A large portion of Rector City Council meeting held at the Community Center on Monday evening at 6 p.m. was devoted to a report by Craig Johnson of CRIST Engineering, the firm the City hired to lead the engineering project and correct the waste water system problem that has been out of compliance with ADEQ for multiple years. His report addressed the initial proposal review including two primary improvement options and funding options.
“It’s worked out good,” shares Judge Mike Patterson, speaking of his forever partnership with wife Pat whom he met at First Federal Savings and Loan in Rector as he applied for a loan in the infancy of his real estate ventures. She opened the Savings and Loan as the manager, a position today that would be entitled president. “Those were the days that Savings and Loan establishments were important financial institutions and local entrepreneurs and regular citizens could establish good working relationships with them,” comments Pat Jones Patterson.
Once again this year, volunteers from across Northeast Arkansas will be manning roadblocks to collect funds in the Make-a-Wish Foundation, Have-a-Heart Wish-a-Thon. The roadblocks will be set up at various locations across the region from 6 a.m.
“We laugh that we’re both the luckiest man and woman on the planet,” said Shannon Parks Williams. “We’ll alternately say that in jest and realize we feel exactly that lucky.” What started as fun dating among mutual friends quickly turned into a lifetime of ice cream, community involvement, and family focus.
A workshop on “Introduction to Building a Successful Blog” will be held on Saturday, Feb. 11 from 9 a.m. to noon in the educational center of the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center. The cost is $35 per person and space is limited. If wanting to reserve a laptop for the workshop please advise when signing up.
Better Beginnings, a program of the Department of Human Services (DHS) Division of Child Care and Early Childhood Education, is seeking nominations for the nextArkansas Outstanding Early Childhood Professional (AOECP). Established in 1988, this award administered by DCCECE honors an early childhood professional who makes significant contributions to the early care and education field in Arkansas.
The Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum has announced the April reading retreat has been rescheduled to Sept. 22 and Sept, 23, 2023, due to conflicts. Please register as soon as possible and make lodging reservations as the retreat is limited to 18 participants. For more information, please contact the museum at 870598-3487.
A long-standing tradition of media competition among high school students continues this year with the Great A-State Media Fest. For more than eight decades, Arkansas State University hosted an inperson media competition known as “Communication Day,” but the pandemic changed things.
The Department of Music and A-State Jazz Studies at Arkansas State University will perform in concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb.