Winners in all kinds of competitions have area connections.
Ozarks At Large
Medically underserved individuals can secure care at twelve federally qualified community health centers in Arkansas. Some patients pay cash, on a sliding scale based on income. Others are enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid. But under Arkansas’s new Health Care Reform private option, these health centers may see their Medicaid income slashed.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks. A Facebook-job-posting-a-day approach to getting people in the Fort Smith region who are looking for work. Work Fort Smith is taking a small, but consistent, path to connecting those seeking work to those seeking employees. We'll also review the past seven days in Arkansas politics and business with Roby Brock from Talk Business Arkansas and two approaches to solar power…including area high school students taking to a swimming pool to test their solar-powered boats. And Meredith Martin Moats continues her series on books about Arkansas with a review of a study of the man who brought electricity to the state, Harvey Couch.A small, but consistent, effort is underway in Fort Smith to connect firms with job openings to people seeking work.
On this edition of Weekend Ozarks, we visit a cobbler, a saddlemaker and we hear music from Jed Clampit from inside the Firmin Garner Performance Studio.
Roads, electric cars and finding one's way through Northwest Arkansas, all in this morning's Week in Review.
On this edition of Ozarks we mark the third anniversary of our daily program. To celebrate the occasion we follow the tradition we established with our previous two anniversary shows…by devoting most of the program to stories related to the traditional anniversary gift for the appropriate anniversary. So today we have stories connected to leather…a saddle-maker in Prairie Grove, a cobbler in Fayetteville and more.
Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers says if you can’t find a yard sale around here during August…well, you’re not trying. At all.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, we travel back in time to take a look at the decade that was the 1980s, and The Jones Center closes in on two decades of existence and opens its services up to more than just families.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks, how little pieces of blue plastic are being recycled at Mercy hospital. We'll also go to First Tee of Northwest Arkansas in Lowell to find out how golf and life are intricately connected. Plus, we'll hear a song from Elephant Revival recorded in the4 Firmin-Garner Performance Studio.
Click It or Ticket, a local celebration of National Cancer Survivors Day and more.
“Until the End of the World” by U2
Becca suggests doing something this weekend. Options include the Twilight Walk, the White Street Walk and the New Play Festival.
FHS senior Henry Hanson reads his poem about his “third place.”
“It's the End of the World” by Vitamin String Quartet
Now there's a way for UA students to dispose of old textbooks that bookstores won't buy back.
The McNair Elementary Glee Club recently stopped by the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio to sing a few songs.
