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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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The New Mexico Association of Counties is meeting in Portales today for the first time in its history. The group plans to discuss issues ranging from county budgets and wildfires, to CPR training for state employees and federal benefits for jail inmates. Representatives from all of the state’s 33 counties will meet from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at the Eastern New Mexico University Campus Union Building. Mike Anaya of Santa Fe, president of the association, said that the public is welcome to come and visit with county o...
Welcome to Cinco de Mayo 101. For today’s history lesson -- which will not include step-by-step instructions on how to make the ultimate taco; watch the Today show for that -- we’ll learn actual history. Some of you may ask, “Why is Cinco de Mayo celebrated in the U.S.?” After all, it is a Mexican holiday. But more than that, it’s also a part of U.S. history, which I will explain later. Others of you may also ask, “Why has Cinco de Mayo become a bigger deal today in the United States than in Mexico?” My answer to the latter... Full story
A city-wide Cinco de Mayo celebration in Portales on Saturday at Lindsey Park will feature live music, a softball tournament, a horseshoe tournament, pi...
The new Student Association for Voter Empowerment (SAVE) at Eastern New Mexico University has two goals: Get young people informed and get them to the polls. The young vote is expected to play a more-critical-than-ever role in this November’s presidential election, and so SAVE, a nationally-affiliated, non-partisan group, is wasting no time trying to get students educated about candidates, their issues and platforms, in an all-out effort to get them to vote. SAVE will hold its first official meeting at 5:30 p.m. this evening...
Nothing is set in stone yet, but Portales Municipal School employees could receive a 3 to 4 percent salary increase during the 2008-2009 school year, largely because of state mandates. The Portales School Board discussed the 2008-2009 budget during a special meeting on Monday night, but no action was taken. The board hopes to approve a preliminary budget during it’s next regularly scheduled meeting on May 12. The 2008-2009 budget takes effect on July 1. Under House Bill 2, the school district is mandated to give all t...
Although Earth Day was observed Tuesday, folks in Portales intend to keep on going green all year long. Eastern New Mexico University is preparing to go green on a much larger scale. The university is working on a project design to construct the campus’ first LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) building renovation. Construction on the Music Building is expected to break ground in August. “The university recognizes that green is the way to go and our Music Building will be a LEED building, as mandated by the... Full story
After 34 years in city politics, former Portales Mayor D.K. Shafer, jokingly says he’s now a “has been” in local government. The recently retired councilor has had his share of battles over the years. “When Portales was dry for a long time and then became wet in the 1980s, we had to make some tough decisions on zoning,” Shafer recalled. “A lot of people were not happy, but it’s like Harry Truman said, ‘If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen!’” Shafer resigned from his position as mayor pro-tem on April 1. O... Full story
April showers bring May flowers. I remember that saying well from my childhood. And with those April showers came plenty of croaking frogs to keep us awake at night. This cloudy time of year reminds me of my unforgettable childhood days growing up in the barrio of north Portales, more specifically on North Avenue B, and even more specifically, on the 1100 block of North Avenue B. We were a tight-knit bunch of kids. Maranos might be a more fitting term for us. Or as my niece, Kika, would say for us girls, cochinas maranas,... Full story
April showers bring May flowers. I remember that saying well from my childhood. And with those April showers came plenty of croaking frogs to keep us awake at night. This cloudy time of year reminds me of my unforgettable childhood days growing up in the barrio of north Portales, on the 1100 block of North Avenue B. We were a tight-knit bunch of kids. Maranos might be a more fitting term for us. Or as my niece, Kika, would say for us girls, cochinas maranas, because we were right out there in knee-high water and mud,... Full story
A colony of buzzing insects will mind their own bees wax when they arrive at their new home inside the Natural History Museum at Eastern New Mexico University. However, the public will get a chance to check into the bees’ business. A bee hive has been constructed inside the Natural History Museum at Roosevelt Hall and is awaiting Thursday’s arrival of its new guests — 30,000 to 50,000 European-bred bees — who are coming by way of Texas to inhabit the 20 square foot plexiglas display. “What is neat about the bees...
Christian Townsend is learning the art of “polite” persuasion by watching C-SPAN and the technicalities of structuring a powerful deliverance by studying Martin Luther King Jr’s famous, “I Have a Dream” speech. Townsend is one of four Portales High School students who have qualified to compete in the National Speech Tournament in Las Vegas, Nev., in June. Under the sponsorship of Becky Walker and Martha Crane, PHS seniors, Daniel Perez and Sunny Liu will compete in duo interpretation. Townsend will compete in student c... Full story
Catholic priests in Clovis and Portales describe Pope Benedict XVI’s historic visit to the U.S. this week as a shepherd tending his flock while Ted Olmos of Clovis recalls the “awe” of seeing another pontiff, John Paul II, in 1987. Following a visit to Ground Zero in New York City this morning and an expected stadium-packed Mass this afternoon at 2:30 p.m. at Yankee Stadium, Pope Benedict XVI will board a plane for Rome, ending his high-profile, six-day, first visit to the U.S. as pope. “The Pope spoke to the people...
Catholic priests in Clovis and Portales describe Pope Benedict XVI’s historic visit to the U.S. this week as a shepherd tending his flock while Ted Olmos of Clovis recalls the “awe” of seeing another pontiff, John Paul II, in 1987. Following a visit to Ground Zero in New York City this morning and an expected stadium-packed Mass this afternoon at 2:30 p.m. at Yankee Stadium, Pope Benedict XVI will board a plane for Rome, ending his high-profile, six-day, first visit to the U.S. as pope. “The Pope spoke to the people...
Rick Bender is a living testament to the destruction tobacco, including smokeless tobacco, can do. Bender, who lost part of his jaw due to oral cancer, spoke to Portales youth Saturday at the Teens Take Control Summit at the Portales Recreation Center. Bender, 46, has testified before Congress in support of laws banning tobacco use for those under age 18. He started using chew tobacco at age 12, and by age 26, he found himself in a doctor’s office with a dime size mouth sore which turned out to be an aggressive form of o... Full story
The New Mexico Department of Transportation Commission announced a $7 million plan to correct a failed pavement project on the Dora Highway and plans for an engineering design for U.S. 70 in downtown Portales Thursday. In a meeting at Eastern New Mexico University, the six-member commission also heard traffic safety concerns in accident-prone areas, with a particular hot spot being the Third and Kilgore intersection in Portales. The road behind Portales High School is mainly used to get to the Wal-Mart Supercenter. The Arch H... Full story
In a Teens Take Control Teen Summit on Saturday, area high school students will do more than talk about sex and drugs. Youth will actually develop plans of action for their families during emergency situations. In addition, teens will get a lesson in media literacy, focusing on how advertising affects choices, and will have an opportunity to film their own counter-sex culture video. The day summit will also feature a guest speaker, Rick Bender, a national spit tobacco speaker who suffered from mouth and throat cancer and had...
I see the little black dress dangling from a hanger in my daughter’s closet. I see the shimmering rhinestones making an elegant pattern across the otherwise bare back. I close my eyes and sense memories it will hold: Memories of prom ... Laura’s senior-year prom. On Saturday night, my hita goes to her senior prom. It’s only one in a handful of emotional events signaling the end of Laura’s high school days and a newfound freedom that expectantly will come as she and my niece, Crystal, cross these milestones. I’ve been thin...
Tickets are available through Friday for the Roosevelt County Chamber of Commerce annual banquet which is slated for 6 p.m. April 24 at First United Methodist Church fellowship hall. Col. Timothy Leahy, commander of the 27th Special Operations Wing at Cannon Air Force Base, will be the keynote speaker. During the banquet, the Workhorse of the Year award winner will be announced along with the winner of the Harley and Faye Borden award, an honor which will be bestowed to seven businesses who will be recognized for improving...
No child is getting left behind in Portales schools, when it comes to reading on the kindergarten through third grade level, anyway. Portales schools were recently ranked first in the state in the Reading First program. During a Tuesday night Portales School Board meeting, Trina Lujan, director of Federal Programs informed the board that while New Mexico ranked first in the Western region under the Reading First program, that Portales Schools ranked first on a state-wide level. “All of our kindergartners were benchmarked b...
Meet the Brunsons. Bobby and Kathie. If you don’t know them, chances are you’ve probably seen them cruising around town on their little red and white Metropolitan Honda motor scooters. With gas at a record $3.35 a gallon now, the Brunsons’ gas-guzzling 1999 Ford F-150 quadcab truck and four-door Ford Focus are spending more time parked under the carport. When the husband and wife team head to work at the Eastern New Mexico University campus, where they are both employed, and even when they go to Wal-Mart, they put on their...
Here’s another great reason to countdown to April 15. Besides it being Tax Day on Tuesday — whoopie — and Mom’s birthday — hooray — it’s also the day Pope Benedict XVI arrives in the United States. For B-16, this will be his first visit to the United States as pope and it will be the first papal visit to the U.S. since his predecessor, our beloved Pope John Paul II (JPII), came in 1999. Next week will also mark the first papal visit to this country since Sept. 11, 2001. What does the Pope’s histori...
Freedom New Mexico: Karl Terry Laura Robbins, right, of Portales, mixes ingredients Thursday for a banana peanut butter pie, while Katy Force of Portales works on other items. The two were competing in the Iron Chef competion at Eastern New Mexico University. Reality TV came to Eastern New Mexico University on Thursday night in the form of an Iron Chef competition. It was a survival of the fittest — in the kitchen, that is. Six teams, made up mostly of Family and Consumer Science majors from around the state, had to...
Reality TV came to Eastern New Mexico University on Thursday night in the form of an Iron Chef competition. It was a survival of the fittest — in the kitchen, that is. Six teams, made up mostly of Family and Consumer Science majors from around the state, had to endure a chef’s worst nightmare of a challenge. They had to create an impressive menu with ingredients assigned to them at random, mystery ingredients which they learned about only minutes before having to cook, then present the food to a panel of judges. ...
Janelle Newberry of Portales doesn’t have diabetes, but her 3-year-old grandson does, and that’s one reason she’s attending the Kitchen Creations Cooking School for Diabetics and Their Families. More than two dozen diabetics, or family and friends of diabetics, are attending a free, four-part class at Eastern New Mexico University in Portales which began on Monday night and continues with three more weekly sessions through April 21. The hands-on class, which is filled to capacity, is sponsored by the Roosevelt County Cooperat... Full story
More than 1,100 people have been exposed to the “Key Ingredients: America By Food” Smithsonian exhibit at Eastern New Mexico University, a carefully orchestrated event which has drawn the community into its numerous activities. This is the estimate that Merlene Olmsted has come up with as the six-week-long tribute to American culinary culture draws to a close. Final events include an Iron Chef competition tonight, an Eat Smart Cooking School which is also tonight from 5:10 to 6:30 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, and...
