The I Saw It In ... Nashville NEWS April 21, 2011 USPS 371-540 • 75 cents • www.nashvillenews.org Thursday Issue 32 2 Sections • 16 Pages • In Howard County, Arkansas since 1878 School hires EXECUTION construction OF EXCELLENCE manager Charles Goodin | Managing Editor NASHVILLE - The school board voted Monday to hire a Fayetteville-based con- struction company to serve as construc- tion manager for an upcoming round of proposed improvements. CR Crawford Construction was one of 15 outfi ts that turned in statements of qualifi cation last month in a bid to oversee an $11 million project that could see the addition of a new gym and classrooms alongside renovations of various student commons areas and cafeterias at Nashville schools. “It was just a matter of picking out fi ve to interview, and we did that on April 7,” School Superintendent Doug Graham said, adding that CR Crawford had “won the hearts and minds” of those present Junior Scrapperettes three-for-three in district meets See SCHOOL on Page 6 Dewayne Holloway | Sports Editor records in the triple jump and 200m Safely dispose of he Nashville Jr. Scrappers and Scrapperettes proved dash while earning additional wins in that execution of excellence is more than a catch- the 100m dash and long jump. She also prescription drugs, phrase Monday by claiming their third consecutive fi nished second in the high jump and T 400m dash. controlled substances 7-4A District Meet titles. Kyler Lawrence tied with Devaughn The Nashville teams took advantage at least three in ten, including fi ve in Sanders of Ashdown for high point in April 30 of the short four team fi eld by utilizing the shot put. the boys division, with a total of 40 Terrica Hendrix | Editor their deep rosters. The Jr. Scrappers Kassidy Snowden won her final points. NASHVILLE – All local law enforce- placed at least three athletes in nine high point honors as a Jr. Scrapperette Lawrence was tops in the pole vault ment agencies in the county will again events and the Jr. Scrapperettes placed with 56 points. Snowden set district See EXCELLENCE on Page 6 participate in the Prescription Drug Take Back Initiative on April 30. The Howard County Sheriff’s Offi ce will have two sites this year for you to drop off unwanted medica- Hospital on solid financial footing, JPs told tions, Sheriff Butch Morris Charles Goodin | Managing Editor Also during the address, Wright re- contracted to a third company and don’t said. For one day NASHVILLE - Howard Memorial ported that HMH had elected to pay a operate on the hospital’s offi cial budget. only, potentially Hospital operated at a profi t for the fi fth$13,000 bill that was originally received In other business, JPs: dangerous con- straight month in March and is $155,000 by the sheriff’s department last month. • re-appointed Paul Britt and Mark trolled substances ahead of its projected budget, Hospital She said the collection company respon- Kitchens to the hospital board and ap- and over-the-counter CEO Debra Wright and CFO Bill Craig sible for the bill had been directed to pointed newcomer Margi Green to fi ll a medicines may be dis- told Howard County JPs Monday. collect from individual prisoners rather vacant seat; posed of without question. The facility has an average daily than the jail. • voted to appropriate $750 for new “One site will be at the Howard County census of 10 people and handled 877 Wright told JPs that the hospital can’t blinds in the revenue department offi ce; Sheriff’s Offi ce located at 101 Isaac Per- emergency room visits in the last month, write off prisoner treatment as charity • was informed that last year’s audit kins Blvd. in Nashville and the other site hospital offi cials said. care because emergency room visits are See JPS on Page 6 See DISPOSE on Page 6 Woman admits ‘WARE’ING BLACK AND GOLD to helping jailed boyfriend escape Terrica Hendrix | Editor NASHVILLE – A 22-year-old Mineral Springs woman admitted Wednesday that she helped or- chestrate and carry out a plan that would allow her boyfriend to escape from jail. Destinee Lynn Capman entered a guilty plea to hindering apprehension of prosecution yesterday. On April 13, Demario Scoggins “was on work de- tail at the Howard County Fair Grounds along with two other inmates. The person supervising the workers Destinee Capman called and stated that Dema- rio went to use the restroom and they could not Mineral Springs Senior Jason Ware signs a letter of intent Wednesday to play football at the University of Arkansas locate him. Deputies checked the fair grounds and Pine Bluff as Constance Ware, Coach Vince Perrin, UAPB Recruiter Jason Bradley and Raymond Ware look on. See ESCAPE on Page 6 Photo by Dewayne Holloway Page 2 • Thursday, April 21, 2011 • NASHVILLE NEWS Opinions Legislative update: Protecting Medicare from privatization mike problem. own health care. insurance. That’s exactly keeps half of all seniors out In fact, the nonpartisan In fact, the CBO pre- why Medicare was cre- of poverty. ross Congressional Budget Of- dicts that under the current ated – to ensure America’s Now that the Repub- fi ce reports that the Ryan Medicare system, a typi- seniors got the health care licans are coming after Congressman Plan would actually add $5 cal 65-year-old Medicare they needed to live long, Medicare, I will fi ght their trillion to the defi cit over benefi ciary in 2022 would healthy lives. efforts once again. the next decade. only pay $6,150 a year in The American Associ- I want to trim our defi - Making matters worse, out-of-pocket health care ated of Retired Persons cits and return to the days Last week, after months fi scal year, which begins Ryan’s plan also privatizes spending. Under the Ryan (AARP) said the Ryan of balanced budgets more of continuing resolutions on October 1, 2011 (fis- Medicare by dismantling Plan, a benefi ciary’s share Plan’s changes to Medicare than anyone else, but not and fi erce budget debates, cal years for the federal the program for future ben- in 2022 would more than “would simply shift these on the backs of our seniors Congress fi nally approved government run October eficiaries and then using double to $12,510 per year. costs onto the backs of who did nothing to get us a budget for the remainder 1 – September 30). the funds for vouchers to Privatizing Medicare is people in Medicare. into this mess in the fi rst of the 2011 fiscal year, Last week, the House purchase private health dangerous and it does noth- It would undermine place. which ends September passed a budget for the insurance. ing to reduce costs – it sim- Medicare’s promise of se- The federal budget is 30th. 2012 fi scal year authored There are two major ply shifts the cost from the cure health coverage—a about more than just dollars This truly bipartisan by the Republican Chair- flaws in Ryan’s plan to federal government onto guarantee that future se- and cents. compromise budget, which man of the House Budget privatize Medicare. the backs of our seniors. niors have contributed to It is a statement of our I supported and voted for, Committee, Rep. Paul Ryan The first is that ben- Secondly, the Ryan plan through a lifetime of hard values and priorities. was negotiated between of Wisconsin, H. Con. Res. efi ciaries’ vouchers would assumes seniors would be work.” My priority is and has Republican House Speaker 34. The budget is also be tied to infl ation while able to get private health When the Republicans always been protecting Ar- John Boehner, Democratic known as the “Ryan Plan.” health care costs continue insurance with their vouch- tried to partially priva- kansas’s seniors and that’s Senate Majority Leader I voted against the Ryan to skyrocket at twice the ers. tize Social Security under what I’ll continue to do as Harry Reid and the Presi- Plan because although it rate of inflation. So, as As any senior knows, the President Bush, I fought Congressman for Arkan- dent. does cut federal spending, health care costs rise, se- older you get, the more dif- them every step of the way sas’s Fourth Congressional Congress must now turn it ignores our nation’s fun- niors would be forced to fi cult it is to fi nd affordable because Social Security is District. its attention to the 2012 damental defi cit spending pay more and more for their and adequate private health a valuable program that have otherwise become an their careers. ally everyone now looks lie Kocsis, will the world epidemic of disaster. As a parent, it’s hard to to the government to in- become a government- The government’s Just what kind of danger fault the deceased boy’s sulate them from the dirty, approved children’s activ- are we dealing with? Why, father for demanding that dangerous world where ity area (formerly play- since 1979, about one child some sort of action be taken unpredictable disaster lurks ground), with the caring goals and ours a year has died from falling over the accident that took at every turn. hand of a state representa- soccer goals - worldwide. his son’s life, as such an Still, one has to wonder tive (formerly life) pushing But as usual, the math event would undoubtedly how deep the rabbit hole our FDA-approved sus- doesn’t matter to busy- induce a level of sorrow goes.