Redone fire station to be rededicated
A rededication of North Little Rock Fire Station No. 7 will be held from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Monday to allow the public to see recent renovations to the station.
The public viewing will be before firefighters move back into the station at 2401 McCain Blvd. Refreshments will be served.
The fire station is the first to undergo a complete renovation under a city sales tax that North Little Rock voters approved in August 2017. The budgeted cost for the work was $962,550, according to a city spokesman.
The 1% sales tax included a five-year, 0.5% tax for capital improvements for fire stations, a new police and courts building and street and drainage improvements. The tax is projected to bring in $10 million over five years for new or renovated fire stations.
Fire Station No. 7 primarily covers the city's Lakewood area.
Anne Frank exhibits planned at college
Two exhibits documenting the life of Anne Frank will be on display May 17-June 29 at the University of Arkansas-Pulaski Technical College's Center for Humanities and Arts, 3000 W. Scenic Drive.
"Anne Frank: A Private Photo Album" documents photographs of her rarely seen publicly and will be shown in an exhibit in the center's Windgate Gallery. "Anne Frank: A History for Today" will be displayed in the center's lobby, telling Frank's story against the background of the Holocaust and World War II.
An opening reception for both exhibits will be 6 p.m-8 p.m. May 17. A screening of The Short Life of Anne Frank will be shown at 5:30 p.m. that evening in the theater. Dieter "Dan" Lewin, a Holocaust survivor and veteran of the Korean and Vietnam wars, will speak at 6:30 p.m.
Exhibit hours are available at charts.uaptc.edu.
Frank was a German-born Jewish girl whose diary told of her family's two years of hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands. After her family's arrest in August 1944, she died in March 1945 in a concentration camp at age 15.
The gallery exhibit is composed of photographs from family photo albums that her father, Otto Frank, who survived the Holocaust, recovered, according to exhibit information. The lobby exhibit consists of large free-standing panels with photographs and text in English and Spanish that tells Anne Frank's story. The exhibits are produced by the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam and distributed throughout the United States by the Anne Frank Center, USA, according to exhibit information.
Registration set for library program
Registration begins May 13 for the William F. Laman Public Library System's "Universe of Stories" summer reading program that will start June 3.
The program will include entertainment and activities for all ages, with magicians, puppets, musicians, animals, art and games. There also will be drawings for weekly prizes for readers when they report on their book.
Sign-up will be ongoing, with activities and events scheduled to last through Aug. 3.
More information on library activities is available at lamanlibrary.org.
'Patio in the Park' scheduled May 25
The Park Hill Business and Merchants Association will partner with the Lakewood Property Owners Association for "Patio in the Park" from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 25 at Lake No. 1, Waterside Drive and Avondale Road.
Patio in the Park is a free event open to the public that will feature acoustic music, games and food trucks. Attendees are encouraged to bring lawn chairs and blankets. Dogs are welcome, but must be leashed at all times under city code.
The event represents a change from the annual "Patio in Park Hill" that has been held annually for seven years.
More information is available at ParkHillBusiness.com.
Metro on 05/05/2019