“I called and asked for help and got the SWAT team.” Betty Young, owner of Riverglen Tiger Shelter, responding to the idea that tigers are being “rescued” from her facility near Mountainburg Article, 1BToday’s meetings
Leadership Fayetteville Economic Development Day, 8:15 a.m.
Fayetteville Airport Board, 1:30 p.m.
Washington County Library Board, 4 p.m.
Fayetteville Environmental Action Committee, 5:30 p.m.
Fayetteville Historic District Commission, 5:30 p.m.
Gravette Committee of the Whole, 6 p.m.
Sulphur Springs City Council, 7 p.m.
Today’s happenings
Discounts, Treats and Treasures, a Life Styles Inc. event, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Life Styles Blair Center, 5200 S. Thompson St., Springdale
Walk-a-Mile in My Shoes kickoff beneÿting the Ozark Guidance Foundation, 10-11:30 a.m., Pinnacle Country Club, Rogers
Holiday market, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Center for Art and Education, Van Buren
A Christmas Carol Today, 8 p.m., Rogers Little Theater Looking ahead
Artsy Crafty Holiday Cheer, 10 a.m. Friday, Fayetteville Public Library
Polar Express family time, 4-9 p.m. Friday, Fort Smith Trolley Museum Arts foundation hosts Nutcracker
The Northwest Arkansas Arts Foundation will host a Holiday Nutcracker Show at 7 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday in the Pat Walker Theater at the Springdale High School Center for Performing Arts.
The first half of the two-and-a-half hour program will be a variety talent show featuring local acts. The second half will be a performance of the ballet The Nutcracker.
The show will feature more than 110 performers. Tickets cost $15-$20.
More information is available at nwaaf.org or by calling (479) 595-8331.
- ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
Fort Smith Christmas celebration set
Fort Smith National Historic Site will host a Holiday at the Fort celebration 5-8 p.m. Saturday. The event will commemorate the Christmases of 1817 and 1889.
Christmas is historically significant in Fort Smith since the soldiers who established the first fort arrived on Christmas Day 1817. In 1889, Garrison Avenue was in the process of being paved with brick and the first lending library was opened for public school students.
The evening will open with caroling on the courthouse steps at 5 p.m. At 5:30 p.m., residents portraying Judge Isaac C.
Parker and his wife will be on the front steps of the historic courthouse to discuss the strides made by the Fort Smith community in 1889.
A reception is planned in the first jail at 6 p.m. Guests can also make a Victorian Christmas card, explore the old courthouse and jail or listen to Victorian caroling at 6 p.m.
At 6:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., a man portraying a rifleman at Belle Pointe will sing “Silent Night.” Guests walks for the first Fort Smith are also planned at 6:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
More information is available by calling (479) 783-3961.
- ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE Scholarship fund benefit planned
Washington County Lodge No. 1 of Free and Accepted Masons of Arkansas will host its first Light of the East Celebration benefiting the Single Parent Scholarship Fund of Northwest Arkansas at 5:30 p.m. Saturday at Mermaids Restaurant in Fayetteville.
Live and silent auctions are planned. Guests should wear evening attire; black tie dress is optional.
Tickets are $50 each or $375 for a table of eight. More information is available by calling (479) 790-9125.
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Northwest Arkansas, Pages 9 on 12/13/2012