Mark Hobson sat down with Coach Craig Bentley to talk about the upcoming football season at Mena High School... Follow the link to watch the video...
https://youtu.be/fMTk7DDpx3Q
Mena High School Class of 2020! Please stop by MHS at your convenience to review your course requests with Mr. Maxwell or Mrs. Buckley. The office is open daily 7am-5pm, Monday through Thursday. We look forward to seeing you soon!
Former Bearcats Christian Lua & Brock Strother played on the West All-Star team at U.C.A. tody. The final score was East-34 West-28. Watch highlights by following the link...
https://katv.com/s…/content/east-wins-all-star-football-game
Austin Johnston & Cason Cannon as well as Austin Rose & Evan Graves competed in the High School Fishing World Finals / National Championship on Pickwick Lake in Florence Alabama this week. The two teams finished in a tie at 191st out of 389 teams & at 118 out of 215 teams competing in the 2nd chance tournament. Check complete standings by following the link..
https://highschoolfishing.org/…
Mena FFA and Polk County 4-H members are attending Victory Lamb and Goat Clinic in Idabel, Ok . Including Paige Evans Cassidy Ashcraft, Makori Gabourel, Kiylee Hughes, Addi Dollar, Cylie Moody, Jaci Allen, Hope Lott, David Dollar, Lacy Floyd, Linnlee Cook, & Asher Cook
Austin Johnston, Cason Cannon, Austin Rose & Evan Graves are competing in the High School Fishing World Finals / National Championship on Pickwick Lake in Florence Alabama. Good luck guys & Go Basscats!
https://www.facebook.com/hsfishing/
Mena junior tight end Mason Brotherton received positive feedback from Arkansas coach Chad Morris and others at the Hog Wild Elite Camp on Saturday. dlvr.it/R6vXC7
Shared from Coach Bentley's facebook page.
Craig Bentley
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Wow! What a WILD 24 hours.
To Mansfield:
THANK YOU. You have welcomed my family into the school and community. You have supported every effort to build the football program up and help these kids succeed to the best of their ability! I am so thankful for the opportunity to work at such a great place. Thankful for the players(past and present) all the coaches, school board, administration , parents and community! Red Tiger football is on the rise and great things to come.
To Mena:
For as long as I've been coaching, I've wanted to be able to have the chance to lead the Bearcat football program. I bleed Bearcat red and black and always will. My family and I are so beyond excited to get back home. Mena is a special place, with special people! We are so lucky to be able to jump right back in to the community and get to work by continuing to build a program that players, coaches, the school and the community can be proud of! To me this is not just another job, it is "THE JOB"! Thank you to the administration and school board for giving us this opportunity! I can't wait to get to work and we are gonna hit the ground running! Go Bearcats!
Mansfield Coach Craig Bentley Is Headed Home
https://residentpress.com/mansfield-coach-craig-bentley-is-headed-home/?fbclid=IwAR0IIL0ftzM-Ywnkz9CqqNdE_p8lAqFrRHxhZcsa0ditTObv3C4uPZZUXZw
Several Mena FFA and Polk County 4-H members are attending Victory Lamb and Goat Clinic in Idabel, Ok this week.
***** ATTENTION BEARCAT FOOTBALL PLAYERS*****
Coach Bentley will meet with the Jr. High Team after their workout on Thursday & the Sr. High Team at 1pm on Thursday in the team meeting room.. Please share & spread the word... GO BEARCATS!!!!!
2019 Mena High School Seniors Brock Strother and Cristian Lua will be playing in the 2019 High School All-Star Football game this Saturday evening, June 22. The game will be played in Conway at Estes Stadium, on the campus of the University of Central Arkansas at 6:00 p.m.
The Mena football team getting warmed up at the University of Memphis team camp this morning. Go Bearcats!
The June Meeting of the Mena School Board was held at the Administration building on Tuesday night....
The board voted to approve KYLE CANNON as it's representative to the Arkansas School Board Association.
The board also voted on it's annual restructuring. TODD AYNES will serve as President in 19/20. KYLE CANNON will serve as Vice President & EDD PUCKETT as Secretary.
A transfer of $300,000.00 was approved from the operating fund to the building fund. This transfer will bring the district into compliance with ACT 1105 which obligates the district to lower it's legal balance to meet the June 30th state required legal balance of 20% of net revenues.
The board approved the solicitation of bids on long term CD rates for $1 million currently in the disaster relief fund. These funds are currently in short term CD's to make them available should funds have been needed for the recently completed Louise Durham construction.
Building & property insurance was renewed thru the ASBA Risk Management Program with an $18,735.38 increase. The increase was mainly due to the new construction at LDE.
Rates for the Supplemental Student Accidental Insurance Policy remain unchanged at $33,868.00. The policy was renewed.
DANNY MINTON gave a report to the board on construction & summer upgrades. At LDE work on the floors, painting & the playground continues. At HHE new LED lights have been installed & a new wall has been constructed for better access to storage. At MMS new LED lights have been installed in Jim Rackley Gymnasium. A sidewalk connecting the high school & middle school, near the ag building, has been completed. Striping on the front parking lot have been repainted & sheet rock repair has been completed at the MMS gym. At MHS the boilers have been serviced. The #'s on the main parking lot have been painted & a concrete access ramp has been poured at the field house.
Several personnel changes were made. The board accepted the resignation of Tim Harper, Amanda Harper, Steve Breedlove, David Hampton, Aaron Pennington, Macklin Chermack,Melody Rowe, Thomas Powell, Hannah Powell & Lauren Quillin. Also approved was the transfer of Bridget Buckley to the position of Mena High School Assistant Principal & the hiring of Craig Bentley as Head Sr. High Football coach, Lauren Frost as High School Secretary & Sarah Bentley as 1st grade teacher
The Mena School Board approved the hiring of Mr. Craig Bentley as the new head football coach at Mena High School on Tuesday night. Bentley has been the head coach at Mansfield High School. He is also a former assistant at Mena & a graduate of Mena High School.
Mena High School Band 2019/2020 Calendar!
M*A*S*H Camp (Medical Applications of Science and Health) began Monday at Mena Regional Health System. The two week program provides an opportunity for rising high school juniors and seniors to shadow health professionals in order to enhance their experience in the health care field. Three students from Mena High School are attending MASH Camp: Skyla Kim, Blake Castor and Gaven Hooper.
Following a morning of orientation and HIPAA security education, the students shadowed Occupational Therapist Jo Lee Erickson at Ouachita Rehabilitation Center. They were introduced to the field of Occupational Therapy, taught the basics of splinting, and testing of grip and fine motor skills. The day ended with Amy Phelps, Surgical Center APRN, instructing the students on the application and removal of casting.
Today they shadowed Labor and Delivery, ER, Lab, McDonald Vet, Ouachita Equine, learned proper hand washing regimen, how to administer CPR and the proper use of an AED.
https://www.facebook.com/Mena-Regional-Health-System-193747834492/
The Mena 2019 Cross Country Schedule is up on the website... Follow the link to check it out.... https://www.menaschools.org/o/athletics/athletics…
Mena Sr. Boys Basketball team had a good day today at the Waldron team camp... The Bearcats faced Waldron, Greenwood, Greenwood JV, and Magazine... Summer sweat turns into W’s in fall & spring... Go Bearcats!!!
