Enchilada Dinner at Elks Lodge and Local Events
The Quay County Sun lists events including Helping Hands Hospice enchilada dinner at Elks Lodge on Friday. Grow for the Light Glow Run at Tucumcari Golf Course at 5 pm and an artist reception at the ENM Arts and Cultural Center. The paper notes hours 8:30 am to 4:30 pm Monday through Friday and during lunch hour.
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Helping Hands Hospice
Enchilada
Elks Lodge
Tucumcari Golf
ENM Arts and Cultural Center
Quay County Sun
Polls Open as Readers Weigh Keystone XL Support
Last week's poll shows 35 percent saying the cold front is on time and 60 percent noting it was late, with 40 votes. This week's question asks if the Keystone XL Pipeline should be built with Yes No and Don’t have an opinion options. Cast your vote at qcsunonline.com.
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Qcsunonline.com
Tucumcari Local News Roundup of 1958 Events
In Tucumcari this month Romnie B. Mathiews Jr. became foreman at Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Co. The Museum of International Folk Art associate director spoke at the city library about Easter Island head mystery. George Vourazeris found a Woolly Mammoth molar and incisor near San Jon. Gayle Washburn won first at the New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau state talent contest in Roswell.
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Romnie B. Mathiews Jr
Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Co
Tucumcari
Museum of International Folk Art
Santa Fe
Tucumcari City
Easter Island
George Vourazeris
San Jon
Gayle Washburn
New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau
Roswell
Snow disrupts area as highway closes after tractor-trailer incident
A significant snowfall slowed travel across the region with two inches in places and many auto accidents reported. A tractor-trailer hung over a bridge on U.S. 54 near the Texas New Mexico line prompting a five hour closure but no injuries. Clovis Portales and Curry County agencies logged multiple slick road crashes, all without serious injuries.
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U.S. 54
Texas-New
Curry County
Wesley Waller
Portales
Clovis
Muleshoe
National
Judge named to panel to nominate Mitchell successor
Barbara Vigil appoints Denise Barela Shepherd to the commission to nominate a replacement for Judge Albert Mitchell. Mitchell, ousted in the November 4 election, had sought to remain on the bench but will be represented by a judge from the Tenth District on the nominating panel.
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Mitchell
Second
Tenth Judicial District
Albert Mitchell
State Supreme Court
Barbara Vigil
Denise Barela- Shepherd
Navajo Code Talker Thomas Begay Speaks at Mesalands
Thomas H Begay told about 100 students and others at Mesalands Community College during Native American Heritage Day how he joined the U S Marines in 1942 at age 15 after being recruited at a Navajo boarding school He was trained at Camp Pendleton with other Navajos and helped develop a code based on the Navajo language that the Japanese could not break.
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Eugene Ross
Tucumcari
Thomas H. Begay
Begay
Mesalands Community College
U.S. Marines
California
Camp Pendleton
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