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Wal-Mart teams with NWH on King, Black History month project

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    Visitors this month to the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Mountain Home will get to see to large special graffiti walls created by students at Nelson-Wilks-Herron Elementary in Mountain Home recognizing Martin Luther King Jr. and his legacy as part of Black History month.
    Wal-Mart Store Manager Paula Burns presented the winning classes of Mrs. Suzannne Mell and Mrs. Janna Brewer's selected in a special competition with individual certificates along with special board games. Burns also presented school Gifted and Talented Program teacher Cristy Neighbors with a $500 grant for her classroom. Neighbors taught a lesson on Dr. King to every class at Nelson-Wilks-Herron and as a culminating activity the students created a graffiti wall on which they drew and wrote ways Dr. King inspired them, or a favorite quote.
    To help prepare for the lesson, several members of the Wal-Mart management team volunteered in the effort including measuring and cutting paper to be flued on the graffiti walls for 29 classrooms. The local Wal-Mart manager said several store and salary management associates participated in the event and that the large winning entries will be displayed all this month at the local store.