MAN, WOMAN OF YEAR NOMINATIONS NEEDED The Monticello/Drew County Boll Weevils’ win streak Chamber of Commerce is seeking nominations for the 2016 Man and Woman of the Year. The winners will be announced at the annual Cham- comes to an end ber/Monticello Economic Develop- ment Commission banquet on Feb. 21. Nomination forms are available at the chamber offi ce, 335 East Gaines 1C Street, or by calling 870-367-6741. The submission deadline is Feb. 7. ADVANCE-MONTICELLONIAN 75¢ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2017 SERVING DREW COUNTY SINCE 1870 City council A WISH COME TRUE Vera Lloyd to benefi t has busy night from pool proper paperwork for the permit Full agenda highlights for the East water treatment plant ACF donates money is Jan. 31. The chemical testing Interim Mayor’s fi rst was conducted this week but the to assist nonprofi ts meeting with leaders process is lengthy and Rahman told the council he hoped the with ArkansasGives ADEQ will grant his extension BY ASHLEY FOREMAN request and a fi ne can be avoided. BY HAROLD COGGINS [email protected] Alderwoman Claudia Hartness [email protected] asked Rahman why he was un- In a regularly scheduled meet- aware of the deadline and he told Tuesday in Little Rock, Arkan- ing, the Monticello City Council her that the notices had come to sas Community Foundation an- was busy Tuesday night. the Mayor’s offi ce, not him. The nounced a $400,000 bonus pool to The council met to discuss offi ce did not forward the commu- help Arkansas nonprofi ts statewide street information with a repre- nication from ADEQ to him until raise $5 million through the third sentative from the city’s contract- December 2016. and fi nal ArkansasGives online ed engineering fi rm, the fi nancial MEDC Executive Director Nita giving event April 6. report with City Finance Direc- McDaniel gave her report to the One of the organizations ben- tor Vickie Norris, the Monticello council and said she is continuing Photos by Harold Coggins/Advance-Monticellonian efi ting from this effort will be Economic Development Commis- to work with potential businesses Vera Lloyd Presbyterian Family sion report, an ordinance to accept Services, Inc., which operates the on recruiting them to Monticello. WHAT A SURPRISE Daniel Harville (left), now 6, enjoys the Scogin Drive extension proj- Monticello City Inspector Bri- Annie B. Wells Children’s Home ect and allocate necessary funds his two-story playground from the Make A Wish Foun- an Rodgers spoke to the coun- dation. The surprise, in his grandmother’s back yard, in Monticello, located on Old War- to the project, and to condemn cil members about condemning was revealed Saturday morning. Harville, readers may ren Road. Vera Lloyd is licensed two properties. two properties, which later in the remember, was the Monticello youth who underwent to serve youth as young as 6, but The meeting opened with In- meeting, the council unanimously multiple organ transplants in 2011—before he turned 1. most youth on the Wells campus terim Mayor David Anderson approved. According to his grandmother, Anita Booth, Daniel was are 13 to 17 years of age. All youth welcoming the audience; the pas- Structures at 338 South Ed- born looking as normal as could be but when he was on campus are in state custody tor of the First United Methodist wards Street and at 842 North six days old, he was admitted to (Arkansas) Children’s and have been removed from their Church of Monticello gave the Rose Street were offi cially con- (Hospital). It was later discovered Harville had been homes due to abuse or neglect or invocation. Mizan Rahman of demned and property owners were born with Hirschsprung’s Disease, then around March are returning home after spending ETC Engineering gave a lengthy ordered to deal with the issues or or April of his fi rst year, he was discovered to have de- time in the juvenile justice system. presentation regarding the city’s the city would have to demolish veloped liver cancer. Harville was fl own to Omaha, Neb., “This will be our third year to be streets and water treatment plants. the structures and place a tax lean Leid Transplant Center, where he was put on top of the part of ArkansasGives, said Me- Rahman told the council mem- on the properties. transplant list. He received the new organs some 19 lissa Hendricks, VLPFS’s director days before his fi rst birthday—getting a small intestine, bers that he had fi led for an exten- In last month’s council meeting, of development. “We hope to raise sion with Arkansas Department of pancreas and liver. Half of his stomach was removed, as $20,000 toward summer activities the Boys and Girls Club made a well as his large intestine. If that weren’t enough, Harville Environmental Quality in hopes presentation to the members. The for youth in one day.” was born with only one kidney. After the transplants, he Details of this one-day fundrais- to not be penalized again for not club requested a $10,000 increase had to endure chemotherapy. After all the surgeries and getting permits together on time. in funding this year from $40,000 chemo, it was discovered Harville suff ers with a terrible er will be forthcoming. Last year, the city of Monticello to $50,000. The council approved pain syndrome—Glossopharyengial neuralgia, very rare Dozens of nonprofi ts attended a had to pay a $12,000 fi ne for not a resolution to increase the club’s in a child as young as Harville. Harville spends most of rally at the Hilary Rodham Clinton renewing a permit for the West funding by $5,000 to $45,000 and his time at doctor’s appointments or in the hospital in Children’s Library. Already more water plant by the deadline. the contract was renewed. Omaha—three to six months at a time. Saturday was than 350 nonprofi ts have been con- Rahman told the council he was A resolution was passed to ap- special in that he got to act like a normal little boy, play- fi rmed as participants for 2017. The unaware of the deadline until last COUNCIL ing with friends and in front of family, thasnks to the deadline for nonprofi ts statewide to month. The deadline to submit the See Page 6A Make A Wish Foundation. sign up as participants is Tuesday, Feb. 14. Eligibility information and directions for nonprofi t participa- tion are available at www.arkan- UAM to host sasgives.org. “In 2016, 600 nonprofi ts re- future students Construction changes coming at DMH ceived more than $4.2 million dol- lars through ArkansasGives. In two time,” said Scott Barrilleaux, the seamlessly.” available Monday through Friday Special to the Advance Special to the Advance years, more than $6 million has hospital’s CEO. The change to foot traffi c will be from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., the same been raised,” said Heather Larkin, High school students and Beginning next Wednesday, vis- The surgery center expansion noted with signage directing visi- hours the main information desk is President and CEO of the Arkansas their parents will have a itors to Drew Memorial Hospital project, funded in part by bonds tors to use the Allied Health Build- operational for patient registration. Community Foundation. “On April chance to visit the Universi- will notice the main entrance will approved by Drew County voters ing entrance, located north of the Moore explained the attendants 6 only, the bonus pool from the ty of Arkansas at Monticello be closed for construction. At that in December 2015, includes an main entrance. The Allied Health can transport patients and visitors Foundation will provide matching and learn more about college time, hospital administration re- expanded and renovated main en- Building was constructed in 2012 with mobility restrictions to more funds as a percentage of the money life during Weevil Welcome quests that all patients and visitors trance area, which will replace the and houses the sleep center, can- convenient entrances if necessary. raised online by each nonprofi t.” Days on Thursday, Feb. 9 and use the Allied Health Building En- current entry, that dates from 1975. cer center, rehabilitation services, For example, there may be family In addition to matching bonus Friday, March 31, according trance for all non-emergent entry. “It will be an inconvenience, Drew Surgical Specialists, Transi- members visiting a patient on the pool funds, nonprofi ts will compete to Tawana Greene, executive The Emergency Room entrance at but we know it will be worthwhile tions and the conference center. medical/surgical (inpatient) fl oor. for $60,000 in prizes from First Se- director of admissions and en- the back of the hospital will remain in the long run,” Barrilleaux ex- “During regular business hours, The golf cart driver may take them curity Bank for nonprofi ts in small, rollment management. open for emergency room visits. plained. “The existing facility will we plan to have attendants on to an emergency exit normally in- medium and large categories earn- The event is sponsored by “It’s necessary to close the main become much more open and wel- golf carts stationed at the Allied accessible to outside traffi c in order ing the most dollars and having the Offi ce of Admissions and entrance to our facility for several coming to patients and visitors, and Health Building entrance,” said to get them closer to their patient’s the highest number of individual WELCOME months, possibly for the majori- the new entrance will connect the Ben Moore, DMH’s director of DMH GIVING See Page 6A ty of the remaining construction original hospital to the addition engineering.