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February 7, 2012

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    By Lacy Mitchell Guard Staff Writer

    Veterans recall WWII
    November 25, 2009

    MELBOURNE — At age 3 Noble Wiles was hit by a car. At 17 he came down with pneumonia and then fell into a coma.
    Thanksgiving Day Wiles will celebrate his 85th birthday and on Tuesday he, along with a handful of area World War II veterans, gave many at Melbourne High School a lot to be thankful for as they shared with students and faculty their personal stories of battle and the freedoms it brought America.

    Activity made fun with cardboard cars
    November 4, 2009

    Wrapping clear masking tape around four paper towel tubes, Rachel Brown admits she’s never built a cardboard car before.
    But on Monday night she wouldn’t have missed the opportunity with her son, 5-year-old Jacob Brown.
    “I have never done anything like this. ...” Brown said, laughing while taping the tubes, or “grill,” to the front of Jacob’s cardboard truck at “Drive-In with Dads, Movies with Moms” at the Batesville Early Learning and Enrichment Center.

    Surviving breast cancer
    October 30, 2009

    Every yearly mammogram came back normal.
    She never felt a lump and no one in her family had ever been diagnosed with it.
    But in August 2008 Tamara Griffin heard what no one ever wants to hear. She had breast cancer.
    Griffin recognized something was wrong in June when her right breast became swollen. Thinking it might be a mild infection her doctor prescribed antibiotics.
    “After a couple of weeks it had gotten better,” she said, but there was a small knot and “Dr. (Clint G.) Melton was insistent on me having a mammogram.”

    Hometown ‘miracle’
    October 30, 2009

    EVENING SHADE — Matt Melton knew he was getting to come home from Arkansas Children’s Hospital Wednesday afternoon.
    He just didn’t know he’d be coming home to more than 50 family, friends, neighbors and classmates waiting in his driveway.
    Stepping out of the burgundy Ford pickup, wearing a denim shirt, Wrangler jeans, boots and a black cowboy hat, 15-year-old Melton walked toward the crowd of people who had traveled by car, truck and school bus for the welcome home surprise complete with banners, balloons and cake.

    Melbourne eyes grant, future career center
    October 28, 2009

    MELBOURNE — Offering college credit classes through Ozarka College is something that’s proved successful for many students at Melbourne High School, and the school district is hoping to continue that success with vocational classes if approved for a $10,000 Department of Workforce Education planning grant.

    Band to feature ‘The Who,’ hosts regional assessment
    October 26, 2009

    Keith Matthews was a sophomore and a member of the Pioneer band the last time the regional marching band assessment was held at Batesville High School in 1990.
    On Nov. 2 when the Batesville High band takes the field at Pioneer Stadium as host of the 2009 Region VIII Marching Assessment, the Batesville alumnus and director of bands will know what his students are feeling as they, along with more than a dozen other high school bands from across the area, face judges from West Memphis, Conway and Harmony Grove Benton high schools.

    Melbourne eyes technology grant
    October 1, 2009

    MELBOURNE — More technology could be in the Melbourne School District’s future.
    Under an Enhancing Education Through Technology grant, the district would have the opportunity to purchase more computers, more SMART Boards, electronic probes and sensors and even a wireless computer lab for the high school if approved for the $200,000 grant.

    Ms. Alma ‘the hat lady’
    July 29, 2009

    SMITHVILLE — Alma Mount wears many hats.
    Just not at the same time.
    “I can’t think of a color I haven’t got,” she said, sitting in her rocking chair on her front porch in Smithville. Some are made of felt. Others are made of cotton or straw. “Some have got big ol’ flowers on them and some have pins.”
    For nearly 60 years Mount has worn hats. To those in and around Smithville she is known as the “hat lady.”

    Fair first for some, many for others
    July 23, 2009

    There’s a first time for everything.
    For 10-month-old Khaelar AudaBelle Worley three of those firsts came Wednesday during the Independence County Fair.
    It’s her first fair, her first funnel cake and her first time to ride the carousel, said Michelle Cox, her grandmother, while sitting outside the educational booth, taking a break from the festivities before sunset.
    For Cox, the Independence County Fair has been an annual event for more than 20 years, something she’s enjoyed bringing her four children to, and now, her first grandchild.

    Small step has giant impact
    July 20, 2009

    Deborah Frazier remembers climbing up and sitting on the lattice-style cement block fence surrounding her family’s home in Laredo, Texas that summer evening.
    She was wearing cutoff shorts and a sleeveless white blouse.
    It was one of those moments when you knew something bigger than you was happening, Frazier said. “I remember it vividly.”
    Forty years has passed since man’s first journey to the moon. For Frazier, it seems like it was only yesterday.

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