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Womack Pays Tribute “The Coast Guard Lady”

Washington, DC- February 4, 2022....Congressman Steve Womack (AR-3) today spoke on the House floor to honor the life and legacy of the late Lois Bouton of Rogers, who was affectionately known as “The Coast Guard Lady.” Lois—a World War II veteran and member of the Greatest Generation—had a devotion to service and the U.S. Coast Guard that followed her through life. Womack’s tribute recognized her unmatched work to uplift her fellow Coasties by writing thousands upon thousands of letters to those protecting us from coast to coast. This lifelong patriot will be laid to rest in Arkansas on Monday, February 7th.
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Arvest Bank Announces Davenport Hiring

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.
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Volunteers Appreciation Dinner Held at Bull Shoals VFW Hoevel-Barnett Post 1341

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.
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Moose Lodge to host pork loin dinner

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.
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A Very Taxing Season

This year’s tax season is expected to be difficult. Even the national director of the Taxpayer Advocate Service recently referred to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as an agency “in crisis” with backlogged returns, staff shortages and other historic pandemic-related challenges.
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Covid19 up for third week

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.
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