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Liliana Castillo: Freedom New Mexico Clovis resident Pat Hayter enjoys spending her evenings her in favorite chair, catching up on her TV shows. Clovis resident Pat Hayter volunteers for the Lighthouse Mission, Meals on Wheels, Plains Regional Medical Center Ladies Auxiliary, First United Methodist Church and the Latch Key Program. She said her mom and her stepmom were both giving people. “I guess I got some of that from them,” Hayter said. Hayter said she enjoys giving to others because as she put it, “I receive 100 perce... Full story
Four area school districts were audited by the New Mexico Public Education Department over the last 10 days. Initial findings were released Thursday. Based on a review of 10,000 files from 34 districts across the state, Portales Municipal Schools was cleared of all issues along with seven other districts. Clovis Municipal Schools and Fort Sumner Municipal Schools was cited for minor reporting compliance issues along with 12 other districts. Nine districts were identified as needing a more expansive audit, including Melrose Mu... Full story
Cannon Connections: Liliana Castillo From left, Kaitlaynd Murphy, Christian Godfrey and Alex Godfrey inspect each others' haul after the hunt. It took 300 children seven minutes to collect 3,000 eggs at Saturday’s Easter egg hunt hosted by the Community Center at Unity Park. Community Center Manager Paul Hopkins said staff spread eggs around the park, including special prize-winning eggs.... Full story
Cannon Connections: Liliana Castillo From left, Kaitlaynd Murphy, Christian Godfrey and Alex Godfrey inspect each others' haul after the hunt. It took 300 children seven minutes to collect 3,000 eggs at Saturday’s Easter egg hunt hosted by the Community Center at Unity Park. Community Center Manager Paul Hopkins said staff spread eggs around the park, including special prize-winning eggs....
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo The Arts Academy at Bella Vista's performance of three operas Friday finishes with a dance sequence. The Arts Academy at Bella Vista’s singing and dancing students will take the Marshall Auditorium stage once again Friday. This time, 230 students from kindergarten through sixth grade will perform three miniature operas, written by Charis Bean Duke. Duke’s children attended Lincoln-Jackson when it was the district’s arts academy and returns to Clovis from her North Carolina home to assist in t...
CNJ staff photo: Tony Bullocks Steelman's vehicle was rammed by a sheriff's deputy vehicle to force him to a stop. Curry County Detention Center absconder Justin Steelman, 32, was recaptured after leading police on a high speed chase today from Clovis to Farwell, according to Undersheriff Wesley Waller. The Curry County sheriff’s office received a tip that Steelman had been seen in the Texico area, Waller said. As deputies were responding to Texico, they saw Steelman traveling in his vehicle toward Clovis on U.S. 60/84. ...
The Clovis Municipal Schools board of education decided Tuesday to allow only curriculum-based student clubs to meet during the school day at Clovis High School, a policy called a closed forum. The decision came after a month of review on the board’s previous policy allowing all student clubs that meet a list of requirements to meet, whether or not they had a direct curricular tie. The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico accused the district of changing the policy to stop the formation of a Gay Straight Alliance c...
With an overall budget cut and a cut to the per student funding, educators in Curry County are trying to find ways to do more with less. Per student funding will decrease by $126 under the new state budget. General budget funding will be cut 2.2 percent. Combined, that’s a 3.4 percent hit. The cut ranges between $1.2 million for Clovis Municipal Schools and $155,000 for Melrose Municipal Schools. Cuts for Texico and Grady schools were not available. CMS Superintendent Terry Myers said education funding levels are what they w... Full story
A group of Curry County citizens will be teaching young people about the U.S. Constitution through a pilot program this summer in Clovis. The group, consisting of Clovis Christian School Superintendent Ladona Clayton, Clovis resident Bill Henry, Curry County Commission Chairman Caleb Chandler, Clovis resident David Petty, Texico Municipal Schools Superintendent R.L. Richards, gathered and decided that young people need to learn more about the Constitution and the Founding Fathers who created it. “Young people need to u...
The Clovis YMCA will open April 30 and began accepting charter memberships Monday. Associate Executive Director Shane Nelson said the chapter took 27 memberships its first day. The local chapter is part of the YMCA of Central Eastern New Mexico, headquartered in Albuquerque. The center will provide gym services to its members as well as youth activities for members and non-members. Membership includes access to a 4,500 square foot wellness center which includes cardio, free weights and group fitness classes. Group fitness...
The Clovis YMCA will open April 30 and began accepting charter memberships Monday. Associate Executive Director Shane Nelson said the chapter took 27 memberships its first day. The local chapter is part of the YMCA of Central Eastern New Mexico, headquartered in Albuquerque. The center will provide gym services to its members as well as youth activities for members and non-members. Membership includes access to a 4,500 square foot wellness center which includes cardio, free weights and group fitness classes. Group fitness...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo The Clovis Y's 4,500-square-foot wellness center features a Clovis Wildcat on one wall. The Clovis YMCA will open April 30 and began accepting charter memberships Monday. Associate Executive Director Shane Nelson said the chapter took 27 memberships its first day. The local chapter is part of the YMCA of Central Eastern New Mexico, headquartered in Albuquerque. The center will provide gym services to its members as well as youth activities for members and non-members. Membership includes...
Liliana Castillo: Freedom New Mexico Nicole Thornton worked as the community affairs coordinator as well as the Portales Main Street manager. Nicole Thornton was the Community Affairs Coordinator for the city of Portales until Friday. Her husband received orders from the Air Force back to Florida so the couple will be returning home. Thornton said there is no such thing as a typical day for the community affairs coordinator. “I enjoy that every day is different at this job,” she said. “It keeps it exciting with const...
One club that could be affected by the change in policy is a chapter of the Gay and Straight Alliance. Clovis High School senior Steven De Los Santos spearheaded the attempt to create a GSA chapter. The group was originally approved in the first week of March by high school Principal Wayne Marshall. After reviewing board policy, Marshall rescinded his approval because he said he realized the superintendent has to approve the creation of clubs at the high school. Superintendent Terry Myers said the request to begin the GSA... Full story
Clovis schools administration has halted all student organization meetings at the high school while they review two board policies that govern student groups. One policy dictates who can approve the creation of a club and one which chooses between allowing curricular and non-curricular clubs or only curricular clubs. For example, French Club is a curricular club because French is taught at the school. Fellowship of Christian Athletes, however, does not have a curricular tie. Clovis is looking at two options: • Limited... Full story
Building projects at 21 bases across the country have been put on hold due to the budget stalemate in Congress. The list includes Cannon Air Force Base’s 96-room dormitory project. The Air Force Times reported that the stalemate has locked the Air Force into last year’s spending amounts and prevented the start of any new construction projects since Oct. 1. Eight bases are waiting on more than $25 million in construction money. The Air Force Times reported that the Air Force has delayed 36 construction projects worth more tha...
Building projects at 21 bases across the country have been put on hold due to the budget stalemate in Congress. The list includes Cannon Air Force Base’s 96-room dormitory project. The Air Force Times reported that the stalemate has locked the Air Force into last year’s spending amounts and prevented the start of any new construction projects since Oct. 1. Eight bases are waiting on more than $25 million in construction money. The Air Force Times reported that the Air Force has delayed 36 construction projects worth more tha...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Texas Tech education faculty Reese Todd asks Zia Elementary sixth graders to show the flow patterns of rivers in South America Wednesday on the National Geographic Giant Traveling Map at Central Baptist Church. Clovis students walked across South America this week. It was a basketball court-sized National Geographic Giant Traveling Map of the continent brought to town by an education faculty member at Texas Tech University in nearby Lubbock. National Geographic is striving for 20,000 feet on... Full story
Courtesy photo: Terry Whitener Texico senior Logan Garner works to remove rusted metal from the frame of the trailer at the beginning of the project. Texico Municipal School’s agriculture mechanics department spent six weeks doing a total overhaul on a trailer for Texico graduate Kip DeFoor. The trailer belonged to DeFoor’s grandfather and after 20 years of letting weeds grow up through it, DeFoor suggested that his friend Terry Whitener’s class rebuilt it as a class project. They stripped it down to its rotten skele...
Freedom New Mexico Freedom New Mexico picked up 11 awards on Saturday, including the seven top prizes, in the Texas Panhandle Press Association’s 2011 Better Newspaper Contest. The Clovis News Journal was honored with PPA’s General Excellence award. CNJ photographers Tony Bullocks, Liliana Castillo and columnist Kevin Wilson all won individual first place awards. The Portales News-Tribune took first place in best headline writing. Texas’ Panhandle Press Association includes dozens of small-town newspapers throughout the T...
Freedom New Mexico picked up 11 awards on Saturday, including the seven top prizes, in the Texas Panhandle Press Association’s 2011 Better Newspaper Contest. The Clovis News Journal was honored with PPA’s General Excellence award. CNJ photographers Tony Bullocks, Liliana Castillo and columnist Kevin Wilson all won individual first place awards. The Portales News-Tribune took first place in best headline writing. Texas’ Panhandle Press Association includes dozens of small-town newspapers throughout the Texas and Oklah...
USAF: Senior Airman James Bell Ivan Sarracino, 27th Special Operations Equipment Maintenance Squadron, receives the Lt. Gen. Leo Marquez award from Commander, Air Force Special Operations Command, Lt. Gen. Donald Wurster, on Jan. 13. The Leo Marquez award highlights outstanding achievements in the aircraft maintenance and munitions squadrons across the Air Force. Sarracino won the civilian manager aircraft maintenance category. Gabriel Monte With 48 years in the Air Force, Clovis resident Ivan Sarracino, 69, still has plenty...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Clovis Community College Executive Vice President Becky Rowley, left, receives congratulations Wednesday from President John Neibling, center, and Board Chair Charles Guthals on being chosen as the next president of the college. Neibling is retiring in August. The Clovis Community College board of trustees Wednesday selected Becky Rowley to replace John Neibling as college president. Neibling is retiring in August after five years as president. Rowley, CCC’s executive vice president, was elec...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Freshman Academy parent Susana Cantu, left, and her children, from left to right, Mari Cantu, Ruben Torres, Abri Cantu and Victoria Cantu spend time at the biology table Tuesday during the Freshman Academy Cat-a-bration. Teachers of each subject displayed work from their class for parents to see. Parents of Clovis High School Freshman Academy students were given a glimpse into their child’s education Tuesday. The school hosted the second annual Cat-a-bration, at which student’s projects wer...
Each year, the Clovis Municipal Schools Foundation and Alumni Association chooses five people to induct into the Hall of Honor. The awards go to Clovis High School graduates based on achievement in their realm of business. Graduates are chosen because their strengths of character and citizenship serve as models to inspire and challenge today’s CHS students. The Top Cat award goes to a past faculty member of CMS or a community member who has shown support for Clovis Schools. Bank of Clovis Chief Executive Officer Randy H...
