The Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas received $25,962 from Nestlé USA to support children at risk of hunger through its Backpack Program. The mission of the Backpack Program is to meet the needs of hungry children by providing them with nutritious and easy-to-prepare food to take home on weekends and school holidays when other resources are not available.
The Black River Technical College (BRTC) Library has extended its hours to better serve its students and community. The library is now open from 7:30 a.m.
The Clay County Sheriff’s Department reports on Friday, Oct. 6, a Clay County deputy stopped a blue Jeep close to Pollard on U.S. 62 for no license plate. When the deputy ran a check on the subject, he learned she had a suspended driver’s license and was on probation with a search waiver on file. He then conducted a search of the vehicle where he found hydrocodone pills and clonazepam. The driver, 37--year-old Jacqueline Danley of Paragould, was taken into custody and transported to the Clay County Detention Center where she was booked for felony possession of a controlled substance.
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The Next Generation Concert returns to the Ozark Folk Center during the Bean Festival and Championship Outhouse Races in Mountain View on Saturday, October 28. The concert is a fundraiser sponsored by the Committee of One Hundred to raise funds for the Music Roots Program for youth in Mountain View. Music Roots provides free music lessons and loaned instruments for homeschool and publicschool students beginning in fourth grade.
With the homecoming clock ticking down the final minutes of the junior high Cougar contest with the junior high Brinkley Tigers, Rector’s Austin Avery flashed past the line of scrimmage and up the middle, into the open for another Rector junior high Cougar touchdown. The scoreboard flashed 40 for Rector and 16 for Brinkley. Within a few minutes, though, a Brinkley Tiger broke loose for a score and two-point conversion to bring the final score to 40 – 24. Coach Robert Dorman signaled “run the clock” and the rough and tumble game ended with a junior high Rector Cougar Homecoming victory.
Coach Paul Temerian led the Cougar football program from 1985 through 1993 and established, according to research by Ron Kemp, a record and tradition being continued by athletes today. Prior to the resumption of football in 1973, the Rector program had not had a winning season. Coach Temerian’s first squad went 2-6-1. After that initial struggle, Coach Temerian led the football program with only one other losing season in the nine years as varsity coach.
At halftime of the senior high football homecoming game featuring the hometown Rector Cougars and the Brinkley Tigers, the athletic department recognized fifty years of football in Rector. This 2023 football season represents the 50th year of football “since the sport was reintroduced in 1973,” according to Ron Kemp who has been involved in Rector athletics for decades and as former editor of the local newspaper, had exclusive information on schedules, victories, along with heritage and tradition.
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The Rector city wide yard sale will be held Saturday, Oct. 14. Rector Memorial Park facilities will be avail-able to residents free of charge during the day, but those using the park are reminded to bring their own tables for displays and will be required to clean their area once the sale is completed.