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File photo The Christmas Light Parade usually attracts between 80 to 100 entries. The parade will run down Main Street from 14th to Grand streets. The annual Christmas Light Parade will light up downtown Saturday. The parade starts at 6 p.m. and the route follows Main Street from 14th to Grand. The official city tree in front of the Curry County Courthouse will be lit before the parade at 5:45 p.m. Robyne Beaubien, executive director of Clovis MainStreet, said the program has organized the parade for the past four years....
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Whiz Kids tutor Tami Daale helps a student with reading during a group's weekly tutoring session at Central Baptist Church. Whiz Kids provides one-on-one tutoring and mentoring at four elementary schools in Clovis. Steve Reshetar saw the results. He knew it helped. He knew it would work. When he moved from Denver to Clovis, he decided to bring Whiz Kids with him. Whiz Kids is a faith-based one-on-one tutoring and mentoring program focusing on literacy and working with kids who are struggling... Full story
File photo The Christmas Light Parade usually attracts between 80 to100 floats. The parade will run down Main Street from 14th to Grand Streets. The annual Christmas Light Parade will light up downtown Saturday. The parade starts at 6 p.m. and the route follows Main Street from 14th to Grand. The official city tree in front of the Curry County Courthouse will be lit before the parade at 5:45 p.m. Robyne Beaubien, executive director of Clovis MainStreet, said the program has organized the parade for the past four years. Prior...
File photo The Christmas Light Parade usually attracts between 80 to100 floats. The parade will run down Main Street from 14th to Grand Streets. The annual Christmas Light Parade will light up downtown Saturday. The parade starts at 6 p.m. and the route follows Main Street from 14th to Grand. The official city tree in front of the Curry County Courthouse will be lit before the parade at 5:45 p.m. Robyne Beaubien, executive director of Clovis MainStreet, said the program has organized the parade for the past four years. Prior... Full story
The Clovis Public Health Office plans to administer 2,000 free doses of the swine flu vaccine Thursday. Gayla Jacquess, nurse manager at the office, said the vaccine is part of an allotment the Centers for Disease Control gives each state. The state disperses the vaccine to counties. The vaccines are given to four priority groups recommended by the CDC. The vaccine will be provided to children ages six months to 5 years old, anyone age 6 through 64 with a chronic disease, pregnant women and parents of infants less than 6...
The Clovis Public Health Office plans to administer 2,000 free doses of the H1N1 vaccine Thursday. Gayla Jacquess, nurse manager at the office, said the vaccine is part of an allotment the Centers for Disease Control gives each state. The state disperses the vaccine to counties. The vaccines are given to four priority groups recommended by the CDC. The vaccine will be provided to children ages six months to 5 years old, anyone age 6 through 64 with a chronic disease, pregnant women and parents of infants less than 6 months. J...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Emma Lu Stewart said she plans to keep a recently discovered quilt, made in Friona the 1940s, to show it to people. Then she hopes it will be added to the Friona museum. A piece of Friona history has made its way back to the Texas town. In 1948, a small home demonstration club called the Merry Matrons made pieces of a quilt with ships as the motif. Each matron made a pair of squares, one with her name and one with her husband’s name below a ship. They exchanged squares with the other m... Full story
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo ENMU forward Equs Darby goes hard to the basket against Western State forward Dan Hobin during the first half of Saturday's game. PORTALES — First-year Eastern New Mexico University men’s basketball coach Andrew Helton has seen his team play better on offense. Still, if the Greyhounds guard as well as they did on Saturday, he figures they’ll be in a lot of games. The Hounds overcame Western State runs of 16-0 in the first half and 15-0 in the second to beat the Mountaineers 65-55 on... Full story
Three women in Clovis have donned variations of Santa hats early Black Friday for their traditional day of shopping for the past 10 years. Jennifer McKinney, her sister Carri Valverde and her mother Linda Jacquez wear the hats to take some stress out of the chaos on the first shopping day of the Christmas season. “Everybody gets so stressed and crazy on this Black Friday,” McKinney said. “We started with Santa hats and it made people smile. Then we started finding crazy hats and made it even better.” The three women started t...
Freedom New Mexico: Tony Bullocks Linda Jacquez, right, and her daughters, from left, Jennifer McKinney and Carri Valverde, do a second round of shopping Friday at Walmart. Black Friday shopping is a family tradition that they have been doing for the last ten years. Jacquez said, “Shopping on Black Friday is fun and not stressful at all.” Three women in Clovis have donned variations of Santa hats on Black Friday for their traditional day of shopping the past 10 years. Jennifer McKinney, her sister Carri Valverde...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Oscar Cleare, a personal trainer, says the best ways to stay fit over the holiday is to remain active and use portion control. Oscar Cleare has been a personal trainer for almost 30 years. He now owns his own gym, Bodies in Motion. His secret to staying fit and healthy during the holidays and the big meals that come with them is portion control and staying active. Healthy OC: To stay healthy during the holidays, I just don't change up what I do any other time. The basic thing that I think I'm...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Jennifer Brandon, left, and Caleb Brandon, right, play estranged husband and wife Nancy and Coleman Shedman. Mark Schmidt, who doubles as technical director, plays the lawyer Coleman drags with him on his search for his wife and the possessions she took. As the cast and crew hurriedly prepared for dress rehearsal, the crunch of straw under their feet drowned out the urges from director Christy Mendoza. The straw set the scene of a rural meeting house of a southern Pentecostal sect, which the...
As the cast and crew hurriedly prepared for dress rehearsal, the crunch of straw under their feet drowned out the urges from director Christy Mendoza The straw set the scene of a rural meeting house of a southern Pentecostal sect, which the story of “Holy Ghosts” centers around The Clovis Community College theater department is performing the play “Holy Ghosts,” written by Romulas Linney....
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Lorraine Weingates, who organized a drive for hats, gloves, socks and scarves, said she’d seen a tree decorated with those items that would be donated. She said the idea stuck with her. The United Methodist Women’s group at Trinity United Methodist Church is throwing hats, mittens, socks and scarves into the mix of things donated to Matt 25 Hope Center this holiday season. Lorraine Weingates, president of the group, said she’d seen a tree decorated with hats, mittens, socks and gloves t...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo From left, Gunar Hawkins, Henry Martin, Maddi Turbeville, Joseph Callahan, Andrew Anaya and Cutter Burnett are six of the students who work at the student-run bank branch at Clovis High School. Freshman Academy students are learning firsthand how to run a bank. The Wildcat Credit Union, which opened at the school Nov. 16, is an educational extension of the High Plains Federal Credit Union. Karena Langan, careers department head, said the bank branch provides students with hands-on financial...
Salvation Army ringers across the country are being armed with a bell, a kettle, sometimes a Santa hat and now a mobile credit card machine. Clovis Salvation Army Maj. Tammy Ray said New Mexico’s fickle weather is causing trouble for Clovis’ ringers as far as adding the machine to their list of equipment. “We do take credit and debit card donations over the phone or in the office,” Ray said. “We just won’t be adding that capability to the ringers.” Ray said ringers in Clovis are usually outside, meaning they are at the me...
Cannon Connections photo: Liliana Castillo Mary Helen Urioste works in the clothing closet at the Lincoln-Jackson Family Center. The staff at Lincoln-Jackson Family Center has found another way to help families in need. The school houses federal programs such as Family Services and Title I Migrant and now keeps up a clothing closet. Mary Helen Urioste, family services liaison, and Jane Chavez, Title I migrant liaison, run the clothing closet with the help of volunteers. Urioste said the only requirement for families to... Full story
Cannon Connections photo: Liliana Castillo Mary Helen Urioste works in the clothing closet at the Lincoln-Jackson Family Center. The staff at Lincoln-Jackson Family Center has found another way to help families in need. The school houses federal programs such as Family Services and Title I Migrant and now keeps up a clothing closet. Mary Helen Urioste, family services liaison, and Jane Chavez, Title I migrant liaison, run the clothing closet with the help of volunteers. Urioste said the only requirement for families to...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo The Nizter family welcomed two new members, Beric and Berin, when the twins were born three months ago. Deb and Grant Nitzer stand with their nine children Laurel, back left, Bethany, back middle, Hudson, back right, Gracee, front left, Holly, front middle, Rasmey and Jonathan, front right, in front of their home in Muleshoe. Grant and Deb Nitzer, with nine kids, now have enough for a football team in Muleshoe. And if running was a formula for gridiron success , the Nitzers might just have a... Full story
CNJ staff photo: Tony Bullocks Matt Barela, left, and David Brown of New Mexico Workforce Connection hold a conference meeting Friday, with John Hemphill, director of Workforce development in Ruidoso, via the polycom system. The New Mexico Commission on the Status of Women is helping Clovis area homemakers head back into the workforce. The commission’s Displaced Homemakers office is offering a free workshop called Effective Work Search Skills. Lorraine Bantista, coordinator of the Displaced Homemakers Office, said the f...
Freedom New Mexico: Liliana Castillo Mammograph technician Cheryl Smoot tests Sherri Brewer of Clovis on Friday at Plains Regional Medical Center. Danielle Swopes was 41 years old when her first mammogram turned up the result most women fear: Positive for breast cancer. Because the lump that turned out to be a cancerous tumor was discovered early, the Portales city library employee has continued on with her life. When Swopes thinks about new recommendations for mammogram screenings released from a government-appointed panel...
CNJ staff photo: KevinWilson Rocky Martin, a coordinator of charity events for High Plains Harley Davidson of Clovis, brings a pair of bicycles into the Scout Center of the Matt 25 Hope Center Thursday night. Clovis Boy Scouts Troop 333 will earn merit badges for community service by fixing bicycles this weekend. Scout Master Lewis Evans said the troop will mix work and fun at an all-night lock-in Saturday night at the Boy Scout Center housed at the Matt 25 Hope Center. Evans said the troops earn service hours to gain rank...
Cannon Connections file photo Michael Mazzetenta will come from Mesa, Ariz. to direct the public concert during the festival. The 17th annual Eastern New Mexico Handbell Festival will kick-off the holiday season on Saturday. Event organizer William Wood said the festival is held on the Saturday before Thanksgiving each year. This year, 105 handbell ringers will come from Canyon and Levelland, Texas, Albuquerque, Las Cruces, Alamogordo, Clovis and Portales to perform during the public concert. The 10 choirs have been working...
Cannon Connections file photo Michael Mazzetenta will come from Mesa, Ariz. to direct the public concert during the festival. The 17th annual Eastern New Mexico Handbell Festival will kick-off the holiday season on Saturday. Event organizer William Wood said the festival is held on the Saturday before Thanksgiving each year. This year, 105 handbell ringers will come from Canyon and Levelland, Texas, Albuquerque, Las Cruces, Alamogordo, Clovis and Portales to perform during the public concert. The 10 choirs have been working...
A group of community members are working to provide Clovis High School graduates “one last hurrah” for the second year. Not just any last hurrah. A safe one. Cat Grad Night is a lock-in event that provides graduates with a safe, chaperoned environment in which to celebrate. Event organizer Cindy Wall said she got the idea for the event from similar happenings in Hobbs and Carlsbad. Volunteers are working to raise money for the event. Wall said some money is raised by fundraisers but most is furnished by sponsorships from loc... Full story
