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OPINION | REX NELSON: Destination, Lake Ouachita
Tourists from Arkansas as well as surrounding states are driving in droves to vacation at the hospitable Hot Springs getaway.
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Rex Nelson
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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette illustration by John Deering.
Bill Barnes is sitting in his office on a cloudy Monday, accompanied by dogs who go by the names of Port and Starboard. On the walls of the office at Mountain Harbor Resort & Spa on Lake Ouachita are reminders of the legendary status Barnes has achieved in the state s tourism industry: induction into the Arkansas Tourism Hall of Fame, induction into the Arkansas Outdoor Hall of Fame, and photos of him with a who s who of the state s business and civic leaders.
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Desert Hot Springs High School graduates set to pick-up their cap & gowns, PSUSD graduation schedules released
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It s an exciting day for the senior students of Desert Hot Springs High School. Graduates will be heading over the school Thursday afternoon to pick up their caps and gowns.
Desert Hot Springs High School will have an in-person graduation for its students, along with the schools of the Palm Desert Unified School District. After a year of virtual everything for students, they will finally get a chance to be celebrated in-person as their loved ones cheer on.
Watch News Channel 3 at 5 & 6 p.m. to hear more about the district s graduation plans.
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CeCe, as she liked to be called, had a quiet, kind and sweet personality. She was a mother, grandmother, daughter, sister and good friend. Always a smart student, she made her way in life independently and efficiently accomplishing two separate careers, one in Commercial Insurance Underwriting and after retiring from that profession, began a successful career in Real Estate for many years. She grew up in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and graduated from Hot Springs High School. It was there that she began her long career in insurance.
She loved country living and always enjoyed a rural small town setting. She was a resident of Somerville since 1995. She was a friend to animals and was never without a pet of some kind, being responsible for rescuing numerous cats and dogs. CeCe will be loved, missed and remembered always.
In the fall of 2017, then Hot Springs High School senior Stormy Cox wrote of her home state: “In my heart I would love to stay in Wyoming … The majority of my family lives in Wyoming. It’s hard to leave all of them behind and be on my own. If I could stay in Wyoming and still pursue my dreams I would.”
Her sentiments were collected as part of a project that I and Felicity Barringer, Writer In Residence at the Bill Lane Center for the American West, undertook. The goal was to understand young people’s attitudes about a future in their hometowns and in the state. We asked Cox and a couple dozen of her classmates where they envisioned themselves in five years and what it would take for them to stay or, if they do leave, to return to Wyoming.