VOICES of NASHVILLE on the Board

I Saw It In ... Nashville N The News N THURSDAY • JUNE 21, 2012 • Issue 50 • 2 Sections • 12 Pages • In Howard County, Arkansas since 1878 • USPS 371-540 • 75 cents INSIDEt NRWA president resigns n PAGE 2B: PUBLIC WORKS Dierks blood drive a success TERRICA HENDRIX Editor IN BRIEF t NASHVILLE - The resignation of rural water board Burn ban president, Jerry Christie, lifted - for was accepted and a new president was appointed now Monday evening. The burn Christie’s resignation ban for How- was unanimously accepted ard County has by the Nashville Rural Wa- been temporar- ily lifted follow- ter Association board during recent rains. DEWAYNE HOLLOWAY | Nashville News ing a special called meeting B99.5 radio personality Scott Dunson conducts a broadcast at the radio station. Monday. Christie, who was Old-fashioned not present, addressed the camp meeting board in a short resignation letter stating that he had scheduled other obligations and did There will be not have the time to serve old-fashioned VOICES OF NASHVILLE on the board. camp meeting at Open Door Christie has served on Baptist Church Local radio station has been serving the area for 53 years the board since 2009 and located just off has been president for two Highway 278 n years. on Antioch Rd. DEWAYNE HOLLOWAY Sports Editor See NRWA / Page 5 June 24-27. he silence which blanketed Sunday ser- southwest Arkansas was bro- vices will start at 6 p.m. with Tken in 1959 when KBHC took the weekday to the airwaves and they, along with services start- INSIDE ing at 9 a.m. and KNAS and KMTB, have been keeping 6:30 p.m. Nashville and surrounding communi- There will be n PAGE 6 several minis- ties informed ever since. ters from Texas, Station manager Brent Pinkerton shared Arkansas, that the first AM station in Nashville, KBHC Western Auto Oklahoma, Mis- 1260, went on the air in May of 1959 and celebrates sissippi, Louisi- KNAS 105.5, the first FM station, joined ana, Alabama, them on February 14 1977. and Kentucky 50 years of participating. The third station, KMTB 99.5 FM, which was originally located in Murfreesboro, was DEWAYNE HOLLOWAY | Nashville News Main Street B99.5 news director Jonathan Canaday records a purchased by Pete and Ann Gathright, the broadcast of local briefs for the radio’s afternoon service Market to See VOICES / Page 3 feature corn news segment. meal demo The Farmers’ Market will be featuring Stone School board Ground Corn- Could you meal Fri., June votes to relax 22 at 9 a.m. Bobby Tay- lor will be on be at risk cell phone hand to explain the difference policies between stone for a stroke? ground and steel ground NASHVILLE cornmeal. YOUR HEALTH For your tast- ing pleasure, CHARLES GOODIN CHARLES GOODIN the market will Managing Editor Managing Editor also be serving pinto beans and a variety of dward Sharp likes to play NASHVILLE - The school cornbread reci- golf. Nearly every morning, board approved a host pes made from the Nashville poultry farm- of policy and handbook stone ground E er and retired Air Force veteran changes that indicate a cornmeal. Come on by can be found enjoying the greens more relaxed approach to and get a bowl at the Nashville Country Club. mobile technology during of pinto beans, But if it weren’t for what his Monday’s regular session. cornbread and doctor called “divine interven- Under the new guide- sliced onions – tion,” Sharp’s daily tee times lines, junior high and high a meal in itself. Recipes will may have been put permanently school students will be per- be available on hold. mitted to use cell phones for cornbread The threat? Arteries so con- and tablets in class if use made from gested, Sharp was less than of the device is included stone ground two months away from having in the student’s individual cornmeal. Try a sample of a stroke. education program. different home “I was in pretty bad shape at The change represents made corn- the time and didn’t even know the continued evolution bread recipes it,” he explained Wednesday of the school’s outlook on which will be during a brief interview. technology that began last presented by Jackie Taylor, But that was before Sharp at- year when officials loos- Glenda Rice, tended a stroke clinic hosted by ened restrictions, allow- Tom Ellis, Debra the Iowa-based mobile vascular ing students to use smart- Bolding, Gerald screening company Stroke De- phones and other devices Nutt and Rita tection Plus, where clinicians in class when permitted by Rector. A recipe used a special type of scan to teachers. booklet will also determine that veins traveling At the time, use of any be available to the Center Point native’s heart device was prohibited be- featuring many and brain were as much as 95 tween the first and last bell stone ground percent blocked. of the day outside of those cornmeal recipes. See STROKE / Page 5 Graph courtesy Stroke Detection Plus See SCHOOL / Page 5 Page 2 THURSDAY June 21, 2012 Opinions The Nashville News | Online at http://www.nashvillenews.org | Call: 1-888-845-6397 Should You Take a Pension Buyout? is $30,748, according to TrueCar.com. If your Josh pension checks aren’t Tice indexed for inflation, Edward they will lose purchas- Jones ing power over time. If you rolled over your Have you recently re- lump sum into an IRA, ceived a pension buyout however, you could put offer? If so, you need to the money into invest- decide if you should take ments offering growth po- the buyout, which could tential, keeping in mind, provide you with a poten- of course, that there are tially large lump sum, or no guarantees. continue accepting your Cash low — If you’re regular pension payments already receiving a for the rest of your life. monthly pension, and It’s a big decision. you’re spending every Clearly, there’s no “one dollar you receive just to size fits all” answer — meet your living expens- your choice needs to be es, you may be better off based on your individual by keeping your pension circumstances. So, as you payments intact. If you weigh your options, you’ll took the lump sum and need to consider a variety converted it into an IRA, of key issues, including you can withdraw what- the following: ever amount you want Estate considerations (as long as you meet the — Your pension payments required minimum distri- generally end when you butions), but you’ll have and/or your spouse dies, to avoid withdrawing so which means your chil- much that you’ll eventu- dren will get none of the ally run out of money. money. But if you were Confidence in fu- to roll the lump sum into ture pension payments an Individual Retirement — From time to time, Account (IRA), and you companies are forced to don’t exhaust it in your reduce their pension obli- lifetime, you could still gations due to unforeseen have something to leave circumstances. You may The immigration ploy to your family members. want to take this into Taxes — If you take account as you decide President Obama’s latest invest time and money in come across the Mexican the lump sum and roll whether to continue tak- political ploy — granting training them, if you may be border does not mean that the funds into your IRA, Thomas ing your monthly pension new “rights” out of thin air, they are all Mexicans. They you control how much forced to ire them before a Sowell payments, but it’s an is- by Executive Order, to illegal year has passed? can just as easily be terrorists you’ll be taxed and when, sue over which you have immigrants who claim that Kicking the can down the Creators from the Middle East. based on the amounts you no control. On the other they were brought into the road is one of the favorite Syndicate Only after the border is choose to withdraw and hand, once your lump sum the date you begin tak- is in an IRA, you have country when they were chil- exercises in Washington. controlled can any immigra- ing withdrawals. (Keep control over both the qual- dren — is all too typical of But neither in the economy When the new, and per- tion policy matter be seri- in mind, though, that you ity and diversiication of his short-run approach to the nor in their personal lives haps short-lived, immigration ously considered, and options must start taking a desig- your investment dollars. country’s long-run problems. can people make plans and policy is looked at in terms of weighed through the normal nated minimum amount However, the trade-off is Whatever the merits or de- commitments on the basis of how it can be administered, it Constitutional process of of withdrawals from a that investing is subject merits of the Obama immigra- government policies that sud- makes even less sense. Congressional hearings, de- traditional IRA when you to various risks, including tion policy, his Executive Or- denly appear and suddenly While this policy is ratio- bate and legislation, rather reach age 70½. Withdraw- loss of principal. der is good only as long as he disappear. nalized in terms of children, than by Presidential short- als taken before age 59½ Before selecting ei- remains president, which may Like so many other Obama those who invoke it are likely cuts. are subject to taxes and ther the lump sum or the be only a matter of months ploys, his immigration ploy is to do so as adults.

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