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Gunnar Williams (left) and other eighth-grade students from Lavaca Middle School practice using power drills at a station hosted by Nabholz Construction on Tuesday during the at the Peak Innovation Center in Fort Smith. The annual two-day event saw eighth-grade students from schools around the River Valley learn about career opportunities from dozens of area companies and organizations in a diversity of fields, including construction, engineering, manufacturing, health sciences and more. Visit rivervalleydemocratgazette.com/photo for today's photo gallery.
Five students from Lavaca now have warrants out for their arrests.
NAACP advocates are calling for diversity and equity training in an Arkansas school district after a middle schooler was taunted with racial epithets as
"If you're old enough to understand the concept of bullying we think you're old enough to be taught a different approach," said Olan James, with the NAACP.