Saturday in Arkansas

I'm leaving out for Little Rock now to give a 90 minute legislative update at the Arkansas CASA Conference, then I'm Tuscaloosa bound.


Legislature: No legislative meetings today.
Governor Beebe: 8:30 a.m.: Governor Beebe gives welcoming remarks to the Arkansas Disability Coalition Conference (Jack T. Stephens Spine and Neurosciences Institute, 501 Jack Stephens Drive, Little Rock)

Across Arkansas:
Bull Shoals: 12th Annual State Championship Hillbilly Chili Cook-off
Cane Hill: 2nd Annual Dutch Oven Cook-Off
Dyess: Johnny Cash Memorial Concert
Fayetteville: 18th Annual Polo in the Ozarks
Lonoke: Fall Festival Trap Shoot
Marianna: Annual Autumn on the Square
Eureka Springs: Little Feat Fest and Parade
Mena: 19th Annual Mountainfest
Maynard: 27th Annual Pioneer Days
Melbourne: Tour De Aux Arcs
Pioneer Washington: Quilt Show
Pine Bluff: 7th Annual Smoke on the Water BBQ Cook-off & Music Festival
Pocahontas: Black River Rendezvous
Vilonia: 18th Annual Fall Bluegrass Festival

- 8:30 a.m.: The Alzheimer's Arkansas Walk (Little Rock Zoo)
- 10:00 a.m.: Cleanup Mud Creek Trail (meet at Butterfield Trail Elem. , Fay.)
- 4:00 p.m.: Democratic Candidate Training
- 7:00 p.m.: Amethyst Ball Benfitting Ark. Coalition Against Domestic Violence (Gov.'s Mansion)
- The Van Buren, Benton, Baxter, Crawford, Pope, and White County Fairs are underway.

- 63rd Annual Four States Fair & Rodeo
- 9:00 a.m.: Cystic Fibrosis Walk (Spring Lake Park)
- 3rd Annual Bluegrass Festival (Txk RV Park)
- Little River Chamber of Commerce Fall Golf Tournament