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| Representatives from the East Arkansas Planning and Development District and the United States Department of Agriculture attended Wednesday’s meeting of the Mississippi County Animal Rescue Shelter project’s board to discuss the possibilities of grant funding. The shelter project has approximately $45,000 — $20,000 from private donations and a promise of $25,000 in GIF funds from [...] |
| Next week Southern Bancorp and the Delta Bridge Project are launching a series of financial aid classes called Money Smart. Money Smart, which will be held during the lunch hour April 22, April 24 and April 26, are designed to help make sense out of foreclosures, predatory lending practices and credit scores. The classes will [...] |
| Staff at Southern Bancorp in Manila surprised branch manager Vickie Skaggs with an early morning reception in recognition for her 30 years of service to the bank. Dan Robbins, president of Southern Bancorp-Manila, co-workers and several members of the Blytheville staff greeted Skaggs Thursday morning with gifts, refreshments and congratulations. Mr. Robbins thanked Skaggs for [...] |
| Downtown will be getting a facelift. Tuesday the recipients of 18 façade grants were announced, all of them in downtown Clarksdale. The grants, offered through the Economic Development Authority and the Coahoma County Delta Bridge Project, were open to any downtown business in any incorporated town in the county, but Lois Erwin, Senior Community Development [...] |
| HELENA-WEST HELENA, Arkansas (Feb. 26, 2013) – A sunny winter afternoon attracted an audience of about 200 to the dedication of Freedom Park in Helena-West Helena on Saturday, Feb. 23. The park honors the courage and determination of Freedom Seekers – fugitive slaves who came to the Union Army-occupied city in July 1862 through the [...] |
| LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Feb. 12, 2013) – Daniel Koehler, president of Koehler Software, Inc., and former chief financial officer of Union National Bank of Little Rock, has joined the board of Southern Bancorp Inc., a family of a community development bank (the fifth largest in the United States) and a nonprofit affiliate that work in [...] |
| Little Rock, AR, Jan. 25, 2013 –Lauren Isbell has joined the staff of Southern Bancorp Community Partners in Mississippi County as community development officer. She will be responsible for supporting and promoting community development initiatives in the areas of health, education, housing, leadership, economic development and other priorities. Lauren comes to SBCP from East Arkansas [...] |
| Kimberly Hall Clement has joined the staff of Southern Bancorp Community Partners in Helena-West Helena as community development officer. She will be responsible for supporting and promoting community development initiatives in the areas of health, education, housing, leadership, economic development and other priorities as defined by the strategic community plan. Southern Bancorp Community Partners works [...] |
| Effective Feb. 1, 2013, Darrin L. Williams, a lawyer and current member of the Arkansas General Assembly, will be chief executive officer of Southern Bancorp, Inc., a family of a community development bank (the fifth largest in the United States) and a nonprofit affiliate that work in concert to revitalize underserved communities in the mid-South. [...] |
| Clarksdale has a new playground. Saturday, over 200 men, women and children worked through the occasional drizzle to move mulch, mix cement and build a playground from scratch at Martin Luther King Park. Two years after the initial announcement by the Delta Bridge Project, the playground is up, but it’s not set to open until [...] |
