August 2023

Runners and walkers are still being recruited for the annual Rector Labor Day 5K, set for 8 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 2. The event, which benefits the RHS Helping Hands Foundation, will begin in front of the Rector High School gymnasium. Early registration is underway through Aug. 31 with entry fees being $20 for adults, $10 for children 13 years and under and $10 for students of the Rector School District. Entries made after Aug. 31 will be $25. Registration forms are available at Rector Water Department, Rector Downtown Drug, Centennial Bank, and Glen Sain Motors. Online registration may also be completed at https:// raceroster.com/ events/2023/ 77077/rector- labor-day-5krunwalk

Agricultural producers received updates from Extension Agronomists for soybeans, corn and rice at the annual West Clay County Field Day Tour. “With harvest on a lot of people’s minds, we discussed end of season topics like desiccation, late season insect and disease control and yield potential,” said Stewart Runsick, Clay County Extension Chair/Agent. “Seed company representatives gave updates on their new products as they were displayed for people to view.”

Week one of the 202324 school year is off to a great start! Our smooth beginning is in part to the very successful Back to School Bash we held on August 10. I want to thank Mrs.

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The Corning School District held a Back to School Bash on Thursday, August 10 from 2 p.m. - 6 p.m. in the high school gymnasium with all campuses coming together to celebrate the beginning of the school year. The event was full of fun as well as helpful activities. Community businesses and members showed support for the children attending Corning schools by providing health and hygiene products, free haircuts, manicures, and books, etc. Parents were able to fill out registration packets and information forms during the event.

A piece of Corning has returned home from Texas in the form of a 50-year-old special newspaper edition. Della Moyer works at the Freedom Museum USA in Pampa, Texas and contacted the Courier last week describing a special edition that was laying around the museum. The edition commemorates the Corning centennial in 1973. Moyer said a person came into their history museum and left the Centennial Edition of the Clay County Courier with a volunteer. Moyer, who works in the archives at one museum and curates exhibits at another, soon realized that the paper had nothing to do with Texas or their area, but was from Arkansas. Other than yellowing of the newsprint, the special edition is in complete and perfect condition with A-F sections intact. Courier Editor Pam Lowe explained to Moyer the coincidence of finding the Centennial Edition as this year is the City of Corning’s 150th anniversary. Moyer surmised that perhaps the newspaper had been discovered in an estate sale or kept for safekeeping given its good condition. It remains a mystery as to where the special edition has been for 50 years and who turned it into the Texas museum.

Corning resident Grace Sheridan has celebrated 102 birthdays in her lifetime spent in Clay County. Members of her family traveled to Van Buren, Arkansas on Saturday, August 12 to observe her 102nd birthday at the Natural Dam Community Center in Natural Dam, Arkansas. Grace celebrated her birthday with her children, many of her grandchildren, great-grandchildren and a few of her great-great-grandchildren. Grace and her family enjoyed delicious food and visiting with one another. The birthday girl was one of the three parade marshals last month in the Corning July 1 parade. She turned 102 on August 14, 2023.

State Representative Jeremy Wooldridge has been selected to participate in the Henry Toll Fellowship; Class of 2023. The Toll Fellowship, named for CSG founder Henry Wolcott Toll, is one of the nation’s premier leadership development programs for state government officials.

May the families of Austin Scrogin, Nona Conway, Norma Jo White and Jeremy Taylor. find comfort as they mourn their passing.