RECOLLECTIONS
50 Years Ago Pea Ridge Graphic Vol. 6 No. 12 Thursday, March 25, 1971
The unfolding of a fourmonths long investigation into the possibility of obtaining additional funds for the Pea Ridge Schools was revealed at Monday night’s monthly meeting of the Pea Ridge School Board. The matter was announced to superintendent Andrew Widener by board members Keith Escue and Jack Lasater, with the matter coming as a surprise to the superintendent, who had learned of the matter only a few days ago.
Newly elected School Board member Royle Carnes joined the other four members, Jack Lasater, Keith Escue, Floyd Walker and Jewel Pendergraft, and superintendent Andrew Widener at the March meeting Monday night. Following the discussion on the possibility of buying used buses for the school from a firm that reconditions them, it was agreed to have Carnes contact one of these firms and report at the next meeting.
40 Years Ago Pea Ridge Graphic-Scene Vol. 16 No. 12 Wednesday, March 25, 1981
New members began their duties on the Pea Ridge District 109 School Board Monday night and the board reelected L.C. Barnett as president.
Pea Ridge High School athletes who received awards during the recent athletic banquet included Roger Davis, Mark Allen Howell, David Alonzo Dye, Fred Sutton, Steve Clark and Danny Stroud in basketball; Doyle McBurnett, Harvey Ricketts, Greg Fuller, David Dye, Joe Cramer and Paul Simpkins, football; and Natalie Hardin, Samantha Hurd, Kori Paulsen, Mary Mariano, Anna Krueter, Bonnie Sutton, Shelly McMath, Judi Floyd and Denise Whitaker, girls athletics.
30 Years Ago Pea Ridge Country Times Vol. 26 No. 12 Thursday, March 21, 1991
Pea Ridge alderman Norm Abrams is encouraging residents of two subdivisions adjacent to the city limits to become residents of Pea Ridge. The subdivisions are Oak Ridge west addition and the remainder of revised Weston. Oak Ridge West is west of Hallack Lane and south of Arkansas Highway 72. Revised Weston consists of six lots on the west side of Ellis Lane and north of Ark. Hwy. 72. The migrant program in the Pea Ridge School District works, according to tutor Susie Sheffield and clerk Bobbi Branham. There are approximately 30 migrant students this year in the Pea Ridge School District.
The Bank of Pea Ridge has completed a $30,000 project that will allow customers to do most of their banking any time of the day or night, seven days a week. The bank installed its first automatic teller machine.
20 Years Ago The TIMES of Northeast Benton County Vol. 36 No. 12 Wednesday, March 21, 2001
A Pea Ridge school teacher suffered a lifethreatening injury after apparently fainting and falling Saturday, March 10, during the birth of his second child. Former New Mexico high school basketball coach of the year and current Pea Ridge Middle School eighth-grade science teacher Tim Pate remains hospitalized.
The Buss Stop in Garfield will soon sport an ATM kiosk in its parking lot from First Western Bank of Rogers.
Pea Ridge National Military Park superintendent John Scott announced that the park will began an archeological survey this week. The 10-day project is designed to conduct a parkwide archeological inventory to identify and record the historic archeological sites with a focus on those dating to the Civil War.
10 Years Ago The TIMES of Northeast Benton County Vol. 46 No. 12 Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Cub Scouts, their siblings and several Boy Scouts scoured the county roadsides around Pea Ridge picking up littler under the watchful eyes of their leaders and parents. The wee Scouts, in bright yellow shirts and orange vests, bagged the litter to be picked up later by county employees.
Virginia A. Leach Kelly Wylie was feted with a luncheon party Monday to celebrate her 100th birthday. Two of her five children — daughter Linda Fagundes of Broken Arrow, Okla., and son, Jack Kelly, Pea Ridge — were in attendance.