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BigCedar.com 1.800.225.6343 RA01132 JANUARY 2013 CONTENTS JANUARY 2013 10 PHOTO BY GAR Y B features 32 EAN 10 Arkansas Winter Landscapes in every issue Arkansas wilderness photographer, Tim Ernst, pays homage to this season with some Arkansas winter 4 Editor’s Letter landscapes. 6 Currents 18 Hammerschmidt Receives Sidney S. McMath Public Service 7 Trivia Leadership Award 24 Capitol Buzz 20 Thanks from the Big Apple New Yorker shows 26 Doug Rye Says gratitude to Arkansas linemen 30 Healthy Living 32 Cooking with Joy 36 Reflections 38 Crossword Puzzle on the cover 39 Scenes from the Past Frozen Glory Hole 40 Let’s Eat This formation, built from layer upon layer of ice, took at least a week to develop. It is hollow. When photographer Tim Ernst stood close to 42 Around Arkansas the frozen column, he could hear a tiny waterfall within that was too fast to freeze. He has been visiting this location in the Ozark National Forest for more than 20 years and has only seen it like this once. Another view of the scene is pictured at the top of this page. 3 editor’s letter New Year, JANUARY 2013 VOLUME LXVI, NUMBER 3 (ISSN 0048-878X) (USPS 472960) New Look Arkansas Living is published monthly. Periodicals postage paid at Little Rock, AR B Y S HE I L A YOUN T and at additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: A new year often magazine has a new look. We have Send address changes to: ushers in change and redesigned it in our continuing effort Arkansas Living, P.O. Box 510, Little Rock, AR 72203 such is the case this year to improve your magazine. We listen Members: Please send name of your with Arkansas Living. to your feedback and we are offering cooperative with mailing label. First of all, I am honored what we believe is a cleaner look that to succeed Ouida Cox will be easier and more enjoyable An Official Publication of as editor of this historic to read. I am especially pleased that publication. Of course, Joy Rice will be providing recipes for I have big shoes to fill the new “Cooking with Joy” section. in the aftermath of her Joy is an avid cook who loves to Duane Highley President and CEO legendary 63-year career. experiment with new dishes. Along Sandy Byrd Vice President, Member & Public Relations But I have had the good fortune with traditional Southern favorites, Sheila Yount Editor to work with her in recent years as she will also add some more healthy Marcia Tabor Advertising Coordinator associate editor, and she has given me offerings, something we all need at the Rob Roedel Contributing Editor strong guidance and many words of start of the new year! Geri Miller Production Manager Dixie Rogers Graphic Designer wisdom. I am also honored to present Her primary message was clear, the work of Tim Ernst, known as ARKANSAS ELECTRIC COOPERATIVES, INC. however. “Always remember the Arkansas’ wilderness photographer, BOARD OF DIRECTORS OFFICERS member out there at the end of the in this inaugural issue of 2013. Along Martha Pennington Chairman, Hamburg line.” I think that is a great message, with some of Tim’s other magnificent Mel Coleman Vice Chairman, Salem not only for the magazine, but for winter scenes, we have included Jery Jacobs Secretary, Dierks Bill Conine Treasurer, Clinton the electric co-ops as a whole. Of some work from his most recent book course we want to do our best to “Arkansas Landscapes II.” In addition CONTACT INFORMATION remember all members, no matter to the magazine’s offerings, we have Arkansas Living where they live. But, by remembering included in this mailing a 2013 “Best 1 Cooperative Way the member at the end of the line, of Rural Arkansas” calendar featuring Little Rock, AR 501.570.2311 we return to our real roots. We were photos taken by “Miss Ouida” during Email: [email protected] formed in the 1930s because the big her career. power companies didn’t want to serve Going forward, we will also do Mailing Address the farmers who lived in the lightly our best to keep you informed about P.O. Box 510 Little Rock, AR 72203 populated rural areas, “way out in the issues of importance to the electric co- country.” ops. In so doing, we hope to fulfill the Advertising Department Our service territory no longer only mission statement recently developed Marcia Tabor comprises rural areas. In fact, we now by electric co-ops across the nation – Email: [email protected] 501.570.2312 serve some of the fastest growing areas to power communities and empower of Arkansas. Our acknowledgement members to improve the quality of Subscription Price: of that fact led to changing the their lives. The words may be new, but $7.00 per year for non-members magazine’s name from Rural Arkansas the mission isn’t. We were working for Member of Arkansas Press Association to Arkansas Living. But, in doing that, these goals before the first issue of the we have not forgotten that we still Arkansas REA News, this magazine’s Acceptance of advertising by Arkansas Living does not imply endorsement of the product or services advertised serve rural Arkansas – the members at predecessor publication, arrived in by the publisher or the Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas. the end of the line – and we are proud members’ mailboxes in November to do so. 1946. Arkansas Living is proud to Follow us on In this issue, you will see that the continue that tradition. 4 JANUARY 2013 Inexpensive hearing aids THAT WORK ✓ You can trust our 33 years experience ✓ Choose savings AND quality... 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