Officials discuss air races visit

City Councilor Cristina A. Arnold and Mike Espiritu, president and CEO of the Roswell-Chaves County Economic Development Corp., visit with Rotarian Steve Smith after speaking to Roswell Rotary Club members on Nov. 2. They reported the Reno Air Races selection committee will be here Nov. 27 and 28 to check out the community.

AerSale GM to speak at Rotary

Randy Phelps, general manager of AerSale Aircraft MRO in Roswell, will speak at the Nov. 9 Roswell Rotary Club meeting.

Economic CEO to address club

Mike Espiritu, president and CEO of the Roswell-Chaves County Economic Development Corp., will be the speaker at the Nov. 2 Rotary Club meeting.

Espiritu has been president of the corporation since October 2019.

He formerly served as F-16 assistant site manager and safety, health, and environmental manager at AECOM, Holloman Air Force Base, and as president and CEO of the Otero County Economic Development Council and the Alamogordo Chamber of Commerce.

Hospitalist speaks to Rotarians

Dr. Anoop Kumar, hospitalist medical director at Eastern New Mexico Medical Center, spoke to the Roswell Rotary Club on Oct. 26. His talk included discussing hospitalist medicine, tips for an inpatient stay, and end-of-life decisions.

 

ENMMC will present program

A presentation on medical services offered at Eastern New Mexico Medical Center will be given Thursday by Rotarian Warren Yehl and a medical provider.

ILEA director to speak at Rotary

Brian Wood, director of the International Law Enforcement Academy-Roswell, will speak to the Roswell Rotary Club on Oct. 19.

He currently is a supervisory special agent in the Diplomatic Security Service, joining the Department of State in 2002.

He was named director of ILEA-Roswell on May 1, 2021.

Wood formerly served as the senior regional security officer (RSO) at the U.S. Embassy in Tunis, as well as chief of the Protective Operations Division for the RSO in Baghdad; RSO in Maputo, Mozambique; team leader in the Office of Mobile Security Deployments; RSO in Conakry, Guinea; and ARSO in Jakarta, Indonesia, and Islamabad, Pakistan.

Domestically he served as a team leader with Diplomatic Security’s Mobile Security Deployment Teams and as the DSS Liaison to U.S. Special Operations Command before joining ILEA-Roswell.

A New Jersey native, Wood holds degrees from the University of Texas, Alderson-Broaddus College, and the U.S. Naval War College, where he attended as an Inter-Agency Representative.

Prior to joining the Foreign Service and continuing through January 2021, Wood served in the U.S. Army, the Army National Guard, and the U.S. Army Reserve for 37 years as an NCO and commissioned officer before retiring as a lieutenant colonel.

Brian Wood

Trash cleanup draws big group

Participants at trash pickup on Saturday.

Gordon Patton, Roswell Rotary Club Adopt-A-Highway chair, reported an excellent turnout for trash pickup on Saturday, Oct. 14.

“We gathered 29 bags of trash from 13 participants,” Gordon said. “The effort went very smoothly and we were through by 9:30.”

Trash pickup volunteers met at 8 a.m. on U.S. Highway 285 north of Roswell.

Participating were Denise Trowbridge, Jon Hitchcock, JP Cheney, Bianca Cheney, Frank Sturges, Steve Smith, Steve Henderson, Marcos Nava, Mark Reischman, Juan Rodriguez, Juan Rodriguez Jr., Robert Norris and Patton.