WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark., has organized free training for people who want to help record veterans' life stories for the Library of Congress.
Jo Blatti, director for First Person Plural: An Oral History of Arkansas Women, will hold two sessions for Arkansans who are interested in learning how to conduct interviews and submit work for the library's Veterans History Project.
Reservations can be made at (501) 372-7153. One session is scheduled for 1-3 p.m. July 27 at the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History at 503 E. Ninth St. in Little Rock. The other from 1-3 p.m. Aug. 1 at the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History at 118 W. Johnson Ave. in Springdale.
TRAVELING MEMBERS
Boozman was to attend Saturday's christening of the USS Little Rock in Marinette, Wis.
U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., was scheduled to travel to Europe over the weekend to visit the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna to discuss the Iran nuclear deal, and stop in London to meet with intelligence officials.
U.S. Rep. Bruce Westerman, R-Ark., traveled with the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology to the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant to see nuclear reactors under construction near Augusta, Ga.
2016 candidates
Presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton held her first New Hampshire town-hall meeting Thursday. On Friday, she and the other Democratic candidates in the race attended the Iowa Democratic Party dinner in Cedar Rapids.
She also picked up an endorsement July 11 from the executive council of the American Federation of Teachers.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and several other Republican presidential candidates were to attend the Family Leadership Summit in Iowa in Saturday.
DELEGATION MEETINGS
On Tuesday, Boozman met with a group of Arkansans affiliated with Christians United for Israel. On Wednesday, he sat down with Sylvia Szwedo and Adrianne Owings with the Girl Up Campaign. They are both from Little Rock. He also met with representatives from the Arkansas Soybean Association.
On Friday, U.S. Rep. Steve Womack, R-Ark., was to speak at the Bentonville/Bella Vista Chamber Business Matters Breakfast. Today, he plans to be in West Point, N.Y. along with other members of the military academy's board of visitors.
Cotton met with Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation Public Policy Director Zac Bradley. He also met with education officials, including Angela Winfield of the Southwest Arkansas Education Cooperative. He met with Arkansas members of Christians United for Israel and with Vonda Syler of Fayetteville with the Alliance of Specialty Medicine. Two people with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation also visited: Austin Dixon from Fayetteville and Isabella Ifrah from Little Rock.
U.S. Rep. French Hill, R-Ark., visited Tuesday with state Sen. Jane English, who participated in a symposium on skilled workers. Hill met with Arkansas Farm Bureau President Randy Veach on Tuesday and held a telephone town-hall meeting with Saline County residents Wednesday night.
On Tuesday, Westerman met with Dwain Miller, pastor of Cross Life Church in El Dorado, part of the Christians United for Israel group. On Wednesday, he visited with Nancy and Owen Scribner of Hot Springs and had breakfast with members of the Arkansas Farm Bureau.
ENVIRONMENTAL AWARD
Jolie Hobbs of King Elementary School in Van Buren received the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Presidential Innovation Award for Environmental Educators during a White House ceremony Friday. She was recognized along with other teachers and students from across the country for promoting environmental education and stewardship.
Hobbs started the Green News Program to promote environmental education each week at her school.
MOBILE OFFICE
Constituents can meet with members of Boozman's staff at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Monticello Senior Center at 203 Henley Drive in Monticello.
INTERNS
Womack is looking for college students and recent graduates to intern in his Washington office and his district offices in Rogers, Fort Smith and Harrison.
Internship requirements and application materials are available at womack.house.gov/constituentservices/internships.htm or by calling (202) 225-4301.
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