LITTLE ROCK — Artmobile lines up
stay in Perryville
The Arkansas Arts Center is taking its act on the road.
The center’s Artmobile will roll today into the Max Milam branch of the Central Arkansas Library System in Perryville and stay there until Saturday.
The mobile gallery features portraits and landscapes of different types.
Hours will be 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and a special reception will be held Saturday from 1-3 p.m.
The library is at 609 Aplin Ave. in Perryville.
Show-and-tell set for research park
The Little Rock Research and Technology Park Authority is hosting a public meeting Wednesday afternoon so residents can get a better idea of what the authority will be doing in coming years.
A location for the research park has not been identified yet by the seven-member authority board, which had its first-ever meeting last month. When established, the research park will provide space for startup companies that will attempt to turn research from universities into usable products.
The park is a joint project among the city, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and the Little Rock Chamber of Commerce. Little Rock voters approved a sales-tax increase earlier this year that will provide $22 million toward the park’s construction.
The public meeting will be at 4 p.m. at Entergy Arkansas at 900 S. Louisiana St. in downtown.
OK sought to shut mobile food truck
The Little Rock Advertising and Promotion Commission is seeking a Pulaski County circuit judge’s permission to shut down a mobile food truck that’s failed to obtain a permit from the commission-managed tourism bureau, which levies a 2 percent tax on prepared food.
The tourism bureau filed a complaint Dec. 2 against Julia Woods and Chris Mc-Intosh, the proprietors of a “Say” McIntosh mobile unit at Martin Luther King Drive and Charles Bussey Avenue.The December filing comes several months after the bureau was granted an injunction against a restaurant by the same name at 2801 W. Seventh St. for not having the local tax permit.
According to Advertising and Promotion Commission records, the restaurant owed $2,851.62 in back taxes for the period April 2010 through August 2010. Because the mobile unit doesn’t have a permit, the commission doesn’t know the total of back taxes owed, said Ionette Neal, director of the commission’s tax revenue office.
The McIntosh family has run several restaurants in the capital city throughout the years and Robert “Say” McIntosh was known for his sweet-potato pie. A longtime community activist and restaurateur, the elder McIntosh is no longer involved in the business.
Guardianship records filed over the summer by his wife said he is now living in a nursing home and suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes and other health problems.
Butler Center will get cemetery files
Mount Holly Cemetery records, some dating back to the mid-1800s, will soon have a new home.
Little Rock city directors voted Dec. 6 to turn over several scrapbooks, meeting minutes and old lot deeds to The Butler Center for Arkansas Studies in downtown Little Rock.
The board overseeing the nearly 170-year-old cemetery has already given over much of its documents to the public archives, but the two boxes in the city’s vault were official city records.
“The city has these records that are so old and they’re starting to deteriorate a little bit along the edge,” said Cindy Dawson, an attorney for the city who coordinated the donation. “We wanted to preserve those records, and that’s the best place for them. They’ll still be available to the public, which we want them to be,but they will be preserved for history.”
The records include handwritten ledgers detailing sales of plots in the cemetery dating back to 1851.
The cemetery, off Broadway just south of Interstate 630, contains the remains of Little Rock’s first mayor, several governors, legislators and other prominent early residents.
Arkansas, Pages 13 on 12/13/2011