This year’s Festival on the Ridge should be smoking hot.

For the first time ever, the festival will hold a bar-be-cue contest Friday, May 31, through Saturday, June 1, in downtown Harrisburg.

The contest is open to amateur cooks only.

Entry fees are $100 for one category, $150 for two categories.  Cash prizes will be awarded for each category:  $300 for 1st place, $200 for 2nd place and $100 for 3rd place.

JONESBORO, AR (KAIT) – Tracy Roberts teaches third grade at
Valley View Intermediate School in Jonesboro, where she's tried to teach her
students healthy habits like protecting themselves from the sun.

"If just one person listens, that's all anybody can hope
for," Roberts said.

Roberts, a mother of three, found an irregularly shaped spot
on her leg almost four years ago. She decided to have it checked out only after
her father had a cancerous lesion removed from his back.