February 2022

Worry; the signature of caring . . .

My sister and I began our lives in Kansas City. We lived in a nice suburban neighborhood where the space between houses could be stepped off; heel-toe, heel-toe and everyone had a chain-link fence surrounding their back yard. This was the 1960’s when a kid’s bike was their favorite mode of transportation. A bicycle represented freedom as we pedaled and glided up and down streets with the wind rushing in our faces and nowhere to be until the streetlight came on at dusk.
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Head Lady Razorbacks at Big Creek line 4

Arkansas Razorbacks sophomore golfer Miriam Ayora from Barcelona, Spain, visited Big Creek Golf & Country Club over the weekend and watched some college friends compete in the 2022 Snowman Open. (L-R): Randy Lunceford; Tomas Mariscotti, (previous Lyon College golf team member); Miriam Ayora, (Arkansas Razorback Women’s Golf); Luke Jackson, (Lyon College golf team member); and Joey Sample. PHOTO SUBMITTED BY LANG ZIMMERMAN
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A Very Taxing Season

This year’s tax season is expected to be difficult. Even the national director of the Taxpayer Advocate Service recently referred to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as an agency “in crisis” with backlogged returns, staff shortages and other historic pandemic-related challenges.
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Volunteers Appreciation Dinner Held at Bull Shoals VFW Hoevel-Barnett Post 1341

TApproximately 75 volunteers from the Bull Shoals VFW Post 1341, Bull Shoals American Legion Post 431, Bull Shoals VFW Auxiliary, VFW Riders Group, and VFW supporters were served a Barbeque Rib dinner in appreciation for their many hours of volunteering over the past year. They give hours of their time to serve and assist veterans, provide and deliver medical equipment to veterans, visit veterans in care homes, deliver quilts to veterans, assist with Fish Fry dinners, cooking and serving free Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners for veterans and the local community. (All monies from dinners go into the Veterans’ Relief Fund). They also send Troop Boxes to active military, organize and have a Children’s Christmas party, assist with Toy runs, have special recognition dinners to honor our local Police and Fire Departments, and many more events and projects for veterans during the year that are too numerous to list. The VFW and American Legion could not survive without the many dedicated, compassionate and hardworking volunteers.
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