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| | Hope project dubbed Mike and Janet Huckabee Lake
Saturday, Aug 28, 2004 By Joe Mosby Arkansas News Correspondent JONESBORO - The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission has a fondness for that Huckabee name. The agency has named a new lake being built at Hope as Mike and Janet Huckabee Lake, after the governor and first lady. The project is a joint one with the city of Hope, and the small lake will be for recreational purposes. The AGFC in 2001 named its first nature center the Gov. Mike Huckabee Delta Rivers Nature Center. It is at Pine Bluff. And a month ago, the agency named its third nature center, yet to be built at Fort Smith, the Janet Huckabee Arkansas River Valley Nature Center. A second nature center was formally opened this week at Jonesboro, and it is named Forrest L. Wood Crowley's Ridge Nature Center. Wood is a Flippin resident, an internationally known figure in boat building and bass fishing and is also the current chairman of the Game and Fish Commission. Wood and all of the seven commission members are appointees of Huckabee. At the Thursday commission meeting in which the Hope lake was named, commission member Sheffield Nelson of Little Rock said, "Mike and Janet Huckabee did so much to help the passage of Amendment 75 (the 1/8th of 1 percent conservation sales tax). Their Arkansas River trip got the campaign much publicity." The Huckabees traveled the length of the Arkansas River in the state, Fort Smith to the Mississippi River, in October 1996 with the governor fishing for bass and the first lady riding a jet ski. |
