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Weekly Echo Trivia

This comedy series followed Will Smith moving from Philadelphia to California? A Different World, The Fresh Prince of Belair, Moesha, Living Single? Who did not join the cast of Saturday Night Live in 1990? Chris Farley, Rob Schneider, Billy Chrystal, Chris Rock? The final episode of what primetime soap opera aired in May 1991? 7th Heaven, Dallas, Dynasty, Falcon Crest? This pop singer appeared on Star Search in 1992? Tiffany, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Pink? What actor provided the voice for the title character in Batman: The Animated Series? Loren Lester, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Kevin Conroy, Bob Hasting? The series finale of this sitcom in May 1990 revealed the entire thing had been a dream. Alf, It’s Gary Shandling’s Show, Mad about you, Newhart? In October 1990 The Simpson’s aired the first of its annual series of Halloween episodes known as what? Clubhouse of Doom, Treehouse of Horror, Fort of Fear, Dungeon of Distress? Who criticized the character, Murphy Brown? Vice President Dan Quayle, Johnny Carson, Gov.
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Calling all College Poets

The Poets’ Roundtable of Arkansas is once again sponsoring its collegiate poetry contest. The 2024 Pat Laster Collegiate Poetry Contest is open to Arkansas residents, ages 18 to 25, who are attending Arkansas colleges during the submission period of January 1, 2024, through March 15, 2024.
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Scones

The perfect little afternoon pickme- up are these little scones. They really are perfect and wonderful, just the right amount of sweetness mixed with those buttery flaky, pillowy soft biscuit layers are so dreamy. I promise these will be a homerun and you may want to double the recipe, so you have a few days between baking batches of these.
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Pets of the Week

Have-A-Heart Pet Shelter Happy New Year to all our readers! We hope 2024 will prove to be a good year for us all and for all the furbabies we care for! Our Cat of the Week is Tom. Tom (and his sister, Tina) were found abandoned in a parking lot at only six weeks old.
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Marion County 4-H

Ozark Mountain 4-H club members learned how to sew on buttons at their monthly meeting last week! This club meets at Bruno-Pyatt School and is led by Shelley Crombie and Stephanie Evans. .
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