Stories from Tuesday, May 29, 2007

HOLIDAY ISLAND -- University of Arkansas Health and Physical Education Department Professor Joseph Gaa will conduct three sessions on June 6 to meet with Holiday Island commissioners, staff, organizational leaders and residents as part of a needs assessment for a recreation complex which could include an indoor swimming pool along with other amenities...

EUREKA SPRINGS -- The Greater Eureka Springs Chamber of Commerce hosted a well-attended planning meeting Tuesday, May 22, that included field representatives for U.S. Senator Blanche Lincoln and U.S. Congressman John Boozman. Chamber president Jeff Feldman said the group tackled several big community issues recently concluding or upcoming in the near future...

BERRYVILLE -- While the Carroll County Quorum Court declined to approve a resolution to enter into a class action suit against manufacturers of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine, County Judge Richard Williams recently supplied justices of the peace with an update on methamphetamine litigation by Mike Rainwater of Rainwater, Holt and Sexton, P.A., legal counsel for risk management for the Association of Arkansas Counties...

GLADYS POPPY BELL WOLVEN of Holiday Island, formerly of Huntington Beach, Calif., was born April 23, 1933, in Verona, N.J., a daughter of Albert Joseph and Gladys Maude (Vincent) Felt. She died Sunday, May 20, 2007, at Holiday Island, at the age of 74...

BERRYVILLE -- The Carroll County Country Club held its free annual Junior Golf Clinic on Monday's through the month of May. The clinics culminated with a skills competition of putting, chipping, driving, and a two-hole tournament on Monday, May 21...

by David McNeal He was just a farm kid from the Arkansas River valley who grew up growing cotton with his father, along with seven brothers and two sisters. She was a city girl who swam at the country club and played golf and tennis. They met and married during the Great Depression in 1935 and shared many adventures and four children, three boys and one girl...