Stories from Monday, December 14, 2015

Green Forest K-12 students collected more than 4,700 items in the "2015 Tigers Can" canned food drive. The event is sponsored by the Green Forest High School Future Business Leaders of America, and is a competition on each campus with the winning classrooms receiving a pizza party. The proceeds were delivered to two local food pantries --Bethel Food Pantry and the United Methodist Church Food Bank. The drive took place Nov. 2-16. (Submitted photo)...

Mildred Elaine Martin Jones, 74, of Holiday Island, Arkansas, joined her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in her heavenly home on Thursday, December 10, 2015. She was born August 16, 1941in Ward, Arkansas, the daughter of the late Floyd and Jewel Martin...

SHIRLEY (WATSON) ALSING, a resident of Berryville, Arkansas, was born October 08, 1932 in Alpena, Arkansas, a daughter of Jess and Nancy Ethel (Roberts) Watson. She departed this life Wednesday, December 09, 2015 in Eureka Springs, at the age of 83 years...

BILLY "BILL" JAMES SUMMERS, a resident of Berryville, Arkansas, was born December 03, 1941 in Berryville, Arkansas, a son of Carson Ellis and Gladys Irene (Comer) Summers. He departed this life Tuesday, December 8, 2015 in Springdale, Arkansas, at the age of 74 years...