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Animal shelter fundraiser
GENTRY -- Presslie Murphy 11, from Huntington, Texas, and Graycie Wright-Dillard, 10, of Gentry, had a lemonade stand Friday on Gentry's Main Street and took donations for the Gentry animal shelter. They ended up raising $400.
by STAFF REPORT
Gravette library celebrates children's summer reading
GRAVETTE -- Participants in the children's summer reading program at the Gravette Public Library gathered Tuesday, July 9, for a "Mission Accomplished" celebration and magic show. The event was the culmination of a four-week program in which the children kept track of their reading and were rewarded with beads for time spent reading and special beads for completing weekly challenges.
by Susan Holland
Hometown Events
Electrical Safety Show — "Making Accidents Disappear," a magic show with an emphasis on electrical safety, will be presented at 11 a.m. Thursday, July 18, at the Gravette Public Library. "Making Accidents Disappear," which was written and performed by Scott Davis, is an educational and entertaining program that teaches children the importance of behaving safely around electricity through audience participation, comedy, stories and magic.
by STAFF REPORT
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School and Sports
Decatur cheer team works on new stunts
DECATUR -- A surefire method to get a high school sports team pumped up, whether it is football, basketball or soccer, is to get the spectators into the contest. One of the best ways to achieve this is via the cheer team.
by Mike Eckels
At the carwash, Bulldogs clean up for big fundraiser
BENTONVILLE -- "My truck hasn't been washed in two years; do your best!" said the first customer of the day to the group of Decatur High School students as they prepared to wash their first car of the day.
by Mike Eckels
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Opinion
OPINION: Why summer really began late this year
Wow! If you've heard about rain coming down in sheets and haven't actually seen it happen, you had a good chance to see such a display of rain coming down in fitted sheets in much of Westside Eagle Observer country last Wednesday. That downpour in less than an hour blanketed the area with 2 34/100 inches at the NOAA station in Gravette and the winds, which some prognosticators indicated had gusts of more than 50 mph -- enough to take down a partially finished wall of the new gymnasium at Gravette. Fortunately, there were no injuries.
by Dodie Evans
OPINION: Perfection is not to be had in this job
You can find me in the hay truck, the old one, hauling in bales of straw. Yes, we needed to make hay, the offspring cut, raked and baled it and it was overripe so we mostly have straw. Ain't it a quandary, not enough rain or too much rain? The weather isn't like the old Montgomery Ward's and we can't order what we want! The barns are filling up with that first cutting and the old hides will at least have something to gnaw on when the snow flies. Unless, and you know there is always the unless, we have a dry summer and have to start supplementing in August.
by BILL
OPINION: Why the poor should fear socialism?
As the government controls more portions of the economy, democracy transcends into socialism. Sometimes in this transition, democracy ceases to be democracy although the term continues to be used, and no one can identify the moment when it is too late to pull free.
by HAROLD PEASE, PH.D.
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Religion
RELIGION: 'Judge not, that you be not judged'
"Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye." Matthew 7:1-5
by Randy Moll
Which son are you most like?
Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him. And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, "This man receives sinners and eats with them." ... And he said, "There was a man who had two sons. And the younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me the share of property that is coming to me.' And he divided his property between them. Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living...." Luke 15:1-2,11ff. (Read Luke 15:11-32)
by Randy Moll
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