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MMS gymnasts won the Jr District gym meet last week in Camden.

In addition to the team win, team member Laura Swain scored high point overall and was named as the Junior District Champion. 

Chelsea was ranked third in point overall.

Members of the team are: Ashley Temple, Keeli Leonard, Elizabeth Echols, Summer Chase, Chelsea Burton, Laura Swain, Jamie Fleming, My’Shellie Thompson, Anna St. John, Coach Amanda Terry, and Abby Phillips

David Rodela completed the 26.2 mile Marathon in Little Rock, Sunday.

This was his first time to enter a marathon and his time was only 5 hours 11 minutes 55 seconds, not bad for a 50 year old! David said he is looking forward to next year for a better time.

Rodella and his wife, Marie, drove home they planned not only how to run next year, but how they could work on living more healthy.

David said, “even though I didn’t win, as I crossed that finish line I felt like I was a winner. It was truly a awesome undertaking. to sum it up it was a honor to run along side so many winners ~ all of them.”

Congratulations, David!!

Bethannee Horn, the 16 year old daughter of Robert and Teresa Horn, placed 3rd in Best Appearance, 1st in Basic Strut, 1st in Basic Beginner Strut, 1st in Beginner X-strut, and 1st in Novice 2- Baton at Central Baptist College in Conway, Arkansas, the location for Arkansas Winter Twirling Festival, held January 16, 2010.

Competitors from Arkansas, Texas, Missouri and Arizona competed for trophies and medals in several types of individual Solo routines, ranging from Novice to Advanced. The ages of these contestants varies from 6 years up to 23 years old.

Bethannee Horn is coached by Janice Jackson-Seamands, who has twirling studios in Conway, Arkansas, and Dallas, Texas. She also coaches noted feature twirlers on the Baylor University, TCU , Oklahoma State, Ohio State majorette lines, as well as several twirlers on the USA World Twirling Team .

The Drew County 4 H Shooting Sports Club is organizing for the 2010 year. The Shooting Sports Club competes at 2 different 4 H competitions – Youth Hunter Education Challenge & Range Events. These competitions are held in June and July.

The 4 H Shooting Sports Club also competes in the AG&F, Arkansas Youth Shooting Sports Program, AYSSP. The Southern Regional Competition will be held May 7&8. The top 8 teams in the regional competition will go back and compete June 4&5. The 4 H Shooting Sports Program is open to all youth ages 9 to 19. The youth have an opportunity to win trophies and ribbons.

The AG&F, AYSSP is open to all youth 6th thru 12th grade. The youth have an opportunity to win SCHOLARSHIP money for any college in the state of Arkansas, along with trophies and the opportunity to compete for a chance to try out for the Junior Olympics.

The practices are held on the weekends. Once all the registrations have been competed we will make contact will all the interested youth and discuss in more detail the practice times and which program or programs they wish to participate in. If you do not have your Hunter Education Card, we will be forming a class to get everyone eligible. Read the rest of this entry »

Will Whiting, a former Monticello resident, is shown crossing the finish line at the New York City mMarathon.

He completed the 26.2 mile race in 4 hours, 11 seconds. Read the rest of this entry »

Ross Bolding, shown here competing in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, at the USATF National Track and Field Championships.

Bolding won the 2000 meters steeplechase and set a new American single age group record of 8:09, breaking the old record of 8:15 set by Frank Haviland in 1998. His 4×400meters and his 4×800meters relay teams also won those two events and he placed third in the 10,000 meters, also.

Ross’ totals were three gold medals and one bronze and he has now won five national championships total.

The Drew County 4-H sent 3 full Jr. teams and 1 individual to shoot at the Southern Regional AYSSP shoot at Remington Gun Club on May 15. There were approx 90 teams that competed that day. The top 16 teams will advance to the State Shoot Off on June 6. The Junior teams were just out of the top 16, but gave a very good showing for Drew County.

 

” Prairie Busters” Chad Williams, Eddie Barnett, Wyatt Bowden, Holly Williams, & Hank Griffin

” Long Guns” Colby Fortenberry, Hunter Hayes, JP Akin, Peyton Merrell, Jarrett Hartness

“Big Guns” Sam Noble, Sam Pelkki, Blake Holstead, Walso Laesecke, Aaron Hood

“Clay Busters” Matt Shepherd, Matt McKeown, Adam Deal, Will Beaty, Steven Koone.

“Long Shots” Brian Williams, Jason Brantley, Andrew Johns, Cody Brockman, Kurt Beaty.  Read the rest of this entry »

Williams Middle School in Rockwall, Texas was the location for The North Texas Spring Twirling Festival held recently.

Bethannee Horn, the 16 year old daughter of Robert and Teresa Hornm placed 4th in Best Appearance, 1st in Basic Strut, 1st in Novice Solo Routine, and 1st overall for the Basic Skills Competition. Read the rest of this entry »

The students at Chelle Danley’s Tae Kwon Do “Karate for Kids” recently attended a Regional Tournament at Little Rock. Pictured above are the winners within their divisions: Read the rest of this entry »

Michael Hudson and Dailyn Johnston are pictured with the trophies they received at the Regional American Taekwondo Association Tournament in Conway Saturday.

Michael is currently a black belt reccomended and Dailyn is currently a camo belt.

Both students are instructed by Chelle Danley.

Olympic High Jump Medal Winner, Hollis Conway held a special presentation at Monticello’s Vera Lloyd Presbyterian Home Thursday, and shared highlights about his career, his goals, and how he worked to reach them.

“Your dreams will be easier to accomplish if you have a plan,” he told the crowd. “When I was born God had given me the ability to be an Olympic high jumper.  But first i had to discover, develop, and demonstrate what God had put inside of me.”  “The worst thing I could’ve done would’ve been to make the football team.  I would’ve been a third rate football player, and not an Olympic high jumper.” Read the rest of this entry »

Jermaine Taylor, the former undisputed Middleweight Boxing Champion of the World, was in Monticello Saturday night as a special guest for the boxing card held in honor of Dr. Randy McKiever.

On the card, Monticello’s Brandon Mayweather won his first professional fight, as he fought Darrel Davis, of Shreveport, and won with a 1st round knockout, shown here.

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Both Drew County Sr. Teams ended up in the Sweet Sixteen, Double D was seeded #1 and Mossy Oak Clay Busters were #9. 

The Senoir Team, Double D Clay Busters are;  Zach Christmas, Assistant Coach Bud McKeown, Steven Koone, Matt McKeown, Brad Holt, Coach Terry Koone, and Adam Deal.

Matt also was the top shooter for Drew County for the day with two perfect 25 out of 25 rounds out of six total 25 shot rounds.

Shown here are Brandon Rea, Waldo Llaesecke, Andrew Johns, Kurt Beaty, and Lee Johns.

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Deep South Championship Wrestling is coming to Southeast Arkansas this Saturday Night!!!

Headlining the card will be former WWE & ECW Star-Rodney, also appearing will be Former ECW Star, and WWE Womens Champion-Jazz.

Also scheduled to appear are HollyHood Chuck, Kevin Douglas, and “The Coz”, among others.

The doors open at 6 p.m., and the show starts at 7 p.m.,  at the McGehee High School Gym.

Tickets are $10 and $5. 

The Drew County 4-H Shooting Sports Club will  practice on January 26, 2008 from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Drew County Fair Grounds. 

The first few practices will be in archery, and a child does not have to have their own bow to participate.  The club has a few bows for children to use to see if he or she may be interested in archery. Other areas that the Drew County 4-H Shooting Sports Club participates in include: .22 rifle, black powder, sporting clays, air rifle, wildlife identification, compass and orienteering, and hunter responsibility and safety.  

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The Drew County 4-H Shooting Sports Club will be starting practice on January 12, 2008 from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Drew County Fair Grounds.  The next practice will be January 26 at the same time and location. 

The first few practices will be in archery, and a child does not have to have their own bow to participate.  The club has a few bows for children to use to see if he or she may be interested in archery. Other areas that the Drew County 4-H Shooting Sports Club participates in include: .22 rifle, black powder, sporting clays, air rifle, wildlife identification, compass and orienteering, and hunter responsibility and safety.  

The Drew County 4-H Shooting Sports Club is for children ages 9 -19.  If your child has completed the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission Hunter Safety Exam, please bring a copy of the card with you.  Cost will be $25 for the year.

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Everyone’s invited to the upcoming Dart League sign up night, which will be held at The Coffee Bean, formerly Dad’s Place, Monday night at 7 p.m. 

The league will begin November 12th (Monday night) at 7 p.m. and will be held on each subsequent Monday night, working around the Holidays.

The sign up cost has been set at $20. 

The Coffee Bean welcomes you all and we look forward to having you and meeting each of you!

The Coffee Bean is also considering other potential activities such as live theater, kareokee, live musical talent, poetry reading, movie nights, and guitar hero tournaments.

At last weekend’s Junior Stroke Golf Tournament, Monticellonian Brooks Ashcraft tied for second overall in the 16-17 year-old division of the Monticello Junior Stroke Golf Tournament.