‘Cover Stories’ Archives
Machine Shop Class is Moving to Roosevelt Next Year
By HOLDEN LARSON, Staff Writer at The Southerner the alley is honored to continue highlighting news and articles from The Southerner, newspaper of South High School. This article is reprinted with permission. The current machining shop at South High before the move to Roosevelt. PHOTO: Holden Larsen The machine shop class at South is scheduled to move to Roosevelt for the start of the new school year next fall. It is a class that a lot of students really enjoy, and it can spark interest in many future careers. Moving a machine shop costs a lot of time and money, and many students are disappointed and confused about why the decision was made to move it to Roosevelt. The district has a plan to create elective centers, or hubs, at different high schools throughout the city. Roosevelt is planned to be the center of manufacturing because they already have automotive, construction, and welding classes, and the machine shop will be the next new addition to their arsenal of [...]
Memories of Neil
By MATTIE WONG Spread from the Pine Bluff News. PHOTO: Courtesy Kathi Wong My grandfather, Neil Clark, was born in the 1920s in southern Arkansas into a poor farming family. He joined the Army as a young man, scarcely twenty, and fought in WWII. For the longest time, the only thing we knew about Neil in the war was that he had earned a Silver Star, but none of us knew how or why. The thing is, my grandfather never talked about the war. Not to anyone. Our family pieced together stories over the years, even going to a reunion of his infantry division in Memphis, Tennessee. There we learned Neil had been instrumental in keeping himself and three other soldiers safe after they had gotten separated from their battalion in France. In trying to return to their battalion, they had stumbled across a camp of German soldiers set up in small depression. Neil spearheaded a plan to shoot over the heads of the Germans from multiple angles, making it seem as if there were far more [...]
Alley Readers Keep the Paper Going!
As a community-driven newspaper, we try diligently to stay on mission in serving the Phillips Community and to do so within our financial means. A relatively small group of dedicated volunteers and 3 very part-time contracted staff members-----a business manager, design/layout coordinator and community connector----work to get the paper out each month. Other contracted support is provided by the printing company, an accountant, and bulk drop delivery person. Of course, our regular advertisers and writing contributors are to be commended because without them, we would not have the basics needed to produce the paper each month. How do we know if this 50 year old community paper is fulfilling its purpose? Well, we don’t! We don’t have the funds for marketing or reader surveys so we rely on several more “low tech” ways. One way we know the paper is still of interest to folks is that papers are picked-up from the 114 drop sites.Another indication of interest in preserving the [...]
