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  • Joined: August 30, 2022
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Rector Labor Day Picnic offers full weekend of fun

The Rector Labor Day Picnic Committee can not guarantee crisp, fall weather, but they have kept their eyes and ears poised for important weather forecasts given the recent excessive heat from the high-pressure dome poised over the Mid-South. The Weather Channel forecasts highs between 88 and 94 degrees on the critical days of Labor Day weekend for northeast Arkansas.

4-H Youth Leadership take agriculture tour

Agriculture and agriculture related professions are the number one employer in Clay County. The 4-H Youth Leadership Citizenship Team agriculture tour took place on Wednesday, Aug. 23. Eighteen junior students on the YLCT from Piggott, Rector, and Corning High Schools had the opportunity to participate in the tour.

BRIEFS

The 2023 Rector Labor Day t- shirts are now on sale at several locations in the city. They may be purchased at Centennial Bank, Rector Downtown Drug, Our Happy Place, The Caffeinated Cow and Big Time Pizza. All sizes are available for $ 20.00 each. There are no sizes smaller than a youth small. Also available are can koozies for $ 6.00 each. All checks need to be made payable to Woodland Heights Cemetery.

Hamilton named Grand Marshal

The most anticipated event of the Rector Labor Day weekend is the Labor Day Parade held on Labor Day morning to usher in the annual Labor Day Picnic. The ring master and orchestrator of the parade since the mid-1980s has been Sherland Hamilton who has been selected as the parade’s 2023 Grand Marshal.

Traffic stop leads to drug arrests

According to a report from the Clay County Sheriff’s Department on Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023, at approximately 12:46 p.m., a Clay County Deputy made a traffic stop on a Chevrolet Blazer just outside of McDougal. There were two occupants in the vehicle. The deputy made contact with the driver, 42-year-old Tammy D. Lutes of McDougal. The driver’s window would not roll down, so she opened the door of the vehicle and a baggy with a white substance was in plain view. The passenger of the vehicle was 43-year-old Danielle Householder of Paragould. The deputy got both individuals out of the vehicle and conducted a search of the vehicle. Both subjects were arrested for possession of controlled substance meth and possession of controlled substance marijuana. They were both transported to The Clay County Detention Center.