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Abilities, not disabilities
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 Updated: Friday, November 27, 2009

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.

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Searching for your past
Sunday, October 18, 2009 Updated: Friday, November 27, 2009

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?

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Support, comfort and dignity
Sunday, September 27, 2009 Updated: Friday, November 27, 2009

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.

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Everything working together
Sunday, September 20, 2009 Updated: Wednesday, December 09, 2009

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.

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Dribble, Pass, Shoot
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 Updated: Friday, November 27, 2009

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.

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Celebrating art, celebrating the West
Monday, August 24, 2009 Updated: Friday, November 27, 2009

The Roswell Fine Arts League/New Mexico Miniature Arts Society's 26th annual show will start with an opening reception Thursday, Aug. 20, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., at the Roswell Museum and Art Center, 100 W. 11th St. Full Story »

A good, hot meal
Monday, August 24, 2009 Updated: Thursday, December 03, 2009

Standing in the shade of a large tree, fanning herself with a pamphlet, senior Lillie Sanchez is glad.

Living on a fixed income, the great-grandmother said she is grateful she can find ways to stretch her food dollars.

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