History columnist to address club

Janice Dunnahoo, weekly “Historic Anecdotes” columnist for the Roswell Daily Record, will speak to the Rotary Club on March 30.

Dunnahoo

Janice’s presentation, entitled “When Health Care Came to Roswell,” will cover the history of health care here; the beginnings of St. Mary’s Hospital; and tuberculosis bringing many settlers to this area, seeking the dry air and sunshine.

Janice regularly contributes to the West Texas Historical Association, the Texas-New Mexico Border Archives, the Wild West History Association Journal, and True West Magazine, most recently contributing an article about cattle drives and chuckwagons. The article comes out next month.

She also is a former archivist for the Historical Society for Southeastern New Mexico.

In 2020, she was a panelist for the Western History Association Conference; and in 2021, she participated in the New Mexico Humanities Council conference.

Club highway cleanup on April 1

The Roswell Rotary Club has scheduled cleaning up its mile along U.S. 285, starting at 8 a.m. on April 1.

Rotarian Gordon Patton, highway cleanup chair, said club volunteers will meet just before 8 a.m. for coffee and snacks at Mile Marker 116.3, about one mile north of the overpass on U.S. 285.

“It takes an ideal group of 12 people minimum about 1.5 hours to walk our mile on both sides of the highway,” Patton said. “Your participation is encouraged to help keep our Rotary Mile from being trashy!”

Gloves, trash bags, and safety vests will be provided.