Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Randy Crowder, one of the longest-tenured members of the Clovis City Commission, said he does not intend to run for a fourth term in 2016. He made the announcement during the Thursday meeting of the commission, though he made his plans known to other commissioners prior to the meeting. One of two commissioners from District 1, Crowder said the decision is primarily related to time constraints with his District 64 seat on the state House of Representatives. Whether on a city or state level, Crowder says he doesn’t feel c...
The Clovis City Commission met Thursday at the North Annex of the Clovis-Carver Public Library. All commissioners and Mayor David Lansford were in attendance. All action items passed via 7–0 votes; Commissioner Fidel Madrid departed the meeting prior to votes on action items at 7 p.m. • Commissioner Randy Crowder, who recently concluded his first term in the New Mexico House of Representatives, gave a presentation on the 60-day session, along with Sen. Pat Woods, R-Broadview. Crowder said the biggest question he and Woo... Full story
link Amos the Church Mouse Illustrated by Gary Mitchell Editor’s note: Amos is a churchmouse, who types by hopping on the computer keyboard, but he can’t operate the capital shift keys, and he shuns punctuation marks – except dashes and hyphens. legend of the easter seed boss i don t know if you ve ever had a conversation with a mustard seed before but i did the other day it was quite enlightening with this being the season of easter and all i was shopping in sara spider s und... Full story
Fun facts... • Sponsors have helped provide more than 6,000 candy- and toy-filled eggs for Clovis’ annual kids Easter Egg hunt. The Clovis Zoo is also offering free admission from the time kids make the mad dash at 9 a.m. on Saturday at Guy Leeder Softball Complex. A repeat appeal... • Portales still needs donations of plastic eggs and candy for its annual Easter Egg hunt Saturday at the softball complex on Industrial. Contact Veda Urioste of Joan Martinez-Terry at 575-356-6662. Jobs... • Local companies looking for good pe...
Staff Writer [email protected] Fifth-grade teachers at Highland Elementary issued their students a challenge this week — build an apparatus that could protect an egg from a nearly 50-foot fall. At the egg drop challenge Thursday, 11 of 54 students out of 54 succeeded with their contraptions. “No way did we think 11 would survive 46 feet,” said fifth grade teacher Michelle Evans. “We were so thrilled and surprised at the same time.” Evans said the eggs first had to su... Full story
Following is a sampling of calls received by dispatchers for Clovis police, Curry County sheriff and area fire stations. Wednesday • 6:11 a.m.: Burglary report, 2100 block of Fairfield Street. • 7:56 a.m.: Fraud, 3800 block of Springwood Drive. • 9:54 a.m.: Criminal damage, 900 block of Wallace Street. • 10:09 a.m.: Theft report, 300 block of Aspen Street. • 10:22 a.m.: Public affray report, 5100 block of North Thornton Street. • 11:10 a.m.: Missing person, 1000 block of Stanton Place. • 11:54 a.m.: Battery report, 1600 block...
April 3link On this date ... 1975: Clovis native Jerry Large had been named president of the New Mexico State University chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi. Large, who worked as a reporter between semesters at the Clovis News-Journal, is now a columnist with the Seattle Times, where he sometimes writes about growing up in Clovis. 1965: The Redbud Garden Club, on behalf of the Clovis Council of Gardens, had received a $200 grant from Sears it...
Today Pre-K Story Hour — 10:05 a.m., Clovis-Carver Public Library. Information: 575-769-7840 City Commission — 5:15 p.m., Clovis-Carver Public Library, North Annex. Information: 575-769-7828 New Mexico Municipal League District meeting —10 a.m., Clovis Civic Center. Information: 575-769-7828 Food Drive — 6 a.m. - 6 p.m., to benefit the Food Bank of Eastern New Mexico, Albertsons, 1905 N. Prince St. Information: 575-763-6130 Saturday Annual City Wide Easter Egg Hunt — 9 a.m., Guy Leeder Softball Complex. Informati...
By: Judy Brandon link Judy Brandon Columnist At Easter time, some noteworthy spiritual truths emerge from the characters surrounding the resurrection story. Before Jesus’ ride into Jerusalem, Jesus told the disciples to go into the village, find a donkey and its colt, and bring them to him. The disciples did just that. When they got to Bethpage, the donkeys were there just like Jesus had said. The disciples realized again that they could take Jesus for his word because it w...
Where are they nowlink Editor’s note: Where are they now is a weekly feature updating the lives of Eastern New Mexico University graduates. Each year, Steve Spray would tell his mother he wanted to quit college and play professional golf. His mother insisted he needed to be the first in the family to graduate from college before giving pro golf a shot. Mom won out. In addition to winning back-to-back National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics golf titles while at E... Full story
Until quite recently, when the persecution of Middle Eastern Christians was brought to my attention, my knee-jerk response was that it’s not just Christians — terrorists like ISIS hurt more Muslims than anyone. While that may be true, it is a non sequitur. In his book “Jews, God, and History,” Max I. Dimont pointed out that of the 12 million people systematically murdered by the Nazis, “7 million were Christians and 5 million were jews — 1.4 Christians for every Jew” (p.373). When talking about the extermination...
• Assembly Of God Good Friday 7 p.m. Easter Sunday 10:45 a.m. Bethel Assembly of God 1521 Norris Information: 575-762-6155 • Calvary Chapel Clovis Easter Sunday 10:30 a.m. 1320 W. 21st Information: 575-218-5701 • Central Baptist Easter Sunday Morning worship 8:30 a.m. Bible Study 9:45 a.m. Worship 11:00 a.m. 2501 N. Morris Information: 575-762-4727 • Clovis Ministerial Alliance Good Friday celebration 5:30 p.m. Grace Fellowship Church 500 Schepps Blvd. Information: 575-762-9300 • Faith Christian Good Friday 6 p.m. Easter Su... Full story
