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Aubrey Shepherd quoted on UATV on October 20, 2010, on significance of demolition of old grain elevator in south Fayetteville, Arkansas

Highway Commission vote could end mowing and dredging practices that cause erosion, loss of wildlife habitat and decrease beauty of roadsides in Arkansas

Please click on image to ENLARGE. Two hours after this photo was made on October 12, 2010, this area had been brushogged into oblivion. Sure, the swamp milkweed will sprout from its roots next summer. But these plants not only held pods offering hundreds of milkweed seeds but also were feeding milkweed caterpillars that could have made chrysalises and become final 2010 generation monarchs traveling to Mexico and with a chance to return in spring and find fresh milkweed on which a new generation of monarchs could have been raised to keep the cycle of life intact for this seriously threatened species of migrating butterfly. If you want to talk to your Northwest Arkansas representative on the Highway Commission, he is Dick Trammel.

Monarch caterpillars were still eating the foliage of these swamp milkweeds and the seed pods were almost mature when the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department Mowers came down the road and crushed and cut them off near the ground. Amazing hypocrisy for a state agency that touts its wildflower program. And possibly worse hypocrisy is touting its stormwater-protection work and then mowing and dredging ditches repeatedly every year.

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To learn more about the Arkansas Highway Commission,  please see AHC  link.

aubunique: Insect Festival coming up

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aubunique: Tree and Landscape Committee sets annual city tree...: "12th Annual Celebration of TreesSaturday October 9, 2010 7:00 am Town Center entrance on the Fayetteville SquareEvery year the Tree and Lan..."

Volunteers to be honored at 5:30 p.m. Thursday on south side Fayetteville square

Fayetteville to Celebrate Community Volunteers September 2

The City of Fayetteville will be celebrating and thanking community volunteers this coming Thursday, September 2, from 5:30 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. on the south side of the Old Post Office on the Downtown Fayetteville Square.  

Everyone is invited to take part in the festivities.  It doesn't matter if you wor with volunteers, volunteer yourself, live in Fayetteville or not. Everyone is invited and encouraged to come on out and celebrate the volunteer spirit in Fayetteville. 

This event is part of the growing volunteer program at the City and being held to recognize the community’s tremendous volunteer spirit.  Fayetteville was recognized as a Volunteer Community of the Year in 2009, and the City of Fayetteville wishes to publically thank and celebrate the volunteers and their important contributions to community.

 Mayor Lioneld Jordan will be kicking off the celebration by proclaiming September 2010 “Volunteer Month” in Fayetteville.  Local organizations will be providing refreshments and other tokens of their appreciation to all our community volunteers. There will also be an area for sidewalk chalk art for the kids! Free parking is available in the Town Center Parking Garage in addition to the downtown area single meters, which are free after 5 p.m.  If there is bad weather, the festivities will be held at the Town Center - Dogwood room.

 The City of Fayetteville relies a great deal on volunteers for many of our programs. Beyond that, volunteers throughout the community impact all of our lives in some way - either through direct service or indirect service.  Volunteers clean our community, better our environment, plant gardens, take care of our pets, educate and care for our children, and they help the sick, elderly, and all those in need. Volunteers raise awareness, raise spirits, and raise funds for disabilities, illness and numerous community needs.

For more information contact Julie McQuade, Community Outreach Coordinator, atjmcquade@ci.fayetteville.ar.us or (479) 575-8302.

City of Fayetteville

113 West Mountain, Suite 320

Fayetteville, AR 72701
(479) 575-8302

www.accessfayetteville.org

TDD (Telecommunications Device for the Deaf) 479-521-1316

 

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For more information go to: http://accessfayetteville.org/government/communication/volunteer/index.cfm

Request for proposals to manage Fayetteville public-access station for the coming 5 years issued for second time by Fayetteville city purchasing agent

Here is the new RFP with a deadline of 2 p.m. local time. The previous RFP brought in only one proposal and it was turned in one minute after the deadline. The purchasing office uses an "atomic-clock setting," which is about 7 minutes earlier than time one sees on CNN or Weather Channel or on your alarm clock or wrist watch. My computer provides "atomic-clock" time, which is supposedly more accurate for a given point on earth.

Ask Art Hobson to explain the process of determining atomic time. Only a physics professor is likely to explain it easily. And Art is a physicist who has been explaining his science to undergraduates for decades.

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