This week’s EVENTS

Editor’s note: Many events have been canceled or postponed due to concern about the coronavirus.

TODAY

LDS Church

General Conference

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will offer an opportunity to celebrate on Easter morning by watching a special General Conference focusing on Jesus Christ and his resurrection, airing at 11 a.m. on BYUtv. The conference will also be live-streamed on churchofjesuschrist.org. For more information, visit the church’s website or comeuntochrist.org.

TUESDAY

Watercolor Class

RUSSELLVILLE — The River Valley Arts Center, 1001 E. B St., will offer an eight-week watercolor class with Darlene McNeeley from 9 a.m. to noon Tuesdays, starting April 6. The class fee is $50 for Arts Center members and $75 for nonmembers. Register at www.rivervalleyartscenter.org/classes.

TUESDAY AND THURSDAY

Land of Plenty

PETIT JEAN MOUNTAIN — The Winthrop Rockefeller Institute invites all to join their fellow Arkansans on Zoom to answer — “How should we make sure people have the food they need?” — the guiding question examined by the National Issues Forum guide Land of Plenty. The free sessions will take place from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Tuesday and from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Thursday. Led by trained facilitators, participants will explore three national options, as well as several Arkansas-specific options, around food security in groups of five to 10 during an approximately two-hour virtual meeting. For more information, contact the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute at (501) 727-5435 or rockefellerinstitute.org.

FRIDAY

ATU Summer Bridge

Experience Application Deadline

RUSSELLVILLE — The deadline is Friday to apply for the ATU Summer Bridge Experience, for students who will be first-time freshmen at Arkansas Tech University in fall 2021. The free five-week commuter program, set for June 1 to July 2, will immerse incoming freshmen in on-campus, socially distanced activities that could lead to the completion of seven hours of college credit. Preference will be given to applicants from low-income backgrounds who have a demonstrated need for assistance in mathematics and live within commuting distance of the ATU campus. For more information and an application, visit www.atu.edu/studentsuccess/summerbridgeprogram.php.

SATURDAY

High School Art Competition

Virtual Opening and Awards

RUSSELLVILLE — The River Valley Arts Center, 1001 E. B St., will present its High School Art Competition virtual gallery opening and awards at 5:30 p.m., live on the center’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/rivervalleyartscenter. Entries include two- and three-dimensional works of art. Cash awards and honorable mentions will be presented. The works will be on display through April 26. For more information, call (479) 968-2452 or email rvartscenter@gmail.com.

ONGOING

Sondra Gordy’s

‘Lost Year’ Papers

CONWAY— The “Lost Year” Papers of Sondra Gordy, who was a professor at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway and is now retired, are available to researchers in the CALS Roberts Library Research Room in Little Rock. While pursuing her Ph.D. at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Gordy completed a thesis in 1996 titled “Teachers of the Lost Year: Little Rock School District: 1958-1959” — the school year when because of court orders, all four public high schools in Little Rock were closed. Gordy continued researching Little Rock students, resulting in the book “Finding the Lost Year: What Happened When Little Rock Closed Its Public Schools,” published by the University of Arkansas Press in 2009. Gordy’s interview notes, photographs, recordings and other research materials are included in the “Lost Year” collection.