Casey Redman, who is battling breast cancer and brain cancer lesions went for an MRI yesterday and is waiting on results. She will go for a PET Scan on Thursday, May 2. She asks for prayer warriors to pray on her behalf for good results that her cancer lesions are shrinking.
LITTLE ROCK — The application period for special deer hunting permits on many wildlife management areas in Arkansas is open until 11:59 p.m. July 1, and hunters will notice many new opportunities, thanks to regulations passed during the May Commission meeting.
Through no fault of my own, it has come to my attention that May is Older American Month. This gave me pause. Let me see if I have this straight. May is a month. I get that. For Older Americans. Um, what the what?!
LITTLE ROCK – When the top 64 teams from the senior division of the Arkansas Youth Shooting Sports Program meet at the Arkansas Game and Fish Foundation Jacksonville Shooting Sports Complex on June 4, those bearing the names Beebe, Fouke, Jacksonville and God’s Great Outdoors of Farmington will be carrying the top seeds going into their respective competition brackets. Junior teams will shoot June 3 with Magnolia, Corning, Southside and Alma squads filling the top seeds in their competition.
Arkansas is home to so many families of brave men and women who deserve our recognition this Memorial Day. More than 2,183 Arkansans lost their lives fighting in World War 1.
LITTLE ROCK – The state Forestry Division is known for managing woodlands, helping control fires and supporting rural fire departments. Not so well known is its work in cities and towns.
Residents driving by the Parkview Restaurant over the holiday weekend may have noticed two tables set up outside the eatery. The tables were to honor fallen veterans. Heather Hodge constructed a Missing Man Table to display over the Memorial Day weekend. The significance of these tables is to honor the brave and selfless American military members who have perished on the battlefield, those who have not returned home after being taken prisoner on foreign soil, and for those who went missing and have not found their way back home.
The Clay County Courier published many records of soldiers’ inductions, whereabouts, situations and deaths during World War II. Clay County lost 87 soldiers to the war destroying families and impacting their livess forever. Below are just two families impacted by such a loss.
Among the names of fallen Clay County Veterans on the Clay County Veteran Memorial at the Western District Courthouse, are brothers-in-law, Staff-Sergeant Norman N. Rapert and Corporal Albert Poynor. Rapert is the late father of Sue Crawley of Corning, while Poyner was her uncle. Both lost their lives in 1944. Albert Poynors, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Poynor, died during the battle of Saipan on July 8th; Norman Rapert, son of Cratis and Nellie Rapert, was first listed as missing-in-action in France on July 27th. Corning’s Rapert-Poynor Veterans of Foreign Wars Post #8347 is named in honor of Staff Sergeant Rapert and Corporal Poynor.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — In a world with shrinking freshwater resources for a growing human population, where do you find enough moisture to grow food? You might start by improving water use efficiency in the world’s number one livestock animal — chickens. Sara Orlowski, assistant professor of poultry science, is working toward developing chickens that can thrive on limited water.