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WEEKEND EDITION SUNDAY,AUG. 18, 2019 Inside: $1.50 Some pig controversy — Page 5A Vol. 91 ◆ No. 40 SERVING CLOVIS, PORTALES AND THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES EasternNewMexicoNews.com Hard work’s payoff ❏ Junior Livestock Auction pulls in about $300,000. By Mathew Brock STAFF WRITER [email protected] CLOVIS — As the auctioneer rapidly spat out bid numbers, youngsters wrangled and paraded their animals around the auction pen late into the night. The crowd clapped, hoot- ed and hollered as the bids rose higher and higher, while the exhibitors readied them- selves to reap the rewards of months of hard work. The Curry County Fair’s Junior Livestock Auction kicked off Friday evening and last- Staff photo: David Grieder ed well into the night as 102 exhibitors Kolt Merren, of Clovis, tries out his friend’s salsa on Friday at the contest. showed off the cattle, swine, lamb and other animals they’d raised and tended throughout the year. Most of the participants were part of local 4-H and Future Farmers of America pro- A contest with some spice to it grams in Clovis and the surrounding area. According to Brett Valentine, a member of ❏ Locals pit salsa Bryleigh Hudson, 13, entered the auction’s Sale Committee, all the pro- an avocado-dominant salsa ceeds go to the children raising the animals. recipes against whereas her sister Jenice This year’s auction made roughly $300,000, Hudson, 16, composed a nearly the same as last year according to each other. “sneaky” mango-habanero salsa Valentine. that “hits you at the end” with “All the money goes to the kids,” By David Grieder its heat. STAFF WRITER Melrose’s Vicky Smith, who AUCTION on Page 7A [email protected] finished second in the contest, CLOVIS — Far from a said her “dad always made starter, chips and salsa took cen- salsa, always had a garden” in ter stage Friday night during the San Jon, and she tried this year annual contest at the Curry to emulate his style. County Fair. Third-place finisher Janea Made with a base of core Lawson, a salsa champion of ingredients — tomato, onion, the past two years, said she uses all homegrown ingredients with garlic, salt and peppers — 21 Staff photo: David Grieder entries competed at the fair- her husband David assisting in grounds’ indoor pavilion for There were 21 entries competing Friday in the salsa contest. keeping the garden. She said cash prizes and coveted salsa her salsa is so popular with her chef aprons from the event in other instances with partici- Friday in a salsa made with the coworkers and friends that she sponsor of seven years, Leal’s pants invoking their family his- Scorpion Pepper, which he says makes it in two-gallon batches Mexican Restaurant. tory with a salsa recipe. he is spicier than the notorious and they never last long. The “Everybody has their own Jack Brittain, 42, of Clovis, Ghost Pepper in terms of its ingredients include jalapeno, style of salsa,” said event brought some of both. He said Scoville units. serrano and bell peppers. announcer Jeff Lynn. he’s been making his own salsa Brittain’s wife Krystal favors First-place and the recipient “Sometimes, as soon as you for about three decades, a green chile flavor, whereas his of $100 and a custom apron take a bite you’re running.” inspired as a child by his grand- daughter Leya Brittain entered a entered Friday was middle- Anyone in need of milk father’s handiwork. “medium-heat” salsa made with schooler Adeline Carlyle, who might avail themselves of fresh Growing up in Amarillo, habanero. His son Kaleb Hardin entered with what was only her Brittain never had the chance to favored a salsa mild enough to second attempt at making salsa. dairy from the cows around the Staff photo: Mathew Brock corner, Lynn joked. get down those ingredients pre- drink from the bowl. Adeline, 13, starting eighth Among the entries was a cisely, but he remembers over- Richard Hudson entered his grade at Yucca Middle School, Katelynn Young walks her pig, Dirt, out strong family presence, in some whelmingly that his grandfa- own family’s recipe, and his made her salsa with avocado, of the auction pen with the help of Josh cases with parents, children and ther’s recipe was “hot.” And hot daughters each entered some Wooley after a successful auction of siblings in stiff competition and is what is he brought to the table striking variations thereon. SALSA on Page 7A $4,600. Staff Photo: Mathew Brock Eastern New Freshmen migrate onto ENMU campus Mexico ❏ School holds annual Students and families led by councilors and their families. University walked the campus, getting themselves “I’ve worked every move-in day since students move-in day as part of acquainted with their new stomping I’ve become president,” Elwell said. Sabrina grounds. “Quite frankly, its one of my most enjoy- Garza and Dawg Days event. The annual move-in day is part of able days of the year. I meet the new ENMU’s three-day Dawg Days welcome freshmen and parents and our (more vet- Brayan Bar By Mathew Brock help the festival, also referred to this year as eran) students get to welcome them.” STAFF WRITER Houndchella. The weekend starts on Tessa Schwalm worked as a Dawg McCants [email protected] Saturday with a move-in day before two Days counselor on Saturday, introducing family move days of orientation and activities ending new students and their family’s to the furniture into PORTALES — It’s not every day you get to watch a great migration of 600 on Monday. The goal is to help ease dorms and campus. Schwalm is a senior Curry Hall freshman college students unload truck- incoming freshmen into their first year of studying wildlife and fishery science at on Saturday. fuls of furniture, clothes and the rest of college with a little help from veteran the ENMU and remembers her Dawg their personal items into the cramped students and staff. Days introduction fondly. dormitories they’ll be inhabiting over the According to University President Jeff “It didn’t freak me out or anything, but next year. Elwell, 550-600 new students were I just thought that these people were Saturday morning saw the streets out- anticipated for this year’s move-in day. super excited to be here and it got me side the various residence halls of Elwell himself could be found outside excited too,” Schwalm said. “I wasn’t Eastern New Mexico University packed Guadalupe hall on Saturday, directing with trucks and cars packed with cargo. traffic and meeting with new students MOVE-IN on Page 7A Forecast: Today Monday Tuesday Index Calendars ....................2A,7B Sunday Reader ................8B Reach us at: High: 100 High: 96 High: 95 Classified ....................9-10A Obituaries..........................9B (575) 763-3431 Life ................................3-5B Sports ............................1-2B Low: 69 Low: 67 Low: 67 Voices ............................4-5A PAGE 2A ✦ SUNDAY, AUG. 18, 2019 LOCAL THE EASTERN NEW MEXICO NEWS Area meetings SLOW Tuesday St., Clovis. Information: 575-769- ■ Curry County Commission 7828 BURN — 9 a.m., Commission Chambers, Curry County Aug. 26 Administration Complex, 417 ■ City of Clovis Parks, Staff photos: Mathew Brock Gidding St., Clovis. Information: Recreation, and Beautification 575-763-6016 Committee — 5:30 p.m., Clovis Left: Jayden ■ Friends of Clovis-Carver City Hall assembly room, 321 N. Garza-Pepin Public Library — 11:30 a.m., Connelly, Clovis. Information: 575- places his turtle Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. 763-9654 into the starting Main St., Clovis. Information: 575- 769-7840 Aug. 27 ring during the ■ Civic Center Policy Board — ■ Clovis Municipal Schools quarter-final 3 p.m., Clovis Civic Center, 801 board — 5:30 p.m., Board Room, round of the Schepps Blvd., Clovis. Information: CMS administration building, 1009 Plateau 19th 575-763-9654 Main St., Clovis. Information: 575- Annual Great ■ Portales City Council — 769-4300 6:30 p.m., Memorial Building, 200 ■ Roosevelt General Hospital American Turtle E. 7th St., Portales. Information: Board of Trustees — 5:30 p.m., Race at the Curry 575-356-6662 Fred Anthony Conference Room, County fair on RGH, 42121 US-70, Portales. Saturday. Wednesday Information: 575-359-1800 ■ City of Clovis Public Works Committee — 8:30 a.m., Clovis Sept. 3 Below: A box tur- City Hall assembly room, 321 N. ■ Curry County Commission tle crosses the Connelly, Clovis. Information: 575- — 9 a.m., Commission Chambers, finish line during 763-9654 Curry County Administration the first round. Complex, 417 Gidding St., Clovis. Thursday Information: 575-763-6016 ■ Eastern New Mexico Water ■ Portales City Council — Utility Authority — 3 p.m., 6:30 p.m., Memorial Building, 200 ENMWUA Offices, Sitterly E. 7th St., Portales. Information: Professional Center, 801 Pile 575-356-6662 Street, Clovis. Information: 575- 935-4262 To place an item on the meet- ■ Clovis City Commission — ings calendar, call the newsroom 5:15 p.m., North Annex, Clovis- at 575-763-6991 or e-mail: Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main [email protected] AUG. 18 On this date ... 1989: Sharon Hughes and Lisa Harrison had teamed up to win the championship flight of the annual Colonial Park Ladies Golf Association Championship Tournament. In other sports news: ■ The Clovis High School Wildcat Football are against you,” Garvey Booster Club was prepar- told The Associated Press. ing for its first meeting of “You run into a bout of flu. the season. Dues were $3 You can catch a cleat on per person or $5 per fami- artificial turf. Things hap- ly. pen.” ■ Cal Ripken had played Ripken broke Gehrig’s in his 1,208th consecutive consecutive-games record Major League Baseball by more than 500 games, game, moving him into finishing with 2,632 in a third place on the iron-man list behind Boston’s Everett row.