There will be plenty of entertainment offerings in Downtown Arkadelphia this weekend as the Mid South Music Festival takes center stage. Starting Friday evening and stretching through late Saturday evening, the event promises a revolving door of live music performances, art workshops and craft vendors, a beer garden, food trucks and shows by the Museum of Discovery. There is no cost to attend the festival, a product of the city’s 1-cent Move Arkadelphia Forward sales tax.
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We can all agree that we’re due for a good rain, but we’re crossing our fingers that the expected thunderstorms this Saturday will hold off until festival-goers have had their share of fun.
We’re hoping the forecast is wrong for personal reasons, also, as Saturday marks a milestone 40th birthday for Yours Truly. Our plans remove us from town, and regretfully we’ll be missing Friday night’s Tom Petty tribute band, The Normal Noises.
This weekend is also the opener for Arkansas’s alternative firearms season. Nay to the AGFC for this unnecessary season, and yay for the guys who can afford rifle calibers such as the .45/70.
Probably not a popular idea, and we have no scientific data to back up this opinion, but we say do away with the bear quota — or at least double it for Zone 4. Anyone who disagrees has likely neither lost property to a bear nor packed up camp in the middle of the night because a bear was nosing around just outside their tent. We’ve experienced both. Bears are dangerous nuisances, and they need to be dealt with. Same goes for alligators.
Better late than never pregnant.
From what we’ve read about the phasing out of the U.S. penny, it sounds like clerks and customers may experience some confusion at the register as no one has established yet how businesses should round transactions. And, believe it or not, some businesses around the nation are facing a penny shortage as federal coin distribution sites have halted penny orders and deposits.
Gets us to thinking: How much money, in pennies, is on the ground in the U.S.? Our own very, very conservative estimate — calculated based on a blind guess that 1,000 Americans per day drop a penny — says that $182,500 has been dropped over the course of 50 years. One webpage we found estimates that, in 2014 alone, Americans lost more than $3 billion in pennies fell out of our pockets. (Source: HowStuffWorks.com)
Vape-free for two months.
Joel Phelps is editor of arkadelphian.com. Opinions in Bits & Pieces are his own. Contact him by email at editor@arkadelphian.com.
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