CITY GOVERNMENT » Cooper Park, 1101 Spring
St. » Hickory Park, 466 S.
Hickory St. » Clysta Willett Park,
1634 Rossi Road » Keller Park, 1832 Rossi
Road » Dr. Ray Stahl Soccer
Complex, 4667 AR Hwy. 5 S. » McCabe Park, U.S.
Highway 62/412 W. Park facilities include a
youth center, pavilions, play- grounds, swimming pool, five softball and six baseball fields, five tennis courts, seven soccer fields, three basketball areas, horseshoes, a pioneer settlement, walk- ing trails and sand volleyball courts. Billy D. Austin is director of the Parks and Recreation
Department. » Office: 1101 Spring St. » 424-9311 » Website:
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L.C. Sammons Youth Center
The L.C. Sammons Youth
Center offers recreational programs for youth 8-14 and has community partnerships with additional user groups. The youth center has a gym with four basketball goals, a climbing wall, a skating ramp area, an inflatable slide and jumper, ping pong, a billiards room with foosball, bumper pool and standard pool tables, a video game room with Wii bowling/golf and other games, a computer room for homework help and a meeting room for public and private use. Birthday party packages are available during regular operating hours and on Saturdays. The youth center is a hub
of information for recreation- al programs, including youth softball, youth soccer, Babe Ruth Baseball, American Legion Baseball, youth bas- ketball, swim team and
youth tennis clinics. Some adult sports also are offered through the youth center. Annual events at the
youth center include a Valen- tine’s Day dance, parents’ night out, Kidz In Motion, Small World play day, spring carnival, Movies in the Park, tennis clinic and fun day, History Day fall festival, family fun night, Trunk or Treat, and Friends of the Park appreciation celebra- tion and open house.
Youth center membership
is $40 for youth, $40 for adults and $90 for families. During the school year, hours are 3-6 p.m. Monday-Friday and 11 a.m. until 6 p.m. Sat- urday. Summer hours are 8 a.m-5 p.m. The center does allow a 7:30 drop off time. The youth center is managed
by Kelly Lewis. » 424-7275 » Website:
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BIG FLAT CITY OFFICIALS
BIG FLAT — Home to a population of 103 residents, Big Flat is a community at the southern tip of Baxter County Big Flat is reached from
the north by AR Highway 341. The Push Mountain Road section of the highway winds for 45 miles along scenic mountainsides before reach- ing this city. It was paved in 1995.
In the spring of 2012, the
city’s fire department re- ceived extrication equipment it had been able to purchase with a state grant. It was used
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very soon answering an emergency, a motor vehicle accident, a city official said. The equipment also in known as the “jaws of life.” Every year, the communi- ty has a homecoming cele- bration when former resi- dents come back to visit. The homecoming is scheduled Memorial Day each year. Big Flat’s mayor is Glenda Wiseman, and the city’s re- corder/treasurer is Mike Treat. Wiseman has served in the position since 2014. The city has no sales tax;
purchases made there have a county and state sales tax to- taling 8.5 percent. The city offers water and trash ser- vices. To connect to the water system, a $75 deposit is re- quired. Big Flat has two fire stations and a Class 9 rating from the Insurance Services Office.
Big Flat’s roots go back to
the late 1860’s when Lewis Wallis opened the communi- ty’s first store in a small log building. Dr. W. B. Lack, a practicing physician, estab- lished the next store in the
mid-1870s and later sold it to Theo Ober, who had moved from Springfield, Mo. In about 1878, John T. Baker built a new, well-stocked store in Big Flat. Later he was appointed Big Flat’s first postmaster. The city was in- corporated in 1939.
The Big Flat City Council meets at 6:30 p.m. the second Thursday of every month in City Hall, which is located at 9727 AR Highway 14 East. Meetings are open to the public. Call 448-5954 for more information.
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