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mug, most talented and pet/owner look-a-like. Money raised from this year’s event will go to a scholarship fund for local students who plan to pursue an animal sciences degree in college.
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McLEAN, Va. (AP) — Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address has inspired Americans for generations, but consider his jarring remarks in 1862 to a White House audience of free blacks, urging them to leave the U.S. and settle in Central America. - PAGE C3
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Four local women were honored at the 12th annual Roswell Women’s History Month Celebration brunch at the Roswell Musuem and Art Center, Saturday morning. Donna Paul, Anjali Suri, Shelly Currier and Margaret Rodriquez were fêted for their outstanding contributions to the community. Cindy Wilson, chairwoman of the Women’s History Month Committee, called the women “unsung heroes” who should be recognized for their achievements and for inspiring
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others. “They do so much for our community ... that most people don’t know,” Wilson said. “They’re true leaders, and being true leaders, they’re quiet about what they do, but their passion is inspiring others.” Suri, an Indian-bor n financial consultant at Financial Network, has worked to improve literacy in the community, and is chairwoman of the Literacy Committee for Altrusa, a service organization specializing in literacy, the environment and AIDS/ HIV. See HISTORY, Page A3
Wag-n-Walk preparations
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From left, Anjali Suri, Margaret Rodriquez, Donna Paul and Shelly Currier, National Women’s History Month 2011 honorees, during the annual Women’s History Month Celebration Brunch held Saturday at the Roswell Museum and Art Center.
Day care providers fight for subsidies
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Sarah Brinegar and Tango get ready for the Rio Pecos Kennel Club’s 5th annual Shamrock Wag-n-Walk that will be held Saturday, March 19, from 9 to 11 a.m. at Cahoon Park near the pool. Prizes will be awarded for cutest puppy and adult dog, ugly mug, most talented and pet/owner look-a-like. Money raised from this year’s event will go to a scholarship fund for local students who plan to pursue an animal sciences degree in college.
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About 50 parents and day care providers gathered Thursday night to protest further cuts to subsidized day care and to push for a resolution pending in the Legislature that would allocate per manent funding for early childhood education and day care. “We’re not looking for bleeding hearts, and we’re not looking for handouts,” Jeri Key, co-owner of Generations of Learning Center, in Roswell, told the crowd in the old Arts and Crafts Building at the Eastern New Mexico State Fairgrounds. “What we’re looking for is the help to take care of our children.” Key encouraged parents to email their local lawmakers in support of Senate Joint Resolution 10. SJR10, sponsored by Sen. Cynthia Nava, D-Las Cruces, would amend the state constitution to increase the distribution of money from the Land Grant Permanent Fund to early childhood education programs.
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ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — The blackened swath of prairie stretches some 40 miles from the edge of Chaves County to the Texas state line. Firefighters and weather forecasters are pointing to the fresh scar from last week’s nearly 65,000-acre grass fire as a sign of what’s to come in parts of the Southwest. They say much of the region already has the ingredients needed for the makings of a grueling fire season — dry and
US begins relief operation for refugees in Tunisia An aerial view of the burned prairie from last week's nearly 65,000-acre grass fire near Lovington.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. on Friday launched a multipronged effort to assist throngs of foreign workers who fled the fighting in Libya, sending two Air Force cargo planes to deliver blankets and other supplies in neighboring Tunisia. Plans were made to fly an unspecified number of refugees from camps along the Libya-Tunisia border on Saturday. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said that in addition to the military cargo flights to Djerba, Tunisia, the U.S. Agency for International Development chartered two civilian aircraft to help repatriate foreign workers who have fled Libya amid an armed insurrection against the government of Moammar Gadhafi.
Even with the emphasis on humanitarian rather that overt military action, the risk of encountering hostility and violence along the border could not be discounted. It was not clear Friday how U.S. and other inter national efforts to fly foreign workers away from the border area would be carried out. “We know that there is a lot of confusion on the ground that is often difficult for us to sort through to get to what the actual facts are,” Clinton said. ”But the United States remains deeply concerned about the welfare of the Libyan people. Both the Libyans and those who are fleeing Libya are the subject of our outreach.” See RELIEF, Page A2
crunchy vegetation, abovenor mal temperatures, howling winds and little chance for any significant rainfall in the foreseeable future. Wind-driven wildfires have already scorched more than 190 square miles of prairie and destroyed scores of homes in West Texas. In New Mexico, more than 125 square miles have burned along with barns, storage sheds and other structures. Arizona has yet to see any
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major wildfires in the first two months of the year, but officials say conditions are expected to worsen across southeastern Arizona and in New Mexico up through the middle Rio Grande Valley. “Until we get significant precipitation in here, we are in a constant battle with possible fire danger and it never ends,” said Tim Shy, a senior forecaster with the National WeathSee FIRE, Page A3
‘Afghanistan is right here’
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Sgt. Gabriel Herrera uses a globe to show where he was stationed in Afghanistan to All Saints Catholic School kindergartners including his nephew, Ryan Mestas, lower right. Young Ryan came up with the idea to invite his uncle, who returned to the States Feb. 3, to the school for an official homecoming.