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Governor -elect Susana announced Martinez Wednesday that a Roswell state lawmaker will head her executive leadership team. House Minority Whip Keith Gardner, R-Roswell, was named Martinez’s chief of staff in a news release late in the day. Gardner represents District 66 and has held the position that encompasses Chaves, Eddy, Lea and Roosevelt counties since 2005.
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Gardner has lived in Roswell for 17 years and is the managing partner of Sprint Sports Rehabilitation Clinic, according to the release. Gardner could not be reached for comment. Chaves County Manager Stan Riggs says the County Commission will likely vote to approve an individual, or list of names, to send to the gover nor’s of fice for appointment to Gardner’s position once he resigns. “We’ll send a name up or send a series of names,” he said.
Lists will likely be sent by of ficials from Eddy, Lea and Roosevelt counties. Martinez also named Ryan Cangiolosi as deputy chief of staf f overseeing boards and commissions and constituent services and Brian Moore as deputy chief of staff and legislative director overseeing policy. She also appointed Jessica Hernandez as general counsel, Matthew Stackpole as assistant general counsel, Scott Darnell as communications director and Matt Kennicott as director of policy and plan-
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ning. “These individuals will constitute the nucleus of Governor-elect Martinez’s team on the fourth floor of the Roundhouse and help lead an administration that is focused on instituting fiscal restraint and getting the state’s books in order, creating jobs with progrowth economic policies, reforming education to produce results in classrooms across the state, and ending the waste, fraud and abuse in state gover nment,” reads the news release.
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CHICAGO (AP) — The big Opt-Out looked like a big bust Wednesday as most of the Thanksgiving travelers selected for full-body scans and pat-down searches chose to submit to them rather than create havoc on one of the busiest flying days of the year. In fact, in some parts of the U.S., bad weather was shaping up as a bigger threat to travelers’ hopes of getting to their destinations
on time. For days, activists had waged a loosely organized campaign on the Internet to encourage airline passengers to refuse full-body scans and insist on a patdown in what was dubbed National Opt-Out Day. But as of Wednesday afternoon, the cascading delays and monumental lines that many feared would result had not materialized. The Transportation Secu-
rity Administration said few people seemed to be opting out. Some protesters did show up, including one man seen walking around the Salt Lake City airport in a skimpy, Speedo-style bathing suit, and others carrying signs denouncing the TSA’s screening methods as unnecessarily intrusive and embarrassing. By most accounts,
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the river’s confluence with the Rio Grande in Texas, is the valley’s most obvious water source. In terms of Pecos Valley usage and overall flow, the river is dwar fed by its underground counterpart. Sliding below the earth’s surface east of the slit in the Sacramento Mountains that serves as its intake, the basin sprawls east until it dead-ends at the Pecos
River. From north to south, it spreads from Vaughn to Seven Rivers. The snowmelt and rainwater that slip off the mountainous slopes into the basin, or aquifer, naturally replenish the system. As those familiar with the lay of the southeastern New Mexico land well know, Roswell is several thousand feet lower than the mountains 80 miles to the west.
The result is, like the oldtime photographs of oil gushing forth, fountain-ing really, out of the earth, a highly pressurized aquifer (i.e. an artesian aquifer) that, if not overly depleted, saves basin far mers the expense and hassle of pumping their life-blood. Looming over the basin, a shallower, non-artesian water source connected to the Pecos River adds to the
valley’s surprisingly vast water supply. But, as humans tend to do, after the artesian water was discovered (reportedly by Roswell’s Nathan Jaffa) in the summer of 1890, residents pushed the resource to its limit. By 1915, 1,242 wells plunged into the aquifer. Forty years later, 158,000
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ised if I ever got blessed with my own business, I’d do Thanksgiving dinner,” said Valerie. The Sanchez family fulfilled that dream in March 2009. Only two years in business, and the Sale Bar n has already been nominated for the best green chili cheeseburgers in the state. Last year, they gave their first feast. “We just want to feed anyone who wants to eat a hot meal on Thanksgiving,” she said.
The dinner is open to anyone — those who don’t want to cook, those who can’t af ford to cook, or those who don’t want to eat alone. According to Valerie, the first year went well, with some 30 to 35 people attending. The leftovers were delivered to the various homeless camps in the area. “We went to the bridge on Virginia Avenue and to a camp
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Courts establish PVACD to conserve Roswell-Artesian Basin
Beyond the river that winds to the east, Roswell has the façade of a stereotypical desert. But don’t be deceived by the dry dearth and parched flora. A visit to its subterranean shows a wetter world. The Pecos River, with headwaters in norther n New Mexico and an end at
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Free T-Day feast at Sale Barn Café begins at 11 a.m., today
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Valerie Sanchez begins preparation for Thanksgiving dinner.
The Sale Barn Café will hold a free turkey feast starting at 11 a.m. today. The Sale Barn is sandwiched away inside the Roswell Livestock Auction Barn, 900 N. Garden Ave. The cafe is owned by Valerie and Raymundo Sanchez. The free dinner is their way of giving thanks. “We’ve always wanted our own business, and I prom-
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