Stories from Monday, December 6, 2004

Officer Kevin Disheroon, with the Berryville Police Department recently paid a visit to the youth in the Berryville Baptist Church AWANA program. Disheroon spoke about drugs, and the devastating effects that they can have on a person. He also showed pictures of people that had been on drugs and the long-term effects that they have...

The Holiday Island Community Church invites everyone from Holiday Island and the surrounding community to help celebrate "Ellen Cook Day" on Sunday, Dec.12 Mrs. Cook has served as choir director, pianist, and organist since the church was organized on Easter Sunday, 1993. She is the widow of founding pastor Herman Cook...

The Eureka Springs Highlanders picked the worst weather day of a young winter to travel over the mountains to Johnson County Westside outside Clarksville for senior high games on Tuesday. In spite of the coldest temperatures of the season and spitting sleet and snow flurries, the teams came back with victories against their 1AA league foes...

The Green Forest Tiger senior high teams ended their play in the Community First Bank 2004 Omaha Border Classic basketball tournament Wednesday night when both got their second loss. Coach Bill Niven's senior boys fell 57-45 to host Omaha, and Coach Jim Goins senior girls just missed a win, 46-44, against Alpena...

JIMMY R. WILSON, a resident of Huntsville, was born March 25, 1941, in Harrison, a son of Vernon Odell and Neoma Irene (Tinnin) Wilson. He died Sunday, Nov. 28, 2004, in Fayetteville, at the age of 63. Jimmy was a cattle farmer. He was a veteran, having served with the United States Navy. He was a member of St. Anne's Catholic Church with many years serving on the Parish Council. He was a member of the Knights of Columbus, and the Luther Owens Charcoal Burner's and Muzzle Loading Club...

JUDSON S. TAYLOR, 58, of Gravette, Ark., died Sunday, Nov. 28, 2004, in Bentonville, Ark. He was born Sept. 17, 1946, in Metalton, Ark., the son of Opal Laverne Brown and James Albert Taylor. He enjoyed hunting, gardening and his family. He moved to the Gravette area in 1980, moving from Berryville. He was a crew supervisor for 20 years with Carroll Electric Cooperative...

GARY LEE SMITH was born March 29, 1971, in Omaha, Neb. Gary passed away suddenly on Nov. 19, 2004, in Omaha, at the age of 33. He was preceded in death by his grandparents, Clare Graske, Bert and Vella Smith and uncle Gary Graske. He is survived by his parents, Dr. ...

Marjorie Arlene Altenbern Riddler died Monday, Nov. 29, 2004. She was born March 20, 1920, in Detroit, Mich. She was the daughter of Caroline Isabel and Gustave Adolf Altenbern. She had three brothers, Russell James, Donald Paul and Harold Altenbern. She was raised in Chicago, where she met and married John Richard Riddler of Dallas, Texas. They moved to Eureka Springs in 1963. They raised five children, 12 grandchildren and nine great grandchildren...

Richard "Bone" Hamby, longtime Eureka Springs businessman and co-founder of Planter's Paradise Greenhouses and Landscaping, died Sunday, Nov. 28, 2004, in the surgical intensive unit of the Northwest Arkansas Medical Center after battling a lengthy illness. His former wife and lifetime friend, Gerri Hamby, was with him...

In the last half-century, several movements espousing to be Christian have emerged with religious beliefs that do not fit with the common beliefs found in historic Protestant and Catholic creeds. That is nothing new, though, as the 19th and early 20th centuries produced similar movements, many of which continue, often with an influence that seems disproportionate to their numbers...

A man featured on "America's Most Wanted" and sought in connection with the abduction of an elderly Eureka Springs area couple was arrested Monday in Oklahoma after allegedly kidnapping a Kansas couple, according to Benton County Sheriff's Office Captain Mike Sydoriak...

Arguments in the case of a Berryville couple seeking to exempt their 401K retirement accounts from their Chapter 7 bankruptcy proceedings were heard before the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday. A ruling in the case is expected by July. The case of Richard Gerald and Betty Jo Rousey originated in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Harrison Division of Western District of Arkansas...

GREEN FOREST ---- Work on a Sixth Street sewer project in Green Forest will be accomplished using a pipe bursting system rather than the traditional "open cut" method, city leaders decided Monday. After discussing options in special session nearly an hour, the council voted to accept a bid from Heller Company of Hot Springs for the work...