Stories from Tuesday, March 29, 2016

HOLIDAY ISLAND -- Jeep Fest is on its four-wheel-drive way back to Holiday Island for its third annual showing starting with a Meet & Greet Jeepers Kickoff at 5 p.m. Friday, May 13, from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. at the Farmer's Market at Veterans Memorial Park in Holiday Island or on Saturday morning starting at 9 a.m...

RUTH ANN FRANZ, a resident of Berryville, Arkansas, was born January 13, 1961 in Henderson, Nebraska, a daughter of Glenn Willis and Deloris Ann (Duerksen) Goertzen. She departed this life Sunday, March 27, 2016 in Berryville, Arkansas, at the age of 55 years...

The Berryville School District will be changing superintendents three months ahead of schedule. At Monday night's meeting of the Berryville School Board, board members voted unanimously to buy out the remaining three months of Dr. Phil Clark's contract as superintendent, then voted unanimously to install Owen Powell as the interim superintendent...

Mr. and Mrs. Denny High will celebrate 25 years of marriage on Sunday, April 3. The celebration will take place from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the fellowship hall of Victory Tabernacle Pentecostal Church at 5183 Highway 62 in Green Forest. Denny High and Kitty Widner were married on March 29, 1991 at Miracle Lighthouse in Harrison. Cards will be appreciated...

A young kite pilot launches her colorful craft at the annual Kite Festival on Saturday at Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge. Hundreds of kids of all ages came from all across Northwest Arkansas for a day of flying kites of all sizes. (Photo by David Bell/Carroll County News)...

More than 560 nonprofits throughout Arkansas, including 18 locally-led Carroll County nonprofits, are participating in ArkansasGives Day on April 7, a 12-hour online giving event from Arkansas Community Foundation. Last year ArkansasGives Day raised $2 million online in one day for more than 350 nonprofits statewide. This year's goal is $4 million. Here's how you can participate:...

A little less than two weeks ago, I was promoted to associate editor foe Carroll County Newspapers. That means I'll oversee the day-to-day operations of the Lovely County Citizen while still working with the team I've grown to love here at Carroll County News...

Carroll County residents Jon and Kaylynn Toombs have always been interested in organic gardening. Over the past four years, the couple has worked to turn that interest into a viable business, called Homestead Farm. Jon Toombs said their farm still has a ways go to but noted how far they've come since the couple began dabbling in gardening in 2008. Many organic gardeners, he said, aren't trying to make a living on their farm...

Here's another school class picture that is similar to the "Who'da" school from a few weeks ago. But this one is the Rule school and the back of the picture identifies it as the 1912/13 class. The back of the picture also identifies it as a gift from 'Cosmopolitan' magazine's longtime publisher and editor Helen Gurley-Brown. Gurley-Brown (1922-2012) was born and raised in Green Forest. (Photo courtesy of the Carroll County Historical and Genealogical Society)...

The Carroll County Extension Office will host a clinic for livestock exhibitors in April. The clinic is scheduled for 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 19, at the Carroll County Fairgrounds Arena. Arvest Bank will provide dinner. Carroll County Extension Agent Olivia Foster said the clinic is aimed to show the young people how showing livestock can help them. Foster remembered showing livestock in high school and said that is a big reason why she works in agriculture today...

Terry and Sheila Bunch invite you to celebrate 50 years of marriage with them. A drop-in reception will be held from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, April 10, at Towering Oaks Church in Berryville. Cards and well wishes accepted; the couple requests no gifts, please...

Olivia Foster has been back in Carroll County for a couple of months now, and all is going well. Foster, the county's new agriculture extension agent, recalled all the new things she's learned since joining the extension office in January. She's walked through pastures and helped a farmer plan for backyard chickens, Foster said...

Mid-States Specialty Eggs, Inc. (MSSE) is nearing the end of construction of a new egg processing facility in Berryville. Berryville Mayor Tim McKinney reported Monday that MSSE is installing equipment, saying construction hit a roadblock when MSSE was required to have two lift stations. McKinney said the city has been working on that second lift station with MSSE...

Carroll County's leading employers: 1. Tyson Foods Inc. (3 locations) 2. Walmart Stores Inc. 3. Berryville School District 4. Green Forest School District 5. Kerusso Active Wear Inc. 6. First National Bank (multiple locations) 7. Mercy Hospital Berryville...

Tyson Foods is the largest employer in Carroll County, with an average workforce of more than 2,500 employees -- more than 10 percent of the county's population. Tyson's processing plants and their related operations have a major impact on Carroll County's economy and its sense of community...

Cancer affects millions of people all over the world, but the fight to stop this deadly disease begins here at home. Carroll County has hosted the American Cancer Society's Relay For LifeŽ event since the 1990s and Tyson Foods' Berryville-Green Forest Complex has proudly participated from the beginning...

Floyds' Sales, a local company in Berryville, Arkansas, has been a successful family owned and operated business specializing in metal building sales, construction and manufacturing for nearly 50 years. Dewitt Floyd, along with his wife Pauline established the business in 1969. ...

Track season is under way, and for many Carroll County athletes, it appears 2016 will be a promising one. On the boys side, Green Forest's Dalton Anglin, Nathaniel Harp and Cory Bryant all finished in the top 10 of the 100-meter dash at the most recent track meet held in Green Forest. ...

Do you want to see your rival do well? I know I don't. It's different here at the high school level. There are family connections and friendships that connect from town to town. The stakes aren't as high. At the collegiate and professional level, though, those connections don't exist and those stakes are at an all-time high. When your rival is competing for national championships and you are bathing in mediocrity, you should loathe that team and its fan base that much more...

The best offense is a good defense. This is an analogy often used in football, but it can be applied to any sport, really. The Green Forest Tiger baseball team has lost its first eight games of the season and given up at least 10 runs in each game. They haven't scored more than five...