Pork on the table!

Thanks to Rotarian Jay Clark's bidding skills and AOG's checkbook our Van Buren Rotary Club raised just over $2100 today at our annual "Hog Auction"  The processed hog, who notably had 4 hams?!, was auctioned off by our own Rotarian Warren Blaylock and his buddy Jan Nordin.  The hog was purchased at the Crawford County Fair in Mulberry last month.  The livestock in the auction were all raised by the steadfast caring hands of Crawford County youth.  The money paid for the livestock at the auction goes to the kids who have raised these show quality animals.  The money raised today by our club will provide education and leadership skills to these same young and rising stars of Crawford County. Thanks again Jay Clark & Arkansas Oklahoma Gas Corporation.

Algerian GSE Team Visit

What a whirlwind of activity for our Rotarians of Van Buren.  After a great evening at Altus to pickup our team Friday evening, we rode the A& M Excursion Train to Winslow and back, then took a guided tour (thank you leader Dwight Hopkins) of Historic Downtown VB. After the host families and their team had an eventful Saturday evening we met at the Janet Huckabee Arkansas River Valley Nature Center on Sunday afternoon.  Chad Lowe gave us a tour of the facility and an outdoor walk around Wells Lake.  After a hearwarming thanks to our team and host families for a memorable time we parted with our new Algerian friends and sent them on their way to the Fort Smith Rotarians.