ES Independent Vol. 2, No. 26a

CAPC starts choosing funding recipients

No peeking until Christmas – Nonetheless, Wynona Millwagon, daughter of Shawna Miller and Richard Wagner, still managed a peek from behind Chuck Irbin’s Christmas bowler at the Silver Tea on Dec. 18.

“Noni” attended the tea with grandpa, Terry Miller.

Photo by CD White

Nicky Boyette The City Advertising and Promotion Commission spent its Dec. 18 workshop going over funding requests. Commissioners were determined to ensure those who receive support follow guidelines, and any investments the CAPC makes brings people to town.

On its first pass through the list, the commission agreed to these funding amounts: • Springtime in the Ozarks $2700 • Summertime in the Ozarks 100 • American Legion Veterans events 750 • Pine Mountain Village craft fairs 800 • Eureka Springs Parks Commission 2000 • Winter Film Festival 2500 • Food & Wine Festival 1000 Applicants who so far have been denied and feel they need to address the commission regarding requests should do so before the Jan. 8 meeting.

Finance Director Rick Bright mentioned they are currently $13,000 under budget on expenses, everything is paid up for the year and lots of

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This Week’s INDEPENDENT Thinker The Keystone XL pipeline, an artery of sticky sludge that would be piped directly over the largest water table in our country, is causing small farmers to raise as much opposition as their pocketbooks will allow.

Trans Canada has indicated that those who don’t allow the pipeline won’t share in the dirty money, and even offered numerous farmers around $7000 for lifetime easement through farm land.

Julia Trigg-Crawford balked, so Trans Canada said they’ll go ahead and lay the pipeline through her farm anyway. She’s suing, using every dime she has, hoping the Texas Supreme Court will deny the right of an oil company to run over her. And underneath her.

Inside the ESI Quorum Court

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Constables on Patrol

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Safari lawsuit

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Notes from the Hollow

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Recycled sweaters

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High Falutin’ Society

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Airport 5

Nature of Eureka

HDC 6

Sycamore 17

Basketball 6

Astrology 19

Crossword guy

Exploring Romance

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Independent Mail

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Indy Soul

Independent Editorial

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INDEPENDENTNews QC volleys budget matters N icky B oyette Carroll County Quorum Court convened for the final time in 2013 to consider a light agenda. The court heard from Joel Gardner, executive director of Ozark Regional Transit, who explained ORT was looking ahead at setting up commuter routes or vanpools for commuters in Carroll County and expanding services.

He requested an increase from $7500 per year to as much as $80,000 annually at some point in the future.

He suggested the court consider diverting new incoming funds, such as the anticipated turnback to be given to the counties by the state sometime in 2014, toward more transit services. “It’s your system in your area,’ Gardner stated. He said Fayetteville increased its yearly apportionment so that ORT could create a new hourly route from Lincoln to Elkins.

Justice of the Peace Ron Flake asked if Gardner sees a large unmet need in Carroll County, and Gardner replied he just wants to bring Carroll County up to its potential. He also said all participating agencies need to pay their fair share.

Flake pointed out the 2014 budget has been set and there is no money left, so 2015 would be first year the court could consider any increases. Gardner was well

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aware of the timing of his request, but was asking the court to look at how it wants transit in the county to look in the future.

Other items • Sheriff Bob Grudek explained Berryville has begun to take on some of the duties related to 911, but only during the day. His office agreed to continue performing after-hours duties, but only for an unspecified period of time. He said at some point Berryville would need to take on the duties 24 hours a day, and his experience indicated Berryville would need 5-6 people to do it and $150,000 per year to pay for it.

• During Public Comments, Randy Ates, Public Information Officer for ESFD, said he was concerned about the effects of defunding the 911 mapping office.

He held up the booklet he and other responders depend on, and said the information in it is critical to responses, but is out of date. He said he understood the decision to defund the mapping office had been made for budgetary reasons, but wanted the court to make sure emergency services get what they need to serve the county.

• Flake pointed out the State had passed new tax exemptions for some farmers, such as poultry farmers.

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They would be exempt from sales taxes on utilities and some equipment used directly for the business.

JP John Howerton described his farming operation as moderate in size, but is expecting to save $2000 in sales taxes in 2014. Many other farmers and ranchers will be paying less into county coffers next year. JPs acknowledged the budget they had just passed will be underfunded, and it will take two or three months to figure out the total impact.

• Flake said the court is still looking for folks in a rural area who want to start their own Public Water Authority. The Public Water Committee had identified expertise to help and a method to follow. Interested people should contact County Judge Sam Barr’s office or Randy Forst at the Extension Office.

• The court unanimously approved a resolution to appoint Gene Chapman, David Gaylor and Robert Lynn McKenzie to the Inspiration Point Fire Protection District.

• They also approved a resolution appointing Pam Norton of the Green Forest Library Board to a five-year term on the Carroll County Library Department Board of Trustees.

Next meeting will be Friday, Jan. 17, at 10 a.m.

INDEPENDENTNews

Safari to appeal eminent domain ruling D avid F rank D empsey Owners of Safari Real Estate LLC in Gentry were back in court Thursday seeking to have a two-month-old jury verdict overturned on grounds that Leon Wilmoth, who represented his extended family in their dealings with SWEPCO, was not actually named as manager in the real estate company’s charter.

The attempt to gain a new trial failed when, after a few hours of legal arguments, Judge Brad Karren ruled that the technical mistake had caused no harm and was basically made in good faith during the two-day-long trial held in October in Karren’s Bentonville courtroom.

Following the ruling Thursday, Leon Wilmoth and his brother, Charles Wilmoth, said they will appeal the earlier jury verdict. Their attorney, Wayne Ackerman, had already filed the motion to appeal two weeks before Thursday’s hearing. Safari’s legal team for the appeal will be doubled with the addition of Sandy McMath as co-counsel with Ackerman. McMath sat through Thursday’s hearing acquainting himself with the case and SWEPCO opposition.

Safari Real Estate LLC owns land occupied by the more than 50-year old Gentry Wild Wilderness Drive-Through Safari LLC, also owned by the Wilmoth family.

The earlier trial was brought by SWEPCO against the landowners because they refused to accept the power company’s offer of $37,000 for

the taking by eminent domain of a 9.17acre right-of-way across Safari land. The right-of-way was taken for construction of a 345 kiloVolt transmission line between the coal-powered Flint Creek power station and a substation at Shipe Road in Centerton.

The jury in the October trial sided, at least nominally, with the Wilmoths by upping the price of the right-of-way from $37,000 to $87, 539, still far short of the $399,000 in damages the Wilmoths say will be incurred by the exotic animal safari.

Leon Wilmoth said earlier the rightof-way will effectively shut down an entire 114-acre quadrant of the safari used as an exotic animal park and render useless the special fencing, barns, reservoirs and roads necessary for care of the animals.

Exotic animal parks are controlled

by USDA regulations that require a trained animal handler or attendant to be present when the public (including power line workers) is in the vicinity of the animals. This, according to Leon Wilmoth, puts the USDA regulations into an impossible conflict with SWEPCO’s easement language that gives its workers unlimited access to the right-of-way.

The 14-mile transmission line from the Flint Creek power station to the Shipe Road substation is a first step in SWEPCO’s plans to build a 345 kiloVolt transmission line from Shipe Road across 50 miles of Carroll County to the Kings River near Berryville.

School board concludes year with brief meeting In a quick 20-minute meeting, the Eureka Springs School Board voted to end the second quarter on Jan. 8, thereby beginning the third quarter Jan. 9.

In personnel moves, the board accepted the resignation of bus driver Preston Owens, hired Rick Mann as a bus driver and Melody Elliot and Daniel Patterson as cooks.

Next meeting will be Thursday, Jan. 16, at 5:30.

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INDEPENDENTNews Recycled sweaters a fashionable solution to cold Becky Gillette works even while she is sleeping.

The first time Nora Viola put her “Dreaming inspires me to create,” clothing made from old sweaters up she said. “Each year I try to incorporate for sale in Eureka Springs three years something new. I’m always wanting to ago at a Pine Mountain Village show, add a new concept to what I’m going to it was July. No one was in the mood make a little different. This year it was for buying sweaters. my Little Shorties, a shorter version “I don’t know what I was of my arm warmers, gloves that have thinking,” Nora said. thumb holes. Those “Of course, sweaters have been very are not something popular this year.” people want to look Nora doesn’t at when it is so hot.” use a pattern and – Nora Viola Fast forward to no two items are the Eureka Springs exactly the same.

School of the Arts Fall Art Show She usually has several projects going and Nora’s Just My Style recycled at one time. garments were a hit. The weather was “Today I went and bought a lot of cold, Christmas was approaching, jewelry pieces I use to embellish leg and customers were raving about the warmers and boot toppers,” said Nora, beautiful sweaters, sweater dresses, who has been a seamstress since the gloves and boot toppers. And they 1970s. “I’m taking jewelry apart and were buying. People even had to wait sewing it into leg warmers and arm in line to purchase one of the creations warmers. It is a whim thing. I do one – all one-of-a-kind made by hand from thing one day, and then two or three recycled sweaters. Nora received the different projects the next day. It’s People’s Choice Award, and was one not a factory-type situation, that’s for of the more popular vendors. sure. It’s kind of this artistic mind that After falling in love with the goes crazy with me.”

Eureka Springs area while visiting In addition to the Eureka Springs on their honeymoon, Nora and her show, Nora does three or four other husband, Jim, continued to vacation shows every fall in towns like Rogers, in the area several times a year and and spends the rest of the year building bought a home near Inspiration Point up her collection. She has also found in 2004. Nora grew up in Arkansas, that her items sell well online at www. but spent most of her life in Dallas etsy.com/shop/justmystylerecycled, before the couple retired and moved and even has customers from foreign to Eureka Springs in August. Before countries. The online store helps her retiring, she worked selling children’s reach a much broader customer base. portraits and her husband was a One of the more common questions manager for Albertson’s. she gets from customers is if she has a Nora doesn’t use a pattern and her shop. No, she works from home. She prices are reasonable for something also gets asked a lot if she does custom handmade and unique. Full-length orders, but she has found that takes up sweaters and sweater dresses run from too much time. Most people find what $70 to $125, while gloves she calls they want.

Little Shorties, arm warmers and boot “People find what they want and toppers range from $25 to $32. She go with sizes I have available,” she also sells headbands. said. “Everything is kind of quirky, Most of the material for her a bohemian chic style. I love it when clothing comes from buying gently people rave about how much they love worn sweaters purchased at thrift my clothes. It is still very overwhelming stores. She brings them home, puts to me. It is such a blessing people love them in a hot wash to shrink them what I do. I’m very humbled by it. I down, and dries them in a hot dryer. like creating things that people like.”

Then she lays out the colors, and her Just My Style Recycled can be creative mind goes to work. That mind found on Facebook.

“Dreaming inspires me to create.”

Photo by Jim Viola

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INDEPENDENTNews Loose lease shakes up airport commission N icky B oyette No one disputed the fact that Larkin Floyd of Tri-State Airmotive was in default on his lease agreement with Carroll County Airport. What to do next was not so simple.

Tri-State fixes airplane engines. It also operates as a fixed-based operator, which means it is a commercial business granted the right to rent hangar space, but he has been behind on lease payments and commissioners voted in November to have their attorney, Jim Sprot, hand a copy of a new lease to Floyd’s attorney and expect a response within ten days.

Floyd and his attorney, Wade Williams, attended the Dec. 19 Airport Commission meeting.

Williams commented, “You already have a check bringing him into compliance, so we ask you reinstate the lease.”

A pilot in attendance spoke up on behalf of how much Floyd has done over the years to help out in all kinds of ways. “There are values he presents to the airport you might not know about.”

Chair Dave Teigen responded, “He’s helped me as well, but the point today is we have been asked to forgive the default and reinstate his lease. We need to settle this and get on with building this airport.”

Commissioner Ron Rupe regretted the airport had not called Floyd about the issue. Teigen agreed. He said, “We are not responsible for his [Floyd’s] actions, but did we do everything we could have to prevent this? No.” Commissioner Lonnie Clark saw it differently. He said his idea is a businessperson takes care of business and knows when to make a payment.

Moreover, Floyd has made a living for many years because the airport is there.

Clark felt the commission had made a reasonable proposal for a new lease, which includes an increase.

The commission voted to present CCA Properties, which is Floyd, with the proposed lease and take action from that.

They are expecting a response at the Jan. 16 meeting.

Projects Dan Clinton, engineer and advisor,

“He’s helped me as well, but the point today is we have been asked to forgive the default and reinstate his lease. We need to settle this and get on with building this airport.”

– Chair Dave Teigen tried to clear some misunderstandings regarding the fence and road projects on the south side of the runway. He also warned the commission, “I see the Feds searching for every nickel,” and budget cuts would affect grant possibilities.

New hangars The new hangars are still under construction, but the airport is looking for leaseholders. Interested? Call Carroll County Airport (870) 423-2668.

Officers Teigen announced he needed to step down as Chair because of his workload.

He also mentioned Clark’s term would expire at the end of the month, and asked Clark if he would like to continue. Clark replied he was good for another term, and the vote to approve his nomination was unanimous.

Commissioner Lester Ward then nominated Clark to be Chair and Treasurer; Teigen, vice-Chair; and Ward as secretary. Vote to approve was unanimous.

See you later, Sheila This was the final meeting for popular airport manager Sheila Evans. Teigen was effusive in his acknowledgment of all she had done for the airport.

Evans said, “My goal was to have a family atmosphere around here. We’ve agreed to disagree at times, but we’ve treated each other like human beings.”

Dana Serrano will be the next manager.

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INDEPENDENTNews Town loses a chimney but gains an outbuilding

Nicky Boyette The last Historic District Commission meeting of the year featured approval of four very different applications. A previous application to remove two non-functioning chimneys prompted a site visit to 35 Kingshighway.

Commissioners thought one chimney was the primary and the one in significant disrepair a secondary, and therefore a candidate for removal.

Commissioners voted to permit

removal of the top part of the secondary chimney and repair the one in the middle of the house.

The commission approved: • 11 Howell – concrete pad; stucco over concrete block • 5 Paxos – rear privacy fence • 145 W Van Buren – new construction/ ancillary building Commissioners also approved Consent items: • Cushing/Cliff lot – continue rebuilding

Scots bite Rattlers

Coach Brian Rambo shared his assessment of the Scots’ 77-64 victory over the Magazine Rattlers Tuesday night in Logan County. “Trevor Lemme couldn’t start due to a swollen ankle and Ryan Sanchez had one, too, so could only play about half the game, and we had some trouble keeping the Rattlers off the boards, so could never deliver a knockout blow. We really need to improve in rebounding and taking care of the ball,” he said.

Nevertheless, Dalton Johnson, Mister Me My Mo three in a row, hit five of those and added another six for 21, and Ryan and Reggie Sanchez had 16 apiece. Senior boys are 11-3 for the season.

Next home conference game is Friday night against the Hackett Hornets.

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of retaining wall • 7 Pine – replace signposts Consent Agenda items are Level I applications that the City Preservation Officer Glenna Booth believes to be in accordance with the Design Guidelines.

Chair Dee Bright presented the only Administrative Approval, 61 ½ S Main – re-roof same/flat.

Administrative Approvals are applications for repair or for work involving no And to all a good night – Merry Christmas, Eureka Springs!

Photo by Melanie Myhre

changes in materials of color or for applications for changes in roofing color.

At the end of the meeting Bright presented commissioner Greg Moon, who was attending his last meeting, with a certificate recognizing his outstanding service to historic preservation. Moon had served with the Preservation Society and HDC for many years.

Next meeting will be Thursday, Jan. 2, at 6 p.m.

INDEPENDENTNews Indie’s “crossword guy” named outstanding teacher C.D. White Wayne Levering has been the Independent’s “crossword guy” since late September. The funny thing is, he’s not really a crossword fan himself.

But he is a notable teacher. On Dec. 10, Levering learned he had been named Outstanding Teacher of American History for the State of Arkansas by the Daughters of the American Revolution. The DAR honors an outstanding teacher of American history at the chapter, state and national levels each year. The state winner dossier is then sent to the Historian General in D. C. and the National winner award is presented in June at the Continental Congress.

Since 2010 Levering has been teaching Human Relations and ESL American History at Heritage High School in Rogers, where he is also the Chair of the Arts and Communication Academy.

ESL (English as second language) courses include more than a standard class because of simultaneously developing language skills and using content as the academic delivery vehicle for language components like vocabulary, reading, spelling, writing and such.

Before moving to Rogers in 2010, Levering taught at the Arkansas School for the Deaf in Little Rock, where he was hired in 2008 in spite of one small problem – he didn’t know sign language. He had to teach with an interpreter at first but soon learned signing.

Wayne’s dad, Chuck Levering, was the Independent’s “crossword guy” until he passed away in September 2013. Like

father, like son? Almost. “I am not a crossword fan or a person that does them,” Wayne confessed.

“I do the crosswords for the Independent out of loyalty to my sister (Indie office manager, Gwen Etheredge) and to honor the memory of my father.”

He might not be a fan of solving

crossword puzzles himself, but he sure enjoys creating them and stumping the rest of us!

Other than that, Wayne describes himself as “a single, sarcastic, witty, funny, mentally and emotionally stable 46 yearold high school teacher who can cook and clean.”

Coming up at Flora Roja Friday, Jan. 3, from 10 a.m. – 5:30 p.m., board-certified art therapist, Budhi Whitebear, is facilitating “Come to The Kitchen Table, an Art space for Heart, Hope, and Healing” with classes all day including an art group for people suffering from chronic pain, an open studio to create art in response to a health issue, and a women’s problem solving group.

The day-long event at Flora Roja, 119 Wall St., is offered on a sliding scale fee from $10-$35. For more information, schedule and registration contact Budhi (479) 790-0400. For upcoming events, see floraroja.com or phone 253-4968.

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INDEPENDENTNews Elks care and share – Holiday Island Elks Lodge 1042 recently delivered more than 189 Christmas gifts to the Carroll County Learning Center in Berryville. Larry Sieg and elf, Bev Wright, assist Mrs. Santa, Ginger Malstrom.

This seasonal tradition began some 20 years ago and has grown through the years as the volume of children increased. The Elks Lodge continues living their motto “Elks Care, Elks Share.”

Merry Christmas! – Eureka Springs Elementary school kids took a moment to wish Independent readers happy holidays before their annual program at the auditorium on Friday, Dec. 20.

Photo by Melanie Mhyre

Storytime – Kids were treated to a holiday Polar Express party at the Carnegie Library Annex on Dec. 17. In addition to hearing the popular story as read by Library Director Loretta Crenshaw, the little ones enjoyed refreshments, crafts and a visit to the Snow Train Christmas Village.

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INDEPENDENTNews Christmas dinner at ECHO continues Flint Street tradition Getting ready for a holiday feast

C.D. White At Thanksgiving, those who have no place to go and/or no means to purchase food for holiday feasts have always been welcome to come together and enjoy socializing and a free meal at various places around the community, including Flint Street Fellowship. But the free Christmas dinner continues to belong to the volunteers of Flint Street.

Christmas dinner is served this year at the ECHO Clinic building on US 62W from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. and all are welcome. It’s a warm, welcoming place for families to get nourished by kind hearts and delicious food.

Free community Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners were started at Flint Street Fellowship’s Little Chapel about six years ago with Karen Burgess as head cook. When ECHO purchased and

remodeled their thrift store and clinic building, the holiday community dinners were held in the clinic’s large dining room with use of their spacious commercial kitchen.

With a few other cooks heading up holiday dinners in the middle years, Rich Goodyear has been the king of cooking the last few seasons. Rich arrives in the ECHO kitchen the day before to prepare and bake donated turkeys and hams and carve them for reheating the next day. At 6 a.m. the morning of the dinner, Rich gets started in advance of two or three helpers who arrive about 8 a.m.

Several more volunteers arrive closer to serving time and stay through cleanup.

About 10 to 15 volunteers are needed to make the dinner happen. Many of them have simply seen the notice in the paper and called to offer help. In the past this

Henry Award noms include local organizations The Eureka Springs Historical Museum, along with Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow partners Eureka Springs Arts Council and Paula Morell, have been nominated for a 2014 Henry Award by the Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism.

The Henry Awards honor Henri de Tonti, the 17th-century explorer considered one of the first “Arkansas Travelers.”

Awards are given for outstanding efforts in eight categories each year.

The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow congratulates its two partners on nominations for the awards. Paula Morell, producer of Tales From the South, is nominated for the Media Support Award for “extraordinary attention to and/or support of Arkansas’s tourism industry through the use of media.” Morell most recently won the Governor’s Arts Award for Best Folklife and will be doing quarterly shows with the Writers’ Colony in 2014.

The Eureka Springs Arts Council has been nominated for the Community Tourism Development Award for “an individual or organization that has achieved substantial success in the enhancement of

has included visitors to town, and even one family who has made it a tradition to volunteer to serve a free Christmas dinner somewhere every year.

To make the room festive, Betsy Porter always decorates the tables for Thanksgiving and Ginger Crump decorates for Christmas.

When helpers call to volunteer food they are generally asked to bring a dessert for variety, adding to Rich’s specialty pumpkin and pecan desserts. Usually a few extra dishes are solicited from Flint Street’s lunchroom cooks, but mostly Rich does the cooking – a volunteer job he loves.

Flint Street holds dinners on Thanksgiving and Christmas days for the benefit of anyone who doesn’t have a place to go so they won’t have to be alone or miss out on a big, home-cooked holiday meal.

On Thanksgiving, close to 100

meals were served, but no matter what the weather and how many show up, Pat Kasner of Flint Street says, “as long as those that do come are served a good meal with lots of smiles, the goal is achieved.”

During its normal operation, Flint Street’s food ministry includes a food pantry on Mondays and Wednesdays from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. with close to 100 distributions per week, a free lunch on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. serving 20 to 30 guests each meal, and the “Back our Kids” weekend food bag program helping 40 kids each week.

The pantry is stocked by donations and community fundraisers such as the recent “Fill the Limo” and “Back our Kids” events at Pied Piper, “Scouting for Food” and others throughout the year.

For more information, or to find out how to help, please call Pat Kasner at 253-4945.

local resources through imaginative and innovative development efforts.” The Arts Council works to promote tourism and showcase the creative talents of Eureka Springs through partnering with the Writers’ Colony, the May Festival of the Arts and the Eureka Springs Indie Film Fest, among others. The council is also involved in an ongoing collaboration with Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art to promote cultural arts and tourism in Northwest Arkansas.

The Eureka Springs Historical Museum was nominated for the Bootstrap Award, presented to “an individual, organization, or community that has achieved significant success on a shoestring, having limited means to work with, either in resources or finances.”

Winners will be announced at the Governor’s Banquet on Tuesday, March 11, 2014, marking the conclusion of the 40th Annual Arkansas Governor’s Conference on Tourism at the John Q. Hammonds Convention Center in Rogers.

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Editor, After paying every bill on time while I was a customer, when I planned to move away from ES in October, I went into the water office at the courthouse.

This was where I had paid the deposit, opened the account and paid my bills. I paid the current bill, gave the change of address, asked that service be taken from my name Oct. 14.

The clerk told me I needed to “Call Linda” and I failed to understand the importance of that. Why couldn’t I get it taken care of now? She tried to call Linda but there was no answer and I somehow felt I had talked her into taking care of it, and crossed “water dept.” off my list.

I had asked about the $50 deposit and understood that after the last bill was determined, it would be applied and the remainder refunded. When I received a bill Oct. 20 it was for $21.45 for 9/11 to

10/14. It didn’t say Final Bill or mention the deposit. I thought it was being mailed separately and waited a few days.

When I called the office they said, “Call Linda.” She was out. A few days later I reached her and was told they had never taken it out of my name and I was still responsible for the water bill.

She said, “You didn’t call me. Nothing can happen until the customer calls me.”

I explained, I apologized, I had no idea it was crucial to the procedure to speak with her specifically, I really thought the clerk had passed on the information. She agreed to check with her supervisor and take it out of my name.

A few days later, Linda called and said the turn-off date could not be backdated and I would have to pay up to the day she had entered it. She said her supervisor would not OK it. I got Lonnie Clark who said he’d need to research it.

The next week he called and said it could not be done, that I was just stuck with it. I didn’t follow the rules and that was that –

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he said this had never happened to anyone else as far as he knew, that I was the only person who hadn’t Called Linda.

On. Nov. 18 I received a shut-off notice, Disconnection for Unpaid Bills.

No late notice, nothing to alert me that they were not taking that bill from my deposit. I called Linda. She said don’t worry, they won’t really shut it off (not my main worry as I live in another town), but that this notice automatically happens when you don’t pay your bill.

She said she can’t take anything from the deposit until the end of the month after the last bill is paid.

So now the bill included $21.45 I legitimately owed, plus $25 automatic fee for turning it back on even if they didn’t shut it off. It was now $48.60 and I was beginning to be resigned to losing my deposit, an expensive payment for a small error of protocol. More worrisome was that even though I’d always paid in full and on time, I now had the shut-off MAIL continued on page 20

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A media gone quackers

ver watch Duck Dynasty? It’s a reality show about the Robertson family of West Monroe, Louisiana. Phil, the patriarch, is in his late 60s and sits at the head of the table. His wife, Miss Kay, is generally in the kitchen cooking mallards or frogs or gumbo or sweet potato pie.

Phil and Miss Kay have four grown sons, all with children of their own.

The family makes duck calls. They work together, have been wildly successful, and the result of that is, of course, the media want interviews with them.

This week, Phil was quoted in GQ saying some really off-the-charts, fussy, disconnected, extemporaneous things about his fellow humans. The amusing part is he leaned on the Bible for his information, apparently forgetting the old saw, “Whatsoever you do to the least of my brothers, that you do unto me.”

Nevertheless, Phil’s remarks were printed and distributed via satellite to anyone in the world who was interested, and it seems nearly everyone was.

Gentle old Phil, who is not without his prejudices (his biggest issue seems to be with yuppies), was quoted, slammed and revered. Worldwide chatter was not about Phil’s personal feelings, but whether or not he should have them.

We all know that to interpret the Bible is no different than interpreting Huckleberry Finn. Talk about racist! Gives us the vapors to think about.

Remember the steamboat explosion? When Aunt Sally asks if anyone got hurt?

Huck replies, “No ma’am. Killed a nigger.”

Newspaper editors had a heyday calling Mark Twain a racist, while anyone familiar with Twain’s work knew he merely and honestly made the point that the old South had little regard for black people. That’s why he made Jim, a black man of humor and nobility, the moral center of the book.

But why tussle with that? It happened 130 years ago. We’re much more in tune now.

Phil of Duck Dynasty decided his interpretation of the rarely fairly interpreted Bible was that homosexuality was not only not his cup of tea, it was the gateway to all sorts of unseemly behavior.

We don’t claim to be Bible scholars, but from what we were taught and what we’ve read, Jesus hung out with the sinners, thieves, hookers and downtrodden, and we don’t recall him requiring that lepers have a co-pay. He loved purely, without judgment.

To lean on the Bible as the road map to a righteous life is fine, but to interpret it as confining and fearful is, well, confining and fearful. We don’t remember Jesus saying, “Be afraid, be very afraid.” He simply preached that the magic of a good life is to treat others as you want to be treated. He did let his temper get the best of him when he threw the money changers out of the temple, but so much for that – what TV preacher doesn’t have an enormous cathedral from which to bully others into sending them money? Jimmy Swaggart comes to mind. So do Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker. So do about 465 Popes until Francis.

If Phil Robertson is out of his comfort zone with homosexuality, what’s he going to do when one of his grandkids looks him in the eye and says, “This is the way I roll.” Not take the kid duck hunting? Not let him eat with the family?

Disinherit him?

It isn’t comical, but it is easy. It’s all a matter of good manners, whether they’re learned from the Bible or at home or in a duck blind. It has nothing to do with the South, nothing to do with the Tea Party, nothing to do with Fox News, and everything to do with emulating a man who 2000 years ago did his best to show us the way, the truth and the light.

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by Dan Krotz t’s been a tough year for a lot of us. I’m glad it’s over, and I’m looking forward to 2014. I’m confident I’ll be more cheerful and less vinegary in the New Year.

Maybe I’ve mellowed, or realized that there is less, rather than more time left.

I’m going to slow down and enjoy it more. I hope you will, too.

The big thing I learned this year is that the greatest men and women in the world are not those who find cures for diseases, travel to distant planets or get elected to high office. No, the great people are those who do no harm, who pay attention to the little things, and who do a thing for love of doing it. God bless, and best wishes to everyone at the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow, to the farmers at our farmers’ markets, to our restaurateurs, and to our astonishing artists, writers, photographers, and musicians. Thank you for your work.

To our friends in Holiday Island, know that things will get better. You’ve had a rough time of late: the housing bubble popped, a few bats have dinged your political processes, and that beautiful golf course needs more paying customers. Remember that you live in one of the most beautiful and well-planned retirement communities in the country. Hang in there! Visualize droves of frisky fiftysomethings buying and building houses and playing lots and lots of golf. It is bound to happen. In the meantime, accept our gratitude for the vigorous economic and cultural contribution that you make to Eureka Springs,and the surrounding area.

To Pope Francis, thank you for rescuing Christianity from the Sadducees and Zadokites who have turned it into a Clubhouse for the Resentful, the Angry, and the Indignant. Thank you for reminding us that it is through our failings and weaknesses that we find God, and that God finds us.

And to the readers of the Independent: thanks for stopping me in the street, for the e-mails, for all the high fives and all the brick bats. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

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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) 363-9495.

• 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 • St. James’ Episcopal Church hosts community Sunday Night Suppers from 5 – 6:30 p.m. at St. James’ Church, 28 Prospect, until March.

The suppers are for the community, especially those who are out of work, and are provided at no charge by area restaurants and others. (479) 2538610.

• 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) 981-9977.

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

• Narcotics Anonymous – Fridays, 5:30 p.m. (903) 278-5568 • 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.

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INDEPENDENTConstablesOnPatrol December 16 8:22 a.m. – Constable on patrol assisted a motorist.

12:24 p.m. – Complainant told ESPD a person who had just driven away from a gas station had been bothering him.

Constables watched for but never saw his vehicle.

1:21 p.m. – Owner of a vehicle parked in a red zone moved it after a prompt from a constable.

1:27 p.m. – Concerned neighbor thought the windows in the house next door looked askew. Constables checked, and the windows were okay, but they found the house was unsecured. Constables locked everything up.

2:44 p.m. – Motorist got his vehicle stuck and asked for assistance.

7:03 p.m. – Another vehicle was sideways on a city street. Constables and Public Works responded.

9:03 p.m. – Sheriff’s office asked for help finding a male who had been involved in a domestic dispute earlier in the day.

Constables apprehended the individual at a store in town.

December 17 3:17 a.m. – Tenant reported hearing footsteps outside her apartment, and something went bump in the night.

Constables checked out the scene.

3:28 a.m. – Business downtown reported a drunk individual walking through town pushing over trashcans. Constable did not encounter the individual.

8:47 a.m. – A delivery truck got stuck downtown.

12:01 p.m. – A truck was teetering on the edge of a sharp decline and could not move. The constable who responded arrested the driver for driving on a

suspended license.

1:46 p.m. – Motorist ran off the road and hit a pole. Nobody got hurt.

December 18 10:44 p.m. – Apparent victim of harassing communications asked ESPD to make the alleged harasser stop the threats.

Constable spoke with the accused and told her to cease all contact or face action.

11:10 a.m. – Constable made a welfare check on a teenager and found her to be okay.

11:40 a.m. – Ornaments were missing from a scene.

2 p.m. – Two individuals tried to shoplift at a liquor store but they got caught. They were asked to leave, and they did. Store owner asked ESPD to review the video and alert other store owners.

8:45 p.m. – Constables responded but it was a false alarm at a business on the west side of town.

December 19 4:48 p.m. – Person told ESFD the front door of a nearby business was open. It was secure when they got there.

8:13 p.m. – Constables issued tickets to several vehicles parked in a fire lane.

Authors – Eureka is full of them – and two who were recently published (congrats!) are Peggy Kjelgaard (Birthmark of Evil) and Woody Barlow (Tarzan Wore Chaps) who talked about their work, gave readings and signed books at the Dec. 19 Poetluck at the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow.

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2013 Holiday Hoops Tournament Dec. 26 – 28 KTHS 107.1 FM and Berryville Public Schools are proud to announce the Fifth Annual Cornerstone Bank Holiday Hoops basketball tournament. This senior high girls and boys tournament will showcase area high school basketball.

The event will be held Dec. 26 – 28 at Bobcat Arena in Berryville. Thursday’s eight game schedule will be split with four games at the arena and four at Bobcat Gym, starting at 4 p.m. All Bobcat Arena games will be played Friday and Saturday starting at 10:30 a.m.

Eight selected boys’ and girls’ teams will be guaranteed three games, including boys’ teams from Monett, Mo., and Gentry, and boys’ and girls’ teams from Elkins, Pangburn, Waldron, Pocahontas and Green Forest – as well as girls teams from Cassville Mo., and Pea Ridge.

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Many teams have arrangements to stay in Eureka Springs for several nights bringing students, parents and fans to Carroll County for an extended stay during the holiday season. It’s sure to be an exciting event and your support is greatly appreciated.

Berryville Schools made this an exceptional value for basketball fans with daily passes only $6 adults and $4 for students. Three-day pass is only $15. Concessions will be available. KTHS 107.1 FM will broadcast hourly live updates during day and evening competitions, along with complete broadcast of the championship games Saturday night, starting with girls at 6:30 p.m., followed by the boys.

Come join the fun at the fifth annual Cornerstone Bank Holiday Hoops Tournament. Brackets and game times can be found at www.kthsradio.com – click on the holiday hoops tab.

Winter Farmers’ Market:

Shop all winter at the market every Thursday from 9 a.m. – noon at Pine Mountain Village. Due to high tunnel and other growing methods you’ll find fresh produce year round; as well as baked goods, meat and more from dedicated vendors – some of whom will even be there for you on Dec. 26 and Jan. 2.

Adams’ Acres – Melissa Opela Craig of Adams’ Acres farms Baby love – Carol Roper of Heritage Gardens feeds the Lettuce entertain you – with great produce all winter, is a new market vendor this year. Check out ‘Adams Acres young ‘un while waiting on customers. Check out her that is. Andrew and Madeleine Schwerin and baby, Beulah, on Clear Creek’ on Facebook for details on everything they jalapeño jelly to keep you warm. expect to have high-tunnel lettuce for a while this winter. bring to market.

Strummin’ – Breadmaker Ivan serenades with his strum Sweet potato pie, anyone? – Kaylynn Toombs of Winter veggies – Patrice Gros of Foundation Farms hands stick. He’s one of the vendors who plans to be at the Homestead Farms holds the makin’s of about six high- Francine Russell her veggies. Francine just moved back to market the Thursdays after Christmas and New Year’s. vitamin-A-content pies. “That’s real food,” she said. town after being gone 35 years.

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ormer Eureka Springs resident Vance Randolph mentions in his book, Ozark Magic and Folklore, that in pioneer days most residents of the Ozarks observed Christmas Day on the sixth of January. After the Ozarks fell in line with the rest of America and began celebrating Christmas on the 25th of December, it was called “New Christmas.”

Others persisted in the belief that “Old Christmas” (or the sixth of January) was the true Christmas, but I think that argument has died out.

Reading the December 29, 1966 edition of the Eureka Springs Times-Echo newspaper, I learned that Eureka Springs had a white Christmas that year. After

an eight-inch snow on Dec. 23, the town nearly ground to a halt.

Despite difficult weather conditions, the Eureka Springs Municipal Hospital stayed fully staffed, although one nurse had to walk five miles in the snow to make it to work.

June Moncravie’s column Busch News records that the Busch Store had been without bread for several days because the ABC bread truck had overturned on slick roads. And the Beaver News column by Mrs. Frank Weddington notes that Cobb Gaskins was injured after a fall on the ice.

Of course, there is the usual letter to the editor complaining about city government.

by Steve Weems

Wayne Brashear provided beautiful photographic evidence of the snow.

To my eyes, the land bargain of the week in this issue of the newspaper is 851-acres of land for sale on Highway 62 just ten miles out of town for $25 per acre, or $21,275. Adjusted for inflation, $25 in 1966 is now worth about $180, which would still be a bargain price for that land.

Why has the price of real estate gone up at such a rate greater than inflation? Supply and demand, I suppose. Correct me if I’m wrong.

I would tell you what was playing at the movie theater on Spring Street but there is no listing for it in this edition of the Times-Echo. You could have driven

to the Main Theatre in Berryville and seen Chuck Connors in Ride Beyond Vengeance or James Garner in A Man Could Get Killed.

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INDEPENDENTHIGH (Falutin’) SOCIETY Say when – Lucilla Garrett pours for Karen Pryor at the annual Silver Tea. As they do every year, the St. James Episcopal women donate proceeds from the event to a local nonprofit organization. This year’s beneficiary is Clear Spring School.

Silver tease – Jane Acord, retired owner, and Tracy Acord, new co-owner of Acord’s, look up as Jane pours tea for Tracy. Watch where that tea’s going, Jane!

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Teacher appreciation – CSS junior, David Zhou, shares a moment with teacher Doug Stowe. Zhou, an exchange student from China, arrived in August and is enjoying classes and being with his host family at the home of Peggy and Martin Pot. O Christmas tie, O Christmas tie – you’ll ever be unchanging. Dan Bennett sports a bit of holiday cheer under his big smile. This tie and Rudolph’s nose could get Santa through any storm.

We love it.

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Dapper Dans – These elegant young men were some of the Clear Spring School students greeting guests during the Silver Tea Dec. 18.

From left, Syama Barden, Noah FitzPatrick, Bram Heilmann and Ozric Maese ‘tude up for the camera.

Clear Spring will be the beneficiary of this year’s tea.

Chou Chou cheer – Cheery Marcia Yearsley, aka Chou Chou, isn’t sweating the calories at the annual Silver Tea. St. James Episcopal women put on a spread so tempting it was hard not to try everything.

Stocking the sweets – Behind the scenes at the Silver Tea, Jeanne Omundson, left, and Marty Johnson arrange plates of goodies from dozens of homemade selections prepared for the vent. The camera could capture only half of the array of goodies waiting to make their appearance as treats disappeared from serving trays in the dining room.

Teetotalers – Well, at least for now. From left, June Owen, Michelle McDonald, June Hegedus, Virginia Voiers, Annie Stricherz and Doreen Morris lift a proper pinkie at the tea table.

Tea chat – Besides being a fundraiser, the Silver Tea is traditionally where a busy community has time to relax and catch up with friends before the holidays. Elise Roenigk, Crescent Hotel owner and host, left, and Karen FitzPatrick of Clear Spring School seem to be doing just that. www.esINDEPENDENT.com | December 25, 2013 |

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Basket o’ bounty – Christine Bartosiak contemplates a picture-perfect basket of produce at the winter Farmers’ Market and soaks in the aura of homegrown goodness.

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Season of Celebration

oes this time of year make you feel like you are on a daily gyroscopic rotation with your point of axis tilting precariously toward some point in the distant horizon? Just as you begin to harmonize

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Some office party! – Jim Bob of Metal Building Supply in Gravette leads his employees in a dance during their Christmas party at Eureka Live! According to one source, Jim Bob is “a great employer” and he “dances like a boss.”

your seasonal lunacy with the knowledge that it was dark before you went to work and dark when you came home, some friend on Facebook reminds you it’s the first day of summer in Buenos Aires! That means you have reached the shortest day of the year, and there’s only a few more hours left to order from Amazon.

Your dreams of sugar plum fairies and a midweek dayoff are in conflict with pagan memories deep in the recesses of your primordial brain reminding you that should really have a whole week off for celebration.

Then another Facebook friend in Italy “invites” you to the culmination of her newly revived ancient Roman celebration of Bacchus, ending a monthlong ritual of drinking, merriment and debauchery on December 25. Now you

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remember the real meaning of Christmas – you only have one day off. Your longitude really doesn’t matter. It’s your latitude that shapes your attitude. Happy winter solstice! But you missed it. That was last Saturday.

Oh, how things have changed. Your genetic signals prepare you for the winter months ahead. You know from unspoken innate signals from your genetic history that there is a possibility of starvation, hence you eat as much as possible to take stores of energy into the spring, just in case. Bless you Santa Claus for that one extra fruitcake, which we can store with the Christmas ornaments, as we will need that tin container next year.

The tradition of gift giving at this time of year arrived before Christianity when emperors of old celebrated the new year by extracting gifts from their subjects. The history of human nature is instructive, is it not? As we prepare for our ritual celebrations let us respect that they begin in ancient traditions, religious observations and heathen joys dating to the most primitive human rituals honoring the winter solstice.

Relax, the days are getting longer.

Sycamore©

– Chapter 2, cont.

Sycamore, by Constance Wagner and published in 1950 by Alfred A. Knopf, is the story of a sophisticated New York girl who marries a boy from Arkansas. The Wagners and their four children lived in Eureka Springs while the novel was written.

In addition to four novels, Constance Wagner wrote numerous articles and stories published in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly and Collier’s.

In this episode, newly-married Jane arrives in Eureka Springs. Uh, Sycamore.

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resently the crags that had crowded them on the left dropped away, the woods closed in, and there was the road he knew well – the road that turned quietly, unobtrusively from the highway and walked off under the trees, like a woman leading her lover to a secret place.

Follow it through the wood and a half mile beyond, and you would find yourself at the gate hidden in a jungle of rose vine, and past the gate would see the Byrnes’ farmhouse. It was asking too much of himself that he blot out knowledge of that road, that gate, that house forever in need of paint. The road itself, turning so softly aside into the wood, had always been peculiarly magical to him, haunted even now by the remembered girl and boy, walking in a slow, ecstatic rhythm, the gunny sack with its burden of walnuts between them, and, everywhere leaves falling quietly, fatefully, in the pervasive downward movement of autumn. Wood smoke had hung in the air, and even Clytie’s hair, when he kissed it, had smelled faintly, pleasantly of smoke…

Jane’s voice in mild reproof: “We haven’t been married long enough for you to stop hearing me, darling.”

“Oh, sorry.” He came back to her, contrite. “In a daze, I guess. Say it again.

Please.”

How much farther to town? She wanted to know.

“Less than three miles.” He stepped harder on the gas, swept the car around a long curve of the highway, gestured toward a group of dilapidated, tiny huts before which hung, by one corner, a sign bearing the almost obliterated words: Morally clean. Cabins. “The edge of town” he said, and because coming home gave him always this aching feeling, he put on hastily an armor of affectionate derision. “See Sycamore,” he cried, “and die!”

The town had an oddly fortuitous look, spilled as it was over several fairly steep mountains. Logically, there seemed no reason for a town to be there at all, and, as if reflecting this irrelevance, all its shapes and contours were amorphous, appeared the products of accident rather than of design. If an earthquake had heaved and twisted an orderly village, leaving

a few hundred frame and stone houses unscathed but set in new and unexpected relations to each other, the effect might have been similar. Anyone who climbed to the gaudy ruin of the Hillcrest House, which dominated the town from the highest point, would have looked in vain for evidence of plan or pattern. The unpaved lanes pitched and staggered around and athwart the slopes, like a gay old girl with a jugful of moonshine inside her. The U.S. highway swung in out of the forest, looping down from a mountaintop and all but encircling the town within its smooth gray coil, before it swooped up Warfield Grade again and went on its way toward Memphis and Little Rock.

At the bottom of the loop, it was transformed briefly into Main Street, and even lost itself for a moment in the small square, with the courthouse of stone blocks squatting at its center, the ground trampled hard and grassless under the sycamores, and the legion soldier, pallid and unbending in white concrete, forever on guard over Miracle Spring. At one side of the square, the Hotel Jefferson Davis rose grandly to five stories, with a stone porte-cochere in front, while resting its rear against the perpendicular rock of the mountain, as if it had become a little tired.

On that side all the buildings showed a tendency to lean on the bluff, while across the square only the chins of the stores rested at sidewalk level, with the rest of them growing downward, and one or two lower floors opening out into decaying wooden catwalks connecting with, or crossing above, the street that lay below the square.

All up and down the vagrant streets, traces of stone foundations lay crumbling under trumpet vine and honeysuckle. In spring about these ruins, daffodils and CAPC continued from page 1

delinquents still owe. And they have banked $40,000 in reserves to start the year.

In further discussions about the budget, commissioner James DeVito said he sees no reason for the CAPC to pay for group travel presentations at motorcycle shows because the

tulips thrust themselves into the light – dogged survivors of forgotten gardens.

The frame superstructures that had once rested on the rock walls had long since either been sold for lumber or burned down with the entirely reasonable object of collecting insurance benefits on that which, existing, had no further value, but which, destroyed, might render a final sad, small return.

The houses left standing were of three sorts: the cramped, jerry-built boxes that are thrown up in resort towns everywhere (these shuttered and boarded, hopeless, with the white paint peeling down their sides); then the solid and still-respectable dwellings of the quality houses largely and curiously wrought, so tortured with cupolas burdened with balconies, railings, bow windows and scalloped and peaked excrescences, you wondered if some insane architect of the eighties had fled to this last outpost, here to shape his hatred of mankind and of his vocation into these definitive monsters of wood and stone.

At the other end of the scale, fringing the more inaccessible lanes and lower Main Street, or straggling forlornly off up the hollows where the town dribbled away into wilderness, were the warrens of the lower orders. Of these, the distinguishing note was gray; silver-gray of thin, weathered wood that had never known paint, gray stone blocks of the half-dozen three-story buildings (once brothels or gambling resorts, splendid in sin) to whose façades clung lopsided wooden galleries, ready to collapse, it appeared, under the slightest footfall – though they must have borne the weight of someone, day after day, since they were always festooned with garlands of drying clothes, gray, too, from a long series of hit-or-miss launderings.

State of Arkansas is already staging a big promotion to motorcycle groups.

He said the CAPC would be better off spending that money elsewhere, such as on weddings.

Bright added, “Motorcycles come here anyway.”

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Hike into 2014

Start your New Year off on the right foot (or left) and take one or both First Day hikes at Devil’s Den State Park. Hiking is an excellent way to begin the New Year, especially if your resolution is to get healthier and more active in the coming year.

Instead of loafing around on the couch and loading up on more calories, start a new tradition. Set the DVR to catch the games, grab family and friends and join the park staff at Devil’s Den State Park for some great hikes that will offer a chance to not only connect with

the outdoors but welcome in the New Year in a fresher, healthier way.

Scheduled from 10 a.m. – Noon is the First Day guided hike on Devils’ Den Trail. It doesn’t matter if it’s your first or 50th time on this trail, it’s always a new adventure. Join Park interpreter Terry and explore the park’s namesake trail and learn how the park got its name, as well as how this unique cave and crevice area was formed. This is a mile and half, pet friendly hike so don’t forget the leash and your favorite four-legged

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companion. Meet at the Visitor center flagpole; bring water and dress for the weather.

From 3 – 5 p.m. is the First Day hike to Yellow Rock. Park interpreter Terry leads this two-mile, moderately strenuous hike to one of the more beautiful vistas in the state. Bring the camera, drinking water and dress accordingly. Meet at the Yellow Rock trailhead near Area A. For more information contact the park (479) 7613325.

ESOTERICAstrology as news for week Dec. 26 – Jan. 1

by Risa

Twelve Days After Christmas & a New Moon on New Year’s Day!

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ften after the holidays (Christmas) there’s a feeling of let-down and ennui. Complex feelings of endings and beginnings arise.

It’s important to realize we can continue celebrating and staying festive for 12 days after Christmas.

From Dec. 26 – Jan. 6 we celebrate the Twelve Days After Christmas, ending at Twelfth Night, January 6, Epiphany, when the Three Magi Astrologer Kings discover the Holy Child. During these 12 days the 12 zodiacal hierarchies (Angelic Presences, Aries to

ARIES: A new phase of reality begins.

Great aspirations push you forward into dedication and hard work. Your self-identity, sense of family and home, intimate relationships and professional career will change and expand. Work with others cooperatively. All that you aspire to do will come forth only if cooperation is foremost. Tend carefully to moods. Use them imaginatively to create all things new.

TAURUS: The Grand Cross affects your personal religion and spirituality, your mind (thinking, study, ideas), daily life, health, teaching and travel.

Much of the year will be rather dreamy.

You might no like this much. However, it’s a time of rest and healing. Dreams help manifest a long-held vision. Be in the Sun as much as possible. Write down plans and ideas. A new phase in your life begins. Try not to be too distant with those you love.

GEMINI: We work in between incarnations. Each lifetime we attempt to discover your place in the Sun. When we die, it’s our last thought that determines where we go. In this lifetime, you’re to train your mind.

Planning and strategy is important in the coming year. We can also plan consciously for when we die. You are not dying this year. This is an exercise of preparation. Begin training your mind on what you will think about at the time of death.

CANCER: The New Year brings great promise of happiness. You won’t be feeling distracted. You will feel harmonious and challenged to move

Pisces) stream the Sun’s vitality into the Earth and all life forms. Each day is under the influence of one of the zodiacal signs, which corresponds to a body part (to be tended to carefully). Beginning Dec. 26 to Jan. 1 – Aries/head; Taurus/throat; Gemini/hands; Cancer/ chest & breast; Leo/heart; Virgo/stomach & digestion.

The following six signs continue next week. The Twelve Days prepare for the New Year.

New Year’s Day (quite auspicious this year) has the first new moon (11 degrees Capricorn, opposite the

forward toward what you’ve always wanted. Your mind will be clear. You will feel rewarded by your creativity.

When there are differences you will step aside (like the crab you are) circumventing them. Then they dissolve. There may be a selling or buying of property/land.

See each day as an opportunity.

LEO: The New Year is golden for you in terms of work, confidence and growth, both subtle and steady. You will to make changes concerning health and healing. Become a member of a spa, begin an exercise and diet regime with yoga, tai chi, biking, swimming, etc. Continued focus on health is most important. You will seek meaning and the highest of truths. Compassion and altruism become your newest psychological orientation.

VIRGO: Allow constancy of effort into your life, not turning back when difficulties arise. Stand at the middle point. You may feel your life is not moving forward. However, many things are occurring within. New realities, resources, new love and things social rise to the surface soon offering satisfaction and intimacy. Tend to partners and those who love you with care and feeding. Let your mind be at ease.

LIBRA: You will work very hard this coming year. When in doubt call

U.S. Sun & Sirius) of 2014. There’s a planetary Grand Cross in the sky, Uranus in Aries (all things new); Mars in Libra (realigned, restored, balanced, economy); Earth/Jupiter retro in Cancer (tend to humanity, the blinded masses, nurture the” little ones”); Sun, Moon, Pluto, Mercury in Capricorn (regenerate government).

This Cardinal Cross affects upcoming financial and economic events in the U.S. and the world. (read more at www.nightlightnews.com). Happy New Year to everyone!

upon your angels to flood your life with light, information and assistance.

It will happen immediately. You felt challenged this past year. The upcoming year offers greater progress and power. Avoid controversial decisions. Allow time for Right Decisions leading to Right Action. Don’t show dissatisfaction in relationships. Love is not a feeling. It’s a willingness to love more.

SCORPIO: You will look back on 2013 and see that it was good. There will be exceptional growth, support, gains and progress with creativity rewarded. You might be too impulsive, leading to expectations that might feel unreasonable to others. Provide affection and attention to everyone, especially friends and loved ones. You will be busy socially for a while. Then your temperament becomes serious and internal. Spending time alone is part of your destiny.

SAGITTARIUS: You will feel quite dynamic as the New Year unfolds.

There will be a fire within burning brighter and fuller. You may need to control that fire a bit lest conflicts with others are created. Use it for creativity, to achieve greater goals, greater focus and direction. You will rise in stature through new ways of thinking. This has already begun. You’re more positive,

bright like the Sun. They eliminate obstacles and hurdles. Do not compete.

Share instead.

CAPRICORN: Saturn is your ruler, the planet helping you in all endeavors, especially climbing the mountain, which means ladder of success. Success in whatever way you see success for yourself. Saturn helps you choose good shoes, too. I wish you a happy birthday for your new year. Remember to speak with your angels. They stand by waiting for instructions. They are to help you with all that you need and want in the coming year. Make your list.

AQUARIUS: The New Year focuses upon relationships, love, friendship and romance. Avoid any major changes at the first half of the year. Instead focus on building a firmer foundation of achievement. New realities can emerge the last half of the year, after the retrogrades. Travel when you can.

It brings you pleasure, excitement, play and relaxation. Have pride in your accomplishments and the social role you play in the world.

PISCES: Rest more in the coming year. Focus, stamina and vitality return gradually. Remain conscious of fluctuating finances. You want Right Use of money and resources. Past friends and lovers continue to occupy your mind. Send them on their way with love and blessings. Or invite them along the Path. Not many will be able to absorb the fiery field of the Path. You will be called to leadership. Step into this with confidence. The many years have prepared you.

Risa D’Angeles, founder & director, Esoteric & Astrological Studies & Research Institute, a contemporary Wisdom School studying the Ageless Wisdom teachings.

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Happy New Year!

Make reservations now and do New Year’s Eve your way at one (or more) of these local events Intrigue Theater offers a special show at 9 p.m. Join Sean-Paul and Juliana Fay at the Gavioli Chapel, 80 Mountain, as they send off 2013 and usher in the New Year in an evening of mystery and intrigue. There will also be a preview of the new show coming in 2014: Intrigue – The Paranormal Experiments.

After the show guests will be invited to follow Sean-Paul and Juliana Fay to the ballroom of the Crescent Hotel to join the countdown and toast the New Year. Tickets are available at www.intriguetheater.com or by calling (855) 446-8744.

Crescent Hotel’s New Year’s Eve Dinner & Champagne Party begins at 7 p.m. with dinner served until 11 p.m. Dance to popular local jazz/ swing band Swing and a Miss.

From 11 p.m. to midnight-thirty, Sean-Paul from Eureka Springs’ Intrigue Theater will work the room to dazzle diners and dancers with some fascinating close-up illusions.

Magic is in the moment at the stroke of 12 as Champagne corks are popped, the bubbly is poured for a New Year’s toast, and all sing a few strains of “Auld Lang Syne.” Kissing optional.

Cost is $125 per couple for a three-course Chef Showcase Dinner, party favors, a champagne toast at midnight and all the dancing your feet can stand. Wine selection and open bar available. For tickets and information for the party only, phone (479) 253-9652. For reservations or overnight packages, call (800) 3429766 or see crescenthotel.com.

The Basin Park Hotel hosts the gala Ballroom Blitz beginning at 8 p.m. upstairs in the Barefoot Ballroom with The Ariels, party favors, great snacks and the “highest” midnight countdown downtown with a champagne toast at the first stroke of 2014.

Tickets are $25 per person – call (800) 643-4972 to purchase or for more info.

Pine Mountain Theater is hosting a Family New Year’s Eve Celebration beginning at 8 p.m. There’ll even be a break to enjoy traditional black eyed peas and cornbread! Bring the family and ring in the New Year with food, fellowship & fun. $15 per person.

Call (877) 504-2092.

A Sufi New Year universal worship service will begin at 6 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church,

17 Elk St., presented by the Sufi Center of the Ozarks. In its 14 th New Year in Eureka Springs, the Universal Worship honors the world’s religious traditions through prayer, song, dance, and scripture reading. There is no charge to participate. For more information contact Rebecca Babbs (479) 253-8303 or email rebbabbs@ arkansas.net.

Come to the Quiet, an evening of quiet reflective celebration, begins at 7 p.m. at the Little Portion Retreat Center on Onyx Cave Road. There will be a candlelight service of prayer into the New Year and light supper will be provided as well as nonalcoholic beverages including coffee and tea. An option is to stay overnight MAIL continued from page 10

for non-payment on my record.

Another blow – the end of November another bill arrived for service at this previous address for 10/14-11/4. This bills me for water and sewer usage in an apartment where I no longer live. The amount is $19.95 but I simply do not have it; I am an older person on a low fixed income, and it

in a comfortable room and celebrate the dawning of the New Year with light praise and worship, sharing, and praying – or arrange a quiet time.

Breakfast will be available.

Cost per person is $75 and includes semi-private room and meals. Check in anytime on New Year’s Eve and stay as late as you like on New Year’s Day to enjoy the incredible scenery. To reserve phone Kevin (479) 253-7379 or email retreathost@littleportion.org.

For information on New Year’s Eve events and entertainment at your favorite nightspots and gathering places see IndieSoul and our advertisers in these pages. was already bad to not get the deposit back, I just can’t pay any more.

Ideally, I would like to get my refund from the deposit. The mark against my credit is serious, and I think, uncalled for; it was not non-payment, it was miscommunication, and [the water dept.] always knew it would get that money from the deposit.

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y partner and I read your column about being a holiday Scrooge. I’m definitely the Scrooge. It was difficult recognizing how hurtful my negative attitude has been to my partner.

We’ve followed your suggestions and we’re definitely feeling more connected. However, I still can’t shake the gloom that overcomes me at this time every year.

Can I really change this?

Yes, you can change this but it is necessary to first respect your pain before you can let it go. Your negative feelings about the holidays did not develop overnight. They developed over a lifetime and for good reason.

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is doubtful your list will include tales of sugar plum fairies and Jolly Old St. Nick. Instead, your holidays were likely permeated by dismal family interactions and inevitable disappointment. So respect your loathing for holiday cheer as the effective coping mechanism it once was. The greater resentment you held toward the holidays, the less disappointment and pain you experienced. It was an effective coping mechanism that worked to mediate childhood pain.

This strongly ingrained coping mechanism however, is no longer needed and now interferes with your most valued relationship. Refrain from minimizing, “That was 40 years ago, who cares, I should be over it.” Instead, bring to mind a child in your present life who you cherish and love deeply.

Hold the image of that child in your mind as you reread your list, imagining that child experiencing each of those troubling holiday events. This will likely trigger

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sadness and an immediate response to protect that child from those painful experiences.

It is precisely this empathy that you must now feel for yourself, for that child that once was you.

Self-empathy is truly the key. See yourself through your partner’s loving eyes, utilize self-empathy and do not allow your past history to dictate your present. The holiday warmth you were once afraid to dream of can now be yours. Allow peace into your heart, one day joy will surprise you.

Questions? Email 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.

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he presents are all unwrapped and the end of the year draws nigh…where will you go to celebrate? The options in town are as diverse as we are. Blues fans will be delighted that Brick Fields, multiple award-winning band from Eureka Springs, will do the countdown at the Blarney Stone.

Voulez-Vous has the swinging sound of Big Dam Horns, a 12-member band that mixes jazz, blues and soul in a raucous party of sound. Chelsea’s welcomes Baby New Year with Fossils of Ancient Robots, Eureka’s own high energy, synth pop/disco machine – they never disappoint.

If you prefer acoustic strings and bluegrass, Foley’s Van is playing at New Delhi Café. Springbilly will be pirating the stage

THURSDAY – DECEMBER 26 • BLARNEY STONE Loose Mic, 7 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 • SQUID & WHALE PUB Open Mic Musical Smackdown • VOULEZ-VOUS Open Mic Night FRIDAY – DECEMBER 27 • BLARNEY STONE Karaoke

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10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5… at Squid & Whale, where a masquerade party is being held.

Jack’s Place will party to the classic rock tunes of Blue Moon, one of local musician Jeff Lee’s best projects. Third Degree will rock out at the Rowdy Beaver Den and Ozark Thunder pays tribute to the classics at Chasers Bar & Grill. Jason Gordon will get the cathouse girls dancing at the Cathouse Lounge.

Got a little country attitude? Then you might want to check out Dirt Road Dogs at Legends or Rideshy at Rowdy Beaver.

Eureka Live! is having a feather and mask New Year’s Eve party complete with weiner bar and champagne toast. Their fabulous DJ will keep you dancing until next year. Raise your glass and welcome 2014 like you mean it.

• CATHOUSE LOUNGE Josh Jennings Band, 8 p.m. – midnight • CHASERS BAR & GRILL DJ Lowkey • CHELSEA’S Chucky Waggs & Co., 9 p.m.

• EUREKA LIVE! DJ & Dancing, 9 p.m.

• EUREKA PARADISE Ladies Night, Latin Fridays, DJ & Dancing to Latin hits • GRAND TAVERNE Arkansas Red Guitar, 6:30–9:30 p.m.

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

• LEGENDS SALOON Live Music • NEW DELHI Richard Burnett, 6:30–10:30 p.m.

• ROWDY BEAVER Live Music, 7:30 p.m.

• ROWDY BEAVER DEN Terri & Brett, 9 p.m. – 1 a.m.

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

• SQUID & WHALE PUB “Local Kine” Local Talent Showcase, 9 p.m.

• VOULEZ-VOUS Show Me Burlesque, 7:30 p.m.

SATURDAY – DECEMBER 28 • BLARNEY STONE Downday, 9 p.m.

• CATHOUSE LOUNGE Josh Jennings Band, 8 p.m. – midnight • CHASERS BAR & GRILL Kickin’ Kountry • CHELSEA’S Foley’s Van, 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 George Brothers • NEW DELHI Pete & Dave, 6:30 – 10:30 p.m.

• ROWDY BEAVER Matt Reeves Band, 7:30 p.m.

• ROWDY BEAVER DEN Terri & Brett, 9 p.m. – 1 a.m.

• SQUID & WHALE PUB Little Zero, 9 p.m.

• VOULEZ-VOUS Show Me Burlesque, 7:30 p.m.

SUNDAY – DECEMBER 29 • BLARNEY STONE NFL Game Day–We Have Every Game • CHASERS Sunday Funday • CHELSEA’S Ratliff Dean, 7:30

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 Sunday Night Football – gametime food/drink specials • ROWDY BEAVER Free Pool Sundays • ROWDY BEAVER DEN Open mic with Jesse Dean, 4–8 p.m.

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F.O.A.R.ever – Fossils of Ancient Robots’ Caleb Lindsay, Jesse Anderson and Daniel Koob will welcome the new year at Chelsea’s with a beat that will keep you on the dance floor.

Fri., Dec. 27 • 9 P.M. – CHUCKY WAGGS & CO. Sat., Dec. 28 • 9 P.M. – FOLEYS VAN Sun., Dec. 29 • 7:30 P.M. – RATLIFF DEAN Mon., Dec. 30 • 9 P.M. – SPRINGBILLY Tues., Dec. 31 • 9 P.M. – NEW YEAR’S EVE FOSSILS OF ANCIENT ROBOTS

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DEPARTURES Edward Charles Connolly, May 4, 1954 – Dec. 18, 2013

Estate sale for charity – Shoppers looking for something unique showed up at the old Arvest Bank building on Holiday Island Dec. 21 and 22 to mine for gifts and treasures. From left, Armand and Kathy Deleurere, Shelly LaFree, and her reindeer helper, Bryan Comeaux, try to decide if this is a spittoon or something other. LaFree purchased the building and held the sale of her own and donated items to help raise funds for Flint Street and ECHO. She has “tons” of ideas for the building, so stay tuned.

Photo by CD White

Coyote was born as Edward locations in teepees, a wickiup under a Charles Connolly on May 4, 1954 in camper shell, before they ended up in Santa Barbara, Calif. His mother was Eureka Springs and settled there more Dorothy Walton and his or less permanently. father, Charles Connolly.

After becoming single When he was 15 he was again and building his home adopted by Dan Barden. out at Hogscald, he sold that Coyote was a free spirit and moved to Hawaii, where and said he was born a Rowan was, before returning century too late. He had a to Arkansas where he spent deep attunement to nature his last days in the loving care and its critters and would of his son, Loren. have been quite happy as a Coyote has five mountain man. He did his grandchildren; Syama COYOTE best to live as a mountain Barden of Eureka Springs, man in a culture that was Vinodini Barden of Keaau, not always welcoming to someone Hawaii, and Gabriel, Jude and Lael with that orientation.

Hereth of Chattanooga, Tenn.

When he was camped out on the A memorial service was held at Rio Grande, (he had all his earthly Chelsea’s Corner Café on Saturday, belongings in his homemade burlap Dec. 21 where family and friends backpack,) he howled a coyote howl gathered to remember him. Several from his rock overhang and was stood and shared stories of his life. answered by a howl from up the Kit Shepherd spoke and read a Hopi canyon at Black Rock hot spring. The prayer saying of Coyote “He could see answering howl was from Rebecca through the veil.” Another stated, “He Ootten who would end up as his wife. was one of us damn hippies.” At the They had three children; Rowan, end the entire crowd did a coyote howl Loren and Sarah. They lived in various in his memory.

Robert J. Dole, Feb. 25, 1925 – Dec. 21, 2013 Bob Dole of Berryville passed walking to town along Hwy. 62. peacefully from this life on Winter A dedicated lover of nature, he Solstice, Dec. 21, in Fayetteville at relished being outside and found joy in age 88. every season. In retirement Born and raised in Des he was successful in helping Moines, Iowa, Bob served to establish Ninestone his country as a radioman Land Trust, a 400-acre on a US Navy ship during conservation land trust World War II. Returning dedicated to preserving the home safely, Bob turned diversity and natural beauty his sparkling wit and of a piece of the Ozarks that considerable talent into a he so dearly loved. long and successful career Known affectionately as an illustrator and card as “The Real Bob Dole,” DOLE artist working for Meredith he spent his last years Publishing and Hallmark taking long walks or sitting Cards. comfortably on his front porch for Bob was celebrated for his wacky hours and hours with a cat on his lap at minimalist drawings and off centered “Land’s End.” To all who knew him he humor. He moved to Eureka Springs will be remembered as a warm, kind in the late 1970s and continued to and gracious man. He leaves behind a work from his home near Blue Spring. brother John in Arizona and a brother, Soon after arriving here he abandoned Bill, in Texas and many friends who his vehicle and could often be seen will miss him.

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ictures of our better days of fishing for this year. Best fish to fish for now are Top water Stripers on Beaver Lake. Walleye and

by Robert Johnson

Bass slow off the bottom here at Holiday Island and if off the shoreline go for Trout below the Dam. Thank you all for a good year and stay warm.

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by Wayne Levering

ACROSS 1. Florida NBA team 5. Part of chemistry class 8. Ounce of I.W. Harper 12. Small peninsula 13. Teacher of Samuel 14. Bee’s home 15. Pool circuits 16. Dog doc 17. Suggestion 18. Skirmish 20. Prevent 21. Washing aid for pupils 24. Cavern, poetically 27. Raw metal 28. Health resort 31. Mother of the Titans 32. Hostel 33. Service charges 34. Even (Scot.)

35. Hawaiian taro food 36. Places 37. Free, as a bird

39. Resides 43. Place setting?

47. Winged 48. Chronic drunkard 50. Understand 51. Blood line 52. Shade 53. Traditional knowledge 54. Car bar 55. Make a mistake 56. Concludes DOWN 1. Sword handle 2. Older son of Jacob 3. Mont Blanc and Matterhorn 4. Mosaic piece 5. Water container?

6. Bitter bar brew 7. Smidgeon 8. Switchblade 9. Conceal 10. Finished

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11. Milk dispenser 19. Strong cleaner 20. Imitate 22. Funnel shaped 23. Samovar 24. Mature 25. No (Scot.)

26. Sawbuck 28. Observe 29. Chick chaser?

30. Fool 32. Charged atom 33. Skin dot 35. Boil stuff 36. Time past 38. Change 39. Hot rock 40. Holly genus 41. Colorado ski resort 42. Sea eagle 44. Shortly 45. Master 46. Rams fans?

48. That ship 49. “___ Miss Brooks”

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THE #1 NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION IS TO LOSE WEIGHT. A very high percentage fail. Visit: www. healthymewithjg.com I can help you achieve success with your 2014 resolution without chemicals, drugs or injections.

Just try me and ejoy weight loss.

BREAD – LOCAL ORGANIC SOURDOUGH Ivan’s Art Bread – Thursday all winter at Farmer’s Market.

Pumpernickel Rye! Long Italian and Onion Poppy Bialys. Every week a surprise! Check: bread.loveureka.com My cookbook is here ¬– Winter BBQ Rub coming soon! Special requests entertained; call me! (479) 244-7112

FLORA ROJA COMMUNITY ACUPUNCTURE-providing affordable healthcare for the whole community.

Sliding scale fee. $15-$35 per treatment, with an additional $15 paperwork fee the first visit only. You decide what you can afford to pay! Francesca Garcia Giri, L.Ac. (479) 253-4968, 119 Wall Street GENEALOGY WORKSHOPS $12 Holiday Island. Learn basic skills for genealogy research. Wednesday, January 15, 10 a.m. – noon OR Wednesday evening, January 22, 6–8 p.m. Call (479) 253-7256 for details.

LAUGHING HANDS MASSAGE announces it is winter special time. Three one hour massages for $120 or a 75 minute hot stone for $65. Laughing Hands always a great location for couples massage. Call (479) 244-5954 for appointment.

ZUMBA WITH DAWN OR AMANDA Classes offered Monday-Friday, morning and evening. Join the Latin dance fitness craze. Have fun while getting fit! (479) 366-3732 (Dawn) or (870) 654-2998 (Amanda) PROFESSIONAL MENTAL HEALTH at its best: Simplicity Counseling, meeting needs of your friends and neighbors in this community in a relaxed, respectful atmosphere since 2010. Depression, Anxiety, Trauma, Grief, Eating, Adjustment & Relationships – perhaps “It’s Your Time” (479) 244-5181 WINTER MARKET IS HERE! We are open on Thursdays from 9 a.m. – noon in the Pine Mountian Village parking lot. We have winter greens, roots, squash, pecans, apples, mushrooms, beef, chicken, eggs, baked goods and more!

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HELP WANTED

DUPLEX RENTALS SMALL 2BR, ENERGY EFFICIENT, clean duplex. Off-street parking. No smoking. References required and checked. $525. (479) 253-9728

SERVICE DIRECTORY

ANTIQUES

BEAUTY

WONDERLAND ANTIQUES buys/ sells antiques, primitives, unique vintage items. Open 10-5. Closed Tuesday & Wednesday. Hwy 62 east of Eureka 3 miles. (479) 253-6900

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

REAL ESTATE

DERKSEN PORTABLE BUILDINGS for sale or rent-to-own. Hwy 62 West, across from WalMart, Berryville. No deposit or credit check. Free delivery.

(870) 423-1414.

COMMERCIAL SALES

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

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

HELP WANTED ES FARMERS’ MARKET is looking for an assistant manager. Part-time paid position (4-12 hours weekly.) Candidates must love the market and handle a small trailer-load of market props. Call evening (479) 253-7461 THE CITY OF BERRYVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT is accepting applications for the position of Reserve Police Officer. Applicants must meet minimum standards, and be capable of passing a physical and psychological exam. Applications and job descriptions are available at the Berryville Police Department. Applications must be received by Dec. 31, 2013, at the Berryville Police Department located at 303 E. Madison, Berryville, AR 72616.

For more information please call (870) 423-3343. Mon.-Fri., 8 a.m. – 4 p.m.

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RENTAL PROPERTIES

EUREKA OPPORTUNITY – Operating bar/restaurant.

Prime location. Numerous options and growth potential. Lease, buy – with or without real estate. (479) 903-0699

ISLAND NAILS IS NOW OPEN at 3 Parkway Dr., Ste G (near HI Subway.)

Mention this ad for $5 off your first visit.

Featuring in December: Spa Pedicure, Manicure with OPI gel polish–lasts 2 weeks (compare to Shellac) Call (479) 981-9556 for info on other services and appointments.

HEALTH SERVICES

OVER-WORKED? UNDERAPPRECIATED! Are they driving you crazy? Free attitude adjustment with every session. Call Alexa (479) 2539208. Eureka!! Massage and Wellness Therapies, 147 W. Van Buren.

LOG CABIN, BEAUTIFULLY REMODELED. Located near WalMart & Country Club. Features: living ELDER ASSISTANCE quarters, must see. Perfect for law office, beauty salon, dog grooming, you ACTIVE AGING ASSISTANCE: name it. PRICE REDUCES $169,500. Available to help around the house Call (870) 847-1934 when you or your loved ones no longer can! Schmieding trained C.N.A. (479) LAND FOR SALE 253-5719 GREAT LOCATION. REDBUD SEWING/ALTERATIONS VALLEY, 2 acres M/L. 10 minutes from downtown Eureka Springs. ALTERATIONS, DESIGN AND CUSTOM SEWING. Now at Melange, $11,500 (870) 847-1934 95 B Spring Street. B.S. in Fashion Design, 40+ years experience. Stop in or RENTAL PROPERTIES call Connie (479) 981-0220.

APARTMENT RENTALS

HOUSEKEEPING

ONE BEDROOM APARTMENT on Elk Street, $525/mo plus deposit.

Includes water/trash pick-up, TV, gas.

No dogs, no smoking. (479) 244-9155.

TAYLOR-MAID TO THE RESCUE! Clean freak has openings. References.

Call Angie (479) 981-0125

HOLIDAY ISLAND VILLAS & TOWNHOUSES near lake and marina.

Peaceful and quiet, ample parking.

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

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MAINTENANCE/ LANDSCAPE/ HOME SERVICES

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

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

Free estimates. Licensed. Insured.

(870) 423-6780, (870) 423-8305

REALTORS-PROPERTY MGRSLANDLORDS. I specialize in preparation of properties for showing and/or occupancy. Excellent references.

(479) 981-0125.

HEAVEN SENT HANDYMAN– Professional carpentry and painting.

Some plumbing and electrical.

Creative and artistic solutions for your remodeling or repairs. Call Jerry (479) 981-0976.

TOM HEARST PROFESSIONAL PAINTING AND CARPENTRY Painting & Wood Finishing, Trim & Repair Carpentry, Drywall Repair & Texturing, Pressure Washing (479) 244-7096 INDY SOUL continued from page 23

MONDAY – DECEMBER 30 • BLARNEY STONE Monday Night Football • CHASERS BAR & GRILL Pool Tournament, 7 p.m., NFL Specials – Challenge the spread for free wings!

• CHELSEA’S SpringBilly, 9 p.m.

• NEW DELHI CAFÉ Monday Night Football – gametime food/drink specials TUESDAY – DECEMBER 31 • BLARNEY STONE New Year’s Eve with Brick Fields • CATHOUSE LOUNGE Jason Gordon Happy New Year

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To place a classified, email classifieds@esindependent.com TREE WORKS Skilled tree care: trimming, deadwooding and removals.

Conscientious, professional arborist and sawmiller.

Bob Messer (479) 253-2284 CHIMNEY WORKS Complete chimney services: sweeps, repairs, relining and installation. Call Bob Messer (479) 253-2284 • CHASERS BAR & GRILL Ozark Thunder • CHELSEA’S Fossils of Ancient Robots, 9 p.m. New Year’s Eve Party!

• EUREKA LIVE! DJ & Dancing, Feather & Mask New Year’s Eve Gala, 5 p.m. – close • JACK’S PLACE Blue Moon New Year’s Eve • LEGENDS SALOON Dirt Road Dogs, 9 p.m.

• NEW DELHI CAFÉ Foley’s Van, 7 p.m. – 1 a.m. New Year’s Eve Bash • ROWDY BEAVER Rideshy, 8:30 p.m. New Year’s Eve Bash • ROWDY BEAVER DEN Third Degree, 9 p.m. – 1 a.m.

• SQUID & WHALE PUB New Year’s Eve Masquerade Party feat.

SpringBilly • VOULEZ-VOUS The Big Damn Horns, 8 p.m. NYE Bash WEDNESDAY – JANUARY 1 • CHASERS BAR & GRILL Ladies Night – Drink specials, free jukebox • NEW DELHI CAFÉ Open Jam • ROWDY BEAVER Wine Wednesday • SQUID & WHALE PUB Pie Night

Reed returns – Catherine Reed recently moved back to Eureka Springs and was indeed “Home for the Holidays” at the annual concert featuring our fine local talent on Dec. 20.

Homegrown holiday – Nick Rorick brought his special style to the stage during the Home for the Holidays show featuring some of Eureka’s best local talent.

The free annual concert has become a Eureka Springs tradition.

Photos by Gwen Etheredge

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BIG CREEK, BLUFF, VIEWS, BEAUTIFUL BUILDING SITES 30 acres on Big Creek Bluffs, Pasture, Woods off Hwy. 14 near Harriet, AR. Bluffs and gravel bars along creek frontage tucked in off pavement for a private secluded haven. $199,000

NEW ON MARKET! CUSTOM EUREKA HOME

NICE WELL KEPT HOME with good mountain views from front of home. Home features 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, living, dining, and kitchen on main level. Lower level has 2 car garage, and lots of extra storage. Very nice lot with a good mountain view. MLS #684934. $139,000

Beautifully maintained custom two story home.

Lots of upgrades since original construction. A welcoming entry with Travertine marble greets you and your guests into a large great room with soaring two story stone fireplace. Beautiful dining room with enclosed sunroom leads to rear deck.

Main floor bedroom also has door to deck. Custom cabinets with linen finish and black wrought iron hardware, 1 1/2” thick custom granite counter tops and fabulous stainless steel appliances including Elite gas range with double ovens, wine cooler and trash compactor. 3 Bedrooms, 2 1/2 baths and another bonus sunroom upstairs. Two jetted tubs with showers and beautiful ceramic tile. All this in convenient Eureka Springs Pines Addition with easy access to shopping and schools. MLS# 693346. $259,000 CUSTOM HOME AT BEAVER TOWN

LOG CABIN-TURN KEY Fully furnished... move in ready.

Located just minutes from downtown Eureka Springs.

Large trees and abundant wildlife. Enjoy all 4 seasons the Ozarks offers in your own private community. Less than one hour to 3 lakes and the White river. Just minutes to the Kings river and 14,000 acres of Madison County Wildlife Management area and 5,000 plus acres of Arkansas Nature Conservancy lands. Has 2 community lakes and a recreation area for cabin owners only. $99,000 MULBERRY RIVER AGAINST NATIONAL FOREST 55 acres on Mulberry River, both sides, with beautiful creek running through.

Mix of woods and pasture in a beautiful setting.

Old existing house with electricity, well, and septic. Close to Oark, Arkansas. $199,000

RANCH STYLE HOME WITH A VIEW! 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths, with walkout basement. Wooden deck overlooks 2 acres with soaring pines and a distant view of Eureka Springs. 2.3 acres tucked away in a beautiful subdivision, yet has the feel of being in the woods. Priced to sell at $165,000.

BEAUTIFUL HAVENCROFT MEADOWS

GREAT LOCATION IN DOWNTOWN just up from the Grand Central Hotel… Newly re-modeled 4 bedrooms, 2 separate apartments/guest suites or home office. 3 offstreet parking spaces with lovely stonewall entry… priced to sell at $239,000.

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Beautifully custom built home circa 2010 with ICF construction and 11 inch thick walls. All on one level, home built with large doors to accommodate possible wheel chair. This feature is great for moving in large furniture and appliances. Living room features woodburning fireplace with floor to ceiling bookcases flanking it on both sides and easy care concrete floors.

Two heating systems include central heat & air and radiant floor heat. Two bedrooms, one full bath, plus two half baths. Large cultured marble walkin shower, jetted bathtub in master bath. You will enjoy the butler’s pantry adjacent to kitchen for extra storage. Kitchen features large gas range with double ovens, a pot filling faucet above range and granite counter tops. All this on 1.31 acres past Beaver Town – very secluded and private. MLS# 693932. $190,000

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Fantastic Eureka Springs location on level area along Pivot Rock Road with acreage tracts varying from 4 to 8 acres each. Large oak and mixed timber including mature dogwood tree and redbud trees. A great location for your dream home – in the city, but has the feel of country estate living! City water along Pivot Rock Road. Surveyed and acreage tracts can be combined, if desired. $50,000 to $52,500 per tract. Ann Martin is Owner/ Agent. Possible financing to qualified party with approved credit. This property is close in yet offers big trees for privacy and for communing with nature. Let’s take a look soon and plan for your new home! MLS# 543859.