Page 11 - The Springs Magazine July Issue 2018

The Springs • July 2018 • 11

l-r Dennis Ford-Scholarship Chair, Ben Carey-Scholarship recipient, Mike Blackwood-
President, Sarah-Marie Linneman- Scholarship recipient, Bill James-Founding member.
Fun City Awards Scholarships

The Fun City Chorus (FCC) proudly announces its scholarship winners
for 2018, Ben Carey and Sarah-Marie Linneman. The chorus annually awards
scholarships to graduating area seniors who plan to study music, and since 2013 has
awarded over $15,000 in scholarships.
Ben Carey is winner of the Wayne Steward Memorial Scholarship,
named in honor of Wayne Steward, the first director of the Fun City Chorus.
Carey is a graduating senior at Jessieville High School and a lifetime musician and
performer. He won the first place grand prize in Fun City’s “Road to Nashville”
competition in 2015, allowing him to travel to Nashville to record one of his
personal compositions with professional musicians. Carey is an accomplished singer
and guitarist. He plans to attend the UCA to pursue a career in music education
with aspirations to direct a chorus in addition to pursuing his performing career.
Sarah Marie Linneman is the winner of the Bill James
Honorarium Scholarship. James is a charter member of the chorus and is still active.
Linneman is a graduating senior at Lakeside High School, has been a member of
the Lakeside Band Program for six years and spent four years as a flutist in their
Symphonic Band.
Linneman successfully achieved placement in All-Region Band for 7 to
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12 grade and made All-State Band each year in high school. Linneman has studied
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advanced flute and piano with Jackie Flowers, renowned flutist. She has been with
the Hot Springs Flute Ensemble for the last six years. Linneman will attend Hendrix
College in the fall where she will major in music and pre-pharmacy.
The Fun City Chorus is affiliated with the Barbershop Harmony Society
and is extremely active in the Hot Springs area. Anyone interested in singing is
welcome to FCC rehearsals at Westminster Presbyterian Church Fellowship Hall,
3819 Central Avenue, each Monday at 7:00 P.M. Call Steve Spakes, 501-282-6081,
or Bill James, 501-318-8754, for more information on the chorus.
Arkansas Forestry Association

to Hold Conference in

Hot Springs in October

The 73rd Annual Meeting of the Arkansas Forestry Association (AFA) will
host a top-notch lineup of experts exploring areas of Arkansas’s forestry industry,
October 2-4, 2018, at the Hot Springs Convention Center. Each year, the AFA
Program Committee and staff put together an outstanding agenda for the Annual
Meeting.
Every aspect of this conference is designed to support AFA’s vision to
be the respected leader and credible information source for all issues related to
forestry. The goal of this conference is to bring together people and organizations
from all sectors of the forest products industry in Arkansas. Meeting attendees will
learn more about:
• Arkansas Agriculture Department’s programs
• the New Potlatch Deltic Corporation
• New SFI initiatives
• Public policy
• History of Forestry in Arkansas
• Forest Management Workshop
• Forestry Ethics
There conference will also include an alumni breakfast, silent auction, fish
fry and awards breakfast.
For more information, email Jennifer Lambert Johnson at jjohnson@
arkforests.org or call 501-374-2441.