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While listening to his mother talk about a family they knew who lost their home in the tornado that hit Joplin, Mo., 6-year-old Landon Mihalik had an idea. He had a lemonade stand at one of his family’s yard sales and raised money for a hospital in Durango, Colo., in need two years ago and he could do it again for the people of Joplin. The Mihaliks are friends with former Portales residents Justin and Kari Nevins, who lost their home in the tornado, and they will be sending any money raised to the Nevins family for use in t...
Liliana Castillo: Freedom New Mexico Clovis residents, clockwise from top left, Landon Mihalik, , Zachary Mihalik, Tyler Mihalik, and Isaac Forsyth will be running a lemonade stand today to raise money for families affected by a tornado that hit Joplin, Mo. While listening to his mother talk about a family they knew who lost their home in the tornado that hit Joplin, Mo., 6-year-old Landon Mihalik had an idea. He had a lemonade stand at one of his family’s yard sales and raised money for a hospital in Durango, Colo., in n...
All of the schools in Roosevelt and Curry counties will take spring break on the same week next year. That includes Clovis Community College and Eastern New Mexico University. Administrators from districts in both counties worked together to schedule spring break at the same time, but there were a few outside forces pointing them toward the same week. The New Mexico Public Education Department changed the timeframe for state testing in the 2011-2012 school year to begin March 19 and last four weeks. NMPED is attempting to...
File photo Haidyn Mount, 8, entered four rabbits in the Curry County Fair last year. Clovis Municipal Schools changed their instructional calendar this year so that children like Mount can focus on the fair during fair week and come to school the week after. All of the schools in Roosevelt and Curry counties will take spring break on the same week next year. That includes Clovis Community College and Eastern New Mexico University. Administrators from districts in both counties worked together to schedule spring break at the...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Korean War veteran Troy Howard, right, received Clovis High School diplomas for himself and his brother Saturday during commencement wearing his Air Force uniform from the 1950s. Clovis Municipal Schools Superintendent Terry Myers, left, said it was an honor to recognize the Howard twins. After 54 years, being kidnapped and working as a migrant worker through out his childhood, Air Force veteran Troy Howard received his high school diploma from Clovis High School during commencement...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Clovis High School graduates picked up their diplomas after the ceremony with family members waiting for them. On Saturday, about 260 seniors graduated from Clovis High School during commencement at the Curry County Events Center. Organizers estimated about 3,500 attended the ceremony....
Cannon Connections: Liliana Castillo Senior Airman Jonathan Garrett and Airman 1st Class Phillip Opat were two of the12-person VMX2 team to assist with a publicity event at Gabriel's Gardens May 14. The month of May means time for the Big Give at Cannon Air Force Base. The Big Give is a community center program designed to encourage volunteerism, community center director Paul Hopkins said. This year’s contest includes more than double the number of teams and almost double the number of participants. Cannon's Big Give is a...
Cannon Connections: Liliana Castillo Senior Airman Jonathan Garrett and Airman 1st Class Phillip Opat were two of the12-person VMX2 team to assist with a publicity event at Gabriel's Gardens May 14. The month of May means time for the Big Give at Cannon Air Force Base. The Big Give is a community center program designed to encourage volunteerism, community center director Paul Hopkins said. This year’s contest includes more than double the number of teams and almost double the number of participants. Cannon's Big Give is a...
File photo Birdhouse Building is one of 22 classes in Clovis Community College's Kid's College, a summer outreach program hosted by the college for over a decade. There is a class for every child from 5 years old on up in Clovis Community College’s Kid’s College. The annual summer outreach program includes 22 classes this year. Classes cover a range of topics, including tennis, volleyball, birdhouse building and dinosaurs. “We wanted to offer both educational and physical educational programs,” Kid's College Director Judith...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Oscar Pinon, a finisher with Nick Griego and Sons, spreads sealer Tuesday on stamped concrete along the west side of Main Street between Fifth and Sixth streets. Clovis MainStreet is laying the groundwork for further Main Street renovations by replacing sidewalk along the historic byway. With the help of the city of Clovis and Nick Griego and Sons, Clovis Main Street is replacing sidewalk between Fifth and Sixth streets. Clovis MainStreet Executive Director Robyn Beaubien said the current pro...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Texico fifth-grader Matthew Barriga's stall was popular with a group consistantly gathering to hear his presentation as Harry Potter from “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.” Texico fifth-grader’s living museum was more like a living library. One of the school’s three gyms was transformed Friday into 46 individual stalls and the four-hour home of the fifth-graders chosen character from a book. This is the second year the fifth grade classes of Kelley Fontanilla and Melissa Dur...
Liliana Castillo: Freedom New Mexico CMS custodian Lois Bunting enjoys her job because she can touch children's lives. Clovis resident Lois Bunting has worked for Clovis Municipal Schools as a custodian for 22 years. Bunting and her husband Woody Bunting moved to Clovis in 1985 when he received orders to Cannon Air Force Base and Clovis became their home. Bunting’s husband died four years ago, but she said because of the life they made together here, Clovis will always be her home. Bunting enjoys being a custodian and b...
File photo The CCC Spring Commencement is scheduled for 6 p.m. Friday at the Clovis Civic Center. About 150 students will graduate Friday from Clovis Community College. Of those, 101 will graduate with a diploma and 55 will be awarded a certificate. Clovis resident Kristie Hawk, 20, was chosen as the student speaker. She is graduating with an associate’s degree in liberal arts. After graduation, Hawk plans to enroll in the CCC nursing program in the fall. When she began classes at Clovis Community College, Hawk was p...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Zia third-grader Amber Washburn explains Wednesday about the pioneers of Clovis in the 1930s to Clovis living history museum attendees. Fourteen Zia Elementary School Gifted and Talented students re-enacted the history of Clovis in a living museum Wednesday. The students created scenes from the four eras of Clovis’ history. They included the Clovis Man Era, Native American Era, Ranchers and Pioneers Era and the Railroad and Building of Clovis Era. Students from Mary Finifrock Perez’s sec...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Highland Elementary art educational assistant Mary Amaro goes through examples of the various types of art mediums and methods Wednesday her class has worked on during the school year. Clovis Municipal Schools administration has chosen to eradicate the position of art educational assistant next year at the elementary schools to cut costs. As an art educational assistant at Highland Elementary School, Mary Amaro teaches students various types of art techniques in different mediums. She has...
Area superintendents were not pleased with the way the state Public Education Department handled an audit process last month. The PED audited 34 districts across the state to identify reporting issues. What sparked the audit: Over the last year, the number of new students in New Mexico increased by about 1 percent and the same time, the number of funding units associated with those students increased 116 percent. Most of the inconstancies found were related to special education students. After initial audits, Fort Sumner and...
A Clovis citizens group is seeking to put another ordinance to Clovis voters. The High Plains Patriots on Tuesday filed a petition regarding the commission’s passage of an affordable housing plan last week. City Clerk LeighAnn Melancon said the petition was submitted and certified Tuesday morning. According to the city charter, a referendum election can be forced if petitions are filed, within 30 days of an ordinance’s adoption, with signatures of registered Clovis voters living inside the city limits exceeding 20 per...
Clovis resident Don Reid wrote to his mother as a 19-year-old Army recruit in Vietnam. Reid wrote 170 letters to his mother Dorothy Reid in a year’s time while he served in Vietnam. That means he wrote home at least three times a week. A few months before his mother died in May 2009, she gave him a boxes of things she had saved over the years. Included were the letters. Reid said looking over the letters he realized they were redundant and probably revealed too much about his harsh living environment. “I wrote mostly to let...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Clovis resident Don Reid wrote to his mother at least three times a week while serving in Vietnam. Before she died, she returned the letters to him. In honor of Mother’s Day, the CNJ asked Clovis citizens of all ages to tell us about their mothers. Among them: • Candace Gulley’s first grade class at Highland Elementary School shared letters they wrote to their mothers in class. • Estefany Armendariz’s first grade class at Lockwood Elementary School shared with us the bags they...
Clovis High School senior Steven De Los Santos is preparing for the first meeting of a Gay-Straight Alliance after a month of uncertainty if the club would even be created. “It’s exciting. I was just ecstatic when I heard. I couldn’t stop smiling. It almost feels unreal,” De Los Santos said. Formation of the club was approved late Wednesday, Clovis Municipal Schools Superintendent Terry Myers said. CHS Principal Wayne Marshall met with De Los Santos to inform him of the approval Thursday. In a letter faxed to Myers on Monday,...
Cannon Connections: Liliana Castillo Nashawn Hare, 9, works to detangle his kite's tale from its string. Flying kites was a family affair for the Naddell family on Saturday at the eighth annual Cannon Air Force Base Kite Karnival. Armed with a dragon kite and a fairy kite, the family of five took turns launching the kites and controlling them from the ground. Adrianne Naddell and Capt. Nathan Naddell purchased the kites when they lived in Tucson but the city lacked one thing they needed: Wind. “This is the perfect place to f...
Cannon Connections: Liliana Castillo Nashawn Hare, 9, works to detangle his kite's tale from its string. Flying kites was a family affair for the Naddell family on Saturday at the eighth annual Cannon Air Force Base Kite Karnival. Armed with a dragon kite and a fairy kite, the family of five took turns launching the kites and controlling them from the ground. Adrianne Naddell and Capt. Nathan Naddell purchased the kites when they lived in Tucson but the city lacked one thing they needed: Wind. “This is the perfect place to f...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Ranchvale sixth grader Aaliyah Lane adds teeth to her painting of a shark Wednesday on a ceiling tile for the Clovis Veterinary Hospital. Ranchvale Elementary School students brought a little bit of color to the Clovis Veterinary Hospital. Twenty-five fourth- through sixth-graders applied their artistic talents to the ceiling at the veterinary hospital. The Clovis Veterinary Hospital is going through a remodel and Dr. Rebekah Ford asked Ranchvale art teacher Marti Stacy if her students would...
The Clovis Community College board of trustees and incoming president Becky Rowley haven’t come to an agreement on her contract yet. The board planned to meet in executive session to discuss the contract Wednesday during a regular board meeting but the executive session was pushed to the June meeting. Rowley, CCC’s executive vice president, was chosen as President John Neibling’s successor in April. Neibling announced in February he is retiring in August after five years as president. The board also approved a proposed budge...
The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico is demanding Clovis Municipal Schools immediately approve creation of a Gay-Straight Alliance club at Clovis High School before the school year ends. In a letter dated Monday and sent to Superintendent Terry Myers, the ACLU said students have been waiting approximately two months for approval to begin meetings. “Unreasonable delay in approving the GSA singles this organization out as receiving unequal treatment compared to other student organizations,” the letter stated. The...
