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Henderson
Henderson

Ozarks Literacy

names director

Mitch Henderson was named the new executive director of Ozarks Literacy Council, beginning his role in October. He has served in the field of education as a teacher and school administrator for 20 years and spent the majority of the last decade as a principal of nonprofit schools serving special needs students.

Local educators

complete training

The Arkansas Leadership Academy announces that three local schoo adminstrators have completed Phase III of the Master Principal Institute: David Watkins, principal of Ramay Junior High School in Fayetteville; Tracy Bratton, principal of Asbell Elementary School in Fayetteville; and Karrie Arbuckle, principal of Thomas Jefferson Elementary School in Bentonville School District.

Principals must complete a portfolio application process that includes evidence of their impact on education at the district, state and local levels. These portfolios are evaluated by stakeholders in education from Arkansas as well as from across the nation.

After successful completion of Phase III, principals are eligible to apply for Master Principal designation. Principals will be evaluated on student performance, principal performance and school performance through a portfolio application and possible school site visit.

BWD honors

tree farmer

Jim Woodruff recently received the Watershed Guardian Award for the Middle Fork White River from the Beaver Water District. Woodruff and his partners have owned and operated their 1,800-acre tree farm for about two decades. On their forested land, Woodruff, his family and friends have undertaken projects to manage dirt road runoff, build ponds, increase nutrient management and test the soil. They have used many increased native plant populations, conducted ecological thinning of the forest, performed controlled burns, and removed invasive plant species as prescribed in his forest and wildlife management plans produced by the Arkansas Forestry Commission and Arkansas Game & Fish Commission.

The Watershed Guardian Award program is a stewardship recognition effort carried out by the Beaver Water District awareness and education committee to recognize individuals, businesses, organizations and agencies in the Beaver watershed community who have demonstrated, supported or achieved water quality protection efforts within the Beaver Lake watershed.

Fayetteville girl

named to club

Chloe Hillian of Fayetteville and Paul Cole of Lincoln were recently inducted into the Arkansas Purple Circle Club, an Arkansas Farm Bureau awards program recognizing junior livestock exhibitors who earned championship honors at the Arkansas State Fair and Livestock Show. Hillian showed in the junior dairy cattle division, and Cole showed the grand champion hereford bull.

NAN Our Town on 11/23/2017

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