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USPS 035-740The Heart of the Arkansas River Valley for a Century

WEDNESDAY, December 3, 2008 — NO. 2

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Opinions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Church . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5

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Legals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 ,8

Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Obituaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

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The Atkins High School After Prom is collecting Sexton Food’s receipts, so please save the receipts and drop them off at Dollar General.

After Prom collects receipts

See Deaths on page 8

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Thursday, Dec. 4 — Atkins Lions Club, noon, First United Methodist Church, visitors wel-come

Thursday, Dec. 4 — People for a Better Atkins (PBA), 7 p.m., Depot

Monday, Dec. 8 — Atkins School Board, 7 p.m., adminis-tration building

Monday, Dec. 8 — Shiloh Lodge, 6 p.m., Masonic Lodge

Tuesday, Dec. 9 — Pope County Quorum Court budget committee, 6 p.m., County Courthouse

Tuesday, Dec. 9 — Atkins City Council, 7 p.m., City Hall

Tuesday, Dec. 9 — SW Atkins Water User’s Assoc., 7 p.m., Bells Chapel Methodist Church

PBA and Teen PBA needs new and gently used children’s books for their Christmas food baskets. You can drop them off at Sexton Foods, Berky’s Diner and the Atkins Library. For more information call Mary Cole at 641-2501 or Scottie Martin at 641-7419.

PBA wants books for food baskets

The Arkansas Tech Agri Club is holding its annual Poinsettia Sale Thursday and Friday, Dec. 4-5, at the Tech greenhouse at Red Hill Farm from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. each day.

ATU Agri Club sells poinsettias

embers of People for a Better Atkins have announced

that the marshals for the Atkins Christmas Parade will be the Atkins Red Devils Team Choice: Jake Pack, Sawyer Shan-non, Cody Colburn and Colton Barton. Their chauffeurs will be Bro Price, Roy Pitts and Scott Daily.

The parade, sponsored by PBA and Teen BPA, will be Monday, Dec. 8, starting at 6 p.m. The theme of the parade is “Silver Bells.”

Cash prizes will be awarded the top three f loats: 1st place $150, 2nd place $125 and 3rd place $100. There is no entry fee. All f loats should be at the Catholic Hall at 5 p.m. to line up. No four-wheelers are allowed unless they are pull-ing an approved f loat.

The parade will start at Catholic Hall, exit out to the right on Main Street, right on Church Street to Sexton Foods, left up to the nursing home. Participants may dispurse at the football field.

For more information call J. L. Austin at 641-7225 or 880-6252. The rain date for the parade is Dec. 8.

Other citiesThe annual Christmas

Parade at Hector will be Dec. 6, 2008 (Saturday). The parade will start at 10 a.m. with line-up of entries on Cherry Street at 9 a.m. First, second, and third prizes will be awarded. Grand Marshal is Aaron Duvall, Pope County Sheriff elect. Entries

are invited. Call 284-5371 for more information. The rain date is Dec. 13. The theme is “The Spirit of Christmas.”

The Russellville Christmas Parade is Dec. 4 at 6:30 p.m. The theme is “Old-Fashioned Christmas.” The rain date is Dec. 6 at 5:30 p.m. For more information, call Kelly Nealy and Pam Faulkner at 968-1272.

The Dardanelle parade is Friday, Dec. 5. The theme is “Christmas on the River.” For more information call Vicky at 1-479-229-3328.

The Morrilton parade is Thursday, Dec. 4, beginning at 5:30 p.m. Its theme is “Story Book Christmas.” Participants should line up at Old Levi Straus Factory. Following the parade will be Night of Lumi-naria at UACCM. Call 1-501-354-2393, Brandy Bradley, for more information.

Christmas in the ParkThe signs for Christmas

in the Park in memory or in honor of loved ones are being prepared. The cost to order a new sign is $10 and the dead-line is Dec. 12. To repeat a sign from last year costs $5. The deadline to pay for a renewal is Dec. 15.

Signs may be purchased at Elmo Haney Pharmacy or by calling David Lindsey at 641-2647 or J. L. Austin at 641-7225.

Christmas basketsPreparations for the Christ-

mas baskets are under way. Those wishing to apply to receive a basket should do so by Dec. 5. Applications may be picked up at the Atkins U. S. Post Office.

The baskets will be given away Saturday, Dec. 13, start-ing about 8 a.m. Helpers should arrive at 7:30 a.m.

Those wishing to help put the baskets together should go to the Atkins Riding Club building about 6 p.m. on Dec. 11 and 12.

Pat Duvall does a lot of the planning and preparation for this event. FBLA and Beta Club students usually help make up the baskets along with 4-H members.

Mary Cole is in charge of children’s books to go in the baskets.

The baskets will also con-tain fresh poultry and many packaged foods, as well as toys.

Sr. Red Devils to be honored in 2008 Christmas parade

Christmas in the Park sign ProjeCt Renew $5 – DeaDline DeC. 15

new sign in honor of or in memory of loveD ones $10DeaDline DeC. 12

elmo haney’s PharmaCy

This float in the 2007 Atkins Christmas Parade featured sports memorabilia

Pistol presentation — Mayor Jerry Don Barrett presents the chief’s pistol to Charles Martin upon Martin’s retirement as Atkins Chief of Police.

Old and new — Retiring Atkins Police Chief Charles Martin sits with incoming Chief Tim Whittenburg, who took office in Novemer. Martin will become chief deputy sheriff when Aaron Duvall takes office as county sheriff in January.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the U.S. Department of Health and Human services has issued a Water Fluori-dation Quality Award to the Atkins Water System for its “consistent and professional adjustment of water fluoride content to optimum level for oral health for 12 consistent months.”

Fluoride is a “safe and effective method to prevent tooth decay, improving the oral health of community residents of all ages,” the award states. The award was sent to the city through Dr. Roy Bratton, local dentist.

Water System receives quality award

Waste Management has announced a large item collec-tion, planned for Monday, Dec. 8, for customers in the Atkins city limits. Customers are asked to place all items within 3 feet of the curb and have them out before 6 a.m. on Dec. 8.

Items that will be accepted: Bedding and furniture and simi-lar large items.

Items that will not be accepted: Tires; latex paint in liquid form (mix with kitty litter or dirt to make it solid); lead-based paint; anything pre-

viously containing freon (air conditioners, freezers, refrig-erators); white goods such as washers, dryers, stoves, water heaters; crossties; anything in liquid form; pesticides; batter-ies; burn barrels that contain burned debris.

Waste Management to hold large-item pickup in Atkins

The Pope County Cattlemen’s Association will meet this Sat-urday, Dec. 6, at 6 p.m. at the Russellville First Assembly of God Church fellowship hall for its annual Christmas party. The meat and bread will be furnished by PCCA. Members are asked to bring potluck side dishes – vegetables, salads, etc. and/or desserts. All members and their families are encouraged to attend. A visit from St. Nick is expected.

The drawing for the PCCA Scholarship Fundraiser year-

ling ½ Angus- ½ Fleckvieh Simmental heifer or $500 cash will be held at the meet-ing. The heifer was donated by Horace Beavers of R & H Farms of Russellville. Tickets will be available at the meeting for $1 each or 6 for $5, or you may get them from the co-op and/or C. J.’s Burgers or any PCCA board member or officer.

Two $1,000 scholarships were awarded in 2008. For more information, call 968-4573). Donors do NOT have to be pres-ent to win.

PCCA holiday party features heifer prize

The Russellville Wal-Mart was evacuated and closed for about an hour and 24 minutes around noon Monday after the 911 office received a bomb threat.

Russellville police said the building was evacuated at about 12:30 p.m. and the store was reopened at 1:54 p.m. after the

Pope County Sheriff’s canine unit failed to find any suspicious objects.

The Russellville Police Department is investigating the source of the bomb threat, which is a Class A misdemeanor, with a penalty of up to a year in prison and a $1,000 fine.

Wal-Mart evacuated by bomb threat

SeptemberLouis Casey, 76, Russellville,

Sept. 3Letannah Bishop, 87, Norman,

Okla., Sept. 4 Steve B. Logan, III, 74, Casa, Sept.

2Bess Ingram, 95, Dover, Sept. 9Donald (Don) Monroe Malick,

60, Mt. George, Sept. 3Pete Engle, 77, Harrisburg, Sept.

8Tami Kay Link, 52, Norman,

Okla., Sept. 4Betty I. Romines Turner, 71,

Hatley, Sept. 6Betty Summitt Surett, 66, Anni-

stan, Ala., Sept. 15Willo Dean Caldwell Furr, 77,

Atkins, Sept. 17Tony Mathews, 58, Dardanelle,

Sept. 10Peggy Lou Hoban, 54, London,

Sept. 14Jerry Lee Adams, 48, Russell-

ville, Sept. 16Evelyn “Gam” Washington, 92,

Russellville, Sept. 16Justin Don West, 21, Russellville,

Sept. 13

Howard Wayne Lonon, 67, Siloam Springs, Sept. 10

Louis Ralph Harvill died in Flor-ida Aug. 22

Imogene Alexander, 80, Russell-ville, Sept. 13

Ricky Joe Matthews, 48, Clarks-ville, Sept. 16

Bessie G. Ivie, 96, Dardanelle, Sept. 18

Elsie Helton, 90, Hector, Sept 15Helen Pennington Goree, Potts-

ville, Sept. 15Charles J. Byrum, 68, Russell-

ville, Sept. 23Tina R. Standridge Haney, 34,

Pottsville, Sept. 24Lawrence Boley, 77, Hector, Sept.

23Jennie Erdelyi, 76, Russellville,

Sept. 23William T. “Bill” Gibson, 86,

Atkins, Sept. 20Dewey Olson, 75, Russellville,

Sept. 23Virginia Rose Lavergne, 70, Rus-

sellville, Sept. 22Ricky Joe Matthews, 48, Clarks-

ville, Sept. 16

2007 Deaths: September-December

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