Dogwood contest draws attendee wearing 1990 T-shirt

50 Years Ago From the Herald and Democrat in 1967 The Grand Opening for Prestige Floral Company located in Eastgate Shopping Center was held on a Saturday afternoon. The grand prize drawing was for 12 floral arrangements, one delivered each month for a year. There was free coffee and a free carnation was given to everyone visiting on opening day.

They offered complete floral service for weddings, Mother’s Day, all holidays and sympathy flowers. They advertised all kinds and varieties of corsages and potted plants, graduation flowers and permanent floral arrangements, plants and trees. Melba Ray, LaNelle Ray and Thelma Barney were the floral designers.

30 Years Ago From the Herald-Democrat

in 1987

Siloam Springs Panthers basketball players Donny Osbourn, Sean Womack and Lady Panther Holly Robason were named to the 1987 KURM Radio Dream Team.

The three were honored, along with 94 other local high school players from 28 schools in the tri-state area, at the Seventh Annual KURM Basketball Dream Team Banquet on April 29 in Rogers.

Osbourn and Robason, who both had recently signed with John Brown University, made the Dream Team for the second straight year. The 6’5” Osbourn helped the Panthers to a 19-7 record and led the team in scoring with 14.1 a game and rebounding with 7.5 a game. Robason scored 17 points a game in leading the Lady Panthers to a 14-13 record and to the second round of the district tournament.

Womack, a 5’10” senior guard, scored 9.5 a game and was second on the team in assists and steals.

10 Years Ago From the Herald-Leader in 2007

Rosa Reading, for many years a faithful attendee of the Dogwood Festival, showed up at the 33rd annual festival wearing a 17-yearold official Dogwood Festival T-shirt. The Chamber of Commerce sponsored a contest for the person wearing the oldest official shirt to the festival. Reading’s T-shirt was from 1990. She also wore a Dogwood Festival hat from the festival’s 25th anniversary and carried a Dogwood tote from 1991. The contest ended on Sunday and anyone with a T-shirt older than 1990 was encouraged to wear it to the Chamber of Commerce’s information booth behind the community building.