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The 9th Annual

“Shop with a Cop” Golf Tournament (Four-Man Scramble)

September 20th, 2013 8:30am

Razorback Park Golf Course 2514 West Lori Drive Fayetteville, Arkansas 72704 A.M. Flight Registration, snacks served 7:45am to 8:30am.

Great prizes and gift bags. Green fees, carts, range balls, snacks, soft drinks, and prizes included in your package.

FOR SPONSORSHIP INFORMATION and prize donation for silent auction or door prizes, CONTACT: Kelly Butler PHONE: 479-444-5720 EMAIL: kbutler@co.washington.ar.us

For Registration, send Team Name plus fees of $65 per player or $260 per Team to: Washington County Fraternal Order of Police President Steven Hulsey P.O. Box 506 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72703 Please say “I found it in The NWA Home Resource Directory.” Thanks!

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A Note From the Publisher: The NWA Home Resource Directory is designed to provide Northwest Arkansans with a publication containing a wide variety of products and services for homeowners and builders. Our desire is to assist you in shopping wisely and efficiently. You will find that each advertiser is committed to offering you value and service. When you visit these businesses, please tell them about the NWA Home Resource Directory. They will want to know how you found them. We appreciate your interest and encourage your comments and suggestions. Please address all correspondence to: NWA Home Resource Directory • P.O. Box 9658 • Fayetteville, AR • 72703 or call Michelle L. Viney at 479-466-8414.

E-mail: michelle@homeresourcedirectory.com

Home Resource Directory 2013. This Directory, in part or whole, is not to be reproduced or copied without written permission.

Home Resource Directory® is a registered trademark of Hidden Values, Inc. 214.449.7283. We are expanding our network of Home Resource Directories. If you are interested in how to have your own Home Resource Directory in your city, please call 1.800.960.6788.

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NWA Home Resource Directory Publisher Michelle Viney and family in May 2013 when she received her Master's in Management and Leadership from Webster University.

Dear Readers, Welcome to the first issue of the Northwest Arkansas Home Resource Directory!

We are so pleased to have the opportunity to bring you this new monthly publication.

As the publisher of this magazine, and a homeowner myself, it is my goal to provide a convenient monthly resource guide for the residents of Northwest Arkansas. Each month, as we grow, you will find more and more ideas about products and services for your home. You can look to us for resources related to selling, purchasing, moving, decorating and living in your home!

You will find that our advertisers are committed to offering exceptional value and services. When visiting or calling on our advertisers, please be sure to mention that you found them in the Northwest Arkansas Home Resource Directory.

In the coming months you will continue to see new and exciting additions with each new issue. Make sure you look for us at the places you frequent around Northwest Arkansas. Tell us what you think, we value your comments and look forward to hearing from you!

Sincerely, Michelle L. Viney Publisher michelle@homeresourcedirectory.com

If your business offers products and services for the home, our business is to help you grow.

Become part of our directory today, your viewers are interested in knowing about your company!

For a media kit, contact the publisher at 479-466-8414

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Water Education Splashes into Northwest Arkansas; Cool Landscaping Easily Adapted to Residential Settings

It’s summertime and it’s time to play. The kids are out of school and everyone’s looking for fun things to do. Well, if you’re into fun learning and new experiences, take a drive out Lowell way. At this destination, frogs and beavers are popping up everywhere!

While they may not be literal frogs and beavers, they are real enough! These colorful characters are actually signs that include cool water-focused educational messages. (And by the way, there are real frogs living alongside the stream area. You can hear them at night and spot them from time to time hopping among the flowers and bushes during the daytime.)

Castor the Beaver and Randy the Frog will lead you and your children on a Water Education Scavenger Hunt. Grab a pencil and a booklet and find the messages all over the property as you figure out the next clue or fill in the blank that’s hidden on the signs. And all this is featured alongside neatly designed landscaping featuring everything from black-eyed Susans and daylilies to junipers and a host of grass varieties. There’s even a rock-lined stream fed from recycled water that flows along the front of Beaver Water District’s Administration Center, which houses the 600-square-foot Water Education Center, a dream realized for the children of Northwest Arkansas.

No matter the time of year or angle of the sun, the water feature shimmers amongst trees, flowers and foliage. When it rains, water flows easily through permeable pavement and drains into infiltration basins – large engineered rain gardens meant to slow runoff and allow nature to do its job with ease. That water will flow into an aquifer or into a stream and the watershed eventually. That’s somebody’s drinking water. And that’s what this place is all about. As it turns out, you can do this same kind of garden in a residential setting, and what you learn walking around this center will inform you how to go about it.

Look for more on that in a future article in this magazine.

Beaver Water District, founded in the late 1950s, supplies drinking water from Beaver Lake people and industries in Fayetteville, Springdale, Rogers, Bentonville and surrounding areas, or one in 10 Arkansans. These cities then resell the water to surrounding towns and communities. Beaver Water District is the second largest drinking water utility in the state of Arkansas. Its mission is to serve its customers’ needs by providing high quality drinking water that meets or exceeds all regulatory requirements and is economically priced consistent with its quality standards. Overall, in a five-county area encompassing Washington, Benton, Madison, Carroll and Boone, about 420,000 people get their drinking water from utilities who take water from Beaver Lake. That’s 1 in 7 Arkansans! To learn more about the construction of Beaver Lake and drinking water history in Northwest Arkansas, watch the video “Beaver Lake: Northwest Arkansas’ Ace in the Hole.” Just visit this address on the web: http://www.bwdh2o.org/media/video/.

Free copies of this 18-minute history DVD/video, produced by Beaver Water District, are Please say “I found it in The NWA Home Resource Directory.” Thanks!

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available. Just email your name and mailing address to awilson@bwdh2o.org.)

Beaver Water District’s targeted outreach concerning Beaver Lake and water quality took off in early 2005. That’s when the first website was launched (bwdh2o.org) and a manager of environmental quality and a director of public affairs began working in earnest with the District’s board and staff, as well as partner organizations, to get the word out about the importance of taking care of Beaver Lake, the primary drinking water source for Northwest Arkansas and the lifeblood of this area of the state.

It became clear that in addition to public awareness, outreach programs and media channels, there was a need for comprehensive, focused curriculum in local schools. The K-12 Building Blocks to Water Education Program was developed in partnership with teachers, schools and area water partners in response to this need.

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All programs are “We need to preserve this great resource for future generations.” locally based so John M. Lewis that children have a connection to the material -- I live there, I drive there, I swim there, I drink that water -- as well as being aligned with Arkansas Curriculum Standards to ensure relevance and use in the classroom.

When Beaver Water District opened its new Administration Center in 2009, the Water Education Center had 600 square feet of dedicated space set aside to educate both children and adults about the value of drinking water and stewardship of the watershed. While the District invested resources for some components, more funding was needed. In March of 2011, The Walton Family Foundation awarded the District a three-year grant of $229,250 to enhance and accelerate existing efforts toward the creation of a comprehensive Water Education Center. Today, the Center and its grounds include educational signage; a scale drinking water plant model; interactive kiosks with videos and games exploring water history, drinking water treatment and watersheds; a wall-sized watershed map; a 50-seat classroom with a “smart” board; and a low impact development walking tour.

There’s no question that the main business of Beaver Water District is to supply safe, clean affordable drinking water to its customers. With a staff of more than 50, a goodly number of them trained and licensed drinking water operators, there’s always someone on the job, 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year. However, drinking water and watershed education focused on Beaver Lake make good sense, because the cleaner the “raw” lake water is, the less it costs to make it safe for drinking.

The Beaver Water District’s Administration Center and Water Education Center, located at 301 N. Primrose Road in Lowell, is open to the public from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. For more information, visit www.bwdh2o.org.

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Shop. Donate. Volunteer.

Our Mission= To sell repurposed products for the home while generating revenue to build safe, affordable homes.

Ch for B eck Us Out ack SAV To Scho ING ol S!

What IS the ReStore?= The ReStore is a discount home improvement center that sells donated building materials, appliances, and home furnishings at greatly reduced prices to the general public. 100% of the proceeds support Habitat for Humanity of Washington County in fulfilling their mission of eliminating substandard housing.

479-582-2076 habitatwashingtoncoar.org 1421 E. 15th St., Fayetteville

OPEN Monday - Saturday 9am - 5:30pm Free Donation Pick Up! Open to the Public!

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