My wife Nancy and I picked up our hobbled friend Joe Henning for supper on Saturday evening. We tried Touchdown Sally’s, the new sports bar/restaurant on the westbound service road north of Interstate 30 in Benton, where Weng’s was located for the past few years.
(Joe was struck by a truck while walking to the Benton Public Library a couple of months ago. He’s recovering, but it’s been slow.)
It was fun and the cheeseburgers were good. We watched the Razorbacks run up a 42-0 halftime lead over Eastern Michigan on one end of room while waiting for the rain to stop before Game 3 of the World Series on the television at the other end.
Our server Brandon was dressed all in black on that Halloween night with a U.S. postage stamp cut from felt glued to his shirt — blackmail! It was clever, but his attractive wife, Hayley, who was seated nearby, had to tell us what he was supposed to be.
It’s a comfortable, family-style atmosphere and Mike Robinson and his partners have done a great job of getting the place off to a good start.
We figure that the place will be rockin’ tonight with former Razorbacks pitcher Cliff Lee of Benton pitching for the Phillies against North Little Rock native A.J. Burnett of the Yankees. With New York up three games to one in the World Series, it’s a must-win situation for defending champion Philadelphia.
Party on, Benton!
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Luckily for those of us who encounter a sweet tooth from time to time, we often buy too much Halloween candy, under the pretense that you have to be prepared for a larger-than-expected crowd of trick-or-treaters at the door. You can’t disappoint the children, you know?
That self-rationalization gets us through Halloween night, but rarely does it do us much good the next day as we realize we indulged way past the “I’ll just have a few pieces” level that we promised ourselves.
Kids may experience the drop in blood sugar and call it the blues, but we adults get the chance to throw in some guilt, too. But we still may call it the blues.
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Benton, Ark.’s Spook City event for children, already rescheduled for Thursday night in downtown Benton, has been canceled or postponed because of the weather.
The city is under tornado watches and warnings tonight, according to Jill Jones, executive director of the Benton Advertising & Promotion Commission.
Jones said in an e-mail that it likely will be rescheduled because “that’s a lot of candy that still needs to be eaten.”
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