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A celebration of volunteering for the community

Roswell Daily Record — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Whether fundraising so children can buy school uniforms, making blankets for CASA children or ushering at Roswell Symphony Orchestra performances, these teens are making Roswell a better community.

They are members of the Assisteens, a teen community service organization affiliated with the Assistance League of Chaves County.

A day of doggone good fun

Roswell Daily Record — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

It won’t take the luck o’ the Irish for man and man’s best friend alike to enjoy the fourth annual Shamrock Wag-n-Walk.

The event, sponsored by the Rio Pecos Kennel Club, starts at 9:30 a.m., Saturday, March 13 at Cahoon Park, at Fourth Street and Union Avenue.

Books, books and more books

Roswell Daily Record — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Bib•li•o•phile (noun):A person who collects or has a great love of books.

Gazing around at shelves full of books — for adults, for children, fiction, non-fiction and in every genre one can imagine — Marna Hunt declared herself to be a bibliophile.

In fact, Hunt, who helps run Books Again, the used bookstore run by the non-profit organization Friends of the Roswell PublicLibrary and is chair of the group’s bookstore committee, said she isn’t the only one who feels that way.

“We’re all bibliophiles here,”she said.

Opportunity of a lifetime

Roswell Daily Record — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Not many people in New Mexico are able to say they have been invited to New York City to sing at Carnegie Hall, but for some in Roswell, that day is drawing closer every day.
A group of about 60 singers from the Chancel Choir of the First United Methodist Church, along with members of the Roswell Chorale, have been invited to sing Bradley Ellingboe’s “Requiem”at Carnegie Hall on June 14.

Celebrating their generation

Roswell Daily Record — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700

They’ve been sons and daughters. Husbands and wives. Parents. Uncles and aunts. Grandparents. Caretakers. Friends.
They grew up on rock ‘n roll, brought about Beatlemania, protested wars and fought in wars.
They were the freedom generation and led the sexual revolution.
They’ve been all of this and more. They’ve changed the world, both in the things they’ve done and the way they’ve done so.
They are the biggest generation of Americans ever — some 75.8 million Americans who were born in the post-World War IIyears from 1946 to 1964 who are collectively known as the baby boomer generation.

Abilities, not disabilities

Roswell Daily Record — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0600

Imagine it’s a beautiful fall day and you walk to take care of a few lunchtime errands in downtown Roswell. You stop at the U.S. post office, then City Hall. You might need to go by the Chaves County Courthouse as well, the Roswell Visitor Center, or perhaps the bank to make a deposit.

For most people, these are routine tasks and can be performed easily during a routine weekday lunch hour, perhaps.

Searching for your past

Roswell Daily Record — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0600

Who are you?Where did your family come from?Who were they?Was your great-great-grandfather a farmer, a tailor, an artisan, a shopkeeper?Was he a landowner?Or perhaps a new immigrant to American soil?

Was your great-great-great-grandmother an early widow with nine small children to feed and no boys old enough to help her farm the family’s land?Did she perhaps re-marry? Did she inherit land from her father, who had no sons to pass the family land down to?

Support, comfort and dignity

Roswell Daily Record — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0600

Sarah Binns likes vanilla milkshakes and hamburgers — hold the pickles, please — and visits from her friends.

And for Binns, 90, a visit from her friend Bernice Franklin is extra special.

“There’s friends and then there’s friends and she’s a special friend,”Binns said of Franklin, a volunteer with Roswell Home Health and Hospice.

Everything working together

Roswell Daily Record — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0600

Want to know how to clean cookware?What steps to take to transplant a tree? Want to learn how to sew or knit?Need a new recipe for chicken? Have a baby on the way and need tips on caring for a newborn?

Tips for all of these questions and more may be found through the Chaves County Extension Clubs.

Membership in the clubs is $10 a year; prospective members should contact the Chaves County Extension Office, 200 E. Chisum St., No. 4, or call 622-3210. Prospective members may also attend the clubs’ tea on Saturday, Nov. 7, from 10:30 a.m. to noon, at the Extension Office.

The six clubs in Chaves County — Circle, Dexter Ladies, Friendship, Hi Hopes, Misslamo and Zia — work to develop, strengthen, coordinate and extend youth and adult education in home economics, agriculture and related subjects in conjunction with the Cooperative Extension Service of New Mexico State University.

Dribble, Pass, Shoot

Roswell Daily Record — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0600

For many youth, parents, coaches and volunteers across Roswell and Chaves County, playing one of the most popular youth sports in the U.S. is about much more than learning how dribble, pass and shoot.