Rehobeth Cemetery
Association to have annual meeting
EL DORADO — The annual meeting of the Rehobeth Cemetery Association, Inc. will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Mar. 4 at the Bible Baptist Church Fellowship Hall, located at 2103 Smackover Highway in El Dorado.
Everyone with family members buried in the cemetery is urged to attend and be a participant in the organization. For more information, contact association president Daniel Eric Goodwin at 870-639-3436, vice president Charles Damon Goodwin at 870-546-2579 or secretary Ronnie Goodwin at 870-444-4043.
State agricultural department to host abandoned pesticide collection events
LITTLE ROCK — The Agricultural Abandoned Pesticide Program has scheduled abandoned pesticide collection events for 10 locations in the following counties from March 14-24: Saline, Garland, Hot Spring, Grant, Clark, Dallas, Cleveland, Ouachita, Calhoun, Columbia and Union. Since the program began in 2005, more than three million pounds of unwanted pesticide have been collected.
Participation in a collection event is free and anonymous to anyone. Commonly collected items include old/outdated pesticides such as calcium arsenate, 2,4,5-T, sodium cyanide, lindane, and chlordane, as well as registered pesticides unusable because they have been exposed to the elements or have been held over from previous growing seasons such as glyphosate products and 2,4-D.
Abandoned pesticide collection events will be held in:
• Union County from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m. on March 23 at the Union County Fairgrounds, near the intersection of East 19th Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in El Dorado.
• Ouachita County from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m. on March 21 at the Ouachita County Extension Office, 2760 Mount Holly Road in Camden.
• Columbia County from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m. on March 24, at C W Easter Center, 902 E. McKissack in Waldo.
The program is conducted in cooperation with the Arkansas State Plant Board/Arkansas Agriculture Department, University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service, Arkansas Farm Bureau, Arkansas Natural Resources Commission and Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality. Representatives from these agencies make up the Abandoned Pesticide Advisory Board. This board selects county sites for collection events and moves locations by Arkansas region seasonally. Priority watersheds are a large consideration factor for the advisory board in choosing counties/regions for site collection.
The Agricultural Abandoned Pesticide Program is administered by the Arkansas State Plant Board. For more information, visit www.plantboard.arkansas.gov, or call 501-225-1598. The mission of the ASPB is to protect and serve the citizens of Arkansas and the agricultural and business communities by providing information and unbiased enforcement of laws and regulations thus ensuring quality products and services.
Minutes for Junction City Council meeting
Junction City Council passed two ordinances, one of which will cause citizens to pay fines at Union County Sheriff’s office at their business meeting on Feb. 9.
Ordinance 17-2-1 designates the Union County Sheriff as the official responsible for the collection of fines assessed in the Union County District Court for the city of Junction City.
Ordinance 17-2-2 authorizes the Mayor and the City Clerk to execute any and all agreements to adopt retirement coverage in the Local Police and Fire Fighters Retirement System for the city’s policemen.
All council member were present at this month’s meeting as well as the Public Works Superintendent, the Chief of Police and the Ambulance Supervisor.
All three departments gave updates on their projects.Ambulance Department reported several runs and a balance of $1500 in the Ambulance Fund.Police Chief reported that Junction City lettering is installed on the new cruiser and that radios are installed as well as the antenna.Public Works Superintendent, Jake Caldwell, reported that the water had all tested out fine and everything is back to normal after the work on our tank.
The city is also are still waiting on the grant money for the streets to be funded which should be this month and construction of overlaying on Elm St. and East First St. soon after.
In old business, Mayor Allen Simmons reported the cost of demolishing the old Junction City Nursing Home.
Estimate for demolishing the Nursing Home was $35,000 and no action will be taken at this time.
There were several things discussed during new business.
The council approved the renewal of a contract with Verizon for the placement of antennas in the city’s water tower.
The Council also approved the use of the City Community Center for a monthly Community Auction. The community auction organizer is Sharon Hanry.
Dates will be announced soon.