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Venues to team on Pearl Harbor events

The Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum and several other venues will partner to observe the 75th anniversary of the attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor during the first week of December.

The museum added the USS Hoga tugboat last year, the lone surviving boat still afloat that was at Pearl Harbor during the Japanese attack Dec. 7, 1941, which began the United States' involvement in World War II. The museum also is home to the World War II-era USS Razorback submarine that was present during the Japanese surrender in 1945.

The museum, at 120 Riverfront Park Drive, just east of the Main Street Bridge, hosted the state's Pearl Harbor observance last year and will be the main site again this year on Dec. 7.

Other related events planned Dec. 5-Dec. 11 will involve the Jacksonville Museum of Military History in Jacksonville, the Repertory Theatre in Little Rock, the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History in Little Rock, and the North Little Rock Heritage Center, according to the North Little Rock Convention and Visitor Bureau.

Competition opens for 30 scholarships

Registration has opened for annual scholarship competitions sponsored by the nonprofit Thea Foundation.

Thea scholarships are awarded based on students' skills and creativity in the fields of visual arts, performing arts, fashion design, film, creative writing and poetry slam.

The Thea Foundation's program awards 30 scholarships each year ranging from $2,000 to $4,000 to Arkansas high school seniors. The foundation partners with 27 colleges and universities in Arkansas and other states that match or exceed the Thea scholarship amounts. The matches have totaled more than $2 million in scholarships since the program began in 2002, according to the foundation.

Thea scholarship competitions are open to high school seniors and home-schooled seniors and students seeking General Educational Development diplomas with the intent to attend college in the fall of 2017.

More information, including registration deadlines for each category and competition guidelines, is available online at theafoundation.org.

5 groups' gardens in line for funding

The city's Fit 2 Live program is recommending that the city award grants to five groups that have applied to provide and maintain publicly accessible community gardens.

The City Council is to vote on the awards at its 6 p.m. meeting Monday.

The groups and the amounts they are to receive are: The One Inc., $4,980, for a community garden at 8016 Faulkner Lake Road; First Presbyterian Church, $3,400 for a garden at West Fourth and West Orange streets; Dark Hollow Community Development Corp., $2,500, for a garden at 108 E. Emily St.; Bailey Chapel Baptist Church, $2,065, for a garden at 1903 E. Second St.; and St. Joseph Center of Arkansas, $724, for a garden at 6800 Camp Robinson Road.

The Fit 2 Live initiative works to promote healthier lifestyles within the city.

Metro on 08/21/2016

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