We speak with Angela Oxford, director of the Center for Community Engagement at the University of Arkansas. The center is an umbrella organization for student-led service programs at the university, and it also operates a portal for students and others to find service opportunities within the northwest Arkansas community.

The Salvation Army of Northwest Arkansas provides shelter and substance abuse programs for hundreds of individuals in the community each year. We learn more about its programs, and how people within the community can help reach the area's homeless and other vulnerable populations.

The Winslow Run is an annual race held in September that takes runners on a paved and unpaved course through the Boston Mountains. Proceeds from the event helps support the town's Community Meals program, the Winslow Library, and other programs within the town. We speak with two race organizers about the event, and about what service means to the small Ozarks community.

Keep Arkansas Beautiful is the statewide affiliate of Keep America Beautiful, and it helps orchestrate two statewide cleanup events each year. We learn how the organization provides service to communities around the state by helping organize those events, and how individuals can be of service to their environment.

The Ozark Mountain Music Festival takes place January 19 through 22 in Eureka Springs. Among the bands performing during the festival is Eureka Springs-based band Sad Daddy. Since the last time the band visited us at the Carver Center for Public Radio, they've recorded and released a new album, performed at the Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View, played the closing performance of the 2017 Hillberry Festival in Eureka Springs, and performed countless other gigs throughout and outside

Shiloh Museum of Ozark History is inviting people with collections to show them off. Becca Martin Brown from the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette says some of the collections will surprise.

An Arkansas legislator is offering an alternative to a tax rate reduction for the state's lowest-income earners. MUSIC: "Friday the 13th" Steve Jablonsky

The University of Arkansas Police Department has dedicated its recently upgraded conference room in memory of Lawrence J. “Larry” Slamons, the first director of UAPD. Friends and family members who gathered at yesterday's ceremony shared memories of Slamons who retired from UAPD in 2007 and died last year.

A major mumps outbreak in Arkansas which started last autumn has affected both children and adults, especially in the states's migrant Marshallese community. Because a majority sickened by the virus are vaccinated, scientists are investigating if vaccine immunity is to blame.

Michael Tilley from our partner Talk Business and Politics helps us understand the week we just had with news from Bentonville and Fort Smith. MUSIC: "Central Nervous Piston" El Ten Eleven