Mourners packed the El Dorado Municipal Auditorium on Wednesday, when funeral services for Alexis Alexander were held. Foo Fighters hits played softly as attendees filtered inside the theater, until Alexander’s family entered and local singers Mason Halstead and Clayton Evers began the services with a song.
The United Way of Union County held the sixth annual Power of the Purse fundraiser on Thursday to raise money for their partnership with the Dolly Parton Imagination Library, a program in which children under the age of five are mailed a free book once a month until their fifth birthday.