Roswell Daily Record
Vol. 123, No. 125 75¢ Daily / $1.25 Sunday
THE VOICE OF THE PECOS VALLEY
May 24, 2014
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Donut shop’s new owners hoping for sweet success BY JEFF TUCKER RECORD STAFF WRITER
It’s a good thing Roy Bacon is a morning person. The “retired” new coowner of Mama Tuckers Donut & Cake Shop says he comes to work at 3:30 a.m. to make sure everything is ready for the shop’s opening at 6 a.m. “I’ve always been a morning person,” Roy said. “We have people come through the drive-thru and try and get something at 5 o’clock in the morning. It starts really picking up at about 6:30.” Roy and his wife, Katrina, purchased the momand-pop shop in March from Ted and Pat T ivis, who acquired the shop from Bob and Cathy Tuck-
er, who opened the Main Street shop in 1987. “For quite a few years, my wife and I were trying to decide what type of business to get into,” said Roy, 60, who retired from the telecommunications industry two years ago as an engineer, contractor and consultant. “Mainly, I had spent so many years traveling and being on the road. I really did like what I was doing, but it was just time for a change. We talked for several years about some type of business opportunity to get into. It’s something we can still do together when she decides to retire. It’s an opportunity that came up that we felt would fit for us.” After learning the shop was up for sale, Roy said
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he utilized the small business development center at Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell and a loan from Pioneer Bank to reopen the shop’s doors on April 15. The shop had been closed since early January. “A lot of people grew up with Mama Tuckers,” Roy said. “They were loyal customers to the Tuckers for years. It’s more of a benefit rather than inheritance. A lot of times when you buy a business, no matter what it is, you’re paying for the ‘blue sky,’ an intangible that has a value that is difficult to put a number to.” The website Newscastic recently ranked Mama Tuckers the fifth-best See SWEET, Page A3
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Roy and Katrina Bacon, the new owners of Roswell's Mama Tuckers Donut & Cake Shop in Roswell, watch as shop employee Kelly Blankenship ices cookies Friday. The shop along Main Street re-opened April 15 under new ownership after being closed since early January.
Is cat litter to blame for leak at WIPP?
Above: Friends and family of Goddard High School Senior Trevor Herrington hold up giant photos of the graduate during Friday’s 49th annual Commencement Exercises, held at the Wool Bowl in Roswell. There were 176 students receiving their diplomas during the ceremony. Right: Goddard High School Class of 2014 Valedictorian Zainab Feroze delivers her address during Friday’s Commencement Exercises. See more photos from the GHS graduation in Sunday’s edition of the Roswell Daily Record.
ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — With threats of disease, malnutrition and even inbreeding, the deck can be stacked against a Mexican gray wolf pup.
pack of wolves with a smaller litter and more rearing experience.
Federal wildlife managers have long been troubled by the survival rates of wildborn pups, so they’ve started experimenting in an effort to boost the population as they reintroduce the endangered predator to the American Southwest.
Nominees announced Local Boy Scouts for Real Heroes awards The nominations are in for the Real Heroes Recognition Breakfast. The event is sponsored by the American Red Cross in New Mexico. The winners of the Real Heroes awards will be announced at the recognition breakfast, which will be held at 7 a.m. on June 18 at the Roswell Convention and Civic Center. “We’ve received numerous submissions, but we are still needing nominations for the Good Samaritan Adult category,” said Gale Landrum, community relations manager for American Red Cross, on
500 barrels of waste from decades of nuclear bombmaking at Los Alamos were packed the same way, and they are concerned that the barrels scattered between the underground dump, Los Alamos’ northern New Mexico campus and a commercial disposal site in West Texas pose a potentially “imminent and substantial” danger to public health and the environment. The cat litter was used to absorb moisture in sealed barrels of nuclear waste at Los Alamos, home to some of the world’s finest scientists. Officials have said cat litter has long been used to pack waste because of its absorption and neutralizing
Experiment aims to help Mexican gray wolf pups
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BY RANDAL SEYLER RECORD STAFF WRITER
ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — The investigation into a February radiation release from the federal government’s underground nuclear waste dump in southeastern New Mexico has turned to a seemingly unusual suspect: cat litter. Federal officials have zeroed in on a barrel of waste from Los Alamos National Laboratory as the source of the leak, and one theory is that a change in the type of cat litter that it was packed with caused a leak that contaminated 22 workers with low levels of radiation on Feb. 14, shuttering the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, New Mexico, indefinitely. State environment officials now say more than
Thursday. The purpose of the Real Heroes program is to honor ordinary people who make extraordinary contributions by putting their needs aside to help others in the community, Landrum said. This will be the second time the Real Heroes Recognition Breakfast will be held in Roswell, and Landrum said she hopes it will become an annual event. The Red Cross is selling tickets for $25 each for the breakfast and they are also still seeking sponsors for the event. “On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday next week, See HEROES, Page A3
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Biologists earlier this month transplanted a pair of 2-week-old pups born in a large litter to another
See WIPP, Page A3
The cross-fostering technique has worked with red wolves on the East Coast. This marks the first time it’s being tried with Mexican gray wolves.
Benjamin Tuggle, head of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Southwest Region, said the goal is not only to grow the population, but to have wolves that are genetically diverse and can steer clear of trouble while living in the wild.
attend Conquistador Council Camporee STAFF REPORT
The Conquistador Council, of Boy Scouts of America, hosted the Council Camporee at Camp Jim Murray just outside of Hobbs on May 16, 17 and 18. Scouts and Scouters from local Troops 65 and 149 attended the camporee with eight other troops from around the council. In addition, four Scouts and their leaders from Mexico enjoyed the camporee activities. Altogether about 133 Scouts and
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Scouters attended the camporee. The camp’s director, Randy Cook, had the camp prepared to support the council event including establishing new camping areas and arranged for the various activities, such as shotgun shooting, tomahawk throwing, archery and demonstration of ham radio by members of the Lea County Amateur Radio Group. The theme of this year’s
See CAMPOREE, Page A3
TODAY’S OBITUARY PAGE A7
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Scouts and Scouters from local Troops 65 and 149 recently attended the Council Camporee at Camp Jim Murray just outside of Hobbs with eight other troops from around the council.
CLASSIFIEDS ..........B8 COMICS .................B7 ENTERTAINMENT ...A10 FINANCIAL ..............B6
INDEX GENERAL ...............A2 HOROSCOPES .......A10
LOTTERIES .............A2
OPINION .................A4
SPORTS .................B1
WEATHER ............A10