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Courtesy Van Needs Drivers
The Bella Vista Courtesy Van provides courtesy transportation for persons in the community who can no longer drive due to age and/or health. It is an all-volunteer service operating five days a week with two to three vans transporting Bella Vistans for medical appointments, shopping and personal services.
The Courtesy Van is in urgent need of men or women drivers who are under the age of 77 and can give a couple of days of their time a month. The area of service is Bella Vista, Jane Walmart, Bentonville and Rogers. If interested in volunteering, contact Bill Puskas at 402-981-1571.
Mother Nature at Hobbs State Park
Join Mother Nature as she presents “Living Forest” from 3 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 22.
Animals have lot to tell us. Listen to the stories of a barred owl, deer, spider, bat, blue jays, skunk, a raccoon, an eagle, squirrel and more, personified by costumed Northwest Arkansas Master Naturalists. These educational and meaningful messages will be uncomplicated and easy for young children to understand. Teenagers and adults will learn, too.
Living Forest is for families with members of all ages. Come enjoy the face painting, crafts and free s’mores. Strollers and wagons are welcome as you meander along a wide, paved, barrier-free path. If you want to be like Mother Nature’s animal friends, come in costume.
Mother Nature also visits the park every second Saturday of the month to read nature stories to her little followers. The next reading, “Critters That Love Nighttime,” begins at 10:30 a.m. Nov. 12.
Storytime will be followed by hands-on nature-craft activities. Children of all ages are welcome; however, most stories target children 3-6 years of age.
Hobbs State Park-Conservation Area visitor center is located on Arkansas Highway 12 just east of the War Eagle Road intersection. These events are free. For more information, call 479789-5000.
Kingsdale Tennis Tournament
The Kingsdale Tennis Mixed Doubles Tournament will take place Oct. 21-23 at the Tennis Center, 4 Riordan Dr., Bella Vista.
For more information, call 479-855-8174.
Deer season closes Hobbs trails
Most of the trails at Hobbs State Park-Conservation Area will be closed during the Hobbs two-day youth modern gun season and the Hobbs five-day muzzleloader and modern gun deer seasons. These trails include: • Shaddox Hollow Trail • Pigeon Roost Trail • Sinking Stream Trail • Bashore Loop • Dutton Hollow Loop • Little Clifty Loop • War Eagle Loop In addition to closing these trails, the Park’s shooting range and primitive backpack camp sites will also be closed.
Note that the primitive backpack camp sites will be closed not only during the season but also the day before muzzleloader and modern gun deer seasons.
Trails that will be open during these three gun deer seasons are:
• Historic Van Winkle Trail on Arkansas Highway 12
• Ozark Plateau Trail at the Visitor Center.
Note that Hobbs State Park is hunting zone 320 and not zone 1, and the dates of the Zone 1 muzzleloader and modern gun deer seasons do not coincide with the dates of the muzzleloader and modern gun seasons on Hobbs State Park, zone 320.
Youth modern gun on Hobbs State Park: Nov. 5-6, 2016
Modern gun season on Hobbs State Park: Dec. 3-7, 2016
Muzzleloader season on Hobbs State Park: Jan. 7-11, 2017.
For more information, 479-789-5000.