Members of Ms. Harton’s Entrepreneurship class, at the University of Arkansas at Monticello, were given $5.00 and the task of making as much money as possible in one week. The teams jointly raised $550 that was donated to Arkansas Children’s Hospital, Hope Place Monticello, and Monticello 2nd Chancefurdogs. (more…)

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Many pharmacies require COVID-19 vaccine appointments be made online, and slots fill up quickly. This can be a problem for the elderly and for people who lack a computer or Internet access. (more…)

Caldwell Cemetery Meeting to Be Held Saturday. March 6, 2021 at 11:00 A.M.At Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church, Winchester, AR

ALL INTERESTED PERSON NEED TO BE PRESENT

Reserve your plot for $100.00

If you plan to make Caldwell one of your resting places. Do you have loved ones there? Well this meeting is for you.

Contact Person-Levert Benton 870-723-6562

Willie Goynes 870-377-0909

Go to Drew Memorial’s Facebook page to register.

A Drew Central baseball player, Gavin Wear, is losing his eye sight to a genetic disorder, his mutation is rare with only 6% with his condition having their eye sight affected.

His only chance for treatment and to regain some of his eye sight and potentially get back on the field is to travel to the Fedorov Restore Vision Clinic in Berlin, Germany. (more…)

The Keep Arkansas Beautiful Commission (KAB) has announced that it has elected Mark Simpson as chair and Jeremy Sparks as vice-chair on its 2021 board of commissioners. Simpson and Sparks follow a long line of dedicated chairs. The immediate past chairs are Laurie Blackwell Black of Lake Village, Arkansas, and Jane Phillips-Jolly of Hot Springs who both served two terms as chair and vice-chair. (more…)

Tuesday afternoon,
1 – 3pm,  there will be a food truck delivering around 1,000 boxes of free food on the Revival Center parking lot, at Pine & Jackson Streets.

There are no requirements to meet to receive food from this event.

Please share this with anyone who may have been effected  by the recent bad weather or missed work.

SEARK Reading Council hosted their second zoom meeting of the year on January 25, 2021. SEARK sponsored a writing contest for grades first through twelfth grade. The winners of the Young Writers’ Competition were recognized and read their winning writing pieces to the audience. Students wrote a narrative titled “My Hero”. Parents, relatives and members were on hand to celebrate the students’ accomplishments.  Local winners were submitted to a state writing contest sponsored by the Arkansas Literacy Association. Winners of this event will be announced in April. (more…)

Vera Lloyd Presbyterian Family Services gratefully accepted a grant from the Simmons First Foundation last week for the agency’s Transition Services Program.

Donna Mahurin, Vera Lloyd’s CEO, and Machell Dailey, Education Services Director, accepted the grant. Both the Vera Lloyd and Simmons’ teams are thrilled with the brighter futures sure to be made possible with these funds.

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EHC Scholarship Committee Co-chairs (L to R back) Claudia Horton and Dr Kay Walter with Drew County EHC scholars (L to R front) Bree-Anne Lanthrip, Trenton Eubanks, and Braden Taylor

Drew County Extension Homemakers Clubs is pleased to continue its long tradition of supporting scholarship in our community by helping to fund the education of young achievers at the University of Arkansas at Monticello. Three students were selected to receive scholarships from EHC this year. They have been awarded the second half of their funding upon providing records of continued academic success to the local EHC office.

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