On Thursday, September 26 the Marshall Elementary was awarded the distinguished designation of Model PLC (Professional Learning Community) at Work School, a testament to its faculty’s dedication to collaborative excellence and student success.
Hello October! It’s amazing how time flies and where does it go? Before you can turn around three times it will be Christmas! I mean that! Hope you are all doing well and loving this beautiful weather. Ray and I are just fine and this is Ray’s favorite time of the year. I like it too; spring would be my favorite. Anyway, we were out the other day in the side by side and passed where persimmons were in the road and we stopped and Ray got a couple to see what was inside the seeds and sure enough, spoons. Guess we will shovel snow this winter. Only once. Oh and that saying if it rains on the first of the month it will rain 15 days that month, well, that didn’t work out this past month. It only rained 8 days here and not much rain on any of them!
A Robertson, Ruff and Cash Reunion was held on Saturday, October 5, 2024 at the Searcy County Veterans Memorial Hall. The reunion began at 10 a.m. with people attending from all over the United States. Todd and Dede Samuelson from Texas, authors of “Seary County, The Civil War’s Secret Heroes” was in attendance. Their captivating book describes the hardships of David Crockett Ruff and Ruff descendants during the Civil War and will be available for purchase at the reunion.
LONG-TERM CARE PLANNING: FIX IT BEFORE IT BREAKS A friend of mine in Pennsylvania has to pay for his mother’s nursing home care. I never heard of making children pay for parents! Could this happen in Arkansas? It depends which law applies.
The Searcy County Historical Society will meet Friday, October 25, at 7:00 pm in Marshall’s First Christian Church. The program will be given by James Troy Massey on his three Confederate ancestors: Captain James Tyrie Wright, Captain Giles Wright and Private Isaac Horton; and his three Union ancestors: Corporal James Jackson Barnes, and privates James K. O’Neal and Jackson Cassell who fought from Searcy County. He will also give a brief sketch of WBTS (Civil War) activity in Searcy County.
Fall has begun and the temps have started to cool. Grass continues to grow, and the days are gradually getting shorter. We Arkansans, however, are used to summer leaving, returning, leaving, and sometimes returning again. Remember Genesis 8:22 (as long as the earth endures, summer and winter will never cease) and just enjoy the days as they come (Psalm 118:24!). As one neighbor stated, “Nothing we can do about the weather but gripe and griping doesn’t help anyway.”
Last Sunday was the first day of Fall but it was 94 degrees. Seems to me like it’s been a short summer.
Hello to all of you Marshall Mountain Wave readers and greetings from the Jewel of the Ozarks, Leslie, Arkansas. We are running headlong into Fall for sure it has been rather chilly in the mornings with the high temperatures in the 70s during the day, perfect camping weather, cool nights make for nice campfires and the days are cool enough to hike around. It is perfect sweater weather as well.
Today is Thursday. I went to the Mountain Wave and I visited with Charity Rolen.
Devin and Miranda Fornes took a date weekend at Hardrock Casino in Tulsa. Know they had a wonderful time.