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Volume 118 Number 37 - USPS 225-680
Community Events Calendar
Prairie County, Arkansas
Attorney General Rutledge speaks at Prairie County Farm Bureau meeting County roundtable discussion.) The AG also spoke about unsolicited phone calls using numbers and area codes that are similar to those of consumers. Presently phone companies don’t have the authority to shut down these phone calls, but she said that her office is working to overturn this rule. She asked everyone to let others know when scams happen. The opioid epidemic in Arkansas is a concern of Rutledge’s. She told the group that Arkansas is number one in the misuse of prescription drugs among young people between 12 and 17 years of age. “We leave our medicines out on the kitchen table,” she said. She stressed that all prescription medications should be kept in a safe place away from children
Wednesday September 20 Friendship Luncheon DeValls Bluff Methodist Church 11:30 - 2:00 p.m. Thursday September 21 Hazen City Council City Hall 6:00pm - 7:00pm Craft Day Hazen Public Library 11:00 am- 12:00 pm Hazen Junior Hornets VS McCrory Jaguars Hornet Field 7:00 p.m. Friday September 22 Senior High Hornets VS McCory Jaguars @ Augusta 7:00 p.m. Saturday September 23 Demolition Derby Prairie County Fair Grounds 7:00 p.m.
“Prescription for Life” program and her office’s attempt to warn Arkansans about the dangers of prescription drug abuse. Lastly, Rutledge asked that everyone reach out to others even though they may disagree. “We are at a point in our state where civil discourse is lacking,” she said. “It is important that we sit together at the table and have reasonable conversations.” After Rutledge’s address, Farm Bureau Luke Hooks told attendees that a donation in Attorney General Rutledge’s honor would be presented to AIM. Next, Hooks presented the David Strohl family, Prairie County’s 2017 Farm Family of the Year, with a plaque in their honor. The Farm Bureau, along with the two county newspapers, the Grand
ing the minutes of the previous annual meeting, the financial report, and the membership report.
Farm Bureau President Luke Hooks Bobby Lott gave the insurance report. No new resolutions were submitted this year, and the meeting closed with the election of the Board of
Attorney General Leslie Rutledge Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge was the guest speaker at the annual meeting of the Prairie County Farm Bureau which was held in the Parish Hall of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Tollville on Tuesday, September 12 at 7:00 p.m. The meeting was opened with an invocation given by Jackie Prince, and then dinner was served by the women of St. Peter’s Church. After the meal, Rutledge, Arkansas’ first woman Attorney General, spoke to the attendees about some of the issues that her office has addressed since her election to that office. She spoke about a previously “out of control” Environmental Protection Agency which she said is now under a new and better adminis-
trator, Scott Pruitt. She also said that her office has been challenging the Arkansas Game and Fish Department over wildlife habitats in the state. She said that the Consumer Protection Bureau was also “out of control”, and she talked about the skyrocketing cost of compliance over the past few years. Rutledge encouraged the members to give the AG’s office real-life examples of how various regulations and issues have been problematic for them. She told the group that she wants to make sure that there is no “disconnect” between Little Rock and the people. For this reason, she said, she will go to every county each year to talk with civic leaders. (See the story in this week’s Herald about her Prairie
Hooks presents Whitney, Cindy, and David Strohl the Farm Family of the Year plaque. and disposed of properly by taking advantage of drop boxes that each county’s Sheriff maintains. She told the group about state’s
Prairie Herald and the White River Journal, sponsor the Farm Family program each year. Then Hooks led the Farm Bureau members in their annual meeting, approv-
Directors, the Ex-officio members, and the delegates and alternates for the 2017-18 state conventions. Luke Hooks and Seth Skarda will be this year’s delegates.
Prairie and White Counties Veterans Benefit Fair to be held in Searcy Saturday
Monday September 25 Hazen School Board Meeting Hazen High School Library 6:00 p.m.- 7:00 p.m. Thursday September 28 Commodities First United Methodist Church Hazen 10:30 am -12:30 pm
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
2017 Prairie County Fair Queen Pageant winners (l to r) Kolby Fox 1st alternate, Rainey Ingle - 2nd alternate, and Sara Toll - this year’s Prairie County Fair Queen.
A Veterans Benefits Fair will be held on Saturday, September 23 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Army National Guard Armory in Searcy. The Armory is located at 3105 S. Main Street. The event is sponsored by the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System and the Arkansas Department of Veterans Affairs. All veterans in Prairie and White Counties and the surrounding areas to come and ask questions
about veterans’ benefits, according to Prairie County Veterans Services Officer Larry Robinson. Attendants are asked to bring their discharge papers or DD214 cards with them when they come. There will be booths at the fair where veterans can enoll in veterans’ healthcare, file claims, check on claims filed, find out about various veterans’ discounts and and get information on veterans’ tax breaks. Robinson has an office
in Prairie County at 605 Hwy. 38E in the Courthouse Annex at 5th St. and Hwy. 38 in Des Arc. The office is open on the 1st & 3rd Thursdays from 8 a.m. until noon. You may also reach Robinson by phone at 870-256-3741. As of 2016, there were 724 veterans in Prairie County, and the Arkansas Office of Veterans’ Affairs hopes that they will all come to this important event.
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Teen Miss Rani Heinmiller (center) with Shaylee Rowland - 2nd alternate (left) and Abby Richardson - 1st alternate and photogenic.
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