Events this week!

Thurs. June 5th thru Sat June 7th- Downtown Des Arc 23rd Annual Steamboat Festival visit http://www.steamboatdays.net/ or call 870-256-5289 for more info

Thurs. June 5th thru Sat June 7th- Art of Wine Festival Walton Arts Festival- Walton Arts Center- Fayetteville 479 443 5600

Fri. June 6th and Sat June 7th-somewhere in Prescott-Chicken/Egg Festival -870 887 2101

Fri June 6th and Sat June 7th- Mulbery Mountain Lodge in Ozark will have a hot air balloon Festival visit http://www.mulberymountainlodge.com/ or call 479- 667- 1919

Sat June 7th- Lake Leatherwood City Park- Xterra Triathlon, Eureka Springs 479 244 5775

Sat June 7th and Sunday June 8th- Clear Channel Metroplex-Little Rock Gun Show. visit http://www.gunshows-usa.com/arkansas.htm for info and $1 off coupon if you want to go

Sat June 7th- 10am-4pm Randolf County Heritage Museum, Pocahontas-Ozark Foothills Button Show 870-892-4056

Sat June 7th-6:30pm MacArthur Park, Little Rock- LR Wind Symphony Stars and Stripes Flag Day Concert

Sat June 7th- Pinnacle Mountain State Park, Little Rock- Pinnacle of Music Festival 9am-10pm. Call 501-868-5806 for more info

There is also a promotion by KARN News Radio called Gas Roots Movement that will be happening sometime this week.
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Good News from CA. Wish we had this happening here!
www.ice.gov/pi/news/newsreleases/articles/

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http://www.nwanews.com/adg/Editorial/227615
2 great responses to the pro-illegal editorials written in Arkansas media:

Compassion misplaced
Few things rile me more than Paul Greenberg's misplaced compassion and the Democrat-Gazette's bleating (s) for illegal aliens, justifying a sub-economy class for the sole purpose of padding profit. Paul's parents were emigrants, you know. Legal emigrants, not illegal aliens. Poor Paul can't fathom the difference between legal and illegal. Pity. Illegals cost the state $ 237 million, but Paul tries to offset that paltry sum by the $ 257 million in revenue paid in by illegal aliens. Duh. If those displaced American workers were on the job, they would be paying instead of drawing unemployment. Have you talked to a Mexican roofer lately ? Probably not, unless you speak Spanish. Sure, he's willing to work for less, with free health care at the emergency clinic, free education at the expense to the American taxpayer and no disability owed by the employer (or any recourse if he is hurt on the job ).

Sure, we need those poor souls who do the jobs we won't do, a cop-out for businesses looking to cut expenses in the labor force. And sure, the first-generation illegal alien is docile, submissive and happy with the arrangement. Life is so much better than the old country. But like France and some other European countries, the offspring from rampant, unchecked immigration might not be so compliant and resolute toward their new homeland. Thwarted from being assimilated as quickly as their forebears, they might just decide to burn the sucker down. BOB STROUD / Jacksonville

Greed rules government
I don't have any clue as to who wrote the "Insecure Arkansas"editorial, but he had to be close to George W. Bush or Dick Cheney, for they and their million-dollar friends love illegal immigration. Illegal immigration is about money and greed: How can I do this task cheaper, get all these uneducated people and pay them minimum pay ? The federal, state, county and city governments are all guilty, and that is why [laws on ] illegal workers have not been enforced: corrupt governments controlled by billionaires. GENE A. WITHERSPOON / Bella Vista