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By Takota Thomas and Kelli Collins,DHS East Students

During the week of February 10-14, the DHS StudentCouncil will be hosting the Dardanelle Backpack Drive.This Drive allows dry foods, canned goods, snack packs,and easy-to-make items to reach underprivileged Dardanellestudents by volunteer contribution.

Throughout the week, students and their parents maybring these goods to the front office; on Thursday, February13, parents are encouraged to bring these items with themto their children’s CAPS conferences, where Student Coun-cil members will be stationed to collect the deliveries. Tubswill also be sitting the front lobby of the high school inwhich to put the foods. Any help is greatly appreciated.

BACKPACK DRIVE AT DARDANELLE HIGH SCHOOL

The Arkansas Tech SmallBusiness and Technology Devel-opment Center will present afree business seminar, “In-formed Businesses: Navigatingthe Affordable Care Act” onThursday, February 20th from3:00 to 5:00 PM at the Dard-anelle Community Center.Small businesses have newhealth insurance options and re-quirements. Get an overview ofkey small business provisions inthe Patient Protection and Af-fordable Care Act and the newArkansas Health Insurance Mar-ketplace.

Learn about new tax, IRS re-porting, and employee notifica-tion requirements for businesses;available tax credits, potential re-bates, and premium reductionprograms; and penalties for non-compliance. Small businessowners can’t afford not to knowabout this complex topic!

This event is free thanks tospecial funding throughArkansas Health Connector.Seating is limited and registra-tion is required to attendat 479-356-2067 or http://as-btdc.org/training/russellville-events.

Arkansas Tech PresentsBusiness Seminar

Dardanelle Middle SchoolSemester Honor Roll

7th GradeGold (4.0 GPA)Kylie Ashcraft, Jazmin David-son, Sarah Hooten, WilliamLinton, Hannah Merritt, KaylaMiller, Brayden Myers, LaiyaNanthalansy, Brayson Stan-dridgeSilver (3.5-3.99)Johanna Abarca, Elsy Avila,Dicen Bagsby, Kathy Beltran,Sierra Chancellor, Megan Dav-enport, Brock Finkenbinder,Zoe Keen, Shelby Kelly, KatieKist, Brooke Kuras, TaylorLawrence, Raul Lemus-Her-nandez, Mamie Phillips, JacobPrince, Katelyn Rager, JessicaRodriguez, Addyson Seay,Karsen Spears, Tyler Turnbow,Marlon Ulloa, Luke Weber,Ayiana Wester, Red (3.0-3.499)Travis Abbott, Elisa Alonso,Andrea Arias, Brisa Arias,Karly-Beth Backer, MadisonBerry, Koral Blalack, MadisonBranson, Darby Brown, Jen-nifer Carranza-Morales, KayliChronister, Nyah Crowell,Adriana Cruz, Paulina Flores,Jacqueline Gutierrez Flores,Eddie Guyton, Tre Harper,Bryce Jones, Dustin Jones,Sydney Jones, Britney Kirk,Scottie Lawrence, JonathanLopez, Samantha McCune,Kaylin Palmer, Adrian Perez,Mario Mendez, Scott Renard,Pasli Robinson, Andrew Robin-son, Alexia Rose, WhitneySherrill, Cheyenne Standridge,Caynan Taylor, Emily Ultreras,Josh VanOhlen, Sean Weaver,Allie Weber

Dardanelle Middle SchoolPerfect Attendance

Fall Semester7th GradeBrisa Arias, Elsy Avila, PabloCarreon, Taylor Herrera, ZoeKeen, Brooke Kuras, PhillipO’Bryant, Katelyn Rager8th GradeLeah Bartlett, Chris Caballero,Elyas Carter, JohamDominguez-Hoyos, Billy Eng-lish, Cortney Gadberry, DestinyLewallen, Jukari Najera, AustinNash, Leidy Navarrete, JosePerez, David Rodriguez, Jose

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Semester Honor Roll8th Grade

Gold (4.00)Chris Caballero, McKennaDennis, Ceceilia Gooch, Brit-tney Keys, Raven Lee,Mayenssi Montiel, LeidyNavarrete, Daisy Parker, CarleePartin, Melani Rodriguez,Janna Rhinehart, Tate VestalSilver (3.5-3.99)Anglique Antrim, Aakira Ard,Leah Bartlett, Juliana Campos,Elyas Carter, Clifford Cooley,Rachelle Darby, Billy English,Karina Flores, Cortney Gad-berry, Jordan Godwin, ReynaGomez, William Green, RosaGutierrez, Erin Hatcher,Bradey Johnson, Dalton Knee-land, Temo Martinez, StephanieMartinez Sanchez, JenniferMcDonough, Austin McHaffie-Sharp, Jayci Metcalf,Austin Nash, Chris Perez, JosePerez, Courtney Resinger, PeterRuiz, Hanna Sanderson,Kaleigh Sinclair, Antonio Spag-nola, Zoe Stokes, Jared Sykes,Elvis Tapia, Eric Tapia, AdiVinalay, Grey Waniewski,Jacob Ward, Hallie Wear,Zariya WilliamsRed (3.0-3.499)Cody Ackley, Hannah Ander-son, Megan Baker, J. D. Bean,Christeen Busch, Erika Cham-pion, Carter Chandler,Maryanna Cortez, Aleehya Cul-lum, Alejandro Delgado, ChaseHickey, Maddie Higginbotham,Kendra Jerome, MersadiJerome, Michelle May, WilliamMcCune, Jukari Najera, NancyNavarrete, Calee Parsons,Stacey Patricio, Ivy Pierce,Destiny Robinson, David Ro-driguez, Calvin Sawyer, Clay-ton Sparks, Sydnie Summers,Sean Via, Jordan Walls, TiffanyWilliams

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1st place winner Ethan Ellis of Danville receiving a trophyand 100 dollars, 2nd place winner William Green of Dard-anelle receiving 75 dollars, 3rd place winner Tre Harper ofDardanelle receiving 50 dollars.

Spelling Bee Winners

by the environmental groupEarthJustice.

Did EPA require a motiva-tional incentive to tighten its re-strictions? Sure, about as muchas Br’er Rabbit needed to per-suade Br’er Fox to throw himinto the briar patch. This is butanother example of EPA andother government agenciesworking with activist environ-mental groups to sue and settleon claims that afford leverage toenact new regulations whichthey lack statutory authority tootherwise accomplish.

“Sue and Settle “ practices,sometimes referred to as“friendly lawsuits,” are cozydeals through which far-left rad-ical environmental groups filelawsuits against federal agencieswherein court-ordered “consentdecrees” are issued based upon aprearranged settlement agree-ment they collaboratively crafttogether in advance behindclosed doors. Then, rather thanallowing the entire process toplay out, the agency being suedsettles the lawsuit by agreeing tomove forward with the requestedaction both they and the litigantswant. In a letter to Caldwell,Senator Vitter wrote: “The collu-sion between federal bureaucratsand the organizations enteringconsent agreements under ashroud of secrecy represents theantithesis of a transparent gov-ernment, and your participationin the FOIA request will helpLouisianans understand theprocess by which these settle-ments were reached.”

It seems that even wood isn’tgreen or renewable enoughanymore. The EPA has recentlybanned the production and saleof 80 percent of America’s cur-rent wood-burning stoves, theoldest heating method knownto mankind and mainstay ofrural homes and many of ournation’s poorest residents. Theagency’s stringent one-size-fits-all rules apply equally toheavily air-polluted cities andfar cleaner plus typicallycolder off-grid wildernessareas such as large regions ofAlaska and the American West.

While the EPA’s most recentregulations aren’t altogethernew, their impacts willnonetheless be severe.Whereas restrictions had previ-ously banned wood-burningstoves that didn’t limit fine air-borne particulate emissions to15 micrograms per cubic meter(?g/m3) of air, the change willimpose a maximum 12 ?g/m3limit. To put this amount incontext, the EPA estimates thatsecondhand tobacco smoke ina closed car can expose a per-son to 3,000-4,000 ?g/m3 ofparticulates.

Most wood stoves that warmcabin and home residents fromcoast to coast cannot meet thatstandard. Older stoves thatdon’t cannot be traded in forupdated types, but insteadmust be rendered inoperable,destroyed, or recycled as scrapmetal.

The impacts of the EPA rul-ing will affect many families.According to the U.S. CensusBureau’s 2011 survey statis-tics, 2.4 million Americanhousing units (12 percent of allhomes) burned wood as theirprimary heating fuel, com-pared with 7 percent that de-pended upon fuel oil.

Local governments in somestates have gone even furtherthan the EPA, banning not onlythe sale of noncompliantstoves, but even their use asfireplaces. As a result, ownersface fines for infractions.Puget Sound, Washington, isone such location. Montréal,Canada, proposes to eliminateall fireplaces within its citylimits.

Only weeks after the EPA en-acted its new stove rules, attor-neys general of seven statessued the agency to crack downon wood-burning water heatersas well. The lawsuit was filedby Connecticut, Maryland,Massachusetts, New York,Oregon, Rhode Island, andVermont, all predominantlyDemocrat states. Claiming thatthe new EPA regulations didn’tgo far enough to decrease par-ticle pollution levels, the plain-tiffs cited agency estimates thatoutdoor wood boilers will pro-duce more than 20 percent ofwood-burning emissions by2017. A related suit was filed

EPA BAN ON WOOD STOVES

Tri County Spelling Bee-Participants form Dardanelle, Danville and Two Rivers Participat-edFront row L to R: Emma Merritt, Ivy McVay, Natalie Farrow, Addison Warren.

Second row L to R:Hannah Burfield, Andrew Robinson, William Green, Taylor Tippin, KiraDeal, Ethan Ellis.

Third row L to R: Brady Gower, Andy Angkham, Eli Wright, Will McCune, Destiny McK-night

Forth row L to R: J.T. Tatum, Tre Harper, Nathaniel Griffiths, and James Lucas Curtis. (Photoby Rashad Woods Dardanelle Post Dispatch.

At Tarasco’s Authentic Mexican Restaurant, owner Antonio Zamora, his daughterDenise Garcia, and a few workers take a break to proudly represent the business. From leftto right: Berthy Bonilla, Mela Jimenez, Antonio Zamora, and Denise Garcia.

Jessica Davis as she takes abefore photo of her long hairbefore she gets it cut.

up 75.8% of the totals for2012, the African Americanpopulation was at 1.8%, theAmerican Indian populationmade up 0.9%, the Asian num-bers amounted to 1.6%, and theHispanic or Latino percentagewas 19.4%.

With the Hispanic and Latinoethnic groups making up almost20% of Yell County’s entirecommunity, it should be recog-nized that this is a large number.

This massive number is as-tonishing, and a generousamount of these people havebeen born and raised locally.While some haven’t, their cul-ture is influencing Yell Countyin a positive manner.

Take the numbers, from theUnited States Census Bureau,specifically targeting the busi-ness district and aspect of YellCounty, for example.

Private nonfarm establish-ments were roughly at about316, and it’s safe to say, the His-panic and Latino populace hasmade up a considerably vastportion of that figure.

In addition, the increase ofHispanic population, in the Dar-danelle area, could’ve been at-tributed to the marvelousgeography of the region, as wellas employment opportunities.

Given the county’s six lakes,three rivers, inclusion as part oftwo national forests, MountNebo State Park, Tri-Peaks Pro-fessional Bicycle Race, and theHolla Bend National WildlifeRefuge, Yell County is unques-tionably an exceptional place toland.

The County offers great sitesfor fishing, hiking, hunting,camping, and also provides afavorable supply of jobs.

Restaurants, clothing stores,bakeries, Latino supermarkets,and more thriving categories of

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business, make up the Hispanicand Latino’s contributions to theYell County community.

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Tarasco’s of Dardanelle