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I am going to write about wild turkey problems during the summer as I had promised, but an outdoor writer can’t skip over the fishing that gets so good this time of year… I went fishing at Norfork Lake last week and really bombed out. An outdoor writer is also prone to tell about the fishing trips that go very well and not write much about the times he makes a thousand casts and reels back empty hooks or lures. If you had been with me on Norfork last week you would have caught more fish than I did if you had only caught one.

The Backwood Rebel Band with Charlie Trammell, Bass Player; Donna Adams, Vocalist; Doug Mears, Drummer; Hazel Harvey, Vocalist; Jerry Merriman, Fiddle player; Dobber Hampton, Guitar, and Vocalist; and round out this band is Cleveland Merriman playing the Guitar and doing vocals.

On Saturday night, May 21, The CALL in Marion County was one of the sponsors for Music on The Square in Yellville. Representative Jack Fortner, Marion County Judge John Massey and Gregg Alexander purchased a Bass Pro Cooler to be raffled off. All proceeds went to The CALL.

Step into the building behind her home and one will discover how and where Alicia Van Der Veer makes soap. Not just any plain soap by the kind that makes one want to use it to smell good and get clean. Each soap is made to look unique and have a name like none other.

Little Rock — With turkey hunting season wrapped up, many hunters will be putting away their shotguns until fall, but there’s another spring season that gives Arkansas hunters plenty of reasons to keep the scattergun cleaned and ready. Arkansas’s squirrel season opens May 15, and for those who enjoy chasing these treetop targets, it’s a great excuse to be in the woods.