LeadAR Class 13
Goals*
April Ambrose - To develop and operate an
environmental consulting business and to receive my first client.
Jessica Austin - To involve major businesses in a city-wide
campaign called THE HUSH PROJECT to help the Community Rescue
Mission of Fort Smith with a rotating sponsorship program through
volunteers and in-kind donations.
Robert Boxley - To run for the Marked Tree school board by
September, 2007.
Lois Boyd - To work with the Juvenile Judge in Lee County to
implement a program to enforce community service sentencing for
youth.
Lacy Bradford - To get a drug court in Van Buren County.
Kathy Carter - To establish a literacy and cultural center for
the Arkadelphia community focused on the international population.
Don Crabbe - To participate in the National Child Identification
Program by raising enough money to provide an ID kit to every
kindergarten student (approximately 900 students) in Cabot.
Completion by the spring of 2008.
Edet Frank - Educate community based organizations how
EITC (Earned Income Tax Credit) and tax refunds can improve the
overall economic health of every community.
Arlene Freeman - 1) To develop a job placement program
through the Family Resource Center with local agencies and
businesses for former criminal offenders in St. Francis County that
will aid in their rehabilitation and give them hope for their
future. 2) To reopen the Forrest City Southside swimming pool.
Karen Garcia - To seek funding for a project to produce
and air a documentary film about the beginning of 4-H by working
with interested 4-H Club members to be ready for its centennial that
begins in October 2007.
John Hoefl - To develop an Audubon bird watching station
on Hot Springs Creek for children of all abilities built by students
by May 15, 2008.
Brenda Hogg - 1) To increase public awareness of local
home based and/or small businesses by creating a database and
resource guide and developing an annual celebration to highlight
these businesses. 2) To renovate Feaster Park in Arkadelphia by
increasing the playground area, securing funding for a foot bridge
between the park and the recreation center, and adding playground
equipment .
Pat Johnson - To start a literacy program for children in
Marianna and/or Lee County.
Michelle Kitchens - To develop a pilot program in local
affairs for Arkansas Farm Bureau members to encourage and guide them
in county and local involvement.
Barbara Mathes - 1) To extend water service to the rural
areas west of Mayflower. 2) To have a sign placed on Interstate 40
indicating that the Mayflower Exit #135 is the Lake Conway access.
David Nelson - To run for Justice of the Peace in Columbia
County.
Ron Rainey - To establish a foundation in honor of my
parents (Carl and Icy Rainey) to award scholarships to deserving
African American youth from Arkansas (initially from my home
community or Conway County) to any school in Arkansas.
Judy Ramer - Run for the state President position of the
Arkansas Federation of Democratic Women. Election day is May 17,
2008.
Teddy Reynolds - Create an association
dedicated to representing the interest, networking and education of
forest landowners. The organization will be called the "Arkansas
Landowners Association" and will be a non-profit 501c6 with the
executive committee elected by its membership.
John Rima - To develop a horticulture tourism program with
an educational emphasis, possibly partnering with Garvin Woodland
Gardens, National Park Community College, City of Hot Springs Parks
and Recreation and Winrock at Petit Jean.
Dan Schwieder - To become a board member of the local
chapter of an environmental organization by the time I graduate
LeadAR.
Jonie Standlee - To develop an education foundation for
the Green Forest Public Schools.
Mary Jo Tucker - To plant trees and other useful plants at
Memorial Park in Dumas to replace those destroyed by the tornadoes.
Jill Warren - To create an oral history for the town of
Fulton and possibly create overlay maps to show the changes from its
heyday to the present. This could be used in the local schools, at
Old Washington, at the Economic Development offices, at the Chamber,
or on the local morning radio talk show.
* To be completed by April 18, 2009 unless otherwise noted.
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