Ozarks At Large

Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large

Monday, June 16, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, how the Children's House in Springdale is trying to help some of the most neglected and abused children in two northwest Arkansas counties. Plus, how a public forum tomorrow, also in Springdale, is designed to stimulate children's learning even when school is not in session.
The ground beneath your home, farm or forest is known as a mineral estate and in many cases someone else owns it. And those surface landholders on lucrative ground, such as the Fayetteville Shale, may be at risk. We hear from a mineral estates expert, affected landholder and state political activist seeking to pass a landholders bill of rights.
Students will be charged 25 percent more this year for health insurance compared to last year. Mary Alice Serafini, the director of the Pat Walker Health Center, and Pam Delaney, the student health insurance representative, explained these changes. For more information: www.health.uark.edu/insurance.
Roby Brock from our content partner www.talkbusiness.net recaps runoff elections in Arkansas and more in our weekly business update.
Becca Martin Brown tells us about Monday Movie Mania at the Rogers Public Library and a few other inexpensive ways to keep ourselves entertained today.
Festival organizer Steven Gates and trumpeter Richard Rulli recently spoke to Kyle Kellams about the fifth concert in the KUAF/Fulbright Summer Chamber Music Festival. The performance is scheduled for 7:30 Thursday night inside the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall on the University of Arkansas campus. The concert is free and open to the public. More information is available at http://www.fulbrightsummermusic.uark.edu