December 2022

The CALL of MC

The CALL in Marion County Hosted a Christmas Party for our Foster Children and Families at The Venue at the Red Raven in Yellville on Saturday, December 10. Thank you so much to all who contributed to this beautiful event, and a special acknowledgment to Twisted Sisters Boutique in Flippin and Ooh La Las in Yellville.
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Class 3A Conference Standings

Bergman (Conference) 1-0, 16-4 West Fork 2-0, 10-3 Valley Springs 2-0, 12-11 Green Forest 1-1, 6-7 Lincoln 0-2, 7-5 Elkins 0-2, 5-7 Flippin 0-1, 4-6 Girls Bergman 1-0, 17-2 Valley Springs 2-0, 14-7 Green Forest 1-0, 5-7 Elkins 1-1, 4-5 Flippin 0-1, 8-6 West Fork 0-1, 2-9 Lincoln 0-2, 1-10 .
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Class 2A Conference Standings

Yellville-Summit 4-1, 6-4 Greenland 3-1, 4-6 Eureka Springs 3-2, 12-5 Cotter 3-2, 8-12 Ozark Mountain 2-2, 8-8 Haas Hall Academy 2-3, 6-9 Haas Hall Academy 1-2, 7-11 Life Way Christian 0-4, 3-13 Haas Hall Academy 0-0, 0-0 Girls Yellville-Summit 4-0, 7-3 Life Way Christian 2-1, 8-6 Cotter 3-2, 10-9 Eureka Springs 2-2, 9-8 Ozark Mountain 2-2, 7-9 Greenland 0-0, 1-6 Haas Hall Academy 0-4, 1-8 Haas Hall Academy 0-0, 0-0 Haas Hall Academy 0-0, 0-9 .
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PBR World Finals Return to Fort Worth

FORT WORTH, Texas – This May, the PBR (Professional Bull Riders) World Finals will return to Fort Worth, Texas, for the second consecutive season. The seven-day marathon event will take over Dickies Arena May 12-14 and 18-21, to conclude the 30th anniversary individual season and crown the 2023 PBR World Champion.
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Boozman Supports Bill Strengthening National Defense

WASHINGTON–U.S. Senator John Boozman (RAR) voted to approve the Fiscal Year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), critical legislation that provides for national security priorities, protects and bolsters defense missions in Arkansas as well as ensures America’s servicemembers are supplied the tools, resources and training necessary to defend our homeland and interests.
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Doing good work . . .

Martin Luther King, Jr. has been attributed to saying, “Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.” I can honestly say that I have tried to do that in bringing the community news each week in the Clay County Courier.
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Crooked Creek New Year

How many of us are planners and how many of us are procrastinators? Or are we both? I can fall into both categories. While we are at the time of year where New Year’s Resolutions are being thought about a lot, how many of those plans go longer into the year than a few weeks or so? Here are some things to think about for the coming year and it’s never too early to start planning.
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Extension Corner

There are very few shopping days left until Christmas. If you have not finished your shopping or planning for family celebrations, then you are getting ready for the Holiday Sprint! This can cause a big strain on your budget and emotions.
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Grandkids and Christmas

As much as I loved my two little grandsons, I didn’t get either of them a Christmas present when they were young. That’s because they had toys stacked so high in their home that you couldn’t see any corners. I think back on those great Christmases when I was a kid, when there was common sense and simplicity left in this world. I wish all kids could experience such a Christmas. I just lived for a new two-gun and holster set and a cowboy hat at Christmas when I was five or six. Nowadays, if a little kid has a toy gun, somebody is scared to death he’ll point it at someone and go “bang-bang”, like I and a thousand other kids born during the days of Gene Autry and Roy Rogers did.
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