$100,000 allotted
for home of Bates
LITTLE ROCK -- Little Rock city board members approved a $100,000 appropriation for the upkeep of the historic home of Daisy Gatson Bates during a meeting Tuesday.
The resolution authorizes the city manager to transfer money approved as part of the city's 2022 budget last month to the L.C. and Daisy Bates Museum Foundation for rehabilitation and preservation of the home located at 1207 W. 28th St.
The funding item was approved as part of the city board's consent agenda.
The property, which is a National Historic Landmark, was home to Bates and her husband, L.C. It served as a staging ground for the Little Rock Nine during the desegregation crisis in the fall of 1957.
Poll picks Kevin for
baby rhino name
LITTLE ROCK -- The baby eastern black rhinoceros born at the Little Rock Zoo in November has been named Kevin following an online poll.
According to a zoo newsletter issued Wednesday, the rhino takes its name from cricket player and conservationist Kevin Pietersen. The choice of name won out over Clint the Black Rhino (a nod to the country singer Clint Black), Enzi, Hatari and Thunder.
The birth of the critically endangered species was the first rhino birth to ever occur at the zoo.