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SILAO, Mexico (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI began a pilgrimage to the New World on Friday calling on Mexicans to conquer an “idolatry of money” that feeds drug violence and urging Cuba to leave behind a Marxism that “no longer responds to reality.” Mexican President Felipe Calderon and first lady ... - PAGE A3
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Dinner honors Diamond A Ranch
highlighting over a century’s worth of its history as an agricultural enterprise. Anderson, Phelps whose family owned the Diamond A Ranch from 1980-1993, gave a historical presentation of the ranch. “As we honor the Diamond A Ranch, we celebrate the lives of men and women who built our community — and stayed,” Anderson said. “Everyone, all over the 130 years since the ranch was established, the individuals associated with the Diamond A not only pioneered the cattle and sheep industries but had many other remarkable accomplishments.” Anderson said the ranch, established in 1882, is one of the greatest ranches of the American West, and was known to such notable figures as Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett and Capt. Burton “Cap” Mossman, who once Noah Vernau Photo owned part of the ranch. Phelps Anderson provides a historical presentation of the Diamond A Ranch, Friday, at the Civic Center. “When you talk about the history of a ranch, Mexico presented its sec- dance, and recognized the group, Yarbrough Band, you really talk about peoNOAH VERNAU ond annual Denim and legacy of the Diamond A which returned to Denim ple,” Anderson said. RECORD STAFF WRITER Diamonds, Friday, at the Ranch. and Diamonds by popular “They’re the driver behind The event featured demand. The Historical Founda- Civic Center, where about Several photographs of tion for Southeast New 300 guests took part in a musical per for mances western-style dinner and from the country-western the ranch were on display,
1-car wreck injures driver Obama taps Kim for World Bank See DIAMOND, Page A3
Linda Carter, 53, was injured and subsequently arrested following an accident on Main Street near 23rd Street, around 11 p.m. Thursday. According to the reports, the 2007 Ford Focus was found facing south in the northbound lane on Main Street after Carter, its driver, hit a semi truck that was legally parked facing north,
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The remnants of a 2007 Ford Focus sit on North Main Street following a one-vehicle accident, late Thursday night.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Passing over better-known candidates, President Barack Obama on Friday nominated global health expert and Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim to lead the World Bank. It was a surprise pick aimed in part at fending of f challenges from developing nations eager to end the U.S. monopoly of the top job at the interna-
tional institution.
Obama’s appointment all but guarantees that Kim, a 52-year-old physician and in treating pioneer HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis in the developing world, will take over at the helm of the World Bank. Though he was born in South Korea, he will extend a tradition of See OBAMA, Page A2
Sunset readies for SBA tests
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Basketball is a game of runs. Every team has at least one run in them on the hardwood, and the team that comes out victorious is often the one that can withstand the opposition’s hot streak. While baseball is literally a game of runs, the game between Dexter and Texico had the runs usually associated with basketball. In the end, it was the Demons who answered every Wolverine run in a 1611 win in the semifinals of the Roswell Sertoma Club Colt Classic at NMMI Ballpark. - PAGE B1
March 24, 2012
JESSICA PALMER RECORD STAFF WRITER
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Bill Kennedy, head of the volunteer project, cuts the ribbon at the official opening of All Saints Catholic School’s new playground.
All Saints opens playground
All Saints Catholic School celebrated the official opening of its new playground Friday afternoon. The project was two years in the making, with a fundraiser that started last year when a supporter donated a vintage car
and the school sold raffle tickets. Kendra Mathison, school secretary, welcomed the students, their families and the volunteers. “This was entirely built by par-
Sunset Elementary School held an assembly Friday to cheer its students before the Standards Based Assessment tests, scheduled for next week. Mireya Trujillo, Sunset’s principal, said she hoped to encourage them to do well on their SBA, the test upon which a school rating is based, to think positively about the experience and to follow the school motto “Mission Possible: Se si puede.” Pat Lujan, director of instruction at the Roswell Independent School District attended. “I’m here to show my support for the administrator, the teachers and the children.” Trujillo wanted to give credit See SUNSET, Page A2
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Staff Sgt. Michael Mendoza, Staff Sgt. Donald Tackett and Capt. Randall Bates demonstrate militarystyle motivation for the students of Sunset Elementary.
For Steve Rhodes, all creative arts are the essence of life See PLAYGROUND, Page A2
VANESSA KAHIN RECORD STAFF WRITER
Near the corner of Fourth and Main streets there is a quaint little shop owned by an artist who calls himself Roswell’s version of Forrest Gump. With one glance inside The Frame Shop and Design Studio, and with an exchange of words with owner Steve Rhodes, the similarities with Forrest Gump become evident in all aspects, except when it comes to Rhodes’ intelligence and quick, sharp wit. Like the title character from the iconic 1994 film, Rhodes has met many
influential people. This good fortune did not begin when he got into the framing business — despite the restored Peter Hurd painting he recently framed, and the fact he frames and installs the work of accomplished artists. Perhaps Rhodes’ similarity to Forrest Gump peaked in the early 1960s, when, as a teenager, he played a game of chess against the chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer. Rhodes was one of
63 youngsters who played against Fischer during an exhibition game in Chicago.
“I was enthralled with him,” Rhodes said of meeting Fischer, who won 60 games that day. But even before Rhodes played against, and lost to Fischer, he attracted the legendary. Originally from Peoria, Ill., Rhodes’ first artistic influence was his father See SPOTLIGHT, Page A2
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Steve Rhodes works on a landscape in oil at The Frame Shop, Wednesday.