ES Independent Vol. 1 No. 34

Carroll County man arrested for 1983 Murder

Inside the ESI

Homeless 2 CCSO 3 Parks 4 Quorum Court 5 Thrift Store 6 Hospital 7 Independent Mail 10 Constables on Patrol 12 The Nature of Eureka 15 Astrology 18 Crossword 19 Independent Soul 22 Classifieds 26

This Week’s

INDEPENDENT Thinker

Michael Warren, a trained infantry soldier, told the Independent he was “foolish to buy an AK-47 and crazy to keep it,” but he bought it in fear following Sept. 11, 2001. After the Newtown shootings he had a change of heart. “If I simply gave it away someone else would own it and who knows what they would do with it?”

So Warren, now a Colorado defense attorney, donated his rifle to Guns-to-Garden Tools where it was forged and reshaped into a trowel, cultivator and weed puller. “…and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.” I saiah 2:4

Fascinated – Five-month-old River Harron reaches for a camera lens while being held by her mother, Thea Harron, at Eureka Springs Carnegie Public Library Feb. 20. River was attending a Song and Story Hour along with brother, Gideon, and father, Trevor Harron. Library Director Loretta Crenshaw leads Song and Story for preschoolers each Wednesday from 10 a.m. – 11 p.m.

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Harrie Farrow Steven Andrew Watts, 56, of Osage in south Carroll County, was arrested Monday for first degree murder in a Lee County, Illinois, case dating back to 1983. Although a press release from the Lee County Sheriff’s office states the arrest was made by Lee County detectives, Carroll County Sheriff Bob Grudek assured the Independent that his department made the arrest as the Lee County Sheriff has no jurisdiction here, but added that the out of state detectives did assist in the arrest.

Grudek also confirmed that Watts was arrested at his home near Dry Fork/ Osage, and that Watts did not live in Berryville which the Lee County press release erroneously stated. Grudek said he did not know how long Watts had lived in the area and there were no records of any incidents involving Watts in Carroll County. The arrest, Grudek said, went smoothly.

Watts’ arrest is in connection with the death of then 30 year-old Gary D. Dawson. Watts waived extradition and was being transported by Lee County personnel to Illinois to be held in the Lee County jail on a $5,000,000 bond.

Dawson’s body was found in rural Franklin Grove on August 28, 1983.

Death was determined to be by blunt force trauma to the head.

Calls to Lee County Sheriff John Varga for more information were not returned, however, Suak Valley Newspapers of northern Illinois report that according to their archives, Dawson was a self-employed mechanic whose family reported him missing the day before his

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INDEPENDENTNews Students have homework but no home

N icky B oyette In the Eureka Springs school district, 46 students are classified as “homeless” according to Rachal Hyatt, designated homeless coordinator for the district. This would mean a teacher with 25 students in a class should expect at least two of them to lack a fixed, regular nighttime residence.

Hyatt said there are six different criteria for classifying a student as homeless, and federal money is available to help the district “provide a safe education. It levels the playing field.”

The Arkansas Department of Education states, “Homeless students may not be separated from the mainstream school environment.” What ADE depends on is the McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Act, a federal law originally passed in 1987 that

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“ensures immediate enrollment and educational stability for homeless children and youth.”

Pam McGarrah, treasurer for the district, said the district received $3179 in federal money this year, or $69 per student flagged as homeless.

She said it might not sound like much, but they make it go as far as they can.

Hyatt takes homeless elementary students to eye appointments and dentist visits if the parents are not available. She said the district buys backpacks, shoes, clothes and necessary extras for kids. These students also qualify for a free lunch, and they are sent home with food for the weekends.

Statistics vary a bit on how many people live below the poverty line December’s Rotary Student of the Month – Junior student

Kellie Crawford is the daughter of Daniel and Shelley Crawford. She has received awards for honor roll and perfect attendance as well as the Best Friend Award and student showing the most improvement. Kellie is secretary for Skills USA and loves reading, running and building/ construction and masonry. She was a cheerleader during 20102011 and was in cross-country during 2009-2010. She is looking forward to graduating in 2014 and plans to earn a bachelor’s degree in criminal science.

in Carroll County, but about one of every six adults in the county lives in poverty. For children the numbers are even higher. Across the entire state, 28 percent of children live below the poverty line – more than one of every four kids.

Hyatt said every grade level is affected, but they know who needs help. Some kids live at a relative’s home for awhile until a parent finds work. She said the situation is worse in the winter because of layoffs, and families “double-up.”

Hyatt said some hotels have been willing to offer especially low rates for indigent families, and “probably twenty students go home to a hotel.”

Anyone interested in helping can contact Rachal Hyatt at the elementary school at (479) 253-8704.

INDEPENDENTNews Police chiefs, sheriff’s office ironing out detention dispute H arrie F arrow Berryville and Green Forest Police Chiefs have taken issue with the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office over incidents where arresting offers were met with rejection policies at the county detention center, overseen by CCSO. The incidents, which included arrestees with complications such as intoxication and medication needs, involved jailers refusing to book the detainee until the arresting officer got a medical release.

Eureka Springs Chief of Police Earl Hyatt said that because Eureka Springs has its own holding facility, which most arrestees “bond straight out from,” ESPD rarely has to transport anyone to the county jail, and have not had any detention rejection issues with the county in recent times.

It’s his understanding, he said, from conversations with the Berryville and Green Forest Chiefs of Police that they were mainly questioning the Sheriff’s department going “overboard” with detention rejection.

Green Forest Chief of Police John Bailey told the Independent that problems go back a couple of years. He said although there haven’t been any new incidents in recent weeks, several past incidents have already been turned over to Carroll County Prosecutor Tony Rogers. Bailey, citing state law, said he just wants the jail to take in those lawfully arrested.

Arkansas State Code 12-41-503

of 2010 says county jails cannot, “refuse to accept any prisoner lawfully arrested or committed within the jurisdiction” – the only exception being for overcrowding. Bailey said he believes the policy of not booking anyone in need of immediate medical attention is good, but said emphasis needs to be on the word “immediate.”

Bailey maintains that the Green Forest Police Department has never taken someone who is in need of immediate medical attention to the county jail.

Police Chief David Muniz of Berryville did not return calls.

Archie Rousey, the Carroll County Detention Center Administrator, said when there is a conflict, federal law always trumps state law. He also said he believes the issue is mostly resolved and that he and the Chiefs of Police are now on the same page.

“The most important thing is people’s health and wellbeing,” Rousey said. “The sheriff’s office can’t ignore a medical complication because we are not medically trained.” He said the jail has one part-time nurse who comes in three days a week.

He further explained that he and his staff are “going by our legal representative’s advice to avoid future lawsuits.” He said attorney Michael Rainwater had told him about a case In Polk County a few years back in which the jail had been sued after a man incarcerated had complained about chest pains and died soon after.

Asked for more details, he said that he was waiting for Rainwater to get back to him on that. The Independent was unable to find any reference to such a case, although there is record of a 1995 wrongful death suit of 28 year-old diabetic, Marvin Johnson, involving withholding of insulin in the Pulaski County jail. Rainwater did not return calls to the Independent.

Rousey, when asked if he thought it was possible his staff had taken the detention rejection policy too far on occasion, said, “When push comes to shove, let medically trained personnel make that decision.”

Section 1983 of the Federal Civil Rights Act enacted in 1871 entitled citizens to be able to sue if their constitutional rights have been violated by someone acting under state authority. Federal cases relating to the issue of medical care of arrestees date back at least to the 1961 case of Hughes v. Noble where Lewis Hughes was arrested by an Alabama Sheriff’s department after a car accident and was denied medical assessment or treatment before and immediately after incarceration. The court ruled that authorities acted with “deliberate indifference” and that Hughes was denied “reasonable requests” for health care obviously needed which resulted in “undue suffering.”

In Estelle v. Gamble, 1976, it was ruled that deliberate indifference is cruel and unusual when prison con-

duct is incompatible with the “evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society.”

Helling v. McKinney, 1993, took matters a step further in ruling that prisoners have a right to be protected from unreasonable risks of seriCCSO continued on page 25

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INDEPENDENTNews Parks considers vacations, ponders orb N icky B oyette A rare event occurred for the Eureka Springs Parks and Recreation Commission – there were no vacancies on the commission for the first time since any of them could remember. Ferguson Stewart attended his first meeting as a newly confirmed commissioner, and even with commissioner Draxie Rogers absent, there were six commissioners at the table.

Director Bruce Levine told commissioners he had presented their previous work on green zone vacation procedures to the Planning Commission, and came away with the impression it should be up to Parks how it crafts procedures. The primary concern would be to make certain all residents potentially affected by a vacation are properly notified and have a chance to speak their minds.

Commissioner Ruth Hager said their proposed procedures, which include notifying everyone on the length of a street plus anyone else affected, seem appropriate, as does the provision of not notifying even closer neighbors not at all affected by the vacation.

Levine said in Eureka Springs there might always be awkward situations, and commissioner Rachel Brix agreed the commission would have to look at each application on a case-bycase basis. She said she did not want to be vague, but property boundary situations in town vary greatly.

Commissioner Daniel Jackson said they should do their best, be reasonable and go from there.

Brix brought up the question of when in the process an applicant identifies who should be notified and how to address appropriate utility companies. Chair Bill Featherstone said the burden of notifications is on the applicants, but he agreed Parks should continue to work toward a clearer procedure.

Levine said he would incorporate new suggestions into their proposed procedures and bring the document back to the next meeting.

Is that a glowing orb I see in the park?

Featherstone told the commission that photographer and conceptual artist Jeremy Mason McGraw wants Parks to remove the fountain hardware from Basin Park during the month of May so he can install a large orb in that spot.

Commissioner Myrna Thaxton was concerned the fountain works might fall apart during the move.

“I’m not exactly thrilled about moving it,” Levine said.

“Is he going to pay for our manpower? How hard will it be to move the fountain?” Thaxton wondered.

“And why not put the orb PARKS continued on page 24

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A little help from our friends:

(Please email your ongoing community service announcements to newsdesk@ eurekaspringsindependent.com) • Food pantry, furniture bank and used book store – Wildflower Chapel Food Pantry is open from 10:30 – Noon on Fridays. The Thrift Store and Used Furniture Bank is open Monday – Friday from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Call (479) 363-6408 for more information.

For service times and other chapel information, phone 253-5108.

• Coffee Break Al-Anon Family Group Women meets Tuesdays at 9:45 a.m. at Faith Christian Family Church, Hwy. 23S. For more info, phone (479) 3639495.

• St. James’ Episcopal Church offers free Sunday community suppers until the end of March from 5 – 6:30 p.m. at the church, 28 Prospect Ave. (479) 2538610.

• “Beginning To Heal Together,” a bereavement support group for parents/grandparents who have lost a child, is held on the first Saturday of every month at the St. Elizabeth Parish Center, Passion Play Road , 12:15 – 1:45 p.m. Please join us. For info contact Linda Maiella (479) 2531229.

Meetings at Coffee Pot Club behind Land O’ Nod, U.S. 62 and Hwy. 23S • Alateen group – Sundays from 10:15 – 11:15 a.m. For more information, email alateen1st@gmx.com or phone (479) 981-9977.

• Overeaters Anonymous – Thursdays at 10:30 a.m. For more information, call Barbara at (479) 244-0070.

• Narcotics Anonymous – Fridays at 5:50 p.m. Phone (417) 271-1084 or (479) 244-6863 for more info.

• Al-Anon Family Group (AFG) – Sundays at 11:30 a.m., Mondays and Tuesdays at 7 p.m.

• Eureka Springs Coffee Pot AA Group Monday – Saturday 12:30 p.m., Sunday at 10 a.m.

Sunday – Thursday, and Saturday, at 5:30 p.m.

Tuesday and Friday at 8 p.m. (479) 2537956 or www.nwarkaa.org (click Eureka Springs AA)

INDEPENDENTNews Quorum court cautious about committees

Nicky Boyette Justice of the Peace Ron Flake tried again to set up a committee structure for the Carroll County Quorum Court at the Feb. 15 meeting. He presented an ordinance that established six standing committees and placed every JP on each committee. “I see the committees as discussion groups,” Flake said. He wanted JPs to be able to attend any committee meeting and return to court meetings informed about the issues.

“The Water Committee operated that way last year.

Four of us took on tasks but we had no chair, no set structure,” he commented. He advocated informal discussions. He said he and JP Lamont Richie were not on the budget committee, but they attended a couple of the meetings. However they did not have packets prepared for them like the members and they were not notified if a meeting time had changed. They also had no voice in decisions.

JP Larry Swofford then said, “You’re talking about the whole court being on the budget committee. We liked having a budget committee.”

Flake clarified he intended only those interested in a topic would attend the committee meetings.

JP Dan Mumaugh said he supported Flake’s efforts to establish standing committees. However, he said, “I prefer a more structured approach. Someone should be responsible for certain duties, like calling the meeting.” He offered alternative draft ordinances establishing a more structured approach to committees.

“We’ve always had committees appointed when we’ve needed them,” Swofford said. He said the libraries would

Keisha Pittman brings Quorum Court up to date on Relay for Life.

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come to the court if they need help. As for roads, if the county judge is going to take the heat on which roads get worked on, then it ought to be the judge’s call, not a committee.

“I’m trying to help the judge, not undercut him” Flake replied.

When asked his opinion, Judge Sam Barr stated, “I thought things were working pretty well.”

JP John Reeve saw that a standing committee could help with research on policy decisions, and JP Jack Deaton agreed there will be times when the court needs a committee.

However, he said “when you have everyone running in and out, you won’t get the work done. You need a set number on the committee.”

Swofford continued that with five set members on a committee, you call a meeting when those five can attend.

Otherwise he envisioned consecutive meetings with QUORUM COURT continued on page 24

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The Eureka Springs High School Athletic Booster Club would like to thank the following businesses for their support during the 2A-4 West Junior High District Basketball Tournament • Rockin’ Pig Saloon • Hart’s Family Center • Community First Bank • Sunfest Market • Myrtie Mae’s Restaurant • Cornerstone Bank • Bunch’s Quik Chek • Squid & Whale Pub • Kinkys & Straights • Arvest Bank • Tom & Dianna Mancuso • Plus all the parents & fans that volunteered their time!

INDEPENDENTNews GSHS out of the ashes and into new building – with one hitch

Tracellen Kelly, general manager of the Good Shepherd Humane Society thrift stores, announced GSHS has bought a new building to replace the one burned to the ground in a Dec. 29 fire.

The new site will be in the former Eureka Pawn Shop at 207 Eureka Street in Berryville. The building is across US 62 from Price-Cutter.

Kelly said they recently had a building inspection and must have three handicapped-ready bathrooms in the store when they open, so construction will be going on while they clean up the neglected facility.

“I know everyone has given so much so we can get open,” said Kelly, “but now we need $5,000 more to complete two more bathrooms before we can have our

Grand Opening on Monday, March 25, as planned.”

Donations can be made at the

Eureka Springs Doggie Shop, or for more information, call Kelly at (479) 981-2886.

Whole lotta sortin’ going on – Vera Nanna sorts clothes at the Doggie Store Thrift Shop in Eureka Springs Tuesday, Feb. 20. More volunteers are needed for shifts at the store in Eureka Springs, and can choose days and four-hour shift times. A grand opening for the new thrift store in Berryville is tentatively scheduled for March 25.

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Premeau named conference player of the year N icky B oyette Josh Premeau shouldered the task of being the inside go-to guy for the Eureka Springs Highlanders, and he was rewarded by being named conference Player of the Year. He was also tabbed as an All-State selection.

Dalton Johnson also earned the

distinction of sinking ten three-points shots in one game, only the third time ever in Arkansas, and for hitting an impressive 111 shots from beyond the arc, also in the top five for Arkansas hoopsters.

The Highlanders finished third in conference 2A-4 this year.

Calling all Carnegie Characters!

The Carnegie Public Library will be one of this year’s Victorian Classic beneficiaries, and the library is forming a Carnegie Characters team! Please join them dressed as your favorite book character (Lisbeth Salander? Severous Snape? Pippi Longstocking?) on March 9 at 9 a.m. for the 2-Mile Fun Walk.

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walkers, if received by March 8; and $25 ($20 for 18 and under) for race day entries. To register, contact Mickey at (479) 244-6465, email victorianclassic@gmail. com or go to www.eurekarotary.org for registration forms. Contact the Library at 253-8754 or email info@ eurekalibrary.org if you need an idea, and to let them know you will be participating.

INDEPENDENTSports Commissioners press for new hospital N icky B oyette On Monday afternoon, the Eureka Springs Hospital Commission focused on what to do next because they feel an urgency to build a new hospital in Eureka Springs soon.

Commissioner Pam Crockett said, “Our facility must be replaced within the contract period with Allegiance, but it doesn’t matter who’s running it.” Allegiance, based in Shreveport, La., is the for-profit company that leases the management of the hospital.

Attending the meeting were architects Charlie and Laura Morrison, and they estimated the commission should expect a completion date for a new hospital no sooner than three years after the planning and drawings begin, and that would almost coincide with the date for the next Allegiance contract renewal.

Commissioners discussed a range of issues, but the one that would not go away is what happens with the Medi-Care provider number of the hospital when the contract expires. Does it revert to Eureka Springs Hospital or does it stay with Allegiance? Or what happens when a new hospital is built? A consultant had told them who-

ever owns the number owns the hospital. Commissioners want to know from their attorney the status of the provider number.

Crockett observed they want to renegotiate with Allegiance because, as far as she has heard, Allegiance has received high marks for how they run the hospital. She also wanted Allegiance to understand their sense of urgency. Commissioner Jack Pritchard stated firmly the commission should set up a meeting soon and get all the right people there.

After an hour or so of resolute forays into the daunting sphere of hospital building, commissioners decided the first thing they needed was for their attorney to find the answer to the question about the provider number. Then they can begin talks with Allegiance to explore if Allegiance can be a partner in building the new facility. There is no need to identify a new site until then.

Chair Michael Merry welcomed new commissioner Mary Jean Sell.

Next meeting will be Monday, March 18, at 1 p.m. at ECHO Clinic.

Valentine’s Day raffle raises $1200 for Natasha Engleman’s medical expenses

A Valentine’s Day raffle to offset medical expenses for Natasha Engleman, daughter of Eureka Springs resident Tamara Jonason, raised $1,200. Lucky raffle winners included Nancey Evans of Missouri, who won the grand prize valued at $508 and Inger Svendsen of Eureka Springs winning second prize valued at $432.

Natasha experienced a medical injury in early 2011, leaving her without the use of her leg and eventually made her wheelchair bound. After her first surgery late last year, Natasha is still bedridden and may require additional surgery.

Additional donations can be made at Community First Bank to the Natasha Engleman medical account. For more information, contact Tamara Jonason at (870) 3502659.

Local residents including Dave Spencer, Jerry Landrum, Sandy Pope and Becky Gillette demonstrated Sunday on Planer Hill in solidarity with 350.org, Sierra Club and the Hip Hop Caucus Forward on Climate Rally in Washington D.C. that was attended by 50,000 people – making it the largest climate action rally in the nation’s history.

Citizens urged President Obama to reject the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Tar sands create three times more greenhouse gas pollution than conventional oil, and the pipeline could contaminate critical groundwater supplies.

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INDEPENDENTNews New parks and trails brochure: perfect hiking companion The Eureka Springs Parks and Recreation Commission, in conjunction with the Eureka Springs City Advertising and Promotion Commission, has recently released the new Parks, Springs and Trails Brochure.

The new fold-out color brochure incorporates maps of the 25 miles of trails, both hiking and mountain biking, at Lake Leatherwood’s 1600-acre City Park as well as a map of Black Bass Lake with its historic dam and three miles of hiking and biking trails.

Also included is a helpful trail map of the Eureka Springs Historic District, pinpointing locations of its many spring parks and gardens. The brochure is available at the Chamber of Commerce, trolley depots and the Parks Office at 532 Spring Street.

For more information call (479) 253-2866, e-mail esparks@arkansas.net or visit the Parks website: eurekaparks.com.

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Stopping the spread – Firefighters rake and soak the remains of a brushfire line near Carroll County Road 116 on Tuesday afternoon, Feb. 19. Emergency personnel from Inspiration Point, Grassy Knob and Eureka Springs responded to the blaze that burned several acres when embers were scattered by the winds.

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Get your green on for 20th annual St. Paddy parade Krewe of Blarney announces the 20th Annual St. Paddy Parade will roll Saturday, March 16 at 2 p.m. and follow the regular Eureka Springs parade route from the library to the courthouse.

Floats, bands, car units, walkers and everyone wearing green may participate in the parade. All are invited to join the Krewe of Blarney Halfast Klub’s annual corn beef and cabbage Irish Bash at the Rowdy Beaver following the parade.

Participate in the parade! Fill out a form to join in at www.Parade.Ureeka.

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Grant Writing: The Next Step 1. Cottage Inn 2. Angler’s Grill 3. Mei Li Cuisine 4. The Grand Taverne 5. Cafe Amoré 6. The Stonehouse 7. The Squid and Whale 8. The Roadhouse 15 9. Casa Colina 10. Caribe 11. New Delhi Cafe 12. Sparky’s

RESTAURANT QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE

The Community Writing Program grant writing workshop (a follow up to the one offered in January) will be held at The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow Tuesday, Feb. 26, from 1 – 4 p.m. This workshop will focus on taking an idea through designing the program and converting it to an actual project.

The workshop will be given by Mike McIntyre, who has worked as a consultant, VP of operations and director of a number of organizations in various parts of the world – including World Vision International, United Methodist Committee on Relief and Save the Children.

Attendees will need to complete an assignment, which should take about an hour, before attending the workshop. They should also have an outline of an idea for a project they need funding for, including a list of essential ingredients; and should have done some prospecting for funding sources.

Class is limited to 12, preregistration only. Cost is $35. To preregister or obtain more information call The Writers’ Colony (479) 2537444 or email director@writerscolony. org. Once registration is completed, the assignment will be forwarded via email.

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Solutions? Yes. Progress? Paltry.

Editor, In his State of the Union address the President said, “For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change,” and “If Congress won’t act soon to protect future generations, I will,” meaning more EPA regulation.

Obama is right about the necessity for immediate action.

2012 was the hottest year ever, fueling weather disasters across the nation. The recent National Climate Assessment provides over a thousand pages of peer reviewed confirmation that yes, the Earth is warming rapidly with effects all around us now; that it’s mostly caused by burning fossil fuels; that it’s bad for people; that scientists are in agreement and solutions exist but progress has been inadequate so far.

Republicans who wish to avoid

more regulation should embrace the free market approach of a revenue-neutral fee on carbon with 100 percent rebate back to legal residents.

What would such a carbon feebate program look like?

1. Start with a fee on coal, oil and gas of $15 per ton on CO2 that each fuel will emit when burned. The result at the gas pump would be an additional 13 cents per gallon.

2. Increase the fee by $10 a ton each year.

3. Collect the fee at the fuel’s first point of sale – the mine, wellhead or port of entry.

4. Take all the fees and divide them up equally among legal residents and return them as monthly dividends using direct deposit or check.

5. To protect American businesses from unfair foreign competition, apply border tariffs on goods coming in from countries that do not have comparable carbon pricing.

This gives everybody both

incentive and the means to use fuels smarter. No increased regulation, no big bank shenanigans, no government subsidies. Simple, effective, conservative, and market-based. Weatherization and renewable energy jobs are local jobs that can’t be outsourced.

The revenue neutral carbon feebate is the best approach for fixing the climate. Both Republicans and Democrats should support it.

Ask Rep. Steve Womack, Sen. John Boozman and Sen. Mark Pryor what will it be: Obama’s big government regulation or a family-friendly, market-based, revenue-neutral carbon feebate solution?

Jerry Landrum

How smart are those meters?

Editor, So, now we know who’s paying for the new guard towers at Carroll

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Let the gun shine in

couple of weeks ago a man who claimed he was fired for exposing brutality and corruption in the Los Angeles Police Department took his hurt to the streets.

After he was fired, those he accused were promoted. He apparently started shooting people who were loved by those who harmed him. He gave absolute meaning to Don’t Get Mad, Get Even.

A force of at least 200 heavily armed police officers, through extensive trial and error including shooting two innocent newspaper carriers, decided they would hunt this man down and make sure his gripes were forgotten by the public.

The media jumped all over it, claiming the man was a cold-blooded, crazy killer who couldn’t hold a wife or a job. But if you read what the man wrote and published, all you can see is that he had been hurt, deeply hurt. So he did what he had been trained to do and it turned out oh so wrong.

Now, if all of us who have been hurt started shooting people we could get a grip on the population explosion in short order. Of course we will be hurt, that’s one of the great paradoxes of life on Earth. But this man’s, and other recent shooters’ hurt, is so deep we choose to just kill them rather than listen to them. It’s understandable – we kill wasps because we can’t reason with them and don’t want to be stung.

But it also means, once again, that we deal with the symptom rather than the cause. Wasps don’t live just to sting us, do they?

Reporting this story was never about whether or not LAPD was right.

It wasn’t about whether Christopher Dorner was right. It was about how we convey information to one another and how we stop looking at and listening to people and attempting to understand what they mean. It was about news reporters amplifying that we were in imminent danger because the man was crazed. So we spent a week chasing him, burned him up and said, “Good

job! Who’s next?”

For example, guns in church?

We’re still waiting for a good reason why. Back in more civilized times, it was a matter of course for people entering a church – or any place of peace for that matter – to leave weapons outside. Even the warring Osage and Cherokee who shared the magic waters of Basin Spring before whites muddied them left weapons behind before entering what they considered sacred space. Peace was declared as long as they camped together right here in our town. Why is it we are so hell bent to desecrate every last sacred space on earth by bringing in weapons of violence?

This bill actually passed the Arkansas State Legislature. We are in the throes of idiocy.

So why not shake things up? If we had real fortitude we’d return to knives, slingshots and hand-to-hand combat to settle our differences. It’s so much more personal. And while we’re at it, why not go ahead and issue every non-aborted baby a gun at birth? That would level that pesky, sloping playing field.

Instead, we are on the verge of allowing drones to take pictures of us in the garden, in church, at a football game. Then someone far away can say, “These people are wrong!” followed by hand wringing and brow mopping accompanied by, “Let’s take them!”

And there we’ll be, on the business end of a weapon we can’t hear and never saw.

There might always be those among us who feel the only solution to their gripe is to kill. Is fear reason enough to out-gun someone only to say, “Oops.

Sorry.” Ask the Afghani children who were trying to stay awake in math class but were suddenly reduced to parts that fit into a Glad bag.

It makes us wonder what Mahatma Gandhi would have said when he realized he just got assassinated by a weekly newspaper editor. Who ever would have anticipated that?

ThePursuitOfHAPPINESS

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by Dan Krotz

ublic intellectuals and politicians who argue that their personal beliefs and values should be common across all religions are really arguing against the separation of church and state and for a state religion – unless they are arguing for no religion at all. They might sensibly argue that the Mormon stance against alcohol makes for a very dull New Year’s Eve, or more sensibly argue that no alcohol is good public health policy, but they should never expect Mormons to booze it up, or to require all church goers to put a cork in the jug, simply because they themselves are boozers or teetotalers.

Churches have the right to establish rules for the private and public conduct of its members and, in a free society, members have the right to accept or reject those rules on the basis of conscience. We are all free to write papers titled “Why I am not a Mormon” (or Catholic or Hindu), and perhaps should do so, but there is no sensible authority behind a paper titled “Why Mormons (or Catholics or Hindus) should think and act like I do.”

A practical illustration is that seven of ten American Catholic women of childbearing age use contraceptives. These women reject the Church’s teaching because they don’t believe it, can’t live with it, or doubt the Church’s authority to regulate that aspect of their lives. This great cloud of witnesses is free to write papers titled “Why I am no longer a Catholic” or “Why I am a Bad Catholic,” or to just blow the Church off, but the Church, notwithstanding, believes it has its own Higher Authority to answer to whether politicians, public intellectuals or the Church’s own members think otherwise. In a free society churches can and must have that right.

Conversely, there is no question that free and unlimited access to contraceptives is good public health policy. All politicians should support such a policy because it is inarguably in the public interest to do so. If they object because of personal religious belief they can draw consolation from regulating their personal behavior to conform to the rules of their church, and pray that everyone else conforms as well. Let them demonstrate their faith in prayer in lieu of passing inane laws.

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INDEPENDENTConstablesOnPatrol February 11 8:30 a.m. – Constable drove to Benton County to pick up a person arrested on an ESPD warrant for failure to appear for bad checks.

9:33 a.m. – A downtown merchant reported a breaking and entering and a theft. A detective collected information at the scene.

11:08 a.m. – One sister asked for a welfare check on the other sister, who might have the onset of Alzheimer’s.

She had not been answering her phone. Turns out the other sister was with her husband in Fayetteville.

1:50 p.m. – Resident reported someone had stolen his phone during the night. Constable on patrol responded, tracked the phone and found it lying outside the house on the ground.

3:44 p.m. – Animal Control had to issue a warning to the owner of a black Lab running loose in a neighborhood.

4:34 p.m. – Observers thought a driver was reckless in the way he pulled into a parking lot downtown.

Constable arrived to find the vehicle parked and unattended.

5:47 p.m. – There was a private property backing up accident in a parking lot.

February 12 2:26 p.m. – Constable responded to a report of a broken window at a restaurant. He notified the Realtor, who already knew about it.

4:30 p.m. – Resident lost her puppy east of downtown.

7:31 p.m. – A new employee set off the alarm at a business on U.S. 62.

February 13 4:46 p.m. – Constable responded to a business on Spring Street to pick up a lost but found dog. He brought it to the kennel.

5:28 p.m. – A large dog, possibly part wolf, ran amok in a neighborhood in the eastern of part of town. ESPD will surveil the area for a couple of days.

7:25 p.m. – Resident needed a jump-start. Vehicle was gone before a constable could help.

7:34 p.m. – One downtown merchant noticed another merchant left clothes hanging outside a shop. The owner arrived to pick up the items.

February 14 2:37 p.m. – There was a one-vehicle accident in a parking lot.

5:38 p.m. – A driver was reportedly driving erratically going from Berryville toward Eureka Springs, but the constable who observed the vehicle in town found no reason to pull it over.

9:02 p.m. – Passerby saw an injured deer near an intersection along U.S. 62 and requested it be put out of its misery. Constable responded but the animal was already gone.

11 p.m. – Alarm sang to high heaven at a business on U.S. 62, but neither the constable who responded nor the owner noticed anything amiss at the scene.

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February 15 6:05 p.m. – Employee of a restaurant told ESPD a belligerent customer at first refused to pay her bill. Upon arrival of a constable, the parties found a way to get the bill paid.

6:46 p.m. – As a result of a traffic stop, the driver was arrested for driving on a suspended license.

7:06 p.m. – Constable issued a ticket to a vehicle parked in a loading zone for more than a half hour.

7:27 p.m. – Driver reported the driver of the vehicle ahead might be impaired. Constable encountered the suspect vehicle in a parking lot and found the driver to be okay.

10:01 p.m. – Another report of a possibly impaired driver who stopped on the roadway and made a U-turn back toward town. The constable who stopped the vehicle found the driver and passengers were okay.

11:43 p.m. – Routine traffic stop resulted in the arrest of the driver for DWI, speeding and driving on a suspended license.

11:55 p.m. – Observer alerted ESPD to a suspicious vehicle in a neighborhood. Responding constable arrested the driver for DWI/drugs, driving on a suspended license, careless and imprudent driving and an ESPD warrant.

February 16 1:30 a.m. – Two males had been fighting near a bar downtown according to several calls. Constables arrived to find people scattering but no fighting. They spoke with one of the former pugilists who did not want to press charges, just a ride back to his room. Constables gave him a ride.

3:20 a.m. – Three males in a motel room were arguing loudly enough to elicit complaints. Motel employee called the room, and someone there asked her to call the cops.

Constable who responded found only two individuals still in the room, and he arranged for them to find separate quarters for the night.

7:40 a.m. – Passerby found a wallet on a downtown street.

5:09 p.m. – One of the parking meters downtown was not working.

6:08 p.m. – As a result of a traffic stop, the constable arrested an individual for possession of drug paraphernalia, driving left of center and improper display.

8:02 p.m. – Resident said she had been scammed by someone selling meat from his truck. What she received was not what she had purchased. Constables did not encounter the truck.

10:07 p.m. – An irate guest at a hotel had been cursing and yelling at other guests in the lobby. The caller needed no response at that time but was alerting ESPD in case the guest caused further ado.

February 17 2:01 p.m. – Picketers gathered in a bank parking lot, and an employee questioned whether they had permission to be there. The picketers disbanded upon the arrival of a constable.

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Email support for sidewalks by Feb. 22 The city of Eureka Springs is applying for a grant from Safe Routes to School program to build sidewalks on Hwy. 23S to better accommodate pedestrian traffic for the schools. The sidewalks will increase Eureka Springs’ walk-ability for residents and visitors, supporting the overall green effort in our city. Previous grants from the Transportation Enhancement program resulted in sidewalks from downtown to Planer Hill. The city is currently working with the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department for developing sidewalks from Planer Hill along US 62 E towards Hwy. 23S. Please review the statement of support below or create your own statement and email it to dwilkerson@cityofeurekasprings.org before the close of Friday, Feb. 22.

Statement of Support As a member of Greater Eureka Springs Chamber of Commerce, and as a citizen with business and/or community interest in Eureka Springs, I support The City of Eureka Springs to execute and submit an application for funding through Safe Routes to School program for the purpose of building sidewalks along Hwy. 23S to US 62E. Thank you for your support in this important infrastructure improvement and economic development project for the city.

Past life regression presentation Feb. 25

The Metaphysical Society of Eureka Springs meeting Monday, Feb. 25 will feature energy healer Mariellen Griffith from 7 – 9 p.m.

Griffith has more than 20 years of practice GRIFFITH utilizing numerous alternative healing modalities including: Reiki, Shakti, Color & Healing Touch, Jungian Dream Analysis, Sandplay and Past Life Regression.

Griffith’s presentation topic will be past life regression. The meeting is at 68 West Mountain Street, downstairs in the Christian Science edifice.

Front row, left to right, Morgan Pope, Annie Sheu, Brittany Yesmont, Raven Harbour.

Middle Row, left to right, Samantha Mueller, Coach Shreya Smith, Coach Daniel Moose, Coach Ben Rodda, Brenna Malone.

Back Row, left to right, Kamelle Webb, Erinn Taylor, Jessica Miller, Manon Gros, Kyla Boardman, Naomie Floyd.

Photo by DaviD Frank DemPsey

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ARTAttack

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by John Rankine

e are almost two months away from May and the start of our annual May Festival of the Arts, a festival that has the potential to...

We Interrupt This Art Column For The Following Rant: I attended part of the Feb. 12 Open Town Meeting sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce and Eureka Springs School Board to discuss what to do with the now vacant former high school. It seems this “valuable piece of real estate” has great potential to become many things – a new school of the arts, community center, a new home for our historical museum, city offices, Boys and Girls Club, trade school, senior center – pretty much anything except a high school. The list was endless, with everyone seeming to want a piece of this now very juicy pie.

Weren’t we, the taxpayers, sold on the idea of a spankin’ new, $12 million, 80,000 sq. ft. high school to house 200 students because the old one was falling down, asbestos and mold ridden, posed serious health risks to our youth and way beyond repair?

High School Confidential

Now, suddenly, asbestos is no problem and can be “contained,” mold can be cleaned up and the building structure, as it turns out, is quite solid.

Just a routine Building Evaluation Report (BER) and, voilá, the building of everyone’s dreams. Why didn’t former Superintendent Wayne Carr and his over-zealous school board

obtain a BER before launching into its huge PR campaign to sell the public on a new, bloated, costly, vanity high school?

“The current high school is killing our kids, it needs to be leveled and a new multi - million dollar facility built.

If you are not for this, you are obviously anti-child…” It was a strategy stolen

INDEPENDENTArt Playwriting workshop Feb. 23 Accomplished playwright Keith Scales will teach an all-day workshop on writing for the stage on Saturday, Feb. 23, 9 a.m. – 4p.m. on the fourth floor of the Crescent Hotel in the Faculty Lounge.

Cost for this workshop in the Community Writing Program series is $45.

Come learn what makes a good play

and discover basic, crucial concepts that must be understood by any playwright.

Differences in writing for the stage versus the page will be examined. For more information on the playwriting workshop, contact Alison Taylor-Brown at alisontaylorbrown@me.com or (479) 292-3665.

House Concert features musical storyteller Chuck Brodsky The March 3 Eureka House Concert will feature spellbinding, colorful lyrics courtesy of Chuck Brodsky’s well-traveled voice. He draws on influences from the mountains of North Carolina and from a plethora of good old traditional folk stuff of

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all kinds. He’s the only singer/songwriter ever inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame! Come out and hear why.

Potluck begins at 6 p.m., music at 7 p.m. at the white church building, 17 Elk St.

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straight out of the Support our Troops playbook. Their propaganda was omnipresent – in newspaper stories, op-eds, letters to the editor, on Facebook and around the water cooler.

How could you not support our precious kids?

It was ridiculous not investing in the old school in this recession era – to simply bring it up to code at a fraction of the price of the new. Imagine what the millions saved could have been used for, not just for kids, but the entire community.

People tell me it’s time to move forward, the new school is built, the debate in the past, but our increased property taxes are very much in the present and long into the future. The taxpayers were sold a false bill of goods – shouldn’t someone be held responsible for this scam?

We now return to our regularly scheduled column …Yes, the May Festival of the Arts will be grand!

Afro-Disiacs bring acoustic excitement The acoustic soul sensation, Afro-Disiacs, will be in Eureka Springs for three appearances courtesy of Peggy Hill at Circle Studios Records.

Will Brown and Mike Rodgers hail from Memphis and originally planned to come to Circle Studios to add their flavor to the upcoming John Two-Hawks album, Beautiful World. But, thanks to Peggy and Caribé Cantina, New Delhi and the Voulez-Vous Lounge, everyone will have a chance to experience the deep, rhythmic, acoustic soul and highenergy music of this talented duo.

Catch them on Friday, Feb. 22, 7 p.m. at Caribé Cantina; Saturday, Feb. 23, at the New Delhi Café at 6:30 p.m. and again on Sunday, Feb. 24 at the Voulez-Vous Lounge at 6 p.m.

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INDEPENDENTNews Bringing the world’s students to Arkansas C. D. W hite Ever wanted to learn firsthand about another culture but haven’t had the means to travel? Jennifer Veblen can help with that. She matches international students with volunteer host families. As part of the International Student Exchange (ISE) team, she is working with international students from around the world, placing them with local volunteer host families. She’s excited about her new position and wants to share the experience with local and surrounding communities.

“Just today I learned Eureka Springs High School has accepted our invitation to accept international students. I have begun contacting churches, civic associations and organizations to get the word out and to receive referrals. I would appreciate a call from anyone in Eureka Springs who might like to host a teen or who knows of someone who might be

interested,” Veblen said.

The students are 15 to 18 and arrive with their own spending money for school lunch, fees, entertainment and clothing – just about anything other than food and housing. They have their own insurance to cover emergencies or health needs. They speak English and are tested for English comprehension.

Basically, host families are asked to set another plate at the table and provide room for sleep and study. A room can be shared with a child of the same gender if ages are within five years. Most important is that the family makes a commitment to include their student as a member of the family. Students expect to follow the rules and guidelines of the family.

In her teens and early twenties Veblen was herself an exchange student of sorts traveling with musical and mission teams. “Every summer we gave performances in

cities across the US, Canada, Central America and Europe. Each tour also included a month long missionary project, such as building a school on a Navajo reservation in Utah or living among the Cree Indians of Northern Ontario and Quebec while running a vacation bible school for the children and doing manual labor on various building projects.

“We were housed by host families

who took us in, fed us and opened their hearts and minds to us. I am still in communication with many of them today and treasure those experiences,” Veblen said.

As a true advocate of the student exchange program, Jennifer is searching for host families for the upcoming school year. She wholeheartedly believes in the International EXCHANGE STUDENTS continued on page 27

TheNATUREofEUREKA

by Steven Foster

The first spring blooms — Liverleaf

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ast week the first wildflower of the season, or at least the first one I noticed, started blooming.

It’s a small, delicate plant growing close to the ground, often in scattered groups. One will only find it in rich woods, but it is worth seeking out to see its white to pink, violet or rarely blue flowers, even if it’s freezing outside. The plant is known as liver leaf or hepatica. Flowers appear before the leaves, but the previous year’s liver-shaped leaves, although not evergreen, turn brick red and persist through the winter. The earliest I’ve seen it bloom is on Feb. 16, until this year I saw its delicate flowers on Valentine’s Day. What do botanists call this plant? According to the rules botanists use to name plants, any species can have only one “valid” scientific name.

Unfortunately botanical taxonomy, despite the rules codified for naming plants in the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, is like law. The Code is subject to interpretation. So this lowly little member of the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae) is variously

known as Hepatica acutiloba; Hepatica nobilis var. acutiloba; Anemone acutiloba, and now the currently accepted name Anemone hepatica var. acuta. Since the common name, hepatica is the same as the once widely accepted genus name Hepatica, and since it was once used for liver conditions, I prefer to just use the old simple name Hepatica acutiloba, bucking the botanical science legal interpreters. If you want to look the plant up in an index or on the Internet, you need a list of names.

During the patent medicine craze of the late 1800s, a “liver tonic” boom resulted in the consumption of 450,000 pounds of the dried leaves (domestic and imported) in 1883 alone. However, demand lasted only one year. That use follows the ancient concept of the “doctrine of signatures” – if a plant part is shaped like an organ, like the liver-shaped leaves of hepatica, maybe it is good for liver disease.

Forgotten as an herb, remember it as the first spring wildflower.

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INDEPENDENTNews Interns bid emotional farewell to Turpentine Creek

Eric Studer Graduating Interns –

On Jan. 13, 13 students Departing TCWR interns “graduated” from their six-month Brianna Ogas, Alexa Godfrey, internship at Turpentine Creek Wildlife Kate Widrick, Jaimie Howard, Refuge with tear-filled remembrances Kelly Farrell, Bonnie Glover, Rebbecca Mitchel, Sarah of their cherished time in Eureka LaValle, Surani Beckford, Springs. The audience included refuge Jessica Rebman, Katie staff, board members, proud parents Anderson, John Chavez and a fresh crop of wide-eyed interns and Mike Redig gather for a looking to fill the graduate’s mudphoto before going home. caked work boots.

Photo by Eric Studer

Incoming students received many words of wisdom from their graduating peers. “This was the toughest and most rewarding experience of my life. I missed weddings, birthdays and reunions but I wouldn’t trade my time here for the world. This place is bigger than all of us,” said Jaimie Howard from Texas.

“You’ll feel lost at first with so many things to remember and your ‘to do’ list is never finished. However, you’ll find your fire. Build it higher and never let it go out,” added Sarah LaValle from Tennessee.

Graduates related stories about discovering a “psychic bond” with a certain animal they cared for during their internship. Diplomas depicted the intern’s favorite animal and each graduate received a framed photomontage of animals they often worked with.

“I am so proud of this group, words can’t express my appreciation for their dedication and hard work. With the Riverglen rescue of more than thirty big cats, they experienced the busiest period in the refuge’s twenty year history,” said Emily McCormack, refuge curator and intern manager. Tanya Smith, refuge president, added, “I know they will do well no matter where they go from here, the talent pool depth here is immeasurable.”

Proud parents

– Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge intern and future veterinarian, Surani Beckford, poses with proud parents who traveled from Jamaica for her graduation ceremony.

January’s Rotary Student of the Month – Mara Adams,

daughter of Stan and Avis Adams, is a junior at Eureka Springs High School. She received academic pins for all As in 10 classes and maintains a 3.9 grade point average. Mara was class secretary for 2011-2012, and is the current Prom Chairperson. She loves to dance (when no one is watching) and sing (when no one is at home) and has participated in golf and cheerleading. She has been nominated for the National Leadership Conference, and following graduation in 2014, Mara plans to attend a four-year college.

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Free lecture with Baghdad ER author Feb. 22 Todd Baker, MD, FACEP, is a board-certified emergency physician who served as chief of “Baghdad ER” from November 2007 through January 2009, earning the Bronze Star Medal and Combat Action Badge for his service. He will be speaking at the Midwest First Responder Conference at the Inn of the Ozarks Conference Center on Feb. 22.

After almost eight years on active duty, Baker separated from the US Army at the rank of Major and now serves as co-medical director of the emergency department at Skaggs Regional Medical Center in Branson, Mo. During his time in Baghdad, Baker’s team of three emergency physicians, nine nurses and sixteen medics treated thousands of critically wounded Americans, coalition forces and Iraqis.

Baker is also the author of Baghdad ER, a book chronicling the adventures of the military’s emergency room and the trauma team’s attempts to squeeze lifesaving care into a frantic 15 minutes. He will be presenting “Lessons from Baghdad ER” at the First Responder Conference on Friday, Feb. 22, at 1 p.m. and the public is welcome to this one lecture at no charge. Keep in mind this is a medical conference, so the lecture is not for the squeamish.

The cost for the entire three-day conference is only $25. See www. eurekaspringsfire.org for registration and schedule information.

FAME CAME LATE©

– Chapter 10

“Scream, Jimmy, scream”

Fame Came Late © is an unpublished historical manuscript written by Lida Wilson Pyles (1906-2000). It is the story as she was told about Eureka Springs bear hunter, John Gaskins. Pyles married into the Gaskins family in 1924.

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n the months that followed, two schoolhouses had been built on land that had been donated by John Gaskins. The work was being done by men folk in the area who were glad their children were going to have a chance at “some kind of schoolin’.”

“One was near the Gaskins home and one over on Leatherwood Creek. A young man had made application for a teaching job on West Leatherwood. He was a newly married man and had brought his new wife to Eureka Springs to see if the water would improve her health. He had no means of income and when their money had run out, thought there was nothing else to do but return to their home in Illinois. The prospect of finding a job that would allow them to remain in the Ozarks was encouraging.

“I’ve been through the eighth grade back home,” he told them.

“I like kids and I’m sure I can do a good job teaching them. I can be a lot of help to them and the whole community,” he told them.

“That ort of be education enough fer anybody,” Gaskins told him, “but the problem right now is what is it goin’ to cost us? We’re poor folks and don’t have much cash.”

“I’ve been thinking about that and I’ve got a plan,” the young Mr. Walker told him. “Could we manage it this way? Each father pay a dollar each month for each child he sends to school.

That would not make it too hard on the parents and it would give me enough money for my wife and me to live on.

I don’t mind working and would gladly work on some of the carpenter jobs that are so plentiful in Eureka Springs. All we would need would be a cabin of some kind to live in. I’m sure we could buy vegetables and meat from those of you

who have it to spare.”

“That sounds like a bargain to me,” Gaskins told him.

“Maybe some of the parents could pay fer their kids goin’ to school with stuff from their gardens. I think it would work out fine that way.”

It was agreed that the solution would be simple and the children of the area were on their way to education.

A similar solution to the problem was worked out with a man who would teach in the Clifty School. The women in the neighborhood had found a new topic to discuss at their quilting bees. There was no doubt that education had come to that part of the country.

It was Sunday morning. Susan Gaskins busied herself about the kitchen preparing the Sunday dinner for her family and anybody else who might drop in. She asked her son, Bill, to catch and kill one of the fattest hens in the yard. As he chopped the head from the fowl on the chop block in the woodpile, she brought out the steaming teakettle from the fireplace in the kitchen. She scalded the hen and proceeded to remove the feathers from the still steaming fowl.

Bill stood by and commented on her deftness as she worked. “You shore

know how that’s done, don’t you?”

“I reckon I ort to. I’ve been pluckin’ an’ dressin’ chickens fer fifty years. I’m glad that you boys and your Pa finally got the wolves cleaned out around here so I could have chickens.

It was quite a spell that the wolves beat me to ‘em, no matter how hard I tried.”

“Yes, we’ve just about got th’ wolves run out of this part of the country. We’ve thinned the bears out, too. Getting’ rid of all th’ bears has been a dream of Pa’s for as long as I can remember, but I don’t know what in tarnation he will do without ‘em. Bears have been his pastime and his livin’ too, fer as far back as I can recollect.”

“I know that, Bill. Your Pa’s getting’ older and some day he won’t be able to hunt bears anymore. I reckon that by that time, he can jest set and tell his bear huntin’ tales to his grandchildren or anybody else that will listen to ‘em.”

“He’s allus tellin’ us what’s goin’ to happen some day in the future. It wouldn’t surprise me none if the time would come when nobody would even believe his stories. There will probably come a time when there will be people that never even saw a bear and wouldn’t even believe how he has killed many a bear with only the help

of his dogs. Some people will just think he’s makin’ up them stories...”

Susan held up the featherless chicken before she spoke again, “Heaven protect anybody that ever has the nerve to call your Pa a liar.”

Nancy came into the kitchen as her mother came in with the dressed hen. “Oh Ma, I’m glad we’re havin’ chicken and dumplin’s today instead of fried chicken. I forgot to tell you that I invited a new boy I met at the dance at Hyde’s last week. He’s a nice boy. He can read and write. He’s goin’ to help me get started. I was kinda ashamed that I couldn’t but he told me that a lot of people that can’t. He said it’s nothin’ to be ashamed of. He’s goin’ to help me. He wants to be a preacher some day an’ spends most of his time readin’ the Bible. That’s what we’re goin’ to do today. He’s goin’ to read th’ Bible to me.”

“Well, thank goodness for that,” her mother said as she cut the chicken into the desired pieces for cooking in the big black pot. Little Jimmy came through the house riding the stick horse his daddy had fashioned from a hickory limb. He bucked and snorted as he whipped the improvised horse with a peach tree switch, “Whoa, you hammer-headed son-of-a-bitch,” he yelled at his steed.

Susan stopped her work.

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ESOTERICAstrology as news for week Feb. 21–Feb. 27

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Lenten Rituals In Mercury Retrograde

aturday Mercury turns stationary retrograde (20 degrees Pisces). Mercury remains retrograde till March 17. Sunday is the festival of Purim (deliverance of the Jewish people from destruction). Monday is the Pisces solar festival (full moon) and the Lantern Festival, signifying the end of Chinese New Year. By Wednesday Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars and Neptune are in Pisces – waters that purify, cleanse and prepare us for the fires of spring.

We are in Lent now, the time of purification in

ARIES: Your energy turns inward as if you’ve become a monk or nun. It’s temporary but may feel like a long time.

You may feel obscured and in-waiting, behind the scenes wrapped in veils.

Use this time to assess your religious upbringing, spiritual values and goals.

Define what needs restructuring your life and resolved. Then wait for right timing to accomplish these things. Intuition and revelations come as a flash of light.

TAURUS: Something happened or will happen with friends and groups.

There was or could be communication misunderstandings. For the next three weeks focus on your own goals, hopes, wishes and dreams. Dream and visualize the very best life for yourself. Then include your friends. Then visualize community, everyone working together.

It will be important to have a common language. That language is astrology – humanity’s “unitive field.”

GEMINI: You will assess and reassess your professional standing.

You will be seen “through a glass darkly” by some and as spectacular by others. But the important “seeing” is how you see yourself and where you see yourself in several years? It’s important to consider these things as they resolve differences within the self and others. These reflections and contemplations help define us, allow us to focus clearly and then we don’t stumble blindly about.

CANCER: Some Cancers are painting

preparation for spring (Easter, Resurrection, Aries spring festival). Lent, Dutch word “springtime,” lasts forty days and nights – the time it takes for habits to fade away and new rhythms get established. Christ needed forty days and forty nights in the desert learning how to use the physical, emotional and mental bodies (personality) of Jesus (whom he “overshadowed”).

Forty is a distinctive biblical number. Moses spent forty days with God on Mt. Sinai receiving the 10 Commandments. The flooding rains of

their homes using broad and expensive brushes. Some aren’t. Be sure when viewing life to use an expansive brush, one that doesn’t fall apart after little use.

Be sure in life to see both the big picture and the little one. It’s all about (your) vision for the next three weeks; how you perceive things. It’s best to “see” the world through the spacious lens of love.

Loving all things, all people, all the time.

It creates a new rhythm and a perceptive new adventure.

LEO: Tend to all resources, money and finances to taxes and wills, the next three weeks. Create a new financial structure to be implemented later when the retrograde is over. Do not become overextended. Shop only for what is needed. Things might seem somewhat complex and even hidden for a while. They are. Look for things forgotten, misplaced and neglected. Renew old important friendships. One in particular.

VIRGO: Careful assuming things about others, especially those close to you. Careful that you don’t misinterpret their actions. Careful that you don’t personalize events.

The next three weeks provide you with time to review an incident that has disturbed other people’s lives.

You must tend to this situation, mending it with truthfulness, coming to an understanding of your part and offering real forgiveness, which brings forth ethics and integrity.

Noah’s Ark lasted forty days. The Hebrew people wandered forty years in the Sinai desert before entering the Promised Land. Lenten preparations include fasting (food, emotions, pleasures, luxuries, meat, sweets, alcohol, etc.); prayers; almsgiving (tithing the poor). Altars are stripped of candles and flowers, crucifixes and statues are wrapped in violet, Lenten rituals and fasting have purpose. They change the rhythm of our lives (and our cells). So we can meet the cleansing new and fiery rhythms of spring.

LIBRA: Everything experienced as habit and routine will do a turnaround.

Everything expected becomes unexpected. This shake-up allows you to ponder upon what’s unfinished and something concerning you. All plans will seem to have stopped. Obstructions appear. You will need to take alternate routes.

Remember to call upon the Will-toGood each morning so that each day is filled with Right Choice.

SCORPIO: It’s good to think of lots of playfulness and creativity the next three weeks, allowing whatever comes forth to take its time to play itself out.

Nothing will be as you expect. You will begin something then suddenly it will change course. No patterns will be established. Everything will feel detoured. Just remember, when stopped somewhere, look around.

There’s something important to see.

Let confusions lead the way.

SAGITTARIUS: It’s best to use the next three weeks rethinking the foundations you’ve created in your life and the course you’ve taken. Your values are changing once again and in order to get to the heart of all matters, you must get to the heart of what you truly believe in. Small conflicts may arise, and instability may rock your little lifeboat. Don’t be frightened. Think of “Pi.” Life’s ups and downs are needed to create a newer harmony.

CAPRICORN: Ebbs and flows and

swirls of thinking and emotion will shift the steadfast fabric of your life and who you’ve been these last many years.

You seek to be reliable but you sense something changing in your life. It’s important not to be caught in a nebulous illusioned state of wanting. All actions have equal reactions, even if we can’t see them. Use your vital energy for creating something spectacular. With frills or trills at the end.

AQUARIUS: It is important to concentrate on savings, creating a financial foundation to see you into the future. Allocate ten or more percent of monies to savings. Don’t be thrifty with savings. Be thrifty with everything else – good to consider during Lent. Make everything as simple as possible so that energy in and around you moves, flows, unobstructed. It’s important to consider re-designing how you use money, what you use it for and how you value it.

Tithe.

PISCES: The time has come once again to think about who you are, defining your self-identity, considering how your image is projected into your surroundings. Should you discover anything harsh or raw or unfinished, smooth it. You will change your mind about many things while seeking consistency in your daily life. You will begin cleaning and clearing your environment in order to have a sense of spaciousness. Things grow better that way.

Risa, Founder & Director Esoteric & Astrological Studies & Research Institute – a contemporary Wisdom School for the study of the Tibetan’s teachings in the Alice A. Bailey books.

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Country Electric’s headquarters.

We are.

We’ve been told by “The Cooperative” that our latest rate hike of $9 (on average), is to cover better service such as smart meters, etc., but I just wonder if it isn’t to cover the cost of improved surveillance.

You know, when we hordes of western troublemakers descend on Berryville to disrupt the corporate meetings, Carroll Electric will have a clear shot to the “Autobahn” that passes directly beneath.

Well, at least we won’t have to travel to Harrison to watch the backs of the board members as they mumble over their next plans for better service throughout our county. As in the past, we can just pull into CCEC’s parking lot, but remember to duck and cover while leaving your vehicle.

Enid B. Swartz

Bikes or brides?

Editor, Say the word pollution and everyone in Eureka Springs will tell you they are against it, whether it be releasing raw sewage into Leatherwood Creek, exhaust fumes, or injecting foreign fluoride into our drinking water. Just as obnoxious, but more controversial is motorcycle noise pollution created by the growing number of bikes equipped with illegal aftermarket mufflers.

Noise Off, a national noise abatement organization, estimates that 60-70 percent of bikers remove mandated factory-installed exhaust equipment and replace it with something well above the legal limit. These are the exhaust systems you’ve heard idling with the noise of a jackhammer in stop-and-go traffic and causing heart palpitations as they pass you on your way to and from downtown.

Such noise pollution persists because measuring transient mobile sounds is technically difficult, making law enforcement expensive and vulnerable to legal challenge.

Eureka’s only defense to motorcycle noise pollution consists of a few Please Ride Quietly signs and an unenforceable noise

ordinance. To make matters worse, the CAPC is spending thousands in support of its latest advertising campaign, its goal being to invite every motorcycle rider in the country to Eureka. Worse yet, unlike the sponsors of the Bikes, Blues & BBQ Rally in Fayetteville, the CAPC has neglected to emphasize the need to ride quietly. Apparently the CAPC is unconcerned that motorcycle noise is not only annoying but also a menace to our community’s health. Indeed, studies by the Environmental Protection Agency have found Motorcycle noise to be a pollutant with medical consequences.

In response, laws are being passed throughout the country designed to restrain motorcycle noise pollution. For example, Fayetteville passed a no revving ordinance.

Others have set maximum dB [decibel] limits for motorcycles. Because of the difficulty of enforcing dB limits, the so-called stamp approach has gained widespread support because police officers can determine whether a motorcycle is in compliance with federally mandated noise standards simply by looking for EPA stamps affixed to the chassis and muffler.

Similarly, federal law mandates that all motorcycles display an EPA stamp on the chassis and exhaust system. The federal decibel limit for standard street-legal exhaust noise emissions is 80 dB. Instead of advertising for more misfits, Eureka Springs should concentrate on cashing in on the growing popularity of “destination weddings,” which according to one source are on the rise and now account for 24 percent of all weddings. Attracting more bikers will kill what is left of Eureka’s shrinking share of the wedding market, not to mention driving away more desirable tourists, i.e., tourists visiting Crystal Bridges.

Rest assured, if council fails to address the menace created by motorcycle noise the concerned citizens of Eureka will by voter initiative.

Bob Jasinski

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by Chuck Levering

Across 1. AKC concern 6. Baffling question 11. Racket 14. Large sea duck 15. Call forth 16. Ogle 17. Partial collapse of a lung 19. Made a lap 20. Man cave 21. Depart the port 22. Some can be circular 24. Common contraction 25. Sedate, sober 26. Cover for iris and pupil 29. Tip pursuer 32. Large African antelope 33. Sweet, softly (Music) 34. Agt. 35. Totals 36. Pub fliers 37. Biblical vetch 38. Ocean 39. Queasiness (with “wobbles”) 40. Relating to birth 41. Signed up for 43. Trickery 44. Horses have four

45. Money of Myanmar 46. Cold stuff 48. Depression 49. Lion sign 52. It could be inflated 53. Overpowering 56. European mountain 57. Board for nails 58. Leather with napped surface 59. Henna is one 60. Fourth letter of the Greek alphabet 61. Uptight Down 1. Rosary unit 2. Ceremony 3. First garden 4. Electric fish 5. Clothed 6. Small, insignificant 7. Elliptical 8. Help!

9. Study of human settlements 10. Say again 11. Long for; miss 12. Eighth Jewish month 13. Makes after taxes

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18. Where water changed to wine 23. It surrounds us 24. Quaint stopovers 25. What oceans are 26. Stop 27. Ancient 28. You see blips on this 29. Earth’s people, places and things 30. Central courtyard in desert region 31. Hardy European wheat 33. Earnhardt and son 36. Dismal; gloomy 37. Diplomat’s forte 39. Misted over 40. Most orderly 42. Eureka!

43. Unit of force 45. Republic in E. Africa 46. Fermented honey and water 47. Not pretty 48. Soil 49. Debt security 50. Finishes 51. S-shaped molding 54. Brooks or Gibson 55. Regret

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INDEPENDENTNews This week’s Community Datebook Friday, 22: 2nd Annual Midwinter Jam, music groups in auditorium, 7 p.m. $10/12 Saturday, 23: 9 a.m. – 4 p.m., Writing for the Stage w/Keith Scales, Faculty Lounge, Crescent Hotel, $45 Wednesday, 27: • 3:30 – 5 p.m., Foundation Farm’s Growing Greens & Lettuce, 17 Elk St. (479) 253-7461 to register.

• 6 p.m., Dog Park Advisory Committee meeting, Library annex Thursday, 28: • 9 a.m. – Noon, Farmers’ Market, Pine Mountain Village.

• 5 p.m. Road trip to Branson Airport. Meet bus at Chamber, Pine Mountain Village. $10 March Saturday, 2: • 10 a.m., Zombie Tag at Lake Leatherwood Ball Fields, family friendly, eurekazombie.com (479) 244-0232 • 12:15 – 1:45 p.m., Beginning To Heal Together, bereavement support group for parents/ grandparents who have lost a child, St. Elizabeth Parish Center, Passion Play Road

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Sunday, Feb 24, 11 a.m: Larry Lowman was born and has lived his entire life in Arkansas. At age 15 he read the most important book of his life – Walden Pond. Larry will recount his extensive knowledge and passion for botany and environmental education, his decade-plus work as a park naturalist in an Arkansas state park, running his own rare plant nursery and

Popular photog returns for HI workshop

The Holiday Island Photography Guild will host a workshop Feb. 26, at the Holiday Island Clubhouse, lower level room A, at 3 p.m. by noted professional photographer, David Bell. The topic of Bell’s presentation will be composition and emotion and is open to anyone with an interest in photography.

For more info, phone (479) 363-6052 or email hiphotoguild@gmail.com.

by Ray Dilfield

s a multi-use facility, we’re called upon to host a wide range of presentations. From school plays and graduations to community forums to dance shows to full-on concerts we have the ability to provide stage, sound and lighting for just about anything.

This Thursday and Friday, we’ll get to demonstrate the full range of our lighting capabilities.

Thursday evening and Friday morning the Aud’s stage will be transformed into a temporary television studio when Little Rock’s KATV comes to town to do cut-ins during the Thursday evening news segments, as well as their entire early morning show and more cut-ins during Good Morning America on Friday.

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In television production, lighting is all about the foot candles. Video requires a huge amount of light.

We’ll have virtually every lighting instrument we own trained on the stage to provide the kind of light levels they’ll need. The few that aren’t used on the stage will be needed to light the audience above what we can do with just the houselights. All told, we’ll have close to 40,000 watts worth of pure white light pouring down on the stage.

Once the TV circus moves on,

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landscaping design business and his move in 2008 to his homestead in rural Carroll County, where he is establishing a one acre organic garden.

All are welcome at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 17 Elk Street. There is extra parking at Ermilio’s Restaurant, 26 White Street. Child care provided. (479) 253-0929 for more information.

Farm-fresh subscription program now open Foundation Farm’s subscription program for the 2013 season will begin in late May and provide 25 continuous weeks of farmfresh food for $375 (only $15 per week). This will, in effect, buy $17 worth of food weekly, equivalent to a 12 percent discount from regular market prices, or, three weeks of free produce!

Bags will be available at the Tuesday market from 9 a.m. to noon, or at Fain’s Herbacy on North Main from 1 – 5 p.m., and will contain a weekly selection of fresh produce and herbs – typically 6 to 8 items. Occasionally, other fresh items such as fruits, eggs or mushrooms from other local farms will be included. The bag size is adequate for 1 to 2 persons.

Subscription payment is due by Feb. 28. The program is limited to the first 12 families who respond with payment. Please email mamakapa@yahoo.com to make arrangements and reserve a spot.

Flexibility we’ll have only a few hours to take the stage in a completely different direction for Friday evening’s Hometown Winter Jam. Concerts usually use just as much lighting – if not more – but for completely different effect and, usually, not all at the same time. Where the TV set-up will be all white, all the time, concert lighting uses color and zones to help enhance the performance. We’ll have to refocus all the instruments in order to highlight different areas of the stage, add color gels to the appropriate instruments and reprogram the lighting control board to accommodate the needed changes. All before mid-afternoon when the bands start arriving to set up and do their sound checks. Oh yeah,

we have to get set on the audio end too with stage monitors and mic-ing for vocals, drums and instruments. We also have to build in enough flexibility on both lighting and audio to suit seven different bands’ set ups and personnel, as well as their combined jam session finale.

Of course, as this is being written on Tuesday, we don’t know what the weather has in store for us later in the week. It could very well all be moot. If you’re not reading this by candlelight on Thursday evening, set your alarm and come down to the Aud to be part of Friday morning’s studio audience.

Doors will open at 4:30 a.m. and we’ll have the coffee going.

INDEPENDENTNews Running from the walking dead: Zombie Tag in Eureka Springs On March 2, Jeff Danos, founder of the Eureka Springs Zombie Crawl, invites area humans to get chased by zombies, but for a good cause. Yes, the undead are back – with a vengeance.

Similar to the Humans Versus Zombies game played at college campuses across the globe, Eureka’s Zombie Tag features a family-friendly mix of outdoor exercise, challenging survival scenarios and physical endurance as human “survivors” are sent on special missions throughout the zombie-infested park at Leatherwood Ball Fields. The last “uninfected” participant will win a prize.

Each Human Team member wears an ID tag hanging from the right arm. If a Zombie grabs the tag, the human “dies” and joins the Zombie Team. Areas marked with orange cones are Safe Zones, off limits to zombies. Humans can “freeze” zombies for 60 seconds with a soft foam dart or marshmallow. No other physical contact is allowed. Game ends when there are no humans left.

Registration for the first-ever Eureka Springs Zombie tag begins at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 2, at the Lake Leatherwood Ball Fields. Admission to play is two cans of food or a donation for the Flint Street Food Bank.

For more information on this fun and exciting outdoor activity for all ages, visit EurekaZombies.com or phone Jeff (479) 244-0232.

Champion chili – Academy of Excellence student, Nicole Voerman, 14, stirs chili made by the Pied Piper Restaurant at the school’s 10th Annual Chili CookOff and Benefit Auction at the Inn of the Ozarks Feb. 15. Judges had 13 chili recipes to choose from and finally awarded Pied Piper first place in the Professional division, followed by Sparky’s in second place and Grandma’s Beans and Cornbread in third.

In the Individual category, Ann Reed’s chili won top honors followed by Tommye Thompson in second place and Larry Phillips in third. Grandma’s received a second round of accolades by also winning the People’s Choice.

Some 500 people attended the fundraiser cookoff and auction.

According to organizer Wayne Carr, by the time a final tally is made upwards of $25,000 will have been donated to the school.

Photo by David Frank Dempsey

Farmers’ Market Corner:

This little piggy went to market

Some believe pigs were the earliest animal to be domesticated, not the cat or dog. The Chinese domesticated pigs 7,000 years ago, but for Glenn Woelk, owner of Mason Creek farm with his wife Rose, it began 51 years ago with a little runt named Barney that Glenn brought home in his pocket. He always insisted Rose would love a pig for their farm, and when they got the first gilt 15 years ago, Rose was hooked too.

“We are pleased to receive Animal Welfare Approved certification in recognition of the quality of care we give our animals. It is encouraging to see value finally being placed where it benefits everyone: producer, consumer, and the consumed,” Rose said.

“By allowing our animals to forage as they choose on pasture designed to be varied and nutrient rich, they are happier and healthier. Our land supplies them with natural shade, wallows, grubs, an array of hickory nuts and acorns, roots and shoots; and we overseed cereal grains in the fescue/ clover grassy areas after each rotation. They also enjoy the excess produce from our market garden, except green beans.

“We are building a herd based around our Yorkshire sow, Rita, and our registered Tamworth boar, Mr. Moose, and their daughters. The Tamworth is proving to be an excellent forager and the Yorkshires are as good as mothers as could be. This cross is producing excellent carcass quality,” Rose added.

The Woelks aim not to raise more than their land can support, so they do sell weanlings, both breeding quality and for fat hogs. Also, local restaurants are featuring some cuts on their menus and reservations for 1/2 hogs for butchering are available. The rest of us can buy delicious pork cuts at the Farmers’ Market on Thursdays or order from their website, masoncreekfarm.com.

For more information, phone Rose (479) 422-6000 or email rose@masoncreekfarm.com.

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body was found by Lee County sheriff’s deputies, “naked, with tape around his wrists, mouth and nose, leaning against a wall in a basement where hogs were kept.” There were scratches and cuts on his body. An autopsy showed he was beaten “by more than one person” and suffocated.

Officials said they believed the killing was drug-related and that the beating took place in Peoria County, although it was unknown where Dawson actually died.

Later the same month, a $100,000 warrant for obstruction of justice was issued for Watts, who was 26 at that time, and of Peoria. The sheriff at the time, Raymond Nehring, said Watts had “valuable information” in regards to Dawson’s murder, but declined to name him as a suspect. www.esINDEPENDENT.com | February 21, 2013 |

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INDYSoul

by Gwen Etheredge

The Schwag at Chasers Bar and Grill

“A peaceful place, so it looks from space.

A close look reveals the human race.”

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– Grateful Dead, Throwing Stones

n May 5, 1965 a group of musicians calling themselves The Warlocks performed for the first time at Magoo’s Pizza in Menlo Park, Calif.

After learning that another band of the same name had just signed with a record label, a new name was selected from Funk & Wagnall’s Folklore Dictionary. This began the legend that is the Grateful Dead.

Followers of this great jam-band’s sound, called Deadheads, have kept their memory alive. Of course bands like The Schwag, a Grateful Dead tribute, offer a chance to relive the flower-power vibe of the ‘60s. Band members Jimmy Tebeau, bass and vocals – who has played for Jimmy Buffett and is still a member of the Jerry Garcia Band of San Francisco; Sean Allen Canan, guitar and vocals; Jack Kirkner, keys and vocals; and Dave Clark, on drums follow the Dead tradition of playing without set lists. Striving, and succeeding, to give high-energy shows that will make you dance, The Schwag focuses on spontaneity and improv.

The band formed in St. Louis and began touring in 1995 after the death of Jerry Garcia, playing more than 150 shows a year with a list of over 200 songs. Their on-stage jams have been joined by many greats including Merl Saunders, the late Johnny Johnson, Butch Trucks of the Allman Brothers and Mike Gordon of Phish. The Schwag will be playing at Chasers Bar & Grill

Schwagtastic Baby –

Come hear The Schwag at Chasers Bar & Grill on Friday, Feb. 22. on Friday, Feb. 22 FRIDAY – FEBRUARY 22 • CARIBE Afro-Disiacs, 7 p.m.

• CHASERS BAR & GRILL The Schwag • CHELSEA’S Revenge of the Wallflower Prom Dance, 9 p.m.

• EUREKA LIVE! DJ & Dancing • EUREKA PARADISE Ladies

Night – Free Pool • EUREKA STONEHOUSE Jerry Yester, 5–8 p.m.

• GRAND TAVERNE Arkansas Red Guitar, 6:30–9:30 p.m.

• JACK’S CENTER STAGE Rusty White, 8 p.m.

• LUMBERYARD RESTAURANT & SALOON DJ Karaoke • NEW DELHI CAFÉ Magic Mule, 6:30 p.m.

• PIED PIPER CATHOUSE LOUNGE Dorian Cross, 8 p.m.

• ROWDY BEAVER Paper Jam Band • ROWDY BEAVER DEN Jukebox Party • SQUID & WHALE PUB Black Water • VOULEZ-VOUS Smokin’ Joliet Dave & the Mighty Mudhounds, 9 p.m.

SATURDAY – FEBRUARY 23 • CHASERS BAR & GRILL Houseburners

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• CHELSEA’S Yao Angelo, 3 p.m., Izzy Cox, 9 p.m.

• EUREKA LIVE! DJ & Dancing • EUREKA PARADISE Blue Moon • GRAND TAVERNE Jerry Yester Grand Piano Dinner Music, 6:30–9:30 p.m.

• JACK’S CENTER STAGE Karaoke with DJ Goose, 8– Midnight • LUMBERYARD RESTAURANT & SALOON SpringBilly • NEW DELHI CAFÉ Mike Blackwell, 12–5 p.m., AfroDisiacs, 6:30 p.m.

• PIED PIPER CATHOUSE LOUNGE Dorian Cross, 8 p.m.

• ROWDY BEAVER Pieces of Dreams • ROWDY BEAVER DEN Skillet Lickers • SQUID & WHALE PUB Black Water • VOULEZ-VOUS Smokin’ Joliet Dave & the Mighty Mudhounds, 9 p.m.

SUNDAY – FEBRUARY 24 • CHELSEA’S The Shoals, 6–10 p.m.

• EUREKA LIVE! Customer Appreciation Night, 5 p.m.–close • LUMBERYARD RESTAURANT & SALOON Free Texas Hold ‘Em Tournament with prizes, 6 p.m.

• NEW DELHI CAFÉ Magic Mule, 12–5 p.m.

• ROWDY BEAVER Free pool • SQUID & WHALE PUB “Local Kine” Showcasing local talent • VOULEZ-VOUS AfroDisiacs, 6 p.m.

MONDAY – FEBRUARY 25 • CHASERS BAR & GRILL Pool Tournament, 7 p.m.

• CHELSEA’S SpringBilly, 9 p.m.

• SQUID & WHALE PUB Disaster Piece Theater TUESDAY – FEBRUARY 26 • CHASERS BAR & GRILL Dart Tournament

• CHELSEA’S Open Mic • LUMBERYARD RESTAURANT & SALOON Pool Tournament, 6:30 p.m.

• ROWDY BEAVER Hospitality Night • SQUID & WHALE PUB Taco Tuesday $3 Margaritas til 6 p.m.

WEDNESDAY – FEBRUARY 27 • CHASERS BAR & GRILL Beer Pong • CHELSEA’S Drink and Draw w/Bob Norman, Magic Mule, 9 p.m.

• LUMBERYARD RESTAURANT & SALOON Ladies Night–Happy Hour all night • NEW DELHI CAFÉ Open Jam • PIED PIPER CATHOUSE LOUNGE Wheat Wednesday Draft Beer Specials • ROWDY BEAVER Wine Wednesday • SQUID & WHALE PUB The Pickled Porpoise Review – Open Jam, No Cover THURSDAY – FEBRUARY 28 • CHASERS BAR & GRILL Taco & Tequila Night • CHELSEA’S Jazz Night, 9 p.m.

• GRAND TAVERNE Jerry Yester Grand Piano Dinner Music, 6:30–9:30 p.m.

• LUMBERYARD RESTAURANT & SALOON Taco and Margarita Night • SQUID & WHALE PUB Open Mic Musical Smackdown featuring Bloody Buddy & Friends

“Evolutionary Evangelist” Michael Dowd here March 3, 4

Fri., Feb. 22 • 9 P.M.

Revenge of the Wallflower PROM DANCE

Sat., Feb. 23 3 P.M. – YAO ANGELO 9 P.M. – IZZY COX Sun., Feb. 24 • 6-10 P.M.

THE SHOALS featuring

Nathaniel Rogers & Finn Bohannon

Mon., Feb. 25 • 9 P.M.

SPRINGBILLY

Tues., Feb. 26 • 9 P.M.

OPEN MIC

Wed., Feb. 27 • 9 P.M.

MAGIC MULE

Thurs., Feb. 28 • 9 P.M.

JAZZ NIGHT

Michael Dowd, author, former pastor, veteran sustainability activist, and “big history/big integrity” evangelist, will speak at the 11 a.m. meeting of the Eureka Springs Unitarian Universalist Fellowship on Sunday, March 3 and again on March 4 at 7 p.m.

An outspoken religious naturalist, Dowd is the author of the bestselling bridge-building book, Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World, which was endorsed by six Nobel Prize-winning scientists and others including noted skeptics and religious leaders across the spectrum.

Michael and his wife, Connie Barlow, an acclaimed science writer and gifted evolutionary educator, permanently travel North America and have addressed more than 1,700 religious and non-religious groups since 2002 — showing how the science-based history of everything and everyone can be interpreted in ways that inspire people to cooperate across political and religious differences in service of a just and thriving future for all.

Dowd’s presentations on March 3 and 4 will be in the white church building at 17 Elk St. where the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship meets.

Yard sale, auction and craft show planned for Great Passion Play Start cleaning out the basement and garage for one of Eureka’s biggest yard sales, auction and craft shows at the Great Passion Play March 15 - 16, 9 am – 4:30 pm.

The auction will be held Saturday, March 16 in the Great Hall/dining room. Donations of items, services and lodgings accepted.

Artists and crafters, for information on free tables, craft and art categories, sales, donations, etc. phone Debbie (870) 350-2151 or Pat (479) 244-6300. www.esINDEPENDENT.com | February 21, 2013 |

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somewhere else?” Hager asked.

“Does the orb spin out water?

That would be cool!” Brix asked.

“Jeremy,” Featherstone called out, “If you’re listening, you might want to come talk to us.”

Featherstone did admit the fountain location would be an ideal spot for McGraw’s orb, but he agreed with Thaxton that Parks should be compensated for its efforts. Stewart kept seeing unanswered questions, and said they needed more information from McGraw.

Featherstone pointed out they did not need to provide an answer immediately.

“How much electricity will this thing draw? And for an entire month?” asked Brix.

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different JPs in attendance and the results would be counterproductive.

Flake insisted there is more to committees than policy. The court is also responsible for budgeting, and movement will be at a standstill until the court sets up a committee structure. He said he did not want to limit the process, only provide some flexibility.

Deputy District Attorney Devon Closser added the court did set up a budget committee, although now it has no members since Barr has yet to appoint anyone this year.

Mumaugh restated his position that committees need structured membership and members can decide how to run their meetings. Swofford also agreed with the need for some standing committees, like Budget and Personnel, but said it was the judge’s job to appoint the members.

Closser agreed the law stipulates it is the judge’s responsibility to appoint the members. When asked about it, Barr stated, “I think I forgot it last month,” and he appointed a budget committee of Dan Mumaugh as Chair with JP Jack Deaton and JP John Howerton as members.

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“Fair question,” replied Featherstone. He said he and Levine would get some answers before the next meeting.

Public relations Thaxton noted there are 440 businesses for a population of approximately 2,390. She thinks there are volunteers out there and wants to recruit them. She said she has a vision of a plea in the papers for volunteers that produces people who show up to do wonderful things in Lake Leatherwood Park (LLP) and beyond.

She said volunteers could help with the ‘50s-genre cabins at LLP “which need updating, I’ve been told.”

She also said she wanted someone to help her get people motivated.

Featherstone replied Parks has a dormant committee, Finance and

Development, which could fit her interests. Hager added that the idea of an auxiliary for Parks has been floating around. Featherstone commented participants don’t have to be residents of the city to volunteer for such a committee. Brix suggested they discuss it at the next workshop.

Director’s report • Levine said the soccer scoreboard is close to being “energized.” He hopes it will be functioning by the Feb. 28 match between Eureka Springs and Fayetteville.

• Alderman Dee Purkeypile helped with a rain garden project at Harmon Park. Residents can learn to expand their use of plants and rainwater in environmentally sound ways.

• Eagle Scout Nathan Wilkerson had 16 volunteers show up and work

for three hours on his trail project in Harmon Park. Levine said the group “roughed out” his trail preparing the way for finish work.

Other items Brix reported the Dog Park Advisory Committee has been getting pledges toward providing a match for a grant for the dog park. One of the committee members will appear on KESA radio, and their group will participate in the St. Patrick’s Day parade. They continue to raise funds in a variety of ways, and, if anyone wants to help, their next meeting will be Wednesday, Feb. 27, at 6 p.m. at the library annex.

Next workshop will be March 5, at 6 p.m. at Harmon Park and next regular meeting will be March 18, at 6 p.m.

rather than formalized committees would best serve the court’s needs, and Mumaugh insisted committees need to have a set membership.

The vote on Flake’s ordinance was 3-6, with Flake and JPs Don McNeely and Joe Mills voting Yes. Mumaugh then said with Flake’s help and help from others, he would draw up another ordinance creating standing committees with three to five members per committee. Flake replied the court does not have an ordinance committee to discuss it. “I can’t talk to you about this outside of this meeting.”

Closser pointed out she knows what the court is looking for and she said she would help Mumaugh.

The court will try again at the March meeting to set up a committee structure.

Moving the county line Swofford announced he and State Senator Bryan King, who was in attendance, had been discussing a situation in the northeast corner of the county. The bottom end of Table Rock Lake dips below the Missouri line into Carroll County. Cricket Creek Marina and nearby homes pay for services from Carroll County, yet Swofford said it takes almost an hour

for a sheriff’s deputy, for example, to drive there, and the area is covered by the Omaha Fire Protection District.

Omaha is in Boone County.

Discussion is circulating about moving the county line to place the Cricket Creek Marina area in Boone County. King announced he had drafted a bill that would place the county line down the center of the fingers of the lake, but he did not want to introduce the bill unless he knew the sentiment of the court supported it. He said Boone County would also need to weigh in on the subject.

Swofford said Carroll County would be giving up about $9600 revenue in taxes and fees, but Flake responded, “We’re not providing them services they are paying for, so money should not be part of this decision.”

Deaton agreed.

The voice vote was unanimous to allow King to introduce the bill and details would be smoothed out later.

King also mentioned renewed commentary springing up about continuing Hwy. 221 over to Hwy. 23, which would mean paving a winding stretch of dirt road in Madison County through the McIlroy Wildlife Management Area. The improvement would mean Tyson trucks going to and

from Berryville could avoid Eureka Springs on their way to the Fayetteville area and beyond. Swofford said truckers would never go that way because there are too many curves for a semi pulling a trailer.

Other actions • Keisha Pittman announced the Carroll County Relay for Life effort had raised more than $151,000 for cancer research, which puts Carroll County into distinguished company for fundraisers across the nation.

She presented the court with a sign acknowledging the accomplishment.

This year’s Relay for Life will be at 6 p.m., Friday, May 3, at the Berryville High School track. Relay for Life is a walkathon fundraiser honoring survivors and victims of cancer.

• The court unanimously approved four ordinances. Two of them reappropriated funds from one part of the budget to another. Another established a line in the budget for receiving state funds, $65,000, for fire protection and training. The fourth established a line in the budget for County Voting System Grant funds from the state and authorized Barr to apply for the funds.

Next meeting will be Friday, March 15, at 10 a.m.

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ivilization is based on the control and manipulation of our environment. From using animals for their strength and fiber and as a food source, to using rocks and trees and plants for protection against the elements, to the cultivation of palatable

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plants and the destruction of undesired plants – nary a soul on earth has lived without participating in these activities.

11,000 years ago people in the Middle East lived on acorns, gazelles and wild grass seeds. At this time they began cultivating chickpeas, rye and

Patience pays off for patients Mercy Hospital Berryville hopes to complete renovations of all 16 patient rooms by August 31 after reaching a $250,000 fundraising goal thanks to

AHTD invites public input on Hwy. 62 expansion plans

Arkansas State Highway & Transportation Department (AHTD) officials plan a Public Involvement meeting to discuss plans to widen a four-mile stretch of US 62 from Berryville to Highway 103 South (just west of Green Forest) to five lanes.

The public is invited to view plan displays and participate in discussions March 7, 4 – 7 p.m. at St. Anne’s Catholic Church, 614 South Main Street (US62E) in Berryville. For details, contact AHTD Environmental Division at (501) 569-2281.

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ous damage to their “future health,” which allowed that it not be necessary to await serious injury before seeking relief in the courts.

In Farmer v. Brennan of 1994, a case where a transsexual was raped and infected with HIV, the court defined “deliberate indifference” in terms of “impending harm” and “easily preventable,” and emphasized that authorities are obligated to protect prisoners from harm because prisoners are denied means of self-protection and are unable to get “private aid.”

Ortiz v. City of Chicago in 2011, ruled for the estate of May Molina, a civil rights activist known for pro-

community support. Improvements include new beds, chairs, tables, wall coverings, window treatments, flooring, shower fixtures, bathroom tiling and even flat screen TVs. The “Redesigning Healthcare…

Room by Room” campaign began in 2011 with rooms being renovated one at a time to minimize patient care disruption. Kristy Estrem, president of Mercy Hospital Berryville, said, “We knew this process would take longer than normal since we remodel one room at a time. Six rooms are now fully renovated and the finished product is truly remarkable.”

Numerous local businesses and individuals made donations to the campaign, including Mercy AuxiliaryBerryville, Cornerstone Bank, First National Bank of North Arkansas, First National Bank of Green Forest and Tyson Foods.

testing police practices, who died in a women’s facility after being denied access to medication even though she notified authorities at intake of her medical needs. The court invoked the “reasonableness standard” of the Fourth Amendment, stating that the officer’s response to Molina’s medical needs were unreasonable.

Police and detention officials not careful to fully assess and care for the medical needs of arrestees can also find themselves violating federal law under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which says that state and local agencies are required to protect people with disabilities, including those with illness such as diabetes.

wheat’s ancestors. These beginning farmers would, intentionally or not, choose the mutations of wheat that suited them. Corn began about the same time in Central America as hard, starchy kernels on ears no bigger than your thumb. A bitter type of lettuce grew to popularity in Roman times.

Carrots originated in southern Eurasia as a small, tough, bitter root. Pull up a Queen Anne’s Lace to get an idea of carrot’s origins.

But the royal family of vegetable manipulation surely belongs to the cole crops, or Brassicas. Part of the mustard family, wild canola plants were selected for larger leaves over thousands of years. This eventually became kale, and was the most popular leafy green for another hundred generations.

During that time, people continued to selectively “evolve” the kale plant to emphasize the development of the cluster of young leaves in the center of

the plant. This favoritism led to a variety we call cabbage.

A n d that’s just the beginning!

Immature flower bud favoritism caused the same plant to become broccoli. When a mutant form with aborted, malformed buds was chosen, cauliflower was born. If instead the bottom of the plant was emphasized, the swollen stem known as kohlrabi would be the outcome. Brussels sprouts are a string of tiny cabbage heads running up and down the stem.

These are all different manipulations of the same plant, Brassica oleracea.

And we haven’t even gotten into other members of the Brassica family such as turnips, radishes, mustard greens, collards, Napa cabbage, nasturtiums, arugula and bok choy.

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Eureka Springs Arts Council announces ArtRageous Street Festival

This May, during the Eureka Springs Festival of the Arts, Spring Street will come alive in bloomin’ color! The ArtRageous Street Festival will transform Spring Street (all the way up to Mountain) into a festive pedestrian atmosphere with fine artists, dancers, performance artists, musicians, exhibitors and food vendors from 11 a.m. – 9 p.m.

Saturday, May 25, for a one-day family-friendly event as part of the 26th Annual Eureka Springs Festival of the Arts.

Musical groups, ESSA Kidzone mural and other artists will also be featured in Basin Park.

The mission of the ArtRageous Street Festival is to provide free high quality and spirited “Uniquely Eureka” visual and performing arts set against the background of historic Eureka Springs; and to promote and

market retail, artists and galleries as the focal point of the festival.

Categories for booths and exhibits include: ceramics, digital art, drawing, fiber, glass, jewelry, leather, metalwork, mixed media, photography, sculpture, wood, buskers and acoustic music, Kidszone, spoken word stage – storytellers, magicians, jugglers, dancers and painting (works created in oils, acrylics, watercolor, etc. are in this category).

There will also be a music stage at Basin Park and an Emerging Artist Program designed specifically for artists who have no experience exhibiting and selling their artwork The Eureka Springs Arts Council will release application forms next week. For more information, email Sandy Martin at artscouncileureka@ gmail.com.

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DEADLINE – Tuesday at noon To place a classified, email classifieds@esindependent.com or call 479.253.6101

ANNOUNCEMENTS

MOVING SALE

HELP WANTED

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

FLORA ROJA COMMUNITY ACUPUNCTURE-providing affordable healthcare for the whole community. Sliding scale fee. $15-$35 per treatment, with an additional $15 paperwork fee the first visit only. You decide what you can afford to pay!

Francesca Garcia Giri, L.Ac. (479) 2534968, 199 Wall Street

RAIN, SHINE OR SNOW-INDOOR MOVING SALE One Day Only, Feb. 23, 7 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Furniture, antiques, tools, kitchen and garden items. Everything must go. 23 South to 108. 708 CR 108, Eureka Springs.

PART-TIME COOK FOR 2013 SEASON work alongside a certified culinary chef. Call Joe at Casa Colina (479) 304-8998

HOUSE FOR SALE IN BERRYVILLE 3BR/1BA, central heat/air, new roof and new tile floors.

Great location. $78,000 Call (479) 9819701 or (479) 981-9724

HELP WANTED

PART-TIME BEAVER LAKE COTTAGES Looking for housekeeper to make ready luxury rentals for guests. Great working environment. Some flexibility in hours, however most Sundays a must.

Preference given to applicants near Mundell Road. Call (479) 253-8439

YOGA WITH JACK. Gentle, robust, refreshing. Personal attention in a group setting. 6 p.m. Mondays at The Space, $8. (870) 480-9148 PROFESSIONAL MENTAL HEALTH at its best: Simplicity Counseling, meeting needs of your friends and neighbors in this community in a relaxed, respectful atmosphere since 2010. Depression, Anxiety, Trauma, Grief, Eating, Adjustment & Relationships – perhaps “It’s Your Time” (479) 244-5181

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY POSITIONS AVAILABLE

DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER THE FARMERS’ MARKET WILL BE ON FRIDAY INSTEAD OF THURSDAY THIS WEEK.

We are forecasting another growth year in 2013 (our 18th straight) at the BASIN PARK & CRESCENT HOTELS. Thus, we are now hiring for a March start date:

THE EUREKA SPRINGS WINTER FARMERS’ MARKET IS IN FULL SWING. “Friday this week,” 9 a.m. till noon. Pine Mountain Village Parking lot. Free coffee and tea in the heated, sheltered “Gathering Place.”

This week you can expect to find: GREENS, Collard, Kale, Turnip, Bok Choi, Arugula, Parsley and Lettuce.

Scallions, Mushrooms, Apples, Carrots and Turnips. Home-made baked goods, Breads, Pies, Pie slices, Sweet Loaves, Muffins, Fruit Bars, Gluten Free Items, Candies and Jams. Fresh Beef items, Pecans, Honey and home made soaps.

See ya there.

FRONT DESK MAINTENANCE LABORER COTTAGE HOUSEKEEPER PM LOBBY ATTENDANT MASSAGE THERAPIST SPA RECEPTIONIST BALCONY SERVER SKY BAR SERVER STEAKHOUSE SERVER PT CATERING SERVER BARTENDER LINE COOK

SPECIAL HEALING EVENT: Ravi Singh and Ana Brett Kundalini Yoga workshop. Friday and Saturday, March 1 & 2 in Tulsa. Sunday, March 3 at 10 a.m., Fire Om Earth, Eureka Springs.

Register: Call Rebecca (479) 244-5114.

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NOW HIRING FOR 2013 SEASON Waiters, bartender, dishwasher, groundskeeper. Call Joe at Casa Colina (479) 304-8998

The Basin Park & Crescent Hotels, as leaders in Eureka Springs are pleased to offer an expanded benefit package that includes yearly incentives for all departments, monthly service bonus, health insurance to all employees, employee meals, employee recognition and a strong culture of guest satisfaction, community involvement and promotion from within.

INDIVIDUALS OF GOOD CHARACTER – may apply in person

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HISTORIC BEAVER TOWN GENERAL STORE – INN – DEPOT/ WORKSHOP is for rent. 5BR/5BA inn, furnished. 1BR/1BA apartment.

Waterfront lifestyle. $2000/mo, first and last. Call (479) 981-6816 TURN-KEY RESTAURANT FOR SALE IN EUREKA SPRINGS. High traffic area, first time offer includes all appliances, etc. Very reasonable lease.

Available now. (479) 244-7710

RENTAL PROPERTIES HOMES FOR RENT APARTMENT FOR RENT: One 2-Bedroom; One 1-Bedroom.

Downtown Eureka Springs. Call (479) 244-5100 1BR/1BA WITHIN 1 MILE OF DOWNTOWN, central H/A, fireplace. $500/mo, First and Security deposit required. Available March 1. Call (479) 244-5162 HOLIDAY ISLAND VILLAS & TOWNHOUSES near lake and marina.

From $375/mo. (479) 253-4385

SERVICE DIRECTORY HEALTH SERVICES

PAIN, STIFFNESS, FATIGUE: Symptoms of Lymphatic Congestion which leads to DIS-EASE. For affordable lymphatic decongestion therapy call Alexa Pittenger, MMT VENDORS NEEDED (479) 253-9208. Eureka!! Massage EUREKA AUCTION AND Therapy, 147 W Van Buren MARKET looking for vendors of arts, crafts, antiques, collectibles and ALOHA! LAUGHING HANDS produce for Eureka’s only swap meet MASSAGE IS BACK from Kauai, flea market. Call Burt at (479) 363-4326 Hawaii ready to offer Lomi Lomi THE EUREKA SPRINGS FARMERS’ MARKET is looking for vendors for the current and upcoming season. Poultry, cheese and produce especially are needed. Call Stu at (479) 244-5667, leave message if no answer.

PETS PETSITTING, HOUSESITTING. Holiday Island, Eureka Springs and surrounding areas. 25+ years experience.

Reliable, references, insured. Call Lynn (479) 363-6676 or Emily (918) 409-6393

massages. Laughing Hands offers great rates for couples massage, the perfect gift for a Valentine’s treat. For more information on Hawaiian Lomi Lomi call to make an appointment (479) 244-5954

MAINTENANCE/ LANDSCAPE/ HOME SERVICES CLEAN-UPS All types of clean-ups.

We will haul off and dispose of anything.

Including tear-downs, furniture restoration and painting. (870) 423-5674

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FANNING’S TREE SERVICE Bucket truck with 65 ft. reach.

Professional trimming, stump grinding, topping, removal, chipper.

Free estimates. Licensed. Insured. (870) 423-6780, (870) 423-8305

TREE WORKS Skilled tree care: trimming, deadwooding and removals.

Conscientious, professional arborist and sawmiller.

Bob Messer (479) 253-2284

CHIMNEY WORKS Complete chimney services: sweeps, repairs, relining and installation. Call Bob Messer (479) 253-2284

List your treasures here.

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Open casting for HI Theatre Guild March 3

The Holiday Island Theater Guild is holding an open casting for roles in its upcoming production, Lilly the Virtuous Seamstress. Open readings are scheduled for Sunday, March 3, 3 – 5 p.m. and Monday, March 4, 6:30 – 8 p.m. in the Holiday Island Clubhouse Room A (lower level).

Anyone is welcome to audition, including people of all (or no) experience levels. You need not prepare anything for the open readings and you need not be able to sing.

This romping melodrama with some music has a cast of 5 men and 4 women, and promises to provide the players and their audiences with some rousing good fun. The production, which will be presented on May 16, 17 and 18, will be directed by Elise Buchman.

For those who have questions or are interested but unable to attend either casting call, please email Elise at elisemariebuchman@gmail.com or phone at (417) 432-1220.

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Maybe it is you – Jack (Schuyler Worley) gets dumped by Ellie (Holly Ton) in

the Don Zolidis short comedy It’s Not You It’s Me in a dinner theater performance by the League of Extraordinary Actors at Eureka Springs High School Feb. 14. The server was played by Annie Sheu.

Photo by David Frank Dempsey

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Student Exchange concept of bridging understanding between today’s youth for a better tomorrow.

“When I learned help was needed to find homes for exchange students, I was thrilled,” Veblen exclaimed.

“This would be my way of paying it forward. I wanted to be a part of this cultural exchange and can fully understand the essential role that loving host families provide to deepen and enrich the students’ experience in America.

“These students did not come just to be visitors, but to be immersed into the community, school and families.

This way they can understand on a lasting, deep level what the real America is all about.

“I believe visiting students are impressed by the international feel of Eureka Springs. The stone and brick buildings are reminiscent of many European villages. They enjoy the

music, parades and cultural diversity here. After living here their views about America are dramatically changed,” Veblen commented.

“One student said, ‘When I came here, I only knew about America from the news. You know, the crime, the shootings, that type thing. After living here, I see that Americans have big hearts and that they care about their families, their country and about God. I now have two families: my own parents in Switzerland and my new American family here.’”

Host family opportunities are still available in Eureka Springs, Berryville, Green Forest and Alpena as well as Branson and Hollister, Mo. and the surrounding area. For more information on hosting a student with International Student Exchange, please call Jennifer Veblen (479) 2008213, Jodi Sharshel, regional manager (855) 242-9861 or visit I.S.E.’s national website, www.iseusa.com.

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665785 623275

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641688

2 Alexander St.

1800’s shotgun-style farmhouse nestled on private wooded acreage offers end of road privacy and endless possibilities. Double parlor, front and back covered porches, upper balcony, garden space and old barn. Hidden gem waiting to be uncovered. $149,900.

AL HOOKS 479.363.6419 alhookseureka.com – alhooks@me.com

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665785

11 Howell Street

Very well maintained,2 Bedroom, 1 bath home sits on 2 city lots with Great privacy factor!

Wrought ironed fencing, stamped concrete patio/motor court, electronic gates,wrap around balcony/porch. Below Appraisal. Owner agent.

Addtl guest house & studio & garage available see mls 661098. $199,900.

AL HOOKS 479.363.6419 alhookseureka.com – alhooks@me.com

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660621

18 Lakeview

Freshly updated duplex offers income potential. Both units have 2beds/2baths, woodburning fireplaces, open kitchen/dining big closets & laundry room, large treetop deck to enjoy the lake views! Holiday Island marina & lake just down the road. MUST SEE! $149,900.

CHERYL COLBERT 479.981.6249 eurekaspringsrealtor.com – cjceureka@yahoo.com

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672179

52 Copper St.

Great home on one of Eureka’s unique streets.

Views of downtown from deck & backyard.

Approx. 1,724 sq. ft. 2 bed/2 bath, 2 car garage with additional parking pad. PLUS additional 1 bed/1 bath & workshop, both with separate entrances.

Fireplace, Jacuzzi bath, eat in kitchen and lots of storage. This is a MUST SEE! $153,000.

AL HOOKS 479.363.6419 alhookseureka.com 622513 alhooks@me.com

440 Passion Play Rd.

Ever dream of your own business? NOW is the time! HUGE commercial space can be whatever you desire – event center, flea market, bar/restaurant, church, retail, movie theatre, the list is endless. Tons of parking, circle drive makes for easy in & out. Over 1.5 acres of land, beautiful 4 bedroom custom home on upper level. $437,000.

CHERYL COLBERT 479.981.6249 eurekaspringsrealtor.com – cjceureka@yahoo.com

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666355

83 Spring St.

Rare opportunity to own a prime retail building, located right on historic Spring St.This building boasts a retail location on street level and a nitely rental unit on the second level with private entrance. Decks on front and back of building provide views! Unlimited possibilities are waiting for you! $490,500.

AL HOOKS 479.363.6419 alhookseureka.com – alhooks@me.com

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623275

15 Howell St.

Nestled in the heart of historic downtown.

Beautiful wrap-around porch and luscious gardens hidden behind stone walls. Recently renovated with attention to details. 2 oversized bedrooms, hardwood floors, bright and airy. Off-street parking and much more. $194,900. OWNER FINANCING. AL HOOKS 479.363.6419 alhookseureka.com – alhooks@me.com

64 Hillside

Gingerbread adorns the covered porch of this quaint Victorian. Formal dining room boasts hardwood floors, stained glass windows. Double parlor doors open from the living area to reveal a master suite with claw foot antique tub. Upper level has a huge bedroom & bath plus additional space for sitting area, den or office. Big flat area in yard great for gardening. OFF STREET PARKING!!! $159,900.

AL HOOKS 479.363.6419 alhookseureka.com – alhooks@me.com

624904

185 Main St.

10 Individual Studios/Shops – Uniquely designed in open air venue. Amenities galore. Established as The Art Colony in 2006. Potential use limited only by your imagination. $275,000.

PAUL FAULK 479.981.0668 eurekasprings-realty.com – pbfaulk@cox.net

664979

13 Woodview Lane

Beautifully maintained 1308 sq. ft., 2bed/2bath home with large front porch, built in 2005. Great open floor plan. Large Garage, fenced, loft style master suite with Juliet balcony over looking luscious wooded area. $139,900.

PAUL FAULK 479.981.0668 eurekasprings-realty.com – pbfaulk@cox.net