Stories from Thursday, May 7, 2009

Famed artists to appear for Helping Hands Foundation (05/07/09)
Tickets will go on sale Friday, May 15, for a concert which promises to be one of the most memorable events ever held in Rector. The Rector High School Helping Hands Foundation will bring to the Rector stage internationally-known artists Dailey & Vincent, Guy Penrod, The Isaacs and Russ Taff, as well as Gaither artist Kevin Williams, who will serve as emcee...

DARE provides valuable anti-drug message (05/07/09)
After weeks of fierce competition and intense study on the influence and danger of drugs, Rector Elementary School sixth graders graduated Thursday, April 30, from the school's DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program, pledging to keep their lives free from the horrors of drug use...

Classes underway at NEAITC (05/07/09)
The Northeast Arkansas Innovative Training Center (NEAITC) is open and offering a wealth of opportunities to Rector residents. A special open house has been planned to introduce the community to the NEAITC and all it has to offer. ...

Chamber dinner honors ice storm volunteers (05/07/09)
Rector residents triumphed over numerous difficulties they faced when a late January ice storm devastated the town, and area leaders, business owners and friends gathered Thursday night for the city's annual Chamber of Commerce dinner to honor those whose hard work helped the community get through the crisis...

Remembering mama (05/07/09)
This morning while I was sewing a button on a jacket, I thought of mama. I remembered something that was buried way back in my mind. When I was a little girl and something needed a quick sewing mend, mama would say, "Hand me that needle." She would point to a wall near a door frame in the living room...

Call her blessed (05/07/09)
She lived her long and happy life as the prototypical southern lady. Her stance and carriage were proud and gentle --- she got along with everyone, whatever their calling or station in life. She inherited her father's easy way with people; reared in the tradition of the Old South, she believed with all her heart in The Lost Cause. ...

A mystery of life: man's inhumanity (05/07/09)
Many and sharp the num'rous ills Inwoven with our frame! More pointed still we make ourselves Regret, remorse, and shame! And Man, whose heav'n-erected face The smiles of love adorn, Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! The Scottish poet Robert Burns penned those words in 1786, but we still have no better understanding of the reason for "man's inhumanity to man" than he did more than 200 years ago...