Roswell Daily Record
Vol. 120, No. 285 50¢ Daily / $1 Sunday
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Shoppers turn out early for bargains
NEW YORK (AP) — Stockard Channing plans to return to a Broadway stage Friday night for the first time since undergoing arthroscopic surgery on her right knee just five days ago. The 67-year-old Tony Award-winning actress said in an interview at the Booth Theatre a few hours before Friday’s show time that .... - PAGE A8
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JULIA BERGMAN RECORD STAFF WRITER
THE SHOW MUST GO ON
November 26, 2011
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Efrain Soto Jr. and Stephanie Munoz check texts while waiting with other early Christmas shoppers in front of Target Thursday night for the midnight opening.
Electronics were the hot ticket item at Black Friday sales throughout Roswell. Crowds bombarded big box stores starting as early as 10 p.m.,Thursday. Walmart started its deals at 10 p.m., Thursday with many electronics on sale. Target opened at midnight on Friday, letting 30 customers in every 30 seconds. It was the first time the store opened at mid-
BARGAIN-HUNTERS BRING SHARP ELBOWS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A shopper in Los Angeles pepper-sprayed her competition for an Xbox and scuffles broke out elsewhere around the U.S. as bargain-hunters crowded stores in an earlier-than-usual start to the madness known as Black Friday. For the first time, chains such as Target, Best Buy and Kohl’s opened their doors at midnight on the most anticipated shopping day of the year. Toys R Us opened for the second straight year on Thanksgiving itself. And some shoppers arrived with sharp elbows. Near Muskegon, Mich., a teenage girl was knocked down and stepped on several times after getting caught in the rush to a sale in the electronics department at a
Christmas festivities at the Roswell Mall
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The Sweet Leilani's entertain holiday shoppers who were on hand at the Roswell Mall Friday morning to greet Santa Claus and say aloha.
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Santa Claus is greeted by his young fans upon arriving at the Roswell Mall, Friday morning.
First lady, Malia, Sasha, Bo take delivery on Yule tree
First dog Bo inspects the White House Christmas tree as it arrives at the North Portico, Friday.
WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas at the White House. Michelle Obama continued a decades-old tradition the day after Thanksgiving as she, daughters Malia and Sasha, and Bo, the family dog, witnessed the arrival of an 18-and-a-halffoot balsam fir tree from Wisconsin, hauled up the driveway by horse-drawn wagon and delivered to their doorstep Friday. The Obamas walked around the carriage and inspected the tree before
giving it a thumbs-up. But that was merely a formality; White House staffers traveled to Wisconsin last month and picked out that tree. The fir is headed for the oval-shaped Blue Room, where it will become the centerpiece of the White House Christmas decorations. It will be decorated to honor Blue Star families, those with a loved one who has served or currently is serving in the armed forces. The tree came from Schroeder’s Forevergreens near Neshkoro, Wis., owned
by Tom and Sue Schroeder. It’s the first time one of their trees has made it to the White House. The couple earned the honor after winning a national contest — on their fourth try — sponsored by the National Christmas Tree Association. “It’s just very thrilling,” Sue Schroeder said in an interview after leaving behind the tree, which took 20 years to grow. Having the tree at the White House is a “highlight
ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — Los Alamos National Laboratory is asking the state of New Mexico for more time to meet some mandated cleanup milestones as it faces shifting priorities and uncertainty about its environmental cleanup budget. The northern New Mexico lab would be able to speed up the shipment of radioactive waste from lab property to a permanent disposal site if allowed to shift
The state and the lab initially viewed the agreement, which established legally binding targets, as a way to pressure the federal gover nment into providing cleanup money. However, getting money for the work has become increasingly difficult. Among the projects for which the state has already granted a two-year delay is cleanup work in an area of Los Alamos Canyon, which
is downstream from an early lab dump site. Money that would have gone to the canyon work can now be spent shipping radioactive waste from the lab to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, an underground disposal site near Carlsbad. Officials with the state Environment Department said they support the change because getting containers of waste moved has become a priority of the
state since last summer’s Las Conchas fire. The containers are currently stored above ground in temporary tent-like structures. Jim Davis, head of the state Environment Department’s Resource Protection Division, called the waste “vulnerable.” “It’s potentially combustible or potentially dis-
her love of art to her granddaughter. That love became a thread that has run continuously throughout her life. Carson’s grandfather was a carpenter. “He was the contractor who built the first frame houses on the Mescalero Reservation in the 1930s and 1940s.” Carson studied art at the University of New Mexico, but she found her medium, her outlet and her passion
in Santa Fe, when she took private lessons in weaving. She works with all natural fibers, raw silk, cotton, and linen and recently has been working with bamboo. Her clothes, woven by hand, exhibit true Southwestern flair. Labor intensive they are also a labor of love, and often one of a kind; therefore, her scarves
ROCKETS MOVE ON; BULLDOGS GO HOME
It was 363 days ago when Artesia upset top-ranked and undefeated Goddard in the state semifinals en route to its 27th state championship. That’s 363 days worth of frustration and anger that have built up and boiled within the Goddard Rockets. On Friday, they released every bit of it on the Bulldogs in a semifinal rematch at the Wool Bowl. Goddard (12-0) scored 21 unanswered points .... - PAGE B1
TODAY’S OBITUARIES
• Dee Umberson • Patricia Ann West • Anne Sawey Fisher • Agnes Gonzales - PAGE A3
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LANL asks state for more time to meet cleanup goals resources to higher priority work, George Rael, head of environmental management for the federal government’s Los Alamos Site Office told the Albuquerque Journal. The changes in lab cleanup priorities come amid discussion among the state, the lab and members of the public regarding the lab’s 2005 agreement on environmental cleanup milestones.
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Ann Haile Carson weaves garments, furniture, dreams
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JESSICA PALMER RECORD STAFF WRITER
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Ann Haile Carson at her loom.
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Artist and weaver of dreams, Ann Haile Carson came back to live in Roswell three-and-a-half years ago, but her ties to the community go back generations. Carson’s grandmother, Allie. J. Wer ner, was one of the early directors of the Roswell Museum and Art Center in the late 1940s, early 1950s. Carson’s grandmother was an artist in her own right. She had a summer home in Ruidoso’s Upper Canyon. She bequeathed
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