick failed), 9:05 Muddslingers 7 3 Home, 338; 15. Lockney, 350; 16. Abernathy, Griego 24:10; 35. Alex Gonzales 24:35. 47. P — Dason Davis 43 pass from Diaz Tigres 6 4 395; 17. Lubbock Roosevelt, 417; 18. Gabe Romero 26:31; 61. Bryan Littlejohn (Jimenez kick), 7:15 DC Boyz 6 4 Petersburg, 449; 19. O’Donnell, 461; ; Rio Rancho Observer photo: Gary Herron 29:35. Nobodyz 5 5 Fourth quarter Dirty Dozen 3 7 Clovis quarterback Chance Harris fires a long pass to Individual results Junior varsity girls (2 mi.) P — Gbassagee 1 run (Jimenez kick), 5:20 Bomb Squad 2 8 Jeston Webskowski as he avoids Rams would-be tack- Winner: Isaac Alonzo, Lubbock, 15:55 Team results P — Ethan Conrow 11 run (kick blocked), B Division ler Jarod Barlow Friday night in Rio Rancho. Harris Clovis finishers: 2. Jerrick Maldonado 16:16; 1. Plainview, 15; 2. Midland Lee, 55; 3. :53.9 7. Colton Wolf 17:21; 10. Kyle Richardson Team W L Clovis, 62 Dirty Boyz 9 1 tossed three long TD passes and ran 80 yards for 17:39; 18. Alejandro Chavarria 18:36; 19. Team statistics Thunder Chickenz 8 2 another score in the loss. Kannon Brooks 18:37; 39. Nehemiah Individual results W P Mexican Mix 7 3 Gonzales 19:23; 46. Sage Spade 19:45; 56. Winner: Danielle Pacheco, Plainview 23:49 First downs 12 25 Cucuy's 6 4 Caleb Carlton 19:51; 60. Collyn Tomoyose Clovis finishers: 11. Nashla Campos Rushes-yards 26-70 44-350 Howes is now 10-1 vs. the 19:57. 27:35; 12. Yazmean Ledezma 27:39; 15. Ava Passing yards 161 131 Dark Horse 6 4 Wildcats Wildcats, who last beat the Munoz 28:09; 21. Brittney Albin 29:52; 24. Total yards 231 481 Wreck it 5 5 Rams in 2010. This is the Girls (2 mi.) Shanae Hall 32:25 27. Lola Galea 34:44. Comp-att-int 15-25-2 11-20-0 DD Softball 5 5 Varsity team results Punting 4-21.75 1-46.0 Outsiders 4 6 From Page 1B 16th year in a row the 1. Canyon, 17; 2. Abernathy, 110; 3. Idalou, Clovis middle school results (2 mi.) Fumbles-lost 0-0 1-1 TMT 3 7 schools have met. 142; 4. Ackerly Sands, 152; 5. Ralls, 153; 6. Boys: 30. Sammy Fuentes 13:40; 118. Penalties-yards 9-102 12-90 Jokers Wild 3 7 team’s opener, was asked Hart, 179; 7. Gail Borden, 190; 8. Slayton, 201; Victor Gorosieta 16:49; 129. Ezekiel Hita The Shoe 0 10 The Wildcats now get 9. Munday, 215; 10. Clovis, 252; 11. what he was happier with, 129th 17:16; 131. Angel Diaz 17:29; 135. Rudy Individual statistics C Division ready for three weeks of Crosbyton, 257; 12. Brownfield, 313; 13. other than a W. Ledezma 17:44. Passing — West Las Vegas, Balizan 15-25- Team W L Ropesville, 315; 14. Shallow Water, 320; 15. 2-0-161. Portales, Diaz 11-20-0-1-131. “I think playing four quar- Texas, with Lubbock schools Girls: 96. Kira Tree 16:56. Panthers 10 0 Whiteface, 343; 16. O’Donnell, 391; 17. Rushing — West Las Vegas, Gallegos 23- on the schedule each of the Super Dingers 7 3 ters,” he said. “Watching us Lubbock Roosevelt, 436; 18. Lubbock 69, Balizan 3-1. Portales, Gbassagee 17-178, take care of the football (the next three Fridays — at Estacado, 439; 19. Lenorah Grady, 440 Football Diaz 15-67, Anthony Montoya 4-52, Conrow 4- Ruthless Roofers 6 4 Rams didn’t turn the ball home Friday against 35, Garcia 4-18. Los Cachorros 4 6 Prep summary Revengers 4 6 over); I just thought that Monterey, Sept. 20 at Individual results Receiving — West Las Vegas, Omar Winner: Brianna Stewart, Canyon, 11:59 Friday Gallardo 7-109, Estavan Gonzales 6-48, Los Bravos 3 7 looked like good, sound foot- Coronado and Sept. 27 at Clovis finishers: 8. Annalysse Hamlett Portales 46, West Las Vegas 7 Gallegos 2-4. Portales, Davis 3-62, Kellan Young and Old 2 8 ball.” Cooper. 13:19; 27. Shylee Tree 14:27; 65. Ali Tree West Las Vegas 7 0 0 0 — 7 Hightower 3-46, Gbassagee 2-10, Jayden x-Awarded place via tiebreaker PAGE 5B Sunday Sept. 8, 2019 IFE L THE EASTERN NEW MEXICO NEWS Passionate about reaching out

y name is Jason OUR PEOPLE Swann. I’m a husband to my M ◗ Name: Jason Swann wife Ginny for 13 years. ◗ I’m a father of three boys Age: 34 who are seven, four, and ◗ Where were you born? two. I’ve been a pastor at Muleshoe Faith Christian Family ◗ Where do you live Church for nearly 16 now? Clovis years. I’m passionate about reaching people for Courtesy photos Christ, capturing football. Above: My wife Ginny, moments. me and my boys. IF YOU HAD TO PICK IF YOU HAD A SUPER YOUR LAST MEAL, WHAT Left: Ginny and I have POWER, WHAT WOULD IT WOULD IT BE? been married for 13 BE AND WHY? There’s this little restau- If I had a superpower it rant in Florida that cooks years. would be the ability to fresh grouper on top of pause, rewind, and fast- Louisiana style grits that forward time. That way I is by far my favorite meal could go back, and relive I’ve ever had. the best moments, pause when I wanted to stay in a WHERE DO YOU SEE moment, and soak it all in. YOURSELF IN 10 YEARS? I’d fast-forward through In 10 years I want to be long waits at great restau- helping people. Whether rants and the MVD. that’s growing their rela- WHAT ARE YOU READ- tionship with Christ, cap- ING? turing a memory with a Right now I’m reading camera, or encouraging Crushing from Bishop TD them to be their best self. Jakes, 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership from John TELL US ABOUT YOUR Maxwell, and the Gift of HOBBY: Struggle from a fellow My favorite hobby by New Mexican Bobby far is photography. I’ve Herrera. been blessed to photo- graph high school, col- FAVORITE QUOTE? lege, and soon the NFL. “The reasonable man It’s one of the ways I stay adapts himself to the connected to a game I world: the unreasonable love but no longer get to one persists in trying to be a part of day in and day adapt the world to him- out. self. Therefore all progress depends on the WHAT IS YOUR MOST unreasonable man.” — PRIZED POSSESSION? George Bernard Shaw My most prized posses- WHAT’S AN ACCOM- sion is my Jeep. It’s more PLISHMENT YOU’RE than a car it’s a tool to do PROUD OF? things with my family. Go One of my favorite camping, hunting, fishing, accomplishments is win- etc ... we have lots of fun ning a state championship climbing mountains and as a head coach in 2010 seeing all that New (Clovis Christian, six- Mexico has to offer man). As far as I know because of it. I’m still the youngest head coach to win a state cham- — Compiled by Editor pionship in New Mexico Kevin Wilson

These days, air conditioning hard to live without

’ve become soft in my old You have a great big pan of water could blow into the pan and get Humidity and newsprint weren’t age. I get reminded of how in the bottom of a box with vent- sucked up. Often the hose could real compatible. Working in a Isoft I am every August. Karl ed sides with aspen twig pads be disconnected from the pump really hot shop wasn’t much fun Each August I spend a good inside them. A pump in the bot- and you could blow through the either. deal of time at the fairgrounds Terry tom of the pan sends the water hose to get things flowing again. Businesses seemed to switch inside the only buildings I’m ◆ through a hose to the top of the The other thing that would hap- first to “refrigerated” air condi- inside during the summer with Local cooler where it is distributed pen would be the carrier bearings tioning then homes followed later. evaporative cooling. columnist through a spider-legged distribu- on the squirrel cage would get dry This past week I was in a couple I grew up under a swamp cool- tor that kept the pads wet. A big and you had to oil them or you of doctors offices cold enough to er and didn’t know anything else. “squirrel cage” fan then pulled would be changing them out hang meat and one hot enough to If the cooler was working right outside in the sun working or the hot, dry air through the pads, soon. You also ran the risk of make Satan pleased. and the air wasn’t too humid it playing. If you go out and cut a humidifying the air and giving the burning out a motor. We don’t completely have air felt great. Sure, when you woke lawn in 100-degree temperatures air at least a “cooler feel” as it You also had to occasionally conditioning dialed in but it up in the morning it was just a bit later today, even a poorly func- was blown into the room or duct- adjust the belt on the squirrel would be hard to live without — damp in the house. But by 10 ing of a building. cage motor. Between bearings, even if my last electric bill was a a.m. the temperature outside had tioning swamp cooler is going to The main things you did to belts and other factors each cooler whopper. turned that around. feel great. maintain the cooler was change had its own unique sound and I like it cool. I think the biggest secret to I got pretty good at working on the pads and the pumps. You also sometimes vibration patterns. how well those swamp coolers evaporative coolers. Their design had to keep the distributor from The worst place I ever worked Karl Terry writes for Clovis cooled our houses back then was and parts were simple enough for getting clogged from hard water under a swamp cooler was in the Media Inc. Contact him at: because we spent a lot more time even my brain to comprehend. deposits and leaves and gunk that press room at Tucumcari. [email protected]

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School menus Senior calendar Clovis elementary apples, juice; Lunch, beefy mac, green Wednesday: Breakfast, pancake on a Baxter Curren Senior Center rots, dinner roll w/margarine, Monday: Breakfast, egg & cheese crois- beans, breadstick, pears stick, cold cereal, juice, fruit, milk; Lunch, 908 Hickory St., Clovis pears sant, fruit, juice, milk; Lunch, teriyaki Thursday: Breakfast, omlet w/flour tortilla, lasagna, lettuce, tomato, green beans, Monday: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. 8 Wednesday: Low sodium blasters, scalloped potatoes, seasoned banana juice; Lunch, chicken nuggets, breadstick, fruit, milk ball pool, 8:30 a.m. exercise, sausage, fried cabbage, potato green beans, chilled fruit, whole wheat roll, mashed potato, cucumbers, gravy, roll, Thursday: Breakfast, breakfast burrito, 10 a.m. jewelry pals, 1 p.m. wedges, black eyed peas, corn- veggie bar, milk peaches cold cereal, juice, fruit, milk; Lunch, ham- line dance, 1 p.m. canasta, 5 bread w/margarine, fruit cocktail p.m. social night Thursday: Cheeseburger Tuesday: Breakfast, pancake sausage on Friday: Breakfast, mini waffle, app- burger on a bun, fries, pickle spear, orange Tuesday: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. (beef, cheese, bun) lettuce, a stix, fruit, juice, milk; Lunch, popcorn lessauce, juice; Lunch, beef & cheese slices, milk exercise equipment, 8 a.m.-4 tomatoes & onion, baked chicken, mashed potatoes & gravy, mini car- nachos, pinto beans, broccoli, applesauce p.m. 8-ball pool, 8 a.m. quilting, beans, tater tots, ice cream rots & ranch, pasta salad, chilled mixed fruit, Dora schools 11 a.m. line dance, 1 p.m. Friday: Chicken fajita, (chick- veggie bar, milk Portales high/junior high Monday: Breakfast: Biscuit & sausage, pinochle, 6 p.m. musical en, pepper & onion, cheese, tor- Wednesday: No school Monday: Breakfast, Benefit bar, fruit cup, cereal, fruit, juice, milk ; Lunch: Chicken Wednesday: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. tilla), pinto beans, Spanish rice, Thursday: Breakfast, blueberry muffin, juice; Lunch, Frito pie, corn, carrots, peach nuggets, mashed potatoes, gravy, brocco-li, exercise equipment, 8 a.m.-4 chips & salsa, oatmeal cookie, fruit, juice, milk; Lunch, meatloaf sandwich, cup OR grilled ham & cheese sandwich, roll, fruit, milk p.m. 8-ball pool, 8:30 a.m. steamed broccoli, chilled peaches, veggie fries, carrots, peach cup Tuesday: Breakfast: Breakfast pizza, exercise class, 9 a.m. sew Friendship Senior Center bar, milk Tuesday: Breakfast, sausage & cheese cereal, fruit, juice, milk ; Lunch: Beef tacos, days, 1 p.m. needle gang 901 West 13th St., Clovis Friday: Breakfast, French toast, fruit, mini bagels, applesauce, juice; Lunch, gold- ranch beans fruit, milk Thursday: 8 a.m. biscuits, Monday: Daily activities, juice, milk; Lunch, cheese quesadilla salsa, en burrito, fries, salad w/tomatos, fresh fruit Wednesday: Breakfast: French toast gravy, eggs, $5, 8:45 a.m. 8:30 a.m. power walking, 9 seasoned pinto beans, mini carrots, celery OR Asian chicken, rice, broccoli & carrots, sticks, cereal, fruit, juice, milk ; Lunch: board meeting, 8:45 a.m. a.m. zumba, 1 p.m. loteria stix & ranch, cookie - veggie bar, milk pineapple, rice crispy treat Cheeseburgers, tater tots, fruit, milk pinochle 101, 1 p.m. bingo, 6 Tuesday: Daily activities, 9 Wednesday: Breakfast, French toast, p.m. line dance a.m. dance 2 fitness Clovis high/middle apples, juice; Lunch, beefy mac, green Thursday: Breakfast: Biscuit & gravy, cereal, fruit, juice, milk ; Lunch: Pizza, green Friday: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. exer- Wednesday: Daily activities, Monday: Breakfast, cinnamon waffle, beans, breadsticks, pears OR pizza, salad beans, car-rot sticks, fruit, milk cise equipment, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. 8:30 a.m. power walking, 9 fruit, juice, milk; Lunch, spaghetti & meat w/ tomato, cucumber, carrots, pears 8-ball pool, 8:30 a.m. exercise a.m. zumba, 1 p.m. fall craft sauce, pizza, popcorn chicken chef salad Thursday: Breakfast, omlet w/flour tortilla, class, 10 a.m. needle gang, 1 Thursday: Daily activities, 9 cheeseburger/hamburger, burrito, spicy banana juice; Lunch, chicken nuggets, Elida schools p.m. pinochle, 7 p.m. dance a.m. dance 2 fitness chicken sandwich, baked French fries, gar- mashed potato, cucumber stick, gravy, roll, Monday: Breakfast, breakfast sticks, fruit, (Curry County Outlaws) Friday: Daily activities, 1 den salad, mini carrots & ranch, chilled peaches OR chicken fajitas, refried beans, cereal, juice, milk; Lunch, homemade bean Saturday: 4 p.m. game p.m. bingo (salsa contest) pears, garlic roll, milk salad w/tomato, peaches burritos, Spanish rice, pears, salad, milk night Daily activities: 8 a.m.-5 Tuesday: Breakfast, mini donut, fruit, Friday: Breakfast, mini waffle, app- Tuesday: Breakfast, hash brown casse- p.m. 8-ball pool/snooker, coffee juice, milk; Lunch, turkey & cheese wrap, lessauce, juice; Lunch, beef and cheese role, fruit, cereal, juice, milk; Lunch, tacos, Community Senior Center with friends, darts, games and pizza, ham chef salad, cheeseburger/ham- nachos, pinto beans, broccoli, applesauce hominy, jello, salad, milk 1100 Community Way, puzzles, crafts burger, corn dog, spicy chicken sandwich, OR chili dog, fries, broccoli, applesauce Wednesday: Breakfast, French toast Portales baked French fries, baked tater tots, celery sticks, fruit, cereal, juice, milk; Lunch, pulled Monday: Lasagna, beets, La Casa Senior Center stix & ranch, fresh fruit, cookie, milk Melrose schools pork sandwiches, green beans, pudding, orange, crackers, applesauce 1120 Cameo St., Clovis Wednesday: No school Monday: Breakfast, apple muffins or salad, milk walnut cake Monday: Daily activities Thursday: Breakfast, egg & cheese on a cereal, toast, fruit, fruit juice, milk; Lunch, Thursday: Breakfast, English muffins, Tuesday: Green chili pork Tuesday: Daily activities, 10 bun, fruit, juice, milk; Lunch, chili cheese combo burrito, vegeatbles, fruit, milk fruit, cereal, juice, milk; Lunch, corndogs, stew, mexicorn, green beans, a.m. board meeting, 11 a.m. dog, pizza, turkey chef salad, cheeseburg- Tuesday: Breakfast, bacon breakfast pork & beans, rice krispies cookies, salad, flour tortilla, warm cinnamon general meeting, 1 p.m. bingo er/hamburger, BBQ porky rib sandwich, casserole or cereal, toast, fruit, fruit juice, milk apples, Wednesday: Daily activities, spicy chicken sandwich, baked French fries, milk; Lunch, baked cheese sandwiches, Wednesday: Beef nachos 1 p.m. bingo baked French fries, fresh broccoli, ranch vegeatbles, fruit, milk Floyd schools w/fixings, diced tomatos, Thursday: Daily activities,, dressing, fresh fruit, milk Wednesday: Breakfast, French toast Spanish rice, pinto beans, oat- 1 p.m. loteria Monday: Breakfast, pancakes w/syrup, Friday: Breakfast, apple fruit pocket, fruit, sticks or cereal, toast, fruit, fruit juice, milk; meal cookie Friday: Daily activities assorted cereal, juice, fruit, milk; Lunch, juice, milk; Lunch, homemade, chicken & Lunch, hot dogs, pork and beans, vegeat- Thursday: Chicken Alfredo, Daily activities: spaghetti with meat sauce, pineaple tidbits, cheese burrito, pizza, fajita chef salad, bles, fruit, milk Italian vegetables, tossed salad, Sewing/crafts, 8-ball pool cheeseburger/hamburger, spicy chicken Thursday: Breakfast, cinammon rolls or garlic bread, vegetable salad, milk garlic bread, pears sandwich, baked French fries, seasoned cereal, toast, fruit, fruit juice, milk; Lunch, Tuesday: Breakfast, breakfast burrito, Friday: Crunchy baked fish, Los Abuelitos Senior Center pinto beans, garden salad & ranch, chilled Salisbury steak, mashed potatoes, vegeat- assorted cereal, juice, fruit, milk; Lunch, French fries, coleslaw, wheat 1515 W. Fir St., Portales fruit - jello, milk bles, fruit, milk taco salad, ranch style beans, apricots, veg- bread, pineapple Monday: Daily activities Texico schools etable salad, milk Tuesday: Daily activities, 11 Portales elementary Monday: Breakfast,cinnamon rolls, cold Wednesday: Breakfast, banana bread CRSMA Senior Diner’s Club a.m. ICAN Monday: Breakfast, Benefit bar, fruit cereal, juice, fruit, milk; Lunch, beef & bean squares, assorted cereal, juice, fruit, milk; 901 West 13th St., Clovis Wednesday: Daily activities cups, juice; Lunch, Frito pie, corn, peach burrito, lettuce, tomato, corn, salsa, fruit, Lunch, chicken nuggets, baby carrots, Monday: Sloppy joe on bun Thursday: Daily activities, cup milk peaches, crackers, vegetable salad, milk (beef, sauce, bun), oven brown 10 a.m. board meeting, 11 a.m. Tuesday: Breakfast, sausage & cheese Tuesday: Breakfast, breakfast sandwich, Thursday: Breakfast, sausage and egg potato, mixed vegetables, general meeting mini bagels, applesauce, juice; Lunch, gold- cold cereal, juice, fruit, milk; Lunch, chicken casserole, assorted cereal, juice, fruit, milk; pineapples in pudding, Friday: Daily activities en burrito, fries, salad w/tomatos, fresh fruit fajita, pinto beans, lettuce, tomato, salsa, Lunch, hamburgers, French fries, orange, Tuesday: Meatloaf, mashed Daily activities: Games, Wednesday: Breakfast, French toast, fruit, milk vegetable salad, milk potato, brown gravy, pea & car- sewing group, exercise Ten candidates on list for CCC president position By Kevin Wilson search, was wowed by the “They have done superb reporting data to the New The college is only author- lency diploma program. EDITOR interest. due diligence in reviewing Mexico Higher Education ized to spend the interest. Center for Student Success [email protected] “They thought the number the applicant pool,” Department. Norman Kia, Kuykendall said the money Director Emily Glikas said was amazing,” Mondragon Mondragon said. CCC’s vice president of IT may be expended for upcom- there were 50 people who CLOVIS — Ten candi- said. “That’s a credit to CCC The goal is a mid-October and operations, said each ing faculty development ini- received GEDs through the tiatives. dates are in the running to be and the people we have here.” hire and a January start date. school would retain opera- program in 2018-19, up from the next president at Clovis tional independence. • The board approved 10 The next step is to inter- Robin Kuykendall, who is 18 the previous year. Community College. A week view the 10 semifinalists via not a candidate for the posi- Enterprise systems include appointments to its art com- from now, the finalist field video interview before paring tion, is serving as interim finance, budget, human mittee. “We packed Town Hall (for will likely be half that size. the field down to publicly president. resources, payroll and student Appointed were Carolyn the ceremony),” Kuykendall That was the crux of the announced finalists. The hir- In other business at the information. Lindsey, Gayla Brumfield, said, “and that’s a good prob- update given Wednesday by ing timeline established by Wednesday meeting: If approved, the college Jan Lloyd, Shirley deMaio, lem to have.” Raymond Mondragon, secre- ACCT in May had that step • The college received per- would supply an additional Jan Cox, Natalie Daggett, Staff is unsure of how tary of the CCC Board of coming in the Sept. 12-13 mission to apply for $750,000 $249,427 in institutional Corey Picket, Joe Strickland, Clovis Municipal Schools’ Trustees, at its monthly meet- timeframe. Mondragon didn’t in state Research and Public renewal and replacement dol- Terry Martin (board represen- new iAcademy will impact ing at the college. mention those dates but said Service Program dollars for lars. tative) and Jacob Rodriguez. the numbers for GED pro- Officials said 62 candidates “mid-September” was a fair enhancement of its enterprise • The board approved sub- All terms are four years gram participants. applied for the position, estimate. planning system. The college mission of the CCC endow- except for Rodriguez, who • The board met for about serves a one-year term as stu- which became vacant in July The committee is made up is working with Santa Fe ment report to the state high- 30 minutes in executive ses- when Becky Rowley left to of 13 members and two alter- Community College, Central er education department. The dent representative. The col- sion on one personnel matter become president at Santa Fe nates, working in confiden- New Mexico College, school currently holds lege president also serves as a Community College. tiality. The trustees are not Mesalands Community $295,434 in its endowment non-voting member. and one property matter, and Mondragon said the involved, with the exception College, Luna Community fund — $150,000 from the • Board members heard a took no action before Association of Community of Mondragon organizing College and San Juan state, $132,500 in matching report on the college’s adult adjourning the meeting. College Trustees, which is meetings and leaving as soon Community College to make funds from CCC and $12,966 basic education services, • The next meeting is handling the nationwide as they begin. the enhancement uniform for in accrued interest. including its general equiva- scheduled for 8 a.m. Oct. 2. THE EASTERN NEW MEXICO NEWS LIFE SUNDAY, SEPT. 8, 2019 ✦ PAGE 7B On the shelves The following books are avaialble for “The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books” checkout: by Edward Wilson-Lee depicts an impecca- bly researched and vividly rendered account Clovis-Carver of the quest by Christopher Columbus's ille- gitimate son to create the greatest library in Public Library the world, one that even included material “The White City” by Grace Hitchcock often dismissed as ephemeral trash: song reverberates with intrigue when Winnifred sheets, erotica, newsletters, popular images, Wylde witnesses a woman being kidnapped romances, and fables. Wilson-Lee's perfect- from the Chicago World's Fair. Her father, ly pitched poetic drama of Hernando Colón police Inspector Wylde, claims she is exag- reveals a man determined to surpass his gerating from an overactive imagination, father's achievements. but eventually concedes to letting her go “Medicine Women” by Jim Kristofic undercover as secretary to the man in ques- traces the story of the Ganado Mission on tion--if Winnifred takes her pistol for pro- the Navajo Indian Reservation after the tection and Officer Thorpe for a bodyguard. Indian wars, a time when many Americans “The Parade” by Dave Eggers bristles still believed that the only good Indian was with suspense as two men, Western contrac- a dead Indian. Through a group of mission- tors sent to work far from home, are tasked aries and doctors, young native women with paving a road to the capital in a dan- were trained as nurses, hoping their struggle gerous and largely lawless country. Chaos to step into the world of modern medicine created by one of the contractors, along might bridge between the old ways and the with illness, corruption, and theft, threatens new. the high-stakes mission. Yet it gets worse “One Giant Leap” by Charles Fishman when they discover danger far greater than delivers the sweeping, definitive, behind- anything they could pose to each other. the-scenes account of the furious race to ful- “Kingmaker” by Margaret Weis and fill President John F. Kennedy's challenge Robert Krammes delivers the thrilling con- and complete one of mankind's greatest clusion to the swashbuckling Dragon achievements, to land a man on the moon. Corsairs series. Kate and Sophia and their This story of success, realized on July 20, dragon Dalgren form a desperate plan to 1969, is filled with surprises-from the item free Phillip from prison. Thomas is the astronauts almost forgot to take with crowned king and discovers a plot by King them (the American flag), to the extraordi- Ullr to invade Freya. And Henry is forced nary impact Apollo would have back on to flee to the Aligoes where he makes a dis- Earth, and on the way we live today. covery that could change the fortunes of his nation. — Summaries provided by library staff NM Supreme Court abolishes ‘spousal communication privilege’ By David Grieder Gutierrez’s second and by spousal privilege “no STAFF WRITER then-estranged wife also longer produces any sub- [email protected] stated in trial that he had stantial public benefit that also confessed to her his justifies its continued SANTA FE — In killing of Valverde. recognition” and that it upholding the murder con- In his ensuing appeal was “a vestige of a vastly viction of a Clovis man, Gutierrez claimed a “viola- different society than the the state’s Supreme Court tion of the spousal commu- one we live in today and has abolished the “spousal nication privilege,” also has been retained in New communication privilege” described as the “prohibi- Mexico simply through for subsequent cases. tion against court testimo- inertia.” The ruling came in ny about private conversa- Retired Justice Petra regard to an appeal for tions between a husband Jimenez and Gary David Gutierrez II’s first- and wife,” according to a Clingman joined in the degree murder conviction news release Monday from majority decision, with for the shooting death of the Administrative Office which “New Mexico Jose Valverde, who was of the Courts. becomes the only state in found dead April 8, 2002, In the concluding major- the nation without a legal inside a boxcar in Clovis. ity opinion, Chief Justice protection for confidential The case went cold for 13 Judith Nakamura deter- marital communications,” years, but Gutierrez was mined the intentions of the according to dissenting indicted in 2013, tried by a spousal privilege “played Justice Barbara Vigil. jury in 2017 and sentenced no role whatsoever in The late Justice Charles to life imprisonment. Gutierrez’ decision to dis- Daniels, who died Sunday, During trial Gutierrez’s close to (his wives) the wrote in support of the ex-wife offered testimony fact that he killed the vic- majority opinion but also stating he had taken her to tim,” and furthermore that said “it should have been the scene of the crime for the privilege did not pro- considered (instead) assistance in locating a hibit either woman’s spe- through the rules process,” shotgun shell, according to cific testimony. She stated according to the AOC the court record. more broadly that the release. Man pleads to disorderly conduct By Kevin Wilson and are working to put it behind him.” EDITOR Prosecutor Jake Boazman told Vander [email protected] Dussen the charge was reduced from the initial charge of indecent exposure due to evidentiary CLOVIS — A Clovis man is hoping a issues — first that, “there are people who Thanksgiving weekend mistake will soon be could have been spoken to about the case, but behind him. they weren’t spoken to,” and also Boazman’s Jeffery Cole, 60, pleaded no contest own evaluation of the security footage. Thursday to a charge of disorderly conduct, Boazman felt a juror watching surveillance stemming from an accusation he exposed him- footage could reasonably agree with Cole’s self to a store clerk Nov. 22 at North Plains explanation of events. Cole has consistently Mall. said he was unaware his pants were unzipped According to terms of the plea reached in until law enforcement caught up with him at Clovis Magistrate Court, Cole receives 182 another store, and he guessed the officer days of supervised probation, a suspended sen- tracked him down on a false accusation of tence of 180 days in jail and $73 in court fines. shoplifting. Magistrate Judge Janemarie Vander Dussen The victim didn’t attend the hearing, but also stipulated Cole undergo 10 or more coun- Boazman said she was satisfied with the plea seling sessions as mandated by the probation agreement. Cole was as well. office and not contact the victim. “He’s never had any criminal history what- Should Cole satisfactorily complete the pro- soever,” Harmon said. “He has no problem on bation, his jail time will be limited to the two the conditions of release and will go through days he served following his arrest last the necessary process.” November. Although the defense felt confident arguing “This was a complete misunderstanding,” the case to a jury, Harmon said his client want- Cole’s attorney Tye Harmon said following the ed to avoid the additional time, expense and brief hearing. “We’re satisfied with the plea, stress of a trial. PAGE 8B ✦ SUNDAY, SEPT. 8, 2019 LOCAL THE EASTERN NEW MEXICO NEWS Area events

Today Library, 218 S. Ave. B, Portales. Charities — 9 a.m., Colonial Park Golf Information: 575-356-3940 Reel movie — 6 p.m., Ingram Room, ■ St. Helen Catholic Church Information: 575-356-3940 Course, 1300 Colonial Parkway, Clovis. Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Fiesta — 1600 S. Ave. O, Portales. 9 ■ Free movie: “Teen Titans Go! Entry fee: $100 per player, $350 per Sept. 20 Main, Clovis. “To Kill A Mockingbird.” a.m., fiesta mass; 10 a.m.-4 p.m., fies- To the Movies” — 6 p.m., Yam team. Breakfast and lunch provided. ■ ENMU Rodeo Reunion during Information: 575-763-9687 ta. Food, games, live music, raffles. Theatre, 219 S. Main, Portales. Food Information: Robyn Snowberger at 575- College Daze Rodeo — 9 a.m., rodeo ■ “Circling the Horizon” exhibit Information: 575-356-4241 concessions available: popcorn, candy, 799-2824 slack, Lewis Cooper Arena, free. 1 opens — Runnels Gallery, Golden ■ Benefit dinner for Mary pizza, soft drinks. Sponsored by ■ Our Lady of Guadalupe/San p.m., lunch Campus Union Building, Student Success Center, Portales. Gallegos — 11 a.m., Elida School Eastern Family Dentistry. Information: Jose Mission Fiesta — Church and $8.75 plus tax, public is invited. 5 p.m., Featuring art by Scott Golem, assistant cafeteria, 301 Church St., Elida. 575-356-8541 mission fundraiser, 108 N. Davis, meet and greet with 2019 rodeo team, professor of graphic design at ENMU. Enchiladas, beans, rice, salad, drinks, Clovis. 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Information: 575- Lewis Cooper Arena. 7 p.m., introduc- Open during regular building hours and desserts; all donations welcome. Friday-Sunday 763-4445 tion of the 1968 men and women’s through Oct. 18. Information: 575-562- Information: 575-714-0377 ■ Fall Firefighter Recruitment, ■ Paint a Better Story art auction reserve national championship teams 2189 City of Clovis Fire Department. — 6 p.m., Ballroom, Clovis Civic during rodeo, Lewis Cooper Arena. Monday Optional physical agility practice, 3 p.m. Center, 801 Schepps Blvd., Clovis. Live Rodeo tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for Sept. 24 ■ Rural Bookmobile East in Friday, Fire Station 5, 220 E. Brady. and silent auction of artwork done by students 12 and over, free for children ■ Afterschool S.T.E.A.M. Grady — 10-11:30 a.m., Grady Written test, 8 a.m. Saturday, Fire children in eastern New Mexico with all 11 and under, free for ENMU students (Science, technology, engineering, Municipal Schools, 100 Franklin St., Station 1, 320 Mitchell St., immediately proceeds to benefit The Oasis with ID. Information: Albert Flinn at 575- arts, math): “Fall is in the Air” — Grady; 11:30 a.m.-12 noon, Grady Post followed by physical agility test at Fire Children’s Advocate Center in Clovis. 760-0104 or [email protected] 4:30 p.m., Portales Public Library, 218 ■ Office, 406 W. Main St., Grady. Station 5, 220 E Brady. Interviews for Tickets $25 in advance; $30 at the Nara Visa Cowboy Gathering — S. Ave. B, Portales. Open to kinder- Information: 575-461-1824 selected applicants will take place on door. Heavy hors-d’oeuvres; cash bar 5 p.m., Nara Visa Community Center, garten-sixth grade. Information: 575- ■ Produce to People — 11 a.m.- Sunday at Fire Station 1, 320 Mitchell available. Advance tickets may be pur- US 54, Nara Visa. Program $5. 356-3940 12:30 p.m., Memorial Building, 200 E. St. Interested individuals should submit chased at Information: 575-403-5040 7th St., Portales. Free in-season fruits an online application by Sept. 11 at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/painting- Sept. 25 and vegetables; no proof of income fire.cityofclovis.org. Questions or infor- a-better-story-art-show-auction-tickets- Sept. 21 ■ Tiny Tots — 10 a.m., Clovis- mation: Julie Winkles at 575-763-7814 68812264335. Sponsored by the ■ Nara Visa Cowboy Gathering — necessary; bring your own bags. Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Rotary Club of Clovis. Information: Amy Information: 575-763-6130 Throughout the day, Nara Visa Clovis. Information: 575-769-7840 Friday Corbin 575-749-1118 ■ Rural Bookmobile East — 2:20- Community Center, US 54, Nara Visa. ■ Preschool storytime “Autumn ■ 2019 Special Olympics New 7:30 a.m., chuckwagon breakfast, 2:40 p.m., St. Vrain. Information: 575- Air” — 10:30 a.m., Portales Public Mexico Equestrian Competition — Sept. 15 donations accepted; 2 p.m., program, 461-1824 Library, 218 S. Ave. B, Portales. Curry County Events Center, 1900 E. ■ Third annual Bonem Home Golf $5; 4:30 p.m. chuckwagon steak din- ■ Rural Bookmobile East in Information: 575-356-3940 Brady, Clovis. 9 a.m., showmanship at Tournament — 11 a.m. two-player ner, $13; 7 p.m. program, $5. Melrose — 2:55-3:20 p.m., Melrose ■ Stitch Addicts stitch group — scramble; noon shotgun start, Portales Senior Center, 427 Main St., Melrose. halter; stock seat equitation, working Information: 575-403-5040 Country Club. Event followed by dinner, ■ 1:30-3 p.m., Clovis-Carver Public 3:25-4:50 p.m., Melrose Municipal trails. 7 p.m., opening ceremonies. Creighton’s Town & Country prizes, and live music. $80 registration Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Schools, 100 E. Missouri Ave., Information: Jena Waddell at 505-856- 20th anniversary celebration — 8 0342 includes player plus one dinner. Information: 575-763-9687 Melrose. Information: 575-461-1824 a.m.-10 p.m., Creighton’s Town & ■ ■ Sponsorships available. Information: Representative Xochitl Torres ■ Stitch Addicts stitch group — Journey of Grief seminar — 9 Country, 1625 S. Ave. D, Portales. BreeAnn Flores at 575-760-0092 or Small (NM-02) staff mobile office 6:30-7:45 p.m., Clovis-Carver Public a.m.-noon, Family Ministries Building, Events and specials all day long, [email protected] hours — 3-5 p.m., Fort Sumner City Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. 320 S. Ave. A, Portales. Presented by including 7-10 p.m. street dance with ■ Our Lady of Guadalupe/San Hall, 173 E. Ave. C, Fort Sumner. Information: 575-763-9687 Wayne Moore, chaplain with Interim the Delk Band. Information: 575-356- Hospice, and Liz Wooley, counselor Jose Mission Fiesta — Church and 3665 Constituents are invited to meet with mission fundraiser, 108 N. Davis, ■ staff, ask questions, and get help with Tuesday with Hope Counseling. Free. To register Healthy Minds, Body, and Clovis. 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Information: 575- federal casework such as Medicare, ■ Fifth annual ENMU Men’s Choir or for more information: call 575-226- Development 5K Color Run — Clovis 3759 or email [email protected] 763-4445 Aquatics Center parking lot, 1700 E. Social Security, and VA claims. Festival concert — 4-5 p.m., ■ Lego Club — 3:30 p.m., Clovis- Seventh St., Clovis. 8 a.m., check-in; Information: call the Las Cruces office Buchanan Hall, ENMU Music Building, Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Sept. 16 8:30 a.m., run; 10 a.m.-noon, commu- at 575-323-6384 or visit https://torress- Portales. Free. Featuring a men's choir Clovis. Information: 575-769-7840 ■ Art workshop: Painted Feathers nity resource fair. Hosted by MECA mall.house.gov/about/MobileOfficeHour of 250 collegiate and high school ■ Plate Exhibition Campus Art with Sarah Aikens — 6:30 p.m., Therapies and La Casa Family Health s singers from ENMU and 17 high ■ Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Center. Color run for the whole family; Summer Movie Under the Stars schools across New Mexico and West Project closing reception and auc- Main, Clovis. RSVP required. RSVP or $15 per person; 12 and under are free; — 8:15 p.m., Wheatfields Senior Living Texas. Information: 575-562-2377 tion — 5 p.m., Runnels Gallery, information: Sara at 575-763-9687 children must be accompanied by an Community, 4701 N. Prince St., Clovis. ■ Afterschool S.T.E.A.M. Golden Student Success Center, ENMU, Portales. Coordinated by Bryan adult; free t-shirts for first 50 partici- Free movie on the back lawn; popcorn (Science, technology, engineering, Hahn. Decorated plates from the exhib- Sept. 17 pants. Information: 575-359-3825 and soda provided. Information: 575- arts, math): “Frobscottle: Roald Dahl it will be sold; proceeds will be used for ■ Books and babies “ABC’s” — ■ ENMU Rodeo Reunion during 762-8700 Snacks” — 4:30 p.m., Portales Public a student scholarship and to support 10:30 a.m., Portales Public Library, 218 College Daze Rodeo — 9 a.m., rodeo Library, 218 S. Ave. B, Portales. Open the gallery. Information: 575-562-2189 S. Ave. B, Portales. Open ages 0-3. slack, Lewis Cooper Arena, free. 1 Sept. 26 to kindergarten-sixth grade. ■ Paint A Better Story art show — Information: 575-356-3940 p.m., lunch, Lewis Cooper Arena, $8.50 ■ Preschool storytime — 10 a.m., Information: 575-356-3940 6-8 p.m., Ballroom, Clovis Civic Center, ■ Blood drive — 11 a.m.-3 p.m., per person, public is welcome. 7 p.m., Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. ■ Quilters’ Tuesday — 5:30-7:30 801 Schepps Blvd., Clovis. Free. Bloodmobile, Campus Union Building, introduction of the 1969 men’s national Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-769- p.m., Ingram Room, Clovis-Carver Display of art done by children in east- ENMU, Portales. Register online at championship teams during rodeo, 7840 Public Library, 701 N. Main, Clovis. ern New Mexico. Will be auctioned http://www.bloodhero.com. Information: Lewis Cooper Arena. Rodeo tickets are ■ Preschool storytime “Autumn Pre-registration required to assure ade- Sept. 14 to benefit The Oasis 877-258-4825 $10 for adults, $5 for students 12 and Air” — 6 p.m., Portales Public Library, quate workspaces. Quilters must sup- Children’s Advocate Center in Clovis. ■ Afterschool S.T.E.A.M. over, free for children 11 and under, 218 S. Ave. B, Portales. Information: ply own materials and sewing Sponsored by the Rotary Club of (Science, technology, engineering, free for ENMU students with ID. 575-356-3940 machines; observers welcome. Pre- Clovis. Information: Amy Corbin 575- arts, math): “Microscopes, Information: Albert Flinn at 575-760- ■ Clovis-Carver Public Library register or information: Sara at 575- 749-1118 Assemble!” — 4:30 p.m., Portales 0104 or [email protected] 763-9687 Page Turners Book Club — 6:30-7:30 ■ Our Lady of Guadalupe/San Public Library, 218 S. Ave. B, Portales. ■ United Way TEFAP (The ■ Roosevelt County Democratic p.m., Ingram Room, Clovis-Carver Jose Mission Fiesta — Church and Open to kindergarten-sixth grade. Emergency Food Assistance Public Library, 701 N. Main, Clovis. Party monthly meeting — 5:30 p.m., mission fundraiser, 108 N. Davis, Information: 575-356-3940 Program) food distribution — 8 a.m. Discussion of To Kill A Mockingbird by Memorial Building, 200 E. 7th St., Clovis. 6 p.m.-9 p.m. Information: 575- ■ Friends of Clovis-Carver Public volunteers needed for sorting; 9 a.m.- Portales. Information: Email Harper Lee. Information: 575-763-9687 763-4445 Library — 11:30 a.m., Clovis-Carver 11 a.m. distribution; 10:30 a.m. new [email protected] Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. applicants sign in. Central Christian Sept. 27 Saturday Information: 575-769-7840 Church fellowship hall, 1528 S. Main ■ Wednesday Lego Club — 3:30 p.m., Clovis- ■ 3rd annual Red Shoe 5K Fun Ave., Portales. Information: 575-769- ■ Tiny Tots — 10 a.m., Clovis- Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Run/Walk to benefit Ronald Sept. 18 2103 or 2-1-1 Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-769-7840 McDonald House Charities — 6:30 ■ Tiny Tots — 10 a.m., Clovis- ■ Genealogy workshop with ■ Clovis. Information: 575-769-7840 ENMU Homecoming, pep rally, a.m., registration; 7 a.m., run begins, Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Beverly Duncan — 10 a.m., Clovis- ■ Preschool storytime “Pets fireworks, and bonfire — 6:30 p.m., Colonial Park Golf Course parking lot, Clovis. Information: 575-769-7840 Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Greyhound Stadium, ENMU, Portales. Parade” — 10:30 a.m., Portales Public ■ 1300 Colonial Parkway, Clovis. Entry Preschool storytime “Red as an Clovis. Information: 575-763-9687 Information: 575-562-2482 Library, 218 S. Ave. B, Portales. ■ 8th annual Princess Party to fee: $20 pre-registration; $25 day of Apple” — 10:30 a.m., Portales Public ■ ENMU Homecoming Alumni Mix Information: 575-356-3940 event. Pre-register 4-6:30 p.m. Friday, Library, 218 S. Ave. B, Portales. benefit Monarch Formals — 1-5 p.m., ■ & Mingle — 10-11 p.m., Dawghauze Representative Xochitl Torres Sept. 13, in the Colonial Clubhouse, or Information: 575-356-3940 Ballroom, ENMU Campus Union Sports Bar, 1013 W. 2nd St., Portales. Small (NM-02) staff mobile office online at newmexicosportsonline.com ■ Teens and Tweens: “Game On: Building Portales. A magical afternoon Information: 575-562-2482 hours — 12-2 p.m., Portales Public (search for Red Shoe 5K Fun Run). Xbox One Free Play and Board for princesses ages 2 to 12, and their Library, 218 S. Ave. B, Portales. Information: Robyn Snowberger at 575- Games” — 4:30 p.m., Portales Public adult royal companions. Cost: $30 per Ongoing Constituents are invited to meet with 799-2824 Library, 218 S. Ave. B, Portales. Open princess includes one adult royal com- ■ Plate Exhibition Campus Art staff, ask questions, and get help with ■ Central Baptist Church Mission to ages 9-18. Information: 575-356- panion. Crafts, party favors, prizes. Project — Runnels Gallery, Golden federal casework such as Medicare, Taiwan Rummage Sale — 7 a.m.-2 3940 Come dressed in your perfect princess Student Success Center, Portales. Social Security, and VA claims. p.m., Raintree Store, 2300 Llano outfits; royal companions also encour- Coordinated by Bryan Hahn. Exhibition Information: call the Las Cruces office Estacado Blvd., Clovis. Information: Sept. 19 aged to dress up. Donations accepted runs through Friday. Open during regu- at 575-323-6384 or visit https://torress- 575-762-4727 or email Damon Pearce ■ Preschool storytime — 10 a.m., during the event of new or gently used lar building hours. Auction and recep- mall.house.gov/about/MobileOfficeHour at [email protected] Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. dresses, shoes, accessories for men or tion at 5 p.m. Friday. Auction proceeds s ■ 2019 Special Olympics New Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-769- women. All sizes accepted and all will be used for a student scholarship Mexico Equestrian Competition — 7840 items must be formal wear. Purchase and to support the gallery. Information: Thursday Curry County Events Center, 1900 E. ■ Representative Xochitl Torres tickets online via PayPal to monarchfor- ■ 575-562-2189 Preschool storytime — 10 a.m., Brady, Clovis. 8 a.m., pole bending, Small (NM-02) staff mobile office [email protected]. Information: 575- ■ “Wayne’s World” — Exhibit of Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. barrel racing, figure 8 stake. 6:30 p.m., hours — 12-2 p.m., Portales Senior 749-8177 Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-769- awards ceremony and victory dance. Center, 421 N. Industrial Drive, ■ Free screening of “Unplanned” Wayne Davies’ work at Eula Mae 7840 Information: Jena Waddell at 505-856- Portales. Constituents are invited to — 2:30-5 p.m., Central Baptist Church, Edwards Museum and Gallery, Clovis ■ Rural Bookmobile East in 0342 meet with staff, ask questions, and get 2501 N. Norris, Clovis. Presented by Community College, 417 Schepps House — 10:30-11:30 a.m., House ■ Shoot for Good Health: 6th help with federal casework such as the Pregnancy Resource Center of Blvd., Clovis. Through Oct. 31. Municipal Schools, 309 N. Apple St., annual Skeet Shoot Fundraiser — 8 Medicare, Social Security, and VA Eastern New Mexico. Information: 575- Information: 575-769-2811 ■ House. 11:30 a.m.-12:35 p.m., House a.m.-1 p.m., Idsinga Dairy, 43351 US claims. Information: call the Las Cruces 226-8378 or 575-935-5433 Clovis and Portales Farmers Village Community Center, 110 S. 70, Portales. All proceeds benefit the office at 575-323-6384 or visit ■ TexWestus in concert — Curry Markets — Clovis: 10 a.m. Saturdays, Apple St., House. Information: 575- Roosevelt General Hospital https://torressmall.house.gov/about/Mo County Fairgrounds Pavilion, 1900 E. 5 p.m. Tuesdays, parking lot of 461-1824 Foundation. Registration: $35 individual bileOfficeHours Brady, Clovis. Doors open 7:30 p.m., Goodwin Lake Walking Trail, 3201 N. ■ Friends of the Portales Public youth division (must be 18 years or ■ ENMU Rodeo Reunion during concert begins at 8:30 p.m. Advance Prince St., Clovis. Portales: 5 p.m. Library meeting — 12 noon, meeting younger with hunter safety card); $50 College Daze Rodeo — 3-5 p.m., tickets available at outhousetickets.com Mondays and Thursdays, parking lot of room, Portales Public Library, 218 S. individual adult division (compete with check-in at Greyhound Arena; 7 p.m., for $12; $16 tickets at the door. First Street and Avenue B, Portales. Ave. B, Portales. Program: Labor of men and women); $50 individual introduction of the 1967 women’s Information: 575-935-7000 Information: 575-760-0690 Love animal rescue project. Public is women division (compete with women national championship team during ■ Pintores Art League Artists of invited. Information: 575-356-3940 only); $175 team corporate division rodeo, Lewis Cooper Arena. Rodeo Sept. 22 the Month displaying for September at ■ Blood drive — 2-6 p.m., (teams of four, men or women). tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for stu- ■ Nara Visa Cowboy Gathering — Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Bloodmobile, Kingswood United Multiple items also being raffled. dents 12 and over, free for children 11 9:30 a.m., Nara Visa Community Main, Clovis, are Kelly Karn & Lucille Methodist Church, 2600 N. Main St., Sponsorships available. Information, to and under, free for ENMU students with Center, US 54, Nara Visa. Cowboy Bradburn. Information: 806-946-9221 Clovis. Register online at register, or to buy raffle tickets: ID. Information: Albert Flinn at 575-760- church. Information: 575-403-5040 http://www.bloodhero.com. Information: Jeanette Orrantia at 575-226-6669 or 0104 or [email protected] To place an item on the events 877-258-4825 [email protected] ■ Preschool storytime “Red as an Sept. 23 calendar, call the newsroom at 575- ■ Preschool storytime “Pets ■ 14th annual Golf Tournament to Apple” — 6 p.m., Portales Public ■ Clovis-Carver Public Library 763-6991 or e-mail: dstevens@the- Parade” — 6 p.m., Portales Public benefit Ronald McDonald House Library, 218 S. Ave. B, Portales. Adult Services Programs Read to news.email Sunday Sept. 8, 2019 IN TRIBUTE THE EASTERN NEW MEXICO NEWS Edmonston was highway technician, ‘whittler’

BY THE STAFF OF THE NEWS near St. Vrain,” where he said his obituary. amount of money.” be doing something with his “learned the work ethic that he When Edmonston started work Edmonston’s work ethic and hands,” whittling CLOVIS — Apart from a few carried all his life,” according to with the state’s Highway Dept. in perseverance did not subside figurines, canes years with the Marines, Ernest the obituary his family wrote. 1965 he was making $1.59 after retirement. Twice he had and wooden chains Edmonston didn’t stray far from There in St. Vrain Edmonston hourly “by dragging a chain on a cancer of the mouth and twice he that were never his birthplace of Curry County. also got in his early practice with survey crew,” but with some per- “shook it off,” and he also learned sold but only given In 76 years he served southeast a Red Ryder BB gun, the prelude severance retired as an engineer- to shoot left-handed “after losing away “to people New Mexico as a highway tech- to four years of service with the ing technician supervisor in his right eye in an auto accident,” who he thought nician, a shooting guide and an U.S. Marine Corps in the 1960s. 1990. said his obituary. Into his 70s, might appreciate accomplished “whittler.” Soon after he married his wife of “He had supervised multi-mil- Edmonston “had won over 1,100 his efforts.” Edmonston passed Aug. 23 and 52 years, Roseanne Iafornaro, lion-dollar highway construction silhouette matches” and held a There are many ceremonies were private. and the two drove from projects all over the southeast important role in preserving the driving highways Edmonston Born Nov. 12, 1942 in Clovis, Albuquerque to Clovis with quarter of New Mexico,” wrote Roswell Gun during an uncertain in eastern New Edmonston attended school in “what belongings they had to his family. “His attention to period. Mexico that might pause to appreci- the city but “spent a lot of his Clovis the next day in the back of detail and honesty saved the tax- Safe to say Edmonston “could ate Edmonston’s efforts, and those childhood on an old dryland far an old 1955 Ford convertible,” payers of New Mexico an untold never remain still and always had to of many like him.

Melissa Cerceres Lorenzo Montoya loved to was a self- dance, Our fondest memories employed spend construc- time out- Here are names, ages and dates of death for area residents who died in August tion doors and and whose obituaries were published in The Eastern New Mexico News: worker. make peo- He never ple laugh missed a • Jerry Lee Aguirri, 59, Aug. 6 • Tommy Franks, 70, Aug. 22 • Jose Muniz, 53, Aug. 18 at her jokes. She was grandchild’s baseball • Dina Baca, 51, Aug. 29 • John Alton Goldman, 83, Aug. • Senaida Padilla, 71, Aug. 30 a mother and grand- game. He was also an • William Bill Meredith Black, 83, 13 • Delores R. “Dee” Perich, 86, mother and some- avid coin collector. Aug. 3 • Cheri Hanson, 60, Aug. 7 Aug. 24 times drove a custom Family members said • Billy Don Blackman, 66, Aug. 2 • Faye Henry, 94, Aug. 28 • Robert Wilson (Bobby) Poynor hauling truck. he had “a wicked • Wanda Ray Box, 80, Aug. 25 • Berwin Lloyd Howard Jr., 61, Jr., 89, Aug. 6 sense of humor.” • Mavis Eloise Ewing Boyd, 98, Aug. 3 • James K. Pruitt, 82, Aug. 15 Aug. 24 • Orvis Monroe Hughes, 87, Aug. • Paul E. Richards, 97, Aug. 2 • Melva French Burns, 97, Aug. 26 Orvis Hughes • Evelyn Riley, 91, Aug. 4 19 • Andres Lucero, 72, Aug. 23 Frank Dottle was a enjoyed • Martie Robertson, 58, Aug. 8 • Melissa Yvonne Cerceres, 55, • Noah Lucero, 19, Aug. 29 Marine, classic car • Erica Sanchez, 30, Aug. 5 Aug. 6 • Santiago Chapa Lucio, 86, Aug. worked for shows, • Burnie Yoseph Schumpert, 71, watching • Pauletta Crawford, 87, Aug. 5 11 ENMR- Aug. 24 car auc- • Stanley Dement, 67, Aug. 14 • Willie Christine Madera, 97, Plateau • Sherry Cochran Senter, 64, tions and • Charlie L. Dobbs, 93, Aug. 13 Aug. 8 and loved Aug. 18 attending • Oneda Joy Dotson, 84, Aug. 25 • Kim Mainer, 44, Aug. 23 traveling to • Robert Lewis Shafer, 61, Aug. 2 car shows. A 43- • Frank T. Dottle, 82, Aug. 16 • Benito A. Martinez, 77, Aug. 16 casinos and • Mary Smith, 70, Aug. 28 year veteran of • Marion Clay “Junior” Fowler, • Sybil Mitchell, 91, Aug. 28 concerts. He drove AT&SF Railroad, 92, Aug. 16 • Lorenzo Eloy “Lenco” Montoya, • Anita K. Wilt, 88, Aug. 13 to Woodstock ’99. he was also a char- • Clifford Franklin, 88, Aug. 5 76, Aug. 12 • Dick D. Zurzolo, 67, Aug. 12 He was also manag- ter member of er and No. 1 fan of VFW Post 3280. local band Marshall He was a fan of the Law, earning the Seattle Seahawks Sybil Mitchell taught herself to play piano nickname Marshall and San Antonio by ear. She was also a proficient Pa. Spurs. accordion player. She loved music and her grandchildren recall many hours listening to Charlie Dobbs, a her play the piano and sing U.S. Navy Santiago Lucio was a hymns. She also loved working veteran, lyricist, in her yard, growing roses, pan- was a musician, sies and white daisies. longtime crafter, farmer in carpenter, Floyd. He welder loved and hunting, playing farmer. AT A GLANCE EDITOR’S NOTE dominos and danc- He was also a ■ Obituaries reported: 44 In Tribute appears the second Sunday of each month. ■ ing to eucharistic minister Oldest: Mavis Eloise Ewing Boyd, 98 Information is compiled from obituaries provided by families and ■ Youngest: Noah Lucero, 19 friends. Omissions may be brought to the attention of the editor at: country/Western who often led the ■ Average age: 74.5 [email protected] music. He was a church choir. He member of the loved fishing and Veterans of Foreign spending time with Wars. grandchildren and Willie Madera lived on farms and great-grandchildren. ranches much of her life. She loved playing sports and cards as well James Pruitt served in the U.S. Air Dee Perich loved to travel. She and hus- as sewing and working Force until retiring from band Joe would pack all six chil- in her flower garden. Cannon Air Force Base in dren into the car and take off on She also enjoyed spend- 1974. After retirement, he adventures to Disneyland, the ing time at the family hauled livestock. He also Grand Teton, Minnesota (for cabin at Conchas Lake where she loved fishing and rodeos. He fishing trips) and more. She also went fishing and water skiing. always had stories to tell visited Italy, Canada and Russia about his military and and made annual trips with her truck-driving adventures. children to Las Vegas.

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DC Comics via TNS This re-creation of the art from "All-Star Comics" #3 shows the original JSA lineup, including, clockwise from left, Atom, Sandman, The Spectre, Flash, Hawkman, Doctor Fate, Green Lantern and Hourman. Art by Murphy Anderson. Relaunching superheroes ❏ DC Comics revives long-abandoned, fan-favorite super-teams.

By Andrew A. Smith first issue of “All-Star Comics,” 1960. new Flash and Green Lantern and Green Lantern (Alan Scott) TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE an anthology launched by All- Which is OK — both the JSA showed up in the late ’50s, the seem bemused by these new kids American comics, part of what and JLA are owned by DC original fanboys and fangirls with their names. “Son, I think A few weeks back, DC Comics would become DC Comics. Really Comics. And many of the super- began asking DC what happened you’re confused,” says Garrick, promised to bring a long-aban- big superheroes had multiple heroes who populated the Justice to the JSA. That inspired “Justice with the avuncular attitude — and doned, fan-favorite super-team places to call home — Superman, Society were the antecedents for League of America” editor Julius happy grin — that made him so back to its pages. Sure enough, the for example, starred in the book today’s major Leaguers, including Schwarz and chief writer Gardner popular originally. “I’m the Flash, Legion of Super-Heroes reap- bearing his name, plus “Action Atom, Batman, Flash, Hawkman, Fox to blow the whole super-team and he’s (indicating Scott) the peared in all its old (and updated) Comics” and “World’s Finest Green Lantern, Starman, concept over the top. Green Lantern.” glory on Aug. 28. Comics.” With “All-Star,” second- Superman, and Wonder Woman. They posited that the original But these guys ain’t heroes for And they’ve done it again. On or third-tier heroes like Hourman The reason new versions of JSA Justice Society’s adventures were nuttin’. This Justice Society — the same week that the Legion (who only appeared in “Adventure characters were needed is that the canon — except they all took Atom, Doctor Fate, Flash, Green returned, DC re-introduced anoth- Comics”) and The Atom (who originals had been canceled. place on Earth-Two, a parallel Lantern, Hawkman, Hourman, er long-abandoned, fan-favorite only appeared in “All-American Superheroes went out of fashion Earth that vibrated at a different Sandman, Starman and Wildcat — super-team. It’s the Justice Society Comics”) received additional for a time after World War II, and frequency. The new folks were all quickly figure out that if the new of America, and it’s even older exposure, in the hopes they would the late ’40s saw the last solo on Earth-One ... and in 1963, the kids from the future don’t remem- than the Legion — it is, in fact, become more popular. adventures of most superheroes, two teams met in “Justice League ber them, then the timeline has the very foundation of DC’s super- For the first two issues, the vari- including the original Atom, Flash, of America” #21-22. been changed to erase them from hero universe. ous stars of “All-Star” appeared in Green Lantern, Hawkman and Heads. Exploded. Again. history. (And it has, in an entirely It was a pretty big deal when separate, unconnected stories. But Starman. The Justice Society itself The two-part story — “Crisis on different book, “Doomsday DC brought back the Legion. The with the third issue, the then- hung on until 1951, when “All- Earth-One!” and “Crisis on Earth- Clock,” where the timeline-chang- LSH was created way back in unthinkable happened: They all Star Comics” unceremoniously Two!” — was so popular that the er-in-chief is none other than Dr. 1958, a teenage super-team from teamed up. became “All-Star Western.” That two super-teams began meeting Manhattan of “Watchmen” fame.) 1,000 years in the future that was Yes, “All-Star Comics” #3 was the toll of doom for the first annually, in a story with “Crisis” The modern Flash says what (Winter, 1940) told the tale of age of heroes. somewhere in the name. we’ve all been waiting for: “Then inspired by the career of the eight superheroes joining together When the wheel turned and But, as always, the wheel turns. I think it’s time for what I think teenage Superboy. The Legion as the first super-team, the Justice superheroes began gaining popu- The annual team-up ended with has to be the first Justice took over “Adventure Comics” Society of America. larity again, DC decided to mine “Crisis on Infinite Earths” in League/Justice Society team-up!” (which had been starring Generally speaking, the charac- its past for inspiration — but with- 1985-86 (which is being adapted Oh, the irony. Somebody mail Superboy) in the 1960s, and ters still acted solo in individual out reviving those early characters. by The CW’s Arrowverse TV Barry Allen “Crisis on Earth- remained in continual publication, chapters in most of “All-Star’s” Instead, an entirely new character shows later this year). The JSA One!” and “Crisis on Earth-Two!” more or less, ever since. run, but the framing sequence at calling himself The Flash appeared stalled after a few attempted from 1963. He was even in those Well, until 2013, when the latest front and back usually showed in 1956. A new Green Lantern, revivals, and a 2011 revamp that stories, as a snotnose beginner. iteration of “Legion of Super- them all together. And they were with a science fiction origin petered out. In 2016, they were But no, that’s ancient comic Heroes” was canceled in favor of all acting on a single mission, in a instead of a magical one, showed more or less written out of DC his- book history, the preserve of older another future-set (and short-lived) single inter-connected story. up in 1959. The names Atom and tory by a line-wide reboot called fans who still remember the chills series, “Justice League 3000.” “Gathered in the Justice Society Hawkman were recycled for new “Rebirth.” down the spine they got from So their return is a pretty big club rooms for their first meeting characters in 1961. But the wheel has turned again. “Crisis on Earth-One!” — and deal. But the Justice Society is an are the mightiest champions of Aquaman, Batman, Green Or, at least DC hopes so, because have bragged about “being there” even bigger deal. right and justice in the world!” Arrow, Superman, and Wonder in the latest issues of “Justice ever since. As most comic book folks thundered the narrator on the first Woman had remained in continu- League,” the modern Flash (Barry This new story — dare I call it a know, Superman came along in page. “Roll Call: The Flash, The ous publication since the 1940s, Allen) and Green Lantern (John Crisis? — is the dawn of a new 1938 and kicked off the superhero Spectre, Doctor Fate, The but DC updated them, usually with Stewart) go back in time on a mis- day, which fans both old and new craze in comics. But, while Hawkman, The Sandman, The new origins, giving rise to what sion and meet ... yep, the Justice can enjoy. Timely’s Human Torch battled Hourman, The Green Lantern, The amounted to second versions of Society. But especially the new. Finally, Sub-Mariner in a memorable 1940 Atom!” the veterans. Once again: Heads. Exploding. today’s readers can brag about crossover, superheroes teaming up Heads. Exploded. And, as they Those characters, and one Whether you’re a new fan or “being there” at the beginning of wasn’t yet a thing. The bajillion say in comics, nothing was ever entirely new one (Martian old, this is beyond exciting. And something great. Something his- caped crusaders in the early days the same again. Manhunter, created 1955), popu- that thrill readers got when the toric. Something that’s going to of comics all flew, swung and tele- The JSA is the Ur super-team, lated the first few years of Justice 1960s Flash and Green Lantern take place on Dec. 7, 1941, on an ported solo. the one that inspired all the rest. League of America stories. first met their JSA counterparts island named Hawai’i. The Justice Society changed all Especially today’s Justice League But the fans of the originals way back when? Yep, it’s back, Everybody grab a copy of the that. of America, who stole not only the were hardly gone — they were and undiminished by time. latest “Justice League” and take a The seeds were planted in the idea, but practically the name, in barely into adulthood. When the The original Flash (Jay Garrick) seat. I predict heads will explode.