Stories from Wednesday, April 30, 2003

A Creative Activities Training Course will be May 12, 13, 15 from 6 to 9 p.m. and May 17 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. The course will be at the Trumann High School FACS Department. Vicki McClung and Judy Daves will teach the course. The training offers caregivers:...

Trumann's Crystal Ealey placed first in the shot put and 400-meter dash and the team of Lindsey Owens, Michelle Lucas, Courtney Lowery and Ealey placed first in the 3,200-meter relay at a senior district track meet in Osceola on Thursday, April 24...

Westside defeated Trumann's Lady Wildcats 9-3 in the Class AAA Region 2 softball tournament at Trumann's Sports Complex. Trumann took third place in the tournament. "If you take away one inning, it was a pretty good ballgame," Trumann Coach Cindy Wright said...

At a junior high district track meet at Osceola on Tuesday, April 22, Trumann's junior girls placed first in the 1,600-meter relay with a time of 4.59. Shandi Clayton, Megan McDaniel, Cassie Raines and Christin Guthrie made up the team. Perry Heavener placed first in the discus...

POCAHONTAS - Trumann defeated Westside 5-0 in a semifinal of the Class AAA Region 2 baseball tournament here Monday, April 28. Zach Wilson took the win on the mound for Trumann allowing only two hits. He walked two, hit one batter and struck out seven...

MONETTE - Bay's Davey Webb threw a no-hitter here on Monday, April 28, to lift the Yellowjackets over Walnut Ridge 2-0 in one semifinal of the Class AA Region 4 high school baseball tournament. In the other semifinal, Buffalo Island Central defeated Rector 6-2. Bay and BIC faced each other in the Region 4 championship game on Tuesday. Details from that game were not available at press time. Both teams advance to the Class AA state tournament which begins Saturday in Augusta...

William Leon Sharp, 70, of Harrisburg died Wednesday, April 23, 2003, at the Woodbriar Nursing Home in Harrisburg. He was born Jan. 1, 1933, in Savannah, Tenn., the son of Joe Sidney Sharp and Linnie Pearl (Shepherd) Sharp. He married Dorothy Lindsey on Dec. ...

Bonnie Marie Furnish, 79, of Trumann died Friday, April 25, 2003, at the Regional Medical Center of Northeast Arkansas in Jonesboro. Born in Newport, she lived in Trumann for 25 years. She was formerly of Bay. She was of the Baptist faith and was a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her parents, Ben Harper and Clara Tinkle Harper...

On April 24, Terri Roberts from Harrisburg reported a 1985 Ranger truck stolen to the Poinsett County Sheriff's Office. The truck was last seen on their farm on April 20. A report was taken and the truck was entered in the Arkansas Crime Information Center and the National Crime Information Center...

BY CARIN MCCLUNG, Democrat Editor A team of ninth grade students from Trumann placed third in the state Stock Market Game. The ten-week game is open to students in Arkansas. The group is comprised of Autumn Slinkard, team captain, Rachael Turpin, Julie Henderson, Tiffany Dye and Tara Barton...

What do members of the Trumann High School Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America and members of the Anderson-Tulley Extension Homemakers Club in Harrisburg have in common? Certainly not their ages. FCCLA members are fifteen to nineteen years old. The Anderson-Tulley group averages 75 years old...

Robert Daniel Baxter of the Trumann Police Department and Deputy Justin Hooten of the Poinsett County Sheriff's Office were two of 47 officers who successfully completed the Basic Police Training Course 2003-A at the Black River Technical College Law Enforcement Training Academy in Pocahontas...

In the semifinals of the regional tournament, Bay's Lady Yellowjackets was defeated by Gillette 7-2. "I felt like we had a good season," Bay Coach Kristi Colbert said. "We played one of the better teams (Gillette) in Arkansas." The Lady Yellowjackets were runners-up in the district and finished the season with an 11-7 overall record...