Stories from Monday, November 8, 2004

The Signature Quartet, four male singers and two instrumentalists, will present a free concert on Saturday, Nov. 13, at 6 p.m., as First United Methodist Church of Eureka Springs launches a weekend celebrating its 125th anniversary. The church is located on Huntsville Road (Highway 23 South), and the community is invited to attend this gospel praise sing...

The Great Passion Play hosted volunteers from the Convoy of Hope from Springfield, Mo., at a recent performance. The volunteers were treated to a reception backstage after the performance, where Marvin Peterson, director of operations of The Great Passion Play, expressed appreciation to the volunteers for the outstanding contribution they make to the underprivileged...

DOROTHEA M. McLOUTH, 61, of Berryville, formerly of Nears, Mich., died Oct. 26, 2004, in Carroll County Nursing and Rehab. Center in Berryville. She was born Jan. 25, 1943, to the late Lewis R. Buchner and Lillian Blance Brown. She was married to the late Virgil McLouth. She was a homemaker and is survived by one son, William Lewis McLouth of Berryville; and four brothers, Don, Wess, Edward and Bud Buchner...

The Eureka Springs Lady Highlander basketball team pulled off what appears to be a first on Tuesday night. They defeated the Valley Springs Lady Tigers 39-37. While Valley isn't the same team as the one that was state runner-up last year, it was still the first time in many fans' memories that the Eureka girls (2-2) had beaten the Lady Tigers ---- ever...

The Green Forest Tiger football team has been right on track this season, riding a potent running game to a 9-0 record so far. There's one big regular season game left, with Berryville on Friday night, then the Tigers will enjoy a home game for the first round of the Class AAA State Football playoffs...

The Kingston Yellowjackets basketball teams invited the Eureka Springs Highlanders to their Homecoming last Friday, Oct. 29, then treated the two Eureka girls teams as anything but royalty. The senior boys (2-1) led off the evening, in order to give the girls time to change after Homecoming ceremonies, and earned the only win of the evening, 60-51...

The General Election of 2004 in Carroll County will go down in history as largest-ever voter turnout in recent memory. An estimated 71 percent of registered voters elected a new county judge, re-elected the county sheriff to a fourth term, changed the makeup of the city council in Eureka Springs, and elected a new mayor in Green Forest...

Veteran Day activities are planned across the area. Alpena High School is hosting a Tribute to Veterans this Friday, Nov. 5, with a flag-raising at 10:45 a.m. and an assembly and luncheon afterward. The school has also extended an invitation to all veterans to be guests at Leopard basketball games the evening of Nov. 12, beginning at 6:30 p.m...

GREEN FOREST ----Members of the Green Forest BEST (Boosting Engineering, Science and Technology) Robotics teams will be traveling to Dallas, Texas, to compete in the BEST Regional Championship at Southern Methodist University's Moody Coliseum November 12-13...