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Randy Zook, President and CEO of the Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce, joins Rex Nelson on this week's episode to discuss the state's workforce on the heels of a record-setting 2.7% unemployment rate.
In a recent column, I listed Matthew Pelkki of the University of Arkansas at Monticello as one of the most important people in south Arkansas. Pelkki leads the Arkansas Center for Forest Business on the UAM campus. The forest products sector helps drive the economy in the south half of our state. The Center for Forest Business is dedicated to enhancing the competitiveness of the state's timber industry.
Revitalizing the fishing habitat in Lake Conway will be among the most ambitious projects in the long history of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. The commission will drain the 6,700-acre lake, restore its average depth to 1975 levels, remove stumps in boat lanes, tear down abandoned docks, add spawning beds for fish, install thousands of artificial fish structures, build brush piles and plant cypress trees.
South Arkansas' readers, writers and festival-lovers have reason to be excited: the sixth annual South Arkansas Literary Festival begins on Monday.
Johnny Reep has clear memories of when he first became fascinated with firefighting. It was when he was a boy growing up in Warren. If the night watchman at the massive Bradley Lumber Co. mill spotted a fire, he would blow the mill whistle to alert volunteer firefighters. Awakened at home, Reep would race to the scene and watch those firefighters work.