Witness helps police after Shannon Hills incident

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1 arrested after allegedly shooting man
Witness helps police after Shannon Hills incident
By Sarah Perry
sperry@bentoncourier.com
An Alexander man has been
arrested for allegedly shooting
another man early Sunday morning in Shannon Hills.
The incident took place at
approximately 1:15 a.m. near the
intersection of Crestside Drive
and Stallion Pass
Scipio Brown, 41, allegedly shot
a man in the head. The victim was
taken to a local hospital and “is
expected to be OK,” said Shannon
Hill Assistant Police Chief Jeremy
Brown.
With the help of a witness
who identified Scipio Brown as
the shooter and a “good vehicle
description with a license plate
number,” the police were able to
arrest Scipio Brown at his residence.
“I would really like to thank the
public for their help. They helped
us make a fast arrest on a violent
crime by coming forward,” he
ATV park
target of
environment
complaint
said.
Scipio Brown has been charged
with committing a terroristic act
and aggravated assault. He is
still being detained at the Saline
County jail and a bond hearing is
set for this morning.
Officers are still investigating
the incident.
Drug Take
Back event set
for April 25
JACKPOT!
By Sarah Perry
sperry@bentoncourier.com
By Joe Phelps
jphelps@bentoncourier.com
Angered that the once clear waters of Fourche
Creek have been muddied by thrill seekers, a Saline
County woman has filed a complaint with the Arkansas
Department of Environmental Quality.
Carter Off Road Park, at 7498 Anderson St.,
Alexander, is the target of a complaint filed by Carolyn
Earle Billingsley, who owns an adjoining property.
Billingsley said Mark Carter’s 1,000-acre park —
where paying customers joy ride off-road vehicles on
trails and through mud — has created a “nuisance” for
other landowners.
Officials with ADEQ have said they are investigating a complaint that the park is causing muddy water
in a tributary entering Fourche Creek. According to
a recent ADEQ water division complaint report, an
investigation found the stream crossings “caused
increased turbidity within Fourche Creek and noticeable instability and erosion to stream banks.” The
findings warranted a further investigation, the report
noted.
In the year that Carter has operated the park, “his
customers have completely destroyed the habitat in
the formerly natural wetland,” Billingsley told The
Courier. “Most egregiously, he has and continues to
pollute Fourche Creek, changing a previously natural
flowing creek into a mess of muddy water in the area
and far downstream.”
Asked for a comment regarding the complaint, a
park employee said Friday she knew nothing of the
complaint. The company did not comment by press
time Saturday. Environmental concerns within the
park have been under ADEQ scrutiny for several
months.
A July 2014 inspection report found that three of
four water samples taken near Fourche Creek showed
to have turbidity levels that exceeded ADEQ’s water
quality standards. “This is in violation of the Arkansas
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Tyler Nichols, left, and Jack Bariola quickly fill up their Easter baskets. The event was the annual Easter
egg hunt at Miss Lisa’s Day Care Center. See more photos from the event and more on page 10.
Law enforcement agencies across
the county will be hosting a drug
take back event on April 25.
In hopes of reducing the number
of people affected by prescription
drug abuse, officer collect unwanted
or expired medications. Prescription
and over-the-counter medications
and vitamins are all accepted no
questioned asked.
“The Take Back Program is
geared toward protecting American
families and communities,” said
Sheriff Rodney Wright. “We know
that young people consider controlled-substance prescription drugs
to be a safer and easier way to high.
With the community’s help, we
can remove unwanted prescription
drugs from their homes, which in
turn helps prevent experimentation,
addiction, overdose and even death.”
Over the last three years,
Arkansas who participated in the
program have destroyed more than
62 tons of pills, Wright said.
During the event, Bryant Police
Officers will be stationed at Walmart
in Bryant to collect medications.
Dr. Scott
Archer speaks
to the Saline
County
Firefighters
Association.
Archer is the
medical director for Saline
Memorial
Hospital’s
Emergency
Department
and Medtran
EMS.
By Lynda Hollenbeck
lyndahol@yahoo.com
Dr. Scott Archer, medical director for
Saline Memorial Hospital’s Emergency
Department and Medtran EMS, recently
spoke at a meeting of the Saline County
Firefighters Association, where he
shared updates on recent advances in
the approach to spinal immobilizaton,
the management of heart attack victims
and new strategies for patients who
have suffered cardiac arrest.
According to Archer, the science of
emergency medicine is evolving and
changing.
“As we become more ‘evidence-based’
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Records show that
crowded Arkansas
jails feeling the strain
The Associated Press
LITTLE ROCK —
County jails across Arkansas
have become more violent
and tense as convicts and
parole violators awaiting
transfers to state prisons flow
in, according to jail records.
Records at the Pulaski
County jail — the state’s largest county lockup — show
that physical confrontations
between officers and prisoners rose and employee
turnover doubled last year,
with nearly a third of employees leaving, the Arkansas
Democrat-Gazette reported
Sunday.
Elsewhere around the
state, some inmates are sleeping on floor mats because
not enough beds are available. Cells are crowded and
officers are overseeing more
prisoners.
In August 2013, the state
instituted stricter parole
policies after the Arkansas
Democrat-Gazette highlighted
the case of a parolee who
had remained free despite 14
arrests and 10 felony charges.
The stricter policies
resulted in a flood of parole
revocations that, coupled
with an increase in offenders
sentenced to prison instead
of probation, surpassed
capacity at the Arkansas
Department of Correction by
thousands of prisoners and
shifted the burden of holding the overflow prisoners to
county jails.
That shift has created
problems in communities
across Arkansas. In
late February, Gov. Asa
Hutchinson outlined a threepronged plan for overhauling
the correction system and
for providing relief to county
jails.
An Arkansas DemocratGazette review of hundreds
of Pulaski County jail documents and statistics shows
that since state inmates
became about a third of the
jail’s population in late 2013,
jail employees have left at a
higher rate.
Lawrence County woman
reopens grandmother’s
beloved church
By George Jared
The Jonesboro Sun
STRANGERS HOME,
Ark. — Evelyn Tiffee desperately wanted to save her
church.
Strangers Home
Methodist Church had
been in operation for generations in rural Lawrence
County. The local population dwindled, and no matter how hard Tiffee tried,
there were not enough
congregants. The church
was forced to shut its doors
almost 35 years ago.
Now the building there
may be demolished. It
won’t happen without a
fight from Tiffee’s adopted
granddaughter, Gail
Berndt.
“My grandmother is
gone. ... It’s all I have left of
her,” Berndt said.
Berndt wants to get the
church onto the National
Register of Historic Places.
But there will be obstacles.
The original church
burned along with a cache
of documents, including dates as to when the
church was constructed.
Locals think the current
building was built in the
1930s, but no one knows
for sure.
What they do know is
the building is steeped in
history.
Tiffee’s daughter, Gail
McGonigal, attended the
church as a young child.
The 63-year-old remembers
weddings, pot luck dinners,
Christmas celebrations and
other events at the church.
She got married in the
church and had the funeral
services for both her parents there. In the adjacent
cemetery, generations of
her family are interred.
“I went here for many
Monday, April 6, 2015
years,” she said.
Nearly two decades after
the church closed, Berndt
decided to honor her
grandmother by reopening it in 2000. She found
a preacher and tried to
rebuild the congregation,
The Jonesboro Sun reports.
It remained open for
about a year. The preacher
got sick, and the church
was forced to close again.
Weddings, funerals and
other social gatherings
were still held there until a
few years ago.
The church floor is now
badly damaged. The once
vibrant pews are covered
with dust. The pulpit is
silent.
During a visit to the
church Thursday with
a Sun reporter, one of
Berndt’s family members
found a letter sent to her
at the church. It was sent
in 2002.
Berndt said she was
told the Strangers Home
Association, which governs
the church and cemetery,
wants to tear down the
church to make room for
more cemetery plots.
McGonical said she’s
heard those rumors in the
past, and nothing came
of them. But one of these
days the church will be
demolished if something
isn’t done, she added.
Berndt has been
engaged on a fact-finding
mission. She hopes to save
the little country church
and the memories she
made there so many years
ago.
She knows a church
service will never be held
there again. Her goal is to
preserve a little piece of
history.
“I want it to be left
alone,” she said.
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Smiths’ and another residence. Authorities believe an arsonist set the blaze and a reward is being offered for information.
Lawmakers consider unfinished business from session
By Allen Reed
LITTLE ROCK —
Arkansas lawmakers headed home after overseeing
tax cuts and prison system
reform but have left behind
several pieces of unfinished
business to be taken up by
appointees to various task
forces.
Legislators and lobbyists
are already prepping for
the next year — and possibly even a special session
— after the 90th regular
session finished Thursday
with a high-profile and hightension gay rights fight. But
notably lost in the legislative
shuffle was a shortfall in
highway and transportation
funding, a murky future
of the state’s compromise
Medicaid expansion and a
handful of social issues.
The Arkansas State
Highway and Transportation
Department projects about
$20.4 billion in needs and
$3.6 billion in available revenue over the next 10 years.
Director Scott Bennett has
said about $1.1 billion worth
of highway improvements
over the next two years
are in jeopardy because of
changes in federal funding.
The state has cut 61 projects worth about $162 million this year.
Lawmakers balked a bill
to divert about $35 million
in transportation-related
taxes from the state’s
general revenue to the
department, which was not
included in Republican Gov.
Asa Hutchinson’s $5.2 billion dollar budget. Instead,
Hutchinson has announced
a task force to study infrastructure needs that could
be taken up in the 2016 budget session or even earlier
in a special session.
“Sometimes these things
take time,” said department
spokesman Randy Ort. “We
understand and respect
the governor’s position and
what he is trying to accomplish.”
Hutchinson spokesman
J.R. Davis said the post-session task forces are useful
for complicated subjects.
“Governor Hutchinson’s
approach is to look at all
sides of an issue in order
to find the best possible
solution, and by providing
several points of view within
a knowledgeable group
of individuals, the best
possible solution can be
ascertained,” Davis said in a
statement.
A separate 16-member task force will study
Arkansas’ “private option”
Medicaid expansion. Some
lawmakers have prematurely celebrated the end of the
state initiative, but the task
force could recommend an
extension or a similar form
of expansion.
Although some
Republicans ran on a
platform of ending the
compromise, Democratic
leaders said a quick end to
the “private option” wasn’t
feasible with a tight budget
that included middle class
and capital gains tax breaks.
Senate Minority Leader
Keith Ingram, D-West
Memphis, said that would
have blown a hole in the
budget through the loss of
federal aid.
“It cuts across the budget,” Ingram said. “It has
such a tremendous impact
across the budget. It would
have been impossible to
give a tax cut.”
Iowa pastors play influential role in presidential race
DES MOINES, Iowa —
Cary Gordon isn’t a political operative, a top dollar
donor or an elected official.
But that hasn’t stopped Jeb
Bush’s team from already
reaching out as the 2016
Republican presidential
campaign revs up in Iowa.
Gordon is a well-known
evangelical Christian pastor
with a church in Sioux City
that can draw 600 people
on Sundays and a voice
that echoes far beyond the
pulpit. Gordon backed former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick
Santorum in the 2012 GOP
field, sending out text messages, tweets and a video
announcement to deliver his
message.
In some states, big city
ward leaders or union
bosses are the go-to guys
to deliver votes. When it
comes to Iowa’s Republican
caucuses, evangelical pastors are kingmakers, with
sway over an important bloc
of participants. Long before
the campaign heats up, leading ministers are showered
with personal attention from
likely candidates, and they
can negotiate their policy
positions on issues such as
gay rights and abortion.
With the power comes
perks.
For example, Brad
Sherman, pastor at Solid
Rock Christian Church
in Coralville, was among
a group of Iowa pastors
invited on a complimentary trip to Poland and
London in late 2014 with
former Arkansas Gov. Mike
Huckabee, who is consider-
ing a 2016 race.
“Just being in Iowa and
being involved opens certain doors,” said Sherman,
who went on a trip to
Israel with Kentucky Sen.
Rand Paul.
Both were funded by
evangelical leader David
Lane, who is working to
grow the number of conservative Christian voters
in early voting states.
Going into 2016, the
power of the Iowa pastors
is considered indisputable.
Four years ago, pastors
united behind Santorum,
who eked out a victory in
the caucuses and saw his
stature rise in the crowded
field. Back in 2008, evangelical support was part of
Huckabee’s winning coalition.
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House Minority Leader
Eddie Armstrong, D-North
Little Rock, said the issue
was too robust to completely tackle this session and
the task force is needed to
ensure a quality resolution.
Republicans scored dozens of wins on social issues,
such as a religious freedom
bill, a prohibition on municipalities enacting certain antidiscrimination ordinances
and several anti-abortion
measures.
Still, there were some
bills that didn’t make it
through and will likely be
brought back during the
next regular session in 2017.
Jerry Cox, head of the
Arkansas Family Council,
plans to work with lawmakers on how to revive efforts
to require that abortion
providers have admitting
privileges at nearby hospitals and to give the state
health department the ability to close a clinic the way
it would a restaurant.
He said it’s normal to
retry leftover legislation.
“The ones we got passed
(this session) were unfinished business from two
years ago,” Cox said.
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four cycles we’ve probably had almost 100 percent of our people vote,”
said Bill Tvedt, pastor at
Jubilee Family Church in
Oskaloosa, who has not
endorsed a candidate. “In
our local county, we control the Republican party
pretty much — our church
and another church.”
Lots of the potential
2016 GOP candidates are
wooing pastors.
Former Texas Gov.
Rick Perry and Paul have
appeared before groups
of religious conservatives.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott
Walker talks frequently
about being a pastor’s
son. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz,
whose father is a pastor,
and Louisiana Gov. Bobby
Jindal recently addressed a
gathering of pastors in Des
Moines.
“I believe our country
is in crisis and I think
it’s incumbent on people
of faith to stand up and
defend our values,” said
Cruz, who was joined by
his father, Rafael, at the
event.
Iowa pastors have been
politically active for years,
but became more involved
after the Iowa Supreme
Court’s 2009 decision
allowing gay marriage,
which incensed many.
Their turnout machines
are formidable, with more
than half of the 2012 caucus participants identifying
as evangelical or bornagain Christian, according
to exit polls.
“They provide a voice
in the pulpit,” said Jamie
Johnson, a pastor from
Story City who is working
for Perry.
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OBITUARIES
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Alfred Eugene Martin, “Gene” to friends and family, 70,
died peacefully in his home in Malvern, on Saturday, April
4, 2015. Gene was born May 14, 1944, in East St. Louis, Illinois.
He was preceded in death by his parents, brother, and
sister. Gene worked as a chemical technician for the Aluminum
Company of America (ALCOA) for over 30 years, and kept
in touch with many friends after retirement. He loved his
family, his dogs, and the Rolling Stones. He is survived by his loving wife, Karen Martin; daughters Lori Malone and Jennifer Swierczek; as well as seven
grandchildren. There are no funeral services planned for Gene. He will
be dearly missed by his family.
Cremation services are by Ashby Funeral Home in
Benton.
Online guestbook: www.ashbyfuneralhome.com.
PAID OBITUARY
MONDAY, APRIL 6
1 p.m.
MONDAY AFTERNOON BOOK
CLUB. Convening in the
meeting room at the Bryant
Library. For more information, please visit http://
mondayafternoon.wikispaces.
com. Through 3:30 p.m.
6:30 p.m.
MONDAY WITH THE MASTER
GARDENERS. Meeting at
the Bob Herzfeld Memorial
Library meeting room.
Melinda Kelley will discuss
Bonsai gardening. Through
7:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8
6 p.m.
CHOCOLATES WITH
ARKANSAS FRESH
BAKERY. In the meeting
room at the Bob Herzfeld
Memorial Library. Join
Ashton Woodward, owner of
Arkansas Fresh Bakery and
Cocoa Rouge, for an evening
of chocolate! Cocoa Rouge is
handmade, artisan Belgianstyle chocolate made right
here in Arkansas. Ashton’s
attention to texture, detail,
and flavor of his incredible
chocolates has been the subject of a lot of media recently
– if you’ve not had chocolate from Cocoa Rouge yet,
come see what all the fuss is
about! Through 7:30 p.m.
NEWS
UCA professor
accused of
having child porn
CONWAY (AP) — A
Conway college professor
has been banned from the
school’s campus following
accusations he had child
porn on his computer.
University of Central
Arkansas police arrested the
economics professor in his
office last week on suspicion
of possessing child pornography on his state-owned
computer. The 45-year-old
has been released from jail
on a $15,000 bond.
The professor was
notified in a letter by the
college’s executive vice
president and provost that
he was suspended with pay
pending further investigation.
A university police report
shows police had received a
complaint from a technician
in the school’s Department
of Information Technology.
of tornados are possible
across portions of the central U.S. on Wednesday and
Thursday.
Forecasters say there
is a chance of stormy
weather every day during
the upcoming week except
Friday, when a cold front is
expected to bring dry but
breezy conditions.
There is a slight chance
of an isolated severe storm
on Tuesday. Scattered
storms are expected on
Wednesday and Thursday.
Forecasters say
Wednesday will most likely
offer the most favorable
conditions for development
of severe thunderstorms
in northern and central
Oklahoma. By Thursday,
most of the severe weather
impact will be over eastern
Oklahoma and parts of
Arkansas.
Bridge and
interstate lane
to be closed for
National Archives painting
LITTLE ROCK (AP) —
digitizes Little
The Arkansas Highway and
Transportation Department
Rock Nine film
says bridge painting will
LITTLE ROCK (AP) —
The National Archives has
digitally remastered a film
about the Little Rock Nine
for the anniversary of its
Academy Award win for
best short documentary 50
years ago.
The Arkansas DemocratGazette reports that it’s
the fifth film the archives’
Motion Picture Preservation
Lab has restored to cinema quality. The film will
be shown at the National
Archives later in the spring
and is available online.
The archives says the
18-minute film, titled Nine
from Little Rock, was never
intended for American
viewers but was shown in
hundreds of cities around
the globe. The film follows
the lives of several of the
nine black students years
after they integrated Central
High School in Little Rock.
The film is narrated by
one of the Nine, Jefferson
Thomas, who died in 2010.
Severe storms
likely during the
week
NORMAN, Okla. (AP)
— Weather forecasters say
severe thunderstorms are
likely in parts of Oklahoma
by the middle of the week.
The National Weather
Service in Norman says
severe storms and a threat
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require the closure of a
bridge and a lane of the
Interstate 430/630 interchange in Little Rock.
The inside westbound
lanes of I-630 at the interchange known as “Big
Rock” will be closed from
the I-430 overpass to the
Baptist Health exit and the
Shackleford Road overpass
will also be closed.
The closures will be
Monday night through
Friday morning — from 9
p.m. until 5 a.m. each day.
Crews will be coating and
painting structural steel on
the Shackleford Road overpass.
THURSDAY, APRIL 9
10 a.m.
DROP-IN COMPUTER HELP
at the Bob Herzfeld Memorial
Library meeting room.
During this open three-hour
session, library staff will be
available to answer questions and provide assistance
using the computer, accessing the Internet, and more.
Bring your basic computer
or Internet questions. Learn
computer skills or get assistance downloading eBooks.
No registration is necessary,
and you can drop-in at any
point! Through 1 p.m.
6 p.m.
Southwest Water Annual
Board Meeting at 620 Airlane
Drive, Benton.
6 p.m.
HAPPY HENS: How to
Get the Most Out of Your
Backyard Flock, presented
at the Bryant Library in the
meeting room. A discussion
on how to care for poultry
from hatch to death to obtain
the best possible return for
the time and money. Both the
beginner and the long-time
flock owners will have something new to learn. Through
7:30 p.m.
FRIDAY, APRIL 10
10 a.m.
CRAFT WORKSHOP with
the Cooperative Extension
Homemakers, presented at
the Bob Herzfeld Memorial
Library meeting room. All
experience levels are welcome to join the Cooperative
Extension Homemakers to
craft a lace brooch. All supplies are provided. Through
11 a.m.
6 p.m.
JEFFERSON-’JACKSONSTYLE’ DINNER: “Blue
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the Benton Event Center.
Dinner and program. Saline
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Committee sponsoring
event. Cost is $30. Charlie
Cole Chaffin will be featured
speaker. Through 8:30 p.m.
SATURDAY, APRIL 11
10 a.m.
INTERNATIONAL TABLETOP
CELEBRATION DAY presented at the Bob Herzfeld
Memorial Library in the
meeting room. Join in for a
day of games, games! Pick
a game, play a game, and
who knows – if you win the
game, you may just get to
take that game home with
you! Fantastic prizes await!
Snacks and drinks will also
be provided. Through 3:30
p.m.
6 p.m.
RE-FASHION BASH at the
Benton Event Center. Tickets
are $5 in advance and $10
at the door. A recycled
art showcase hosted by
the Saline County Youth
Environmental Ambassadors
teams will follow. Doors
open at 5 p.m.
SATURDAY, APRIL 18
8 a.m.
SALINE COUNTY MASTER
GARDENERS Annual Plant
Sale at the Saline County
Fairgrounds. Through 12:30
p.m.
TUESDAY, APRIL 21
5:30 p.m.
SALINE CROSSING
REGIONAL PARK &
RECREATION AREA, INC.
will meet in the Gene Moss
Building at Tyndall Park. The
public is welcome to attend
and help plan the bicentennial celebration of the first
pioneer settlement in 1815
at Saline Crossing. The restoration project for the Old
River Bridge will also be
discussed.
SATURDAY, APRIL 25
8 a.m.
MOORE CEMETERY
ASSOCIATION welcomes
all decedents and families
of Charles Franklin Moore
(1825 -1889) to attend the
annual meeting at the cemetery on Mountain View Road.
Break for a business meeting
will be at 9 a.m. A “rainout”
will be the next Saturday.
ONGOING EVENTS
Saline Memorial Hospice is
recruiting volunteers. These
volunteers will help with
hospitality at the Hospice
House in Bryant and sit with
patients in their home and
nursing home. For more
information, call Diana Ferrell
at 315-0136
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
Activities Center. Volunteers
must be certified. CADC provides training. To volunteer
contact Susan Willis at 501778-1133.
BRYANT HISTORICAL
SOCIETY has changed its
meeting dates to the second
Tuesday of each month.
The meeting will be held at
Boswell Library in Bryant
on Prickett Road at 6:30
p.m. 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 Woodall
Central Fire Station Friday
mornings. Supportive and
fun accountability. Weighin begins at 8:45 a.m. and
meeting beings at 9:30 a.m.
Call Billie for questions at
557-5075.
BENTON ALZHEIMER’S
CAREGIVER SUPPORT
GROUP MEETING: 7 p.m.
every third Tuesday of
the month at First Baptist
Church, 211 S. Market St.
in Benton. The meeting
is open to everyone who
has a loved one living with
Alzheimer’s or other related
dementia. The group offers a
safe environment where discussions are kept confidential. For more information,
contact Sam Sellers at (501)
663-3900 or samuel.sellers@
sbcglobal.net. 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 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
9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday
through Thursday. You may
call 778-3770 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.
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
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.
Royal
Flush
Pressure Wash & Seal
specializing in
Concrete • Wood
Vinyl & Steel Siding
Mildew & Water Stains
Servicing
Central Arkansas
since 1988
316-1536
SALINE COUNTY
DEMOCRATIC CENTRAL
COMMITTEE MEETING: 6
p.m. the second Thursday of
every month at Democratic
Headquarters, 101 S. Market
St. in downtown Benton.
STARTING POINT FAITHBASED GROUP: Group meeting for AA and NA will be
Sundays at 3:30 p.m. at 1203
Boone Road. For more information, call 501-249-2685.
CAREGIVER SUPPORT
GROUP meets every third
Thursday of the month at
Saline Memorial Hospital
from 2 to 3 p.m. Anyone who
is a caregiver of a loved one
or knows someone who is is
welcome to attend. For more
information, call Azy Crabb
at 778-6260.
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 jmoore25@
att.net.
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.
BINGO at Saline Odd Fellows
Lodge 175 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.
CAREGIVERS SUPPORT
meetings are held on the
second Thursday of each
month atBenton First United
Methodist Church at 2 p.m.
Call Azy Crabb at 778-6260
for more information. The
meeting is free and refreshments will be provided.
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 is seven
weeks and will be held on
Sundays from 2 to 4 p.m.
Register at www.imaginationscreated.com or by calling
501-794-8601.
SALINE COUNTY MOOSE
LODGE:
Every Sunday at 3 p.m.
Shuffleboard Tournament
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 7p.m. APA
Ladies 8 Ball Pool
Every Thursday at 6 p.m.
Shuffleboard Tournament
Every Thursday Taco Night
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Effective treatments
have made malaria
rare in the U.S.
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Religion bill
previews rifts
governor faces
L
DEAR DOCTOR K: I am traveling abroad in a
few weeks. My travel clinic has prescribed antimalarial
medication. Can you tell me more about malaria and
how to prevent it?
DEAR READER: Malaria is a serious disease caused by the Plasmodium
parasite. The parasite is not found
today in the United States or Canada,
but it is common in areas to which
North Americans travel: Africa, Asia,
and Central and South America. The
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention estimate that there are over
200 million new cases of malaria each
Dr.
year around the world.
K
omaroff
The good news is that there are only
1,000-2,000 cases of malaria each year
reported in the U.S. That’s because most people traveling to parts of the world with malaria take antimalarial
medications.
You contract malaria when you are being bitten by
an infected mosquito. Once the parasite enters your
body, it infects and multiplies inside your liver and red
blood cells. Symptoms of malaria include:
• High fever (up to 105 degrees Fahrenheit) with
shaking chills,
• Profuse sweating,
• Fatigue,
• Headache,
• Muscle aches,
• Abdominal discomfort,
• Nausea, vomiting,
• Feeling faint when standing up or sitting up
quickly.
Without treatment, malaria sometimes can be fatal.
Anyone traveling to a region of the world that has
malaria should take preventive medication. You start
taking these medications before your trip starts and
continue taking them for several days to weeks after
you return.
There are four antimalarial medications most commonly prescribed in the U.S. for foreign travel:
• CHLOROQUINE (Aralen) is the most commonly
prescribed drug for travelers headed to countries
where there are no drug-resistant strains of malaria.
• MEFLOQUINE (Lariam) is the treatment of
choice for travel to areas with high levels of chloroquine-resistant malaria parasites.
• DOXYCYCLINE (Vibramycin) is usually prescribed for travelers who can’t take chloroquine or
mefloquine.
• ATOVAQUONE AND PROGUANIL (Malarone).
This combination drug is prescribed to prevent chloroquine-resistant malaria when you are traveling in areas
where there is a higher rate of that kind of malaria.
In addition to one of these drugs, you also may
need to take a medication called primaquine when you
return home. This extra precaution further reduces the
risk that you will develop malaria, even if you were taking an antimalarial drug during your trip.
To further reduce your risk, do your best to prevent
mosquito bites. The following steps can help:
• When possible, stay indoors in well-screened
areas, especially at night when mosquitoes are most
active.
• Use mosquito nets and bed nets. Treat the nets
with the insect repellent permethrin.
• Wear clothes that cover most of your body.
• Use an insect repellent that contains DEET or
picaridin. Apply directly to your skin.
• Apply permethrin to clothing.
If you do develop malaria, fortunately, effective treatments are available.
Persecuted Christians
abroad have lessons
for us all
E
very presidential candidate
should meet persecuted
Christians.
As a political firestorm broke lose
just before Easter in and around
Indiana, it quickly
became clear that
our society has
lost the ability to
talk about religious
liberty. Some see
it as code for bigotry. Meanwhile, the
word “tolerance” is
bandied about by
Kathryn
people insisting on
an adherence to a
Lopez
form of secular intolerance.
A presidential candidate who truly
wants to lead could help change
that.
Pope Francis has said that there
are at least as many martyrs today
as during the times of the early
Church. This isn’t an academic
debate. And even as we’ve been
touched by the testimonies of
relatives of Christian martyrs in the
Middle East and Africa, it still may
seem a world away. A visit to that
area from a American presidential
candidate could lead the way in
bringing the tragic and inspiring stories home.
The effort would serve multiple
purposes. A trip to Iraq or Africa
would mean actually meeting the
people, getting to know and understand their lives and needs better,
forging relationships. That can be of
benefit for both security and humanitarian reasons.
Andrew Doran, co-founder of
the advocacy group In Defense of
Christians, says: “America ought
to stand with those who share its
values. America invariably goes
wrong by placing too much trust
in faux allies, such as the Morsi
regime or the Maliki government or
“moderate” Syrian rebels or the Gulf
Arabs.”
Robert A. Destro, professor of law
at the Catholic University of America
and founder of an interdisciplinary
program in law and religion, adds:
“Such a visit would also highlight
the important role the Kurds and
Jordanians are playing in the region.
The sad truth is that the United
States has no strategy: Everything
we do over there ... is a reflection of
domestic politics, not strategic thinking about what’s in the best interests
of the United States and of the longsuffering people of the region.”
“Religious freedom is a sacred
space that must be protected in the
name of civilization,” Nebraska Rep.
Jeff Fortenberry, co-chair of the
Caucus for Religious Minorities in
the Middle East, tells me. “Middle
Eastern Christianity ... has provided
multiple civil society benefits to
Muslims -- including schools and
hospitals. He adds: “Military might
cannot ultimately win, but the
demand for human dignity can.”
The Christians today who know
they may die simply for being
Christian can teach us a thing or two
about integrity, and they can show
us why it’s crucial that they remain
where they are, in the birthplace of
Christianity.
As Destro points out, “Americans
don’t know much about their
Christian brothers and sisters over
there.”
He adds a visit to the area by an
American presidential candidate
would be a “bonanza for the humanitarian agencies like Catholic Relief
Services and World Vision.” For
anyone seeking to be president, it
would not only demonstrate some
mature leadership, it would also be
the decent thing to do.
Everyone benefits from protecting
human dignity.
Speaking during a “religious
freedom summit” put on by New
York Archbishop Cardinal Timothy
Dolan just before Easter, an imam
suggested that Muslims take a lead
from Catholics and others who have
worked to integrate their faith into
a pluralistic society. Truth be told,
Christians in the West have miles to
go yet in terms of emulating Christ,
but in walking that humble walk, by
seeing God in others, they do make
a difference.
When, not all that far from where
Christ was crucified, modern-day
martyrs are facing similar fates for
following Him, we can all learn a
thing or two about just how precious
religious freedom is to life, communities and civilization.
So: Do you want to be president
of the United States? Start planning
your trip to meet the persecuted.
••
Kathryn Jean Lopez is senior fellow at the National Review Institute,
editor-at-large of National Review
Online and founding director of
Catholic Voices USA. She can be contacted at klopez@nationalreview.com.
HOW TO REACH YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS
State Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson, District 33,
201 E. North St., Benton, AR 72015, (501) 7733760, jeremy.hutchinson@senate.ar.gov.
State Sen. David Sanders, District 27 Room
320 State Capitol, Little Rock, AR 72201, (501)
682-6107, davidjamessanders@gmail.com.
State Sen. Alan Clark, District 13 P.O. Box
211, Lonsdale, AR 72087, (501) 262-3360, alan.
clark@senate.ar.gov.
State Rep. Lanny Fite, District 23, 3324
Hwy. 5, Benton, AR 72019, (501) 794-2228,
lanny.fite@att.net.
State Rep. Andy Davis, District 31 P.O. Box
30248, Little Rock, AR 72260, (501) 837-5109,
andy.davis@arkansashouse.org.
State Rep. Julie Mayberry, District 27 3022
E. Woodson Lateral Road, Hensley, AR 72065,
(501) 888-8222, julie-mayberry@att.net.
State Rep. Kim Hammer, District 28, 1411
Edgehill Dr., Benton, AR 72015, (501) 840-3841,
kimdhammer@yahoo.com.
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.
ITTLE ROCK — The 11th hour
chaos surrounding a religious objections measure and widespread criticism that it was anti-gay was the type of
fight Gov. Asa Hutchinson had largely
avoided over other divisive issues in his
first legislative session.
And though
Hutchinson found a
compromise that managed to soothe some on
both sides, the drama
surrounding the bill
offers a preview of possible rifts to come with
Democrats and even fellow Republicans in future Andrew
years.
DeMillo
A day after he called
ARKANSAS
for changes to a bill
PERSPECTIVE
that he had promised
initially to sign into law,
Hutchinson approved
a compromise version that would still
prohibit state and local government from
infringing on someone’s religious beliefs
without a compelling reason.
But by modeling the proposal
more narrowly to a 1993 federal law,
Hutchinson and other supporters of the
compromise measure said it addressed
concerns from critics who said it would
amount to a blank check for businesses
to discriminate against gays and lesbians.
“It protects religious freedom. It is a
framework for decisions by the courts
that have to balance all the issues in our
society,” Hutchinson said before signing
the measure. “It continues to recognize in
Arkansas and across our nation we have a
diverse workforce and a diverse culture.”
The governor’s role in the debate frustrated lawmakers on both sides of the
issue. Running as someone who wanted
to be the “jobs governor,” Hutchinson
focused his campaign last year on fiscal issues like his middle class tax cut
plan and a promise to expand computer
science classes. Social issues like the
religious freedom bill didn’t appear to be
high on that agenda.
Hutchinson had initially expressed reservations about the bill, but later said he’d
sign the measure after it was amended to
address his concerns about unintended
consequences. But, less than a day after
lawmakers gave the bill final approval last
week, he asked for it to be recalled and
changed to more closely mirror federal
law.
“How do we as a state communicate
to the world that we are respectful of
a diverse workplace and we want to
be known as a state that does not discriminate but understands tolerance?”
Hutchinson said to reporters at the
Capitol Wednesday. “That is the challenge we face.”
The compromise proposal only applies
to government action, not businesses or
individuals. That move, supporters said,
would prevent businesses from using the
law to deny services to customers on religious grounds.
“There’s not the cake baker instance
with a wedding,” said Republican Sen.
Jeremy Hutchinson, the chairman of the
committee and the governor’s nephew.
“Because the federal (law) has been so
tested and courts have examined every
aspect of it, I think all sides would agree
there’s no risk of any additional discrimination occurring.”
But the move still faced criticism from
advocates and some Democratic lawmakers who said it didn’t go far enough to
ensure the measure won’t be used to discriminate against the LGBT community.
The original bill “gave us a black eye.
This bill ices it,” said Rita Sklar, executive
director of the American Civil Liberties
Union of Arkansas. “We still need some
Tylenol.”
Hutchinson now faces pressure
to issue an executive order prohibiting workplace discrimination by state
agencies based on sexual orientation.
Hutchinson floated the possibility of such
an order as he called for changes in the
religion law. Groups such as the Human
Rights Campaign have said that’s where
they’ll shift attention, after showing they
can how quickly they can mobilize activists and businesses on the religion law.
While he’s contending with that push,
Hutchinson may also have to mend
fences within his own party. At least one
Republican who voted against the compromise measure vented frustration about
the governor calling for changes to a bill
he had once embraced.
“I, for one, do not appreciate someone
hiding behind this body when they’re
unwilling to take a stand one way or the
other,” Republican Rep. Josh Miller of
Heber Springs said.
The comments are a sign that after
approving a bill that he said struck the
right balance, Hutchinson’s next challenge may be another balancing act.
••
Andrew DeMillo has covered Arkansas
government and politics for The Associated
Press since 2005. Follow him on Twitter at
www.twitter.com/ademillo
saline
scoreboard
monday
Baseball
Benton vs. Lakeside, 5 p.m.
Bauxite at Ashdown, 4:30 p.m.’
HG at F. Lake, 4:30 p.m.
HG vs. N. Pulaski, 5 p.m.
Softball
Bryant at NLR, 5 p.m.
Bauxite at Ashdown, 4:30 p.m.
HG vs. Sheridan, 4:30 p.m.
TUESDAY
Baseball
Benton vs. LH, 5 p.m.
Bryant vs. Conway, 5 p.m.
Bauxite vs. Carlisle, 4:30 p.m.
Softball
Benton vs. LH, 4:30 p.m.
Bryant vs. Conway, 5 p.m.
HG vs. Cabot, 5 p.m.
Soccer
Benton (G,B) vs. LH, 4:30 p.m.
Bryant (G,B) vs. Conway, 4 pm
Sports
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Wainwright, Cardinals beat Cubs 3-0
CHICAGO — The
Chicago Cubs had Joe
Maddon in the dugout, and
Jon Lester on the mound.
Wrigley Field had a new
look, with a giant videoboard in left field and pictures of Ernie Banks draped
over the closed bleachers.
The St. Louis Cardinals
had Adam Wainwright, and
a bunch of familiar faces in
the lineup. And it was more
than enough for the NL
Central champs.
Opening night went to
the old guard.
Wainwright threw six
innings of five-hit ball, lead-
ing the Cardinals to a 3-0
victory over Lester and
the Cubs on Sunday in the
major league opener.
“I was fortunate to throw
some good pitches when I
needed to throw some good
pitches,” Wainwright said.
Jason Heyward had
three hits in his St. Louis
debut, and Matt Holliday
drove in two runs. Throw
in Matt Carpenter’s two
hits, and the top third of the
Cardinals’ lineup went 7 for
14 with three RBIs.
“Selfishly, I like the idea
of hitting between those
two,” Heyward said. “Holly
can do damage and Carp
sees so many pitches and
has good (at-bats). I’m
going to be kind of spoiled
hitting there.”
Playing their most anticipated opener in years, the
Cubs went 0 for 13 with
runners in scoring position. Lester, who got a $155
million, six-year contract
during free agency, allowed
three runs and eight hits
over 4 1-3 innings in his
fifth straight opening day
start.
“Just wasn’t real sharp,”
Lester said. “Ball was flat.
Anytime I get that many fly
balls I know that I’m not
where I need to be.”
The addition of Lester
and Maddon ramped up the
expectations for Chicago
after five straight losing seasons. But it was more of the
same in their first game.
The biggest difference
for the home team was the
towering videoboard, part
of a major renovation for
the iconic neighborhood
ballpark. Images of Banks,
a Hall of Fame slugger who
played for Chicago for 19
seasons and died in January
at age 83, covered the
famed bleachers.
The Cubs honored Banks
with a pregame moment
of silence, and his sons
Jerry and Joey Banks each
threw out a ceremonial
first pitch. The club also
Special to The Courier
Soccer
Bryant (B) at De Queen, 4 p.m.
The unique charm of
Hogeye has not always
been about the hills and
weather. In addition to
the half-marathon and
full marathon distance,
Hogeye offers a 4-person
relay and a 5K run/walk.
At different times throughout Arkansas Grand Prix
history, the marathon, the
half-marathon, and the
relay at Hogeye have all
been featured in the race
series. For a few years
previous to 2010, Hogeye
was the latter half of the
infamous back-to-back
race weekend for Grand
Prix competitors. Grand
Prix runners took on Little
Rock’s Capital City Classic
10K on Saturday and then
drove to Fayetteville to run
AUBURN, Ala. – The
University of Arkansas
baseball team (16-15, 5-7)
rallied with four runs
over the final two innings
Sunday afternoon to claim
the series with a comeback
6-4 victory over Auburn
(19-13, 4-8) at Plainsman
Park in SEC action.
Head coach Dave Van
Horn picked up his 500th
victory at Arkansas with
the win and sits at 1,085
victories for his 27-year
career. He becomes just
the second coach in program history to record
500 wins as a Razorback,
joining Arkansas legend
and College Baseball Hall
of Famer Norm DeBriyn,
who posted 1,161 wins in
33 seasons.
In his 13th season at the
helm of the Arkansas baseball program, Van Horn
has averaged over 40 wins
per season and is just the
third active coach in the
SEC with 500 wins at their
current institution. He has
led Arkansas to 13 straight
NCAA Regionals and three
appearances in the College
World Series.
Down 2-0 after four
innings, Andrew Benintendi
came to the plate in the
fifth frame with a runner
on first and two outs and
crushed his SEC-leading
ninth home run of the year
just inside the foul pole
down the right field line to
erase the 2-run deficit and
make it 2-2.
After Auburn retook the
lead in the sixth inning on
a sacrifice fly, Arkansas
STRIDERS, page 6
HOGS, page 6
FRIDAY
saturday
Baseball
Bryant Jamboree
Soccer
Bryant (G) vs. Fayetteville, 11
a.m. (in Russellville)
Cardinals place
Garcia on DL
CHICAGO — St. Louis
Cardinals left-hander Jaime
Garcia is expected to begin
a throwing program in the
next week or so.
Garcia and outfielder
Tommy Pham were placed
on the 15-day disabled list
before Sunday’s 3-0 win at
Chicago on opening night.
Garcia is out with left
shoulder inflammation, and
Pham is recovering from a
strained left quad.
Garcia was competing for
the fifth starter job before
the injury. He won 13
games in 2010 and 2011, but
shoulder issues limited the
28-year-old to only 16 starts
over the past two seasons.
“Short term is just allowing him to get back into a
throwing program,” general
manager John Mozeliak
said. “I would say in the
next week to two weeks
we’ll have a better idea of
perhaps expected return
or perhaps what a rehab
assignment might look like.
But I would say it’s still
about 10 to 14 days away
before we make that decision.”
Garcia was scratched
from a spring start last
Sunday after he told the
Cardinals that his shoulder
didn’t feel right. He had a
3.86 ERA in three spring
games this year.
“Really the last couple
weeks, since he went on
the DL, was really about
just sort of slowing things
down, allowing him to get
that strength back by doing
very little frankly, other
than therapy,” Mozeliak
said. “When he starts to
feel strong again, then we’ll
start allowing him to throw
more.”
CARDS, page 6
Van Horn
gets 500
as Hogs
take series
SALINE COUNTY STRIDERS
thursday
Baseball
Benton at El Dorado, 5 p.m.
Bryant at Alma (DH), 5 p.m.
Bauxite vs. Mena, 4:30 p.m.
HG vs. Mayflower, 4:30 p.m.
Softball
Benton at El Dorado, 4:30 p.m.
Bryant at Alma (DH), 5 p.m.
Bauxite vs. Mena, 4:30 p.m.
HG vs. Mayflower, 5 p.m.
Soccer
Benton (G,B) at El Dorado, 4 pm
extended its condolences
to the Cardinals for Oscar
Taveras, an outfield prospect who died in a car crash
in his native Dominican
Republic last October.
“The ballpark was absolutely electric,” Maddon
said. “The pregame was
wonderful. Everything
was great. We just have to
come through with a couple
knocks now and then, but
we will. I thought it was a
really, really — for lack of a
better term — a really good
night.”
Heyward got the majors’
first hit of the season when
he doubled and scored on
Special to the Courier
Nicole Hobbs crosses the finish line at a race.
Striders still Iron after Hogeye
By Sassy Gattin
Special to The Saline Courier
The Saline County
Striders have a longstanding love/hate relationship
with the Hogeye Marathon
in Fayetteville. Now in its
39th year, the Hogeye race
is notoriously hilly which
explains much of the love/
hate. Some runners love
the race for the challenge;
others hate it for the same
reason. Course changes
over the years have made
the overall elevation easier
to manage a little at a time,
but the verdict after the
latest course adjustments
for 2015 was more or less
unanimous. Hogeye is still
famously hilly and famously
windy, which accounts
for more of the love/hate
reviews. The weather in
Fayetteville in March is also
famously unpredictable, so
veterans of this race have
at least one weather-beaten
race review in reserve, if
not several.
The Striders took on the
half marathon at Hogeye
this year, the sixth race in
the 2015 Arkansas Grand
Prix series. It was hard
to find complaints about
the weather this time
around. After a chilly race
start the half-marathoners
enjoyed bright sunshine
for the duration of the race.
Fayetteville’s perennial
headwinds were still a factor though, with runners
reporting that battling the
wind sometimes felt equal
to the task of battling the
hills.
Hogeye was included
among the 10 toughest
marathon courses in the
United States previous
to 2003. As Fayetteville
gradually expanded its recreational trail system, the
course has been adjusted
to include those trail expansions, which helps relieve
the course of some of its
previous elevation changes.
Through 2013 these changes still included an arduous
climb from the trail back
up into Fayetteville Square.
Changes to the 2015 course
alleviated that climb and
treated tired runners to a
downhill finish on Dickson
Street. Again the reviews
were mixed. Some Hogeye
veterans missed the final
climb; others were relieved
not to face the famous finish at the conclusion of 13.1
miles.
Razorbacks’ depth at tight end a Bielema trademark
A
rkansas’ best tight
end experienced one
of his worst scrimmages without his head
coach batting an eye.
For if there is one
Razorbacks position that
Bret Bielema can holler
“next,” it would be tight
end.
Junior tight end Hunter
Henry jumped offsides
twice and dropped a wide
open pass during last
Saturday’s scrimmage.
Not to worry. Two years
running as an All-SEC
Second-Team tight end
isn’t going to get anybody
uptight about one subpar
Hunter Henry spring scrimmage.
And as noted, tight end
will never lack for alternatives if Bielema is the head
coach. The tight end tribe
Bielema was noted for at
Wisconsin now manifests at
Arkansas.
“A lot of you who
have followed my history at Wisconsin and
here, we believe in tight
ends,” Bielema said after
Saturday’s scrimmage. “We have had anywhere
from six to eight. There
was a time when the (NFL’s
Houston)
Texans had
three tight
ends, all of
them former
players of
mine at
Wisconsin.
Nate Allen
We’ve
been able
Razorback
to recruit
Report
to that. I’d
like to sign
three tight ends every year
if we can. If you are a tight
end and can play great football, you should come to
Arkansas.”
Bielema upon his
December 2012 Arkansas
arrival inherited four
tight ends, since graduated Austin Tate of
Harrison; Mitch Loewen,
moved last year to defensive end and out with this
spring with shoulder problems; Jeremy Sprinkle and
Austin Voelzke.
In 2013, Bielema
signed Henry out of Little
Rock’s Pulaski Academy
and in 2014 the Bielema
staff signed Jack Kraus of
Bentonville, redshirted last
season, and in 2015 signed
three tight ends, Will Gragg
of Dumas; CJ O’Grady of
Fayetteville, and Austin
Cantrell of Roland, Okla.
O’Grady and Cantrell,
still graduating high school,
don’t officially practice
with the Razorbacks until
August, though of course
they will be part of the summer conditioning program.
Gragg graduated high
school in December,
enrolled at the UA in
January and is involved
in spring practice that he
prepped for with the winter
conditioning program.
Voelzke, a three-year
letterman on special teams
and reserve tight end, didn’t
scrimmage Saturday.
“Alex Voelzke right
before spring break kind of
tweaked his back,” Bielema
said. “Nothing structurally,
just irritated some soft tissue that they gave some
treatments. He could have
gone today but I wanted
to see Jack Kraus and Will
Gragg continue to grow
so we kept him out. He
should be back with us on
Tuesday.”
Kraus caught 2 passes
for 10 yards Saturday and
Gragg caught 1 for 5.
Sprinkle caught 2 for
16. He would be a special
player even if he didn’t
catch passes. The fourthyear junior from White Hall,
a Bobby Petrino signee and
redshirted as a 2012 freshman under John L. Smith,
has lettered the last two
years on special teams. He
led last year’s Razorbacks
special teams in tackles
while at tight end last year
caught 7 passes for 84 yards
and a touchdown.
In 2013 Sprinkle logged
4 catches for 68 yards,
one a 44-yard TD against
Mississippi State.
Sprinkle arrived out of
White Hall resembling
a 6-6, gawky basketball
player. He definitely has
muscled up to be all football, yet still runs well while
those pass-catching hands
stayed soft.
“When we got here, he
was 206 pounds,” Bielema
said. “A very good athlete
we knew could run. He’s
now 250-255, looks like a
different human being. He
catches the ball extremely
well.”
Sprinkle is under his
third different offensive
coordinator, previously Paul
Petrino, Jim Chaney, and
starting this spring, Dan
Enos. He seems to have adapted to all.
“He’s smart,” Bielema
said. “I think Dan in particular has taken a certain
liking to him. He saw right
away the ability he has and
had him captivated. He
continues to impress us in
practice.”
Bielema, Enos and tight
ends coach Barry Lunney
continue impressing on
Sprinkle how his pass-catching athleticism can fit into
the game complementing
Henry as a tight end target
for quarterback Brandon
Allen.
“Even though we didn’t
recruit him, we showed that
to him last year,” Bielema
said Saturday. “If we had
to play a game tomorrow,
I told our coaches that our
best personnel without a
doubt would be Hunter
Henry, Jeremy Sprinkle,
two of our top four wide
receivers and either (running backs) Alex (Collins)
or Jonathan (Williams) in
the backfield.”
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Razorbacks hold onto ball in first spring scrimmage
By Nate Allen
Razorback Report
FAYETTEVILLE
— Despite turnover on
his offensive staff, or perhaps in part because of
it, Bret Bielema saw no
turnovers committed by
the offense Saturday during
the Arkansas Razorbacks
first full-scale scrimmage of
spring drills.
Bielema oversaw an
82-play scrimmage at
Reynolds Razorbacks
Stadium pitting the No. 1
offense vs. No. 1 defense
and the 2s against the 2s
and 3s and against the 3s
mostly from the 35 to 40
yard lines and some red
zone work inside the 25.
Asked if he was surprised
the Hogs went 82 plays
without an interception or
a fumble, Bielema gave
credit to new offensive
coordinator/quarterbacks
coach Dan Enos and new
running backs coach Jemal
Singleton.
“Was I surprised?”
Bielema said repeating the
question. “No. I’m very, very happy.
Jemal Singleton, one of the
great things I heard before
I even met him was about
his ball security. I’ve let him
kind of school the offense
overall about certain things.
We have a ball security
circuit where everybody
goes through his situation.
I think I might even able to
hold onto the football if I
was coached by him.”
Bielema praised Enos’
work with senior starting
quarterback Brandon Allen
and the three young ones
battling to be his backup,
sophomore Austin Allen,
nominally backing up his
brother as a redshirt freshman last year and playing
much of the second half
against Ole Miss when
Brandon was injured, redshirt freshman Rafe Peavey
and January enrolled freshman Ty Storey.
Brandon Allen completed
8 of 15 passes for 78 yards
and two touchdowns to
sophomore wide receiver
Drew Morgan.
Austin Allen completed 7
of 8 for 147 yards and touchdowns to receivers Eric
Hawkins and Luke Rossi.
With leading returning receiver, senior Keon
Hatcher, sidelined for a
week or two by a bruised
knee during Thursday’s
practice, Bielema was looking for some wideouts to
step out of the shadows.
Hawkins and Morgan
both stepped up Saturday. A fourth-year junior inherited from the Bobby Petrino
regime and known more as
a Razorbacks track sprinter
than football wideout,
Hawkins totaled 108 yards
off three catches Saturday,
including the 32-yard touchdown when he cut by a
defender and took off like
Road Runner leaving Wile
E. Coyote in vain pursuit.
“You know he ran track,”
Bielema said of Hawkins’
speed prompting patience
with his development. “We
knew he could run. In this
day and age when you don’t
play as a freshman or sophomore, everybody is like,
‘Well, what’s wrong?’ He is
getting ready to be a junior
and I think he has got to
continue to grow. He caught
the ball well. We obviously
need players to step up at
that position so I couldn’t be
happier for him.”
Morgan caught 10
passes for 181 yards last
year. Saturday he caught 3
for 49 with the two touchdowns, especially impressing with the leaping grab
of Brandon Allen’s 22-yard,
down-the-middle TD strike.
Bielema said he had
been on Morgan’s case for
the three practices before
spring break and that he
responded, especially in
Hatcher’s absence.
“He had a coming-to-
A shot at history for Wisconsin’s Ryan and Duke’s Krzyzewski
INDIANAPOLIS —
Wisconsin’s Bo Ryan has
spent three decades working to get to this point,
leading the Badgers into the
NCAA championship game
with a shot at personal history on the line.
Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski
has a chance at college basketball history.
Their teams meet
Monday night, with Ryan
going for his first Division
I championship — and the
program’s first since winning its only other one in
1941 — and Krzyzewski
trying to become only the
second men’s coach to win
five NCAA titles along with
UCLA’s John Wooden.
They both know success, with a combined 1,757
career wins and four national titles each to their credit
— though Ryan’s were in
the Division III ranks. But
both veteran coaches tried
to divert attention toward
their players Sunday rather
than focus on their own
role in what will be the final
game of the 2014-15 season.
“I know I’m one of the
really good coaches. I know
we’re one of the really good
programs,” Krzyzewski said.
“Monday night is about
them. They shouldn’t think
of anything else. It has nothing to do with Duke historically or me.”
Both the Blue Devils
(34-4) and the Badgers
(36-3) are No. 1 seeds in
the NCAA Tournament and
have been among the favorites to get here all season.
And the winner — either
the 68-year-old Krzyzewski
or 67-year-old Ryan — will
become the second-oldest
ever to win the title behind
former Connecticut coach
Jim Calhoun (68 years, 10
months, 22 days) in 2011.
Ryan, in the Final Four
with the Badgers for the
second straight year, would
be the oldest first-time winner in Division I history.
Ryan won four national
titles at WisconsinPlatteville in the 1990s,
quite a change from the
weekend’s spectacle at
Lucas Oil Stadium.
“Training table meal was
hot dogs,” he said of winning his first title in 1991.
“The morning of the game,
I had a cream doughnut
and a diet pop. Now we
have the best, French toast,
pancakes, eggs, omelets.
We have people cooking
omelets. ... All the fruit you
could possibly think about
eating.
“I think there was a
stringer, one stringer, from
the Madison paper that
actually showed up and
covered the game. So you
ask me what it was like. It
wasn’t like this.”
While Ryan said the
focus is “watching these
guys grow and their experiences together,” junior Sam
Dekker said the players
would like to reward Ryan
in a career that includes 740
wins.
“To win it for him would
be huge,” Dekker said. “He
deserves as much credit as
any coach in the nation for
what we’ve done here. And
then to be a part of the team
that would win it for him,
potentially win it for him,
would be something I would
never forget.”
As for Krzyzewski, he
already stands as the winningest coach in men’s
Division I history with 1,017
wins and tied Wooden this
year with a record 12 Final
Fours. In his 35th season at
Duke, he won titles in 1991,
1992, 2001 and 2010 — the
‘91 and ‘10 crowns both
came in Indianapolis — and
is tied with late Kentucky
coach Adolph Rupp for
second behind Woodmen’s
record total of 10 championships.
This is Krzyzewski’s
ninth NCAA title game, the
first coming in 1986.
“It’s not just the title
game, it’s what you
learn about coaching,”
Krzyzewski said of lessons
from those experiences.
“You’re constantly learning
about the game. I’m a better
coach now than I was in ‘86
or in ‘91 or ‘92. Just to be
in the moment. ... I think
the Final Four is a different
animal like when you come
in, just so you are not happy
to be here, you know, that
you’re in this moment.”
Senior Quinn Cook said
part of the moment is taking
advantage of the opportunity, both for the players and
their Hall of Fame coach.
“We obviously know what
Coach has done and what
this could do for Coach,”
Cook said. “But Coach has
stressed all year that this
is about this team. ... He’s
made his season about us,
our moment. So obviously
we want to get No. 5 for
him, but we want to get
No. 1 for ourselves as well.
That’s what he wants. He
wants his first one with this
group.”
J.B. Holmes takes Houston Open; Jonesboro native finishes in Top 15
HOUSTON (AP) — J.B.
Holmes used a strong start
Sunday for a Houston Open
victory in a three-way playoff against Jordan Spieth
and Johnson Wagner.
The 32-year-old Holmes
birdied the first five holes
and nine of the first 12 after
starting the day six shots
back of Jordan Spieth.
He had a 64, the day’s
low round, and won on the
second playoff hole for his
fourth PGA Tour victory
and the $1,188,000 check.
Although Holmes’ missed
birdie putt had given
Wagner another chance, his
short putt for par lipped out.
“I knew I had to play a
really low round and I started out great,” Holmes said.
“It worked out for me.”
Spieth, the hottest player
on the Tour heading into
the Masters, was trying to
win his second playoff in
three weeks, sandwiched
around a runner-up finish in the Texas Open last
Sunday. But he bowed out
on the first playoff hole after
his approach shot landed in
a bunker and, lying two, he
couldn’t get anywhere close
to the cup on his chip.
Wagner, who got into the
field only through a sponsor’s exemption, admitted
being “pretty bummed” by
falling short but said he was
hopeful his career is pointed
in the right direction again.
He was trying to become
only the second player to
get into the Masters on the
weekend before, having
done it previously by winning Houston in 2008.
Holmes’ final-day rally
was the biggest on the Tour
since Matt Jones also came
from six down to beat Matt
Kuchar in a playoff last
April. The Houston Open
has featured more playoffs
than any tournament on the
circuit.
Wagner and Holmes hit
perfect drives on the first
playoff hole — both were
on No. 18 — while Spieth
almost landed in the water,
then wound up buried in
the sand.
“I’m not sure what happened,” he said. “I heard
something or maybe it was
just me. It’s not an excuse.
I got down in the sand and
caught it fat and didn’t give
myself a chance to continue
in the playoff. But it was a
great Easter Sunday.”
Earlier, Spieth had seemingly shot himself out of
contention with a poor
approach on No. 18, the
hardest hole on the course.
He wound up with a steep
downhill lie and a bunker to
clear. However, he chipped
within 11½ feet, then calmly
made the putt.
Spieth was trying to
become the secondyoungest player after Tiger
Woods to win a third PGA
Tour event before his 22nd
birthday. He also could
have passed Jimmy Walker,
who pulled out of the tournament before it began citing illness, for the current
season’s points-standing
lead.
Still, Spieth thinks he’s
well positioned to contend
this week in the Masters.
He finished second to
Bubba Watson last year.
“I felt very comfortable
with more and more pressure going into Augusta,
which has the most pressure anywhere,” he said.
Spieth earned his first
PGA victory before he
turned 20, but he’s still pursuing a breakthrough in one
of the majors.
Beginning the final round
with a single-stroke lead
over three players, Spieth
didn’t make a lot of noise
early. Meanwhile, Holmes
was shuffling the leaderboard deck, negating a
birdie on the third hole with
a bogey on the sixth, then
stringing together six pars
together.
But he reclaimed a piece
of first place with birdies on
13 and 14, giving his fans,
including his parents who
had come down from Dallas
on Sunday, a jolt of energy.
Holmes began the day as
an after-thought, tied for 18.
But he turned the corner
having shot a 29, tying the
tournament course record
for the front nine. His birdie
on No. 8 pulled him even
with Spieth and another on
No. 9, coupled with a Spieth
bogey back on six, gave him
a lead he wouldn’t relinquish
before he left the course to
await his fate.
“I’ve been working on
taking it one shot at a time,”
Holmes said. “I did a pretty
good job of that today.”
When he got to 9 under
through only 12 holes, speculation began as to whether
he might have a 59 in him.
He didn’t. A bogey on the
par-3 16th hole also cost
him a shot at breaking the
18-hole course record of 63.
Of the three players tied
for second through 54 holes,
only Wagner contended
Sunday.
Scott Piercy, who had
tied the tournament course
record with a 63 Thursday
for the first-round lead, faded
gradually and wound up
five shots back. Jonesboro
native Austin Cook, one of
four qualifiers to earn spots
in the field, got to 15 under
through eight holes but
struggled with bogeys the
rest of the way — including
the last three holes — to finish six behind in 11th place
in just his second PGA Tour
event.
Three-time Masters
champion Phil Mickelson
was only a shot off the lead
through 36 holes. But he
began the day, like Holmes,
six strokes back, having
shot 75 Saturday with three
consecutive closing birdies.
Although he birdied the first
hole, the tournament’s 2011
winner never made a serious move and posted a 71 to
wind up in a 17th-place tie,
seven shots behind Holmes.
Padres obtain Kimbrel, Melvin Upton from Braves
SAN DIEGO — The
San Diego Padres couldn’t
start the season without yet
another blockbuster deal by
first-year general manager
A.J. Preller.
Preller pushed ahead
with his remarkable makeover of the Padres on
Sunday when he acquired
All-Star closer Craig
Kimbrel and outfielder
Melvin Upton from the
Atlanta Braves for outfielders Carlos Quentin and
Cameron Maybin, plus two
minor leaguers and a draft
pick.
While Upton will be
reunited with his younger
brother, Padres left fielder
Justin Upton, this deal
centered around Kimbrel,
whom Preller called “an
A-level performer.”
The Padres take on
$80.35 million in guaranteed salaries to Kimbrel
and Upton while shedding
the $24 million guaranteed
still owed to the oft-injured
Quentin and Maybin.
“With the chance to
acquire Kimbrel, who’s one
of the best in the game, if
not the best, it was a price
we were willing to pay,”
Preller said during a conference call. “He’s an A-level
performer. He’s 26 years
old. It’s an opportunity to
strengthen our club.”
Taking on the remaining
$46.35 million on Melvin
Upton’s contract appeared
to be the price for landing Kimbrel, who is owed
a guaranteed $34 million.
Melvin Upton was placed on
the disabled list Saturday
with a left foot injury.
Preller said the Padres
weren’t necessarily “motivated to try to get Melvin
and Justin together as
brothers. It was a situation where we felt overall
the deal fit for us and we
attempted to go out and add
quality pieces to get Craig
Kimbrel in this deal.”
Kimbrel led the NL for
the second-straight year
with 47 saves after saving 50
games in 2013, which tied
Baltimore’s Jim Johnson
for the major league lead.
Kimbrel was tied for most
in the NL in both 2011 (46)
and 2012 (42).
Since his first full season in 2011, when he won
the NL Rookie of the Year
award, Kimbrel leads all
big league closers with 185
saves. He has been an AllStar each of the last four
seasons.
Preller said Kimbrel was
trying to catch a plane in
Miami to make it to Los
Angeles in time for the
Padres’ opener against the
Clayton Kershaw and the
Dodgers on Monday afternoon.
Huston Street led San
Diego with 24 saves last
year before being traded to
the Angels. Joaquin Benoit,
the incumbent closer before
Kimbrel was obtained, had
11 saves last year.
The Upton brothers
played together for two
seasons in Atlanta. Melvin
Upton missed most of
spring training — he didn’t
have a single big league
exhibition at-bat — and
Preller said the Braves felt
he will not be ready to play
in a game for three-to-four
weeks.
Melvin Upton is owed
$14.45 million this year,
$15.45 million in 2016 and
$16.45 million in 2017.
Kimbrel will make $9
million this season, $11 mil-
lion in 2016 and $13 million
in 2017, and his contract
includes a $13 million club
option for 2018 with a $1
million buyout.
San Diego had a glut
of outfielders after Preller
obtained Matt Kemp, Justin
Upton and Wil Myers in
separate deals in December.
Quentin has been slowed
by knee injuries and never
played more than 86 games
in any of his three seasons
with his hometown Padres.
Maybin also has been
slowed by injuries. He was
suspended for 25 games last
year after testing positive
for amphetamines.
The Braves also receive
minor league right-hander
Matt Wisler and outfielder
Jordan Paroubeck, plus the
41st overall draft pick.
reality and has performed
very well coming out of
spring break,” Bielema
said. “He’s got great
hands. He’s intelligent.
He doesn’t lack any confidence. If anything he’s a
little bit too confident at
times. I’m excited to see
where he goes.”
With junior running
back Alex Collins healed
from an appendectomy
and senior running back
Jonathan Williams withheld
from spring scrimmaging as defensive end Trey
Flowers was last spring
turning down a chance to
turn pro to return for his
senior year, Collins was
summoned for 10 carries
Saturday and netted 70
yards including a 22-yard
touchdown run.
Hogs
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came right back in the eighth
inning and used a double off
the wall by Carson Shaddy
to plate Rick Nomura from
first and tie the game 3-3.
Joe Serrano then came to the
plate with two outs and provided a clutch single through
the right side to send Shaddy
racing home and give the
Razorbacks their first lead of
the day.
Tucker Pennell added
some breathing room in the
ninth inning with a line drive
2-run single to right field to
make it 6-3. Auburn added
a run in the bottom of the
inning, but Zach Jackson
came on to slam the door
and record his third save of
the season.
Jackson Lowery (3-0)
earned the victory in relief,
tossing 2.1 innings and giving up two hits and one run.
Keaton McKinney got the
start and gave up two runs
on five hits in 3.1 innings,
before giving way to James
Teague and Josh Alberius.
Arkansas returns to Baum
Stadium for Tuesday and
Wednesday nonconference
games against Mississippi
Valley State.
Game times are 6:30 p.m.
and 3 p.m.
Cards
From page 5
Holliday’s single in the first.
Holliday had another RBI
single in the fifth.
It was more than enough
for Wainwright, who was
slowed by an abdominal
injury early in spring training, but looked just fine in
his fourth opening day start.
The 6-foot-7 right-hander
made the most of umpire
Mike Winters’ wide strike
zone, striking out six with no
walks.
“He’s fun to watch,” manager Mike Matheny said.
“There’s just special guys
like that, when they get in
tough situations, big games
they’re able to make the big
pitch when they need to.”
Carlos Martinez, who won
the fifth starter job in training camp, then worked the
seventh for St. Louis. Jordan
Walden got three outs before
Trevor Rosenthal struck out
the side for the save.
Striders
From page 5
the half marathon at Hogeye
on Sunday in the same
weekend. The two races
have since been split up into
consecutive weekends, which
will mean that the Saline
County Striders take on the
flat, fast course of the Capital
City Classic on April 4 and
then enjoy a break until the
Toad Suck 10K on May 2.
Toad Suck is also famous
for its weather, so the
Striders know that the hard
part is certainly not over
even with Hogeye behind
them. Both the SCS men
and women are maintaining
Iron Team status through
Hogeye, which means they
have fielded a finishing team
in every race in the series
thus far. Heading into the
Hogeye weekend, the SCS
men were in sixth place in
the Grand Prix standings.
The SCS women were in
fourth place. Grand Prix
scores following the tally of
the Hogeye half marathon
results will be available at
www.arkrrca.com.
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Quorum Court committees
set for meetings tonight
By Lynda Hollenbeck
lyndahol@yahoo.com
The Public Works and
Safety Committee of the
Saline County Quorum
Court and the Finance and
Personnel Committee are
scheduled to meet at 6 p.m.
today in Courtroom 1 at the
county courthouse.
The agenda for the
Public Works/Safety panel
will include a proclamation declaring April as
Take Back
From page 1
Deputies with the Saline
County Sheriff’s Office will
be located at Harvest Food in
East End and at Cranford’s
Village Pantry near the east
Archer
From page 1
as a profession, we find the
need to modify our approach
to patient care,” Archer told
the first responders assembled in that setting.
“This is especially true for
those fire department first
responders who care for
patients in the first few min-
7
ATV Park
STOP! HAMMER TIME!
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Child Abuse and Neglect
Prevention Month and an
exhibit related to the addition
of adding roads to the county
system.
The Finance/Personnel
panel will consider matters
related to the Sheriff’s Office,
the establishing of a county
improvement fund, matters
related to the county jail,
inmate services commission
fees and maintenance issues.
All of the 13 justices of the
peace serve on all committees of the court.
gate of Hot Springs Village.
Benton Police will be located at Ferguson’s Furniture
on Military Road. At this location, Benton officers will be
giving out gift cards and coupons for Sonic, said Lt. Kevin
Russell, spokesperson for the
Benton Police Department.
Carter Moore, 10, practices creating stamp jewelry during the Spring Fling event at Saline Memorial
Hospital. Carter and his family were selling handmade items at their booth, Moore Family Designs.
utes after a medical emergency until the arrival of an
ambulance,” he said.
“The firefighters truly
make a difference,” Archer
said. “I want all firefighters
to have the best and most
recent information available
to work with.”
Gil Carpenter, chief of the
Salem Fire Department and
president of the association,
had invited Archer to the
meeting.
Carpenter noted that the
association gives Archer
“the opportunity to reach
every fire department in
Saline County at one time.
“Every department is a
member. Having the ultimate medical authority in
the county present to answer
our questions firsthand is
invaluable as we go back to
our individual departments
JOE PHELPS/The Saline Courier
and pass on the information,” Carpenter said.
The updates Archer mentioned to the association
included “when to administer oxygen to patients having chest pain,” noting that
the circumstances where
this is beneficial have been
modified.
In addition, the EMS
approach to managing a
cardiac arrest patient will
be changing, as new strategies regarding that group
of patients has shown significant improvements in
outcome as well, Carpenter
said.
Also attending the session with Archer were Saline
Memorial Hospital’s Trauma
Program manager, Lee
Lessenberry, and Stewart
Uzzell, the Medtran EMS
manager.
Water and Air Pollution
Control Act,” the report
noted.
Asked whether Carter
has been cooperative with
the investigations, ADEQ
spokesperson Katherine
Benenati said, “We have
been in contact with the park
owner about the inspection.”
Carter’s neighbor
Billingsley, however, said
there has been no cooperation. “He refuses to fence
his property or even clearly
instruct his customers where
the park’s boundaries end,”
Billingsley said. “Thus, his
customers have been creating havoc on the lands of
others, such as myself. They
go outside Carter’s boundaries and trespass, ruining our
lands and frequently cutting
or tearing down fences.”
Billingsley also said Carter
trespassed onto her property
and dug holes there with a
track-hoe. She said she then
filed a police report with
the Saline County Sheriff’s
Office and “expressed my
displeasure directly to
Carter,” and the next day
he drove more heavy equipment onto her property
and enlarged the trench.
Billingsley said her next step
is to take legal action.
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accrue until all such assessments, or liens to preference the time of
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Pacific for 602.2 feet thence
whatsoever over all deSection
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SALINE
DISTRICT
shall be
cost that and Said sale
COUNTY,
beginning; a point that
in full force
feet to
may purchaser will be
NO. 14
the point
CONSTRUCTIONARKANSAS
held at
and effect
run
SALINE IS SO ORDERED
security at said sale 11:00 A.M. on of beginning thence
DATED
from and
COUNTY
BONDS
will be
the
IMPROVEMENT
after interest to secure
PROPERTYthis 5th day
Sealed SEPTEMBER
required date stated.
the payment
1, 2013
from
to give
The
10:00 a.m. bids will be
DISTRICT OWNERS' of August, 2013.
and a lien the date
bond with
of the purchase
/s/ Travis
MULTIPURPOSE
local time received until
NO. 72
of
approved For the above
purchase will be retained sale at the highest
on August
price together
/s/ Mickey P. Bull • Commissioner
on February bonds, which
price.
on said
20,
rate
with
WITNESS
land to
/s/ Jerry D. Cunningham
mature 2013
1 of each
through
secure allowable by
my hand
Cunningham
serially
• Commissioner
further said
law,
2040
this
the Official inclusive. of the years
• Commissioner
Dennis 17th day of June,
Prepared
2014
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2013.
113 So. by:Donald M.
Commissioner,
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Market
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National Library Week
April 13-17, 2015
NOTICE OF SALE OF PUBLIC PROPERTY
Saline County, Arkansas will be conducting a sale of public property
via internet auction. The sale will be conducted at
www.govdeals.com<http://www.govdeals.com>. Start time will be at
8:00 a.m. April 22, 2015 and will end April 29, 2014 at 5 p.m.
The following items will be sold:
2008
DODGE CHARGER
VIN #2B3KA43G58H240126
2008
DODGE CHARGER
VIN #2B3KA43G78H240127
2008
DODGE CHARGER
VIN #2B3KA43G08H240115
2008
DODGE CHARGER
VIN #2B3KA43G38H240111
2008
DODGE CHARGER
VIN #2B3KA43G68H240121
2008
CHEVROLET IMPALA
VIN #2G1WS553481246627
2008
CHEVROLET IMPALA
VIN #2G1WS553481247082
2008
CHEVROLET IMPALA
VIN #2G1WS553781246153
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EASTER 2015
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Brynlee Briggs, 1, drops one of many Easter eggs into her basket Saturday.
Brynlee is the daughter of Josh and Christa Briggs of Benton.
Among those enjoying the Easter egg hunt at Miss Lisa’s Day Center are, from left, Cadie Jones, Riley Shaffer (little girl in blue
skirt), Gwen Birdwell, Jenna Nichols, Patterson Mask, Grace Mask, Braelynn Wilcox, Easton Snellings, Devyn Wooten, Kamden
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hunt at Miss
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Anna Sparks grabs an Easter egg Saturday at Bryant’s Alcoa 40 Park. Junior Auxiliary of Saline County
hosted its third annual Special Needs Easter Egg-stravaganza, with the biggest turnout so far, according
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