/news-archive/tag/josh-keyes/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Wed, 01 May 2019 23:30:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /news-archive/2019/05/01/girl-scout-cookies/ Wed, 01 May 2019 23:30:09 +0000 /news/?p=74187 ... Girl Scouts deliver sweet deal to military vets]]> Central Arkansas Girl Scouts made a special delivery to 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock鈥檚 military veteran students on May 1: 4,404 boxes of Girl Scout cookies. Girls from three troops in the 听颁辞耻苍肠颈濒 delivered the goodies, and with the help of 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock military veterans, formed a cookie brigade to unload the treats from the Girl Scouts’ van and into the Military Student Success Center. The veterans now have a plentiful supply of lemony Savannah Smiles, shortbread Trefoils, peanut buttery Do-si-dos and Tagalongs, Thin Mints and carmel-drizzled Samoas. The council ran out of S鈥檓ores and gluten-free cookies, but no one worried a lick. 鈥淚t鈥檚 nice to know that someone cares and wants to put effort into appreciation for military veterans,鈥� said 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock student Josh Keyes, a U.S Army veterans and president of 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock鈥檚 Students Affected by the Military (SAM) organization. The cookie delivery was part of the 鈥淕irl Scouts Give Back鈥� program. Each year, the council budgets for about 20,000 boxes of cookies for charitable giving, said Dawn Prasifka, president and chief executive officer of This year, the council focused on giving to veterans and planned other deliveries to a Pine Bluff food pantry, the U.S. Air Force 188th Wing in Fort Smith, and stops at the University of Arkansas, Arkansas State University, and Texas A&M in Texarkana. Military veterans weren鈥檛 the only ones honored by the cookie delivery. The girls selected to deliver the cookies are among the council鈥檚 top cookie sellers. Troop 6705 in Little Rock collectively sold more than 37,000 boxes of cookies this year, making them the top-selling troop in the council. Karli Redd, 14, of Little Rock, an 8th grader at Mills Middle School, has been the highest cookie seller in the Chipato Valley Service Unit for eight years in a row. This year she sold 2,185 boxers for Troop 6097. 鈥淚t鈥檚 our way of giving back to our community,鈥� she said of Wednesday’s delivery. Troop 6846 in Searcy sold more than 10,000 boxes this year, and several of the girls helped deliver treats, including Emma and Isabella Schmidt, 9; Gracie Cherry, 10; Peyton Murphy, 10; Kiley Cantrell, 10; Nadia Lagomarsino, 10; and Hollie Laws, 15. 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock鈥檚 Office of Military Student Success serves 650 military students and family members, said Kathy Oliverio, director of Military Student Success. The students will take some of the cookies home and share the others. 鈥淲e know people who are deployed, and we鈥檒l make care packages and send them overseas,鈥� Oliverio said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 nice to be appreciated, and we believe in paying it forward.鈥� Photo top right:聽Kathy Oliverio, left, director of the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Military Student Success Center, helps military veterans and Girl Scouts unload Girl Scout cookies. The聽听颁辞耻苍肠颈濒 donated more than 4,000 boxes to military veterans served by 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock’s MilItary Student Success Center. Photo above left: Girl Scouts and veterans stack cookies inside the Military Student Success Center.聽Photos by Benjamin Krain.  ]]> /news-archive/2018/11/14/student-veterans-and-spouses-share-experiences-at-ua-little-rock-veterans-day-ceremony/ Wed, 14 Nov 2018 17:54:17 +0000 /news/?p=72670 ... Student veterans and spouses share experiences at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Veterans Day Ceremony]]> For 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock social work student Jackie Fowler, Veterans Day is a day of solace, contemplation, and reflection on the events in her life that brought her to where she is today. Five years ago, Fowler鈥檚 life took an unexpected turn when she learned that her husband had been seriously injured in an accident while deployed. He would pass away a few months later. Today, Fowler has dedicated her life to working with both veterans and other military spouses who have gone through similar experiences, and has bravely shared her story with the campus. 鈥淲hen my husband passed, his GI Bill scholarships passed to me. I decided to use that to pursue a degree in social work and focus on veterans’ services,鈥� Fowler said. 鈥淚 want to do the best I can to give them the best they deserve.鈥� 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock joined the rest of the nation in celebration of the 100th observance of Veterans Day at a Nov. 12 ceremony featuring student and employee veterans along with spouses of veterans. Kathy Oliverio, an Air Force veteran and director of Military Student Success at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock, opened the ceremony with remarks about the history of Veterans Day, its origins as Armistice Day following the end of World War I a century ago, and the importance of its observance to those who have served. Student veterans Josh Keyes and Andy Wertherington shared their experiences in the armed forces as well as the difficulties that they had re-adjusting to life after their service ended. Both pointed to 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock鈥檚 Military Student Success Center as an important player in their new lives as students. 鈥淚 don鈥檛 know really where I鈥檇 be without Kathy and the services she provides to veterans here,鈥� Keyes said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 been a long process readjusting to civilian life but 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock has people that have gone through the same thing and are there to help you work through it.鈥� Solo piano arrangements of 鈥淭he Star Spangled Banner鈥� and 鈥淭aps鈥� were performed by Dr. Linda Holzer, professor of music and coordinator of classical piano studies, with music major and Wind Ensemble member Stephanie Gimenez performing on the snare drum. For more information about 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock鈥檚 Military Student Success Center, click here. Military Student Success Center Assistant Director and Coast Guard veteran Cheryl Kleeman prepares flags for the Nov. 12 ceremony.]]>