Bears topic at state park
Steve Dunlap, Northwest region education coordinator for the Arkansas Game & Fish Commission, comes to the Hobbs State Park visitor center for a free presentation on Colonial bear hunting in Arkansas at 2 p.m. Feb. 10. Dunlap "tells it as it is, or was" and that is why his programs are so memorable, Hobbs officials say.
Information: (479) 789-5000.
Smithto lecture
Jeremy Smith will present a lecture at 4 p.m. Feb. 11 in Ken and Linda Sue Shollmier Hall, Room 250 of Vol Walker Hall, on the University of Arkansas campus, as part of the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design lecture series.
Smith is the design director at Irving Smith Architects, a research-based design practice in Nelson, New Zealand, that focuses on working in sensitive environments in New Zealand and abroad.
In his lecture, "Soft Architecture: Is Being Finished Finished?," he'll discuss how he embarked on an alteration, research and teaching adventure after a cyclone cleared the trees around a house located in a forest. His firm repaired and updated the house in anticipation of the site's shifting landscape.
The public is invited to attend. Admission is free, with limited seating.
Information: (479) 575-4704 or fayjones.uark.edu.
UAFS offers dental clinic
The dental hygiene program at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith will sponsor free after-school dental clinics Feb. 12 and March 12 for area children through the UAFS Smilz Kid's Clinic.
Preventive services offered by the clinic include a dental cleaning and exam, X-rays, fluoride treatments and sealants to prevent cavities. All dental hygiene services are provided by UAFS dental hygiene students under the supervision of UAFS dental hygiene faculty and staff.
The free clinics are made possible through a grant from the Blue & You Foundation for a Healthier Arkansas.
Appointment times will be available at 3:30 p.m. and 5 p.m. both days at the Pendergraft Health Sciences Center on the UAFS campus, located at 715 N. Waldron Road.
Information: (479) 788-7270.
Coat drive being held
Sharing and Caring is having a coat drive for kids during February and the Kiwanis Club of Bentonville is partnering to help. The club is participating by accepting coats from members and the public at their meetings during the month. Kiwanis meets from noon to 1 p.m. each Tuesday in the Acropolis Restaurant on North Walton in Bentonville. Donated coats must be new and all sizes of coats are welcome.
The coats can be dropped off between 11:30 a.m. and noon Tuesdays; the last day to donate coats will be Feb. 26. Everyone is welcome to join the meetings as well.
Information: Email bentonvillekiwanis@gmail.com.
Museum to present movie
The Bella Vista Historical Museum is hosting an Old Time Movie Afternoon at 2 p.m. Feb. 17. First will be the Laurel and Hardy movie Music Box. It won the first Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film (Comedy) in 1932, and was selected in 1997 for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant." After an intermission, there will be two short Little Rascals movies, Wild Poses (1933) and Little Sinners (1935), all shown on an original 1940s Bell & Howell 16 mm film projector and sound system, courtesy of museum docents Bill and Mary Jane Cole.
Admission is free, and period appropriate refreshments will be served at a nominal cost. The museum is located at the corner of U.S. 71 and Kingsland Road in Bella Vista, next door to the American Legion.
Information: (479) 855-2335.
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NAN Profiles on 02/10/2019