Stories from Thursday, July 20, 2006

Six months of hard worked paid off for the City of Dyess, as they realized a $20,000 profit from the three-day celebration of Dyess Days, on July 7-9. The Dyess Days celebration was a city wide effort to raise money to establish a Dyess-Johnny Cash Memorial and museum...

The Poinsett County Quorum Court received information regarding the new GPS mapping system, which will soon be in use by various county offices, at its meeting last Monday. "The system will help virtually every office in the county," said Johnny Rye, Jr., county tax assessor. "It will have property lines, addresses and virtually everything else necessary to give complete information about an address or an area or whatever. Plus it will be updated every week or so to keep it fully current."...

Benchmark scores and student transfers took up the most discussion time during the Marked Tree monthly school board meeting Monday night in the MTHS library. A group of some 20 people were in attendance to hear what the board intended to do about the matters in question...

Planning an emergency response exercise was the main focus of last week's intergovernmental cooperative council meeting held in the fire station in Marked Tree. The exercise, according to Poinsett County emergency management coordinator Merle Williams, will be a functional exercise to determine what and how the cities of Marked Tree, Tyronza, Lepanto and Trumann will react to a catastrophic event, in this case a 7.5 earthquake in the area. ...

Linda Dianne Austin, 53, died Tuesday, July 11 at her residence in Marked Tree. She was born January 3, 1953 at Joiner and was a homemaker as well as a member of the Baptist faith. She was preceded in death by her parents, Lee Hollis and Josie Mitchell...

Michael Clenon White, 31, of Trumann died July 13, 2006 at Mobile Infirmary Hospital in Mobile, Ala. of heart failure. He was born Nov. 1 1974 at Desplains, Ill. He was an operator and of the Baptist faith. He was preceded in death by Dale White. He is survived by his mother, Patricia Levora and step-father Damien Levora, both of Trumann; special friend, Shannon Cooper of Alabama; and one sister, Diana Belcher and her husband Wynn of Theodore, Ala...

Treana Ruth Galloway, 49, of Trumann died Thursday, July 13, 2006 at Trumann. Born August 29, 1956 at Tyronza, she was a homemaker and member of the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Trumann. She enjoyed sewing and cooking. She was preceded in death by her parents James and Faye Haynes Plunkett; one brother, David Wayne; one sister, Judy Price and five nephews...

St. Bernards Medical Center will sponsor a Hospice Volunteer Training course in Harrisburg from 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Friday, July 21. The free course is designed for individuals who desire to become Hospice volunteers and will cover information on providing emotional, psychological and spiritual support for the terminally ill and their families. Local volunteers add an important level of service and comfort to the families in the Hospice Care program and are always greatly needed...

Pleasant Valley Baptist Church, located on Hatchie Coon Road in Trumann, would like to invite everyone to join them on July 22 when they will host an area wide presentation of Mission Opportunities in Israel. Hal and Esther Garrett with the Arkansas Mission Association will be giving information about an upcoming trip to Israel to work on the Tabernacle of Moses. ...

EPC coach Dusty Meeks announced the schedule for checking out football equipment this year. Players will be able to pick up the equipment based on grade level from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on the following days: Seniors-Monday, July 24, Juniors-Tuesday, July 25, Sophomores-Wednesday, July 26 and junior high (grades 7-9) Thursday, July 27...

Tribune Sports Staff "Making it to the quarterfinals of the state tournament in my first year here has to be at the top of my list," said former EPC boy's basketball coach Joseph Simmons last Thursday when asked about the best and worst memories he had during his two years at the school. "One of my most disappointing memories is not getting back to at least the Regional tournament the second year."...