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St. Mary's Mtn.By Lynda Evans

RAPID IMPACT, a 12-and-under girls fastpitch softball travel team, finished fourth in

the USSSA Class C World Series held July 22-27 at Savage Park in Tulsa, Okla. The

team compiled a 2-1 record in pool play, losing to eventual World Series champion

Oklahoma Angels 2-1, and posted a 5-2 record in championship play, losing to the

Oklahoma Hurricanes 2-0 in the first round and the Powercats 6-5 in the semifinals of 

the loser’s bracket. Rapid Impact scored an average of almost seven runs per game

throughout pool play and championship play and allowed an average of only three runs

per game. Team members are front row (L-R): Shelby Posey from Booneville, Chloe

Wickizer from Ozark, Sierra Lamb from Charleston, Baylee Moses from Booneville and

Jadyn Hart from Magazine. Middle row: Coach Steven Holland from Mena, Grace Blaschke

from Subiaco, Halli Holland from Mena, Jacee Hart from Magazine, Sierra Montgomery

from Charleston, Corryn Holland from Mena, Paige Chandler from Dardanelle, NikkiDuncan from Alma and Coach James Wickizer from Ozark. Back row: Head Coach

Donald Hart from Magazine.

Sight-Sounds-Smellsby Clydene Overbey

I used to love walking up

the dirt roads all around my

house and listening to the

sounds and smells comingfrom the houses of neighbors.

Down where my house

was we could only hear and

see Brenda’s house, or maybea train. If I heard a sound from

there I knew what and who it

was. Brenda did have a close

neighbor on the other side.We often went through the

garden gate and climbed amulberry tree. I don’t remem-

 ber mulberries smelling nice.

I loved the sound of ice

cubes clinking in a glass, a fork raking on a plate as they ate a

meal, and dishes on a table or 

in the dishpan to be washed. I

always said to myself, “I won-der what they had to eat for 

supper?” Lots of beans and

 potatoes just like we had, I

think.

When someone hadclothes on the clothesline and

there was a breeze, I could

smell that fresh smell. Notmany things smell as good as

clothes dried outdoors in the

sunshine. And they were al-

ways hung out to dry. No elec-tric dryers, for that matter no

washers unless you had oneof those fancy wringers.

Mama was tickled pink whenshe got her first wringer 

washer.Sometimes I’d hear a radio

 playing cou ntry or gos pel

music or broadcasting the

news. There is a big difference

in the news then and now, alsoin music. If I heard talking I

could never understand what

they were saying. That didn’t

really bother me, I just enjoyedthe soft sounds of voices.

At dusk, when all the soft

yellow glow of lights came on

in the homes, that really fas-cinated me. I would wonder 

what they were doing in that

house, all warm and secure,

 just the way I felt in my house.Brenda was usually with

me and I don’t think she re-ally paid attention, at least she

never seemed to. We were al-

ways trying to think of a way

to stop in front of Ashmores’house because we knew she

would call us in for red Kool

Aid and cake.

From the road, in front of their house, there was always

something that smelled good.

Often that would be the dis-

tinct smell of bread rising.

Yummy! Across the road itwas usually coffee brewing

that we smelled.

At the end of that road onthe corner there was usually a

man sitting in a wheelchair. He

always spoke to us and had a

 big smile.From here we started back 

home unless we were goingto Hall Parks Store. No more

houses on that road until yougot to the store except the

house out away from the roadwhere sometimes we bought

 butter.

The freedom I felt then

was so sweet. I never even

thought that someone would

hurt me like kids do now. Iknew Jesus walked beside me,

never doubted that.I miss my childhood and

get so homesick for all those

sights, sounds and smells. I

miss the feeling of being sur-rounded by loved ones and

good neighbors.

 Hebrews 12: 2 Lookin g 

unto Jesus the author and fin-

isher of [our] faith; who for 

the joy that was set before him

endured the cross, despising 

the shame, and is set down at 

the right hand of the throne

of God.

Greetings! Sorry about nocolumn last week, but I took a

road trip and when I saw Evan

I forgot everything else.

My sister and I visited our aunts and uncle in Minnesota.

Everyone was real good. Wesaw some of our cousins too,

so it was a great trip. Wedidn’t even get lost on all

those gravel roads. Neither of us could find our way out of a

 paper bag, so we were very

 proud.

I missed Trivia Nite, butheard it was a lot of fun. An-

drea Romo and teammates arechamps, so they will be the

team to beat next time. Con-gratulations.

Patrick and Linda Vaught

came from Texas to help and it

was good to see them.Dan Vaught was master of 

ceremonies and comes up

with some interesting catego-

ries and questions. Good job,Danny.

We had the rain last week.The grass was so high you

could hide a bus in it. Jim said

he would come help me mow.

I think I’ll take him up on it.As of Friday all the pup-

 pies will have found homes.

Thank you to all who took 

them in.Well, I better get busy.

Until week, bye.

Altus Historical

Society NewsThe Altus Historical Soci-

ety will have its regular meet-

ing Wednesday, Aug. 13, at 10

a.m. at the Heritage House

Museum.Old business will be dis-

cussion of repair of the build-ing and continue planning for 

our annual spaghetti supper 

at The Gathering Place in No-vember. New bus iness includes

 plans for cleaning the mu-

seum and plans for a Christ-

mas open house if repairs arecompleted.

During the Grape Fest, I

tried to run from the souvenir 

 boot h to the mu seum as people wanted in. I couldn’t

do it, so called Kathy Henry

and she came down along

with Jim Jacobs, both Fridayand Saturday. Jim Canady alsocame down to help on Satur-

day afternoon. If I countedcorrectly, there were 40 visi-

tors who came through.Also Jo Eveld and I served

our annual breakfast Saturday

morning and sold out. We

made $96 for the museum, af-ter expenses – worth getting

up early for.

 —Mary Darter 

Fair Board

NewsThe North Franklin

County Fair Board will meet

Aug. 12 at 5 p.m. in the fair 

 building.

All board members and

anyone interested in the fair 

are welcome to attend.

The 2014 fair will begin

Sept. 4 with the fair parade.September 5 and 6 will be the

 pageants. September 8 will be

the start of the fair.

Remember these dates.

Usually our fair is the first of 

August.

- - Gladys Young

Presents Sunset

Rotary program

We walked quietly out and

looked toward the west. It

seems as though everyone

did. Neighbors were out and

the dogs were racing around

trying to set new yard-to-yardspeed records. Yes, it was get-

ting dark there in the west.

But no one really wanted

to say it. No one wanted to

 jinx it. Oh, we’re grown up,

educated more or less, and

smart enough to come in out

of the … oops. Nearly slipped

up there. But there is that nag-

ging little fear we all carry

when we want something so

 bad ly we’ re afr aid to tal k 

about it. It might not happen.

I looked across the street

and there was ol’ Windy Wil-

son, staring west and snap-

 ping his suspenders in antici-

 pation. Windy was here before

the invention of dirt and

knows a few things. The clos-

est our talk came was simply

Windy smiling at me and nod-

ding yes.

Yes.

Oh, we need it. Farms that

have used irrigation for a hun-

dred years were now having

faithful wells dry up. The

nearby mountains held sev-

eral fires, as there was less

moisture in some of the trees

now than in a cured two by

four. Drought can be a really

ugly word.

Mrs. Doc came out of her house with iced tea for about

10 people, and we smiled and

sipped it gratefully and looked

toward the west.

The blackness was climb-

ing higher. It was getting

 blacker, too.

Doc walked over to the

tree in his front yard and

looked at the thermometer.“Ninety-one,” he said.

And then came the breeze,

that softly massaging cool-

ness that said we were the

chosen ones. This was our 

afternoon. It was coming. It

was COMING!

The first rumbles of thun-

der made us smile and jump

 just a little as the black ceiling

drew itself over us like bed

covers.

And then … RAIN!

We twirled in it and danced

in it. Toddlers disassociated

themselves from clothing and

hopped around like frogs.

People with gray in their hair 

wished they could, too.

Rain. To save us. Rain. We

must have done something

right for once.

Thank you.

(Listen to the “Home

Country Hour” podcast on

your computer or other elec-

tronic marvels, at www.slimra

ndles.com.)

Thomas Post, a member of 

Altus Sunset Rotary, was

speaker at the club’s meeting

last week and also entertained

 by playing his guitar and sing-

ing.

His program featured high-

lights of a recent road trip to

East Carbon, Utah, in his re-

stored pickup to visit long-time friend Bo Huff, formerly

of Denning, who is battling

cancer. Post said Huff is in the

Hot Rod Hall of Fame and can

 be found on U-tube.

The club was presented a

 banner which Post received in

an exchange with the presi-

dent of a Utah Rotary Club.

His guest at the Altus club

meeting was his companion

on the Utah trip, Rhonda

Schmaltz.

Winner of drawing

Heather Maxwell of Little

Rock won the wine country

gift basket from the Arkansas

Tech-Ozark Campus booth at

the Altus Grape Fest.

The gift basket was as-

sembled by Arkansas VESTA

Coordinator Veronica Post for 

the Viticulture and Enology

Department to promote the

grape growing and wine-mak-

ing education program at

ATU-Ozark.

Assisting with the booth

were Marci Gage of ATU-

Ozark, Kathleen Vire, a stu-

dent in the program, and Andy

Allen, program chair.

VESTA represents theViticulture and Enology Sci-

ence and Technology Alliance

of which ATU-Ozark Campus

is a partner university.

Red rock country

topic of special

AETN (Conway) - Take a

cinematic journey through the

 breathtaking scenery of theAmerican West’s red rock 

country Sunday, Aug. 10, at 4

 p.m., when AETN presents

“Red Rock Serenade.”