LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The Blue & You Foundation for a Healthier Arkansas is currently accepting grant applications from public schools, governmental agencies and nonprofit groups across the Natural State. Grants of up to $150,000 are available to support programs focusing on:
June is National Men’s Health Month! This month is all about encouraging the men in our lives -fathers, brothers, husbands, uncles, nephews - to take care of their themselves by eating right, exercising, and working to prevent disease.
Jim Harris; Managing Editor Arkansas Wildlife Magazine Reports are updated weekly, although some reports may be published for two weeks if updates are not received promptly or if reporters say conditions haven’t changed. Lake Charles (Updated 6-16-2022) Shelly Jeffrey at Lake Charles State Park (870-878-6595) is back from vacation and reports that bream are biting! Try worms.
Coffee by my side, I sit on the dock, overlooking North Arm Bay of Lake Minnetonka. It is 6:02 a.m. Everyone who writes about these sorts of times describes it as quiet and peaceful. They deliberately ignore the Hitchcockian quantities of birds hellbent on their morning song. It’s loud out here. A family of geese paddle somewhere slowly, honking. A loon calls someone, maybe his mother. I face east which means the sunrise is directly in front of me, just above the horizon. Sunrises are a bit like the Minnesota Vikings, best enjoyed with a gaze that I’ll call indirect. I do not wish to be the guy wearing sunglasses at six a.m., but I suppose we all have a cross to bear.
I feel as if I need a retreat. You know, one of those deals where you look inward, connect with the universal harmonic vibe and focus on life skills.
There were 33 people who enjoyed the third week of the Corning Public Library’s summer reading program. Children and adults enjoyed watching Renee Bliss perform a puppet show and read a story during the summer reading program on Tuesday, June 21.
Little Rock, AR – The Arkansas Legislative Council on Friday, June 17, approved the creation of and funding for the Dementia Respite Care Pilot Program to support the 93,000+ Arkansans providing care for loved ones with Alzheimer’s or other dementias. The program, the first of its kind in Arkansas, was established by the Alzheimer’s and Dementia Advisory Council, part of Act 391 of the 93rd General Assembly.
Corning Mayor Greg Ahrent reminds residents that the city ordinance regarding fireworks prohibits the use of fireworks after 10 p.m. each evening through Sunday, July 10, 2022. Fireworks are prohibited within the city limits after the July 10 deadline.
The soffit was replaced at the M.B. Ainley, Jr. Community Center on Saturday, June 18. It was blown out during a storm and was on backorder. When the material arrived, a gentleman named Hollywood with Universal Builders went to work installing it with the assistance of a co-worker. Photo/Pam Lowe
Cody Ketcherside plays around of golf at the Victory Lake Golf Course on Saturday afternoon. Ketcherside was accompanied by his grandfather, Freddy White.