Here are the stories in the Wednesday, September 13, 2000 edition of Gurdon Times
- Center Receives Funds
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- A check for $450,000 was presented to the Southwest Arkansas Technical Learning Center Thursday, Sept. 7.
The money is to be used to construct a building to house the learning center, which trains potential employees in the jobs offered by local industr...
- Festival Plans Underway
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- Preparations are underway for the 20th Annual Gurdon Forest Festival.
According to Freddie Horne, festival director, this is one of the largest festivals in the area. This year's Forest Festival will be held Saturday, Oct. 28 on Main Street in downtown ...
- SW District Fair Is September 26-30
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- Some of the top rodeo hands in the nation are expected to show up at the Southwest Arkansas District Livestock Show and Rodeo.
This year's festivities are a bit earlier than in years past as the SWAR Livestock Show and Rodeo runs from Sept. 26-30, in Ho...
- Rams Knock Off Go-Devils, 21-7
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- Lakeside went home with a 21-7 victory, but the Rams didn't win the game.
In fact, Lakeside's longest drive of the night consisted of 30 yards.
However, Gurdon made critical mistakes allowing the Rams to score from point blank range.
The Devils found ...
- Brothers Running For City Marshall
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- There's an interesting turn of events politically in Gurdon.
David Childres, city marshal, filed as a Democrat for reelection earlier this year. Friday, the deadline for filing as an independent, his brother Don submitted a petition for the post of city...
- Gurdon School Menu: September 18-22
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- Meals for the Gurdon School District for the week of Sept. 18-22, are as follows. All meals are served with milk. Cabe Middle School students will not be served tea.
Primary School
BREAKFAST
MONDAY: Super doughnut and fruit.
TUESDAY: Pop-Tart, toast an...
- Classy Moments from Cabe Middle School
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- I really made a big mistake last week by not getting the article in on time. Just completely let it slip my mind (no comments, please) of having articles in early due to the Labor Day holiday. To those of you who called to check on "it not being in the p...
- Community News
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- Members of Fellowship Baptist Church of Farmerville, La., will celebrate their pastor and his wife, Rev. and Sis. Jessie L. Radford Sr. pastor's anniversary Sunday, Sept. 17, at 3:00 p.m. Special guest will be New Mt. Zion Baptist Church of Gurdon, Rev. ...
- In Our Times . . . News That Matters To Gurdon
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- First State Bank of Gurdon will be having a pee-wee football team again this year. The team is allowed only 20 players on the team. In an effort to be fair coaches will select out of the 5th and 6th grades first. If any spaces are left open they will the...
- Letters To The Editor
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- Dear Editor,
We are writing to express our disagreement with statements made in an article that ran in The Gurdon Times on Aug. 23. The article was titled "Council Orders Juvenile Curfew." Gurdon City Marshal David Childres made representations that appe...
- Golden Oldies
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- I was unable to get my article in the paper in time for it to be printed last week.
The senior adults with August birthdays were Doug Quillen, Ann Smith, Nola Francis, Sue Crossley, Billie Jean Miller, Pauline Nelson, Bob Atkinson, Vernessa Russey, Alv...
- Gardner Is New Principal At Texarkana Junior High
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- Billy Gardner, a graduate of Henry Bell High School, has been named head principal of North Heights Junior High School in the Texarkana School District. Gardner was assigned the position April 24.
Gardner is also a 1971 graduate of Henderson State Unive...
- Smarts To Celebrate Golden Anniversary
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- Bill and Millie Hines Smart of Arkadelphia will be celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary on September 23.
The couple was married on September 23, 1950, in Reno, Nev.
Bill retired from the timber industry in 1999. Millie is a homemaker and is retir...
- Ryan Promoted To Colonel In Guard
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- James A. Jackie' Ryan Jr., formerly of Gurdon, was promoted to the rank of Colonel in the Army National Guard of the United States on Aug. 5.
He currently serves on the staff of the Adjutant General as the State Area Command Chaplain for the Arkansas A...
- Rev. George H. Woolf
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- Rev. George H. Woolf, 90, of Gurdon died Saturday, September 9, 2000.
Mr. Woolf was a retired Methodist minister and a member of the Texas Conference.
Survivors include his wife, Norene Woolf of Gurdon; three sons, Dee Woolf of Salt Lake City, Utah, Ch...
- Earl E. Kuhn
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- Earl E. Kuhn, 88, of Gurdon died Monday, September 4, 2000.
He was an engineer for the Missouri Pacific Railroad and a member of the Red Springs Baptist Church. He was preceded in death by two children, Wanda Guthrie and Kenneth Kuhn.
Survivors include...
- Lillie Key Ellis
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- Lillie Key Ellis, 84, of Beirne died Monday, September 11, 2000.
Mrs.Ellis was a homemaker and a member of Beirne Baptist Church.
Survivors include her daughter, Mary Jane Wilson of Beirne, eight grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.
Graveside ...
- Juanes Duane 'Shorty' Bunn
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- James Duane Shorty' Bunn, 45, died Tuesday, September 5, 2000, at the Baptist Medical Center in Arkadelphia.
Mr. Bunn was born March 10, 1955, in Brinkley, he was the son of William Joe Red' and Marjorie Henderson Bunn. He was a member of South Fork B...
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