Entries from July 2008

July 31, 2008

Cinderella Set to Charm Audiences

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Cinderella” is set for production August 5-9 beginning at 7 PM nightly at

Mike Woodall, Madison Kuebler and Morgan Scharff performing as the Wicked Stepmother and Stepsisters in Cinderella; Center on the Square

Center on the Square, 111 W. Arch Street, Searcy. Tickets are available at Quattlebaum Music, Tangerine Turtle and Center on the [...]

July 23, 2008

Harding student, professor to participate in Democratic National Convention

SEARCY, Ark. – They won’t be in the Beltway, but this fall a Harding University student and faculty member will be in the center of political action on the other side of the Mississippi – in Denver.
Rachel Gardner, a junior electronic media production major from Indianapolis, and Dr. Mark Elrod, professor of political science, were [...]

July 18, 2008

Searcy American heads to Dixie World Series

TEXARKANA – Searcy American 12-year-old All Stars punched their ticket to the closed-based World Series in LaGrange, Ga. on Wednesday with a 9-2 win over Texarkana West.
Rivers Ridout singled to start the game and advanced to second on a passed ball. Deion Byrd hit a sharp liner to the Texarkana West center fielder who dropped [...]

July 17, 2008

Searcy Summer Dinner Theatre concludes season

Searcy Summer Dinner Theatre’s 26th season comes to a close with “My Three Angels” by Samuel and Bella Spewack July 24-27 and Aug. 1-2.
“My Three Angels” is set in French Guiana, a region where on Christmas day the temperature has graciously dropped to 104 degrees. Three convicts are employed as roofers by a family whose [...]

July 15, 2008

B&B Oil downs Paragould 10-4 at American Legion state tournament

B&B Oil advances after downing Paragould 10-4
PARAGOULD – After looking for a big inning for a little over a week, coach Brett Burton got what he thought the team needed as a six-run seventh propelled B&B Oil past host team Paragould in the American Legion Class A State tournament.
B&B Oil got on the scoreboard to [...]

July 15, 2008

Calhoun’s walk-off grand slam wins for Searcy American

TEXARKANA – A defensive struggle became very offensive in the bottom of the sixth inning in Searcy American’s second-round contest Saturday night against Nashville. After holding Nashville scoreless through the first four innings, Searcy finally caught the break they were looking for. Following Kohl Blickenstaff and Rivers Rideout walks to start the inning, a single [...]

July 13, 2008

Austin Calhoun homers twice as Searcy pounds Gurdon 19-7 in Dixie Youth Majors state tournament

Saturday, July 12, 2008 9:06 PM CDT
The Daily Citizen
TEXARKANA – The Searcy American All-Stars scored 10 runs in the second inning Friday on their way to a 19-7 win over Gurdon in the Dixie Youth Majors State Tournament in Texarkana.
A total of 13 batters went to the plate in the second inning. Devon VanWinkle had [...]

July 12, 2008

Josh Spears scores winning run in B&B Class A – American Legion state tournament victory

By Mark Haney
The Daily Citizen
PARAGOULD – The Class A State American Legion tournament is underway and B&B Oil is already making some noise. B&B Oil trailed Sheridan 5-2 on Friday afternoon, but rallied late to pull out the 6-5 win.
Sheridan got on the scoreboard first. After reaching on a double in the first inning, the [...]

July 6, 2008

A Day of Caring – Saturday, July 19th

July 1, 2008

Company participates in statewide cereal drive

Harvey Johnson lowers a large box of assorted cereal into the waiting arms of Gregg Addington. The two Finzer Roller employees were unloading the donations Monday morning at His House as part of a charitable cereal drive. Finzer Roller donated more than 1,000 boxes of cereal during a summer cereal drive.
By Jeremy Watson = The [...]