A new Housewives’ Club is formed in Gravette

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Rotary

The Rotary Club of Fayetteville will meet on October 7 at noon at the Mermaids restaurant in Fayetteville and live via Zoom. Rex Nelson will lead the program. Lunch costs $ 15. Email the club for a link to the Zoom meeting.

Information: fvillerotary @ gmail.com.

Civil war

The Bella Vista Civil War Roundtable will meet at 7 p.m. on October 7 at the Bella Vista Museum, 1889 Bella Vista Way. The group’s program will be given by Tom Wing, associate professor of history at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith. The title of his program will be “A Rough Introduction to the Shiny Land: The Diary of Pvt. Henry Strong, 14th Kansas.”

Wing is a museum professional with 23 years of experience in resource interpretation, program planning, exhibition design and visitor services. He is a 19th century published author and scholar interviewed on Discovery Channel, History Channel, Smithsonian Channel and PBS. He served as chairman of the West Central Arkansas Civil War Heritage Trail and recorded a number of podcasts for the Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission.

The meeting is free and open to the public.

The purpose of the Bella Vista CWRT is to educate and stimulate interest in the period of United States history known as the “Civil War,” in order to promote historical, educational and literary studies and activities. related to the civil war, including events and circumstances. related to the cause and effects of war. The roundtable normally meets on the first Thursday of each month.

Information: (812) 899-2049 or email [email protected].

NARFE

Bella Vista Chapter 1547 of Active and Retired Federal Employees will meet on October 8 at 10 a.m. in the Community Hall at First Community Bank, 21196 US 71 South, Pineville, Mo. A representative from BlueCross Blue Shield will provide an update on federal health care benefits and premiums for 2022.

Iced tea will be available or you can bring your own drink. The Covid-19 protocols will be in effect. All current and retired federal employees and their spouses are welcome.

Information: (479) 855-1676.

Weavers

The Northwest Arkansas Weavers Guild will meet on October 9 at 10 a.m. in the Shiloh Meeting Room on the campus of the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History in Springdale. Masks are mandatory for this meeting. It will be a hybrid meeting with Zoom connections for those who cannot attend in person.

The program will be an introduction to the study group of the year, titled “Vintage Variations”. Chef Marty Benson will demonstrate some of the techniques to be studied, all of which can be found in publications prior to 1970, and will include an introduction to print writing. All projects can be woven on a four axis loom. Contact the club by email to join this study group.

Information: nwahandweaversguild.com or e-mail [email protected].

Harmony

The Perfect Harmony Women’s Hair Salon Choir meets from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. every Monday in the Stock Exchange Hall of the Highland Christian Church at 1500 Forest Hills Blvd. in Bella Vista. To attend, you must have received at least the first dose of the covid vaccine. No prior experience or test is required to register. Women of all ages and voice levels are welcome to experience hair salon singing.

Information: (479) 876-7204 or perfectharmonybv.com.

Artists

The creative artists of Ozark will meet at 9 a.m. on October 9 at Riordan Hall, 3 Riordan Drive in Bella Vista.

Becky Tomlinson will teach a class about African sunset painting. The supplies needed to bring are: a surface to be painted, a large flat brush, a small / medium round brush, a small / medium flat brush, a liner, a palette, a water reservoir, paper towels and paper carbon. She will provide the paintings for this project. A reassignment table will be set up at each meeting. Our members are kindly requested to bring items that you are no longer interested in and pick up new items to enjoy.

The Ozark Creative Artists offers community service projects, such as painting souvenir boxes for hospitals. Painters of all levels make up the organization.

Information: Text Lynda at: (262) 308-4454.

N Dale Hill

Hill N Dale Hiking Club will hike October 13 to Paige Falls, Broadwater and Thunder Canyon near Compton. This is a five mile round trip hike, with three stream crossings. The Thunder Canyon Falls hiking trail destination is narrow and generally slippery. Boot traction aids like Yaktrax come in handy there.

Participants will meet at the Buffalo Outdoor Center, 4699 Arkansas 43 in Ponca, at 8:45 am. At 9:00 am we will head to the trailhead on NC2660 near Compton. There are 2.1 miles of gravel road involved to get to the trailhead. High clearance vehicles are recommended.

Information: (479) 721-2193, [email protected] or bvhikingclub.com.

Astronomers

The Sugar Creek Astronomical Society is hosting its Fall Astro Festival starting at 6 p.m. on October 12 at the Waterway Christian Church in Bentonville. It will be a fun evening with astro crafts; a film festival featuring the film “Galileo’s Battle for the Heavens”; and participants will all appear as guests on “Global Star Party” with Scott Roberts and Explorer Scientific. The public is invited.

Regular meetings of the Sugar Creek Astronomical Society, an amateur astronomy club, are held on the second Tuesday of each month at Waterway Christian Church in Bentonville.

Information: (928) 651-0334.

Housewives

Jolly Good Times Extension Homemakers Club, founded September 7 in Gravette, will meet at 6:30 p.m. on October 5 at the Gravette Community Building.

The officers are Kimee Powers, president; Jacie Luedecke, vice-president; Tina Crose and Jennifer Coffman, co-secretaries; Nicole Jowers and Jody Decker, co-treasurers; Sheila Birch and Jaci Weeks, co-chairs of the educational committee; and Ashley Ellis, chair of the community services committee. The names of those interested in serving on the committees have been collected.

The name “Jolly Good Times Extenstion Homemakers Club” is a tribute to a former Jolly Good Times Club which was organized in 1928 with eight members and had grown to 19 members by 1929 when it was federated with the county as a club. home demonstration. Members of the original JGT club displayed items at the county fair and were involved in many community service projects before disbanding several years ago.

Send club news to [email protected]. The deadline is Tuesday at 4 p.m. for the Sunday publication. Please include a phone number or email address for the post.

Photo submitted The Butterfield Trails Chapter of Questers in Bella Vista visited Pea Ridge National Military Park on a very sunny day on September 27, with guide Dale Phillips, who is the chair of the Bella Vista Civil War Roundtable . Chapter members and guests are pictured here, gathered around the Butterfield Stagecoach Overland Mail Route marker, after which the chapter is named, at Elkhorn Tavern on the grounds of the park. Phillips worked for the National Park Service for 41 years before retiring to Bella Vista four years ago. So he was a great choice for the guide that day. Questers International’s mission statement is “Questers keep history alive by supporting preservation, restoration and education”. For more information on the chapter, contact Bella Vista President Betsy Mertz at 612-1251-6988.

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