RECOLLECTIONS
50 Years Ago Pea Ridge Graphic Vol. 1 No. 42 Thursday, Oct. 21, 1966
The Pea Ridge Blackhawks will meet the Mountainburg eleven at Pea Bowl in their Homecoming game Friday night. The Homecoming parade will be held Friday with the crowning of the Homecoming Queen scheduled for 7 p.m.
Aunt Sally reports that hunting license sales are now surpassing marriages at his emporium on Arkansas Highway 72 East. It is assumed cold weather has accounted for the drop in cupid activities.
Rusty Webb, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Webb of Davis Drive, Pea Ridge, observed his fifth birthday with a party in his home Friday afternoon, Oct. 14.
Pea Ridge public school was dismissed Tuesday due to inoperable heating system. The weather was too cold to conduct classes without heat.
40 Years Ago Pea Ridge Graphic-Scene Vol. 11 No. 42 Wednesday, Oct. 20, 1976
The Pea Ridge City council at its regular monthly meeting Thursday passed a resolution on pornography, tabled a proposed dog ordinance until November, voted funds for the Benton County Youth Committee, discussed franchise taxes and accepted the resignation of city bookkeeper Eula Mae Walker.
Pea Ridge lost 37-8 Friday to Decatur.
Construction crewmen are nearing completion of their work on Pea Ridge’s new Spe-Dee Mart store, expected to open in midNovember. The store is located at the corner of Ark. Highways 72 and 94 and the site of the old feed mill and is one of several new businesses coming to Pea Ridge. Dr. Gary France’s new veterinary clinic on Lee Town Road will be open soon for the care and treatment of area pets and farm animals. Also on Lee Town Road is the new HiD-Ho Drive In, owned by Melvin Jones.
30 Years Ago Pea Ridge Country Times Vol. 21 No. 42 Wednesday, Oct. 15, 1986
Bigger and better, the second annual Pea Ridge Battlefield Day Saturday, Oct. 18, will offer food and music and trail rides and mule jumps and a variety of arts and crafts for a full day of fun and activity.
Pea Ridge School Board Monday night zipped through a number of routine agenda items, approved one transfer, tabled a request for an easement by the City of Pea Ridge and indefinitely put of f setting up a town bus route.
Repair of the “old Highway Road” was unanimously approved by members of the Gateway Council meeting Oct. 2. The road has been in need of work for some time and aldermen authorized necessary work to be done within the limit of funds available.
The Benton County Republican asks voters to vote for Sammy Spivey, Pea Ridge ambulance and fire department, as a write-in candidate for the constable of Mt. Vernon Township.
Melissa Gibbons will be crowned PRHS Homecoming Queen in pre-game ceremonies at 7 p.m. Friday at Blackhawk Stadium. She is the daughter of Joe and Caroline Gibbons. She will be escorted by Scooter Kilgore, son of Buck and Rita Kilgore, and Mark Sheppard, son of Barbara Owen and Steve Sheppard.
20 Years Ago The TIMES of Northeast Benton County Vol. 31 No. 42 Thursday, Oct. 17, 1996
The newly restored Garfield School building has been named for Garfield School’s greatest advocate, Dorothy Ross.
Randy Easterling is the new president of the Pea Ridge School Board. The new vice president is Doug Peronia and secretary-treasurer is Sandy Easley.
A three-chair beauty salon has opened in a remodeled 108-year-old building on U.S. Highway 62 in downtown Garfield. It is Sassy Scissors owned by Melaine Apel of Pea Ridge.
The Pea Ridge Blackhawks go into homecoming this Friday night hoping to improve their 1-5 record. They will host Johnson County Westside.
10 Years Ago The TIMES of Northeast Benton County Vol. 41 No. 42 Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2006
Candidates for the mayor and two aldermen positions have been invited to participate in a candidate forum sponsored by The TIMES in partnership with the Arkansas DemocratGazette Tuesday, Oct. 24. Running for mayor are Jackie Crabtree, incumbent, and Jerry Burton, alderman. Seeking the seat being vacated by Burton are Boyd McNiel, Martin Marler, Guary Morgan and Robert W. Mardis. Also seeking an alderman seat are Bob Cottingham, incumbent, and Mike Botson.
A new elementary school in Pea Ridge is officially in the works for the school district, meeting a need that superintendent Mike Van Dyke called “astronomical.”
Trisha Lee spent hours printing zoning ordinances from Rogers, Bentonville, Maumelle and even Carmel, Calif., and then spent days reading them, wondering how to piece their parts together to benefit Garfield. Lee, along with the five other members of the city’s Planning Commission, has spent nearly a year putting together a comprehensive plan for Garfield, a town of about 500 residents in northeast Benton County.
If there was a golf fan club, Justin Doherty could be the president. An affable junior at Pea Ridge High School, has been doing well. He was the Blackhawks’ No. 1 golfer in each of the last two seasons.
The 18th annual mule jump drew a crowd from Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Arkansas.
Boundless Grace Baptist Church
AWANA club meets from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays for kindergarten through sixth grade. Adult Bible study is from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. and Youth will meet from 6 to 7:30 p.m. each Wednesday.
Sunday worship services are at 9 and 11 a.m. Sunday school is at 10 a.m.
Brightwater Memorial United Methodist Church
Brightwater Memorial United Methodist Church Senior Citizen Lunch is at 11:30 a.m. every Thursday, cost is $3. Reservations 479359-3772 by Wednesday.
For information, call 479451-8161
Episcopal Church Pea Ridge
Angel’s Share food pantry is open from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. the second Saturday of each month at 1300 N. Davis St.
First Baptist Church Pea Ridge
Sunday morning services are 9:30 a.m. worship, 11 a.m Sunday school.
Wednesday night services include 5:15 p.m. dinner, 6:15 p.m. Kids Gospel project, 6:15 p.m. the Point student and 6:30 p.m. adult Bible study.
Faith Riders meet the second Saturday of every month and have weekly Thursday night dinners.
New Life Fellowship Pea Ridge
New Life Fellowship, Weston Street, has two Sunday services: 9:15 and 10:45 a.m. Nursery is provided for both services for children from birth to 3 years of age. Sunday school meets at 10:45 a.m. for 4-year-old kindergarten through fifth grade. Sunday night youth services are from 6 to 7:30 p.m.
The church offers home groups; days and times of meetings vary.
The Ridge Community Church
Come and worship with us Sunday mornings at 9 and 11 a.m. Our desire is to facilitate a place where you and your family can get a different perspective on life and develop a strong foundation. Our prayer is that your lives will be enriched by God’s presence and encouraged by His people.
The Ridge Kids meet at 11 a.m. Sunday. The Ridge Youth meets at 6 p.m. Sundays.
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