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🌱 UAM students take their investment lessons beyond the classroom

Monticello, Arkansas Patch AM: a 4 min read

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In today's newsletter:

  • UAM students take their investment lessons beyond the classroom
  • UAM's next opponent gets a lift from Turner's career night
  • Monticello native finds a way to keep singing after tracheostomy

Also on today's calendar: Children's StoryTime and 1 more event.

Today's riddle: What are the two sides of a circle? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Wednesday: Some sun with a shower; warm, with a high of 77 and low of 49 degrees.
  • Thursday: Mostly sunny, temps: high: 69, low: 41.
  • Friday: Plenty of sunshine, with a high of 59 and low of 33 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• UAM students attend international SMIF Conference in Chicago (advancemonticellonian.com) — Ten UAM Investment Club students took their classroom learning to Chicago, meeting investment professionals and exploring careers at an international student investment conference. The experience also supported UAM's growing student-managed investment fund, which now operates through a special topics course where students research companies and make investments using donated money.
   

• Turner's career-high 23 points powers WSC past UNK 75-62 (norfolkneradio.com) — UAM's Saturday opponent, Wayne State, is coming off a 75-62 win over Nebraska-Kearney led by Eldon Turner's career-high 23 points. Turner scored 10 straight points late in the first half to turn the game around. The Wildcats face UAM at 1 p.m. in Little Rock's NSIC/GAC Challenge.
   

• Arkadelphia song minister refuses to stay silent after tracheostomy - (arkadelphian.com) — Monticello native Marque Black is still leading congregations in song after severe COVID-19 and a permanent tracheostomy changed his voice. Following rehabilitation and a return to ministry in Benton, the longtime professional singer became music minister at Arkadelphia's Faith Missionary Baptist Church in January 2026.
   

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What are the two sides of a circle?" — The inside and the outside ! (Thank you James M. for sending it in!)
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