Stories from Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Norred honored for 35 years of service (08/19/09)
Wanda Norred of Piggott recently retired as the office manager of the St. Francis Drainage District of Clay and Greene Counties, a job she had held for 35 years. At their meeting Tuesday the board of directors honored Norred with a resolution of appreciation for her years of service...

HPMEC hosts retreat for faculty (08/19/09)
The education center at the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum hosted a group from Arkansas State University for a retreat Monday, as the faculty of the Heritage Studies PhD program held its annual meeting. "The faculty from our Heritage Studies PhD program meet at the beginning of each academic year to talk about the year ahead and do some planning. ...

Piggott Area Chamber of Commerce welcomes new secretary (08/19/09)
Lynette Cale is the new secretary of the Piggott Area Chamber of Commerce and started work Monday. Cale, the wife of Wayne Cale, has two kids, Patrick and Cynthia and three grandkids. She takes over for Sharon Bellers who is leaving the post to take a position in the Clay County Clerk's office. Monday Bellers began the task of training her replacement and the duo took time out for a quick tour of the chamber office/visitor's center in the depot...

Clay County fair plans shaping up (08/19/09)
The 2009 edition of the Clay County Fair will open in less than a month, and the schedule of events has been released. The fair will run Monday, Sept. 14, through Saturday, Sept. 19, with activities scheduled for each day. Prior to the opening there also will be a variety of related activities, including the annual talent show, scheduled for 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 11, at the Piggott Community Center...

Life Strategies Counseling opens Piggott office (08/19/09)
The Piggott Area Chamber of Commerce hosted a ribbon cutting Monday at the Piggott office of Life Strategies Counseling, Inc. The local office for the company, which is based in Jonesboro, is located in the former Patterson home at the corner of South Thornton and East Poplar Streets. ...

Lady Mohawk volleyball underway (08/19/09)
The Piggott Lady Mohawk volleyball team will begin the 2009 season on the second day of the school year, as they'll travel Harrisburg Thursday afternoon to take part in a Jamboree. The squad is scheduled to take on Jonesboro High at 5:30, and will meet Paragould at 6:30 with their last match against Westside set for 7 p.m. ...

Junior Mohawk football practice in full force (08/19/09)
The Piggott junior Mohawks are getting ready for the upcoming regular season, and as team members did last year the squad is rolling out early and has been practicing from 6:30-8 a.m. in preparation. This year coach Michael Harrell has over 30 kids on the junior high team, with the first game set for Sept. 10 at home against Corning...

Dad-Daughter Duo Celebrate a Trio (08/19/09)
Piggott sixth-grader Braxton Burnside and her dad coach Harold Burnside recently experienced what it was like to be a part of the first team in 11-and-under USSSA history to win its third straight World Series title. The Paragould-based Arkansas Heat team had three main goals at the beginning of the season-- to be better at the end of the year than at the beginning, to win 12-and-under state, and to win the 11-and-under World Series in Columbus, Ind. ...

A face on my Wall (08/19/09)
Is it okay to have a faceless Facebook? Somehow I've gotten involved in Facebook. Over a month ago I got this email from a friend in Washington State who invited me to be her friend on Facebook. Well, I was ignorant about Facebook so I ignored the email...

It happened here, years ago (08/19/09)
1969 Arkansas' new implied consent law was explained on the front page of the newspaper 40 years ago this week, as the State Police sought to clarify the issue of submitting to a sobriety test and the consequences for refusing. Also in the news, Former Piggott resident Linda (Wheeler) Massie was profiled for her work with a firm that took care of communications, telemetry, computation, timing and measuring for NASA and the recent Apollo 11 moon shot. ...

Freda Inez Holifield (08/19/09)