As digital-first Gen Zers continue to encompass the future workforce, they are becoming increasingly eager to leverage virtual event tech’s broad reach to create communities with shared interests and values. Virtual and hybrid event platform, Hubilo, shares how these features help promote this social activism.
TApproximately 75 volunteers from the Bull Shoals VFW Post 1341, Bull Shoals American Legion Post 431, Bull Shoals VFW Auxiliary, VFW Riders Group, and VFW supporters were served a Barbeque Rib dinner in appreciation for their many hours of volunteering over the past year. They give hours of their time to serve and assist veterans, provide and deliver medical equipment to veterans, visit veterans in care homes, deliver quilts to veterans, assist with Fish Fry dinners, cooking and serving free Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners for veterans and the local community. (All monies from dinners go into the Veterans’ Relief Fund). They also send Troop Boxes to active military, organize and have a Children’s Christmas party, assist with Toy runs, have special recognition dinners to honor our local Police and Fire Departments, and many more events and projects for veterans during the year that are too numerous to list. The VFW and American Legion could not survive without the many dedicated, compassionate and hardworking volunteers.
Today I’d like to talk about the 16-year-old student at Mountain Home High who amazed teachers, coaches, and athletic directors throughout the 6A West football conference when he wrote a computer program that solved a scheduling dilemma that had stumped all of them.
Arkansas Razorbacks sophomore golfer Miriam Ayora from Barcelona, Spain, visited Big Creek Golf & Country Club over the weekend and watched some college friends compete in the 2022 Snowman Open. (L-R): Randy Lunceford; Tomas Mariscotti, (previous Lyon College golf team member); Miriam Ayora, (Arkansas Razorback Women’s Golf); Luke Jackson, (Lyon College golf team member); and Joey Sample. PHOTO SUBMITTED BY LANG ZIMMERMAN
Mountain Home- Arvest Bank is pleased to announce it has hired Steffan Davenport as a business banker, a new position in Mountain Home. Davenport spent two years as an intern at Arvest while earning a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Arkansas Tech, working in credit analyst and business development roles.
Go vertical to expand your outdoor gardening space, create privacy and add beauty to bare walls and fences. This centuries-old technique has been used to grow food and flowers, adding beauty and productivity from the ground up. Even those gardening on small city lots, balconies and decks can go vertical to expand their gardening opportunities.
The Legionnaires of Mountain Home Moose Lodge #1953 will host their first monthly fundraising dinner event of the new year this coming Friday, January 28, from 4:30 – 6:00 p.m. The menu will include a generous portion of mouth-watering stuffed pork loin with Waldorf dressing, mashed potatoes, corn, roll, coleslaw and a beverage.
Little Rock - For the third consecutive week, all of Arkansas’s 234 contiguous public-school districts have COVID-19 infection rates of 50 or more new known infections per 10,000 district residents over a 14-day period, but the number of districts in the “pink zone” has decreased, the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement said Wednesday, citing its analysis of Arkansas Department of Health data current as of Monday.
Little Rock– Arkansas Black Hall of Fame Foundation, in partnership with Arkansas Community Foundation, is awarding grants to programs that benefit African American or other underserved populations in Arkansas. Nonprofits with programs focusing on education, health and wellness, youth development, strengthening families and economic development are eligible to apply. Grants that mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on these areas will also be considered.
The Marion County Sheriffs Office will conduct “SLITTLE ROCK—The Arkansas Center for the Book at the Arkansas State Library is pleased to announce an online program featuring Nate Powell on the theme The Graphic Arts and the Reading Experience. The program is in collaboration with the Indiana Center for the Book at the Indiana State Library and will take place via Zoom Webinar on Thursday, February 17, at 6:30 p.m.
