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Reading 9 to 5 in Arkansas
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In the famous words of American children’s author, Dr. Seuss, “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you’ll go!”

For some of us, our journey with reading began in the pages of a picture book. And for others it may have begun at school with a teacher reading to us. No matter what your relationship with reading looks like today, it is important to remember that we all had to start somewhere.

One way our company is supporting the spread of early-childhood literacy in Carroll County, Arkansas, is through our recent contribution to the Carroll County Youth Literacy Rotary Foundation. They are a community-based Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library program, working toward spreading the joy of reading to youth among many other amazing things.

The Imagination Library provides children under the age of 5 with a free age-appropriate book mailed directly to their home every month. Our recent contribution helped the Carroll County Youth Literacy Rotary Foundation hit 2,000 registrations to the Imagination Library!

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Positive Energy

  • Employees from the Council Bluffs facility volunteered their personal energy at the United Way of the Midlands’ Shine Bright event in August. Every child deserves to feel confident and ready to learn at school, however, for many this is not the case. Thousands of local students across the Omaha-…
  • Congratulations, Joey, PE, director of operations in Arkansas, for being recognized by the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal as a distinguished member of the 2022 class of Forty Under 40. According to the Business Journal, this year’s Forty Under 40 class includes men and women who have already…
  • Our team in Arkansas finished off a recent work week with a “Feed the Funnel” party at the Pack Shack, a non-profit organization in Cave Springs, Arkansas, that packs meals for families in need. About 30 employees answered the Black Hills Energy Ambassadors’ call for volunteers, packaging 7,500…
  • Our Northwest Arkansas team volunteered to help make the Springdale Chamber of Commerce 56th annual Teacher Appreciation Event a rousing success. The event is the largest and longest running of its kind not only in the region but the nation, and our employees stepped up to help chamber members…