What’s cookin’ at the Clovis Municipal Schools? Lots of breakfasts and lunches. Funny how school meals are one of those things we tend to take for granted. Around the time of World War I (1914-1917) school lunches began to be served to children in many of our larger cities as “nutrition scientists” started looking at […]
Reader-submitted content: Educator deserves recognition
May 7, 2011
A week or so ago I read the obituary page in the Clovis News Journal, which included closing the Book of Life for Davenport Beasley. I had to wonder how many in Clovis today remember his 32 years of service to the education of children in the Clovis Municipal Schools. I decided to add a […]
Letter to the editor: Hotel deserves to be put to use
December 11, 2010
I can sympathize with Kent McManigal’s anti-government stance in Friday’s column, but in the case of the Hotel Clovis there was no other entity that could keep the structure from continued deterioration. Prospective owners, especially those who envision public housing or a nonprofit use for the facility are usually in need of government grants or […]
All grieving deserves respect
November 1, 2008
By Clyde Davis: CNJ Columnist Today is, in the liturgical calendar of many churches, All Souls’ Day, the day after All Saints’ Day. The purpose being to honor and to memorialize those who have gone before, to remember the departed who, according to Christian thought, are still with us in spirit. We have many ways […]
Bush deserves Oscar for post-9/11 acting
January 26, 2006
By Helena Rodriguez: Local Columnist According to Shakespeare, the world is a stage and we’re all actors. According to Marshall McLuhan, the stage is a world and we’re actors. Either way, some of us are better actors than others, like President Bush. When the 2006 Oscar nominations are announced on Tuesday, George W. Bush deserves […]
5/26 BRAC letters to the editor
May 25, 2005
Negativity might be result of bad attitude I read with interest the letter from Floyd Shumpert, Dallas attorney, expressing the feelings that Clovis will get what it deserves if Cannon Air Force Base is closed. As a Clovis native, I have a number of special memories associated with Cannon AFB. I recall, vividly, the sight […]
