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Posted on Wednesday, September 3, 2008
QUOTE OF THE DAY “It could be a case of going home on Friday and coming back on Monday, and we don’t want to put them through that.” Maj. Keith Moore, spokesman for the Arkansas National Guard, on sending New Orleans area evacuees home when there are three more storms approaching
Article, 1 B Today’s meetings Springdale Traffic Committee, 1 p. m. Fayetteville Historic District Commission subcommittee, 2 p. m. Benton County technical advisory committee for planning, 5: 30 p. m. Fayetteville Arts Council, 6 p. m. Today’s happenings Madison County Fair, all day, Sky High Rodeo Arena, Huntsville Carroll County Fair, all day, Carroll County Fairgrounds, Berryville Johnson County Fair, all day, fairgrounds, Clarksville South Logan County Fair, all day, fairgrounds, Booneville Looking ahead Pinnacle Hills Art Festival and Taste of Rogers, all day Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Pinnacle Hills Promenade, Rogers 38 th annual Antique Automobile Festival, all day Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Pine Mountain Village, Eureka Springs The Children’s Hour Preschool Charity Golf Tournament, 1 p. m. Friday, Lost Springs Golf and Athletic Club, Rogers Ozark Mountain Gospel Festival, 3-6 p. m. Friday, 10 a. m.-6 p. m. Saturday, 10 a. m.-5 p. m. Sunday, downtown Eureka Springs First Friday, 5-9 p. m. Friday, downtown Bentonville Donald Harington: A reading from Farther Along, 5: 30 p. m. Friday, Crystal Bridges at the Massey, Bentonville Egyptian excavation subject of talk Professor Barry Kemp of Cambridge University will speak on “Meeting the Dead at Amarna, Egypt” at 4 p. m. Sept. 10 in Giffels Auditorium at Old Main on the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville campus. Kemp is director of the excavations at Amarna, which was used as a short-lived capital by Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten around 1300 B. C. More information is available by calling (479 ) 575-2508.
— ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE ‘Happy Hour Tour’ comes to Fort Smith Comedian and motivational speaker Bernie McGrenahan will bring his “Happy Hour Tour,” which promotes responsible drinking, to the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith’s Smith-Pendergraft Campus Center at 5: 30 p. m. Sept. 16. A former drinker, McGrenahan will use humor in discussing his substance abuse problems. The event is part of the school’s Wellness Week. Admission is $ 5 for dinner and the performance and $ 2 for the performance only. Proceeds benefit Harbor House, a substance abuse treatment facility in Fort Smith. More information is available by calling (479 ) 788-7319.
— ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE Dance With the Stars is Sept. 18 Dancing with the Northwest Arkansas Stars, a charity dance benefit for Reality Check Inc., will begin at 6: 30 p. m. Sept. 18 at the Million Air Jet Hangar at Fayetteville’s Drake Field. Prominent residents will partner with trained ballroom dancers to compete in a dance competition. Local stars expected to dance include Miss Arkansas Rachel Howells; Dick Trammel of Arvest Bank; former Razorbacks Curt Davis and Bruce Lahay; and KFSM reporter Mary Marsh. A silent auction will be held at 6: 30 p. m., followed by the dance competition at 7: 30 p. m. Reality Check Inc. is a nonprofit organization that promotes abstinence. More information is available at www. realitycheckinc. org.
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