Stories from Monday, July 21, 2003

Full Faith Ministries, located on Highway 23, two and one-half miles north of the main entrance to Holiday Island, will be the site of a women's retreat on July 25 and 26, according to spokesperson Kathleen Fitzsimmons. Theme of the retreat is "The Bride's Anthem," based on the scripture, "... those who know their God shall be strong, firm and durable and carry out great exploits, bold deeds and daring acts." (Daniel 11:32, AMP)...

GREEN FOREST ---- A Green Forest man was arrested on Tuesday, charged with sexual indecency with a child for allegedly having consensual sex with a 14 year-old girl. According to Sgt. Brad Handley, Curtis Combs, 35, had hired the teenage girl to babysit his children during the summer of 2001 and allegedly had sex with her during that time...

A financial scandal centering around Harrison Abstract and Title has impacted at least one Carroll County real estate company. Larry Montgomery of Montgomery Real Estate and Auction Service,verified Wednesday that, in a closing with Harrison Abstract and Title, two checks, one to him and another to the seller, bounced, and that he had heard that the check for the mortgage in the transaction also bounced...

HOLIDAY ISLAND ---- There were strong winds, heavy rains, then sunshine and humidity Saturday, July 12, at the Camp Barnabas Charity Golf Tournament at the Holiday Island golf course. Although the weather delayed play by an hour, an estimated 150 golfers enjoyed their round of golf...

BERRYVILLE ---- Carroll Health Foundation recently hosted its eighth annual Hacking for Health Benefit Golf Tournament, held at the Holiday Island Country Club. The tournament was very successful, raising $10,000 for the Foundation, which supports expansion and capital projects for St. John's Hospital-Berryville...

The Bobcat football coaching staff hosted an All Star Youth Football Camp July 14-16 for next year's fourth, fifth, and sixth graders, with 27 young athletes attending. Razorbacks Tony Bua and Bo Lacy assisted at the camp on Tuesday, along with Clint Scheel, a former UCA Bear. Bua played linebacker for Coach Houston Nutt last year, but may be in the safety spot this season. Lacy returns as a senior left tackle on offense...

JAMES L. COTTRELL, age 82, of Green Forest, Arkansas, died Monday, July 14, 2003, in his home. James was born May 1, 1921, to Grover C. and Elsie (Willis) Cottrell in Dyer, Arkansas. James had resided in Green Forest for 32 years and had previously lived in Dyer, Huntsville, Mountain View, Jasper, and Berryville. ...

BARBARA ANN (HOLLAND) STANPHILL, a resident of Green Forest, Arkansas was born February 22, 1940 in Berryville, Arkansas a daughter of Cecil Arlis and Emma Josephine (Boatright) Holland. She died Tuesday, July 15, 2003 in her home at the age of 63. Mrs. Stanphill was a homemaker and of the Baptist faith...

A former newspaper editor and 22-year veteran of the U.S. Congress from Illinois, Paul Findley is a politician and a student of society. He has written what appears to be an even-handed evaluation of Islam, combatting many of the stereotypes of its practitioners. His sources include conversations and other communications with Muslims both in the United States and the Middle East...

Plans are being made for a bake and rummage sale and a drawing for a mosaic stained glass window, to be held Aug. 14-16, at Wildflowers Chapel, located just east of Eureka Springs on U.S. Highway 62. Donations for the sale are encouraged. All of the proceeds will be used to help people in Haiti, where church member Terry Husberg has been going for the past three years, having made 10 trips preaching about Jesus and distributing Bibles, food, clothing, and money...

MARBLE ---- A south Carroll County man risked life and limb to help a neighbor in need. Tony Wojnar, who lives at Dry Fork and makes early morning deliveries for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, happened upon a fire at the Kings River Country Store last Saturday morning...