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Heinrich tours job, tech orgs in southeastern NM BY JEFF TUCKER RECORD STAFF WRITER
U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich was in southeastern New Mexico Friday on what his office called an innovation, technology and job creation tour. Heinrich addressed about 175 students at the Roswell Job Corps Friday afternoon and later spoke with students at the International Law Enforcement Academy-Roswell. Heinrich, of Albuquerque, began his tour
Friday mor ning at the Southwester n Native Aquatic Resources and Recovery Center in Dexter to meet with staff and discuss the center’s ongoing projects and research to protect endangered species in New Mexico.
The freshman Democrat senator elected in 2012 then went to Haley Farms in Roswell to discuss renewable energy programs. Haley Farms uses a solar photovoltaic system to operate a 260-acre pecan farm.
Heinrich, the only engineer in the U.S. Senate and its third youngest member at 42 years old, told the automotive repair, construction trades, culinary arts, electrician, facilities maintenance, health care, painting and protective services students at Job Corps their educations must never end in a competitive, global marketplace.
“So when you finish, whether it’s Job Corps or any other program, it’s not the end, it’s really just the
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beginning.” Heinrich said. “I think that’s a shift in thinking in this country.” Job Corps is a no-cost education, career and technical training program administered by the U.S. Department of Labor that provides job training for students ages 16 through 24, located on 24 acres at the former Walker Air Force Base at the southern end of Roswell. “My background is quite a bit different than the peoSee HEINRICH, Page A3
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Roswell Redcoats attended the official re-opening and ribbon cutting at Tia Juana's with the new local owners Christian Desrosiers, Amie Salas, Denise Todd and Matt Volquardsen on Friday.
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U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich speaks with Roswell Job Corps student Matthew Cashman during Heinrich's tour of southeastern New Mexico on Friday.
Flow of child immigrants slowing for now
WASHINGTON (AP) — The flood of children crossing the Mexican border illegally and without their parents has slowed down in recent weeks, two senior Obama administration officials said Friday. Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas have found fewer than 500 children crossing the border illegally this week, the officials said. Last month, agents arrested as many as 2,000 child immigrants a week. The Obama administration has been struggling to deal with a flood of more than 57,000 children traveling alone since Oct. 1. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said earlier this month that as many as 90,000 unaccompanied child immigrants could be apprehended by the end of the budget year in September. Most of the
children are from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala. Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina, Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez and El Salvadoran President Salvador Sanchez Ceren will meet with Obama and Vice President Joe Biden on July 25. Biden has been the point person for contacts with these Central American leaders. He last spoke to them by phone on July 9 and was in Guatemala for meetings on June 20. The U.S. has been urging those governments to take steps to stem the exodus of children and warning that the U.S. will take steps to send them back promptly. The volume of child immigrants has significantly taxed resources at the
Second homicide UHS to begin early college program suspect in custody STAFF REPORT
Roswell Police officers, acting on a tip, located and arrested Steven Lucero on Thursday night. Lucero was wanted in connection with the murder of Isaiah Sanchez. Sanchez, 30, was discovered dead in a residence located at 1812 N. Maryland Ave., in Roswell, at about 8:30 p.m. on June 4. Steven Lucero’s brother, Gilbert, was arrested on Wednesday. Steven Lucero was arrested on East Byr ne
Street and taken into custody without incident.
Steven Lucero was transported to the Chaves County Detention Center, where he will be held without bond on charges of murder in the first degree, conspiracy to commit first degree murder, tampering with evidence to wit: first-degree murder and ar med robbery.
The Roswell Police Department would like to thank the community for the tips that assisted in the capture of Lucero.
BY DYLANNE PETROS RECORD STAFF WRITER
Students will have the chance to get a head start on their college education this year with the Eastern New Mexico University Early College Program. The program allows students to start earning college credit, along with their high school credit, at the beginning of their high school career. “The concept is…to complete their…four years of high school with an associate’s (degree) and a high school diploma all at the same time,” said Porter Cotrell, University High
A man covers a body with a plastic sheet near the site of a crashed Malaysia Airlines passenger plane near the village of Rozsypne, Ukraine, eastern Ukraine Friday.
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The computer lab at Eastern New Mexico UniversityRoswell will be a place for University High School early college students to study and do homework in between classes or on days off.
School principal. The program has been in the works for a year now and gives the students the opportunity to be in a col-
lege environment, as the program will be held at University High School and Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell.
“We’re really excited about this early college high school model. It has career pathways that lead to jobs within our community that are those highpaying jobs,” said Roswell Independent School District Superintendent Tom Burris. For the first two years, students will attend UHS where they will be taught by adjunct professors. The professors are UHS teachers who have been certified as adjunct professors. “The great thing about that is (teachers are) able to weave the benchmarks
Probe sought in downing of Malaysian jet ROZSYPNE, Ukraine (AP) — World leaders demanded Friday that proRussia rebels who control the eastern Ukraine crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 give immediate, unfettered access to independent investigators to determine who shot down the plane.
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At an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council, the U.S. pointed blame at the separatists, saying Washington believes the jetliner carrying 298 people, including 80 childr en, likely was downed by an SA-11 missile, and “we cannot rule out technical assistance
from Russian personnel.” Both the White House and the Kremlin called for peace talks in the conflict between Ukrainian government forces and Russian-speaking separatists who seek closer ties to Moscow. Heavy fighting was r eported less than 100 kilometers (60 miles) from the crash site, with an estimated 20 civilians reported killed. Emergency workers and local coal miners recovered bodies from grasslands and fields of sunflowers, where the wreckage of the Boeing 777 fell Thursday. About 30 officials, most-
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ly from the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe, arrived at the crash site between the villages of Rozsypne and Hrabove, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the Russian border. The rebels allowed the team to per for m a very partial and super ficial inspection. While the delegation was leaving under or ders fr om the ar med overseers, two Ukrainian members lingered to look at a fragment of the plane by a roadside, only for a militiaman to fire a warning shot in the air with his Kalashnikov. The dead passengers
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wer e fr om mor e than a dozen nations — including vacationers, students and a gr oup heading to an AIDS conference in Australia — when the plane was shot down Thursday while flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. Pr esident Barack Obama, disclosing that one American was among those killed, called it “a global tragedy.” “An Asian airliner was destr oyed in Eur opean skies filled with citizens from many countries, so there has to be a credible international investigation into what happened,” he said.
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