Community Corner
Guy News
By BRENDA DOWDY HOLT
Lots of people in the community needing prayers. Butch Rimmer had surgery last Wednesday. Darby Grimes started Chemo this week. Jerry Glover has been in the hospital. Owen Fisher Glover broke his arm last week and had tubes put in his ears again this week. Darrell Bearden has recently been in the VA Hospital. Wilma Stevenson has been in the hospital. So has her son Bernard Stevenson. Please keep these people in your prayers and any one else that I may have not known about in your prayers. Remember prayers work wonders!
Today, Saturday, Jan. 28, if you don’t have anything to do come to the Area 17 Special Olympics Polar Plunge at Woolly Hollow State Park in Greenbrier. Registration is at 11 a.m., Dessert Auction is at 11:30 a.m., eat chili and then awards and announcements and Parade of Plungers at noon, and the plunge at 12:30 p.m. Well, I just found out that we could try for Guinness World Records. So if we don’t make it this year we will try for next year. But if you don’t plunge come out and support those that are. You can bring a homemade dessert for the auction. All Proceeds go to Area 17 Special Olympics Program which covers five counties, Faulkner, Pope, Conway, Perry and Van Buren to enhance our program so that all athletes can participate and be a part of the sports program. Bring your cameras and have some fun with us! See you there! Greenbrier and Guy Fire Departments, Sonic, Grant Cabinet Co., Pizza Hut, One Church are among the ones that will be there today. Freezin For A Reason! LET ME WIN! IF I CANNOT WIN! LET ME BE BRAVE IN THE ATTEMPT!
There is so much violence going around every where! What happened to being safe in your own community? Thinking of those families that have lost loved ones and especially those that one of their family members took another ones life. We never know.
Landon Dowdy spent last Friday night with his Nanna and we went on Saturday to play Bingo with Sandy and her friends from Profiles in their new building along with Dawson and Doris Watkins and our Mom Betty Griffith. We had a great time. Landon went home with his Mom and Dad to go to Training for their dog Rusty.
Welcome to the Martin Family to the Little town with a big heart. They are building a new home in the WinMeadow Sub Division and is the new pastor for the Church of Christ.
Please send news to holtb42@yahoo.com or call 501-679-3299 can’t put news in if I don’t know it. Have a great day and remember to not drink and drive!
Holland
By Margie Fulmer
Our family members are going fast, one last week and one this week. My beloved cousin, Jake Sims, went to be with our Lord Jesus Christ, Jan. 20. Jake was a good Christian and had lots of friends. He will truly be missed.
Ernestine Newberry invited some ladies from the church to have lunch with her last Sunday. Those present were Eva Ayres, Ann Spears, Mary Powell, Marian McGinty and Sunny Sue Earnhart. They really enjoyed being in her home. Earnestine is so glad to be back home after living with her sister in Camden for years taking care of her. Her sister had to enter a nursing home, so Earnestine got to come back home, and she is so glad to be back in her new home and back in church.
We still have a lot of sick people on our prayer list. Charles Earnhart of Mayflower has been down for some time with multiple problems. Charles is Marian McGinty and Sunny Earnhart’s brother, and they visit him often.
Mr. William McGaha of Conway is in Salem Place Nursing and Rehab. His family here are Eva Lee Parsons, and Ronnie and Janie McGaha. They visit him daily, I understand.
Bobbye Hendrickson is not well at all. Please remember all of these individuals in your prayers.
Glen and Doris Henderson of Naylor took Ray and me out to eat recently at Searcy, at Ryan’s, since Ryan’s in Conway closed. It looks sad to see these businesses close, and there’s a lot of people out of work. We know what it is to lose your job, when International Show Co. closed, Ray and I were employed there. Ray worked there 28 years and I worked 18 years, it’s quite a shock. Since then we’ve lost a lot of those friends, by their going home to be with the Lord.
God blesses us old folks with each new day He gives to us. We are so blessed to still have each other and can maintain our homes, our children and grandchildren can still come home and enjoy it. They check on us every day.
Neighbors, I need news, so I won’t have to “ramble.”
Have a good week, and remember, God looks at each of us through eyes filled with love.
Centerville
By Jennifer Freeman
Centerville Methodist Church welcomed two new members last Sunday. Misty and Nick Young moved to Greenbrier at the start of the school year and had been searching for a church closer to their new home. Nick recognized several boys from school and they both fit right in and we are thankful that they have joined our church family.
Tuesday night, Erin Shaw and I met Dana Hargrove, Robin Clark, Patty Ingram, and Velma Collier from work for dinner and a movie. We had a great time even though the crowd was smaller than usual. We left the theater wanting to buy a zoo and feeling quite happy that we chose to spend the evening together. Spending time catching up with my co-workers in a relaxed setting has me excited that my church ladies will be beginning a new Beth Moore study group. It is looking like we will meet on Wednesday nights right now but I will let you know when the details are worked out.
I visited with my mom and my sister, Mary, on Saturday in between running my kids to their friends’ houses and picking them up. Then Dylan, Kaylee, and I visited with Frances Hall Sunday after church. I wasn’t very efficient with getting everything I needed from Walmart on Friday or Saturday so we had to make that third trip. We had hoped to meet Darrel for lunch but he was tied up so the kids and I went to Colton’s and had a quite dinner without him. If you have any news for the column or would like more information regarding the Beth Moore Bible Study, please email me at jennfreeman@windstream.net.
