Details about the company can be found at .Īmong the various pests, "bedbugs are a problem that has risen significantly in Arkansas over the last decade," Scott says. The final 7% of calls are for capture and relocation of animals. Thirty-eight percent of that involves termites, with other bug species making up the remaining 55%. "Who knows, but he might grow up to be the sixth generation in our business." Tatum already wears a T-shirt that says "Bug Expert" with images of a termite and a half-dozen other creepy-crawly critters.ĭealing with insects accounts for 93% of Curry's work. "Tyler and Alexis have a toddler, Tatum," Scott says. Also on the staff is Tyler's wife, Alexis. The fifth generation includes Scott and Tammy's daughter Lauren and their son, Tyler, both of whom have worked for the company since before college. Tammy's stepsister Tami, a manager of the Pine Bluff office, completes the fourth generation. Scott Pinney began working for Curry's in 1984 and soon after married Tammy Curry, great-granddaughter of the firm's founder.
A third office in Monticello also still operates. His third-generation brother, Scott Curry, continued running the Pine Bluff office. opened the Little Rock office in 1947 at its present location, 202 Bishop St., north of the state Capitol. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette/Marcia Schnedler) The French bulldogs are Napoleon and Josephine. The company’s family includes (from left) Alexis, Tyler, Lauren, Scott (holding Tatum), Tammy and Tami. Two of his three sons, Gene Curry and Owen Curry Sr., followed him as the second generation. The company was founded in Pine Bluff by R.G. That made them more aware day by day of pest activity that had been going on all along while they were gone to the office."Īs Curry's heads toward its centennial in 2026, the branches of its family tree are spread. Business could have been even better if it we'd had enough employees to do all the work."ĭaughter Lauren Pinney Stephens, also on Curry's staff, explains that "people were home more than usual during the pandemic. "More people called us to seek help for their pest invasions. "In fact, it turned out to be somewhat the opposite," says Scott Pinney, owner with wife Tammy Curry Pinney of the family enterprise, founded 96 years ago in Pine Bluff and now in its fifth generation. In all, 2021 saw almost 45 inches of rain.Like so many companies nationwide, Little Rock-based Curry's Termite, Pest & Animal Control worried that restrictions and concerns stemming from the persistent covid pandemic would cut into its business. During 2021, there was measurable precipitation on 116 days, which was the fewest rainy days in two years. Since official records began in late 1883, only one other year has had more snow and that was in 1966 with 25.1 inches."Īs for rain, 2021, despite some flooding in the area, was the first year in four years with below-average precipitation, and it was the driest year in seven years. "This made 2021 the snowiest year in Pine Bluff since 1966, and the second-snowiest on record. "It fell within the space of four days, and it was a record amount," said the weather service. And at 18.5 inches, it was quite measurable. Compared with a 30-year average, December temperatures were more than 12 degrees higher than usual.Īnd the frigidly cold weather in February was almost 11 degrees below normal.Īs for snow, there was some in January and February, but it was only measurable in February. If wearing shorts on Christmas Day made December seem warmer than usual, it was. 15, recorded a low of zero, making it the coldest day here since 1966. And there were nine days in which the high temperatures were below freezing - most of that coming during the big freeze in February - which was the highest number of sub-freezing days in 21 years.ĭuring the February storm, Pine Bluff, on Feb. Before that stretch of below-100 degree days, the record had been three years and one month.Īdditionally, on the warm side of the calendar, there were 80 days in which the high temperatures were 90 degrees or higher, which was the most Pine Bluff had seen in two years.Īs for low temperatures, the weather service said, there were 35 days with temperatures at or below freezing, making it the most in two years. On July 30, however, the top temperature was 101 degrees. The year 2021 was a year of weather extremes for the Pine Bluff area.Īccording to the National Weather Service, last year was the warmest in five years, with triple-digit temperatures not seen in nearly six years, and it had a string of below-freezing high temperatures that came with a record snowfall.īefore the end of July, Pine Bluff had not seen high temperatures of 100 degrees or more for five years, 11 months and 23 days.
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