Sports

As to a date for opening my Big Piney River Nature Center, a mile south of Houston, Missouri, put the date of Saturday, October 16 on your calendar. On that day we will begin putting in the first displays and we will have a couple of real attractions. Jerry McCoy, who owns a big outdoor antique store at Bull Shoals, will be there with all kinds of antique lures and fishing gear to display and lures to sell as well.

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Arvest Bank is pleased to announce that four regional nonprofits were selected as beneficiaries of the 28 th Annual Charity Golf Tournament, set to take place August 24 at Big Creek Golf Course in Mountain Home. Each year, Arvest associates choose a local “Charity of the Year” from Baxter, Boone and Marion counties to receive proceeds from the golf tournament.

Cool Stream If you have the ambition to get away from the air conditioning and get your body acclimated to summer, find an isolated section of Ozark River where canoe rental people do not operate, and plan a two- or three-day trip in the middle of the week with a friend who is inclined not to complain much about sleeping in a tent and having wet feet. By doing so, you can actually get off away from the world’s problems.

I talked to the new director of the Missouri Department of Conservation this week, and he gives me some hope. He hails from Ozarks country, the small community of Lincoln, Missouri, where he and his dad kept coonhounds and hunted coons and sold their pelts.