A Ladies Tea Party will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Batesville First Assembly Family Life Center, located at 20th and Lyon streets. Special guest will be Janet Downs of Cave Creek Church of God. Tickets are $8 through Wednesday. For more information call …

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Take Off Pounds Sensibly Chapter No. AR542 meets every Thursday morning at Ruddell Hill Baptist Church. Weigh-in starts at 9:30 a.m. with the meeting following at 10. The TOPS mission is to support members as they take off and keep off pounds sensibly. For more …

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CAVE CITY — Ring’s Chapel Missionary Baptist Church will have a revival at 7 p.m. April 12 and 13 and at 10:45 a.m. and 6 p.m. April 14. Sunday school will be at 9:45. Evangelist will be Brandon Martin of Walnut Ridge. Music will be …

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The One Day at a Time support group will meet from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the Citizens Bank Annex, located across from the main bank on College Street in Batesville. This is a support group for families and friends of children and teenagers …

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MELBOURNE — The Miss Pioneer Day Pageant will be at 2 p.m. April 20 at the John E. Miller Auditorium, located on the Ozarka College campus in Melbourne. Doors will open at 1. The pageant is open to Arkansas residents ages birth to 19 years. …

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Pvt. Matthew Brown of Newark recently enlisted into the Arkansas Army National Guard and has earned education benefits valued at $45,920. He will attend basic training after completing his junior year at Cedar Ridge High School in May. Following his high school graduation in 2014, …

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River Valley Canners EHC The River Valley Canners Home Extension Club met March 14 with 12 in attendance. Lynne Williams shared her “top secret” spicy mustard recipe and demonstrated how to can it. Gloria Davis provided smoked meats to go with the mustard so the …

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Editor’s note: This column ran previously in the Guard on Nov. 1, 1993.

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BEEBE — The Arkansas State University-Beebe Theater Department will present “The Who’s Tommy” at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Monday and at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Owen Center Theater, located at 910 Pecan St. in Beebe. The play, written by Pete Townshend and Des …

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The family of 11-month-old Aubree Shaw is asking for prayers for the little girl, whose lack of space in her chest is restricting the beating of her heart, said relative Ginger Sandy. Today’s operation at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, known as CHOP for short, is …

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MELBOURNE — Two Izard County men were arrested for domestic battery on Friday, according to Sheriff Tate Lawrence. Around 9 a.m. Friday, Senior Deputy Gabe Sanders and Deputy Mark Simino responded to a fight at 86 Cedar St. in Pineville involving Kenton Johnson and a woman. …

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There aren’t enough cops to fill the current needs of Independence County, according to Sheriff Steve Jeffery and juvenile detention facility administrator Peggy Kendrick. This was the message relayed to the Independence County Quorum Court Monday night as these two department heads gave their monthly …

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