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"The Compass" First Annual Compass Conference Funded and managed by The City Wire and presented by Benefit Bank, The Compass is a quarterly regional economic report with data collection and analysis handled by Jeff Collins, a nationally known economist based in Springdale and co-founder of Streetsmart Data Services. Cox Communications and the Fort Smith Regional Chamber of Commerce are also sponsors of The Compass.
The U.S. Census Bureau
has now released the first local area data from the 2007 Economic
Census. The data are for states, counties, cities and metro
areas in ten states in the West and New England, and include retail trade, accommodations, and rental
and leasing sectors, among others.
Mitsubishi
announces intention to locate wind manufacturing plant in Arkansas Company
plans to invest $100 million, and create as many as 400 jobs
2/12/2009
Home sales outperform most of state Sebastian County's residential real estate market outperformed most other Arkansas counties in 2008 while Crawford County's market essentially followed statewide trends.
One Day
Seminar: Communicate with Diplomacy and Tact Friday, July
23 from 8:00AM to 4:00PM At the
Reynolds Cancer Support House
6/30/2010
Donald W. Reynolds Cancer House announces Cup of Care fundraising kick off event On Thursday evening, July 1st Sweet Bay Coffee,
at its Creekmore Park location, will host a patio party and unveil a cup with a
good cause. It’s called the Cup of Care and the proceeds will benefit the
Donald W. Reynolds Cancer Support House
6/30/2010
John Womack Named Chairman and CEO of Arvest Bank in Central Arkansas
FORT SMITH, ARKANSAS (June 21, 2010)–Arvest Bank
announced today that John Womack, currently president of its banking operations
in Fort Smith, will become chairman and chief executive officer of Arvest’s
Central Arkansas operations effective Tuesday, July 6.
"DISCO THRU THE 80'S V" Disco fever on a Saturday night is back on tap for the fifth annual "Disco Thru the 80's" presented by Team At Work For All Charities, Inc. Do the hustle for charity and dance the night away Saturday, July 10th 7:30 p.m. at the Fort Smith Event Center located at 12 North 11th Street in downtown Fort Smith.
6/17/2010
EMT program at ATU-Ozark meets national standards The Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Educational programs recently certified that the Emergency Medical Technician/Paramedic Program at Arkansas Tech University-Ozark Campus has completed an accreditation review and was found to be in compliance with the nationally established standards.
The Center for Business and Professional Development at
the University of Arkansas - Fort Smith is offering non-credit information
technology classes and a class in finance and accounting for nonfinancial
managers in July.
The University of Arkansas - Fort Smith has now added a
video link to the May commencement story on UA Fort Smith's website to allow
site visitors to click on the speech made by guest speaker Neal Pendergraft.
6/14/2010
Cornerstone Clinic and Internal Medicine & Associates Get Physical for the Community Hundreds of students in Crawford County will begin athletic programs in the fall and all of them must pass a physical in order to participate. This year the staff at Cornerstone Clinic and Internal Medicine & Associates, clinics operated by Summit Medical Center, volunteered to conduct the physicals free of charge for all Van Buren, Mountainburg and Cedarville students.
Dr. Carolyn Mosley, dean of the College of Health
Sciences at the University of Arkansas - Fort Smith, will be inducted as a
Fellow in the National League for Nursing's (NLN) Academy of Nursing Education
at a special awards banquet Oct. 2 in Las Vegas, Nev.
Don C. De Soto, CPA and partner in the Fort Smith office
of BKD, LLP, will speak on "Ownership Succession -- Passing the
Torch" for the June 30 quarterly breakfast meeting of the Family
Enterprise Center at the University of Arkansas - Fort Smith.
Deciding what to wear for an important job interview
might be a little bit easier for students at the University of Arkansas - Fort
Smith who may not have the resources to purchase professional attire.
Sparks Health System & Summit Medical Center Win Quality Awards at AFMC Annual Conference Both Sparks Health System & Summit Medical Center won Innovator Awards at the 17th Annual Conference of the Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care (AFMC) Conference May 21 and 22 in Little Rock. The Innovator Award is given to hospitals that serve as mentors to other healthcare facilities in order to improve the healthcare of the region.
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