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CAPC Chair updates council on AUD changes Nicky Boyette Mike Maloney, executive director of the City Advertising and Promotion Commission, told city council Monday night he had eliminated the position of special events manager for the Auditorium held

by Ray Dilfield. Maloney said finance director Rick Bright would spend part of his time at the Auditorium so there would be a presence there during the week.

Maloney wants to pursue a volunteer base to handle Auditorium duties like other similar facilities do.

Alderman Joyce Zeller later stated she was concerned that if the CAPC had financial troubles, which has happened in the past, the city would be on the hook for any bills. She said she wanted a plan in place for how it is going to be run.

Charles Ragsdell, Chair of the CAPC, pointed out most of the people who have been running the facility for the past two years are still in place, and in fact, only one person is missing from that formula.

Many other city auditoriums depend on a base of volunteers to handle the duties, and over time more and more has been accomplished by volunteers at the Auditorium, he said.

Ragsdell quickly stated Maloney still oversees all operations. He also reminded council that only two COUNCIL AUD continued on page 29

Tippy taps – Where running water is not available, tippy taps save the day in Haiti. Jugs of water attach with cords to

a foot pedal. Children step on the pedal, tipping a jug forward so a small stream of water pours through a hole, leaving both hands free to wash with soap on a rope dangling nearby. The simple stations go a long way toward disease prevention. The kids were so excited to use them the jugs had to be refilled several times. See p. 24.

This Week’s INDEPENDENT Thinker Ethiopia, one of the poorer nations on the planet, decided to do something about it when they saw people choking in China due to horrible air quality. In a move to become reliant on wind power rather than coal-generated electricity, the Ethiopian government recently opened Africa’s biggest wind farm.

Although 77 percent of the country is without electricity, Ethiopia will provide neighboring countries with cleaner power and use that money for connecting its own people to the grid.

Ironically, China is a big investor in the program to make wind power an economic option, Ethiopia a more self-sustaining country, and Africa a greener continent.

Photo courtesy of Nat’l Renewable Energy Lab

Inside the ESI Acuna - Sanchez 2 CAPC 3 Council 4 Affordable Health Care 5 Tippy taps 6 Black Widow 7 CAPC – Groundswell 9 Independent Mail 12 Independent Editorial 13

Constables on Patrol 14 Independent Art 16 Notes from the hollow 17 Nature of Eureka 18 Fame Came Late 19 Indy Soul 22 Exploring the fine art of romance 24 Astrology 27 Crossword 29

Chilly weather, chili cookoff, Friday @ 5. Inspiration Point FD.

INDEPENDENTNews Acuna-Sanchez to get second mental evaluation N icky B oyette In a brief hearing Monday morning in the Berryville courthouse, Circuit Court Judge David Klinger announced that Defense Attorney Bill James had filed a motion for a second mental evaluation for Victor Acuna-Sanchez, who is accused of shooting to death his ex-girlfriend Laura Acevez of Eureka Springs on December 31, 2012. The evaluation will take place at the Arkansas State Hospital in Benton.

Deputy Prosecutor Devon Goodman had no objection, and Klinger set 9 a.m. on Dec. 17 as the time and date to hear the results of the evaluation. He also said, depending on the circumstances, there could be an earlier date.

Dog gone home

Thanks to all who took care of this friendly lost dog. He is now safe and sound at home after his adventures on US62.

Photo by C.D. White

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INDEPENDENTNews Uneasy sits the Aud

CAPC works to steady the ship C.D. White Public reaction voiced to CAPC Chair, Charles Ragsdell, about the Independent story on the elimination of the Special Events/Auditorium director position posted online Oct. 30 (found here on page 9) prompted him to issue a lengthy press release to the media on Nov. 4.

In that release, Ragsdell said, “I want to make clear volunteers won’t be taking over management of the auditorium.

With the exception of one person, everyone else who has been instrumental in the shows for the past several years remains the same.”

In addition to comments made in the original story, Ragsdell noted that the CAPC was spending almost a tenth of its budget to fulfill the management agreement for the auditorium and recalled that the CAPC voted to return management of the building to the city several years ago. “They held workshops and a committee reviewed all the options. The committee’s unanimous vote recommended that the city create an Auditorium Commission to manage the building. The City Council declined to do so, suggesting a committee instead.”

An idea whose time has come?

The idea of an auditorium commission still has strong CAPC support.

CAPC commissioner James DeVito is in favor of a move to form a separate auditorium commission that would report to city council, as had been unanimously recommended by the committee formed a couple of years ago.

“My feeling is that the auditorium should be handled like any other city building – by the city, not the CAPC,” DeVito said. The main task of the CAPC could then be focused on “getting word about Eureka Springs out to five or six million people.

“Eureka Springs is coming into its own as an arts and cultural destination.

We’ve moved away from what we were in the nineties and I think our best years are yet to come based on what we are now,” DeVito said.

While commissioner Terry McClung shares the general conviction that the goal is to keep the auditorium open, he also shares DeVito’s feeling that the city, not the CAPC, should be responsible for it.

Setting the equation McClung also supports formation of a wholly separate commission, such as the hospital has, which would be responsible and answerable to the city for the auditorium.

“We can’t afford to abandon it, we just need to figure out how to manage it,” McClung told the Independent. “It will take a combination of the CAPC and the city to come up with an answer for its direction and management.

“Things need to be done differently, but it’s like algebra. Before you can find the answer, you have to figure out how to set the equation. That’s what we’re trying to do now.”

Working the problem CAPC Executive Director, Mike Maloney, said the CAPC signing a contract to be responsible for the auditorium for the next year gives the commission and the city interim breathing room to come up with a good, permanent solution. Maloney encourages use of the building to attract visitors to Eureka Springs and for the enjoyment of its citizens.

“In this community we see people gravitating to things they care about, like Save the Ozarks. The community wants to engage itself and this is a good thing.

We’ve seen interest in the auditorium and people stepping up who want to help and be involved. We want a building serving the community as it once did,” Maloney said. “It’s had a lot of life and still has a lot of life in it.”

Maloney and Ragsdell have been working on ideas to present to the commission outlining who would do what as they form an auditorium committee.

“These are the players that would be in control,” Maloney said, “and these will be taken to the commission regarding personnel to be on the committee.”

Ragsdell’s plan, according to his release, is for the following:

“Executive Director will develop marketing plans to promote the auditorium to potential promoters, musical acts, theater groups and other potential users of the facility. His staff will help implement those plans.

“CAPC Staff, with the committee’s input, will develop a very competitive rate structure for the various types of users that could use the facility, including discounts for non-profit and community organization use.

“Executive Director, Committee members and CAPC staff will solicit performances, promoters, groups and special events, and provide advertising and promotional support for them.

“Executive Director, Finance Director and Technical Director will review all proposed contracts for UNEASY continued on page 29

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INDEPENDENTNews Council

Not all vacations are the same

N icky B oyette Monday night, the Eureka Springs City Council approved the third readings of two proposed ordinances which would reclaim jurisdiction over two pieces of land for the purpose of vacating them, and alderman Terry McClung sees a disparity in the process.

One of the properties, an unopened section of Nut Street, is within the original 320 acres deeded to the city. The other, a portion of Palo Pinto Street, is part of a subdivision annexed by the city later.

McClung was not against the vacations. He disagrees with a section of a proposed Land Bank ordinance which states, “Resulting funds from the sale or lease of streets and alleys located in the 320 acres of Eureka Springs which have been deeded to the City will be deposited in the Land Bank.”

“In all fairness, it’s not right,” he stated firmly. “We can have an application fee, but charging per lot? No sir!”

He said the city maintains both properties the same and has jurisdiction over them equally, yet one of the owners pays only an application fee and the other must pay $200 per lot according to Code.

He moved to postpone the second

reading of the Land Bank ordinance until council could resolve this disparity. The vote on postponing was 3-2, with aldermen James DeVito and David Mitchell voting No. Mayor Morris Pate cast the fourth Yes vote, so further discussion was postponed.

Newly paved road into Lake Leatherwood City Park Pate urged everyone to check out the newly resurfaced road leading into Lake Leatherwood City Park. He said, “It’s as level as this table is smooth. Go drive on it. You’ll see how great it is, but remember the speed limit is 25 mph.”

A few other items • The third readings of ordinances which reclaim jurisdiction over part of Palo Pinto Street and an unopened part of Nut Street were approved unanimously.

• Council approved the second reading of Ordinance #2196 which rezones 80 Mountain from R-1 to C-3 and the third reading of Ordinance #2197 which updates the group tour franchise.

• The mayor’s office will set up a workshop for discussing a downtown

parking facility.

• Mitchell told council a citizen had approached him with useful information about the yellow trash bags. The bags used presently have twist-ties for securing them, but there are also bags made by the same manufacturer, and for the same cost, that have drawstrings instead. Mitchell asked Pate, who sits on the board of Carroll County Waste Management Authority, if he would recommend using drawstring bags instead.

• Alderman Mickey Schneider said she was present when Bam Bam, a young grizzly bear at Turpentine Creek, set foot on actual ground for the first time over the weekend. It was a thrill for all who witnessed it, and she wanted council to pass a resolution making the first Sunday of each November Bam Bam Day. Vote to approve her motion was 3-2, DeVito and McClung voting No, but Pate said he would vote Yes except said he would accomplish what she wanted in a less formal manner than a resolution.

Next meeting will be Monday, Nov. 25, at 6 p.m.

Lions Club extends invite to veterans

Lions Club of Eureka Springs is offering local veterans a special opportunity to serve their community.

The Involve a U.S. Veteran program is a nationwide initiative sponsored

by Lions Clubs International offering qualified U.S. veterans an entrance fee waiver when joining a local Lions club.

Eligible veterans include retired U.S. military personnel or honorably discharged members of the Air Force, Army, Coast Guard Services, Marines,

National Guard, Navy or Reserves.

Those currently serving in the National Guard or Reserves are also eligible.

The Lions Club of Eureka Springs meets the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays at noon at the Forest Hill Restaurant. Find out more at the next meeting, Nov. 12.

To learn more about the Involve a U.S. Veteran program or Lions Club of Eureka Springs, email Dan Ellis: dan@ danellis.net. For more information about Lions Clubs International, visit lionsclubs.org.

Amateur Radio Club meetings Thursday, Nov. 14, at noon, the Little Switzerland Amateur Radio Club will meet at Wild Hog BBQ, 3 Park Cliff Drive in Holiday Island, for lunch and monthly meeting.

Thursday, Nov. 21, at 6:30 p.m., the club will meet in the Berryville Mercy Hospital meeting room. Refreshments will be served. For more information email patriciadean@cox.net.

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INDEPENDENTNews Want health insurance by Jan. 1?

Go old school with paper application Becky Gillette In late October insurance companies reported that fewer than 200 people in the state had successfully signed up for health insurance on the Arkansas Health Insurance Marketplace. While the well-publicized problems with signing up on the federal website, www. healthcare.gov, are likely behind the low signup rate, local Arkansas Health Connector In Person Assister Guide, Char Cato, would like people to know there is another option to sign up for insurance by calling toll free (800) 318-2596 to apply over the phone or request a paper application. Or you can contact her at (479) 325-0943 to get a copy of an application.

Cato said about 6,000 Carroll County residents are uninsured and eligible to apply for insurance through the Arkansas Marketplace, www.www.arhealthconnector. org. In addition to those currently uninsured, anyone who is currently getting affordable health insurance through the ARHealth Network needs to apply soon if they want to be covered by Jan. 1, 2014, as Dec. 15 is the deadline for applications in order to get subsidized

health insurance under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

ARHealth Network coverage will end Dec. 31.

Deadline to apply for coverage under the ACA is March 31, 2014.

Cato said the ARHealth Network has helped a tremendous number of people in the state with coverage subsidized by a soft drink tax. She assumes most of the people on ARHealth Network will fall in the guidelines to receive premium assistance. But unless someone has filled out an application and had eligibility determined, she or he really won’t know the level of assistance.

Cato herself has been unable to sign up online – even very early, when website traffic should allow her to complete her application.

“I got up early the other day, and got further than I’ve ever gotten before,” Cato said. “The process looked very simple and direct. About 7 a.m., I wasn’t able to go any further. I attempted to continue with the process and I gave up. They are still in the process of trying to expand the capacity of the website. Some people are getting in on the website, and hopefully, as the days go

by, it will be more available.”

Cato recommends even if you can’t sign up online, you can visit the website to get information about the different types of plans. She said there is also a lot of good information on the state’s website, www. www.arhealthconnector.org. Another site with a cost estimator and information about the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act is http://KFF.ORG, operated by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

“Each person is unique,” she said. “Each individual or family will have to go through the application process to determine what level of assistance they might receive because it is based on household income. There is a calculator at both sites now. The healthcare.gov site has added some new features to help people preview plans and get an idea of what kind of assistance they might be eligible for. Anyone at or below 400 percent of federal poverty level will be eligible for some level of premium assistance.”

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Here’s a smattering of those who appreciate you, Jane and Woodie.

• UPS Store • Friendly Glass • Absolute Clean • Inn of the Ozarks • Main Street Cáfe • Island Airco • Quicksilver • Century 21 – Woodland Real Estate • Eric Hulsey Painting, LLC • Videoland • Sweet’s Fudge Kitchen • Big Dipper • Razorback Gifts • Nelson Funeral Home • Johnson Automotive • Eureka Inn • Ken McCoy Construction • Rowdy Beaver • Rain Guard of NW Arkansas • Pine Mountain Jamboree • Comfort Inn • Bare and Swett Agency • Mountain Country Real Estate • Thurman & Flanagin Law Office • Harts • Booze Bros. • Eureka Plumbing and Electrical Supply • Acord’s (the new ones) • Bunch’s • Al Larson Builder, Inc. • Don Eiler Real Estate • Simply Scrumptious Tea Room • Scarlett’s Lingerie and Curiosities

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INDEPENDENTNews Locals “tap” into Haitian kids’ lives C.D. White “I’ve got to finish packing, we’re leaving for Haiti tomorrow to go build tippy taps, bye!” Beverly Blankenship waved cheerily as she and husband, David, passed our table and exited the restaurant leaving one big question hovering in the air … “did they just say, ‘leaving for Haiti to go build tippy taps?’ Does that sentence even make sense?”

Now it does. The Blankenships have returned from Haiti with pictures of the tippy taps they built and stories of a people still in desperate need.

The couple left for Haiti on Sept.

26 with Beverly Dowland and Gale Morrison. The team of four, all from Full Faith Ministries, went to help former local, church member and friend, Kevin McCabe, whom the Blankenships met when he volunteered construction time building the ECHO Clinic.

Two years ago, Kevin went on a oneweek mission trip to Haiti and never came back.

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Tippy tappy happy –

Pastor Laghe (from left), Beverly Blankenship with Mirlanda, Kevin McCabe (in headband) Stephanie McCabe, David Blankenship, Beverly Dowland and Gail Morrison celebrate completion of the tippy taps shown at left outside the open air school. School was scheduled to begin the next day, but student Mirlanda couldn’t wait to try the tippy taps and show everyone her new dress.

“We went to Grassier, Haiti, about eighteen miles west of Port au Prince, where Kevin lives,” Beverly told the Independent. “He took us to some schools, where we sang with the children and told Bible stories, complete with props – funny glasses, hats, bow ties and mustaches. We were very much a hit!”

On one day, they built the tippy tap station pictured above. “It was the closest thing to running water many children had seen,” Beverly said. “The only problem was, the children wanted to wash their hands so many times the jugs had to keep getting refilled!”

The group also took clothes and shoes for children in an orphanage and bought rice, beans and eggs for them and for 53 families in a village in Babay. As they expected from a trip to the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, the quartet got a firsthand look at real poverty.

“The people lived in approximately ten by sixteen-foot rooms, for a whole family! Some had dirt floors, some had concrete slabs, but all their worldly possessions could have fit into one box.

The women did laundry daily because they did not have many clothes,” Beverly recounted.

Nonetheless the strangers received a warm welcome.

“Everyone was so friendly and inviting and wanted us to come into their homes, as meager as they were. Each home was very clean and neat, but very, very small. The children did not have toys and I am sure many knew what it was like to be hungry,” Beverly said.

“What we didn’t expect, and found

delightful, was the joy, friendliness and openness we found in the children there.

Everywhere we went, the children came running to see us and touch our skin and see our smiles and perhaps get a hug.

We went there to bless them, but we were the ones who received the biggest blessing. The children get up early and go to school and they are all very eager to learn and happy to be there. They have no iPads, iPods, computers, toys, cell phones or other things to keep them occupied, so school is a treat.”

Haiti is teeming with abandoned or orphaned children. Even those who still live with parents don’t always fare well.

The team was especially touched by the story of Mirlanda, a child used by voodoo practitioner parents repeatedly in their rituals by putting fire on or pouring hot oil on her, discoloring her skin and making her an outcast. No school would accept her because of this, except the orphanage school. In an attempt to stop the abuse, the school arranged for her parents to sign a contract saying they would not continue to use Mirlanda in these practices.

“Haiti has no tax system, no mail system and no road system, so everything there seemed to be a struggle. I was thankful to pay my property taxes this year and know that I was helping support our local schools and provide educations for the children in our community. But in Haiti, only if someone takes it upon themselves to build a school, hire the teachers and teach the children of that community, do they get an education.

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INDEPENDENTNews It’s a spider-eat-spider world N icky B oyette A black widow spider is not a creature to cozy up to. Even if a female black widow is as cute as a shiny black button, she cannot hide from her reputation as a cannibal nor the fact that her venom is 15 times stronger than rattlesnake venom.

Lactrodecus is a genus of spiders found around the world, and several of the species are known as widow spiders because the females have the unfortunate habit of eating the male after mating. According to the University of Arkansas, they are found throughout the state in leaf litter in the woods, under rocks or woodpiles, or in dark corners of outbuildings. You might encounter one in the pocket of a seldom-used jacket hanging in a shed. A woman barely across the state line in southern Missouri recently saw one on a sunny day scrambling through the grass, but usually black widows stick close to the web.

The females have black or dark spherical bodies, and with the legs spread out on all sides they can be one-and-a half inches long. Males are half that size.

Females have a distinct red hourglass figure, or at least a red oval, on the underbelly and males might also display white lines on their undersides in addition to

the red hourglass.

Black widows usually do their mating in June or July, and Lactrodecus females do not always eat their mate after sex. Observers claim some vigorous males get to procreate with several partners, another example of the line between scientist and voyeur being blurry.

A female might lay multiple egg clusters of 200 eggs each during the season.

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Mayor Morris Pate swore Hank Romanski in Monday as the newest Cemetery c o m m i s s i o n e r.

Hank is a retired policeman who is new to Eureka Springs.

Photo by Mary Ann Pownall

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EAST robots shine in prelims, make best rookie team in semi-finals On Nov. 1 and 2 the Eureka Springs High School EASTbots robotics members competed in their first BEST Robotics competition in Harrison.

The competition creates a level playing field by giving each team the same materials with which to build a robot that must perform a range of specific tasks. The event is a true example of the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) initiative spreading across the nation to encourage students to study and enter these professional fields after graduation.

The EASTbots surprised everyone in the preliminary competition by finishing third out of ten experienced

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teams from Missouri and Arkansas. In the semi-final competition they fell to lack of experience but walked away with a trophy for Best Rookie Team honors.

EASTbot team members, Jake Hager, Justin Ermert, Simon Larson and Taylor Weaver did an excellent job putting together a competitive robot in four weeks with the help of Eureka Springs graduate, Frank Weaver, and Justin’s father, Clyde Ermert of Ducommun Inc., a global aerospace design and engineering company.

With this kind of interest and future support from the community, the EASTbots robotic team will have a bright future!

INDEPENDENTNews “Groundswell” sweeps CAPC auditorium manager from job C.D. W hite The position of CAPC Auditorium Manager was eliminated Oct. 30, leaving Ray Dilfield without a job. Dilfield, who’s had a 30-year career in theater operations and concert production, told the Independent he felt “a sense of relief to no longer be dealing with politics that have nothing to do with the operation of the auditorium.”

“It’s always hard to lose a team member,” Mike Maloney, CAPC director, commented. “Knowing where we are today and the challenges we face, this decision was not made overnight.”

Maloney told the Independent for some time there has been a strong groundswell of interest in favor of bringing in volunteers, “one of the things we’ve been lacking.”

“The official position of the commission is that this is for the short term if not longer,” Maloney said.

“WoodsSongs showed there were volunteers who did want to work and become involved. Considering this and the interest in the Aud from a volunteer standpoint, we eliminated the auditorium management position and don’t have another position for Ray to go to at this point.”

As far as shows already booked into the auditorium, Maloney stated “We have several volunteers, including our contract labor folks, who will

handle events at the Aud including tickets, concessions, helping, etc. It’s all covered with quality help. Our technical arrangements are secured with Ron Sumner so we have no issues providing a professional, quality show.”

CAPC Chair, Charles Ragsdell, explained in a press release to the media, “In order to support as much advertising as possible and to continue to build reserves mandated by the Commission, the Executive and Finance Directors have been looking at every possible way to reduce spending. When we received vehement complaints about the recent reductions in advertising that were being made to meet our goals, the Finance Director proposed defunding the majority of the special events next year. These cuts would eliminate the last of the remaining events the Special Events office was tasked to produce and promote.

“During our annual evaluations, we analyzed all the various job descriptions and found that as part of his contract Technical Director Ron Sumner had traditionally fulfilled many of the job duties of the Auditorium Manager.

Other tasks had traditionally been done by the House Manager Sarai Aleshire.

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INDEPENDENTNews Honoring those who serve Veterans’ Day falls on Monday, Nov. 11, but celebrations begin Nov. 8, Eureka-style.

Friday, Nov. 8, 2nd Annual Bragging Rights Hamburger Cook Off 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.

At Pine Mountain Village on 62W, you can get a tasty lunch for only $3 by sampling the best burgers around and voting for your favorite.

Competing chefs and grill cooks, as well as home cooks will serve up their best meaty creations. There’s still time to enter – bring your own grill, table and burger-dressing person. Entry fee $25, with proceeds to support

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the American Legion’s community services. Trophies and bragging rights for restaurants, grill cooks and home cooks.

At 7 p.m. enjoy a special Veterans Appreciation Show at the Pine Mountain Theater featuring patriotic music by guest performers with a flag presentation and program by the American Legion color guard.

Free admission, but a $10 suggested donation will be accepted toward a Flag Fund to put American flags on display throughout Eureka Springs.

Saturday, Nov. 9, Kids Carnival and Face Painting 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.

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Bring the family back to Pine Mountain Village for a fun kids’ event.

SkyWalk Entertainment will also be in the Village with inflatables and Glitter Dazzle will be painting little faces... and big ones, too! (Nobody’s too old to get his or her face painted!)

Pick Off In The Park 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Downtown in Basin Park, stringed instrument players will compete for cash prizes and a trophy – and they don’t even need a pick! This is for anyone who plays a stringed instrument with a pick, a bow, or even toes. Entry fee is $10. First place prize is $50, plus a trophy. Second and third place receive trophy and restaurant coupons. Event will be held in the AUD in case of bad weather.

Sunday, Nov. 10, 2nd Annual Vet Art Show/Sale and Silent Auction Noon – 5 p.m.

Make your way to Caribé Restaurant, 309 W. Van Buren (US 62W), and enjoy unique art by and about veterans. Vets may enter any artwork they choose. Non-vets are encouraged to enter work honoring vets, military, peace, patriotism, etc. During the show there will be a silent auction of art, merchandise, gift certificates and more – all to honor and support our veterans.

Sunday, Nov. 10, Marine Corps Birthday and Veterans’ Ball 5 – 7 p.m.

Help the Marines celebrate their birthday with food, fun with dancing

to music from all eras at Jack’s Place (look for the sign, it’s down the stairway) at 37 Spring St. This Ball is “Eureka Style” – fancy dress optional. Join old friends and meet news ones.

Monday, Nov. 11, Eureka Springs Veterans’ Day Parade 10 a.m.

A parade of floats, walkers, horses, motorcycles, musicians and more honors veterans. A “Tribute to Fallen Veterans” follows the parade with the singing of The Star Spangled Banner in the Pied Piper parking lot.

On 11/11 at 11:11 a.m. a gun salute is performed Walker/Wilson Post #9 and American Legion Posts all around the United States. The Salute will be followed by the playing of Taps and a Meet and Greet at the Pied Piper Pub. Be sure to check the Facebook page “Eureka Springs Veterans Day Parade” for updates and changes or phone (479) 253-2519.

Prance your pooch (or even a loaner!) in the Veterans’ Day Parade In a show of support for our Veterans, the Good Shepherd Humane Shelter will participate in the Veteran’s Day Parade Nov. 11 at 10 a.m. All dog lovers are invited to parade their pooch through town to honor our vets. Don’t have a pooch?

If you’d like to walk a shelter dog, please contact shelter manager Janice Durbin (479) 253-9188. Parade lines up at the library at 9 a.m. Be there before 9:30 if you plan to walk in the parade.

INDEPENDENTNews As “the Wheel” turns …

Local Rotary celebrates 90 years C.D. W hite From one group of four businessmen in 1905 Chicago, Rotary Clubs have multiplied and expanded around the globe to number an estimated 34,000 clubs with 1.2 million Rotary International members. The organization, comprised of business and professional leaders, is united worldwide to provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations and help build goodwill and peace in the world.

The Eureka Springs Rotary, founded on Nov. 12, 1923, is part of the network of clubs making up Rotary International. On Nov. 10 our local Rotarians invite the community to help them celebrate 90 years of good work in Eureka Springs with a cake and punch reception at the Best Western Eureka Inn, 101 E. Van Buren (US 62) from 2 – 5 p.m.

Like most Rotary clubs, the local group started out as men-only under its first president, Richard Thompson. In 1987 two women were invited to join – Mary Ellen Sheard and Carol Worley.

Mary Ellen became the first Eureka Springs woman president in 1992-1993.

The Eureka Springs Rotary currently has 55 members and is dedicated to serving the community through supporting projects such as the rebuilding of the arch in Basin Spring Park and refurbishing the East Mountain Overlook. Through the club’s major annual fundraiser, the Victorian Classic, donations have been made to local service organizations invcluding, but not limited to, Flint Street Food Pantry, People Helping People, the Carnegie Public Library and Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge. With money raised from the Spring Golf Classic, scholarships are given each year to deserving seniors in the area.

Rotary is known for its commitment to facing challenging problems around the world. In 1979, Rotary began its fight against polio with a project to immunize six million children in the Philippines. Members of Eureka

The first four Rotarians (1905) – Gustavus Loehr (mining engineer), Silvester Schiele (coal merchant), Hiram E. Shorey (merchant tailor) and founder Paul P. Harris (lawyer).

Springs Rotary have donated thousands of dollars to help the effort to eradicate polio around the world. By 2012, only three countries remained polio-endemic – down from 125 in 1988. In addition, through the help of Rotary International, water wells have been built in villages throughout Africa and India.

In addition to annual fundraisers, each Rotarian donates one dollar each week to be used for miscellaneous expenses and to help organizations throughout the community all year.

From this fund, $1,000 was donated to the Eureka Springs Historical Museum and $500 to Operation Hungry Child.

Members of the Eureka Springs Rotary have served the community by supporting youth projects including the Rotary Interact Club at Eureka Springs High School, providing dictionaries to 3rd graders and the “I Like Me” Reading programs, where Rotarians provide personalized books for each kindergartener at Eureka

Springs elementary school. The books are not only presented to the children, but volunteer Rotarians go into the classroom, visit with the children and read or listen to the students as they read their own books.

The original Rotary Club got its name back in the early 1900s from the idea of “rotation” – rotation of meeting places, chairpersons and even memberships (which were to last only a year). The club was comprised of leaders of various businesses with the idea of networking across political boundaries and interfacing with the community.

Rotary International has an interesting history and www. rotaryfirst100.org is worth a look for those who wonder how successful organizations are made. On Nov. 10 come learn more and help our local Rotarians celebrate 90 years of serving this community and others around the world. www.esINDEPENDENT.com | November 6, 2013 |

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Commercial hog farms a source of nothing good for Arkansas

Editor, Thank you for your lead article, Hog Factories by Becky Gillette calling attention to the horror of confined animal factories. An ever-growing number of state, national and international citizens are outraged that the State of Arkansas’ ADEQ issued the permit for a factory farm containing 6,500 hogs in the middle of our natural treasure, the Buffalo National River.

I live and work as an artist at Cave Creek Studio on the farm my family homesteaded in Newton County, and which is situated unfortunately close to the new hog farm. Thankfully, water testing has begun here to gain knowledge and gather evidence relating to this stinky situation.

This CAFO is being built on Big Creek in the tiny town of Mount Judea next to our public school, the café and general store. Hog effluent will be

collected and sprayed on the fields of Big Creek, a major tributary of Buffalo River National Park.

As you pointed out so well in your article, these operations have been proven to pollute air and water, causing severe health problems for humans and wildlife.

We the people have the power to demand that the flawed new CAFO general permit process be changed to prohibit these factory farms in the Buffalo River watershed and in the Natural State of Arkansas. Just as with

the SWEPCO power line, this is a true property rights’ issue. Our lands do not belong solely to those who are planning to profit from these extreme operations.

Eureka Springs has become my art mecca, and I applaud the progressive spirit here. I would like to ask all that have read your article to visit and join Buffalo River Watershed Alliance at buffaloriveralliance.org .

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Tossed salad and scrambled eggs

he more children read, the likelier they are to understand human emotions, yet 80 percent of U.S. families neither bought nor read a book last year. Maybe books are obsolete. But learning, and reacting to what we’ve learned, hasn’t changed. The only thing that’s changed is how we compile our information.

Now that it’s cooler weather, we in the office aren’t outside as much as we should be. But we sit under the canvas hackberry, commonly called an umbrella, and let the rain have its way with our deck. We talk louder than the falling rain and try to make sense of why people do what they do. Including us.

We squabble about how money is spent, whether or not marriage should be treated as going into business for yourself, and why it doesn’t hurt men when they amputate their beards. We can’t figure out why SWEPCO doesn’t seem to know the way to Tennessee, why the National Security Agency thinks data mining is a wholesome way to spend time, and the fact that violating the Fourth Amendment is a lawyer sport. Why can’t teeth heal themselves? Other bones do.

We misunderstand more than we understand. For years we thought people were actually saying they were “going to parfait this into something great!” We bought popcorn at the confession stand during home games.

The moment things became clear was also the precise time they became muddier, and we realized that life is the biggest thief of all. The longer you live, the less life you get.

How did this town attract more traffic last weekend than anyone remembers? Our friends coming to visit from Colorado just kept going Saturday night because they couldn’t find a motel room. Was it the big fat gay wedding celebration? Halloween? Planetary harmony? Zombies’ parade? We know we’re strikingly humorous and gorgeously situated, but really, who filled our town? We don’t know, but we do know that we fed everybody, protected them while they were here, and managed to be gracious, grateful and happy as all get out.

We recently had a tale related to us about years ago when a group of civic movers and shakers went to the biggest moving and shaking state this side of Alaska to see if a theme park could be constructed here to increase tourism. The Texas theme park seller dude said he’d go ahead and come see us – drive to the wilds of northwest Arkansas, far away from any interstates and professional football stadiums, and take a look.

When he got here he was escorted about town by the instigators. They finished the tour, sat down for a plateful of fried chicken, and waited to hear the man tell them what it would cost to build a theme park in Eureka Springs. Napkins were tossed on the table, toothpicks came out, tea glasses were overfilled and chairs put in reverse until everyone was comfy. The man cleared his craw. “You people don’t need a theme park.

You are a theme park!”

He was so right. We have all the components – smoke and mirrors, deer shoots, parades of Lamborghinis and Marines, and perky houses that hang onto hillsides for dear life.

Maybe we don’t read as much as those who had no smartphones or Kindles back in the day. It doesn’t make us any less smart or any less worthy than they. It just proves we’re adaptable. We have what we need, know that more isn’t always better, and if we were going to sit down to read something it would be the Fun Guide.

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ThePursuitOfHAPPINESS

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by Dan Krotz was involved in a series of mostly trivial negotiations last week with a really annoying kid. He’s the sort of guy who inherits the family hardware store and thereafter believes that he invented iron and steel. While he hammered on and on, I imagined his bewildered parents deciding, one tense night over the dining room table – oh, ten years ago – to send him to Texas A&M, with no greater hope than he avoid knocking up some poor working girl from Uvalde.

He became increasingly frustrated at my adherence to a first principle – that he share the money – and blurted out, “Pigs go to slaughter, Pops.”

Pops. How about that?

I first heard the phrase, almost 40 years ago, from Abe Bemis, an unassuming, sweet natured man who became a beloved mentor. “Pigs go to slaughter, Sunny Jim,” he admonished, referencing an apple-cheeked boy-logo who adorned cereal boxes back in the 1930s. “You have to know when enough is enough.”

I broke into laughter when the kid said it. That made him really mad. He didn’t know I was laughing because I’d come full circle, from Sunny Jim to Pops, in one runty life. But I apologized, folded, and let the kid think he’d won.

He hadn’t, of course. Abe had won.

Knowing when enough is enough may be the biggest challenge we face these days. Did Miley Cyrus go too far? Do the Koch brothers have enough money?

Has the NSA collected enough data? Have we fracked the earth enough? Have we had enough of the Kardashians? Does SWEPCO really need more power lines? Does Cargill need more pork? Do we need more pork?

The answers aren’t as simple as they seem. You and I might agree that the Koch brothers have enough money, but do we agree that you have enough money? I have enough money (if I don’t buy anything), but I know about your food jones. If you would just stop… well, you get my drift. Ultimately, we’re individually responsible for knowing when enough is enough. Let’s hope we can figure it out before we all go to slaughter.

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INDEPENDENTConstablesOnPatrol October 28 3:52 p.m. – Individual came to the station to report harassment. Constable took the information in case it happens again.

October 29 8:50 p.m. – ESPD got word of a dog wandering loose near Lake Lucerne, but constable did not see it.

October 30 11:05 a.m. – Animal Control picked up a stray dog near Pine Mountain Village and returned it to its owner with a warning about leash laws.

11:35 a.m. – Bicycle rider on Rockhouse Road reported two dogs followed him back into city limits.

He had called the owner but she had not arrived yet. Animal Control came to wait with the dogs until the owner arrived. She lived outside city limits.

1:35 p.m. – Resident told ESPD items were missing from her house.

3:11 p.m. – Shop owner downtown complained that an individual wearing a beanie and carrying a sleeping bag with him was acting strangely. He left the premises without his shoes.

Constable on patrol spoke with the individual and determined he was not intoxicated.

4:24 p.m. – There was a minor accident on Spring Street. No injuries.

October 31 1:20 a.m. – Restaurant staff said someone had knocked on the door three different times so he asked if a constable would check it out. Turns out it was the paper delivery person.

2:30 a.m. – Tow truck driver informed ESPD of a call for towing a vehicle that had run off the road. He wanted a constable to check on it, and the

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constable responded and issued a citation to the driver.

9 a.m. – A truck pulling a trailer backed into a flowerbed at a motel and drove away. Constable gathered information about the vehicle.

6:54 p.m. – Resident near downtown saw a female dressed like a Playboy bunny with a male wearing a baseball cap who were checking car doors on the street. Constable never encountered them.

9:03 p.m. – Bank employee asked a constable to check to see if he had locked the door of the bank. Constable found the door unlocked, and he waited until the keyholder arrived.

9:13 p.m. – Witness saw a driver park halfway on the sidewalk, stumble out of the vehicle and leave the area.

Constable observed there were cars all over the place in that neighborhood, and the subject had been walking his dog. He had also moved his vehicle.

10:25 p.m. – Someone called to inform ESPD that people were smoking marijuana near the back entrance to a bar downtown. Constable went to check it out, but people were way gone.

11:16 p.m. – Central dispatch alerted ESPD to a vehicle whose occupants had reportedly thrown beer cans out the window. Constables watched for but never encountered the vehicle.

November 1 2:24 a.m. – Constable and ESFD responded to a structure fire near downtown. Constables put on extra patrols to make sure the fire did not reignite or that the scene was not tampered with afterwards.

8:40 a.m. – Someone drove a vehicle

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behind the train station and then went south on Main Street. Constables kept watch for the vehicle.

8:49 a.m. – Constable responded to a report that a person was loading up rocks from alongside Magnetic Drive.

Constable told the person to put the rocks back, they are not for taking.

10:48 a.m. – Two constables responded to a robbery alarm which had been accidentally triggered.

10:38 p.m. – Person told ESPD that soon after arrival at a room at an inn, an employee showed up and told them they had to leave but he was going to charge the credit card anyway.

Constable arrived at the scene and spoke with everyone involved.

November 2 1:18 a.m. – Person who had just left a downtown bar noticed two apparently intoxicated females sitting in the middle of a nearby street. Constable responded but the females were already gone.

1:19 a.m. – A male and female were arguing at their motel. They walked down the road a ways but could still be heard from the motel. Constables arrived and separated them for the night.

1:54 a.m. – Passenger in a taxi saw a female lying on the side of the road.

Constables arrived to find the two females from an earlier call and gave them a ride to their room.

4:21 a.m. – Routine traffic stop resulted in the arrest of the driver for driving on a suspended license, no proof of insurance and expired tags.

12:15 p.m. – Individual came to the station to report his medication had been stolen out of his vehicle.

3:33 p.m. – Constables stopped a vehicle they suspected had just been in an accident and waited for a deputy to arrive.

5:22 p.m. – Three dogs had been hanging around a bar on US 62, but they were not there when a constable went to check on them.

8:19 p.m. – Eight calls came in within five minutes regarding a fireworks display set off downtown. Constables went to the scene and saw no fireworks, but remained vigilant.

9:06 p.m. – There was flashing and popping at the power station on Dairy Hollow Road.

9:10 p.m. – Wife called to report her husband just ran off with her cell phone and vehicle. Two constables went to their home and found him packing things and getting ready to leave.

10:26 p.m. – Constable arrested a driver for driving with a suspended license.

11:46 p.m. – ESFD responded to a report of a gas smell on South Main.

They did not find any gas leaks.

November 3 12:35 a.m. – Constable found the cause of the gas smell downtown. A car had bumped into a meter causing some damage. A tow truck moved the vehicle and ESFD took care of the gas leak.

12:57 a.m. – There was a fight outside a downtown bar. Constables took one of the combatants into custody.

1:20 a.m. – And just up the street there was another fight and another individual was taken into custody.

1:26 a.m. – Concerned observer thought she saw a possible break-in.

There were people with flashlights making a lot of noise. Two constables went to the address to find the landlord was there at the early hour.

1:58 a.m. – A sporty vehicle on Main Street made its way out of town by driving down the middle of the road.

Constables did not see it but notified the sheriff.

1:59 a.m. – Constables watched for a driver who was reported to be very intoxicated, but they never saw the vehicle.

2:13 a.m. – This time it was a pickup drag racing with two other vehicles on Main Street. The constable was in the area, but he never encountered the vehicles.

10:53 a.m. – Another pickup was racing toward town, this time from the south, and again, constables never encountered it.

1:52 p.m. – Person reported her medication was missing from her purse and her apartment.

4:59 p.m. – Person at home reported what appeared to be a male trying to get in the front door. When approached, he took off in his vehicle. Constable encountered him, and he said he was going door-to-door for a Cub Scout food campaign.

INDEPENDENTNews Cleanup crew – Grassy

Knob volunteer firefighter Jay Bender and his wife, Lynn Eaton, pick up trash and recyclables along a stretch of Hwy. 187 as part of the annual Grassy Knob road clean up. The Grassy Knob Volunteer Fire Department receives some additional funding as a result of the clean up efforts.

Free computer literacy training for older adults

The Carnegie Public Library, partnering with the University of Arkansas at Monticello and Connect Arkansas, will provide free Senior Citizen Adult Computer Literacy Training in the Library Annex Friday, Nov. 15, from 9 a.m. – 12 noon for those 50 and older.

The class will give detailed instruction in computer literacy from how to use the computer to setting up email

and navigating Facebook. Laptops will be provided, but you are encouraged to bring your own if you prefer. Those interested in enrolling must contact the Library (479) 253-8754. Space is limited, so call early to reserve a spot.

If there is a high demand, a second session may be added.

Sunday at EUUF Sunday, Nov. 10, Barbara Lingle of the Benton County UU Fellowship will present findings of scientific research on how meditation affects our brains and bodies, helping us to evolve more consciously. All are welcome to join us Sundays at 11 a.m. at 17 Elk St. for a program followed by refreshments.

Childcare is provided. Extra parking at Ermilio’s Restaurant, 26 White Street.

(479) 253-0929, www.euuf.org

Bank calls for photos of veterans Community First Bank invites residents to bring in photos of friends and family who have served or are currently serving our country in the military. Photos should be brought in as soon as possible and will be displayed until Nov. 15 to honor veterans and their service.

There will be a reception with refreshments on Nov. 8 in the lobby. All are invited.

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INDEPENDENTArt Writing workshops with Crescent Dragonwagon

Sharpen your writing skills with two workshops with James Beard award-winning cookbook and children’s book author Crescent Dragonwagon. You love to cook.

You have stories you want to tell.

You have a food-related perspective on environment, health, spirituality, family, celebration, regionalism – or maybe you’re passionately interested in gardening, locavorism or organics.

Maybe going gluten-free changed your life, or maybe your family’s culinary history is a story begging to be told.

In the generous literary cornucopia that is present-day culinary writing, the cookbooks come spilling out.

Yet there’s so much more: culinary memoirs with or without recipes, food-related blogs, on- or off-line reviews of restaurants, cookbooks, cooking tools, culinary mysteries and genre-morphing nonfiction.

Maybe you have a place in all this.

Maybe you have something to say, and a unique voice in which to say it. Find out during the Deep Feast: Writing the World Through Food workshop at the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow, 515 Spring, on Wednesday, Nov. 13, from 6 – 9 p.m.

And then, how do you move from thinking about it to actually writing?

Find out in Crescent’s three-hour workshop Procrastination: Stop it.

Write now! Sunday, Nov. 24, from 1 – 4 p.m. when Crescent returns to help writers move their writing from thinking about it and endless postponement to action in an exuberant afternoon workshop.

Seating limited. For costs and to register, email director@ writerscolony.org or phone (479) 2537444. Check for updates on Facebook on the “Writers Colony” and “Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow” pages.

Forget Black Friday After the Thanksgivingturkey tryptophan wears off, forget Black Friday and scratch Cyber Monday.

Use that new-found surge of energy instead to explore a fantastic alternative to stressful holiday shopping at ESSA’s Fall Art Show at the Inn of the Ozarks Convention Center Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 30 – Dec. 1.

Visit with 50 prolific regional artists as you shop for unique holiday gifts from fabric art to pottery, weaving, jewelry, paintings in several media, photography, metal work, wood creations and more. Featured are ESSA founders Eleanor Lux, Mary Springer, and Doug Stowe in addition to perennial favorites Valerie Damon, Zeek Taylor and Chon Stanley.

The work of ESSA instructors Terry Russell, Les Brandt, Judy Lee and Sonny Carpenter, Jim Nelson and Bob Norman will also be showcased at this exciting event. Whether two-dimensional or three-dimensional and made of fiber, wood, clay, glass or metal – large or small – all manner of art will be on display and available for every budget.

Admission to the exhibit and sale is only $5 and will benefit ESSA’s mission to continue creating art education opportunities in Northwest Arkansas. For more information visit www.ESSA-art.org or call (479) 253-5384. Hours Saturday are 10 a.m. – 7 p.m., Sunday 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.

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John Elliott, Matt the Electrician electrify House Concert Eureka House Concerts presents John Elliott Nov. 10. Endearing, soulful and irreverent, Elliott’s songs are as eclectic as his view of the world.

He uses words as punctuation, as paint and as pieces of a puzzle that will never fit together. He captures that essence of being human that we feel but can’t ever express. With seven albums JOHN ELLIOTT MATT THE ELECTRICIAN to his credit and over 250,000 miles on his Honda Civic, John is the epitome of the musical road warrior.

As a special treat Matt the Electrician will be joining John on the stage.

Matt crafts sharp narratives with equal measures of heart and home. What really stands out about Matt as a performer is he makes every crowd his own. By the end of his set, no matter who they came to see, the audience will be Matt the Electrician fans.

This will be an outstanding night. Doors open at 5 p.m. at 17 Elk Street with a meet and greet potluck, music starts at 6 p.m. $15 donation at the door. See more at www.thehereafterishere.com or www.matttheelectrician.com.

Sounds of the Season jazz up the holidays Don’t miss the 17th annual “Sounds of the Season” concert Saturday, Nov. 16, at 4 p.m. in the Holiday Island Clubhouse. The concert opens with “First Line-New Orleans Jazz.” “First line” is the main section of the brass band parade in New Orleans.

Those who follow the band just to enjoy the music are called the “second line.” The second line’s style of traditional dance, in which participants walk and sometimes twirl a parasol or handkerchief in the air, is called “second lining” and has been called “the quintessential New Orleans art

form – a jazz funeral without a body.”

Al Gibson is the energetic leader of “First Line.” Reviewer KJ Cain called the Al Gibson Sextet’s First Line recording, It’s About Time!, “Mainstream Jazz here folks... not one boring note! Five Stars out of Five!”

The second half of the concert features the Ozarks Chorale led by Beth Withey. This 60-member community chorus comes from all around the region and has sung for the annual concert since its inception 17 years ago. Tickets are $10, children free.

Phone (479) 253-7671 or purchase at the door.

Chew on food for thought Food For Thought, a free evening of food and entertainment, will be presented at Caribé on Friday, Nov. 8, at 6 p.m. Come hear the Eureka Springs Christian Writers’ Group share their latest creative endeavors including Metaphorological Weather-Tainment, musical performances, poetry and more. All are welcome.

Food for Thought, sponsored by Christian writers’ group and Studio

62, is in its 5th year. Ron Lutz, event director, had a simple motive when he conceived the idea: give people a fun evening out while offering writers a chance to share their work with the public. An excuse for a party! The variety of writing offers many different perspectives on life and faith. People often remark, “It’s not at all like we expected.” For more information, call Studio 62 (479) 363-9209.

INDEPENDENTArt Now showing at Docfest Docfest at the Carnegie features “We Steal Secrets” at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 8, in the Library Annex Friends’ Room. The remaining Friday films will be “We the Tiny House People” (Nov. 15), and “Stories We Tell” (Nov. 22). Free admission and popcorn! Questions? Call the library (479) 253-8754 or visit eurekalibrary.org.

Holiday Cooking Workshop You can put something spectacular on the table this holiday season and wow family and friends after taking these hands-on classes at the new CulinArts Center at the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow, 515 Spring, on Nov. 22 and 23. Classes taught by Margie Raimondo, cook and winemaker.

For costs and to register, email director@writerscolony.org or phone (479) 253-7444. Check for updates on Facebook on “Writers Colony” and “Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow” pages. Seating limited.

All across the country – Eureka Springs Cross Country Team brought home a total of

31 medals from the bi-district meet at Magazine Nov. 2. The Senior Boys won Regional and Conference champs, Senior Girls won Runner-up Conference champs and Junior Boys Runnerup Conference champs. Our team of athletes is (back row, from left) Eden Randolph, Dalton Kesner, Ryan Sanchez, Mathew McClung, Jake McClung, Nathan Andress, Reggie Sanchez, Luis Palacios, Robert Lefever and Sara Andress. Middle row, from left, are Brandon Ray, Garrett Cross, Corinna Green, Nicole Morrison and Rachael Adams. Front, from left, Angus Floyd and Tyler Walker.

Photo by Chrys McClung

Cute as a cupcake –

LeRoy Gorrell, Appraisal Services Director, serves up something palatable at the Community First Bank’s retro Sweet Sixteen Birthday Party on Nov. 1. Gorrell grilled hot dogs and veggie kebobs for the crowd and made sure everyone got a sweet sixteen cupcake. Music from the ‘60s filled the air and staffers and guests even got to do the twist with a lifesized cardboard Elvis.

Photo by CD White

Help for the holidays Holiday Island Community Church, 188 Stateline Dr., is sponsoring a special one afternoon seminar, “Surviving the Holidays,” a helpful, encouraging seminar for people facing the holidays after the loss of a loved one, even if it was several years ago.

The seminar will be held Sunday, Nov. 17, from 2 – 4 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall at no charge. Get help and support with practical suggestions and reassurance through video interviews and a time of fellowship. Feel free to bring a memento of your loved one to share. If you plan to attend, or for more information, email lardellen@gmail.com or call Dale or Laura Nichols (479) 253-8925.

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hen the opportunity arises, I read old issues of the Eureka Springs Times-Echo newspaper to try and get a flavor of the past. Currently on my desk are the Nov. 12 and Nov. 19, 1959 editions.

The big news then was a devastating fire at Clark’s Market on Main Street.

Manager Roland Clark quickly reopened in a temporary location on White Street. I am told that this is the same building that has now housed Lux Weaving Studio for many years.

Another big event was the staging of Carroll County’s first annual modern deer hunt. Locally, bucks killed were checked in at O’Connor’s Texaco Service Station or at Busch. In total that first deer season, 56 bucks were killed in the county. The largest was a

17-point, 290-pounder by J.T. Littrell.

For comparison, now nearly a thousand deer are killed annually in Carroll County.

Deer were so scarce in those days that when Ben Walker hit and killed a 140-pound doe with his car near Beaver one evening, it was a front-page story.

As the proposed Beaver Dam was to be constructed in a relatively remote spot on the White River, a new heavy duty road was needed from Busch to accommodate the future construction traffic. A company out of Pine Bluff submitted the low bid. Construction of an office building was ongoing at the dam site.

Tommy Walker was out on the ocean somewhere between New Zealand and Antarctica serving aboard

by Steve Weems

the destroyer escort USS Peterson.

On the social scene, Miss Nancy Ann Mullins became the bride of William Ernest Goff of Tulsa at the Penn Memorial First Baptist Church on Spring Street. An all-star cast of Eurekans assisted in the ceremony.

Among others, Ludean Cross was matron of honor, while the bridesmaids were Sue Cole [Jones] and Bobbie Jean Walker [Bayles]. Diane Weems [McClelland] served as flower girl.

Ushers were Steve Bingaman and Gary Higgins.

Return of the Fly with Vincent Price and Some Like it Hot with Marilyn Monroe were just two of the many films shown that November at the New Basin Movie Theater on Spring Street.

One of the best real estate

opportunities advertised that month was a 120-acre farm on the highway 2.5 miles from Eureka Springs. Included are a house, barn, cellar, well, 3 ponds, 5 springs and more, all for $6,500.

And Jello was on sale at Walker’s Super Market for five cents a box.

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TheNATUREofEUREKA

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ature is clean. Nature is pure.

Nature is unspoiled. And if you believe that, I would like to sell you beach front property on the Moon.

When we buy something labeled natural or labeled organic, that product or food category, whatever it may be, comes with

by Steven Foster

Nature as fiction an underlying expectation of integrity, honesty, truthfulness and reliability.

The same expectations holds true for scientific literature, in which a process of peer review, critique of theory, vigilance of methodology and veracity of conclusions assumes that the

published findings are upheld at least by the reputations of researcher(s), editor(s), and publisher(s). These are general, if naïve, expectations and beliefs we hold that things are what they seem to be. Yes, it’s true. I’m a happy curmudgeon and skeptic.

Early in my career, I became intrigued by concepts related to quality, identity and labeling of herb products. At the time I worked at the Herb Department of the Sabbathday Lake Maine Shaker Community, whose history dated back to the late 18th century, but there was no longer any direct expertise in herb production. During the time I worked there from 1974-78, I learned by trial and error.

We had a catnip tea product. The catnip I grew had a strong, aromatic fragrance, typical of catnip rich in essential oil. We sold more than were able to grow. We had to buy bulk catnip that turned out to be left over stem and stubble from seed production. No selfrespecting cat would respond to a cat toy

Highlander senior Ryan Sanchez goes for an absolute two points against Oark last Friday night. The boys won handily, 79-28, leaving them with a three and one conference season.

Photo by David Frank Dempsey

Lady Highlander senior forward, Abbey Moore, goes high to score another two points against Oark at Eureka Springs High School gym last Friday. The Lady Highlanders clinched the win in the last seconds with a thin 40-38 victory.

Photo by David Frank Dempsey

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filled with these floor sweepings.

In the company of cats, my homegrown catnip turned me into a feline pied-piper. Both samples were catnip, but the quality was dramatically different.

If there’s a buck to be made, someone is going to find away to make that buck. If you don’t know what it is you’re buying, the possibility of not getting what you expect increases. With the pressure for academics to publish or perish, I promise you, if your study is rejected by one journal, no problem, as you can always find a journal happy to take your scientific paper no matter what the quality of the science might be.

The bottom line is that you can’t always believe what you read, whether it’s at a website, on a product label, in a scientific paper, or reporting on a scientific paper. I have come to believe that the only published word that is what it seems to be is fiction.

FAME CAME LATE©

– Book Two, Chapter 8, cont.

Gaskins’ Tragedies

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. unt Lacey was an invalid from a argument, Lewis Williams walked into stroke some time before. It was another room, came out with a shotgun habit with Uncle Tom to take and shot and killed both his brothers in her to town with him every Saturday. He the presence of their mother. would park the car in a shady place and Bertha Williams survived the leave her there all day while he spent the tragedy of sitting in the same room with time in local bars with his cronies. the bodies of her two slain sons until help Their son, Frank, and their daughter, arrived. Lewis Williams went out on the Helen, both were aware that their porch and calmly awaited the arrival of mother was sitting up there alone authorities. He surrendered peacefully to in the car, and would leave their them. work during lunch break and take A few minutes after the double food to her. Their father would murders, I heard of the tragedy via return at whatever time he decided Remembering respected and admired by the community television. I called Nina Jean and Hugh. to go home. On that Saturday, both that he was Mama’s as they courageously went about making We drove over there where we found Frank and Helen had gone to the brother and that had a living for their big families alone. When Bertha, still sitting on the edge of the bed place on Seventh and Main where she been there, she their parents passed away, they were and in shock. We went with her to attend they usually found the car parked would have forgiven faced with the problem of the care of the double funeral of her slain sons. and found that it was not there.

Several months later we him, I offered to their small children as well as providing Reasoning that their father had not accompanied her to Neosho where her take him home with for them. They managed to send all of driven into town that day at all, they me. He was happy their children to school and all of them son, Lewis, stood trial for murder on had not looked for him. two counts. He was found guilty and to accept my offer. However, after all finished high school.

Just after midnight, Uncle Tom the evidence I had heard of his temper Bertha Williams’ two daughters met sentenced to 25 years on each count, the arrived at his daughter Mary’s house and tantrums when he was drunk, I was afraid and married wheat farmers, one from sentences to run concurrently. He died in told her that he had found her mother of him. I told him on our way home that Kansas and one from Illinois. Her three prison three years later. It was not until dead in the car. he was welcome in my home as long as sons remained in the area where they had we went to Bertha’s home at that time that He was arrested and charged with he stayed sober, but that should he start grown up. Two of them served a term we learned she had never really forgiven first degree murder. When we heard drinking again, he would have to leave. with the armed forces. him for the death of her other sons. She about it, Elba said he could not believe He stayed with us for a year. Just a kind It was a known fact that the three did not attend his funeral. his Uncle Tom was guilty and went to and gentle old man whom I learned to brothers were doing a lot of drinking and Within the next three years all three Joplin to try to arrange bail for him. He love. I had almost begun to believe that what their mother termed “carousing.” of Uncle Tom Gaskins’ sons died and returned home three days later and it was he could not possibly have been guilty of There in her little home in the Redings were buried in Carthage. LeRoy had evident that he had changed his mind. the crime when he showed up drunk one Mill community, she was witness to spent most of his adult life in a mental However, he thought the family needed night. I did exactly what I promised him I many of their brawls and had become institution. Frank was found dead in his me and asked me to go for the trial six would do. I threw him out. truck after suffering a heart attack. accustomed to it. months later.

The Gaskins name was slowly dying.

He spent the rest of his life (two It was in 1970 that the three brothers The evidence showed that Aunt years or more) hanging out in bars and on went fishing where a quarrel ensued None of them had ever had big families Lacey had suffered a “blow” on the head. Skid Row. He died in a hospital in Joplin. among them, which lasted all day and and most of them were girls, so the name She had fallen down under the dashboard.

It was in 1970 that tragedy struck the after their return home. There, during the disappeared.

The defense lawyer made it very clear Joplin branch of the Gaskins family again. that she could have fallen and struck her This time in the Aunt Susie and Uncle Dress up November with black coats and tails head on the brake.

Frank Balding family. They had lived in The Good Shepherd Humane Society is spotlighting black dogs and cats The temperature on the day of her the Joplin area since their two daughters, through a special “Back in Black” adoption promotion during the entire month death had been more than a hundred Bertha and Louise, had been small girls. of November.

Black dogs and cats often wait longer for homes than their degrees.

The girls had married two brothers, Tom lighter colored pals.

The prosecuting attorney had made and Bill Williams, of Joplin. Bertha For the third year in a row, the national animal welfare organization, it clear that “a dog would have died had and Tom had been the parents of five Best Friends Animal Society®, supports more than 175 no-kill animal rescue it been shut up in a car in that heat for children, three sons and two daughters. groups and shelters across the country, (including GSHS) in efforts to showcase that amount of time.” They presented a Bill and Tom both developed a mental beautiful, adoptable black cats, dogs, kittens and puppies. witness, a woman who swore that she condition and spent the rest of their lives Good Shepherd is offering half-price adoption specials on black and and Uncle Tom had planned to leave the in mental institutions. Bertha and Louise mostly black animals, which will also be showcased at the Doggie Style Show country together “when he could get rid were faced with raising their families on Nov. 19 at the Inn of the Ozarks Convention Center. Black Friday weekend of his wife.” alone. Aunt Susie and Uncle Frank will feature further “door-buster” special adoption rates for black/mostly black But… he was acquitted. His children helped what they could by taking care of animals. all believed that he was guilty and would the children while their mothers worked Visit the shelter, 6486 US 62, just east of Eureka Springs’ city limits and not even take him home with them after at local restaurants as cooks. go fancy this November with black coat and tails. he was released from jail.

The two Williams sisters were

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Revisit childhood wonder

The kids will love this, and so will you – a wonderful, enchanting Snow Village all dressed for Christmas with trains transporting visitors back to the 1930s – 1950s landscape of small town America.

The village of more than 300 pieces plus three Lionel 0 scale trains and a Lionel 0 scale trolley opens Saturday, Nov. 9.

The Christmas Snow Village at the Carnegie Library Annex, 192 Spring St., will be open after that on Saturdays and Sundays until Dec. 21. Saturday hours

10 a.m. – 7 p.m. and Sundays from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Beginning Nov. 29, the exhibit will also be open Fridays from 5 – 7 p.m. Admission $5 adult, $2 children.

Proceeds benefit the Eureka Springs Historical Museum and the historic Carnegie Public Library.

Visit eurekaspringshistoricalmuseum.org online, see “Christmas Snow Village and Trains Display” on Facebook or phone (479) 253-9417.

Annual Banquet promises red carpet fun The Annual Chamber of Commerce Banquet is Tuesday, Nov. 12, at the Inn of the Ozarks Convention Center.

Social hour and cash bar at 6 p.m., with festivities beginning promptly at 7 with dinner, live auction and the Chamber’s 2013 “Year in Review.”

With a touch of Hollywood underscoring the Chamber’s emphasis on developing Eureka Springs as a filming destination, keynote speaker will be Russellville native and actress Natalie Canerday of Biloxi Blues, October Sky, Walk the Line and Sling Blade fame.

Red carpet notwithstanding, the highlight of the evening will be the

“Best Of” Awards, as chosen by the Chamber membership. Recipients will be recognized in several categories including Hospitality, Artist, Civil Service, Man of the Year, Woman of the Year and Business of the Year. A Special Recognition Award will be given and the prestigious Lifetime Spirit Award will be presented.

Attendees will receive the 2013 Yearbook and one raffle ticket for a door prize. Admission is $35 per person. Tickets can be purchased at the Chamber of Commerce Visitor Center, open daily from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Phone orders accepted by calling (479) 2538737.

A little help from our friends:

• Food pantry, furniture bank and used book store – Wildflower Chapel Food Pantry is open 10:30 – Noon on Fridays.

Thrift Store and Used Furniture Bank open Monday – Friday 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. (479) 363-6408.

Service times: 253-5108.

• Coffee Break Al-Anon Family Group Women – Tuesdays, 9:45 a.m., Faith Christian Family Church, Hwy. 23S. (479) 3639495.

• First United Methodist Church offers free Sunday suppers 5:30 – 7 p.m. Hwy. 23S. Night Church at 6 with short message and music. (479) 253-8987 • GRIEF SHARE 13-week grief recovery program begins Oct. 13.

Sundays 2 – 4 p.m. HI Community Church Fellowship Hall library (188 Stateline Drive). Join at any time. $15 workbook fee required.

For details phone (479) 253-8925, or e-mail lardellen@gmail.com.

Meetings at Coffee Pot Club behind Land O’ Nod Inn U.S. 62 & Hwy. 23S • Alateen – Sundays, 10:15 – 11:15 a.m. Email alateen1st@ gmx.com or phone (479) 9819977.

• Overeaters Anonymous – Thursdays, 10:30 a.m. Barbara (479) 244-0070.

• Narcotics Anonymous – Fridays, 5:30 p.m. (903) 2785568 • Al-Anon Family Group (AFG) – Sundays, 11:30 a.m., Mondays and Tuesdays 7 p.m.

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

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

Tuesday and Friday, 8 p.m. (479) 253-7956 All other meetings: See www. nwarkaa.org

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INDYSoul

by Gwen Etheredge

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he Electric Rag Band is a roots rock band from Tulsa. From the self-titled debut album released in 1996 to the 2013 Esoteric Ramblings of… this genre defying group has stayed true to their vision, incorporating influences that range from blues to rockabilly and ragtime to THURSDAY – NOVEMBER 7 • BLARNEY STONE Open Mic, 7 p.m.

• CHASERS BAR & GRILL Jesse Dean & Special Guest • CHELSEA’S Emcee Glossy, 9 p.m.

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

• JACK’S PLACE Karaoke w/ DJ Goose, 8 p.m. – midnight • LEGENDS SALOON DJ Karaoke • VOULEZ-VOUS Open Mic Night FRIDAY – NOVEMBER 8 • BALCONY RESTAURANT Hogscalders, 12 p.m. & 6 p.m.

The Esoteric Ramblings of … the Electric Rag Band punk. Band leader Pat Cook is excited about the direction of roots rock right now, stating in Urban Tulsa Weekly “I’ve never been in the right place at the right time, musically, so maybe things are finally falling into place.” After 19 years and four album releases, the band has perfected their sound

• BLARNEY STONE Sam Clanton, 9 p.m.

• CATHOUSE LOUNGE Jesse Dean, 8 p.m. – midnight • CHASERS BAR & GRILL JAB the band • CHELSEA’S Chucky Waggs & Company, 9 p.m.

• EUREKA LIVE! DJ & Dancing, 9 p.m.

• EUREKA PARADISE DJ & Dancing • GRAND TAVERNE Arkansas Red Guitar, 6:30–9:30 p.m.

• JACK’S PLACE Karaoke with DJ Goose, 9 p.m.

• LEGENDS SALOON DJ Karaoke • NEW DELHI Barrett, 1–4 p.m., SPiNRaD, 6:30–10:30 p.m.

and timing, receiving positive reviews and radio airplay with the latest effort. Performing with energy that feeds off the audience, the ERB turns every performance into a big party. Experience it for yourself at New Delhi Café on Saturday at 6:30 p.m. or Sunday at noon.

• ROWDY BEAVER Free Jukebox, 7:00 p.m.

• ROWDY BEAVER DEN RideShy, 9 p.m. – 1 a.m.

• THE STONE HOUSE Jerry Yester, 6:30–9:30 p.m.

• VOULEZ-VOUS Leah & The Mojo Doctors, 9 p.m.

SATURDAY – NOVEMBER 9 • BALCONY RESTAURANT Jeff Lee, 12 p.m., Chris Diablo, 6 p.m.

• BLARNEY STONE Ozark Thunder, 9 p.m.

• CATHOUSE LOUNGE Jesse Dean, 8 p.m. – midnight • CHASERS BAR & GRILL Muddy River • CHELSEA’S Patrick Sweany, 5 p.m., Dead Man Flats, 9 p.m.

• EUREKA LIVE! DJ & Dancing, 9 p.m.

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

• JACK’S PLACE Karaoke with DJ Goose, 9 p.m.

• LEGENDS SALOON DJ Karaoke • NEW DELHI CAFÉ Barrett, 1–4 p.m., Electric Rag Band, 6:30 – 10:30 p.m.

• ROWDY BEAVER Free Jukebox, 7:30 p.m.

Thurs., Nov. 7 • 9 P.M. – EMCEE GLOSSY Fri., Nov. 8 • 9 P.M. – CHUCKY WAGGS & COMPANY Sat., Nov. 9 • 5 P.M. • $5 COVER – PATRICK SWEANY 9 P.M. • $5 COVER – DEAD MAN FLATS Sun., Nov. 10 • 7:30 P.M. – WHISTLE PIGS Mon., Nov. 11 • 9 P.M. – SPRINGBILLY Tues., Nov. 12 • 9 P.M. – OPEN MIC Wed., Nov. 13 • 9 P.M. – TILLFORD SELLERS

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• ROWDY BEAVER DEN RideShy, 12–4 p.m., RideShy, 9 p.m.

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• SMILING BROOK CAFÉ Open Mic, BYOB, 6 – 9 p.m.

• VOULEZ-VOUS Leah & The Mojo Doctors, 9 p.m.

SUNDAY – NOVEMBER 10 • BALCONY RESTAURANT Catherine Reed, 12 p.m. & 5 p.m.

• BLARNEY STONE NFL Game Day–We Have Every Game • CHASERS Sunday Funday • CHELSEA’S Whistle Pigs, 7:30 p.m.

• EUREKA HOUSE CONCERTS John Elliott with Matt the Electrician, 6 p.m.

• JACK’S PLACE NFL Football with Dylan, 1 p.m.

• LEGENDS SALOON Free Texas Hold ‘Em Tournament with prizes, 6 p.m.

• NEW DELHI CAFÉ Electric Rag Band, 12–4 p.m.

MONDAY – NOVEMBER 11 • BLARNEY STONE Monday Night Football • CHASERS BAR & GRILL Pool Tournament, 7 p.m., NFL Specials • CHELSEA’S SpringBilly, 9 p.m.

TUESDAY – NOVEMBER 12 • CHASERS BAR & GRILL Game challenge night • CHELSEA’S Open Mic

Blues news for youse to use

Electric Rag Band – Join the party when this Tulsa band plays at New Delhi Café Saturday at 6:30 p.m. and Sunday at noon.

• LEGENDS SALOON Pool Tournament, 6:30 p.m.

• ROWDY BEAVER Hospitality Night WEDNESDAY – NOVEMBER 13 • CHASERS BAR & GRILL Ladies Night – Drink specials, free jukebox

• CHELSEA’S Tillford Sellers, 9 p.m.

• NEW DELHI CAFÉ Open Jam • PIED PIPER CATHOUSE LOUNGE Wheat Wednesday Draft Beer Specials • ROWDY BEAVER Wine Wednesday

Legendary bluesman B.B. King returns to Eureka Springs Monday, Nov. 18, at 7:30 p.m. for one (amazing) show only. This may be your last chance to be immersed in the bluesy funk and excitement of a live B.B. King concert.

After more than half a century, King and his famed guitar, “Lucille,” still draw concert crowds around the world with his special brand of blues. Since he started recording in the 1940s, B.B. King has released more than 60 albums, many considered blues classics, like 1965’s definitive live blues album Live At The Regal and the 1976 collaboration with Bobby “Blue” Bland, Together For The First Time.

King’s hits include “Payin’ The Cost To Be The Boss,” “How Blue Can You Get,” “Everyday I Have The Blues,” “Why I Sing The Blues” and “The Thrill Is Gone.”

He’s tucked away 15 Grammy Awards plus a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and Grammy Hall of Fame Award; and is a member of both the Rock and Roll and Blues Foundation Hall of Fame.

The Governor’s Blues Review, five of Tulsa’s finest session musicians, will open the show for King. Often playing on tour with him, the group gets the audience grooving and sets the perfect mood for the master bluesman.

Members include Jimmy “Junior” Markham on vocals and harmonica, Charles Tuberville on guitar, Walt Richmond on keyboards, Gary Gilmore on bass and Charles Blackwell on drums.

Blackwell has performed with Taj Mahal and the late Freddie King, and he and Markham are considered originators of “The Tulsa Sound.” Markham has also performed with Leon Russell and JJ Cale; Gilmore with Taj Mahal, and Richmond has toured with Eric Clapton for years.

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EXPLORING the fine art of ROMANCE...

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mg! Really?

Yes, really. Feeling a little uncomfortable? Perfect! Let’s get

started.

Remember “the talk” with your parents about sex? Just sitting with them through their obvious discomfort and anxiety was entirely more awkward than any minimal information you might have gleaned from that conversation.

And if “the talk” did not happen in your home… it is often what is not said that impacts us most deeply. When parents seem confused, ashamed or embarrassed to talk about sex – or even think about it – our chances of developing a healthy sexual identity become completely LOCALS continued from page 6

“My friend Kevin has actually helped build roads to the places he wants to go, because otherwise the only means of traveling there is on foot. We cannot send anything from here to the orphans, because there is no mail system. It really made me appreciate many of the things I take for granted.”

One thing we take for granted here is having a pair of shoes – something available for a song from any of several thrift shops. They’re harder to come by in Haiti. The widespread lack of shoes means kids and adults are walking on sharp stones, twigs, glass or rubble, causing wounds that are left untreated due to lack of medical facilities and which can eventually worsen into disease – or worse.

“Many children had clothes donated after the earthquake three years ago, but most were in need of shoes,” Beverly said. She and David plan a return trip to Haiti in the spring and will be happy to take donations of shoes back with them.

Monetary donations can be sent via check to Full Faith Ministries - Haiti Fund, PO Box 3241, Eureka Springs, 72631. More pictures of the trip, children, the makeshift school and the orphanage can be seen at Facebook on the New Life Missions Haiti page.

“I did physically come back home, but a part of my heart will forever be with the people in Haiti,” Beverly said.

“David and I are trying to figure out how we could be the most help.”

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compromised.

Seriously? So is anybody sexually “normal?” Probably not. Now take a deep breath as you realize your shared plight with most of mankind.

Let’s start with a few basic, healthy concepts about sex: • Sex is a gift we are all entitled to.

• Sex is not about performance or technique, it is simply a natural function – like eating or breathing.

• Sex, solely for pleasure, is a birthright. Our bodies are wired that way.

• Sex is an appetite, it ebbs and flows.

• Sex is adult play.

Sex is not a goal-oriented task for which we will later receive a graded

performance evaluation. We paint ourselves into a completely non-arousing corner when we “work” for the perfect approach “serious sexy or silly sexy? Or not sexy at all?” the exact spot “where the hell is that thing anyway?” the best aphrodisiac “supplements, infomercials, where to start?” the perfect setting “Rogue’s Manor, but which suite? The Palace… ugh their sign! – I can’t possibly measure up!” the very best moment “the hot tub over wine? Completely sober over morning coffee?”

OK, one thing is clear. Sex is not about thinking! Sex is about feeling.

Sex is about giving yourself permission to be playful and allowing yourself to

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be vulnerable, mindful and in the moment.

So let go of your self-sexpert expectations! Just be real.

Have a question? Great! Reality-based answers about sexuality, life, love and thriving in your relationship are available.

E-mail leslie@esindependent.com.

Leslie Meeker, M.A., L.P.C., is a psychotherapist who has specialized in relational and sex therapy, sexual compulsivity and sexual trauma for the past 15 years, after receiving extensive training in human sexuality at the Masters and Johnson Institute in St. Louis, Mo.

Cool school – Class takes a respite from

the intense heat as Beverly Blankenship teaches a lesson in the shade. Most schools in Haiti only happen if someone decides to organize and run one. This one usually meets in a classroom of tarps and boards. And they love their tippy taps!

Ti Bab and Ari – David Blankenship,

or Ti Bab (Little Beard), as the kids named him, holds the youngest of 33 children who attend the mission school. David played his guitar and sang for the kids then left his guitar behind with one of their teachers so they could continue to enjoy music.

More than skin deep – When Mirlanda

was four her parents put fire on her during several voodoo ceremonies. No other school would accept her because of this, only Pastor Laghe’s. He did force her parents to sign a paper stating that they would never do that again, so she could come to his school. When Kevin McCabe told her she was beautiful she said, “No, I know I’m not beautiful.” As you can imagine, she has a difficult time with other kids. You can see more of her story on the New Life Missions Haiti page on Facebook. Please “like” her photo there if you think Mirlanda is beautiful and want to give her some self-esteem.

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Potatoheads – Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head, aka Dan and Suzie Bell, greeted little trick or

treaters on a chilly Halloween evening at the annual Trunk or Treat event at the First United Methodist Church. The cool evening kept them from being baked potatoes in their cozy costumes.

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estimated at two weeks. Cato is happy to talk to people about the plans available. While she can’t recommend one plan over another, she can help explain health insurance terminology.

Cato cautions people if they do go on the Internet to make sure they are going to legitimate sites. She has heard reports of several people going to a site they thought was healthcare.gov and the site they got was fraudulent. One person signed up and already had money coming out of his bank account before the program even began.

“It wasn’t anything relative to what he had agreed to,” Cato said. “So people should be very, very cautious and careful giving out ID numbers. If you have accounts of fraud, give me that information so we can report it. The Arkansas Insurance Department really wants to know.”

An average subsidized maximum premium for a single person earning about $15,282 is $25 per month, $57 for someone earning up to $17,235, $121 for someone earning up to $22,980, $273 per month for someone earning up to $34,470 and $364 for someone earning up to $45,960. A family of four can earn up to $31,322 for a monthly premium of $52, $118 for earnings up to $35,325, $247 for earnings up to $47,100, and $559 for earnings up to $70,650.

People who are on food stamps (formally known as the SNAP program) should have received a letter from the Department of Human Services with information about choosing a plan. People who respond to the letter will be signed up on a health insurance plan. People receiving SNAP benefits can also go to the DHS in Berryville for assistance. The DHS office in Berryville is located at 304 Hailey near Ace Hardware store catty corner from the Sheriff’s Department. The phone number is 870-423-3351.

Other In Person Assister Guides in Carroll County include Collette Crawford (501) 529-0174, who works for Boston Mountain Rural Health in Green Forest. There are also guides working out of the Ozark Guidance Center based in Bentonville; Rebecca Palmer (501) 414-7546; or Carol Beaman (501) 4147500.

Have some candy. I dare you. – White Street, in all its various name changes all

the way to the Crescent Hotel, was just as much a Halloween treat for adults as it was for kids on All Hallows’ Eve. All manner of creatures scored some tasty treats and had a lot of fun.

Photo by Melanie Mhyre

Local insurance agents can help with sign up for health insurance coverage

Two local insurance agents are licensed to sell health insurance plans under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). And while guides with the Arkansas Health Connector can’t give advice on which plan is best for a person or family, the local agents can.

Two local agents licensed to sell these plans through the marketplace are Chris McClung (479) 253-8739 and Dave Teigen (479) 239-5563.

Because of the website problems, Teigen can’t currently help people sign up if they make more than 138 percent of the federal poverty level, but he expects to be able to do it soon through the state website for people with incomes below the 138 percent.

“I have more than 500 clients insured on ARHealth Network,” Teigen said. “We are telling people to bide their time until the middle of November. We hope this clog in the system will clear and we will be able to get it rolling. If you are with ARHealth, you will probably be eligible to get subsidized coverage that should be as inexpensive as it was under ARHealth Network.”

It doesn’t cost any more to use an agent than a state guide, and an agent can offer opinions about various companies and plans. Teigen said three insurance companies are offering plans for those whose incomes are lower than 138 percent of the federal poverty level. QualChoice and BlueCross BlueShield of Arkansas are offering one plan each, and Celtic Insurance is offering three plans.

All are based on the “silver” model for the federal plan, which has four metallic plans as a model: platinum, gold, silver and bronze. The silver plan is designed to pay 70 percent of the cost with a 30 percent co-pay, although the co pay might be lower for people in lower income brackets. The silver plan has a maximum out of pocket annual expenditure of about $6,000.

Teigen said while he has seen few claims in excess of $1 million, the potential is there.

And insurance actuaries have to reserve for that potential. That means costs will go up for plans.

If people make more than 400 percent of federal poverty level, they get no subsidy and will see increased rates to make up the ACA provisions such as requiring coverage not be denied for any pre existing condition and unlimited benefits.

While the premium subsidies sound good, guess who will pay for them?

“With ACA, the American public is going to be taxed,” Teigen said. “By 2018, if the program continues as is, there could be an additional $101.83 billion in taxes – depending on demand for services. That comes from all who pay taxes.

If an insurer’s gross premium is $13,000 per year and the insured receives $12,500 in assistance, the rest is going to be a tax on the American public.

We are definitely paying for these credits.”

He concludes that if you are going to pay the taxes, you might as well be on the program to receive subsidies.

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ov. 3 we got on some of what we call teenager stripers. Sixteen year-old Justin Johnson is holding a 7-pounder that is good eating size. It is good seeing fish this size. But these are the ones that are showing that bringing the stockings of 300,000 started about three years ago are starting to show up. When you get into them smaller then this it is good to let some go to grow. Minimum length on Beaver is 20 inches. This fish is 24 inches. Boy, I’m ready for another 46-pounder.

Water temps on both lakes are running about 63° to 64°. Most stripers on Beaver are migrating to mid-

New Girl Scouts group forming A new Girl Scout group for all ages is opening and will be meeting at the Eureka Springs Carnegie library at 4 p.m. on the first Tuesday of every month. Phone (479) 981-3321 for more information.

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Don’t hog the outhouse

Editor, Thought you might like to have a laugh. Please publish this cartoon in the Independent if you so desire. My best to you all. (See cartoon p. 12) Carol Saari

Keep traditions alive

by Robert Johnson

lake following the bait. We are finding big schools of bait and fish from Prairie Creek to Rocky Branch.

They still want to hold down around 40 ft. but did have bait come up between 12 and 28 ft. yesterday.

Think 62 water temp will bring all up and we will start seeing more gulls. By next week we should be chasing the birds for more top water action. For those of you who are up here by the dam remember we do have some residential fish that stay between the dam, Indian Creek to Point 5 all winter. You will also start seeing the birds to help now. It’s striper time. Just dress warm.

Here at Holiday Island and the Golden, Eagle Rock area on Table Rock look for crappie in treetops and shoreline brush. We found some this week in water as shallow as 2 ft. deep. I’m a minnow man for these fish. If you ever see a red motorcycle with minnow traps strapped on, that’s me. (Just had to throw that in there).

Bass are hitting top water plugs and crank baits.

Walleye can be caught with big minnows, jigs and trolling crank baits with pretty colors. All fish are enjoying this water cooling down and moving closer to the top and shoreline. Well that’s it for this week,

would like to get to know better. This did happen working with Ron Sumner, Charles Ragsdell and Sarai. I also think the animosity between so many of us is more from lack of communication and gossip. So if this is something anyone else would like to join in with give me a call (479) 981-1559 or euvantour@ gmail.com Michelle McDonald

A Voice for the past

Editor, On behalf of the Board of the Editor, Eureka Springs Historical Museum, Whenever involved in a community thanks to all who attended the fifth event it is always with great anticipation annual “Voices From Eureka’s Silent to look through the paper to see how it City” living history tours the past two is covered. The photos and editorial on weekends. the Queen’s contest were extraordinary Attendance was up from the and showed the other wonderful events previous all time record, and two nights as well. set new records.

I know these girls had an experience Attendees expressed overwhelming of a lifetime and can’t imagine if it praise for the stories (thanks to June hadn’t happened. To make sure these Westphal and Mary Jean Sell) as traditions stay alive, and knowing there portrayed by the actors, Terry Miller as is a movement to get more volunteers John Wynn, Joanie Kratzer as Augusta involved, I have a thought. Create the Kukler and Jim White as Adolph Frienternal Order of the AUDfellows. Kukler; Hanna Grat as Ida Bentley, Find out the strengths and talents of us Mike Maloney as Claude Fuller, Jake locals who truly have the best interest Allen as Joe Parkhill, Tim Grat as Perry of our town and Auditorium at heart and Mark, Karen Pryor as Okemah Kim get involved.

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sorry about missing deadline last week. Got a striper trip the 8th hopefully can get into some bigger fish.

Oh, by the way the eagles are here. When you have bait die on you hold one back till you see an eagle then throw out, might get a good picture. Well, have a good week and remember to take a kid fishing.

Braswell, Glenna Booth, Mary Diehl, Carolyn Green and Alexa Pittenger, our intrepid guides.

As in each of the four previous years, it would never happen without the leadership and guidance of the producer/directors, Rod and Phyl McGuire; and the large support group of folks who provided help with transportation, parking, advertising and promotion, and costumes.

We are especially grateful to our sponsors, Cornerstone Bank and Local Flavor Café and to the CAPC. This is the largest fundraiser for the Historical Museum each year. It helps us to meet our operating expenses, especially over the winter, and has contributed to making long overdue improvements to the museum.

But for this history, most of us would not be living here today. It is the mission of the museum to preserve and exhibit this history through its collections, and to make it available to the public.

Gayla Wolfinbarger

Mad hatters and art lovers throw one big, fat party

Editor, On behalf of the Eureka Springs School of the Arts Board of Directors

and Staff, I thank all who supported our 11th Annual Mad Hatter Ball on October 25th! ESSA is proud to announce that this year’s Party with a Purpose was a smashing success!

Special thanks to the talented artists and supportive businesses who contributed to our silent auction, to our volunteers (friends of ESSA and Board Members) who gave many hours of hard work to support ESSA staff, and to all our art loving guests who attended and wore fabulous hats!

We are especially grateful for our sponsors – their generous contributions made this year’s Mad Hatter Ball the best ever. John and Robyn Horn, Crescent Hotel, David W. McKee, Cornerstone Bank, LeRoy and Sally Gorrell, Pond Mountain, Charles and Sandra Templeton, Community First Bank, Fresh Harvest, Bubba’s, Bill Carmichael & Anna Marie Lee, Dave and Pam Davenport, Ermilio’s, Ken and RuAnn Ewing, Fine Art of Romance, Lucilla Garrett, Mud Street Café, Prideworks PC, Quicksilver Gallery, Salon Seven, Mary Springer, Ten White Street Lodging.

As we expand with the opening of our Metal Fabrication and Blacksmithing Studio in 2014, we will continue to grow and prosper thanks to your continued support.

Peggy Kjelgaard

ESOTERICAstrology as news for week Nov. 7 – Nov. 13

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Jupiter Retrograde

upiter is a planet that expands all of us, increasing our experiences, knowledge and understanding of life, representing optimism, growth, generosity, joy and abundance. Jupiter in Cancer (sign of nurturing one another) turns stationary retrograde Thursday, Nov. 7 (retrograde 120 days ‘til March 10, 2014). Jupiter’s retrograde motion makes a tiny loop in the sky against a background of stars. Ruler of truth-speaking Sagittarius, Jupiter is our integrity and honesty (and

ARIES: You turn inward, assessing where you’re living and work environments along with the foundations of your life.

Your personal world is most important at this time. Perhaps you need a new home.

Perhaps you need a garden or architectural landscaping. You realize only peace and quiet bring forth your authentic self. You think about security, what it means for you and if you can maintain it. You sense the need for more happiness. So you gather the family together, create a new rhythm that heals everyone.

TAURUS: You’re called away from your semi-hermetic life to be in contact with more people. Not necessarily happy about this, you however realize only you have the skills needed for a plan to be completed.

You call for grace (what is grace, you ask?) to assist you with communication.

Learning new skills your focus is now on thriving, not only surviving. Loved ones, far away, are contacted. They wait for your call.

GEMINI: Jupiter provides you with self-revelatory discoveries all about you, a deeper sense of self-worth and value.

These are discoveries for a later time when you will actualize and bring into manifestation decisions that reflect your true needs, beliefs, knowledge and all that you value. Moving beyond the “talk” stage increases your spiritual world. Manage your finances and resources with care and tithing.

CANCER: An event from the recent past helps you feel more confident, healthy and optimistic. A new cycle of inner growth is beginning. This will manifest in outer

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everyone else’s), our authenticity, philosophy, sense of justice – larger perspectives in life.

With Jupiter and Mercury retrograde (turning direct Sunday, Nov. 10) our perceptions shift and change. We do not begin a new business. Instead we set about restoring all that is troubled, incomplete, failing, dead or dying. We re-instate and reestablish, we return to things, grand perhaps and almost impossible, to their original state.

Jupiter is the “Great Benefic.” When retrograde,

circumstances next year. Begin to have gratitude daily for this coming benefit.

A new philosophy is also appearing enhancing your goodness and sense of self. Allow for some indulgences. You’ve been restricted too long. Consider what pleases you. Ask for it.

LEO: Many things complete themselves in your life in the next 120 days. This is a 12-year cycle of completion. Spiritually you’re seeing and understanding realities hidden behind veils, realities others don’t understand. Immersion in religion, the spirit, study and practice yields revelations. You’re called to greater service to creatures, plants, animals and/or humans in need. As your love increases, their love also increases.

Entering a state unity you join with the Nirmanakayas, the Great Contemplative Ones.

VIRGO: You begin a new series of goals and new ambitions, setting your sights on horizons far into the future.

You dream big dreams for humanity and the world. Realizing the need to participate in community you begin to build and construct in your mind what that community would be like. You are detailed, ordered and organized. You hold this quietly in your heart. Gestating the new reality for humanity. Draw that community.

LIBRA: New realities that expand your professional work emerge next spring. For

all that “greatness” internalizes for the purpose of reflection and reconsideration. We realize our goodness and greatness. Simultaneously, our life slows down so we can “correct” our direction, our course in life.

Jupiter provides limitless blessings to humanity.

It’s the key to our spiritual purpose (love).

Retrograde, we understand all these things. (Read more about Jupiter retro at www.nightlightnews. com)

now, in order to create a firm foundation, you consider your past work history – plateaus and upheavals, changes, stops and moving forwards. You assess if you want to continue on the same track or expand into something completely new.

Something concerning parents or parenting needs support and recognition. Careful with love these next months.

Be humble and grateful.

SCORPIO: You explore many ideas concerning how you want to expand yourself in the coming year. You need a new sense of adventure, outwardly and inwardly. Later you will be studying and reading more, perhaps taking up new spiritual practices or researching meditation. It’s an excellent time to write, to create journals of research and investigation, of travel and study. These expansions of consciousness will be professionally useful next year. You find there are no limits.

SAGITTARIUS: Thoughts on partnerships, mergers, sharing of resources, deep intimacy stir through mind like rainy day clouds. You realize the need for inner preparation before they come fully into view. All intimate relationships, resources and finances go through a review. You feel more open and vulnerable seeking connections with all things. The mystery of life and death, things magical (manifestation) and occult (mental not mystic) appear. Your values change. Quickly and surprisingly.

Extremes happen. Upheavals. You remain observing, balanced and poised.

CAPRICORN: For the past six years you’ve experience personal development.

After this year you move out of your garden entering the world once again.

Personal encounters assume a greater depth of love and intimacy. There will be fruitful interactions, helpful people, mutual agreements, beneficial advice and advisors, healers and counselors assisting in understanding your life and goals.

Teachers, friends, family, cultures, wealth, beauty – all enhance your life. Your loving partnerships grow deeper in love.

AQUARIUS: You seek to improve skills and accomplishments, mastering a craft that for many years has been asleep, waiting to be awakened. You create more effective daily routines, tend to health, diet, and care of your body. All that you do for yourself will be supported by the precipitating cosmic energies. Your hard work brings a great sense of fulfillment.

Seek less stress in your world. Find ways to have more relaxation and rest on a daily basis. Add prayer.

PISCES: Creativity increases and as it does more courage comes forth, too. Tend to your heart. And tend to those you are responsible for. I found a poem the other day for you. Its message is important.

“Life is short and we do not have much time to gladden the hearts of those who travel with us, so be swift to love and make haste to be kind. Be swift to love and make haste to be kind. Gladden others’ hearts.” Written by Henri-Frederic Amiel.

Gladden your heart, too, Pisces.

Risa D’Angeles, founder & director Esoteric & Astrological Studies & Research Institute, a contemporary Wisdom School studying the Ageless Wisdom teachings – the Tibetan’s teachings in the Alice A. Bailey blue books, the Agni Yoga Teachings of Master Morya & Master R’s teachings. The foundation of the Teachings is Astrology. Email: risagoodwill@gmail.com. Web journal: www.nightlightnews.com. Facebook: Risa’s Esoteric Astrology for daily messages www.esINDEPENDENT.com | November 6, 2013 |

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compared to the symmetrical and elaborate webs of other spiders. Since they do not see well, a vigilant female will remain near her web, and when she feels it vibrate, will quickly surround any poor innocent insect tangled there in a silky shroud. Then at her leisure she can stick her fangs into the prey and inject it with an enzyme that turns it into a liquid slurpy meal which she can suck up like a milk shake. This might be happening now in your woodpile.

The female encases the eggs in a papery silk sac and hangs it in the middle of her web, and spiderlings emerge in about 30 days. Baby black widows are paler than adults, but they mature in only two or three months.

The mathematics of spider spawning seems ominous because a female will lay 200 eggs at a time and she might lay several batches of eggs per season. The movie Arachnophobia comes to mind.

However, nature has endowed little baby black widows with cannibalistic urges, and they tend to eat their sacmates. It’s the fortunate omnivorous few from each hatching that make it

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through the first three months.

Besides each other, black widows eat a variety of insects. According to National Geographic, they consume flies, mosquitoes, grasshoppers, beetles and a variety of larvae. Or whatever gets ensnared the web. One researcher found that black widows near cotton fields in Texas ate primarily fire ants.

Spider silk and a steel wire of the same thickness have the same tensile strength, and since steel is denser than spider silk, that means spider silk is stronger than steel wire of the same weight.

Bites are bad Black widows hide from humans and are not aggressive unless agitated.

Apparently males do not bite. The bites of females will cause considerable pain and discomfort to the victim, although victims almost always recover with no lasting damage. Nevertheless, there have been fatalities from black widow bites to young children, the elderly or persons with impaired health.

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may not feel it at all. Initial symptoms may include minor swelling, redness, and a target-shaped lesion.” However, the venom is 15 times stronger than rattlesnake venom, so soon enough muscle pain will generate from the bite throughout the body. The victim will experience “muscle aches and weakness, nausea, headache, increased salivation and sweating, and difficulty breathing.” There might also be painful cramping.

If bitten, a person should clean the bite area with soap and water and apply an ice pack to slow absorption of the venom. If possible, elevate and immobilize the bite area because movement hastens the spread of venom through the bloodstream.

The pains usually dissipate within 12 hours, although some symptoms might remain for a few days. All sources advise victims of black widow bites to seek medical attention as soon as possible because there is antivenin to counteract the pain and effects of the venom.

How to avoid them Black widows want to avoid

contact with humans, but sometimes our paths do cross. A good first rule for protection would be to wear gloves when collecting firewood from the pile.

Actually a better first rule would be to check your gloves for spiders before putting them on. If you keep jackets or work clothes in a shed or barn, shake well before using. Even when handling boxes in the attic or picking up rocks in the woods, be aware of what you are grabbing. Also keep piles of debris and scrap wood and old machinery to a minimum so there are fewer places for spiders and their prey to hide.

Busy outdoors enthusiasts can split firewood and handle lumber for a lifetime and never see one, but that does not mean they were not in the vicinity.

Many spiders cast spectacular webs, catch flies and do not ever bother humans. Black widow spiders spin messy webs, eat their own, turn their prey into pablum, and cause pain and nausea all day long to humans with their pinprick bites. The good news is black widow spider bites are rare. The bad news is they might be closer than you think.

AskMAopinion Dear Ma, About this plan to line our Main St. with American flags; I think it’s tacky and disrespectful. Flag etiquette dictates that our nation’s symbol not be used as decoration, and our city’s sign ordinance was created to limit signs and banners and other artificial visual distractions from the city’s beauty. I’m all for flying Old Glory in appropriate and respectful venues, but this project seems like a knee-jerk reaction to the 9/11 attacks, and a very belated jerk-ofthe-knee it is.

Betsy R. Dear Ms. Ross, Ma agrees with your points and, surprise, has a few more.

Instead of wrapping ourselves in symbols of what America portends to be, better to spend the time and resources working to protect and resurrect the fundamental freedoms for which the flag stands. Too often symbols upstage that which they represent, which is likely why the big guy in the sky penned the 2nd Commandment (though not in the Catholic version).

Nationalism is way over-rated; it and religion are at the roots of most violent conflicts. The lines we draw to divide us are artificial and serve only to COUNCIL AUD continued from page 1

years ago, a group of interested citizens had several meetings on the subject of what would be best way to run the Auditorium, and those citizens recommended an Auditorium Commission.

He said he is forming an Auditorium committee to be filled by people with experience or an interest in the different aspects of running the facility, and anyone interested should apply. The CAPC will review the applications.

After Ragsdell spoke, alderman Terry McClung told Ragsdell he had used the word “we” several times in UNEASY continued from page 3

accuracy and compliance with CAPC policies, and to insure that all rider and contract provisions can be fulfilled.

“The Technical Director and House Manager will assure all technical and artists hospitality riders are fulfilled.

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divide us. Why not leave the competitive flag waving for the Olympics and focus on making the world a better place for all its inhabitants?

From Ma’s perspective, the city’s current administration has done nothing productive to date. If lining the street with flags and motorcycles is this mayor’s only accomplishments, his legacy will be that of a naked emperor.

Those supporting flag pollution will argue they are honoring those who died protecting freedom. Too often, though, our troops die not defending freedom but for some chicken hawks’ for-profit foreign policy misadventures. Flags and soldiers are used to fan patriotism and stifle opposition to insane and inhumane policies.

The blind patriotism from which such flag displays arise is the foothold where fascism takes root. With the personification of corporation, the emerging police/intelligence state, and the dumbification of the masses via the propaganda machine and mindless entertainment and distractions, we are already well on our way down that road. The flag wavers will keep waving their flags, while waving goodbye to the liberty and justice for all for which it is supposed to stand. USA über alles!

Ma his statement about the changes at the Auditorium, yet McClung pointed out he sits on the CAPC and had no beforehand knowledge of these changes, “so I must have missed some meetings.”

Alderman David Mitchell observed council’s role is to see that the CAPC does its job, not tell it how to run the Auditorium.

Mayor Morris Pate announced the agreement which gives the CAPC responsibility for managing the Auditorium had automatically renewed.

The chairman of the CAPC has always been responsible for the execution of all contracts for the Commission, including contracts for the use of the auditorium.”

Ragsdell’s full release can be read in the Independent’s online edition.

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We do – Bill King, left, and John Rankine take a turn in Susan Storch’s photo booth during the “My Big Fat Gay Wedding” reception at The Space during Diversity Weekend.

The duo organized a weekend of fun for married and want-to-be married gay couples, friends and supporters of equal marriage rights.

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the vast majority of the great shows whose pictures grace the walls of the Auditorium lobby. The other duties could be fulfilled by better utilization of existing staff, so the Executive Director eliminated the Special Events and Auditorium Manager’s position.”

Ragsdell further reiterated the CAPC’s primary role is to advertise and promote the city, not run a historic auditorium. “The CAPC’s long-stated goal has been to turn the auditoriums operation over to an Auditorium Commission,” he added. “Since the city hasn’t formed an Auditorium Commission, I have created the CAPC Auditorium Committee to increase community involvement and provide the volunteer support so vital to all our events’ success.”

Dilfield held a seat on the CAPC under former directors LeRoy Gorrell and Lynn Berry. In 2011, then-director Joanne Graupner asked him to come on part time as Special Events/Festival Director, a job that eventually became full time and also included being Auditorium Manager.

According to Dilfield, his status of Events/Festival Director was diminished four or five months ago, and he was “cut out” of the WoodSongs planning in which he had been involved from the beginning. Dilfield said all along he has been “trying to establish a level of professionalism and industryestablished standards” but felt he did not have the support of the commission

director, Chair or members.

“If now they feel volunteers can do a better job, so be it,” Dilfield said.

“We are fortunate to be able to take on the auditorium for the city’s benefit,” Maloney said. He made a point that the CAPC and auditorium management are two separate functions, each with its own funds. He also stated there would be no changes in current CAPC staff.

Maloney admitted taking on the auditorium is “a bit of a challenge now because we don’t have a person there, but we would like to see this happen soon.” To that end, plans are being discussed to split the time of CAPC finance director, Rick Bright, between the two physical offices.

“Rick will continue in his roll as finance director,” Maloney said.

“Fortunately, he can split his time between the offices at the CAPC and the Aud. We’re all wired so there is little if any latency. The most significant thing is that the Aud office will be open from about 1 to 4 p.m. daily so people can get tickets and information. This is a very positive step.

“Rick’s position has not changed,” Maloney continued, “he just has two offices now.”

Maloney also plans to increase auditorium use with rentals for events, noting the current rental for non-profits is comparatively low. “We’re hoping people will refer other organizations and invite more venues to Eureka Springs. It’s all about networking,” he said.

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