Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Vernon and Teresa Luce talk about paint colors for the inside of the new location for their art gallery, Gallery 15. The siblings are hoping for a mid-September opening. She’s the one with an eye for art, so he’ll spend his time in the kitchen. Sister and brother business partners Vernon and Teresa Luce are moving their 12-year-old business, Gallery 15, to an old Stuckey’s building on U.S. 60/84. And they’re adding a bistro, library room and walking trails. After nearly two months of constru...
CNj staff photo: Liliana Castillo Clovis' Building Safety Director Pete Wilt said the city is working to contact property owners of abandoned or neglected buildings as the city prepares for growth. It’s often a slow and painful task — tracking down property owners, getting them to step up and take care of abandoned or neglected properties. But it’s one Clovis’ Building Safety Director Pete Wilt is determined to get done. Wilt estimates there are dozens of properties in Clovis that need to be repaired or demol... Full story
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Charles Guthals recommends monosodium methyl arsenate, a herbicide known as MSMA, for getting rid of grassburs. Grassbur is a summer grassy weed that is adapted to dry, sandy soils. Stickers, sticker burs, grass spurs, sticky burs, sand burs — whatever the name, a common opinion prevails in regards to a little weed whose seed has a plate of armor no one wants to get near. Many in eastern New Mexico just call them stickers and they’re literally a pain in the, well, wherever you happen t...
After eight years of teaching and coaching football at Clovis High School, Cal Fullerton decided to go back to school himself. Fullerton was one of 43 students graduating Friday from Wayland Baptist University. The ceremony at Central Baptist Church was the college’s 12th Clovis campus graduation. “Wayland is close,” Fullerton said. “And the teachers really, really work with you. Being a coach and having class at 5:30 p.m., sometimes I couldn’t get to class until 6 p.m. The teachers were really good about catching you up an...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Wayland graduate Rian Essex, right, shakes a line of hands including Dean Gary Mitchell’s, left, after being presented his diploma. Essex and his wife Shiloh earned master’s degrees. After eight years of teaching and coaching football at Clovis High School, Cal Fullerton decided to go back to school himself. Fullerton was one of 43 students graduating Friday from Wayland Baptist University. The ceremony at Central Baptist Church was the college’s 12th Clovis campus graduation. ... Full story
Clovis Community College’s unofficial attendance numbers are up signiricantly, according to Marketing Director Lisa Spencer. The head count on Thursday, the fourth day of school, was 3,784 — up 429 students from the 3,355 counted on the same day last year, said President John Neibling. Spencer and Neibling credited the increase to the influx of new military personnel at Cannon Air Force Base, two new programs and on-line enrollment. The college started a wind energy and a pre-engineering program this year. Neibling s...
Clovis High School security cameras recently caught two people in the act of stealing a 1/8-scale model of an F-16 mounted in front of the school. But the culprits haven’t been caught and the plane is still missing. Principal Wayne Marshall discovered the theft while taking a walk around campus the morning of Aug. 17. “It’s still a mystery,” Marshall said, explaining faces of the suspects can’t be seen on the survelliance video. Col. Philip Frazee, Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps coordinator at the high school, t...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Arts Academy at Bella Vista special education teacher Jennifer Wines uses the Picture Exchange Communication System to communicate with her autistic student. People tell Jennifer Wines it takes a special teacher for special education. She agrees. “I don’t know what it is. I don’t think everyone can be a general education teacher or that everyone can be a special education teacher,” Wines said. “It’s love.” Wines is a special education teacher at the Arts Academy at Bella Vista. She teaches l... Full story
Courtesy photo: Frank Frost Nicole Miner of Albuquerque was crowned Miss New Mexico in June. She will be in Clovis ito perform at the Clovis Music Festival Sept. 10-13. Nicole Miner of Albuquerque figured this was her year. She’s run for Miss New Mexico for the past four years, each year ending as a runner up. This year, Miner was named Miss New Mexico and she couldn’t be happier. She’ll be performing at the Clovis Music Festival Sept. 10-13. Winner: The first year I was fourth runner up, then second, then first so I guess...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo The Curry County Commission had an unusually large audience during its meeting Tuesday at the North Annex of the Clovis-Carver Public Library. Many of the residents attended to express their concerns about a nuisance ordinance. Curry County commissioners postponed a decision Tuesday on a nuisance ordinance after an overwhelming outcry from about 150 residents who jammed the usually sparsely attended sessions. Commissioners voted to return the proposed health and public safety ordinance to...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Colton Trimmier, center left, and friend Michael Arce, both from Canyon, Texas, said they enjoy watching the professional motocross riders practice because “it's not so serious.” Arce races in the 4-7-year-olds mini quad class. The first five days of gate receipts at the Curry County fair surpassed the same time period last year by $6,195 according to County Manager Lance Pyle. Pyle said 19,700 people were counted passing through three entrance gates Monday through Friday....
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Melrose Future Farmers of America student Lainey Widner guides Chrome, her 226 pound Cross hog, around the display arena Friday at the Junior Livestock Auction at the Curry County Fair. You name an animal after a feeling, it’s hard to sell it off no matter the price. You name an animal after what color it is, parting ways becomes a little easier. A pair of veteran sellers experienced the spectrum of animal sales Friday night at the Curry County Junior Livestock sale. The signature event of t... Full story
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Clovis High School students Landyn Snipes, left, and Kyler Brewer-Hill work on selling coupon cards to raise money for the CHS football booster club at the Curry County Fair. The summer’s almost officially gone for almost every school-age kid in the area and that means it’s back-to-work. But it wasn’t all kick-back and do nothing for Clovis and Portales youth this summer. In fact, the onset of autumn for many merely means a switch from one kind of labor to another. Although teens and young...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Seven-year-old Hannah Luscombe poses for a photograph for her grandmother Suzanne Estes in front of Barry Elementary School Friday on the first day of school. Some limbs were lost on the first day of school for the Clovis Municipal Schools system. Tree limbs that is. Superintendent Rhonda Seidenwurm said elm trees behind Marshall Middle School lost some “serious limbs” during a strong storm that blew threw Clovis at the end of the school day. She said administration staff believe they fou...
Some limbs were lost on the first day of school for the Clovis Municipal Schools system. Tree limbs that is. Superintendent Rhonda Seidenwurm said elm trees behind Marshall Middle School lost some “serious limbs” during a strong storm that blew threw Clovis at the end of the school day. She said administration staff believe they found elm disease in a few of the trees. “It’s always sad to lose a tree, but safety is always first,” Seidenwurm said. Seidenwurm spent her day visiting 14 of the district’s 18 campuses and spoke t...
Kendall Brumfield visits her grandmother Gayla Brumfield in Clovis each summer. This year, she brought along a friend. Taylor Atelian played Ruby on ABC’s “According to Jim” television series for eight years. Brumfield and Atelian met at a dance class in Santa Barbara, Calif. two years ago. Brumfield said Atelian has spent the week with the family and she considers her another grandchild. “She definitely got to see small town America,” Brumfield said. Brumfield said she took Atelian to Sonic, Taco Box, Twin Cronies and the C...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo According to Jim's Taylor Atelian, left, and Kendall Brumfield, both 14, met at a dance class in Santa Barbara, Calif. Kendall Brumfield visits her grandmother Gayla Brumfield in Clovis each summer. This year, she brought along a friend. Taylor Atelian played Ruby on ABC’s “According to Jim” television series for eight years. Brumfield and Atelian met at a dance class in Santa Barbara, Calif. two years ago. Brumfield said Atelian has spent the week with the family and she considers her anoth...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Scott Knauer of Clovis uses his network of about 1,000 Twitter followers as his personal news source. Scott Knauer of Clovis has about 1,000 followers on Twitter. As a graphic and Web designer, Knauer said he enjoys talking to people with similar interest as him on the web. Twitter is his news source. But even he admits, social networking can be information overload. Virtual social butterfly: Social networking is a pretty big part of my life. A lot of it is about socializing and kind of...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo J.W. Baldock, front, helps his son Garrett tie up his show heifer in the dairy barn Wednesday at the Curry County Fair. Garrett won the showmanship award during the dairy heifer show Wednesday morning. Raising a dairy heifer is fun, hard work. That’s what some youths at the Curry County Fair say after providing day-to-day care for their animals, all leading them towards the fair and livestock shows. Kasson Huysman, 14, received fourth place for his dairy heifer in Wednesday’s dairy heifer sho...
Freedom New Mexico: Liliana Castillo Ashley Olson, left, and Jo Schrepfer set up for the PM Productions show Pets Overboard at the Curry County Fairgrounds. The show is a pirate-themed animal show and its first performance is Monday at 7:30 p.m. With the temperatures into the mid-90s on Friday, it was a typical summer day. Except, inside the Home Arts Building at the Curry County Fairgrounds, where display booths were decorated in traditional fall colors yellow, orange, deep red and brown. The colors of autumn will soon be...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Rev. Benjamin Wright looks through scrapbooks made by Cindy Lakin to commemorate the church’s first 100 years. CNJ STAFF WRITER [email protected] When Cindy Lakin finished the daunting task of making scrapbooks to commemorate St. James’ Episcopal Church’s first 100 years, she learned about the rich history of the church. But Lakin said what makes St. James’ the church home for her isn’t its past, but its present and future. “There are so many good things about us now,” Lak...
Eastern New Mexico University has chosen Joseph Kline of Savannah College of Art and Design as the new dean of the College of Fine Arts, according to a release from the university. Kline will officially begin September 14 of the fall semester. John Olson will continue to serve as the interim dean of the College of Fine Arts until Kline’s start date. “We are fortunate to employ a dean of fine arts of the caliber of Dr. Kline,” ENMU President Steven Gamble said in a release. Kline attended Colorado State University for his b... Full story
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Clovis High School senior Stephanie Lamm said she enjoys being in the band because of the family atmosphere. While school doesn't start until next week, band members have been practicing since Jul. 22. Groups of students jam the band hall. Some are splayed on the ground, others lean or sit on whatever they can find. After three hours of marching practice outdoors, they’re tired. New Wildcat band members began practice July 22, with veterans returning July 27. A week and half into the g...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Karl Korff holds one of his two dachshunds Bear Hunting. Bear Hunting is a male long-haired dachshund and was rescued by Korff. Long legs, svelte lines, built for speed and ready to chase wild rabbits or birds in the countryside for miles. These are the kinds of dogs whose bodies Dachshunds can easily fit under. But local Dachshunds, popularly known as “wiener dogs,” will have their day this weekend. A Wiener National race, sponsored by Wienerschnitzel, will be the first one to be staged in... Full story
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Lt. Raymond Gobberg of Cannon's Public Affairs department said about two-thirds of Cannon personnel live off-base, and that proportion is expected to remain constant as the base expands. It’s never been too difficult for Clovis’ Bill Johnson to rent out a house. But he’s not sure if it’s every been quite this easy. “I’m getting a lot of calls right now on rentals,” said Johnson, who’s received about 40 calls for five rental units in the last week since he listed them in an advertising cir...
