Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

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The third annual Christmas Parade will be held December 9 at 6 p.m. in downtown Prescott. Anyone interested in participating in the parade needs to call the chamber at 887-2101. Deadline to enter is December 3.

Alcoholics Anonymous, a fellow-ship of men and women who wish to stop drinking, meets every Tuesday at 8:00 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church.

Al-Anon, for those affected by another's drinking, meets Thursday

evenings at 8:00 in the church. For

more information call 887-5991.

Mom's in Touch weekly prayer group, praying for local schools and children, meet Tuesdays at 1:45 at First Baptist Church. Call 887-6376 for more information.

A representative of the Texarkana Social Security office will be at the Nevada County Courthouse Tues., Dec. 21.

Supplemental security income (SSI) pays monthly checks to people who are aged, disabled or blind and who do not own much or have much income. SSI is not just for adults. To find out if you are eligible, call 1-800-772-1213.

Poor Boy Riding Club is starting its annual membership drive. It has family oriented trail rides, camp outs and monthly meetings fun for the whole family.

For more information call 777-6884 or 777-4537.

A basic mathematics class will be offered each Monday from 3:45 to 4:45 at Prescott High School in room 110. The class is free of charge and is offered for any one in grade five and up. Anyone in the community is welcomed to come.

For more information call Teresa Ragsdale at the High School at 887-3123.

Southwest Arkansas Development Council will sponsor the December Chamber of Commerce coffee on Thursday, December 2.

It will be held from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Nevada County Senior Citizens Center. Everyone is invited to attend.

The UACCH Upward Bound program is coming to Prescott High School. Upward Bound serves students by complementing their education and preparing them for college.

For more information and an application packet, contact the Upward Bound office at 870- 722-8157.

Prescott Rotary Club will sponsor a person to join a group study exchange with Turkey. Team members will stay with Rotary families while in Turkey. They will make presentations about Arkansas at local Rotary Clubs, learn about Turkey and spend vocational days seeing how their job is done in another part of the world.

To qualify you must be 25 to 40 years old and active in your profession for at least two years. Rotary International will pay travel expenses.

For more information call Marcia Lasiter, president of the local club, at 887-2658, or call Mary Alice Blevins at 887-2076.

First Baptist Church will have a clothes closet Saturday, December 4, from 8 a.m. to 12 noon in its gymnasium at 201 East Main. There will be no charge for the clothes.

Emmet School board will have its regular monthly meeting Monday, December 6, at 7 p.m. in room four.

The agenda will include elementary and high school principals' reports, superintendent's report and personnel matters.

The administration of the Blevins School District invites its patrons to attend either of two meetings at the school's cafetorium. These meetings are efforts to receive input from the district's communities on important matters coming before the school in the near future.

The meetings are scheduled for Wednesday, December 8, at 9 a.m. and Thursday, December 9, beginning at 7 p.m. Everyone is welcome.

Claudette Moss and Julius Gulley of Waldo are proud to announce the birth of their son, Dondrail Juwon, on Thursday, October 28, 1999, at Medical Park Hospital in Hope.

He weighed 6 pounds and 6 ounces and was 19 inches long.

Grandparents are Ruthie Evans and Claud Moss and Jenny B. and Freddy Henry.

Patrons of the Nevada County Library owing fines (especially long overdue fines) can have all fines forgiven during the week of December 6-10.

You should take your overdue books inside during regular hours or leave in the book return outside. Library hours are 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Tuesday through Friday.

Why not do some Christmas shopping at the Prescott Middle School book fair? The book fair begins Wednesday, December 1, today and will continue through Monday, December 6.

It will be held in the library from 7:45 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

On December 26 beginning at 11 a.m. Mt. Ephesus Baptist Church will be having a memorial service for all members who have passed. All family members and friends are invited.