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Here are the stories in the Wednesday, August 10, 2005 edition of Gurdon Times

Couple faces pot charges
A Gurdon couple faces class C felony charges for possession with intent to deliver marijuana, after their home was raided around 10 a.m. Friday, July 29. Ronnie Deaton, 47, and Keetha Marie Eckert, 41, of Highway 67 South, were visited by officers from th...
Man stays clean using drug court
Experimenting with drugs had gotten him in the position where jail time seemed a certainty, yet did Lee Roy Powers really need to be in prison? Clark County Circuit Judge John Thomas, Sheriff Troy Tucker and Probation and Parole officer Joe Kuhn did not t...
Forest Festival to include lumberjack demonstration
Forest Festival Committee members decided to have a lumber jack show, after reviewing a presentation of proposed activities Tuesday night. The show is to run no more than $1,500 and Jeanie White will be approaching the public to get financial sponsors. Ka...
Taley plans to go back to Girls State as counselor
Gurdon High School student Destiny Talley gave a report on her Girls State activities for the summer to her sponsors at Rotary club Thursday. Talley said, There were nearly a 1,000 girls in attendance at Harding University in Searcy from May 29 through Ju...
Gurdon Pond project may get more land
A representative from Blue Sky Timber Properties, who has authority over the land surrounding Gurdon Pond Number Two, said he will approach his land owners about selling approximately 75 acres of timberland around the pond to Gurdon "or maybe even work so...
City Council extends trash hauling contract
Gurdon's City Council met Monday, and passed a motion to extending the contract of Gurdon trash hauler A&M Equipment Company, of Little Rock, until the last of October. Tambra Childres, treasurer and recorder, said Thursday, "We did that so A&M would have...
Robert Pope
Robert Coley Pope Jr., of Gurdon, died July 30 at the age of 69. He was preceded in death by his parents, Mr. Robert Coley Pope Sr. and Mary Cleo Thrasher Pope. An interment service of his ashes was at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 6, in Chidester Cemetery.
Sue Harmon
Sue Harmon, 86, of Whelen Springs, died Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2005. She was a member of the Whelen Springs Baptist Church in Whelen Springs and the widow of Edward Harmon. Survivors include her two sons: Bryce Lenard Harmon and wife Marybeth of DeQueen and B...
Horace Dunn
Angels came for a most loyal servant, the Reverend Horace J. Dunn, 82, on Aug. 2, 2005. The Rev. Dunn surrendered to the call to preach in 1962 at the Central Baptist Church in Texarkana, Ark. His ministry included First Baptist Church in the Wallace Com...

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