For this week’s Hometown Heroes segment, AY About You sits down with Rex Williams, Batesville’s independent “Master Trash Pickup” man. Every day, for the last three-and-a-half years, Williams has gone out and picked up trash all throughout Independence County. “I didn’t have anything to do and was driving home one day. I saw a…
For this week’s Thirsty Thursday, AY About You Magazine talks with Kendall Case, one of the managers of ZIN Wine Bar, and daughter of owner Kevin Case and his wife Leslie Case. While Bill Smith is the general manager and sommelier, Kendall Case manages the advertisements and social media for ZIN Wine Bar. Case…
For this week’s Woman Wednesday, AY About You highlights Sheena Gilmore. Gilmore was raised in Singapore and moved to Washington D.C. in 2010 to complete her master’s degree at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University. She married her husband, Jon Gilmore, and moved back to Arkansas with him following…
For today’s Hometown Heroes article, AY About You talks with Eliana Scully with the Women’s Foundation of Arkansas! Scully graduated from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock at the end of the summer session with a degree in economics and a minor in psychology. “My focus was behavioral economics and studying how…
Today’s Thirsty Thursday takes AY About You to Four Quarter Bar, owned and founded by Conan Robinson. Robinson has been in the bartending industry for years, which allowed him to prepare for a bar of his own. “I worked at Midtown Billiards for 15 years. The lady who owned it, Maggie Hinson, became really…
By Katie Zakrzewski As the holiday season draws closer, AY About You is dedicated to keeping our readers safe by giving some crime prevention tips. These tips, along with insight from incarcerated individuals, might help you make your home less likely to be burglarized and might make you less likely to become a victim…
Every Wellness Wednesday, AY About You is determined to bring you tips to promote your mental health and wellbeing and quality of life. Today, we’ll be taking a closer look at how gratitude affects your mental health. Lauren English, a licensed professional counselor with Pinnacle Pointe Hospital, discusses the importance of being thankful. …
Sharon Giovinazzo was introduced to the world of the blind in what she describes as a “baptism by fire”. It was May of 2001 when Giovinazzo was in upstate New York, suffering from bad headaches and vision loss. A doctor called her and told her that she had lesions on her brain stem that…
Every Wednesday, AY About You is committed to bringing you tips and tricks to improve your mental health, and to help instill peace in your life. This week, we are bringing you tips for managing conflict in your life. Conflict is unavoidable. Whether it’s in the workplace, at school, in your close…
For this week’s Woman Wednesday, we sit down with Angie Collins, the Department Chair of Science at St. Joseph’s High School in Conway. Collins has been in education for 28 years and always knew that she wanted to teach since she was a little girl. “I loved school. I always wanted to help the…
