What's Up - Your guide to what's happening in Fayetteville, AR this week!
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JANUARY 3-9, 2021 WHAT'S UP! 9 Mercedes Brink, an art teacher at R.E. Baker Elementary School, in costume as Boomer the Bobcat, and Molly Crider, a third-grade student, jump out of a pile of leaves Nov. 9 during a Choose Love event at the school in Bentonville. Choose Love was adopted by the city of Bentonville and Bentonville Public Schools to encourage courage, gratitude, forgiveness and compassion in action. (NWA Democrat-Gazette/David Gottschalk) Roman Smolinski, 3, laughs May 21 as he holds a balloon alongside his mother, Ally Smolinski of Rogers. The two were taking family photographs in front of the Maude Wall at Maude Boutique in Fayetteville. The clothing store invites patrons to use their multicolored back wall for photographs. (NWA Democrat-Gazette/Andy Shupe) Jordan Felts (left) of Cave City and Chris Spears of Nashville work together Feb. 20 alongside an H-21 Shawnee helicopter as they clean the hangar door at the Arkansas Air and Military Museum in Fayetteville. Felts and Spears were participants in the John 3:16 Ministries, a longterm statewide Christian addiction-diversion program that, through a partnership with Genesis and Central United Methodist churches in Fayetteville, provides volunteers to communities as a part of its mission. (NWA Democrat-Gazette/Andy Shupe) Ardynn Wood (left) and her friend Emerson Davis, both 9-year-olds from Prairie Grove, speak July 24 to Ardynn's mother, Megan Wood, from the pay telephone booth in Prairie Grove. The girls hadn't made a call from a pay phone before, so Emerson's mother, Sarah Catherine Davis, pulled over so the girls could place the call. The 1959 pay telephone booth is operated by the Prairie Grove Telephone Company and was included on the National Register of Historic Places by the U.S. Department of the Interior in 2017. (NWA Democrat-Gazette/Andy Shupe) Kelly and Donna Muhollan, who are the folk music duo Still on the Hill, were photographed May 15 in the living room of their home in Fayetteville, which also doubles as the Ozark Ball Museum. (NWA Democrat-Gazette/David Gottschalk)