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Bull Shoals City Council met in regular session March 31st. In a roll call vote Council passed a motion to authorize accepting a bid of $134,925 from Atlas Asphalt to pave the first tier of streets on the list of streets to be paved. Mayor David Nixon said he will be meeting with the company representatives to get prices for paving streets on the second tier of the list. He said he does not know when paving will begin but the city is near the front of the line when asphalt becomes available. Nixon said he thinks paving will be done this summer. There are 16 streets to be paved in the first tier.

March is Women’s History Month and as I’m writing this column it’s ending. It seems appropriate to discuss the life of my paternal grandma, Charlotte Fleming, who passed from this life on March 18 and lived a century’s worth of history. They say that with the passing of our elders along with them goes a library of history. This could be said of my grandmother. She was one of 11 children growing up during the Depression, and as a young wife, raised her young children alone during World War II while her husband fought in the war. She was a twin and she and my grandpa would also be parents to a set of twins. She was a strong woman who learned to stand up for herself at an early age. She and her husband, Roy were a part of what has been called the “Greatest Generation”. They each possessed the type of character that sadly, seems rare today. They had a solid sense of integrity and robust work ethics.