Ever stop to give thanks to the hardy souls who prevented the Alltel muckety-mucks from converting beautiful Rebsamen Park Road into a speedway by destroying the wetlands and creeks between Murray Lock and Dam and River Mountain Road to the west?

The muckety-mucks took their money and ran; the “Alltel campus” in Riverdale looks vacant; but Jimerson Creek and the bike/walking trail and The Big Dam Bridge still serve thousands of Arkansas citizens every week.

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