Stories from Thursday, September 24, 2009

Weather fails to dampen fair fun (09/24/09)
Rainy conditions put a damper on many of the activities at the 2009 Clay County Fair, but the precipitation wasn't enough to completely spoil the event. Dodging rain showers and sometimes thunderstorms, most of the annual events were held at the fairgrounds. And although the wet weather did affect attendance this year, many of the offerings were well attended...

Matilda and Karl Pfeiffer museum hosts Native American Day (09/24/09)
The sixth annual Native American Day was held Saturday at the Matilda and Karl Pfeiffer Museum and Study Center in Piggott, and despite a few rain showers, several hundred people visited the event...

Shady Grove hosting seminar on foster care and adoption (09/24/09)
Shady Grove Missionary Baptist Church will hosting a foster care/adoption seminar beginning at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 28. The special guest speakers will be Chris Shelton and Amy Harris. Shelton works with the Arkansas Department of Human Services as an investigator with the child protective services. He will be discussing the urgent need for foster homes in Clay County and answer any questions regarding becoming foster parents...

Murphy health rehab (09/24/09)
Murphy Health and Rehabilitation in Piggott recently teamed with Paragon Rehabilitation to provide quality services to the community. The partnership has allowed Murphy Health to offer a full-time therapist in the facility throughout the day in order to meet patients' therapy needs based on schedules and preferences...

Things I've learned (09/24/09)
There are things I've learned in this lifetime: That school work and housework is never really done. That life isn't a bowl of cherries...sometimes it's grapefruit. That no matter how many times you say you won't, you do...

It happened here, years ago (09/24/09)
1969 The annual Chamber of Commerce dinner was set for Sept. 25 at the War Memorial Building in Piggott, with speaker Jim Johnson of Jonesboro; executive director of Boy Scouts of America in Northeast Arkansas. ...

Lorene (Gribble) Alexander (09/24/09)
Lorene (Gribble) Alexander, 93, of Piggott, passed away Wednesday, September 16, 2009, at the Piggott Community Hospital. She was born January 3, 1916, in Cache Valley, Ark., and was the daughter of the late Bill and Myrtle (Carpenter) Gribble...

Kerry Dale Smith (09/24/09)
Kerry Dale Smith, age 47, of Galena, Mo., passed away Wednesday, September 16, 2009. He was born February 17, 1962, the son of William Earl and Jewell Lavern (Moore) Smith. In 1980 he graduated from Piggott High School as Valedictorian, and in 1985 graduated from Union University in Jackson, Tenn., Magna Cum Laude...

Novella Irene Johnson (09/24/09)
Novella Irene Johnson, daughter of the late Albert Charles Green and Bessie Alberta Proffer, was born on Sept. 10, 1920 in Puxico, Mo., and died at her residence in Dexter, Mo., on Sept. 9, 2009, at the age of 88...