Justin Minkel, a Springdale elementary school teacher and 2007 Arkansas Teacher of the Year, has just written a new book aimed at young readers.
Ozarks At Large
Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks, we visit a local yarn shop to speak with local knitters about how and what they're working on this holiday season. Plus, a discussion with a local man who lost his grandson in the Sandy Hook massacre last December, and how a church reaches out to the community with its healing touch.
Healing Touch, an international healing program, is a biofield therapy, meaning it deals with the magnetic field around the body, to promote various areas of healing. The Healing Touch ministry at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Fayetteville is more than a decade old, and now has its own location, ten practitioners and provides more than 600 treatments annually.
Ahead on Ozarks, a company that began on the University of Arkansas campus is on a list of 2013's top technological inventors. Plus the founders of the Early Morning Bourbon Girls…Rebecca Champagne and Meredith Martin Moats…talk about the band's upcoming reunion show at Maxine's Tap Room and play a couple of songs inside the Firmin Garner Performance Studio.
Michael Tilley from The City Wire discusses the latest edition of the Compass Report and the future of Allen's Foods in Siloam Springs.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, experts say it's no surprise that millennials have lower credit scores when compared to other generations, with Arkansas millennials' scores ranking fourth lowest in the nation. And we speak with a local police officer about how to prevent becoming a victim of theft; it's as simple as locking your doors.Becca Martin Brown has more on the Moscow Classical Ballet's performance of the Nutcracker this weekend.
Lieutenant Governor Mark Darr was reportedly apologetic to the Arkansas Ethics Commission yesterday, when he answered to allegations of misuse of campaign and personal expense money. Senator John Boozman yesterday voted against the two-year, bipartisan budget deal. Hewlett Packard announces some jobs will return to its Conway facility. The U of A in Fayetteville announces its next associate vice chancellor of University Relations. And a new medical school could be coming to Fort Smith.
Last Thursday, a preliminary hearing was held before Pulaski County Circuit Judge Chris Piazza on a lawsuit filed last summer to strike down an Arkansas constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, approved by seventy-four percent of voters ten years ago. Jacqueline Froelich spoke with attorneys on both sides of the case, as well as a plaintiff and brings us the story.
(Photo credit: John Rankine)Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Thursday, May 22, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, a conversation with the director of special education for the U.S. Department of Education; she says many with disabilities are capable of learning anything and everything that those without disabilities can. Plus, as strawberries begin to pop up in gardens and farmers' markets in the area, a group of national leaders in the industry meet in Fayetteville to discuss sustainable growing practices.
Local Trade Partners, a northwest Arkansan trade and barter exchange, is one of the fastest growing such exchange in the country. It recently crossed the 500-member mark.
To find out more - www.localtradepartners.com.
“Adios, Virginia Pampa Mia” by Virginia Luque
KUAF’s Shades of Jazz host Robert Ginsberg spoke with Anat Cohen, an Israeli-born clarinetist. The musician and composer is in Fayetteville to perform at Walton Arts Center and Temple Shalom.
One of McKee Foods Corporation’s facilities, which is located in Gentry, recently achieved the “Zero Landfill Waste” status.
“Diggin’ My Potatoes” by The Sunshine Skiffle Band
The Northwest Arkansas Community College Culinary Arts course taught by noted Chef Tuesday Eastlack, has taken over the spacious kitchens in the Center for Nonprofits at St. Mary’s in Rogers. We visit the kitchen and student run lunch café, open five days a week.
To learn more, visit www.nwacc.edu.
The Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission is commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War in Arkansas. The Civil War Sesquicentennial will be celebrated between 2011 and 2015.
