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There’s fun in fund-raising

Lockesburg spirit helps families in personal crises


Staff photo by Jim Williamson Lockesburg, Ark., volunteers hunker down to plan events for Saturday at the city park and fire department to raise money for a Wednesday operation for Joe Sutton, right. The community helps its residents in financial need throughout the year. “It’s something we just do,” said Deputy Municipal Clerk Donna Gallaher, one of the organizers.
The people in Lockesburg like to dance to live country music bands, play softball tournaments and gamble on raffle tickets.

But the spirit that causes them to partake in dancing and gambling is taking care of each other during a personal crisis.

Saturday will be Joe Sutton Day in the city park and at the fire station. The event will be a fund-raiser for the former truck driver.

Sutton is diagnosed with congestive heart failure, atrial fibrillation and morbid obesity. He needs gastric sleeve resection surgery, but Medicare rules placed him in the two-year wai...
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