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Volume 117 Number 23 - USPS 225-680

Serving all of Prairie County, Arkansas

Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Community Events Calendar Thursday May 24 Commodities Distribution First United Methodist Church 10:30am - 12:30pm Friday May 25 Hazen School Districts’ Last Day of School Monday May 28 9th Annual Chamber of Commerce Memorial Day Celebration Service 10:00am City Park, Hazen Happy Memorial Day Friday June 1 33rd Annual Steamboat Days Main Street Des Arc Monday June 4 Biscoe City Council Meeting 7:00pm Biscoe City Hall Tuesday June 5 Hazen Public Library Presents Magician Aaron Acosta 11:00am Monday June 11 Hazen Chapter # 5 OES Meeting 6:15pm BancorpSouth Tuesday June 12 Quorum Court Meeting 6:00pm Annex Building Thursday June 14 De Valls Bluff City Council Meeting 6:00pm City Hall

Hazen High School graduates 2018 seniors Hazen High School held its Commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 20, at 2:00 p.m. in the Hornets’ Nest Gymnasium in front of a capacity crowd. The program began with the procession “Pomp and Circumstance” played by the Hazen High School Senior High Band under the direction of Johnna Creasey. The invocation was given by Grant Shelman, followed by opening remarks by Superintendent Bill Crowder. Board Member Vicki Skarda recognized retiring teacher Lori Caviness with the presentation of a plaque. Honor Graduates Logan Dulany, Elizabeth Foot, Cayden Glover, Grant Shelman, Whitney Strohl, and Hanna Walker read the “Looking Back” and class information. Salutatorian Jenna Ronquest and Valedictorian Brayden Williams addressed the crowd, and the class song “I’ll Always Remember You” was played. High School Principal Clint Williams assisted Crowder in handing out the special awards and recognitions to graduating seniors before Williams and School

Board President David Strohl presented the diplomas. Brianna Thompson read the senior poem “We’ll Remember.” Class President Brayden Williams led the seniors in the turning of the tassels. Ceremonial escorts for the day were juniors Reighan McAdoo, Kayla Gladish, Ethan Whitworth, and Kade Perry. Class sponsors are Jeff Cagle, Angie Cagle, and Terri Rollins.

Honor Graduates Cayden Glover, Grant Shelman, Whitney Strohl, and Hanna Walker join their classmates in the traditional “turning of the tassels.”

Salutatorian Jenna Ronquest

Valedictorian Brayden Williams

Wastewater system in disrepair DA council told W a s t e w a t e r Administrator Sue Ann Calhoun presented an updated report on the Des Arc wastewater system at the Des Arc City Council meeting held on Tuesday, May 15th. Present at the meeting were Mayor Jim Garth;Treasurer/Recorder Chrisana Knupp; and Council Members Jodie Mayher, Janice Huffstickler, Ray McVay and Welton Robinson. Calhoun stated that the most critical need at the present time is to totally replace everything at the lift station on 6th and Gordon Streets. “This station also needs a bypass in case it breaks down,”

she said. A bypass will need to be built before any replacement work can begin. Calhoun said that the next most critical need is erosion repair work at the lagoons. “The last Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) inspection report I found was dated January 2016, which stated that erosion repairs needed to be made,” she said. In April of 2016 the city informed the ADEQ that an engineer was scheduled to begin work on the project, but there was no record of any work ever being done, according to Calhoun. If

these lagoons continue to erode without repairs and wash out or flow into each other, the ADEQ will deem it a major violation and fine the city daily until repairs are made. The gravel roads between the lagoons are also washing into the ponds, and the levees are missing 20-30 feet of their surface, Calhoun reported. “The banks need clay soil to be rebuilt and the levees need new rip-rap,”

she said. Calhoun also told the council that the other lift stations need bypasses, sewer pumps, control panels and vacuum pumps right away. Mayor Garth stated that the city has received a grant to replace 2 pumps and are waiting for an engineer to begin the process when the money is received in June. Garth told Calhoun to begin getting prices for everything needed for the

work. Calhoun stated that the Arkansas Rural Water Association will smoke test the entire city's sewer lines for free, and she will schedule the tests as soon as possible. Mayor Garth reported that bids had been opened for a new ambulance, and the lowest bid received was from Med-X. The bid for the ambulance including the automatic lift cot

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The Prairie County Sheriff’s office, aided by Monroe and Arkansas county officers are still searching for the Des Arc girl who disappeared in the White River. The Arkansas State Police are now listing the search, which has gone all the way past Clarendon, as a drowning. Fishermen and boaters on the river are asked to keep an eye out for the body. If someone should find the child, they are asked not to move it but to secure it and immediately call the PC Sheriff’s Department at 870-256-4137.

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