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The Fleet Reserve Association Branch 251 meeting is set for Saturday May 20, 2023, at American Legion Post 52, 717 Market Street, Mountain Home. Bring your bag/box lunch for Noon Social at the Post Auxiliary Room.

Smile, summer is just around the corner! Get ready by giving blood with Our Blood Institute and help save a life! Donate at any Our Blood Institute donor center or mobile drive by May 31 and receive a free ticket to Magic Springs. Successful donors will also receive a smiley “I’m a Blood Donor” T-shirt, while supplies last.

By Larry Dablemont Rock bass are to Ozark flowing streams what crappie are to reservoirs. Creel census figures show that they make up the largest percentage of fish caught, and fish kept by stream fishermen in the Ozarks. Missouri fisheries people once kept track of the fish coming out of the Big Piney, Current, Niangua, Huzzah, and Courtois, and they figured goggleeye made up 25 to 35 percent of the fish caught and kept. It is likely they overlooked the green sunfish caught when they did that survey.

Healthy soil supports sustainable and productive agriculture. Two key factors that affect soil health are compaction and runoff, which can be caused or exacerbated by certain agricultural practices, such as tillage and overgrazing.