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Escapee returned, charged
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By Sarah Perry
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JOSH BRIGGS/The Saline Courier
Jeffrey Mays, who escaped from a supervised cleanup crew on Feb. 3, is escorted back into custody Thursday
at the Saline County Detention Center by Detective Joe Traylor, left, Deputy Larry McAllister, back, and Detective
Everette Davis after being extradited from Texas.
A Saline County inmate who
escaped from a supervised cleanup
crew on Feb. 3 is back in custody at
the Saline County Detention Center
after being extradited from Texas on
Thursday.
After being on the run for a week,
Jeffrey Mays, 29, was arrested Feb. 10
in Montgomery County, Texas.
Along with charges from his original
arrest, Mays now also faces an attempted murder charge and two counts of
terroristic threatening in connection
with an October 2015 stabbing, said Lt.
Jeff Silk, spokesperson for the Saline
County Sheriff’s Office.
On Oct. 2, 2015, Saline County
deputies responded to the emergency
room at St. Vincent Infirmary Medical
Center for a report of a stabbing. When
deputies arrived, James White, 44, of
Hensley had multiple stab wounds and
was being prepared for emergency
surgery, according to a Saline County
Sheriff’s Office report.
At the time of the incident, Mays
Standoff
suspect
released
Banquet tickets nearly
gone, chamber reports
By Lynda Hollenbeck
[email protected]
With less than three weeks
until the 2016 Benton Area
Chamber of Commerce
Banquet, local residents are
reminded to purchase their
tickets for the event that is
reported to be “very close to
being sold out.”
“It is going to be a wonderful evening with ABC News
anchor John Quinones as the
featured speaker,” said Amy
McCormick, the chamber’s
director of events.
The banquet is set for
6:30 p.m. on March 8, at the
Benton Event Center. Tables
for 10 are available for $750
and individual tickets are $80. Anyone desiring tickets
should call the chamber at
501-860-7002 or email amy@
bentonchamber.com.
Sponsors of the 2016
banquet are Everett Buick
GMC, Jones Heating and Air,
First Security Bank, BaxleyPenfield-Moudy Realtors,
Rineco Chemical Industries,
Inc., Reed’s Metals of
Benton, CDI Contractors,
LLC, Ferguson’s Furniture
and McCauley Services.
“It will be an evening to
remember,” McCormick said.
Quinones is host of television’s “What Would You
Do?” and a contributing
reporter for 20/20, World
News Tonight and Primetime
Live. His in-depth reporting
has earned him the George
Foster Peabody Award, seven
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By Josh Briggs
[email protected]
After a proposed millage increase
was not approved by voters in 2014,
Bryant School Board members decided
to change some of the district policies
in hopes of saving money. Among the
changes is one
involving out-of-state travel for students.
Teachers are required to submit a
travel request to the board for approval.
During a board meeting Thursday,
members approved a travel request
for the Bryant Middle School Robotics
team and the Bryant High School
Hornet Engineering and Technology
teams. Sponsors for both groups were
asking the board’s approval to attend
the VEX World Championship that will
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take place on April 20-23. Both requests
are contingent on the teams qualifying
for the competition at the state level.
To fund the trip, the teams plan to
host fundraisers and ask companies for
sponsorships.
Before the 2015-16 school year, the
board decided not to accept any students through the state’s school choice
law for the current school year. Before
deciding whether to accept students
through school choice for the 2016-17
school year, Dr. Karen Walters, deputy
superintendent of schools, gave the
board statistical information about the
students who have participated in the
school choice program during the last
six years.
During the 2015-16 school year, the
district had a net loss of 66 students.
A Mabelvale woman involved in
a six-hour standoff with police was
released on a $25,000 signature
bond Wednesday.
Saline County District Judge
Mike Robinson approved Jacqueline
Founds’ release to the custody of
her mother, contingent upon her
adherence
to a number of conditions.
Robinson
said there
can be no
alcohol or
firearms in
the home
and Founds
must
undergo
counseling.
Founds’
attorney, Lee Short with Bill James
Law Firm, said Founds will be
evaluated and then must abide by a
number of recommendations.
Short asked the judge to release
Founds into the care of her mother,
noting that she had been involved
in an abusive relationship with her
husband and was not able to take
her medication properly.
“All of the information I have
came from a concerned ex-husband
and her mother,” Short said.
An order of protection was issued
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Bryant High School varsity cheerleaders are recognized during a Bryant School Board meeting Thursday night. The team was recently named state champions for the Class 5A-7A
Co-Ed division. Members of the team, not shown in order, include: Kayla Ausburn, Kaitlyn
Baldwin, Camryn Bolton, Emma Chaloupka, Emily Davis, Amber Edwards, Kendall Fisher,
Jaclynn Greenwood, Rachel Heard, Sydney Henjum, Rainey Holland, Kayla Johnson, Maddy
Laisure, Kalyn McDade, Maddie Murphy, Ingrid Olsen, Elizabeth Palmer, Megan Reece,
Sydney Reynolds, Keeli Robertson, Alyssa Rowland, Jordan Sawyer, Leah Sikes, Maddy
Toler, Morgan Tyree and Julia Williams. Coaches for the teams are Karen Scarlett and Blake
Bishop.
By Sarah Perry
ABC News anchor and host of “What Would You Do?” John
Quinones is the featured speaker at this year’s Benton Area Chamber
of Commerce Banquet. The banquet is set for 6:30 p.m. on March 8
at the Benton Event Center and, according to the chamber, tickets are
nearly sold out.
was named as a suspect, but deputies
did not have enough evidence to arrest
him, Silk said.
Since that time, detectives have continued to investigate the incident.
Recently, the victim and a witness
were able to positively identify Mays as
the person responsible for the crime.
Mays was originally arrested in
Saline County for failure to appear in
court.
After eluding officers for about a
week, Saline County deputies received
information about Mays’ possible location.
When deputies and detectives
arrived at the scene on Jeanne Drive in
Mabelvale, they met Kristy Mays, 51,
the man’s mother.
Kristy Mays is being charged with
hindering apprehension in connection
with the incident. She also faces two
counts of possession of a controlled
substance and 12 counts of possession
of drug paraphernalia, Silk said.
Later that afternoon, the Saline
County Sheriff’s Office was informed
that Jeffrey Mays had been arrested in
Montgomery County, Texas.
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reports are received from local law enforcement agencies.
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and contain only information provided by law enforcement.
Content written by Sarah Perry, reporter for The Saline
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Benton Police
Department
Saline County
Sheriff’s Office
Thursday
Wednesday
9:18 a.m.
A representative from the
Benton Adult Wellness and
Activity Center reported
a license plate was stolen
from a van registered
to the Central Arkansas
Development Council.
• A woman in the 19100
block of Chicot Road reported a commercial burglary.
• A man in the 21700
block of Silver Maple Drive
reported a trailer was stolen.
block of Cindy Drive reported a firearm was stolen.
block of Amber Circle
reported a trailer was stolen.
block of Kaywood Cove
reported he was being
harassed.
block of Childress Road
reported a trailer and welding equipment were stolen.
block of West Colonel Glen
Road reported she was
assaulted.
9:29 a.m.
An employee at Cecil
Price Heating, Air and
Indoor Comfort reported
cables at the business were
damaged.
10:02 a.m.
An employee at Pilot
Travel Center reported a
shoplifting.
11:31 a.m.
A woman at Saline
Memorial Hospital reported
her purse was stolen.
12:41 p.m.
An employee at Malvern
National Bank reported she
received a counterfeit $20
bill.
Benton Fire
Department
1:23 p.m.
The manager at Pilot
Travel Center reported she
received a counterfeit $50
bill.
Benton firefighters
responded to a brush fire,
a rescue call, five medical calls, a motor vehicle
accident and a controlled
burning.
2:41 p.m.
Jessica Weathers, 30,
of Benton was arrested at
Walmart and charged with
shoplifting.
Bryant Fire
Department
4:15 p.m.
A Buckskin Road man
reported a bicycle and propane tank was stolen.
Bryant firefighters
responded to a grass fire,
two medical calls, a business inspection and a porch
on fire.
Judge suspended after charges filed
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LITTLE ROCK — The
Arkansas Supreme Court
has temporarily suspended
a judge charged with negligent homicide in the death
of his son, who was left in
the back seat of a hot car
last summer.
The Judicial Discipline
and Disability Commission
recommended earlier this
week that Circuit Judge
Wade Naramore be suspended with pay until the
resolution of the criminal
charge. The suspension
will last through a separate
commission investigation
to determine if he is fit to
serve.
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Quapaw Tribe
looks to buy
more land
near LR port
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Putting gasoline in plastic or glass containers is a violation of the Arkansas State Prevention Code. The
public should not accommodate. Now that grass mowing is a prime consideration of most home-owners, the situation arises frequently. The customer should thank the attendant, not give him a bad time
for his refusal. It could prevent a fire or serious injury. Assistant Fire Chief Dewell Anderson and Ervin
Huey at his Conoco Station on Edison, make the point.
LITTLE ROCK — An
Oklahoma-based tribe said
it plans to buy more land
near Little Rock’s industrial
port to use for its economic
development.
John Berrey, the chairman of the Quapaw Tribe,
told members of the Little
Rock Port Authority’s board
on Wednesday that the tribe
is talking with landowners
in the area to expand on the
160 acres it already owns
near the Port of Little Rock.
“We’re in constant motion
trying to find ways to provide economic development
not only for the Quapaw
Tribe but also for the people
of Arkansas,” Berrey said,
adding that the tribe has no
plans to build a casino on
the land.
The tribe acquired the
land for $1.4 million in
separate 80 acre purchases
after researchers discovered Quapaw artifacts, the
graves of Quapaw ancestors
and the graves of slaves.
The Quapaw Tribe lived
in Arkansas for centuries
before being forcibly moved
west in the 1800s by the federal government.
The announcement
comes a month after the
Port Authority’s board voted
to stop pursuing a memorandum of understanding
with the tribe over how it
would handle any tribal artifacts in the area that may
be discovered as the port
considers an expansion that
would be paid for with $10
million in sales tax revenue.
Port Authority Executive
Director Bryan Day told the
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
that the tribe’s desire to
expand came as a surprise
to port officials, but that any
economic development in
the area would benefit the
port.
Panel to investigate Milligan, Rutledge campaign trips
LITTLE ROCK —
The Arkansas Ethics
Commission has opened
investigations into the
state’s attorney general and
treasurer, according to a letter sent Thursday to a Little
Rock attorney.
The commission notified liberal blogger Matt
Campbell that it would
investigate the complaints
he filed against Attorney
General Leslie Rutledge and
Treasurer Dennis Milligan
for trips they took around
Jan. 27 through Feb. 1 to
campaign in Iowa for former
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part of his now-suspended
presidential campaign. The
commission does not confirm to the public whether it
has received complaints or
whether it is investigating.
The letters, which were
shared with The Associated
Press, said the complaints
met the preliminary requirements for the commission
to open investigations.
Campbell’s complaints cite
state law that prohibits public officials from campaigning for another candidate
during their offices’ normal
business hours.
“The statute is so straight
forward that to see such
an egregious flouting of
that rule kind of hit me the
wrong way,” Campbell said.
“I knew that Constitutional
officers don’t have unpaid
leave they can take, so
why are they shirking their
elected duties to go off and
campaign for someone else
in Iowa?”
The Ethics Commission
earlier this month found
Milligan had violated four
campaign finance reporting
requirements and fined him
$400 after a separate complaint from Campbell.
“This is another nuisance
complaint filed after Mr.
Campbell failed in his last
attempt and (is) only meant
to distract from the work I
was elected to do,” Milligan
said through a spokesman
Thursday. “I have been and
will continue to focus on
securing the greatest return
available to the hardworking
taxpayers of Arkansas.”
Attorney General spokesman Judd Deere said
Rutledge received the letter
Thursday.
“Attorney General
Rutledge is confident Mr.
Campbell’s complaint will
be dismissed,” he wrote in
an emailed statement. “Mr.
Campbell’s motives are
purely partisan in nature
and this is just another
ridiculous attempt to bring
up an issue that the Ethics
Commission has already
addressed. For years, both
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Republicans and Democrats
in elected office, from the
local county judge to governor, have taken personal
leave to exercise their First
Amendment right to campaign for a presidential candidate in accordance with
Arkansas law.”
Archive news coverage
showed the state’s previous
attorney general Dustin
McDaniel went to Iowa during the 2008 presidential
campaign cycle in support
of Hillary Clinton’s bid for
the Democratic nomination.
Former Gov. Mike Beebe
travelled in 2014 to a rally
in Conway during regular
business hours in support of
both Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mike Ross
and then U.S. Sen. Mark
Pryor.
The letters signed by
the commission’s director
Graham Sloan noted that
under the statute, all public
officials, employees and
appointees are covered in
the state’s definition of a
public servant to whom the
statute applies. It also noted
the definition of a public
office, for which a candidate would be campaigning
under the state’s ethics
rules.
“In turn, the term ‘public
office’ is defined in (state
law) to mean, ‘any office created by or under authority
of the laws of the State of
Arkansas or of a subdivision
thereof that is filled by voters, except a federal office,’”
the letter said.
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OBITUARIES
SALINE COUNTY EVENTS
Earl Johler
Email calendar items to [email protected] or call 501-315-8228 ext. 236.
Calendar items are intended for nonprofit organizations.
Earl Johler, 81, of Hot Springs passed away
Sunday, Feb. 7, 2016.
He was born May 29, 1934, in Blue Island,
Illinois, to the late Earl George and Ruth
Lucille Nicholls.
Mr. Johler served his country proudly,
Johler
having retired from the U.S. Air Force. After
retirement he graduated from nursing school
and dedicated another 20 years to taking care of patients
in Hot Springs.
He enjoyed his service through the Veterans of Foreign
Wars and the Eagles. He especially enjoyed calling bingo
games.
Cherishing his memory are his two sons and two
daughters; eight grandchildren; three great-grandchildren;
and numerous friends.
A celebration of Mr. Johler’s life will be held from 2 to 4
p.m. Sunday, Feb. 21, at VFW Post 2256 in Benton.
Online guestbook: www.GrossFuneralHome.com.
PAID OBITUARY
Man pleads guilty
in child abuse case
By Josh Briggs
[email protected]
A Mabelvale man facing
numerous charges, including introducing a controlled
substance into the body of
another, a Class C felony,
pleaded guilty Tuesday
in Saline County Circuit
Court.
Anthony Pilkington,
34, was sentenced to 120
months’ probation and 200
hours of community service
and also must pay $1,320 in
fines and fees.
Circuit Judge Grisham
Phillips also ordered
Pilkington to undergo mandatory drug and alcohol
treatment and parenting
courses and said he cannot
have contact with anyone
under the age of 18 without
supervision.
Pilkington was first
arrested on Aug. 4, 2015,
when Saline County deputies responded to a call
involving a weapon at a
residence..
According to the incident
report, Pilkington and his
girlfriend, Destiny Walker,
31, were arguing on Larry
Coleman’s property.
After being confronted by
Coleman, Pilkington reportedly pulled out a pocket
knife and charged at the
property owner.
The report states that
Coleman intervened, telling Walker she could
come inside his home for
protection, which angered
Pilkington.
Coleman said that he
grabbed a board and also
showed his pocket knife
in defense, which resulted
in Pilkington’s fleeing the
scene.
Pilkington was arrested
later and charged with
aggravated assault, violation of a protection order
and two counts of endangering the welfare of a
minor.
Coleman stated that
Walker was holding a
juvenile at the time of the
argument. He also told
police that on Aug. 1, 2015,
Pilkington had burned the
child with a cigarette while
at his residence.
In a search for
Pilkington, Walker told
police that Pilkington
had left and was “running
through the woods.”
Deputy Chris Winberry
advised Walker that he
needed to speak with
Pilkington right away, leading to Walker’s admission
that Pilkington was inside
the residence.
Pilkington was charged
with second-degree domestic battery after officers
observed what appeared to
be burn marks on the child.
Walker also was arrested
and charged with abusing
the child.
Both Pilkington and
Walker were charged with
introducing a controlled
substance into the body
of another. Police said the
couple exposed their child
to methamphetamine and
marijuana during a threemonth period.
Bond had been set at
$100,000 for Pilkington and
$25,000 for Walker.
If he had been tried in
Circuit Court and found
guilty, Pilkington could
have been sentenced to up
to 36 years in prison and
received $35,000 in fines.
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JONESBORO —
Craighead County Sheriff
Marty Boyd said Thursday
he is committed to finding a
way to help those with mental
health problems in Northeast
Arkansas.
“I get calls from families
of those with mental illness
all the time, and they ask
me what they can do,” Boyd
said. “I don’t have an answer
because of how we are. The
detention center is designed
to hold criminals, not help
the mentally ill, but right now
we’re trying to do both.”
Boyd met with other county, city and business leaders
Thursday to discuss possible
solutions. Those in attendance
included Craighead County
Judge Ed Hill, Jonesboro
Mayor Harold Perrin and MidSouth Health Systems COO
Ruth Allison Dover.
Boyd has been working
for a solution to separating
and helping the mentally ill
detention center population at
the state level for more than
a year.
The solution has long been
identified as the establishment
of a Crisis Intervention Unit
that would house and monitor
mentally ill people that commit
crimes. However, the state has
backed away from funding a
project in Northeast Arkansas.
Spurred forward by recent
discussions of mental health,
especially jailing and fines
through the state drunken,
insane, or disorderly statute
(DID), Boyd has been organizing a local unit to take on
the role.
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20
2 p.m.
Alumina Lodge 574, located
at 312 Southeast Third Street
in Bryant, will host a chili
cookoff benefit for the Bryant
Boy’s and Girl’s Club. The
event will begin at 2 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 20. All the
proceeds will go to the youth
club. Judges will be selected
by the club. It is an ongoing
traditional event. Alumina
Lodge has won the trophy
for the best chili the past two
years and hopes to bring home
the trophy again. The public,
as well as all eligible Masons,
are invited to attend the event.
THURSDAY, MARCH 10
Sonny Burgess and The
Legendary Pacers: Fundraiser
set 6-8:30 p.m. Thursday,
March 10, at Bryant Senior
Wellness and Activity Center.
Band plays rock ‘n’ roll music
from the ‘50s. Group was part
of original rock ‘n’ roll era
and made recordings at Sun
Studio, owned and operated
by rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Sam
Phillips at 706 Union Avenue
in Memphis. The Bryant center is located at The Center
at Bishop Park, 6401 Boone
Road. Donations will be appreciated. Call 501-943-0056,
extension 3, for more information.
THURSDAY, MARCH 25
2 p.m.
Violin performance by
Oksana is set from 2 to 3 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 20, at Herzfeld
Library in Benton. Join concert
violinist Oksana for an afternoon of music.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22
ALZHEIMER’S Arkansas
Caregiver Support Group will
meet every third Thursday at
2 p.m. at Herzfeld Library in
Benton. The next meeting is
set for Feb. 18.
6 p.m.
Yoga classes are set from
6 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 25,
at Boswell Library in Bryant.
All skill levels are welcome to
join a professional instructor
from Yoga for the Road for a
free yoga class at the library.
Please bring a mat and a bottle
of water.
SALINE COUNTY
DEMOCRATIC CENTRAL
COMMITTEE MEETING: 6
p.m. the second Tuesday of
every month at Democratic
Headquarters, 101 S. Market
St. in Downtown Benton.
SALINE MEMORIAL
HOSPICE is recruiting volunteers. These volunteers will
help with hospitality at the
Hospice House in Bryant and
sit with patients in their homes
and nursing homes. For more
information, call the volunteer
coordinator at 315-0136
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 29
STARTING POINT FAITHBASED GROUP: Group meeting for AA and NA will be held
at 3:30 p.m. Sundays at 1203
Boone Road. For more information, call 501-249-2685.
TAX PREPARATION
SERVICES: Central Arkansas
Development Council is seeking volunteers for its VITA/
EITC free tax preparation
services in Saline County.
The service offers free electronic filing of federal and
state tax returns. The service
will be available at Herzfeld
Library and the Benton Senior
Wellness and Activity Center.
Volunteers must be certified.
CADC provides training. To
volunteer,contact Susan Willis
at 501-778-1133.
6 p.m.
Knitting courses are set
from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Monday,
Feb. 29, at Herzfeld Library in
Benton. Join us for a free knitting lesson from our resident
expert. Each month you will
build on the lesson before to
complete basic projects.
THURSDAY, MARCH 3
6 p.m.
Watercolor at the library
is set from 6 to 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, March 3, at Boswell
Library in Bryant. This month’s
selection is “Magnolia Blooms”
on watercolor. All supplies will
be provided for the first 25
participants.
6 p.m.
Yoga classes are set from 6
to 7 p.m. Thursday, March 3,
at Herzfeld Library in Benton.
All skill levels are welcome to
join a professional instructor
from Yoga for the Road for a
free yoga class at the library.
Please bring a mat and a bottle
of water.
SALINE COUNTY
TOASTMASTERS meets
at Mt. Carmel Methodist
Church, Arkansas 5 and Alcoa
Road, noon-1 p.m. every
Thursday. This is an international organization to help
people with their leadership
and communication skills.
For further information or to
register, email Joyce Moore at
[email protected].
BRYANT HISTORICAL
SOCIETY has changed its
meeting date to the second
Tuesday of each month, beginning at 6:30 p.m.. The meeting
will be held at Boswell Library
in Bryant on Prickett Road.
Those interested in preserving Bryant’s history as well as
those who wish to preserve
the happenings of today’s
Bryant for future generations
are invited. For more information, visit the organization’s
Facebook page.
TAKE OFF POUNDS
SENSIBLY (TOPS 296) meets
at Salem Fire Station on Friday
mornings. Supportive and
fun accountability. Weighin begins at 8:45 a.m. and
meeting begins at 9:30 a.m.
For more information, email
TUESDAY, MARCH 8
5 p.m.
THEOS, a support group
for widowed persons, 5
p.m. Tuesday, March 8, at
Whispering Pines Community
Room, 1200 W. Pine St.
SALINE COUNTY MOOSE
LODGE:
Shuffleboard Tournament at
7 p.m. every Friday and 3 p.m.
every Sunday
Every Sunday at 6 p.m. APA
9 Ball Pool
Every Tuesday at 7 p.m.
APA 8 Ball Pool
Every Wednesday Free Pool
Every Thursday at 7 p.m.
APA Ladies 8 Ball Pool
Every Thursday at 6 p.m.
Shuffleboard Tournament
Every Thursday $1 Taco
Night
BINGO: 6:30 p.m. every
Thursday evening and every
Saturday at 1 p.m. at VFW
Post 2256, 5323 Sleepy
Village Road (off Alcoa
Road). Members, guests and
the public are welcome. Must
be 21 years of age. No admission charge. Kitchen will be
open serving burgers, fries,
taco salads and other items.
CONGO MASONIC LODGE,
located at the corner of Steele
Bridge Road and Thompson
Dairy Road, will host an allyou-can-eat fish fry the last
Saturday of every month from
April to September. Money
raised will go to area charities.
The public is encouraged to
attend.
4:30 p.m.
THEOS, a support group for
widowed persons: Dinner at
4:30 p.m. at Brown’s Country
Restaurant.
STARTING POINT
SUPPORT GROUP MEETING:
1 p.m. every Sunday at Christ
Is The Answer Fellowship
Church in Traskwood. This
is a Christian-based recovery
program. Call Vince for details
722-3110
SALINE COUNTY
REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE
MEETING: 6:30 p.m. the first
Thursday of each month at
Republican Headquarters, 125
N. Market St. in Downtown
Benton. Visitors welcome
ONGOING EVENTS
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25
or by calling 501-794-8601.
SALINE COUNTY HISTORY
AND HERITAGE SOCIETY
MEETING: 7 p.m. the third
Thursday of each month at
123 N. Market St. in Benton. The Family and Local History
Research Room is open from
9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday
through Thursday. Call 7783770 for more information.
The society website is www.
schhs.us.
SADDLES AND SPIRITS
HORSE CLUB MEETING: 6:30
p.m. the second Thursday
of each month at East End
Elementary School. For more
information, contact Melinda
Steele at 501-580-8356.
4:30 p.m.
THEOS, a support group for
widowed persons, will meet
for dinner at 4:30 p.m., March
24 at Rib Crib.
6 p.m.
Crochet courses are set
from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Monday,
Feb. 22, at Herzfeld Library in
Benton. Join us for a free crochet lesson from our resident
expert. Each month you will
build on the lesson before to
complete basic projects.
[email protected].
BINGO at Saline Odd
Fellows Lodge 174, next to
Sue’s Pawn Shop in Benton,
is held on Monday and Friday
nights. Doors open at 5 p.m.
with the first mini beginning
at 6 p.m. The lodge is a nonsmoking building and all are
welcome. There is a $1,000
progressive jackpot.
FREEDOM FROM SMOKING
CLASS: Imaginations Created
is offering this class as community service in conjunction with the American Lung
Association. The class will be
led by certified tobacco treatment specialist Pat Franklin.
The course lasts seven weeks
and will be held from 2 to 4
p.m. Sundays. Register at
www.imaginationscreated.com
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Bingo to benefit local nonprofits
Mondays and Fridays
Early games start at 5:30
p.m.
Packs start at 7 p.m.
309 S East Street beside
Benton Oldtowne Antiques
Play bingo while supporting
local nonprofits.
ALUMINA LODGE 574
IN BRYANT: Everyone is
welcome to come out to the
last Saturday of each month
for a monthly pancake breakfast. Serving will start at 7
a.m and conclude at 10 a.m..
Donations are accepted.
RALPH BUNCHE
NEIGHBORHOOD
ASSOCIATION: 6 p.m. second
Thursday of each month ,
1600 Dixie St. in Benton. All
are invited.
AMERICAN LEGION POST
19 and AUXILIARY: Regular
meetings 7 p.m. second
Tuesday of each month at
Gene Moss Building in Tyndall
Park. Contact Wilbur Burton at
501-326-7292, or Bobby Joe
Parker at 501-860-4440 for
further information. Veterans
and spouses are welcome.
GOSPEL SINGING: Benton
Senior Wellness and Activity
Center every Tuesday beginning at 10 a.m. Soloists are
welcome to sing or a group of
singers can perform. Lunch
will be served every day starting at 11:30 a.m.
Incase of inclement weather, Movies In The Park will be
held in the Gene Moss Building
at Tyndall Park.
SALINE COUNTY AIRPORT
COMMISSION: 6:30 p.m. every
third Thursday of each month,
Saline County Regional Airport
Terminal Building at 1100 Hill
Farm Road in Bryant.
My
Answer
By Doug
Hawkins
Expressing Our
Humanity
When attending a funeral, one
cannot help but be struck by
how the ceremony gives full
expression to our humanity.
The funeral tradition provides
full recognition of a life completed and simultaneously creates a memorial that ensures
remembrance. Ancient funeral
customs began out of fear of
the dead, as well as fear that the
deceased’s spirit may return
if the body were not disposed
of in a respectful manner. Our
ancestors were also fearful that
neglecting to bury the dead
according to established custom would fail to appease the
higher power that oversaw
their daily lives. As much of
the fear associated with burial
has been replaced with awe and
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“Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom
of speech, or of the press ... .”
— From the First Amendment to Constitution
A
You don’t have
to go far away
ll my Facebook friends are tired of my vacation
countdowns every spring. Our family has made it
a practice to go on a huge family vacation every
March while the kids are out of school, and we always
go someplace sunny and tropical. Sometimes we just
take a quick seven hour drive to Biloxi, Mississippi,
and sometimes it’s as far off and exotic as The
Dominican Republic, but no matter what, we always go.
Usually sometime in January when the weather is at it’s
dreariest, I’ll start my “countdown” on Facebook and
post all kinds of pictures of the place we’ll be staying.
Yep, I’m that person.
People tell me all the time they don’t
see how we manage to go on a trip
every year and I always tell them, you
don’t have to follow my family’s example
and go to the beach. In fact you don’t
even have to leave the state. There’s a
fabulous vacation destination right here
and I’m talking about the town of Hot
Springs.
Camille
The drive from Benton to Hot Springs
takes less than an hour and once you
Nesler
arrive, you’ll be pleasantly surprised at
OUTSIDE
what you find. Take the Mid-America
Science Museum for example. It doesn’t THE BOX
matter how old you are there is something at this museum to fascinate everyone. Permanent exhibits include attractions such as
the Underground Arkansas Cave, the Virtual Reality
Simulator Ride, the Nature Trail and Cretaceous Park.
And no matter what you do, don’t miss out on the Tesla
Theatre, where you can see demonstrations of a real
Tesla Coil which produces 1,500,000 volts of electricity enclosed in a massive 2-1/2 ton steel Faraday cage.
Mid-America Science Museum also hosts a variety of
events throughout the year such as Scientist Days,
Home School Day and MASM Member Nights. Trust
me when I say that you won’t be disappointed with all
this place has to offer.
Another fun attraction for the whole family is the
Belle of Hot Springs Riverboat cruise. The 250-passenger riverboat takes you on a 15-mile cruise around Lake
Hamilton and shows off million dollar mansions, natural
islands and the picturesque Ouachita Mountains. You
can even choose to take a luncheon or dinner cruise
instead of just a sightseeing trip, with entrées such as
prime rib, grilled salmon, chicken Alfredo and jumbo
shrimp. And don’t worry about keeping the kids happy
because they also serve hotdogs. The dinner cruise
also includes an hour of DJ entertainment and dancing,
so be sure to check it out if you get the chance.
Now if your idea of a great vacation includes shopping, you won’t be disappointed with the shops around
Bathhouse Row. Visitors can check out all the wares
at establishments such as Santa’s Workshop, the
Savory Pantry, Earthbound Trading Co., and Shoeffle
Boutique. For those who enjoy art and antiques, be
sure to visit the Riley Art Glass Studio, the Fine Arts
Center of Hot Springs, Tillman’s Antiques and Utopia
Antiques and Collectibles.
You see? I’m really not kidding when I say Hot
Springs has it all, and just a few short miles from
home. Gaming lovers can spend the day in the gaming area at Oaklawn Racing & Gaming or take in the
horse races, and who can forget the multitude of spas
and bathhouses or the excitement of the Arkansas
Twister and the Gauntlet at Magic Springs Water &
Theme Park?
If you’re a history buff, you may also be interested
in this little gem: The Gangster Museum of America.
Take a trip into the past on a guided 45-minute tour
through rooms filled with memorabilia from Hot
Springs heyday as the gangster get-away, and take a
picture with Al Capone on your way out the door of
the vault.
Lastly, if you decide to stay the night in Hot Springs
but don’t want to spend a fortune, check out the Red
Roof Inn. This newly renovated hotel is located just
one mile from Magic Springs and boasts brand new
furniture, microwaves and mini-fridges in all the
rooms, a gorgeous swimming pool and a continental
breakfast each morning, all for under $100.
So when you get your calculator out this year and
start budgeting and planning your next family trip,
don’t forget to add Hot Springs to the list of possibilities.
••
Camille Nesler is a resident of Saline County. Her
column appears each Friday in The Saline Courier.
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Will Scalia’s
death mean
life for death
row inmates?
I
Misrepresentations
are nothing new
A
las, this is pretty much where I
came in. Starting in 1994, when
your humble, obedient servant
was approached to contribute weekly
political columns, I found the behavior of
the national political press shocking and
alarming.
Today, it’s even
worse.
Even so, it’s not
every day a TV talker
apologizes for broadcasting a doctored
video misrepresenting something Bill
Clinton said about
President Obama. So
it’s definitely worth
taking note.
ene
MSNBC’s Chris
Hayes did that the
yons
other night, at least
temporarily persuading me that the network hasn’t yet gone
full Fox News.
But first, some ancient history on
a theme directly relevant to today’s
Democratic primary campaign: Hillary
the Big Liar.
See, by 1994, I’d been writing professionally for years, mainly as a literary
journalist and monthly magazine reporter.
The publications I’d written for employed
assiduous fact-checkers. Opinions were
expected, so long as they were grounded
in fact. After all, what’s the point of winning an argument if you’ve got to cheat
to do it?
However, that’s not how Washington
journalism works. One incident in particular astonished me.
In April 1994, Hillary Clinton had
given a press conference about the
make-believe Whitewater scandal. She
answered every question the press
threw at her for a couple of hours. The
immediate effect was rather like last
fall’s Benghazi hearings: Her detailed
answers calmed the storm. Having previously given sworn testimony to Treasury
Department investigators probing Jim
McDougal’s failed savings and loan, she
was on solid ground.
Two years further on, ABC’s
“Nightline” dug up a video clip of an
answer she’d given about a specific issue
and seamlessly deleted two sentences by
substituting stock footage of journalists
taking notes. Then they pretended she’d
been asked a much broader question, and
accused her of lying about the information they’d subtracted.
Specifically, Hillary acknowledged signing a letter “because I was what we called
the billing attorney” for the Madison
Guaranty account. “Nightline” charged
her with concealing exactly that fact. Jeff
Greenfield said no wonder “the White
House was so worried about what was in
Vince Foster’s office when he killed himself” — a contemptible insinuation.
Within days, the doctored quote was
all over ABC News, CNN, the New York
Times and everywhere else. Almost needless to say, Maureen Dowd ran with it.
William Safire predicted her imminent
criminal indictment.
G
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In short, the theme of Hillary Clinton
as epic liar began with an instance of barefaced journalistic fraud.
Everybody involved should have been
run out of the profession. It wasn’t exactly
an obscure mystery. Video of the press
conference existed. The New York Times
had printed the full transcript.
But there was no Internet. Beltway
pundits covered for each other like
crooked cops.
So anyway, last week Bill Clinton
made a campaign appearance for his
wife in Memphis. If you’d only seen
it on MSNBC or read about it in the
Washington Post, you’d think he made
a political blunder, trashing President
Obama as a weak leader.
On Chris Hayes’ program “All In,”
the host chided the former President for
going “a bit off message.”
MSNBC aired this video clip:
“BILL CLINTON: She’s always making something good happen. She’s the
best change-maker I’ve ever known.
A lot of people say, ‘Oh well, you don’t
understand. It’s different now. It’s rigged.’
Yeah, it’s rigged — because you don’t
have a president who is a change-maker.”
Full stop.
Ouch! To the Washington Post’s Abby
Phillips, “it sounded like he was agreeing
with one of (Bernie) Sanders’s central
arguments about income inequality —
but blaming the sitting president for it.”
Older and thinner, Mr. Yesterday was
clearly losing it.
Except he wasn’t. The real villain
was, once again, creative video editing.
Tommy Christopher at Mediaite.com
restored the full context.
So here’s what Bill Clinton actually said
about President Obama:
“Yeah, it’s rigged — because you don’t
have a president who is a change-maker
with a Congress who will work with him.
But the president has done a better job
than he has gotten credit for. And don’t
you forget it!”
(APPLAUSE)
“Don’t you forget it! Don’t you
forget it!”
(LOUDER APPLAUSE)
“Don’t you forget it. Let me just
tell you. I’ve been there, and we
shared the same gift. We only had a
Democratic Congress for two years.
And then we lost it.
“There’s some of the loudest voices in our party say — it’s unbelievable — say, ‘Well the only reason we
had it for two years is that President
Obama wasn’t liberal enough!’
Is there one soul in this crowd that
believes that?”
Judging by the crowd response,
there was not.
Mediaite.com’s Christopher put it
succinctly: “This is an edit so egregious, it rivals the worst in dishonest
political ads, and surpasses them.”
Greatly to his credit (and my surprise), Chris Hayes subsequently
rebroadcast Bill Clinton’s remarks in
full. “We shouldn’t have done that,”
he admitted.
No, they certainly should not.
HOW TO REACH YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS
State Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson, District 33,
201 E. North St., Benton, AR 72015, (501) 7733760, [email protected].
State Sen. David Sanders, District 27 Room
320 State Capitol, Little Rock, AR 72201, (501)
682-6107, [email protected].
State Sen. Alan Clark, District 13 P.O. Box
211, Lonsdale, AR 72087, (501) 262-3360, alan.
[email protected].
State Rep. Lanny Fite, District 23, 3324
Hwy. 5, Benton, AR 72019, (501) 794-2228,
[email protected].
State Rep. Andy Davis, District 31 P.O. Box
30248, Little Rock, AR 72260, (501) 837-5109,
[email protected].
State Rep. Julie Mayberry, District 27 3022
E. Woodson Lateral Road, Hensley, AR 72065,
(501) 888-8222, [email protected].
State Rep. Kim Hammer, District 28, 1411
Edgehill Dr., Benton, AR 72015, (501) 840-3841,
[email protected].
Circuit Judge Bobby McCallister, 22nd
Judicial District, Division 1, Saline County
Courthouse, 200 N. Main St., Benton, AR 72015,
(501) 303-5635.
Circuit Judge Gary Arnold, 22nd Judicial
District, Division 2, Saline County Courthouse,
200 N. Main St., Benton, AR 72015, (501) 3035664.
Circuit Judge Grisham Phillips, 22nd
Judicial District, Division 3, Saline County
Courthouse, 200 N. Main St., Benton, AR 72015,
(501) 303-5628.
Circuit Judge Robert Herzfeld, 22nd
Judicial District, Division 4, Saline County Annex,
District Judge Michael Robinson, Benton
District, 1605 Edison Ave., Benton, AR 72019,
(501) 303-5670.
District Judge Stephanie Casady, Bryant
District (Bryant, Alexander, Bauxite, Haskell,
Shannon Hills), Boswell Municipal Complex, 210
SW Third St., Bryant, AR 72022, (501) 847-5223.
Saline County Judge Jeff Arey, Courthouse
Prosecuting Attorney Ken Casady, 22nd
Juicial District, 102 S. Main St., Benton, AR
72015, (501) 315-7767.
Saline County Sheriff Rodney Wright
Saline County Detention Center, 735 S. Neeley
St., Benton, AR 72015; (501) 303-5609.
[email protected]
n September and October, Justice
Antonin Scalia told audiences at two
different law schools that it would not
surprise him if the death penalty were ruled
unconstitutional while he was still on the
court. Scalia noted Justice
Stephen Breyer’s recent
dissent in Glossip v. Gross,
a case in which Breyer
said the court should consider the issue of whether
the Eighth Amendment
requires an end to capital
punishment in America.
Scalia had previously idenNat
tified himself as the fifth
vote on a court divided
Hentoff
four to four on the issue.
He could not have known
that his sudden death a few months later
might be the vehicle for that very eventuality.
All of the Republican candidates can be
expected to nominate a candidate for the
Supreme Court who will follow Scalia’s lead
in upholding the constitutionality of capital
punishment. Of the remaining presidential
candidates, only Bernie Sanders opposes
the death penalty and can be counted on
to appoint a Supreme Court candidate who
would become the fifth vote to abolish capital punishment. It is less clear how Hillary
Clinton — a death penalty proponent —
would expect her nominee to answer the
question, because no one has bothered to
ask her.
If Clinton wins, and nominated a candidate with a strong civil rights background,
the death penalty will very likely be abolished. However, if a victorious Clinton
nominates a former prosecutor, like Loretta
Lynch or Eric Holder, it would likely mean
the U.S. continues its ignominious membership in a dwindling group of backward
nations that continue to execute their own
citizens.
Unfortunately, Hillary Clinton has a
20-year history of enacting criminal justice
policy that exploits the public’s fear of crime
and invariably results in a racially disparate
impact on poor minorities. The Clintons’
championing of the 1994 Crime Bill (which
contributed to the mass incarceration of poor
minorities) and the 1996 Antiterrorism and
Effective Death Penalty Act (which raised
procedural bars to claims of actual innocence) are both examples of the Clintons’
pandering to the public’s tough-on-crime
sensibilities to achieve political ends.
It reflects an approach to governing which
is tinged — some might even say poisoned
— by a tendency to choose political expediency over ethics and morality. This has been
their pattern since their days in Arkansas.
Earlier this week, Clinton made headlines
for barking like a dog while telling a folksy
story about her husband’s early campaigns
in Arkansas. The barking incident was
an unintended reminder of the Clintons’
involvement in the 1992 execution of a 250pound lobotomized man-child named Ricky
Ray Rector. A 1993 New Yorker article
by Marshall Frady, “Death in Arkansas,”
described how Rector repetitively performed
a little shuffle dance, and alternatingly
giggled to himself like a child or barked like
a dog, as he waited in his cell to be executed
on Arkansas’ death row. Bill Clinton, who
was embroiled in a sex scandal that threatened to derail his presidential campaign, had
returned to Arkansas to personally preside
over Rector’s execution.
Christopher Hitchens described Rector
as “a lumpen failure of a man” who, after killing a police officer turned the gun on himself, destroying a good portion of his brain
in the process. Rector survived the suicide
attempt as a different person with the mental
faculties of a small child.
Frady also described the frantic
efforts of one of Rector’s lawyers to reach
Clinton on the day of the execution. Jeff
Rosenzweig had grown up with Clinton in
Hot Springs, Arkansas, where his father
had been Clinton’s pediatrician. When he
finally reached Clinton late in the afternoon, Rosenzweig explained the severity of
Rector’s mental deficits. Executing Rector,
Rosenzweig told Clinton, would be the equivalent of executing a child. Rosenzweig knew
it was an uphill battle given the political pressure Clinton was under, but he hoped that
his old friend “wouldn’t want to be seen as
merciless.” Clinton wouldn’t budge.
The execution proceeded that evening
after a one-hour delay, punctuated by
Rector’s loud groans, as prison officials
struggled to find a usable vein. The medical
team finally had to slash into his arm with a
scalpel in order to find a vein capable of carrying the lethal chemicals into his massive
body. Once the chemicals started to flow, it
took Rector 19 minutes to die amid his intermittent gasps for air.
Rector had been sacrificed on the altar of
the Clintons’ political ambitions; or, as Frady
said one of Rector’s earlier lawyers put it,
“Poor ole Ricky Rector’s timing just happened to be real bad.” Speaking last week
from his law office in Little Rock, Arkansas,
Rosenzweig said the Clinton’s decision to
save the 1992 campaign by killing Rector
“was certainly a Faustian bargain.”
The Saline Courier
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Woman charged after newborn tests positive for meth Bryant
By Josh Briggs
[email protected]
A Paron woman was formally charged Wednesday
with two counts of introducing a controlled substance
into the body of another person, kidnapping and interfering with custody.
Landy Vines, 35, was
arrested in November after
her newborn child tested
positive for methamphetamines.
According to an affidavit
from the Saline County
Sheriff’s Office, Vines gave
birth to a daughter on Nov.
6, 2015, at the University
of Arkansas for Medical
Sciences in Little Rock.
Zac Barns, an investigator with the Arkansas State
Police Crimes Against
Children Division, was notified that Vines tested positive for methamphetamines
and THC at the time of
delivery.
Tests using the child’s
meconium determined that
the baby also tested positive.
According to the report,
the results showed that
Vines had ingested methamphetamines during the last
four to five months of her
pregnancy.
Both of her charges are
Class Y felonies.
Vines was charged
with the second offense in
December after an older
child also tested positive for
methamphetamines.
In April of last year, Vines
was charged with kidnapping and interfering with
custody after she “climbed a
fence” at Paron Elementary
before entering a third-grade
classroom in an attempt to
abduct a juvenile.
The report of the incident
stated that deputies were
dispatched for the disturbance and made contact
with Karen Metcalf, an
administrator at the school
In her statement to
authorities, Metcalf said
Vines entered onto school
property without permission
and removed the juvenile
from the classroom.
According to the incident
reports, Vines was confront-
ed by “several teachers” who
kept her from leaving with
the child.
The reports noted that
the child forced Vines to let
go of her hand and then she
“fled toward the teachers.”
The teachers then locked
themselves and the juvenile
in a classroom and called
911.
Vines is due to appear in
Saline County Circuit Court
on March 8 for plea and
arraignment. Circuit Judge
Gary Arnold will preside in
the case.
Mabelvale man pleads guilty in child abuse case
By Josh Briggs
[email protected]
A Mabelvale man facing
numerous charges, including introducing a controlled
substance into the body of
another, a Class C felony,
pleaded guilty Tuesday in
Saline County Circuit Court.
Anthony Pilkington,
34, was sentenced to 120
months’ probation and 200
hours of community service
and also must pay $1,320 in
fines and fees.
Circuit Judge Grisham
Phillips also ordered
Pilkington to undergo mandatory drug and alcohol treat-
ment and parenting courses
and said he cannot have
contact with anyone under
the age of 18 without supervision.
Pilkington was first
arrested on Aug. 4, 2015,
when Saline County deputies
responded to a call involving
a weapon at a residence..
According to the incident report, Pilkington
and his girlfriend, Destiny
Walker, 31, were arguing on
Larry Coleman’s property.
After being confronted by
Coleman, Pilkington reportedly pulled out a pocket knife
and charged at the property
owner.
The report states that
Coleman intervened, telling Walker she could
come inside his home for
protection, which angered
Pilkington.
Coleman said that he
grabbed a board and also
showed his pocket knife
in defense, which resulted
in Pilkington’s fleeing the
scene.
Pilkington was arrested
later and charged with aggravated assault, violation of
a protection order and two
counts of endangering the
welfare of a minor.
Coleman stated that
Walker was holding a juvenile at the time of the argument. He also told police that
on Aug. 1, 2015, Pilkington
had burned the child with
a cigarette while at his residence.
In a search for Pilkington,
Walker told police that
Pilkington had left and
was “running through the
woods.”
Deputy Chris Winberry
advised Walker that he
needed to speak with
Pilkington right away, leading to Walker’s admission
that Pilkington was inside the
residence.
Pilkington was charged
with second-degree domestic battery after officers
observed what appeared to
be burn marks on the child.
Walker also was arrested and
charged with abusing the
child.
Both Pilkington and
Walker were charged with
introducing a controlled
substance into the body
of another. Police said the
couple exposed their child to
methamphetamine and marijuana during a three-month
period.
Bond had been set at
$100,000 for Pilkington and
$25,000 for Walker.
If he had been tried in
Circuit Court and found
guilty, Pilkington could have
been sentenced to up to 36
years in prison and received
$35,000 in fines.
Home school families invited to college preparatory session
A special event is on
schedule Feb. 23 for Saline
County home school families.
Known as “College Day,”
the event will take place at
First Presbyterian Church,
501 N. East St. in Benton.
One of the presenters,
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Founds stated that her
husband began drinking
around 10 a.m.
“We came home and he
began cursing me. I tried
to get him to go to bed and
sleep it off, and he refused. I
packed a bag to leave, but he
wouldn’t give me the keys.
He then said ‘you won’t leave
here alive and then I’ll make
sure your kids get theirs,
too.’ That’s when I called
911.”
The couple is involved in
divorce proceedings.
According to information from the Saline County
Sheriff’s Office, Founds was
arrested Feb. 12 after police
were called to a shooting
disturbance in the 14000
block of Black Oaks Court
in Mabelvale. While at the
scene, authorities said a gunshot was heard and a muzzle
flash was observed from
inside the residence.
Short said he doesn’t think
Founds has a clear memory
of what happened.
“She has been known to
over-react when she is off
her medication, our of fear
that abuse was imminent
from her estranged husband,” Short said. “That is a
plausible explanation of what
happened.”
According to the the
Sheriff’s Office, a large
perimeter was established
and additional units were
dispatched to the scene,
including Special Weapons
and Tactics teams from the
Benton Police Department
as well as the Bryant Police
Department.
Hostage negotiators also
were dispatched to the scene.
Multiple attempts were
made to contact the occupant, but reportedly were
unsuccessful.
Authorities then made
contact with a family member in order to learn more
about the suspect. Contact
was made with a relative,
but authorities still were
unable to contact the suspect
directly.
Shortly after 3 a.m. a white
female and a small dog exited the residence, authorities
reported.
Founds was arrested and
charged with four counts of
aggravated assault. No injuries to the suspect or other
individuals were reported at
the time of her arrest.
Founds is scheduled
for a hearing before Judge
Robinson at 1 p.m. on March
7.
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answers.
Information about the
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Ballard at 501-317-7955.
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Emmy awards and other honors.
“We hope that many people in our community will be able to join us on March 8 for a
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Paul White, chairman of the chamber’s board
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In her statement, Founds
said she had to “call the
Sheriff’s Office and an ambulance as my husband was
intoxicated and threatened to
kill me and my children. He
was checked by the medics
and was given a breathalyzer
to see if he was way over the
limit.”
Founds added that “he
started that morning … in
a foul mood. He was calling
me foul and nasty names so
I locked myself in our bedroom. He wanted to go play
pool at Ironhorse and this is
when he really began drinking.”
home school parents,” he
said.
He noted that the following topics will be covered
in the session:
•Juniors and seniors:
Getting ready for college?
•Community resources.
•Scholarships.
•Financial aid.
•Attending college debtfree.
Other items on the agenda
included:
• Approval of four student
transfer requests.
• Recognition of the
Bryant High School varsity cheerleaders, who were
named state champions in
the Class 5A-7A Co-Ed division.
• Recognition of Jadyn
Lewis, who won two individual event state titles as part
of the Bryant track team.
She was also named the
most valuable female player
at the ATCA indoor track
state championship.
• An update from representatives of Baldwin &
Shell and Lewis Architects
Engineers about ongoing
construction projects.
• A report from Lisa
Stogsdill about the district’s Coordinated Review
Effort study from the Child
Nutrition Unit.
• Approval of a quitclaim
deed to settle a land dispute between the district
and First Baptist Church of
Bryant.
• Approval of a bid to
replace the heating and air
conditioning controls system
at Bryant Middle School.
The system will be funded
using surplus money from
the 2014-15 school year.
• An update from Tara
Armstrong, pre-kindergarten
director, about the district
pre-kindergarten program.
• An update from Devin
Sherrill, director of communications, about the district’s
strategic communication
plan.
• An update from Pam
Kenney, director of instruction and testing, about students’ progress on annual
standardized testing.
• Various personnel hires
and resignations.
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Arkansas at Little Rock,
will be the primary presenter.
Other presenters will be
Lisa Crook, director of the
Education Alliance, and
Ballard.
Ballard pointed out
that the session is “not a
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‘Mob Wives’ reality star
Angela Raiola has died
NEW YORK — Angela
“Big Ang” Raiola, the raspyvoiced bar owner who
gained fame on the reality
TV series “Mob Wives,”
died early Thursday, nearly
a year after being diagnosed
with throat cancer. She was
55.
Raiola died at a New
York City hospital while
surrounded by friends and
family, said series producer
Jennifer Graziano.
A statement posted from
Raiola’s Twitter account
said she had “peacefully
ended her battle with cancer.”
“YOU (Her fans) were
some of the most special
people in her world, and
she loved you immensely,”
said the statement. “Thank
you for your love, prayers,
and unconditional support
of Angela right to the end.”
Raiola was initially diagnosed in March 2015 with
throat cancer that spread to
her brain and lung.
Even as she fought the
disease, the native New
Yorker remained the candid, colorful figure that
viewers came to know on
VH1’s “Mob Wives” and her
two sequels.
“You can call me Angela.
I’ll call you handsome,” she
told TV host Dr. Mehmet
Oz during a pre-taped
appearance that aired on his
“Dr. Oz” show Feb. 16.
Raiola, nicknamed Big
Ang for her nearly 6-foot
height, told Oz she was trying to keep her spirits up as
chemotherapy and radiation
failed to check the disease.
She had already undergone
several surgeries, and her
trademark flowing black
hair was gone, replaced by
a short, blond cut.
“I look at my kids and my
grandchildren and I know
how much they need me,”
said Raiola, who lived with
her daughter Raquel’s family on New York’s Staten
Island, where Raiola ran the
Drunken Monkey bar.
She wasn’t technically
a mob wife: Raiola’s inclusion on the cable show’s
second season in 2012 came
courtesy of her uncle, the
late Salvatore “Sally Dogs”
Lombardi, a reputed captain
of the Genovese crime family.
Raiola, known as a peacemaker when other cast
members clashed, proved
a standout. She starred in
the spin-off “Big Ang” and
its retooled version, “Miami
Monkey,” although both
were short-lived. Family
members including her son,
Anthony, and her sister,
Janine, were among those
who joined in her TV fame.
A cigarette smoker for
40 years, Raiola said she
stopped immediately after
her first cancer diagnosis
last year. Her doctors told
her the disease was “positively” caused by smoking,
she said, and she called for
people to quit the habit or
resist picking it up.
Her sister and brother-inlaw were key members of
her support team, Raiola told
Oz, but she said her husband, Neil Murphy, was no
longer part of her life.
Ferguson talks history on History
By George Dickie
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Craig Ferguson has an
undying love of history and
debate, and that is the driving force behind his new
talk show “Join or Die With
Craig Ferguson.”
The first of 22 half-hour
episodes premiered Thursday
on History Channel, with the
former “Late Late Show” host
and stand-up comic discussing provocative and timely
topics with a trio of guests:
an expert in the field, a celebrity who can weigh in on
the subject and a comedian.
Topics tend to be offbeat,
ranging from “History’s Most
Influential Drug” and “Biggest
Political Blunder” to “Worst
Medical Advice.” Early guests
will include actress Maria
Bello, talk-show host Jimmy
Kimmel and Jordan Carlos
of “The Nightly Show With
Larry Wilmore.”
And in true Ferguson style,
the discussions will be humorous, irreverent and at times
profane. He says the idea for
the show came to him in the
wake of his Peabody Award
for his 2008 “Late Late Show”
interview with Archbishop
Desmond Tutu and the eventual end of his time on that
series in 2013.
“It slowly kind of came
together that if I was going
to do anything,” he explains,
“what I would want to do is a
show that felt like the energy
of that show, that it had intelligence, that it had wit. It was
funny, it was entertaining but
it was also about something,
it was about a thing. It had a
reason for existence beyond
the fact that it was a time
slot.”
“The Late Late Show,” he
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brings his love of history and provocative humor to his new talk show “Join or Die With Craig
Ferguson.” The show premiered Thursday on History Channel.
explains, was instrumental
in connecting him with the
guests for his new show.
“In a way, it was an interview/search process,” he
says. “It’s from a pool of people that I interviewed over 10
years on late night. So that’s
how I was like, ‘No, get Maria
(Bello) for this because she
can talk about that.’ I mean,
Maria I know personally
anyway. A lot of these people
are my friends. So you get a
feel for who can hang and it’s
a surprisingly large group of
people ... .”
“Join or Die” are words
that have personal meaning
for Ferguson. The 53-year-old
native of Glasgow, Scotland,
had the saying with the image
of a snake tattooed to his forearm after he became a U.S.
citizen in 2008.
“They’re the end result,
they’re kind of like a scar,” he
says. “Like I go through a process and I end it with a tattoo.
Like, my children are born, I
get a tattoo.”
“So this one ... had a personal historical significance
and an actual historical significance,” he continues. “It
seemed like a good name
and a good visual, arresting
image and kind of a rallying
cry for the show.”
Fiennes defends playing Michael Jackson
NEW YORK — Joseph
Fiennes is defending himself in the wake of criticism
after being cast as Michael
Jackson in an upcoming half-hour TV special,
acknowledging the topic is
“sensitive” but never intending it to be divisive.
The white actor will
play the King of Pop in the
upcoming Sky Arts comedy
“Elizabeth, Michael, and
Marlon,” which tells the
story of a road trip taken
by Jackson, Marlon Brando
and Elizabeth Taylor as they
flee New York City after
the Sept. 11, 2001, terror
attacks.
“I deal in imagination, so
I don’t think imagination
should have rules stamped
on them,” Fiennes told
The Associated Press on
Wednesday. “If it promotes
stereotyping, then it’s
wrong. I made a distinction
that the Jackson project
doesn’t do that.”
The casting of Fiennes
comes as controversy rages
over the lack of diversity in
the Oscar nominations and
in the film industry at large.
The actor admitted to being
initially surprised by the
colorblind casting. “It was a
shock. I thought someone
had got it wrong.”
But the “Shakespeare in
Love” actor said he loves a
challenge, providing it’s in
good taste.
“This is territory that is
sensitive. One must deter-
mine if this portrayal is one
that is going to be positive
entertainment, and one that
will not bring about division
and put anyone’s noses out
of joint, so I went with the
mind that this was a positive light-hearted comedy,”
Fiennes said.
“This is not a movie; it’s
a small television 20-minute sketch. It’s a very
sweet comedy that looks
at Michael, Marlon and
Taylor,” Fiennes said. The
actor admits if it were anything more, “I wouldn’t be
the guy for the job.”
Fiennes recounted an
incident of discrimination he
witnessed many years ago
in England when a black
actress was picked to play
an iconic white woman.
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Benton, Julie Roltsch of Roberson Insurance-Julie Roltsch and Desiree Paulhamus of Dinner’s Ready Market & Deli.
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Fields of Bryant Area Chamber of Commerce, Toby Hirscheider of Carson Physical Therapy, Patricia Duncan of iBERIABANK, Marilyn
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Arkansas chief justice race Apple in its encryption fight
By Andrew DeMillo
LITTLE ROCK — A
Washington-based group
has spent more than half a
million dollars on television
ads criticizing Arkansas chief
justice hopeful Courtney
Goodson, figures from organizations that track judicial
election spending showed
Thursday, with the campaign
against the sitting justice
expanding to radio and mailboxes.
The Judicial Crisis
Network has bought more
than $532,000 worth of
broadcast air time to run
30-second spots criticizing
Goodson over gifts and
contributions she’s received
since she was elected to the
state’s highest court in 2010,
according to Justice at Stake
and the Brennan Center for
Justice. Goodson is running
against Circuit Judge Dan
Kemp in the March 1 election.
Those two candidates and
JCN combined have bought
nearly $800,000 in airtime,
setting a record for television
spending in an Arkansas
judicial election, the figures
showed. The previous high
was more than $450,000
spent on TV ads for two high
court races in 2010. JCN,
which did not immediately
return a call seeking comment, is not required by law
to disclose its donors.
“Arkansas is experiencing
a record-smashing Supreme
Court race, due in large part
to spending by an outside
group that doesn’t disclose
its donors,” Susan Liss,
executive director of Justice
at Stake, said in a statement.
The total ad spending is
likely even higher. Figures
compiled by Goodson’s
campaign show that JCN has
spent nearly $700,000 total
on broadcast, radio and cable
advertising. Goodson has
denounced the ads and has
accused Kemp of coordinating with the group to attack
her.
“He needs to demand
that the dark money group
disclose their donors, pull
down their ads and get out
of our state,” Goodson told
The Associated Press on
Thursday.
Kemp has said he didn’t
have any prior knowledge of
JCN’s ads, but has said they
raise legitimate questions
about gifts and contributions
Goodson’s accepted from
trial lawyers. This week he
has distanced himself further
from the group.
“I do not believe there is
any place in our judiciary for
this type of politics. I firmly
reject it,” Kemp said in a
post Wednesday night on his
campaign’s Facebook page.
His campaign did not immediately return a call seeking
comment.
Goodson has bought
more than $311,000 for
radio and television airtime
and Kemp has bought more
than $79,000 worth of TV
airtime, her campaign’s figures show.
JCN’s television and radio
spots criticizing Goodson
do not specifically endorse
Kemp. The group has also
sent out mailers criticizing
her for the Supreme Court’s
unanimous 2014 ruling striking down Arkansas’ voter ID
law.
Mourners pay respects to late Justice Scalia
WASHINGTON —
Justice Antonin Scalia’s flagdraped casket was carried
up the marble steps of the
Supreme Court Friday in
a somber procession that
began a day of ceremony
and tribute to one of the
court’s most influential
members.
Scalia’s eight Supreme
Court colleagues, his family and nearly 100 former
law clerks watched solemnly as Supreme Court
police placed the casket
on a funeral bier first used
after President Abraham
Lincoln’s assassination.
The Rev. Paul Scalia, the
justice’s son and a Catholic
priest, said traditional
prayers. “You have called
your servant Antonin out of
this world,” he said. “May
he rest in peace.”
A 2007 portrait of Scalia
by artist Nelson Shanks was
displayed nearby. In it, the
justice is shown surrounded
by images representing
important moments and
influences in his life, including a framed wedding photograph of his wife, Maureen.
She, their nine children and
three dozen grandchildren
were present.
Before Scalia’s body
arrived, his former clerks
formed two lines down the
court steps and across its
marble plaza. A few wiped
away tears after the casket
arrived. The clerks will take
turns standing vigil by their
former boss throughout the
day and night in a tradition
most recently observed
after the 2005 death of former Chief Justice William
Rehnquist.
After a private ceremony
for family, friends and justices, Scalia’s casket was to
be on public view from 10:30
a.m. until 8 p.m. Dozens of
mourners had already lined
up outside the court to pay
their respects.
Hannah Moore and Emily
Weatherspoon, both 17,
were first in line just before
7 a.m. The high school
seniors from Raleigh, North
Carolina, were visiting
Washington as part of an AP
government class.
“You can sleep any day.
Justice Scalia only dies
once,” Moore said.
The doors to the court
chamber, where Scalia had
served for nearly 30 years,
were open at the east end of
the hall. Black wool crepe
hung over the entrance, and
Scalia’s courtroom chair was
draped in black.
President Barack Obama
and first lady Michelle
Obama planned to pay
respects later Friday, while
Vice President Joe Biden and
his wife Jill Biden were to
attend Scalia’s funeral Mass
on Saturday.
The Mass open to family
and friends will take place
Saturday at 11 a.m. at the
Basilica of the National
Shrine of the Immaculate
Conception in Washington.
Burial plans have not been
released.
Scalia’s sudden death
complicated an already
tumultuous election year. His
death gives Obama a chance
to replace the conservative
stalwart with a more liberal
successor who could tilt the
ideological balance of the
court for decades to come.
Senate Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell and other
GOP leaders have said a
replacement should not be
named until the next president takes office. Obama has
pledged to pick a replacement “in due time” and challenged Republicans to hold a
vote on his nominee.
Scalia was found dead on
Saturday in his room at a
remote Texas hunting resort.
The 79-year-old jurist was
appointed to the court in
1986 by President Ronald
Reagan.
SAN FRANCISCO — The
tech industry is starting to
line up with Apple in its fight
against the federal government over the encryption it
uses to keep iPhones secure.
Earlier this week, a U.S.
magistrate ordered Apple
to help investigators break
into an iPhone used by one
of the San Bernardino mass
shooters. Apple has until next
Tuesday to challenge that
ruling, setting the stage for a
legal clash that could determine whether tech companies
or government authorities
get the final say on just how
secure devices like smartphones can be.
CEO Tim Cook decried
the order on Tuesday, saying it would degrade iPhone
security and make users more
vulnerable to spies and cyber
thieves. Increasingly, other
prominent tech companies
agree.
“We stand with @tim_cook
and Apple (and thank him for
his leadership)!” Twitter chief
executive Jack Dorsey wrote
in a tweet Thursday afternoon.
In a statement late
Thursday, Facebook said it
condemns terrorism and also
appreciates the essential work
of law enforcement in keeping
people safe. But it said it will
“fight aggressively” against
requirements for companies
to weaken the security of their
systems.
“These demands would
create a chilling precedent and
obstruct companies’ efforts
to secure their products,” the
statement said.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai
had earlier voiced support for
Apple in a series of tweets.
“Forcing companies to enable
hacking could compromise
users’ privacy,” Pichai wrote
on Wednesday, adding that
the case “could be a troubling
precedent.”
Apple’s recent iPhones use
encryption security that Apple
itself can’t unlock. The government isn’t asking Apple to help
break the iPhone’s encryption
directly, but to disable other
security measures that prevent
attempts to guess the phone’s
passcode.
Cook argues that once such
a tool is available, “the technique could be used over and
over again, on any number of
devices.” Law enforcement
insists that safeguards could
be employed to limit use of the
workaround to the particular
phone at hand. On Tuesday,
Cook posted a 1,117-word
open letter that contended
the FBI’s request might have
implications “far beyond the
legal case at hand.”
For months, Cook has
engaged in a sharp, public
debate with government
officials over his company’s
decision to shield the data
of iPhone users with strong
encryption — essentially locking up people’s photos, text
messages and other data so
securely that even Apple can’t
get at it. Law-enforcement
officials from FBI Director
James Comey on down have
complained that terrorists and
criminals may use that encryption as a shield.
While tech companies have
spoken against broad government surveillance in the past,
the Obama administration has
recently sought to enlist the
tech industry’s help in fighting
terrorism. Several companies
have recently heeded the
administration’s request for
voluntary efforts aimed at
countering terrorist postings
on social media.
Civil liberties groups
warned the fallout from the
San Bernardino dispute could
extend beyond Apple.
“This is asking a company
to build a digital defect, a
design flaw, into their products,” said Nuala O’Connor of
the Center for Democracy and
Technology, a Washingtonbased group that has criticized
government surveillance. In a
statement, the center warned
that other companies could
face similar orders in the
future.
Others said a government
victory could encourage
regimes in China and other
countries to make similar
requests for access to smartphone data. Apple sells millions of iPhones in China,
which has become the company’s second-largest market.
“This case is going to
affect everyone’s privacy and
security around the world,”
said Lee Tien, a staff attorney
for the Electronic Frontier
Foundation, a digital rights
group in San Francisco.
The case turns on an 18thcentury law that the government has invoked to require
private assistance with law
enforcement efforts. Apple
has also challenged a federal
search warrant based on the
same law in a Brooklyn drug
case. Apple has complied with
previous orders invoking that
law — the All Writs Act of
1789 — although it has argued
the circumstances were different.
Impact Oral Surgery
The Benton Area Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors and Bryant Area Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors welcome Impact Oral
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Cooperative Corp., Edward Jones Investments, Dinner’s Ready Market & Deli, Fairfield Inn & Suites Benton, MySaline.com, Goodwill,
Farmers Insurance Michael Herrington Agency, Natural State Drug & Alcohol Testing, Lisa’s Therapeutic Massage, the Saline Courier,
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John Haman, Wealth Management
Paychex
The Bryant Area Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors welcome John Haman, Wealth Management Advisor. From left to right on the
front row: Rae Ann Fields of Bryant Area Chamber of Commerce, Marilyn Bagby of Bryant Bethel Physical Therapy PA, Cheryl Cook of
Landers of Saline County, John Haman of John Haman, Wealth Management Advisor, Toby Hirscheider of Carson Physical Therapy, Lisa
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Habitat for Humanity of Saline County, Andy Garcia of Edward Jones Investments, Cheryl Smith of Bryant Area Chamber of Commerce,
Shirley Ward of C.O.P. Security, Trevor Ward of C.O.P. Security, Desiree Paulhamus of Dinner’s Ready Market & Deli, Lisa Crawford of
Lisa’s Therapeutic Massage and Dean Riggin of Dean Riggin for JP District 2.
The Bryant Area Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors welcome Paychex. From left to right on the front row: Patricia Duncan of iBERIABANK, Nate Bryan of Paychex, Meredith Barnett of Paychex, Carolee Emerson of Paychex, Lisa Crawford of Lisa’s Therapeutic Massage,
Steven Reynolds of iBERIABANK and Barbara Riggin of iBERIABANK; second row: Mandi Foltz of Timberline Adventure Park, Rae Ann
Fields of Bryant Area Chamber of Commerce, Cheryl Cook of Landers of Saline County, Lisa Abels of Centennial Bank, Colleen Baird
of Ashby St. Outdoor and Mike Harbour of Harbour Resources; third row: Julie Roltsch of Roberson Insurance-Julie Roltsch, Megan Eoff
of Habitat for Humanity of Saline County, Catherine Reid of Fairfield Inn & Suites Benton, Toby Hirscheider of Carson Physical Therapy,
Marilyn Bagby of Bryant Bethel Physical Therapy PA, Greg Thompson of the City of Bryant Parks and Recreation, Donna K Smith of
American Cancer Society - Relay For Life of Saline County, Andy Garcia of Edward Jones Investments, Constance Harbour and Glenna
Ferrell of Magic Touch Massage Therapy.
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12921 Cantrell Rd. Suite 100, Little Rock • (501) 223-5730 • www.paychex.com
Professional Accounting Consultants, LLC
Rausch Coleman Homes’ Crossing at Oak Hill
The Bryant Area Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors welcome Professional Accounting Consultants, LLC. From left to right on the front
row: Carolee Emerson of Paychex, Nate Bryan of Paychex, Patricia Duncan of iBERIABANK, Lisa Abels of Centennial Bank, Beth German
of Professional Accounting Consultants, LLC, Mike Griffith of Professional Accounting Consultants, LLC, Steven Reynolds of iBERIABANK,
Barbara Riggin of iBERIABANK, Glenna Ferrell of Magic Touch Massage Therapy and Mike Harbour of Harbour Resources; second row:
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Chamber of Commerce, Donna K Smith of American Cancer Society - Relay For Life of Saline County, Colleen Baird of Ashby St. Outdoor
and Lisa Crawford of Lisa’s Therapeutic Massage; third row: Julie Roltsch of Roberson Insurance-Julie Roltsch, Catherine Reid of Fairfield
Inn & Suites Benton, Cheryl Cook of Landers of Saline County, Andy Garcia of Edward Jones Investments, Cheryl Smith of Bryant Area
Chamber of Commerce, Toby Hirscheider of Carson Physical Therapy, Greg Thompson of the City of Bryant Parks and Recreation and
Mandi Foltz of Timberline Adventure Park.
The Bryant Area Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors welcome Rausch Coleman Homes’ Crossing at Oak Hill. Businesses represented:
Rausch Coleman Homes, Bryant Area Chamber of Commerce, C.O.P. Security, Edward Jones Investments, Roberson Insurance-Julie
Roltsch, First Electric Cooperative Corp., Habitat for Humanity of Saline County, Bank of Arkansas Mortgage, AT&T, Premiere Nationwide
Lending, Baxley-Penfield-Moudy Realtors, iBERIABANK, Ron Jones Agency Farmers Insurance, Truman Ball & Associates, Landers of
Saline County, Centennial Bank, Ashby St. Outdoor Fairfield Inn & Suites Benton, Bryant Bethel Physical Therapy PA, American Cancer
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Sports
SALINE
SCOREBOARD
Clift, Robinson compete at state Cobras bite Bauxite
in district semis
MONDAY
BASKETBALL
7-4A DISTRICT TOURNEY
Bauxite (B) def. Mena 64-56
TUESDAY
BASKETBALL
Texarkana def. Benton (G) 55-39
Benton (B) def. Texarkana 75-42
Bryant (G) def. Russellvil e 37-36
Bryant (B) def. Russellvil e 54-50
(Ashdown)
No. 3 Bauxite (G) def. Ark. 54-39
Ashdown def. Bauxite (B) 47-41
WEDNESDAY
BASKETBALL
(Episcopal Collegiate in LR)
Glen Rose def. HG (G)
No. 3 HG (B) def. Mayflower
THURSDAY
BASKETBALL
F. Lake def. Bauxite (G) 51-41
(Episcopal Collegiate in LR)
Jessievil e def. HG (B) 51-28
TODAY
BASKETBALL
Benton vs. L. Hamilton, 5 p.m.
Bryant at Alma, 4 p.m.
WRESTLING
Benton at State Meet (UALR), 10
a.m.
SATURDAY
BASKETBALL
(Ashdown)
Bauxite (G) vs. Malvern, 3 p.m.
By Tony Lenahan
[email protected]
ASHDOWN – The Bauxite
Lady Miners kept it close,
but would end up falling
to the Fountain Lake Lady
Cobras for the third time
this season. In the semifinals of the 7-4A District
Tournament in Ashdown,
Bauxite fell 51-41 to Fountain
Lake on Thursday and play
Malvern in the consolation
game Saturday.
“We had our chances
in the second half but we
didn’t play very well offensively,” Bauxite Coach Cody
Lambert said. “Their post
player, Pearl Lee, she’s 6-1
and really good at protecting
the rim. When we’re not hitting shots, we don’t have a
TONY LENAHAN/The Saline Courier
true post player, it’s hard to
Benton junior Keith Propps wrestles in a match earlier this season. Benton junior Chandler Clift is the
get points.”
fourth seed in the heavyweight division for the state tournament today and is 22-1 on the season. Clift’s
Lambert explained that
only loss came to the No. 1 seed in the state. Freshman Nate Robinson will compete today as the sixth
the
Lady Miners, usually
seed in the 113-pound class. Should either wrestler medal, it would be the first time a Benton wrestler
really
good shooting from
has medaled since John Moritz did two years ago. Opening ceremonies began at 9:40 a.m. today and
the outside, have struggled
wrestling starts at 10 a.m. at the Jack Stephens Center on the UALR campus in Little Rock.
Hogs open with Chippewas
2015, the Chippewas have
five players named preseason All-MAC for 2016.
Ace right-handed pitcher
Sean Renzi, 5-2, 2.33 ERA
with 60 strikeouts in
65 innings, is first-team
Preseason All-MAC. He
will be followed in the
weekend rotation by
returning left-handed starters Nick Deeg, 8-5, and
By Nate Allen
Razorbacks Report
Adam Aldred, 5-3.
CMU’s All-MAC position players are outfielders
Logan Regainer and Daniel
Jipping, and infielders
Zack McKinstry and Alex
Borglin.
The Chippewas will provide “a really good” opening test, Van Horn said,
before the 22nd-ranked
Razorbacks themselves
head south the following
weekend playing 20thranked Rice, 12th-ranked
Houston and 25th-ranked
Texas Tech at the Houston
Astros’ Minute Maid Park.
With all on early-season
pitch counts, Arkansas
will start coming off injury
rehab returning starters
FAYETTEVILLE College baseball teams
from way up north like
the Central Michigan
Chippewas like coming
south in February and
early March just to get in
games that their home cliBASEBALL, page 9
mates don’t often allow to
be played or even practice
much outside.
They not only like but
love coming south when
convinced they can upset
their weather advantaged prepared host.
Coach Steve Jaksa and
his reigning Mid-American
Conference Chippewas
apparently believe they can
a win a game or two from
the SEC powerful coming off the College World
Series Razorbacks in the
season opening weekend
for games at 3 p.m. today,
2 p.m. Saturday and noon
Sunday at Baum Stadium.
“They called us a couple
of years back Arkansas
Coach Dave Van Horn
said, noting when northern teams avidly initiate a
series years in advance it’s
with the belief they have
recruiting classes by then
geared to peak.
ALAN JAMISON/Nate Allen Sports Service
Off their 35-22 MAC
Arkansas second baseman Rick Nomura competes in a game last season. The Razorbacks begin their
championship team of
season today when they take on the Central Michigan Chippewas at 3 p.m. at Baum Stadium.
Saline County Top Scorers
BOYS
G
Pts Avg.
1. Clay Anderson, Benton
2. Christian Brown, HG
3. Kevin Hunt, Bryant
4. Romen Martin, Bryant
5. Jacob Stroud, Bauxite
6. Derrick Strong, Bauxite
7. Colton Robinson, Bauxite
8. Austin Brown, HG
9. Jaysin Gillion, HG
10. Jake Scoggins, Benton
23
26
24
24
26
26
26
26
26
23
461
487
331
295
313
277
261
256
251
218
GIRLS
1. Raija Todd, Bryant
2. Morgan Efird, HG
3. Joscelyn Rogers, Bauxite
4. Emily Ridgell, Bryant
5. Daikerria Strong, Bauxite
6. Abby Clay, Benton
7. Sydney Oliver, Bauxite
8. Destiny McClain, Bauxite
9. Leighton Withers, HG
10. Shelby Chavers, Bauxite
* Season over
G
22
23
27
20
28
24
26
24
26
28
20.0
18.7
13.8
12.3
12.0*
10.7*
10.0*
9.8
9.7
9.5
16.0
11.7*
10.4
9.5
9.1
7.1
6.9
6.5
5.8*
5.7
LADY MINERS, page 9
Frosh
saves
day for
Arkansas
By Nate Allen
Razorbacks Report
FAYETTEVILLE Without Conway’s Jordan
Danberry, Arkansas’ women’s basketball team maybe
gets beaten by a bunch by
Alabama.
But with the Arkansas
freshman point guard and
former Wampus Cat, the
Razorbacks won Thursday
night’s SEC game 69-67 at
Walton Arena on Danberry’s
basket breaking a 67-67 tie
with seven seconds left for
her 12th point after dealing
10 assists.
Danberry’s big night
dishing the most Arkansas
assists since Calli Berna
in 2012, assisted on many
of Jacksonville’s Jessica
Jackson team-leading 20
points.
Alabama netted huge 24and 19-point performances
by guard Hannah Cook and
center Quanteria Bolton, but
it was a three by Meoshonti
Knight that tied it 67-67 with
15 seconds left preceding
Danberry driving and shootLADY BACKS, page 10
Panthers
take 7th
at state
By Tony Lenahan
[email protected]
TONY LENAHAN/The Saline Courier
Benton senior Sam Eddington bowls earlier in the season. The
Panthers finished seventh at the state tournament Wednesday.
CABOT – After winning
the conference tournament
last Friday, the Benton boys
BOWLING, page 10
Today’s Basketball Matchups
Pts Avg.
353
268
282
189
255
170
192
156
150
159
the past two game from
beyond the arc.
“Tuesday night when we
played Arkadelphia (54-39
win), we were 0 for 15 and
last night we were 2 of 16, so
we’ve hit a dry spell shooting
the ball,” Lambert said. “I
need to go back and watch
previous film of why were
not shooting well; if we’re
rushing shots or not making
the right passes. With our
size and the way we play,
we’re going to have to make
shots.”
Trailing 30-21 at halftime,
the Lady Miners (17-12)
went on an 8-0 run to start
the third quarter to get within 30-29. Bauxite held a short
lead late in the the third,
but the Lady Cobras (20-7)
would score twice in a row to
take a 37-33 lead going into
the fourth.
But, Fountain Lake’s Lee
proved too much as she held
the Lady Miners in check
Overall
Benton Lady Panthers Lake Hamilton Lady Wolves
8-16
13-11
Conf.
5-6
6-5
Last 10
5-5
6-4
Benton Panthers13-105-65-5
Lake Hamilton Wolves14-86-55-5
Benton Arena
Overall
Conf.
Last 10
Bryant Lady Hornets9-134-74-6
Alma Airedalettes9-132-72-8
Bryant Hornets18-68-37-3
Alma Airedales7-122-7
Alma High School
The Saline Courier
SALINE SENIORS
Brandon Childers
School: Benton Bowling
Plans after high school: Tulsa Welding School
Favorite Food: Bison liver
Favorite Music: Polka
Favorite Movie: Twilight
Favorite Subject in School: AP Calculus
Hobbies: Reading books, LARPing and gardening.
Favorite Athletes: Keath Hendrick
Emily Ridgell
School: Bryant Basketball
Plans after high school: Go to college.
Favorite Food: Mexican
Favorite Music: Rap
Favorite Movie: A Thin Line Between Love and Hate
Favorite Subject in School: English
Hobbies: Basketball and shopping.
Favorite Athletes: Kobe Bryant
Cardinals fall in semis, end district run
By Josh Briggs
[email protected]
LITTLE ROCK — The
Harmony Grove Cardinals
ended their 5-3A District
Tournament run Thursday
with a 51-28 loss to No.
2 Jessieville at Episcopal
Collegiate in Little Rock.
A day after advancing to
the semifinals and earning a
bid to the Region 2 Regional
Tournament, the Cardinals
could not overcome the
Lions’ powerful offense. The
loss was the third straight to
Jessieville this season.
Harmony Grove slipped
past Mayflower in Round
1 on Wednesday, winning
55-50 after a tough shooting
night.
The Cardinals trailed
17-11 after the first quarter
and fell behind 29-17 at the
break.
A dismal second half
would prove critical for
Harmony Grove as it posted
only 11 points in 16 minutes
of action.
Jessieville would add 22
during that span.
The loss moves Harmony
Grove to 18-9 overall on
the season. Tentatively,
the Cardinals will play Feb.
25 at Cedar Ridge in the
first round of the Region 2
Regional Tournament.
Senior Christian Brown
led Harmony Grove with
12 points, all coming off of
3-pointers.
Austin Brown followed
with six in the loss.
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Dylan Melton
School: Bauxite Basketball
Plans after high school: UALR.
Favorite Food: Pizza
Favorite Music: Hip-Hop
Favorite Movie: Coach Carter
Favorite Subject in School: Math
Hobbies: Hooping and chilling with my teammates.
Favorite Athletes: Kyrie Irving
Trojans overcome doubledigit deficit to win at GSU
Special to the Courier
ATLANTA, Ga. – Down
as many as 14 and trailing
by nine at halftime, Little
Rock (23-3, 13-2) used a
14-1 run early in the second
half to build a lead it would
not relinquish in a 57-49 win
over Georgia State (13-11,
6-9 SBC) at GSU Sports
Arena on Thursday. The
Trojans’ 23rd win matches
the program record, originally set by the 1987-88
team, for regular-season
victories.
Lady Miners
From page 8
in the paint. Bauxite junior
Sydney Oliver led her team
with 19 points in the loss.
“Sydney Oliver played
really, really well in the first
half,” Lambert said. “They
switched defenses on us.
She hit a lot of her shots 5
to 7 feet from the goal. They
just had Pearl just hover the
ball and she was swatting
shots like crazy. She prob-
“Give Georgia State a lot
of credit – I thought they
played great,” head coach
Chris Beard said after the
win. “They were really
good early so we just had to
weather the storm. Give our
players a lot of credit in the
second half. We played a
good offensive game, shooting 50 percent. And defensively, I thought we locked
down and played Little Rock
defense.”
The win was Little Rock’s
11th true road win of the
season, which matches a
program record and is good
enough for second-most
nationally in 2015-16.
Daniel Green’s tip-in at
the 16:57 mark started the
14-1 run. Green’s basket
was followed by a jumper
from Mareik Isom. After
GSU’s Crider made 1 of 2
at the line, a 3-pointer by
Marcus Johnson Jr. and
3-point play by Josh Hagins
gave Little Rock its first
lead of the game at 35-34
with 14:57 to play. Johnson
was fouled in transition and
ably had 15 or more blocks.
“Defensively we played
well enough to win, we just
have to put up points.”
The Lady Miners will
take on the Malvern Lady
Leopards, a team Bauxite
defeated 52-41 and 41-24,
Saturday at 3 p.m. at
Ashdown High School. A
win against Malvern would
pit Bauxite against Dumas
or Monticello in the South
Regional Tournament. A loss
and the Lady Miners take on
a very tough Star City team,
which is 25-2 on the year.
Star City’s two losses came
against 7A teams North
Little Rock and Cabot.
“We have a big game
against Malvern which will
be a huge factor in if we
make the state tournament
or not,” Lambert said. “We
beat Malvern twice this year,
but we beat them twice last
year and they beat us in the
district finals. We know it’s
going to be tough. We just
have to make sure we have
our minds right and score
some points.”
TROJANS, page 10
JUSTIN MANNING/jaysphotodesign.com
Harmony Grove guard Andrew Hill brings the ball up the court during the recent game. The Cardinals
fell 51-28 to Jessieville on Thursday in the semifinals of the 5-3A District Tournament.
Baseball
From page 8
Dominic Taccolini Friday
and Keaton McKinney
Sunday, followed by freshman Blaine Knight of
Bryant against CMU, Van
Horn said.
All throw right-handed.
Zach Jackson, the
preseason All-American
and adorning the Golden
Spikes Award watch list
the latest honor, closes out
of the Razorbacks bullpen.
Taccolini, hospitalized
last spring with a serious
blood clot, posted his best
scrimmage outing last
weekend, Van Horn said.
Knight precociously has
impressed since fall ball.
“Blaine Knight has been
real consistent,” Van Horn
said.
For opening day,
expect Van Horn to open
with a lineup of up the
middle incumbents Tucker
Pennell, Rick Nomura and
Michael Bernal, catching,
second and short, with
Clark Eagan’ last year’s
first baseman, in center
field.
At the corners, sophomores Cullen Gassaway
and Carson Shaddy start
at first and third with
sophomore Luke Bonfield
in left, and freshman Eric
Cole and sophomore Chad
Spanberger as either/or
for right field and designated hitter.
BAUXITE ATHLETICS
Bauxite freshman Destiny McClain goes up for a shot in a game earlier this season. The Lady Miners
fell 51-41 to the Fountain Lake Lady Cobras in the semifinals of the 7-4A District Tournament.
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The Saline Courier
Arkansas track readying for championships
By Nate Allen
Razorbacks Report
FAYETTEVILLE - While
Arkansas Men’s Track
Coach Chris Bucknam and
Arkansas Women’s Track
Coach Lance Harter take
their distance medley
relay teams to South Bend,
Indiana, trying to qualify
nationally on the oversized
indoor track at Notre Dame,
the rest of their teams under
men’s assistants Doug
Case and Travis Geopfert
and women’s assistants
Lady Backs
From page 8
ing off the dribble to break
the tie with Arkansas surviving two Alabama misses
after Danberry’s bucket.
“She (Danberry) made
a play just like we made
a play the basket before,”
Alabama Coach Kristy
Curry said. “It was a heartbreaker.”
And a heart salver for
Coach Jimmy Dykes’
Razorbacks improved 11-15
overall and 6-7 in the SEC
going into Sunday’s SEC
game at Kentucky televised
on the SEC Network.
“Jordan Danberry had
the courage and confidence
to bring that ball down and
make a play,” Dykes said.
“She shot the same shot
(a late miss that freshman
teammate Malica Monk
rebounded and put back for
the 57-56 game-winner two
games ago over Vanderbilt)
and it didn’t go in, but
(Thursday) it goes in. She
did exactly what we wanted
to do in those late-game
situations. Don’t let that
defense get set and make a
play and it paid off tonight.”
Danberry said the whole
Vanderbilt experience “paid
off.”
“Since I had taken that
shot and there was pressure, this shot was more
comfortable for me,”
Chris Johnson and Bryan
Compton tonight will tune
up for next weekend’s SEC
Indoor Championships at
Arkansas’ Randal Tyson
Indoor Track with a meet
tonight at Randal Tyson.
Baylor, Kansas, Houston,
Texas Tech, Oral Roberts
and Missouri State are
teams also competing in
the early evening 5 p.m.
to 7:50 p.m. meet both
tuning up for their conference meets and trying to
establish or improve individual marks contending to
qualify for the NCAA Indoor
Championships March 11-12
in Birmingham, Alabama.
Meanwhile, Saturday
night in New York’s prestigious Millrose Games
at The Armory, Arkansas
two-time 2015 NCAA Indoor
champion Dominique Scott
will run as the featured
collegian in the women’s
Wanamaker mile.
Scott competes unattached this winter having
exhausted her indoor
eligibility last year but outdoors actively returns to
Harter’s Razorbacks this
spring as a fifth-year senior.
In the national rankings
released Monday after both
teams competed well last
weekend as split squads
with their sprinters, jumpers and vaulters competing
at the Tyson Invitational at
Randal Tyson while their
distance runners ran on
oversized tracks in Ames,
Iowa, and Seattle, Bucknam
was pleased to see his
Razorbacks soar from eighth
to first while Harter was
bemused to see his reigning
national and SEC champions
drop from first to fourth.
“I will continue not to
know exactly how the rankings work,” Harter said.
“They had us No. 1 ever
since the initial vote and I
guess they finally figured
out that Dominique Scott
and Sandi Morris (the
graduated 2015 NCAA
Indoor pole vault champion
now competing professionally) aren’t eligible for indoors
because we have had a great
season so far. Our kids are
establishing season’s bests
and lifetime bests every
week.”
Bucknam explained the
early polls from January
until mid-February are more
like preseason polls based
on what returning athletes
did last year and that this
week’s poll reflects performances achieved in 2016.
“There’s worth to it,”
Bucknam said. “But the only
poll that really counts is the
poll that’s after the national
championship and the SEC
meet. It does indicate to
our guys that their hard
work being recognized and
we have a decent team. How
that works out at the end,
we’ll see going forward.”
Danberry said. “It was less
pressure just to dribble
down and make the play.
We couldn’t lose the (tied)
game if I missed it so I just
thought get it in the basket.”
Alabama’s Crimson Tide,
knocking on the door but
still seeking its first SEC
road win, drops to 14-12
overall, 3-10 in the SEC.
“We took a bad shot,”
Curry said of the first
shot after Danberry’s dagger. “And then Bolton
crashed and followed and it
didn’t fall.
We have had some bad
luck but you have got to
make your own luck.”
Dykes lauded Cook
(“she can really shoot the
ball”) and Bolton (“a handful”) and said, “Alabama
is a good team. They have
won only three SEC games
but they have come so
close and they came close
tonight, but our team came
in wanting to win. Jessica
was terrific. We tried to get
her the ball more but they
boxed-and-one on her.”
And she still could put
up 13 shots with Danberry
assisting on three buckets.
“Jordan played good
tonight, the whole team
did,” Jackson said. “I am
proud of Jordan to be a
freshman and take a shot
like that twice (late against
Vanderbilt and Alabama).
That’s a lot of confidence.”
Danberry dished six
assists, two helping
Jackson achieve 12 first-half
points, while scoring five
herself in Arkansas’ 32-28
first half that Arkansas
never trailed but never led
by more than six points.
Bolton, 10 first-half
points mostly inside, and
Cook, nine first-half points
on three threes, scored the
bulk of Alabama’s first-half
points.
Both teams excelled
from the free-throw line, 15
of 17 for Alabama and 18 of
22 for Arkansas.
“We got to the free-throw
line more than they did and
that was huge,” Dykes said.
Alabama didn’t take its
first lead, 41-39, until 5:13
remained in the third quarter and closed the quarter
up 51-48.
Arkansas, with three
on an Alecia Cooley oldfashioned three-point play
assisted by Danberry who
opened the fourth quarter
scoring, scored the first
seven points of the fourth
quarter and led by as much
as eight before Knight tied
it and Danberry won it.
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Arena in Fayetteville. Danberry hit the game-winning shot with seven seconds left.
YOU are the Key to Fighting Cancer!
Join your community in the fight against cancer! The American Cancer Society Relay for Life will be
held from 6pm until midnight Friday, May 6, 2016 at CW Lewis Stadium in Benton. Teams of people
in our community will take turns walking around the track in this non-competitive event. Relay
teams consist of individuals representing corporations, churches, clubs, organizations and families.
During Relay for Life team members enjoy games, food, music and camaraderie while enjoying their
tent sites at this event. At 9:00 pm, all participants will share in a special Luminaria Ceremony to
remember those individuals who have been affected by cancer. The names and/or pictures of those
individuals will be displayed in a video presentation. Luminaria bags will be lit in honor or memory
of cancer patients and support of caregivers, and placed around the perimeter of the track. We are also offering a special Torch of Hope. You
are invited to support this effort by ordering a luminaria in honor or memory of a loved one who has been touched by cancer. Simply fill
out the form below, and mail your order (along with picture, if applicable) to the address listed.
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Yours to keep after the luminaria service
Bowling
From page 8
bowling team had a tough go
of it during the state tournament Wednesday at Allfam
Bowling Center in Cabot.
Benton finished seventh
with 3,801 total pins as host
Cabot won state by almost
300 pins.
After Cabot’s 4,447
total, Bentonville (4,172),
Van Buren (4,158), Lake
Hamilton (4,138), Siloam
Springs (4,094) and Rogers
(3,846) rounded out the top
six. Northside, Texarkana
and Conway rounded out the
top 10.
The Cabot girls also
won state with Fayetteville,
Bentonville, Springdale and
Mountain Home rounding
From page 9
made both free throws to
cap the Trojans’ 14-1 spurt.
The Panthers pulled
within four four times in
the final 10 minute, the last
time coming on a 3-pointer
from Austin Donaldson with
3:09 left. After empty possessions from both team’s Lis
Shoshi’s 3-pointer from the
corner pushed the margin
back to seven with 38 seconds remaining.
Little Rock’s defense limited Georgia State to 38.3 percent shooting on the night,
and just 22.7 percent in the
second half. The Panthers
made just five shots after
halftime.
Thursday’s win is Little
Rock’s sixth of the season
overcoming a double-digit
deficit.
Johnson led Little Rock
with 14 points while knocking down three 3-pointers.
Shoshi posted a doubledouble with 11 points and a
career-high 16 boards. Roger
Woods nearly added his
own double-double, finishing
with nine points and eight
rebounds.
At 23-3 overall, the Trojans
are tied with No. 1 Villanova
and No. 8 Xavier for the best
record in the nation.
The Trojans trailed by as
many as 14 in the opening
half as Georgia State shot
52.0 percent from the floor
and made three 3-pointers
over the first 20 minutes.
The Trojans defense ended
the half on a strong note,
holding Georgia State to
just 1 of its last 7 field goal
attempts.
Little Rock is back in
action Saturday at Georgia
Southern. Tipoff is set for 6
p.m.
out the top five. The Benton
Lady Panthers didn’t qualify
for state as a team during
the conference tournament,
but senior Aspen Roberts
led Benton with a 438 series
(172, 141, 125), sophomore
Abby Drennan a 409 (158,
102, 149) and sophomore
Abby Lang bowled a 370
series (124, 147, 99).
For the boys, Benton
senior Sam Eddington led
the Panthers bowling a
561 series (184, 203, 174).
Senior Brandon Childers followed with a 543 (189, 163,
191), senior Luke Genty a
535 (194, 130, 211), senior
Harrison Ballard, last season’s gold-medal bowler at
state, a 521 (158, 159, 204),
junior Heath Kendrick a 518
(123, 192, 203) and senior
Ethan Tinkle a 370 (142, 121,
107).
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2010 Cadillac CTS
3.0L, V6, RWD Luxury
16,900
$
I-30 Alcoa Exit
Next to Target
501.315.7100
‘15 Nissan Altima
4 Dr. Sedan, 2.5 L.
20,500
$
I-30 Alcoa Exit
$60,000.00
Rent
House for sale. Vinyl
siding. Benton School
District. 501-840-2038
[email protected]
Mobile Homes
For Sale
MOBILE HOMES
with acreage. Ready
to move in. Seller Financing (subject to
credit approval). Lots
of room for the price,
3Br 2Ba. No renters.
501-588-3300
Notice of Public
Hearing of Conditional use permits for
1005 Brookview St.,
1912 Alcoa Rd., 1617
Deerfield Rd., all located in Benton, AR.
Purpose: group
homes for men with
disabilities. Hearing is
set for March 8, 2016
at 6 p.m., at City of
Benton Municipal
Complex, 114 South
East St., Benton, AR
Legal Notice
Next to Target
501.315.7100
Trucks / Vans
For Sale
4 Wheel Drive, Reg. Cab
Std. Box, Work Truck
I-30 Alcoa Exit
Next to Target
501.315.7100
3 & 4 BEDROOM
$825 -$1400 mo.,
Buy • Sell • Trade
DISH NETWORK. Haskell, Benton &
in the Classifieds
Get MORE for LESS! Bryant. 315-9370
Starting $19.99/month
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(for 12 months.)
PLUS Bundle &
SAVE (Fast Internet
NOTICE OF PROPOSED ISSUANCE OF REVENUE BONDS
for $15 more/month.)
Notice is hereby given that on March 8, 2016 at 10:00 a.m., a public
CALL
N o w hearing will be conducted on the issuance by the Garland County,
1-800-224-0441.
Arkansas Waterworks and Sewer Facilities Board (Hot Springs Village) (the "Board") of its Revenue Bonds, Refunding Series 2016A
GOT KNEE PAIN? (the "Series 2016A Bonds") and Improvement Series 2016B (the
Back Pain? Shoulder "Series 2016B Bonds").
Pain? Get a pain-reThe Series 2016A Bonds will be issued to current refund the Board's
lieving brace at little Revenue Refunding Bonds, Series 2009A, which refunded the
or NO cost to you.
Board's Revenue Bonds, Series 2004 (the "Series 2004 Bonds").
Medicare Patients The Series 2004 Bonds were issued to finance expansions and imCall Health Hotline provements to the sewer facilities which serve the area known as
Now!
"Hot Springs Village" and included new and additional filters and
1-800-790-3818.
other improvements at the Mill Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant
(198 Cortez Road), filter repair and other improvements at the Cedar
S & S TREE SOLUTION
Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant (199 Cloaca), pipe, pump and
& FIREWOOD
other improvements, extensions to the collection facilities, and other
Service with Excellence
related improvements (collectively, the "2004 Improvements").
501-541-6013
The Series 2016B Bonds will be issued to finance improvements
(the "2016 Improvements") to the sewer facilities which serve the
Rooms For Rent area known as "Hot Springs Village." The 2016 Improvements include rehabilitation work at both the Mill Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant (198 Cortez Road) and the Cedar Creek Wastewater
FURNISHED
Treatment Plant (199 Cloaca) and collection facilities improvements,
BEDROOM Utilities
including rehabilitation of manholes and lines.
paid $100 weekly
The maximum aggregate principal amount of the Series 2016A
Call 501-574-8197
Bonds will be $1,600,000. The maximum aggregate principal amount
of the Series 2016B Bonds will be $2,100,000.
Apartments
The Series 2016A Bonds and the Series 2016B Bonds (collectively,
Unfurnished
the "Bonds") will be obligations only of the Board and will not be obli2 BR Apts, kit. appl., gations of Garland County or Saline County.
W&D conn., $500 & The owner, operator and manager of the 2004 Improvements and
up. Handicap access. the 2016 Improvements will be Hot Springs Village Property Owners
Association, an Arkansas nonprofit corporation.
317-5190 / 317-5192
The hearing will be conducted by the Board as the delegate of the
Garland County Court and the Saline County Court. Persons desir2BR 1BA kitch. appl.
ing to be heard with respect to issuance of the Bonds should appear
W/D conn. $550mo.
$250dep No Pets.Call at the Coronado Community Center, 150 Ponderosa Way, Hot
Springs Village, at the time set forth above.
between 9am-8pm
Dated: February 16, 2016.
501-315-9337
GARLAND COUNTY, ARKANSAS WATERWORKS AND SEWER
FACILITIES BOARD (HOT SPRINGS VILLAGE)
Classifieds Work!
NOTICE TO BIDDERS
Notice is hereby given that on the 10th day
of March, 2016 in accordance with ACA §
14-22-101 et. seq., bids will be accepted by
Saline County for the Road Department, for
providing 30 L.F. of 16! Wide by 5! Tall & 30
L.F. of 14! Wide by 5! Tall Precast Concrete
Box Culverts." Specifications regarding the
bid may be obtained at the Saline County
Courthouse, Purchasing Office Rm. 116." All
bids must be received in the Saline County
Purchasing Office, 200 N. Main Street
Rm.116 Benton, Arkansas no later than
10:00 a.m., Thursday March 10, 2016,
where they will be opened and read aloud.""
The Saline County Judge shall have the
right to reject any and all bids received."
Legal Notice
NOTICE OF FILING OF ACCOUNTS FINAL
Pursuant to Ark. Code 28-52-106, notice is
given that account of the administration of
estate listed below have been filed on the
dates shown.
All interested persons are called on to file
objection of such accounts on or before the
sixtieth day following the filing of the respective accounts, failing which they will be forever barred from excepting to the accounts.
The Estate of Charlie H. Crouch, Deceased
Case No. 63PR-59-72, Final Accounting
Charles Wayne Nichols, Successor Administrator
Filed on February 16, 2016
Saline County Clerk, Doug Curtis
Deputy Clerk, Allison Cain
Legal Notice
NOTICE OF FILING APPLICATION FOR
PRIVATE CLUB
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned
has filed applications with the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division of the State of Arkansas for private club permit to dispense alcoholic beverages on the premises described
as:
2224 Brandon Lp, Bryant, Saline County
Said application was filed on February 1,
2016. The undersigned states that he/she is
a resident of Arkansas, of good moral character; that he/she has never been convicted
of a felony or other crime involving moral turpitude; that no license to sell alcoholic beverage by the undersigned has been revoked
within five (5) years last past; and, that the
undersigned has never been convicted of
violating the laws of this State, or any other
State, relative to the sale of controlled beverages.
Ronnie Beard, Ronnie B's
Sworn to before me this 3rd day of February,
2016, Tiffany D. Johnson
Courier Cla$$ifieds
[email protected]
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