Daily Archives: October 21, 2023


Autumn Vegan Potluck

TOMORROW! Saturday Oct 21 – 6:30 pm – Omni Center Happy Fall, Y’all! Come out and help us celebrate the season with a delicious meal and your own good company / food.  Bring a vegan dish with enough to share for 8 servings. Please check ingredients to ensure there are no animal products (or honey) . Feel free to invite family and friends you think may be interested. Checkout this meetup with Northwest Arknsas Vegans Group   http/:meetu.ps/e/MznKy/dVNYn/i


Build community power in Northwest Arkansas

Fri-Sat Oct 27-28 starts at 5:30 Friday St. Paul’s Episcopal, Fayetteville NO CHARGE. Meals provided. In a deep-red state, communities with a vision like Omni Centers’ need strong, cohesive bonds of trust across a lot of barriers. How can we build that kind of collaboration? NWA Community Builders has the plan. Oct 27-28 NWA Community Builders will hold trainings that can tell you the WHOLE story of how this works. It’s FREE and inspiring. You can join the diverse team willing to put this into motion. NWA Community Builders is working with IAF, who has a tested plan for uniting […]


Emerging Homeless Solutions

Thrive In Place… Yes, gentrification in Salt Lake City sounds like Fayetteville How do other cities manage their homeless crises? Lots of problems, seems like not many solutions. Here’s a news report from Washington D.C. that could be the story of cities all over the country. Washington DC saw a 40% spike in homeless encampments starting with covid. That’s huge! Their story has points that sound eerily familiar for Fayatteville. There are a LOT of homeless people, they just kind of appeared during covid, and they seem too have, and are causing, a lot of similar problems. The neighborhoods where encampments […]