Stories from Wednesday, July 7, 2004

Green Forest's Marvin Russell must be walking around in the original Field of Dreams this week, along with other baseball greats like Shoeless Joe Jackson and Babe Ruth that have gone on before. Russell, a youth program pioneer who helped get the softball fields in Green Forest built and finished in 1985, died on Monday, June 28, at the age of 84...

The congregations of First Baptist Church of Blue Eye, Mo., and Primera Iglesia Bautista Latina Americana of Green Forest, a Spanish-language Baptist congregation, have parted ways. In a statement issued June 29 by Blue Eye Baptist Pastor Freddy Blevins, it was stated that the church has withdrawn fellowship from Nestor Rivera, who pastors the mission, "due to irreconcilable differences."...

With a cautious enthusiasm, Jean Elderwind helped sort through the hundreds of compact music discs that arrived at the Berryville Library. "They are great, free and wonderful," said Elderwind, administrator of the Carroll-Madison Library Association. "It's a happy surprise for us."...

Denise Morris and Torchy Wiedman are a dynamic duo when it comes to fundraising efforts. Together they have raised thousands and thousands of dollars for charitable organizations. And, they do it just because they can. Just recently, they donated $2,000 the Carroll County Domestic Violence Program at St. John's and another $2,000 to Harvey Fox and Project Save Our Children...

GREEN FOREST ---- A married couple visiting the area from New York sustained gun shot wounds after they were struck by bullets late July 4 on a county road south of Green Forest. Daniel Daley, a 42-year-old Berryville man, was charged with two counts of aggravated assault in connection with the shooting...

Carroll County's first Hispanic newspaper -- El Observador -- will be launched July 22 to serve the burgeoning Spanish-speaking community, Bob Moore, Carroll County Newspapers publisher announced today. "El Observador (The Observer) will meet a need that has for too long gone unmet here," Moore said. "We have wanted to help inform the Hispanic community with its own newspaper for some time, but the pieces to the puzzle didn't fit until very recently."...

by Mary Jean Sell "As Eureka Turns..." brought to you every day by the people who love her and want her to be the best she can be. As Eureka Springs celebrates it's 125th birthday, a short trip down memory lane might be in order. The springs are the reason the original campsites were used over and over again those thousands of years ago. The original people claimed the springs had healing powers and considered them sacred...

Members of the Holiday Island Community Church (HICC) at 188 Stateline Drive have plans to expand their facility and add what is a called a "cremorial." The cremorial will contain 96 slots for urns for cremated remains. There are also plans to build a 7,000-square-foot two-story fellowship hall, with classrooms and eating area...

Members of the Eureka Springs Parks and Recreation Commission spent most of their almost three-hour meeting last week reviewing recommendations from the Green Zone Committee. The recommendations had been presented to the city council by Parks Director Bruce Levine but been withdrawn for further review by the commission...

A five-hour search for a missing 22-year-old handicapped man from Eureka Springs ended with good results Thursday evening as Jeremiah Summers was found sitting in a neighbor's house. Joe Summers reported Jeremiah missing at 12:43 p.m. Thursday when his own efforts to locate him had failed...

JASPER ---- As in previous years, the highlight of the seventh annual Buffalo River Elk Festival was the drawing for 18 elk hunting permits awarded by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. The highlight for Green Forest's Josiah Goodman was being one of those selected. Goodman's name was drawn for one of the December Antlerless Elk hunts in Zone 2, along with Jerry Price of Elkins, and Jake Harvey of Jonesboro...

JUNE JACKSON, a resident of Green Forest, was born June 22, 1928, in Denver, Ark., a daughter of Perry Clyde and Eunice Manilla (Clemence) Ayers. She died Monday, June 28, 2004, in Green Forest at the age of 76. Mrs. Jackson was a retired insurance agent for the Farmers Insurance Group. She was a homemaker and of the Protestant faith...

MARVIN C. RUSSELL, a resident of Green Forest, was born July 22, 1919, in Grand Quivira, N.M., a son of Claud and Annie Ruth (Jones) Russell. He died Monday, June 28, 2004, in Green Forest at the age of 84. Marvin was a farmer and he also worked in oil fields in Texas and New Mexico. He was a veteran, having served with the United States Army during World War II, where he was taken as a P.O.W. Marvin was a member of the VFW...

CLETA JANE ARMSTRONG, a lifelong resident of Carroll County, was born May 7, 1908, in Dean, Ark., a daughter of William Marion and Mary (Carr) Whiteley. She died Monday, June 28, 2004, in Berryville at the age of 96. Mrs. Armstrong was a homemaker. She was a Christian and a member of the Dean United Baptist Church. She loved flowers, gardening, crocheting, and making quilts...

Church music has changed a lot since George Beverly Shay introduced "How Great Thou Art? Fifty years ago, overheard projectors were unheard of, choruses were for children, and hymn books were standard equipment. Today, churches have praise teams instead of choirs; piano and organ accompaniments for soloists have expanded to include drums, guitar, trumpets, and even an entire orchestra, if not replaced by professionally-produced CD tracks; a manger scene portrayed by children in a Christmas program may be replaced by a DVD or Powerpoint projection, with or without musical background; pantomimes and "silent dramas," choreographed to music can also produce a visual worship experience.. ...

General Vycheslav Borisov, Deputy Chief Commander of the Soviet Union's 100,000 combat troops in Russia's War with Afghanistan, will speak in a special service at 7 p.m. on Thursday, July 15, at Berryville Baptist Church, located one block west of the Berryville square off on U.S. Highway 62, on Fancher Avenue...

A new fellowship hall is scheduled to be ready for use when King of Kings Camp Meeting 2004 is held July 9-17 at the King of Kings Campground, located between Green Forest and Denver near the old Center Point community. Daytime services will be held at 10 a.m. July 10-17, and gospel singing will get underway each night at 6 p.m., with worship following at 7 p.m...