The seventh annual Buzz-B-Q, hosted by KABZ-FM, 103.7 The Buzz, will be Saturday, May 14, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., at the North Little Rock RV Park on the North Shore of the Arkansas River.
The Buzz-B-Q barbecue and music festival benefits the Arkansas Professional Firefighters’ project, Camp Sunshine.
“Camp Sunshine is an annual four-day camp for pediatric burn survivors completely funded by the Arkansas Professional Firefighters and is free for the camper,” said Capt. Mark Warford, president of IAFF Local No. 35. “By partnering with The Buzz on Buzz-B-Q, we are able to help fund this camp and assist the kids’ transition from being a burn victim to burn survivor through fun activities with other kids who are going through a similar situation.”
Camp Sunshine is held every August at Camp Aldersgate in west Little Rock. Counselors and volunteers are firefighters, adult burn survivors and Arkansas Children’s Hospital personnel, such as the Burn Center nurses. Volunteers participate in many activities with campers including fishing, swimming, canoeing, arts and crafts, a dance and even a trip to Magic Springs amusement park near Hot Springs.
“The atmosphere is relaxed and happy. Kids can catch up with old friends and meet new ones, all having survived the same devastating experience,” Warford said. “We get as much out of the camp as the kids themselves. It brings it home, and to the heart, as to why we do the job we do.”
Tickets to Buzz-B-Q are on sale now. The public may buy one ticket for $10 and get one free at participating ticket locations before the event. Ticket locations are listed online at www.1037thebuzz.com. Tickets are $10 a person at the door on the day of the event. Children 12 and under are admitted free.
More than 90 local barbecue teams will compete in the barbecue contest for $5,000 in cash and prizes in the categories of pork, ribs and chicken. Forty-five teams are competing in the Average Joe Division for the laid-back griller. Forty-seven teams are competing in the more competitive Pro Division.
Half of the teams will be handing out free samples of their barbecue to the public. These teams will be competing for the People’s Choice Award that will be judged by a random sampling of Buzz-B-Q attendees. Teams also will be voted on for a showmanship prize for originality of the barbecue team space. Teams giving free samples and participating in the showmanship contest will display signs in their team space.
Live music will be featured on the music stage by Josh Green, The Moses Tucker Band, Jeff Coleman and the Feeders, Taylor Made Rocks and Canvas. The Kids Zone will feature options such as a rock-climbing wall and the Buzzaritaville will offer food, drinks and entertainment for the whole family. KABZ personalities Tommy Smith, David Bazzel, Roger Scott, Justin Acri and Pat Bradley will be among those serving as masters of ceremony.
The night before, the Buzz is hosting the Kick-off to Buzz-B-Q party from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the RV Park that is free to the public. Buzzaritaville will be open and live music will be provided by Steele Jessup, Breaking Eden and Sharpe Dunaway and the Meanies.
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First Presbyterian Church of North Little Rock’s downtown Argenta neighborhood is hosting an Easter egg hunt for all children 10-and-under at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 23, in the church courtyard.
No one has to be a member of the church and no recruiting will be done.
First Presbyterian Church is at 201 W. Fourth St. (corner of Fourth and Main) in North Little Rock. Call 501.374.7677 or go to argentapres.org for more information.
The prizes in the eggs will be peanut-free (because of allergies) and chocolate-free (because of melted messiness).
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I had a great weekend with my children and their friends in Fort Worth. (Actually, we were in Arlington when I saw my daughters, Molly and Megan. We met them for dinner Saturday night at a steakhouse there.)
Patrick picked me up at Love Field in Dallas and then we headed for Cowtown. We grabbed a late supper at the original Fuzzy’s Taco Shop near Texas Christian University.
He and I messed around Friday. talking, walking his dogs and eating good food, including fried chicken, waffles, shredded sweet potatoes and collard greens at Buttons for lunch. On Friday night, we were joined by his girlfriend, Sarah, as we tried the Flying Fish location near TCU — several photos on the wall of fishermen and -women from Arkansas showing off their prize catches.
Saturday afternoon, the three of us sat in the bleachers at Lupton Stadium and watched the TCU Horned Frogs take on the Cal State-Fullerton Titans in a college baseball game featuring two nationally ranked teams. It was a great game, but the Titans turned a go-ahead-run on a close call at the plate in the top of the ninth inning into a full-blown five-run rally and then held on for an 8-4 win.
That seemed to start a trend because TCU, ranked No. 3 nationally entering that game, lost to CSU-F in the ninth again Sunday in the rubber game of the series. Then the Frogs repeated the trick Tuesday night against the visiting and much-more-lightly regarded Dallas Baptist University Patriots in a 4-3 loss. http://gofrogs.cstv.com/sports/m-basebl/recaps/030111aaa.html
At night, we stayed up late talking and watching movies. One was Robert Duvall’s latest, “Get Low,” also featuring Bill Murray, Lucas Black and Sissy Spacek. It’s based on a true story of a hermit in from Tennessee in the 1930s. Quite entertaining.
On Sunday morning, Patrick, Sarah and I met his longtime friend from high school, Andrew McKernon, for a great brunch at Taverna, an Italian restaurant in downtown Fort Worth.
I made some friends from Maumelle, Myron and Stephanie Putnam, waiting at Love for the flight back. Southwest had some trouble with a part in the windshield heater of our plane. After first trying to fix it, they moved us to a different gate and put us on a plane originally scheduled to go to Lubbock, Texas, and then Las Vegas, Nev. Lubbock was experiencing high winds at the time, so us Little Rock travelers replaced the Lubbock passengers and we arrived at Little Rock national Airport about an hour late. Then the plane went on to Las Vegas for the other folks.
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From Joe Angolia, UALR media relations director:
Tuesday’s UALR Basketball Coaches Luncheon has been cancelled due to inclement weather conditions in the Little Rock area. The next coaches luncheon will take place Tuesday, Jan. 25, at 11:30 a.m. in the Legends Room of the Jack Stephens Center, followed by the final luncheon of the season on Tuesday, Feb. 15.
Doors will open at 11:30 a.m. for each luncheon, with head coaches Steve Shields and Joe Foley on hand with a player from each of their teams to talk about the season at noon.
Parking for the luncheons will be available in Lot 16 (stop light at University Avenue and the cooperative extension building) or in Lot 13 at the southwest corner of the Jack Stephens Center.
The luncheons will be catered by Corky’s and cost $10 for Tip-In Club members and $15 for non-members. Interested parties are asked to RSVP to Andrea Duc by phone (501.569.3393) or e-mail her at alduc@ualr.edu.
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We met two-thirds of our children, all of whom live in Texas, at the lake house owned by my wife and her siblings at Denby Point on Lake Ouachita for the Labor Day weekend.
Molly, 25, flew in Friday night. Megan, 22, and John Bucy drove up Saturday evening.
John is Molly’s boyfriend, but he and Megan work together at John’s business, the Texas Charter Schools Academic and Athletic Association, based in Austin. They had to get the group’s flag football season off to a good start at events in San Antonio and Dallas.
Our son, Patrick, soon to be 28, and his girlfriend, Sarah Riley, were scheduled to come up Friday, but he was involved in a weather-related traffic accident on Interstate 20, west of Fort Worth on Wednesday night, so his car was knocked out of commission.
Sunday was a busy day on the lake, but Nancy took the youngsters out for some tubing. They were all tired and sunburned by the end of the day, but we did manage a trip into the Shangri-La Resort marina to have lunch and some if their wonderful pie. I had lemon meringue, Nancy had pumpkin with Cool Whip and John and Molly split a piece of peanut butter. Megan settled for the crust. It’s a treat by itself, too.
The kids headed for the “games of skill” available at Oaklawn Park after we all had naps and supper, while we older folks stayed home and watched a movie (in between sessions like this out on the deck to watch the lake get calm and quiet after a busy day).
Monday morning meant early up and out for the kids heading back to Texas. Then I went back to bed while Nancy watched Bogie and Bacall in “Key largo.” She took in “To Have or Have Not” starring those two on Saturday.
We finally cleaned up and loaded the car at a leisurely pace in the afternoon while we listened to the St. Louis Caqrdinals come back against the Milwaukee Brewers, winning 8-6 behind the grand slam home run by catcher Yadier Molina.
It was a nice drive back from a great weekend, but as is often the case, we were glad to be home.
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With Arkansas temperatures in the 90s and 100s, and the heat index 10 or 12 degrees above that, now is the time to be smart about staying cool.
That could mean anything from thinking cool thoughts and daydreaming of icebergs to planning evening meals that are light, cool and don’t require time in the kitchen with the oven going.
Salads, garden or the fruit variety, make a lot of sense at this time of the year. My doctor that has ordered me to lose weight says the evening meal should be the lightest of the day, regardless of what the calendar indicates.
The fruit tree (and bush or plant) is a good way to go with desserts, too. True, it’s hard to beat ice cream when the thermometer is in triple digits, but strawberries and tomatoes are great, too. Even if you go the frozen route, yogurt can help keep some of the pounds off.
As far as around the house, the trick is staying cool without having heart-attack-inducing utility bills. Air-conditioning may be the life saver, but it helps to keep the cool air in by making sure your doors and windows are well-sealed and that ceiling fans and box fans help move the air around.
Blocking the sunlight coming into the house has its advantages, and can keep the temperatures down considerably. Dress light — in fabric and color. Anything helps when the family’s combined ages don’t add up to the reading on the digital thermometer.
If you go out for exercise, be prepared — dress in light clothes and have water or hydration drinks available at all times. The sporting goods stores have some nifty bottles and carriers for your liquid refreshments.
One more thing … if you have pets, keep them cool. If their indoor animals, keep them inside, and if they stay outdoors, keep them cool and give them a place they can cool off while you’re away. Make sure they have access to water.
Good luck and stay cool out there.
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What we have discovered at our house in the past couple of years is that you can enjoy the season of Christmas, both spiritually and secularly, without repeating everything you have done in past years.
That list might include things ranging from getting the entire roofline covered with icicle lights and stringing up every card you receive in the mail to going to every upscale neighborhood for viewing the battle of Christmas decorations and getting homemade cookies baked for every neighbor.
Sometimes we get some of them done and sometimes we don’t, but my wife and I have enjoyed the holidays just as much.
The children are in Texas. We planned to travel south to see them last year, but an illness caused us to postpone the visit until late February. We called it the February Festival and we enjoyed it so much that we are doing the same thing for the 2009-10 holiday season.
With less rushing to see different members of the family, we had time to attend a wonderful Christmas Eve candlelight service at North Little Rock’s First Presbyterian Church. It was a beautiful service, complete with a fourth-generation child being baptized in the sanctuary.
We got some of our cards mailed and others we did not. Some of the ones we received had photographs of friends and family whom we likely see several times a year, but never think to photograph.
One thing I did have an opportunity do for the second year in a row was make a phone call playing the part of Santa Claus on a last-minute check of the naughty-or-nice list to a pair of beautiful neighborhood girls. I don’t remember how the relatively new tradition started, other than from a conversation with a neighborhood mom. The first year only the kindergartner was willing to get on the phone with Santa, but this year, the younger sister — now a toddler — could not wait to get her turn on the phone. She was anxious to tell Santa what she wanted, but his old ears heard “a camera,” when what she wanted was “a camel.”
Sometimes even Santa can be thrown a curve.
What we have discovered, though, is that it seems to be easier to get the new year off to a good start when you are easing into January from a more deliberate speed, rather than rushing up to Jan. 1, trying to slow down.
Happy New Year. I hope yours is off to a good start.
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I knew that Thanksgiving at Lake Ouachita with my parents, our kids and their respective girlfriend and boyfriends would add to the rush. Still, I was surprised that I had not done a better job of scheduling than I had when I noticed how long it had been since I had posted here.
We did have a wonderful time and great food from everyone at the lake house that Nancy and her siblings share out off U.S. 270. Patrick, girlfriend Sarah and his pit bull terrier, Lou, came up from Fort Worth; Molly and boyfriend John traveled from Austin to meet in Dallas with Megan and boyfriend Clayton, who live in Sherman, Texas. They rode up together. My folks came over from their house south of Little Rock. It was a crowd of 10 plus Lou and our Lhasa apso, Daisy, but we had a great time.
Molly and John got up early on Black Friday to go into Hot Springs and fight the crowds for a great buy on GPS units.
Later that day, we headed back in this direction to meet and have some family photos taken at The Old Mill in North Little Rock. Our photographer, good friend Dan Limke, arrived first and called us to say that at least 30 other people had the same idea, so he went across the river to Little Rock and scout out a new location at Heifer Village.
After everyone arrived, we redirected our various vehicles south of the river for a serious of family combinations that tested Dan’s considerable patience. But it was for family photos that don’t get taken often enough these days.
Thanks, Nancy, for all the work that goes into hosting such an event. Thanks, Dan, for working on a holiday weekend to preserve our memories.
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