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The Hobbs Boys andGirls Club YOUTHFOOTBALLCHAMPIONSHIP willbe this Saturday atWatson Stadium at 12p.m.

DIESEL is a very affec-tionate dog and lovespeople. He does greaton a leash and wouldlove to find his newforever home. ContactWillie Stone at City ofHobbs AnimalAdoption Center.

Nova BELLY DANCEand Personal Best &Beyond are teamingup to collect cannedgoods and turkeys forthe less fortunate.From 2-4 p.m.Saturday, Nov. 19, atthe Fletcher Center,950 E. Snyder, a two-hour workshop onbelly dancing will beoffered if the personbrings five cannedgoods or one turkey.For more information,call 575-390-8791.

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Heizer school remodelalmost complete

Family decked with Christmasspirit before ThanksgivingHELENA RODRIGUEZNEWS-SUN

Twas the week before Thanksgiving and alldown North Fowler, not a creature was stir-ring, not even a turkey.

But what to passing cars should suddenlyappear? A yard already lit up with Christmascheer.

Robin Noseff is such an early bird when itcomes to Christmas spirit, her home at 1901N. Fowler is already decked — inside and out— for the holidays, and well before theThanksgiving bird arrives on the table.

By Noseff ’s standards, she’s running a littlelate this year. She usually begins setting upher Christmas display on Halloween night,but she started this year on the first week ofNovember.

And now, with a little over a week before theChristmas season begins, Noseff only has afew finishing touches to put on her elaborateChristmas yardscape, which includes fivemoving displays, Christmas music, an old-

fashioned carriage, an angel and a host ofother traditional and not-so-traditional char-acters and scenes, from lighted geese, a pigand an elephant, to the lovable Elmo, Snoopyand Rudolph characters.

“I go all out to celebrate Christ’s birthday. Idecorate for other holidays too, but not thiselaborate,” Noseff said. “If I could, I wouldleave my Christmas decorations up all yearlong, but my husband says he wouldn’t beable to mow the lawn.”

Just getting the Christmas display up thisyear has been a challenge. Noseff said herson-in-law, who does the bulk of the work,along with her husband, recently cracked abone in his foot. Her daughter, Denise Kinsey,also helps deck the Noseff home.

“I’ve been out there with the guys too. Theonly thing I won’t do is get on the roof,”Kinsey said.

While a few other area residents have

State finesGEO $1million

KIMBERLY RYAN/NEWS-SUNRobin Noseff has started decorating her house and yardearly for Christmas. Noseff"s home is located at 1902 N.Fowler.

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Joule UnlimitedJoule Unlimited recenlty visited Hobbs and attended a reception for the company held by the EconomicDevelopment Corporation of Lea County. In spring 2012, Joule is planning to build a demonstration plantto produce oil through a micro-organism. The technology is new and the demonstration plant would bethe first large scale demonstration of the techonology. The plant is expected to create about 20 jobs butcould grow to 500 jobs. Pictured are Joule representatives Paula Cloghessy, Phil Cherry, Brian Donovanand John Ward.

LANCE CRENSHAWNEWS-SUN

The state is fining the privateprison operator that owns and runsthe Lea County CorrectionalFacility $1.1 million for not ade-quately staffing the prison.

New Mexico CorrectionsDepartment acting public informa-tion officer Shannon McReynoldssaid the state has reached an agree-ment with Florida-based GEOGroup to pay the settlement.

“We have reached an agreementwhereby they will give us an offsetamount totaling $1.1 million on ourbilling between now and June 30 ofnext year,” McReynolds said. “They(GEO Group) are also required tospend another $200,000 for recruit-ment and retention of staff.”

According to the Associated Press,records show that of the four pri-vately run prisons that house NewMexico inmates, LCCF has strug-gled the most to keep correctionalofficers on the job.

The facility’s employee vacancyrate hovered above 20 percent for 12of the 14 months for which therewas data — between January 2010and March of this year. Thatincludes seven consecutive months— September 2010 through March2011 — when the vacancy rate was

KIMBERLY RYAN/NEWS-SUN

American Education WeekFourth graders sing festive songs during a performance Tuesday in honor ofNational Education Week at Broadmoor Elementary.

LANCE CRENSHAWNEWS-SUN

The remodeling of theHeizer campus is near com-pletion, with some minorremodeling set to take placenext summer.

At Tuesday’s school boardmeeting, projects managerBruce Hardison gave theboard an update on the cam-pus, which is set to bereopened next school year.

“There will be some workdone throughout the winter,including installing a new setof doors in the back,”Hardison said at the meeting.“By time the facility is readyto open, it will be a very nicecampus.”

Hardison said during nextsummer, new carpet will beinstalled as well.

Also discussed at the boardmeeting was an update on theEagle Trust Foundation.

According to superintendentT.J. Parks, the committee hasawarded 10 mini-grants so farto staff in the district.

“I have nine more mini-grants sitting on my deskwaiting for approval,” Parkssaid. “We also have a meetingwith local legislators on Nov.29 to discuss the committee,and we are in the process offiling for a 501-C3 organiza-tion, which is non-profit andtax exempt status.”

The Eagle Trust Foundationwas founded with hopes ofenhancing education inHobbs.

Parks also noted at the meet-ing that he planned to attend ameeting held by the state leg-islative education counciltoday.

“On the agenda, the councilplanned to have a study of the

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