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NEW YORK (AP) — Apple stores got the longest lines as the new iPhone model launched Friday, but there were lines at Sprint stores too, as the carrier got a chance to sell the phone more than four years after the first model was launched. - PAGE A7
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Gardner speaks to Economic Development JULIA BERGMAN RECORD STAFF WRITER
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Keith Gardner, chief of staff for Gov. Susana Martinez, debriefed members of the Southeastern New Mexico Economic Development District/Council of Governments about the recent legislative special session, during their board of directors quarterly meeting Friday morning. Gardner spoke largely about the redistricting process, hinting that blame
should be directed toward the majority party, “Evidence of the disaster that was reapportionment and redistricting was the fact that you had lawmakers from the majority who were filing lawsuits about a veto before the veto even occurred. They knew the moment they cast that vote that it wasn’t constitutional.” As Gardner explained, the maps created by the majority party, which the governor ultimately vetoed,
Fun in the Pumpkin Patch
packed urban areas, which were high growth districts, at 4.6 to 4.7 percent overpopulation, and conversely rural areas, which were low growth districts, were underpopulated by the same percentage. Redistricting allows for a deviation of plus-or -minus 5 percent from the average population. “Since the Census is now a year and a half old, that data is now a year and a half old. You already have districts who are beyond
the 5 percent threshold under the new population statistics. This was the ultimate screwing of rural New Mexico in my humble opinion,” Gardner said, adding the notion of one man one vote, which is a fundamental part of a citizen’s constitutional rights, was violated. Gardner applauded the legislators in the room, including Rep. Dennis Kintigh, R-Roswell and Rep. Bob Wooley, RRoswell, for standing up
Legal Fair helps several in the community
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Kindergartners from Washington Avenue Elementary School haul their Halloween prizes during a visit to the pumpkin patch Friday morning at Graves Farm and Garden. The farm is in full-blown Halloween mode with the Scary Corn Maze opening today from dark till midnight.
BLACKWATER DRAW — Entering every game, Roswell football coach Robert Arreola says that he will call offensive plays based on what the opposing defense is giving him. Against the Portales Rams on Friday night... - PAGE B1
TODAY’S OBITUARIES • Dr. Owen C. Taylor - PAGE A7
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The State Bar of New Mexico hosted a Legal Fair Friday afternoon for anyone and everyone who needed legal advice in Civil Law. Amy LaFaver, pro-bono coordinator throughout the state, works with local attorneys and judges to help those who cannot afford an expensive attorney or simply need direction and counsel. Dustin K. Hunter, Esq. and Judge Stephen Bell led the program in Roswell for the second year in a row bringing out approximately 70 to 80 people to the Roswell Courthouse. Most of the participants brought along paperwork in their particular
Character Counts! Wall Street protesters week to begin JULIA BERGMAN RECORD STAFF WRITER
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and making their voices heard during the session. He also put to rest the notion perpetuated before the session began, which lingered throughout the session, that Southeastern New Mexico needed to lose representation so the Northwestern part of the state could gain representation. “I can tell you from a demographic standpoint that’s not true. It is unfair to ask you all to lose repre-
“If-it-is-to-be-it-is-up-tome my character counts,” chanted students from Dexter Elementary School on Friday at the Joseph R. Skeen Building at the Chaves County Administrative Center. The students helped Tim Fuller, executive director for Character Counts!, along with other members of the organization and the community in the presenting of a proclamation announcing the week of Oct. 16 through Oct. 21 as “Character Counts! Week.” County Commissioner Richard Taylor read the proclamation, which was signed by mayors of the cities of Dexter, Hagerman, Lake Arthur and Roswell, as well as the Dexter Elementary students, and others in attendance. “I think it’s a pleasure to be able to
read this. I hope that people in our community and everywhere will look at these six pillars of character and set the example for our youth. I think it’s so important that our youth be aware of these. If they practice these they’re going to be great citizens,” Taylor said. “I think this is one of the greatest programs going. If you develop these attributes you will use them all through your life from the time you start first grade until you go to the grave. They make good business owners, they make good workers, they make good husbands, they make good wives,” Kim Chesser, county commissioner, said. He also signed the proclamation. Character Counts! Week focuses on embracing the six pillars of character: See COUNTS! Page A3
See LEGAL, Page A3
thwart eviction attempt NEW YORK (AP) — Anti-Wall Street protesters exulted Friday after beating back a plan to clear them from the park they have occupied for the past month, saying the victory will embolden the movement across the U.S. and beyond. The showdown in New York came as tensions were rising in several U.S. cities over the spreading protests, with several arrests and scattered clashes between demonstrators and police. The owners of Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan had announced plans to temporarily evict the hundreds of protesters at 7 a.m. Friday so that the grounds could be powerwashed. But the protesters feared it was a pretext to break up the demonstration, and they vowed
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Protestors participating in the Occupy Wall Street protests, police and members of the media clog a street in the Financial District during a march towards Wall Street Friday. to stand their ground, raising the prospect of
clashes with police.
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McKelvey; educator inside and outside the classroom
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Longtime educator Dawnell McKelvey holding her Chaves County Caring Citizen award.
VANESSA KAHIN RECORD STAFF WRITER No one knows the importance of the education that takes place outside of school better than a good, caring teacher — especially one whose sense of responsibility toward youth helped her get the Chaves County Caring Citizen award in August. Dawnell McKelvey, a longtime public school teacher for Dexter Consolidated Schools, has quietly but steadfastly worked on behalf of the development of youth, both inside and outside the classroom. Now in her 27th year with
Dexter Schools, McKelvey just finished a 26-year tenure teaching family and consumer sciences to high school students. Several classes fell under family and consumer science, including child development, family living, foods and employability skills. This last class was of fered as a dual credit with Eastern New Mexico UniversityRoswell.
McKelvey was involved in Dexter High’s Student Council as a sponsor, something she called “the per fect opportunity to work with the kids.” She was also a sponsor for Future Homemakers of America. McKelvey also taught at ENMU-R, where she was an adjunct faculty member in the community colSee MCKELVEY, Page A3