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The body of a dead cow is seen Wednesday on Curry Road 7 southeast of Clovis. According to Curry County Sheriff Roger Hatcher, illegal dumping of cows is only getting worse as the cattle industries continue to grow. (CNJ staff photo: Eric Kluth) Dust storms, blowing tumbleweeds and reckless drivers are normal nuisances associated with highway driving in eastern New Mexico. Now Curry County Sheriff Roger Hatcher says we can add one more to the list — cow carcasses. “We have increased incidences of dead cattle being dumped on...
Derrick Ervin listens to testimony from the victim’s family Wednesday during his sentencing at Curry County Courthouse. Ervin was sentenced to 33 years in prison for sex crimes committed over an 18-month period. (CNJ staff photo: Eric Kluth) Editor's note: The Clovis News Journal has opted to withhold some names from this report in an effort to protect the victim's identity. A Clovis man on Wednesday was sentenced to 33 years in prison for sex acts committed against an 8-year-old girl. Prosecutors allege Derrick Vincent E... Full story
CANYON, Texas — Former Eastern New Mexico University football coach Don Carthel has returned to the Lone Star Conference. Carthel was introduced Wednesday as the new head coach at West Texas A&M University to succeed Ronnie Jones, who resigned the position last week after a university investigation concluded that he used state and school resources for personal gain. “Don Carthel has a proven record, a passion for coaching and a commitment to winning,” WT president Dr. Russell Long said Wednesday night in a release from the W...
RICHARDSON, Texas — Eastern New Mexico University sophomore Tori Picazo has been chosen to the All-Lone Star Conference South Division first team in softball as a designated player in selections announced this week by the conference. Picazo was also chosen the division’s newcomer of the year. Picazo, a transfer from West Texas College who is from McKinney, Texas, set an ENMU record this season with a .486 batting average and, with a lead of nearly 60 points, is all but assured of leading the conference with only a han... Full story
ENMR-Plateau awards scholarships The ENMR-Plateau Telecom-munications Education Foun-dation recently awarded more than $25,000 in educational scholarships to local high school seniors, according to an ENMR press release. The winners were announced at the cooperative’s annual membership meeting on April 16. The ENMR-Plateau Education Foundation Funds are made possible through abandoned capital credit payments from the cooperative’s membership. Among the foundation’s goals, the press release reported, is to improve educa... Full story
Many Americans seem to invoke a double standard on the question of when it is appropriate for religious groups or leaders to weigh in on matters of politics and public policy. When a “reverend” this or a “father” that attempts to lend moral authority to a cause with which liberals agree, it’s not only deemed appropriate but welcomed. Yet when Focus on the Family and other religious groups speak up in defense of the judicial nominees being denied a vote by a handful of senators, or question whether these politicians are misus...
Picture this. You are a Mexican fellow wanting to slip into the United States to do work Americans sneer at. Your family is hungry. You want more than anything to improve their lot. So you make your way to the Mexico-Arizona border and prepare to cross. But then you look to the American side and are perplexed by an almost comical tableau. There are the feared U.S. Border Patrol cars hoping to thwart your passage, the ever-vigilant guards on the lookout. There are a bunch of city dudes who call themselves “Minutemen” wan...
“The Greatest Century That Ever Was: 25 Miraculous Trends of the Past 100 Years” is the appropriate title of a 1999 article authored by Stephen Moore and the late Julian L. Simon and published by the Washington-based Cato Institute. Let’s highlight some of the phenomenal progress Americans made during the 20th century. During that century, life expectancy rose from 47 to 77 years of age. Deaths from infectious diseases fell from 700 to 50 per 100,000 of the population. Major killer diseases such as tuberculosis, polio, typho...
Walter Cox Services: Have been held. Mr. Walter Wendell Cox, 101, of Plano, Texas, died Tuesday, April 26, 2005, in Plano, Texas. He was born on Jan. 13, 1904, in Belton, Texas, to Thomas and Rose Cox. He served in the U. S. Navy during World War II. He owned Shaws Jewelry until the early 1960s. He was a resident of Clovis until moving in 1997. He was a member of the Lions Club and the coffee buddies at Daylight Donuts. He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Louise Cox; a brother, Frank Cox; and a sister, Anne...
CANYON, Texas — Former Eastern New Mexico University football coach Don Carthel has returned to the Lone Star Conference. Carthel was introduced Wednesday as the new head coach at West Texas A&M University to succeed Ronnie Jones, who resigned last week after a university investigation concluded that he used state and school resources for personal gain. “Don Carthel has a proven record, a passion for coaching and a commitment to winning,” WT president Dr. Russell Long said Wednesday night in a release from the WT sport... Full story
Texico senior Braden Vaughan took first in the shot put with a throw of 42-7 Tuesday during the Texico Relays. Vaughan, who also plays baseball, has already qualified for state in all three throwing events. (Staff photo: Eric Kluth) This weekend’s Class 1A district track meets will be decided by numbers —not just by times and points, but roster sizes, according to local coaches. Grady coach Alicia Rush said her teams finally have large enough rosters to compete with Logan, which has dominated District 4-1A in recent yea...
RICHARDSON, Texas — Eastern New Mexico University sophomore Tori Picazo has been chosen to the All-Lone Star Conference South Division first team in softball as a designated player, the conference announced this week. She was also chosen the division’s newcomer of the year. Picazo, a transfer from West Texas College who is from McKinney, Texas, set an ENMU record this season with a .486 batting average. With a lead of nearly 60 points, she is all but assured of leading the conference in batting with only a handful of gam...
The Clovis High School girls golf team will try to qualify for Class 5A state competition in today’s Clovis Invitational, starting at 9 a.m. at Clovis Municipal Golf Course. Teams need three legs to make it into the state tournament. “They’re looking to get their third leg for state, so this is a big tournament for them,” Clovis boys coach George Simmons said of the girls team. Girls coach Jeff Fontanilla said his team can hit the qualifying leg score of 388. “I’m pretty confident. They’re playing pretty good right now,” h...
Portales city officials have reported fair results so far from a different type of adoption program — one where the items adopted are wanted by nobody. The city’s adopt-a-pothole program has been underway since March, and City Manager Debi Lee has been pleased with the participation from Portales citizens to this point. The program asks citizens to call in potholes they see, and those results are prioritized depending on the size of the pothole and the amount of traffic the area gets, among other factors. Portales Public Wor...
Editor's note: Freedom Newspapers has opted to withhold some names from this report in an effort to protect the victim's identity. A Clovis man on Wednesday was sentenced to 33 years in prison for sex acts committed against an 8-year-old girl. Prosecutors allege Derrick Vincent Ervin, 27, married the girl's mother so that he could have opportunity to molest the child. A jury in January found Ervin guilty of 31 counts of various sex crimes. He faced a maximum sentence of 168 years in prison. Prosecutors and family members of...
Imagine southeastern New Mexico as it once was — lacking in cars, bustling with grasslands, and hopping with prairie chickens. Although the small foul still pepper the state in isolated regions — enough to hold an annual High Plains Prairie Chicken Festival in their core area of Milnesand — their population is nowhere near its original grandeur, according to the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish. The federal government is hoping to change all that. In fact, several federally funded programs have been in the works for a...
Upon first glance, the colorful ink numbers in Francis Duarte’s classroom, printed on cardboard, appear to be typical decorations in a typical kindergarten classroom — except below each numerical value is the corresponding Spanish word. In this classroom, Spanish is spoken 90 percent of the time; the goal is literacy and proficiency in not one language, but two — Spanish and English. Duarte’s class is just one example of the Dual Language Program at La Casita Elementary School, a program experts call a trend in border...
Cinco de Mayo, Spanish for “The Fifth Of May,” commemorates the victory of the Mexicans over the French army at The Battle Of Puebla in 1862. It has become increasingly popular in the U.S. among those with a Hispanic background. It’s celebrated by family and friends through Mexican culture that includes food, music, beverages and customs unique to Mexico, according to www.mexonline.com. “The celebration in America, I believe, started in the 1960s in Los Angeles where (Mexican-Americans) wanted to celebrate their heritag...
Services Pending Marie Fenton, 85, of Portales, died Tuesday, April 26, 2005, in Friona. Arrangements will be announced by Wheeler Mortuary of Portales. Raydean Terry, 82, of Portales, died Wednesday, April 27, 2005, at her home. Arrangements will be announced by Wheeler Mortuary of Portales....
Clovis' school board on Tuesday voted to take steps toward implementing a string instrument program for the district. But first the district needs to identify concrete sources of funding and find a string instrument teacher to get the program off the ground. “This program would be something special for our gifted children,” said Board President Terry Martin. “We don’t want to take away from the programs we already have, but we need to look at putting something together, and it comes down to nickels and dimes.” Moving fo... Full story
While prosecuting a methamphetamine manufacturer in 2002, District Attorney Matthew Chandler heard the words that inspired him to attack the drug head-on. After the Albuquerque man was convicted for manufacturing methamphetamine in a Clovis hotel, the judge asked him why he'd set up shop in Clovis. His response, according to Chandler: “Because this area is selling me the ingredients without question.” After taking over the district attorney’s office in November, Chandler announced his plans for Meth Watch, an awareness progr... Full story
Martie Hale of Clovis breaks during her game in the 65-69 age group of the Senior Olympics Pool Tournament Tuesday at La Casa Senior Center in Clovis. (CNJ staff photo: Eric Kluth) Clovis senior citizens are taking the olympics to a new level. They have prepared for months to compete locally in numerous senior olympic events that kicked off Saturday with a breakfast and parade. Shirley Wolfenbarger, 69, of Clovis has competed for six years in the New Mexico Senior Olympics, an event spearheaded by The National Senior Games As...
