Stories from Friday, June 4, 2004

County deputy injured in crash with Tyson's truck during emergency call (06/04/04)
GRANDVIEW ---- Carroll County Deputy Greg Noftsger was injured in a traffic accident on Monday while responding to a domestic disturbance call. The accident occurred at 5:51 p.m. on County Road 414. Sheriff Chuck Medford said the 1997 county-owned Jeep that Noftsger was driving was totalled when it collided with a Tyson Foods feed truck on a sharp curve on CR 414, a gravel road near Grandview...

More apartments planned for county senior housing (06/04/04)
BERRYVILLE ---- The Area Agency on Aging of Northwest Arkansas broke ground for construction of additional senior apartments in Berryville on Wednesday. Ozark Meadows II, located next to the 20-unit Ozark Meadows Apartments on Clive Street in Berryville, is expected to be completed by February, 2005...

Sheriff runoff is on Tuesday (06/04/04)
Randy Janes and Bob Grudek, Republican candidates for Carroll County Sheriff, will face off during a runoff election set for Tuesday, June 8. The winner of the runoff will face incumbent Democrat Sheriff Chuck Medford in the November general election...

New cancer support group offers hope and understanding (06/04/04)
"CANCER." Hearing this word as a diagnosis can strike terror into your heart and the hearts of those closest to you. You can't believe it. You wonder, "Why me? Why now?" And if you are the primary caregiver of a loved one with cancer, you imagine a future without them and wonder how you will be able to survive that loss...

Education, prisons, taxes will be legislative topics (06/04/04)
School facilities, prison funding and tax reform are predicted to be the three hot topics of the 85th Arkansas General Assembly when it convenes next year. State Representatives Phil Jackson of Berryville, Bill Stovall of Quitman, Michael Lamoureux of Russeville, and State Senators Ruth Whitaker of Cedarville and Jim Argue of Little Rock made their predictions during a panel discussion Thursday as part of the 2004 Arkansas Rural Development Conference in Eureka Springs...

Plans for new kids' program are unveiled in Berryville (06/04/04)
Berryville Kids, a youth recreational and educational enhancement program for children in kindergarten through high school, will operate a summer program starting on June 14 and running throughout the summer, according to Larry W. Long, executive director of Youth Outreach of the Ozarks...

Major expansion of school facilities sought to ease overcrowding (06/04/04)
BERRYVILLE ---- School and community leaders have decided that the time has come to ask voters for help in relieving the overcrowded and continuously growing school district. Berryville School Superintendent Mike Cox outlined a proposal Thursday for major expansions to the district's educational and sports facilities that would cost at least $7 million...

Column: "One Layman's Outlook": The perfection of God's timing (06/04/04)
by Larry Elkins As I write this, I am sitting in the pressroom at the newspaper waiting for our next run. The composition department said that they could start getting it to us in about 30 minutes. Of course that's "composing time," which operates on the basis of II Peter 3:8, "... be not ignorant of this ... one day is with the Lord as a thousand years... ."...

Big Bass Bonanza helps Ark. Children's Hospital (06/04/04)
LITTLE ROCK ---- For a fifth consecutive year, Arkansas Children's Hospital will be a beneficiary of the Arkansas Ford Dealers' Big Bass Bonanza, the country's largest amateur big bass tournament. Through the first four years, Big Bass Bonanza has contributed nearly $45,000 to benefit programs at Arkansas Children's Hospital. This year's tournament will be held June 25-26 along nearly 300 fishable miles of the Arkansas River...

Island golfers host two events (06/04/04)
HOLIDAY ISLAND ---- The Holiday Island Ladies Golf Association held two golf events concurrently on May 26 ---- regular league play and the first round of a single-elimination Match Play Tournament. The players who qualified for the second bracket in the Match Play Tournament were:...

Crystal Mendez (06/04/04)
CRYSTAL MENDEZ, a resident of Harrison, was born Feb. 28, 1977, in Hayward, Calif., a daughter of Danny and Pamela (Little) Smith. She died Sunday, May 31, 2004 in Harrison at the age of 27. Crystal was a former employee of Tyson Foods. On Sept. 27, 1999, she was united in marriage with Victor Mendez, who survives her. ...

Charles Daggett (06/04/04)
Charles Daggett of Berryville, died Tuesday, May 25, 2004, in Berryville. He was born July 2, 1917, in Shelby, Neb., to Charles Orville and Grace Daggett. He moved to the Beaver Dam-Grassy Knob area from Long Beach, Calif., in 1968. He was a brickmason by trade...

Thelma Douglas (06/04/04)
THELMA RUTH MORRIS DOUGLAS, daughter of Homer A. and Margaret Mae (Jacques) Morris, was born Sept. 22, 1916, in Verona, Mo., and died May 28, 2004, at her home in Green Forest, at the age of 87. On March 26, 1935, she was united in marriage with John C. ...

Harold Lankton (06/04/04)
Harold D. Lankton, 76, of Green Forest, died Sunday, May 30, 2004, at St. John's Hospital in Berryville. He was born April 1, 1928, in Omaha, Neb. to the late Harold Lankton and Florence Tipton Lankton. He worked for Wilson's Meat Co. for 31 years as a truck driver. ...

Marjorie Richmond (06/04/04)
Marjorie R. Richmond, 85, of Berryville, passed away Tuesday, May 25, 2004, in Marshall, Mo. Born May 25, 1919, in Jordan, Iowa, she was the daughter of the late Joseph Bellis and Ida Laura Swink Bellis. She had lived in Berryville the last 20 years, moving from San Diego, Calif., and had worked as a bank secretary while living in California...

Eunice Southard (06/04/04)
EUNICE LEOLA SOUTHARD, a resident of Berryville, was born July 7, 1901, in Knox, North Dakota, a daughter of Elwin L. and Josephine C. (Berg) Kingsley. She died Tuesday, May 18, 2004, in her home at the age of 102. Mrs. Southard was a retired school teacher. She was of the Presbyterian faith...

Richard L. Way (06/04/04)
Richard Lewis Lee Way, 18, of Harrison, died May 29, 2004, at St. John's Regional Medical Center in Springfield, Mo. The son of Marcy (Foddrell) Ruff and Gary Way, he was born Oct. 4, 1985 in Berryville. He had lived in this area all his life, was an avid bowler and had won awards statewide...

Aaron Zeigler (06/04/04)
AARON DEWAYNE ZEIGLER, a resident of Berryville, was born Nov. 27, 1987, in Eureka Springs, a son of Mitchell David (Rusty) and Nancy Lillian (Redding) Zeigler. He died Tuesday, June 1, 2004, in his home at the age of 16. Aaron was a student at Berryville High School...

Mary E. Lee (06/04/04)
Mary E. Lee, 88, of Hot Springs, Ark., died Saturday, May 29, 2004. Mary was born Nov. 13, 1915, to the late William Thomas Epperson and Venie Evelyn Pope. Mary was of the Baptist faith and enjoyed gardening, canning and making quilts. She was preceded in death by her parents; two daughters, Virginia Blanch McCarty, and Mary Elizabeth Chesner; one sister, Rosie Hubbard; and three brothers, Joe Oisie Epperson, Jessie Epperson and James Floyd Epperson...

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