Stories from Wednesday, April 1, 2009

PHS SADD club holds assembly (04/01/09)
The PHS SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions) Club hosted an assembly last Friday to help inform students about the dangers of driving under the influence. Students Elise Watson, Tanner Murray, Conner Rodery and Paige Lockard play the part of teens out for the evening, and under the scrutiny of a traffic stop. ...

Piggott airport receives grant (04/01/09)
Piggott received a $250,830 grant for runway overlay at the Piggott Municipal Airport in a meeting of the Arkansas Aeronautics Commission held Thursday, March 19, at the IMAX Theater in Little Rock. The 90/10 matching grant was one of 41 awarded in a total distribution of $3,500,920...

Car show nears, T-shirts now on sale (04/01/09)
Visitors to the 11th annual Piggott Heritage Park Car Show will notice very little difference from the 2008 event, although the show has new organizers and a new name this year. The car show, which draws hundreds of entries from across the Southeastern United States, will be held May 16 and is presented by the Piggott Area Chamber of Commerce in conjunction with Clay County Relay For Life teams.. ...

Piggott native stars in The River Within (04/01/09)
When filmmaker Zac Heath thought about a filming location for his first movie, his native home of Paragould seemed like a perfect fit. From filming at First United Methodist Church in Paragould, the church he attended as a child, to filming at a small grocery store in Rector, Heath found inspiration in the natural beauty of Northeast Arkansas and its people...

Swift, Jinks share birthday celebration (04/01/09)
Marguerite Swift (front --left) and Wilma Jinks are surrounded by friends at their shared birthday celebration last Friday at the Sugar Creek Country Club in Piggott. (Times photo/Tim Blair)

Mohawks notch conference win (04/01/09)
After having several games rained-out in the past week, the Piggott Mohawks were able to get a conference contest in Monday afternoon at Harrisburg and posted an extra-inning win by a final of 15-12. ...

Queen's of the Hardwood to honor Rickman (04/01/09)
Piggott volleyball coach Melissa Williams has been chosen to serve as assistant coach for the east team in the upcoming third annual "Queens of the Hardwood" volleyball game at Westside High School. ...

Bathing a blue jay (04/01/09)
A long time ago when I would comment on the accomplishment of someone who had done something noteworthy, my husband would retort, ''Yeah, but I bet he never refueled an airplane in midair." That was my husband's job in the Air Force. He was a boom operator on a Boeing KC-135 Strato-tanker.The plane was equipped with a flying boom to provide fuel transfer to other planes...

It happened here, years ago (04/01/09)
1969 The Piggott school board approved the plan to bus elementary students to various campuses for the coming year. The board voted to send first through fourth grade students to Central Elementary in Piggott, with fifth and sixth graders going to Pollard and St. ...

Ruby Dale Crowson (04/01/09)
Ruby Dale Crowson, 95, of Piggott died Thursday, March 26, 2009, at Piggott Community Hospital. She was born March 24, 1914, in Letona, Ark., and was the daughter of the late Thomas Allen and Maudie Bell (Graddy) Duncan...

Douglas Parker (04/01/09)
Douglas Parker, 65, of Greenway died Saturday, March 28, 2009, at St. Bernards Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. He was born Feb. 15, 1944, in Piggott to the late Claude and Lois (Cowgill) Parker...

Fred Baty (04/01/09)
Fredie Leo "Fred" Baty, 66, of Hillsboro, Mo., formerly of St. Charles, Mo., died Wednesday, March 25, 2009, at Hillsboro. He was born May 26, 1942, at Greenway and was the son of the late Leo and Ova (Wilkes) Baty...