Although last summer’s commercial rafting season was characterized as “among the most trying in the industry’s history,” Arkansas River outfitters fared surprisingly well despite the COVID pandemic which forced a late start.
It’s hard to imagine, but for some rafting company owners, COVID concerns did not decimate business last summer. In his 10 years at the helm of Rocky Mountain Outdoor Center, owner Brandon Slate has never been as busy as he was last summer despite the global pandemic.
“Last year (in the spring) phones were not ringing at all and we ended up having the busiest season since I’ve been running the company,” Slate said. “It was crazy.”
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Beverlyn Lomax Pepper
Beverlyn Lomax Pepper had four great loves: faith, family, friends and flowers. On April 2, 2021, surrounded and sustained by all four, she left this world. She left it immeasurably better for having inhabited it.
Beverlyn was born in the Mississippi Delta town of Greenwood, Mississippi, to Clifton Lamar Lomax and DeLeslyn Morgan Lomax. The genesis of her unusual name (âBeverlyn,â with an ânâ) was her motherâs unusual nameâDeLeslyn. They shared the ân.â (Later, they would share a passion for their professionâteaching elementary school.) Six years after Beverlyn was born, her sister Fay joined the family. While Beverlyn started out in the Greenwood public schools, when World War II came and Cliff went overseas to serve, the family moved to the tiny town of Itta Bena, Mississippi to live with Beverlynâs maternal Grandmother and Grandaddy Morgan.
FORECAST: Sunshine Before Storms Return
The weekend will start a little soggy Share Updated: 4:40 AM CDT Apr 8, 2021
The weekend will start a little soggy Share Updated: 4:40 AM CDT Apr 8, 2021
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Show Transcript very happy Thursday, meteorologists Roberts, sir, here, with a check of your forecast a much quieter day than what we were dealing with yesterday. Here s that storm system that brought us all those showers and thunderstorms slowly drifting off to the north and the east, giving us, at least in northwest Arkansas, some lingering cloud cover. And that s gonna be the theme for about the morning hours. We ll see those clouds so they ll stick around. But thin out as we go through the day, I think mostly, if not completely sunny day for the River Valley. So if you take the little one off to the school bus this morning, they ll need a light jacket. But by the time they get off the bus temperatures flirting with 70 degrees in northwe