Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo The Aoudad, or Barbary sheep, herd has six new little ones at Hillcrest Park Zoo. It’s spring ... and there are lots of changes at the Hillcrest Park Zoo. The zoo has new babies, prices and exhibits. Spring and summer are the zoo’s busy seasons, according to zookeeper Mark Yanotti. Yanotti said the zoo tries to do something new each spring. “Mother Nature does a lot. The trees bloom and we have babies, which are a big draw,” he said. “It’s really a lovely place to be in spring.” Th...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Javier Zepeda of Roswell, left, lands a punch on the right side of Albuquerque’s Enrique Medel’s head during Saturday’s Golden Gloves boxing tournament at Roy Walker Recreation Center. Edgar Zubia may be from Hobbs, where he still lives, but he’s been training with the Clovis boxing club so long that he’s considered a local in that town, too. During bouts involving Clovis boxers, Zubia is often shouting encouragement from the stands, if not from their corners. On Fri...
A member of a committee that studied growth issues for Clovis schools says he’s concerned taxpayers aren’t getting a chance to see all the options. Former Lt. Govenor Walter Bradley said Thursday while a proposed new $30 million middle school is one option, he believes other viable solutions are available and aren’t being fully presented at a series of public meetings staged by Superintendent Rhonda Seidenwurm. Seidenwurm says while she appreciates Bradley’s concerns, a middle school remains the only viable option for the...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo The Missionary Landmark Baptist Church’s new building will be ready to hold services in June. Missionary Landmark Baptist Church of Clovis was meeting in a rented room at Wayland Baptist University. The room was big enough for the 30 area residents that were attending their service. But in order for them to grow, they needed a church building. Members of the Flippo Missionary Baptist Chapel in Pleasant Plains, Ark., answered their call and spent the week building a church on Williams...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Ira Sellars with Protection One, an Albuquerque security company, disassembles one of the new still video cameras Wednesday that are being installed in the Curry County Adult Detention Center. Detention officers are about to get a better and much closer look at what’s happening inside Curry County’s jail. At a price tag of more than $180,000, officers will not only gain the ability to see what an inmate has in his hands but what a group clustered in a corner is up to. And, officers can fol...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Twenty-six year old Juan Cruz was attacked by a 900 pound domestic boar last week. A week after a 900 pound hog mauled him, Juan Cruz wonders whether he’ll be able to keep his arm nearly severed in the attack. The 26-year-old Curry County man spoke about his ordeal for the first time Wednesday through an interpreter. Cruz returned home after five days in a Lubbock Hospital. He said he is still doing “bad”, and has tremendous pain in his arm. Last week, doctors reattached Cruz’ left arm aft...
Graduate students are flocking to Wayland Baptist University in Clovis because of its location and professors. This year, 100 more students have come to Wayland to obtain their master’s degrees than last year, according to Wayland officials. Currently, graduate classes average 15-25 students. Last year, the same classes averaged 8-12 students. Richard Hendershot, one of two full-time professors in Wayland’s graduate education program, said requiring a master’s degree is a growing trend in the education field. In Clovi...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Hotel Clovis should either be in a private developer’s hands or torn down by 2012, according to Community Development Director Claire Burroughes. The city has owned the building since 2004. Cleanup at the Hotel Clovis must take place before any plans can be made for the future of the landmark. The point was hammered home Wednesday by city officials, who staged a public hearing to explain remediation efforts that started last week. The city, which has owned the building since 2004, has...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Pat McDaniel presented the Pink Ladies Women's Auxilary with a plaque commemorating Margaret Jones and the scholarship the women’s auxiliary will establish in her name at the organization’s annual banquet Tuesday at the Clovis Civic Center. Anyone who knew Margaret Jones knew she was a good cook. Folks in Clovis stood in long lines to purchase her renowned short bread sold at Pink Ladies Women’s Auxiliary bake sales twice each year. But now, thanks to an almost $47,000 gift f...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Fifty-five liens have been filed against three different entities affilliated with Wheatfields Senior Living Community. In the early winter of 2006, plans were announced for the development of Wheatfields Senior Living Center, a 12 1/2-acre lot just south of the intersection of North Prince Street and Wilhite Road. The announcement was shortly followed by a flurry of construction activity as local and out-of-town contractors began work on the $20-million project that was to feature 64...
Freedom New Mexico: Liliana Castillo Clovis probationary fire fighters Tyler Adams and Jeff Essary prepare for a fire drill. The Clovis Fire Department is just one city department that may have to expand from growth at Cannon Air Force Base....
Police say they suspect a body found in Clovis is that of a missing Roswell woman. The body was discovered Wednesday night in the back of a pickup truck towed Monday to a Clovis wrecking yard. Chaves County Sheriff James Coon said the body was discovered by his deputies at the Trans-Matic wrecking yard on First Street, when they served a search warrant. Coon said the vehicle, which belonged to the victim, was towed to Clovis after the victim’s boyfriend was arrested on an outstanding warrant for a probation violation. He was...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Police discovered a body believed to be that of a missing Roswell woman in a a pickup truck camper Wednesday at Trans-Matic on First Street. Police say they suspect a body found in Clovis is that of a missing Roswell woman. The body was discovered Wednesday night in the back of a pickup truck that was towed Monday to a Clovis wrecking yard. Chaves County Sheriff James Coon said the body was discovered by his deputies at the Trans-Matic wrecking yard on First Street, when they served a search...
Ranchvale and James Bickley students win state gifted and talented championship Sixth grade Destination Imagination Teams from Ranchvale and James Bickley Elementary schools won the state championship in Albuquerque on March 14. Seven students from Ranchvale and 15 from James Bickley took the title. Destination Imagination is a program for gifted and talented students that involves using creative thinking to solve problems. The teams are headed to the Global Competition in Tennessee at the end of May and the students are...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Dennis Weist with the Clovis Animal Shelter offers a pitbull a bowl of food during feeding time Wednesday at the shelter. The state Senate has approved a bill that would eliminate the use of the gas chamber to euthanize stray dogs and cats. The Clovis An Clovis may soon be forced to change the way it destroys stray dogs and cats. Euthanasia seems poised to become the law of the state. And while both sides in what was a contentious issue in Clovis say they accept this, the question of who...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Ginny Swann’s fifth-grade class spends time Wednesday on test preparation worksheets. Testing begins April 6. Clovis educators are urging students to relax over spring break before they dive right into the New Mexico Standards Based Assessments when they return. The tests are given to third through eighth grades and juniors. High school juniors begin testing March 31 while middle and elementary school students begin April 6. Shelly Norris, principal of the Arts Academy at Bella Vista,...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Clovis Mayor Gayla Brumfield addressed about 75 community residents Tuesday during her state of the city speech at Clovis-Carver Public Library. With more than 1,000 jobs created in the last couple of years and more businesses attracted to Clovis, the city’s economy is isolated from the rest of the country, Clovis Mayor Gayla Brumfield said Tuesday at her first State of the City address, Brumfield spoke about economic development achievements and other changes in the city during her first y...
Freedom New Mexico: Liliana Castillo Weichert Realtor Carolyn Spence discusses shelving in 2nd Lt. Jon Clark and his wife Hailey's new home in Clovis. Jon has been reassigned to Cannon Air Force Base. The couple is one of many Cannon families looking for homes in Clovis and Portales. When Jon and Hailey Clark learned the Air Force was relocating them to Cannon Air Force Base, they immediately set out to find a home to rent. But when the young couple arrived in Clovis and began looking at the rental homes, they had a change...
When Jon and Hailey Clark learned the Air Force was relocating them to Cannon Air Force Base, they immediately set out to find a home to rent. But when the young couple arrived in Clovis and began looking at the rental homes, they had a change of heart. “Carolyn warned us that we wouldn’t like the rentals,” Hailey said. “And we found that most of the homes to buy were cheaper per month than most rentals.” Carolyn Spence with Weichert Realtors, who was working with the Clarks, said most of the housing in the couple’s...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Clovis Municipal Schools is looking into building a new middle school to accommodate an influx of 2,000 students by the 2012-2013 school year. Clovis could be getting a new $30 million middle school. The plan is still in the discussion stage. But school officials say a new middle school is the top recommendation for handling a flood of new students expected from expansion at Cannon Air Force base. The school district is anticipating at least 2,000 new students by the 2012-2013 school year....
Saturday Food and clothing give away — 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m., Matt 25 Hope Center, 1200 Thornton St. Information: 763-4400. Sunday Sunday school — 9:30 a.m., Living Stones Community Church of the Nazarene Worship service — 10:30 a.m., Living Stones Community Church of the Nazarene Men’s non-denominational bible class — 9:30 a.m.-10:15 a.m., North Plains Mall Cinema, 2809 N. Prince St., Clovis. Free coffee and donuts. Teacher: Don Reid. Morning worship — 9:45 a.m., Sunday School. Clovis Landmark M...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Marshall Middle School seventh-grader Patrick Merrill’s love of history and geography is taking him to the state-level of the National Geography Bee. Being the son of a military family, Patrick Merrill learned quickly the best way he could prepare for the family’s next move was to learn about the place he was going. Merrill, who was born in Germany, began to enjoy his research about the places he and his family would live. Now a seventh-grader at Marshall Middle School and armed with y...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Cindy Hamer and her daughter Katie Hamer took in a day at the Hillcrest Zoo while in the process of moving the family from Grand Falls, Texas to Clovis. The latest trend in local entertainment may be a sign of the economic times. Whether people are strapped for cash and seeking less expensive forms of entertainment or just seeking a release from the stress of everyday life, area programs are seeing new trends in what people do for fun. Free and inexpensive activities like the library, zoo...
