OFF DUTY LIFE >>06-08-07

Hoopla Festival this weekend in Greers Ferry

The 4th Annual Heart of the Lake Hoopla Festival is today and Saturday at West Side School, Hwy. 92, Greers Ferry Road in Greers Ferry. This year’s festival offers plenty of crafters, good food and fun amusements rides. Admission is free. For more information visit www.greersferry.com.


Hot Rod Power Tour stops at state fairgrounds

Hot Rod Power Tour is today and Saturday at the Arkansas State Fairgrounds. Hot Rod Magazine Power Tour is the ultimate Hot Rodders’ vacation. The tour cruises across the country with the staff and editors of Hot Rod Magazine plus all the icons of the automotive industry. The seven-day tour has selected Little Rock as its finale city for the 2007 tour. Admission is to be announced. For more information visit www.bigcruisefest.com.


Pink Tomato festival set

The 51st Annual Pink Tomato Festival on the square in downtown Warren is today and Saturday. Among the activities slated are 5K run/walk, arts and crafts, street dance, tomato eating contest, Kidsland, free entertainment on the square and the All Tomato Luncheon Car show.

Admission is free.


Bat-O-Rama slated at Devil's Den State Park

Bat-O-Rama XVIII is today through Sunday at Devil’s Den State Park, 11333 West Arkansas Hwy. 74 in West Fork. Enjoy a weekend of programs dedicated to one of nature’s least understood mammals, the bat.

Activities include slide programs, a bat house building demonstrations and crevice hikes. Don’t miss the special guest speaker Saturday night at the amphitheater. Admission is free.


Archeology Day Camp June 13-15

Archeology Day Camp is 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. June 13-15 at Toltec Mounds Archeological State Park, 490 Toltec Mounds Rd., Scott. Campers ages 8-12 will dig deeper into Arkansas’s past and learn that it is not what you find, but what you find out.
Learn excavation and laboratory techniques and participate in a variety of fun archeology related programs and Native American crafts. Bring a sack lunch. Drinks, snacks and a camp T-shirt provided. Reservations required. Payment in advance confirms your reservation. Admission is $50 per child.


Showdown at Sunset re-enactment

The 20th Annual Showdown at Sunset runs through Aug. 4 in downtown El Dorado.

Every Saturday for 10 consecutive weeks, local actors re-enact the historic Tucker-Parnell feud in Union County. Each evening includes live entertainment starting at 6 p.m. preceding the drama, which starts at 7 p.m. Authentic costumes and staged guns which sound and smell like the real thing. Once the smoke clears, enjoy dining in one of several restaurants on the square.

Admission is free. For more information visit www.goeldorado.com.