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BY BOB COPELAND
As I pulled into Batesville Shooting Sports Complex,  I saw the flag standing straight out as a strong northwest wind blew. I looked at the outside temperature on my car’s instrument panel that read 38 degrees and I knew it would be a very tough day of competition for the C.A.T.S. trap team.
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Heroic Abilities Aren’t Exclusive to Comics, Novelist Says
Cynical adults may sneer when they say, “Youth is wasted on the young.” But young world-traveler Ryan Pearson sees a more positive message in George Bernard Shaw’s often repeated quote.
“I see it as meaning that youth is an opportunity to seize direction, enlightenment, significance and to expand one’s [...]

Auditions for the Arkansas State University-Beebe 2013 spring theater productions will be held Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013 and Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013 at 7 p.m. at the Owen Center Theater on the Beebe campus.
The spring theater productions will include Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry. Directed by Don J. Eller, the event will be performed Feb. [...]

The Beebe Elementary Kindness and Compassion Club (KC Club) consists of ten students in the fourth grade.  The purpose of the club is to form a student leadership and peer-mediation council that can help students who are struggling.  The club members set the example for acts of kindness and compassion throughout our school.
The members meet [...]

Students from the digital arts classes at Arkansas State University-Beebe received awards following the recent art show and exhibit.
The Student Show A was judged by Jasmine Greer, an art instructor at the University of Central Arkansas, based on overall presentation. The show displayed works of art from Graphic Design I, Introduction to Photography, and Introduction [...]

Petit Jean State Park will sponsor free, guided hikes on New Year’s Day as part of America’s State Parks First Day Hikes initiative in all 50 states.  America’s State Parks First Day Hikes offer individuals and families an opportunity to begin the New Year rejuvenating and connecting with the outdoors by taking a healthy hike [...]

The Christian Outreach Center food pantry in Beebe provided 175 local families with Christmas Food Baskets on December 15 at the pantry. Many volunteers assisted with providing the food baskets including the individuals that work at the Christian Outreach Center food panty, Boy Scouts Troop 362, the local United Methodist Church Men’s Group, the United [...]

More than a century ago, Philips Brooks wrote his enduring poem, “O LITTLE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM.”  Hearing it during the Christmas season often takes me back to a one-room country school when it was still legal to sing carols at the annual Christmas program.  Revealing this memory dates me but the poem Phillips Brooks penned [...]

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