JACKSONVILLE Ark. (KTHV) - Every now and then, we find ourselves stuck in a rut. One man in the city of Jacksonville has made it his duty to inspire just about everyone he encounters. It's one of many reasons he was nominated for My Town Hero.

When James Bolden is on the move, he's bound to light someone on fire with enthusiasm.

"He makes people feel motivated by his demeanor, his behavior, personality everything about him," said Jill Ross, Jacksonville human resource director. Internationally, he's known as The Motivator, but Ross also knows him as a city alderman. When employee morale was down, she knew exactly who to turn to. "He spent 15 hours of his own time training 300 city employees.”

She said Alderman Bolden spent an hour teaching them how to handle stress and stay motivated during tough economic times.

CONWAY, Ark. (KTHV) - A bird knocked out power to nearly 7,000 Conway Corporation customers on Tuesday.

Conway Corporation officials told THV that a bird was responsible for taking out two transformers at the city's west substation.

Officials say half of those customers power is back on, but 3,500 are still without. They expect power to be back up and running for everyone within the next 2 hours.

Bethlehem House resident Shay Brown recently received the Character Achievement award from the Faulkner County Drug Court. The award was presented by Judge Charles E. Clawson, Jr, who oversees the court.  “This is an award given quarterly to drug court participants that show good character qualities both in and out of the program,” said Drug Court Counselor Katy Stark  “The award is given in honor of a past drug court participant that died from leukemia while he was in our program.  He exhibited a positive attitude, even while going through the stress of working a recovery program and going through his illness and diagnosis, so after his passing, we wanted to come up with an award in memory of him.”