A provisional Junior Auxiliary chapter is planning to be established for Randolph County. The process will take about six months, but the prospective chapter has already begun meetings, and is working on getting things ready for their eventual establishment as an official chapter of the National Association of Junior Auxiliaries.
ATTENTION: THE RESIDENTS OF POCAHONTAS ARE ASKED TO PLEASE BE CONSERVATIVE WITH THEIR WATER USAGE DURING THE MONTH OF JULY. July 18-August 15: City of Pocahontas Fall Soccer League Registrations.
A water gun fight, a shopping spree, a job promotion, and raising awareness was all just a part of memorable day for a young boy and the employees of the local Pocahontas Walmart Supercenter. Koen Smith, who has been affected with eosinophilic esophagitis (EOE), a serious digestive condition that leaves him unable to eat any solid foods, was invited to the Pocahontas Walmart on July 7, 2022, to celebrate the recent near 500% increase in fundraising for Arkansas Children’s Hospital over last year.
Johnny Mack Toler, 74, of Pocahontas, Arkansas passed away on July 9, 2022 due to a rare form of metastatic skin cancer. He was born on April 23, 1948 in Pollard, Arkansas to Charley and Ethel Wall Toler. The Toler family moved to Texas shortly after Johnny’s birth and returned to Arkansas when he was 8. He grew up in the Fender community near Pocahontas. He began working as a farm hand at age 12 with his father and brothers. He continued farm work for the next 34 years. He also worked at Pro Group, the old drive-in theater, and fried donuts at Harvest Foods. He always returned to the job he loved, farm work.
Minnie Irene Barber, 82, of Maynard passed away Friday, July 8, 2022 at Arkansas Continued Care Hospital in Jonesboro. She was born May 12, 1940 in Reyno to the late Dave and Leonia Tilley Nash.
Juanita Christine Winslow of Elk Grove CA / Maynard AR passed away Sunday the 3rd of July, 2022. Juanita was born on June 4, 1927, in Lapile, Arkansas to John J Cummings and Zella Mae Cummings.
Doris Halcomb, 69, of Pocahontas passed away July 7, 2022 at Arkansas Continued Care Hospital in Jonesboro. Mrs.
In an ever-expanding mega-franchise that threatens to grow more bloated and uninteresting with each passing movie and TV entry, Taika Watiti’s “Thor: Love and Thunder” is an exciting, funny, self-contained sci-fi action romp with an incredibly surprising amount of heart.
Everyone has heard of the ole Bait & Switch move. The conman tells you one thing and delivers another. This is my current mood with the stock market. The markets are telling investors that the best money-making strategy right now is to “hold tight,” and let the economic storms pass by. The switch is the missed opportunity in the future. If you stand pat in a volatile market, you will ride out the ups and downs, eventually. I have been having this conversation with clients a lot lately. This topic has been a non-starter for about 12 years now. It is really an amazing fact, the general stock market, comprised of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 Index, and the Nasdaq, increased 467%, 622%, and 1156%, respectively. No amount of stock-picking or risk management could hold a candle to those level of gains achieved by just holding the stocks within the main indices. People become complacent, they fear making mistakes, so it sounds like music to their ears when some supposed “expert” tells them to hold tight. Well, this is not the preferred strategy for our present times, unless you find yourself in a particular set of circumstances. It is an important question to restate, what makes you think that your life circumstances are the same as any other investor, and why do so many investors fall into line with a “one size fits all” approach? Your options, as today’s retail investor, are two-fold. You can either go with the crowd or make your own way. I am squarely in the latter camp, let us see what we can do with this information
Restoration experts from Colonial Williamsburg and Washington, along with state historian, John Ferguson, made a lengthy visit to Pocahontas last week and thoroughly examined the old Randolph County Courthouse to give advice on restoration of the old building. On hand to greet the visitors was Lawrence Dalton, left, local businessman and member of the Arkansas History Commission, and Mrs. Harold Bly, right, member of the local Historical Society.