Stories from Thursday, April 16, 2009

Helping Hands sponsors RHS art show (04/16/09)
Rector High School art students have gathered their finest work for a special art show this week sponsored by the Rector High School Helping Hands Foundation. The event will take place all day Friday, April 17, at the Crockett building on South Main Street and is open to the public...

Training center nears completion (04/16/09)
The hard work which has gone into making the Northeast Arkansas Innovative Training Center (NEAITC) a reality is rapidly coming to fruition, as the Rector site prepares to begin offering classes during the first week of May...

Rector grad finds career in emergency management (04/16/09)
As a student at Clay County Central High School in Rector, Brandon Lawrence was active both at school and in the community. Lawrence, a 1996 CCC grad, was an Honor Student, a member of numerous clubs and organizations, as well as a three sport star for the Cougars, standing out in football, basketball and baseball...

Finally a date: school out May 28 (04/16/09)
Students and faculty at the Rector School District can finally make note of the final day of the school year, as the school board approved an adjusted calendar for the district during Monday night's regular meeting. Classes for the 2008-09 school year will officially end on May 28. The announcement, however, did not come without a price...

City accepts bids for airport work (04/16/09)
The Rector City Council voted unanimously at a special meeting Monday night to award a bid to Delta Asphalt of Paragould for resurfacing the municipal airport. Delta bid $333,800 on the project. The only other bidder, Drummond Asphalt of Wynne, submitted a total of $390,785...

Lady Cougars top M'duke, Riverside in league play (04/16/09)
The Lady Cougars posted a pair of important conference wins last week. On Thursday, the girls in blue rocked, socked and clocked host Riverside 15-0 in a shortened contest at Caraway...

Cougars romp Riverside (04/16/09)
The Cougars broke out the big sticks in the third inning to claim a 16-1 win over host Riverside Thursday at Caraway. Logan Buck led the game-breaking charge, sending a three-run shot into the Land of No Return during the crucial inning to spark a 12-run third inning. ...

Deadline (04/16/09)
It has been truly said the only certainties in this life are death and taxes. The big red date seems to project itself form the plane calendar surface and others have seen it as an on-off switch reminding us that we must file and pay up or run into a peck of problems...

Remembering one of history's greats (04/16/09)
"No man ever made a bigger mistake than he who could do only a little and did nothing." Edmund Burke. One of the greatest persons of the 20th Century is largely unknown in this country...

Old timey sayings (04/16/09)
I like sayings, especially old timey ones. When we say, "I wash my hands of the whole affair," we declare that we will have nothing to do with a certain matter. It alludes to the time when Pontias Pilate was forced to make a decision about the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. ...

Raymond David Wyatt (04/16/09)
Raymond David Wyatt, 81, of Marmaduke, died Sunday, April 12, 2009, at St. Bernards Regional Medical Center. He was a retired iron worker and was born November 6, 1927, in Greene County. Mr. Wyatt is survived by two sons and daughters-in-law, David and Bonnie Wyatt of Mishawaka, Indiana, and Tim and Ana Wyatt of Farmer's Branch, Texas; two daughters and a son-in-law, Brenda and Dave Smith of Mishawaka and Laura Steggert of Buford, Georgia. ...

Cleo Ingram (04/16/09)
Cleo Ingram, 93, of Rector died on April 9, 2009, at Evergreen Health Care of Rector. She was born on November 20, 1915, at Rector, Arkansas to Charles and Emma Barker. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, James K. Ingram; son, Bob Ingram; daughter, EuJana Ingram; four brothers, Everett, Frank, Roscoe and Eddo Barker, and a sister, Ethel Parker...