Evin Demirel
Stories by Evin
From Kosovo to OBU
posted: 10/28/2010 6 a.m. Discuss
No more than a dozen spectators stood beside the soggy soccer field where Ouachita Baptist University’s men’s soccer team kicked off against Central Baptist College on Oct. 19.
7A-CENTRAL BOYS: Evans’ 30-second effort difference vs. Pointers
posted: 02/27/2010 5:13 a.m. Discuss
Senior Mike Evans scored four points in 30 seconds to help push North Little Rock past visiting Van Buren 51-48 on Friday night.
Fruitful foresight
posted: 02/27/2010 4:11 a.m. Discuss
Decades ago, an elderly blind woman spotted a need in Arkansas’ Baptist community, and decided to meet it.
5A-SOUTHWEST BOYS: Cardinals victorious on late shot
posted: 02/20/2010 5:08 a.m. Discuss
Senior Johnathan Cooper made a three-pointer with 5.6 seconds left in regulation to secure a 59-56 victory at Pulaski Academy on Friday night, and tighten Camden Fairview’s grip on the 5ASouthwest lead.
Theology class connects girls, others
posted: 02/20/2010 2:27 a.m. Discuss
Juniors at Little Rock’s Mount St. Mary Academy take a hands-on theology class each year. The goal, borrowed from the book of Micah, isn’t just to learn. It’s also to “do justice and love kindness,” said Lou Ann Gieringer, one of the school’s two junior theology teachers.
Charles Hicks Had doctor hopes since sixth grade
posted: 02/17/2010 3:49 a.m. Discuss
Longtime family physician Charles Hicks, who at 6 feet 8 inches tall often struggled to find clothes that fit, died Sunday at St. Vincent Doctors Hospital in Little Rock.
Probe set over crash that killed 4 on plane
posted: 02/08/2010 3:55 a.m. Comments 3
Federal authorities are investigating the cause of a Saturday single-engine plane crash in Washington County that left all four aboard dead.
Farmers market just one idea for pavilion
posted: 02/08/2010 3:55 a.m. Discuss
The metal farmers market sign will hang more than 11 feet high at Jacksonville’s new pavilion, but Mayor Gary Fletcher believes that the building’s use won’t end there.
George Weinfurtner Veteran, played Santa to the hilt
posted: 02/03/2010 4:26 a.m. Discuss
Like others in his family, George Weinfurtner always enjoyed being around children.
Pianist, 100, hits right note at nursing home
posted: 01/30/2010 1:13 a.m. Discuss
About a month ago, a realization crashed into Frances Meador.
Norfleet “Red” Smith Ex-mayor flexed his social muscles
posted: 01/29/2010 1:57 a.m. Discuss
As a U.S. Coast Guard gunner’s mate in World War II, Norfleet “Red” Smith laid the foundation for the Cabot mayorship he would hold decades later.
Laman library favored as veterans’ site
posted: 01/27/2010 4:17 a.m. Discuss
The plaza of the William F. Laman Public Library won the approval of the North Little Rock Veterans Memorial Committee as the site for a veterans memorial.
Harvey Black Jr. Cancer sufferer found new voice
posted: 01/20/2010 4:08 a.m. Discuss
Twenty-five years ago, a Little Rock doctor told Harvey Black Jr. the sinus problems that had plagued him for a year were caused by larynx cancer.
Doctors join marchers to protest Roe v. Wade
posted: 01/18/2010 4:30 a.m. Discuss
Dr. Doug Smith swore he would never perform an abortion when he graduated from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in 1963.
Art of renewal
posted: 01/09/2010 4:21 a.m. Discuss
On a mixed-media painting in the fellowship hall of First Presbyterian Church, an inviting Jesus appears in front of Cregeen’s Irish Pub and North Little Rock’s City Hall.
Police: Timing lifts New Year’s arrests
posted: 01/06/2010 4:16 a.m. Discuss
The Arkansas State Police issued more speeding citations and made more DWI arrests this New Year’s weekend than last year during the holiday, according to numbers released this week.
Ethel Holt Survived typhoid, lived to age 104
posted: 01/06/2010 4:02 a.m. Discuss
Typhoid fever sweeping through Sardis, Miss., in the early 1920s waylaid Ethel Holt.
Lottery sees first jackpot in Powerball
posted: 01/04/2010 2:34 a.m. Discuss
Arkansas’ first winning Powerball lottery ticket was sold at a convenience store just off Interstate 40 in Mayflower.
Henry Woods Longtime assistant to U.S. lawmakers
posted: 01/04/2010 2:28 a.m. Comment 1
Henry Woods, a longtime aide to members of Arkansas’ congressional delegation on Capitol Hill, died Sunday after suffering an aneurysm on Christmas Day. Since then, he had been in a coma at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami, according to the Key West Citizen. He was 58.
Embodying military spirit wins sergeant ‘hero’ prize
posted: 01/01/2010 4:35 a.m. Discuss
Soon after learning that his father would deploy to the Middle East for the seventh time since Sept. 11, 2001, 8-year-old Chris Beason nominated his father as an “everyday military hero.”
Garden grant’s aim to plant seeds of fitness, nutrition at middle schools
posted: 12/31/2009 6:43 a.m. Discuss
Stark Ligon helps teach students to garden an area of more than 2 acres between Gibbs Elementary and Dunbar Middle School near downtown Little Rock.
James Jordan Former mayor, WWII veteran
posted: 12/30/2009 5:14 a.m. Discuss
James Jordan was “an eternal optimist,” said his wife, Bonnie.
‘Work is not done,’ widow says
posted: 12/28/2009 4:08 a.m. Discuss
Leading a Sunday service in the building where her husband was shot and killed in a Christmas Eve robbery attempt, Salvation Army Major Cindy Wise said her mission to minister to the people in North Little Rock’s Baring Cross neighborhood has not changed.
Royce Van Dalsem Antiques dealer no lady of leisure
posted: 12/25/2009 12:49 a.m. Discuss
Although typically reserved and bookish, Royce Van Dalsem enjoyed mingling with the folks who dropped into her Perryville antique store in the late 1970s and 1980s, her two daughters said.
‘Solid Waste Santas’ tote new bag
posted: 12/24/2009 5:35 a.m. Comment 1
Some Little Rock city employees pooled together money to deliver meals, gifts and smiles to nine poor children on Wednesday at the Little Rock landfill.
Ora Isabella McKinnis Loved Cardinals, church, politics
posted: 12/23/2009 5:02 a.m. Discuss
After entering a Mountain Home hospice, 94-yearold Ora Isabella McKinnis lived about three times longer than her caretakers had expected, her son Jerry McKinnis said.
Alert officer seizes car for kid
posted: 12/21/2009 5:03 a.m. Comments 2
Officer Chauncey Sims’ eyes narrowed. With the yellow Mustang he’d long been looking for now in sight, he parked his vehicle and readied the notepad in his hand.
Paul ‘Pete’ Hoover LR lawyer loved to hunt the ducks
posted: 12/21/2009 4:56 a.m. Discuss
Longtime Little Rock lawyer Paul “Pete” Hoover died Saturday after collapsing during a hunting trip to his duck club nearly 10 miles west of Stuttgart.
Sherwood police hunt thief of bell ringer’s kettle of cash
posted: 12/17/2009 5:31 a.m. Discuss
Police are investigating the theft of a Salvation Army kettle from the Sherwood Wal-Mart store Monday afternoon.
2 in burning truck slain, lawmen say
posted: 12/15/2009 5:03 a.m. Discuss
Pulaski County investigators have determined that two people found in a burning pickup Saturday in Sweet Home were the victims of homicide.
Camp helps kids win on ‘bad hand’
posted: 12/14/2009 5:04 a.m. Discuss
The third-through-fifth graders who graduated Sunday from the 107th Alternative Classroom Experience program aren’t bad children, Tammy Martin said.
Edith “Marie” Smith Stylish go-getter, lifelong volunteer
posted: 12/11/2009 5:06 a.m. Discuss
Edith Marie Smith took charge.
Mason Searcy
posted: 12/09/2009 4:28 a.m. Discuss
Drugstore owner in Hot Springs The letters are fading, but pedestrians on Grand Central Avenue in Hot Springs can still decipher “Pharmacy” beneath the front window of what was once the Wade Clinic building.
Battle’s site links history, present
posted: 12/06/2009 4:16 a.m. Discuss
Jacksonville’s first-known settlers most likely floated in, local historians say.
Some Arkansans find home in Islam
posted: 12/05/2009 5:14 a.m. Comment 1
As lunchtime approaches, masses swarm Little Rock’s River Market, turning its pavilion area into a downtown din of munching, crunching, chattering and sipping.
Susan Glover Mother worked to support family
posted: 12/03/2009 6:04 a.m. Discuss
To help her family survive during the Great Depression, Susan Glover quit school after the eighth grade to clean houses in central Arkansas.
Dissidents one focus of Bush library, official says
posted: 12/02/2009 5:35 a.m. Discuss
In early 2008, Oscar Morales used Facebook to assemble about 12 million demonstrators around the world against a Colombian rebel group responsible for numerous terroristic acts.
Inmate found in car trunk 8 days after fleeing in jail van
posted: 12/01/2009 4:44 a.m. Discuss
Authorities on Monday captured a 19-year-old man who escaped from Pulaski County’s satellite jail facility on Nov. 22 after stealing a van and driving it through a gate in the fence surrounding the facility.
Volunteers bring meals, smiles to state’s elderly
posted: 11/27/2009 5:13 a.m. Discuss
Some days, the man with a meal is the only person Doris Broomfield sees.
Hundreds in LR partake in pre-Thanksgiving feasts
posted: 11/26/2009 6:17 a.m. Discuss
Hundreds of hungry people ate on Wednesday near West 12th Street and South University Avenue thanks to a central Arkansas church and a recreational center.
Dietrich Neyland Architect, artist, ex-basketball star
posted: 11/26/2009 6:03 a.m. Discuss
It seemed to Linda Halbert that wherever she went in central Arkansas, Dietrich Neyland was there.
Michaelae Johnston Audiologist put heart into work
posted: 11/18/2009 3:08 a.m. Discuss
At the end of her career, audiologist Michaelae “Kelly” Johnston scheduled her work around the cancer treatments she received each Thursday.
Daniel Worsley Richards
posted: 11/06/2009 6:07 a.m. Discuss
If it had a motor, he could handle it Daniel Worsley Richards, a longtime Little Rock Honda motorcycle and car dealer, lived life with a dash of daredevilry.
Jim McKay Flat-fixer found way to get ahead
posted: 11/05/2009 4:35 a.m. Discuss
Jim McKay, a longtime Jacksonville businessman, often stayed up 20 hours a day when launching a new venture, smoking an endless chain of cigarettes while brainstorming and calculating.
Bill Blevins Attorney enjoyed telling a good tale
posted: 10/28/2009 3:02 a.m. Discuss
Longtime North Little Rock lawyer Bill Blevins loved a good story, and he played a part in plenty of them, relatives said.
Faithful flock to end of CityFest
posted: 10/26/2009 4:52 a.m.
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Children scrambled up climbing walls and gleefully ricocheted off inflatable bounce house walls in North Little Rock on Sunday at CityFest, a two-day weekend event fusing fun, fellowship and service.
Boxes of lox to bag bucks for a trek
posted: 10/24/2009 5:07 a.m. Discuss
Eschewing car washes and bake sales, Temple B’nai Israel members have in past years held fundraisers by selling homemade salsa, fresh corn and bagels.
Fairgoers turn out after rainfall halts
posted: 10/19/2009 4:44 a.m. Discuss
Twelve Arkansas State Fair visitors strapped into a Super Shot car, and a vertical cable slowly pulled them high above the south Little Rock grounds on Sunday.
3 rescued after boat capsizes near dam
posted: 10/13/2009 4:08 a.m. Discuss
Grabbing a branch with one hand and his cell phone with the other, Blain Pugh dialed loved ones as night fell and the Arkansas River churned around him.
Warner Ray Lumpkin Principal, coach led a bustling life
posted: 10/09/2009 2:52 a.m. Discuss
A competitive streak ran through longtime high school football coach and principal Warner Ray Lumpkin.
