Month: October 2019

The University of Arkansas at Hope will host a Workers’ Safety Conference on October 24 at Hempstead Hall from 7:15 am to 2:35 pm.  The conference is presented by the Arkansas Department of Labor and the U.S. Department of Labor. […]

The Hope Lions Club heard from Phoebe Bailey of the Southwest Arkansas Education Coop on Monday.  Bailey noted the Co-op started in 1981 with 5 employees and now has 62 employees.  

The Hope Kiwanis Club heard from Southwest Arkansas Arts Council President Dolly Henley in Tuesday.  Henley says the organization has about 250 members and also talked about the ARTS season tickets.  Henley also talked about […]

Historic Washington State Park took advantage of the new fall weather to host a cast iron cooking workshop on October 12th.  The workshop featured cooking with cast iron skillets and pots over an open fire.  […]

​“Mosaic” is defined in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary as “a surface decoration made by inlaying small pieces of variously colored material to form pictures or patterns” — also, “the process of making it.”  Sheila Keever, an artist who is very skilled […]

The Hempstead County Farm Bureau Bureau held it’s annual meeting Tuesday October 15th.  The Hempstead County Farm Bureau has been in existence 82 years and one of the first chartered in the state.  Farm Bureau […]

HOPE – Scout Troop 5 went on their annual DeGray Lake Water Sports Campout. The group stayed at Ross-Rhodes Scout Reservation near Bismark, Arkansas. Dr. Donald Sitzes, Ed Flagg and Ken Shafer brought their ski […]