Phillips County

Governor to headline DBP progress report Tuesday - Second edition of Phillips County Strategic Community Plan will demonstrate achievements since 2005 launch

November 16th, 2007
Source: The Helena Daily World

Gov. Mike Beebe will deliver the keynote address this Tuesday to commemorate the release of the second edition of the Phillips County Strategic Plan, which outlines the achievements of the Delta Bridge Project since its 2005 launch.

SGFF schedules open house

November 14th, 2007
Source: The Helena Daily World

Since its July 1, 1999 inception, the BDC has served over 6,000 aspiring and existing entrepreneurs through access to financing, business counseling, training and technical assistance.

KIPP holds annual public meeting

November 13th, 2007
Source: The Helena Daily World

According to KIPP Delta School Director Scott Shirey’s report to the public concerning last spring’s test scores, at nearly every grade level KIPP students outperformed both the local district and statewide averages on the Arkansas Benchmark Test.

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Archive: November 2007 | Section: KIPP School, Phillips County, Southern Bancorp

B&GC fund-raiser

November 6th, 2007
Source: The Helena Daily World

Central High School E.A.S.T Lab students joined forces with Boys & Girls Club members Saturday to help raise money to match the nearly $300,000 in challenge grants the Boys & Girls Club has been awarded this year toward the renovation of the old H & M building.

B & G Club awarded Challenge grants

November 2nd, 2007
Source: The Helena Daily World

The Boys & Girls Club of Phillips county announced today that over the past six months they have successfully solicited nearly $300,000 in challenge grants from a combination of threes local and national foundations, including the Helena Health Foundation (HHF).

Brian Miller - remember that name

October 25th, 2007
Source: The Helena Daily World

…Brian Miller loved the place. And it showed. He didn’t run away. Not even after he got his law degree from Vanderbilt and had the world to conquer/save. Even when he worked as a lawyer for a big firm in Memphis, young Miller commuted back and forth…

Business booming at sweet potato facility

October 25th, 2007
By Betty Adams // The Helena Daily World

Though this is the first harvest season and the first year of operation for Arkansas Delta Yams, the management team is already making plans and putting together a proposal to expand their facility in order to double their capacity by the 2008 harvest season.

Building Economies in the Delta and the Iron Range

October 24th, 2007
By Bill Bishop // Daily Yonder

Two of the most unlikely places in rural America to find economic success are the Iron Range of Minnesota and south Arkansas. But there it is - and community colleges are at the center of the action.

State’s sweet-potato crop ‘yam good’ - New storage facility near Poplar Grove allows for increased yield

October 23rd, 2007
Source: Arkansas Democrat Gazette

POPLAR GROVE — The new sweet-potato storage and distribution facility here will soon be identified with a sign for “Arkansas Delta Yams,” manager Cindy Neal said. Although sweet potatoes and yams are two unrelated plants, many U.S. sweet potatoes are marketed as “yams.”

DBP generating community involvement

October 23rd, 2007
By Mark Haney // The Helena Daily World

Turning the community of Helena-West Helena around is a “multi-stepped” process. According to Ben Steinberg, the president of Bancorp South and head of the Delta Bridge Project, there are many steps that must be taken to ensure job growth will succeed and, in turn, revitalization of the town also succeeds.

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