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Community Events Calendar Thursday May 25 Prairie County Democratic Women’s Meeting Murry’s Restaurant Hazen 6:00pm Commodities First United Methodist Church Hazen 10:30am - 12:30pm Friday May 26 Hazen School Districts students Last Day of School Senior High Purple/White Scrimmage game 6:00pm Hornet Field AA Meetings DeValls Bluff City Hall 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Hazen/DeValls Bluff, Prairie County, Arkansas

Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Student Athletes honored at HHS Annual Athletic Banquet May 16 Junior and Senior High School Athletes were honored last Tuesday, May 16, at the Hazen Hornet Athletic Banquet sponsored . The banquet was held in the Hazen Community Center. Guest speaker for the evening was Barry Lunney, Sr., a Ft. Smith, Arkansas native. Coach Lunney first began coaching at Vian, OK before taking a job at Greenwood. He moved on from there to Ft. Smith Southside before becoming the head coach at Beebe in 1987. In 1989 Lunney was hired once again at Ft. Smith Southside where he would amass a record of 136-50-1. In 2005, he was hired at Bentonville, where his record was 9725 and his team won a state championship. Lunney is 9th in total victories (248-90-1) and seventeen conference

championships and eight state championships. He has been inducted into the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame. Attendees were entertained with a video of all of the Hornet athletic teams while the entered. The meal consisted of catfish and chicken strips with all the fixings. After the meal Coach Joe Besancon took over the program and began the awards ceremony by presenting the AllConference and All-State Awards. Two Hornets were named state champions this year Grant Shelman in golf and Austin Hill in weight lifting. Both received plaques. The Junior and Senior High Cheerleaders were introduced, and the members of the HHS Special Olympics team were given awards. Other local awards

ALL CONFERENCE AWARD WINNERS: (front) Faith Young, Payton Fought, Abby Rounsavall, Allie Burroughs, Elizabeth Foot; (back) Gavin Rogers, Jacob Weems, Reese Jones, Blayne Toll, Michael Pargo, Quintin Bonds, and Grant Shelman handed out at the banquet were: Osborne Coyle Award Cutler Taylor, Scotty Aycock Award - Quintin Bonds, Logan Beckwith “Hammer” Award Blayne Toll, Pete Newsome Award - Jacob

Weems, Don Phifer Award - Shania McGee, Mr. Hustle Award Lucas Walker, Bill Bradow Award - Allie Burroughs, Brandon Burlsworth Award Reese Jones, Lady Hornet Award - Elizabeth Foot,

and Mr. Hornet Award Quintin Bonds. The Seniors from every sport were recognized at the end of the program and presented with plaques. (See more photos on Page 2)

Saturday May 27 Distribution of Commodities DeValls Bluff Gym Monday May 29 8th Annual Chamber of Commerce Memorial Day Celebration Service 10:00am Hazen City Park

SPECIAL OLYMPICS TEAM: Lexi Tenison, Cora Marie Coker, Brayden Lock, and Edward Brooks.

Memorial Day

SENIOR APPRECIATION AWARDS: (front) Allie Burroughs, Abby Rounsavall, Payton Fought, Faith Young, Kayla Robinson; (back) Quintin Bonds, Cutler Taylor, Maverick Aycock, Kenley Griffin, Michael Pargo, Kyren Mills, and Reese Jones.

Thursday June 8 Hazen Masonic Lodge Meeting Lodge Hall 7:30 pm Monday June 12 Hazen Chapter #5 OES Meeting Hazen Lodge Hall 6:15pm Tuesday June 13 Quorum Court Meeting Annex Building DesArc 6:00pm - 7:00pm Thursday June 15 Hazen City Council Meeting City Hall 6:00pm - 7:00pm

LOGAN “THE HAMMER” BECKWITH AWARD:Blayne Toll (presented by Blake Beckwith)

ALL STATE PERFORMERS: Austin Hill (weightlifting), Allie Burroughs (softball), Elizabeth Foot (softball), and Grant Shelman (golf)

Community events brought to you by Hazen Chamber of Commerce and the

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BURLSWORTH AWARD: Reese Jones

OSBORNE COYLE AWARD: Cutler Taylor

PETE NEWSOME AWARD: Jacob Weems

LADY HORNET AWARD: Elizabeth Foot

MR. HORNET AWARD: Quintin Bonds


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