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TUESDAY, October 30, 2018 / Vol. 4 Issue 44 / 75 cents
App more than game South Side students develop Occupational Therapy tool
Occupation Therapist Marcus Hutto tries out the Virtual Reality Occupational Therapy app with its creators, Blake Battles (l) and Dillon Hall (r)
Shirley students study art Shirley High School art students are participating with their teacher, Layna Jones, in the Arkansas Declaration of Learning program. They have been studying museum objects from Washington, D.C.’s Diplomatic Reception Room, the Clinton Presidential Li-
Two EAST students at South SideBee Branch High School are working on a Virtual Reality App for Occupational Therapy students. Their work began late October 2017. At that time, Dillon Hall and Blake Battles, then both 15, were first-year EAST students, in a first-year program at South Side-Bee Branch, with a first-year facilitator, Julie` Nelson. According to Nel-
son, EAST (Education Accelerated by Service and Technology) is a program that encourages students to use critical thinking, collaboration, and creative problem solving to solve real world situations in their school, community, and their world. EAST advocates lifelong learning and community service, enabling students to become positive agents of change to improve the world around them.
The two young men began this journey when they approached the school Occupational Therapist, Marcus Hutto, about designing a game that might help his students. It soon became apparent that what started off as a paper and pencil “game” was not really an EAST project and that there were alSee App on page 5
brary, the Butler Center, and Crystal Bridges Museum. On Monday, Oct. 22, a group of 11thand 12th-grade students traveled to Bentonville to study Nari Ward’s WE THE PEOPLE installation art and toured the special exhibit Native Voices. This semester they will complete the program by creating and implementing a civic engagement project with the theme of Community and Culture.
Choctaw Fire Department gets grant The Choctaw Volunteer Fire Department has received a $15,000 grant through the Arkansas Rural Community Grant Program. Choctaw will use the money to construct a building to house its fire boat and service truck. County Judge Roger Hooper and Joey Weaver and Ken Brown of the Choctaw Fire Department traveled to Little Rock on Oct. 18 to accept the grant from Gov. Asa Hutchinson, Arkansas Economic Development Commission Executive Director Mike Preston and Rural Services Director Alex Johnston. More than $300,000 was presented to 27 rural communities. The com(From left) Van Buren County Judge Roger Hooper, Choctaw Fire Department’s Joey Weaver and Ken Brown with munities were selected for Fiscal Year 2019 Cycle I funding. Gov. Asa Hutchinson.
Pig Eye festival Saturday
Scare time
The annual Scare on the Square, sponsored by the Clinton Volunteer Fire Department, is set for Tuesday, Oct. 30, in downtown Clinton. Costume contests, candy, and chills are on tap. The haunted house will be at the downtown fire station this year, and businesses will be handing out treats. The scares begin around 5 p.m.
Bee Branch ISO
The Bee Branch Volunteer Fire Department has recently been notified that it has earned an ISO rating of 4 effective Jan. 1, 2019. The department has worked heard for four years toward improving its rating and tested last spring, said Fire Chief Jess Burris. ISO ratings can have an effect on homeowners’ insurance policies, and the lower the better on the ISO scale.
It was Senior Night at Jim Tumlison Field at Clinton and the Marshall Bobcats came to town. Both sides gathered after the game for prayer and sportsmanship. Read all about the game action and see more photos on Pages 8-9. (Photo by Robert R. Gaut)
Pig Eye Daze is coming to Scotland on Saturday, Nov. 3. It’s the second annual event and organizers are planning a lot of things for a lot of people. There will be lots of food, races, raffles, contests for all ages, vendors, horseshoe toss, just too much to mention. Live music includes Marty Haggard, Debby Campbell, Lucky Rooster, Ken Murphy and more. James Burns and his crew will start serving fish dinners at 5 p.m. Festivities begin at 8 a.m. - Joyce Burns