Stories from Friday, July 22, 2005

Mrs. Joy J. Youngblood Webb, 52, of Springdale, died Thursday, July 7, 2005, in Fayetteville. She was born March 8, 1953, in Berryville to Joy Dale and Hazel (Kesner) Youngblood. She was a Baptist. She was preceded in death by her father and one son, John Michael McGeehee...

HOLIDAY ISLAND -- Another upset group of property owners approached the Holiday Island Planning Commission (HIPC) Friday seeking relief for their grievances. Several residents of West Bluffs Lane, one of Holiday Island's newly developed areas, located behind the Park Shopping Center, attended the meeting and brought eight complaint forms about the property at 19 West Bluffs Lane...

BEAVER -- The Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department (AHTD) has announced it will hold a public meeting on Tuesday, July 26, to discuss, from an environmental standpoint, the proposed "alternative locations" for a new bridge to replace the Beaver Bridge...

The new county jail will open the first week of August to accommodate 64 prisoners with 33 full-time staffers and one part-time person. This will be done using a seven month budget to operate the remaining five months of the year. The Quorum Court approved the proposal presented by Sheriff Chuck Medford during an extended session last Friday, but not without heated discussion and debate...

After more than three years of planning, the county's new central dispatch 911 center went on line Monday. Located in the upstairs of the county courthouse, the new center replaces a dispatch station housed in the old county jail where dispatchers were also serving as jailers...

CARROLL COUNTY -- There was a two-man member scramble at the Carroll County Country Club last Saturday and Sunday, with 16 teams participating. In the Championship Flight, Will Gotto and Taylor Deweese took top honors with a 60-62-122, while in the First Flight, Jeff Pate and Kenny Bailey took first with a 73-66-139...

What the heck is going on? The Springdale High School 7-on-7 football team traveled to California, no less, for a contest with seven of California's best this past week at the University of Southern California (USC) campus in Los Angeles. The squad is also going to the Southeastern Select 7-on-7 tournament this week, in Hoover, Ala., an event they won last year. ...

EUREKA SPRINGS -- The 8th Annual Fat Tire Festival was a hit with mountain bike enthusiasts this past weekend who crowded the streets and trails around Eureka Springs for two days of fun riding. There were the Burnin' Fat Downhill races on Saturday at Lake Leatherwood, fraught with chills and spills at high speeds, and the ultimate control, agonizingly slow Trials rides in Harmon Park as riders carefully negotiated terrain most folks couldn't walk through...

MRS. MARTHA ALICE FOSTER KING, 78, of Marble, died July 13, 2005, at the Regency Hospital of Northwest Arkansas in Fayetteville. She was born May 3, 1927, at Kingston, the daughter of Beverly and Willie Doshie Ross Carr. She was a retired nursing assistant for Meadowview Healthcare and Rehab in Huntsville and a Baptist. She was preceded in death by her husband, Jesse Alford Foster, on May 8, 1998. She was also preceded in death by two sons, Larry Martin Foster and by Herman Ray Foster...

KEN (THE BLADEMAN) SIKORSKY, a resident of Grandview, was born July 5, 1951, in Flemington, N.J., a son of Leon and Bertha (Baumgartner) Sikorsky. He died Wednesday, July 13, 2005, in Berryville at the age of 54. Ken was also known as the Blademan. He was an artist who painted pictures on old saw blades. He was of the Christian faith. He was a veteran, having served with the United States Army in Vietnam...

EDNA BEATRICE CROW, a resident of Fayetteville, was born Sept. 22, 1910, in Weleeka, Okla., a daughter of George T. and Freddie (James) Dunn. She died Wednesday, July 13, 2005, in Springdale, at the age of 94. Edna was a homemaker. She was of the Methodist faith...

EDWARD LOUIS MILLER, 68, of Berryville, died July 14, 2005, at his home. He was born Oct. 8, 1936, at Huntsville, the son of Edward and Emma Irene Bush Miller. He was a retired diesel mechanic for the Carroll County Road and Bridge Department and a veteran of the Korean War, serving in the United States Marine Corps. He was a member of the American Legion at Green Forest...

R.B. MORRIS, a resident of Berryville, was born Oct. 16, 1919, in Aden, Ill., a son of Wallace George and Julia Christina (Witter) Morris. He died Thursday, July 14, 2005, in Berryville, at the age of 85. R.B. was a farmer. He attended the Church of God Holiness in Berryville...

EUREKA SPRINGS -- Four members of the City Advertising and Promotion Commission (CAPC) have agreed to keep operating the City Auditorium and to consider hiring an auditorium director and a special events coordinator, two persons instead of one. Meeting in a workshop session Wednesday, Commissioners Bryan Sumpter, Rick Rojek, Terry McClung and Kathy Harrison discussed options for operation of the auditorium...