QUOTE OF THE DAY “I believe he was joining the fraternity that day.That was bid day.” Scott Flanagin, a spokesman for the University
of Arkansas’ Division of Student Affairs, on a student who was hospitalized Saturday with possible alcohol poisoning Article, 1BToday’s meetings Fayetteville Audit Committee, noon Siloam Springs Board of Adjustments, 4 p.m.
Fayetteville City Council agenda session, 4:30 p.m.
Bentonville Planning Commission technical review, 5 p.m.
Fayetteville Equipment Committee, 5:15 p.m.
Bentonville City Council, 6 p.m.
Centerton Planning Commission, 6 p.m.
Fayetteville Housing Authority Board of Commissioners, 6 p.m. Rogers Public Works Committee, 6 p.m.
Springdale City Council, 6 p.m.
Tontitown Planning Commission, 6 p.m.
Fayetteville Street Committee, 6:15 p.m.
Rogers Transportation Committee, 6:15 p.m.
Rogers City Council, 6:30 p.m.
Today’s happenings
Grant Writing: The Next Step, 1-4 p.m., The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow, Eureka Springs
UAMS science time, 3 p.m., Mulberry Public Library
Buffalo National River Partners program: Essie Ward, Grandma Moses of the Ozarks, 5:30 p.m., Boone County Library, Harrison
Fellini in February: La Dolce Vita, 6 p.m., Mullins Library, Room 104, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Auditions for Steel Magnolias, 7 p.m., Fort Smith Little Theatre Looking ahead
Read Across America, 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, Springdale Public Library
Farm, food festival starts Thursday
The third Dig In! Food and Farming Festival will be Thursday, Friday and Saturday at the University of Arkansas Global Campus on the Fayetteville square.
The festival will celebrate local food, farms and gardens with films, classes, an information fair, a seed swap and food tastings. This year’s keynote speaker will be Brad Lancaster of Tucson, Ariz.
Lancaster is known for creating a garden near his desert home by harvesting more than 100,000 gallons of rainwater.
His oasis includes food-bearing shade trees, gardens and a thriving landscape for wildlife.
Admission to classes and films is by donation; suggested fee is $5. The information fair and seed swap are free and open to the public.
More information is available by calling (479) 856-2088.
- ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTEBikini Atoll commemoration set
Northwest Arkansas Community College in Bentonville will host an event commemorating the victims of the March 1, 1954, thermonuclear detonation that contaminated Bikini Atoll and the surrounding islands at noon Thursday in Student Center 108. The event is part of the college’s themed semester on the Marshall Islands.
Republic of the Marshall Islands Consul General Carmen Chong Gum and Columbia University fellow Jessica Schwartz will speak at the event. A candlelight service, a screening of footage showing the effects of nuclear testing, a reading of victims’ names and Marshallese music are also planned.
The U.S. military conducted nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands from 1946 to 1958. The weapon used during the March 1, 1954, test, known as Castle Bravo, was 7,000 times the force of the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, at the end of World War II.
The commemoration is free and open to the public.
More information is available by calling (479) 619-2231.
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Northwest Arkansas, Pages 9 on 02/26/2013