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9 THE FRONT

28 TORNADO TALES

Victims voice their storm stories.

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Aw, Snap!: Country star Ashley McBryde's homecoming show at Robinson Center.

Q&A: With Patty Hector, the Saline County Library System director terminated during the state's escalating censorship battle.

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The Arkansas Times Film Series screens "Eat Drink Man Woman," Secret Sisters at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Bonnie Montgomery at the White Water Tavern, Conrad Tao plays Rach 3 with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, slam poet Kyle “Guante” Tran Myhre and more.

22 NEWS ON THE COVER: Tornado destruction at Pulaski County Title in Little Rock in April, by Brian Chilson.

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THE FRONT Q&A

A Q&A WITH PATTY HECTOR.

firing, would you? No, I would not change any decisions. There’s nothing wrong with the library’s books. ... And I don’t understand why they object to sex education books.

There’s nothing salacious about those books. Arkansas teens are getting pregnant at 11 years of age.

Would you rather they learn about sex from a bunch of uninformed schoolmates?

They [county officials] said it was sex in children’s books, but really it was anything with LGBTQ issues or racism. Heterosexual sex doesn’t make their list.

Tell me about your journey as a librarian. I started as a corporate librarian in Dallas where I grew up, moved to Arkansas and worked 15 years at the Fort Smith Public Library.

My husband was from California so we moved there, and I became director of a county library. I also worked for a cooperative library system and the Sonoma County Library before we moved back to Arkansas.

I've always loved libraries. Growing up in Dallas, I couldn't wait to get my driver's license so I could drive downtown and use the big sevenstory main library.

BRIAN CHILSON

There's been no shortage of loud voices in the state's escalating censorship battle. But it was the quiet stand Patty Hector took as director of the Saline County Library System that made headlines. She did not move (or remove) books because someone with power demanded such, or because they were about gender and race. Hector stood firm.

“I would rather be fired for supporting the First Amendment than sued for violating it,” Hector said in August. In October, County Judge Matt Brumley fired her.

We talked with Hector about her 38year career and her dismissal from the job she had held since July 2016.

WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE BOOK? My favorite series is the “The Murderbot Diaries” by Martha Wells. I love science fiction.

When the county judge fired you, did he offer any kind words?

No, he didn’t say anything, and it would have been weird after he spent 45 minutes at a public library board meeting denigrating my performance. ... Plus, my reaction to being fired was happiness. I think I said, "Great! I’m all packed and ready to go.” It was such a relief to be out of that stressful situation.

Do you plan to sue? Yes, I plan to sue.

What keeps you going amid all the challenges and hate? Is there still hope for freedom in our state's and nation's libraries? It makes me furious that marginalized people are being targeted by these attacks. You can say it's about sex in teen books, except when you are only interested in banning books with gay sex it's pretty clear that's not true.

They aren't asking us to remove [authors] Sarah J. Maas or Colleen Hoover (which teens read, apparently). Or George R.R. Martin. They haven't gone after the “Game of Thrones” movies, which are way worse than any book in the teen collection.

Banning books is illegal according to the First Amendment.

Moving books to a place people can't get to is the same as banning. Moving them to an area that stigmatizes the books based on content also goes against the First Amendment. When the Supreme Court decides that it's OK to ban books, then I'll think about moving to another country. Book banners have never been on the right side of history. Nazis and fascists want to control what people read. Saying "it's to protect the children" doesn't make it any less harmful when it's really about LGBTQ and race. Two-thirds of the books criticized on the Saline County Republican Women's website, salinelibrary.com. are because [they are about] LGBTQ and race issues.

WHAT ARE YOU READING NOW? I’m reading “Harrow the Ninth” right now. Other great books I’ve read recently: “Lessons in Chemistry,” “The Bone Orchard” and “Remarkably Bright Creatures.”

How did the censorship efforts start in Saline County? A group of people started going to the quorum court to complain about books they purposefully came in to find. They were not library patrons who happened to find a book they didn't like. They had lists. They never spoke to the staff or turned in a Request for Reconsideration form. We haven't had anyone challenge a book in at least 10 years before this happened.

What is motivating the censorship movement? The people who want to take control and force others to align with their beliefs. Bigotry. Fascism.

How many books have recently been challenged in the library system? We've had three books that have had a Request for Reconsideration turned in this year: “All Boys Aren't Blue,” “The Hate U Give” and “Let's Talk About It.” Have any movies or e-books been challenged? Nope.

If people were really concerned about "the children," they would be going after the internet, YouTube, TikTok, movies. The sexualization of children is prevalent in those sources — very much less so in books.

If you could change any of your decisions that led to the

Where do you see libraries in 10 years?

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SUPPLIES TO MAKE YOUR OWN LECTERN FOR, LIKE, $105, AND OTHER EASY WAYS TO AVOID A SCANDAL. Politically and legally, the ongoing dust-up over Gov. Sarah Sanders’ big spending on a standard-looking lectern bought from her longtime associate for a whopping $19,029.25 feels suspect.

Basic questions about who made this mysterious lectern and why it was so pricey still float out there without satisfactory answers at press time, as auditors authorized by the Legislature to look into what’s become known as the “podiumgate” scandal are just beginning their work.

The executive branch either ducks questions or fires back accusatory halfanswers delivered with a sneer. At an Oct. 17 press conference, Sanders said she had not yet used the new lectern because if she did, the media would focus on that, and not on what Arkansans really care about.

And what do Arkansans really care about?

Chinese seed espionage, Sanders says.

She’d called the October press conference to suggest enemy farmers are at work right under our noses, infiltrating a 160-acre Craighead County agricultural technology facility that a Swiss outfit sold to a Chinese company in 2017.

Why would anyone care about possible malfeasance in the governor’s office when an ag company that’s been here for decades is owned by Chinese people? That was the message, delivered from behind a lectern that was not *the* lectern. Lobbing xenophobic attacks makes for an effective distraction when you’re in the hot seat.

All this fuss could have been easily avoided had Sanders opted for a do-it-yourself model.

First Gent Bryan Sanders seems to have plenty of time on his hands. Somebody get that man a drill!

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ISN'T SHE PRETTY? The governor’s office allowed Arkansas DemocratGazette photographer Thomas Metthe to take a proofof-life snap of the mysterious lectern on Sept. 26, but other media who later came looking for their own footage were turned away. Instead, the gov’s crack comms team shared this well-lit glamour shot, all dolled up with flags and a stately runner. America!

SOLD SHORT The custom lectern is shorter than standard-issue versions to better accommodate women, the governor said.

An invoice indicates it’s 39 inches tall, rather than an off-the-rack adjustable 49inch version that can be got for $12,000 less.

$5 The price of this lectern, purchased from the state of Arkansas at the public property surplus warehouse. Maybe the state should have held on to it. Seems fine?

POLITICAL CURRENCY The price tag at the center of podiumgate has evolved into a surprisingly handy unit of measurement. Arkansans are finding it’s fun to gauge the cost of things in lecterns instead of dollars. A brandnew 2024 Kia Soul will run you one lectern, for example. Arkansas’s median individual income is greater than one lectern but far less than two.

One lectern comes out to 3,466 Big Macs (or, one for each resident of Piggott).

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VOCABULARY LESSONS At least this silly scandal has a silver lining. Arkansas no doubt leads the nation in etymological awareness when it comes to the difference between a lectern and a podium.

'THE FALCON' Thank George W. Bush for this hourglass lectern design (if for nothing else). He wanted a middle-ground option between a spindly, informal tray on a stick and the linebacker silhouette of the boxy “Blue Goose” presidential lectern.

2015 The last time the eyes of the nation turned to a lectern-related scandal was eight years ago. Aaron Schock, a Republican congressman from Peoria, Illinois, took fire for using House funds on a $5,123 custom lectern. But it was the “Downton Abbey”-inspired redecoration of his Capitol Hill office, along with chartered planes, Katy Perry tickets and other high-rolling purchases, that got him indicted. Charges were eventually dropped, but we haven’t seen him around much since.

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Do Kenyan artist Wangechi Mutu and Dominican artist Firelei Báez, both of whom are now based in the United States, have anything in common?

At first glance, it’s easy to say no, given how stylistically different they are. But a closer look at their works on canvas and paper reveal a shared interest in reimagining how bodies are portrayed.

Through collage and experiments with texture, both convey the human form as colorful, strange and inextricable from natural imagery, flora both wrapping around and replacing limbs. Even their three-dimensional pieces, which vastly diverge in scope and appearance, are bound by a tendency to marry the ancient and the futuristic. Mutu and Máez will interview one another as part of the AMFA’s “Undivided” series, which attempts to upend the stiltedness of traditional artist talks by putting two contemporary creators in conversation. Get tickets at arkmfa.org. DG

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But the first annual report on the law's voucher program, shared with several legislative committees by the Arkansas Department of Education at the end of September, appears to state that a whopping 95% of the students receiving vouchers this year did not attend public schools last year.

This fits the pattern seen in other states with similar voucher programs to dole out public cash for private school. That money tends to wind up boosting the bank accounts of families who were never in the public school system to begin with.

The report’s plain language conveys the stat about prior public school enrollment that you see in the headline, that 95% of voucher recipients for the 2023-24 school year are incoming kindergarteners or were already in private schools. One caveat,

though, is that the state’s presentation of the data is slightly murky, and the education department declined to clarify.

According to the annual report, 4,795 students were actively participating in the program as of Sept. 20. Of those, 31% were new kindergartners. Most of the rest were previously "enrolled in a private school," the report says, which would leave just around 5% previously enrolled in a public school.

The annual report, which is required by the law, also details where voucher recipients are enrolled this year. There are 94 schools participating, but around 30% of voucher students attend just seven schools.

Those seven are mostly in Central Arkansas and include some of the largest and most expensive private schools in the state.

For example, there are 190 voucher students at Pulaski Academy in Little Rock, which charges between $13,270 and $17,200 in annual tuition depending on grade level.

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PRIVATE SCHOOL, PUBLIC MONEY: Almost one in five students at Little Rock Christian Academy is now receiving a taxpayer-funded voucher, a percentage that’s certain to rise in future years.

in Little Rock, which charges between $15,010 and $17,900.

In both cases, that's more than three times as many students at a single high-end school than the number of students across the entire state who got vouchers because they attended an "F" public school or "Level 5" public school district (the lowest performing schools and districts, according to the state). Such students were one of the special priority categories eligible to apply in the voucher program's first year. Just 55 of them have gotten vouchers this year.

The school with the largest number of voucher students this year is Little Rock Christian Academy, where 324 students are on the program, or 19% of the total 1,665 kids enrolled. Some other Little Rock private schools have even larger percentages of voucher recipients, including Episcopal (22%) and Baptist Preparatory School (34%).

Dubbed “Educational Freedom Accounts” in the mawkish shoptalk of Sanders and the law’s drafters, the LEARNS vouchers help families who send their kids to private school with the cost of tuition and other designated private education expenses.

This year, the vouchers cover up to $6,672 per student, an amount that will increase

incrementally in future years.

That would leave families at a school like Pulaski Academy or Episcopal still on the hook for thousands of dollars per student in annual tuition (up to $10,000 or more, depending on the student's age) — which is prohibitively expensive for many public school families.

In the program's first year, the 2023-24 school year, only the following students can apply for vouchers: • Students who were enrolled the previous year at schools with an F rating or in school districts in need of Level 5 intensive support; • Students enrolling in kindergarten; • Students in a foster care program (currently or previously); • Students with a disability that requires an Individual Education Plan under federal law; • Homeless students; • Students with an active-duty military parent; • Students already enrolled in the state’s previous, more limited voucher program, the Succeed Scholarship (mostly students with disabilities but also some children of uniformed service members and foster children),

are absorbed into the new LEARNS program but receive a higher voucher amount — this year, that’s $7,413, according to the report.

More groups will be eligible next year, and all students will be eligible to apply in 2025-26 and beyond (funding is limited and priority is given to certain applicants).

The relatively low rates of participation among students enrolled in public schools mirrors the experience in Arizona, the first state to offer vouchers to all students as a universal program. In that program's first year, 78% of students who applied had not been enrolled in the public school system the previous year. Smaller voucher programs in New Hampshire (89%) and Wisconsin (75%) showed similar results.

The figure in Arizona has fallen in the program’s second year after an aggressive marketing campaign, but students who

Academy. Little Rock Christian Academy charges $11,895 to $13,980 in annual tuition depending on grade level; Central Arkansas Christian Academy charges $9,093 to $10,755; Shiloh Christian charges between $8,550 to $10,400 annually depending on grade, campus and church membership; Baptist Preparatory charges $8,422 to $12,092; and Christ the King charges $5,800 to $10,282.

Shiloh Christian has campuses in Rogers and Springdale, but the rest of these schools are in the Little Rock area. That tracks with the broader numbers, with participating schools heavily concentrated in wealthier, more urban areas.

"Most participating schools are located within the Central and Northwest regions, representing 43% and 20% of total schools, respectively, which aligns to child population patterns in the state,"

ACCORDING TO THE REPORT, 4,795 STUDENTS WERE PARTICIPATING IN THE PROGRAM AS OF SEPT. 20.

NEARLY ALL OF THEM, 95%, WERE EITHER NEW KINDERGARTNERS OR WERE ALREADY IN PRIVATE SCHOOLS. have never attended public schools still make up around half of the participants.

Arkansas’s program could potentially see its share of non-public school students increase in its third year as the program opens up applications to all students, public or private. Any family already sending their children to a private school would be leaving money on the table if they don't apply for vouchers. It stands to reason that the state will see a massive surge in applications from private school families in 2025, when everyone will be eligible to apply.

We can only speculate how many kindergartners now receiving vouchers would have enrolled in private schools even without the vouchers (or how wealthy these families might be).

The report includes a full list of each school accepting vouchers this year, how many voucher students they have and what percentage of the school's total enrollment are voucher students.

The report includes a list of each school accepting vouchers this year, how many voucher students they have and what percentage of of total enrollment voucher students represent.

The priciest are Episcopal and Pulaski

the report says. "In coming months, ADE will conduct a needs analysis to determine unmet demand in other parts of the state, including the Delta and Southwest."

Currently, two schools in the Lower Delta and six in the Southwest region are accepting vouchers.

The report says a goal for next year is "expanding the supply of high-quality elementary and secondary school choice options throughout Arkansas, particularly in currently underrepresented geographies."

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AN OPEN QUESTION: The report appears to say 95% of students receiving vouchers this year did not attend public schools last year.

But the information could be interpreted differently, particularly given previous statements by the education department.

The department has refused to provide any clarification.

One of the three key points in the report's overview on student participation, regarding “prior private school enrollment status,” says this: “Most participating students – 95% – reported either being a first time kindergartener or enrolled in a private school upon submitting their application for Education Freedom Accounts.” Later, it adds: “EFA portal opened June 19, 2023; majority of participants enrolled in a private school prior to applying.”

That presumably refers to private school enrollment in the 2022-23 school year. But an education department spokesperson previously told the Arkansas Advocate in August that the department did not track the number of voucher applicants who were already enrolled in private school. The state’s voucher application form for families does not include an explicit question about the student’s prior-year enrollment (though that information would come up in certain cases). The application does, however, ask families whether they’ve been accepted to a private school for the upcoming school year.

So, does the 95% figure refer to the 202223 school year? Or could it be a reference to whether students had been accepted to a private school for the 2023-24 school year at the time they applied?

Asked multiple times to clarify, the education department declined to do so, referring us back to the original report.

Our assumption is that the reference is to last year’s enrollment unless we receive information otherwise. This story appeared on the Arkansas Times website on Oct. 11, and we have not been notified of any errors.

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UNTOUCHED: Signs of the March storm still litter properties in West Little Rock seven months later.

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AFTER A DEVASTATING TORNADO, LITTLE ROCK RESIDENTS ARE STILL PICKING UP THE PIECES.

BY MARY HENNIGAN PHOTOGRAPHY BY BRIAN CHILSON

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arch 31 started like a typical spring day in Arkansas. It was a Friday, and the air was heavy with humidity.

Most people in Little Rock were still at work or school when the tornado sirens started and meteorologists urged residents in the metro area to take cover. Whipping winds reached 164 miles per hour as a tornado touched down in West Little Rock and traveled more than 34 miles, leaving destruction in its path. It hopped from neighborhood to neighborhood in Pulaski County, ripping through tree-lined streets first in Little Rock, then through North Little Rock, Sherwood and Jacksonville. By 3 p.m., windows were blown out of cars, countless trees were uprooted and thousands of buildings were damaged or destroyed. Approximately 50,000 people in Central Arkansas lost power, and families would soon come home to houses that were, in some cases, unrecognizable.

The storm that plowed through Little Rock in March was like none the city had experienced in at least 20 years. The twister was categorized as an EF3 on the official tornado ranking scale, which maxes out at EF5.

About 50 injuries were reported in Arkansas’s capital city, and one death was reported in North Little Rock.

Hours after the storm hit Central Arkansas, another tornado touched down 105 miles to the east in Wynne, killing four people and injuring at least two dozen.

“My heart goes out to the residents and businesses that have been impacted by the March 31 EF3 tornado,” Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott Jr. said in October, reflecting on the storm’s toll. “It’s one of those moments in time that I will never forget.”

The road to recovery is expected to be a long one. In Little Rock alone, 105 homes were destroyed and 540 sustained major damage, according to an update the city’s emergency management team gave to the Little Rock Board of Directors in October.

Little Rock officials spent nearly $8 million on contracted clean-up crews in the immediate aftermath, a cost that federal disaster aid will mostly reimburse, Scott said. Crews took about a half-million cubic yards of vegetation and construction debris to the city’s landfill in the weeks after the storm. Man-made items were chucked directly into the landfill, and vegetation was ground into wood chips.

Seven months later, the sound of chainsaws, hammering and drills still echoes through neighborhoods as families pick up the pieces. Downed trees and construction debris litter properties and roadsides, either too large for city staff to haul off or stuck on land the crews can’t access.

Anything on private property is off limits for the Little Rock Public Works Department, director Jon Honeywell said. As of October, city crews were still cleaning storm debris from drainage ditches that could pose a flood risk in the future. But the city is no longer picking up debris related to the tornado on a widespread basis, leaving residents with no

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A STATE OF SHOCK: Emerging from their storm shelters, many residents came to check out the damage on Cantrell Road in March.

The road to recovery

is expected to be a long one.

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option but to pay someone to haul it off. *** Capi Peck, the Little Rock city director who represents the most impacted part of town, said the recovery effort will take years.

“I’m trying to do everything I possibly can to make people feel better about the future, but I’m just not terribly optimistic,” Peck said.

Volunteers poured into the streets immediately after the disaster, and folks with chainsaws offered help to anyone who needed it. Then, as is often the case when a natural disaster moves into the rearview, the overwhelming sense of camaraderie began to fizzle. Those who weren’t affected went back to their normal lives in their normal homes.

Some houses in the tornado’s path are owned by out-of-state landlords or others who aren’t around to rebuild, Peck said. Near Shackleford Road, more than 40 structures “have not been touched yet,” she said. Neighborhoods are now a mashup of houses in various stages of the recovery process: Some have been rebuilt, and others remain in shambles, with roofs blown off and belongings inside still exposed to the elements.

City officials are not requiring homeowners impacted by the tornado to make updates to conform with current building codes, meaning a house originally built in the 1970s can bypass 2023 code requirements. In October, Little Rock spokesperson Aaron Sadler said the city wanted to give ample time to those who want to rebuild but will soon send letters to property owners who have yet to clear debris from their property or who are building new structures without a permit.

Some homeowners may be waiting to begin the rebuilding process until they resolve an insurance claim, but checks are gradually reaching those who need them. Estimated tornado-related claims filed by homeowners and businesses in Pulaski County were around $418 million by the end of September, according to the Arkansas Insurance Department. Nearly $311 million had been paid out to policyholders by that point.

Mayor Scott and Gov. Sarah Sanders sprung into action early, ensuring residents whose homes were impacted had emergency services as soon as possible. Attorney General Tim Griffin sent up flares about price gouging and warned homeowners against signing with contractors prematurely.

“During a disaster, nobody cares if you’re blue or red,” Scott said. “[They] want you to get things done for the betterment of the people, and that’s exactly what we did.”

Federal officials traveled to the state to assist in document recovery, like missing birth certificates and other important items. Sanders also struck up an agreement for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, to cover 100% of the cost of cleanup expenses for a 30-day period within the first four months of the storm. Those who incurred damages were also qualified to apply for individual assistance 32 NOVEMBER 2023

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RUBBLE REMAINS: Formerly the site of Little Rock Fire Station No. 9 on Shackleford Road, the structure was razed for $87,400 in September.

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MATT BOUNDS, ROBERT SMITH, Dillon Bevill-Smith Pieces of Dillon Bevill-Smith’s Walnut Valley house were already flying through the air as he ran into the bathroom and pulled the door closed against the winds.

While his roommate, Matt Bounds, huddled with their two dogs, Jodie and Luna, in the bathtub, Bevill-Smith stayed at the door playing tug-of-war with the tornado.

Meanwhile, his husband, Robert Smith, had no way of knowing whether his loved ones had survived. BevillSmith had been looking for a flashlight in the garage and talking on the phone with Robert when the tornado struck, but he dropped the phone mid-call in his dash for safety. Cell phone service remained down for nearly two hours afterwards.

The tornado destroyed all but two houses in BevillSmith’s cul-de-sac — a sight that left him frozen when he made it outside, he said. Once the storm passed, he ran to a nearby home and began digging through the debris in search of his neighbors.

The house was unlivable at first, and Bevill-Smith, Smith and Bounds worried about finding an open-minded landlord who would welcome a queer household. “We had a fear of being kicked out or something just because of bigotry,” Bevill-Smith, 34, said.

The trio found a rental in Stifft Station, but being away from home for months is a stressful ordeal. The house in Walnut Valley has been broken into four times since the tornado hit, Bevill-Smith said. He’s been frustrated by the long response time from police and a lack of consequences for burglars.

Seven months later, Bevill-Smith still spends several hours every day dealing with something tornado related, he said. Most recently, he’s been pushing Summit Utilities to get gas turned back on at the property after the company turned off service on his street because of how badly the houses were damaged, Bevill-Smith said.

So far, insurance has covered the bulk of rental costs for Bevill-Smith, though the reimbursements typically lag by a month or two. The trio hopes to move back home in the next few weeks. Bevill-Smith said he plans to craft a guide for those who may find themselves in a similar emergency situation. For example, he said, it’s critical to know how to reach elected representatives in city government and know what utility services are active in the area.

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Camille Judy Though Camille Judy’s apartment at ReNew on Cantrell Road in Little Rock didn’t sustain major damage, she was still displaced by the storm.

Judy, 25, was working at a Bank OZK in Benton when the tornado hit. She finished her shift hoping she would have a place to come home to and found herself sneaking through traffic and around debris to make it back to her unit. She was relieved to discover her building wasn’t severely damaged, unlike others in the complex, but word of a gas leak meant Judy would have to stay elsewhere.

Judy hastily packed a bag containing a few work outfits, a stack of books and necessary toiletries, then headed to her friend’s house down the road. She ended up staying for a month.

“Everybody was talking about being displaced, and I felt so terrible for those people,” Judy said. “Then I realized I was displaced. Even though I had a place to stay, I didn’t have my place. I didn’t realize how much stress that had been causing me.”

At the end of April, Judy said, she was told she had about a week and a half to find a new place to live because the apartment complex was terminating her lease. Management didn’t explain why, just that it was going to be unlivable for too long, she said. When asked in October, a leasing consultant at the complex said most residents were asked to move after the storm because the property was like a “big worksite.” Scrambling to find a new home on short notice, Judy was forced to pick a place that was a bit out of her price range and farther out of town than she’d hoped for, near Pinnacle Mountain.

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“When it hit, it sounded like a bomb went off.”

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DEVASTATION: Power lines, business signs and trees were down along Cantrell Road in March.

through FEMA. More than 3,800 people applied in Little Rock, and the agency awarded $3 million in aid.

The city activated an online system called LR Cares to receive donations for people who wanted to give to those impacted, and the total climbed to nearly $600,000 in a few short weeks after the storm. About one-third of the money was allocated to local organizations that offered services in the immediate aftermath. The remaining $400,000 was set aside for grants for individuals impacted by the storm.

The Little Rock City Board contracted with Heart of Arkansas United Way to review the applications and distribute funds, which are expected to be disbursed in November to 263 eligible applicants. Grant amounts are expected to range from $1,000 to $3,000 and recipients can use the funds as they see fit — from covering the cost of temporary housing to hiring a contractor to haul away a root ball.

Crammed inside a small coat closet with her 18-year-old twin daughters Ava and Sophia (pictured) and 21-year-old son Robert, Renee Garcia thought death was around the corner when the tornado hit.

Garcia and her kids were at their home in Sherwood on the afternoon of March 31. The last thing she knew before the power went out and her phone stopped working was that a tornado was 10 miles away, ravaging Chenal Parkway in West Little Rock.

Acting on a gut feeling, Garcia corralled her kids into a hall closet. She threw out clothes hanging on a rack and joined them, everyone holding onto each other. Soon, she said, the air became a vacuum and she heard what sounded like a train.

“I wasn’t crying or anything until I heard the sound,” Garcia, 58, said. “That’s when I knew it was a tornado. I really thought that I was going to die. I thought my kids were going to die. I just told everybody to pray. When it hit, it sounded like a bomb went off.”

Robert was the first to see the damage. The roof covering the kitchen and living room was gone, and every window in sight was shattered.

Sunlight streamed into the home through the gaping holes, and the floor was strewn with wet debris. Insulation from the roof had scattered down and coated the walls of the house.

Garcia’s insurance company told her the house was a total loss, but she was determined to salvage it. For months, Garcia and her kids stayed with friends and family as construction crews rebuilt her garage and a portion of the house, including a new roof. She lost most of her furniture and the windows in her car. Cleaning up everything that blew into the yard took weeks, Garcia said.

Though she’s back in her house now, Garcia is still dealing with various out-of-pocket costs that weren’t covered by insurance. “I’m one of the few people that I think actually got hit so hard [and] decided to keep their house,” she said.

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ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT: In the immediate aftermath, trees sprawled across rooftops and parking lots in West Little Rock. Officials said countless trees were lost.

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APOCALYPTIC: Reservoir Park, flattened by the storm, acted as a storm debris drop-off site for most of April. The park in October was clear of debris but remained closed.

Two organizations that were on the city’s list to receive $20,000 each in emergency money, The Van and Samaritan’s Purse, turned down the funds.

Aaron Reddin of The Van said the organization is prepared to act in emergency situations and helping with the tornado didn’t cost much on their part.

“We told them, ‘Thank you for thinking of us, but I can’t justify taking this money,’” Reddin said. “We were out a tank of gas. It was like 100 bucks.” *** The storm also had a substantial impact on the environment. Trees that initially drew residents to their communities were uprooted, and areas might not look the same again for generations, Peck said.

“I understand both sides: people that are just going to stay and rebuild no matter what because that’s where their roots are, and people that feel like they just can’t bear to be on this barren hill,” Peck said. “It just looks like a bomb went off.”

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Local volunteer Kate Spontak, in partnership with a variety of nature groups in Central Arkansas, is leading a tree replacement project. Anyone who lost a tree from the storm can apply for a new one. The project is ongoing, and applicants can choose a planting period as far ahead as fall 2024. The current limit is two trees per residence as Spontak feels out demand, she said.

The city of Little Rock is also in the running for federal tree planting grants, and Peck said the Arkansas Department of Transportation will plant $75,000 worth of trees at the Interstate 430 / Rodney Parham Road interchange to help limit highway noise. Reservoir Park, which acted as a debris drop-off location for weeks after the tornado devastated its 70 acres, is expected to be closed for several more months. In Burns Park, North Little Rock has put millions of dollars toward recovery efforts.

As of October, everything in the park was usable again except for the soccer fields, which were torn up by trucks hauling debris.

Peck, the owner of Trio’s Restaurant at Pavilion in the Park on Cantrell Road,

said the restaurant was forced to close for seven weeks as they cleaned the interior and replaced windows and doors. It’s unclear how many businesses in Little Rock temporarily closed because of the tornado and how many remain closed or have relocated. A noncomprehensive list from the city of Little Rock showed at least 50 businesses in the impacted ZIP codes reported a closure between March 31 and Sept. 30, but does not note whether the business closed because of the tornado.

Trio’s is open again, but the view from the dining room has changed significantly, Peck said. A scene of blue and white construction material on apartments across the street replaced dozens of flourishing trees.

“Unfortunately, we’ve got experience in dealing with disasters in this administration,” Scott said. “From the pandemic, to historic snowstorms and floods. … I couldn’t be [more] proud of our team and the way we were able to communicate with the residents, collaborate with external partners and be very concerted in our focus to get things done.”

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Zee Owens The rebuilding process may complicate being “home for the holidays” for Zee Owens, a resident of Walnut Valley whose house sustained significant damage in March. Putting her life back together over the last seven months has been quite the puzzle, she said.

Owens, 53, is working with her insurance company to build back her home. In the meantime, she’s staying with her niece. But most of her belongings are either in storage or lost.

“People came in droves and helped me pack my house, but we packed it so quickly I have no idea where all of my things are still to this day,” Owens said.

She’s not really sure what all flew away in the tornado, she said. The bathroom scale and the keepsakes attached to her refrigerator are probably gone for good, but Owens is thankful a trove of mementos of her late mother, like photos from her funeral and a small box of ashes, were left untouched.

It may be January or February before Owens can move back into her house, but she remains optimistic. And though the rebuild has been occasionally frustrating, Owens said the experience has strengthened the bonds in her community.

“Friends and family who come to the neighborhood, they still see it and it’s like, ‘Oh my God,’” Owens said.

“They still feel it’s so destroyed. But y’all didn’t see where we came from to where we are now.”

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BEST LAWYERS: ONES TO WATCH® IN AMERICA Administrative / Regulatory Law Emily Mizell Conner & Winters 479-582-5711 4375 North Vantage Drive, Suite 405 Fayetteville

Banking and Finance Law Melissa Bandy Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Antitrust Law Katherine C. Campbell Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers

Kael K. Bowling Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers

Appellate Practice Kael K. Bowling Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers Katherine C. Campbell Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers Charles C. Cunningham ARlaw Partners 501-710-6500 415 North McKinley Street, Suite 830 Little Rock Colt D. Galloway Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 479-464-5650 4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers Kathy McCarroll Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock Bo Renner RMP 479-443-2705 5519 Hackett Road, Suite 300 Springdale Molly S. Shepherd PPGMR Law 870-862-5523 200 N. Jefferson Ave., Suite 500 El Dorado

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R. Seth Hampton Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock Lindsey Emerson Raines Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law Kael K. Bowling Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers Ben Perry Kersten, Lambert, & Perry 501-760-0882 Three Financial Center Building Little Rock Lindsey Emerson Raines Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships) David Biscoe Bingham Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

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Reese Dollins Rose Law Firm 479-301-2444 5100 West JB Hunt Drive, Suite 900 Rogers Ashley L. Gill Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock Nicole Gore Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock Michael McGill Rose Law Firm 479-301-2444 5100 West JB Hunt Drive, Suite 900 Rogers Brooklyn Parker Jason Owens Law Firm 501-764-4334 1312 W Oak St. Conway J. Dalton Person Jones, Jackson & Moll 479-782-7203 401 North Seventh Street Fort Smith Civil Rights Law Caitlin Campbell Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 888-371-9116 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law John Ogle Rose Law Firm 479-301-2444 5100 West JB Hunt Drive, Suite 900 Rogers Commercial Litigation John E. Alexander Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 479-464-5650 4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers

Devin R. Bates Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Colt D. Galloway Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 479-464-5650 4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers

Kael K. Bowling Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers

Lisa Geary RMP 479-443-2705 5519 Hackett Road, Suite 300 Springdale

Cara Butler Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Aaron Heffington Gill Ragon Owen 501-376-3800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3800 Little Rock

Katherine C. Campbell Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers Meredith M. Causey Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock Brandon T. Cole Anderson Murphy Hopkins 501-372-1887 101 River Bluff Drive, Suite A Little Rock Mitchell Dennis Gill Ragon Owen 501-376-3800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3800 Little Rock Philip A. Elmore Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 479-444-5200 4100 Corporate Center Drive, Suite 310 Springdale Robert A. Gaines Steel Wright Gray 501-379-9425 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2910 Little Rock

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Peyton Hildebrand Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 479-464-5650 4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers Ben Honaker Honaker Law Firm 501-247-6975 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1900 Little Rock Nicholas D. Hornung Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock Jessica Pruitt Koehler Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Brooklyn Parker Jason Owens Law Firm 501-764-4334 1312 W Oak St. Conway Justin E. Parkey Waddell, Cole & Jones 870-931-1700 310 East Street, Suite A Jonesboro J. Dalton Person Jones, Jackson & Moll 479-782-7203 401 North Seventh Street Fort Smith Austin Reed Rose Law Firm 479-301-2444 5100 West JB Hunt Drive, Suite 900 Rogers Bo Renner RMP 479-443-2705 5519 Hackett Road, Suite 300 Springdale Jorge Rodriguez Conner & Winters 479-582-5711 4375 North Vantage Drive, Suite 405 Fayetteville Nancy Smith Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock Samuel T. Waddell Waddell, Cole & Jones 870-931-1700 310 East Street, Suite A Jonesboro

Kathy McCarroll Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Quinten J. Whiteside Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

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Jorge Rodriguez Conner & Winters 479-582-5711 4375 North Vantage Drive, Suite 405 Fayetteville

Kathy McCarroll Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

William Swartzwelder Kutak Rock 479-250-9700 5111 West JB Hunt Drive, Suite 300 Rogers

Corporate Governance and Compliance Law Nathan D. Coulter Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Criminal Defense: General Practice Degen D. Clow Clow Law 501-999-2569 301 Roya Lane, Suite One Bryant

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Andrea McCurdy McCurdy Law & Mediation 479-439-8881 2209 Main Drive Fayetteville Andrew Norwood Denton & Zachary 501-521-1353 700 South German Lane, Suite 101 Conway Sammi Wilmoth Osborne & Wilmoth Law 479-521-7727 509 North College Avenue Fayetteville Education Law Devin R. Bates Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock Matthew F. Benson Hogue Law Firm 479-444-6311 27 West Township Road Fayetteville Katherine C. Campbell Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers

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Amie K. Wilcox Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock Immigration Law Caitlin Campbell Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 888-371-9116 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock K. Drew Devenport Carithers Johnson Devenport 479-717-2278 111 West Emma Avenue Springdale

Andrea McCurdy McCurdy Law & Mediation 479-439-8881 2209 Main Drive Fayetteville

Insurance Law John E. Alexander Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 479-464-5650 4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers

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Samuel T. Waddell Waddell, Cole & Jones 870-931-1700 310 East Street, Suite A Jonesboro Quinten J. Whiteside Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

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Securities / Capital Markets Law Pierce G. Hunter Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock Tax Law David Biscoe Bingham Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock Ashley L. Gill Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock Caroline Kelley Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 479-464-5650 4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers Michael McGill Rose Law Firm 479-301-2444 5100 West JB Hunt Drive, Suite 900 Rogers

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Nicole Gore Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock Thomas W. Haynes Snellgrove, Langley, Culpepper, Williams & Mullally 870-932-8357 111 East Huntington Avenue, Second Floor Jonesboro

Caroline Kelley Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 479-464-5650 4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers Joseph M. Kraska Hall Booth Smith 501-214-3499 200 River Market Avenue, Suite 500 Little Rock

Ben Honaker Honaker Law Firm 501-247-6975 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Andrea McCurdy McCurdy Law & Mediation 479-439-8881 2209 Main Drive Fayetteville

Kasper Huber RMP 479-443-2705 5519 Hackett Road, Suite 300 Springdale

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Criminal Defense: General Practice J. Blake Hendrix Doug Norwood

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Securities / Capital Markets Law Robert T. Smith

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BEST LAWYERS® IN ARKANSAS Charles T. Coleman Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

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Suzanne G. Clark Clark Law Firm 479-802-4834 121 West South Street Fayetteville

To our partner Angela Mann on being recognized in the 2024 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America® for her work in Family Law.

Junius Bracy Cross, Jr. JB Cross Construction Law 501-221-9393 2228 Cottondale Lane, Suite 220 Little Rock Max R. Deitchler Kutak Rock 479-973-4200 1277 East Joyce Boulevard, Suite 300 Fayetteville Richard T. Donovan Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock Jack East III Jack East III 501-372-3278 2725 Cantrell Road, Suite 202 Little Rock

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BEST LAWYERS® IN ARKANSAS Julie DeWoody Greathouse PPGMR Law 501-603-9000 201 East Markham Street, Suite 200 Little Rock

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J. Cotten Cunningham Barber Law Firm 501-372-6175 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3400 Little Rock Barrett Deacon Mayer 479-396-2060 2434 East Joyce Boulevard, Suite Six Fayetteville

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SERVING ARKANSAS CLIENTS FOR MORE THAN 50 YEARS Richard Mays was included in the 2024 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America® for his work in Environmental Law, and Litigation – Environmental.

T

o Richard Mays, the “environment” includes everything that impacts our quality of life. He has spent much of his life attempting to preserve and protect not only the air, water and earth in which we live, but also the social, civic and human elements that make our lives richer, safer and secure.

In doing so, Richard takes on entrenched political interests, large state and federal agencies, and corporations that violate environmental laws and the rights of individuals and small entities.

Richard has handled environmental cases protecting the Buffalo

River from the impacts of factory hog-farming; preventing boat docks from crowding and polluting Greers Ferry Lake; fighting construction of coal-fired electrical generating plants; and opposing herbicides that kills native plant life.

He also fights for social and civic causes, suing the State’s Attorney General for attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 national general election; suing to void a discriminatory reapportionment law; challenging unconstitutional use of taxes to expand highways; and to restore the historic Pike-Fletcher-Terry House in the Quapaw Quarter.

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Katie Watson Bingham Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock Litigation and Controversy - Tax John Keeling Baker Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock Price C. Gardner Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock Michael Goswami Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock Anton L. Janik Jr. Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

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Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs Frank H. Bailey Bailey & Oliver Law Firm 479-202-5200 3606 West Southern Hills Boulevard, Suite 200 Rogers Robert L. Beard Rainwater, Holt & Sexton 501-868-2500 801 Technology Drive Little Rock H. David Blair Blair & Stroud 870-793-8350 500 East Main Street, Suite 201 Batesville Will Bond McMath Woods 501-213-3448 711 West Third Street Little Rock Bill W. Bristow Bristow & Richardson 870-935-9000 216 East Washington Avenue Jonesboro

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J. R. Carroll Kutak Rock 479-973-4200 1277 East Joyce Boulevard, Suite 300 Fayetteville E.B. Chiles IV Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock G. Spence Fricke Barber Law Firm 501-372-6175 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3400 Little Rock Sarah Greenwood Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 Building One, Sixth floor, Suite 1600 Little Rock Julie M. Hancock Anderson Murphy Hopkins 501-372-1887 101 River Bluff Drive, Suite A Little Rock Scott A. Irby Wright Lindsey Jennings 479-986-0888 3333 Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 510 Rogers Benjamin D. Jackson Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock Jerry L. Lovelace Roy, Lambert, Lovelace, Bingaman & Wood 479-320-2300 2706 South Dividend Drive Springdale Edwin L. Lowther, Jr. Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

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Michael P. Vanderford Anderson Murphy Hopkins 501-372-1887 101 River Bluff Drive, Suite A Little Rock Richard N. Watts Watts, Donovan, Tilley & Carson 501-372-1406 2120 Riverfront Drive, Suite 275 Little Rock Thomas G. Williams Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

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Kyle R. Wilson Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Kathryn Knisley Huckabay Law Firm 501-375-5600 Metropolitan Tower, Suite 1575 Little Rock

Jerry L. Lovelace Roy, Lambert, Lovelace, Bingaman & Wood 479-320-2300 2706 South Dividend Drive Springdale Brett A. McDaniel McDaniel Law Firm 870-565-4215 400 South Main Street Jonesboro Michael N. Shannon Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock John E. Tull III Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock Clyde Talbot Turner Turner & Associates 501-791-2277 4705 Somers Avenue, Suite 100 North Little Rock Bud B. Whetstone Whetstone Law Firm 501-376-3564 Plaza West Building Little Rock David H. Williams The Law Office of David H. Williams 501-372-0038 211 South Spring Street, Second Floor Little Rock George R. Wise, Jr. The Brad Hendricks Law Firm 501-550-4090 500 Pleasant Valley Drive, Building C Little Rock

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SAVVY

KELLY SLADE

ALL HANDS ON DECK: Jack and Jane Slade use a rolling pin that's part kitchen tool, part family heirloom.

KIDS IN THE KITCHEN

KELLY SLADE AND SONIA SCHAEFER ON FOOD AND FAMILY.

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or many, the arrival of fall signals a return to the kitchen. The season’s crisp air ushers out summer’s oppressive heat, and it’s once again acceptable to turn on the oven.

The seasonal shift also encourages us to gather together. The kitchen becomes more than a room; it’s a place where family memories are made.

Kelly Slade is among those who welcome the change of seasons. The Little Rock mother of two looks forward to the nostalgia this time of year brings and relishes the opportunity to get her children involved in the cooking.

“Fall’s cool breezes take me back to my grandmother’s house in Arkadelphia and cooking with her in her kitchen,” Slade said. Slade says she loved watching her grandmother prepare meals for the family, and she delights in the memory of her grandmother’s hands skillfully sifting flour and working dough for her well-loved biscuits, dumplings and cornbread.

“My grandmother gave me her rolling pin, which was actually her mother’s,” Slade said.

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It’s one of two kitchen tools she deeply cherishes — the other being a cast iron skillet that was a wedding gift from her grandfather to her grandmother. “The things I have of hers — that I wanted — are things we used in the kitchen.”

A fondness for family cooking must be an inherited trait. Slade’s son, Jack, now 12, swears his first memory is baking a pie with his paternal grandmother. Slade estimates Jack was 3, maybe 4, and says it’s something he still enjoys.

“Two of Jack’s favorite foods are chicken pot pie and pecan pie,” Slade said.

Of Slade’s two children, Jack is the more adventurous eater and capable cook, though she’s working to include her 8-year-old daughter, Jane, more. “She likes helping me in the kitchen, and I think it’s also helping her become a little more comfortable with some of the foods that were extremely off-limits before.” She says handling food, preparing the meal and serving it to the family are helping her daughter build interest and expand her palate.

Slade tasks the kids with measuring out in-

gredients and challenges them to do the math when halving a recipe. As she gives them more responsibilities, she says she can see their confidence grow. “It makes them want to be more involved, and it makes them more self-sufficient.”

Jane, with the help of child-safe knives gifted to her by an aunt, loves to cut and chop. “As we see her using these kids’ knives — and using them in the appropriate way — the closer we are to letting her cut with real kitchen knives.”

Slade credits Mark Bittman’s cookbook “How to Cook Everything” with giving her extra skills and knowledge to pass on. She said it’s the family's goto resource, the one book that never gets put away.

Slade acknowledges that cooking with kids isn’t always easy. “Mistakes are going to be made,” she cautions. “You definitely have to be willing to clean up messes.”

She has also learned that the timing needs to be right — if she’s pressed for time, she won’t ask the kids to help. “Cooking with kids takes a lot longer,” she said. “You just have to remember you are spending really precious time together.”

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Safety first: Teach your children basic kitchen safety rules, such as how to handle knives and hot surfaces.

Choose age-appropriate tasks: Assign tasks suitable for your child's age and skill level. Younger kids can handle simple tasks like washing vegetables, stirring ingredients and decorating, while older children can take on more complex tasks like chopping or sauteing under supervision.

Plan ahead: Before you start cooking, gather all the necessary ingredients, tools and equipment.

This helps minimize interruptions and mistakes.

Use kid-friendly tools: Invest in kid-sized utensils and tools, such as child-safe knives, small cutting boards and colorful measuring cups. This makes it easier for kids to participate and stay engaged.

Keep it simple: Start with simple recipes and gradually work your way up to more complex dishes as your child's skills and confidence grow.

Be patient: Cooking with kids requires patience and acceptance of the occasional mistake. Focus on the learning experience and quality time spent together.

Praise and positive reinforcement: Acknowledge your child’s efforts, even if the result isn't perfect.

Cooking is a great opportunity to build confidence and self-esteem.

Taste testing: When it’s safe to do so, allow your child to taste ingredients along the way. This helps them develop their palate and learn about different flavors.

Clean up together: Make cleaning up part of the cooking process.

Teach your child the importance of cleaning as they go to maintain a tidy kitchen.

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Here’s a family-friendly recipe courtesy of Boulevard Bread Company partner Sonia Schaefer. A mother and a chef, Schaefer reminds us that cooking together is not only practical, it can be a lot of fun.

Boulevard Bread Company M&M Cookies Cooking Time: Approximately one hour Ingredients: 2 sticks (8 ounces) butter at room temperature 3/4 cup light brown sugar 3/4 cup granulated sugar 2 eggs 2 teaspoons vanilla 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking soda 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips 1 cup M&Ms

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Directions: 1. Place butter and both sugars in a large mixing bowl. Mix on low speed for 4 minutes until homogeneous.

2. Mix dry ingredients (flour, baking soda and salt) in a separate bowl.

3. Add eggs one at a time to the butter and sugar mixture at a low speed.

Count to five in between each egg to ensure a good distribution. Add the vanilla.

4. Have your young assistant add the dry mixture one cup at a time to the sugar and egg mixture while mixing on low speed. Again, count to five in between cups.

5. Add the chocolate chips and M&Ms while mixing on low. Use the same counting technique as before between cups. Once all the ingredients are mixed, you have your cookie dough.

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6. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

7. Scoop a heaping tablespoon, roll it into a ball, and lightly press it onto a baking sheet.

8. Bake at 350 degrees for 12 minutes.

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ANGST CHAMPIONS: Despite their joyful and rousing live shows, a sense of dissatisfaction and cynicism pulses through almost every Tiny Towns song.

TAMING THE ANGST

TINY TOWNS ON JONESBORO, PESSIMISM AND THEIR NEW ALBUM.

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he defining feature of pretty much any song by indie rock band Tiny Towns is a sense of dissatisfaction, but you wouldn’t know it from their rousing live shows. Back in July, they played a tight, effortless set at Brickhouse Grill, a restaurant and venue in their hometown of Jonesboro, where tangles of joyful fans crowded the stage, essentially competing over who could yell the group’s dour lyrics the loudest and who could pump their fist highest in the air while doing so.

No matter how good you are, that level of local enthusiasm is hard to come by. To me, a fly on the wall and a member of the unknown outof-town band opening for them, it seemed like Tiny Towns was on the precipice of something great, and that the spirit of Jonesboro — where the band’s been based since its inception in 2016 — was one of the driving forces propelling them. The reality, though, is more complicated.

“Starting out in Jonesboro maybe gave us an advantage because there wasn’t a lot going on,” Blayne Pillow said, “but I think it kind of screws us in the long run.” Pillow is the band's singer, rhythm guitarist and primary songwriter. Outside of Tiny Towns, the 28-year-old daylights as a plumber, certainly not the first occupation that comes to mind when you see the long, scraggly hair he lets cascade over his eyes during performances.

“Little Rock and Memphis are the closest quote-unquote big cities, so we kind of got trapped in it,” he continued, bemoaning the geographical isolation of northeast Arkansas.

Despite Jonesboro being our state’s fifth most populous municipality, Pillow worries that it has stunted their growth.

The trials of being in a band in Jonesboro extend beyond questions of access, though, according to Pillow. On top of repeated burns by venues who only pay a sliver of the money collected at the door, Tiny Towns has struggled to find a community among many of the city’s other musicians, which Pillow claims are mostly in cover bands. “It’s definitely not a supportive scene,” he said. “You go to Little Rock or even Fayetteville and those bands all want to see each other succeed. In Jonesboro, it just seems like everybody’s in a competition.”

Tiny Towns has also faced internal challenges. Pillow, along with lead guitarist Trent Duff, 34, and drummer Jacob Brumley, 30, have been fixtures for most of the band’s tenure, but the departure of bassist Christian Lee in 2021 and his replacement Matthew Dixon in August — just two months before the release of their new

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FROM JONESBORO TO LITTLE ROCK: From left to right, the members of Tiny Towns — Jacob Brumley, Trent Duff and Matthew Dixon, with Blayne Pillow laying on their laps — pose at Jason Weinheimer’s Fellowship Hall Sound in Little Rock.

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album — has left them in pockets of stasis, including the current moment. Even for the consistent members, fluctuations in commitment to the project have been a near-constant obstacle.

“It’s our eternal battle,” Pillow said. “One dude will be super motivated and three of us won’t be. Then, two of us will be motivated and the other two won’t be. Just cycles of that.

And then someone quits. We’re all kind of older guys. We’re not happy-go-lucky. It’s kind of hard to find people we mesh with.”

Duff and Brumley can be pessimistic when prompted, but are generally more easygoing than Pillow when it comes to all things Tiny Towns, perhaps because their lives outside the band are musically rich. A graduate of Arkansas State University’s percussion performance program, Duff works at a local shop called Back Beat where he teaches guitar, bass, drums, banjo, mandolin and ukulele lessons. Brumley’s main job isn’t music (he’s a truck driver), but when he’s not on the road, he’s often in various studios working as a session drummer.

If you’re beginning to think that Pillow has something of a chip on his shoulder, you might be right. But I’d argue that the band’s strife — and Pillow’s willingness to wallow into it — is a critical part of what makes the songs work.

Like so much of Tiny Towns’ output, a posture

of cynicism pulses through “Let Me Into Your Heart,” the outstanding seven-track EP they put out in October.

Recorded over the course of several short visits to Jason Weinheimer’s Fellowship Hall Sound in Little Rock, the album — slick but rowdy — teems with references to the project’s tenuousness. While most of the songs register as being about romantic relationships, they can just as easily be read as explorations of inner-band turmoil, an interpretation Pillow doesn’t shy away from.

From the outset of the album’s opener, “Waves” — which relies on a nearly dissonant alternation of staccato guitar notes from Duff and a dynamic hi-hat pattern from Brumley — the tone is set. “Are you really down, or not?”

Pillow demands of both himself and his bandmates, his voice strained yet tuneful. “Is it really that bad to not know who you are?” he asks moments later, as if the existential vertigo of throwing himself into something that may never pan out is finally catching up with him.

“Sometimes I think I should just be a plumber,” Pillow said when discussing “Waves.”

While plenty are content to make albums as an “heirloom” exercise for a future self, as Duff puts it, the burden of missing out on success seems to weigh heavier on Pillow. When

he sings “Let me into your heart, again,” it’s almost as if Tiny Towns is a love affair turned lukewarm, the exhilarating heyday still lingering in memory.

Is that really the case, though? Or is Pillow seeing conflict that isn’t there? On “XIV,” a speedy-strummed track full of his trademark hopelessness, he offers glimpses of the latter.

“If it’s bad, it’s because I want it to be,” he sings, owning his tendency to dwell in darkness even when he’s the one fashioning it.

Despite the allure of Pillow’s angst, some of the album’s most interesting moments come when he rejects his instincts. The spacey, piano-anchored “Black Cat” — one of Tiny Towns’ most unexpected sonic departures — is an intentional crack at escaping a lyrical rut of negativity. “I felt like I was in a box, just writing the same songs over and over again,” Pillow said.

“Honestly, what happened is that my life kind of improved a lot. I’ve got my wife and my son and I just hadn’t been sad for a while. But I was catching myself using the same lines, like ‘I don’t want to do this’ or ‘I don’t want to do that,’ or ‘I don’t know this’ or ‘I don’t know that.’”

So he penned a tune from the vantage point of his household pet, who was longingly looking out the window amid his writer’s block. “I want to go outside / And roll around, roll around, roll around, I do,” he sings over a measured, tambourine-heavy foundation.

Pillow is quick to dismiss the song as having no “deep meaning,” but that’s for the listener to decide. Because we’ve been primed to expect a depressive perspective from the band, the ostensibly simple refrain becomes more profound, a chance to reflect on what indulging in cat-like behavior might imply about a person who’s often wrestling with their own insignificance.

Taken more literally, the song also functions as a necessary break from the doom and gloom.

The album’s instrumental interludes play a similar role. Though the technical prowess of Duff and Brumley has always allowed Tiny Towns to lean more into experimental passages than the average indie rock band, “Let Me Into Your Heart” branches out further. The back half of the otherwise zippy “XIV,” for example, dissolves into a much-slower jazz-adjacent groove, the kind of pleasing shift that’s only possible because the band decided to record without a metronome for the first time. And “Daughter,” the album’s jammiest song, ends the record with glimmering keyboard and glockenspiel flourishes that carry its final two minutes to a contemplative place.

By the end of the album’s runtime, however, I found myself craving Pillow’s sturdy flair for the dramatic. I raced back to “Waves,” starting the album over again. Perhaps the secret to the Tiny Towns formula is a cycle: stoking trouble and self-pity and then stepping back when things get too hot, but never quite letting the fire go out.

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BRISKET FOR THE DISTRICT: Local farm-raised brisket on NLRSD's new 3,000-pound smoker.

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remember it well from my childhood in the ’90s, the way elementary school kids were mocked for eating cafeteria vegetables. In high school, students skipped the lunch line entirely, opting for cheese fries from the snack bar or cinnamon rolls and soda from the vending machine. Other than those square pizza slices with the little mini pepperoni cubes, which everyone seemed to think were a delicacy, the school lunch tray was a C+ at best.

But forget all that.

When North Little Rock School District students lined up for lunch on Friday, Oct. 13 — the last day of National School Lunch Week — their trays featured Arkansas farm-raised pulled pork or sliced brisket cooked for about 16 hours on the district’s new 3,000-pound commercial smoker. On Wednesday of the same week, the kids were offered pork roast also prepared on the smoker, which is set up just a few blocks

from North Little Rock High School.

Serving restaurant-quality meals that include freshly prepared, locally raised meats might be the best way to bust the age-old school lunch stigma.

SCHOOL LUNCH ECONOMICS Before the 2023-24 school year began, Mary Lee Dennis, NLRSD’s director of child nutrition, announced at a school board meeting that the district had purchased the smoker and received a grant from the United States Department of Agriculture's Local Food for Schools Cooperative Agreement Program for partnerships with local farmers.

At the North Little Rock School District, all students eat free thanks to the Community Eligibility Provision program, a federal program for districts in areas of high poverty. Under this program, schools are reimbursed for meals based

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So, the more North Little Rock students who eat school meals, the more funding the district of roughly 8,000 students receives. One of Dennis’ goals with the local farm-to-school program is to help end the time-honored student tradition of scoffing at school cafeteria food, particularly the lunch tray.

“It’s a stigma,” Dennis said.

Farm-to-school isn’t a new concept in Arkansas, with roots as far back as the 1940s, when home economics teacher and food service director Earnestine Camp raised chickens, cultivated a garden and baked fresh bread for the scratchmade meals at Yellville-Summit High School.

Still, establishing a robust, district-wide farmto-school program has its challenges.

“Unfortunately, a lot of the local produce or local meats are more expensive than we can get through our distributors because they buy in bulk through manufacturers all over the country, and they can get better prices,” Dennis said.

The standard for school meals changed in 2010 when the Obama administration's Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act was signed into law. Kids can still get chicken nuggets and burgers, but more fruits, vegetables and whole grains are offered as well. Those efforts, however, haven’t seemed to help the stigma problem.

Hence the 3,000-pound Ole Hickory Pits smoker, which sits under a newly constructed metal shed outside the NLRSD’s Child Nutrition office. The $25,000 price tag for the smoker was not covered with grant funds. “That's our district’s investment in farm-to-school,” Dennis said. “We wanted the grant money to go to the farmers as much as possible, so we decided we would make an investment to show we were committed to continue to offer this outside of grant funds.” The $217,790 the district received from the Local Foods for Schools initiative will be spent on food from Arkansas farms.

Dennis decided to first focus on the quality of the meat the school district was purchasing, in part because local produce farmers didn’t immediately have the capacity to feed NLRSD’s 8,000-plus students.

SMALL FARMS, TALL ORDERS On Monday of National School Lunch Week, Child Nutrition Coordinator Josh Clements and warehouse manager Bo Adams, the district’s new unofficial pitmasters, christened the smoker with 75 pork butts from Bansley’s Berkshire Ridge Farm in Harrison. If that sounds like a lot for a small farm, it is.

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erated Bansley’s Berkshire Ridge Farm since 2009. The Bansleys rear Berkshire pigs, an English heritage breed that’s popular among chefs and often sold alongside popular Wagyu beef.

Bansley’s Farm supplies its pork to more than 20 Northwest Arkansas restaurants, including Oven & Tap, Tusk & Trotter and Hail Fellow Well Met. North Little Rock is the first school district the Bansleys have worked with, and Carol Bansley said a sizable request like that makes life easier on the farmers because it prevents them from having to store the meat or turn it into grind for items like breakfast sausage.

“A lot of our restaurants don’t use the butts, so having the school use this is a blessing,” she said.

We visited the district’s child nutrition headquarters the next day and watched Clements load the smoker full of briskets from both Wahrmund Farms in Springfield and Rabbit Ridge Farms in Bee Branch. The smoker itself has a firebox, a thermostat-controlled temperature sensor and rotisserie racks that can be controlled with a foot switch. The installation involved connecting it to a gas line from the street and the maintenance team at NLRSD building a protective shed around it. The process of purchasing the smoker, having it delivered

from Kansas and installing it took about eight months, Dennis said, calling it a “labor of love.”

TASTE TEST When Arkansas Times photographer Brian Chilson and this reporter stopped by some North Little Rock schools on Friday to see how the new menu items would go over with reliably hardto-please kids, the results were fascinating. At Pike View Early Childhood Center, we watched several classes of well-behaved preschoolers go through the lunch line to collect farm-to-table brisket, baked beans, pineapple chunks and a dinner roll. We listened as their teachers gave the repeated instruction to “butterfly back and pop it out,” the only way to properly open a carton of skim milk. The kids didn’t have much of a reaction — they seemed more interested in being preschoolers. Dennis visited with each class and let them know about the special food on their trays, some of which had tickets underneath to be exchanged for prizes.

North Little Rock Middle School was higher energy by comparison. Shaveta McKay, a child nutrition assistant in the cafeteria who was serving up brisket and pulled pork sandwiches along with her “famous baked beans,” said they feed about 1,500 students per day across five school lunch periods. Many of those students

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As the lunch went on, more and more started noticing the brisket and pulled pork sandwiches, and a line began to form. A student justifiably called out our photographer for only showing up to take pictures now that barbecue was being served. Dennis let students who opted for pizza or nachos know what they were missing out on, passing out samples of the brisket so they could try it.

Before we left, McKay offered Chilson and me our first school lunch trays since 1982 and 1999, respectively. This was a world away from some of the school cafeteria mystery meats of my youth. The brisket was tender and flavorful, her famous baked beans were “bussin’” (that’s 2023 slang in NLRSD and beyond for food that’s delicious), and it was a restaurant-quality meal overall.

Clements said one of the lessons here is that more of an effort needs to go into building hype around the unique menu offerings so it’s not a surprise when those items are on the serving line. He said they might start passing out samples before those items land on the menu.

Communicating with parents at home will also help diminish the school lunch stigma.

“We can do things all day long,” Dennis said, “but if it doesn’t reach the household we’ll never really change that [perspective].” Eventually, Dennis and her crew hope to take farm-toschool a step further by incorporating lessons in the classroom about where food comes from.

Bansley’s Berkshire Ridge Farm said they’ve never been contacted about educational opportunities for students to learn about what they do, but if someone asks, they’re on board.

“We’ve thought about it for years,” Carol Bansley said. “It would be cool to have a field trip to the farm and have kids actually see where it all starts. It doesn’t magically appear in a little package at the grocery store.”

The district is currently using local farmraised ground beef weekly. They plan on smoking pork and brisket at least twice a month, Dennis said, and both she and Clements are committed to farm-to-school long term. If participation in school meals increases because of the higher quality, they’ll be able to sustain it on a large scale.

“Especially in an area of high poverty,” Dennis said, where for some students school meals are their main form of nutrition. “I think that's our motivation to continue to do it outside the norm.”

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Vase: Daniel Van Antwerp of Hermit Glass from Yellville, takes his inspiration from nature, the cosmos, and his own imagination. Pictured here are his exquisite multi-colored glass vases.

Cutting board: Beautiful, functional, and unique cutting boards and other wooden items by Eric and Mary Jaeger of Wisakon Woods from Leslie. Their works of art are meant to be used, like this multi-colored cutting board.

Come check out all these artists and more at the Arkansas Craft Guild’s Christmas Showcase, Dec.1-3 at the Arkansas State Fairgrounds.

Snag these up for the art collector.

If you can't find it here, they don't need it!

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JACKSONVILLE PARKS & RECREATION HOLIDAY CRAFT & GIFTS SALE Come shop from local vendors for the perfect gifts this holiday season.

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RHEA DRUG Come browse new seasonal arrivals like this cozy, Radley cable-knit sweater; this is a cute and versatile item ready to be a part of your wardrobe!

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BANG-UP BETTY Your 2024 solar eclipse attire should include eye protection and a clever, locally made eclipse necklace and earrings by North Little Rock jewelry maker Bang-Up Betty. The sterling silver moon swings back and forth over the bronze sun so you have a tiny eclipse right around your neck. This necklace is actually part of an entire space jewelry collection, including planets, constellations and more. Find eclipse jewelry at bangupbetty.com/space-age-collection 501-291-0071, 429 Main St. Upstairs, North Little Rock, bangupbetty.com Special Advertising Section of the Arkansas Times

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WORDSWORTH No matter what they like to read, WordsWorth has the perfect book for your loved one this gift-giving season, like this Barbra Streisand memoir for the music lover in your life, new this fall! 501-663-9198, 5920 R St., Little Rock, wordsworthbookstore.com

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NOVEMBER 25 - DECEMBER 23 / TICKETS AVAILABLE AT ARKMFA.ORG Corduroy is supported by Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield with additional support from Dr. Loren Bartole ‘Family Foot Care,’ Rebsamen Fund and Union Pacific Foundation. Children’s Theatre and Performing Arts programs are supported by The Shubert Foundation and the Alice L. Walton Foundation.

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our years, or thereabouts. That’s how long it’s been since the first rumors of a new virus began drifting across the Pacific. In Plague Years, that’s a hell of a long time.

A long time in plain ol’ years, too. The day we heard they were building new hospitals in China in six days flat, trying to stay ahead of the fire, The Observer didn’t have these sprays of dirty silver at our temples, like a fledgling Grandpa Munster.

Strange to think, too, that the last time The Observer — this particular Observer, anyway — hefted this pen was before it all started. We’ve been away from the writing game for a while, Dear Reader. Maybe bordering on “a spell.”

The witchiness of the word fits the general impression the last few years have made on The Observer to an Absolute T, as the old farts out in Merkin Fork are prone to say.

The Observer thinks, at times, on who we were those few years ago that feel like decades now. We think on how it changed us and on that busier and more trusting world. But then we all rode the national steed through the night country and returned to what passes for home, our flags in tatters and a half-spent pump jug of hand sanitizer gathering dust by every public door.

While we were out there, we answered a few rather long-standing questions though, didn’t we? Those questions that have haunted a corner of every American heart since we elected a president whose sole previous success involved pretending to be a Successful Businessman on a TV game show.

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put aside our differences and become Rosie the Riveters and Audie Murphys again, steadfast and true for the collective good at great personal risk?”

We saw how that turned out, didn’t we? It's not an award-winning performance by a healthy society when we’ve all got a glass brick in our pocket with access to Global Human History, Science, Philosophy and Medical Theory, and yet a sizable percentage of the student body still manages to flunk the pop quiz.

But there The Observer goes again. Old Gloomy Gus. We’ve gotta learn to look on the bright side! There's just no way in hell this is what you want to hear, the first time we're running into each other at this bus stop on the other side of the last few years.

We can agree on this: The Observer was changed by it, and so were you. The Observer was worried about getting sick, and so were you.

The Observer was worried sick about the people we loved, and lost people, and got frustrated with people doing stupid shit in public, and so did you.

See how those ideas are kinda universal now? The great unifier: that the worst time in all our lives feels mostly over. These are the foundations of bone on which we might rebuild our national kinship, hopefully better than we once did after the Civil War. Or not.

Please forgive us, Dear Reader. The Observer has always been the optimistic type. Our Magic 8 Ball just keeps coming up “Ask Again Later” these days.

Here’s the news from our lonely outpost: The Observer made it through a little wizened and knowing more about Joe Exotic than we ever wanted to, but OK in the end. So did Beloved

Spouse, who never caught the ‘vid to our knowledge (knock wood) despite waging the daily good fight down at the courthouse. That in itself is a miracle. That marble barn at Markham and Spring hosts the great tromp of all local humanity on a daily basis. The Patient Zero of Covid-23 may well be waiting for his child support hearing to be called up there right now.

Junior is also doing fine, having grown to strapping manhood and just taken his LSAT. He landed a score The Observer couldn’t long jump across if expressed in centimeters, so we expect good things from him. As always. Should any attorney in this town be in need of a giant boxtoting goon who will work for a pittance, hit us up.

He’s itching to get on the other side of that bar.

But here might be the best news: You also made it through, Dear Reader. The proof is in the pudding, after all: You have to be there, or you wouldn’t be reading this. No matter who you are and what you had to wade through, The Observer is very glad you’re here. There were too many literate people in the ground before this shitshow started, and Lord knows this state has only so many to spare.

Where The Observer is writing this, it’s midOctober, the season of ghosts. But where you are, it’s already November, full of good food and family; taking the jacket down from the hook on the way out the door; drives and walks through flaming woods; Arkansas furling her summer skirts to show the lining of red and gold before she beds down to sleep.

These are things to be thankful for, and to look forward to. Now many of us know what it feels like to wonder whether we’ll see another November. The Observer very much does.

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