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Maddox Passes Resolution Seeking Federal Support for Completion of I-49
Acorn Lady Tigers Win Regionals Punch Ticket to State Tourney BY EASTON LEONARD Add ‘Regional Champs’ to the Acorn Lady Tigers growing list of titles this season, already claiming Conference and District Championships. Coach Mike Jackson’s Lady Tigers Basketball Team punched their ticket to the Class 1A State Basketball Tournament after sweeping their opponents in the 1A Region 4 Tournament last week. On Wednesday night, February 22, the Lady Tigers played their first round in the 1A Region 4 Basketball Tournament at County Line High School, the Acorn Lady Tigers took on the Lady Saints of St. Paul. Acorn forced the Lady Saints to call a few timeouts early in the game, starting off on a 9-2 run. Following the timeouts, the Lady Tigers went on to take a 20 point, 26-6, lead into the second quarter of play. The Lady Saints were able to score 13 points against Acorn in the second quarter, but allowed the Lady Tigers to score 18, to make the score 44-19 at halftime. Number thirty, Mariah Shipley, and number thirty-two, Harp, led the lady Saints with 6 points a piece at halftime, while Faith Hill led Acorn with 11 points. CONTINUED ON PAGE 19
Community Rallies to Bring “The Wall that Heals” to Mena BY MELANIE BUCK • news@mypulsenews.com
BY LEANN DILBECK • editor@mypulsenews.com
State Representative John Maddox [R-District 20] was successful in introducing and passing a house resolution, HR1018, before the 91st General Assembly last week. HR1018 encourages the expansion of the I-49 North-South corridor to improve accessibility and create economic prosperity. CONTINUED ON PAGE 6
Organizers have been working for months to bring The Wall That Heals to Mena and their labors have almost come to fruition, and with that, will bring a monument to the community that is only being displayed in 40 cities across the nation in 2017. The Wall That Heals is a traveling replica of the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial in Washington, D.C. The half-scale replica was designed to travel to communities across the nation to spread the Memorial’s healing legacy and is accompanied by the Mobile Education Center. Linda Johnson, Commandant of VFW Post 4451, has spearheaded the project. Johnson had visited the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial in Washington, D.C. and had heard of the traveling replicas. “I was sitting one day thinking, I wonder if we can get one of those walls to come to Mena,” Johnson explained. She began searching online and found that there are four traveling walls. The first she found was booked for the year, the second already had applications from Arkansas submitted, so she went for the third. “I applied and in mid-November, I got an email saying Mena would be one of the sites in March,” Johnson smiled. The Wall will be displayed at Bearcat Stadium on Morrow Street in Mena from March 22 – 26. Once the site was secured, funding for the $7,500 site fee expenses began. Johnson spoke to VFW Post 4451 and they agreed to host the event with financial help being chipped
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