Justin Minkel, a Springdale elementary school teacher and 2007 Arkansas Teacher of the Year, has just written a new book aimed at young readers.
Ozarks At Large
Justin Minkel, a Springdale elementary school teacher and 2007 Arkansas Teacher of the Year, has just written a new book aimed at young readers.
Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks, we visit a local yarn shop to speak with local knitters about how and what they're working on this holiday season. Plus, a discussion with a local man who lost his grandson in the Sandy Hook massacre last December, and how a church reaches out to the community with its healing touch.
Becca Martin Brown discusses numbers six through ten of the top entertainment stories of 2013. She'll tell us the top five stories on next Sunday's edition of Weekend Ozarks.
Healing Touch, an international healing program, is a biofield therapy, meaning it deals with the magnetic field around the body, to promote various areas of healing. The Healing Touch ministry at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Fayetteville is more than a decade old, and now has its own location, ten practitioners and provides more than 600 treatments annually.
Ahead on Ozarks, a company that began on the University of Arkansas campus is on a list of 2013's top technological inventors. Plus the founders of the Early Morning Bourbon Girls…Rebecca Champagne and Meredith Martin Moats…talk about the band's upcoming reunion show at Maxine's Tap Room and play a couple of songs inside the Firmin Garner Performance Studio.
The Early Morning Bourbon Girls will play again, one time, this month at Maxine's Tap Room in Fayetteville.
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Thursday, May 22, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, a conversation with the director of special education for the U.S. Department of Education; she says many with disabilities are capable of learning anything and everything that those without disabilities can. Plus, as strawberries begin to pop up in gardens and farmers' markets in the area, a group of national leaders in the industry meet in Fayetteville to discuss sustainable growing practices.
The Fayetteville Farmer's Market will devote days to area senior citizens and area kids next week. Next month the market will celebrate its 40th birthday.
The Walton Arts Center's biggest fundraiser, Art of Wine, is next week. Jodi Beznoska has more on the three evenings of wine tasting, plus the second half of Artosphere.
Four insurance companies have stated their intentions to participate in Arkansas' insurance marketplace that will be created through the federal health care law. Members of OUR Walmart are in Northwest Arkansas as thousands of Walmart shareholders and associates are in town for this week's shareholders' convention. Flags are being flown at half-staff today to honor the public servants killed in last week's flooding in Scott County. And a new postage stamp released today pays tribute to an Arkansas native.
"The Van Song" by The Brothers Comatose
Roby Brock from Talk Business Arkansas talks to U.S. Senator Mark Pryor about his re-election campaign.
"Equals" by Mutemath
