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Horse show opens 4-H & FFA Fair CHAUNTE’L POWELL RECORD STAFF WRITER
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LONDON (AP) — Fresh from her star turn as the latest Bond Girl, Queen Elizabeth II returned to Olympic Park for an encore Saturday, while the usually biting British press gave a resounding review: We are amused. The queen visited with fawning British Olympians in the Athletes Village ... - PAGE A2
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LONDON (AP) — Ryan Lochte strolled the deck of the Olympic Aquatics Centre wearing diamonds in his mouth and lime-green sneakers on the feet that powered him through the water faster than anyone else. Beaming, he chomped playfully on his gold medal while Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA” blared throughout the massive arena. Michael Phelps? He was nowhere to be found. Not during the race. Not when it came time to hand out the medals. - PAGE B1
GOLDEN BOY
There was a great deal of horseplay taking place Saturday evening at the Chaves County Sheriff’s Posse Arena as the annual Chaves County 4-H & FFA fair opened with the horse show. The Barn Buddies 4-H club produced winners in three different age groups at the show. Eight-year -old Tara Jones and her horse Freckles took first prize in the Booster division. She said her horse’s familiarity with the poles portion of the competition made it easy and the most fun part of the day for her. “My horse already knows that good,” she said. “And it was fun.“ In the novice division, 12-year -old July Jones took first place with his horse Turtle Dove. He said he enjoyed the speed of the barrel portion of the competition, but said he had a little trouble maneuvering his horse during reigning, which required the riders to tur n their horses in a
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Siblings July and Tara Jones and their trusty steeds Turtle Dove and Freckles prepare to compete in the Chaves County 4-H & FFA Horse Show at the Sheriff’s Posse Arena, Saturday.
Community Health Fair going strong at 30 See 4-H, Page A3
NOAH VERNAU RECORD STAFF WRITER
Ain’t nothin’ like free. Health care providers and service organizations assembled at the Roswell Boys & Girls Club for the 30th annual Community Health Fair, Saturday, offering a number of services at no cost, from screenings and check-ups to counseling and education. At a time when health care costs continue to climb, residents lined up for free services like blood sugar screenings, cholesterol screenings, height and weight checks, blood pressure checks, EKGs and body fat analysis. “We all know it is difficult to afford insurance,” Jane Batson,
dean of health at ENMU-R, said, “and there may be programs that are helpful. The most important thing is to look at what you need in terms of your own health care. For instance, if you have a history of diabetes in the family, try to get some access to screening to be sure that things are going OK.”
Girl Scouts of the Desert Southwest set up at the fair to talk about opportunities in Girl Scouting, and handed out take-home Child Identification kits to parents.
“We know that in America we have an epidemic of obesity, and we have problems with high blood pressure and with cardiac disease,” she said. “Particularly in Chaves
County, some of the leading causes of death are related to that. So it’s very important for people to start early — to get checked. When they have an opportunity like this, it’s great for them.” Easter n New Mexico Medical Center had information tables set up for people learn about its urology and OB/GYN clinics, and provided blood pressure checks.
Batson said the uninsured rate in Chaves County is at more than 30 percent of the population, highlighting how important it is that people obtain the information that helps them find resources in health care.
Invisible flame is burning issue of London Games
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Audra Chavez conducted the checks and offered counseling, letting people know if they should follow up with their primary care physician. “People were lined up at the door before it even opened at 9,” Chavez said. “It’s great. To be able to provide the community with free services, you really can’t put a value on that.” The center’s Family Practice Residency Program provided height and weight checks, with volunteers from ENMU-R and the Roswell Fire Department. Student Laura Orozco helped residents calculate their body mass index, and shared information about a phone app called
AP Photo LONDON (AP) — The Olympic flame is nowhere to be seen. The enduring image of the Summer and Winter Games, lit Friday night at the climax of the
opening ceremony, is out of sight from the throngs of fans who hoped to catch an inspiring glimpse or take the photo of a lifetime. The cauldron sits low in the center of Olympic Stadium in London, invisible from the outside. Today, it will be moved to a corner, and visible in person only to fans lucky enough to have tickets to track and field, which starts Friday. Until then, if you want to see the Olympic flame, you’ll have to settle for a beauty shot on television, where it looks from above like a small, distant campfire, or the pilot light under the eye of a giant stove. “It’s unfortunate,” said John Morrissey, who traveled to London on a day trip from Ireland on Saturday, the first day of competition. “I didn’t realize you couldn’t see it. I was going to walk around until I saw it. It seems quite poorly thought out.” “That could have been made more user friendly,” said Lorraine Payne, an airline worker from London. The lighting was one of the high points of the opening ceremony. Seven teenage athletes,
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meant to represent the next generation of British sports, touched flaming torches to 205 petal-shaped copper stems that spread into a ring of fire. Then the flames rose and converged, as if into an elegant, blazing flower. Fireworks erupted over the stadium, Paul McCartney led a singalong of “Hey Jude,” and London was off to a feel-good start to its games. Just maybe a darker one than everyone expected. The designer of the cauldron, Thomas Heatherwick, offered an artistic defense. “It’s almost that the stadium represents some kind of temple and it’s the flame that sits in the heart of that temple.” “We were aware that cauldrons have been getting bigger, higher, fatter as each Olympics has happened,” he said. Indeed, Beijing was a tough flame to follow. The Summer Games in 2008 featured a mammoth, spiraling cauldron attached to the inner
Romney struggles to stem his own Olympics fallout
LONDON (AP) — Mitt Romney struggled Friday to stem political fallout at home after insulting Britain’s handling of the London Games. The stumble at least briefly pitted the Republican presidential candidate against America’s strongest ally while limiting his ability to capitalize on more troubling U.S. economic news. At the same time, President Barack Obama used his of fice to try to take advantage of the Republican’s missteps abroad, praising Britain for its
Olympics preparations one day and sending money to Israel the next — just as Romney prepared to visit that nation.
The confluence of events — just as the world focused on London’s opening ceremonies — confounded Republicans and tickled Democrats. People in both parties wondered aloud how the former Massachusetts governor could have complicated the opening leg of a three-nation tour carefully crafted to highlight his diplomatic strengths and personal Olympic experi-
ence. “You have to shake your head,” GOP strategist Karl Rove said Friday on Fox News. It was unclear just how much damage Romney, who had hoped to burnish his limited foreign policy credentials, did with an American electorate that hasn’t fully tuned into the race. But he certainly stoked talk in political circles in Washington, if not elsewhere, of political tonedeafness, and he raised See ROMNEY, Page A3
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Mitt Romney greets his brother Scott, left, and others as he boards his charter plane at London Stansted Airport, Saturday, as he travels to Israel.