Stories from Tuesday, October 26, 2004

The following people were booked into the Carroll County Jail during the period from Oct. 13 through Oct. 20. October 13 Dana Johnson, 32, Pine Bluff, was held by the Carroll County Sheriff's Office (CCSO) for the Arkansas Department of Corrections...

GREEN FOREST ---- A political forum held in Green Forest Wednesday drew about a dozen citizens who came to hear what local candidates had to say. Those running for county judge, county sheriff, and Green Forest council races were given five minutes each to address the crowd and respond to questions afterward...

BERRYVILLE ---- Newborn baby Blaklie Allen needs the community's help due to a serious heart defect that has caused her to be in critical condition in Arkansas Children's Hospital in Little Rock. Blaklie's great-grandmother, Joyce McMullin of Berryville, said Wednesday that the little girl had surgery Tuesday to repair the aorta in her heart, and though she came through the surgery "really well," she is still in critical condition, McMullin said...

Prospects for continued service in Carroll County through Ozark Regional Transit were enhanced Tuesday as the county budget committee tentatively approved $7,500 for the service in 2005. That is $2,500 above what the quorum court agreed to earlier, though that was with a promise it would seriously consider further funding...

The Berryville Bobcat golf team that won the 1AAA District meet and finished second at regionals, kept up its solid play to finish third in the Class AAA State Golf meet on Wednesday at the Chenal Country Club in Little Rock. Dustin Walker led the team with a 78, which was good enough to get him invited to the Individual Overall Tournament on the Pleasant Valley course in Little Rock on Thursday, Oct. 28. Just 12 golfers statewide from Class AAA made that cut...

The Berryville Lady Bobcat volleyball team put a perfect exclamation point on a perfect 1AAA record of 15-0 Tuesday night when they defeated the Valley Springs Lady Tigers to end their regular season on Senior Night. The senior high girls finished 21-1 overall, with their only loss this year to rival Green Forest in a Harrison tournament. Berryville completed avenging that loss on Monday when the two county schools met and the Lady Bobcats won in four games...

The 2004 Eureka Springs Highlander basketball season kicked off under the bright lights in the Omaha Eagle gym on Tuesday night, with the home team handing the visitors two defeats in the three games. Coach Aaron Hall's senior girls won, 60-33, run-ruling the Lady Eagles on the way to their first victory of the new season...

Major General Bruce K Kendall, 93, of Hershey, Pa., died Thursday, Oct. 7, 2004, in the Lebanon Valley Brethren Home, Palmyra., Pa. He was born Nov. 12, 1910, in Alabam, Ark., son of the late Lemuel and Julia (Price) Kendall. He was a graduate of the University of Arkansas where he captained the Razorbacks basketball team. ...

Delbert Howard, 88, of Rudd, died Friday Oct.15, 2004. Mr. Howard was born on March 12, 1916, in Carroll County to the late Fred Howard and Missie Miller Howard. Mr. Howard was a retired truck driver with Eldridge Feed Mill of Green Forest. He enjoyed hunting, fishing and most of all hunting ginseng. Delbert lived in Carroll County most of his life where he graduated from the Gobbler School. He was affiliated with the Baptist Church...

Marvin Fort, 72, of Huntsville, Ark., died Oct. 15, 2004, at Washington Regional Medical Center at Fayetteville. He was born Dec. 22, 1931, at Maora, Ill., the son of Burnard James and Alma Francis Sutton Fort. He was a contractor and a member of the First Assembly of God Church at Eureka Springs and the American Quarter Horse Association. He was preceded in death by his parents, three brothers, Burnard Fort, Cyrus Fort and Wendell Fort, and one granddaughter, Marcella Lynn Fort...

BRUCE CAIN, 95, of Kingston, Ark., died Oct. 13, 2004, at St. John's Hospital in Berryville. He was born Nov. 17, 1908, at Huntsville, Ark., the son of James Riley and Sarah Jane Brown Cain. He was a carpenter and a member of the Kingston Community Church where he served as a deacon. He was preceded in death by his wife of 62 years, Annis Vestal Armer Cain on Feb. 17, 1997. He was also preceded in death by an infant son, two brothers and three sisters...

Cecil E. Bennett, 84 of Waseca, Minn., died Saturday, Oct. 16, 2004, at the Waterville Good Samaritan Center in Waterville, Minn. Services were held on Wednesday, Oct. 20, at McRaith Funeral Home in Waseca, Minn. with Rev. Roger Haug officiating. Mass of Christian Burial will be held in Eureka Springs on Saturday, Oct. ...

y E. Alan Long, CCN faith editor The quandary of the 21st Century church in America is how to reach and get the attention of the Postmodern Generation. British writer Nick Page seems to have a handle on Postmoderns, with a book that just might hold their interest...

This may be the most definitive description to date of ---- or hope for ---- the future of Christianity in North America. With its stark black and orange cover with obscured art of a young man with a tatoo on his upper arm, Radical Reformission's message is about how churches fail to meet their cultures on cultural grounds, and how that can be corrected...

Evangelist Rhonda Rock of Claremore, Okla., will minister next weekend at Eureka Springs First Assembly of God, according to Pastor Gene Gilmore. Mrs. Rock is to be the featured speaker at a women's luncheon on Saturday, Oct. 30, at 12:30 p.m. at the church. She will also minister in Sunday services at the church, at 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m...

Twenty-five years since its theatrical release, the world's most-watched movie, Jesus, made its internet debut on Oct. 19. In conjunction with Salem Wab Network and Caliber Media Group, the JESUS Film Project uses a streaming OS system to make Jesus available online in more than 300 separate language translations...