Quantia "Key" Fletcher, who joined Mosaic Templars Cultural Center in 2008, has been named as museum director as an expansive Smithsonian exhibit gets installed across two floors of the museum.
Grounded In Love: Man Finds 2.2-Carat Diamond For Engagement Ring - Across America, US - Since before he was old enough to shave, Christian Liden dreamed of creating a one-of-a-kind engagement ring from gold and gems he mined.
It’s thrilling when hard work pays off. For years, 26-year-old Christian Liden, of Poulsbo, Wash., has wanted to find the raw materials to make his own engagement ring. He started by panning for gold around his home state. After five years, he had accumulated enough for the ring. Liden recently embarked on a mining excursion that led him across the country to Arkansas’s Crater of Diamonds State Park to collect gemstones for his creation.
Liden and a longtime friend left Washington on May 1. They built their own mining equipment to search with and tested it at a Montana sapphire mine along the way. The friends arrived at Arkansas’s diamond site late on Friday, May 7. “We spent about an hour in the field that afternoon and returned early the next morning to mine all day,” Liden said.
Joy Barlogie of the Arkansas Hospitality Association in Little Rock
Joy Barlogie has joined the Arkansas Hospitality Association in Little Rock as vice president of marketing, development and membership.
Barlogie is responsible for enhancing the marketing and communication of the organization’s message to promote membership, special programs, member and industry events, workforce and career promotion and tourism development.
Before joining the AHA, Barlogie was the director of research and development at the Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage & Tourism.
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Mountain Home council members officially gave their blessing Thursday night for the city to apply for a grant to help build an all-access playground. Council members voted 8-0 in favor of the city applying for the grant, which is being written by the Northwest Arkansas Economic Development District on behalf of the city.
The grant is through the Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage and Tourism and can be worth up to $250,000 in state funds, with the requirement that the city up a matching amount of money through its own funds, in-kind labor or a combination of both.
If approved, the city would use the grant money to purchase equipment for an all-access playground at Hickory Park. The new equipment would allow children of all abilities to play at the park.