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Action Jacks features a huge arcade, two Escape rooms, a full commercial kitchen serving great food, the only indoor Air-conditioned Laser tag in Central Arkansas, as well as our always fun, low-impact paintball. Action Jacks also features an adult beverage area to kick back and relax! Action Jacks is open every weekend and is a great time for the whole family.

I saw a hen turkey in an open field last week heading in a panic toward a timber edge a hundred yards away, with seven poults behind her. They were only about five- or six-weeks old, about the size of a grouse.

It’s been another busy, busy week at Have a Heart...and we love it! In addition to our local dog and cat adoptions, we sent six dogs to new homes in Massachusetts where their forever families were waiting for them, and 18 puppies went to Missouri where they will have much greater chances to find loving homes.

Peggy Mason contributing Columnist Diving ducks completely submerge themselves underwater to grab aquatic vegetation from the bottom or chase food, such as fish or invertebrates. They have adapted narrower, pointier, and overall smaller wings, which are perfect for swimming underwater.

Cindy Wood Young contributing Columnist This week’s memory actually started a year or two before my family moved back to Flippin from Springfield, Missouri, where I was born. I don’t remember the exact street address, but we lived on a corner of West Portland in Springfield.

Rachel Rodemann Putman, Associate Director for Strategic Communications The college students who will live in UAFS’s Sebastian Commons apartments will have some help keeping the fridge full this year. Thanks to a partnership between The Dave Stevens Lion Pride Pantry, the LionHeart student organization, and Antioch for Youth & Family, students in the apartments will receive deliveries of perishable and nonperishable food.