QUOTE OF THE DAY “We started this project in good faith.We told
our community advisory boards and our
women that as far as we know, we’re going
to be with you for the first 21 years of your child’s life.” James M. Robbins, a pediatrics professor at the University of Arkansas at Medical Sciences, on his removal as a key researcher from the National Children’s Study, which involves babies from Benton County Article, 1BToday’s meetings Tontitown Area Fire Department Board, 9 a.m.
Rogers Board of Adjustments, 9:30 a.m.
Fayetteville Board of Adjustments, 3:45 p.m.
Fayetteville Parks and Recreation Advisory Board, 5:30 p.m.
Fayetteville Street Committee, 5:30 p.m.
Springdale City Council Committee, 5:30 p.m.
Washington County Services and Public Works committees, 5:30 p.m. Little Flock Planning Commission, 6 p.m.
Lowell Planning Commission work session, 6 p.m.
Gentry City Council, 6:30 p.m.
Gravette Museum Commission, 6:30 p.m.
Elkins Planning Commission, 7 p.m.
Today’s happenings
LifeWriters, 10 a.m., Shiloh Museum of Ozark History, Springdale
Opening of From Arechaeopteryx to Zupus, an exhibit on the University of Arkansas Museum, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Shiloh Museum of Ozark History, Springdale
Reservation period begins for American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville
Fort Smith chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution educational/patriotic awards ceremony, 1-3 p.m., Fort Smith Public Library
University of Arkansas at Fort Smith Percussion Ensemble with Benjamin Finley, 7:30 p.m., Breedlove Auditorium, Fort SmithLooking ahead
Fellini in February: 8 1/2, 6 p.m. Tuesday, Mullins Library, Room 104, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
MEMPHIS, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 8 p.m.
Friday, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Walton Arts Center, FayettevilleAuthor to speak at UA Fort Smith
Noted author, attorney, consultant and lecturer Hannibal B. Johnson will speak about his latest book Apartheid in Indian Country? Seeing Red Over Black Disenfranchisement at 7 p.m. Thursday at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith.
The lecture will be in the Reynolds Room at the Smith-Pendergraft Campus Center.
Johnson’s book deals with the legal disputes of the “Freedmen debate” and the conflict in the Cherokee Nation between blacks and American Indians.
Johnson is a Fort Smith native and a graduate of Northside High School, Westark Community College and the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.
He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and has a law practice in Tulsa.
He is also the author of Black Wall Street - From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa’s Historic Greenwood District, Acres of Aspiration - The All-Black Towns in Oklahoma and No Place Like Home - A Story About an All-Black, All-American Town.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
More information is available by calling (479) 788-7431.
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Northwest Arkansas, Pages 9 on 02/04/2013