INDEX NATION & STATE, 3A OPINIONS, 4A CALENDAR/OBITUARIES, 5A LIFESTYLES, 6A SPORTS, 1B CLASSIFIEDS, 5B Citizen Daily The WEATHER Today: Partly sunny. Highs in lower 90s. Southeast winds 5-10 mph. Tonight: Mostly cloudy. Lows in mid 70s. Southeast winds 5-10 mph. Vol. 156, No. 160 ©2010 The Daily Citizen “ ” That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees. MARCUS AURELIUS Roman soldier, 121-180 Contact us: 3000 E. Race, Searcy, AR 72143, (Phone) 501-268-8621, (Fax) 501-268-6277 T UESDAY , J ULY 6, 2010 50¢ RESIDENTS LEAVING ALEXANDER CENTER Residents have started moving away from a facility in Little Rock after officials decided to close it. — PAGE 3A Serving Searcy and White County, Ark., since 1854 www.thedailycitizen.com SEARCY TEAMS WANT TO FINISH STRONG The Land O' Frost and Crain Automotive teams look for strong tournament finishes. — PAGE 1B Soldier tells of military life By Warren Watkins [email protected] R ick Brooks, 59, has thou- sands of friends who are constantly bringing him something sweet. An amateur beekeeper, Brooks has five beehives behind his home on Mitchell Road north of Searcy. Brooks was raised around bees — his father was a beekeeper, too — and about seven years ago decided he’s get back into the hobby himself. A hive and the minimum equipment, including a bee suit, headgear and smoker, costs about $500, Brooks said. “They don’t like stormy days and they don’t like you messing with them at night,” Brooks said Monday as he put smoke near the entrance of a hive, then opened it. “When they’ve got a good nectar flow with lots of honey they don’t pay much attention to me.” Smoke calms the hive, making the bees go deeper into the box and gorge on honey, a reaction Brooks attributes to a God-given instinct getting the bees ready to abandon the hive in the face of an intruder. With swollen abdomens, the bees find it harder to curl their tails and sting, making it easier for beekeepers to raid the hive for honey, something done once or twice a year in the summer or fall. Bees usually roam about two miles from their hive, Brooks said, making a bee’s normal range about 16 square miles, but under stress they can go about four miles out. The females are the worker bees and become housekeepers after they are born, then baby-sit- ters, then either guards or nectar- gatherers. Worker bees have dif- ferent jobs, Brooks said. “They’ve got guards at the front door. That’s their job,” Brooks said, explaining why he puts the smoke there first. “Worker bees only live about five weeks during the honey season. They work themselves to death. Their wings wear out and they become tattered on the ends, so the worker bees drop into the grass to be eaten by birds or liz- ards.” The male bees are drones, and while their job of just eating and mating might sound good to some at first, that must be weighed against their eventual end, Brooks said. In preparation for winter, the drones are literally shown the door in the fall and either made to leave or stung to death by the worker bees. Queens can be spotted because they are long and slim, Brooks said, and are surrounded by her “court,” an entourage of attendant bees facing her. Each spring, bees divide and swarm, and beekeepers can cap- A drop of pure honey hangs from a beekeeper’s tool held by Rick Brooks of Searcy. The raw honey contains pollen from local plants that some with allergies feel helps them develop resistance. Warren Watkins/[email protected] BEE-LIEVING IN THE SWEETNESS OF LIFE Pastor blessed in church and hive By Luke Jones [email protected] David Southerland, a Signal Corps. Communication Major in the U.S. Army, constantly hears the question, “What’s the military doing overseas?” During his leave, Southerland vis- ited his parents’ hometown of Searcy and tried to answer that and other questions at last week’s Kiwanis meet- ing. Southerland is preparing to travel to Afghanistan, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, United Arab Emirates and more, and has already traveled all over the world. He loves his job in the military. He spent time going to college in Arizona, where he received an ROTC scholarship. “I went to college because I thought that’s what I was supposed to do,” he said. Soon enough, Southerland ended up in the army. His father had previously spent 30 years in the service doing the same job. But Southerland stressed that his choice was not planned. Once there, he felt he knew his Events, times overseas related DAVID SOUTHERLAND Designation: Signal Corps. Communication Major Theater: Afghanistan, others Previous job: Military recruiter Mission to Mobile to provide uniforms By Warren Watkins w[email protected] The Harding Academy Wildcat football team is looking for partners — not to block, tackle, run or pass but to help them on their mission trip to Mobile, Ala. July 22-23. The Wildcat football mis- sion statement, taken from the Bible, speaks of serv- ing “with the strength that God provides,” and while the squad does off-season strength training, what they need for the summer mission trip is the power of dona- tions, according to Coach Roddy Mote. The team will work with the Mobile Inner City Church of Christ in an out- reach effort within the RV T aylor community, an inner city community within Mobile that has a popula- tion of 198,000, Mote said. Members at the church have an average annual house- hold income of $8,000 and the annual contribution at MISSION TRIP TO MOBILE, ALA. Date: July 22-23 Who: Harding Academy Wildcats Elementary school uniforms: $54 Middle school uniforms: $65 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2A CONTINUED ON PAGE 2A CONTINUED ON PAGE 2A The Associated Press TONTITOWN — Officials say construction on a north- west Arkansas power plant that will be fueled by methane collected from a landfill will be complete by this fall. The $8 million, four-mega- watt plant will be located at Waste Management's Eco- Vista landfill in Tontitown. Projections call for it to pro- duce enough electricity to power about 4,000 homes. Jay Maruska, the proj- ect manager for Waste Management's renewable resources division, says the company has to destruct the methane anyway and using it to generate power is one way to make money off of that process. He says it makes more sense than burning off the gas. The power will be sold to utility companies to be sent into the region's electrical dis- tribution grid. Maruska says when the Tontitown facility goes online, it will join about 60 similar generators on other Waste Management landfills. Methane power plant nearing completion SOUTHERLAND These worker bees were too busy making honey Monday to worry about a photographer getting too close. The bees were in a beehive belonging to beekeeper Rick Brooks. Warren Watkins/warren@ thedailycitizen.com
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I N D E XNATION & STATE, 3A OPINIONS, 4A
CALENDAR/OBITUARIES, 5ALIFESTYLES, 6A SPORTS, 1B
CLASSIFIEDS, 5B
CitizenDailyThe
W E A T H E RToday: Partly sunny. Highs in lower 90s. Southeast winds 5-10 mph.Tonight: Mostly cloudy. Lows in mid 70s. Southeast winds 5-10 mph.
Vol. 156, No. 160©2010 The Daily Citizen
“ ”That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot
be good for the bees.MARCUS AURELIUSRoman soldier, 121-180
Contact us: 3000 E. Race, Searcy, AR 72143, (Phone) 501-268-8621, (Fax) 501-268-6277
TUESDAY, JULY 6, 2010 50¢
RESIDENTS LEAVING ALEXANDER CENTERResidents have started moving away from a facility in Little Rock after officials decided to close it. — PAGE 3A
Serving Searcy and White County, Ark., since 1854 www.thedailycitizen.com
SEARCY TEAMS WANT TO FINISH STRONGThe Land O' Frost and Crain Automotive teams look for strong tournament finishes. — PAGE 1B
Soldier tells of military life
By Warren [email protected] Brooks, 59, has thou-
sands of friends who are constantly bringing him
something sweet. An amateur beekeeper, Brooks
has five beehives behind his home on Mitchell Road north of Searcy.
Brooks was raised around bees — his father was a beekeeper, too — and about seven years ago decided he’s get back into the hobby himself. A hive and the minimum equipment, including a bee suit, headgear and smoker, costs about $500, Brooks said.
“They don’t like stormy days and they don’t like you messing with them at night,” Brooks said Monday as he put smoke near the entrance of a hive, then opened it. “When they’ve got a good nectar flow with lots of honey they don’t pay much attention to me.”
Smoke calms the hive, making the bees go deeper into the box and gorge on honey, a reaction Brooks attributes to a God-given instinct getting the bees ready to abandon the hive in the face of an intruder. With swollen abdomens, the bees find it harder to curl their tails and sting, making it easier for beekeepers to raid the hive for honey, something done once or twice a year in the summer or fall.
Bees usually roam about two miles from their hive, Brooks said, making a bee’s normal range about 16 square miles, but under
stress they can go about four miles out.
The females are the worker bees and become housekeepers after they are born, then baby-sit-ters, then either guards or nectar-gatherers. Worker bees have dif-ferent jobs, Brooks said.
“They’ve got guards at the front door. That’s their job,” Brooks said, explaining why he puts the smoke there first. “Worker bees only live about five
weeks during the honey season. They work themselves to death. Their wings wear out and they become tattered on the ends, so the worker bees drop into the grass to be eaten by birds or liz-ards.”
The male bees are drones, and while their job of just eating and mating might sound good to some at first, that must be weighed against their eventual end, Brooks said. In preparation for winter, the
drones are literally shown the door in the fall and either made to leave or stung to death by the worker bees.
Queens can be spotted because they are long and slim, Brooks said, and are surrounded by her “court,” an entourage of attendant bees facing her.
Each spring, bees divide and swarm, and beekeepers can cap-
A drop of pure honey hangs from a beekeeper’s tool held by Rick Brooks of Searcy. The raw honey contains pollen from local plants that some with allergies feel helps them develop resistance. Warren Watkins/[email protected]
BEE-LIEVING IN THE SWEETNESS OF LIFE
Pastor blessed in church and hive
By Luke [email protected]
David Southerland, a Signal Corps. Communication Major in the U.S. Army, constantly hears the question, “What’s the military doing overseas?”
During his leave, Southerland vis-
ited his parents’ hometown of Searcy and tried to answer that and other questions at last week’s Kiwanis meet-ing.
Southerland is preparing to travel to Afghanistan, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, United Arab Emirates and more, and has already traveled all over the world. He loves his job in the military.
He spent time going to college in Arizona, where he received an
ROTC scholarship. “I went to college because I thought
that’s what I was supposed to do,” he said.
Soon enough, Southerland ended up in the army. His father had previously spent 30 years in the service doing the same job. But Southerland stressed that his choice was not planned.
Once there, he felt he knew his
Events, times overseas related
DAVID SOUTHERLANDDesignation:Signal Corps. Communication MajorTheater:Afghanistan, othersPrevious job: Military recruiter
Mission to Mobile to provide uniforms
By Warren [email protected]
The Harding Academy Wildcat football team is looking for partners — not to block, tackle, run or pass but to help them on their mission trip to Mobile, Ala. July 22-23.
The Wildcat football mis-sion statement, taken from the Bible, speaks of serv-ing “with the strength that God provides,” and while the squad does off-season strength training, what they need for the summer mission trip is the power of dona-tions, according to Coach Roddy Mote.
The team will work with the Mobile Inner City Church of Christ in an out-reach effort within the RV Taylor community, an inner city community within Mobile that has a popula-tion of 198,000, Mote said. Members at the church have an average annual house-hold income of $8,000 and the annual contribution at
MISSION TRIP TO MOBILE, ALA.Date: July 22-23Who: Harding Academy WildcatsElementary school uniforms: $54 Middle school uniforms: $65
CONTINUED ON PAGE 2A
CONTINUED ON PAGE 2A
CONTINUED ON PAGE 2A
The Associated PressTONTITOWN — Officials
say construction on a north-west Arkansas power plant that will be fueled by methane collected from a landfill will be complete by this fall.
The $8 million, four-mega-watt plant will be located at Waste Management's Eco-Vista landfill in Tontitown. Projections call for it to pro-duce enough electricity to power about 4,000 homes.
Jay Maruska, the proj-ect manager for Waste Management's renewable resources division, says the company has to destruct the methane anyway and using it to generate power is one way to make money off of that process. He says it makes more sense than burning off the gas.
The power will be sold to utility companies to be sent into the region's electrical dis-tribution grid.
Maruska says when the Tontitown facility goes online, it will join about 60 similar generators on other Waste Management landfills.
Methane power plant
nearing completion
SOUTHERLAND
These worker bees were too busy making honey Monday to worry about a photographer getting too close. The bees were in a beehive belonging to beekeeper Rick Brooks. Warren Watkins/[email protected]
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