The Clay County Junior Fair Board will be hosting a craft show from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 12, at the commercial building on the Clay County Fairgrounds. Vendor fee is set at $35 with community entry fee being a small donation to the Clay County Junior Fair Board Scholarship Fund. Small concessions will be available. Those interested may contact Reagan at 870-324-1415 or Erin at 870-324-3363 to reserve a space.
With the approach of the Labor Day holiday, the Woodland Heights Cemetery Commission is once again conducting a $1,000 drawing as a fundraiser. The drawing will take place on Monday, Sept. 4, on the main stage at the Rector Memorial Park following the Miss Rector Pageant. Persons do not have to be present to win. Once again this year tickets are $1 each, six for $5 or 25 for $20. Tickets will be available the day of the picnic and are also available at several area busi-nesses. Rector businesses include Above & Beyond, Big Time Pizza, Caffeinated Cow, Centennial Bank, Glen Sain Motor Sales, GPS Chiropractic, Graves Gin, OHP-Our Happy Place, Piggott Pharmacy, Piggott State Bank-Rector Branch, Rector Downtown Drug, and The Vintage Junkie.
Piggott Farmers Market is still open every Friday from 8 a.m. to noon at the First National Bank Pavilion on East Main.
Aug. 18- Story Time from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.
In keeping with event tradition, a full slate of pageants will be held in conjunction with the 2023 edition of the Rector Labor Day Picnic. This year’s pageants are scheduled for both Sunday, Sept. 3, and Monday, Sept. 4, on the beauty revue stand of Memorial Park. Pageant organizer Jade Simpson noted that the Petite Miss, Preteen Miss and Junior Miss Rector pageants are closed to Rector students only until Aug. 25. “If we do not have enough participants by the deadline, we will then open the pageants to others,” commented Simpson.
Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center is partnering with the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture to present a Lunch & Learn Series at 12 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 22, with the topic being Butterfly Gardening. The free event is planned at HPMEC and a light lunch will be provided. For more information you may contact the museum at 870-598-3487.
Katie Betty Sue Billings, 81, of Corning, Ark.,, passed away August 12, 2023, at the Piggott Community Hospital in Piggott. She was born on July 27, 1942, in Corning, Ark., and was the daughter of the late Lewis and Genevieve (White) Barker.
Lake Street Band which hails from Lake Street Baptist Church in Paragould is comprised of singers and band members, a quartet plus a full band. If you trust Joey Pruett and his music choices, such as the stellar talent he’s lined up for Labor Day, then trust him on the Lake Street Band.
At Monday night’s Rector School Board meeting, a full board was present along with Superintendent Johnny Fowler, Principal Nate Henderson, and Principal Mark Manchester. A full first day of 2023-2024 school year in the books and marked successful, the board turned to business and finance related to future endeavors.