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The wonder of that holy night in the timeless gift of God's love ring true meaning to your Christmas season will fare as in northeast service company and call cord Oklahoma wishes to thank friends family and customers for their friendship love and patronage this holiday season and to say Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all. The. Will this is Warren King and evangelist with the Downtown Church of Christ in Rogers Arkansas and I'd like to invite you to spend just a moment with me in the Bible some people believe that one church is as good as another but is that true if one church is as good as another would a Church of Satan be Ok Well of course not but sadly many people are really not interested in being part of the Church that Jesus built instead they are much more interested in searching for what pleases them than searching in God's word for what pleases him and that is a fundamentally wrong and sinful approach that will cost many Their sold for more information on this and other Bible topics along with our contact information go to our website at downtown seal seen dot net again this is warning Keane with the Downtown Church of Christ in lightning load on. As the great star of Bethlehem the wise men to the manger show me the joy of the season light your way to a happy and fulfilling New Year this message of Christmas love comes from Carol like a co-operative with a wish for the happiest of holidays I. Hear . On the 1st day of Christmas My true lives and the folks of plump perfect when else and Springdale wish you a Merry Christmas filled with the warmth of caring the joy of togetherness and the love of friends and family may happy memories linger long after the season is gone may Christmas give you the eyes to see beauty that only the heart can understand Happy holidays it's. Funny. That you are farm our news time is 6 now half minutes past 12 o'clock outside the northwest Arkansas Regional Airport we have 41 degrees under Fair skies outside the Kern studios 41 degrees under sunny skies weather details a little later on during your farmer News I'm Dave showing the farm our news for Wednesday December 18th. Heritage High School students and teachers gave the Rogers School Board a look at their school's critical reading class last night superintendent Dr Moland Perry recap the presentation we've had an interest in in getting some of our precision Titian's to the board to include staff and students such as not just program directors and principals and other stuff they're talking of so last night we had a teacher come with her critical reading on into classes that talk just a little bit about the success they are having we know that some kids learn to read faster than than others and some people because they don't have a love of regular readers much and so they have some issues with fluency and vocabulary and so forth and so this has been a class that really has had some success and so we thought we just haven't come share with the board is a no Reading been a focus by an early grades by 10 good at the high school that's below and if you use floors reading group if you say you know it can be and again the teacher did a good job last night of talking about reluctant learners our readers I mean and we know that there may be some parents out there that will say Yeah my kids are reluctant reader doesn't that they choose to do other things rather than sit down and pick up a book and we know that when you're reading you're increasing your vocabulary and your knowledge and those are all positive things and whether you're in science or math or whatever other class besides language arts you have to be able to read well to do well it certainly helps in science if you're a good reader so that's a skill that we just continue to help some of those that are behind a little bit what sort of makes them. Reading material or something that turns people off or was it they comic books and. Stevie books to get kids reading well. You know that's a piece of a to help motivate kids but but if you have more successful we give them some of the basic things that we actually use with our younger grades when we're helping a kid become a better reader whether it be funny accent struction some decoding skills so that they can understand words and not you know nobody wants to be embarrassed if you're reading in a social studies class and has to read out loud or something you have to be engaged with with skills and so we give those kids some of the same skills and then yes there is some of that motivational piece to to expose them to some other good books and things that will make them want to be avid readers. And a board member is also received an update on the Rehabilitation Project in the District 3 oldest elementary schools we just can't say enough about our staff members at those 3 schools in the principals and then parents and everybody else we under took these projects during a school year because that's all you have to do it we couldn't shut down school for a year and then remodel some older buildings like this and so they've been doing great nor sides a great example where we had mobile classrooms out front that Malecon because we label the finished 2 wings and they're back in them in the new rooms and then people are excited but we do still have more work to go we're going to get to the bigger spaces the cafeteria. The office areas that we've vacated and some of those things but we're on schedule. Lol and elementary in fact is ahead of schedule but. They're they're set to be done either early June or at the latest by time school starts August 1st. I suppose like sports momentum in my step going on and stuff being accomplished imagine people can see it if you will yes and again the ones that are in the new classrooms now it's what we really started these projects on the premise that says little care where you are school and Rogers You should have the same access to a very appropriate learning space and so Fairview Elementary that opened brand new learning spaces Well we have the same things now it at Northside west side lol and I can continue to work on those things in our district so that it's really good equity for everybody the board also heard the discern about District procedures for maintenance and repairs and approve the budget for the 2122 school year are a form our news time is 11 minutes past 12. And these days of good cheer every one of those hard play Danny and the crew thank you for your bike grenade and when he you and your family a joyous holiday season. Here from the woods are going. 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Hard mellow and the spirit of the season fills us with love Robbie Abbey carpets in Bentonville welcomes the chance to express his thanks to his many friends and customers and wish them good health and happiness through the coming year May your season be bright from Abbey carpet in Bentonville. Farm hour news time is 13 minutes past 12 o'clock once again the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality is threatening to get tough with the city about the hides for its failing sewage treatment facilities the 80 q. Sent letters saying the city is not hauling off waste water to another sewage treatment plant has not provided evidence the city is trying to correct a situation where raw sewage pools on the ground 80 Q says if the city doesn't quiet mediately with the conditions outlined in his wastewater permit the city must pay more than $81000.00 and finds it August 80 find the city more than $100000.00 for several frequent water quality violations the state suspended the fines after city officials promised to do better the city was supposed to truck 20000 gallons of affluent a day or 25 percent of the waste water in the city system to the northwest Arkansas Conservation Authority treatment plant near Bentonville and make plans to fix or replace the current system the city has to treatment facilities that are similar to large scale versions of home septic tank systems City officials say they've looked at building a pipeline to the Bentonville regional plant or hooking up to spring bells waste water system although 80 is often threaten a city bethought sewage treatment system has been violating water quality standards for more than a decade however some city residents have not been as forgiving as 80 they've been circulating petitions for elections to dissolve the city about the heights and the annex to the city of Springdale. Our farm our news time 15 minutes past 12 well take a look at your weather forecast it is a service of Cornerstone insurance northwest Arkansas and the rest of Kerem country looking at sunny skies today with a high near 47 tonight clear a low around 28 and for tomorrow sunny a high near 53 will have your extended forecast next what it comes to insurance cornerstone insurance agency in southwest City Missouri is a great choice Kerman radio has used cornerstone for decades and has always been impressed with the cordial competent courteous service provided by Linda half away with a recent storm topple the Kerman s.t.l. 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It 62 percent outside the curve studios we have $41.00 degrees winds are out of the southwest at 3 miles per hour the barometric pressure 30 or $4370.00 entered our Korean study the relative humidity 66 percent your weather forecast is a service of Cornerstone insurance. Just. As you reflect on the miracle that happened long ago when a little Bethlehem's things will leave the wonder of them holy night in the timeless gift of God's love bring special meaning to your Christmas season Princeton's home in Rogers wishes everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy. And. Our farm our news dime is 18 minutes past 12 o'clock Stay tuned we'll continue your farm our news with the Lou Dobbs financial report. I'm Lou Dobbs a sad day for America as the Democratically controlled House prepares to impeach the president vi and Chrysler and push out today officially merged those stories next you know that mortgage rates a plummeted to a 3 year low in or nearing historic lows at the same time home values gone up roughly 50 percent in the last several years however they seem to be peaking now maybe it's time to put that equity to work by paying off high rate credit cards personal loans or remodel your house Hi I'm Leslie Hogan with Westland financial let's put you in a position to do any of these things with no closing cost that's right nothing's rolled in your loan whether it's conventional f.h.a. Or v.a. 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Elven the wolf and the congregation at Nob Hill Pentecostal Church of God wishes you and your family a very Merry Christmas May the true meaning of the season the birth of baby Jesus be in everyone's hearts and minds as we celebrate with family and friends may God bless you from Nob Hill Pentecostal Church of God 11 Wolf pastor 479-751-5210 please come join us. As you reflect on the miracle that happened long ago when the for him stable May the wonder of the night and the gift of God's love bring special meaning to your Christmas season and in Bentonville wishes everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Which. Is to. Our farm our news time 21 and a half minutes past 12 o'clock and stay tuned well continue your farm Our it is with the beef breakeven report from 1st Oklahoma Ag that will be followed by u.s.d.a. 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Agricultural manufactured energy products increasing by about $200000000000.00 over the next 2 years and Cattlemen's Association executive vice president Michael Kelsey says it's good news for the cattle producers China could just be a huge market is an infant a truly an infant market for us to be we've been out of that market for so long anything we get there is going to be positive and so boy if we can get some calmness in our trade relationship with China then that's going to give us an opportunity as a single commodity beef to begin growing good promoting etc We need to remember their economy's growing their middle class is growing and the 1st thing folks change when their income changes is what they eat and so what a great opportunity for us beaten at market the agreement reportedly $40.00 to $50000000000.00 in annual purchases of u.s. Products by China for 2 years. A quarterly report in the Farm Credit ministration last week suggesting commodity prices will remain mostly low next year or import sides large global supplies of crops and storage saying that will limit attractive price opportunities for u.s. 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