The CBC welcomes CHS junior Sable Haggard (right) and senior Serene Bollinger as February Artists of the Month. Their artwork will be on display at the M.B. Ainley, Jr. Community Center this month for the public to enjoy.
Students and teachers alike look forward to getting days off after a snowfall. Most schools “build in” a few extra days for that specific purpose. The bad thing was if we exceeded that amount, we had to make them up. In fact, some school districts were so stingy they designated that if none were used, we could have spring break. That’s when we hoped for a mild winter.
Hello everyone. I hope all are staying well with all this weather changing to cold, warm, cold and back warm again. It’s really been confusing my flowers. They have wanted to pop up and bloom. It’s hard on the body too. It makes my bones ache.
Feb. 18, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration began alerting the public that several categories of FDA-regulated products purchased from Jan. 1, 2021, through the present from Family Dollar stores in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee may be unsafe for consumers to use. The impacted products originated from the company’s distribution facility in West Memphis, Arkansas, where an FDA inspection found insanitary conditions, including a rodent infestation, that could cause many of the products to become contaminated. The FDA is working with the company to initiate a voluntary recall of the affected products. “Families rely on stores
(StatePoint) Flu season is still underway and it’s important to protect yourself and your loved ones. While influenza can have severe health consequences for anyone, adults 65 and older and those with chronic health conditions are especially vulnerable. Nationally, up to 70% of flu hospitalizations have occurred in patients over 65. Because the immune system naturally weakens with age and older adults don’t always develop the same level of immunity through vaccination as younger people, they may benefit from the additional protection of having those they are in regular, close contact also be vaccinated. As for those living with underlying health conditions like chronic lung disease, diabetes and chronic heart disease, flu illness can become severe, while also making chronic disease management more difficult.
A Feb. 7 editorial in the Dallas Morning News, written by the paper’s editorial board, urges readers to support the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act bipartisan legislation now before Congress. The JCPA would allow publishers and broadcasters to collectively negotiate with online platforms (Facebook, Google, etc.) that currently use their original content with no compensation. The act would also mark a four-year antitrust exemption that would give local news sources the chance to get back on their feet, staff their newsrooms and resupply their communities with vital information. The act is co-sponsored by Sens. John Kennedy (R-LA) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN). Opponents of the act, some of whom have accepted substantial campaign donations from Big Tech companies, have expressed concern that the legislation would create a “news cartel.” The Morning News writes, “This is not a serious scenario. Instead, the opposite is more likely. This would give more publishers, with different points of view, the opportunity to set up news organizations that reflect what their communities want.” Other opponents have said that local newspapers are obsolete institutions that, like the horse and buggy, should fade away as technology progresses. The Dallas Morning News asserts that digital news sharing has actually brought more readers to the newspaper than at any time in its history, averaging more than 10 million unique visitors monthly throughout 2021. Yet, traditional advertising models need help adapting to the current digital environment. The Morning News writes, “... most of the advertising revenue that once supported the work of our journalists flows instead to a duopoly that even a company as strong as ours — one of the largest regional papers in the U.S. — cannot negotiate with singularly. Imagine what it must be like for mom-and-pop publishers in rural areas of this country.” It continues, “We need a better news and information system in our country that empowers a multitude of publishers, not only a handful of national papers and cable news channels, but a healthy ecosystem of local journalists who go to city halls and police stations, who are there for the high school football games and the opening of the new businesses in town.” The editorial cites a Washington Post study that found that since 2005, about 2,200 local newspapers have shuttered in this country. It notes that in many areas of the U.S., “local news coverage has been reduced to its thinnest form, if it hasn’t disappeared entirely.” The Morning News’ editorial board puts much of that blame squarely on the shoulders of Facebook and Google, which now dominate news dissemination. It says that in 2008, the entire U.S. newspaper industry collected $37 billion in advertising revenue. By 2020 that number fell to less than $9 billion. Yet in a single quarter last year, Google reported $61 billion in ad revenue. Likewise, Facebook, despite its recent stock stumbles, is poised to remain the other leader in digital advertising, the editorial asserts. “Much of this revenue is collected off the clicks and page views these companies gather from hosting the work of journalists. Most Americans now get their news through either or both of these companies. Yet Google and Facebook have not fairly compensated the news producers who drive a large share of content on their sites,” the editorial continues. It says that reaching a wide audience without using Facebook or Google has become nearly impossible, so the argument often made that news publishers have the choice to publish their original content elsewhere is unrealistic. The editorial concludes that failure to regulate the internet economy has “wrecked” what was once a robust journalism landscape full of local, regional and national news publishers. “[The Journalism Competition and Preservation Act] is a chance to bring part of it back, and we should all support it.”
USDA’s Farm Service Agency reminds growers who have not yet enrolled in the Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) or Price Loss Coverage (PLC) programs for the 2022 crop year have until March 15, 2022, to sign a contract.
During the month of March, Black and Walk’s sawmill turned out 30 cars of lumber amounting to $5,216.68; in April 28 cars and in May 36 cars. The ladies of the Christian Church will give a lawn social at the Courthouse Square next Saturday night June 16, at which Ice Cream, Cake Lemonade and sodawater will be served. Music will be furnished during the evening by the Corning Band. The proceeds will go toward the debt of the Church. The Courier, with this issue, completes its 15th year of existence . E. V Sheeks left the first of this week for Little Rock to buy machinery for a new gin, which we understand, he will locate near his flour mill and electric plant he also attended the State Dem ocratic Convention in Little Rock, and the Congressional Convention in Newport of this week The ticket nominated at the National Democratic Convention at Kansas City today: William J Bryan of Nebraska for President and Adalai E Stevenson of Illinois for vice president. Dr Simpson spent the 4th in St Louis where he bought a railroad cycle which he may travel with, by virtue of his being railroad surgeon for Corning and other nearby railroad towns. The Baptist Church building has lately been greatly improved by repapering the interior and adding electric lights. The barroom is a bank. You deposit your money. and loose it; your time, and loose it: your strength and loose it: your independence and loose it; your wife’s happiness and lose it: your own soul. and loose it. Does it Pay? Joseph Dudgeon is having Z.T. Daniel move the old court square to the Corner lot South of the Dudgeon House. When the old structure is out of the square its absence will greatly enhance the beauty of the Court Square. and the large building will add much to the appearance of the corner where the little old building stood. Valentine Nading, an old German about 60 years of age, attempted to end his life by cutting his throat last Friday with a dull pocketknife at his home in the Heelstring settlement. He plunged the blade through his throat from side to side and his life had been despaired by one of the at attending physicians, Dr. F. Hill. Until yesterday when his condition became much better and he may recover. It seems. he was jealous of his young wife and had threatened to kill her and their seven months old daughter and then commit suicide, but Mrs. Nading called on Constable W.G. Smith in time to prevent a wholesale killing.
Don’t ask me . . . I don’t know if Winter is coming or going. Last Monday we had such Wintry conditions that school was cancelled and today, one week later, it is shirt-sleeve weather out there. Right now it looks like Spring has sprung, but a person can never second-guess the month of March. It has been known to be the month with the most snow. I can’t seem to strike a healthy medium with the weather and the age-old “What do I wear”, question. Just as sure as I leave home wearing my snuggies it will be a beautiful, unseasonable warm, day and I nearly melt. But... let me shed them and all of a sudden right in the middle of the blowing and I nearly freeze every time I stick my head out. Of course, I have trouble getting along with the wind any time of the year... earaches!