05-29-2011

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Roswell Daily Record

Vol. 120, No. 129 50¢ Daily / $1 Sunday

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NEW YORK (AP) — Cornelia Aguilar needs help when she goes to the doctor or when her co-workers at a nail salon call her on the phone. A Mexican who has lived in the U.S. for two years, she only speaks a variant of Mixteco, an indigenous language from the states - PAGE B6

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Elks honor vets with prayer breakfast EMILY RUSSO MILLER RECORD STAFF WRITER

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THE VOICE OF THE PECOS VALLEY

With Memorial Day just one day away, the Roswell Elks Lodge treated local veterans to a special prayer breakfast in their honor Saturday morning as a way to thank them for serving the nation. Veterans dined on scrambled eggs, bacon and biscuits with gravy, while musician Tom Blake performed “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” Lou Brady and Jake Trujillo played Silver Taps and guest speaker Capt. Brian White, of the 717th Brigade Support Battalion, spoke about his country. “We have to honor our veterans,” Bob Bergmark, a trustee of Elks Lodge No. 969 and organizer of the event, said. “This is what Memorial Day is all about —

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those still with us and those who passed on.” Bergmark says the Elks have hosted the breakfast for eight years running. Some local veterans have never missed one, like Emilie Fulfer, a former cryptographer in the U.S. Navy who decoded secret messages during World War II. Fulfer says she attends the breakfast each year to catch up with old friends and share stories from the past. “When the war ended, she was there to give the message,” Fulfer’s daughter, Kim Osborn, said. “She was on duty when the war ended.” “We went out and cheered with all the people in the streets of Washington, D.C.,” Fulfer, 87, remembered. See ELKS, Page A6

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Nancy Britton of the Roswell Veterans Honor Guard helps prepare flags for the presentation of colors, Saturday morning, during the 8th annual Elks Lodge No. 969 Veterans Prayer Breakfast.

RISD RIFs truant officers

Memorial Day, 2011

• Vets head north for Memorial Day • ¡Viva! Folklorico presents ... • State stocks Lake Van • Fire destroys Historic District home • DA drops charges ...

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EMILY RUSSO MILLER RECORD STAFF WRITER

HIKE IT AND SPIKE IT TIME

It is Memorial Day weekend where long weekends and cookouts are the norm across most of the United States, but for pigskin junkies and southeastern New Mexico, that means it is Hike it and Spike It time. - PAGE B1

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• S.M. “Sab” Dodson • Ronald McDaniel • Manuel Salamanca • Frank Blair - PAGE B6

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Grady Harris, 8, places an American flag on the grave of a veteran interred at South Park Cemetery, Saturday morning. Nearly 3,000 flags were distributed by the American Legion to volunteers, young and old, for the annual tradition.

Four truancy of ficers employed by the Roswell school district were let go last month, school officials confirmed Friday, putting an end to the program that enforced student attendance in schools. Roswell Independent School District Superintendent Michael Gottlieb said the of ficers, who enforced state school attendance laws and school district by-laws, were let go in early April in the face of budget cuts being handed down by the state.

Shona MacDonald to debut at RMAC June 11 JONATHAN ENTZMINGER RECORD STAFF WRITER

Scottish-born artist and Roswell Artist-in-Residence, Shona MacDonald, of New England, will make her debut exhibition, Around, at the Roswell Museum and Arts Center, 100 W. 11th St., June 11. Around will focus on “specific views seen from and around” MacDonald’s studio at the RA-i-R compound, through her investigation of “unknown space and re-representing it as a familiar place. “The exhibit will feature drawings,

paintings, a six-part panoramic painting and floor installations that examine Southwester n landscapes. MacDonald talks about her impressions of the landscape. “The imagery looks like language, it looks like a sentence. When I look outside it almost looks like musical notes or a type of language,” she said. MacDonald explained how her view of the Southwester n landscape has impacted Around. “I’ve been heavily influenced by this environment, the light, the quality of the

light and the landscape,” MacDonald said. “I’ve noticed that the pallete that I’m using is pretty much Southwestern— traditional Southwester n color. I’ve been really obsessed about the horizon line, because it’s so etched against the sky. I can see a real shift in perspective and scale (compared to past works).” Drawings in Around are based on scenes of the Southwest, like tumbleweeds. Paintings feature the landscape of the Southwest and areas near Bitter See ARTIST, Page A6

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Roswell Artist-in-Residence Shona MacDonald looks at landscape images in her studio.

Taliban suicide bomber strikes at top NATO, Afghan leaders

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Afghan security officers stand outside the provincial governor’s compound as smoke rises from inside, in Taloqan, Takhar province, Saturday.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A Taliban suicide bomber wearing a police uniform blew himself up inside a heavily guarded compound Saturday as top Afghan and international of ficials left a meeting, killing two senior Afghan police commanders and wounding the German general who commands coalition troops in norther n Afghanistan. Two German soldiers and two other Afghans were also killed in the blast, the latest in an insurgent spring offensive. It came just weeks before a planned drawdown of U.S. troops

begins this summer. The bomber detonated his explosives-laden vest inside the governor’s complex in Takhar province, where high-ranking Afghan officials were meeting with members of the international coalition, said Faiz Mohammad Tawhedi, a spokesman for the governor. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the bombing — the latest in an uptick of violence since the Islamic extremist movement launched its spring of fensive on May 1. The ef fectiveness of the Taliban’s campaign could

affect the size of President Barack Obama’s planned drawdown of U.S. troops, beginning in July. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said it was part of the insurgency’s assassination campaign against high-ranking government officials and was meant to undercut a military offensive he said the Afghan National Army was planning to launch in the north. Violence has been on the rise in the north, where the Taliban, al-Qaida and fighters from other militant facSee BOMBER, Page A6


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