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PILOT RETURNS TO FLIGHT HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE—The road to recovery from back surgery can vary depending on the type of surgery and your lifestyle you are returning to. For minimally invasive ...
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JILL MCLAUGHLIN RECORD STAFF WRITER Cindy Wilson had an inspiring message for the some 160 guests at Saturday’s 2013 Women’s History Month Celebration. “You can have it all. You must know that,” said the former aerospace and computer technology specialist who described the challenges she faced as career woman in the 1970s. “I want you to dream. We did things because we didn’t know we couldn’t. I want to see us get back to that. We need it because we’re not doing it anymore... The one thing our country can do is — we are excellent at dreaming and creating.” The audience was moved by Wilson’s inspiring tales of her childhood as the daughter of a space pioneer who was involved with the Mercury, Gemini and Apol-
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lo manned missions, and her stories of how she struggled to start as a typist and worked up to senior management at Hughes Aircraft Company. As guest speaker of the 14th-annual celebration, Wilson shared podium time with City of Roswell Mayor Del Jurney who thanked the three women honored for their community service during the brunch. “It’s a good day to the three honorees today,” Jurney said. The mayor read a proclamation on behalf of the City of Roswell that proclaimed March 2013 as Women’s History Month. The proclamation also recognized the three women honored Saturday — Kaarina Jager, Barbara Corn Patterson and Andrea Hill Smith — and asked See WHM Page A3
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Barbara Corn Patterson, Andrea Smith and Kaarina Jager, Roswell’s outstanding women for 2013, pose for a photo during Women’s History Month Celebration Brunch, Saturday, at the Roswell Museum and Art Center.
Roswell’s mail to be processed in Lubbock
The Easter Bunny visits Roswell
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The Easter Bunny is greeted by youngsters upon arrival at the Roswell Mall, Saturday.
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Starting in May, Roswell’s mail will be sent to Lubbock for processing. The United States Postal Service announced the decision last year, in response to declining revenue and use nationwide, said Peter Hass, USPS spokesman for the Arizona-New Mexico District. The agency has seen a 30 percent decrease nationwide in First-Class Mail volume, he said, which is less mail than five years ago. This is most likely due to more people choosing to use email and pay bills online. “Americans have basically changed the way they're doing mail,” Hass said. “It’s just a smart business decision.” The Postal Service does not receive tax dollars, he said, and depends on the sale of postage, postal products
Spring River may Senate Democratic budget change name to extends standoff with GOP honor Nancy Lopez City Council’s Parks and Recreation Committee will meet at 6 p.m. on Monday at the Roswell Parks and Recreation Depatment, 1101 W. 4th St., to discuss renaming the Spring River Golf Course to honor acclaimed golfer Nancy Lopez. Raised in Roswell, Lopez learned how to golf from her father, Domingo “Sunday” Lopez, at the course. At age 12, Nancy won the New Mexico Women’s Amateur title, and continued to amass numerous awards and accomplishments, despite racial and gender barriers. In 1987, the Ladies Professional Golf Association inducted Lopez into its Hall of Fame. Committee Chairman Dusty Huckabee said Lopez “changed the world of women’s athletics.”He said the name change would honor Lopez’s legacy and be good for the city as well.
WASHINGTON (AP) — An exhausted Senate gave pre-dawn approval Saturday to a Democratic $3.7 trillion budget for next year that embraces nearly $1 trillion in tax increases over the coming decade but shelters domestic programs targeted for cuts by House Republicans. While their victory was by a razor-thin 50-49 vote, it allowed Democrats to tout their priorities. Yet it doesn’t resolve the deep differences the two parties have over deficits and the size of government. Joining all Republicans voting no were four Democrats who face re-election next year in potentially difficult races: Sens. Max Baucus of Montana,
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Mark Begich of Alaska, Kay Hagan of North Carolina and Mark Pryor of Arkansas. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, DN.J., did not vote. White House spokesman Jay Carney praised the Senate plan, saying in a statement it “will create jobs and cut the deficit in a balanced way.” While calling on both sides to find common ground, Carney did not hold out much hope for compromise with Republicans. The rival budget passed by the GOP-led House cuts social programs too deeply, he said, and fails “to ask for See BUDGET Page A3
Historical Society’s Roger Burnett retiring after 14 years JESSICA PALMER RECORD STAFF WRITER
Historical Society for Southeast New Mexico Director Roger K. Burnett is retiring after 14 years. “At the age of 66, it’s time. I want to do some traveling. There are things I want to do with the kids and my grandchildren,” said Burnett. He said that he will miss the volunteers most. “They are the backbone of the Society. You get to know them, and they are wonder ful people. Many served their community and their country.” Burnett doesn’t plan to leave until May after the Historical Society has had their annual garage sale and the school tours in April. He hopes to train his replacement to smooth the transition. “There’s no point in reinventing the wheel.” Burnett does not see this as the end of
his community service. He has been a member of the Roswell Chamber of Commer ce, the Chaves County T ourism Council, MainStreet Roswell and Rural Economic Development Thr ough Tourism. He is a charter member of the Sunrise Optimist and a lifetime member of the National Education Association. Burnett expressed pride that he was able to get the school program going at the Museum again. “I’ll get involved somewhere, doing something. That’s just my personality.” Board president of the Historical Society for Southeast New Mexico, Judy Smith said: “We all appreciate what Roger has done. He’s brought us a long way. We have been blessed to have had him.” Long-time friend, Morgan Nelson spoke See BURNETT Page A3
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