Hope Lutheran Church in Batesville will celebrate Reformation Sunday with a special service at 2 p.m. followed by a potluck meal.
For more information call (870) 793-3078. The event is open to the public.

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MELBOURNE — A roadside prayer vigil will be held Saturday at the site of an unsolved murder in Izard County.
Dennis Reeves said the event will take place at 10:30 a.m. at the first lookout on Highway 9 in Izard County where Rebekah Gould’s body was found six years ago.
Reeves, who ministers from horseback, said he will ride his horse to the lookout and say a special prayer that this case will be solved and those responsible for her death will be brought to justice.

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SOUTHSIDE — The Southside High School Environmental Spacial And Technology class is taking orders for Wreaths Across America, a project honoring veterans.
The class is selling wreaths that “people can purchase to lay upon their veteran’s grave,” a news release states.
One wreath is $15. Order deadline is Nov. 17.
EAST will host a ceremony from 11-11:30 a.m. Dec. 11 at Kyler Cemetery to honor veterans buried there. Those who have veterans at other cemeteries can pick up their wreaths from 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Dec. 10 at the high school.

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At least two area towns have set trick-or-treating for Saturday, rather than on Sunday, which is actually Halloween Day.
Cave City and Newark both have set Saturday as the official day to trick-or-treat in their towns, said respective city officials Kathy Wooldridge and Joanne Langston.

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Unlike a few weeks ago, there were no fireworks Thursday night when the Independence County Budget Committee reviewed the county judge’s proposed 2011 budget.
The budget reviewed was that of current Judge Bill Hicks, who was not present, as opposed to that of Judge-elect Robert Griffin which was offered at the Oct. 14 budget committee meeting and caused such a stir that it was withdrawn in favor of Hicks’ budget.
In the county general portion of his budget, Hicks’ request of $97,408 is $1,289 lower than the 2010 budget of $98,697.

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It’s out with the old and in with the new — a local restaurant may soon be getting additional space.
Tuesday night, Josie’s owner Steve Carpenter came before the Batesville City Council to ask for permission to tear down three structures on the property leased by the city. He said he is considering an expansion on the lower floor to create a banquet room.
Carpenter said the city has a golf shed, another storage shed and an old red barn on the property that he would like to tear down, then clean up the property, add landscaping and build additional parking.

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EDGEFIELD, S.C. — Carroll Electric Cooperative recently became the newest member of the National Wild Turkey Federation’s Energy for Wildlife program and could help improve thousands of acres of wildlife habitat in Arkansas and Missouri.
Berryville, Arkansas-based Carroll Electric is the largest cooperative in Arkansas and has served northwest Arkansas and southwest Missouri since 1937. More than 9,000 miles of Carroll Electric power lines weave through some of the most rugged landscape in this part of the United States.

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LITTLE ROCK — The summer and early fall of 2010 has been an exceptionally dry period across much of the state, and water levels on Arkansas Game and Fish Commission wildlife management areas reflect the weather pattern.
The AGFC manages many impoundments across the state for waterfowl habitat and waterfowl hunting, mostly in greentree reservoirs, or GTRs, and moist-soil units, AGFW Waterfowl Program Coordinator Luke Naylor said.
“Although water management capacity exists on many of these areas, flooding primarily is dependent on rainfall and natural runoff,” Naylor said.

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Arkansas Outdoors
LITTLE ROCK — The question has been answered many times but still pops up often. What is the season limit for deer?
The answer is five, of which only two can be bucks.
The answer has another part, too. Zone limits have to be observed.
Since all but one deer zone have season limits less than five, this means most hunters would have to take deer in more than one zone to reach that statewide limit of five.

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