Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Portales Elementary Monday: Breakfast — Cereal, cheese stick, apple slices, juice. Lunch — Chopped steak, mashed potato, brown gravy, roll, applesauce Tuesday: Breakfast — Breakfast bar, graham cracker, applesauce cups, juice. Lunch — Rib-Que sandwich, broccoli, mandarin oranges and pineapple Wednesday: Breakfast — French toast, raisins, juice. Lunch — Spaghetti, green beans, roll, peaches Thursday: Breakfast — Pizza, banana, juice. Lunch — Grilled cheese sandwich, carrots, strawberry cups Friday: Breakfast — Snack-n-waffl...
Staff photo: Brooke Finch Avocados in La Espiga De Oro Supermarket in Clovis remain in stock, despite the grower strike in Mexico and recent rise in prices. Staff Writer [email protected] Local restaurant owners agree: You can’t serve Mexican food without avocados. They aren’t so sure, however, what to do if faced with an avocado shortage. The staple of Mexican cuisine is rising in demand amid a recent farmers strike in Mexico, meaning prices are soaring for suppliers. Acc...
Staff photo: Brooke Finch Avocados in La Espiga De Oro Supermarket in Clovis remain in stock, despite the grower strike in Mexico and recent rise in prices. Staff Writer [email protected] Local restaurant owners agree: You can’t serve Mexican food without avocados. They aren’t so sure, however, what to do if faced with an avocado shortage. The staple of Mexican cuisine is rising in demand amid a recent farmers strike in Mexico, meaning prices are soaring for suppliers. Acc... Full story
Staff photo: Brooke Finch Clovis food truck owner Byron Beevers assembles a bacon cheeseburger for a customer on Friday. Staff Writer [email protected] When Aaron Crandall’s business is on a roll, it may mean he’s gone. Don’t worry. He’ll be back. Crandall owns one of the trendy mobile food trucks that are becoming popular throughout the Clovis-Portales area. When Crandall lost his job of seven years, he decided to try AJ’s Wings, a mobile chicken wing eatery. “I felt l...
Staff photo: Brooke Finch Clovis food truck owner Byron Beevers offers a bacon cheeseburger for a customer on Friday. Staff Writer [email protected] When Aaron Crandall’s business is on a roll, it may mean he’s gone. Don’t worry. He’ll be back. Crandall owns one of the trendy mobile food trucks that are becoming popular throughout the Clovis-Portales area. When Crandall lost his job of seven years, he decided to try AJ’s Wings, a mobile chicken wing eatery. “I felt like t...
New coffee shop opens Sweetwaters Coffee and Tea is a new coffee spot in Clovis. At 1010 W. 21st St., it officially opened Aug. 15. Owner Lexie Myers said the coffee shop has 12 full-time employees. In addition to refreshments and menu items that include salads, sandwiches, pastries and bagels with homemade spreads, Sweetwaters also sells nitrogen-infused cold-brew coffee. “Cold brew has never been touched to process with heat,” Myers said, “so it doesn’t have the same acidity that regular coffee has.” Myers said along wit...
Clovis Elementary Monday: Breakfast - Breakfast pizza. Lunch - Nacho chicken pasta, steamed broccoli and carrots, delicious apple, fresh fruit and veggie bar Tuesday: Breakfast - Mini pancakes. Lunch - Chicken nuggets, mashed potatoes with gravy, assorted fresh fruit, whole-wheat roll, and fresh fruit and veggie bar Wednesday: Breakfast - Breakfast burrito. Lunch - Pepperoni pizza, garden salad and ranch, applesauce, assorted fresh fruit, fresh fruit and veggie bar Thursday: Breakfast - Frudel. Lunch - Corn dog, baked beans,...
Staff report In a press release issued Monday, the McDonald’s restaurant chain announced the following changes it will be making: • Removing artificial preservatives from several items, including Chicken McNuggets, pork sausage patties and omelet-style eggs served on McGriddles bagel and biscuit breakfast sandwiches and scrambled eggs on its breakfast platters. • Rolling out new buns this month that no longer contain high fructose corn syrup, including the buns used on Big Macs, Quarter Pounders, hamburgers and chees...
STAFF WRITER [email protected] One-in-three children in New Mexico struggles with food insecurity, according to Presbyterian Healthcare Services Director of Community Health Leigh Caswell. The 2016 “Map the Meal Gap” report by Feeding America shows that as of two years ago, New Mexico had the second highest child food-insecurity rate in the nation — 27.2 percent — while 17.8 percent of people in Curry County were faced with hunger. These statistics were the motivation behind Clovis’ Plains Regional Medical Center st...
STAFF WRITER [email protected] One-in-three children in New Mexico struggles with food insecurity, according to Presbyterian Healthcare Services Director of Community Health Leigh Caswell. The 2016 “Map the Meal Gap” report by Feeding America shows that as of two years ago, New Mexico had the second highest child food-insecurity rate in the nation — 27.2 percent — while 17.8 percent of people in Curry County were faced with hunger. These statistics were the motivation behind Clovis’ Plains Regional Medical Center st...
I had to call my cell phone company to ask a few questions this week. It was easy enough to get the right number, but I then had to listen to a long list of menu options. I hit the wrong option a couple of times and as a result spent about an hour on the phone listening to a computer. It really made me miss the days of home town customer service. Lonnie Berry I remember days of rummaging through the neighborhood for empty soda bottles. When we had collected enough we would go...
I had to call my cell phone company to ask a few questions this week. It was easy enough to get the right number, but I then had to listen to a long list of menu options. I hit the wrong option a couple of times and as a result spent about an hour on the phone listening to a computer. It really made me Lonnie Berry miss the days of home town customer service. I remember days of rummaging through the neighborhood for empty soda bottles. When we had collected enough we would go...
Trump or Clinton? It’s the question that seems to be on a lot of minds — not which candidate would be best as president, but which would be the least bad. It’s a false choice. Kent McManigal First of all, pretending those are your only choices is like saying you can only choose between hamburgers and tacos; nothing else. You are pretending the rest of the menu doesn’t exist. Yes, there are other choices. Insisting you choose between those two, because “Democrat or Republica...
Courtesy photo: Fathom McKeown Jason Jones, left, and Nathan Kwedor of Glikas Enterprises cut a piece of lumber for assembly of the framed wall in the soon-to-be Buffalo Wild Wings and Chipotle building on Prince Street. Staff writer [email protected] Prince Street will soon get the royal treatment on food options, with at least four restaurant chains expected to make their way to the area, according to Clovis’ Building Safety Director Pete Wilt. In addition to the C... Full story
Who doesn’t like a horse trade? I found out last weekend horse tradin’ ain’t necessarily everybody’s cup of cowboy coffee. Let me set the scene for you. On a weekend getaway to the Ruidoso area, my honey had just finished touring the museum at Fort Stanton as terrific thunder and lightning began to crack way too close to our location atop the mesa. So we made like Billy the Kid with a posse on his tail and headed up the Bonito to the village of Capitan. By the time we reached...
Who doesn’t like a horse trade? I found out last weekend horse tradin’ ain’t necessarily everybody’s cup of cowboy coffee. Let me set the scene for you. On a weekend getaway to the Ruidoso area, my honey had just finished touring the museum at Fort Stanton as terrific thunder and lightning began to crack way too close to our location atop the mesa. So we made like Billy the Kid with a posse on his tail and headed up Karl Terry the Bonito to the village of Capitan. By the tim... Full story
STAFF WRITER [email protected] Business for Portales restaurants, hotels and stores is expected to increase this week due to the Miss New Mexico Pageant occurring. “Something going on that brings people into the town is good for hotel business in general,” said John Billiot, manager of the Portales Super 8 Motel. Michaela Dodson, regional director of operations for Ambience Hospitality New Mexico, and Chrisula Webb, manager of the Holiday Inn, said their amount of customers is expected to increase due to the pag... Full story
Staff photo: Brooke Finch Farris Hightower, right, removes one of 200 chicken fried steaks from the cast iron skillet to be served at the Duke of the Dutch Ovens Chuck Wagon Cook-Off on Saturday, while Doug Swartz, left, prepares the Dutch oven-baked peach cobbler. Staff writer [email protected] Withstanding a burning wood fire in 80-degree Clovis heat didn’t stop Walter Lowe from cooking 100 chicken-fried steaks on Saturday. But when it came to wind gusts, all bets were o... Full story
I was not particularly looking for wisdom when a friend and I walked into a Thai food restaurant; I was just looking for food. And I was trying to make sense out of a menu filled with genuine Thai cuisine. What I ended up eating was excellent, but I’m still wondering about one menu item that just sounded interesting. Larb. L-A-R-B. I still wonder what it is. A staple item in the Thai diet? A delicacy? The kind of thing a fellow just develops a taste for and says to his wife o... Full story
Religion columnist I was not particularly looking for wisdom when a friend and I walked into a Thai food restaurant; I was just looking for food. And I was trying to make sense out of a menu filled with genuine Thai cuisine. What I ended up eating was excellent, but I’m still wondering about one menu item that just sounded interesting. Larb. L-A-R-B. I still wonder what it is. A staple item in the Thai diet? A delicacy? The kind of thing a fellow just develops a taste for a...
For the past 15 years, the serving staff for large banquet-style events at Eastern New Mexico University often includes young people from the New Mexico Christian Children’s Home in Portales. This Sunday, Sodexo — Eastern’s food service provider — is saying thank you by offering a Mother’s Day Brunch to the community that will also directly benefit its youngest servers. Betty Williamson A bit of good news “We greatly value our partnership with the Christian Children’s...
For the past 15 years, the serving staff for large banquet-style events at Eastern New Mexico University often includes young people from the New Mexico Christian Children’s Home in Portales. This Sunday, Sodexo — Eastern’s food service provider — is saying thank you by offering a Mother’s Day Brunch to the community that will also directly benefit its youngest servers. Betty Williamson “We greatly value our partnership with the Christian Children’s Home,” said Wayne Done...
STAFF WRITER [email protected] Local mothers can be treated to some fine dining this weekend at Eastern New Mexico University. Staff photo: Eamon Scarbrough Holly Clark, executive chef for Sodexo at Eastern New Mexico University, cuts honeydew for a fruit tray on Monday afternoon. Sodexo is holding a Mother’s Day brunch on Sunday in the ENMU Campus Union Building. According to Hannah Spearman, unit marketing coordinator for Sodexo ENMU, this Sunday’s brunch will be a u...
When I was going to Portales Junior High School in the early 1980s, we had three options for lunch: Eat in the cafeteria, bring your own lunch or eat in the snack bar. When I ate in the snack bar, I was in food heaven. The snack bar was in a room in the old Home Economics building, by Mrs. Richter’s art room. This was before the old two-story junior high was knocked down. The snack bar was decorated with simple long metal tables and folding chairs. Nothing fancy. And n... Full story
The news of another eatery coming to eastern New Mexico was met with a range of emotions, from, “Best day ever,” to indifferent shrugs. The spectrum was inspired when we found out the Chipotle Mexican Grill franchise is looking at opening a Clovis location in the third quarter of 2016. For those who haven’t been to one, imagine Subway instead served Mexican food assembly-line style. Pick a meat. Put it in a burrito, a bowl, tacos or a salad. Add any combination of sour cream, guacamole, pico de gallo, cheese and veget...
