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All Times MDT TEXICO (7-0) AT EUNICE (2-6) WHEN: 7 p.m. Friday DISTRICT 3-1A RECORDS: Texico 1-0, Eunice 0-1. LAST WEEK: The Wolverines, ranked No. 1 in Class 1A, shut out Loving 33-0 at Texico. Eunice lost at Jal 28-7. LAST MEETING: 2002, Texico cruised to a 41-0 victory over the Cardinals at home. EUNICE PLAYERS TO WATCH: Edward Charo, Jr., RB; Ranson Fisher, Sr., QB; Manuel Soriano, Sr., OT-DT. KEYS TO THE GAME: The Wolverines have to stay focused on the task at hand, even though the Cardinals came into the season with a...
The 2004 Clovis football schedule will have a decidedly different look than in recent years, with Cibola and Sandia joining District 4-5A in place of Eldorado and Manzano. Other changes include Amarillo Tascosa and former longtime district rival Roswell being dropped from the schedule at their requests and the addition of Rio Rancho. Tascosa couldn’t guarantee it would be available, according to Clovis athletic director Dale Fullerton. “Texas is realigning, so you never know what’s going to happen over there,” Fullert...
The Portales Rams had to forfeit their first two games of the football season on Wednesday — wins over West Las Vegas and Tularosa — due to the use of an ineligible player. “There was a mixup in the residency of one of our players,” Portales coach Glenn Johnson said. “It’s been cleared up. We reported it to the NMAA (New Mexico Activities Association). It wasn’t our fault or the kid’s fault. We dealt with it and now it’s time to move on.” Johnson would not disclose the name of the player, but did say that from the third game...
Scott Jones A look at videos available for rental in the Clovis area. Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle - PG 13 Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, Lucy Liu, Demi Moore, Bernie Mac, Luke Wilson In this second installment we find the Angels on a case that will prove more challenging than they first thought. The Charles Townsend Detective Agency is sent out to investigate the theft of two rings that hold the key to unlocking the witness protection profiles. With the murders of several witnesses, this case soon hits home, as one of the...
PORTALES — Llano Estacado Community Church of Portales has a new pastor. Rev. Christopher George was previously pastor of Lubbock Metropolitan Community Church. The Lubbock church is affiliated with the Metropolitan Community Churches, a 43,000-member denomination founded in Los Angeles in 1968 by Rev. Troy Perry whose primary ministry focus is to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. George said Llano Estacado Community Church is in the process of joining that denomination. George will be a part-time pastor of t...
Editor’s note: Amos is a churchmouse, unable to use the keyboard shift keys and unschooled in the art of punctuation. He decided last week to try out Willifred the white rat’s experimental tiny time machine. So Willifred installed his Tiny Time Traveler on Amos’ 1957 Cheeserolet motorized matchbox. The moment Amos climbed in, he found himself in San Antonio, Texas, in the mid-1830s and confronted by one of history’s unusual characters. the ballad of davy crickett boss when i hit the ground i was astounded by an unusual...
The beat is still the same, but the message they deliver has changed. Since having a change of heart, saying goodbye to a thug-like mentality and leaving behind a music group called Ride n’ Smoke, three local rappers now call themselves Divine Destiny. And they say they are no longer “soldiers of the street.” They are “soldiers for Christ.” Micah Short, Eddie “God’s Child” Moreno and Taro (Kar2N, pronounced “Cartoon”) Brown are the voices behind the newly formed religious rap trio that will release a five-song demo CD w...
Many area churches, including Parkland Baptist Church, shown here with items ready for games, are offering alternatives to trick-or-treating for children on Halloween. CNJ staff photo: Eric Kluth. While many area children will be walking around next week to collect trick-or-treat candy, there are alternatives. One of the largest and longest-running Halloween-alternative events is held at Clovis’ Central Baptist Church, where children’s ministries director Sara Brown expects almost as many children on Oct. 31 as the chu...
PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico University second-year cross country coach Greg LaSage knows that the Abilene Christians of the world are out of range in Saturday’s Lone Star Conference cross country meet, set for Portales Country Club. What he’s looking for is improvement over last year, when the Greyhounds finished eighth out of 10 men’s teams and the Zias were seventh of eight women’s squads in the league get-together. “We’re looking forward to it,” said LaSage, who also doubles as an assistant to ENMU baseball coach...
PORTALES — Texas A&M-Commerce is coming off a discouraging home loss to West Texas A&M, and at 1-6 is not having even close to the kind of season it envisioned. Still, Eastern New Mexico University coach Bud Elliott isn’t about to take the Lions lightly in Saturday’s 1 p.m. Lone Star Conference South Division clash at Blackwater Draw. “This’ll be a tough game, I don’t have any doubt about that,” said Elliott, whose team has lost two of its last three after a 4-0 start. “I told our players I don’t want anyone talking ab...
Courage Idemudia is a three-year starter for the Hounds. CNJ photo: Eric Kluth. PORTALES — Nigerian-born Courage Idemudia knows his first name must have a special meaning. He’s just not sure what it is. “I never asked my parents about it,” the Eastern New Mexico University junior said. “I just know I try to live up to it.” An outside linebacker, Idemudia moved from a village in his native land to the Dallas area nine years ago to live with an uncle. Just shy of his 13th birthday when he came to the United States, he said he...
Clovis junior Phillip Williams has three-straight 100-yard rushing efforts. CNJ staff photo: Eric Kluth. Rick White The Clovis-Hobbs rivalry is built on proximity and generations of battles between the purple-and-white and black-and-gold: Two towns of similar size and makeup separated by 180 miles of barren ranch land and pump jacks battling for bragging rights. They even play for a trophy called “The Rebel,” a metal replica of a cannon that lists the winner of every game dating back to 1967 — Clovis leads the series 26-10...
Samplings of recent calls received by Clovis-area law enforcement officers, according to reports: Police responded about 4 a.m. Saturday to a reported rollover crash with injuries at a store parking lot entrance. Two men were standing next to a black Honda on its side in a large drainage area north of Llano Estacado. The driver admitted to drinking two beers about 30 to 45 minutes earlier, but field sobriety tests showed he was not intoxicated. He admitted to driving about 10 mph over the posted limit and said he rolled over...
Samplings of recent calls received by Clovis-area law enforcement officers, according to reports: Police responded to a Clovis rent-to-own business about noon on Thursday after receiving a report that a Portales man had failed to return a riding lawn mower worth about $1,500. Acting on a tip that the mower might have been pawned, police visited a pawn shop and found from pawn records that the lawn mower had been pawned but later redeemed by the renter. n n n About 1:30 a.m. Friday, police saw a vehicle turning left onto...
Domestic violence crosses all boundaries and exists in many forms. That’s the message from one Clovis resident who credits the local Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence for helping her get out of an abusive relationship. Kathy Elliott, owner of Elliott Marketing, said the United Way-supported organization smoothed the transition away from a relationship she characterized as both mentally and verbally abusive. “Even though I wasn’t black and blue, which sometimes makes it harder to identify abuse, it was still a very...
Monroe Gilmore Services: 2 p.m. Sunday at Elida Baptist Church Mr. Monroe Gilmore, 88, of Portales, died Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2003, at Heartland Continuing Care in Portales. He was born on Aug. 28, 1915, in Girard, Texas, to Gertrude and Earnest Perry Gilmore. He went to school at Wellman, Texas. He graduated from high school in Brownfield, Texas, in 1935. He married Opal Hight on Dec. 30, 1939, in Brownfield. They moved to Floyd in 1945. In 1957 they bought their farm in Elida where he ran a dairy and crop farm. Family...
Americans have often wondered what possible use there is for Canada. If not for ice hockey, Pamela Anderson and Moosehead beer, they could forget it even exists. In the old cartoon map depicting life after the North American Free Trade Agreement, Mexico was labeled “manufacturing.” The United States was “retail.” And Canada? “Parking.” But for growing numbers of Americans, our neighbor to the north now shimmers like a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. It has what they want — inexpensive prescription drugs — and they ai...
The nomination of Justice Janice Rogers Brown of the California Supreme Court to become a federal Court of Appeals judge has brought out vicious special interest groups with their long knives — and a long record of smears and character-assassination, going back to the campaign of wholesale misrepresentations that defeated the nomination of Judge Robert Bork in 1987. Leading the charge against Justice Brown, as it did against Judge Bork 16 years ago, is the grossly misnamed organization “People for the American Way.” This...
Drivers entering El Paso County on Interstate 25 are now greeted with signs informing them they are on the Ronald Reagan Memorial Highway. The signs that went up a few weeks ago were the culmination of efforts by state Sen. Doug Lamborn to have the section of highway renamed to honor the two-term president. And as happens any time one political party does something to honor one of its own, members of the other party expressed reservations, noting that our 40th president boosted the national debt and members of his...
Compiled from court records from Oct. 16 through Oct. 21 Marriage Licenses Terrell Lee Bearden Jr., 22, and Jaclyn Marie Rink, 20, both of Clovis Arthur Raymond Medina, 61, and Cynthia Jeanette Roybal, 36, both of Tucumcari Clyde Douglas Bibbs, 42, and Latisha Jane Isbell, 29, both of Clovis Ruben Guadalupe Salas, 19, of Farwell, and Maria Rosario Hernandez, 25, of Muleshoe Brian Elliott Wanzor, 19, and Chris-Xeil Renee McCormack, 20, both of Clovis Andrew Tully Waterfield, 20, and Crystal Marie Kadel, 22, both of Clovis...
Clovis firefighters extinguished a blaze in the bathroom of the Kripple Creek Restaurant, 2400 N. Prince, about 3 p.m. Thursday. No injuries were reported and damage was minor, officials said. Lt. Mike Inge of the Clovis Fire Department said seven employees and an undetermined number of diners were in the building when a fire began in a stack of toilet paper in an employee bathroom. After failing to put out the blaze with a fire extinguisher, employees called the fire department. “It just damaged the bathroom, mainly,” Ing...
Once a year, it’s OK to go nuts — peanuts, after all, are a big part of the local economy and they’re the guests of honor at Portales’ annual Peanut Valley Festival. The 30th annual Peanut Valley Festival gets into full gear on Saturday and continues Sunday at the Eastern New Mexico University Campus Union Building. The event, which has paid tribute to the area’s Valencia peanut for the past three decades, will include a full house of arts and crafts vendors, an array of food booths, children’s activities, live entertainme...
A committee charged with picking “approximately five” candidates for the state Secretary of Education has prepared a preliminary list, a spokeswoman for Gov. Bill Richardson said on Thursday. Catherine Miller, Richardson’s deputy chief of staff, said the committee has not yet presented the five names to the governor because it is still checking backgrounds. She did not name the five on the preliminary list. Miller said there have been between 35 and 40 applicants for the position, which voters approved in the Sept. 23 speci...
A 30-year-old woman will be arraigned this afternoon in Curry County District Court following the discovery of photographs that show her sexually abusing a child, officials said. According to an arrest warrant filed Monday with the court, Clovis police arrived about 12:45 p.m. Monday at an elementary school and were presented with an envelope addressed to the Children, Youth and Families Division. The envelope contained digital photos showing an adult female sexually abusing a child. The envelope also contained an unsigned...
