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By M.E. SprengelmeyerThe Communicator

As early as the 2014-2015 school year, Lions and Cubs might attend classes at the same “Den.”

Stagnant enrollment figures and some big-money budget con-cerns make a future combination of Santa Rosa’s middle school and high school appear inevi-

table, Santa Rosa Consolidated Schools Superintendent Ted Hern said this week.

A pair of public meetings starting next Tuesday could set the stage for a major realignment of the district’s three Santa Rosa campuses, with a shift happening as early as the 2014-2015 school year, Hern said.

One proposal, projected to save about $700,000 to $1 million

per year, would involve closing the aging elementary school, moving its students to the newer middle school campus, then moving middle school students to a combined campus serving students grades 7 to 12 at what’s now Santa Rosa High School.

“The high school campus is built for 600 students and we have, what, 165?” Hern said.

Enrolment figures, past, pres-

ent and projected, explain why the district is being forced to consider realignment.

Santa Rosa High School was built in 1966, experienced sig-nificant growth in the 1970s, and at its peak served around 400 students. But since then, there has been a steady drop-off in enrollment. It had 165 students in 2011-2012, with a barely notice-able blip to 168 students for the

current school year.As it approaches the half-

century mark, the campus soon could be eligible for renovation or reconstruction funding through the New Mexico Public Schools Facilities Authority. However, since dollar amounts are based on enrollment, the agency is likely to provide funds for a building about

By Bryant FurlowThe Communicator

Vaughn might have some headline-making woes involving its tiny, currently unmanned police force. But the town does not want to trade local control and its law enforcement funding to bring a Guadalupe County Sheriff’s deputy instead.

That message came through loud and clear at a Guadalupe County Commission meet-ing last Thursday at Vaughn’s Town Hall. The meeting at-tracted a full house but not much enthusiasm for a pro-posal commissioners had come to discuss: a plan to station a sheriff’s deputy in the town in exchange for Vaughn turning over the state and federal fund-ing it receives for law enforce-

ment services.“I’m not going to release

our law enforcement funding to the county because it’s not in Vaughn’s best interest,” Mayor Paul Madrid told commission-ers.

“It’s quite simple,” he said. “I don’t know if people might think we want to reduce our budget, but that’s not what we want to do.”

Vaughn resident John Mor-gan said town residents’ taxes already go, in part, to support county services.

“Why is the county asking us to pay a second time?” he de-manded.

“This is Guadalupe County – don’t forget that!” resident Marcella Gozolas stood to tell

Threats behind closed doors?■ Commissioner claims colleague threatened himin closed session.

District lays groundwork for a campus merger

Top-seeded Hawks end Lions’ late-season run

Tripped up© Mark Holm / The Communicator

Santa Rosa ‘Fighting Lion’ Robert Zamora (33) collects the ball as teammate Isaac Velasquez (31) takes a tumble during Wednes-day’s loss to the top-seeded Laguna Acoma Hawks in New Mexico Class AA basketball quarterfinals at Santa Ana Star Center.

By M.E. SprengelmeyerThe Communicator

Tensions on the Guadalupe County Commission might be reaching a new level, as Commissioner Vince Cordova has lodged a formal complaint w i t h N e w M e x i c o S t a t e Police claiming that fellow Commissioner Ernest Steve Tapia made a physical threat against him during a closed-doors executive session last Thursday night in Vaughn.

State Police would not discuss specifics but confirmed Wednes-day that they were investigating an alleged incident that Cordova said took place last Thursday night at the Vaughn Town Hall.

It was a special session being held outside the county seat of Santa Rosa, and one of the items on the public agenda was a deci-sion about whether the county’s road foreman and assistant fore-man jobs should remain “at will” positions, or be changed into “classified” positions.

Before commissioners publicly discussed and then approved that proposed change, they retreated into executive session to discuss limited personnel matters related

By Glen rosalesThe Communicator

The quarterfinals of the New Mexico Class AA basketball tournament proved to be too much for Santa Rosa.

Too much Laguna Acoma, that is.

The Fighting Lions bowed out of the tournament Wednesday night after 54-44 loss to the top-seeded Hawks at the Santa Ana Star Center.

It was a raucous and partisan atmosphere, with plenty of royal purple spread throughout the stands.

Laguna Acoma displayed speed, guile, quickness and shooting prowess while un-leashing a torrential defense that the 8th-seeded “Fighting Lions” could not penetrate frequently enough.

“We knew were up against a very tough team that put up a lot of points quick,” said Santa Rosa coach Joseph Es-quibel. “Fortunately we were able to come out hot in the first quarter and slow them down a little bit. But we knew Laguna can shoot well and put up points quick. Our

© Mark Holm / The CommunicatorSanta Rosa Head Coach Joseph Esquibel cringes watching the action in Wednesday’s state quarterfinals game, when his team surged to a first quarter lead but soon saw it disappear.» See Threat, page 8

Through the smoke

M.E. Sprengelmeyer / The CommunicatorBehind a veil of thick black smoke, Santa Rosa volunteer firefighters show teamwork late Wednes-day afternoon while mopping up a brush fire behind the National Guard Armory and Santa Rosa Multi-Use Center. The fire put up a smoke cloud that could be seen from as far as U.S. 54.

Vaughn leaders want local control on police

» See Vaughn, page 8

» See District, page 8

» See Lions, page 4

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Remember when our lives were unchained?By M.E. Sprengelmeyer

I just got back from a whirlwind trip to Fort Worth, Texas. At least, they told me I was in Fort Worth, Texas.

With all the chain stores and chain restaurants and generic braids of interstate highway ramps, it could have been just about any place in America these days.

There was a super-duper big-box store next to the ho-mogenized national brand name hotel where I stayed. There were three strip malls within walking distance, including a world famous coffee chain where I could get a predictable variety of the extra-dark coffee that I like. At suppertime, I went to a chain restaurant with a prefabricated kitch decor and I didn’t even have to look at the menu to order the stan-dard garden salad that I needed. (I just had to ask them to remove the egg, the cheese and the bacon from this fairly standard “garden.”)

It was all so comfortable and boring. And that’s what America seems to want these days. Comfort, consistency, predictable pricing -- even for things that are over-priced.

In the old days, we used to enjoy surprises. The pre-dictability of our consumer experience was not nearly as important as local flavor.

We used to cherish those once-in-a-lifetime visits to places off the beaten path where you never quite knew what you were going to get. That’s what made those little moments in life just a tiny bit more exciting.

A big part of that joy was meeting colorful local char-acters with unique personalities -- the kind who’d never be caught dead in some corporate-approved, color-coordinated uniform. Just a couple minutes talking with those characters could teach us about the place we were visiting. And a couple of minutes talking to travelers like us would teach them about the world passing through their establishments’ doors.

As a vegetarian, I’ve had some really challenging meals at mom and pop diners from coast to coast. It’s always a compli-cated series of negotiations before the chef finally gets a bright idea and rushes back to the kitchen to surprise me with some creative concoction. Some of the resulting meals been great and some have been, eh, not-so-great. But I’ve loved every one of those makeshift meals because they involved folksy conversation, a few minutes of cross-cultural dialogue, and then I was guaranteed to get something to eat that was quite different from the thing I had eaten the day before.

In a chain-store culture we don’t get that. We get the same thing served at the same temperature at the same price at the same pace from a person wearing the same corporate uniform. And that’s boring.

I don’t mean this to be yet another lament about days gone by. I hope it can serve as a wake-up call for one danger that our local economy faces at this moment.

More than a lot of other places, towns located along America’s “Mother Road,” Historic Route 66, depend on attracting business from deep-pocketed travelers who share that same type of nostalgia for the days before “mom and pop” were stuffed and put in a museum.

Thankfully, Santa Rosa still is blessed with a number of one-of-a-kind entrepreneurs at restaurants, stores, shops and other businesses. In an age of media mergers and sterile newspaper chains, maybe you could count this publication on the list.

But lately I worry that we could be near a tipping point of commerce that changes us from a unique and memorable stop on Route 66 into a generic Anytown, U.S.A. The trends are not good.

Think about the independent businesses we’ve lost in the past few years. A few fast food chains have come and gone, but we’ve lost far more “real people” businesses -- variety stores, flower shops, motels, restaurants. I fear we soon could lose more.

Think about the new businesses that are opening up. To survive, do they all have to be national chains? Is that all we’ll patronize?

I wish consumers would vote with their pocketbooks and let independent, family-owned businesses know that they’re welcome in this new economic landscape, too.

It boils down to this: should we inspire our young people to become entrepreneurs, making a name for themselves in bright Route 66 neon? Or should we just let them put in an application to wear the bland, corporate uniform of their choice?

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By Bryant Furlowand M.E. SprengelmeyerThe Communicator

Guadalupe County Com-missioners took a step to-ward “depoliticizing” the controversy-plagued county Road Department by taking the foreman and assistant foreman out of an “at-will” employment status that left their jobs at the mercy of the three elected officials.

At a special meeting last Thursday at Vaughn Town Hall, all three commission-ers agreed to the change, af-ter County Manager Michael Romero proposed changing the two positions from “at-will” to “classified” status, just like every other county position except the manager himself.

“It’s apparent that be-cause the road foreman and assistant foreman are at-will employees and they also re-port to the county manager, it creates a situation of con-fusion in terms of what the chain of command is, and I think the best way to fix it is to change their status to classified,” Romero told the commissioners.

The Road Department has been plagued by con-troversy in recent years, including questions about work-for-materials ex-changes with private prop-erty owners and questions about who authorized vari-ous road work. In theory, the change creates a more clear chain of command, requir-ing the department to get its direction from the county

manager, without any direct or implied pressure from in-dividual commission mem-bers who might have differ-ent priorities.

Before the vote, County Attorney Jesus Lopez cau-tioned the commission that classifying the road depart-ment positions could com-plicate any decision to fire those employees.

“Presently, these two em-ployees serve at the pleasure and will of the county com-mission – essentially, at the whim of the commission,” Lopez said. “The commis-sion wants to place these positions under the person-nel ordinance, as classified positions, which means they are no longer at the pleasure of the commission. They will be protected by the per-sonnel system.”

“You can still get rid of any employee who is not do-ing their job, but you have to follow the process,” Lopez told the commissioners.

But disciplining or fir-ing classified employees involves “a full panoply of due process,” Lopez said.

“I think the real intent of the commission is to de-politicize those positions,” Lopez added. “The county is so small that for years, the commissioners had -- in good faith, in good faith -- had direct supervision some-times over these road fore-men. Commissioners would go to a foreman and say, ‘Go fix that, road’ and things like that. I think that (has) con-stantly been a problem over the years, especially recent-

ly. Apparently it is the com-mission’s intent to get away from that, and make these positions answerable only to the manager.”

Vaughn Mayor Paul Ma-drid, who attended the spe-cial meeting, voiced concern that the commission was giving up too much power over personnel matters.

“You’re taking the at-will designation away so then you guys will have no authority, in my book, to get rid of him or not get rid of him,” Madrid told commis-sioners. “I just don’t want you guys to give up some-thing you already have in place, and later on you’re going to say ‘I shouldn’t have done that’.”

Commission Chairman Alvin Maestas responded by saying, “We want to go ahead and let the road fore-man answer to the manager. The reason why is, you get three commissioners calling the road foreman to do this and do that, and I don’t think that’s right.”

He noted that other coun-ty department heads are al-ready classified employees.

“That’s why I think it’s the right thing to do, long term, because it depoliticiz-es this whole thing,” Mae-stas said. “That’s why you don’t get a road foreman out there politicking about do-ing things about the work.”

Mayor Madrid objected that such politicking is “il-legal,” to which Maestas re-sponded, “I understand that – but that is exactly what’s happened.”

Personnel shift meant to ‘depoliticize’ road work


At least for the time being, Deep Blue Dental is going to avoid eviction from its county-owned offices near Park Lake in Santa Rosa.

Guadalupe County Commis-sioners last week decided to give dentists Raymond Collins and Katrina Lueras-Collins a six-month extension on their lease in order to provide time to nego-tiate their possible purchase of the modular building and land.

The dentists had been seek-ing a two-year extension of the lease that’s set to expire this month, but County Manager Mi-chael Romero objected, since the county is in the process of open-ing a new more than $1 million clinic facility to be leased by a non-profit provider, De Baca Family Practice of Fort Sumner.

“Any kind of long-term lease would be problematic and not in the best interest of the county, because we are supporting a pub-lic clinic – and that’s a function of government – but as a private provider, you could find another location,” Romero told Collins during a special meeting Thurs-day at the Vaughn Town Hall.

Construction is in the final days at the new clinic build-ing on U.S. 54 near Guadalupe County Hospital. As a Feder-ally Qualified Health Center, De Baca Family Practice has a mission of serving uninsured or underinsured patients, and will offer a sliding scale fee struc-ture for patients who meet low-income requirements. The new clinic is expected to open by early April with primary dentists Wil Pacheco and Howard Rho-des.

At last Thursday’s meeting, Collins questioned whether the new clinic’s providers will stay in Santa Rosa over the long haul and said Deep Blue brings loyal patients from throughout the re-

Deep Blue mulls options as new clinic takes shape

gion to Santa Rosa, helping the city’s economy.

“All professionals have a shelf life, and what happens when his expires?” Collins asked commissioners, referring to the new clinic. “Every profes-sional out there has a shelf life, and ours is going to be long – that’s just the reality of it. What ties us here is family. We’re here for our people.”

“We bring people to Santa Rosa, a lot from Clovis and Hobbs, and even Las Cruces,” Collins said. “And guess what? They eat in Santa Rosa, buy gas in Santa Rosa – that’s something you have to think about.”

Still, at the end of a 40-minute hearing, commissioners turned down Deep Blue’s request for a two-year lease at the building near Park Lake and approved only a stop-gap six-month ex-tension in order to allow time for county officials to negotiate a possible sale of the building. County Attorney Jesus Lopez

told commissioners he was cer-tain the sale could be resolved within six months.

A sale would require that the county issue a public request for proposals and an assessment of the property’s fair market value, Lopez noted.

“I’m sure Dr. Collins will be the only one to submit a propos-al (to buy the property), but the law says you have to offer it to everybody,” Lopez said.

Commissioner Ernest Steve Tapia appeared sympathetic to Collins’s economic rationale for extending the lease for a longer period, though he ultimately voted for the shorter, six-month extension.

At one point during the hear-ing, Tapia said, “we barely have any business in Santa Rosa” and questioned whether the commis-sion should “shut one of them down.”

“I’m OK with having ad-ditional dental services in our county,” Commissioner Vincent

Cordova said. “The only issue is, if we go into a lease, that it be very short term and with the intent that you buy the building. Within six months, let’s sell it.”

County support for two com-peting dental clinics is “not in the county’s interest,” Cordova said.

Cordova and Commission Chair Alvin Maestas each not-ed that the new county-funded clinic will provide dental care for the county’s uninsured resi-dents.

“For the first time in my life-time, we’re going to get dental care for everybody in this coun-ty,” Cordova said. “I got my first dental cleaning at age 23, in the military. Taxpayers are actually footing the bill for that (new) dental clinic, and that entitles you to services at that clinic.”

“But I’m happy we have peo-ple fighting to provide health care to the people of Guadal-upe County,” Cordova added. “That’s a very positive thing.”

M.E. Sprengelmeyer / The CommunicatorKen Kasper of Santa Fe-based Builders Electric installs a smoke detector in a ceiling tile on Wednesday near a circular alcove near the entryway to Guadalupe County’s new dental clinic building on U.S. 54.

M.E. Sprengelmeyer / The CommunicatorGuadalupe County’s Assistant Road Foreman Gene Sena uses heavy equipment on Monday to dredge soil and a carpet of ‘buffalo grass’ from the acequia in East Puerto de Luna. Crews have been diverted from road projects for the spring cleanup.

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The New Mexico Legislature has set aside $150,000 toward a proposed fish production facility in Santa Rosa as part of $507,400 worth of capital outlay projects across Guadalupe County.

Now local officials must wait to see how many of those projects win final approval from Gov. Susana Martinez, who has not been shy about using her line-item veto power to scratch objectionable spending in the past.

According to a summary pro-vided by the Eastern Plains Coun-cil of Governments, Santa Rosa is slated to get the lion’s share of the county’s capital outlay funds this year.

Along with the $150,000 to-ward the proposed fish produc-tion facility, the city would get $85,000 for a parking lot at Blue Hole, $40,000 for the Santa Rosa ambulance service and $10,000 toward improvements to the city’s now makeshift animal shelter.

Capital Outlay is just one of the options Santa Rosa has been pursuing toward the more than $1 million it would take to get a pub-licly-owned, privately-operated fish-raising facility opened near the Blue Hole Dive and Confer-ence Center.

In other capital outlay funding, the Legislature sets aside: $30,000 to improve acequias in the Anton Chico area; $60,000 for a com-munity ditch and dam project in Colonias; $36,500 toward ditch improvements in East Puerto de Luna; $30,000 toward ditch im-provements (and a loan payoff) in West Puerto de Luna; $25,000 for an equipment storage building for the Hollywood Ranch Domestic Water Users Association; $35,000 for water system improvements in Pastura; and $5,900 for food service equipment at the Puerto de Luna senior citizens center.

City cautious over list of capital outlay


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defense might have been a step slow.”

For most of the second quarter, the Lions looked a step slow on both ends of the court and even in the middle.

“We started with a controlled tempo but sometimes we got out of control and that played to their advantage,” said senior forward Jason Sanchez, who finished with six points and five rebounds.

The Lions did get off to a good start, holding a 19-9 lead early in the second quarter after con-secutive buckets from Miguel Sisneros. The 6-foot, 2-inch senior had 10 points in the first half as none of the Hawks could match his size in-side.

But Laguna Acoma picked up its defensive intensity in the second quarter and burst out in a 5-minute, 17-0 run that put the Hawks up 26-19. Santa Rosa committed eight of its 10 first-half turnovers during the run.

“We know they’re aggressive,” Esquibel said. “We know they can shoot. We know they’re a quick team. We just tried to counter that. We have some speed. We have some strength. We have some good shooters as well. Things just didn’t fall as planned.”

Sisneros was strong throughout, finishing with 17 points on 8-of-16 shooting while grabbing 12 rebounds. And Isaac Velasquez had 11 points

But when the Hawks

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© Mark Holm / The CommunicatorSanta Rosa ‘Fighting Lion’ Marcus Lopez (1) fights for a loose ball during the team’s loss to the top-seeded Laguna Acoma Hawks on Wednesday night in the quarterfinals of the New Mexico Class AA basketball tournament at the Santa Ana Star Center in Rio Rancho.

© Mark Holm / The CommunicatorSanta Rosa’s ‘Heckle Crew’ reacts to a tough turnaround in the Lions’ fortunes after the team had started the game with a first-quarter lead on Wednesday night.

© Mark Holm / The CommunicatorSanta Rosa ‘Fighting Lion’ Nathan Sanchez and other players react from the bench as the team’s hopes of advancing into the ‘final four’ of the state tourney disappeared.

doubled down on Sisne-ros, the rest of the Lions had trouble getting off quality shots that weren’t hurried or harried.

Subtracting his efforts, the Lions shot 10 for 42 from the field and went 1 for 13 on 3-pointers.

“They’re a well-rounded team and an ex-perienced team that was here last year,” Esquibel said. “They were going to work hard not to let an 8th seed upset them again. We knew we had a tough task ahead of us.”

The Lions’ continued going after Laguna Aco-ma, keeping the game within range, which Es-quibel said is a Santa Rosa trait.

“We fight to the very

end,” he said. “I believe we can come back even when there’s just 10 sec-onds left in the game. Props to Laguna, but I’m proud of my team as well. I know they’ll fight to the very end. We’re Lions and we’ll never stop fighting.”

It was the second time the teams had met, with the Hawks taking a 1-point victory in Janu-ary in Santa Rosa.

“We played them at home and any time you play someone at home that’s an advantage,” Es-quibel said. “We lost by one at home and played to them to 10 here in a neutral site. I thought both teams improved since January. We did

what we could.”Just getting this far

was a credit to the team that really got started on the season late after a deep run to the football championship, Sanchez said.

“Coming off that foot-ball win, not many people thought we would make it this far,” he said. “It’s good to make it back to the Santa Ana again.”

Although the loss hurts for the Lions, their wounded pride can take some solace in having gotten to the tourna-ment’s second week after a rousing 69-67 win over Mora last week.

Sanchez hit a hesita-tion 3-pointer with 14.9 seconds left to put Santa

Rosa up for good.“I just remember

Zeke (Sena) passing me the ball and Isaac (Ve-lasquez) yelling, ‘Ja-son, I’m wide open,’” Sanchez recalled. “And I glanced at Isaac and I paused for a second but then I just shot it. I was thinking the whole time the ball was in the air that I should have passed it. And it fell down and I can’t even explain how I felt after that. It shocked me the whole time that it went in there. I was a little bit nervous.”

Sanchez finished that night with 27 points, while Sena and Sisneros had nine each.

“In February and early March, he’s the guy that

wants the ball at the end of the game,” Esquibel said. “And we’re giving it to him. These past five, six games that we’ve played Jason has wanted the ball. Jason has called for the ball. He’s been the guy we’ve been feed-ing it to.”

The big night from Sanchez helped offset the 35 that Mora’s Lorenzo Chavez tossed in.

“There’s not much you can do when some-body is hot like that,” Esquibel said. “The best thing to do is to try not to let them get the ball and if they do, get a hand in their face. I felt like a lot of times, we were in po-sition, but they hit some big, crucial shots.”

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Santa Rosa residents will try to clean up their small piece of the planet during a city-sponsored Earth Day event scheduled for Saturday, April 20.

Organizers are seeking vol-unteers from local businesses, schools and the community at large, asking that they wear bright colors and meet at 9 a.m. that morning at the City

Hall gymnasium. From there, teams will fan out to various parts of the community to clear litter and debris at vari-ous locations.

Those who prefer to work closer at home are encouraged to consider cleaning their own yards or “areas around where you work and play,” a release states.

For questions, call Becky Maes, Carolyn Baca or Shelly Eiland at City Hall, 472-3404.

Police BlotterThe following reports are from

Santa Rosa Police.All suspects are innocent until

proven guilty.

■ Suspended or revoked license

Daniel R. Gonzales, 34, of Albuquerque, was arrested and charged with driving on a sus-pended or revoked license on Saturday, March 9, on Historic Route 66 in Santa Rosa. According to a report, his vehicle was initially stopped for going 45 mph in a 35 mph zone, and then he could not produce a valid drivers license. A records check showed that he had a suspended or revoked license, with a clause calling for his arrest if he did not have an interlock device on the car.

■ Falsely obtaining servicesPolice are investigating a pos-

sible felony case of falsely obtain-ing services on Thursday night, Feb. 21, at Love’s truck stop in Santa Rosa. A still-unidentified truck driver left a credit card as a deposit before pumping $997.67 worth of diesel fuel, and then left without retrieving the card, which was declined when clerks tried to charge the payment.

■ Gas-skip larcenyThe Allsup’s convenience store

reported a gas-skip larceny in the early morning hours of Saturday, March 2, after a driver in a blue Jeep pumped $52.22 in gas and drove away without paying. It’s one of numerous cases reported in recent months at the store.

■ WarrantsJonathan Baker, 29, of Garita,

N.M., was arrested on Friday,

March 8, in Santa Rosa, in con-nection with an outstanding war-rant charging him with failure to pay fines in a misdemeanor case charging him with possession of a controlled substance and littering. The man told police that in the earlier case he was charged with throwing a “sack of weed” out the window of a vehicle as he pulled up to a sobriety checkpoint, Police Chief Angelo Romo said.

* * *Marsha Scout Gay, 67, of

Santa Fe, was arrested on Saturday, March 9, in Santa Rosa, in connec-tion with an outstanding warrant charging her with failure to ap-pear in court on charges of driving while a license was suspended or revoked, failure to show proof of insurance, and speeding by 21 mph to 29 mph over the posted limit.

■ Criminal damageThe Guadalupe County Health

Council reported finding a window screen torn on Monday afternoon, March 11. Based on the location of the damage in the center of the screen, the damage appeared to be a form of vandalism and not necessarily a break-in attempt, police said.

■ Stolen tagA Texas motorist reported that

the temporary registration tag had been taken off her vehicle on Saturday morning, March 9, at the Holiday Inn Express motel in Santa Rosa.

■ Residential burglaryA burglary was reported at

a home on Serrano Avenue on Feb. 28, about two weeks after the longtime resident had passed away in Albuquerque. The lock on

the front door was broken and the inside of the house was ransacked as an unknown suspect or suspects looked for items of value. The contents of a jewelry box and other items were taken, although griev-ing family members were unable to determine exactly what things were missing.

■ Dog biteA North Dakota man sustained

a large tear to his right arm last week, when he was bitten by a Ger-man Shepherd at the Santa Rosa Campground. According to Police Chief Angelo Romo, the dog was restrained by a chain, tied outside a traveler’s RV, and the victim apparently did not notice that the chain was long enough for the dog to reach him as he went visiting other campers.

■ Lost walletsTwo men reported lost wallets

over the past week: a Santa Rosa city employee who misplaced his wallet sometime after Friday morning, March 8, at City Hall, 244 South Fourth St; and a Tulsa, Okla., man who said he might have lost a wallet around lunch-time March 8 at the Silvermoon restaurant.

■ Suspended licenseRicardo Pacheco, 31, of Santa

Rosa, was issued a citation on Tuesday, March 5, charging him with operating a motor vehicle on a suspended license.

■ AccidentsGreg Romero, 64, of Santa

Rosa, was issued a citation charg-ing him with careless driving March 1 on South Second Street, when his car reportedly veered

to the right and struck a parked vehicle. Damage to both vehicles was considered “slight,” a report states.

* * *A California driver in a rented

moving truck struck the canopy outside the Comfort Inn hotel on Monday night, causing heavy damage to the canopy. The driver was found at fault for “inatten-tion,” an accident report states.

* * *A Volvo truck with a Canadian

driver was pulling out of a park-ing space Thursday, March 7, at TravelCenters of America when its trailer struck the driver’s side of a parked Kenworth rig, causing major damage.

* * * *The following reports are from

New Mexico State Police.All suspects are innocent until

proven guilty.

■ Battery upon a peace officer, resisting

Christopher J. Espinosa, 51, was arrested and charged with battery upon a peace officer and resisting, evading or obstruct-ing an officer following a New Mexico State Police investigation into an alleged burglary attempt on Friday morning, March 8, in Santa Rosa. According to a statement of probable cause filed in Guadalupe County Magistrate Court, a woman showed up at the State Police office in Santa Rosa about 8:30 a.m. to report a burglary. She told officers she was asleep around 4 a.m. when a man she recognized as her neigh-bor came into her house without permission. She said she awak-ened to find him trying to open

a drawer next to her bed, saying he wanted prescription pills, the court records state. According to the report, the woman said she sat on the edge of her bed and told the man to get out, and then he shoved her and ran out of the residence. After taking the woman’s state-ment later that morning, officers went to the home to investigate, then to question Espinosa at a house next door. The officer wrote that when he was trying to read Espinosa his Miranda Warning, “he shoved me with both hands in the chest, pushing me back,” and after he and another officer used force to detain Espinosa, he allegedly grabbed the officer’s wrist in an attempt to keep from being handcuffed, the court re-cords state.

■ Aggravated DUIJose A. Chavez, 44, of Las

Vegas, was arrested and charged with aggravated driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor or drugs, and a turning violation, following a traffic stop by New Mexico State Police last Saturday night, March 9, on Historic Route 66 in Santa Rosa. According to a statement of probable cause filed in Guadalupe County Magistrate Court, an officer stopped the ve-hicle, a white Ford Mustang, over its turning movements and use of traffic signals, and the officer soon detected an odor of alcohol from the driver, who reportedly had bloodshot watery eyes and slurred speech. Based on the result of field sobriety tests, he was placed under arrested and, according to the court records, refused blood-alcohol level testing after being read the New Mexico Implied Consent advisory.

The Communicator

The Santa Rosa City Coun-cil holds a special meeting this morning to review its long-awaited audit from fiscal year 2008-2009 and consider a hand-ful of other matters, including a contract for the future Chile Pepper Rally and Festival.

The audit, previewed in last week’s edition of The Communi-cator, includes 16 negative find-ings, including several matters related to the way the city rec-onciles its various accounts and keeps its financial records.

State Auditor Hector Balderas has urged the city to invest in a major upgrade of its account-ing and record-keeping systems, and the city already has retained a certified public accountant to help respond to the issues raised in the audit.

The audit had been delayed by more than two years, con-tributing to a backlog of un-completed audits for the fiscal years ending in June 2010, 2011 and 2012. As Balderas told The

Communicator last week, even a bad audit is better than an un-completed audit, since it gives a community a road map to make improvements in its financial ac-countability systems.

With a new auditor on con-tract, the city has hopes of clear-ing the backlog by year’s end.

In other matters at the meet-ing, the city will revisit a pro-posed contract with motorcycle event organizer Greg Scheuer of Anarchy LLC toward a large-scale motorcycle rally and green chile festival called the Chile Pepper Rally and Festival. Once planned for late summer of this year, it has been postponed until the summer of 2014 to give Sch-euer more time to line up spon-sors and organize events.

In other action, council members will consider a pair of applications for New Mexico Department of Transportation funds and consider a loader lease agreement with Guadalupe County, which recently lost use of its John Deere loader due to an accident near Colonias.

Audit in spotlight at special council meeting this a.m.

The Communicator

Some people think First Aid is all about bumps and bruises, scrapes, cuts, burns or physi-cal injuries. But a local orga-nization wants to teach people how to render First Aid during a mental health crisis, too.

Guadalupe County’s Local Behavioral Health Collabora-tive Team will be offering two days of free mental health First Aid training from 8:30 a.m. to

4:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 13, and Sunday, April 14, at Santa Rosa Middle School.

It’s meant to help partici-pants identify and provide ini-tial help to someone showing symptoms of mental illness or those who are in a mental health crisis, such as severe depres-sion, panic attacks, psychosis, suicidal thoughts or more.

The training is meant to in-crease awareness about refer-ral resources and how to access

them, and strengthen partner-ships between various individu-als or entities that might come in contact with those needing mental health care.

It’s geared toward people in a wide array of fields, including educators, church groups, gov-ernment policy makers, police, firefighters, family members or other community members.

To attend or for more infor-mation, call Sharon Grady at 472-5073.

Class teaches First Aid for mental health Santa Rosa clean-up set for Earth Day

Seeing trouble

M.E. Sprengelmeyer / The CommunicatorSanta Rosa Fire Chief Gilbert Romero uses binoculars to keep a safe distance from the simulated wreckage of a big-rig tanker truck last Wednesday on U.S. 54 south of Santa Rosa, as State Police Officer Abel Mireles and Guadalupe County Undersheriff Joe Chavez look on. It was a drill that tested the emergency response to a potential hazardous materials disaster on the highway.

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A Class AAAAA “Storm” is about to blow through Santa Rosa, and that could be a treat for local sports fans.

The girls fast-pitch softball team from Rio Rancho’s Cleve-land High School will meet the Clovis High School Wildcats on

neutral ground roughly halfway between their two campuses. That means a 4 p.m. game on Thurs-day, April 4, at the ball yard near Park Lake in Santa Rosa.

It’s a regular season varsity game, “and it should be a pretty good exhibition, too,” Santa Rosa Mayor Albert Campos Jr. said this week.

“It’s going to be good for the community to go out and watch, especially for the girls that are inter-ested in fast-pitch,” Campos said.

Santa Rosa Consolidated Schools has toyed with the idea of eventually adding fast-pitch softball to the high school’s athletics program, although the Board of Education has set aside the concept for the time being due.

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A new three-mem-ber board met behind closed doors Tuesday and Wednesday to carefully review Guadalupe Coun-ty voter registration lists for inactive voters whose names should be purged from the rolls. But thanks to past mistakes in Santa Fe, their efforts probably were in vain.

The county’s newly-appointed Board of Reg-istration met to produce a report listing inactive vot-ers (those who have not voted in two consecutive four-year election cycles), and it will be sent to the

state Bureau of Elections in May, Deputy County Clerk Adam Gallegos con-firmed.

In all likelihood, how-ever, the names listed in that report – and in reports assembled by the state’s other county boards of registration -- will not be purged any time soon. That is because former Secretary of State Mary Herrera’s office failed to mail out status confirma-tion (notices of possible removal) letters to voters believed to be inactive in 2007 and 2009, as required under the U.S. National Voter Registration Act. Once notices of possible removal have been sent

out, voters have another two years to vote in an election to establish their active status. Secretary of State Dianna Duran sent out the required confirma-tion-of-voter-registration postcards in February, which means that registra-tion purges cannot occur before 2015.

Nevertheless, state law requires that a board of registration be appointed and meet every two years. So at a hearing in Vaughn last Thursday, the Gua-dalupe County Commis-sion dutifully appointed a board consisting of two Republicans, Amy Luna Lucero of Vaughn and Al-fredo Flores of Puerto de

Luna, and one Democrat, Nadine Lucero of Anton Chico.

Normally, the trio’s findings would result in purges. But not this time around, thanks to the state’s failure to send out those letters in 2007 and 2009. Further confusing matters, a typo resulted in Secretary Duran’s office sending out registration confirmation cards this year that instructed recipi-ents to respond “no later than Oct. 9, 2012.”

Voter registration is permanent in New Mexi-co. Voters need re-register to vote only if they have moved, changed their name or party affiliation,

or if they have not voted in the past two four-year election cycles, according to the N.M. Secretary of State website. Voters who have moved but intend to return to their precinct may remain registered so long as they vote (in per-son or by absentee bal-lot) at some point during two consecutive election cycles.

The board met in a “closed setting” at the county courthouse, Gal-legos confirmed. “Statute doesn’t really say any-thing about whether or not (board meetings) are open to the public,” he said. “The public has never shown an interest.”

Some inactive “voters” are really duplicate regis-trations for a single per-son, Gallegos noted.

“People don’t realize they’ve already regis-tered,” Gallegos said. “At the DMV, they’re asked if they want to register, and they think ‘oh, I didn’t vote in the last election – I need to register again.’”

If their name is slightly different – say, Joe instead of Joseph – or a number is transposed when their address is typed into the computer, then that person will have two voter regis-trations until the problem is identified and one of the registrations is purged, Gallegos said.


A split Guadalupe County Commission has shot down a proposal that would have fundamentally changed the make-up of the panel by having mem-bers elected by regional districts instead of by vot-ers county-wide.

At a contentious spe-cial meeting in Vaughn last Thursday, Commissioner Vince Cordova called for the change, saying that the current system gives the Anton Chico Land Grant disproportionate power over county government.

Cordova previously had filed a complaint with the Secretary of State’s Bureau of Elections, asking for an investigation because many land grant heirs and

members live outside the county but are registered to vote in local elections.

“There are more ab-sentee voters outside the county who are voting in our elections than there are people voting in Vaughn,” Cordova told the audience in Vaughn. “That’s a fact. They negate your votes.”

In theory, voting by district would give com-munities like Vaughn more of a voice in county gov-ernment, Cordova said. He proposed combining some of the county’s vot-ing precincts to create three voting districts -- one centered in Anton Chico (combining precincts 3 and 5), one combining Vaughn with parts of Santa Rosa (precincts 1 and 4) and one for the area south of Santa Rosa, including Puerto de

Panel shoots down idea of voting by districtLuna, constituting the cur-rent precinct 2.

“ It balances real nice-ly and gives people here a clear voice,” Cordova said.

But his criticisms of the land grant were not well received by fellow com-missioners, Chairman Al-vin Maestas and Commis-sioner Ernest Steve Tapia.

“The land grant has the right to vote just like everybody,” said Maestas, who is a land grant mem-ber. He questioned Cordo-va’s depiction of the land grant as “disenfranchising everybody.”

“What he leaves out is they can register (to vote) in San Miguel County, too,” chimed in Tapia, referring to a land grant rule requiring members to register to vote in either

Guadalupe or San Miguel county.

Maestas also objected to Cordova’s proposed precincts, noting that 600 of precinct 2’s 1,672 resi-dents are actually prison inmates who cannot vote.

“How can you justify (those) districts as equal?” he demanded.

Voting laws are not based on the number of registered voters, but the number of residents identi-fied in the federal census, Cordova countered.

“I don’t care if they are illegals or prisoners – they all have to be counted,” Cordova said. “We should represent everybody, whether they vote or not.”

Tapia said the proposal would allow Cordova, who lives in Puerto de Luna, to win elections with “only

300 votes.” Cordova dis-missed the comment, say-ing, “Mr. Tapia doesn’t know what he’s talking about.”

Cordova made a formal motion to allow voting by district, but the other com-missioners refused to sec-ond it to bring it up for a formal vote, effectively killing the proposal.

“The census and every-thing – I have to look at that very carefully,” Maes-tas said after the vote. “I’m not going to make a rash decision.”

Vaughn Mayor Paul Madrid told commission-ers he supported the change to district voting.

“Only two counties in New Mexico – Union and Guadalupe – vote county-wide,” Madrid told com-missioners. “It’s only fair,

if you’re going to represent a district, to be voted in by district, not at-large.”

County attorney Jesus Lopez told commission-ers that state law requires counties with populations exceeding 13,000 people to vote by districts, but that smaller counties have a choice in the matter. He cautioned that changing to a district-by-district voting system could prove costly, because the county would have to redraw district boundaries after each fed-eral census (which are con-ducted every 10 years).

“We’d have to hire a firm to deal with the de-mographics,” Lopez said. “Oh, my God – it’s so spe-cialized, so technical. You have to make the districts equal. There are formu-las.”

Date: March8,2013From: JosephM.Salas,Jr.,DistrictTestingCoordinatorTo: ParentsandGuardiansRe: StandardsBasedAssessment

DearParents:

Santa Rosa Consolidated Schools will be administrating the New Mexico StandardsBasedAssessmenttostudentsingrades3-8,10and11begin-ning March 19 through April 5th.TuesdaythroughThursdaywillbeusedforregular testing with make-ups occurring on Mondays and Fridays. Students in Grades 3, 5, and 8 will test in the content areas of reading, mathematics andwriting.StudentsinGrades4,7,and11willtestintheareasofreading,mathematics,andscience.StudentsinGrades6and10willonlytestintheareasofreadingandmathematics.TestquestionsarealignedtotheState’sacademic standards and benchmarks, which are aligned with national stan-dards. Student performance is measured against these standards and not againstotherstudents.Astudent’sscoreonastandards-based(criterion-referenced)testindicateswhatlevelthestudenthasachieved,suchas“be-ginningsteps,nearingproficiency,proficient,andadvanced.”Theselevelsofproficiencyaredeterminedbasedonwhatstudentsshouldhavelearnedby the administration of this test and not what students should have learned bytheendoftheschoolyear.Testresultswillberecordedonthestudent’scumulativefileandbecomepartoftheiracademicrecord.Itisimportantthatyourson/daughtertakesthetestseriously.Inaddition,thepercentageofstudentsproficientoraboveinReadingandMathisusedalongwithotherindicators to assess schools on the A to F grading system.

Weencourageallstudentstodotheirindividualbestontheupcomingtests.Wealsoaskforyourassistanceinpreparingyourson/daughterforthetestsothatitisapositiveexperienceforeveryone.Pleaseencourageyourson/daughter to get plenty of sleep, be at school each day, on time and to do their best.Ifatallpossible,pleasedonotrequesttopulloutyourstudentduringthese test days. Cell phones are not allowed in the testing area. Your help with this would also be greatly appreciated.

Pleasemarkthedatesonyourcalendar.Wewouldlikeallstudentstoap-proach this assessment with enthusiasm and the willingness to do their very best.Ifyouhaveanyquestionsorconcernspleasedonothesitatetocontacttheschoolyourchildattends.Thankyouallforyoursupportintheeducationof the students of the Santa Rosa Consolidated Schools.

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Notice of Supervisor Election for the Gua-dalupe Soil and Water Conservation District (73-20-49 NMSA 1978).

To all registered voters situated within the Gua-dalupe Soil and Water Conservation District, counties of Guadalupe and San Miguel, State of New Mexico.

Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday, May 7th, 2013, between the hours of 8 A.M. and 5 P.M. polls will be open to elect two supervisors of the Guadalupe Soil and Water Conservation District, in accordance with the New Mexico Soil and Water Conservation District Act.

Polling locations will be:

NRCS Office, 1. 586 South 9th Street, Santa Rosa, New Mexico

Anton Chico 2. Community Center, An-ton Chico, New Mexico

C o m m u n i t y 3. Center, 8th Street, Vaughn, New Mexico

The positions to be filled are Position # 3 currently being filled by alfredo Flores, and Position # 4 currently being filled by Charlie Serrano. Posi-tions 3 and 4 may only be filled by resident owners of land within the district. Declarations of candi-dacy may be obtained beginning March 1, 2013 until March 19, 2013 at 586 South 9th Street, Santa Rosa, New Mexico, weekdays between the hours of 7A.M. and 5 P.M. Declarations of candidacy must be filed at the above address on March 19, 2013 between

the hours of 7 A.M. and 5 P.M. Write in candidates must file declarations of candidacy on March 26, 2013 at the above address between the hours of 7 A.M. and 5 P.M. Eligible voters within the district shall obtain and cast their ballots at the polling place on the day of the election; OR Eligible voters who will be absent on the day of the referendum may request an absentee ballot application by mail, by phone, and in person.

A b s e n t e e b a l l o t applicat ions wil l be available between April 7, 2013 and April 17, 2013 between the hours of 7 A.M. and 5 P.M. at: NRCS Office, C/O Pearl Maestas, Election Superintendent , 586 South 9th Street, Santa Rosa, New Mexico. To request an absentee ballot

application by phone call 575-472-7645 or 575-512-5100. Completed absentee ballots must be received at the address above not later than 5PM, May 7, 2013.

Voters are asked to bring proof of residency to the polling location. This can be a voter registration card, utility bill, or other documentation of district residency.

If you have any questions regarding this election please call Pearl Maestas at 575-472-7645 or 575-472-5401, Ext 106.

Vincent CordovaChairmanGuadalupe Soil & Water Conservation District

Published in the Guadalupe County Communicator March 7 & 14, 2013.

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commissioners.Commissioners at times

seemed nonplussed by the reaction.

“We are trying to pro-vide a solution to your problem out here,” Com-mission Chairman Alvin Maestas said. “We need something that is comfort-able for everybody. We need to work together.”

Mayor Madrid was quick to express appre-ciation for help from the Guadalupe County Sher-iff’s Department and New Mexico State Police, who have continued to answer calls in Vaughn since the departure of the town’s last police officer last month. But Vaughn already has started advertising to hire a replacement officer, one that Madrid said will put the town’s needs first and not have to contend with

competing responsibili-ties.

When Commissioner Ernest Steve Tapia said the county could “guaran-tee” that a deputy would work out of Vaughn, Ma-drid shot back: “But if they need that officer in Anton Chico, they’re going to send him over there.”

Sheriff Michael R. Lu-cero told commissioners he has only four full-time deputies to cover the entire county, but that neverthe-less, they regularly respond to calls from Vaughn.

“I’ve never neglected this part of the county,” Sheriff Lucero said. “Nev-er have, never will. But we’re short-handed.”

Mayor Madrid readily acknowledged the trou-bles of the now-unmanned Vaughn Police Depart-ment, which has made headlines over the past year. “You’re all aware of the problems we’ve had,” he said.

Former police chief Er-nest “Chris” Armijo, who is still a member of the Town Council but did not

attend the meeting, faces criminal charges of em-bezzlement and receiving stolen property stemming from his alleged private sale of a Vaughn Police Department AR-15 rifle in January 2012.

Another former officer, Robert Montoya, has filed a lawsuit against the town charging wrongful termi-nation.

And last month, Vaughn’s only remaining police officer, Brian Ber-nal, abruptly resigned and left town after learning he would not be allowed to attend the New Mexico Law Enforcement Acad-emy and would therefore be unable to obtain the law enforcement certification.

Without certification, officers can work for a police department for no more than one year. But once officers do become certified, they frequently leave small towns like Vaughn for better-paying work elsewhere, Madrid said.

“We keep losing ‘em and we keep hiring ‘em,”

Vaughn leaders want local control on policeContinued from page 1

Madrid told commission-ers. “You can provide as much help as you want – we will take it. But we want a police officer under our control.”

“You have control of nobody right now,” Com-missioner Tapia retorted.

Instead of agreeing to turn over the town’s law enforcement funds to the county, Mayor Madrid offered commissioners a counter-proposal.

“Right now we can only afford to hire one po-lice officer,” he said. “I’d like to propose we hire one and you put one in here. If you supply one and I sup-ply one, we’ll have two.”

Commissioner Tapia asked him if the town would help pay for the sec-ond officer. Madrid shook his head.

“Commissioner, we’re asking for your help,” he said.

Commissioner Vince Cordova said it was “cra-zy” to have multiple law enforcement agencies op-erating in a town as small as Vaughn.

“I want us moving closer together to manage public safety,” Commis-sioner Vince Cordova said. “Vaughn cannot continue to do the same thing it’s been doing. You keep los-ing officers over and over.

I don’t want to take com-plete control. You’re pay-ing taxes and we should provide you a service.”

At the end of the con-tentious meeting, officials found a glimmer of hope for cooperation. Cordova suggested that town and county officials discuss developing a “joint pow-ers agreement,” or JPA, that would allow shared decision-making about coordinating law enforce-ment in Vaughn.

“I’m not going to re-lease law enforcement money to the county,” Mayor Madrid said before a brief pause. “But I would consider a JPA.”

half the size of the current campus.

Al though the h igh school’s enrollment is pro-jected to grow 20 percent in the next five years, that coincides with a nearly equal drop in projected enrollment at the middle school, according to figures in a draft report by consul-tant William S. DeJong of the firm Dejong-Richter. District wide, the report projects enrollment to de-

crease slightly or remain flat -- from 637 total stu-dents this year to 601 by the year 2022-2023.

In that context, it’s hard for the district to justify costly renovations of the over-sized high school campus, especially with the aging Santa Rosa El-ementary School to need an expensive renovation in the near future.

And so district officials will begin a formal “com-munity dialogue” about an update to the five-year School Facility Master Plan at a pair of meet-ings next week: from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Tues-day, March 19; and from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on

Thursday, March 21. Both meetings are at the Santa Rosa High School audito-rium. District officials are asking parents and other concerned citizens to attend both meetings, since they will cover different topics.

A special steering com-mittee of community lead-ers will meet on Monday, March 18, and there will be an additional planning session on Wednesday, March 20.

Hern said the realign-ment issue is motivated by the cost of maintenance and operations, projected to be $5 to $7 per square foot. “Our budget is not growing. It’s shrinking,” he said, and if the district

doesn’t do something to cut down on maintenance, heating, utilities and other costs, “We’re going to be in a world of hurt.”

A consultant estimat-ed the district could save $700,000 to $1 million per year by consolidating the middle school and high school campuses, shift-ing grades one through six to the current middle school campus on U.S. 54, and closing the elementary school campus now located on south Fifth Street.

Hern acknowledged that such a shift would require students who now walk to the neighborhood elemen-tary school to be trans-ported by car or school bus

to the newer campus across the river on the east side of town.

Despite transportation concerns, he said, “To me, I’d much rather have my kiddos in a nicer facility...even if I had to transport my kid another mile and a half.”

No decisions are final. Santa Rosa High School Principal Richard Perea stressed that the “com-munity dialogue” is just beginning.

The School Facility Master Plan is meant to address the needs of the district for the next five to 10 years. “The steer-ing committee and Public School Facilities Authority

and community dialogue will assess and come up with a recommendation,” he said.

The final decision will be left to the Santa Rosa Con-solidated Schools Board of Education, and then the district could go forward discussing more specific funding options with the state funding authority, which will have representa-tives at next week’s meet-ings in Santa Rosa.

Since the realignment option would not only change the schools but re-shape entire neighborhoods within the community, “It ought to promote some interesting conversation,” Hern said.

District lays groundwork for mergerContinued from page 1

to the Road Department and unspecified legal matters. County Manager Michael Romero and County Attorney Jesus Lopez joined the three commissioners in the closed session.

Participants reached by The Communicator would not say exactly what busi-ness was discussed in the executive session. How-ever, Cordova described

a heated exchange that he characterized as an “as-sault.”

Cordova would not say what commissioners were discussing, but he claimed that at one point “Commis-sioner Tapia jumped out of his seat, clenched his fist and threatened me with violence.”

Cordova said he could not remember precisely what words were used.

“I can’t remember if it was, ‘I’m going to kick the (expletive) out of you,’ or ‘kick your (expletive),’” Cordova said. Either way, Cordova said he took it as a physical threat and not mere political banter.

“I do not expect as a county commissioner to ever go into any meet-ings to be threatened with physical violence. That’s just not the way it’s going to happen,” Cordova said.

“The real issue for me is, we are elected officials. We’re expected to have debates. We’re expected to have differences of opinion, but there’s a process we need to be able to follow,” Cordova said. “We can’t go into those meetings and expect to be threatened. I will not be intimidated by physical threats.”

Reached by telephone Wednesday morning, Tapia told a reporter he was busy

and unavailable to com-ment.

Commission Chairman Alvin Maestas, who was present in the closed ses-sion, declined to comment on Cordova’s report to State Police.

“I’m not going to dis-cuss anything that hap-pens in executive session,” Maestas said. “It was an executive session. Usually when you’re in executive session, it has to stay in executive session.”

County Manager Mi-chael Romero also declined to comment, deferring to County Attorney Jesus Lopez, who did not imme-diately return a phone call

seeking comment.Cordova said he wanted

to document the alleged incident with State Police but did not see a need for it to be prosecuted as a crime. However, a decision on whether or not to pursue charges is not up to him.

New Mexico State Po-lice Sgt. Herbert Hinders confirmed on Wednesday that an officer had received Cordova’s statement and had begun an investigation to determine whether or not there was probable cause showing that any crime had occurred. Hinders would not comment on specif-ics of the case, citing the ongoing investigation, but

stressed that people who file complaints do not get to decide whether or not to prosecute.

“They’re not pressing the charges, we are,” Hin-ders said. “If you don’t want charges pressed, don’t report it. We’re not in the business to just document everybody’s personal lives. We’re in the business of law enforcement. If we investigate and have prob-able cause to believe that a crime did occur, we will file charges.”

He said it was premature to make any determination in the commissioner case, saying the follow-up inves-tigation was ongoing.

Threats behind closed doors?Continued from page 1

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March 14, 2013 oB I t u a r I E S

the Communicator

StatE oF nEW MEXICo

CountY oF QuaYtEntH JuDICIaL

DIStrICt

r a B o a G r I F I -nanCE, InC.,Successor in Interest to Farm Credit Bank of texas,

Plaintiff,

v. No. D-1010-CV-2007-00111

TERRA XXI, LTD., a Texas Limited Liability Partnership,composed of Veigel Cat-tle Company, as General

Partner, et al.,

Defendants.

AMENDED NOTICE OF SALE

WHErEaS, a Judgment and Decree of Foreclo-sure of Mortgage was rendered in the District Court of Quay County, New Mexico on February 1, 2010 for the Plaintiff in Cause No. D-1010-CV-2007-00111 wherein Rabo Agrifinance, Inc., Successor in Interest to Farm Credit Bank of Texas, was Plaintiff and Terra XXI, Ltd., a Texas Limited Partner-ship, composed of Vei-

gel Cattle Company, as General Partner, Robert Wayne Veigel a/k/a Bob W. Veigel, Ella Marie Williams Veigel a/k/a Ella Marie Veigel, Veigel Cattle Company, a Texas Corporation, Veigel Farm Partners, a Texas General Partnership d/b/a Veigel Partners, Bob Veigel, Inc., a Texas Corpora-tion, Steve Veigel, Inc., a Texas Corporation, Veigel - Kirk, Inc., a Texas Corporation, Vicki Veigel, Inc., a Texas Cor-poration, Veigel Farms, Inc., a Texas Corpora-tion, Terra Partners, a Texas General Partner-ship, Burnett & Veigel, Inc., a Texas Corpora-tion, as General Partner of Terra Partnership, a Texas General Partner-ship,

and All Unknown Claim-ants of Interest in the Premises Adverse to the Plaintiff, were De-fendants, foreclosing a Mortgage of record in Quay County, New Mexico, upon the follow-ing described real estate situate in said county, to-wit:

Township 6 North, Range 29 East, NMPM

Section 19: N E 1/4


Section 3: Lots 1, 2, S 2 NE 1/4 (NE 1/4)Section 5: Lots 1, 2, 3, 4,

S 2 N 2 (N 2), SE 1/4Section 6: S 2 NE 1/4, Lot 1 (NE 1/4 NE 1/4), SE 1/4 NW 1/4Section 7: Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, E 2 W 2, E 2 (All)Section 8: N 2Section17: SW 1/4Section 18: Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, E 2 W 2 (W 2), SE 1/4Section 19: Lots 1, 2, E 2 NW 1/4, NE 1/4 (N 2)Section 20: NW 1/4Section 27: S E 1/4Section 34: N E 1/4


Section 28: S 2Section 29: S E

1/4Section 32: E 2, SW 1/4Section 33: E 2Section 34: W 2, SE 1/4

and also foreclosing a Mortgage of record in Guadalupe County, New Mexico, upon the follow-ing described real estate situate in said county, to-wit:


Section 1: E 2 SE 1/4Section 12: E 2, E 2 NW 1/4Section 13: N E 1/4, SE 1/4Section 14: W 2 SE 1/4

Section 22: Lots

1 and 2, NE 1/4, N 2 SE 1/4Section 23: Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, N 2, N 2 S 2Section 24: AllSection 25: W 2Section 26: All

WHErEaS, the under-signed was appointed Special Master by the Court to make said sale.noW tHErEForE, by virtue of the power vested in me by law, decree and order of sale, I, the undersigned, will on the 26th day of March, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. at the front door of the Quay County Courthouse in Tucumcari, New Mexico aforesaid, offer for sale and sell at public auction

to the highest bidder for cash, all the above-de-scribed real estate, in the manner prescribed in said decree, subject to unpaid ad valorem taxes, if any. That the amount due Plaintiff, Rabo Agrifi-nance, Inc., at the date of sale, including principal, interest, special master’s fee and costs, except the cost of publication, which will be added, is $3,758,827.97.DatED this 20th day of February, 2013.

__________________Antoinette L. LinderSpecial Master

Published in the Guadalupe County Communicator February 28 and March 7, 14, and 21, 2013.

Legal notice

STATE OF NEW MEXICO

COUNTY OF GUADALUPE

FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT

No. D-424-CV-2012-00067

JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL

ASSOCIATION, SUCCESSOR BY

MERGER TO CHASE HOME FINANCE LLC,

Plaintiff,

v.

BIVIANA DIAZ AKA BIBIANA DIAZ, ANTONIO DIAZ,

AVCO FINANCIAL

SERVICES, ADVANTA FINANCE CORP., THE UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF BIVIANA DIAZ

AKA BIBIANA DIAZ, IF ANY AND THE

UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF ANTONIO DIAZ,

IF ANY,

Defendant(s).

NOTICE OF SALE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the under-signed Special Master will on March 18, 2013 at 11:00 AM, outside the front entrance of the County Courthouse 420 Parker Ave. Santa Rosa, NM, sell and con-vey to the highest bid-der for cash all the right,

title, and interest of the above-named defendants in and to the following described real estate lo-cated in said County and State:The easterly ten (10) feet of the west one-half (1/2) of Lots Seventeen (17) and eighteen (18), and all of Lots Nineteen (19) through Twenty-four (24), inclusive, Block One Hundred Twenty-nine (129) of the Origi-nal Townsite of Santa Rosa, Guadalupe county, New Mexico.

The address of the real property is 385 Mesa Ave, Santa Rosa, NM 88435. Plaintiff does not represent or warrant that the stated street address

is the street address of the described property; if the street address does not match the legal de-scription, then the prop-erty being sold herein is the property more partic-ularly described above, not the property located at the street address; any prospective purchaser at the sale is given notice that it should verify the location and address of the property being sold. Said sale will be made pursuant to the judgment entered on January 11, 2013 in the above enti-tled and numbered cause, which was a suit to fore-close a mortgage held by the above Plaintiff and wherein Plaintiff was adjudged to have a lien

against the above-de-scribed real estate in the sum of $53,812.76 plus interest from January 11, 2013 to the date of sale at the rate of 7.000% per annum, the costs of sale, including the Special Master’s fee, publica-tion costs, and Plaintiff’s costs expended for taxes, insurance, and keeping the property in good re-pair. Plaintiff has the right to bid at such sale and submit its bid ver-bally or in writing. The Plaintiff may apply all or any part of its judgment to the purchase price in lieu of cash. At the date and time stated above, the Special Master may postpone the sale to such later date

and time as the Special Master may specify.NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that this sale may be subject to a bank-ruptcy filing, a pay off, a reinstatement or any oth-er condition that would cause the cancellation of this sale. Further, if any of these conditions exist, at the time of sale, this sale will be null and void, the successful bid-der’s funds shall be re-turned, and the Special Master and the mort-gagee giving this notice shall not be liable to the successful bidder for any damages.NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the real property and improve-ments concerned with

herein will be sold sub-ject to any and all patent reservations, easements, all recorded and unre-corded liens not fore-closed herein, and all recorded and unrecorded special assessments and taxes that may be due. Plaintiff and its attorneys disclaim all responsibil-ity for, and the purchaser at the sale takes the prop-erty subject to, the valu-ation of the property by the County Assessor as real or personal property, afficture of any mobile or manufactured home to the land, deactivation of title to a mobile or manufactured home on the property, if any, envi-ronmental contamination on the property, if any,

and zoning violations concerning the property, if any.NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the pur-chaser at such sale shall take title to the above-described real property subject to rights of re-demption.Jeffrey LakeSpecial MasterSouthwest Support Group20 First Plaza NW, Suite #20Albuquerque, NM 87102NM11-01527_FC01

Published in the Guadalupe County Communicator February 21, 28, and March 7 & 14, 2013.

Legal notice

BEFORE THE NEW MEXICO

PUBLIC REGULATION COMMISSION

IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION OF

NEXUS COMMUNICATIONS,

INC.FOR DESIGNATION

AS AN ELIGIBLETELECOMMUNICA-

TIONS CARRIER

FOR THE LIMITED PURPOSE OFPROVIDING

LIFELINE SERVICEIN THE STATE OF

NEW MEXICO

Case No. 13-00006-UTNOTICE OF

pROCEeDinG notICE is hereby given of the following matters pertaining to the above-captioned case pending before the New Mexico Public Regulation Com-mission (“Commission” or “NMPRC”):On January 8, 2013, Nex-

us Communications, Inc. (“Nexus”) filed with the Commission a Petition for Designation as an Eligible Telecommuni-cations Carrier (“Peti-tion”). The Petition was filed pursuant to Section 214(e)(2) of the federal Communications Act of 1934 as amended by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, and 17.11.10.24 NMAC. The Petition requests that the Commission approve the designation of Nexus as an Eligible Telecom-municat ions Carr ier (“ETC”) for the limited purposes of participation in the federal Universal Service Fund (“USF”) Lifeline program as a prepaid wireless carrier. Nexus, as a reseller, seeks certification to operate as an ETC in the geographic area where its underlying carrier, Verizon Wire-less, provides coverage throughout New Mexico. Nexus is not request-ing ETC designation in this case to offer services

supported by the federal high-cost program; nor is it seeking ETC des-ignation in this case to request support from the New Mexico State Rural Universal Service Fund (“SRUSF”) administra-tor for reimbursement of Lifeline services under the SRUSF.On January 30, 2013, the Commission issued an Order initiating this proceeding to consider Nexus’ Petition.On February 1, 2013, the Commission issued an Order designating the undersigned to preside over this proceeding.Further information re-garding this case can be obtained by contacting the Commission at the addresses and telephone numbers provided be-low. The Commis-sion has assigned Case No. 13-00006-UT to this pro-ceeding and all inquires or written comments con-cerning this matter should refer to that case.By Order issued in this

case on March 6, 2013, the Hearing Examiner has established the follow-ing procedural schedule and requirements for this case:Any person desiring to intervene to become a party (“intervenor”) to this case must file a mo-tion for leave to inter-vene in conformity with NMPRC Rules of Pro-cedure 1.2.2.23(A) and 1.2.2.23(B) NMAC on or before April 12, 2013.On or before April 22, 2013, Nexus shall file di-rect testimony in support of its Petition.Any intervenor testimony shall be filed on or before May 14, 2013.Telecommunications Bu-reau Staff of the Commis-sion’s Utility Division (“Staff”) shall file direct testimony on or before June 6, 2013.Any rebuttal testimony shall be filed on or before June 25, 2013.A public hearing in this case shall be held on July 9, 2013 commencing at

9:30 a.m. MDT, and con-tinue as necessary until completed at the Com-mission’s offices in the P.E.R.A. Building, 1120 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501, for the purpose of hearing and receiving testimony, exhibits, arguments and any other appropriate matters relevant to this proceeding.The procedural dates and requirements of this case are subject to further or-der of the Commission or Hearing Examiner.The Commission’s Rules of Procedure , 1 .2 .2 NMAC et seq., shall ap-ply to this case except as modified by order of the Commission or Hearing Examiner. A copy of such Rules may be ob-tained from the offices of the Commission and are available at the official NMAC website, http://www.nmcpr.state.nm.us/nmac/.Any interested person may appear at the time and place of hearing and

make written or oral comment pursuant to 1.2.2.23(F) NMAC with-out becoming an interve-nor. All such comments shall not be considered as evidence in this case. Written comments, which shall reference NMPRC Case No. 13-00006-UT, also may be sent to the Commission at the fol-lowing address:New Mexico Public Reg-ulation CommissionP.E.R.A. Building1120 Paseo de PeraltaP.O. Box 1269Santa Fe, NM 87504-1269Telephone: 1-888-427-5772Any interested person may examine the Petition and all other pleadings, testimony, exhibits and other documents filed in the public record for this case at the Commission’s address set out above.The filing and service of pleadings and other documents in this case are subject to applica-ble Commission rules

(see e.g., 1.2.2.10 and 1.2.2.25(H) NMAC) and pertinent rulings in this case, except that service of discovery requests and responses shall be via e-mail unless otherwise agreed or ordered. Like-wise, unless otherwise agreed or ordered, exhib-its to discovery responses shall be served electroni-cally at the same time as such responses.Anyone filing pleadings, testimony and other docu-ments in this case may file either in person at the Commission’s docketing office in the P.E.R.A. Building in Santa Fe, New Mexico, or by mail to the Commission’s ad-dress at P.O. Box 1269, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-1269, and shall serve copies thereof on all parties of record and Staff in the manner specified on the Certificate of Service for this case. All filings shall be e-mailed on the date they are filed with the Commission. Filings shall also be e-mailed to

the Hearing Examiner at [email protected]. All docu-ments e-mailed to the Hearing Examiner shall include Word files if cre-ated in that format.Interested persons should contact the Commission for confirmation of the hearing date, time, and place since hearings are occasionally resched-uled.Any person with a dis-ability requiring special assistance in order to par-ticipate in this proceeding should contact the Com-mission at least 24 hours prior to the commence-ment of the hearing.ISSuED at Santa Fe, New Mexico this 6th day of March 2013.NEW MEXICO PUBLIC REGULATION COM-MISSION Anthony F. MedeirosHearing Examiner

Published in the Guadal-upe County Communica-tor March, 14, 2013

Legal notice

Dorothy L. Zamora, 1927-2013

Nicacio ‘Nick’ Cordova, 1964-2013 Dulcinea Gutierrez, 1944-2013

Former Gua-dalupe County resident Doro-thy L. Zamora passed away o n We d n e s -day, March 6, at Presbyterian Hospital in Al-buquerque fol-lowing an illness. She was age 86.

She was born in El Valle, N.M., to the home of Miguel and Francisca (Benavidez) Lopez. She

g r e w u p i n Newkirk.

O n F e b . 11, 1946, she married Napo-leon Zamora in Santa Rosa. T h e y m a d e their home in Santa Rosa ,

where she worked at Tee-ters Department Store, La Fiesta Café and assisted her husband at the City Food Market, which they owned and operated for

many years.In 1974, the couple

moved to Albuquerque, where she had made her home ever since.

Mrs. Zamora loved to read and embroider, and she took care of many children for many years. She was a parishioner at Church of the Risen Savior in Albuquerque.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Napoleon, broth-ers and sisters Mary Gon-

zalez, Aurora Elevario, Florencia Lopez, Adela Sena, Hilario Lopez, Beni-gno Lopez, Heculano Lo-pez, Santos Lopez, Frank Lopez and Miguel Lo-pez.

Survivors include: her children, Corinne Barn-hill and husband George of Brandon, Miss., and Rolando Zamora of Al-buquerque; her grand-children, Steven Madrid and wife Stachia and An-drea Madrid; great-grand-

children Alyssa Madrid and Jaden Madrid. Also surviving are: her sister, Dolores Chacon of Santa Rosa, and her brother Jose D. Lopez of Las Vegas, N.M., along with numer-ous nieces, nephews and a host of relatives and friends.

Rosary services will be held at 10 a.m. on Tues-day, March 12, at St. Rose of Lima Church in Santa Rosa. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated

immediately after the Ro-sary, with Father Thomas officiating. Burial will follow at St. Joseph Cem-etery.

Serving as Pallbearers will be Albert Elevario, Robert Lopez, Matthew Lopez, Patrick Gonzalez, Adolph Sena and Andrew Zamora.

Services are by Chavez Funeral Home of Santa Rosa. To place an online tribute, see: www.chavez-funeralhome.com.

Guadalupe County na-tive Nicacio “Nick“ Cordo-va Jr. of Clovis and formerly of Amarillo, Texas, passed away on Sunday, March 10, at Texas Specialty Hospital in Lubbock, Texas, follow-ing an extended illness. He was age 48.

He was born Nov. 25, 1964, in Anton Chico to the home of Nicacio Sr. and Teresa (Jaramillo) Cor-dova.

He grew up and attend-ed school in Anton Chico and Santa Rosa, where he graduated in 1981. Mr. Cordova made his home in Amarillo, Texas, where he married Irene Banegas on July 15, 1984. He worked as a loader operator in Amarillo for Affiliated

Foods, I.B.P., Tyson, and Hi-Pro feeds.

He was a parishioner at Our Lady of Guadal-upe Catholic Church in Amarillo. He and his wife made their home in Clovis in 2010.

Those who knew him said he was a family man and enjoyed the time he spent with his wife and children. He spent his af-ter hours and weekends attending their sporting events and activities. He enjoyed attending family events, loved the outdoors, farm life, ranching, horses, gathering firewood with his family and cutting and sell-ing Christmas Trees.

Mr. Cordova was pre-ceded in death by his father,

Nicacio Cordova Sr., sister Anabelle Cordova, his pa-ternal grandparents, Fidel and Aurelia Cordova, and his maternal grandparents, Ramon and Felicita Jara-millo.

Survivors include: his wife, Irene Cordova, of Clovis; two daughters, Ve-ronica Lopez and husband Matt of Oklahoma City, Okla., and Venessa Gamboa of Amarillo, Texas; a son, Nick Cordova of Amarillo, Texas; his mother, Teresa Cordova of Clovis; four brothers, Anthony Cordo-va, Ramon Cordova, John and wife Arena Cordova, all of Anton Chico, and Hector Cordova of Santa Fe; three sisters, Christine and husband Gene Sena of

Clovis, Teresa Martinez and husband Jose of Ingle-wood, Calif., and Esther Mata and Greg Romero of Santa Rosa.

Also surviving are sev-en grandchildren: Aaron, Julia, Hannah, and Lucas Lopez, all of Oklahoma City, Okla., and Steven, Isaiah, and Joshua Gam-boa of Amarillo, Texas; along with a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives, co-workers and friends.

A funeral Mass will be held at a future date in Anton Chico, with details pending.

Arrangement are by Chavez Funeral Home of Fort Sumner. To place an online tribute, see: www.chavezfuneralhome.com.

Dilia native Dulcinea Gutierrez passed away last Thursday, March 7, in Ama-rillo. She was age 69.

She was born on Feb. 22, 1944, in Dilia to the home of Cosme and Rose Sandoval.

Ms. Gutierrez had been a Home Health Care giver. She was a member of St. Anne’s Catholic

Parish in Tucumcari.She was preceded in

death by her husband, George Gutierrez, in 1995.

She is survived by her children: Steve Gutierrez and wife Amy of Tucumcari; George Gutierrez and com-panion Felicia of Tucum-

cari; Christy Corcoran and husband Tim of Detroit, Mich.; and Donna Bobbitt and husband Chester of San Jon. She also is survived by 12 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren; her siblings, Basilio Sandoval, Manuel Sandoval, Erlinda Montano, and David San-doval.

Holy Rosary was prayed Monday from St. Anne’s Church. Mass of the Resur-rections was offered Tues-day, also from St. Anne’s. Cremation took place after the funeral Mass.

Arrangements were by Dunn Funeral Home of Tucumcari.

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STATE OF NEW MEXICO

COUNTY OF GUADALUPE

FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT

No. D-424-CV-2012-0089

JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL

ASSOCIATION,

Plaintiff,v.

CHRISTINE S. ROMERO AND THE UNKNOWN SPOUSE

OF CHRISTINE S. ROMERO, IF ANY,

Defendant(s).NOTICE OF SALE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the under-signed Special Master will on March 18, 2013 at 11:00 AM, outside the front entrance of the County Courthouse 420 Parker Ave. Santa Rosa, NM, sell and con-vey to the highest bid-der for cash all the right, title, and interest of the above-named defendants in and to the following described real estate lo-cated in said County and State:The Southerly fifty-five (55) feet of Lot Twenty-nine (29), Block Ten

(10), Santa Rosa, Gua-dalupe County, New Mexico, according to the second Amended map thereof filed in the of-fice of the County Clerk, Guadalupe County, New Mexico.

The address of the real property is 50 Greig Ave, Santa Rosa, NM 88435. Plaintiff does not repre-sent or warrant that the stated street address is the street address of the described property; if the street address does not match the legal descrip-tion, then the property being sold herein is the property more particu-larly described above, not the property located at the street address; any prospective purchaser at the sale is given notice that it should verify the location and address of the property being sold. Said sale will be made pursuant to the judg-ment entered on Janu-ary 4, 2013 in the above entitled and numbered cause, which was a suit to foreclose a mortgage held by the above Plain-tiff and wherein Plaintiff was adjudged to have a lien against the above-described real estate in the sum of $71,808.17 plus interest from De-cember 19, 2012 to the date of sale at the rate of

6.750% per annum, the costs of sale, including the Special Master’s fee, publication costs, and Plaintiff’s costs expend-ed for taxes, insurance, and keeping the property in good repair. Plaintiff has the right to bid at such sale and submit its bid verbally or in writ-ing. The Plaintiff may apply all or any part of its judgment to the purchase price in lieu of cash. At the date and time stated above, the Special Master may postpone the sale to such later date and time as the Special Mas-ter may specify.NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that this sale may be subject to a bank-ruptcy filing, a pay off, a reinstatement or any oth-er condition that would cause the cancellation of this sale. Further, if any of these conditions exist, at the time of sale, this sale will be null and void, the successful bidder’s funds shall be returned, and the Special Master and the mortgagee giv-ing this notice shall not be liable to the successful bidder for any damages.NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the real prop-erty and improvements concerned with herein will be sold subject to any and all patent reser-vations, easements, all

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By Davy DelgadoThe Communicator

Have you heard the news? We have a new pope. I’m pretty astonished by reactions to the subject as a whole, from everyday people to the media in gen-eral.

To many (not most) of the Roman Catholics that I know, the selection of a new pope is not very dif-ferent from electing (or selecting) a New Mexico governor or a U.S. presi-dent. While what popes and presidents do and say does invariably impact many lives, many of us here are as far removed as we could be from the pope, bishops and cardinals.

Many of us grew up in homes where it was wrong to criticize the pope – or anyone else for that matter. It was particularly wrong to criticize priests, nuns, teachers, et al.

“Don’t wonder or wor-ry about what anyone else does,” we used to hear. “Just do what you’re sup-posed to do.”

But many of us Santa Rosanos went to a paro-chial school, where we studied the lives of saints and the ministry of Jesus Christ. How could the Ro-man Catholic Church in

Rome be swimming in so much wealth while mil-lions or billions of people are in need of the most ba-sic things like food, cloth-ing, and shelter?

I think the best answer I heard to that question was, “Well, the mother church has to appear as a well-to-do world organization so that everyday and well-to-do people will contribute to it.” (And of course the church serves humankind throughout the world.)

But I sometimes won-der how Christ would re-act if He were to return to earth and observe life in the Vatican. Would He ap-prove of it?

My sentiments on these types of things extend to famous NFL quarterback Tim Tebow (and others) occasionally “pointing” up to the open sky as if ex-pressing thanks for having received special favoritism from the heavens to ac-complish a game-winning pass or running touchdown – perhaps at the expense of an even more spiritually-devout defensive back who might have even been cut after giving up a key touchdown. I don’t recall ever learning that God favored anybody, except maybe in time of war; it’s all relative.

Well, maybe I’d better take that back. I got to hear some of the most awesome soothing sounds at a little gathering early Monday evening. It was like the top disk jockeys ever had assembled in heaven and were sharing the “music of the spheres” at the expense of those without a sense of true musical taste.

But alas, for the next few days it looks like I’ll again be subject to the worst sounds that humans have to endure – highway and in-city travel – as Lion fans scramble to get to that godless sports arena in the middle of absolutely no-where. Someday it will be the center of the greater Albuquerque area, but it certainly isn’t that now.

I thought it was inter-esting on Tuesday when the post-noon TV news and views found people complaining (or whatever) about the mayor of New York proposing a ban on large sugary drinks in an effort to curb obesity. The ordinance (put on hold by a judge) would make it il-legal for food service es-tablishments to serve sug-ary drinks larger than 16 ounces.

While the idea is pa-tently ridiculous (I would suppose that anyone could

then buy not one 16-ounce drink but a whole case of 12 oz. products), it just might ring a bell in our ears and remind us to at least cut back on “sodas” for our own good. Mayor Michael Bloomberg argues that the proposal is not a governmental prescription, but rather a public aware-ness campaign.

In Bloomberg’s words: “It’s purely education. It forces you to see the differ-ence, in the case of the two different sized cups…”

That’s all that various (or certain) religious les-sons are. We were taught that the purpose of life is to live in fellowship with the Lord, that the Bible is a plan for the salvation of humankind.

I am always amazed by the great affection that so many Santa Rosanos have for the Lenten sea-son. I admire their seeing and experiencing it as only a positive, strengthening, and loving spiritual experi-ence. They want to grow in their love of God and their neighbors, and constantly seek a clearer vision of the Risen Christ come Easter.

While fasting and ab-stinence is the practice of giving strength to spiritual (and thus, physical) life, and abstinence makes the

Pope pick lets all of us pontificate - but why?

By Jim BelshawThe Communicator

“Keep your exclama-tion points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.”

-- Elmore Leonard, “Easy on the Adverbs, Ex-clamation Points and Es-pecially Hooptedoodle,” New York Times, July 16, 2001

Have you ever in the course of everyday con-versation used the phrase “power grab?” You know, something like this: “Ever since that kid turned 13, it’s been one power grab after another in this house. Who does he think pays the bills around here anyway?”

Ever said anything like that?

I didn’t think so. Me, neither. It’s just not some-thing that comes to mind, unless you’re writing on the Internet, in which case there is some kind of natu-

ral law requiring you to overstate.

For instance, a conser-vative blogger recently wrote of an “unprece-dented power grab.” Then Rush Limbaugh agreed, which made it official.

What deed merited not only “power grab” but “unprecedented,” too? It was Michelle Obama handing out an Oscar.

This worries me, but not about Michelle Obama’s power grab. (Unless she shows up handing out an Emmy and a Tony. I don’t even want to think of the threat to America if we see her with a Razzie in her hands.)

I worry about words that don’t mean anything anymore. Words like “power grab.” Of all the complaints I might have about Michelle Obama handing out an Oscar, “power grab” doesn’t make the cut.

We’ve known for a long time that words don’t mean what they used to mean, words such as “hate,” which used to mean, well, hate. Now it means you might disagree with me.

Don’t care for John Mc-Cain? Why do you hate John McCain?

Don’t care for Joe Biden? Why do you hate Joe Biden?

Take a minute to Google the words “Obama tyrant dictator.” Count the pages you find. Then get yourself a dictionary and look up “tyrant” and “dic-tator.”

It’s not just words that don’t mean what they used to mean. Punctuation has long been on a slippery

slope, too.A newspaper’s letters

to the editor page always makes me think of Elmore Leonard’s Rule No. 5 about exclamation points.

Any newspaper in America will do. The let-ters page will be awash in exclamation points. Some letters have one tacked on at the end of every sentence. If the writer re-ally, really, really wants to make sure people know he’s serious, he’ll tack on three!!!

Such writers have so little faith in their words that they throw in an ex-clamation point to do the work they think their words won’t.

Many years ago, an Al-buquerque magazine writ-er said he wanted to do a Q. & A with me. What could go wrong? He asks questions, I give answers. Sure, I say, let’s do a Q & A.

Then the magazine story came out. He quoted

me accurately enough, and at the end of every quote — every one! — he added an exclamation point.

It made believe that anyone who wrote for a newspaper needed to be interviewed and the story printed so reporters could see what happened when a writer wasn’t too care-ful with someone else’s words.

Anyway, “power grab” got me to thinking about Elmore Leonard and ex-clamation points. Lan-guage can be slippery. Good words get distorted. Meanings change in odd ways. Sometimes words disappear, never to be seen again.

Carmel Lobello, writ-ing at deathandtaxesmag.com, has found fine ex-amples of words you don’t see much anymore, even one just for us:

-- “Soda-squirt: One who works at a soda foun-tain in New Mexico.” (El-sie Warnock’s “Dialect

Speech in California and New Mexico,” 1919.)

— “Snoutfair: A person with a handsome counte-nance.”

— “Wonder-Wench: A sweetheart.”

— “Groak: To silently watch someone while they’re eating, hoping to be invited to join them.”

And my personal fa-vorite: “Spermologer — A picker-up of trivia, of cur-rent news, a gossip mon-ger, what we would today call a columnist.”

All right, enough. I suggest you spend a min-ute Googling some of these language places. You should especially take a look at Elmore Leonard’s Ten Rules. There’s not a dud in the bunch.

Here’s No. 10, which the acclaimed novelist says is the most important: “Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip.” If you can’t do that, at least take out the exclama-tion points.

heart grow fonder, fast-ing (I have read) prompts the release of brain tissue (in minute quantities of course) that spur desirable qualities such as creativ-ity and intelligent thinking and decision-making.

When prayer is practi-cally forced upon us, we in a sense naturally rebel. Yet, when we are alone, we can find great solace in prayer. I never prayed more in my life than in the weeks before I expe-rienced a mild but poten-tially deadly or incredibly destructive stroke in early August 2007. The same power of prayer prevailed when I returned home 16 days later.

The churches in our community were built to provide us with the oppor-tunity of daily study and reading of the Holy Writ, as one Gregory McMannes writes.

“There’s solace, insight, encouragement, grace and a whole lot more in scrip-

ture,” and that can’t be said about any other book in our libraries.

I often wonder how the Bible, written so many, many centuries ago, in lan-guages that should have been so “foreign” to so many of its translators, can still ring so true in Eng-lish and Spanish with the same incredible and lyrical beauty.

We read about how it was written in three languages: Hebrew, the language of the Old Tes-tament; Aramaic, the “common language” of the Near East until the 6th

century B.C. to 4th century B.C.; and Greek, the New Testament language that was international at the time of Christ.

Then there was that even more soothing and inspirational interpretation of those sacred words by Father Thomas during Tia Ramona Gutierrez’s funer-al Mass last Saturday at St. Rose’s…

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RIO RANCHO -- It was a very sad ending for what was otherwise a great season.

S a n t a R o s a H i g h School’s “Fighting Lions” might have fallen, 54-44, to the Laguna Acoma Hawks on Wednesday night at the Santa Ana Star Center. But they didn’t go down to any slouches.

The Hawks are the top-seeded team in the New Mexico Class AA tourna-ment for a reason, 27-2 on the season, and with-out a loss since Feb. 5 at Bosque.

In the quarterfinals against the Lions, Laguna had a terrific game plan and stuck to it. They were sharp. They were after the ball. They stole it almost at will. They out-rebounded the Lions and constantly were chasing down the ball. In a furious second quarter, they had three, four, five break-away fast-break layups.

In every phase of the game, they just excelled, and although Head Coach Joseph Esquibel’s Lions had burst out to a first-quar-ter lead, 15-9, it wouldn’t last long.

In front of a crowd at the Santa Ana Star Center where there were scant pockets of purple and white, the Laguna Acoma crowd was electrified.

And the bottom line: after the Lions scrappy first quarter, they just domi-nated. Completely.

Still, it was a season that the “Purple Pride” could still be proud of. They got off to a somewhat slow start -- which sometimes happens when one of the things on the pre-season to-do list is to win a football championship first. But by the end of the season they were hitting on all cylin-ders, storming to a big road win in the District 4AA tournament championship game at Texico.

Then, last Saturday night in the “Lions Den,” Santa Rosa ended the Mora Rangers’ hopes of a state championship, earning Santa Rosa a ticket to the “Elite Eight” of the Class AA tournament.

The Rangers, led by the high-scoring duo of Cody Najar (Class AA’s lead-ing scorer) and Lorenzo Chavez, were attempt-ing to end an eight-year drought in state champi-onship appearances. Najar ended the night with 21 points and Chavez poured in 33.

The Rangers beat Pe-cos for the 2005 title, Tu-larosa for the nets in 1998, and then Tularosa in 1998. Coached by former assis-tant Lion coach Richard Martinez of Mora, the Rangers crunched Tula-

‘Fighting’ to the end, but Hawks soared

© Mark Holm / The CommunicatorSanta Rosa ‘Fighting Lion’ Isaac Velasquez (31) dribbles up court during Wednesday’s New Mexico Class AA quar-terfinals against the Laguna Acoma Hawks. After a slow start to the season, the Lions reached the ‘Elite Eight.’

who “leaves it all on the floor.” And Marcus Lo-pez, who twisted a knee in the final minutes of the Lions’ victory over Mora, was “doing okay” before the game, Esquibel said. “Come game time, he’ll be there for us.”

The right side of the AA bracket is truly a work of art. Although former Lions’ state championship coach Victor Perez used to say, ‘you can throw season records out the window when you get to state’, the formulation of the bracket made it impossible for a Dexter, Bosque, Mesilla Valley Christian and Pe-cos “final four.”

On Wednesday, Dex-ter topped Bosque, 61-53, and Mesilla Valley Chris-tian topped Pecos, 56-48. Meanwhile, Texico beat Tularosa, 72-65.

So the Final Four is set with Dexter facing Mesil-la Valley Christian at 4:45 p.m. today at the Santa Ana Star Center, followed by Texico against Lagu-na Acoma in the 7 p.m. nightcap. The two vic-tors square off at 8 a.m. on Saturday at “The Pit” at the University of New Mexico.

Dexter and Bosque had not met prior to this week. Likewise, MVC had not encountered the Panthers of Pecos. On the

left side of the bracket, Laguna Acoma and the Lions had finally set-up a long-delayed meeting, while Texico’s Wolver-ines overcame recent his-tory. They were nipped by the Tularosa Wildcats 59-56 on Dec. 15.

r E M a I n I n G tHrEatS: Entering Wednesday’s games, many of the Top 10 lead-ing scorers in Class AA al-ready had been eliminated from competition. The No. 2 and No. 4 scorers, Sean Jordan and Tyrell Morgan of Ramah are also out, as are No. 5 Dennis Mares of Monte del Sol, No. 6 Dakota Montoya of Clayton, and No. 7 Anto-nio Tapia, also of Monte del Sol. On Wednesday, out went Andres Rivera of Bosque (16.6) and John Vigil of Pecos (15.6). The No. 3 scorer, Miguel Reyna of Texico (20.6), gets to practice his sharp-shooting another day.

Team-wise, one short-lived threat was Santa Fe Prep, 50-44 mid-season winners over Bosque, a team that then came to the “Lions Den” and scored a 59-49 victory.

Here’s a roundup of the remaining “final four” contenders.

Laguna acoma went 8-0 before host Pojoaque rang their bell in the title

bout of the Ben Lujan tourney, according to the Santa Fe New Mexican. The Hawks won their next 10 contests before running into a buzz saw at Bosque and absorbed their second loss, 47-32. Laguna Acoma hasn’t lost since. Their last eight vic-tories included three vic-tories over Bosque.

texico went 29-1 in 2001 to capture its first Class AA title, beating 26-3 Tularosa. The Wol-verines returned in 2008, defeating Mesilla Valley 58-53. Texico repeated in 2009, edging the Lions 48-46. The Wolverines will no doubt be smart-ing from losing their Dis-trict 4AA crown to Santa Rosa, but they didn’t start-out on the right foot in the first round at home against Tohatchi last Sat-urday. Miguel Reyna’s eventual game-high 16 markers turned a 7-point deficit into a 4-point half-time lead. The Wolverines still needed a Rallin Har-ris 3-pointer to lead the Cougars 31-27 after three periods and Texico pre-vailed, 50-33.

Dexter: In the first round, the Demons led by only two points at inter-mission against Ramah. The Mustangs switched to a man-to-man defense in the second half and

the Demons were able to shoot-over 6-foot-7 (“at least” - according to the Chaves County Sports Report) Sean Jordan-led Ramah defense. He had been good for 15 points in the second period on of-fense. “For some reason they thought they could go man against us,” De-mon coach James Voight said.

Mesilla Valley Chris-tian: After torching “prohibitive favorite” Tularosa for the District 6AA tourney crown, the SonBlazers tore-up Santa Fe Prep 46-22 in their Round of 16 play-in con-test. MVC held the Prep-pies scoreless in the sec-ond period then limited them to four third-period points. “I’ve never re-ally had a team like this,” SonBlazers’ coach Terry Adler told the Las Cruces Sun News. “We feed off of our defense. Usually we like to score a lot of points. This year’s team is lock-down, defensive-minded. We have played this way throughout the year (despite losing twice to Tularosa). Our defense, it’s been amazing.” De-von Tourillot paced MVC with 19 points and 12 boards. The SonBlazers threw-down Tulie, 48-42 before eliminating Santa Fe Prep.

© Mark Holm / The CommunicatorSanta Rosa ‘Fighting Lion’ Miguel Sisneros (45) tries to fight off a flock of Laguna Acoma Hawks to get the ball on Wednesday night at the Santa Ana Star Center. The senior hit double figures in scoring and rebounding, but it wasn’t enough against the top-seeded team in Class AA.

rosa in 1995 for the state title. Prior to that, Mora topped Moriarty for the 1979 title, and collected their first in 1965 under coach Doroteo Vigil, 70-61, over Larry Marrujo’s Lions, who had entered Johnson Gym on the Uni-versity of New Mexico campus for the final time at 23-3.

The Purple Pride had entered the Class AA tour-nament with a coveted top-8 seed (and the first-round home game) thanks to their 48-42 District 4AA tournament championship victory over Texico two weeks ago.

Although the win over Mora put 8th-seeded San-ta Rosa against the top-seeded team in the tour-nament, what gave Lions fans hope was a regular season match-up, when Laguna Acoma only man-aged a 50-49 win at the “Lions Den.” During the regular season, Santa Rosa also had lost its first two contests against Texico, 64-63, and 68-58, before turning the tables on the Wolverines for the District 4AA tournament trophy.

Before Wednesday’s game, Lion Head Coach Joseph Esquibel said “we know we have our hands full with a tough oppo-nent. The Hawks are cur-rently the No. 1 team in the state with some good guards and good shoot-ers. Our Lions are playing with a lot of confidence and we’re real proud of the way they’re playing. We’re also very thankful for all of the support from fans.”

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red hot links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 LB. 2for$4

T E J A N O

ring bologna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 LB. $319

FAST FIXIN CHICKEN BREAST

nuggets or strips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 OZ . $499

G LACIER GOLD

hash browns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 CT. 2for$4

JIMMY DEAN

pancake & sausage on a stick. . . 30 OZ.$799

OWENS SAUSAGE, EGG & CHEESE TACO OR

sausage biscuit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28-29 OZ.$649

O W E N S

sausage gravy & biscuits 13.5 OZ.$269

SE„OR RICO PA R FAIT TREATS OR

rainbow gelatin snacks. . . . 6 PACK $219

SE„OR RICO

rice pudding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 OZ. 5for$5

FARM RAISED, PRODUCT OF CHINA

tilapia fillets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LB. $299

GARDEN FRESH PRODUCE

SHURFINE ASSORTED

whipped topping. . . . . . . . . . . . 8 oz. 4for$5

TOTINOÕS PEPPERONI OR COMBO

pizza rolls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19.8 oz.$329

SHURFINE SELECT GROUP FROZEN

vegetables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 oz. 5for$5

SHURFINE SELECT GROUP VEGETA B L E

Steam-Its . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 OZ. 4for$5

FISHER BOY CRUNCHY BREADED

fish sticks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 oz. 2for$5

SHURFINE LARGE OR SMALL CURD

cottage cheese. . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 oz.$299

I N T E R N ATIONAL DELIGHTS ASSORTED

coffee creamer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 oz.$199

SHURFINE REG. OR W/ C A LC I U M

orange juice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . gallon $389

SHURFINE SPREAD

A Change for the Butter. . . 16 oz.99¢

SHURFINE

pie crusts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 pack 2for$4

AMERICAN, ITALIAN OR FANCY FIELD GREEN

Fresh Express . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-12 oz. 2FOR$3

RED RIPE

tomatoes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 pack 99¢GARDEN FRESH

jalape–os . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . lb. 99¢NEW CROP TEXAS 1015

yellow onions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . lb.

$129

GARDEN FRESH GREEN

asparagus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . lb.

$299P R E M I U M

cauliflower. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2FOR$5

SUPER SELECT

cucumbers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ea. 79¢

S L I C E D

mushrooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 oz.

$199GARDEN FRESH

sweet potatoes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . lb. 79¢

S W E ET JUICY

honeydew melon. . . . . . . . . . . . lb. 99¢

TROPICAL

coconuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2FOR$3

SHURFINE OR SHURSAVING ASSORTED PLA I N

milk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GALLON 2FOR$5

SELECT GROUP

KelloggÕs cereal. . . . . . . . . 10.5-15.5 OZ. 2FOR$5

TENDERCRUST SPLIT TOP

wheat bread . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 OZ.$129

SELECT GROUP

Shurfine vegetables. . 14.7-15.2 OZ. 2FOR$1

SHURFINE ASSORTED

tomato sauce. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 OZ. 4FOR$1

S H U R F I N E

salad dressing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 OZ.$269

S H U R F I N E

mayonnaise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 oz.$299

DEL MONTE

ketchup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 OZ.$149

K E L LOGGÕS ASSORTED

Pop•Tarts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 OZ.$349

A S S O R T E D

Clorox bleach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55-64 OZ.$199

SHURFINE ASSORTED

cake mix. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18.25-18.5 OZ. 4FOR$5

SHURFINE ASSORTED

brownie mix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19.8-21.5 OZ.$179

K E L LOGGÕS ASSORTED

fruit snacks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 OZ. 2FOR$5

SHURFINE ASSORTED

pineapple . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.2 OZ.89¢

SHURFINE ASSORTED EASY SIDES

noodle dishes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.3-4.5 OZ. 5FOR$5

G LAD ASSORTED

lawn & leaf bags. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-35 CT.$499

A S S O R T E D

religious candles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EA. 2FOR$3

7 GRAIN OR POTAT O

bread . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 OZ. 2FOR$5

B A K E D

bolillos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 CT.$379

Blue Bunnyice creamassorted56 oz. sq.

$399

Banquetdinnersassorted4.75-10.2 oz.

4for

$5Banquetpot piesasstd. meat; orapple or peach fruit7 oz.

99¢

center cutpork chopspreferred trimfamily pack

$199lb.

bottomround roastpreferred trim boneless beef

$329lb.

c h i c k e nb r e a s t s

PilgrimÕs boneless skinless

$199lb.

small pack. . . . . . $2.29 lb.

CoMMunICatorTHE


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