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Support the BC Library by Joining the Texas Hold’em Tournament

By Andrea Belt, Marketing Coordinator-Graphic Designer MOUNTAIN HOME – The Baxter County Library Foundation’s Texas Hold’em Tournament, Ante Up for the Library, will be held at the Mountain Home Elks Lodge #1714 on Saturday, August 24. Tickets are available now at the Baxter County Library! Individual seats are priced at $100, or you can purchase a table of 6 seats for $500.
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Preserving Sight to Fight by Ensuring Effective Military Eye Protection

Despite the continued development of munitions that create new types of blast fragments that can injure eyes, evidenceopens NIH.gov indicates decreasing rates of eye injuries in the military. This is largely due to the Department of Defense’s efforts to ensure that service members wear protective eyewear that meets necessary ballistic-impact criteria through the development and continued updating of the Authorized Protective Eyewear List, commonly referred to as the APELopens Army.mil “The APEL was developed in 2006 to address high and increasing numbers of battlefield eye injuries,” said Dr.
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Lightin Ridge

Every year about this time, fall webworms begin to appear in trees around the Ozarks. I have a quick solution for the ones I find around my place.
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