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THE NASHVILLE HH HH Preserving SouthwestNews-LEADER Arkansas’s Heritage While Leading Through the 21st Century Wednesday, May 6, 2020 u Vol. 17, Issue 45 u 14 pages, 2 section u 75¢ Leader Food distribution effort set Board May 8 at Nashville City Park; www.swarkansasnews.com volunteers sought to assist By Louie Graves CADC district supervisor for six OPINION 4A News-Leader staff counties including Howard. There will only be 300 -- no more On Friday morning, recipients Some pictures -- of the Emergency Food Boxes to should drive their vehicles into of chamber be given away free Friday, May 8, the park. At Station #1 just inside in a food distribution project here the park entrance they will get a leaders absent by the Central Arkansas Develop- ballpoint pen and short question- from office wall. ment Council. naire from volunteers. After driv- The recipients will not need to ing deeper into the park, at Station leave vehicles -- volunteers will #2 they will turn in the form to load sacks containing 50 pounds of more volunteers; they get to keep Kindergarten refrigerated and processed meats, the pen. registration vegetables, toilet tissue and other After driving further, at Station household items. #3, more volunteers will load the underway Plenty of volunteers will be sacks of food and items. Then the needed on Thursday to pack the recipient vehicle may exit the park. at primary sacks, and on Friday to guide ve- Planning for the event Kindergarten regis- hicles down the line in the Nash- The CADC representatives tration for the 2020-21 ville City Park where -- at Station met with local organizers in the academic year is under- #3 -- they will receive the sacks Nashville Chamber of Commerce, way at Nashville Primary from volunteers. Friday morning. Present were School. The giveaway will be from 10-2 chamber executive director Mike Parents of children at the park. Reese, Mark Dale, Becky Floyd, who will be five years old One person in the vehicle will Tem Gunter from Tyson Foods, and before Aug. 1 have sev- need to produce a driver’s license chamber board president Loren eral registration options. showing an address of Nashville, Hinton. They may register News-Leader photo/JOHN BALCH Mineral Springs, Dierks or Umpire. The physically hardest labor online at nps.nashvillesd. GRANT FOR SCRAPPER LUNCH EXPRESS. The Nashville School The food is for residents of Howard will be on Thursday, when the food com or print a hard copy District has received a $9,000 grant for the Scrapper Lunch Express, County, but organizers know that is taken from trucks at the Carter of the registration form which provides meals to children while schools are closed. many nearby residents may actu- Day Training Center; divided into from the website. Parents ally reside barely out of the county. the bags; and moved to the distri- may also call the school Future food giveways are planned bution site in the park. The center at 870-845-3510 and ask School receives grant in other area counties. was chosen because it offers more for a copy of the form to Also, there are income guide- space for assembling the sacks. be mailed to them. lines, although Amy McClane and While there will be enough food Those who have com- for program to provide Victoria Bradley who represented for 300 recipients, the distribution pleted the registration CADC at the Friday morning meet- will last from 10 a.m. until the food forms may return them ing, said that the pick-up event is is gone, McClane said. to the school Monday meals during pandemic “self-reporting,” and that there are Volunteers will be fed lunch through Thursday from 8 LITTLE ROCK - The Nashville “We congratulate Superinten- no questions asked about residence a.m. until 3 p.m. School District has received a No dent Doug Graham and nutrition or income status. Bradley is the See Boxes • Page 5A Kid Hungry Emergency Response director Julie Smith for the front- Grant, according to the Arkansas line work they are doing to ensure Tentative Hunger Relief Alliance. their students receive nutritious The $9,000 grant is one of the meals during the midst of this cri- Tyson Foods increases help graduation first awarded in Arkansas. It was sis,” Barker said. date set for presented through No Kid Hiun- Sen. Larry Teague of Nashville is for workers as virus continues gry’s national partner Share Our an honorary member of the Arkan- As part of ongoing efforts to cannot come to work due to ill- Nashville High Strength, “with whom we are sas Hunger Relief Alliance Board of support frontline workers during ness or childcare will continue to The Nashville School working to direct much-needed Directors. He has worked with the the COVID-19 pandemic, Tyson qualify, but bonus eligibility will District has set Friday, funds to school districts and com- alliance on a number of projects, Foods, Inc. is doubling bonuses, depend on attendance. July 17, as the tenta- munity organizations to provide including food distribution. increasing short-term disability Tyson Foods is also increasing tive date for a traditional meals to children while schools are “I am very appreciative of the coverage and is also implement- short-term disability coverage to graduation ceremony closed due to the COVID-19 pan- Nashville School District, Mr. Gra- ing additional health screening 90% of normal pay until June 30, for the class of 2020, demic,” according to Patty Barker, ham and all the school personnel,” measures. 2020, for team members who are according to Superinten- director of the No Kid Hungry Teague said Monday. “I appreciate The company is offering $120 unable to work due to illness. It is dent Doug Graham. campaign. that they care about their charges’ million in “thank you bonuses” for another way of encouraging team If the date receives The grant will be used to sup- education and they care about 116,000 U.S. frontline workers and members to stay home when they state approval, gradua- port transportation costs and the their well being. I expect it is hard truckers, up from the $60 million are sick. tion will be held at 8 p.m. equipment and supplies needed to study and learn if you are hun- announced in early April. In addition, the company, which in Scrapper Arena. for the Scrapper Lunch Express gry. They understand that and are The company is moving up the has been checking worker tem- The date depends on to deliver meals to students at a committed to doing what they can. first $500 bonus payment to early peratures, will now also take the approval from Gov. Asa variety of sites over the past several I am also a big fan of the Arkansas May. following measures: Hutchinson, the Arkansas weeks, and now to offer a five-day Hunger Alliance and all that they The second $500 bonus will be See Tyson • Page 5A Department of Education box of food for pick up. do to help feed Arkansas.” paid in July. Team members who and the Arkansas Depart- ment of Health. Hutchinson and edu- cation director Johnny Uncertainty continues Key said schools will submit graduation plans to the state for approval, about start of football based on guidelines from the state health depart- ment and the Centers in wake of coronavirus for Disease Control and By John R. Schirmer play it by ear until the time when Prevention. News-Leader staff the state says we can see the guys Seating at graduation 114 days. again,” Volarvich said. could be available only That’s the countdown to the In a normal spring, the Scrap- to “a limited number of Nashville Scrappers’ season open- pers would be in off-season. Spring guests,” Graham said, er Aug. 28 at home against Pleasant football would be next, followed by or it could be open. “We Grove, Texas. Whether or not the a scrimmage on or around the last should know by June first game will actually be played day of school. Summer condition- 30 when the governor on that date is anybody’s guess. ing and team camps would take up makes an announcement With Arkansas schools closed June and July. on public gatherings for to on-site instruction through the Instead, Volarvich spent part of July.” remainder of the academic year be- Friday morning assigning jersey Principal Tate Gordon cause of the coronavirus pandemic, numbers to some of the players. said valedictorian, salu- athletic events are also cancelled. “Obviously, this is a little differ- tatorian, honor graduates The Arkansas Activities Asso- ent situation. We can’t treat June and scholarshhip recipi- ciation imposed a dead period on like June in the past. You had a ents will be announced athletic competition and practice level you built to with condition- Wednesday, May 13, in through at least May 30. A decision ing and the weight room [in off- the News-Leader. on summer practice, fall camp and season]. You worked on certain He said graduation the beginning of the season could parts of football in spring ball [in practice will be held in come then. May]. In June, you’d continue,” the arena at 10 a.m. Gov. Asa Hutchinson an- according to Volarvich. Wednesday, July 15. nounced last Friday that gyms With no school and no daily ath- and other fitness locations could letic period, Volarvich isn’t certain Inside the News-Leader open this week, but that does not about the shape his players will be Obituaries, 2A include school athletic facilities, in when they are allowed to return.