January 2023

RAMBLING VINES

For your reading enjoyment, we continue to publish Rambling Vines by the late Marylea Vines as she recalls events and names of Corning folks from many years ago. We are currently in the year 1989 I have a treasure… I mean a real jewel that a lot of people would give their eye teeth to possess.

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Notices

Corning City Council meets second Monday of each month, 6:00 p.m., in City Hall. Clay County Quorum Court, Third Monday each month, 7:00 p.m., alternating between Corning and Piggott courthouses.

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sesquicentennial snapshot

Celebrating 150 Years of the City of Corning & Clay County in 2023 Celebrating the completion of their new band stand, the Corning Military Band of the first decade of the Twentieth Century posed on the Court Square lawn while the afternoon gathering of local fans took over the stand and filled it to capacity. Sunday afternoon practice sessions and concerts helped pass away the dull Sunday afternoon hours.

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Errin Yandell is Artist of the Month for January

I remember when art become my passion. I was 10 years old. My parents would always get the Sunday paper and I would always get Sunday Comic section out of the newspaper. I would draw pictures of Garfield and Snoopy from Peanuts during my free time. My passion for art continued throughout high school where I took 4 years of art classes. Later, during my college years, I took Fine Arts Visual and a semester of Graphic Design. Now days I find art a relaxing hobby to enjoy.

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Norris Boyd

Norris Boyd, 95 of Knobel passed away December 30, 2022 at Corning Therapy and Living Center in Corning. Mr.

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Cooperative Extension Service agents provide professional development training for thousands of Arkansas childcare professionals

LITTLE ROCK — In Arkansas, childcare providers are required to complete a minimum of 15 hours of professional development annually. Family and Consumer Sciences Agents with the Cooperative Extension Service, part of the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, helped meet this need by conducting professional development training online and in person for thousands of childcare providers in 2022.

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How to use the internet more safely

The world relies on computerized devices and the internet is as much as ever. As of the third quarter of 2019, there were more than 4.33 billion active internet users, according to DataReportal. That marked a 327 million user increase from the year prior. At 8.2 percent, the growth of active internet use is now eight times faster than the overall worldwide population growth.

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