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State agencies hiring
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President Barack Obama holds a round table discussion with CEOs and business leaders in Mumbai, India, Saturday.
SANTA FE (AP) — Despite a hiring freeze in state gover nment, some state agencies in New Mexico are hiring new employees. Hundreds of exemptions have been granted to the freeze since it was implemented in November 2008. The Department of Game and Fish has 28 openings. Those positions are fewer than half of the vacancies in the department, said Lance Cherry, the agency’s spokesman. He said the agency has been very conservative, but really need to fill these posts, which include jobs for game wardens, zoologists, wildlife supervisors and an IT specialist. Lawmakers have criticized the freeze as nothing
Autumn golf
MUMBAI, India (AP) — Searching for help half a world away, President Barack Obama on Saturday embraced India as the next jobs-creating giant for hurting Americans, not a cheap-labor rival that outsources opportunity from the United States. Obama was determined to show tangible, economic results on his long Asia trip, and that was apparent from almost the moment he set foot on a steamy afternoon in the world’s largest democracy. By the end of the first of his three days in
India, he was promoting $10 billion in trade deals — completed in time for his visit — that the White House says will create about 54,000 jobs at home. That’s a modest gain compared with the extent of the enduring jobless crisis in the United States. Economists say it would require on the level of 300,000 new jobs a month to put a real dent in an unemployment rate stuck near 10 percent. Yet to Obama, the bigger picture was the lucrative potential of an unleashed
trading relationship between India and the United States. He seemed comfortable and energized away from Washington, days removed from the GOP’s election thumping. “For America, this is a jobs strategy,” Obama said of his emphasis on trade, although it could stand as a motto for his 10-day trip. He is spending today with young people in Mumbai and then heading onto meetings in New Delhi, the See OBAMA, Page A7
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A golfer is dwarfed by a colorful tree in full autumn splendor at the Spring River Golf Course, Thursday afternoon.
CASA advocates for children in the community See STATE, Page A7
JONATHAN ENTZMINGER RECORD STAFF WRITER
Chaves County CASA, a United Way agency, has been in the community for 23 years. “We supervise and train CASA volunteers to advocate in court for abused and neglected children,” Carrie-Leigh Cloutier, CASA executive director, said. “When a child is so abused that they have to be taken away from their parents and put into foster care, a CASA volunteer becomes
involved. They make sure the children get everything they need.” CASA’s volunteer advocacy program is funded by United Way. The non-profit has 12 youth advocacy programs that work out of its main office at 500 N. Main St., Suite 310. Programs serve about 1,000 abused, neglected and at-risk children every year.
“Children are safe because of us,” Cloutier said. “Children are in happy homes because of us. Cycled violence ends because of us.“ According to Cloutier, tough economic times are threatening CASA’s funding for a few programs. However, she said the agency has another need to fill. “Even more than money, we need volunteers,” Cloutier said. “We need volunteers who are willing to go through 30 hours of training and are willing to
take on some of the hardest volunteer work that there is.” To absorb the impact that CASA might take from the recession, they’re holding an auction called Winter Wonderland at First American Bank, 111 E. 5th St., on Nov. 18. Donations for the auction can be dropped off at First American and its norther n branch at 3220 N. Main St. Xcel Energy, the Roswell Chamber of Commerce and
United Way
622-4150 of Chaves County
Collected
$137,034 Goal
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Volunteers grab bags, don T-shirts, gloves and Trek for Trash EMILY RUSSO MILLER RECORD STAFF WRITER
Nor mally, criminals wearing orange jumpsuits are the ones who are forced to pick up trash from the sides of roads. But this weekend, more than 400 volunteers donned bright orange T -shirts with the slogan “T rek for T rash” written across the chest and cheerfully cleaned up litter from Main Street and Roswell’s surrounding neighborhoods. “I hate trashy places, so I’m going to pick it up,” Alex Castillo said as he picked up his free T -shirt and trash bags at the Roswell Civic and Conven-
tion Center, Friday. He said that he was going to clean up Poe Corn Park on South Garden Avenue. The litter control event was sponsored by NM Clean & Beautiful, a program of the New Mexico Tourism Department, that organizes two state-wide cleanups annually: The Great American Cleanup in the spring and T rek for Trash in the fall. “It’s a challenge by the government to initiate programs for litter eradication, beautification and promoting waste management,” Renee Roach, the Keep Roswell Beautiful coordinator, said. Last year, volunteers
removed more than 25 tons of debris from the city, and Roach hopes to meet that goal once again. Participants received a VIP card for the Roswell Municipal Landfill, which would otherwise charge a penny and a half to dump a pound of trash. “We’re really trying this time to focus on neighborhoods,” Roach said, noting that statistics show a correlation between crime and the cleanliness of neighborhoods. “It sends a signal to thieves, vandals and loiterers that we’re watching them, especially as we embark on the holiday season.” Neighborhood Watch,
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Children at the Roswell Boys & Girls Club prepare to go to work during the Trek for Trash Cleanup Day, Saturday.
Adopt-a-Highway, Adopt-aCounty Mile and other community groups formed their own teams to search neighborhoods for trash.
Tom Gray, the building chairman for Habitat for Humanity of Roswell, said See TREK, Page A7
Family Care Medical Center H. Nizhonnii Kinsel-Evans, M.D. Daniel Raes, M.D. Members of the Medical Staff at
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