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Roswell Daily Record THE VOICE OF THE PECOS VALLEY

Vol. 124, No. 138 75¢ Daily / $1.25 Sunday

June 10, 2015

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Junkyard cleanup completed in three days By Jeff Tucker Record Staff Writer Chaves County workers have finished the extensive cleanup of a junk-ridden property just north of Roswell that county leaders had declared a safety hazard. Multiple mobile home frames, axles, wood, metals and other debris have all been removed from the property of Ernest “Rod” Tricarico at 6105 N. Main St. All that is left is a small tree. Road Operations Director Terry Allensworth said the cleanup, which began June 1, was completed Thursday night. Allensworth said he hopes Roswell residents and visitors will appreciate the difference made by the county Road Department crews. “It’s nice and cleared off,” Allensworth said Tuesday. “It’s leveled. I think it made a big difference for people coming and leaving Roswell.”

Allensworth said all the debris from Tricarico’s property was taken to the landfill, excluding metals from the multiple mobile home frames and axles. “We did take the metal to one of the local recyclers,” Allensworth said. The proceeds from the recycled metal will be used to offset the cleanup costs, which Allensworth had predicted would be between

$20,000 and $25,000. “I think it’s going to be more, just based on the amount of stuff that we hauled out of there,” Allensworth said. “The manpower, I underestimated that a little, so I’m expecting it to be more actually.” The Chaves County Road Department assigned about a dozen road crew members to the cleanup, and heavy equipment.

Jeff Tucker Photos

Above left: This photo taken May 28 shows the property of Ernest “Rod” Tricarico at 6105 N. Main St. before the Chaves County Road Department cleaned up the property last week. Above: This photo taken Tuesday shows the same property after it was cleaned. Allensworth said the cleanup costs should be known later this week. Louis Brady, who co-owns an automobile hobby shop at 6107

N. Main St., said county crews worked rapidly. “They did it in record time,”

Movies now at the zoo

See CLEANUP, Page A2

Getting tanked

Curtis Michaels Photo

Crews lower a new tank for Wakefield Oil on South Virginia Avenue as the business upgrades to meet EPA standards and to expand operations. This is the first part of Wakefield Oil’s expansion and upgrade to better serve its customers who drive cars and commercial trucks.

Orchestra gearing up for its 56th season

By Dylanne Petros Record Staff Writer

Although the Roswell Symphony Orchestra is wrapping up its 55th season, it is already planning out the 56th season. The end of June ends the current season, said Kate Graham, operations manager for RSO. “Our current orchestra is made up of a mix of professional and non-professional musicians,” she said. When the orchestra started, there were only non-professional musicians from the community involved and they practiced in the basement of First United Methodist Church, 200 N. Pennsylvania Ave. Now, RSO has people from all around. “People come in from about a 200 mile radius,” Graham said.

In the past 55 years, Graham said there have only been four conductors and the current conductor, John Farrer, has been involved with RSO for 43 seasons. “He travels around the world teaching master classes and conducting,” she said. Every year RSO offers four different concerts for ticket holders. The first concert for ticket holders is in November. There are also concerts in December and February. See SEASON, Page A2 Dylanne Petros Photo

Kate Graham, operations manager for the Roswell Symphony Orchestra, speaks to Kiwanis members about the upcoming RSO season. Also pictured is member Abel Esquibel.

The free summer movies sponsored by MainStreet Roswell have been temporarily moved to the Spring River Park & Zoo. Visitors should enter near the bathrooms. The City of Roswell will be working on improving the turf at Cielo Grande Recreation Area, so the movies have been relocated for the time being. For updates, visit the MainStreet Roswell Facebook page. • Visitors are encouraged to bring blankets and chairs as well as bug spray. • Movie goers are allowed to bring their own snacks, and Girl Scouts will be on hand with concessions. No smoking, pets, or consumption of alcohol are permitted. Movies will begin around 8:30 p.m., and there are extra activities planned prior to each movie. • Here is the schedule for the remainder of the summer, which is subject to change. • June 13 — “Dolphin Tale 2” • June 20 — “The Goonies” • June 27 — “The Neverending Story” • July 2 — “Earth to Echo” (Roswell Civic Center) • July 7 — “Box Trolls” (Cahoon Park) • July 18 “Strange Magic” • July 25 — “Planes: Fire and Rescue” • Aug. 1 — “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day” • Aug. 8 — “Cinderella”

Convicted ex-NM sheriff ‘Desert Snow’ goes after probation violators gets certification revoked ESPANOLA (AP) — A former northern New Mexico sheriff convicted in a road rage case is no longer a peace officer in New Mexico. The New Mexico Law Enforcement Academy Board voted Tuesday to revoke the officer certification for former Rio Arriba County Sheriff Thomas Rodella. New Mexico Attorney

General Hector Balderas told reporters Rodella’s conviction was an embarrassment. Rodella was sentenced in January to 10 years in federal prison for abusing a driver in a bizarre, off-duty traffic stop that prosecutors described as a fit of road rage. He also was ordered to pay a $200,000 See REVOKED, Page A3 Today’s Forecast

HIGH 93 LOW 66

By Jared Tucker Multimedia Journalist

The United States Marshals Service teamed up with other federal, state and local law enforcement agencies this past weekend to conduct the third of a five-phase arrest warrant roundup for outstanding local and federal probation violators. According to Roswell Police Public Information Officer Todd Wildermuth, RPD

joined the Chaves County Sheriff’s Office, the New Mexico State Police, DEA, FBI and ATF to target probation violators in six counties in Southeast New Mexico. Police worked 12-hour days to bring the probation violators back to jail to answer for their violations. “Most of the arrests were made at residences where the wanted subjects had been tracked as a result of

Today’s Obituaries Pages A3 • Alejandro “Alex” Alvarez • James L. Bruin • Donald Coppock • Perry Dean Garcia

• Kelly Wayne Hobbs • Lawrence Montoya Sr. • Jodene Sandon Mulliken • Orlando S. Sedillo

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investigation,” Wildermuth said. A press release from the Marshals Service states a total of 60 arrests were made, clearing 111 warrants in the six-county area of southeastern New Mexico. Of those arrests, 16 were arrested in or around Roswell which cleared 42 of those warrants, Wildermuth said. “The combined and successful efforts from many law

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• Samuel Richard Thoreson • Mary Ellen Tisler • Beatrice Najar Vargas

enforcement agencies and jurisdictions will result in safer communities for all of our citizens,” Marshal Conrad Candelaria said in the press release. “Significant arrests” yielded by the operation include assault/battery (2), aggravated assault/aggravated battery (4), burglary (4), probation violation (23), robbery See DESERT, Page A2

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