Stories from Monday, July 7, 2003

RAYMOND LEE BUNCH, a resident of Berryville, Arkansas was born January 28, 1940 in Dallas, Texas a son of Raymond and Stella Mae (Norris) Bunch. He died Saturday, June 28, 2003 in Berryville, Arkansas at the age of 63. Raymond was a 1958 graduate of Green Forest High School. ...

RAY ALBERT JENNINGS, a resident of the Dry Fork community was born April 23, 1909 in Green Forest, Arkansas a son of Perry Alonzo and Frances Elizabeth (Martin) Jennings. He died Sunday, June 29, 2003 in Dry Fork at the age of 94. Mr. Jennings was a Veteran of World War II having served his country with the U.S. Army in Germany. He retired from the Arkansas Highway Department was a farmer and of the Baptist faith...

Racing cars in elementary school usually conjures up images of a wooden, hand-held replica being pushed back and forth across a table, or at most, one of those radio-controlled jobs streaking across a parking lot. Not this racer. Anthony Platt, age nine, a fourth-grader at Eureka Springs elementary school, recently broke the qualifying track record in his division at the Tulsa Quarter Midget Racing Track...

Eureka's Kimberly Peek ran her way to the AAU regional track meet last weekend in Fayetteville, with her sights on the U.S. Junior Olympics in July. The 13-year-old ran an outstanding 1500m race, recording a new personal best of 5:04:90, but that earned her fifth place. Fourth place was a 5:04:70, so she just missed qualifying for the U.S. Junior Olympics by two/one-hundreths of a second...

"This is a landmark day," stated an enthusiastic Carroll County Judge Ed Robertson as he addressed a large crowd that had gathered for a ceremonial ground breaking at the new Criminal Justice Center near Berryville. Robertson commended area bankers, jail oversite committee members, justices of the peace and state officials for helping to make the project a reality...

In the next 22 years the population of Carroll County is projected to grow by between 36.8 and 38.9 percent, to between 35,793 and 36,334 people, according to figures released recently by the Center for Business Economic Research of the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville...

EUREKA SPRINGS ---- The jail section of the new Eureka Springs Police Department is certainly pulling its weight, according to statistics compiled by Chief Earl Hyatt. From Jan. 1, 2002, through Dec. 31 of 2002, a total of 182 prisoners were booked into the facility...

Rev. Joe Sherman, formerly of Prairie Grove, assumed ministerial duties at First United Methodist Church of Eureka Springs on June 22. Sherman, who prefers to be called Joe or Brother Joe, served 15 years at Prairie Grove Methodist Church. He was also minister for a small church near Prairie Grove called Viney Grove Church...

Americans have come to know the Arabic word for holy war, jihad, firsthand with the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon in 2001. Holy war was not invented by Islam. The Old Testament records the equivalent, with Canaanite genocide in the name of Yahweh...