The number of patient visits to the Northwest Arkansas Free Health Center has increased from two thousand in 2000 to more than eleven thousand in 2011. Now the center is moving to a new, larger space.
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The Arkansas Board of Education rolls out a new progress assessment system for school across the state, waypoints in Northwest Arkansas may soon be easier to locate, and Rogers school district officials are looking at changing the way early-achieving students receive credit for courses.
On this edition of Ozarks, we learn more about a rug-making project at the Booneville Human Development Center. Plus, we have sounds from this weekend's Lights of the Ozarks celebration on the Fayetteville Square. Also, we'll hear the latest installment of Arkansongs, and Roby Brock from our content partner TalkBusiness.net delivers political and business news from around the state.Last month, an iconic figure of several social justice movements in the U.S. during the 1960s and '70s visited Little Rock to support new research efforts by UALR’s Institute on Race and Ethnicity.
The Lights of the Ozarks kicked off Saturday night on the Fayetteville Square. Ozarks at Large's Timothy Dennis was there, but if you weren't, here's a montage of what the festivities sounded like.
Patients at the Booneville Human Development Center have an important job to do. They make rugs as part of the center's Rugs Project, which brought in more than $8,000 through craft fair sales just last month.
Roby Brock from Talk Business discusses the 89th General Assembly voting in its first Republican House Speaker Elect since Reconstruction, as well as other political and business news from around the state.Governor Mike Beebe details his plans to cut the state's grocery tax, a fun run is scheduled near Eureka Springs on Thanksgiving Day, and the Razorback cross country teams end their seasons while the Razorback volleyball team plays its final home games of its season.
Ahead on this edition of weekend Ozarks: one one two three, November 23, a day dedicated to the Fibonacci number sequence. And, the final UA symphony concerts for the semester.Here is the list of our giant references for this weekís montage:
- John Coltrane performing the iconic version of the jazz standard Giant Steps.
- James Dean, Rock Hudson and Liz Taylor in the Oscar-nominated Giant.
- The ho ho ho of the Jolly Green Giant
- The band They Might Be Giants singing their song, Istanbul (Not Constantinople).
- Andre the Giant (along with Mandy Patinkin and Wallace Shawn) in the movie Princess Bride
- A scene from near the end of the animated classic The Iron Giant.
- Mel Blanc voicing the characters of Elmer Fudd, Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck in the 1955 cartoon Beanstalk Bunny.
- The giant version of the Staypuft Marshmallow Man attacks New York City in Ghostbusters.
- Russ Hodgesí legendary of Bobby Thompsonís ìshot heard ëround the worldî in the 1951 National League playoffs.
- Theme from the series Land of the Giants on ABC from 1968 to 1970. (Bonus points if you got that one!)
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Ahead on Ozarks, how community clinics will change, and not change, with the roll out of The Affordable Care Act. We continue our series on how the act will affect Arkansas. Plus a warm documentary made during the latter part of Levon Helm's life will have its northwest Arkansas premier Friday night at the Fayetteville Public Library…we’ll hear from the film’s director. Plus Joe Neal returns with the sounds of his high-flying neighbors…American crows. And the music of Nora Jane Struthers and the Party Line shines in their 2013 release, Carnival. They’re coming to Fayetteville later this month as part of the Roots Festival and we'll have a review of the album.
Here is our salute to Seattle and Washington (Bronco fans, we did Denver last week).
1. Nirvana performs Come As You Are.
2. War Games, set in Seattle, begins.
3. Jimi Hendrix, Seattle native, plays Purple Haze.
4. Agent Cooper gives high praise in (and on) Twin Peaks, Washington.
5. Seattle native Bing Crosby sings You Are My Sunshine.
6. Frasier Crane plans to get even with Bulldog on Frasier.
7. Heart, another Seattle band, plays Crazy on You.
8. Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson discuss a possible romantic meeting in Sleepless in Seattle.
9. Detectives Holder and Linden, from the fictional Seattle police department, order lunch in an episode of The Killing.
10. Seattle native Sir Mix-A-Lot and Baby Got back.
Apologies to: Eddie Vedder, Modest Mouse, Macklemore and...oh, about five hundred other bands and musicians. Maybe next time.
Becca says that area residents will have an opportunity to learn about Muhammed Ali and other notable African Americans at an exhibit in Fort Smith.
Here, the quartet from Siloam Springs performs their song "Rosa Lee."
The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality has a new program designed to help landowners clean up hazardous substances without being fined. Senator John Boozman offers his thoughts on the Farm Bill that passed the House and is now on its way to the Senate. And the state's attorney general is being asked to clarify the state's new voter ID law.
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Michael Tilley, from The City Wire, discusses financial numbers for Arkansas real estate, Tyson Foods, Walmart and the city of Fort Smith.
