KVII-TV meteorologist Steve Kersh warns we need to be ready for “scorching heat” and “near zero” chances of rain the next seven days. He predicts high temperatures at or above 100 degrees every day through early next week.

Hopefully, we won’t have a repeat of August 1944. That’s when Clovis experienced 11 consecutive days with temperatures above 100 and set seven records that still stand, according to www.weather.com.

Twice, on Aug. 3-4, 1944, the city hit 110 degrees. That’s still a record, tied on June 25, 1990.

Tucumcari’s hottest day on record, according to www.weather.com, was June 25, 1990, when temperatures reached 109 degrees.

Portales’ record for heat was June 28, 1968, when it reached 109.

So things could be worse.

The death of Clifford Webber, Clovis’ most recent homicide victim, has raised questions about another suspicious death — that of Webber’s mother more than 26 years ago.

Clovis News Journal reporter Sharna Johnson reports Sandra Glover died in 1983 from trauma to the brain caused by blows to the top of her head. Family members believe she was murdered, but no criminal charges have ever been filed.

Johnson’s report is coming Sunday in the Clovis News Journal.

Vern and Connie Davis report much happiness from their recent trip to Tucumcari.

“Loretta’s burritos, served at the VFW, (were) some of the best we ever had,” Vern wrote in an e-mail.

“In short, our whole trip to your city was most memorable and pleasant.”

The Davis’ were in town to visit grandson Wesley Carson.

“He is the light of our life and plays music at his church, The Divine Connection,” Vern wrote.

Clovis’ Anna Baucom passes along this e-mail:

At five minutes and six seconds after 4 a.m. on July 8, the time and date will be:

04:05:06 07/08/09

Mark your calendar: Roswell’s annual UFO Festival is July 3.

The pet costume contest will be judged at 10 a.m. at the Roswell Museum and Art Center. (Wrapping turtles in foil to resemble spaceships is not an original idea.)

The alien costume contest for “humans and other creatures” takes place at 3 p.m. at the Pearson Auditorium on the New Mexico Military Institute campus. (Every character that ever appeared in a Star Trek episode has made an appearance.)

The street parade, which features many of the costume contestants, begins at 7:30 p.m.

Whether you believe aliens crashed at Roswell in 1947 or not, plenty of strange characters will be in town July 3.

Joe Frank Wheeler, a 1973 Clovis High graduate who made even casual acquaintances feel like close friends, died Monday from an apparent heart attack.

Wheeler, the public address announcer of the Amarillo Dillas baseball team, died on the stadium roof as he worked on the sound system hours before the team’s home opener.

He’d been the voice of the Dillas since their inception in 1994, Amarillo Daily News columnist Jon Mark Beilue wrote in his blog on Monday.

“I got to know Joe Frank more than ever last fall when he and I worked several high school football games in Amarillo/Canyon on the radio and shared a couple of road trips to Lubbock and Frenship,” Beilue wrote.

“He could make a road trip pass as fast as a baseball game. He was affable in the car as he seemed to Dillas fans at the Dilla Villa. A native of Clovis, he loved his hometown and loved trivia. He was an encyclopedia of local history, sports and otherwise. He always seemed interested in you and what you were doing.”

Wheeler, 53, also suffered a heart attack in 2000.

We’ll be profiling Wheeler in a story later this week.

I saw something I’d never seen before late Sunday afternoon. At least if I’ve ever seen it, I don’t remember seeing it.

I saw two rainbows side by side — one with a layer of green on the inside; one with a layer of green on the outside.

OK, I didn’t really notice the detail on my own, but our neighbor Ruby pointed it out and said it was weird. I always agree with her.

Can anyone explain this? (The part about the rainbow. I already know why I always agree with Ruby.)

What they’re saying about “Kendra,” the new reality TV show starring Playboy Playmate Kendra Wilkinson, who’s about to marry Clovis football star Hank Baskett:

• “Compared to her, Anna Nicole Smith is Madeline Albright. Holly and Briget are Rhodes Scholars. Paris Hilton is Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Tila Tequila is Sonia Sotomayor.” — Roger Catlin, courant.com

• “I rolled my eyes the second I realized what it was, but I didn’t change the channel. Over the next hour I hit my guide button 4 times, and attempted to change the channel at least 5 times. But not once was I successful. I’m truly ashamed …” — AstroJones, tvovermind.com

“Kendra” airs at 8 p.m. Sundays on cable channel E!

The wedding is scheduled June 27 at the Playboy Mansion.

Nancy Gallagher of Clovis writes about a frustrating shopping experience over the weekend.

She wanted to give a “Clovis, New Mexico” T-shirt to a friend, but said she couldn’t find any for sale.

“It is kind of a sad reflection that a town the size of Clovis would not have a T-shirt, cap or anything with its name on it.  This speaks volumes about the Chamber of Commerce or store owners not promoting their own town,” she wrote.

Sad news to report: One of Clovis’ classiest ladies has died.

Charlyne Sisler, who dressed up to go to the mailbox, spoke softly even when she was irritated at a perceived injustice and waited four years to marry her high school sweetheart when World War II broke out, passed on Sunday. She was 91.

She loved to tell stories about the early days of her native Clovis, especially riding the trains with her mother in the 1920s.

Sisler told of wandering among passengers, introducing herself to each and informing all who would listen she was from Clovis, New Mexico.

When her mother asked why she felt it so important everyone knew her hometown, she responded: “I wouldn’t want them to think I’m from Texas.”

Charlyne and Joe Sisler, a Clovis banker and a charter member of the military affairs Committee of Fifty, were married 49 years when Joe died in 1994.

They had no children.