RECOLLECTIONS
50 Years Ago Pea Ridge Graphic Vol. 4 No. 17 Thursday, April 24, 1969
A somewhat spontaneous movement among several Pea Ridge young people appears to be resulting in the establishment of a Youth Center here. The biggest need is, of course, for funds with which to rent a building to be open for youth activities Friday and Saturday nights of each week. Fund raising and the need for a building are equally important.
Articles of Incorporation of the Pea Ridge Industrial Development Corporation have been certified by Kelly Bryant, Secretary of State in Arkansas, and are now filed with the Benton County Clerk. The organization is already on the verge of presenting preliminary plans to the people of Pea Ridge on what necessary steps much be taken to bring to Pea Ridge an industry that expects to be hiring up to 35 employees in the near future.
In Pea Ridge Shellings, the reason why the series of city ordinances has been left off recently is that the City Council has decided to take an opportunity to go over all city ordinances and decide which ones should be cancelled and which ones should remain laws on the books. It seems that they were a little embarrassed to find that the ordinance setting the speed limit of 15 miles an hour was still, so far as the record shows, a law in Pea Ridge.
40 Years Ago Pea Ridge Graphic Scene Vol. 14 No. 17 Wednesday, April 25, 1979
Pea Ridge District 109 Board of Education played to another standing room crowd Monday in a session featuring a rehash of some old items and the introduction of some new ones. For the fourth straight monthly meeting, the meeting room was filled with parents and teachers. Topics taking the greatest time centered on a continuation of the discussion of the cleanliness of the school premises and the hiring of faculty for the coming year.
30 Years Ago The TIMES of Northeast Benton County Vol. 24 No. 17 Thursday, April 27, 1989
A former Pea Ridge resident celebrated his 99th birthday last Sunday amid friends and well wishers at a Rogers nursing home. Fred Calvin, however is rich with family and friends at the nursing home. Though is health is starting to fail at his age, he still speaks German fluently. Calvin and his wife Golda opened Calvin Realty in Pea Ridge in 1969.
The Pea Ridge High School Band attended a concert contest at Gentry on April 14 and was awarded a “one” in sightreading and all “twos” in it concert music. The bank received two plaques, one for a perfect score in the sightreading contest and the other for overall excellent performance. The excellent scoring qualified the band for the state competitions. There were approximately 25 area high school bands in the contest.
20 Years Ago The TIMES of Northeast Benton County Vol. 34 No. 17 Wednesday, April 28, 1999
At its meeting last week, Pea Ridge city councilmen expressed frustration over the city’s drainage problems. Councilman John Erwin asked for input from residents on how to find a solution to flooding in several areas of the city. Councilman John Easley suggested the council and residents need to work together to find an agreeable compromise. Mayor Jackie Crabtree said they have cleaned out culverts and ditches that were filled with dirt, only to have residents fill them up again.
After what he considers a wonderful and fulfilling career, Argie Miller will not be getting the mail through after Friday, April 30. Through floods, snow and ice for more than 30 years, Miller has taken mail to Pea Ridge postal customers with few interruptions.
At last week’s regular monthly meeting, the Pea Ridge City Council committed to spending $64,000 to upgrade the north end of Weston Street where it intersects with Arkansas Highway 94 at the site of the new high school building. The project on Weston Street includes
and guttering and a sidewalk along one side. It also includes elevating the intersection of Weston and Greene Streets approximately 3 feet to eliminate a major dip in Weston and help the flow of water eastward on Greene.
10 Years Ago The TIMES of Northeast Benton County Vol. 44 No. 17 Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Repairs were successful Tuesday to plug bullet holes in the water tower which stores water for three northeast Benton County communities — Garfield, Gateway and Lost Bridge. The temporary repair plugged the bullet holes through which about 25,000 gallons a day were leaking from the 880,000 gallon storage facility.
Clearing the land and reducing their sentences, inmates from the Benton County Jail worked in drizzling rain Monday on property recently purchased by the city of Pea Ridge. Clad in the classic black and white jail-issue uniforms, inmates manned chain saws, carried limbs and cleared brush and debris from the western edge of the property line running south from Slack Street just north of the city water tower.
The annual agreement with the Pea Ridge Veterinary Clinic was tabled as requested by alderman Bob Cottingham. At the regular City Council meeting Tuesday, April 21, councilmen were presented with the agreement between the city and Dr. Gary France with increased prices for service of housing dogs picked up by city police.