Easy tick removal

Apply a glob of liquid soap to a cotton ball. Cover the tick with the soap-soaked cotton ball and swab it for a few seconds (15-20). The tick will come out on its own and be stuck to the cotton ball when you lift it away.

Annual Scholarship Cook Out

Our annual Scholarship Cook Out honoring the scholarship recipients was a success! Bobby Coyle, Kenna Dennis and Jake Pollard attended the cook out with Nicole Foster absent Also included in our celebration was the winner of the annual Jimmy Hanna Scholarship funded by Merita Graddy Hanna, Daniel Baldwin.

Class members present were: Joe Cole, Francine Hogard Howell, Larry Gatewood, Johnny Hickson, Etta Faye Lance, Veda Crittenden, Linda Brown Wells, Marty Vaughn Renard, Mike Howell, Donna Coyle Parks, and Betty Mead Robinson.

Jimmy Hanna Memorial Scholarship

This year's winner of the Jimmy Hanna Memorial Scholarship is Daniel Baldwin who will be attending the University of Arkansas Fayetteville and plans to go into physical therapy

Merita will be funding an annual scholarship in Jimmy's name and will be presenting it each year to a graduating senior from Piggott High School pursuing a medical career.

Scholarship Presentations

At this year's graduation on May 15, Joe Cole and Donna Coyle Parks presented our scholarships to this year's recipients. The winners of this year's Class of 70 scholarships are: Kenna Davis, Jake Pollard,Nicole Foster and Bobby Coyle. Also included in this year's presentation was the Jimmy Hanna Memorial Scholarship funded by Merita Hanna. The recipient of this scholarship is Daniel Baldwin. The following pictures were taken by Jim Parks.

Bobby Coyle
Jake Pollard
Nicole Foster
Daniel Baldwin
Kenna Dennis

On Friday May 29 we will be hosting a cook out in honor of this year's graduates. It will be at Heritage Park starting @6:00 pm. Hopefully you will be able to attend this year.

Piggott Times Subscription

Did you know that you can subscribe to the Piggott Times online? The cost is $20/yr and each page can be viewed. Go to www.piggotttimes.com

THE GROUP WHO ATTENDED SCHOLARSHIP MEETING


The scholarship committee met on March 28. It was decided that the set amount for the scholarships would be $400 no matter how many were given each year. The applications were taken to the school and will picked up around April 28 so that they will be available for our next meeting on May 2. The names of the recipients will be given to the high school and Rick will try to make arrangements to present them at graduation on May 15. $200 was collected at Jim Hanna's memorial and we will be giving a one time scholarship in his name. Merita is interested in contributing to that scholarship to make it the same amount as the ones that we give from the class.

Also discussed was the 40th class reunion for 2010. Names of classmates were divided to those who were present to check on address/e-mail addresses so that reunion information can be sent as soon as a date has been set. If any of you have a change in information, please contact Marty @ 573-718-0055.

The class of '69 will be having their 40th reunion on Friday, July 3 at the Piggott Diner. We are hoping that they will invite us to sell mugs. Even if they do not, some of us are planning to "crash" it by just showing up. We will tell them that they will be more than welcome to do the same to us next year. They will be gathering about 4pm.

Update on Judy Smart

4/13/09

Information from Linda Wells.

I just spoke with Judy. She sounds good except she does sound a little weak...I think that can be expected considering what she has been through. She told me that she was going home Wednesday (4/14/09). She is looking forward to that since she has been in the hospital for 2 months. She said the place in Poplar Bluff that she is in now has been a real blessing to her, that she could not do anything when she got there and now she is up walking, talking and a lot of things that she was not able to do before. I asked her about the places in her head and she said they went in and repaired the one that burst. The other one is so tiny that they would do more harm to her trying to fix it than if they left it alone. They told her there was only a 5% chance that it would burst. She is expected to make a full recovery and said the doctors and nurses were really impressed that she had made such improvements in such a short time, that most who had this happen to them either did not survive or it took them a much longer time to get better. She asked that we keep her on our prayer list.


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4/7/09

The trache has been removed from Judy's neck. She is able to walk around...she is walking to rehab and her memory is returning. She has a phone that we can call her and the number is 573-727-2322. This is a direct line to Judy's room.