Free license plates offered Monday

Visit Hot Springs is again offering to install free license plates bearing the city’s name and logo onto residents’ cars, which will then serve as “rolling billboards” as they travel across the country for the holidays.

Drivers are welcome to pull into the front of the Hot Springs Convention Center on Convention Boulevard from 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Monday and have the plate installed on their front bumper at no charge.

“The plates will let people know where the drivers are from as they travel inside Arkansas and outside the state,” Steve Arrison, CEO of Visit Hot Springs, said in a news release.

“All the drivers have to do is come to the convention center and we’ll install the plates for them if their front bumpers have pre-drilled holes for placement of a license plate. They won’t even have to get out of the car. First come, first served,” he said.

“We’ll have installers ready at 7:30 a.m.,” he said. “We’ll install the plates until we run out or until 1:30 p.m., which ever comes first. All you have to do is drive up and we’ll put them on in a jiffy.

“We have found this to be a great, inexpensive way for Hot Springs and Garland County residents to let the rest of the country know about their hometown. This is the seventh year we’ve done the promotion.”

Arrison said the plates are metal, black-teal-and-white custom license plates with raised letters.