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September 13, 2023
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Constitution Week
MRHS Health Fair
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Saturday morning’s sun rose an obscured ball of light struggling to penetrate the veil of fog. The opaque curtain emulated smoke to some degree, although all a singular gray not as thick and changing as black smoke in a structure fire. The fog was also much easier to breathe in than being trapped within a burning structure… or being a rescuer entering into the searing flames and strangling smoke to try and save a life. This particular Saturday morning
brought to mind the events most of the USA witnessed as the North Tower of the World Trade Center complex burned, a massive plume of black smoke roiling into the morning sky on Sept. 11, 2001 after being hit by American Airlines Flight 11. Sixteen minutes later, many of us watched the second airliner, United Airlines Flight 175, smash into the South Tower. On that fateful day nearly 3,000 people died; civilians and flight crews in the airliners; office workers in the towers or the Pentagon; people in the streets; the passengers who brought
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A Mena Firefigher salutes the flag at the end of the ladder as he begins the Memorial Stair Climb. . (Ethan Nahté/Pulse)
MHS Homecoming Court
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Art of the Heartland reception
Lee Alban’s oil painting “Two Cookie Buy In” won Best in Show. (Ethan Nahté/Pulse)
By Ethan Nahté
A wonderful night of art, hors d’oeuvres and a musical family of a father playing piano with two young sons, one performing on violin as the other played cello to a gallery filled with artists and art lovers made for a pleasant evening. The event was the Saturday evening reception for the Ninth Annual Art of the Heartland (AHL) National Competition at the Mena Art Gallery. The competition drew artists from all over the country, working in a variety of art mediums and representing a wide range of eras and representations of what the heartland evoked from the minds and hands of
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