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Y-S FBLA to Host Dessert Auction Fundraiser on May 19

The Yellville-Summit FBLA Chapter is raising funds to send four students to the FBLA National Leadership Conference in Atlanta in June. At the State Leadership Conference, sophomore Elizabeth Smith placed 3rd in Public Speaking while juniors, Gracie Beaty, KJ Moore, and Kyleigh Still, placed 3rd in Sales Presentation. Placing in these events means they earned spots to compete at the national level.

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Extension Corner

Colorado’s first-in-the-nation law allowing farmers to repair their own equipment could be “the first chink in the armor” that has allowed only manufacturers to complete some repairs, said Rusty Rumley, senior staff attorney for the National Agricultural Law Center. Rusty Rumley comments on Colorado’s right-to-repair law.

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Lightin Ridge

Lunkers Under the Lights Night fishing under submerged lights has supplied me with some great fishing memories and stories. I thought the other day about the great fishing Bull Shoals Lake had produced back when I lived in North Arkansas and my Uncle Norten was still alive, many years ago.

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Crenchaw Mem Sq. CAP commissioning

Little Rock - The United States Air Force auxiliary, Civil Air Patrol, has approved a new squadron named in honor of an Arkansas native and an original Tuskegee Airman, Dr. Milton Pitts Crenchaw, at Little Rock School District’s Cloverdale Middle School. Crenchaw Memorial Squadron will also be Civil Air Patrol’s first school-based squadron in Arkansas.

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