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CNJ staff photo: Andy DeLisle Vincent Beltran, right, cheers on classmates as they walk across the stage to receive their diplomas at Clovis High's graduation Saturday at Rock Staubus Gym. Beltran was one of 352 seniors to receive their diplomas. Sitting together for the last time, donned in purple caps and gowns, Jade Smith told her fellow Clovis High School graduates on Saturday that they have only begun to tap into their potential. “It took awhile, 13 years, but we have finally made it ... and we have only begun to tap i...
A prestigious scholarship and a background in construction has paved the way for Robert Cordova to pursue a civil engineering degree. Cordova is one of 352 students expected to receive diplomas during Clovis High School’s graduation ceremony today. Cordova is one of 40 students statewide who has been awarded a four-year Daniels Scholarship following an extensive application and interview process. “I had to write four different types of essays,” said Cordova, who has several family members in the construction business and w... Full story
With boys robed in blue and gold gowns and girls in white, 17 students graduated from Clovis Christian School on Friday night. The commencement ceremony, which also featured students carrying yellow roses for their moms, was held in the sanctuary of the private school. “This is bittersweet,” said CCS graduate Joy Swann. “I’m excited because I’m graduating, but sad because I have to grow up.” Swann, who plans to study interior design and business at Eastern New Mexico University, has attended Clovis Christian since secon...
CNJ staff photo: Andy DeLisle Clovis Christian School senior Sidnee Pool, left, looks to see if anyone else is coming in the doors Friday as the seniors walk into the CCS Chapel for graduation. Pool was one of 17 graduates. With boys robed in blue and gold gowns and girls in white, 17 students graduated from Clovis Christian School on Friday night. The commencement ceremony, which also featured students carrying yellow roses for their moms, was held in the sanctuary of the private school. “This is bittersweet,” said CCS gra...
I’m so out of the loop that I’ve never MySpaced, let alone started a Web page or blog. My idea of chatting is old fashion, talking face to face with a real person, or on a real cell phone. When we were kids, MySpace.com was my bedroom, I mean our room; the room I shared with Becky and Julie. Sometimes we had instant messaging with our friends. They would knock on our bedroom window, we’d crack it open, and voila, we’d have an instant chat. We also had text messaging. We’d scribble notes on pieces of paper and pass them betw...
CNJ staff photo: Helena Rodriguez Ray Gonzales shows off his 1951 black Chevy Deluxe Sedan, one of 28 entries in Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church’s annual fiesta car show. Fellowship, fund-raising and food are what have made Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church’s annual fiesta a crowd-drawing success, and this year was no exception. Fiesta chairman Sammy Martinez said the church was seeing a record crowd on Saturday. The three-day event, which continues at noon today and wraps up at around 6 p.m., has been held for mor...
Freedom Newspapers: Rick White During her speech Friday at Clovis Community College’s graduation ceremony, Chesnea Fish reminds fellow graduates that “All of us have the potential to make a positive contribution.” Chesnea Fish is one small farming town girl who was not ready for a four-year university atmosphere, and that is what led her to seek and complete a degree at Clovis Community College. “CCC has provided me with the smaller steps I needed in order to prepare me for that scary university atmosphere,” Fish told a pa...
A new coalition of more than 100 evangelical Christian organizations is finally stepping up to say what the Catholic church has being saying all along: Show compassion for our neighbors, the weak, and the alien. According to the New York Times, evangelical leaders are making increasingly visible efforts to push for what they call a more humane immigration policy. This is in keeping with Biblical scriptures of showing compassion for our neighbors, the weak, and the alien. Perhaps they were moved to speak up after seeing...
I get lost so easily in a Wal-Mart parking lot. Sometimes I’m in and right back out of the store in a few, but when I walk out of those sliding doors, I can’t remember where I parked. Even more baffling to my friend Bernard, however, is how I can easily lose my sense of direction outdoors, yet indoors I never seem to get lost in the maze of aisles. Now it’s true that most of the products have been kept in the same aisle in the same place for months, or even years. I read a novel in my postmodern literature class this semester...
I get lost so easily in a Wal-Mart parking lot. Sometimes I’m in and right back out of the store in a few, but when I walk out of those sliding doors, I can’t remember where I parked. Even more baffling to my friend Bernard, however, is how I can easily lose my sense of direction outdoors, yet indoors I never seem to get lost in the maze of aisles. Now it’s true that most of the products have been kept in the same aisle in the same place for months, or even years. I read a novel in my postmodern literature class this semester... Full story
Courtesy Photo Artist and sculptor Brian Norwood stands between two larger-than-life cowboy sculptures he has erected near Jal on N.M. 18. Compiled by Helena Rodriguez: Freedom Newspapers Natives call Jal the “Gateway to the Land of Enchantment,” according to its Web site. With its larger-than-life cowboy sculptures overlooking N.M. 18 and a well-stocked lake that spells J-A-L, the town is a waiting adventure. Jal is a small city of 1,800, located about 42 miles south of Hobbs. It was founded in the mid-1880s when the Cow...
Courtesy Photo Artist and sculptor Brian Norwood stands between two larger-than-life cowboy sculptures he has erected near Jal on N.M. 18. Compiled by Helena Rodriguez: Freedom Newspapers Natives call Jal the “Gateway to the Land of Enchantment,” according to its Web site. With its larger-than-life cowboy sculptures overlooking N.M. 18 and a well-stocked lake that spells J-A-L, the town is a waiting adventure. Jal is a small city of 1,800, located about 42 miles south of Hobbs. It was founded in the mid-1880s when the Cow... Full story
The host of my sister Crisanta’s baby shower didn’t know we were supposed to play games until 10 minutes before the shower. Couldn’t blame him. How many men host baby showers? My cousin Eric staged his first baby shower last weekend, an event he promised to never do again despite the fact that I told him he should become a professional baby shower planner. All things considered, including the fact that he planned the event in Portales from Albuquerque, I think we had a nice little shower for Crisanta, whose little bundl...
The host of my sister Crisanta’s baby shower didn’t know we were supposed to play games until 10 minutes before the shower. Couldn’t blame him. How many men host baby showers? My cousin Eric staged his first baby shower last weekend, an event he promised to never do again despite the fact that I told him he should become a professional baby shower planner. All things considered, including the fact that he planned the event in Portales from Albuquerque, I think we had a nice little shower for Crisanta, whose little bundl... Full story
Cost of prom dress, $150. Gas to Lubbock to shop for prom dress, $25. Jewelry, $25. Hair, $42. Nails, $30. Prom ticket, $20. Junior class dues, $30. Cost of memories: Priceless. Can’t put a price on memories. But if I could, $322 sounds about right to me. Return on investment: Zilch. My daughter Laura has just hung another high-ticket dress in her closet, one she will probably never wear again — unless I have a say in the matter. The stunning white gown, lined around the collar and waist with rhinestones, and with a sho... Full story
Cost of prom dress, $150. Gas to Lubbock to shop for prom dress, $25. Jewelry, $25. Hair, $42. Nails, $30. Prom ticket, $20. Junior class dues, $30. Cost of memories: Priceless. Can’t put a price on memories. But if I could, about $322 sounds right to me. Return on investment: Zilch. My daughter Laura has just hung another high-ticket dress in her closet, one she will probably never wear again — unless I have a say in the matter. The stunning white gown, lined around the collar and waist with rhinestones, and with a sho...
By the time you read this, Don Imus’ racial slur aimed at the Rutgers women’s basketball team will have been talked to death. But will there be a resolution to forgive and forget? I doubt it. Since Imus recently referred to the mostly black team as “Nappy-headed hos” after they lost the NCAA women’s title to the University of Tennessee, his words have opened a new wave of dialogue on racism in the United States. This dialogue resurfaces every time another shock jock or politician utters the wrong words. You know the scenario....
By the time you read this, Don Imus’ racial slur aimed at the Rutgers women’s basketball team will have been talked to death. But will there be a resolution to forgive and forget? I doubt it. Since Imus recently referred to the mostly black team as “Nappy-headed hos” after they lost the NCAA women’s title to the University of Tennessee, his words have opened a new wave of dialogue on racism in the United States. This dialogue resurfaces every time another shock jock or politician utters the wrong words. You know the scena...
And then he bowed his head and died. John 19:30 sounds like a great ending to a dramatic story, but for billions of Christians worldwide, it marks a new beginning. The veil of the sanctuary was torn in two. The earth quaked, rocks were split, tombs were open and the bodies of many saints who had fallen asleep were raised. Never before or after in history has the death of one man been so powerful, so influential, so divisive and yet so uniting as the death of Jesus Christ more than 2,000 years ago. And it all started on this...
And then he bowed his head and died. John 19:30 sounds like a great ending to a dramatic story, but for billions of Christians worldwide, it marks a new beginning. The veil of the sanctuary was torn in two. The earth quaked, rocks were split, tombs were open and the bodies of many saints who had fallen asleep were raised. Never before or after in history has the death of one man been so powerful, so influential, so divisive and yet so uniting as the death of Jesus Christ more than 2,000 years ago. And it all started on this...
I have a checkered driving history, which reveals more than my driving habits over the past two decades. It speaks volumes about each three-year increment, the time my insurance company goes back to count tickets. My friend Bernard says I’m a crazy driver, usually while telling me to slow down, watch the road or not tail other cars. My only defense is, “If you think I’m a bad driver now, you should have seen me 10 years ago!” I know I have a driving problem. It’s like something happens to me when I get behind the wheel. I... Full story
I have a checkered driving history, which reveals more than my driving habits over the past two decades. It speaks volumes about each three-year increment, the time my insurance company goes back to count tickets. My friend Bernard says I’m a crazy driver, usually while telling me to slow down, watch the road or not tail other cars. My only defense is, “If you think I’m a bad driver now, you should have seen me 10 years ago!” I know I have a driving problem. It’s like something happens to me when I get behind the wheel. I... Full story
And you thought making a few innocent mistakes at work was bad, such as accidentally hanging up on your boss or inadvertently deleting an e-mail message you were supposed to forward. Or you felt guilty for wasting company resources, such as accidentally using two instead of one of those little Post-It Notes to write a message, leaving the lights or your computer on over night or, even worse, forgetting to save a file that you spent precious minutes working on, perhaps even hours or days. Try and beat this: With a single... Full story
And you thought making a few innocent mistakes at work was bad, like accidentally hanging up on your boss or inadvertently deleting an e-mail message you were supposed to forward. Or you felt guilty for wasting company resources, like accidentally using two instead of one of those little Post-It Notes to write a message, leaving the lights or your computer on over night or, even worse, forgetting to save a file that you spent precious minutes working on, perhaps even hours or days. Try and beat this: With a single keystroke,... Full story
Some people say I ask too many questions. Can you believe that? A journalist asking a lot of questions? I don’t ask a lot of questions, do I? And if I do, what’s wrong with that? At school, even in college, we’re told: “The only stupid question is an unasked question.” I must admit, though, I have heard some pretty stupid questions in my days, questions that were probably better left unasked. For the sake of my argument, however, stupid questions are good, too. As a journalist, one of the stupidest questions I asked som...
