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Searcy Co. Senior Center The Searcy County Senior Activity Center is open for inside dining.

On Sunday, February 6 Searcy County Judge Jim Harness posted the current Covid-19 numbers for Searcy County. As it stands right now the total positive cases are 1975 up 10, total active positive cases are 124 down 10, total recoveries are 1810 up 20, total deaths are 38. He states, “Please continue to pray for those affected and their family. Thank you and God Bless.

Are you looking for a new career? A new job opportunity? Join us at Pioneer Pavilion on the south campus of North Arkansas College on Thursday, March 10, 2022, from 10:00 A.M. – 2:00 P.M. for the 2022 North Arkansas College Career Fair. This event is open and free to the public.

Hope that everyone had a good week. We had rain, snow and wind.

Good Monday morning. I went to the Mountain Wave office. I visited with Leisa Younger there. It is court day at town. Gary went to the doctor in Harrison. His little finger is getting better. He went to Wal Mart.

It’s Sunday and it looks like it’s going to be a nice day outside. But heard talk of snow this week. By the time you get the news we will be able to tell snow or not. Hopefully not, when we all worked at Flintrock Shirt Factory we wanted a snow day. But those days are long gone. Kids are grown and moved on. Only Kim got a chance to experience the work of the factory. Just to let you know how small the world really is. Our granddaughter Tifffany Smith works for Bentonville Water Association, and she was asking me if I knew of a Bob Blackwell that use to work at Flintrock Shirt Factory. I told her yes, well they had a new lady starting to work and she mentioned Marshall, Arkansas. Then the conversation started, she use to live here and Bob was a relative of hers. Guess it is a small world after all.

From last week: We might have gone sledding at midnight in the full moon. OK, we did. Unexpected things can happen when you leave senior citizens unsupervised, sometimes things that can show a lapse in judgment. In our defense, it was the best sledding snow of our life and we hadn’t gotten to play like kids in it due to one thing and another related to adult responsibility. But when that gorgeous full moon came out and “gave the luster of mid-day to objects below” it swept us right off our feet.

Just when we were starting to enjoy warmer winter weather, we’ve got the worst case scenario heading right at us. ICE! I remember way back when in 2009 when we had the last ice storm, I’m sure y’all remember it too. I hope you’ve gathered up all your cold weather supplies; water, alternative heat source, groceries, candles, a good book and a board game. While you might possibly be hanging out part of this week watching ice freeze, dig out your favorite cookbooks and your old photo albums and send Amy some content for the Snowball Civic Club book!