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Springfield Livestock Marketing Center

Owners:  Below, left to right, Joe Gammon, Tonto Kissee, Kelly Crain, Tom Kissee, Ed Ford, Jack Frost. Not pictured:  Jack Creed, Pete Sumners, Charlie Chappell.

I just got back from a trip to Ghana, Africa. It was a service trip of sorts, I worked at two schools, one in Accra, Ghana’s capital city, and the other in Kumasi. Ghana is the better of most African countries, it is safe, with a stable government allowing its citizens to make their way selling fruits and vegetables, eggs and fish, or an assortment of imported prepackaged items of all shapes, sizes and colors. Agriculture is a vital part of the economy of Ghana, and I witnessed this on the large scale – in the marketplaces and roadside vendors aplenty – as well as in one beautiful, yet small, example of self-sustainability.

And so time passes with the speed of light. Our so-recent “New Year” has passed the half-way mark and is headed for the end of the year with, if not the speed of light, a speed that each day finds us incapable of keeping up with the changes we will see tomorrow.

I don’t know whether the entire country has become agriculturally illiterate or just the people in Hollywood and on Madison Avenue, but I’ve about had enough.

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Newt Mitchum’s love for riding horses started when he was only three years old. Since then, his passion has grown into the Arkansas 7 Express, a non-profit riding club that teaches Fort Smith, Ark., area youth the joys of horsemanship.