QUOTE OF THE DAY “All this bill does is say they have to come
to the General Assembly, or to the people
for a vote on a referendum or an initiated act, and it gives us a little bit more leeway of what’s going to happen with this Medicaid system.We need to protect grandma if at all possible.” Rep. Jeff Wardlaw, D-Hermitage, on House Bill 1935, which would freeze eligibility requirements for people in long-term nursing care at current levels Article, 1BToday’s meetings
Fayetteville Technical Plat Review, 9 a.m.
Northwest Arkansas Regional Planning Commission, 1:30 p.m.
Bentonville Board of Adjustments, 5 p.m.
Today’s happenings
Senior Farmer’s Market Nutrition Program coupon distribution, 9 a.m.-noon, West Fork City Administration Building
Mary Jordan: Attracting Birds to Your Home Landscape, 11 a.m., Compton Gardens Conference Center, BentonvilleLooking ahead
Art talk: Views on American Chronicles, 1 p.m. Thursday, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville
College Preview Night, 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Latture Conference Center, University of Arkansas at Fort Smith
Garrison Keillor: A Brand-New Retrospective, 7 p.m. Thursday, Walton Arts Center, FayettevilleUA Fort Smith hosts jazz vocalist
Renowned jazz vocalist, songwriter, arranger and educator Rosana Eckert will visit the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith on Friday. Eckert will offer a vocal clinic at 10 a.m. that day and perform with the university’s Jazz Band and Jazz Catz that evening at 7:30 p.m.
Both the clinic and the concert will be held in the Arkansas Best Corp. Performing Arts Center at the Fort Smith Convention Center. The vocal clinic is free, while admission to the concert is $8.
Eckert has performed with a list of jazz greats and recently toured Europe as a sub with the Grammy Award-winning quartet New York Voices. More information is available by calling (479) 788-7554 or (479) 788-7538.
Tickets for AMP show on sale Friday
Old-time country band Old Crow Medicine Show is scheduled to perform at the Arkansas Music Pavilion in Fayetteville May 4. Tickets go on sale at 9 a.m. Friday and cost $32-$77.
The band has toured the world and sold more than 800,000 albums. They are frequent guests on A Prairie Home Companion and at festivals like Bonnaroo, Coachella and the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival.
More information is available online at waltonartscenter. org or by calling (479) 443-5600.
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Northwest Arkansas, Pages 11 on 03/27/2013