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The 26th annual school supply giveaway will begin at 8 a.m. today at St. John Baptist Church, 1018 E. Wilson St., El Dorado. Members of the Fairview Community Development Association, St. John, College Avenue Church of Christ and other community partners

will be handing out the supplies until all are gone, and free health screening will be given to those entering kindergarten.

Volunteers with the El Dorado Habitat for Humanity will be working at the home currently under construction at 537 W. Second, El Dorado, beginning at 8 a.m. today. Everyone is invited to participate in the build.

A Marksmanship Challenge will be held at Slingin’ Arrows, 1428 N. West Ave., El Dorado, from noon until 3 p.m. today. The four-part challenge will include BB guns, baitcasting, Olympic-style archery and 3D archery. All equipment will be provided and no registration is required. Admission is free. For more information, email Laura Rogers at Laura. Rogers@agfc.ar.gov.

The Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources will host the Tinker Time program “Stop Motion Animation” at 1 p.m. today at the museum, 3853 Smackover Highway. Registration is not required, but is appreciated. Call the museum at 870-725-2877.

The South Arkansas Arts Center, 110 E. Fifth St., will host an Artists’ Reception from 6-8 p.m. today, to honor two Arkansas artists with

exhibits now showing in the Price, Merkle and Lobby galleries. North Little Rock resident, Virmarie dePoyster’s show, “Curiosities,” will hang in the Price and Merkle Galleries through Aug. 30. Lee Scroggins, Junction City resident, is displaying her watercolor exhibition, “Rural Charms” in the Lobby Gallery through Aug. 30. Scroggins has captured scenes of life in the rural South in her paintings that everyone will recognize.