FRIDAY • Firefighters Fill the Boot for Muscular Dystrophy, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Main intersections on Broadview Street in Greenbrier. • Disabled American Veterans mobile office at the Museum of Veterans and Military History, 13 S. College St.

Good news spread throughout Downtown Conway early this week as it was learned that Salter Properties have bought the Regions Bank property on 1023 Main St. and plan to redevelop it as Metro Square.

TODAY • Faulkner County Tea Party Lunch/Soapbox, 11:30 a.m., Larry's Pizza. • Conway Noon Rotary Club (No meeting). • Family Game Night, 5-7 p.m., Faulkner County Library, 1900 Tyler St. • Jazz Cats, Dixieland and Swing, 6-8 p.m., Faby's Downtown.

H.G. Foster of Conway, appointed by Gov. Mike Beebe in November to the 20th Judicial District, 1st Division, is a happy man.

TODAY • Annual convention, Dept. of Arkansas Marine Corps League, 8:30 a.m., Hilton Garden Inn and Suites. • Lecture series: "Building Great Sentences: Exploring the Writer's Craft," 2 p.m. Faulkner County Library.

TODAY • Close-Knit Faith Community, 9:30 a.m., interdenominatiional group of knitters and crocheters who meditate on Scripture and knit for charity, St. Joseph Parish Administration Office. 501-513-6812.

Faulkner County Coroner Patrick Moore said the body of Mark Russell, missing in the Arkansas River since Tuesday, was found by his brothers Sunday afternoon.

Faulkner County Coroner Patrick Moore said the body of Mark Russell, missing in the Arkansas River since Tuesday, was found by his brothers Sunday afternoon. According to District Chief Bill Keithley of the Conway Fire Department, Russell was found about mid-day Sunday on the Faulkner County side of...

TODAY • "Fought in Earnest: Civil War Arkansas," a traveling exhibit chronicling major historical events in Arkansas from 1861-65. Faulkner County Library, through May 15. • Faulkner County Singing Club, 1:30 p.m.

There are no love songs written for fire ants. They bite, they sting, they make a welt. Poke a fire ant mound with a stick and thousands of the malicious beasts will attack. They can make a big dog whimper and a little dog give up the ghost.