Residents who live and/or work in Rogers can contribute to a new plan for the area by filling out a survey at RogersLowellVision.com.
Ozarks At Large
Cars are rated for efficiency, as are appliances. But what about homes? Arkansas has an energy code for new buildings, currently being updated. As Jacqueline Froelich reports, while critics challenge organized industry interests that seek to weaken the new code’s foundation, market-driven experts are working to spackle the gaps.The Jones Center has plans to renovate some of its outdoor recreational facilities, while the city of Fayetteville has plans for expanding the city's trails network in 2014. And one Springdale-based poultry company issues a recall for more than a million pounds of frozen chicken products.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, two University of Arkansas graduates take us back to the 1927 Mississippi River Flood in their novel "Tilted World." Plus, Benton County residents prepare to head to the polls to determine who should pay for rural ambulance services, and our weekly installment of Arkansongs and more."Tilted World" by Tom Franklin and Beth Ann Fennelly, both University of Arkansas graduates, takes readers inside a different era,when Prohibition was big business and foot travel was as likely as horse or car travel in rural Mississippi. The two will read from their novel Friday evening at Nightbird Books in Fayetteville.
If voters fail to approve an $85 rural ambulance fee, Siloam Springs will no longer respond to 911 calls in rural areas surrounding the city.
The Arkansas Department of Health continues to urge residents to get a flu shot as the number of people in the state who have died from flu-related illness continues to climb. The IRS reminds residents that tax season is about to get underway. The risk of wildfire continues to increase across Arkansas. And Sam's Club announces that it will lay off roughly 2 percent of its overall workforce.
On this edition of Weekend Ozarks, we get a behind-the-scenes listen to what goes on in the KNWA newsroom, we visit a local sign-making outfit, and we learn about one local city's tree farm.
Here is the list of clips for our Denver/Colorado montage. We'll have Seattle next week.
1. Ho Hey by Colorado-based band The Lumineers.
2. Robin Williams, as Mork, introduces himself to Boulder, Colorado (where the show was set).
3. Earth, Wind and Fire (with three Colorado natives) sings Boogie Wonderland.
4. Jack Nicholson crashes through in The Shining (at a Colorado hotel).
5. Voices from South Park, Colorado.
6. The song Colorado, My Home from the Broadway musical The Unsinkable Molly Brown.
7. Joan Collins and Linda Evans meet for the first time on the Denver-based soap opera Dynasty.
8. A 1970s commercial for Coors.
9. Colorado native Ralph Edwards surprises yet another celebrity on This is Your Life.
10. John Denver with Rocky Mountain High. Of course.
Apologies to: Lon Chaney and Douglas Fairbanks (how do you get silent stars into an audio montage?) and Hattie McDaniel.
1. Ho Hey by Colorado-based band The Lumineers.
2. Robin Williams, as Mork, introduces himself to Boulder, Colorado (where the show was set).
3. Earth, Wind and Fire (with three Colorado natives) sings Boogie Wonderland.
4. Jack Nicholson crashes through in The Shining (at a Colorado hotel).
5. Voices from South Park, Colorado.
6. The song Colorado, My Home from the Broadway musical The Unsinkable Molly Brown.
7. Joan Collins and Linda Evans meet for the first time on the Denver-based soap opera Dynasty.
8. A 1970s commercial for Coors.
9. Colorado native Ralph Edwards surprises yet another celebrity on This is Your Life.
10. John Denver with Rocky Mountain High. Of course.
Apologies to: Lon Chaney and Douglas Fairbanks (how do you get silent stars into an audio montage?) and Hattie McDaniel.
Prior to playing the Ozark Mountain Music Fest, the band SX Rex stopped by our studio and played a few songs. Here is their original song "Am I Coming Through?".
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, digital ambassadors for northwest Arkansas explained, and how one furry Huntsville resident contributes to recycling efforts in the city.
The Northwest Arkansas Polo Club's season is underway in Bentonville.
Dr. Estes from Mercy's Bella Vista clinic discusses how to protect yourself against heat, ticks, and more.
A new theatre group brings a new take on Romeo and Juliet at the Gulley Park Gazebo and it promises to be good fun.
Snake Eyes and the Bug Band will perform this afternoon at 2:00 at the Fayetteville Public Library. Here, the band performs “Sew What You Reap”
Here are our ten clips celebrating horse for our Sunday Montage:
1. The Rolling Stones cannot be dragged away by Wild Horses.
2. Elizabeth Taylor in National Velvet.
3. Michael Martin Murphy climbed the charts with Wildfire.
4. Alan Young can't seem to figure out it is Mr. Ed's birthday.
5. Cliff Nobles & Company perform the instrumental EVERY high school band in north Arkansas played at halftime in the 1970s, The Horse.
6. The Marx Brothers crack wise in the funniest horse racing movie ever made, A Day at the Races.
7. Lyle Lovett praises Trigger in If I Had a Boat.
8. The masked man rides Silver at the beginning of The Lone Ranger.
9. Hailee Steinfeld and Dakin Matthews negotiate in the latest film version of Charles Portis' True Grit. (A blast of Arkansas)
10, And we end with a double-blast of Arkansas as Arkie native Johnny Cash sings Tennessee Stud, written by Arkie native Jimmy Driftwood.
Apologies to: U2, Patti Smith, Seabiscuit, the band America, Black Beauty, Echo and the Bunnymen, War Horse and that big fake horse rolled into Troy. Maybe next time.
