The Fort Smith food pantry is in need of canned goods, beans, cereal, and other dry and canned food items to provide assistance to low-income families and disabled individuals.
For more information call 479-782-5074 or log on to www.csclearinghouse.org.
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Malco Razorback Cinema in Fayetteville is sponsoring Superhero Saturday tomorrow to support Camp Alliance Inc.
More information is available at www.campallianceinc.com
Becca is on a mission – a mission to introduce you to almost every museum, big or small, in our listening area. Today she talks about Shiloh Museum of Ozark History and Rogers Historical Museum.
On this edition of Ozarks, Arkansas-born poet CD Wright talks about her friend Margaret McHugh who marched across the state for civil rights and the Fayetteville Roots Festival expands from one day to an entire weekend of musical acts. An annual tomato-tasting event will be held this weekend at the Botanical Garden of the Ozarks, and a new satellite clinic is set to open later this summer in Springdale for the migrant Marshallese and immigrant Hispanic population in the region.Poet CD Wright talks about her friend Margaret McHugh, a white homemaker from rural Arkansas who left her town, husband, and seven children to join a small band of black activists on a march from West Memphis to Little Rock.
The Arkansas Department of Health is opening a satellite clinic later this summer in Springdale to serve migrant Marshallese and immigrant Hispanic residents.On this edition of Ozarks at Large, fiddler Babette Allen talks about the upcoming fiddle camp at Ozark Folkways and a little something before Saturday night’s opening concert of the 13th Annual KUAF Summer Jazz Festival. Senator John Boozman talks about the debt-ceiling discussions. Also, are Ozarks lakes at risk of being contaminated with a blue green algae toxin? We find out.
Babette Allen will be teaching fiddle at Ozark Folkways in Winslow next weekend.
Visit www.ozarkfolkways.com or www.raynababette.com for more information.
The University of Arkansas System selects a new president and more – on today’s edition of Ozarks at Large Half-Time.
On this edition of Ozarks at Large, Senator Mark Pryor talks about the ongoing efforts to reach a compromise over the debt-ceiling dilemma and Michael Tilley has updates from the River Valley. The United Way of Northwest Arkansas organizes a school-supply drive and a new home goods store in Bentonville lets people design their own decoration pieces.Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Monday, December 16, 2013
On this edition of Ozarks, we talk to a Fayetteville resident whose grandson was killed in the Sandy Hook shooting a year ago. Plus, we learn more about Healing Ministries at St. Paul's Episcopal Church.
Associate vice-chancellor for facilities management at the University of Arkansas Dr. Mike Johnson discusses the various factors considered before proposing the two sites for a service road to be used during the renovation of Ozark and Vol Walker Halls over the next two years.
Local resident Paula Marinoni on how she organized a protest against the original plan that would’ve involved the use of Lafayette Street and a part of the East Old Main lawn for a temporary service road.
“Chasin’ the Trane” by John Coltrane
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in downtown Fayetteville is offering respite to families and friends caring for loved ones diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Photo: co-founder, David Williams.
“In a Quiet Place” by Marc Johnson
An exhibition by University of Arkansas ceramic students at the Fine Arts Gallery, a screening of Jumanji at the Boone County Library, and a performance by Sugar Free Allstars at the Fayetteville Public Library.
Ozarks at Large’s Energy Corps correspondent Christina Thomas speaks with fellow Energy Corps representative Dan Dean, sustainability coordinator at Walton Arts Center.
