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Hispanic Celebration set for this weekend

Submitted by Patricia D. Davis, Community Web Producer
Friday, May 17th, 2013, 11:06am
Hispanic Celebration set for this weekend

 

The 11th Annual Hispanic Celebration will be held tomorrow, May 18, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Arkansas State University Intramural Fields.

Admission is free.

There will be live entertainment throughout the day, as well as traditional ethnic foods and festival favorites.

There will also be plenty of activities for the kids to enjoy; including face painting, bouncy houses and petty zoo.  Entrance to the children’s activities is $3.

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Region 8 Road Trip: Loose Caboose in Paragould

Submitted by Patricia D. Davis, Community Web Producer
Friday, May 17th, 2013, 10:21am
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Traffic Alert: Kitchen Street closed

Submitted by Patricia D. Davis, Community Web Producer
Friday, May 17th, 2013, 9:29am
Traffic Alert: Kitchen Street closed

According to Jeff Presley, E911 Director for the City of Jonesboro:

Kitchen Street, between Matthews and Nettleton, will be closed to all traffic Friday, May 17, for road repaving.

Please, use an alternate route.

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Community coming together to help build a veterans monument

Submitted by KAIT8 Web Staff on Thursday, May 16th, 10:22 pm

CARAWAY, AR (KAIT) – A group of Caraway residents has started a campaign to raise funds to build a veterans monument.

Shirley Redding says the committee has raised about $1,400 of the estimated $16,000 needed to build the monument in the Caraway Cemetery.

The committee has collected about 800 names that will be memorialized. One of them, Wendell Glen Vaughn, was Shirley's friend who shared the same birthday.

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5 generations of women

Submitted by Patricia D. Davis, Community Web Producer
Thursday, May 16th, 2013, 12:12pm
5 generations of women

 

On Friday, May 10, April Lowery’s family got together to celebrate her son’s 16th birthday.

But the girls were also the stars.

She snapped this photo of the family’s five generations of women, which includes:  Great-great grandmother Nettie Jarrett of Blytheville, great grandmother Sandra Jarrett of Jonesboro, grandmother April Goza of Jonesboro, and Nicole Goza of Harrisburg, mother of the 5th generation, Letha Renia Greer.

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Yard sales this week

Submitted by Patricia D. Davis, Community Web Producer
Thursday, May 16th, 2013, 11:59am
Yard sales this week

Saturday, May 18, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.

1205 Belwood Court in Jonesboro

Baby items, toys, baby girl clothes, boys' clothes and shoes, women and men's clothes, home decor, furniture, etc.

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Saturday, May 18, 7 a.m. to noon

Jonesboro Worship Center

1507 E. Matthews

All sorts of clothes, furniture, kitchenware, home decor, etc.

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Saturday, May 18, 7 a.m. to ??

214 N. Main St. in Bono

Clothes, furniture and appliances.

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Soldier meets baby girl for the first time

Submitted by KAIT8 Web Staff on Thursday, May 16th, 10:48 am
Meet 6-month-old Allie

JONESBORO, AR (KAIT) - Nearly 100 soldiers have returned home from Afghanistan today.

For Specialist Josh Smothers coming home is special because he finally gets to see his baby girl for the first time.

"He's just going to be happy, he's waited so long and you can just tell he's so excited to see her," said Wife Mallory Smothers.

The moment Smother's six-month-old baby girl gets to meet her dad for the first time is almost too much to handle.

"They keep teasing us," said Smothers. "They keep closing the door!"

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