While everyone else was celebrating Christmas day, our local First Responders were at work, serving the community, like they do every other day of the year.

Lacey – Ladelle Fire Dept. put out a fire at a work shed behind a HWY 425 home, Christmas Day.

MPD dispatched a Drew County Sheriff’s Deputy to a truck accident, Christmas Day. No one was reportedly injured.

C&L Electric crews worked to restore power on Valley Junction Road, after a tree fell, bringing down a power line.

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Selma

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Allen Drive Area

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Students from Discovery Children’s Center visited the Couthouse and  Town Square, Wednesday, singing Christmas Carols. The annual field trip has been a highlight for 3, 4, and 5 year olds for several years.

Dear Santa,
I have been very helpful and I was usually nice.Santa can you please give me a XBox 360 Kinect and a 3DS.Can you give a game for each please.CAN I get another sleigh bell too.AND the movie Santa Paws 2 THE SANTA PUPS.PLEASE!I will promise to be good everywhere if you give me these things. PLEASE!I will BELIEVE FOREVER Santa Claus.PROMISE!
LOVE,
RAYMOND CARMINE
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(From 1967)
Dear Santa Claus,
I am in the second grade.
I want a bicycle and a box of candy.
I’m good sometimes and sometimes I am bad.

Your friend,
Sanders

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During Saturday morning’s “Shop with a Cop” sponsored by Walmart, Monticello Police officers took 23 children and teenagers shopping at Walmart, with $100 to spend on each one of them.

The officer that was with one 10 year old boy asked him,  “Where do you want to start.”  Most kids would answer toys or games, but this child’s reply was, “I want to buy my Mommy something for Christmas.”  He wanted to buy her jewelry, so they went to that department and picked out a ring for her.

Next the officer asked him, “What do you want to get now.”  His reply was, “I want to buy me something to wear for Christmas,” so off the clothes they went.

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A group of students from Head of the Class Childcare & Learning Center visited Belleview Nursing Center, Wednesday, to sing Christmas carols and deliver Christmas cards to the residents.

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Around 8:30, Saturday, Drew County Sheriff’s Deputies and the Monticello Rescue Squad were dispatched to the report of a single vehicle wreck, where the driver was pinned inside of his Dodge pick-up, after striking a large tree.

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Ruby Burton, leader of the local Humane Society, spoke to the Monticello City Council, Thursday night about the problem with pit bull dogs, and their care, inside of the Monticello city limits.

A child had her ankle broken and other injuries, less than a month ago, in an incident covered statewide TV.

Burton estimated that there are  400 -500 pit bulls in East End, with many of them being hid by their owners.  She also mentioned a problem with pit bulls in the Indian Mounds area.

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Wednesday, afternoon temperatures were in the mid-70’s.

Now, they’re below 50 degrees.

Earlier this afternoon, a strong wind, out of the south ripped the metal roof of of this Midway Route home, near Wilson Mill Road.  No one was at home at the time.  The only other damage was a tree that was blown down.

Tonight, please take care of your pets, plants, and pipes, as overnight lows are forecast to drop into the 20’s.

That, my friends, is Southeast Arkansas weather.

During their last board meeting of the year, the board of Drew Memorial Hospital recognized Judge Damon Lampkin for his dedication to to the hospital and the health of Drew County.