It takes courage and a strong sense of self to put your hat in the ring and run for any office. I admire anyone who feels passionately about their community and is willing to work to make it a better place to live and work. It’s often a thankless job.
It’s not going to make any difference how many times I watch those cooking shows on television, I could never make it as a cook. Oh, I can survive, by not being too particular, but I just hope I never have to depend on my cooking skills to make a living. As long as I live, I will never figure out how anyone can successfully operate a cafe because I wouldn’t have the foggiest idea of how to cook dinner whin I didn’t even know who and how many would be eating. However, I like to try new recipes and, once in a great while, I do pretty good. The other Sunday afternoon I was piddling around the house and decided to try one of those new cake mixes that in six to eight minutes. They come pre-mixed and all I had to do was add three ingredients. I stirred up the batter, placed it in the oven and watched until I was convinced it was going to turn into a cake, then I set about cleaning up my mess. That’s also when I discovered that I had forgotten to add the egg...it was still right there on the table. Can you believe it, three ingredients and I forgot one of them? I really don’t have any business in the kitchen to begin with.
Allison Howell’s award winning photo: The Beauty of Harvest Helping to Captivate Tourists. .
According to a study recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), “Trends in Use of Melatonin Supplements Among US Adults, 1999-2018”, Americans were taking more than twice the amount of melatonin they ingested a decade earlier.
Arkansas County Agriculture Agents Association recently announced Clay County Extension agents Stewart Runsick-CEA-Staff Chair and Allison Howell-CEA-Agriculture had won state awards for their work in the agriculture field.
Seven ordinances were passed in the April meeting of the Clay County Quorum Court on Monday, April 18 at 7 p.m. in the Western District Courthouse in Corning. The Clay County Detention Center was a topic of discussion with future plans mentioned to pass an ordinance to move funds around to support jail improvements.
In the photo above of the AYSSP Jr. High Division Tournament winners, the name of Kase Young was omitted from the Corning Jr.
JONESBORO – The most outstanding 2021-22 graduates of the Neil Griffin College of Business at Arkansas State University were recognized during Convocation of Scholars, according to Dr. Jim Washam, interim dean of the college.
Corning could be close to getting a much-needed electric traffic light at the Hwy 62-67-135 Junction in West Corning. At least that's what State Representative Jim Holland is confident will take place, starting in May. This would eliminate one of a number of hazardous intersections within the city. One block from the junction which is under study is another hazardous intersection... this second one being on a curve, worsening matters.
Clay County Sheriff candidate Ronnie Cole believes that experience counts when it comes to electing a sheriff. Cole served as the sheriff of Clay County from 1999 to 2008. At that time the biggest issue that he saw in the county was methamphetamine labs. Today the biggest issues that he perceives for Clay County are twofold; re-opening the Clay County Detention Center and a more comprehensive rural presence of the deputies across the county. “The reason I’m running is I want to get the jail back in operation and I want to see our law enforcement back in rural parts of the county,” Cole said. “I want to see the present jail put back into operation. I do not want to see a new jail built because of the taxes that would have to be put on the people. I do not think people would pass the tax and I don’t want to see people have to make that decision. A jail is going to cost several million dollars. It’ll tie Clay County up for years in paying for a jail. The one we’ve got is paid for; it is concrete and steel. There’s nothing that can’t be taken out and replaced.” Cole said the jail was built around 1990-1991. “It’s not that old and we can make it work. There was nothing major about the building that cannot be fixed. We were approved several years ago to house 16 women. We were also approved to house up to 69 total inmates. Any of the issues that came up as far as the building, it can all be corrected. The thing is you have to do maintenance every day on the jail. There’s some type of maintenance that has to be done every day.” When Cole’s last term as sheriff, he went to Pine Bluff. “I was in charge of a brand new facility that held 316 inmates. I had two maintenance men on staff that worked every day doing some type of maintenance on that brand new building. Any jail needs maintenance every day. Law enforcement cannot function correctly without a jail. If people want good law enforcement, we have to have a jail. And we can make, again, I want to stress, we can make the present jail work. There is no need to have to try to pass a tax to build a brand-new jail.”