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Four girls’ sports teams in Faulkner County won state championships during the 2009-10 school year. The coaches of those teams recently discussed what it took to get their teams to victory.
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“The gift that keeps on giving” would be an appropriate description for the prize package that was awarded to our 2010 Women’s Inc. makeover winner, Kathi Sweere.
Jo Claire Dodson, founder of The Art School of Conway, gives aspiring artists of all ages a solid foundation in art education, leading them from the fundamentals to advanced techniques.
Dodson started the school at 915 Oak St. about eight years ago. She grew up in a family that appreciated the arts, and so her own involvement in the arts was a given.
Every busy mom worries about how to prepare fast, nutritious meals for her family. Working moms often find they have very little time for meal planning and preparation. A little advance preparation and some creative menus are all you need to made mealtime less stressful. You will save a lot of time and energy if you plan an entire week’s meals in advance, and do your shopping all in one trip instead of making several trips to the grocery store each week. A simple online search will give you some great recipes and meal ideas, most of which you can prepare in less than fifteen minutes.
Bill and Martha Hegeman, fixtures in the community and in the St. Joseph parish, are serving as honorary chairs of the 98th annual St. Joseph School Bazaar.
The Hegemans went through school together at St. Joseph, graduated in 1953 and were married in 1954. They have been working at the bazaar together ever since. It is St. Joseph School’s largest fundraiser.
“It’s strictly a school event,” Bill Hegeman said. “All proceeds go 100 percent to the school. That money helps reduce tuition that the students have to pay.”
Story and photo by Becky Harris
Poised with spade and trowel, the Faulkner County Master Gardeners are the happiest folk when spring arrives.
All winter they have dreamed of the warming earth and how they will attack it with best practices they learned from weeks of study in classes sponsored by the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service.
By Rachel Parker Dickerson
Photo by Brandy Strain
Downtown Conway’s newest locale for homemade fare is an enterprise of four women who love to cook.
Debby Saddler, Iris Fason, Debbie Armstrong and Roxanne Jackson opened Vintage Kitchen in November.
“We got together as friends. We thought it would be fun (and) something we could offer Conway,” Armstrong said.
By Chef Jill McCollum, CC
Yellow Squash Casserole
4 cups sliced yellow squash
½ cup chopped onion
35 buttery round crackers, crushed
1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese
2 eggs, beaten
¾ cup milk
¼ cup butter, melted
1 teaspoon salt
Ground pepper to taste
2 tablespoons butter
The Downtown Conway Concert in Simon Park Series is off to a solid start, and big things are planned for the future, according to Kim Williams, executive director of the Conway Downtown Partnership.
“The concerts have been really good,” Williams said. “I think 400 people is a pretty good turnout, especially in this heat. We’re expecting even more for the patriotic one on July 2. We won’t have fireworks because we’re downtown, but I’m working on some surprises.”
