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City of Mena to host final Eclipse Town Hall meeting
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On Apr. 8, nearly two-thirds of Arkansas will be within the path of totality for the Great American Total Solar Eclipse. This event will bring thousands of visitors to The Natural State to experience the phenomenon. Mena will experience four minutes of pure solar darkness, one of the greater lengths in Arkansas and will be a major tourism draw for the community. To help the community prepare, the City of Mena is hosting their fourth and final Eclipse Town Hall meeting on Jan. 17. The meeting will be held at the Ouachita Center, on the campus of UA Rich Mountain, at 5 p.m. This is an opportunity for everyone to learn more about the eclipse and how Mena, and the surrounding areas, can plan for and draw visitors to what will be an
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2017 event, Arkansas is positioned to exceed those numbers. For more information, contact Pasha Watson, Mena Advertising & Promotion Commission, 479-394-8355 or pasha@visitmena.com.
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epic event for Arkansas. Public leaders and stakeholders will be in attendance to help answer community questions. If your business/group is planning an event or has rental space available, you are invited to set up a table and distribute your information. There is no charge, but you will need to RSVP, as space is limited. Groups and organizations across Arkansas will be planning events focusing on this historic astronomical occurrence. Economic impact from the 2017 total solar eclipse in other states was massive. Since The Natural State is centrally located and our time of total darkness will be nearly twice that of the
Odds are when you reached for the first 2024 edition of The Polk County Pulse you noticed something was different. There’s a new logo and a new color scheme throughout the newspaper. The changes will eventually make their way to the My Pulse News website as time allows. The paper also has a bit of a different look, such as in the sports section, but nothing too drastic. Although, sched-
uled for some time in January we will be trying out a new column that we hope will be a “how-to” for a variety of things around the house. If you haven’t already noticed, 104.1 KENA has a new program with Matt in the Mornings. Matt Allen is live in the mornings from 6-8 a.m. You might recall he did an event with Swap Shop’s Ariel Varner at the Mena-Polk County Senior Center that Varner wrote about. We intend on telling you more about Allen in the near future.
Swap Shop will also begin with Varner right after Matt in the Mornings. Then, Curt Teasdale will have Swap Shop again in the afternoons following the news, starting at approximately 12:35 p.m. If you aren’t sure what the number is, call 479-394-2800 while the program is live on the air to announce what you would like to buy, sell or trade. You can also email A.Varner@ MyPulseNews.com with your items.