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A grandparent’s day at the park
Fun is a relative quantity. One person’s fun may be somebody else’s drudgery and pain. I know someone, and her name shall remain anonymous, whose idea of fun is rooting through thrift stores all day long. That concept of fun has never darkened the shadowy …
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Forgerygate provoking us to outrage
We have found the presidency of Barack Obama provoking us to outrage in unexplainable ways. Does he do this on purpose? We believe he does. He and his team single out Christians and conservatives by provoking them and then mocking their response to the provocations. …
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ADEM’s role in disasters
From the State House of Representatives This week, many parts of the state were affected by heavy rains. Anyone who has lived in Arkansas for a period of time knows this could be just the beginning of more severe weather in the months ahead. One …
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Ganson, Fraser to exchange vows
Will Fraser and Heather Ganson SILOAM SPRINGS — LuAnn Ganson of Siloam Springs has announced the engagement and upcoming marriage of her daughter, Heather Afton Ganson, to Will Ryan Fraser, son of Mark and Judy Fraser of Desha. The bride-elect is the granddaughter of the …
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Thursday is WRAAA open house
The White River Area Agency on Aging will have an open house from 2 to 4 p.m. Thursday at 505 S. St. Louis St. For more information call Tracy Baxter, regional manager, at (870) 612-3010 or visit www.wraaa.com. WRAAA serves Fulton, Independence, Izard, Jackson and …
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Housing board to meet
MELBOURNE — The Board of Commissioners of the White River Regional Housing Authority will meet at 5:30 p.m. Thursday in the White River Regional Housing Authority Training Center, located directly behind the WRRHA headquarters office in Melbourne.
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DAV election scheduled
Disabled American Veterans Chapter 32 will have its annual election meeting at 5 p.m. Thursday at the DAV building.
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Lipschitz to speak on Alzheimer’s
Dr. David Lipschitz MOUNTAIN HOME — A four-part lecture series on Alzheimer’s disease will be provided to four locations simultaneously, including the Arkansas State University-Mountain Home campus, beginning Thursday and running through June 28. Dr. David A. Lipschitz will speak in a combination of in-person …
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Club News
Bethesda EHC BETHESDA — Members of the Bethesda Extension Homemakers Club recently held their March meeting. One guest was in attendance. The meeting commenced with recital of the American flag pledge and the Homemakers Creed. Nine members answered roll call by responding to the question …
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Ozark Folk Center to open Craft Village
Mountain View — The Craft Village at the Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View opens for the 2012 season at 10 a.m. April 3. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. More than 20 crafts people will be on hand to talk with …
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Joe Paul Huss – Paid Obituary
Joe Huss “Chicago” Joe Huss, 41, of Batesville died Saturday, March 24, 2012. Born on January 26, 1971, in Chicago, Illinois, he was the son of Philip J. and Toni C. (Sorenson) Huss. He graduated in 1990 from Cord-Charlotte High School and he worked for …
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Edith “Marie” Birmingham – Paid Obituary
Edith “Marie” Birmingham, age 79, of Traskwood, formerly of Cord, died Sunday, March 25, 2012, at the Saline Memorial Hospital in Benton. She was born May 15, 1932, at Harrisburg, Arkansas, to Floyd and Edith Gray Sloas. She assisted in the opening of Fred’s Fish …
