Arkansas’ Longest Married Couples Dessert Reception

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, February 19, 2018

Little Rock — On Tuesday, February 20, Family Council will host a dessert reception at the Governor’s Mansion for Arkansas’ Ten Longest Married Couples. The keynote address will be given by Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson and First Lady Susan Hutchinson. Special guests in attendance will include Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, Land Commissioner John Thurston, and other state and local officials. Family Council will honor I.B. and Ima Jewel Williams as Arkansas’ Longest Married Couple, celebrating 80 years of marriage. Family and friends will be present to celebrate with the couples and the couples will be presented with, among gifts from Family Council, a bouquet of flowers courtesy of Tipton and Hurst and a framed special letter of recognition from the Governor.

The Arkansas’ Longest Married Couples Dessert Reception will begin at 1:00 PM Tuesday, February 20, and will last until 3:00 PM. For more information, contact Ken Yang at Family Council at (501) 375-7000.

Family Council is a conservative education and research organization based in Little Rock, Arkansas.

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Arkansas Lottery Still Paying Small Sums for Scholarships

Recently the Arkansas Lottery released its monthly financial report for January.

The report shows the Arkansas Lottery took in over $44 million in January alone, but gave Arkansas’ college scholarship fund a paltry $8.2 million — less than 19 cents out of every dollar the Arkansas Lottery made.

Unfortunately this is nothing new.

For years the Arkansas Lottery has consistently made tens of millions of dollars each month, but has budgeted small amounts of money for the college scholarships it is supposed to fund; in December the Arkansas Lottery allocated less than 15% of its gross revenue for scholarships.

You can see a breakdown of the Arkansas Lottery’s financial figures so far this fiscal year below.

Month Gross Lottery Revenue Paid to Scholarships % Gross Revenue
July $36,885,396.81 $6,661,762.99 18.1%
August 49,320,459.23 8,912,741.54 18.1%
September 36,405,731.14 6,755,333.93 18.6%
October 39,802,740.53 5,667,305.74 14.2%
November 36,186,107.78 6,691,228.00 18.5%
December 44,716,219.32 6,583,355.77 14.7%
January, 2018 44,063,056.11 8,230,861.00 18.7%
Total $287,379,710.92 $49,502,588.97 17.2%

AFA Launches Petition Urging Walgreens to Reconsider Policies

Recently we learned Walgreens has decided to follow in Target’s misguided footsteps by letting men enter the women’s restrooms in its stores.

Last week the American Family Association unveiled a petition urging Walgreens to reconsider. So far more than 84,300 people have signed it.

AFA writes,

Walgreens’ new policy welcomes men into women’s restrooms

In a shocking policy announcement, Walgreens has now directed its stores to allow men full and unrestricted access to women’s restrooms in all of its 8,100 stores.

On Nov. 17, 2017, Walgreens distributed this memo stating, “All individuals have a right to use restroom facilities that correspond to the individual’s gender identity, regardless of the individual’s sex assigned at birth.”

The policy came as the result of being pressured by the ACLU of Southern California.

Since a similar public policy was announced by Target Stores, Inc. two years ago, dozens of women and children have been victimized by male predators inside Target stores.

Walgreens’ new policy could potentially result in female customers becoming victims of voyeurism, sexual assault and physical attack.

1. Sign our petition urging Walgreens to immediately reverse its dangerous policy that allows men unrestricted access into women’s restrooms.

2. To make your voice heard even more, please call Walgreens’ corporate office at 1-800-925-4733 and share your concerns.

3. If you are a Walgreens’ customer, let your local store manager hear from you. You can find the local store number here.

You can sign AFA’s petition here.

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