Ahead on this edition of Ozarks: how soup in Ft. Smith can help some area children have a better weekend. Plus students at the University of Arkansas will be in charge of soup, salad and everything else at the Crescent Hotel for an upcoming weekend. We also have a wrap up of the month ahead in visual arts and go to a church to learn more about how art and faith can be closely related.
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Later this month students in the University of Arkansas' Hospitality and Restaurant Management Program will be in charge of the historic Crescent Hotel.
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Orthodox religion is flourishing in Arkansas with churches in Little Rock, Jonesboro, and Fort Smith. Jacqueline Froelich takes us to St. Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Church in Springdale to meet the priest and church iconographer.
The River Valley Regional Food Bank has organized a soup drive to ensure elementary students have food to eat during the President's Day holiday weekend.
Arkansas immigration reform advocates yesterday praised U.S. House Speaker John Boehner's proposal for an incremental approach to implementing immigration reform. The state highway department has a few more developments in store for its live highway conditions website. A longtime member of the UA Athletics Department announces retirement. And wet wintry weather is predicted through the end of the week.
On this edition of Ozarks, a conversation with authors Rilla Askew and Timothy O'Grady. Plus, Mercy Fort Smith opens its new breast center.
Rilla Askew and Timothy O'Grady are novelists and visiting associate professors at the University of Arkansas. They'll read from their work Thursday night at Nightbird Books in Fayetteville.
In our monthly series on numbers, Dr. Edmond Harris tells us that the number 'two' is where statements can begin to be made with numbers.
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, we head out on the campaign trail with GOP gubernatorial candidate Asa Hutchinson. Plus, an update on SWEPCO's plan to construct a major new transmission line across the region.
Becca informs us how to watch the Miss Arkansas Pageant either in person in Hot Springs or online for a fee.
The summer band camps at the University of Arkansas not only have hundreds of young musicians, but also top professional talent to instruct and perform. Recently two of the visiting musicians, Mike Garson and Jim Walker, came to our studio.
Since the caves we've learned to avoid, at all cost, the stinkiest of Earth's creatures: the skunk. But one young Carroll County couple has bypassed all instinct to take abandoned and injured skunks into their home.
There will be a one-man band, a bicycle outing and art everywhere tomorrow night around downtown Bentonville.
The new president of Arkansas Children's Hospital in Little Rock starts her new post, but it isn't her first time working at the hospital. The Arkansas Workers' Compensation Commission will close one of its offices in Northwest Arkansas. Arkansas' Congressional candidates report their fundraising totals for the second quarter of 2013. And lower sanitation rates take effect for Fort smith residents.
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