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Congratulations to Northwest Arkansas Times photographer and reporter who produced an objective front-page story for the January 28 edition of the Times on Arkansas highway department's watershed abuse

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For more photos of environmentally unsound practices of the AHTD, please see Flickr set.

Reporters are supposed to do what they did. However, columnists, editorial writers and bloggers have the right to express opinions. For an outdoor writer, however, there is a clear and overwhelming DUTY to write a strong, factually sound evaluation of the situation.
Juniper hairstreak butterfly's caterpillars feed only on the foliage of cedar trees such as those being wastefully and unnecessarily burned at the ADTD site on Arkansas 265 in northeast Fayetteville.

Bill Harrison's latest book drew admiring crowd to Nightbird Books on January 27, 2012

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Did you express an opinion you really would like to share with more people than heard it? I did, and I am sharing on the shortake-segment of Fayetteville public television for the coming week of January 29 through February 4, 2012, on Fayetteville's public-access television station, Cox 218 and AT&T U-verse, as well as on You Tube, linked below: Don't miss your chance to do the same every week

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To learn how and when you can have your own 5-minute short takes recorded, please see
the Your Media Web site.

Sierra Club sponsors important discussion of Climate Reality-Separating Fact From Fiction tonight

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- When
  Today
- Time
  7:00pm until 9:00pm

Description

Please join us for Climate Reality- Separating Fact From Fiction, a presentation by Dr. Robert McAfee and Joanna Pollock.

Pollock will speak on the Obama administration's national plan for preparation of water management in the US due to the threat of climate change as w...ell as the role of eco-therapy and spending time outdoors in individuals' mental health and willingness to advocate on behalf of the environment.

Dr. McAfee will speak about the recent climate change talks in Durban, South Africa (Update from Durban) and discuss climate change in Arkansas and talk about predictions to expect here locally.

For more information check out the Sierra Club newsletter:

http://arkansas.sierraclub.org/Ozark_headwaters/OHGnewsletter-winter2011.pdf
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Nightbird Books

205 W Dickson St, Fayetteville, AR 72701

View Map · Get Directions

November Council of Neighborhoods meeting served for November and December with the annual potluck dinner. Show up tonight (6 p.m. Thursday, January 26, 2012, and add some excitement to the meeting. Anything bothering people in your part of town? Come share it on public television and maybe on You Tube next week. Don't accept NO for an answer if you KNOW you have a legitimate isssue to share: The FCON listens to everyone!

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youtu.be/6vsQkB8mxf0

Today at Fayetteville National Cemetery and old livestock-auction site

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Aerial view, concept drawing and people forced to park on streets because sale-barn land now fenced off for year of construction.

Sierra Club's statement on SWEPCO wind-power purchase

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SIERRA CLUB STATEMENT ON SWEPCO WIND POWER PURCHASE

"The clean energy revolution is happening right now. Today, as a result of our recent legal settlement, hundreds of megawatts of clean wind energy will power homes and businesses in our region for the next 20 to 25 years. Unlike dirty coal, which devastates our air, water, and communities, wind power produces zero pollution.

"Unlike our neighboring states, Arkansas currently does not have wind energy production in place, although we are home to multiple factories that produce wind turbines and blades. If we did have wind energy production in place, SWEPCO could have bought it from an Arkansas company. Instead, that money to purchase wind power went to out of state companies and jobs. As Governor Beebe works toward the state's energy plan, Sierra Club calls on him to aggressively pursue clean, renewable sources of energy for the Natural State.

"In his State of the Union speech, President Obama didn't mention coal a single time but spent a lot of time talking about clean energy. Coal is on its way out. Clean, renewable energy projects--like those announced today--are the key to our nation's energy future."
--

Lev Guter

Associate Organizing Representative

Sierra Club

1308 W. 2nd Street

Little Rock, AR 72201

(501) 301-8280

Bill Harrison's friends and readers invited to discuss books with him Friday night

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Information about Harrison's latest publication and directions to Nightbird Books for the 5-9 p.m. gathering Friday.

Fayetteville meetings and events for Thursday, January 26, 2012

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Calendar of Events

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Fayetteville Council of Neighborhoods

City Clerk

Time: 6:00 PM

Location: Room 326

Housing Authority Board of Commissioners

City Clerk

Time: 6:00 PM

Location: Room 111

Firemen's Pension and Relief Fund Board of Trustees

City Clerk

Time: 3:00 PM

Location: Room 326

Compost Site open 8 am to 3 pm

Solid Waste

Time: 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Location: 1708 S. Armstrong Ave.

OMNI gathering group shot at end of multi-program annual members and friends dinner

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For more than 100 more photos from this event, please see this Flickr link.

OMNI's annual gathering of friends and neighbors late Sunday afternoon at Lifestyles' new facility

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Site Map for Sunday gathering.

Please click on image to ENLARGE view of Lauren D. Hawkins' new design for OMNI Center for Peace, Justice and Ecology.

New OMNI design by Lauren D. Hawkins in December 2011

2012 -- A year of consequence begins

OMNI Members & Friends Gathering ! January 22, 2012
6:00 pm
LifeStyles Building

Sunday January 22, 2012, is the next Members and Friends Gathering. Join your friends at 6:00 pm at the new home of sister -nonprofit LifeStyles, 2590 W. Sycamore. We'll send a map next week. They have a really beautiful and quirky new building that you'll love visiting. It's colorful, friendly and spacious... lots of room for us to do music, have a hot January meal, and fun breakout sessions, where the talking can happen. Join OMNI friends to ponder the future of peace in the uncertain new age.

Breakout sessions have been confirmed, and as always, there's too much good stuff. Here's what we have:

The Future of Peace- Jacob George and Gladys Tiffany talk about the glimmers of positive change happening, and give you something you can do to encourage young Afghan peace workers right now.

The Future of Earth - Robert McAfee, and several area experts are prepared to update you on things we can't help but worry about. Many of them are attending the Citizens First environental caucus
this weekend, and will have current info on upcoming legislation, hopefully including the state water plan, now in the works.

Future Leaders for the Culture of Peace- OMNI's Youth Programs is organizing work with college and high school age students. It's exciting, and if you're that age, or if you have family or friends who are... or if you'd like to find out what's happening, you'll want to be here. Meet the Youth Resource Board, and the Youth Programs VISTA volunteer coordinating the program. Pretty cool.

The Future of the Occupy Movement -- A group of Occupy Northwest Arkansas members are coming to update you on what the local and national movements are planning; including reports on the "Occupy the Courts" that you're invited to join. Friday January 20 at noon, meet on the Town Square in front of Odom Law Office at Mountain and Block. You'll march the short one-block to the Federal Building together. January 20 is the 2nd anniversary of the odious "Citizens United" court decision that made money equal speech.

EARTH DAY 2012 !- Last but not least, Donna Stjerna is working with area enviro groups on the annual Earth Month celebration in April. She has dynamo ideas about centering the whole thing on TREES, and has convinced the whole town to go for it. There's a big concert in the works, and other activities. She could use volunteer help, and of course it'll be really fun. Find out what the plans are, and where you could fit in at this session.
PRAIRIE: Lauren D. Hawkins and Aubrey James Shepherd share photos and information about the prairies surrounding Fayetteville and how to help maintain World Peace Wetland Prairie, a city-owned, neighborhood-maintained nature park that would not exist if OMNI's founder, James Richard Bennett, had not provided a donation of $25,000, (one-fifth of the purchase price of the land) to purchase this karst-based, natural flow-area of a large parcel of seasonal wet prairie in south Fayetteville AR.
Remember that the menu for the evening is veggie lasagna, fresh salad, bread and simple desert.
OMNI cooks do a mean lasagna.
For detail, contact Gladys at 479-935-4422 or gladystiffany@yahoo.com.
OMNI and Community Events
Veggie Potluck
Upcoming Events

Jan 22 - WE Connection presentation 2:00 pm - Showing of movie "Thrive" Beginning early to allow time for the movie, a bit of conversation, and preparation for the Member Gathering. Jan 22 - don't forget the wow-level OMNI Members and Friends Gathering at 6:00 pm

Photo and video from OMNI meeting site: Preview with more to come after the event at the same URL Internet link.

Jan 25 - Visiting Tibetan Lama - 6:00 pm - Geshe Dakpa Togyal speaks at Fayetteville Library. Author, teacher, on Jan 25 he speaks on "Modern Ethics & Traditional Wisdom." His visit concludes Jan 30 with a talk at UA on "Nonviolence." More info coming.
Jan 28 - Bicycle Coalition of the Ozarks Annual Member Meeting - 3:00 @OMNI Center. Everyone invited.
Feb. 19 HOWL moves to OMNI - 6:00 pm - After years of meeting at Nightbird Books (love 'em), HOWL will now move to OMNI on 3rd Sunday evenings. Wonderful women writers will read their own or somebody's fascinating writing. Everyone welcome to listen in.
Feb 26 - Climate Change Book Club - 2:00 pm, Fay Public Library Walker Room. Discussing the book "End of Growth." You do not need to read the book to join in.

Preview video short take to run for the coming seven days on Fayetteville Public Access Television

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Graveside service for Robert Williams at 2 p.m. today

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Visitation ends at 11 a.m. at Beard's Funeral Chapel in Fayetteville.

Obama does the right thing

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Dear Aubrey,

Thank President Obama for
Rejecting Keystone XL
and Standing Up to Big Oil

Huge news!
The Obama administration announced that it would deny a federal permit for the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline, which would run 1,700 miles across six US states bringing toxic, highly corrosive tar sands crude from Alberta, Canada, to refineries and ports in Texas.

The president stood up to Big Oil, backed by the voices of hundreds of thousands of activists just like you, who have built the movement to stop this dirty, dangerous oil project.

Thank President Obama for standing up to Big Oil and rejecting the Keystone XL oil pipeline.

I want to also thank you, our grassroots activists, who have worked so hard to get us to this point. This is a huge victory and proof that while Big Oil may have more money, we have what matters: the voice of our communities. Our victory is a victory for the boreal forest, for the Sand Hills and the Ogallala aquifer and for the protection of our climate.

Unfortunately, the fight is not over. Over the coming weeks we will need to work hard together to defend the decision to deny Keystone XL. Big Oil companies have launched an all-out assault on the president for not doing their bidding on Keystone XL. We will undoubtedly see a barrage of misinformation on Keystone XL from Big Oil in the form of flashy ads attacking the president.
Thank the president for rejecting Keystone XL and tell him that we aren't fooled by Big Oil.

Big Oil says the pipeline would ease our pain at the pump? Nope. This is a fight about oil company profits. The pipeline will actually raise gas prices in the Midwest by 10 to 20 cents a gallon, hurting American families and American farmers and putting a damper on our fragile economy.¹
Oil companies say the pipeline wouldn't spill? Not buying it. The last pipeline that was built like this spilled over 12 times in the first year of production.²
The oil lobby touts the economic boom and national security benefits from the project. The truth is the job numbers have been inflated and the tar sands oil is destined for export to Europe and Latin America from refineries in a Texas free trade zone -- i.e. no taxes collected.³

Now is the time to speak truth to power, to support the president's decision and push back against Big Oil's lies about Keystone XL. Thank President Obama for rejecting Keystone XL.
Thanks for all you do to protect the environment,

Sarah Hodgdon
Sierra Club Conservation Director

P.S. We need as many people as we can get to send this message to President Obama. Please forward this message to your friends and colleagues.

Homework for those attending or watching Tuesday, Jan. 17, city-council meeting in Fayetteville AR

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Jim Bemis comments at this link.

Please join us at Martin Luther King Jr. holiday events Monday, January 16, 2012, in Fayetteville, Arkansas. List linked below

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Martin Luther King Jr. Day events in Northwest Arkansas

Martin Luther King Jr. celebration IN 2009 in Fayetteville, Arkansas, included unveiling signs renaming Sixth Street to honor the civil-rights leader

Please click on images to ENLARGE view of unveiling of Martin Luther King Boulevard Signs at Razorback Road and the former Sixth Street

Fayetteville City Attorney Kit Williams rode up in a lift bucket to remove the cover from the newly installed signs, giving the change his full legal blessing.
In the crowd photo, Ernestine Gibson, president of the Northwest Arkansas Martin Luther King Jr. planning committee is speaking to the group.

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Preview of shortakes to run next week on public-access television in Fayettevile AR

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New York City's stormwater-management rules upgraded: Can Fayetteville match the NYC model?

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New York City's Urban GreenCouncil (a chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council) Web site celebrates advances in Department of Environmental Protection stormwater rules.

Stormwater Management As Mother Nature Intended

January

11,

2012

Russell

Unger

The same day last week the City Council helped us all breathe easier with a new law on chemicals in carpets, the Department of Environmental Protection released its new stormwater rule that encourages natural rainwater detention and retention, along with accompanying design guidelines. “Natural” here is not being used like the labels on cleaning products – here we are talking about honest to goodness mother nature. Rather than send rainwater to concrete tanks, sewers, and treatment plants, the new DEP rule encourages onsite reuse and natural infiltration.
It’s hard to overstate how much of a “180” this rule and the Green Infrastructure Plan represents for DEP, at least in terms of the principles involved. Until very recently, the only stormwater approach that mattered to DEP’s water engineers were those that could be measured in tanks and pipes. While we all know rainwater can be absorbed in the ground, directed into a rain barrel, and retained by a green roof, it wasn’t that easy to measure this capture. So it didn’t count at all for DEP. It does now.
The new rule is not a panacea for those who favor green infrastructure but is still a big step forward. The rule drastically reduces the allowable runoff from new construction and major reconstruction (a 90% reduction from previous limits). DEP will consider a range of approaches to reduce runoff including vegetative cover, green roofs, and permeable pavement. It will also consider open-bottomed detention systems that allow infiltration. Owners are required to provide maintenance for these systems so they work as intended. And finally, new developments next to a waterway must send rainwater into the waterway (rather than the sewer system).
Taken together, this rule implements 4 Task Force recommendations:

SW 2: Reduce Stormwater Runoff From New Developments
SW 4: Send Rainwater to Waterways
SW 5: Encourage Innovative Stormwater Practices
SW 6: Maintain Site-Based Stormwater Detention Systems

Another good day for green codes and a great way to kick off the New Year!

National Cemetery noisy as destruction of the Sale Barn and removal of the debris continues

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See Fayetteville National Cemetery site on Flickr for many photos of the area. Also, please see National Cemetery Neighbors and Friends Web log for more selected items.

Sierra Club's Ozark Highlands Group meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. today at Nightbird Books on Dickson Street in Fayetteville

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Sierra Club meeting tonight in Fayetteville. Details at link.

My shortakes running this week on Fayetteville Public Television

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Annual gathering of friends and members of OMNI Center for Peace, Justice & Ecology set for January 22, 2012, at a very special site

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January 2, 2009, Lioneld Jordan was sworn in as mayor of Fayetteville, Arkansas

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December 20, 2011, meeting of Fayetteville AR city council draws comment on several important local issues on a 3-hour, 37-minute video

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Blue Jay's cries attract Dec. 31, 2011, attention at World Peace Wetland Prairie in Fayetteville, Arkansas

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Picture OK, sound of bluejay good

Blurry picture, clear sounds of Blue Jay

Please see Christmas bird count by Audubon members as reported by Joe Neal

Slide show on video to run Jan. 1-5, 2011, featuring cats, dogs, birds, butterflies, native wildflowers, bad development sites both old and new

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Cardinals the most photographed Christmas-card birds in the U.S.

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A decade ago, we had a lot of pets: Lauren must have used photoshop to get this many of them to pose in downtown Fayetteville

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Please click on image to ENLARGE decade-old Christmas card:

Fuzzy white rabbit enjoys having nails clipped before devouring his vegetable buffet: Merry Christmas

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White with black spot member of O'Feral family lurks nearby waiting for feeding time

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Photo by Lauren D Hawkins

Storm enjoys peaceful, cold, sunny Christmas 2011

Lauren pets sleepy Storm on Christmas 2011

Arkansas fans enjoy Razorback's win over Louisiana Tech Bulldogs on December 22, 2011, at Bud Walton Arena: Tech fans appeared to enjoy everything but the final score

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Family members of a couple of Tech players drove up for the game in Fayetteville in photos above and below.

If everyone read this single book review, the way land and water are managed in the development process could be corrected in a hurry

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'Keep the water where it falls' might summarize the message of 'Blue Revolution: Unmaking America's water crisis' by Cynthia Barnett. Bruce Ritchie on the Floridaenvironments.com Web log
reviews the work and comments on previous books by the author.

Second take on shortake file video shares photos and comments on wet-prairie destruction north of Fayetteville's Holiday Inn Express PLUS Environmental Action Committee video of Dec. 8, 2011, meeting covers diverse subject list, including the prairie-destruction issue near the end

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More than 100 photos of mounded wet prairie parcel proposed as site for convention center on north side of Holiday Inn Express available on Flickr near bottom of urban infill set. A sample of the photos appears below the meeting video. Discussion of the site occurs near the end of the meeting. A slide bar at the bottom of the video allows a person skip over discussion of other subjects.

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View east shows tiny wooded-wetland tree-protection area on low corner of several acres of remnant of mounded wet prairie.

Mowing vegetation out of swale that carries water north to a creek unnecessary and harmful.

Healthy habitat important especially where it also protects watershed

Existing tree-protection area is best place for natural swale and sheet-flow surface water to soak in.

Ditch and pipe from existing Holiday Inn Express parking lot exemplies outmoded high-impact water management

Existing stormwater pipe causes erosion of big ditch that sends dangerous flow to swale along road toward creek, increasing erosion and flooding of downtream property.

Natural swale through wet prairie takes water to low, wooded wetland at NW corner of property

Park Board allows acceptance of money in lieu of land that will result in more habitat destruction on Hollywood Prairie despite plea to preserve wetland

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Slide show on video to be shown December 12-16 2011 on Fayetteville AR public television

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Trailside Cafe and Tea Room closing on Friday after three years of providing excellent food and tea of high quality

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Bad economy kills another great small business in Fayetteville.

Date: December 11, 2011 5:44:34 PM CST

Subject: Trailside Cafe closing

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Dear Friends and Patrons –
Trailside Café and Tea Room will be closed starting Friday, December 16. We hope to find a buyer who will keep the place going, but in the meantime we want to let you know that for our last week we will try to serve all our regular menu items EXCEPT there will be no further plate lunches.
All retail items including bulk tea, Christmas baskets, teaware, and books will be 20% off.
More announcements will follow regarding new ownership.
Featured dessert this week (while supplies last) is Rhubarb Cobbler. Come on by!
We have greatly appreciated all the wonderful people we have met in the last three years. It’s been an exhilarating experience serving delicious food and introducing quality tea to our patrons. Thank you for your input and generous patronage.
Sincerely,
Denele Campbell, Kadie Campbell, Jeb Campbell, Deste Campbell, and our excellent staff.
Trailside Cafe & Tea Room

Donna and Kelly bring a few friends to the stage late in their Still on the Hill winter concert at Mike Shirkey's place on Block Avenue in Fayetteville, Arkansas, on Dec. 10, 2011

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Dr. Paige Mulhollan, Kelly's father celebrated birthday night of this concert. Dr. Mullhollan served a term as president of Wright State University
1985
Dr. Paige E. Mulhollan becomes the university’s third president. Faculty members Thomas Whissen and David Garrison compose the Wright State University Alma Mater, performed for the first time at commencement.

Joe Neal's presentation with slide show from new book, 'In the Province of Birds: A Memoir from Western Arkansas,' fills the seats at Nightbird Books on Saturday, December 9, 2011

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Please click on individual images to enlarge. Check this Flickr link for more fans of Joe Neal.

Susan Young of the Shiloh Museum was among the several writers on hand for Joe Neal''s 'In the Province of Birds.' She wrote a wonderful book on Tontitown that was published about a year ago.

Bryan Welch and Hershey Garner chat near end of Welch's book-signing on Tuesday, December 6, 2011, at Fayetteville AR public library

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youtu.be/Lcjc2qvS01s
Utne Reader editor describes changes in past 300 years.

November 14, 2011, quarterly Mayor's Town Hall meeting video

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Mayor's town-hall video Nov. 2011

Bryan Welch shares thoughts from his book, Beautiful and Abundant, at 6 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011, at the Fayetteville Public Library

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OHG is pleased to present Mr. Bryan Welch, author of the book, Beautiful and Abundant, on Tuesday (TOMORROW), December 6, at

6:00 pm in the Walker Room of the Fayetteville Public Library.

I am writing to let you know that we have another big name in sustainability coming to Fayetteville on December the 6th. On December 6th Bryan Welch will share his insights with the Northwest Arkansas community and sign copies of his book, Beautiful and Abundant, at the Fayetteville Public Library at 6pm. Bryan Welch is also the Editorial Director of Mother Earth News and The Utne Reader. The Ozark Headwaters Group Sierra Club is honored to host this event as an opportunity to share the empowering message of Bryan Welch with the community. Mr. Welch believes that humanity needs a collective positive vision to inspire constructive engagement and positive change. In his new book, Beautiful and Abundant, he explores the power of human visualization and offers an engaging and practical method for building a collective vision of human sustainability one person – and one endeavor – at a time. Again, this event is Tuesday, December 6th at 6pm in the Fayetteville Public Library Walker Room.

Please use this link to read a sample from the book.

Please come join us and invite your friends. All are welcome!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Joanna Pollock

OHG Sierra Club Programs Committee

Buy the Book

Humanity's definitive challenge: Sustain our quality of life on Earth.

While we fight about short-term environmental obstacles and debate symptoms and solutions, societies fail to offer positive incentives for change.
We need a positive vision for humanity’s future to harness the full power of human imagination and community initiative. This is where Beautiful and Abundant comes in.
Learn how to make your lifestyle more sustainable, and learn how to look beyond immediate obstacles toward humanity's destination: a world that is aesthetically beautiful, economically abundant, ethically fair and irresistably contagious.
-Bryan Welch
Author, Beautiful and Abundant

In his compelling book Beautiful and Abundant, Bryan Welch challenges us to reframe our most pressing environmental challenges into a transformative, equitable vision of the future. His rich blend of practical strategies, poetic narrative, and deep curiosity will engage and inspire anyone intent on living a better life today - and creating a sustainable legacy for generations to come.
- P. Simran Sethi, Emmy award-winning journalist and Associate Professor of Journalism, University of Kansas

Joe Neal introduces 'In the Province of Birds' at 7 p.m. December 9, 2011, at Nightbird Books on Dickson Street in Fayetteville AR

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Hi Aubrey -- just wanted to let you know that Half Acre Press has a new book out from Joe Neal, In the Province of Birds, in case you'd like to mention it on your blog. There will be a booksigning and slideshow/bird talk by Joe at Nightbird Books on Friday, December 9 at 7 pm. Hope to see you there!

Thanks,
Liz

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lizlesterdesign@yahoo.com
www.lizlesterdesign.com

Half Acre Press
liz@halfacrepress.com

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Fracking causing quakes, says company doing the fracking in Great Britain

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Confessions of a Fracker

Nature photos on next week's video include frost flowers from this week and last year

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Beignet, sopapilla made from same mix: Difference is whether the product is covered with powdered sugar or honey

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Monarch butterfly's life story on PBS right now!

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Monarchs' incredible journey on PBS right now!

Frost flowers the morning glories of first hard frost of fall

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Verbesina virginica on Sept. 14, 2011, stem is frost flower in December

Ward Four meeting Monday included Fayetteville budget and several other subjects

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Planning Commission hears presentations on Kum & Go stores and Campus Crest (The Grove) apartment plans as well as proposed rezoning for Hollywood Prairie, a parcel listed on the Enduring Green Network endorsed by the City Council two years ago or more

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My takes recorded Monday to show next Monday through Friday on Fayetteville, Arkansas, public-access television

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Person who wants to remain anonymous contributes important message to share with people in Little Rock

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Dear Little Rock friends and folk who might forward this info on to Little Rock friends of their own----

Your water quality is being put in jeopardy by this decision of the Central Arkansas Water Commission, and you need to do something about it. EVERY one of you, IF, of course, you have any interest at all in what you put in your mouth and body.

http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2011/11/21/central-arkansas-water-meets-on-maumelle-zoning

http://protectarkansaswater.org/

These links should be forwarded to everyone you know that drinks water in Little Rock.

This "political compromise" by the Central Arkansas Water Commission is clearly one of the most stupid decisions possible in regard to water protection. If enough people call, write, and/or show up at the final decision making meeting(s), your right to clean water might have a better chance. The problem in not taking this personally and not acting on this issue is that no one knows what is "enough," when it comes to influencing the outcome of a vote by a governmental body, therefore everyone needs to voice their opinions. OR just show up and clap or give a hurrah when someone speaks for the watershed's protection. Don't take this "political compromise" of your health lying down.

Below are a couple of links to a great site about New York City's watershed. It is protected by forests, not eroding sediment into the water supply from subdivisions and roads, and it serves millions of people with relatively clean water. The water is tested constantly, and their watershed is understood as a filter and purifier, the total opposite of what the lame brains in central Ark are doing.

"The success of the program is one of the main reasons why New York City remains one of only five large cities in the United States that is not required to filter its drinking water."

http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/watershed_protection/watershed_regulations.shtml

http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/watershed_protection/about.shtml

Should you want anything less for your body, your city, and your state than what New York provides its citizens?

Get out there and fight these people, for heavens' sake!

Photos to be used in a short take to be recorded at 5 p.m. today at the public-access television studio on Rock Street in downtown Fayetteville: Got to record between 5 and 6 p.m. today because Fayetteville television center won't be open for the usual second taping of the week on Thursday. The employees will be thankful for the holiday

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Photos for a short-take to run next week on Fayetteville public television at this Flickr link Photos on public television next week.

Pony rides a part of Fayetteville's Lights of the Ozarks

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Saturday, Dec. 3rd, 10am-3pm at the Botanical Garden of the Ozarks. Fresh evergreen decorations, holiday baked goods, gift items, furniture, art, seasonal produce, gift certificates for 2012, Santa and his Alpaca Reindeer photo op.
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Flower, Garden and Nature Society to hear presentation by Steve Sampers, president of Northwest Arkansas Master Naturalists: Maybe someone will ask him how to identify various flowerflies and how to tell a flowerfly from a solitary native bee

2011-11-19T00:19:00.004-06:00

Please click on individual images to ENLARGE for better view of Heirloom Italian arugala (Diplotaxis tenuifolia) with two individuals from different flower fly species nectaring and for easier reading of meeting announcement.

Arugala, Diplotaxis tenuifolia, offers extraordinary beauty, nectar for late pollinators and salad flavor hard to beat

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Please click on individual images to ENLARGE view of two species of flower fly nectaring on Diplototaxis tenuifolia, an heirloom variety of Arugala.

Fayetteville public-meeting list extra large today: Fayetteville Council of Neighborhoods the important one for residents of the city who want to have their voices heard

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November 17, 2011

Fran Deane Alexander's presentation at Shiloh Museum draws retired and active journalists and fans of good journalism

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For more photos, please scroll to the bottom of the Conservation Groups and People set on Flickr.

Report from Truthout on last night's events in New York

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Last night, I watched lower Manhattan turn into a militarized lockdown. The park known as Liberty Square was apparently cleared by force, though I arrived 20 minutes after the police barricades encircled a two-block radius, kicked out all media and prevented all foot traffic on public sidewalks surrounding the park.

This was expected. The emergency text message went out at 1:00 AM and read, "URGENT: Hundreds of police mobilizing around Zuccotti. Eviction in progress!" prompting a mass mobilization of people like me, part-time protesters who signed up to converge on the park for the looming police raid on the physical heart of the Occupy movement.

The police were prepared for this flood of bodies. Many subway stops were shut down, as was the Brooklyn Bridge. My go bag had been packed for weeks, waiting for just this moment. I laced up my boots, and spent an agonizing 20 minutes on the subway from Brooklyn.

Upon arrival in lower Manhattan, I struggled for about two hours to get to a position where I could see into the park, to no avail. From a block away, I saw massive piles of what used to be supplies dumped into waiting trucks. People's major concerns were two-fold: first, the health and safety of the occupiers locked in the camp; and second, the 5,000 books of the Occupy Wall Street library. What a picture it would be (maybe it exists) of police in riot gear gathering boxes of donated books and loading them into garbage trucks. A perfect metaphor for what appears to be the intention of last night's raid: destroying the body of knowledge that had been collected by a movement just two months old, which was built by collective effort, literally from the ground up.

After four hours of wandering in groups and alone on the dark, empty streets of lower Manhattan, Foley Square, a park rich with the history of labor struggles in New York City, became the rallying point. After a short discussion with the handful of police on hand, Foley Square was determined to be a safe zone - for the time being.

Here I sit, watching the pulse of the Occupy Wall Street movement strengthen. Stories of arrests are being exchanged over a breakfast of apples and muffins. A sleepless crowd is beginning to be reinforced by New Yorkers from around the city as the morning news streams images of a camp turned back into a barren, soulless corporate park known as Zuccotti. But the drums are back. The spirit and the idea of the Occupy movement has only been strengthened. Today is the end of the beginning, and what has been built cannot be disbanded. Now, we stand at the beginning of the next phase, looking into the eyes of the people who created a new consciousness and a new politics.

Today is November 15, 2011, a beautiful day tainted only by the physical harm of those who left their blood and sweat on the cement of Liberty Park.

Please support Truthout as we cover this revolutionary history in the making. We're skating on the edge and we need you there with us. Can you make a donation so we can continue this vital coverage?

Mayor's town-hall meeting provides lots of important information for Thanksgiving and Christmas: Watch it on Government Channel later this week and next week

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Overall winner of Veterans' 5 K was far ahead of the pack: Link to final results and numerous photos have been added to this post

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Please click on images to Enlarge. More photos from the event are being uploaded on Aubunique Flickr site. Took all afternoon. 2011 5K photos near bottom of set on final page of that set.
Complete official results added.

Town Branch Neighborhood fought apartment plan hard in 2009

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Shortakes for 21-25 November 2011 say goodbye to summer and fall and reluctantly welcome winter

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Fayetteville: The Superstar among the shining stars of Arkansas

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After receiving successive Shine Awards, Fayetteville received the first Superstar Award

After accepting the award for the city, Mayor Lioneld Jordan stands with a few of the many stalwart supporters of keeping Fayetteville the leader in Arkansas environmental action

High water after rain in Northwest Arkansas as seen at confluence of West Fork of the White River and the Town Branch of the West Fork

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Election today (Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011) important to future of Arkansas and adds no new tax

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dayGovernor Beebe has called a special election for this Tuesday, November 8, giving Arkansans an opportunity to modernize our Interstates, support jobs, and improve economic development — all without raising taxes.

The Interstate Rehabilitation Program will continue the successful 1999 Interstate rebuilding program by authorizing the Arkansas Highway Commission to re-issue bonds for Interstate maintenance. The bonds will be paid by future federal funds and the existing 4¢ diesel tax approved by voters in 1999. No new taxes and no increase in existing taxes will be necessary to rebuild over 400 miles of Arkansas Interstates.

Join with Governor Beebe and support the 2011 Interstate Rehabilitation Program this Tuesday, November 8. By voting FOR the bond issue, we can make Arkansas Interstates smoother, safer, soo

Did you feel the earthquake in Fayetteville at 10:50 or shortly thereafter Saturday, October 5, 2011?

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Even birthday a great day to do a short take on Fayetteville Public Television: This nature video runs Nov. 7-11 on Cox Cable 218 and U-verse 99

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The Arctic Inuit and Climate Change lecture by Carlos Velazquez from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011, at Fayetteville Public Library brought to you by Omni Center for Peace, Justice and Ecology's Climate Change Task Force and the Ozark Highlands Chapter of the Sierra Club

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Ozark Headwaters Group Sierra Club and the OMNI Climate Change Task Force will host Mr. Carlos Velazquez, a renowned environmental educator. 
Mr. Velazquez will share with our community from his unique experiences living with the Arctic Inuit People. 
 
On Thursday, November 3rd from 6-7:30 p.m. in the Walker Room at the Fayetteville Public Library. 
 
Carlos Velazquez has lived among the Inuit people to gain deep understanding of how climate change has severely, altered their way of life. 
 
He will present: "The Arctic Inuit: A Harbinger." 
 
This event is free and all are encouraged to attend.

Fayetteville Council of Neighborhoods elects officers in October: Video embedded below

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Halloween delight

2011-10-31T19:38:00.002-05:00

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Shortakes recorded Monday, October 24, and Thursday Oct. 27, 2011, to broadcast on Fayetteville Public Television 218 on Cox Cable and AT&T Uverse next week: Preview now

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Honeyvine milkweed pods green now but will mature and open to display their mature seeds in coming weeks, so please let them mature before picking

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Monarch caterpillars often eat milkweed seed pods when foliage has already been eaten or when leaves are wilting

Milkweed aphids compete with monarch caterpillars and might have destroyed this pod had I not gently mashed and removed them

Honeyvine milkweed pod turns reddish brown as seeds approach maturity. Caterpillar may have eaten part of this one. The pod will split along the deep line soon. Leaves in photo are those of plant the milkweed vine has climbed. Vine dies back after frost and new vine rises from roots in spring.

A few green leaves of the Honeyvine milkweed still green on October 28, 2011, but may not be green after tonight's frost. After pods mature and are collected for seed, vines may be cut down in winter. They do not damage fences or shrubs or trees or trellises they climb. The clumps of tiny white flowers offer nectar to many species of butterflies, bees and flower flies in summer and foliage feeds monarch caterpillars.

Council of Neighborhoods elected officers at 6 p.m. meeting. Please don't fail to attend and run for office next year for the coming year or nominate somehow or just vote yes or no on the three suggested by the nominating committee

2011-10-27T16:34:00.003-05:00

Richard Russell new president of Fayetteville Council of Neighborhoods. Don Connor, chairman for the past two years, is now vice chairman. Stan Lancaster reelected as secretary/treasurer.

Blue and snow geese working over the lights of Fayetteville at 11 p.m. Wednesday, October 26, 2011

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What a wonderful pre-coldfront night in Northwest Arkansas.

Tiny white native wild orchids show up big on October 26, 2011

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One huge old tree to remain near sale-barn property corner but second one slated for destruction along with many old trees in the wetland floodplain along the Tanglewood Branch riparian zone

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For more photos, please see Tanglewood Branch set on Flickr and Fayetteville National Cemetery set on Flickr. Some pages from the current plan for Campus Crest student apartments appear at the bottom of the second Flickr page on the National Cemetery. Try this link. Page 2

Adella Gray announces candidacy for seat in Arkansas House of Representatives

2011-10-22T16:30:00.002-05:00

Short video to run Oct. 24-28, 2011, on Cox 218 in Fayetteville AR and on AT&T Uverse 99 in Northwest Arkansas cities

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Fayetteville National Cemetery continues to expand to South Hill Avenue thanks to RNCIC, but one-source stories never tell the rest of the story: Housing for low-income people destroyed and watershed of Beaver Lake damaged while developers plan to build huge student-apartment complex along the eastern edge of the National Cemetery

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Flickr set of National Cemetery photos includes many pages of Campus Crest plan for student apartments on sale-barn property and demolition of houses on S. Hill Avenue.

More information and photos at National Cemetery Neighbors and Friends.

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Cemetary to Expand Again

Wednesday, October 19 2011

The Fayetteville National Cemetery is one step closer to another expansion after the demolition of a house Wednesday.
The house was the last to go in a strip of four lots on Hill St. purchased by the Regional National Cemetery Improvement Corporation.
"When we buy a lot, we have to clear it," says RNCIC President Ron Butler. "There can be no buildings left on it, all the cement work has to come out, and all the utilities have to come out of the ground."
The corporation then gives the land to Veteran's Affairs, so they can conduct a site survey before excavating and installing burial vaults. Butler says the process takes time before the site is usable.
"You're looking at probably four to five years right here from where we're standing," he says.
The new addition is next to the last expansion, which added close to 1,300 vaults, but Butler says the RNCIC isn't done working.
"These folks average better than one funeral a day," he says. "It doesn't take long to get it filled up."
It does take time to raise the funds to purchase more property, though. The organization is a non-profit, run by volunteers, and Butler says he could use some help.
"We're getting old," Butler says. "We need younger people, every organization does."
He says anyone interested can become a member, or donate through their website.

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Migrating birds fleeing the cold front fill trees in our yard and on World Peace Wetland Prairie at dusk

2011-10-18T21:20:00.002-05:00

First true cold front of fall brings snow and blue geese over Fayetteville just as light rain finally begins to fall after hours of thunder and lightning went north, south, east and west of south Fayetteville: Canada geese have been bunching up and flying around Fayetteville's remnant prairies and ponds for more than a month

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Male box turtle now prowling World Peace Wetland Prairie in search of a mate

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Three-toed box turtles

Larry Lowman, former owner of Ridgecrest Nursery in Wynne, Arkansas, addresses Flower, Garden and Nature Society at 10 a.m. on native success stories by a southern nurseryman at NTI in Springdale while Celebration of Trees continues at Fayetteville downtown square

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More photos from tree-giveaway during Fayetteville's Celebration of Trees at Flickr.
Permanent link to photos from Fayetteville downtown square and town center.

Longtime park-department employees out before dawn preparing to give trees to Fayetteville residents

Fayetteville residents happy to get native plants for their yards

Celebration of Trees Event

The City of Fayetteville and the Urban Forestry Advisory Board will be hosting the annual Celebration of Trees October 15, 2011. Trees to be given away this year include Pin Oak, Swamp White Oak, Willow Oak, Bald Cypress, White Dogwood and two shrubs including Arrowwood Viburnum and Oakleaf Hydrandea. The giveaway will begin at 7:00 am on the Town Center Plaza. You must show proof of City of Fayetteville residency to pick up your plants.
This event continues a twelve year tradition of providing citizens with plants that beautify the landscape and provide community benefits such as air pollution reduction, stormwater peak flow reductions, reduced soil erosion, oxygen production, increased property values as well as psychological benefits such as reducing crime, aiding hospital patients with quicker recovery rates and increasing children’s attention span.
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Bald Cypress Tree Fact Sheet Hydrangea and Viburnum Shrub Fact Sheet Pin Oak Tree Fact Sheet

Swamp White Oak Tree Fact Sheet White Flowering Dogwood Tree Fact Sheet Willow Oak Tree Fact Sheet

Brief video recorded October 10 & 13, 2011, to run October 17-21 on public-access television in Fayetteville AR

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When will the Arkansas HIghway Commission clamp down on the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department to stop the mowing of important native wildflowers in highway right of ways?

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Please see many more of today's photos of mindless mowing of Northwest Arkansas highway edges at the bottom of my AHTD set on Flickr.
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If you have a gardening friend who calls late-blooming asters 'weeds' just point out a few species that were depending on them for sustenance on October 12, 2011, at World Peace Wetland Prairie in Fayetteville, Arkansas

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Checkered white Pontia protodice

Monarch butterfly on late-blooming asters

Please identify this caterpillar

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Buckeye butterfly on late-blooming asters

Junonia coenia (Buckeye) on late-blooming asters

Pontia protodice White-checkered butterfly

Please vote EARLY on Monday to renew Fayetteville's 1-percent sales tax BEFORE heading to University of Arkansas for a full-day observance of Indigenous People's Day 2011

2011-10-09T11:47:00.001-05:00

Indigenous People of the Americas Day Observance 2011 Planned

Will focus on the “Trail of Tears” in Northwest Arkansas

The University of Arkansas will offer a special program of events recognizing Indigenous Native Americans on Monday, Oct. 10, 2011, as part of Indigenous People’s Day, an alternative to national Columbus Day celebrations.
A documentary on Native American history will be shown at 10 a.m. in room 503 in the Arkansas Student Union. This screening is free and open to the public.
From 1-2 p.m. students, faculty, staff and the public are invited to present readings of historical and contemporary writings by native authors in the Connections Lounge at the Union. This will be followed by a procession from the Union to the “Trail of Tears” marker in the park near the intersection of Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard and Garland Avenue.
The marker commemorates the location where a thousand Cherokees camped during their journey to Indian Territory in 1839, over the “Trail of Tears.”
At 2:30 p.m. there will be a ceremony in which members of Heritage Partners will speak about the historic routes through Northwest Arkansas which are part of the “Trail of Tears.” State Senator Sue Madison and Mayor Lioneld Jordan will present proclamations on behalf of the State of Arkansas and the City of Fayetteville commemorating this event.
The University of Arkansas Indigenous People of the Americas observance is sponsored by the Honors Film Association; the Native American Student Association; the OMNI Center for Peace, Justice, and Ecology; the Honors College; the Multicultural Center; the Arkansas Chapter of the Trail of Tears Association; Heritage Trail Partners; and the Department of Communication.
For more information about this observance contact Frank Scheide at 575-5961 (fscheide@uark.edu).

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Please don't miss this important Sunday afternoon opportunity to meet and hear the inspiring message of Robert Swan, famed polar explorer

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	Sunday, October 9 · 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Location	1st Security Auditorium, Willard J Walker Hall, University of Arkansas

Created By	Michele Halsell

For	Sierra Club, Ozark Headwaters Group (Arkansas Chapter)

More Info	Robert Swan, Order of the British Empire, is the first person to walk to both the north and south poles. He will speak about his first hand experiences with climate change. Reception to follow.

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Monarch butterflies leaving chrysalises and flying to Mexico this week

2011-10-09T09:07:00.002-05:00

Fayetteville Council of Neighborhoods hears explanation of need to protect city services by voting for renewal of Fayetteville AR 1-percent sales tax on October 11, 2011

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City Hall October 6, 2011: Public Comment on Community Block Grant Program at 5:30 p.m. was canceled for lack of public participation, but Partners for Better Housing met at 6 p.m.

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Sulphur butterflies abundant on early fall native yellow wildflowers such as gumplant

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J.T. Wampler's new restaurant a hit with all who appreciate a tasty sandwich and salad made fresh with the freshest of ingredients: Even the salad and sandwich dressings are unique

2011-10-01T16:03:00.007-05:00

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Tanglewood Branch is the stream that drains the southeastern portion of Old Main Lawn and Down Town and Dickson Street area all the way from Washington School and crosses under S. School Avenue only four blocks north of the restaurant

Menu may vary from day to day depending on availability of fresh vegetables

Video mostly based on nature photos from World Peace Wetland Prairie and Pinnacle Foods Inc. wet prairie in Fayetteville AR

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Telecom Board subcommittee meeting Friday

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Downtown Off Street Improvement District

City Clerk

Time: 3:00 PM

Location: Room 111

Telecommunications Board Committee Meeting

City Clerk

Time: 12:00 PM

Location: Room 111

Fayetteville Ar Council of Neighborhoods meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday, September 29, 2011. Please attend and watch July meeting video linked below

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Fayetteville Council of Neighborhoods

City Clerk

Time: 6:00 PM

Location: Room 326

The Council of Neighborhoods did not have a quorum in August. The most recent meeting was in July 2011. Please see video below:

youtu.be/n7p6cE1BMYQ

Subdivision Committee

City Clerk

Time: 9:00 AM

Location: Room 326

Biden's aristosa with interesting insect at Pinnacle wet prairie west side of World Peace Wetland Prairie

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Video of Ward Four meeting at 7 p.m. September 26 includes explanation of importance of renewing sales tax by vote on Oct. 11, 2011. See detail below

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Monday, September 26, 2011

Ward 4 Meeting

City Clerk

Time: 7:00 PM

Location: Room 111

Honeybee on big sunflower at World Peace Wetland Prairie on September 24, 2011

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'Moving Planet Day' rally and Community Sustainability Fair at Old Main Lawn and Mayor's public trail tour today's events for those who didn't drive to Alabama for the Hog game

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Let's Move! Fayetteville with the Mayor's Trail Tour September 24th

09/20/2011

FAYETTEVILLE, AR - The City of Fayetteville is pleased to announce the upcoming Trail Tour with Mayor Lioneld Jordan, part of the Let’s Move! Fayetteville program, to be held on Saturday, September 24, 2011.

Area kids are invited to join Mayor Lioneld Jordan for a Trail Tour. Bring a parent or the whole family and join Mayor Jordan for a Trail Tour. The event will start at the Botanical Garden of the Ozarks at 9:00 a.m. with a free pre-tour of the Butterfly pavilion followed by a bicycle safety presentation by Dave Bowman and the Trail Trekkers. The Botanical Garden of the Ozarks is located at 4703 N Crossover Road.

The walking tour will leave from the Botanical Garden of the Ozarks around 10:00 a.m. and proceed up the Lake Fayetteville Trail to the North Lake Fayetteville pavilion, where families can enjoy a free healthy snack while being entertained by Shaky Bugs.

The City of Fayetteville is proud to partner with Beaver Water District, Botanical Garden of the Ozarks, Northwest Arkansas Food Bank, Jules Taylor, and Shaky Bugs to present this Trail Tour event as part of the Let's Move! Fayetteville program.

The length of this trail tour is 2.8 miles from the Botanical Garden of the Ozarks to the North Lake Fayetteville pavilion.

Let’s Move! Fayetteville is the City of Fayetteville’s initiative to improve the health of our community members, especially our children. ��Nothing is more important for our future than the health of our children because they are our future. We must do everything we can to give them a healthy start, a healthy community, and a healthy future,�� stated Mayor Jordan.

In 2010, Fayetteville joined a growing number of cities and towns throughout the United States enlisting in the Let’s Move! national program dedicated to solving the challenge of childhood obesity.

National ProgramLet’s Move! is a comprehensive initiative, launched by First Lady, Michelle Obama. This program is dedicated to solving the challenge of childhood obesity within a generation so that children born today will grow up healthier and able to pursue their dreams. Combining comprehensive strategies with common sense, Let’s Move! is about putting children on the path to a healthy future during their earliest months and years, giving parents helpful information, and fostering environments that support healthy choices. Let’s Move! is about providing healthier foods in our schools, ensuring that every family has access to healthy, affordable food, and helping kids become more physically active.

Everyone has a role to play in reducing childhood obesity; including parents, elected officials from all levels of government, schools, health care professionals, faith-based and community-based organizations, and private sector companies. Your involvement is key to ensuring a healthy future for our children.

Obesity by the numbersOver the past three decades, childhood obesity rates in America have tripled. Today, almost one in every three children in our nation is overweight or obese. The numbers are even higher in African American and Hispanic communities, where nearly 40% of the children are overweight or obese. If we don't solve this problem, one third of all children born in 2000 or later will suffer from diabetes at some point in their lives. Many others will face chronic obesity-related health problems like heart disease, high blood pressure, cancer, and asthma. Source: http://www.letsmove.gov/

There are many ways you can get involved in reducing childhood obesity. Let's Move Fayetteville Together.

For more information about the Let’s Move! Fayetteville program and how you can help contact Julie McQuade at jmcquade@ci.fayetteville.ar.us.

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Congratulations to Northwest Arkansas Times photographer and reporter who produced an objective front-page story for the January 28 edition of the Times on Arkansas highway department's watershed abuse

Bill Harrison's latest book drew admiring crowd to Nightbird Books on January 27, 2012

Sierra Club sponsors important discussion of Climate Reality-Separating Fact From Fiction tonight

Today at Fayetteville National Cemetery and old livestock-auction site

Sierra Club's statement on SWEPCO wind-power purchase

Bill Harrison's friends and readers invited to discuss books with him Friday night

Fayetteville meetings and events for Thursday, January 26, 2012

Calendar of Events

Thursday, January 26, 2012

OMNI gathering group shot at end of multi-program annual members and friends dinner

OMNI's annual gathering of friends and neighbors late Sunday afternoon at Lifestyles' new facility

Preview video short take to run for the coming seven days on Fayetteville Public Access Television

Graveside service for Robert Williams at 2 p.m. today

Obama does the right thing

Homework for those attending or watching Tuesday, Jan. 17, city-council meeting in Fayetteville AR

Please join us at Martin Luther King Jr. holiday events Monday, January 16, 2012, in Fayetteville, Arkansas. List linked below

Martin Luther King Jr. celebration IN 2009 in Fayetteville, Arkansas, included unveiling signs renaming Sixth Street to honor the civil-rights leader

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Preview of shortakes to run next week on public-access television in Fayettevile AR

New York City's stormwater-management rules upgraded: Can Fayetteville match the NYC model?

Stormwater Management As Mother Nature Intended

National Cemetery noisy as destruction of the Sale Barn and removal of the debris continues

Sierra Club's Ozark Highlands Group meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. today at Nightbird Books on Dickson Street in Fayetteville

My shortakes running this week on Fayetteville Public Television

Annual gathering of friends and members of OMNI Center for Peace, Justice & Ecology set for January 22, 2012, at a very special site

January 2, 2009, Lioneld Jordan was sworn in as mayor of Fayetteville, Arkansas

December 20, 2011, meeting of Fayetteville AR city council draws comment on several important local issues on a 3-hour, 37-minute video

Blue Jay's cries attract Dec. 31, 2011, attention at World Peace Wetland Prairie in Fayetteville, Arkansas

Slide show on video to run Jan. 1-5, 2011, featuring cats, dogs, birds, butterflies, native wildflowers, bad development sites both old and new

Cardinals the most photographed Christmas-card birds in the U.S.

A decade ago, we had a lot of pets: Lauren must have used photoshop to get this many of them to pose in downtown Fayetteville

Fuzzy white rabbit enjoys having nails clipped before devouring his vegetable buffet: Merry Christmas

Arkansas fans enjoy Razorback's win over Louisiana Tech Bulldogs on December 22, 2011, at Bud Walton Arena: Tech fans appeared to enjoy everything but the final score

If everyone read this single book review, the way land and water are managed in the development process could be corrected in a hurry

Second take on shortake file video shares photos and comments on wet-prairie destruction north of Fayetteville's Holiday Inn Express PLUS Environmental Action Committee video of Dec. 8, 2011, meeting covers diverse subject list, including the prairie-destruction issue near the end

Park Board allows acceptance of money in lieu of land that will result in more habitat destruction on Hollywood Prairie despite plea to preserve wetland

Slide show on video to be shown December 12-16 2011 on Fayetteville AR public television

Trailside Cafe and Tea Room closing on Friday after three years of providing excellent food and tea of high quality

Donna and Kelly bring a few friends to the stage late in their Still on the Hill winter concert at Mike Shirkey's place on Block Avenue in Fayetteville, Arkansas, on Dec. 10, 2011

Joe Neal's presentation with slide show from new book, 'In the Province of Birds: A Memoir from Western Arkansas,' fills the seats at Nightbird Books on Saturday, December 9, 2011

Bryan Welch and Hershey Garner chat near end of Welch's book-signing on Tuesday, December 6, 2011, at Fayetteville AR public library

November 14, 2011, quarterly Mayor's Town Hall meeting video

Bryan Welch shares thoughts from his book, Beautiful and Abundant, at 6 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011, at the Fayetteville Public Library

Humanity's definitive challenge: Sustain our quality of life on Earth.

Joe Neal introduces 'In the Province of Birds' at 7 p.m. December 9, 2011, at Nightbird Books on Dickson Street in Fayetteville AR

Fracking causing quakes, says company doing the fracking in Great Britain

Nature photos on next week's video include frost flowers from this week and last year

Beignet, sopapilla made from same mix: Difference is whether the product is covered with powdered sugar or honey

Monarch butterfly's life story on PBS right now!

Frost flowers the morning glories of first hard frost of fall

Ward Four meeting Monday included Fayetteville budget and several other subjects

Planning Commission hears presentations on Kum & Go stores and Campus Crest (The Grove) apartment plans as well as proposed rezoning for Hollywood Prairie, a parcel listed on the Enduring Green Network endorsed by the City Council two years ago or more

My takes recorded Monday to show next Monday through Friday on Fayetteville, Arkansas, public-access television

Person who wants to remain anonymous contributes important message to share with people in Little Rock

Pony rides a part of Fayetteville's Lights of the Ozarks

Flower, Garden and Nature Society to hear presentation by Steve Sampers, president of Northwest Arkansas Master Naturalists: Maybe someone will ask him how to identify various flowerflies and how to tell a flowerfly from a solitary native bee

Arugala, Diplotaxis tenuifolia, offers extraordinary beauty, nectar for late pollinators and salad flavor hard to beat

Fayetteville public-meeting list extra large today: Fayetteville Council of Neighborhoods the important one for residents of the city who want to have their voices heard

November 17, 2011

Fran Deane Alexander's presentation at Shiloh Museum draws retired and active journalists and fans of good journalism

Report from Truthout on last night's events in New York

Mayor's town-hall meeting provides lots of important information for Thanksgiving and Christmas: Watch it on Government Channel later this week and next week

Overall winner of Veterans' 5 K was far ahead of the pack: Link to final results and numerous photos have been added to this post

Town Branch Neighborhood fought apartment plan hard in 2009

Shortakes for 21-25 November 2011 say goodbye to summer and fall and reluctantly welcome winter

Fayetteville: The Superstar among the shining stars of Arkansas

High water after rain in Northwest Arkansas as seen at confluence of West Fork of the White River and the Town Branch of the West Fork

Election today (Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011) important to future of Arkansas and adds no new tax

Did you feel the earthquake in Fayetteville at 10:50 or shortly thereafter Saturday, October 5, 2011?

Even birthday a great day to do a short take on Fayetteville Public Television: This nature video runs Nov. 7-11 on Cox Cable 218 and U-verse 99

The Arctic Inuit and Climate Change lecture by Carlos Velazquez from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011, at Fayetteville Public Library brought to you by Omni Center for Peace, Justice and Ecology's Climate Change Task Force and the Ozark Highlands Chapter of the Sierra Club

Fayetteville Council of Neighborhoods elects officers in October: Video embedded below

Whooping Cranes need your HELP now

Help Save Whooping Cranes

Help Save Whooping Cranes

Speak Up for the Florida Panther

Defend Alaska's Polar Bears

Protect Wildlife from Fracking

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