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PNT staff writer [email protected] A hard worker from the start is how many describe the 2014 Floyd Lions Club’s Citizen of the Year Fred Patterson. During the intermission of the Floyd Jamboree on Saturday, club President Paul Benoit presented the award to a shocked Patterson. link LILLIAN BOWE: Portales News-Tribune Fred Patterson, left, receives the Floyd Lions Club’s 2014 Citizen of the Year award from Paul Benoit, president of the club. Patterson is the Floyd Jamboree d...
A pril showers bring ... memories of some historical residents of eastern New Mexico. Washington Lindsey, Jerry Nuzum, Black Jack Ketchum and Julie McKinney all died in the month that begins again this week. For those younger than 100: link David Stevens • Lindsey, a longtime Portales school board member, helped form Roosevelt County before he became New Mexico’s third governor. He was 63 when he died April 5, 1926. He’s buried in Portales. As Portales’ mayor from 1910 to...
CMI staff writer [email protected] For all the success Portales has had early this season, everybody around the program feels that everything started with a focused offseason. The Rams had zero trouble on Saturday, beating Raton 11-1 and Robertson 16-1 to close out a four-game round-robin sweep of its home tournament in its first action of the season. link KEVIN WILSON: Clovis Media Inc. Portales senior leftfielder Kacie Terry is congratulated after coming in with a run... Full story
CMI staff writer [email protected] The Portales Rams spent part of Saturday evening waiting for a pair of starters to arrive, due to a late-running junior varsity tournament in Clovis. When its game finally ended against Robertson, Portales was still waiting for its offense to arrive and the Cardinals defended their way to a 4-2 victory at Ram Field. link KEVIN WILSON: Clovis Media Inc. Portales shortstop Jarret Faust comes up with a ground ball during the Rams’ S...
CMI staff HOBBS — Portales High’s track teams each finished ninth on Friday in the 10-school Gene Wells Relays track meet. The PHS boys scored 30 points, with junior Michael Nichols finishing second in long jump at 20 feet, 4 inches, posting third-place finishes in both hurdles races and running on two scoring relays. Host Hobbs won the meet with 104 1/2 points, while Carlsbad came in second with 64 points. Meantime, the Lady Rams tallied 15 points. Sophomore Hannah Cabledue had the team’s top individual finish, coming in se...
CMI staff Eastern New Mexico University’s softball team certainly had enough offense in Saturday’s Lone Star Conference doubleheader against Texas Woman’s at Zia Softball Field. Keeping the Pioneers off the board, though, was another matter. link TONY BULLOCKS: Clovis Media Inc. ENMU freshman Cailin Garmon drops down a bunt in the fifth inning of the opener of Saturday’s Lone Star Conference softball doublehader against Texas Woman’s at Zia Softball Field. Garmon, bunting for...
Trevor Carter finished fourth place recently in a qualifier for Road to a Horse. His road to a career in horses started years before. link Kevin Wilson: Clovis Media, Inc. Kevin Wilson: Clovis Media Inc. Trevor Carter, a Texas native, trains horses outside of Clovis with his wife Tara. He met Tara, a Clovis native, while working at a ranch in Pagosa Springs, Colo. Carter, 33, is a Texas native who trains horses with his wife, Tara, just outside of Clovis. He is a horse...
CMI staff SAN ANGELO, Texas — Eastern New Mexico University’s baseball team has to be wondering what it has to do this weekend to get a win against Angelo State. The Greyhounds saw a two-run, ninth-inning lead slip away on Friday in a 9-8 loss in the opener of the Lone Star Conference series. On Saturday, it was twice as tough. In games scheduled for seven innings, the Rams won the opener 2-1 on second baseman Brett David’s bases-loaded sacrifice fly in the bottom of the seventh, then rallied three times from the brink of de...
Goober Gulch was the good news capital of eastern New Mexico last week. Two of our more precious assets — jobs and trees — appear to have been saved. First came news about Portales’ Sunland peanut processing plant, whose operators filed for bankruptcy last year: The facility is so treasured, a couple of major companies fought over it — to the tune of $26 million. Golden Boy Foods of Canada won the bidding war against Hampton Farms of North Carolina and says it plans to reopen soon, meaning dozens if not 100 jobs will be resu...
We can argue about politics, patriotism, science, religion, wars, pop stars, sports heroes, marijuana, immigration, gay marriage, guns, healthcare, climate change, parenting, genetic engineering, employment, minimum wage, taxes, education, social programs … What we can’t argue with is at the end of life, none of it matters. In their final years — whether in nursing homes or at home (often alone) — everyone deserves the best care and companionship possible. link Wendel Sloan I... Full story
My friend Barney from New Jersey has a heart of gold and he would sell it by the ounce. He hobbles to the mailbox to get his disability check each month, all the while muttering how the rest of us need to stop complaining about tough times. link Ned Cantwell Barney drives a 1994 Cadillac Eldorado, just slightly longer than a cruise ship. You can hardly notice he got a little tipsy one evening and took gold spray paint to the chrome hubcaps. Barney likes the flashy stuff....
The following books are now available for check-out: Clovis-Carver Public Library Greater Than Equal: African American Struggles for Schools and Citizenship in North Carolina, 1919-1965 by Sarah Thuesen was given by Dr. James B. Moss in memory of Ange Green. Drawing on archival records and oral histories, this book gives voice to students, parents, teachers, school officials, and civic leaders whose tireless efforts shaped the eventual movement for desegregation in our nation’s schools. Before We Met by Lucie Whitehouse b...
Baxter Curren Senior Center 908 Hickory, Clovis Monday: Exercise equipment 8 a.m.; Pinochle, 1 p.m.; Line dance, 1 p.m.; Beginning Line Dance, 2 p.m.; Social night, 5 p.m. Tuesday: Quilting, 8 a.m.; Exercise equipment, 8 a.m.; Pinochle, 1 p.m.; 8-ball pool, 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.; Jam session, 6 p.m. Wednesday: 8-ball pool, 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.; Exercise equip., 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Crafts, 1 p.m. Thursday: Eggs, gravy & biscuits $4, 8 a.m.; Bingo, 1 p.m.; Line Dance, 6 p.m. Friday: Exercise equipment 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Needle Gang, 10 a.m.; 8...
Friends of Oasis State Park Members of Friends of Oasis held their first fishing event of the year at Oasis State Park. The two-day event, held March 22-23, was the “Fifth Annual Trout Derby.” Tagged fish represented the amount of prize money. Drawings for door prizes every half hour was an added bonus. Thank you to all who attended to make this our largest Trout Derby so far. The next event being planned by members is the “Old Tyme Music Concert to be held May 31 at the park. Friends of Oasis meets the first Wednesday of ea... Full story
Information on making a no-sew pillow with a faux quilting technique using rubber stamps, why dry beans are good for our health, and how to build and finish a custom cornice will be link Sheryl Borden the featured topics on “Creative Living” 9:30 p.m. Tuesday and noon Thursday. Lisa Rojas is going to demonstrate how to create a no-sew pillow with a faux quilting technique using a new line of rubber stamps and inkpads. Her company is Stampin’ Queen Creations and she’s from Vi...
Since the latter part of the 19th century brand mascots have been a staple in advertising for companies large and small. Sometimes there use has verged on the creepy and things don’t link Karl Terry always go the company way. For instance, Taco Bell is well past its Chihuahua spokesperson and has co-opted brand mascot leader Ronald McDonald of McDonald’s into service to debut its new breakfast. Well, they couldn’t quite use the actual image or character Ronald McDonald so th... Full story
