By PAM LOWE This year the Williams Baptist University’s Graduate Award recognized the work of an outstanding MAT Graduate student who shows exceptional skill and effectiveness in regard to promoting student learning and professionalism. This year’s recipient of the 2023 MAT Academic Award was Andrew Radcliff, a coach at Corning High School.
The Corning School Board met in a special meeting on Monday, April 24, 2023 with all members present. The board approved the 2023-2024 Classified Salary Schedule followed by the approval of the employments of Tara Hovis as District Treasurer and Charity Parks as District Bookkeeper/Superintendent’s Secretary effective July 1, 2023 and the employment of Abigail Horton, custodian effective April 17, 2023.
The City of Corning will be hosting its annual city-wide yard sale on Friday, May 5 and Saturday, 6. A yard sale permit does not have to be purchased for this event.
The students in KC at Park Elementary learning a hands-on lesson about embryology had two chicks to hatch in their classroom on Sunday, April 23. Teacher Shelby Burkheart said, “We were excited to come into class Monday morning to the sound of chirping.
Students at Park Elementary have participated in Book Blast Voyage for the past month to start and maintain home libraries to encourage a love of reading. Along the way they have had opportunities to win Treasure Chests stuffed with cash and prizes. Students asked 10 people to donated to their home libraries and this week their books arrived. Below are a few photos of students with their books.
POCAHONTAS, AR — Black River Technical College is pleased to announce the Spring 2023 Respiratory Care Graduation and Pinning will be held on April 27. The ceremony will be held at 6:30 p.m.
POCAHONTAS, AR — Black River Technical College (BRTC) Career and Technical Center (CTC) students attended Draft Day at Nettleton High School recently at the last stop on the Be Pro Be Proud Statewide Draft Day Tour.
It was a normal business day at Goodman Drug on Tuesday morning, April 18 when around 10:30 a.m. a Toyota Rav 4 crashed through the drug store lobby. Corning Police Chief Jimmy Leach stated the driver, Joseph Lynn Gearhart, 44 had a seizure resulting in the accident.
John Russel Gerlach, 66, of Reyno passed away April 11, 2023 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff, MO. Mr. Gerlach was born March 15, 1957 in Milwaukee, WI. He enjoyed hunting, leathercrafting, model cars; his favorite being a bright orange Chevelle, model trains, and John Wayne. He loved fishing and his favorite holiday was Halloween. He proudly served his country as a member of the United States Army and he very much enjoyed reminiscing about his time in the service and traveling overseas. He was a member of the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign War. He was of the Church of Christ faith.
This morning I made big mistake. I happened to look at myself in the mirror as I walked by. Holy Cow, Larry! I almost mean that literally, lol. Yes, I do know that it is a tendency for all of us to put on a little weight in our golden years. Those raging hormones that help to keep us trim close their little eyes after years of raging and take a nap on the couch. Our physical duties become less, and we start to get a craving for “comfort foods.” After passing the mirror, my next step was the kitchen; the site of the battlefield over nutrition and self-satisfaction. I opened the refrigerator door and spied a container of applesauce. Well…, ok, I will have some applesauce with a teaspoon of Ceylon cinnamon. That is a heart healthy snack, right? I held the jar up and looked at the ingredient list. Hmmm, “Apples, sugar, water, ascorbic acid, (to maintain color).” Yeah, sugar, the very second ingredient. Apples already have sugar in the form of fructose, so why add more sugar? And apples are an acidic fruit, and we need to maintain the color? C’mon. But it is all like that. Packaged, canned, boxed foods all have unneeded and mostly unwanted ingredients, some of them downright toxic. You have heard me rant about nitrates and nitrites, BHA, and BHT. And monosodium glutamate. But we all know this. But we wake of a morning, with brain in neutral, eyes widely shut, and stagger through the first hour, many bolstered with countless cups of coffee (which is not good for you either), and smoke those morning cigarettes, (which are just about good for you as bullets). Then off to work, or school, or whatever the day demands, resupplying our fuel at the local McDonalds or Burger King or personal choice of fast food where, here again, we are overloaded with fat, salt, or more sugar. They are America’s drugs of choice, along with alcohol, which is terrible for you as well, destroying more livers than chickens donate for Sunday dinner. Yes, alcohol. Alcoholic beverages con