Dogtown Wire

Tomorrow is the Badges and Hoses Blood Drive and the city’s police and fire team have their marching aortas---err, orders to show the Little Rock team they are a mere drip in comparison.

In that vein it’s time to go with the flow, it is time for North Little Rock types to roll up their sleeves and get pumped up to pump those little squeezy balls the nice nurses give you to stick it to the south side.

With Chief Danny Bradley putting (get it---to putt) up his dignity to become Little Rock Police Chief Stuart caddy for a gold game, we can’t have Bradley become a version of Bill Murry from Caddy Shack.

The North Little Rock Visitors Bureau said Wednesday at 4 p.m. that it still has 35 tickets available to view the July 4 fireworks form the Junction Bridge.

The North Little Rock Visitors Bureau at the Visitors Center in Burns Park will have a limited number of tickets available on a first come, first served basis.  The Center's hours are daily from 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

Also, the USS Razorback along with WAND (Women’s Action for New Directions) will be hosting a cook-out with cash bar beginning at 7 p.m.  Live music will be provided by “Damn Bullets.”

(Editor’s note: 12 of the following burglaries, marked with an *, should have appeared in last week’s report, but were inadvertently not picked up.)

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5800 block of Green Valley Drive, between 7 and 11 a.m. June 12: A woman told police someone entered her house by kicking in her front door. She said a medium sized jewelry box containing costume jewelry, a silver, heart shaped jewelry box containing jewelry, an Old Main men’s and a women’s class rings, a bag of bracelets, an Anne Klein watch in its box, various rings, earrings, and watches and necklaces were missing.

5700 block of Sonora Drive, between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. June 19:  A woman told police someone entered her house by removing a window. She said some jewelry, a Brother sewing machine, a duffle bag with clothing, and assorted medicines were missing.

300 block of Wilson Street, between 6 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. June 17:  A man told police someone entered his house though no point of forced entry was found. He said a computer a mattress, one piece of wall art, and three end tables were missing.

Jim Woodell said Tuesday by phone that the appeal that needs to go before City Council to run a homeless day resource center at 1201 E. Washington Ave. in River City Ministry is over.

“I’ll tell you where I’ve wound up on this, is that it’s kind of like pushing a car up a hill with a rope,” said Woodell in a slow, tired sounding measured voice. “I decided that we are not going to push, or pull, or do anything more to try to get on an agenda or to be a day resource center.”

Woodell came to this decision after having four council members come to the open house River City Ministry held June 5 to allow city officials and the public to visit the facility and ask questions.

He said three aldermen gave him an assurance of their support, but though he hadn’t talked directly to her, he thought that Ward 1 Alderwoman Debi Ross was against it. Without out at least half of the council supporting it, Woodell said he felt the fight was over.

Rose City resident Dolly Faux and her husband Walt moved to her house 41/2 years ago, first renting the house from their landlord to “to see if we liked the neighborhood.”

“It was an excellent neighborhood when we moved in,” Faux said

They bought it from the Fayetteville-based landlord shortly after that because it had become a “hassle” for him to maintain the house being so far away, she said.

Faux sat in her kitchen chair in a small house Monday, the oxygen machine she needs now tucked in the living room, describing the neighbors that once lived next to her in Rose City.

Architect rendering of PTC hangar expansion.                      (Courtesy PTC)

Pulaski Technical College has received a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration to expand its aviation technology center and train more workers for jobs in Arkansas’ growing aerospace industry.

U.S. Senator Blanche Lincoln announced the grant Monday at the college’s site at 1600 W. Maryland Ave. next to the North Little Rock airport. The grant will be used to build a second training facility, more than doubling the square footage and the number of students who can receive training.

(From left in the photo) Lt. Matt Mathews and Captain Steve Evans were recognized with their new ranks by the North Little Rock Fire Department in a promotion ceremony held Monday.

Matthews was hired Aug. 3, 2001 and will be assigned to Rescue-1, and Evans, who donned the uniform on March 3, 1990, will go to Engine-6. 

If you have an applicable engineering degree and hate the thought of a possible $65,000 starting salary, don’t read this.

KARK broke the news earlier today that Garver Engineers had a groundbreaking at the Northshore Business Park this morning for their new corporate headquarters.

Rose City Dolly Faux talked to City Council about a shooting on her street.

During the council meeting public comments section Rose City resident Dolly Faux asked the City Council and the police to help her with an ongoing problem with neighborhood teenagers.

Years of conflict with teenagers on her street escalated from four calls about fireworks and motor scooters Saturday night, to one of being shot at , she said.

Monday Faux said at her house she took her gun and shot into the air as a Rose City teenager was riding away from her house on his bike after shooting at her.

Pulaski Technical College (PTC) Communication and Special Events Manager Tracy Courage announced Friday that the Arkansas Culinary School will have a new home this fall.

The school, currently housed in the Performance Food Group building at 4901 Asher Avenue in Little Rock, will move to the college’s Little Rock-South site, located at 13000 Interstate 30, Courage said.

Beginning this fall, classroom and laboratory instruction will take place at the new location. Classes begin Aug. 18.