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Community Events Calendar Wednesday September 25 Carlisle Public Library Adult Master Mixes 4:00p.m. Thursday September 26 Food Distribution Hazen Methodist Church 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Mobile Health Unit Hazen Methodist Church Parking Lot Free Screening 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Hazen Jr. Hornets vs Carlisle Jr. Bison Bison Field 7:00p.m. Des Arc Jr. High Eagles @ Marvell 7:00p.m. Friday September 27 Sr. High Hornets vs Sr. High Bisons Hornet Field 7:00p.m. Des Arc Sr. Eagles vs Marvell Eagle Field 7:00p.m. Tuesday October 1 Drive through flu clinic Hazen First United Methodist Church 7:30a.m.-5:30p.m. October Is Breast Care Awareness Month Monday October 7 Hazen Chamber of Commerce Meeting BancorpSouth 6:30p.m.-7:30p.m.
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Wednesday, September 25, 2019
PC Quorum Court passes emergency bond ordinance month will go to the county’s operation and maintenance of the jail. The county can refinance the bonds in April, 2025, if a lower interest rate is available. The cost of the refinancing will come out
Sarah Giammo of Friday, Eldredge, and Clark (above), and Marshall Hughes of Crews and Associates addressed the Prairie County Quorum Court regarding the recently passed bond issue at their regular meeting held on Tuesday, September 9 in the Des Arc Courthouse Annex building. Aldermen Ronnie Eans, Lawrence Holloway, Gary King, Doyle Sullins, Bobby Willeford, Rick Stallings, Dennis Tipton and Judy Hinson, along with County Clerk Gaylon Hale, County Treasurer Tamara Dabney, and Attorney Tim Isaacs were in attendance. Hughes said that the bond sale will net $1.7 million for the renovation of the county’s courthouses in Des Arc and DeValls Bluff. The original jailhouse bond had a 4.36% interest rate, but the new bond will have a fixed interest rate of 2.636%. Payment on the loan will
of the bond issue. The county will receive the funds on October 22. In other business, Judge Mike Skarda told the court that a 150’ by 75’ parking lot will be built just south of the White
River bridge along the river with an Arkansas Game and Fish Commission grant supplemented by in-kind services provided by City of Des Arc and the Prairie County road crew.
be $262,000 for the county as opposed to the $228,000 the county was paying on the previous loan. Farmers and Merchants Bank will be the trustee for the loan. “We’re very happy with the results and how it turned out,” Marshall said. Giammo handed out a copy of the bond ordinance which she read, and which the court passed after suspending the rules and reading the ordinance three times. The 2013 bond issue that has been replaced with the new bond issue originally set aside ⅜ cent of the money collected to finance the jai renovations and ⅛ went to county operations and maintenance. One-eighth of the new tax money can still be used for the jail, or it can go toward debt service. Farmers and Merchants Bank will collect the tax and pay the debt service on the bonds in behalf of the county. Any money not needed to pay the bond note each
Love’s to hold first car show for ACH Love's Travel Stop & Country Store at I-40 in Hazen will be holding its 1st annual car show this Saturday from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. The car show is being held as part of the station’s fund raising efforts for the Arkansas Children’s Hospital that has been going on during the month of September. According to station manager Steve Pendelton, the deadline for raising money is September 30th. “We hope to raise a lot of money between now and this weekend,” Pendelton said. “We have raised almost $24,000, and we have a goal of
$30,000 we are trying to break.” The Love’s employees would like to encourage any and all to come by the store to drop off any sort of donations. They will accept change, bills, and checks. Checks may be payable to Arkansas Children’s Hospital. They will gladly provide register receipts for any donations if needed. Many employees have volunteered their time when they are off work to help with the fundraising at the store. They ask that everyone helps Love’s raise a bunch of money for sick kids.
AR soybean producers hit record bushel marks Little Rock, AR – The Grow for the Green Soybean Yield Challenge is pleased to announce that Matt Miles has topped the 120 bushel per acre mark in the Grow for the Green Soybean Yield Challenge with a yield of 120.533 bu/a. Miles planted Pioneer P48A60X on April 22. The field in Ashley County was treated with 1.5 tons of broiler litter. Seed was pretreated with Indigo and CruiserMaxx and the plot was treated with Marvis Top Fungicide once. Miles is already a member of the Arkansas 100 Bushel Club having reached the 100-bushel mark four times previously in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2017. In addition to Miles hitting the 120 bu/a mark, Brandon Cain from Des Arc harvested a plot of 100.200 bu/a. Cain planted NK45J3X on April 3 in White County and is the 19th producer in the state to reach 100 bu/a. Cain applied three tons of chicken litter and 150 lb of potash preplant. Seed was treated with Cruiser Max Vibrance and the field was treated with Priaxor at R5. According to Lanny
Ashlock, one of the Grow for the Green Soybean Yield Challenge committee members, “When the contest was established, we expected is to take some time to reach the 100-bushel mark and the 120 by 2020 portion was an addition to the program. Now we have 19 producers who have reached 100 and overall soybean yields have increased.” This contest is funded by the Arkansas Soybean Promotion Board using producer checkoff funds and is managed by the Arkansas Soybean Association. The University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture is a major component of the contest by providing information to producers and serving as judges. The contest fields consist of five to seven acres and must have been planted in soybeans at least once in the previous three years. These producers, along with the other division winners in the contest, will be recognized at the Annual Meeting of the Arkansas Soybean Association in January 2020.
Projects on the Grand Prairie ... Lots of improvements and additions have been going on in the Grand Prairie area lately. Some of the most recent are shown above. (Top picture) An Arkansas Game and Fish Commission project expanded the parking area for the two boat launching ramps to White River in the Tom Roe Memorial Riverfront Park at Des Arc, AR. The Prairie County Road Department and the City of Des Arc did the site preparation work, leveling the site and adding a four inch layer of gravel which was covered by a six inch layer of concrete. (Second picture) A new Dollar General Store is being built in DeValls Bluff. Workers were hard at work on the structure last Saturday morning. (Third picture) Some of the streets in Hazen are being paved thanks to a grant from the Arkansas Highway Department. Here the asphalt is being laid on Crowley Street just south of the football field. (Bottom picture) Improvements are being made to the Bobby Glover softball field in Carlisle.
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