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100 YEARS AGO

Aug. 22, 1920

BATESVILLE — The committee of the Independence County Fair Association is busy at work preparing to hold the first fair under the direction of the association, this fall. The new fair grounds has been purchased and necessary buildings will be erected at once to take care of the stock and other exhibits.

50 YEARS AGO

Aug. 22, 1970

RUSSELLVILLE — Two top administrators at Arkansas Polytechnic College here have resigned, protesting an administrative shuffle by Tech President Dr. George L.B. Pratt. Dr. Tom B. Wilson resigned his position as vice president for academic affairs in protest of the treatment of Travis M. Adams, who has resigned as associate dean.

25 YEARS AGO

Aug. 22, 1995

FAYETTEVILLE — Leroy Fleeman’s training as a pilot and 25 years of hopscotching across the Southeast had prepared him for a belly landing or the chance he might have to set down with no power. But nothing had prepared Fleeman and his family for the sudden crisis Saturday afternoon when they beat the odds and landed their Piper Lance safely at Fayetteville’s Drake Field with the right wing’s landing gear collapsed beneath them. “I was sort of like a one-legged man,” Fleeman said Monday. “Pilots make belly landings all the time. This was different. But we came out of it in good shape. It could have been much, much worse.”

10 YEARS AGO

Aug. 22, 2010

BEAVER LAKE — The effect of the fifth annual Secchi Day at Beaver Lake on Saturday began at least a day earlier at the Nebraska Club of Northwest Arkansas’ pig roast in Bella Vista. That’s when club members Dallas and Dee Drda, who’ve lived on the lake’s shore for five years but who remain dyed-in-the-wool University of Nebraska football fans, grumbled to others about having to get up early for Saturday’s event. They were among the 31 teams of boaters who sped across Beaver Lake to specific spots where they sank Secchi disks into the water to measure its clarity. “I was telling the seven people at our Nebraska Club table about it,” said Dallas Drda, 72. “They were all listening and wanted to know about it.” Experts say it will be several more years to have enough meaningful Secchi disk data regarding Beaver Lake to identify trends in the water’s clarity, but the word of mouth about Secchi Day has done wonders to remind Northwest Arkansas residents that a clean Beaver Lake is important. “A big benefit is the daisy-chaining,” said Bob Morgan, environmental quality manager for the Beaver Water District, one of the sponsors of Saturday’s event.