Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Portales native Iszac Valdez has been living and breathing baseball since the age of 2 years old. This lifestyle continues this weekend for Valdez, now 12. He will be playing with the Amarillo Diamondbacks when they go to New York this weekend for the Cooperstown Tournament. “The tournament is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for these boys,” said Russell Webb, one of three coaches for the 12-year-old little league baseball team. “The boys are now ready to play.” The tournament officially opens Saturday, with games startin...
The Associated Press WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE — The Pentagon’s recommendation to move the Army Research Laboratory from White Sands Missile Range to Maryland could prove costly, Rep. Steve Pearce said. “I think it’s going to create a higher operating expense rather than a neutral one,” Pearce, R-N.M., said. The laboratory was on the Pentagon’s Base Realignment and Closure list. But instead of recommending the lab close, as the Pentagon recommended for Cannon Air Force Base in Clovis, it’s recommending that the lab be moved...
They gathered together with coolers and portable chairs, 14 in all. They had come from Clovis, Portales and Amarillo — and gathered to celebrate their independence. While in wording it might have seemed like a contradiction in terms, that’s just what one particular group did as part of its annual tradition at the Portales fireworks display. Sidney Sparks of Amarillo and DeAna Silver of Clovis were part of a large group with the chairs and the cooler, and part of a larger group that spread out across Greyhound Arena, its par...
Lovebirds Lysa Stone and Buck McKillip had special reason to be dancing in the front row during Merle Haggard’s third-annual UFO Music Fest Sunday at Doc Stewart Park. Stone and McKillip were celebrating their anniversary. They met exactly three years ago — in line at a Merle Haggard concert. “It’s like meeting him all over again,” Stone said of her beau McKillip as they sashayed to “Silver Wings,” the first song they shared together at Haggard’s debut UFO tour in Roswell. Three years later, Stone left her native Clovis t... Full story
Ina Derrick-Delay, 81 Services: 2 p.m. (CDT) today at Sunset Terrace Memorial Cemetery in Farwell. Ina V. Derrick-Delay, 81, of Amarillo, died Monday, July 4, 2005, in Amarillo. She was born April 13, 1924, to Harvey and Lula Bell Vowell Belyeu in Haskell, Texas. She was a homemaker and member of the Ladies VFW Auxiliary. She was preceded in death by her husbands, Frank Derrick in 1981 and Benjamin Delay in 1997. Survivors include two sons, Billy Derrick of Portales, and Eddie Derrick of Amarillo; 10 grandchildren, Tonya...
More than 128,000 military beneficiaries taking Viagra or Cialis for erectile dysfunction likely will have to switch this fall to Levitra or face higher co-payments on their prescriptions. The Defense Department’s Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee will recommend in mid-July that Dr. William Winkenwerder Jr., the Pentagon’s top health official, narrow the field of impotency drugs dispensed for free at base pharmacies or for a $9 co-payment through the military’s retail pharmacy network or mail-order program. After a detai...
Spectators watch fireworks erupt over Greene Acres Park during “Smoke on the Water” Monday night. (CNJ Correspondent: Andrew Chavez) For Clovis residents Christy and Richard Masterson, July Fourth is more than fireworks and barbecue. They said American freedom is where it’s at for them — especially after spending three years in Belgium when Richard Masterson, current pastor of the House of Prayer Fellowship, was stationed in the Air Force overseas. “We take so much for granted, even stores that are open 24 hours,” Christy Mas... Full story
Problems with unlicensed contractors in New Mexico have reached an all-time high, according to state officials. It’s such a problem the state recently released a top 10 list of known unlicensed contractors, a first-time measure Construction Industries Division spokeswoman Charmaine Jackson-John said the agency took to crack down on violators. “We want to send a message to those who have been illegally working for years without a contractor’s license,” Jackson-John said. “They know they are supposed to be licensed in New Mexic... Full story
Kara Young drives John Young in a small tractor during a parade held as part of Fourth of July festivities in Muleshoe. (CNJ Correspondent: Andrew Chavez) MULESHOE — When Sue Haberer used to teach school, she was always looking for that perfect gift to give the other teachers on holidays. That was until she discovered gourds, and started unlocking their potential. “I can grow them, and then I paint them,” the Levelland resident said Monday, standing under a vendor tent at the Fourth of July celebration in this Panha... Full story
A House labor subcommittee has taken the first steps toward reforming the way private companies handle pensions. The issue has come increasingly to the fore in the wake of defaults in the troubled airline industry. United Airlines is scheduled to default on about $10 billion in pension obligations, of which $6.6 billion is scheduled to be picked up by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC). The organization was created by Congress in 1974 to guarantee pension benefits in covered plans or take over failed pension... Full story
Most of the time people try to justify coercing others to do things on the grounds that they know what’s right and those others do not or will not comply. Even the recent 5-to-4 eminent-domain ruling by the Supreme Court can be viewed along such lines: The city officials believed they knew what the private-property owners ought to do, and so they may make them do it. In that particular case, economic development is supposed to be right and good, so let’s make those property owners bend to the will of those who understand thi... Full story
The Heartland Institute (Chicago) does its bit for the gross national blood pressure by tracking the outrages of the world’s trial lawyers. The May newsletter offers the following examples: A jury in New Jersey has awarded $850,000 to a man who got drunk on New Year’s Eve and passed out in a snowbank. It seems that two local police departments responded to a 1 a.m. call from an anonymous observer who thought he had seen a man collapse outside a restaurant. Police searched the area and found nothing. Nine hours later, in day...
Ina Derrick-Delay Services: Have been held. Ina V. Derrick-Delay, 81, of Amarillo, died Monday, July 4, 2005, in Amarillo. She was born April 13, 1924, to Harvey and Lula Bell Vowell Belyeu in Haskell, Texas. She was a homemaker and member of the Ladies VFW Auxiliary. She was preceded in death by her husbands, Frank Derrick in 1981 and Benjamin Delay in 1997. Survivors include two sons, Billy Derrick of Portales, and Eddie Derrick of Amarillo; 10 grandchildren, Tonya Vineyard, Sherry Horn, Krystal Johnson, Chellie Gillespie,...
What do July 4, 1776 in the eastern colonies and July 4, 2005 in Clovis have in common? At first glance, not much, except the date and heat that is borderline unbearable. We might even say worlds apart. Look again, however, and we can see some similarities. In each case, we can dervive an experiential glimpse of democracy in action. In the example from 230 years ago, we saw a group of people fighting for that democracy. In our town we see a group of people giving that hardearned democracy their best shot by trying to save an... Full story
John Matthews’ life suddenly changed in 1984 when suffered his first serious stroke. Then 55, Matthews had been a full-time youth and music minister. Bu the major impact of his stroke was visual impairment. “After that stroke I couldn’t lead music, couldn’t drive; so I started looking around for what I could do,” Matthews said. “It all started with an article in a 1985 Fortune magazine. It said the best bet to invest in would be a Mexican fast-food chain because the popularity of Mexican food was crossing the Mississippi...
My little blue pool just doesn’t cut it. Now that summer’s here and temperatures are more blistering than the time I fell asleep with the space heater on, there is one thing I miss most about New York. No, it is not the summer stench that emanates from every park bench, dumpster and subway station stairwell. No, it’s not the stifling humidity nor the searing blacktop nor the melting tar nor the blasting of sun on concrete so hot it can fry a foot. I miss the mighty Atlantic. When I made that huge recommended list of pros... Full story
More than 128,000 military beneficiaries taking Viagra or Cialis for erectile dysfunction likely will have to switch this fall to Levitra or face higher co-payments on their prescriptions. The Defense Department’s Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee will recommend in mid-July that Dr. William Winkenwerder Jr., the Pentagon’s top health official, narrow the field of impotency drugs dispensed for free at base pharmacies or for a $9 co-payment through the military’s retail pharmacy network or mail-order program. After a detailed...
Merle Haggard was the last performer at Sunday's UFO Music Festical at Doc Stewart Park. (CNJ correspondent: Andrew Chavez) Lovebirds Lysa Stone and Buck McKillip had special reason to be dancing in the front row during Merle Haggard’s Third Annual UFO Music Fest Sunday at Doc Stewart Park. Stone and McKillip were celebrating their anniversary. They met exactly three years ago — in line at a Merle Haggard concert. “It’s like meeting him all over again,” Stone said of her beau McKillip as they sashayed to “Silver Wings,” the...
When Independence Day — the holiday, not the movie — rolls into town each year on a Wal-Mart truck, I always remember the launching of America’s first intercontinental ballistic missile. That singular event established once and for all that children should never play with matches. It began one summer when my friend Smooth Heine and I left a movie matinee all squinty-eyed and patriotic because of a Buck Rogers saga that showed us what Hollywood scenario writers could do with the 25th Century. “Boy, that Buck Rogers,...
