Stories from Monday, November 10, 2003

Carroll County residents are invited to be the guests of The Great Passion Play on Friday, Nov. 14, to experience the new one-of-a-kind Christmas event called "Beyond Dickens." The event has been planned for more than a year and is Carroll County's newest attraction. According to Passion Play spokesperson Mardell Bland, renowned artist Lorenzo Green designed the impressive staging area, which was built cooperatively by Green and the Great Passion Play's construction team...

Reeling from Tuesday's defeat of the county-wide one-cent sales tax, members of the county's planning committee met to prepare to keep county operations running while facing a $100,000 shortfall on Jan. 1 Discussion initially centered around the possibility of laying off 22 to 23 employees in various departments before consensus was reached that operating county offices four days a week would be the most equitable way of sharing the pain...

A warrant arrest for aggravated assault and other charges turned into the county's 25th methamphetamine lab bust of the year on Wednesday, when deputies serving the warrant at the David Harp residence south of Berryville discovered more than they had anticipated...

The junior high and seventh grade basketball teams at Eureka Springs were busy last week and this one, as regular season and tournament games overlapped. Coach Josh Hill's junior boys took a 43-49 loss at Homecoming last week on Halloween Friday, then boarded the bus on Saturday morning to play their first game in the Lead Hill Junior High tournament, along with the junior girls...

Coach Josh Hill's senior boys were the lone team to take a win home from Valley Springs on Tuesday as two of the three votes on election day went to the Valley Springs Tigers. The Highlander boys won, 59-31, but the senior girls lost 58-30, and so did the junior girls, 28-22...

It's time for the annual shootout between the Green Forest Tiger and Berryville Bobcat football teams! The two squads meet at 7:30 p.m. this evening at Bobcat stadium, with playoff plans alive for both. Making it even more fun is the fact the two coaches, Green Forest's Bill Gotto, and Berryville's Doug Scheel, played for the Razorbacks and were roommates during that time...

RAYMOND LEE WILLIAMS, 69, of Shell Knob, Mo., died Monday, Nov. 3, 2003, at his home in Shell Knob. He was born June 23, 1934, in rural Crane, Mo., the son of Lawrence James and Lonnetta (Morrison) Williams. On Oct. 20, 1956, in East Peoria, Ill., he was united in marriage to Frieda M. Schaeffer, who survives...

Robert William Warner, 82, of Eureka Springs, died Oct. 29, 2003, at his home. He was born Oct. 17, 1921, in Chicago, Ill., to Charles Warner and Edith Parrish Warner. He was a veteran of WWII, serving in the Army. Survivors include his wife, Lila Warner, of the home, five sons and daughters-in-law, Jack and Beth Warner of Bridgeton, Mo., Mike and Linda Warner of Lake Forest, Calif., Gary and Carol Warner of Wheaton, Ill, Tom and Fung Warner of Cupertino, Calif., and Marion Warner of Wauconda, Ill., and 12 grandchildren.. ...

MICHAEL SCHOLZ, a resident of Berryville, was born Sept. 17, 1937, in Berlin, Germany, a son of Karl and Bertha Schloz. He died Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2003 in Springfield, Mo., at the age of 66. Mr. Scholz was a veteran having served with the U.S. Army. He was retired from the Eaton Corporation where he worked in machine repair. He was a member of the International Association of Machinists...

From bar tender to the Bible, Jerry Ballinger and wife Carla have run the gamut of religious life in Eureka Springs. A grateful group of ministers of various denominations, friends and representatives of The Great Passion Play said goodbye to the couple during a dinner on Oct. 9 at the Best Western Inn of the Ozarks, hosted by the Eureka Springs Ministerial Association, which the couple was instrumental in establishing...

CARROLLTON ---- A celebration to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Yell Lodge 64 will be held next Monday, Nov. 10, at the historic Carrollton Lodge where the Masons of Lodge 64 received their original charter in 1853. "It will start at 6 p.m.," said Mike Mahoney, chairman of the planning committee. "It will be an open Lodge meeting and all Masons are encouraged to attend, along with their family members and friends. It will be a time of fellowship and a time to meet one another."...