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link Courtesy graphic Army & Air Force Exchange Service Public Affairs The Exchange at Cannon Air Force Base will be closed for Thanksgiving Day and will open Nov. 29 for Black Friday at 4 a.m. With a quarter of its work force comprised of military family members, the Army & Air Force Exchange Service is a true example of family serving family. As such, the focus on Thanksgiving Day will be on family and shopping will have to wait until Friday. Customers will not have to wait long to start their holiday shopping as the...
link U.S. Air Force photo illustration: Senior Airman Erik Cardenas Using the peephole method of clearing your windshield during a snowy day is an unacceptable and unsafe practice. Drivers should clear their entire windshield as well as the back and side windows before heading to their destination. 27th Special Operations Wing Public Affairs How cold is too cold? According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, cold stress can occur when the body is unable to warm itself. This can lead to tissue damage and...
link U.S. Air Force photo U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Jason Murphy 27th Special Operations Aerospace Medical Squadron dental lab technician, builds a crown Nov. 14 at Cannon Air Force Base. Murphy is charged with the building of crowns, bridges, mouth guards, partial dentures and dental implants used at the Cannon dental clinic. 27th Special Operations Wing Public Affairs In the production of a play those who work in the background are generally the reason that the show is ready for the public on opening day. Whether they...
link U.S. Air Force photo: Senior Airman Ericka Engblom U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Elizabeth Staub, 27th Special Operations Logistics Readiness Squadron first sergeant, loads cans of green beans into a Thanksgiving basket at the Pecos Trail Dining Facility Nov. 13 at Cannon Air Force Base. More than 300 baskets were constructed and will be distributed by the first sergeants to Airmen in need this Thanksgiving season. 27th Special Operations Wing Public Affairs The Pecos Trail Dining Facility at Cannon Air Force Base was a...
link U.S. Air Force photo: Senior Airman Ericka Engblom Chief Master Sgt. William Turner, Air Force Special Operations Command command chief, speaks to first sergeants Nov. 13 at Cannon Air Force Base. Turner visited in order to observe Cannon’s progress as a special operations base and interact with Cannon’s Air Commandos. 27th Special Operations Wing Public Affairs The 27th Special Operations Wing welcomed Chief Master Sgt. William Turner, Air Force Special Operations Command command chief, upon his arrival Nov. 13 at Can...
link Courtesy photo Josh Sullivan, center, will travel Dec. 15 to Los Angeles for a live audition for the television singing competition “The Voice.” He plays solo gigs around town, and also plays with country band Hiway 84. Cannon Connections A local country singer and guitarist is headed to Hollywood next month to audition for NBC’s reality television singing competition “The Voice.” Josh Sullivan, who is stationed at Cannon Air Force Base and works as an AC-130W instructo...
CMI staff SPOKANE, Wash. — Eastern New Mexico University junior Mikey Davila will represent the Greyhounds in Saturday’s NCAA Division II national cross country meet. Davila qualified as the third individual in the South Central Region meet on Nov. 9 at Canyon, Texas, placing 23rd overall with a time of 31 minutes, 20 seconds over 10 kilometers. Saturday’s men’s race will be a 10K and is scheduled to begin at 12:30 p.m. (MST). Thirty-two teams, plus 26 individual qualifiers, are scheduled for the men’s race. Defending...
CMI staff SPOKANE, Wash. — Eastern New Mexico University junior Mikey Davila will represent the Greyhounds in Saturday’s NCAA Division II national cross country meet. Davila qualified as the third individual in the South Central Region meet on Nov. 9 at Canyon, Texas, placing 23rd overall with a time of 31 minutes, 20 seconds over 10 kilometers. Saturday’s men’s race will be a 10K and is scheduled to begin at 12:30 p.m. (MST). Thirty-two teams, plus 26 individual qualifiers, are scheduled for the men’s race. Defending...
Today TAP 8 a.m., Landing Zone Veterans Affairs Benefit Brief 8 a.m., Landing Zone Turkey Shoot 11 a.m., Cannon Lanes Playpass Issued 3 p.m., Airman & Family Readiness Center Friday Social Hour 4:27 p.m., Landing Zone Keystone Club 7:30 p.m., Youth Center Saturday Family Volleyball Fun 1 p.m., Youth Center Family Bowl-A-Rama 5 p.m., Cannon Lanes Sunday Football Frenzy 11 a.m., Drop Zone Monday 1st Duty Station Officers Financial Brief 2 p.m., Community Training Room Football Frenzy 6 p.m., Drop Zone Tuesday Proactive Tactics...
CMI staff Eastern New Mexico University’s Josh Lynn was chosen the Lone Star Conference’s football coach of the year in selections released on Thursday by the conference office in Richardson, Texas. Lynn led the Greyhounds to a 7-3 record in 2013, including 5-1 for a tie for the conference championship with Tarleton State. He is the first ENMU football coach to receive the honor since the late Bud Elliott was named the then-South Division coach of the year. link Joshua Luc...
School is canceled today at Dora and Elida because of icy roads, according to the school's websites. Portales schools are on regular schedule. Temperatures across the region are in the 20s or below. The National Weather Service is predicting a 40 percent chance of precipitation. l...
The Big Band Dance hosted by the Eastern New Mexico University’s Department of Music.scheduled for 7 tonight at the Clovis State Theater in Clovis is canceled, according to a press release from the university. The event will be rescheduled....
Class 5A Quarterfinals Valley 55, Clovis 28...
It gets a bit mundane at times. Pushing a cart through the store, browsing for food items that provide the comfort and sustainability of the usual but that are different enough to make meals worth looking forward to, all while trying to find things that can be prepared in a reasonable amount of time without spending a fortune. And it’s huge business, appealing to the bored taste buds of people, leading to a clash of splashy colors and bold labels that scream from packaging d...
It’s been 50 years since President Kennedy was assassinated. He had been to Honolulu just months before. He stayed at the hotel where my father worked. I didn’t get to see The President that June of 1963. I was a kid playing on the beach. There were photos though, and a curio my dad kept from that visit: The bar of soap the president used. It was a plain ol’ bar of hotel soap that was wrapped in transparent tape with a typewritten piece of paper inside that read: “THIS BAR OF SOAP WAS USED BY PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY...
CMI staff A Clovis man and a Portales man have been convicted of drug trafficking and sentenced to prison, according to a press release from District Attorney Matt Chandler. Sergio James, 35, of Clovis, was sentenced Thursday to 18 years in prison after a jury convicted him in December 2012 of trafficking cocaine — his second felony drug trafficking conviction, according to the release. Charles Lopez, 27, of Portales, was convicted by a jury and sentenced Thursday to three years in prison for trafficking methamphetamine, t...
[email protected] A 12-year-old law creating the Clovis Economic Development Tax Advisory Board (EDTAB) gave it sole responsibility for vetting and performing due diligence on applicants for projects such as the failed $2 million Beauty Health and Science Innovations plant. But EDTAB may have turned over those responsibilities to the Clovis Industrial Development Corp. (CIDC) at least six years ago, according to board minutes and its policy and procedures manual — at least that’s the viewpoint of Gayla Brumfield, Clovis...
