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YEAR 14: 2020 ISSUE: WEEKENDER OF APRIL 17, 2020 VOL. 441 12 Pages
FirstIssue:May
2007
The Southern Arkansas
TAILGATE NEWS
FREE to copy
Poetry: Out In The Middle Of Nowhere; P-4
Gurdon graduate
memories; P-11
GATE INDEX Making a
DifferenceIN GOD WE TRUST
JOHN’S SERMONA second chance
is the Lord’s
stock and trade...
Page 3
Mayor files
for downtown grantGurdon Mayor Kelley files
for grant to revamp
Gurdon Light Building
Page 6
Teacher reaction
to no school until fallArkansas teacher
has heart for students,
parents in Corona
economic bind and school
out till fall
Page 7
Tailgator hoping
for Gurdon footballWriter believes society
should return to normal
Page 8
Obits: Wells, Prince,
Smith, Jones, Anderton,
Walters, Giffin; Pgs. 9&10
Classifieds; P-11
Ph: (870) 353-8201;
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John Nelson, 216 N. 16th Street,
Arkadelphia, AR 71923
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185,000 lose their lights on Easter night
CADDO VALLEY AREA TREES DOWN FROM HIGH WINDS
- At least three large trees were down on Highway 7 toward Caddo
Valley, in front of Arkadelphia Pet Clinic, Monday after a Sunday
night storm of high winds killed the lights in 20 counties. No storm
injuries or casualties have been reported. (John Nelson photo)
Gurdon schools plan graduation
ceremony for Class of 2020
Stuck In Okolona
Ebenezer Cemetery visit
means mud bath for reporter
By JOHN NELSON
Tailgate News Editor
A severe wind storm cut the power in 20 Arkansas counties,
according to weather authorities, during a tree ripping, straight-lined
wind blast that caused uprooting and de-roofing from Arkadelphia to
Gurdon to Prescott to Malvern late Easter night, April 12, to early
Monday morning, April 13.
Weather reports said 185,000 were without lights at one time. This
editor’s home, at 216 North 16th Street in Arkadelphia, was without
electrical power from about 8 p.m. on Sunday, April 12 until 9 p.m. on
Monday, April 13.
A Monday morning ride from Pine and 16th Street in Arkadelphia
toward the downtown proved to be nearly lightless except for a few
By JOHN NELSON
Tailgate News Editor
It was a Tuesday afternoon. I was done
selling but something one of my son’s co-
workers said was bugging me.
Mr. Johnny Vancamp, a Gurdon body
shop man, or at least that is how I know the
guy, told me there was a cemetery out
Okolona way that had been ran over by a log
truck, a fence dragged and stones pulled
over. He asked me to do a story.
I said I would do my best. Well, I never
found the evidence I was looking to photo-
By JOHN NELSON
Tailgate News Editor
Allen Blackwell, superintendent of Gurdon Schools, said Thursday
there will be a graduation ceremony for the Class of 2020 and details
will be announced this coming week.
“We will be making a statement on all things next week. All
school activities, with the exception of graduation, have been canceled
for the remainder of this year. Currently, we are waiting for better guid-
ance from the Arkanas Department of Education (ADE) as to how to
deal with graduation,” he said.
Gurdon Schools, along with the rest of Arkansas, will not meet in
traditional fashion until the fall of 2020 when the new school year
begins, per order of Gov. Asa Hutchinson because of the threat of
spreading the Corona Virus.
Blackwell said there will be a football program this fall in Gurdon
and if there are further questions about the school’s planned schedul-
ing people should feel free to call his office.
Students will, however, continue to learn in the Alternative Method
Instruction program via the Internet, Zoom meetings with teachers and
assistance in their lessons from parents or guardians for the rest of
the current school year.
The AMI schooling will count toward the completion of a student’s
current grade level and AMI classes will stop this spring when the
school year was originally scheduled to end in May.
The Gurdon School Board will meet at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April
28. Blackwell said board members will be conducting interviews to
hire a new superintendent on May 4 and May 7, as Blackwell has
accepted a superintendent’s job at Rosebud starting this fall.
EBENEZER CEME-
TERY - Ebenezer
Cemetery seems to be well
kept up and has a sign on
its near-Okolona location
stating it has been estab-
lished since 1867.