In October, representatives from Viper International met with BRTC leaders to discuss a partnership with BRTC’s gunsmithing program. Viper International is best known for its Viper Bench Rest gun shooting rests.
Coach Charles Baty said this team was unlike any he has ever coached and thanks the Pocahontas community for all the encouragement and support throughout the season. For more game coverage, please see page 6.
Michael Davis Michael Dewayne Davis, 49, of Pocahontas, Arkansas passed away on November 14, 2022 at his home. He was born on August 17, 1973 in Pocahontas, Arkansas to Charles and Etta Shocklee Davis.
Travis Redwine Travis Lee Redwine, 35 of Pocahontas passed away November 14th, 2022 in Pocahontas. Travis was born to Tracy Redwine and Eugenia Riney on May 27, 1987 in Jonesboro, AR.
When Thanksgiving is over, the guests will be gone and there you will be looking at all the leftovers. If you are like me, I always cook too much for fear I will not have enough for everyone. Then I must make the decision, what do I do with all these good leftovers? Here are some of the solutions that you may find helpful if you find yourself in this situation. Hope they will give you some ideas.
Kenneth E. Brewer, 60, of Pocahontas - Failure to appear (misdemeanor), Driving on suspended license (misdemeanor).
Sometimes we understand things more clearly when we see them from a distance. This is the case with my husband and me and our recent trip to Budapest, Hungary. It was in this eastern European capital where we happened upon a monument as we walked across a place called “Liberty Square” in the heart of this city. We were not expecting the barbed wire fence barrier in front of this monument, this memorial, a statue of the Archangel Gabriel, and above him, the German Imperial Eagle as if swooping down in attack mode. The archangel, historians write, is meant to symbolize the innocent nation, Hungary, under attack by Nazi Germany, symbolized by the attacking eagle. The only problem, as the signs on the fence indicate, this is not really the way it was.
If your family is anything like mine, you’re going to have a good time this week at Thanksgiving dinner. Everyone is in the best mood, probably because Thanksgiving is the “one” day when it is ok to eat too much food. It’s encouraged and everyone is happy to oblige. The conversations are always interesting, with opinions as numerous as the topics, and a little bit of football on TV just to have something to shout at if the conversations overly intense. Besides all that, Thanksgiving is a great excuse to reflect on all our many, many blessings we enjoy in this community. I am thankful to live in a country founded on individual freedom! We need to work to keep freedom ringing in the United States, so Thanksgiving is a great time to outwardly show our appreciation for the freedoms we enjoy and share them with each other. This freedom allows us to pursue our interests and make our investments. We can choose to put our resources behind almost any idea imaginable. Whether it is working a few extra hours in the week on a side hustle, or investing in real estate, you can pursue your own happiness in this country, and we can be outwardly proud and thankful for these freedoms unique to the United States.
All day yesterday, I wrote and rewrote starts to a Thanksgiving story, and almost as quickly deleted them. So did lots of thinking and fretting which truly hurt my brain. Like the recurring dream of the snake, even though he was just a silly plastic snake with three purple segments and a head, the body being purple and each segment had big yellow dots, the head had a yellow smiley face, You don’t need to know this but first I am again a survivor of whatever sickness I was down with, just, believe me, it was a beast and my everything hurt, symptoms ran the gamut. It was like turning pages of some hideous bad awful book knowing what you read was going to happen shortly! And finding that still you couldn’t just put the book down. Finally, just yesterday it was time for my re-entry into life as it should be. I called a friend to go have lunch with me and we had a fun time talking and visiting. Later, when I finally got back to the computer and sat down, still no story came, day turned to night still nothing.
What am I thankful for? Well, I’m very thankful for my career and clients. Well… most of them. One of my out of state, big city clients, referred to me as having “a simple life” and he wasn’t meaning it in a good way. He talked about all the things I missed by living in Pocahontas. I talked about all the things he missed by not living here. The familiarity when the world is overwhelming and can make it easy to feel lost. The closeness with people in town, it’s easy to feel like you’re all unified in it together. You never have to go through things alone. There’s affordable real estate available through your favorite Carter Realty agent. Every place holds a memory. It’s not just a building/school/whatever, it’s the place where my best friend and I got detention for shoe polishing all the senior’s names on the school windows. I’m thankful for my simple life.