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The Portales News-Tribune offers this space for community events. To submit or change an announcement, contact the Editorial Department at 356-4481 several days in advance. For Sunday’s paper, items must be submitted by mid-day Wednesday. Please keep submissions brief and to the point as space is limited. Tuesday Parents of sexual assault victims — 7 p.m., 116 W. 11th St., Clovis, conducted by Dr. Charlotte Farkas. Call 769-2246 for more information. Pregnancy and TB Tests — 8-11 a.m. and 1-4 p.m. at La Casa Family Healt...
Lucille Hill, 100 Services: 10 a.m. today at the Portales Cemetery. Lucille Erwin Hill, 100, of Clovis, died Saturday, April 16, 2005, at the Retirement Ranch in Clovis. She was born on April 15, 1905, in Dublin, Texas, to Emma and Samuel W. Irwin. She grew up in Erath County, Texas. Her family moved from Jacksboro, Texas, to Portales in 1927. She made her home with her parents until after their deaths. She married Charles Hill on Dec. 26, 1975. After her husband died in 1980, she lived alone until 1993, when it became necess...
The Senate approved an amendment from Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., that rejects Bush administration plans to establish a two-tiered military death gratuity and to limit retroactive payment of $238,000 in enhanced death benefits only to families of members who die in combat assignments. The Kerry amendment, approved by voice vote on Wednesday, would allow higher retroactive death payments for an additional 3,000 families, those who lost loved ones to non-combat-related accidents or illnesses since Oct. 7, 2001, the start of...
Organizers of the Keep New Mexico Clean and Beautiful event in the city of Portales are hoping for a big turnout on Saturday. Veda Urioste, one of the coordinators of the event, said last year there were 274 participants and 714 trash bags were filled with garbage from around the community. “It’s amazing how much trash we picked up last year,” Dianne Parker, city councilor and co-coordinator of the event, said. “We filled trucks loaded with garbage.” Parker is working along with Urioste and Pat Willis, Roosevelt County Ch...
SAN ANGELO, Texas — Eastern New Mexico University sophomore Zach Gerleve continued his success in javelin in Angelo State’s David Noble Relays on Saturday, winning the event on his final throw of the day. Gerleve threw 173 feet in his last throw during preliminaries to take the lead from Tarleton State’s Adam Phillips. Then Phillips went 179-2 on his last throw in the finals before Gerleve beat him by going 182-10. It was the fourth win in four meets this season for Gerleve, who was last week’s Lone Star Conference men’s fiel...
State Attorney General Patricia Madrid is traveling around the state in an effort to combat binge and underage drinking. Madrid will speak to Eastern New Mexico University students, faculty and Portales community members from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday at the Faculty Lounge in the Campus Union Building on the ENMU campus. The program is an attempt to educate students about the dangers of underage drinking and encourage parents to be good role models for their children. Madrid will also be speaking this week at New Mexico...
RUIDOSO — With eighth-graders Donavin Sanchez and William Archibeque leading the way, the Portales High boys golf team finished the first day of the Leroy Gooch Invitational in third place in Class 1A-3A team standings. The final round of the tournament is scheduled for today. Sanchez shot 35-43 — 78 and Archibeque came in at 38-41 — 79 for the Rams, whose four-man score of 323 trailed only District 4-3A rival New Mexico Military (316) and Class 1A Mesilla Valley (320). Rounding out the lineup for Portales were senior Dale...
Southwest Cheese officials hope to have the bulk of their hiring done by the time the plant is scheduled to open in October. However, hiring will continue through the end of the year, according to Southwest President Maurice Keane. The $200 million plant will employ 225 when fully operational, according to company officials, which would rank Southwest as the ninth-largest employer in Curry County. More than 1,500 job-seekers showed up for a job fair at Clovis Community College last month. Keane said he was pleased with the...
CLOVIS — Texico and Dora got together for the first of quite possibly three matchups Monday — two in the regular season and one in the Class 1A state tournament. The host Wolverines had most of the better of it in this one, posting a 10-0 win over the Coyotes at Brady Park in a game called in the bottom of the sixth on the 10-run rule. Senior Joel Maldonado tossed a four-hitter for Texico (8-2), walking three and striking out six. He also went 3-for-3 at the plate, including a pair of doubles. Meantime, junior Aaron Vau...
The Senate approved an amendment from Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., that rejects Bush administration plans to establish a two-tiered military death gratuity and to limit retroactive payment of $238,000 in enhanced death benefits only to families of members who die in combat assignments. The Kerry amendment, approved by voice vote on Wednesday, would allow higher retroactive death payments for an additional 3,000 families, those who lost loved ones to non-combat-related accidents or illnesses since Oct. 7, 2001, the start of...
Last week my brother Jim and I were in Houston. What follows is an article he wrote for his church newsletter. As I write this late at night from a computer in Houston, I'm struck by the strangeness of the situation I'm in. Not that it's strange in its circumstance — but that it's strange in mine. I'm in hospitals all the time; I'm in ICU's and CCU's almost weekly, sometimes daily, helping the injured members of my flock find comfort and support. Sometimes, helping them as t...
Services: Have been held. Lucille Hill, 100, died Saturday, April 16, 2005, at Retirement Ranch in Clovis. Hill was born April 15, 1905, in Dublin, Texas, to Emma and Samuel W. Irwin. She grew up in Erath County, Texas. Her family moved from Jacksboro, Texas, to Portales in 1927. She made her home with her parents until after their deaths. She married Charles Hill on Dec. 26, 1975. After her husband died in 1980, she lived alone until 1993, when it became necessary for her to enter a nursing facility. She was a member of the... Full story
Zelda Regina Edwards Patterson Leavelle, 87, died April 14, 2005, in Corvallis, Ore. Leavelle was born May 12, 1917, in Callahan, Texas, to J. Murry and Ima Edwards. When she was six months old, she moved with her parents and an older brother, Robert Clifton, to a homestead farm in Ruth. She attended school in a two-room school house until her family moved to Clovis, where she graduated from Clovis High School in 1934. She married Roy Thomas Patterson on June 2, 1934. The two moved to Colorado in 1948 and were leaders in the...
Freedom Newspapers: Kevin Wilson Aimee Hilburn smiles after handing a signed mini-basketball to a young fan during Sunday's session at North Plains Mall. Many Lady Wildcat fans stood in line for autographs and a chance to congratulate the Class 5A girls basketball state champs at the North Plains Mall Sunday afternoon. The first 100 fans received a purple miniature basketball to collect the team’s signatures — a souvenir 9-year-old Jessica Morrell will put in her trophy case when she gets home. Morrell is the biggest Lad... Full story
CNJ staff photo: Eric Kluth Dan McKinney, seen here at his home in Clovis, spent 28 months as a P.O.W during the Korean War. Editor’s note: The CNJ is running a monthly series profiling war veterans in the Clovis area. Safe behind the glass door of a TV cabinet sits a wooden chess set. It was hand-carved by retired Sgt. Dan Leroy McKinney nearly 60 years ago, with a knife fashioned from the arch support of a combat boot. To survive as a POW in the Korean War, McKinney had to be many things and crafty was one of them. C... Full story
Clovis Community College will host an open-house for the Dr. H.A. Miller Student Services Center at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday in memory of H.A. Miller. One trustee of Miller’s account Richard Rowley said he remembers Miller, a family friend and local doctor in the 1940s, from his early childhood. “He was really a character,” Rowley said. “The story was that he had a black bear in a cage behind the hospital and he used to wrestle it.” Rowley recalled Miller as being a big man who wore a Panama suit and hat, drove a big Lincoln a... Full story
City Meetings Chamber Executive CommWhen I was a kid, April Fools’ Day lasted all month. It was unwritten law in those days that guys got to seek revenge for tricks played on them. To limit that activity to only one day was blatantly unfair. (That edict always ceased at midnight, April 30, which was the start of marble season. No one knew why this was so. It was just the nature of things.) The downside to these month-long retaliations was that a trickster had to reveal his guilt by shouting “April Fool!” That way he was i... Full story
