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Public Invited to KFFB Live Remote

The public is invited to attend a Meet and Greet of State and local candidates for the upcoming election in November. The remote will be held at the Lions Den on dave Creek Parkway in Fairfield Bay from 5pm ? 7pm. Light refreshments will be served.

The candidates attending include: Missy Irving, State Senate, David Sanders, State Senate Tony Cuttone, Van Buren JP, Josh Miller, State Representative, and John Payton, State Senate.

KFFB Health Fair

The KFFB 106.1 annual Regional Health and Wellness Fair will be held Saturday, September 29, in Fairfield Bay. The HART Center, Fairfield Bay?s 23,000 square foot fitness center, will host the event from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The HART Center will be filled with over 75 doctors, nurses, and other specialists providing vital tests, including: Total Cholesterol Screening, Prostate Screening, Blood Oxygen tests, Glaucoma screening, I-step foot mapping, Pulse Oximetry, Carpal Tunnel Testing, Video Otoscopy, Flu Shots, Thyroid Stimulating Hormone, A1C1 For Diabetics, Vision Screening, Wound and Ulcer Risk Evaluation, Financial planning, nutritional information and many other tests. All were chosen to assess general health and head off potentially life-threatening health problems.

The Health and Wellness Fair is presented by Amedisys Home Health, Arkansas Heart Hospital, Attention Medical Supply, Baptist Health Medical Center?Heber Springs, Boston Mountain Rural Health Center, Conway Regional Health System, Eagle Bank?s ?Summit 55? Club, Edward Jones Investments Kevin Feeler Financial Advisor, Fairfield Bay Pharmacy, Indian Rock Village, Irvin Medical Clinic, Mountain View Specialty Clinic, Nestlehut Insurance Services, Ozark Health Medical Center, Pepsi, Stone County Medical Center, Stone Vision Center, Taylor Hearing And Balance Centers, Warren Wellness Center, White County Medical Center, White River Area Agency On Aging, White River Medical Center, Windsor Medicare Advantage and many other businesses.

The services, exhibits, and testing are free or at a nominal fee. More than 600 participants from all around North Central Arkansas attended last year.

KFFB 106.1 will be giving away $106.10 every hour, plus Branson Tickets, T-shirts and other giveaways, as well as a wealth of information about maintaining good health. ?We are excited about this year?s Health Fair. It should be the best yet?, said Bob Connell, Owner and General Manager of KFFB 106.1.

Fasting before the cholesterol test is encouraged, but health professionals agree that in mature citizens eating before tests causes little deviation in test results.

If you would like more information, call KFFB 106.1 at 800-356-5106.

Appreciation Picnic For Recycle Volunteer Workers

Mark your calendars for October 7, 2012. An appreciation picnic for recycle volunteer workers and family past and present will take place at Woodland Mead Park starting at 2:30 p.m with a miniature golf tournament. From 4:30 to 5 p.m. everyone will gather over at the Fairfield Bay Senior Center for fried chicken, baked beans, potato salad, coleslaw, rolls, drinks, and ice cream and cake.

After a belly full, we will have a very short information period. Ribbons will be awarded for outstanding and not so outstanding miniature golf adventures. You must be present for the door prize drawings, so be sure to get your door prize ticket at Woodland Mead Park or at the Senior Center.

Thanks to everyone who is or has volunteered their time, current, past, substitutes and families in serving our community and surrounding area.

If you are interested, or able to serve your community four hours a week every 4th week by working as a volunteer at the recycle center, please join your neighbors and friends in this fun time picnic.

Cookie Extravaganza Shelter Fund Raiser

Ladies and gentlemen, start your ovens! Please bake some cookies to benefit the animals at the shelter. If you have not been contacted to participate in this fundraiser and would like to help, please call Angela Worrell at 884-6675. Bring 3 to 6 dozen cookies (12 to a bag) to Eagle Bank in the Village Mall during banking hours on Mon, Tues, and Wed, October 15, 16, and 17. The Animal Protection League volunteers will sell the cookies on Fri. and Sat of that week next to the Bank. All proceeds benefit the FFB Animal Shelter.

Fairfield Bay Telephone And Address Directory

The Fairfield Bay Area Chamber of Commerce is updating the Fairfield Bay Telephone and Address Directory. The volunteers are busy calling to verify information which was last published in 2008/2009.

We need your help!! If your number listed in the current directory has been disconnected and you are using a cell phone number or new telephone number, please e-mail the Chamber with your current number, name/business, address, hometown and state. Please e-mail to ffbdirector@gmail.com. If you do not have internet service, please call us at 884-3324 with updated information. You still have a choice of not including a phone number.

If your phone number is correct in the Directory, the Chamber volunteers will call you to verify information. If you are not listed and live in Fairfield Bay and would like to be in the directory, please respond as well. This is a huge project and we are looking forward to a new publication next year.

Literacy Council Seeks Volunteers

Do you like to read? Just think of all the pleasure and information we get from reading newspapers, magazines, books, and online information, not to mention recipes, how-to instructions, and medical directions and prescriptions. Most of us take knowing how to read for granted. Just imagine how difficult life would be if you couldn?t read or read very well. Did you know there are approximately 2,000 adults in Van Buren County who don?t have the literacy skills to read this newspaper, a job application, or help their children with homework? Poor reading handicaps people in many different ways. Learning to read or to read better can make a huge difference in someone?s life as well as their income.

The Van Buren County Literacy Council?s mission is to give a helping hand to those over age 18 who have difficulty reading. Volunteers tutor adults one-on-one with a special adult reading system called The Laubach Way to Reading. The Laubach method is proven to work and has been used around the world for many years to teach adults to learn to read in their own native language. It can also be used to teach Spanish speaking people to read and write in English. The files of the Council are filled with success stories about people who have completed the program and gone on to get a better job, a GED, or simply to have an easier and more pleasurable life because now they can read.

Won?t you consider becoming a volunteer reading tutor? The Literacy Council is seeking new volunteers to help adults learn to read. You don?t have to be a teacher or have any special skills in order to be a tutor. You just have to have a willingness to help and 1 or 2 hours a week of time to give. The training is free, and the books, workbooks, and teaching materials are all provided for you, as well as a classroom. Tutoring is easy, fun, and very rewarding when you see your student making progress and enjoying reading.

The Literacy Council is planning a tutor training day soon. If you are interested in becoming a tutor or just want more information, please call 501-253-1873. We need YOU!

Attention All Crafters

The Ladies Auxiliary, Post 4513 Fairfield Bay would like to invite you to participate in the 2nd annual Holiday Craft Fair on Saturday October 27, 2012. Set up times will be 7 a.m. thru 9 a.m. and the Craft Fair will be from 9 a.m. thru 3 p.m.

The Craft Fair will be held at the VFW Post 4513 home on Hwy 330 in Shirley, location is just one half mile north of the intersection of The New Road and Hwy 330. Spaces are filling up fast so reserve your space TODAY. Cost for a space is $15 or $10 for LAVFW members. We already have several spaces reserved and paid for. Limited spaces with electricity are still available. Please call Patty Sullivan for your vendor form at 501-884-5461 or 501-253-3790.

Van Buren County Fair Creative Arts Exhibit Awards

Local Sponsors donate cash awards for the Best of the Best of Show exhibits as judged by out of county judges. The 2012 winners are; Art ? Diana Foot (Adult) & Cotton Love (Junior), Clothing ? Kay Bensuk (Adult),Floral Arrangements ? Glenda Doyle (Adult) & Dawson Burgess (Youth), Flowers ? Lynda Tharp (Adult), Potted Plants ? Fran Hunkins (Adult), Baked Goods ? Savannah Williams (Youth), Food Preservation ? Kandi Campbell (Youth), Crafts ? Makala Strang (Junior), Hobbies/Creative Writing ? Kay Weaver (Adult), Household Arts/Quilted Items ? Bradford Cemetery (Adult) & Linda Dingley (Adult), Field Crops/Horticulture ? Keith Hensley (Adult), Steve Smith (Adult), Faith Sowell (Youth) won 2 classes, Pat Newman (Adult).

The Van Buren County Fair Association would like to say thank you to our local sponsors and all the Creative Art Exhibitors. We appreciate you contributing to the 2012 Van Buren County Fair, our 75th year.

Source: http://www.fairfieldbaynews.com/cms/local-news-9-26/

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