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

Telecom Board subcommittee meeting Friday

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

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

 

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.

Shortakes to run next week on Public Access Television: Preview now on You Tube — you, too, can do a shortake and share it on public TV and on the Internet, and yours can be anything you want to do and share! Free service to residents of Fayetteville AR

Joe Neal welcomes 'our own Dirty Hairy, defender of the Ozark undergound'

Ozark burrowing crayfish photos plus story by Joe Neal

What yellow caterpillar?

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The night the lights went out in Georgia AGAIN

OMNI Peace Heroes to be honored starting with social time at 5:30 p.m. today. See details below:

Last minute reminder: Omni Center's annual Peace & Justice Heroes Awards Banquet is today, and tickets are still available! The big event starts @ 5:30 PM in the St. Paul's Episcopal Church parish house, 224 N. East Av. in Fayetteville (at the corner of Dickson St.). Please join us for a great time, fellowship and food! http://www.facebook.com/l/9AQDy973VAQBTDL06V1pWpTfSDp2fGx6ic3HVw98Cj-xaCA/www.omnicenter.org/
OMNI Center For Peace, Justice & Ecology
www.omnicenter.org
Peace Heroes 2011
John Coffin - Arkansas Coalition for Peace & Justice, Little Rock

Dr. Norman E. S

Marion Orton memorial service September 17, 2011

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A few of the many friends and family members who attended Marion Orton's memorial service

September 12, 2011, video to run on Fayetteville Public Access Channel week of September 19-23, 2011, on 218 C0X Cable and 99 ATT U-Verse

Spotted cucumber beetles and Goldenrod soldier beetle on late-blooming Asclepias viridis: Identification by expert on Flickr site

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Butterfield Elementary School in northeast Fayetteville dedicates its newly created garden

Photos by Terri Lane of Fayetteville, Arkansas. Click on images to enlarge.

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BUTTERFIELD TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is DEDICATING and CELEBRATING its new HABITAT GARDEN, TODAY at 3:30 at the school, rain or shine.

Please join us on this beautiful day!  Invitation and details attached.

Terri Lane, Project Leader

Community Wildlife Habitat Project TM

Swamp milkweed top-ranked monarch-butterfly caterpillar host plant on wet prairies and adjacent to ponds and streams in late summer, but tall-green milkweed tops on some drier prairies in September

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Swamp milkweed  aka Asclepias incarnata

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Asclepias hirtella aka  tall-greenmilkweed

Tall-green milkweed

Asclepias hirtella aka tall-green milkweed

Flickr contains next week's shortake photos at top for one day only. There is a flickr set with photos used in short-take productions in recent years

Photos used in next week's short takes available now at the top of Flickr site. View the first 43 to view them all. Video itself not available until Saturday afternoon or later. Three people recorded short takes at Fayetteville AR public-access television for next week. Why didn't you?

Short video clips recorded September 8, 2011, by Fayetteville AR Public-Access Television featuring photos mostly from WPWP

Park Board, Art Council and City Council all have accepted OMNI's donation of Hank Kaminsky sculpture to World Peace Wetland Prairie

Fayetteville art council meeting video online with Hank's presentation in the first 10 minutes.

Environmental Action Committee of Fayetteville invites all to help with wildlife-habitat project

Reminder: Volunteer Tomorrow! 

Habitat Garden at Butterfield Trail Elementary School.

Saturday, Sept. 10th 8am.

Bring your gloves, hat, water bottle, shovel and garden tools, if you have them.

Thanks, Terri Lane

treehuggerlane@cox.net

Changing Fayetteville's ward boundaries: Expansion of Ward 1 takes in big chunk of Ward 4, probably the best mountain habitat and a bit more prairie habitat. Council holds issue for third reading at September 20 meeting. Please show up to voice your concern about changes before it is too late. It will be a done deal after that meeting

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Tetraopes tertropthalmus, the red milkweed beetle, has unique way of avoiding the poisonous effect of milkweed plants

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People who live on Cato Springs Road between Razorback Road and S. School face months of construction pain as pipes go in and even the grassy swales along the road will be replaced by stormwater pipes that will put rainwater into Cato Springs Branch upstream from Greathouse Park, where flooding already is a major problem

Cato Springs neighborhood destruction begins at holes are dug to move waterline deep under ancient tree. See photos on Flickr.