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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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STAFF WRITERS link Bill Brunsen When describing his late friend and colleague Bill Brunsen, retired Eastern New Mexico University business Professor Gerry Huybregts said the former ENMU professor never did anything for himself. “He did it for the students, college and university,” Huybregts said. “That was his motivation.” Brunsen, who was a former professor of finance at the university, died Saturday. He worked for ENMU from 1987 to 2011. He was a member of the “three amigos...
STAFF REPORT link Bobbie Wallin Bobbie Wallin saw pageanting as an opportunity to fulfill her dream of having a platform to inspire and empower others to achieve success. Wallin, a former student and basketball player of Eastern New Mexico University, was crowned Ms. New Mexico United States 2015 at the end of March in Albuquerque. She went on to compete in the Miss United States 2015 pageant in Washington, D.C. June 28 through July 3. Wallin said the opportunity to run for Ms...
Chris Horton, pastor at First Baptist Church in Portales, was selected as an extra for the movie “Comancheria,” starring Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine and Ben Foster that has been filming locally in Portales and Clovis. The movie follows two brothers, Pine and Foster, who encounter financial hardships on their farm and resort to bank robbery. We were able to catch up with Horton to ask him about his experience. link Chris Horton Why did you decide to pursue being a extra for the...
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. trapped by a cheese pizza boss you may have heard by now that i m a marked mouse marcellus the mean nasty mangy ungodly cat has notified the church pew underworld that he has put my name at the head of his black mouse list – his top 10 most wanted rodent chart it seems boss that he thinks i ve been slandering his good name and smearin...
Correspondent [email protected] Seven high plains area rodeo athletes participated in national college and junior high championships last month and three more with ties to the area started their quests for national high school titles on Sunday. Dora native Joshua Walker wrapped up his first year on the rodeo team for Western Texas College in Snyder, Texas, with a third-place finish in tie-down calf roping at the College National Finals Rodeo in Casper, Wyoming, on June 20. As the highest placing freshman in his event, Walker...
Staff Report A nine-member music ensemble called “Light” from California Baptist Church will perform 7 p.m. Monday at The Bridge located at Central Baptist Church. “California Baptist University has one of the finest music programs in the country,” said Worship Pastor Damon Pearce in a press release. “These students are a part of a dozen or more ensembles of all sizes that spend the summer singing in churches across the country. We are excited to host them here in Clovis.” The students will perform traditional anthems and...
DEPUTY EDITOR [email protected] A Clovis resident dismayed about what she called selective enforcement of animal codes told the Clovis City Commission she wasn’t backing down in her real-life game of chicken. Mary-Beth Bouchard is facing seven counts of violating the city’s code on poultry location restrictions. She said she has lived in her home since 2003 and has kept chickens in the backyard throughout that time. On June 29, however, she contacted Clovis Animal Control to pickup feral kittens she trapped, and the res...
DEPUTY EDITOR [email protected] The Clovis City Commission moved ahead Thursday night with what it called a roadmap for the next 10 years of parks and recreation, approving updates to its parks master plan. The 7-0 vote, arrived at following issues raised with language inside the plan, ends an eight-month process that included hundreds of surveys, numerous meetings with Parks, Recreation and Beautification Committee, a town hall and a city commission study session. Jacque Fishman of Consensus Planning of Albuquerque,...
Staff Report A copy of a letter from the Pentagon to the federal Bureau of Reclamation supporting the Ute Lake Pipeline Project was read Thursday to the board members of the Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority during their meeting in Clovis. “This is a huge letter of support for the Ute Pipeline Project,” said Gayla Brumfield, authority chair. Brumfield said the letter from the Pentagon to the BOR was in favor of how the pipeline project would benefit Cannon Air Force Base in the future. Brumfield said while the aut...
Food giveaway... • United Way of Eastern New Mexico and the Portales Ministerial Alliance need volunteers to help with a free food distribution July 25 at Central Christian Church, 1528 Main St., Portales. Many hands needed for distributions scheduled from 8 a.m. to noon. To volunteer, call 575-769-2103. Western fun... • The High Plains Junior Rodeo has all kinds of fun events scheduled today at the Curry County Events Center and fairgrounds. The second go starts at 9 a.m. At 7 p.m. there’s a Parent/Contestant Roping conte...
Staff report The Clovis News Journal’s website, www.cnjonline.com, was brought back online Wednesday evening, one week following its July 8 shutdown due to malware on the site that could infect files on a visitor’s computer. “We scanned the site multiple times, cleaned out the site,” Shawn Luscombe, CNJ web developer said. “(The virus) spreads, and we wanted to make sure we had every little bit of it eliminated before we went live.” Luscombe said scanning has been implemented on the site that reviews all files, and the CNJ ha...
Staff report The city had a pair of unconnected water leaks Thursday evening, with some customers losing water for a few hours. link Staff photo: Malinda Montgomery Water erupts from a ruptured main near the intersection of First and Mitchell Streets Thursday evening. As of 8:30 p.m., EPCOR District Manager Brian Daly said both incidents were contained and that crews would make more permanent fixes on Friday morning. Daly said he received calls about both incidents shortly...
When life gives you goat milk…bake a cake with it. link Audra Brown And make delicious cheese, and a homemade, vacuum-operated, goat-milking device. That’s what a certain kid (of the non-goat variety) did and I’ll tell you what, it was pretty tasty. The kid now has one, blue-eyed, well-horned, king-of-the-haybale, fluffy, wool-endowed buck goat and one blue-eyed doe with a very impressive beard. The female is the newest member of the kid’s menagerie and seems to be fitting in quite well. I believe that the new goat is even aw...
Clovis City Commission The Clovis City Commission met Thursday evening at the Clovis-Carver Public Library. Commissioner Sandra Taylor-Sawyer did not attend. All action items listed below passed on 7-0 votes. • The commission heard a report from RBC Capital Markets on a Thursday bond sale to pay for street repairs, and gave final approval to an ordinance for the bonds. Erik Haragan of RBC said the bond sale netted $4.54 million — $40,000 above original estimates — with an interest rate of 2.166 percent from J.W. Baird. The c...
Today • USSSA World Youth Slo-Pitch Softball Tournament — 6 p.m. Guy Leeder Softball Complex, Clovis. Information: 575-762-8977 • High Plains Junior Rodeo Finals— 9 a.m. Curry County Events Center, 1900 E Brady Ave., Clovis. Information: (575) 763-3435 • 42 Shoot Out 3rd Annual— 7 p.m. Registration, 6 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. $30 Entry fee (cash only) Texico Senior Center, 211 N. Griffin., Texico. Information: 575-714-3947 Saturday • USSSA World Youth Slo-Pitch Softball Tournament — 8 a.m. Guy Leeder Softball Complex, Clovis...
On this date ...link 1975: Clovis city officials announced plans to repair “long-neglected, deteriorating stretches of First and Seventh streets,” the Clovis News-Journal reported. Clovis Mayor Chick Taylor said the New Mexico Highway Department was pitching in 45 percent of the funds for the $140,000 projects. 1975: Clovis city commissioners learned that two city liquor establishments were operating within the law serving alcoholic drinks on Sundays. City Attorney Harry Pat...
For several years, I listened to Erwin Lutzer on the radio. He is the author of a book titled “Failure: The Backdoor to Success” (MoodyPress, 1975). In his book, Lutzer gives the following illustration: link Judy Brandon Columnist "Many years ago, a father and his daughter were walking through the grass on the Canadian prairie. In the distance, they saw a prairie fire, and they realized that it would soon engulf them. The father knew there was only one way of escape: They wou...
Managing editor [email protected] Roosevelt County Detention Center has a new administrator as of Thursday morning. County Manager Amber Hamilton announced that recently hired Lt. Mark Gallegos was offered and accepted the position on Thursday. Hamilton said three highly qualified candidates were interviewed Wednesday for the position. The other two candidates were Johnna Garcia of Taos and Warren Schmidt of Farwell. Hamilton said she, Sheriff Malin Parker, corrections expert Sandra Stewart and Manny Romero of the New...
Staff Writer [email protected] They said the StarGazer was coming back, and now its here with two events in less than a month. Portales MainStreet, The Dawg Houze and Inspire Studios are hosting “An Evening in Margaritaville,” a Jimmy Buffet-themed night under the stars. Less than a month ago, Portales MainStreet hosted the Beer and Wine Festival as the opening event at the StarGazer. Portales MainStreet Director Jan Elliott called that event “wildly successful.” The doors to Margaritaville will open at 4:30 p.m. Saturda...
STAFF REPORT Bobbie Wallin saw pageanting as an opportunity to fulfill her dream of having a platform to inspire and empower others to achieve success. link Bobbie Wallin Wallin, a former student and basketball player of Eastern New Mexico University, was crowned Ms. New Mexico United States 2015 at the end of March in Albuquerque. She went on to compete in the Miss United States 2015 pageant in Washington, D.C. June 28 through July 3. Wallin said the opportunity to run for Ms...
