Turner Bend Store Featured in Fayetteville @ Green Bag Lunch

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News from a neighboring watershed....the Extraordinary Mulberry....‪#‎Stewardship‬

TURNER BEND STORE TO BE FEATURED AT GREEN BAG LUNCH


Brad Wimberly, of the Turner Bend Store in Franklin County, will be the featured speaker at the next Putting Green to Work lunch on Jan. 16, 2014 in Fayetteville.
For more than 20 years, Wimberly, who owns the store with his wife Vien Wimberly, has organized annual cleanup operations along the Mulberry River and the surrounding area near his store, as well as sponsoring or participating in various other activities to improve the environment in that part of the state. Because of those efforts, the Turner Bend Store was named the winner of the 2013 Arkansas Environmental Stewardship Award.
Commonly called the “ENVY Award,” the award was established in 2005 by the ADEQ to recognize a major contribution by an individual or organization for efforts to enhance and protect Arkansas’ natural resources.
The Turner Bend Store is located at the junction of Arkansas Highway 23 and the Mulberry River about 10 miles north of Ozark. It offers general merchandise and outdoor equipment, and also rents canoes.
In addition to the annual cleanup, the store coordinates litter cleanups four times a year as part of the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department’s Adopt-a-Mile program on two miles of State Highway 23; partners with the Cass Job Corps Center to pick up litter between Cass and Interstate 40; and has worked with organizers of the annual Wakarusa Music Festival near Ozark to coordinate litter cleanups along roads leading to the festival site.
Working with the Conservation Reserve Program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency, the store has also planted oak trees on 33 acres adjacent to its new Round the Bend campground; is sponsoring construction of one of seven large interpretive signs being placed by the U.S. Forest Service along State Highway 215; and assisted in replacing old railroad crosstie steps with rock steps at the Campbell Cemetery access point on the Mulberry.
The series, an effort of the department’s Business Assistance Program, is an outgrowth of the agency’s annual ENVY award. The lunches feature businesses and organizations that have excelled at energy conservation and other sustainable practices. The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality, in partnership with Arkansas Manufacturing Solutions, created the Putting Green to Work lunches. The series aims to help industry leaders learn from each other how to save energy, prevent pollution and conserve resources, all while helping their bottom lines.
The Putting Green to Work lunch starts at 11:30 a.m. at the Washington County Extension Service, 2536 N. McConnell Ave., Fayetteville.
Admission is free, but registration is required for the event, as seating is limited. Attendees bring their own lunch. To register, contact Audree Miller at (501) 682-0015 or email miller@adeq.state.ar.us by 4 p.m. Jan. 15.

[Moniker]

Cool,the Wimberly's have done so much to keep the Mulberry River and surrounding area clean and to preserve the enviroment while helping people access the area for multiple recreational activities,it sure is good to see them recognized.
We are fortunate to have them.

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[Don Harwood]

Yahoo!