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Stewards of the Earth Festival

The Leslie Arts and Heritage committee is pleased to announce the preliminary schedule of festivities for the Stewards of the Earth Festival on May 9, 2009. The festival will be from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. in Leslie, Arkansas.

Events going on through out the day include:

• Wood Carving Demonstration
• Coopering Demonstration
• Pine Needle Basket Demonstration
• Live Music
• Arts and Crafts Vendors
• Food Vendors
• Kid’s Craft Corner (till 5:00p.m.)
• Horseshoes (at the Rodeo Grounds)
• Badminton (at the Community Center)
• Volleyball (at the Community Center)

In addition, there are several events scheduled throughout the day:

• 8:00 am to 12:00 pm: Ozark Mountain Market, Leslie Square
• 11:00 am to 1:00 pm: Fishing Derby at Cove Creek; sponsored by Arkansas Game and Fish and the Girl Scouts
• 12:00 am to 3:00 pm: Trade-Up Treasure Hunt, starting at Ozark Heritage Arts Center Parking Lot
• 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm: Nature Photo Scavenger Hunt, starting at Ozark Heritage Arts Center Parking Lot; sponsored by 4-H Photography Club
• 2:30 pm: Text Messaging Competition, Leslie City Park

The Stewards of the Earth Festival is a project of the Leslie Arts & Heritage committee and made possible in part by a grant from the Department of Arkansas Heritage, funded by your 1/8 cent conservation tax, Amendment 75.

The goal of this festival is to promote the natural heritage of our town. We are a small, rural community boarded on three sides by creeks, our connection to nature is impossible to ignore. This festival is about making people aware of this connection, and its importance to our heritage, while encourage them to ‘steward’ it for the future.

Our mission is to bring together people, craftsman, businesses, artists and children; to encourage a sense of community; and to treat our town’s connection with nature as something to embrace, not further ourselves from.

We hope everyone will enjoy this festival and take something more away from it than just a day’s worth of fun.

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The Ozark Mountain Market is a farmer’s market held the second and fourth Saturday of each month from April to October in downtown Leslie, Arkansas.

The city of Leslie, Arkansas will be hosting the first annual Stewards of the Earth festival on May 9th. The festival is funded in part by a grant from the Department of Arkansas Heritage, funded by your 1/8 cent conservation tax, Amendment 75, and organized by the Leslie Arts & Heritage committee. The festival is a celebration of the Ozark’s natural heritage as part of Arkansas Heritage Month.

As a prelude to the festival, noted Arkansas performer Melinda LeFevers will meet with the town’s school children to perform a “Life in a Log Cabin” demonstration. The children will learn about the duties that would have been expected of them back then, as well as how to make corn cob darts, rag dolls, churn butter and much more. There will be much storytelling and singing too!

Following on May 9th, there will be a fishing derby sponsored by the Arkansas Game & Fish Commission as well as scheduled events for adults, teens, and children. There will be a demonstration by Tina Wilcox, a member of the Ozark Folk Center, on useful native plant life; as well as many other artist demonstrations and live music. From 8am through 12pm, the local farmers market will be in operation offering lots of fresh produce and community. The live music, food, and artist booths will be set up in the parking lot of the Ozark Heritage Arts Center right in the middle of Leslie. We hope everyone will come and join us in the festivities! Anyone interested in vending crafts or doing a demonstration, please contact 870 504 1034 in Leslie, Arkansas or email lesliearts@yahoo.com.

Don’t forget to visit the Ozark Mountain Market on its debut April 25, and continuing on the second and fourth Saturdays of each month through October!

Who wants to be involved in a community garden? Would you like to garden but don’t have the space? Maybe you do have space but would rather have a garden plot right next to others in your community.  Or maybe you would just like to share your gardening skills with others.

The Leslie, Arkansas city council of has approved a garden space, and now we are looking for gardeners to fill it. There will be a nominal fee for a garden plot which will be used to offset water costs and other basic garden necessities.

For more information, call Ryan Cloud at 447-3047.

Please call if you wish to garden, if you would like to volunteer, or if you just want to find out more!