Fort Smith, AR

Officially 1 year, 3 months, and 6 days; I've come back to Activerain. I'll dedicate this post to my friend that has pasted before us, Laurie Manny!! For those that don't know, Laurie was a blogging Diva, and I miss her great advice.

My decision wasn't a major accomplishment for me. Wasn't something I really wanted to do. Wasn't something that I was thinking about.

UNTIL, I got a phone call from Sunshine Benson.

Sunshine works with RealEstate.com and immediately questioned why I stop participating on ActiveRain. My simple reply was, SellFortSmith.com does it all for me! It take's care of Fort Smith Real Estate, and it's all mine.

Note: by this point, I'm done in a conversation with someone trying to sell me something. Sunshine wanted to know the why's? She wasn't pushy, or demanding. As a matter of fact, very personable and professional.

Through my objections, which I'll cover later. Sunshine convinced me to come back and try it out. Why? She said, "We've changed! We listen to our agents!" After 23 minutes of talking with her, I'm back and eager to see all the changes that's been made. Had to give a huge shout out to Sunshine!!! I look forward to learning.

As I've said before and will say it again, "To Buy or Sell'um, Call Ray Nellum!"

Dec. 9th 2011, 9am-3pm Fort Smith, AR convention Center to prepare 13,000 wreaths for National Cemetery. Everyone is welcome, Dec 10th, 2011 9am Families Only, 10 am Public to lay wreaths on gravesites at Fort Smith, Arkansas National Cemetery..A small way to honor Our Heros.. never Forgotten..

http://gis.fortsmithar.gov/maps.html

Forty Three local eatery's participated in the 23rd annual Taste of Fort Smith. For a nominal $15 entrancee fee, attendees could eat themselves silly at any and all of the restaurants, bakeries, and caterers. The selection of purveyors ranged from long time Fort Smith favorites like Rolondo's, Harps, and Sweet Bay, to relative newcomers Cara's, Imajerk Barbeque, and Sweet Boutique.

Sponsored by Fort Smith's Altrusa International chapter, the $15 entrance fee went to several local charitable organizations such as Literacy Council of Western Arkansas, Crawford County Volunteers for Literacy, Fort Smith Public Library, Next Step Day Room, CASA of Crawford County and Community Dental Clinic. Hoping to raise $20,000 this year, Altrusa has given back to local community organizations over $277,000 since 1987.

Make sure that you check out Taste of Fort Smith next year. You, and your stomach, will be glad that you did!