Mercy Health used an innovative walking program to become one of the healthiest workplaces in the country.
Ozarks At Large
A roundup of events and news for the next few weeks include an alternative way to deliver a Valentine.
Rural and urban public access trails are trending across America. And a new sector of professional trail building firms have emerged to meet demand. Jacqueline Froelich bundles up and goes cycling on a blustery afternoon in Bentonville, with the founder and foreman of Progressive Trail Design based in Fayetteville.
Roby Brock, from Talk Business Arkansas, talks to Rex Nelson about what 2014 might bring for Arkansas politics.An administrative law judge with the Arkansas Public Service Commission on Friday ordered SWEPCO to proceed on its proposed plan to build a massive new power transmission line through portions of northwest Arkansas. Also, Governor Mike Beebe says that recent cost analyses of operating the state's Private Option expansion of Medicaid justifies the program's passage during last year's session of the state legislature. And the state Attorney General's office warns residents about rapid-refund tax providers.
Ahead on Ozarks, a conversation with young adult author An Na. Also, we learn what it takes to become a police officer.
We speak with An Na, author of A Step From Heaven, a book that was awarded the Michael L. Prince Award when it was published a decade ago. Critics and reviewers commended the book's characters for speaking like a child without being too precocious or condescending. The author will speak in Fayetteville later this month.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Sunday, March 9, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks, we visit the kitchen of Jen Lewis, take a spin in a state-run clinic that aids veterans in rural communities, and we meet a recovering opiate addict who has found hope with methadone.
Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers tells us where we should runaway to today.
Mark Landon Smith from Arts Live Theatre offers a preview of the organization's summer camps.
More information is available here.
"Jessica" by: The Allman Brothers
Spring planting is going on all around the Ozarks and the Arkansas River Valley. And seeds are big business in the region, including seeds that may have been out of fashion or near extinction. Roby Brock of www.talkbusiness.net has this report.
The 40 days and 40 nights of Earth Day in Fayetteville and Northwest Arkansas are continuing. On April 21st there will be a night dedicated to the appreciation and conservation of trees. The duo Still on the Hill is organizing the event April 21 at the Global Campus Center on the Fayetteville Square.
Visit www.stillonthehill.com for more information.
Yesterday afternoon, the statue of former United States Senator and Fayetteville native J. William Fulbright was returned to its rightful place at the west entrance to Old Main on the University of Arkansas campus. The event also celebrated the 107th birth anniversary of Fulbright.
“Winter Pageant” by Café del Mar
