Roswell Daily Record
Vol. 120, No. 207 50¢ Daily / $1 Sunday
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TURTLE MARATHON CELEBRATES LIZ MOONEY
This Labor Day weekend, the community of Roswell is invited to help celebrate the life of a woman who helped raise awareness for Multiple Sclerosis, Liz Mooney. The 24th annual Turtle Marathon will be Sept. 5, at Cahoon Park. The event has several events including the marathon, half marathon run, 5K run, and 5K walk. - PAGE C1
This Irene’s no lady THE VOICE OF THE PECOS VALLEY
August 28, 2011
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Floodwaters from Albemarle Sound rise on the Outer Banks in Nags Head, N.C., at dusk, Saturday, as Hurricane Irene leaves the North Carolina coast.
NEW YORK (AP) — A weakening but still dangerous Hurricane Irene shut down New York and menaced other cities more accustomed to snowstorms than tropical storms as it steamed up the East Coast on Saturday, unloading a foot of rain on North Carolina and Virginia and knocking out power to more than 1.5 million homes and businesses. At least six people were killed. New York emptied its streets and subways and waited with an eerie quiet.
RIO needs Roswell memorabilia Bond See IRENE, Page A3
Hurricane Irene, 7:40 p.m. EDT, Saturday.
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A rendering of an image by city engineer Jim Sexe of the floorplan for the Reischman Park redevelopment. Mural drawing by local artist Susan Wink.
Reischman Park is getting a make-over to celebrate New Mexico’s upcoming centennial, and the Roswell Interarts Organization wants the people of Roswell to help with the renovation. Artists with RIO, a nonprofit organization that promotes arts and cultural activities in Roswell, are asking people to submit old photos taken in Roswell and other memorabilia to use in the design of the historicthemed public artwork to be placed in the park, located on Main Street between Third and Fourth streets. “We don’t want to rely on the textbooks,” RIO artist Nancy Fleming said.
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election, Tuesday
Early voting turnout for the upcoming special school district general obligation bond election has been surprisingly high, county officials said Friday. About 800 ballots had been cast by mid-afternoon Friday, the last day for absentee and early voting. “That’s very good turnout,” Chaves County Clerk Rhoda Coakley said. School officials are still urging registered voters to go vote Tuesday. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. “We’d like to ask people to go vote,” Michael Gottlieb, Roswell Independent
Wool Building demolition takes history with it EMILY RUSSO MILLER RECORD STAFF WRITER
One of the most unique aspects of New Mexico Military Institute athletics is the cadet-mandatory game, especially when that game is played inside Cahoon Armory. On Saturday, the NMMI Bronco volleyball team’s match against South Mountain Community College in the nightcap of the fourth annual NMMI Classic was a cadet-mandatory game. And the Broncos strongly benefitted from the unique home-court advantage. After falling in Game 1, the Broncos ratcheted up the offensive intensity and took three - PAGE B1
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Some say it is not without a little sadness that the original Roswell Wool building is being torn down this week, as it is one of the last remaining vestiges of the once booming wool warehouse district in historic Roswell and a symbol of the state’s largely bygone sheep industry. One previous owner of the building, Kimble Hibbard, is striving to preserve the building’s history by asking county commissioners to place a memorial plaque in the corner of the parking lot across from the
Chaves County Courthouse at the site of the almostdemolished landmark. “It was the first wool warehouse in the state of New Mexico,” Hibbard, now a real estate agent with Prudential, said in a recent interview at his office. He pointed to a black-andwhite photograph of several men driving wool wagons pulled by mules in downtown Roswell in 1912 hanging on his wall. “They’re going to that warehouse that we tore down this week,” he said. Local agribusinessmantur ned-attor ney Harold Hurd, father of Roswell artist Peter Hurd, founded
the warehouse in 1905 and began operating it under the name Roswell Wool and Hide Company with cofounder Clark A. Baker. It was one of four wool warehouses in Roswell in the early 1900s that were situated along the railroad tracks around Virginia Avenue and Third and Fourth streets that made up the wool warehouse district. Since the state was rampant with millions of sheep at the time, wool marketing and sheep trading businesses were extremely profitably at the time. See WOOL, Page A3
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In this undated photograph provided by the Historical Center for Southeast New Mexico Museum and Museum Archives, prominent area businessmen pose for a picture inside the old Roswell Wool Warehouse.
Sanchez, Sowards campaign in Roswell Assurance Home and United EMILY RUSSO MILLER RECORD STAFF WRITER
Two self-described conservatives vying for the Republican nomination for a U.S. Senate seat, Lt. Gov. John Sanchez and Las Cruces businessman Greg Sowards, stumped in Roswell Saturday afternoon at a Chaves County Republican Party social event. Both men appealed to the conservative base of the party by promising less government and fiscal responsibility in back-toback speeches. Emily Russo Miller Photo “We ran on some issues of less government, less Las Cruces businessman Greg Sowards campaigns in spending, cut the waste, Roswell, Saturday afternoon at a Chaves County Republithe fraud and the abuse,” can Party social event. Sanchez said, praising Gov. Susana Martinez for lieutenant governor in the state House of Represelling the state jet earlier November, running on a sentatives. He said there is much this week. The plane was ticket with Martinez. He work to be done in an purchased under former was the GOP gubernatoriupcoming legislative sesal nominee in 2002, but Gov. Bill Richardson’s lost to Democrat Richardadminstration. Sanchez was elected son. He served one term in See GOP, Page A3
Way: 32 years and counting JULIA BERGMAN RECORD STAFF WRITER
This article is one in a series of stories focusing on local agencies which receive support from the United Way of Chaves County, which is currently conducting its annual fundraising campaign.
On a 15-acre property, equipped with a large home, horse stables, a basketball court and a ropes course, adolescents are offered a safe escape from otherwise difficult situations in their lives. Opening its doors in 1979, Assurance Home has provided abused, neglected and homeless children in Roswell with a place to live for 32 years. “We have the belief that if you take kids who are having a dif ficult time and place them in an attractive and safe environment, surround them with loving
adults and allow them to process their trauma, they will be able to experience progress in their lives,” Ron Malone, executive director said. Adolescents are referred to Assurance Home through a number of different outlets such as the court system, New Mexico Children Youth and Families Department and other treatment programs. In the past, Assurance Home has received one or two kids every three months through self-referrals. Recently that rate has increased to one or two kids a month. Although each adolescent coming to Assurance Home is experiSee HOME, Page A2