Cemetery ready for cleanup day

Cleanup day at Fall Creek Cemetery in Strickler will begin at 7 a.m. Saturday. The cleanup is planned in preparation for the annual cemetery decoration, set for June 1.

A potluck lunch is planned at noon on June 1, and guests are invited to bring a covered dish to the Strickler Community Building for the event.

Information: Virginia Chase, Fall Creek Cemetery Association, (479) 442-4596.

St. John’s cites student Swain

Cadet Staff Sgt. Brandon Swain of Fayetteville was named February High School Student of the Month at St. John’ Military School in Salina, Kan.

Swain, a junior, is the son of Brian and Jovie Swain of Fayetteville. He plays football, is a peer tutor and has a 4.0 grade-point average.

pJones selected for college choir

Kaitlin Jones, 17, of Fort Smith has been selected to be part of the National FluteAssociation’s Collegiate Flute Choir competition. Jones, a freshman at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith, will participate in the NFA convention in Chicago in August.

Jones is a 2013 graduate of Southside High School in Fort Smith.

She is the daughter of Ava Jones.

Submissions for the choir include a recording of the flutist playing a competition piece.

Twenty-five entrants are named winners.

The choir will rehearse and perform at the convention.

Post named top student

Jessica Post of Van Buren has been named Arkansas Tech University’s 2014 Emergency Management Student of the Year. Post received the award at the university’s Conference on Preparedness and Recovery in April 9.

Award nominees must have a 3.5 cumulative gradepoint average, beprofessional and demonstrate service in the field. Students who graduated in August or December and those who will graduate in May were eligible.

Post is credited with starting the student chapter of the American Red Cross on campus and has served as the group’s president.

She has worked at the university’s Center for Preparedness and Recovery and as a training coordinator with the campus chapter of the International Association of Emergency Managers.

She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in emergency management in August. She currently works at the American Red Cross military and veteran outreach program through AmeriCorps and interns with the Sebastian County Emergency Management Department.

Duke identifies Fayetteville talent

Twenty-nine seventh-grade students in the Fayetteville School District have qualified for recognition from the Duke University Talent Identification Program.

George Grisso, Albert Ko and Paul Lefforge qualified for both state and grand recognition and will be invited to attend a national recognition ceremony in May at the North Carolina university.

Eight percent of Arkansas students qualify for grand recognition.

Twenty-six Fayetteville students qualified for state recognition. They are Iman Blackwell, Bradley Brennan, Gabrielle Gies, Gage Glover, Ruby Guy, JamesHall, Carson Haller, Daniel Haller, Chloe Hansberger, Abigail Harris, Philip Hatfield, Jeremia Lo, Austin Liu, Kaitlyn Mashburn, Grier McClard, Warren McCombs, Carson Morgan, Mollie Nichols, Lily Pendley, Nicholas Pilkington, Carson Riggs, Ryan Roark, Isaac Smith, Ethan Trivitt and Grayson Young.

Writers’ Colony adds Pat Carr

Author Pat Carr is the newest member of the board at the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow in Eureka Springs. Carr is the author of 18 books including the Iowa Fiction Prize winnerThe Women in the Mirror and the PEN Book Award finalist If We Must Die.

She is the author of more than 100 short stories, a Faulkner Award nominee and a PEN Southwest Fiction Award and John Estes Cooke Civil War Fiction Award winner for her 2007 short story collection The Death of a Confederate Colonel.

The board has also named author Ann Hood, bookstore owner David Sanders and attorney and speaker Donna J. Jackson as advisers.

Send information about birthdays, honors and reunions to [email protected], trogers@ arkansasonline.com or Northwest Arkansas Achievers, P.O. Box 7, Springdale, AR 72765.

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