We're blessed in Northwest Arkansas with a good economy and a growing population.

It does help. But when Lee Memorial must pay $11 million a year to the trauma center, $1 million is only a small help.

My husband and I were anxious to return home to raise our young daughter.

Pat Locke is very community minded and she knew that this would be a great place for it [the money] to go.

We're a microcosm of everything that''s happening everywhere else, ... We're actually winning awards for what we're doing. We're dealing with it. We're keeping our heads a little bit above the water in spite of it all.

We could fundraiser from there and get something started.

They could serve slop. They saved my son's life.

The passion for children is in her heart.

This is a celebration, a culmination activity.