• Mar. 9-10 Gun & Knife Show at Northwest Arkansas District Fairgrounds. $5 admission. Children 12 and under have free admission with an adult. Law enforcement officers are free with ID. Hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday. For more information, call Cindi (870) 221-1997. more

The Restoration Life Fellowship Church members are scheduled to begin the cleanup process to get the Fellowship Hall back in shape for Sunday School classes to resume. This will involve some dusting and cleaning of the walls and the flooring. more

SPRINGFIELD, MO. – Dr. Don Tosh, professor of mathematics at Evangel University, recently gave his 500th blood donation to the American Red Cross. The majority of these donations were achieved through apheresis, a process in which the blood is centrifuged, platelets are removed, and red blood cells are returned to the donor. more

CONWAY — The University of Central Arkansas conferred nearly 500 undergraduate and more than 180 graduate degrees and certificates through the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences; College of Business; College of Education; College of Health and Behavioral Sciences; College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics; and Graduate School. more

FAYETTEVILLE — Chelsea Rush Thompson, APRN, recently joined Washington Regional Senior Health Clinic, part of the Pat Walker Center for Seniors, which provides primary care services for geriatric patients. more

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Today is Taco Tuesday and it is 70 degrees and tomorrow they are talking cold weather and here the flowers are coming up and trees are blooming out. Makes you want to plant stuff. I am doing Spring Cleaning. more

With strong leadership, community involvement, and a shared commitment to progress, there is no limit to what Harrison can achieve. more

Greetings from Capps. How about those record-breaking temperatures we had last week? My car thermometer read 86 as I drove through Capps on Tuesday, although the official reading in Harrison was only 84, it still shattered the previous record by 7 degrees! more

Every Saturday morning is ‘Coffee & Conversation” 9-11 a.m. at the American Legion Post 340. Coffee’s free! Come out and catch up with your neighbors! more

The building repair for Restoration Life Fellowship has been completed. Tim and Kevin Saul did a very good job on that project. more

Hello friends… more

Judge Gordon Webb, retired Fourteenth Judicial District Judge and long-time former prosecuting attorney, has been selected to receive the 2024 Boy Scouts of America Heart of the Eagle Award. more

Lunch is served from 11:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. more

Mary Jo Grisham is a third-generation “Harrisonite” — ​​born in Harrison in 1937. “My mother Jeanne Walker Ormond was a great cook and my primary influence for cooking and entertaining,” shared Grisham. more

While surfing the Internet, I found a recipe for oven-baked chicken topped with fresh pineapple slices that looked incredibly good, plus the pineapple added a little bit of sweetness. more

Tim Saul and his son Kevin have been working on the Restoration Life Church Fellowship Hall They have completed a large portion of the work and it looks very good. more

JASPER — Newton County Community Matters celebrated its first anniversary and held it annual membership meeting Thursday, Feb. 22, at the Jasper Methodist Church. Members elected the new slate of officers and shared pieces of an anniversary cake along with other refreshments during the meeting. more

• Feb. 24 Daddy/Daughter Dinner, Bear Creek Baptist Church. 5 p.m. There will be dinner and entertainment. For more information, call (870) 741-7937. more

ADH produces a Weekly Viral Respiratory Diseases Report for clinicians. The report provides information on Influenza, COVID-19 and Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) activity in the state. The report also compares activities in Arkansas to the U.S. ADH receives reports of only a fraction of COVID-19 cases and flu cases since it only requires reports of flu hospitalizations, deaths, and outbreaks. RSV is not a reportable disease in Arkansas. Therefore, it is important to understand that the information in the weekly update is representative of the timing and location of activity, but it does not reflect the overall disease burden. It is presumed that there are many more people actually affected than the report shows. Clinicians and policymakers may find the report helpful in terms of communicating to colleagues and patients about the current status of viral respiratory diseases in the state and nationwide. more