In the News
Brian Miller – remember that name
…Brian Miller loved the place. And it showed. He didn’t run away. Not even after he got his law degree from Vanderbilt and had the world to conquer/save. Even when he worked as a lawyer for a big firm in Memphis, young Miller commuted back and forth…
Business booming at sweet potato facility
Though this is the first harvest season and the first year of operation for Arkansas Delta Yams, the management team is already making plans and putting together a proposal to expand their facility in order to double their capacity by the 2008 harvest season.
FDIC, Southern Good Faith Fund Announce Statewide Partnership – Alliance to focus on expanding access to IDA program in Arkansas, other financial services
LITTLE ROCK – The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and Southern Good Faith Fund announced today a partnership to expand access to Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) and other banking products and services that target underserved populations.
Building Economies in the Delta and the Iron Range
Two of the most unlikely places in rural America to find economic success are the Iron Range of Minnesota and south Arkansas. But there it is – and community colleges are at the center of the action.
State’s sweet-potato crop ‘yam good’ – New storage facility near Poplar Grove allows for increased yield
POPLAR GROVE — The new sweet-potato storage and distribution facility here will soon be identified with a sign for “Arkansas Delta Yams,” manager Cindy Neal said. Although sweet potatoes and yams are two unrelated plants, many U.S. sweet potatoes are marketed as “yams.”
After school program to get funds from the feds
U.S. Senators Mark Pryor and Blanche Lincoln have announced that $250,000 in federal funds for Save the Children, a juvenile delinquency prevention program for the Helena-West Helena area, has passed the senate and is on the way to a joint Senate-House committee. The committee will negotiate differences between the two respective bills and produce a final conference report that Pryor says will be approved.
Local B&GC gets involved with “Impact 2012″
…They are encouraging young people to make a commitment to help reverse the negative trends affecting kids in communities throughout the nation, and to join Clubs nationwide, including the Boys and Girls Clubs of Phillips County, in their mission of changing and saving young lives…
Governor appoints Boone to Board of Review
Gov. Mike Beebe has appointed Michael Boone of Helena-West Helena to the Board of Review. Boone replaces Norith Eillison.
His appointment expires Jan. 14, 2011.
Arkansas takes cue of Nobel laureate – Economist inspired small-loan program
Muhammad Yunus was recognized a year ago with the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with microlending to the beggars of his native Bangladesh.
Tiny Loans Create Enormous Change in Bangladesh, Nobel Winner Says
Last year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner, microbanker Muhammad Yunus, said trusting impoverished women with “enormous” sums like $35-$40 dollars has created generational change in his native Bangladesh.