Dec 11, 2012 | News, Southern Bancorp Community Partners
Clarksdale has a new playground. Saturday, over 200 men, women and children worked through the occasional drizzle to move mulch, mix cement and build a playground from scratch at Martin Luther King Park. Two years after the initial announcement by the Delta Bridge...
Dec 10, 2012 | News, Southern Bancorp Community Partners
On March 1, 1997, a tornado ripped through Arkadelphia, killing six people, injuring more than 100 others and destroying the downtown. As Arkadelphia’s residents restored their lives, they vowed to rebuild. “Although the struggle to bring the downtown area back from...
Nov 29, 2012 | News, Southern Bancorp Community Partners
Civil War Helena is up and moving as Cathy Cunningham confirmed Tuesday night at the city council session. Cunningham explained that there are currently two projects in the works including Battery C at the entrance of Yorkshire and Freedom Park, which is slated to be...
Aug 23, 2012 | News, Southern Bancorp Community Partners
Dozens of people, adults and children, swarmed Martin Luther King, Jr Park Tuesday afternoon for hotdogs and music in a celebration of a new playground that is expected to get built later this year, provided the project can raise an additional $10,000 for a fence. Mac...
Jul 10, 2012 | News, Southern Bancorp Community Partners
Lois Erwin, the director of the Delta Bridge Project, said she’s hopeful that a Southern Bancorp offer to match donations will bump up community support for a KaBOOM! playground project that must find funding by this fall. The KaBOOM! project would, if it is funded,...
Jun 4, 2012 | News, Southern Bancorp Community Partners
With the acceptance of a $4,000 check and a handshake between a local small business owner and loan officer Nathaniel Owen on March 20, Scottie Smith became the first loan recipient from Accion’s Phillips County office in Helena. Mindy Maupin of Southern Bancorp’s...
Jun 2, 2012 | News, Southern Bancorp Community Partners
A group of Blytheville community leaders traveled Thursday to Helena-West Helena to meet with representatives of Southern Bancorp’s Delta Bridge Project and tour the project’s progress in Phillips County. Also present were members of the board of the Carl...
