Stories from Friday, July 19, 2019

Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge (TCWR) is partnering with Big Sugar Golf Club in Pea Ridge to host the second annual Golf to the Rescue charity tournament from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 2. The cost is $240 for a four-person team and $20 for each optional team mulligan and tee blaster. Breakfast and lunch is complimentary to all participants and prizes for first, second and third place, as well as longest drive and closest-to-the-pin participants, will be awarded...

Nonprofits in Carroll County can visit arcf.org/givingtree beginning July 10 to apply online for Giving Tree Grants through Carroll County Community Foundation, the local branch of Arkansas Community Foundation. Applications must be submitted by Aug. 15...

Sweetie's (No. F16-0065) name says it all. She loves people and would make a great lap cat. She is an inside-only kitty and prefers to be the only cat in the household. This muted calico is turning 6 years old on Aug. 2 and really wants to celebrate it in her forever home. ...

The Holiday Island Art Guild is accepting entries for its 31st Annual Art Show, scheduled for Aug. 23-25 at 1 Country Club Drive in Holiday Island. Each first place winner in six categories will receive a $150 cash prize. The categories are works on canvas, works on paper, mixed media, photography, manipulated photography and 3-dimension/sculpture...

Community Blood Center of the Ozarks (CBCO) reports less than a three-day supply of type A Positive and O negative blood.  CBCO is the sole local provider of blood for patients at more than 40 area hospitals in southwest Missouri, northwest Arkansas and southeast Kansas. Sick and injured hospital patients depend on CBCO donors to provide the lifesaving blood they need...

The new tenants of the Methodist Echo Village house enter their home for the first time on Tuesday, July 2. The transitional living arrangement is for 18 months and includes a full mentoring program for the family. A mom and her two young boys are glad to call this brand-new house their home...

The latest addition to the Carroll County Arkansas Pioneer Park and Cemetery is the Little Red School House from Pension Mountain. It was moved from its original location south of town in October of 2017. While the project was mostly funded by the city of Berryville, businesses and individuals have contributed a great deal of time, services, equipment and effort to get the building to this point.

The United States Women's National Soccer Team has been a hot topic over the past couple of weeks. The team won the Women's World Cup on July 7, just four months after suing the U.S. Soccer Federation over gender discrimination. In the lawsuit, the team alleges its parent organization pays the women's team less, gives them unequal playing conditions and does not promote their games as much as the men's team...

Hopefully, by the time this column is published I’ll be disconnected from the rest of the world, cruising around the Caribbean on a large boat. I say hopefully because the weather has thrown a prospective monkey wrench into my travel plans. As I write this, on a Friday, New Orleans is bracing for the impact of Tropical Storm Barry, which is expected to hit the Gulf Coast as a Category 1 hurricane on Saturday...

Poverty. Disease. Famine. Malaria. Drought. What would cause a man to leave the prosperity of the United States and travel to the war-weary nation of Uganda? What would propel a couple to embark on the adventure of a lifetime, absent from home, family, and friends? The answer is simple: love...

Arkansas Musicworks Brass Band returns to Eureka Springs Aud July 27 Arkansas Musicworks Brass Band brings their national award winning sound to communities throughout Northwest Arkansas this summer, with a free concert at the Eureka Springs City Auditorium at 7 p.m. Saturday, July 27...

The Green Forest City Council voted Tuesday, July 9, to allow Entegrity to perform an investment-grade audit to determine how much money the city can save by updating outdated water readers and possibly installing solar infrastructure.

Flint Street Fellowship is honoring its former director with a program that will meet a major need in the community.

It's official: Lacey Ekberg is the new executive director of the Eureka Springs City Advertising and Promotion Commission.

Lake Leatherwood City Park's swim beach is still shut down.

If you've ever considered volunteering with CASA of Northwest Arkansas, now is the time.

Concerned citizens packed the Carroll Electric Community Room on Friday, July 12, at a meeting addressing Legacy Mining Company's exploratory drilling in the Winona township near Keels Creek and the Kings River, but two chairs sat empty facing the crowd.