2010 -2011 ATA Arkansas Sate Champions

Five martial artists from Terry Floyd’s Black Belt Academy in Greers Ferry earn the title of Arkansas State Champions in their age and rank division. Pictured L to R is 11 yr. old Shasta Floyd daughter of Melinda and Terry Floyd of Greenbrier, Arkansas State Champion in sparring and weapons. 14 yr. old Morgan Wortman, daughter of Donna and Doug Wortman of Higden, Arkansas State Champion in forms and weapons. 12 yr. old Zachery Holder, son of Miki and Mike Holder of Greers Ferry, Arkansas State Champion in forms and weapons. Terry Floyd, owner and instructor of Terry Floyd’s Black Belt Academy, Arkansas State Champion in creative weapons. Pictured right, 18 yr. old Homer Barfield son of Walt and Liz Barfield of Fairfield Bay, Arkansas State Champion in sparring and weapons.

 

North Shore News 6-29

Community Garage Sale..Rent your table space now for the Community Garage Sale on Saturday, July 2 from 9a.m. to 1:30 p.m. It will be held indoors at the Fairfield Bay Senior Center.

Library Closing Dates…We’ll be down at Woodland Mead Park with the Arabian Horses & Crafts so the library will be closed on July 2 –  July 4th- Independence Day. Plan ahead and join us at the park.

Summer Reading Program…is in full swing at the Fairfield Bay Library.  Bring in your children or grandchildren to sign up and find out what great events are coming up on July 2nd, July 8 and July 15.  884-4930 Read all summer long!

EMS File For Life…Pick yours up at the Fairfield Bay Library this week….before an emergency arises. Ask for forms for each member of your family.  Save a life!

July 4th Trash PickupThere will be no trash service on Monday, July 4, 2011.  Monday’s and Tuesday’s trash will be picked up on Tuesday, July 5th, 2011.  Have a safe and happy 4th of July.

 

Community Spotlight

Wilma Seaton
Birthplace: Clinton, Missouri
Current Hometown: Beautiful Fairfield Bay
Employment: Fairfield Bay Pharmacy

Q: What is your favorite thing about where you live now?
A: The friendly people, my family living close by, the natural beauty and the lake.
Q: What is your least favorite thing about where you live now?
A: Mosquitos and snakes
Q: Where is the farthest you have traveled?
A: California, New York and Montana
Q: Who is the person you admire most and why?
A: My parents, because they were able to feed and clothe “eleven children” while living on a farm.
Q: What is the best advice you have received?
A: To live a good Christian life.
Q: What would be or has been your dream job?
A: Working with the public, especially at the FFB Pharmacy.
Q: Where would you go on a dream vacation?
A: Travel to Rome to meet the Pope.
Q: What’s your biggest pet peeve?
A: Tardiness
Q: What would you do if you won the lottery?
A: Share with my five children, the church and friends.
Q: Who is the one celebrity you would like to have lunch with?
A: Debbie Reynolds
Q: What is your favorite book or movie?
A: Movie: The Unsinkable Molly Brown with Debbie Reynolds.
Q: What is the one thing about you that would surprise people?
A: I’ve lived here 33 years, one block away from the lake and still don’t know how to swim.
Q: What is the one thing you would change about yourself?
A: To fulfill my Christian faith.
Q: What is your favorite memory from childhood or school?
A: Attending a one room country school where the teacher cooked our meals.

 

V.F.W. Monthly Events

Monthly Meal

VFW Ladies Auxiliary invites you to our July Meal on Saturday, July 2, from 5 to 7pm.  Homemade Hamburgers and Hot Dogs, Potato Salad and Baked Beans, Coffee, Tea and our Homemade Desserts.  ALL YOU CAN EAT for only $7.00 – Children under 10 years $5.00 – NO TAX or GRATUITY.  The VFW is located on Hwy. 330 South.  All meals are Non-Smoking – Public Welcome and Carry Outs available.  ALL proceeds go to our MANY Veteran and Community Programs.  Hope to see you at the V.

V.F.W. Ladies Auxiliary Meeting

Our VFW Ladies Auxiliary Meeting will be Tuesday, July 5th at 3:00 p.m.  Please try to attend if possible – we are already working on 2011 – 2012 Programs.  You will also find out what 1st Place and Runner-up Awards we won at our State Convention.  Hope to see you at the V.

 

 

 

Golf News 6-29

Pictured above are the overall winners; Mike Barra, Terry Moore, Bill Lynch, and Vic Manville.

Ozark Health Classic Raises Over $19,000

Ozark Health Foundation held its 7th annual Ozark Golf Classic Saturday, June 11.  This year, the Golf Classic was held at the Indian Hills Golf Course in Fairfield Bay.  Thanks to everyone who participated, the Ozark Health Foundation was able to raise over $19,000 for hospital equipment and scholarships. The success of the Ozark Golf Classic would not be possible without the generous patrons and businesses who invest their time and re sources to the Ozark Health Foundation.  “I want to thank everyone who contributed to the Ozark Golf Classic.  It is because of our new and loyal Hole Sponsors, Golfers, and Volunteers that the Ozark Golf Classic continues to grow.  This is one of the best years our Classic has ever had.” stated Tawny Laymon, Ozark Health Foundation Coordinator.The 72 players who participated in the tournament received a polo shirt donated by the 2011 Classic Sponsor Simmons First National Bank.  Lunch was provided at Indian Hills Country Club.  The golfers, and a number of community members, purchased Raffle Tickets for cash prizes.  The winner of the $250 cash was John Tyer, the winner of the $150 cash was Kyle Bohannan, and the winner of the $100 cash was Todd Malabanan. Awards were given to the Golfers for Closest to the Pin along with three flights.  These winners included:  Championship flight first place- Vic Manville, Bill Lynch, Mike Barra, and Terry Moore; second place- Dr. Steve Schoettle, Bob Dehoney, Jared Duke, and Dan Lister; third place- Kyle Bohannan, Kenny Lemmings, Glen Lemmings, and Randy Treece.  The winners of the Second Flight were:  first place– Matt Leavell, Jon Clark, Dave Ward, and Kevin Delargy, second place– Chuck Lovelace, Mike Gautier, Randy Payne, and Jack Hamm,  and third place– Gene Warring, Darla Warring, Randy Williamson, and Bob McBride.  The winners of the Third Flight were:  first place– Brian Henderson, Joel Ragland, Charlie Beem, and John Treat, second place– Al Lawson, Billy Riggs, Jim Dugger, and Ed Cumings, third place– Judy Phillips, Cindy Quarry, and John Gentry.The 2012 Ozark Golf Classic will be held on June 9 at Indian Hills Golf Course.  Please make plans to attend.

 

9 Hole Men’s Results Scramble June 23

American
1st-29 J. Lanciloti, A. Deller, R. Larson, T. Lang
2nd-30 B. McBride, N. Capito, M. Mullen, E. Rassmussen
3rd-31 B. Studts, B. Bynum, G. Sisson, J. Morris

National
1st-31 B. Riggs, K. Winberg, B. Frosaker, J. Chase
2nd-32 R. Blume, R. Wells, E. Heitbrink, A. Marron
3rd-33 E. Campbell, D. Ritchie, J. Allen, E. Cumings

 

18 Hole Men’s Results Thursday June 23

First Flight
1st +5 Bruce Forsland
2nd +5 Toby Glyde
Skins: Bruce Forsland, Vic Manville, Ken Meseke

Second Flight
1st +8 Jim Lindsey
2nd +7 Ted Conley
3rd +6 Ed Ball
4th +5 Rex Erickson
Skins: Ed Ball, Ted Conley, Jim Lindsey

 

Ladies 9-Hole Swingers June 22

1st- Diane Glyde
2nd- Doloris Frosaker
3rd- Patti Manville
4th- Nancy Mueller

 

18 Hole Ladies June 22

1st- Januce Cusick
2nd-Diane Forsland
3rd- Judy Leason
4th- Kathy Harvey

 

 

 

DISABILITIES By Daniel J. Vance

“Gettysburg Being Fought Again”

[First of a three-part series]
The Civil War began 150 years ago. This year, crowds have been flocking in record numbers to American battlefields where Gray and Blue spilled blood.Perhaps the most famous Civil War battlefield city of all, Gettysburg, has seen fighting over the last five years of another nature. Disability rights activist Dr. Marilynn Phillips of Hampstead, Maryland, has been leading a full-scale assault to make the city of Gettysburg accessible for millions of annual visitors.“I decided a long time ago that advocates just talked and activists did,” said 67-year-old Phillips in a telephone interview. “I don’t perceive myself as aggressive or confrontational. I just take a civil rights approach to accessibility.”Phillips acquired polio at age 2. Later, she earned her doctorate from Ivy-league Penn and was a Morgan State University English professor upon retiring. Today, she uses a power wheelchair due to having post-polio syndrome.She said most people with disabilities tend to “beg” for accessible accommodations rather than press the issue as one of basic civil rights. Her first fight began in 1988 soon after her husband, Dr. Robert Winans, started teaching at Gettysburg College.“For example, the College back then would ask people using wheelchairs to go through the back door to get into the auditorium,” she said. “You had to make special arrangements to have somebody open the back door. Once in, you had to sit in the aisle, which was against fire code.”Around the time her husband retired in 2006, she heard of a power wheelchair-using Vietnam veteran having all kinds of difficulty navigating Gettysburg sidewalks and streets. She said, “For three years, this man had been trying to get the borough of Gettysburg to improve the curb ramps (also called curb cuts) along the route he usually took. My husband and I went to Gettysburg and spent the entire day helping him document everything with photographs and measurements.”The vet’s wheelchair route had 35 sidewalk curb ramps and all but a few were too steep, awkwardly slanted or had broken concrete. She helped him file a Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission complaint. Over time, through the advice of an attorney, the borough ended up spending $2 million to repair 500 Gettysburg curb ramps. Next column, read how Phillips used this initial victory as momentum to persuade dozens of Gettysburg businesses to become accessible.Facebook: “Disabilities by Daniel J Vance” [Palmer Bus Service and Blue Valley Sod made this column possible.]

Dear Editor 6-29

Dear Editor:

On behalf of the family of Lori Crowell, we would like to thank you and the entire Fairfield Bay community for the out pouring of support and love at the time of Lori’s passing.  If it was words of kindness, food, flowers, labors of love, or just a hug, we can not express our appreciation for all your support.It was so comforting to know that Lori made a difference to our community and our lives.
Thank you all so very much.The family of Lori Crowell

 

“Cutting Losses” Can Be More Painful Than You Think

Why do stock prices fall? Various factors are involved, but in a nutshell, prices drop when more people want to sell stocks than buy them.  Conversely, the more people who buy a particular stock, the faster that stock’s price will rise. If you’ve studied basic economics and the law of supply and demand, you’ve already got a pretty clear sense of why stock prices move the way they do. And yet, while the process sounds fairly logical, the behavior of many investors isn’t — which gives you some good investment opportunities right now.
To understand why so many investors have acted in a way that may be counter-productive, let’s look at consumer behavior in another context. Suppose a hypothetical couple, Mike and Mary Ann, bought a house five years ago for $200,000. They liked everything about the house, and it was the right size to meet their family’s needs for many years to come. However, the sharp decline in the housing market has caused Mike and Mary Ann such concern that they decide to sell their house, even though they can only get $160,000 for it. By selling now, they reason, they can avoid further drops, and when the market stabilizes, they can buy another house in the same neighborhood.
To sum up: Mike and Mary Ann took a $40,000 loss on a house they didn’t even need to sell. In essence, they were betting that the housing market, against all historical evidence, would not recover enough to compensate them for staying put. Most people would question the rationality of this type of behavior. Yet many of these same people do the same thing when it comes to investments.
Specifically, over the past year and a half, they have sold investments — even quality investments — that still met their needs for growth, income or a combination of both.  And when they’ve sold these investments, they’ve taken losses — sometimes, big losses. Just like Mike and Mary Ann, they thought they must sell now to avoid bigger setbacks later.
Don’t make that mistake. If you weren’t planning on selling your investments before the market decline, why sell them now, when you’ll just be locking in a loss? Many successful investors hold the same investments for 20, 30 or 40 years — in fact, sometimes they pass these investments on to their children, who also hold them for decades. Are you so sure that your investments, which may indeed have declined 40 percent or more over the past couple of years, won’t recover those losses and climb to new heights in the years ahead?
You may someday need to sell, but do so for the right reasons — a change in your goals, a need to rebalance your portfolio or a fundamental change in the companies in which you’ve invested. In the meantime, not only should you hold on to the investments that that still meet your needs, but you should also consider adding new investments while the price is so low. The more shares you own, the better your financial position will be when the market turns around.
This type of behavior takes patience, discipline and faith in our markets. But over the past century, the investors who have demonstrated these traits have been well rewarded — and there’s no reason you can’t attain the same results.

Baseline Water Testing Results

In preparation for the gas exploration that is planned for Fairfield Bay, The first installment of baseline water sampling and testing of our streams and two wells in Fairfield Bay has been completed.  The laboratory results have been entered into a sampling database which will be updated with additional data as it becomes available.    Results are available for review at the City offices by anyone interested.  This proactive step, contracted for by the City and funded by the Community Club, is key to establishing our water quality prior to any drilling activities. Van Buren County, which has had drilling activities for several years, took 18 surface water samples, upstream and downstream from existing drill sites.  The water quality on all 18 samples was excellent, well below required levels.
The Van Buren County Gas Advisory Board is vigilant in investigating reported issues and has brought light to incidents that have occurred.  They are working with the USGS to test surface water at approximately 100 sites this summer and fall, including sites in and around Fairfield Bay.The City of Fairfield Bay, the Community Club, and the Van Buren County Gas Advisory Board are working together to protect our water quality and to identify issues before they become a problem, not after.

Log Cabin And NCA Art Gallery Top 175 Places To Visit In The State

The Log Cabin and the North Central Arkansas Art Gallery in Fairfield Bay have been chosen as two of the Top 175 Places to Visit in Arkansas by visitors to Arkansas.com.As part of the state’s celebration of its 175th anniversary, the Department of Parks and tourism has asked residents to choose their favorite places to see and do. Residents chose from a variety of  hiking trails,  museums, state parks, galleries, and farmers markets.It is with great pride that the Log Cabin Museum and North Central Arkansas Art Gallery have been selected by residents and visitors of Arkansas as one of the Top 175 Places to visit in Arkansas. A letter from the Department of Parks and Tourism informed both entities of the honor, and although the letter arrived too late to be included in the top ten (chosen by residents and visitors), we are proud of our small museum and art gallery and all the volunteers who help.The Log Cabin Museum has put on a new face with re-staining of the porch and railing plus a new entry carpet. Inside the museum, display cases have been changed, thereby giving the museum more space to add more displays in the future. Artifacts and uniforms representing the Civil War loaned to the museum by local residents are on display. Many books on Arkansas’ part in the Civil War have been purchased by the museum and will remain on display thru the middle of July. Information as to how the flag of Arkansas was chosen is located on the back side of the Civil War artifact display.Thanks to all visitors who attended the “Still on the Hill” concert and toured the museum and log cabin during the Memorial Day weekend and to Lea Berry who put it all together. Thanks to volunteers Pat Braem and Annette Rogers for taking the extra time to explain the wonderful items in our cabin and Pastor A. Freudenburg for working at the museum Saturday. All the volunteers who help at the Log Cabin on Monday and Friday afternoons deserve thanks as without them, it would be difficult to keep the cabin  open. If you have not joined as a friend of the museum, please stop in during our open hours and join for a small donation of $10 per person or $14 for the family. Additional donations are welcome and all are tax deductible.We are currently looking for a printer for a Dell computer and a small refrigerator that we could use during these hot days to store water for our visitors to purchase. If you are able to donate these to the museum, we would be grateful.

 

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