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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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The Clovis Municipal Schools board of education selected an Albuquerque architectural firm Tuesday to design a new $30 million middle school. The request, presented by Deputy Superintendent of Operations Joel Shirley, ranked 13 architects responding to a bid. Fanning Bard Tatum Architects, based in Albuquerque, was ranked number one. The board approved entering into contract negotiations with the firm. The district is planning to have the new school open for students in 2013. Shirley said the firm designed Jimmy Carter... Full story
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Mary Helen Urioste, back, and Jane Chavez wheel a donation out of the back room of the thrift store on Cannon Air Force Base. The women work with the clothing closet at 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...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Jill Whitehead of Clovis performs with the First United Methodist Church's hand bell group. The group performs every two months during services. Jill Whitehead has been playing in the First United Methodist Church hand bell group for 25 years. To start: When I started, we were new to town and new to the church. It was a small group. It wasn’t as big as this. We didn’t have many bells. It was just a bunch of young mothers doing it and I just got in. There is a core group of us in this sam...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo The EAA plane will weigh 245 pounds without a pilot when finished compared to the 1,500-pound Aerostar stored next to it. In the northwest corner of the Blue Sky Aviation hangar at Clovis Municipal Airport, a rickety-looking frame of a plane is waiting to take the shape of something that can actually lift off the ground and soar through the air. It’s not a confidence-builder, however, as it sits next to two other planes that are already built and functional. For one thing, it’s much sma...
CNJ staff phtoto: Liliana Castillo Clovis High School junior Jeremy Urban said band directors pushed the students to new success this year. The Clovis High School Band recently closed its marching season achieving new levels of excellence and winning numerous awards. The band was named New Mexico Grand Champion at the Zia Marching Fiesta in mid-October, which band leaders and members equate to a football team winning the state championship. Assistant directors Karl Powell and Ty Frederick said the successful season was the fr...
When Loretta Fogerson decided it was time to get hospice help for her ailing mother, her main focus was on her mother’s care. She was surprised to discover the hospice staff cared for her and her family as much as her mother. “The week that my mom died, I stayed at the nursing home with her. They brought me a huge basket full of things we could have right there so we wouldn’t have to go out and get them,” Fogerson said. She said the hospice staff often took care of things she didn’t even think of. “If you’re going to take car... Full story
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo ENMU defensive back Mark Patterson and a teammate drag down a Tarleton State receiver during a game last month. The Greyhounds finish the campaign tonight against Incarnate Word at Blackwater Draw. Incarnate Word has had an inaugural football season worth remembering. Eastern New Mexico, meanwhile, is looking to cap off a season with both forgettable and unforgettable accomplishments. “We want to get the victory, and we want to play well,” Greyhounds coach Mark Ribaudo said of Sat... Full story
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Friona veteran Joe Bob Mann is trying to get veterans who died on the USS Frank E. Evans on the Veteran's Memorial in Washington D.C. and Clovis. When Veterans Day rolls around Wednesday, an ample amount of monuments exist to remember those who have fallen in action. But Joe Luis Gonzales of Clovis, who was only 19 when he died on June 3, 1969, is not on the most prominent of these monuments — either locally or nationally. It’s not because Gonzales was derelict in his duties, or a... Full story
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Hillcrest Park Zoo staff is working towards buying a male giraffe as a mate for Jael. Jael the Giraffe may not know it, but zoo adminstrators do: Her biological clock is ticking and, at 7 years old, she’s in prime shape to have offspring. Thanks to a big contribution from a local bank, the Hillcrest Park Zoo in Clovis is in much better position to find Jael (pronounced “Jay-Elle”) a mate and eventually have a baby giraffe at the zoo. Citizens Bank of Clovis recently pledged $15,000 to the z... Full story
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Rod Bakken spends his winters volunteering at the Lighthouse Mission. Rod Bakken travels to Clovis each winter to avoid the bitter cold of North Dakota. While in town, he spends his days volunteering at Lighthouse Mission. Christmas presence: It all started last year, it was Christmas time. My wife and I have been married for 39 years and I told her there’s nothing you need that I can get you and I don’t need anything that you can get me so why don’t we find a family that’s needy and we’ll j... Full story
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Reverend David Bachelor came to Clovis’ Kingswood Methodist Church in June after two tours in Iraq as a Navy chaplain. Reassignment to Clovis’ Kingswood United Methodist Church was a good fit for Rev. David Bachelor. Bachelor, a reserve Airbone Ranger, said his experience with special operations gave him the experience he needed to be a link between the church and the Cannon Air Force Base community. “It’s been less than a year since I’ve last thrown myself out of an airplan... Full story
Courtesy photo The Pintores Art League annual art auction raises money for scholarships and promotion of the arts in Clovis. The third annual Pintores Art League art auction is 7 p.m. Saturday at Underground Embassy. President Ed Des Lauriers said the event helps pay for scholarships for art students at Clovis Community College and Eastern New Mexico University and promotion of the arts in Clovis. Des Lauriers said the auction usually raises enough money to fund two $500 scholarships — one at each school. Last year,... Full story
The third annual Pintores Art League art auction is 7 p.m. Saturday at Underground Embassy. President Ed Des Lauriers said the event helps pay for scholarships for art students at Clovis Community College and Eastern New Mexico University and promotion of the arts in Clovis. Des Lauriers said the auction usually raises enough money to fund two $500 scholarships — one at each school. Last year, The auction raised $1,100 used for art workshops and projects, Des Lauriers said. Up for auction is a collection of various... Full story
Clovis teachers don’t have to cut off their creative juices just because budgets are tightening. The Clovis Municipal Schools Education Foundation was founded three years ago to pay for projects that can be funded outside the district’s regular budget. Becky Rowley, Clovis Community College’s executive vice president, sits on the foundation’s committee. Rowley said CCC wanted to be a part of the foundation. “We see CMS as our primary partner. If I hadn’t participated, someone else from here would have. We see this as som...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Sanitation Superintendent Rey Martinez said the new 98-gallon polycart trash cans will be taken to the curb twice a week for garbage pick up to reduce the amount of maintenance trucks need from traveling problematic alleys to empty containers. Clovis’ Public Works department is looking at switching parts of the city from using shared garbage containers to trash cans for individual homes. Public Works Director Clint Bunch said the switch came in response to an inordinate amount of maintenance... Full story
The Clovis Municipal Schools Board of Education unanimously approved $600,000 worth of budget cuts to the 2009-2010 school year and $500,000 worth of cuts to the 2010-2011 budget during Tuesday’s special board meeting. The cuts were suggested by administration after the Legislature handed down budget decreases to education during an October special session to cover a $650 million deficit. Cuts to the 2010-2011 budget were a preemptive measure in case education endures further decreases after the January session, S...
Working to cut $600,000 out of a $54 million dollar budget, Clovis Municipal Schools administration focused on keeping all 1,100 employees and keeping the cuts away from students. Superintendent Rhonda Seidenwurm said budget cuts were no surprise and the district has been planning for them. “We’ve been trying to be proactive,” Seidenwurm said. “We have not been hiring at central office as early as this summer.” The superintendent has prepared a list of suggested cuts to the district’s budget which she will present to...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo ENMU wide receiver Matt Handler carries a pass reception inside the Midwestern State 10 during the first quarter of Saturday's Lone Star Conference South Division game at Greyhound Stadium. Freedom New Mexico BLACKWATER DRAW — Midwestern State pulled away with 23 points in the final 13 minutes Saturday night and the Mustangs handed Eastern New Mexico University a 50-17 loss in a Lone Star Conference South Division football game at Greyhound Stadium. Midwestern (8-2, 3-2 South), ranked 1...
Freedom New Mexico: Liliana Castillo A wind farm in Sweetwater, Texas. Wind and solar energy will play a predominate role in Tres Amigas plans to build a super grid in Clovis. But Texas energy policies might stop the whole deal before it can get off the ground. Phil Harris knows the concept of an electrical supergrid isn’t as tangible, say, as the potential opening of a retail store or restaurant. “No, you definitely wouldn’t want to wrap your hand around a power line,” Harris said. But the Tres Amigas project, of which N...
Courtesy photo Evangelist Jay Lowder will speak at the end of each evening of the four-day High Plains Fall Festival held at the Curry County Events Center Nov. 1-4. In 2001, area communities participated in an event called Communities for Christ. During the event, speaker Tony Evans challenged the area to create a hope center. Matt 25 Hope Center was created out of the old hospital on Thornton Street. Because of the success, community members decided to host another community-wide event. Thus the High Plains Fall Festival...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Clovis High School senior Ean Guthals was one of 18 Clovis students selected for the 2010 All-state choir....
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Kenneth Davis' Pumpkin Patch includes a hay bale maze, sea of pumpkins and a pumpkin mountain. The display is made up of 6,000 pumpkins. Freedom New Mexico Just north of Clovis, a hay bale maze leads past a pumpkin mountain on the way to a sea of pumpkins. Those are just a few of the activities available at Davis Farms Pumpkin Patch. Kenneth Davis said he’s been growing pumpkins for 21 years. In years past, he opened up the farm to elementary classes until it became a liability issue. This ye...
The Cannon Air Force Base wing commander said more airmen than usual are seeking to live on base here, and builders and developers explained their plans for more housing during a meeting Tuesday. Col. Stephen Clark and about 80 real estate agents, builders, developers and Clovis city and school officials met to talk about housing Tuesday at the Master’s Center in Clovis. Mayor Gayla Brumfield said she called the meeting about five days ago so all groups involved could get answers. The meeting was dominated by builders and d... Full story
The Cannon Air Force Base wing commander said more airmen than usual are seeking to live on base here, and builders and developers explained their plans for more housing during a meeting Tuesday. Col. Stephen Clark and about 80 real estate agents, builders, developers and Clovis city and school officials met to talk about housing Tuesday at the Master’s Center in Clovis. Mayor Gayla Brumfield said she called the meeting about five days ago so all groups involved could get answers. The meeting was dominated by builders and d... Full story
