Club donates to Homeless Coalition

Roswell Rotary Club President Bianca Cheney presents the Roswell Homeless Coalition clothing and money contributed by club members. Accepting the donations is Erica Boggs of the Coalition.

Cleaning along Rotary Mile

Roswell Rotarians Gordon Patton, Bianca Cheney, Steve Smith, Jon Hitchcock, Frank Sturges, Andy Miller, and Steve Henderson take a break from cleaning along U.S. 285 north of Roswell during highway cleanup day this past Saturday.

Rotarian J.P. Cheney totes a trash bag along U.S. 285 during the club's cleanup of the Rotary Mile north of Roswell.

Chasing Billy the Kid topic of talk

Authors Kurt House and Roy B. Young will speak at this week’s Roswell Rotary Club meeting about their new book, Chasing Billy the Kid: Frank Stewart and the Untold Story of William H. Bonney.

The book gives a full discussion of the posse led by Frank Stewart and Pat Garrett which was successful in the capture.

During their presentation Thursday, House and Young will relate how the book came to be written and some of the information it reveals on Billy the Kid and the previously untold involvement of Frank Stewart.

House, from San Antonio, Texas, was raised on a ranch in Three Rivers, Texas, learning the history of the West from his father and grandfather.

He is an internationally known authority on the cowboy equipment and firearms of the West. House is the author of numerous books on these topics and more than 200 articles on the Wild West.

In 2020, he was honored with the “Six-Shooter Award for Lifetime Contributions to Wild West History.” He is a life member of several historical and collecting organizations and currently is a director of the Wild West History Association (WWHA).

Young, from Apache, Okla., is first vice president and publications editor of WWHA.

He is the author of numerous books on Wild West topics, including the award-winning A Wyatt Earp Anthology: Long May His Story Be Told.

In 2013, he was honored with the “Six-Shooter Award for Lifetime Contributions to Wild West history.”

Young is widely sought as a speaker and this month will make his 20th annual presentation on topics related to Wyatt Earp, the “Gunfight at the OK Corral,” and related topics at the Tombstone Territory Roundup in Tombstone, Ariz. 

Extension agent to address Rotary

Andrew “Drew” Garnett, Chaves County agricultural extension agent, will be speaker at this week’s Roswell Rotary Club meeting.

Drew was raised in Dexter, where he fell in love with entomology through Future Farmers of America.

He received his BS and MS degrees in Agricultural Biology, with an emphasis on Entomology, from New Mexico State University.

Drew moved to Florida, where he taught high school science but returned to his love of entomology by working for Walt Disney World Horticulture for the past five years.

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

Honoring Vietnam War veteran

Pecos Valley Quilters Dietta Hitchcock (bottom left) and Carolyn Mitchell show the patriotic-themed quilt presented to Marlin Wells, a Vietnam War combat veteran, at last week’s Roswell Rotary Club meeting. Dietta is the wife of Rotarian Jon Hitchcock; Carolyn and Marlin are Roswell Rotarians.

Club highway cleanup Oct. 8

Patton

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

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 minimum about 1.5 hours the walk out 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.

Yehls head United Way campaign

Roswell Rotary Club member Warren Yehl and his wife Barbara will chair the 2022 United Way of Chaves County fund-raising campaign. The goal of this year's campaign is $400,000.