Wilson discusses health care

Rachel Wilson, an ear, nose, and throat specialist at Eastern New Mexico Medical Center, speaks to the Roswell Rotary Club on Jan. 11.

Extension agent to address Rotary

Agricultural extension agent Drew Garnett will speak at the Jan. 18 Roswell Rotary Club meeting.

Garnett was raised in Dexter, where he fell in love with entomology through FFA. He attended New Mexico State University, where he earned his B.S. and M.S. in Agricultural Biology with an emphasis on Entomology.

He moved to Florida, where he taught high school science but returned to his love of entomology by working for Walt Disney World Pest Management for five years.

Drew moved back to his beloved Chaves County in the winter of 2021 as the NMSU agricultural extension agent.

Cheney honored as Harris Fellow

Carolyn Mitchell acknowledges fellow Rotarian J.P. Cheney at the Jan. 4 Roswell Rotary Club meeting for again being honored as a Paul Harris Fellow.

Wreaths Across America

Rotarian Maurice Geldert is honored by club President Marcos Nava at the Jan. 4 Roswell Rotary Club meeting for leading the club’s Wreaths Across America project at the McBride Veterans Cemetery.

Nava holds two photographs published in the Roswell Daily Record, showing Rotary and guest volunteers at the Dec. 16, 2023, wreath-laying.

Geldert said the wreath-laying at local military veterans' graves will be an ongoing club project. He currently is raising money in the club and the community for wreaths which will be laid in December 2024.

Yehl to introduce staff member

Rotarian Warren Yehl, CEO of Eastern New Mexico Medical Center, will introduce an interesting member of the hospital staff to speak at the Jan. 11 Rotary Club program.

Rep. Nibert to address club

State Rep. Greg Nibert of Roswell will speak at the Jan. 4 Roswell Rotary Club meeting.

Nibert, an attorney who has represented District 59 since 2017, will speak about the upcoming 30-day legislative session, which begins on Jan. 16.

He serves as the minority whip in the New Mexico House, and is a  member of the House Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Committee; the House Judiciary Committee; and the House Rules and Order of Business Committee.

Club honors veterans with wreaths

Roswell Rotary Club members, family, and friends gathered at the Gen. Douglas L. McBride Roswell Veterans Cemetery on Dec. 16 to lay wreaths at the graves of U.S. military veterans.

The wreath-laying was one of the club’s most recent community projects.

Rotarian Maurice Geldert contacted the Wreaths Across America organization earlier with plans to engage the Roswell club and friends in wreath-laying.

On Nov. 16, he addressed the club, asking for volunteers to help with the wreath project.

During the same time, some club members joined the Rotary Fellowship of Military Veterans and offered to help with programs involving military and veteran affairs.

The Wreaths Across America is now a continuing project for the club.

Past District Governor John Drusedum (left) joins Roswell Rotarian Maurice Geldert at the veterans cemetery.