Baxter Bulletin from Mountain Home, Arkansas • 12

Page 12A THE BAXTER BULLETIN, Mountain Home, Ark. Tuesday, April 20, 2010 Y-S School Board renames Winter Break a Y-SFrom Page 1A Dwyer. The board also was indecisive concerning an inspection of the elementary school by the fire marshalL Maintenance Supervisor Terry Hall explained that the current smoke detector and alarm system was inadequate and gave the board three options, at three different prices, for solving the problem. Dwyer recommended the middle option, which would cost $3,400 for a system that would meet requirements and still be com patible with old components. The district also must be in the process of covering all paneling in the elementary school with fireproof Sheetrock before the new school year.

The board met early Monday evening to conduct a walkaround of the campus, viewing areas suffering from erosion or heavy student traffic, but the matter was not on the agenda for requested action and was not mentioned prior to the board's executive session. During the walkaround, members discussed problems with Transportation The board is looking at options for that issue, in addition to solutions for erosion due to foot traffic and drainage problems leading from the high school to the multi-purpose facility, and for erosion behind the fourth-grade section of the new elementary wing. "This is a constant problem area," Dwyer said. "Base won't do here because of the slope. I'd like to get a bid on what it would cost to asphalt this area." Watch The Bulletin for other Y-S School Board news.

Supervisor A.J. Barrett and Hall, who offered information about city regulations and the location of utilities that might complicate solutions. One problem is the location of the current underground diesel tank for the school bus fleet. It resides where the district had wanted to bulldoze the hill in front of the new multi-purpose facility to make room for a parking lot. Yellville city regulations require that any tank holding more than 1,300 gallons be underground.

The cost is $60,000, according to Barrett Par susss! Cook campaign stops in Mountain Home Graduate SUPPU- Baby Shower plates Anniversary Table Covers 5 Zlr The Hilt plastic Cutle if Gms Ml PnlWp Pln7a Shnnnino fVnfpr Cl(f7nrnfL Mountain Home 425-5050 'fiAXWUWf Hours. GOLD CROWN julie's mcm ate jobs. We need more jobs in technology and manufacturing," Cook said. "We have waged war with our Guard and Reserve units and regular forces," Cook said. "We have worked them very hard and it's going to take more than a Band-Aid and aspirin to take care of them." Cook said he will be an immediate asset to education in Arkansas as the 112th Congress endeavors to rewrite federal education reforms in No Child Left Behind program.

Poorly aligned achievement benchmarks in the law have resulted in many excellent Arkansas school districts to appear repeatedly on federal "improvement" lists and costly redirection of school resources, he said. All of the 112th Congress' work will happen against the backdrop of debt unlike the nation has ever seen. "Everything's on the table to bring it under control," Cook said. fwallisbaxterbulletm.com COOKFrom Page 1A businesses from taxation, regulation and now the prospect for mandatory participation in health care reform that will require small businesses to eventually pay for health insurance for employees. "We have reform, and now we have to make sure that implementing it does not sink small businesses," he said.

Cook said he believes he is the only candidate born to parents who never attended public schools. He and five siblings were delivered at home with his mom attended by a midwife. He was first in the family to attend public schools and graduate from high school. He attended the University of Central Arkansas on a track-and-field scholarship, which he supplemented with full-time work while a full-time student. Toward the end of his first year in college, when someone stole his only pair of street shoes from a field house locker; he became discouraged and hitchhiked home intent on not returning.

His soon-to-be-wife, Phyllis Haney, urged him back to school. "I have a unique perspective of the First Congressional District because I have lived in seven of the 26 counties," Cook said. "I know what it is like to be poor, hungry and wonder where you will get your next meal. I know how it feels to be sick and have no insurance or money for medicine." Cook graduated UCA with an education degree in 1972 and promptly joined the U.S. Navy and completed a six-year stint working in cryptology with a top-secret special intelligence clearance.

After the Navy, Cook took the master of education degree at Pepperdine University and the education specialist degree from the University of Arkansas. He worked for 32 years as a professional educator or administrator in Arkansas before being elected to the District 80 seat in the Arkansas House of Representatives where he earned leadership roles in several committees including the Game and FishState Police vice chairman, House Educational K-12 Subcommittee chairman, Veterans Sub-Committee chairman, Communication and Technology vice chairman, Aging and Legislative and Veterans Affairs member, as well as membership in Aging Children and Youth and Legislative and Military Affairs. It all qualifies him, he says, to serve as the state's First District representative. Cook said the stakes have seldom been higher for any Congress than they will be for 112th Congress when it hits the ground Jan. 3.

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