| Thursday, November 1 @ 03:28 pm
ROGERS - Tim Pschierer kind of stumbled his way into living in northwest Arkansas, and since he has been here, he has gotten married and went to work for a nonprofit agency helping children. Or maybe a different explanation is that Pschierer found his true calling: He found a church home at The Church of Pinnacle Hills, he met Debbie at the First Baptist Church of Springdale and married her, and he founded the nonprofit agency The First Tee of Northwest Arkansas as a way to give something back for all of the good fortune he has found in his life. Either way you look at it, Pschierer has reason to feel blessed because all of these things are tied together helping him become the man he is today. When Pschierer talks about his job as executive director of First Tee and what the program means to the hundreds of kids in Washington and Benton counties who have joined the organization, he describes how the life and golf skills taught by the agency have also affected his life.
Take it step by step
On the downside, you have to take care of all your own maintenance and improvements, so you have to be able to cover not just the monthly mortgage payment but insurance and repairs and upkeep. - 3. If you've got a great low rent deal, or you think you might get laid off or relocated in the near future, it might be better to continue to rent. If your credit is really bad, you should probably wait until you can get it improved so you'll have a much better mortgage deal. Check out the "Buy vs. Rent Calculator" at ginniemae.gov to get a good idea of the long-term advantages and disadvantages of each. YOU'RE READY TO BUY. NOW WHAT? The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has some great tips for getting ready to buy your first house.
Hip-Hop Rumors: The Late Edition! Diddy's New Girl! Give Saigon Free?
HE TRANSCEND'S BOTH AGE GROUP'S. HE'S BRIDGING THE GAP. LOOK ON HIS MYSPACE PAGE HE'S SETTING THE RAP WORLD ON FIRE. AND YOU KNOW WHAT THE REST OF THE FAMILY THINK WHEN THEY SEE YOUR MYSPACE PAGE. IF ONLY HE WOULD TAKE THEM GUN'S IN THE PHOTO AND USE' EM ON HIMSELF.LMAO. YOU ARE A LOSER ALWAY'S WAS AND WILL BE. A 24 YEAR OLD MYSPACE GANGSTER RAPPER. THAT IN MATHEMATICAL TERM'S EQUAL'S OOOOOOOOOOOOOO. .
LOCAL VOICES: Emergency workers involved with rescues at Union ...
"The night of the tornado, I carried my wife and my son to my neighbor's house because they had a basement. And I went straight to Union. I saw the UPS truck on its side, so I got out and walked with my flashlight. We started searching rooms and making sure no one was in there. Everyone was helping out. As a police officer, you become cynical about human nature. And it was good to see the good side of people. At one point, when the next storm front was headed our way, I thought about safety. I used to not be afraid of storms, but now I am because you can't get away from them. They're so random." - Jackson police Sgt. Phillip Whitman, 17 years with the department .
The Big Thirst: The Great American Water Crisis
Here in scenic southern Tennessee, the drought is adding to the problems of extreme rural poverty. At a highway rest stop for tourists - near a bridge named for Senator Albert Gore Sr, a Tennesseean and father of Nobel laureate Al Gore Jr - the toilets are closed for lack of water. In a nearby town, the mayor orders the grass regularly mown on the exposed banks of a reservoir that until recently was below water. From the air the impact of the drought is most obvious. The mighty Tennessee and Chattahoochee rivers have been reduced to narrow channels of muddy brown water. Sandbanks and islands have appeared and old tree stumps now poke out of lakes and reservoirs as the water level falls. The government's "drought monitor" says that 32 per cent of the region is in "exceptional drought", its most severe designation.
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