A Friday roundup: A series of grants from the Walton Family Foundation will be directed toward downtown projects in northwest Arkansas, an Arkansas state senator is mourned and more.

Before he was part of Talk Business and Politics , Roby Brock was given the job of putting together the celebration in downtown Little Rock the night Bill Clinton was elected to the White House.

This week's Northwest Arkansas Business Journal Report includes a conversation with Rick West, the CEO of the retail data collection firm Filed Agent about how retailers are approaching the holiday shopping season.

Teachers and administrators from several school districts in Northwest Arkansas took a trip halfway around the world to get ideas they could bring back to the Natural State. The group from Fayetteville, Springdale, Rogers, Bentonville, Siloam Springs, the Thaden School and Haas Hall traveled to New Zealand, which is one of the top academic performers in the world. Tamara Gibson, who is the Executive Director of Elementary Education for the Bentonville School District, discusses what she learned

University of Memphis medical anthropologist Dr. Michael Duke has over the past five years immersed himself in the world's largest migrant Marshallese settlement in Springdale, Arkansas. Seeking research guidance and insight on issues that matter to islanders, Duke is beginning to publish his findings , which will serve to inform policy makers, health care providers, educators and non-profit agencies working within U.S. Marshallese migrants. He discusses his most recent published article,

Saturday night Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville will host jazz in the galleries from 7:00 to 11:30. Robert Ginsburg, host of Shades of Jazz on 91.3, gives us a preview.

Beginning Friday night, a new Trike Theatre production of Charlotte's Web will bring together professional adult actors and young actors. Each performance is at Walton Arts Center and the production runs through Dec. 2.

The city of Fayetteville is seeking a tenant farmer for the currently fallow five-acre Woolsey Working Farm, adjacent to the historic Woolsey Homestead, under restoration, just southeast of the new Woolsey Wet Prairie Sanctuary. Tenant Farmer Formal Requests for Proposal applications are available online and must be submitted by Nov. 29. We take a walk on the old prairie remnant to take a gander.

Yesterday Tyson Foods cut the ribbon celebrating the grand opening of a new office building on Emma Avenue in downtown Springdale. The space will be home for about 300 IT specialists and is on the same ground that was the location for the original headquarters of the company.

On today’s show, Tyson Foods returns to its home street, and we take a tour as the food giant shows off its new office building on Emma Avenue in downtown Springdale where the company began. Plus, Fayetteville is seeking a tenant farmer for a wet prairie park west of town. And Trike Theater brings some pig to the stage, and we hear why their new production of Charlotte’s Web breaks new ground.