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THE VOICE OF THE PECOS VALLEY
June 5, 2014
Snyder maintains 12-vote lead in sheriff’s race
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16 provisional votes qualified in GOP primary STAFF REPORT
Results from the Tuesday primary for Chaves County sheriff still stand at a 12vote lead for Britt Snyder. The race for the county’s top law enforcement job see-sawed back and forth Tuesday night between Snyder, a 24-year veteran of the sheriff’s office, and Patrick Barncastle, an investigator for the Chaves County District Attorney’s Office. Not counted Tuesday night were the provisional
ballots, which are set aside because of voting irregularities and not initially counted on election night. Some could be considered valid, and therefore could change the final tallies. The county clerk’s office is responsible for verifying whether provisional ballots should be included. At the end of the workday Wednesday, the clerk’s office said there were 21 provisional votes that qualified, with 16 of those cast in the Republican primary. The clerk’s office could
not say how the votes were cast in the four-way sheriff’s primary. The clerk’s office said there also were two votes in lieu of absentee votes, which means those voters cast their votes at the polls instead of turning in their absentee ballots, and one military tally sheet vote to be added to the totals. The ballots will be canvassed at 9 a.m. Friday by the Chaves County Board of Commissioners at the County Administrative Center, 1 St. Mary’s Place.
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Patrick Barncastle watches the election results Tuesday during his campaign’s watch party at the Holiday Inn. Barncastle and J. Britt Snyder were running neck and neck throughout the night with Snyder ultimately taking a 12-vote lead after all 55 precincts were counted. Pictured with Barncastle is his daughter, Samantha Barncastle.
Thousands of vets in state left without doctor ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — Of ficials at a Veterans Affairs medical center in Albuquerque say as many as 3,000 patients were assigned to a doctor who didn’t actually see them, a New Mexico congresswoman said Wednesday.
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Who says geeky science stuff isn’t fun? Sixty-eight elementary students in the Roswell area are participating this week in Camp Invention, a one-week educational camp sponsored by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The camps are held across the country with the mission to inspire children to create and invent outside the box in a fun environment. The Roswell camp is being held at the St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church with the assistance of several local sponsors. On Wednesday, many kids dressed up as scientists by wearing white lab coats. In one classroom, children had to take a small electric car and “morph” it so that it could travel on land, sea and air. The cars also had to have characteristics of animals. From left, Reese Melton, 9; Klarisse Vasquez-Banda, 9; Reagan Battle, 10; and Max Lopez, 10.
The of ficials told U.S. Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham, D-N.M., that the practice of putting patients without primary care doctors into a separate pool was part of an effort to balance demand and a shortage of doctors at a facility that handled nearly 660,000 outpatient visits last year.
They said the health of patients was monitored and those who needed urgent care were seen either in clinics, emergency rooms or squeezed onto the schedule of another doctor, but it
wasn’t immediately clear whether the practice put any veterans at risk. It also wasn’t clear how long they waited to be assigned to a doctor. Officials said the practice began in summer 2012 and lasted until January 2014, but they have not said what prompted the end of the program. congressional The staffers were told nearly two-thirds of patients at the Albuquerque VA medical center are seen within a 14-day window, but Lujan Grisham questioned the data given that VA officials weren’t initially forthcoming about the patient pool. The disclosure of the separate patient pool, which was managed though the
Townsend wins state Dalton named ‘Chiropractor of the Year’ rep GOP primary STAFF REPORT
Republican James Townsend easily defeated fellow Republican Pam Richardson Tuesday for the GOP nomination for the District 54 seat in the New Mexico House of Representatives. District-wide, Townsend received 900 votes, or 70.4 percent of ballots cast, while Richardson received 378, or 29.6 percent. In Chaves County, Townsend, of Artesia, received 37 votes, while Richardson, of Lake Arthur, garnered 26. Townsend is unopposed
in November’s general election.
Incumbent William “Bill” Gray, R-Artesia, is not seeking re-election. Gray, first elected in 2006, ran unopposed in 2012 in both the Republican primary and general election.
House District 54 is a massive district, stretching east from Alamogordo to Artesia and Carlsbad. It entails portions of Chaves, Eddy and Otero counties, including the southwest leg and souther n sliver of Chaves County.
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Veronica Silva, a cardio-
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Dr. John Dalton, a Roswell chiropractor, was recently named “Chiropractor of the Year” by the New Mexico Chiropractic Association. “It’s pretty big,” Dalton said on Tuesday. “It means a lot to me to be honored like this by my peers.” Dalton was honored on May 17 at the New Mexico Chiropractic Association’s annual convention, held at the Sandia Resort in Albuquerque. “He is a highly regarded professional and an
the New Mexico Heart Institute in Roswell, tells the
Free classes in handsonly CPR will be offered Saturday at the New Mexico Heart Institute in an effort to train more people in the latest method of life saving. “A lot of people are hesitant to do the mouth-tomouth rescue breathing, and this 100 compressions per minute method of hands-only CPR is being taught as an alternative to the traditional method of CPR,” said Veronica Silva,
Kiwanis Club Tuesday
about the statewide initiative, Project Heart Start. The program will teach
compression-only CPR in free classes across the
state on Saturday. In
Roswell, the classes will be offered at 9, 10 and 11 a.m.
at the New Mexico Heart
Institute.
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Roswell chiropractor Dr. John Dalton was named “Chiropractor of the Year” in May by the New Mexico Chiropractic Association.
Project Heart Start offers free CPR training
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incredible person, and we were very proud to give him that award,” said Jaeni Aarden, executive director of the New Mexico Chiropractic Association. “Dr. Dalton has been on the executive board for the New Mexico Chiropractic Association for several years now and before that, he has been on various committees of the association,” said Dr. Robert C Jones, NMCA president. “Dr. Dalton is a strong advocate of his patients and to that end, he has been politically active in
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a cardiovascular sonographer who works at the New Mexico Heart Institute in Roswell. The weekend event, called Project Heart Start, is part of a statewide initiative to teach people the life-saving method. Classes will be held at 9, 10 and 11 a.m. at the New Mexico Heart Institute, located at 311 W. Country Club Road, Suite 1. The training not only includes the compressiononly CPR, but it also includes the use of an automated external defibrillator. The class will also
• EILEEN L. REIFSTECK • LAWANDA FURNEY
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teach the Heimlich maneuver, which is used to save people who are choking. A Project Heart Start training session lasts only about 40 minutes and is divided into watching a 12minute video produced by KOAT -TV and Dr. Barry Ramo, followed by a 15minute skill session led by a trainer and a short demonstration of an AED. “This isn’t CPR certification, it’s just teaching people to use the compression-only method,” Silva said Tuesday while speaking to the Roswell Kiwanis Club. “The traditional CPR
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is still practiced, but it is mostly for health care workers and takes four hours to get certified.” The Project Heart Start classes are less than an hour, Silva said. Compression-only or hands-only CPR has only two steps to remember, Silva said. “First, call 911 and then you push on the center of the chest 100 times per minute, hard and fast,” she said. Conventional CPR See TRAINING, Page A3
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