News Briefs

News Briefs

The Evening Times prints briefs about events for organizations, schools and governmental agencies. News briefs are accepted at the Times office, by fax at 735- 1020 or by e- mail news@ theeveningtimes. com. Always include contact information.

– Friday, May 20, at city hall in Edmondson at 9 a.m. The public is invited to attend. Mayor Robert Johnson, Sr.

• Road Kill Report – J. J. Abernathy with Arkansas Game & Fish Commission asks that anyone seeing dead deer call to report at 1-800482-9262 now through May 20th. The agency is testing for chronic wasting disease.

• Crittenden County LEPC Meeting – This month’s meeting has been canceled. The next meeting will be June 28th at 10:30 a.m.

• Earle Historical Celebration Program, Awards Ceremony and Fish Fry – Saturday May 21 at the Earle High School Gymnasium and Cafeteria from 1 to 4 p.m. To salute the High School and Middle School Award Winning Girls and Guys Basketball State Champs, District Champs and Regional Champs. All players, managers and coaches will be recognized. The event is free to the public. For more information contact Councilman Kenneth Cross at 870-6360410.

• Earle High School Parent Meeting – Informational meeting for the 2016-2017 school year on Tuesday, May 24 in the Earle High School Cafetorium. Asking ALL Parents, Guardians, Stakeholders and Well Wishers of the students of Earle High School to be in attendance.

• Arkansas State University Degree Center – Offering admission, advising, and scholarship information/assistance for students interested in attending Arkansas State University-Jonesboro on the ASU Mid-South campus. Students can major in Criminology, Business, Nursing, or Education and live locally. Assistance is available Monday-Friday 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. For more information call, Kennidi Ridgell, Degree Center Coordinator at 870733-6069.

• Commodity Distribution – Wednesday, May 25 from 9 a.m. until 12 p.m. or until food supplies are gone at the VFW Post 5225, 406 S. Avalon, West Memphis. For questions concerning eligibility contact Keith Livesay at the Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas by calling 870-932-3663.

• Tax Delinquent Land Sale Scheduled – A public auction for the sale of tax delinquent land in Crittenden County will be held Thursday, May 26 at

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10 a.m. at the Crittenden County Courthouse. Registration will begin at 9:30 a.m. A catalog of tax delinquent lands can be found at www.cosl.org. Delinquent property owners may call 501324-9422 to request a Petition to Redeem or they may look up the delinquent parcel on the COSL website and print it from there.

• Quota’s 8th Annual Cancer Survivor Dinner – Thursday, May 26 at 6 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall, 215 N. Missouri, West Memphis. There is no cost to attend but please RSVP to Rhonda Standridge, relay chairman at 901-619-6411 or rhonda6411@ yahoo.com or Hester Carey,Quota Survivor Dinner Co-Chairperson at 901-8347356.

– Benefiting Assistant Fire Chief Jeff Jones transplant medical expenses. Butts will be ready for pick up on May 26th from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. behind Fire Station 1 at 200 N. 7th St., West Memphis. Contact Fred Thorne at 870514-1579 or Roger Lancaster at 870-394-6643 to order.

• Wonder High Gathering – Thursday, Friday and Saturday, May 26-28 in Nashville, Tennessee. Hostesses: Willie Mae Simpson Peete 615-228-8844 (H) and 615-364-5481 (C) and Magnolia Smothers Davis 615-255-1340 (H) and 615513-3496 (C). Letters will be mailed by the last of January. If you have not received one by that time call one of the numbers above.

• Earle Dunbar School Reunion 2016 – The weekend of Friday, May 27 through Sunday, May 29. Reunion lodging at the Clarion Hotel & Convention Center, 2007 S. Service Rd., West Memphis. Arthur D. Sanders, president. For information contact Mauzie Jones Furlow at 870732-3771.

• Early Registration for Kindergarten at Avondale Elementary – Now through Friday, May 27 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Those students who are fully registered are invited to participate in Avondale’s “KINDERGARTEN KAMP” Wednesday, Aug. 3 from 9 to 11 a.m. or on Thursday, Aug. 4 from 4 to 6 p.m. For registration requirements call 870735-4588.

• Good Neighbor Center and Memphis Food Bank Mobile Food Giveaway – Friday, May 27 at Old St. Paul Church, 504 S. 8th St., West Memphis from 10 a.m. until 12 p.m.

• Memorial Services – VFW Post 5225 will present services honoring our veterans at Crittenden Memorial Park in Marion on Monday, May 30. Service begins at 8:30 a.m. and is open to the public.

• West Memphis Holiday Sanitation Schedule – No service Monday, May 30th. Monday, May 30th and Tuesday, May 31st customers will be serviced on Tuesday, May 31st. Regular schedule resumes on Wednesday, June 1.

• Hope House – Qualified individuals will receive food distribution June 3 at a new location, the Marion Sports Complex. The location is no longer Marion Baptist.

• City of Edmondson Special Meeting