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A Clovis native who now serves on a California city council is embroiled in a lawsuit that has already cost her city more than $538,000 in lawyer’s fees. According to Julie Ruiz Raber, the case revolves around her decision to hand out cinnamon snickerdoodle cookies to poll workers in 24 of 30 voting precincts during a March 2003 election in the city of Carson, Calif. After Raber won by 181 votes, another candidate, Vera Robles DeWitt, sued in Los Angeles Superior Court seeking her removal from office. Raber, a Carson r...
There will be some major prizes up for grabs when the Top Ranch Hand Rodeo makes its first-ever stop in Lubbock in a few weeks. The rodeo in association with the National Cowboy Symposium will be held Sept. 10 and 11 starting at 7 p.m. and Sept. 12 starting at 1 p.m. at the Texas Tech Equestrian Center. This year marks the sixth year of the rodeo, but the first time it will be held in Lubbock, said event organizer Karan Fowler. Before coming to Lubbock it was held in Rotan, Texas, about 30 miles north of Sweetwater, Texas....
Curry County Sheriff’s Department Investigator Sandy Loomis demonstrates the X26 Taser gun Wednesday at the sheriff’s office. (Photo: Eric Kluth) About a month and a half ago a Curry County sheriff’s deputy was placing a suspect into custody when somebody began charging toward him and threatening his life. The man had his hand behind his back as if he had a gun, but before he got within eight feet of the officer he was dropped to the ground and immobilized. The officer didn’t use his pistol to drop the suspect, but a Taser X...
Hotel managers in Portales may be salivating once they see the schedule of events planned for the weekend of Aug. 27-29. The hard-hitting opening of the football season for the Eastern New Mexico Greyhounds and the soft cotton candy at the Roosevelt County Fair are just a few of the treats for people in Portales on the weekend. Roosevelt County Fair Board Chairman Ken Best said the Roosevelt County Fair will take place Aug. 25-29. The Roosevelt County Fair has been taking place on the first or second weekend of August, but...
Neta May Leavitt Porter, 86 Neta May Leavitt Porter, 86, of Clovis, died Wednesday, July 14, 2004, at Laurel Plains Healthcare in Clovis. She was born on Aug. 14, 1917, in New Home, Texas, to Valentine and Ada Estes Leavitt. She married James W. Porter on June 3, 1972, in Clovis. She moved to New Mexico in 1935 from Austin, Texas, where she attended the Texas State School for the Deaf. She was a homemaker in the Lingo area for many years and was an accomplished quilt maker. She was a member of the Central Baptist Church in...
A Clovis native who now serves on a California city council is embroiled in a lawsuit that has already cost her city more than $538,000 in lawyer’s fees. According to Julie Ruiz Raber, the case revolves around her decision to hand out cinnamon snickerdoodle cookies to poll workers in 24 of 30 voting precincts during a March 2003 election in the city of Carson, Calif. After Raber won by 181 votes, another candidate, Vera Robles DeWitt, sued in Los Angeles Superior Court seeking her removal from office. Raber, a Carson r... Full story
For the second year in a row, Portales High School has won thei girls all-sport trophy for Class 3A. For the first year, they will have something to show for it. On Oct. 14, during the New Mexico Activities Associations’s annual meeting of schools, PHS will receive a plaque along with nine other schools — all-sport trophies are award for boys and girls in each of the state’s five classifications. The award previously was a traveling trophy, but now each school will receive a plaque. Portales High Athletic Director Don Gomez...
Freedom Editorial To put a twist on Bill Clinton’s internal slogan during his 1992 campaign, the Kerry-Edwards economic policy seems to be “it’s the envy, stupid.” They’re running on the “Two Americas” theme that Sen. Edwards followed to defeat in the Democratic primaries. With a strong economic recovery barreling the Bush administration toward the November election, class envy just isn’t going to sell, especially when the two salesmen are multimillionaires. “George W. Bush has chosen tax cuts for the wealthy and speci... Full story
Bill Cosby rattled the cages again recently in his address before Jesse Jackson’s 33rd Annual Rainbow/PUSH Coalition conference in Chicago. Let’s look at some of his remarks. Cosby told the audience that being poor had a different meaning to older generations and said the “housing project was set up for you to move in, move up and move out.” Cosby’s family moved out of Philadelphia’s Richard Allen housing project, and so did mine. I don’t know what Cosby’s mother told him about being poor, but my mother frequently said...
Journalists are, I suppose, part nosey, part curious, part political groupie, and part, according to the estimation of most people I know, pain in the butt. Something in that recipe was the magnet that drew me to Ruidoso Village Hall last week to watch Gov. Bill Richardson’s Traveling Democracy Show. It was a pip. What brought The Bill to Lincoln County was uproar over Mary-Dale Bolson’s earlier decision to close Camp Sierra Blanca, a juvenile detention center near Ruidoso. Bolson is the secretary of the Children, Youth and...
TUCUMCARI — The Tucumcari Municpal School Board voted to award a hefty construction and renovation contract to a Clovis-based construction firm Tuesday afternoon. William Reents, superintendent of Tucumcari schools, said the nearly $1.4 million contract awarded to Wilson and Wilson company is for phase one of a three-phase renovation process. Reents said Tucumcari schools have dealt with officials from Wilson and Wilson before. “Wilson and Wilson is an offshoot company of the same company that built our elementary school,” sa... Full story
Emogene Conover Services: Have been held. Mrs. Emogene L. Conover, 79, of Clovis, died Friday, June 11, 2004, at Retirement Ranch in Clovis. She was born on Aug. 31, 1924, in Dade County, Mo., to Ora Lee and Stella Potts Hamby. The family moved to Clovis in 1926 for her father’s health and she remained in Clovis the rest of her life. She graduated from high school in 1924 and worked for the Clovis Printing Plant from 1942 to 1943. In 1944 she went to work as assistant manger of the Clovis Chmber of Commerce. She married C. L...
Neta May Leavitt Porter Services: Have been held. Neta May Leavitt Porter, 86, of Clovis, died Wednesday, July 14, 2004, at Laurel Plains Healthcare in Clovis. She was born on Aug. 14, 1917, in New Home, Texas, to Valentine and Ada Estes Leavitt. She married James W. Porter on June 3, 1972, in Clovis. She moved to New Mexico in 1935 from Austin, Texas, where she attended the Texas State School for the Deaf. She was a homemaker in the Lingo area for many years and was an accomplished quilt maker. She was a member of the...
W.E. Dendy Services: Have been held. Mr. W.E. “Ed” Dendy, 80, of Portales, died Friday, June 18, 2004, at his home. He was born on Sept. 2, 1923, in Olustee, Okla., to Bessie and Carl Dendy. The Dendy family came to Portales from Olustee, Okla., in 1927. In 1943 he was drafted to serve in the U.S. Coast Guard until the end of World War II. He married Vera Elene O’Hair on June 18,1948, in Lubbock. In 1963 he bought a glass business in Bovina, where they lived for five years. He was a member of the Bovina Baptist Church and ser...
Esther Morrison Services: Have been held. Mrs. Esther Morrison, 92, of Potales, died Wednesday, June 16, 2004, at Farwell Convalescent Center. She was born on Sept. 17, 1911, in Weatherford, Texas, to Elsie and Pete Partin. She grew up in the Granbury area and made her home there until 1991 when she moved to Portales. She married Ervan Morrison on Oct. 15, 1955, in Weatherford, Texas. She was a member of the Baptist Church. She worked in a clothing factory for many years as a seamstress. Family members said she enjoyed...
Joyce J. Noack Services: Have been held. Joyce J. Noack, 71, of Clovis, died Friday, June 25, 2004, in Sherman, Texas. She was born on Feb. 3, 1933, in Denison, Texas, to Walter and Gladys Turpin Holder. She married Asa Noack on April 8, 1951, in Colbert, Okla. They moved to Clovis. She traveled many years as a chaperon for band students. She was a member of First United Methodist Church and the TOPs Club. Family members said she was known as a generous giving person to all. She was preceded in death by her husband; her... Full story
Patsy Stark Services: Have been held. Patsy Winona Stark, 68, Great Falls, Mont., formerly of Portales, died Thursday, June 24, 2004, at Benefis East Hospital in Great Falls. She was born on April 13, 1936, in Sardis, Okla., to Anna Lorraine and Charles Thomas Hamilton. When she was a baby, the family moved from Oklahoma to Cahone, Colo. She attended high school in Dove Creek. During her junior year in high school, she married Dale Edward Davis. They were stationed in Roswell. Following the ending of that marriage, she moved...
Jack Sturman Services: Have been held. Jack Sturman, 82, of Tulia, Texas, died Friday, June 25, 2004, at his home. He was born on May 21, 1922, in Elida, to John Floyd and Ruby Bell Sturman. He was preceded in death by his wife. He married Wanda Haislip on Dec. 24, 1950, in Portales. They moved to Tulia in 1951, where they owned and operated J-Gee Department Store for 50 years. He was a member of the American Legion, Tulia Chamber of Commerce, Kiwanis and the Swisher County Industrial Foundation. He volunteered in 1942 for...
Karen Guanell Services: Have been held. Karen Guanell, 38, of Clovis, died Thursday, June 10, 2004, at her home. She was born on Sept. 15, 1965, in Princeton, N.J., to Leonard David, Jr. and Norma Heirigs Walters. She graduated from Butte High School in Butte, Mont. in 1983 and then attended Arizona State University. She worked various management positions at the Regency and Hyatt Resorts in Scottsdale, Ariz. She was preceded in death by her father, her grandparents and an infant brother. Survivors include a daughter, Alasyn...
Sergio Ramirez Services: Have been held. Sergio Ramirez, 77, of Clovis, died Tuesday, June 15, 2004, at his home. He was born on Feb. 12, 1927, in Santiago De, Chile, to Oscar and Rebecca Garcia Ramirez. He married Ingrid Talmon-Gross on Dec. 31, 1959, in Pforzheim, Germany. He came to Cannon Air Force Base in April of 1970. He retired from the U.S. Air Force as a master sergeant after 20 years of service with security police. He served in Vietnam from 1966 until 1967. He worked at the Clovis Police Department as an... Full story
Thelma Anderson Services: Have been held. Thelma Anderson, 89, of Roswell, died Sunday, June 13, 2004, at Rio Rancho Nursing Home in Rio Rancho. She was born on Aug. 3, 1914, in Comanche, Texas, to George C. and Elizabeth C. Gleaton Anderson. She attended school in Littlefield, Texas, and graduated in 1933. She made her home in Roswell for over 40 years where she worked as a cosmetician at Platt Drug. She was preceded in death by her parents; a sister, L.G. Sinclair; and two brothers, M.J. and Carl Anderson. Survivors...
Pedro Villanueva Services: Have been held. Mr. Pedro Olando (Pete) Villanueva, 48, of Portales, died Thursday evening, June 10, 2004, at Laurel Plains Healthcare Center in Clovis. He was born on Nov. 22, 1955, in Villanueva to Mella and Alfonso Villanueva. The Villanueva family moved to Portales in 1959. Pete attended the Portales schools and graduated from Portales High School in 1976. He loved sports, and went to all the football, basketball and volleyball games, where enjoyed watching his nieces and nephews play. He also...
Guillermo Rodriguez Services: Have been held. Mr. Guillermo M. Rodriguez, 78, of Bovina, died Thursday, June 10, 2004, at his home. He was born Aug. 25, 1925, in Dinero, Texas. He ws a longtime resident of Bovina, and a member of St. Ann’s Catholic Church. He was preceded in death by his wife, Ausencia Rodreguez. He is sruvived by three daughters, Nancy Pena of Bovina, Norma Ramirez of Dumas, Texas, and Ernestina Rodriguez of Lubbock; two sons, Joe Rodriguez of Laredo, Texas, and Johnny Rodriguez of Clovis; and one b...
