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Local representatives introduce bills
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In the days leading up to the 60-day legislative session and during its first week, local lawmakers introduced a half dozen pieces of legislation that will be up for consideration in the coming weeks. Two members of the state House of Representatives Roswell delegation dropped a total of five bills and one joint House resolution. Also, one state senator introduced a bill. Rep. Dennis Kintigh, R-
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Roswell, prefiled three bills including a third attempt to eliminate the state’s film subsidies used to lure production companies to New Mexico. His bill, HB 19, comes after Gov. Susana Martinez’s declaration during her State of the State address, to seek reducing the subsidy from 25 percent to 15 percent. “We need to be better stewards of the people’s money and any improvement is good improvement,” he said. “We’re moving in the right direction (and) that’s the idea.” Kintigh also introduced a
bill, HB 20, that would increase the penalty for second-degree murder from 15 to 25 years. The remaining two of Kintigh’s prefiled items deal directly with lawmakers. One bill, HB 18, would require members of the Legislature to increase their contributions to the state’s legislator retirement plan from $500 for each year of credited service to $600. “We’re keeping the same retirement system that exists for legislators, but we’re going to be putting more into the pot,” he said. “Because we’re asking other
people to (contribute more with the current economy), we need to do the same.” The lawmaker also introduced a House joint resolution, HJR 2, that would set term limits for state officials. Senators would be allowed to serve a maximum of three consecutive fouryear terms and House members would be limited to no more than six consecutive two-year terms. “It’s just a concept that I believe in and we need to have this debate,” he said. “Let’s put it out there (and) have this discussion.” Rep. Nora Espinoza intro-
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Constructors, Inc. workers labor, Friday, on the first phase of a beautification and cleanup project along the Spring River channel next to the Roswell Museum and Art Center between N. Main and N. Richardson streets. The project is in its third week and is expected to be completed in approximately 140 days.
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duced legislation, HB 99, that would allow anesthesiologist assistants to practice alongside anesthesiologists across the state. Under current statute, assistants are only permitted to work at state medical schools. “It’s a total injustice,” Espinoza said. “We’re not changing at all — in any way, fashion or form — what are the supervision requirements. The only thing that we are doing is saying, ‘Allow them to practice anywhere in our state.’”
Giffords moved to Houston
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HOUSTON (AP) — She heard them, smiled, and tears welled up in her eyes. The caravan carrying Rep. Gabrielle Gif for ds swept past cheering crowds Friday as she left the hospital in Tucson, Ariz., where she dazzled doctors with her recovery fr om being shot in the head two weeks ago, and was moved to Houston for rehabilitation. Childr en sat on their parents’ shoulders as the motorcade passed. Many waved. Others carried signs wishing “Gabby” well. “It was very emotional and very special,” said Dr. Randall Friese, who traveled with Giffords. By Friday after noon, after a 930-plus-mile trip that doctors said went flawlessly, Giffords was in an intensive care unit at
Resonance and Wonder: Curatorial Reflections JONATHAN ENTZMINGER RECORD STAFF WRITER
The Roswell Museum and Arts Center opened its curator’s choice exhibition entitled, Resonance and Wonder: Curatorial Reflections, Friday. “The curator’s choice is an exhibition that was put together by seven of our curatorial staff members,” Rufe said. “Each person addr esses a particular theme or idea that relates to the collection and then they pull particular pieces of the collection from the vault. Some of which, have not been seen for quite some time.” The museum’s curatorial committee includes: Caroline Brooks, Andrew John Cecil, Ellen Moore, Stacie Petersen, Mike Van Raes, Laurie Rufe and
Candace Jordan Russell. Br ooks’ vignette will explor e the poetics of space; Cecil’s vignette will “present an overview of selected artists that utilize the landscape as a vehicle for their own iconoclastic interpretation of the natural and historic environment;” Moore’s vignette examines texture and surface both real and implied; Petersen’s vignette features the medium of block printing; Raes pays homage to artist Richar d Thompson “and a body of work that relates to the immigrant-pilgrim experience;” Rufe’s vignette concentrates on historic and contemporary portrayals of the horse and Russell’s vignette is based on the archives of three creative couples: Howard Cook and Barbara Latham, Peter
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Hur d and Henriette W yeth, and Robert and Esther Goddard. Visitors will also be able to participate in some “fun interactive” activities. “We’r e going to have some framed activities on the wall relating to different themes expressed in the exhibition; we’re hoping that people ... will make drawings or write a poem or a story related to this activity,” Car oline Brooks, said. “They can take it home or put it up on our r efrigerator [in poetics of space vignette].”
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RIGHT: Artwork on display at the Roswell Museum and Arts Center's Resonance and Wonder: Curatorial Reflections exhibit.
Sherry Mumford: Philanthropist, mother, Roswell native JONATHAN ENTZMINGER RECORD STAFF WRITER
Sherry Mumford, a true Roswell native, lives a life of pathos through faith, philanthropy. “I think it’s more rewarding to you, if you have a heart for it,” she said. “United Way is so close to my heart.” As the director of the United Way of Chaves County, she helps delegate funds that are applied to the human interest of children, parents and everyone in between. “[Roswell] would be a lot less happy without the [United Way],” Mumford said. “Children wouldn’t
have anyone to speak for them, who are being abused. There’d be no voice to speak up for them ... no place for victims to go if they’re in domestic violence situations ... no educational classes ... we’d have a much lower quality of community without the services ... children would be out on the streets.” Mumford, a 1976 graduate of Roswell High School, spent her early days on her grandfather’s cotton farm. As a fifth-grader at East Grand Plains Middle School, she worked the Roswell cotton fields in the ’60s and ’70s with her brothers and sisters. Mumford said she remembers
wearing long-sleeve shirts and hats to block the sun away. Before she knew the life of charity, philanthropy, she laid the seeds of the Roswell experience in the cotton fields, as a direct part of the mainstay of the community: agriculture. “It was hard,” Mumford said. “At first, I hated it. It was so hot and dry and you
couldn’t wait to get to the end of the row ... I hated it. By the time I got in high school ... my grandfather was paying us minimum wage ... so [then] I liked it. It was great to see that you made a difference ... helped out the family.” Mumford’s early farming experience parallels her life’s journey and willingness to never give up on her
goals. She demonstrates the strength of many of her past clients at the Roswell Refuge, through her life’s example. As a child who grew up in the latter part of her life without both parents in the home, and later experienced her own divorce, she has a message See MUMFORD, Page A3