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by SWEPCO looks like ‘Dr. Seuss trees’ B ecky G illette Mary Ellen Sheard, who has lived in Eureka Springs for 37 years, often sits outside at her Crystal Gardens Antiques next to the library on Spring St. enjoying the weather and chatting with people as they walk by.

Sheard isn’t one to make much noise complaining about anything. But since the recent work by Asplundh to trim trees away from power lines owned by American Electric Power (AEP)/Southwestern Electric, she has been angry.

Trees that were cut weren’t on her property, but the way they have been severely pruned has taken away her shade and left her upset.

“The cutting this year was much worse than I’ve ever seen it,” Sheard said. “They cut the top out of a cedar tree across the street that my son planted about 30 years ago. They cut back branches that were not even close to the electrical lines. I’m very, very disappointed.”

Sheard tried to talk to the Spanish-speaking Asplundh workers about her concerns, but they said they couldn’t understand her. She called city hall several times and said she was told by the building inspector there was nothing that could be done.

Sheard has also looked at the severely trimmed trees on US 62. The trees look nearly like a caricature of a tree because they are so lopsided and unbalanced.

“They might as well have killed those trees up

We wuz robbed! – Everything goes according to plan except for the all-important getaway in the annual re-enactment of the 1922 Eureka Springs Bank robbery – and a crook goes down in a hail of bullets and a flurry of bank notes. The event is a favorite part of the Antique Auto Festival and parade sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce.

Photo by David Frank Dempsey

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This Week’s INDEPENDENT Thinker Tim DeChristopher paid a high price for his civil disobedience when he bid against giant companies that assumed federal land in the red rock country of Utah was for their pleasure alone, sometimes at $2 an acre. Tim had more moxie than money, and was thrown in prison for interfering with a federal oil and gas leasing auction and making false statements.

Photo from Facebook.com “Baby boomers who change their light bulbs, drive a Prius and buy organic food shouldn’t pat themselves on the back,” DeChristopher told Yes! magazine, adding that Boomers are an older generation of liberals who put their descendants in peril because they won’t challenge corporate takeover and exploitation of private and public land.

Inside the ESI Smart meters

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Independent Art

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City Clerk, not Treasurer

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Water regulations

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Old jetters

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Independent Lens

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SWEPCO 5

Astrology 14

Tourism Powwow

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Sycamore 15

Anti-discrimination foiled

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Indy Soul

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HDC 7

Writers’ Colony

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Editorial 9

Dropping A Line

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Constables on Patrol

Crossword 21

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Spying on old lovers on Facebook, yes. Friending them, no.

INDEPENDENTNews Smart meters not being used in Eureka, SWEPCO says Becky Gillette Gayle de La Cruz, who lives on Hillside Ave., was alarmed last week when she found a worker for American Electric Power (AEP)\Southwestern Electric Power Co. (SWEPCO) in her back yard replacing her old meter with a digital meter. She said the worker denied it was a smart meter, which transmits data wirelessly regarding electrical use in the home.

“Smart meters are banned in some countries in Europe,” said de La Cruz. “I have researched it and there are concerns about health impacts, privacy and even starting fires. If they are putting in smart meters here, this is something Eureka needs to know about as a whole. It is dangerous. It is an invasion of our privacy.”

SWEPCO spokesman Peter Main said de La Cruz mostly likely saw replacement of an older mechanical meter with a new digital meter. The digital meter is simply an updated, more accurate version of the old meter.

“It is not a smart meter,” Main said. “All of the meters in the Eureka Springs area are part of a power line carrier, or PLC, meter system. PLC meters communicate meterreading data over power lines without the need for meter readers to visit individual homes and businesses. The PLC system helps to provide more accurate electric bills and has served Eureka Springs for the past decade. Smart meters have advanced two-way communication capabilities.

SWEPCO does not have smart meters on its system.”

There was concern this past year about Carroll Electric Cooperative Corp.

(CECC) replacing meters for its Automated Metering Infrastructure (AMI). But that system doesn’t use the wireless technology that has been the focus of concerns with the smart meters.

“In visiting with our members about digital meters, many had done Internet research and found some alarming information which caused them to inquire about the meters installed by Carroll Electric,” said Nancy Plagge, director of corporate communications for CECC. “The system chosen for Carroll Electric members uses a Two-Way Automated Communications System.

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of radio frequencies or Wi-Fi technology.

Signaling (communication) to and from the meter only occurs when data is requested by Carroll Electric. It is not in a constant communication mode. Carroll Electric requests data from each meter four times a day and each communication lasts approximately eight seconds.

Any communication with the meter is undetectable by the member.”

Plagge said there are a lot of benefits to AMI. “With the data collected through AMI, we have been able to develop an app (myAccount) that individual members of the cooperative can download on their smart phones and have access to their personal account information, including individual meter usage,” Plagge said. “We believe this empowers members with energy use data that can help them make better energy efficiency decisions within their own home. Members can also enroll in myAccount for desktop computers at www.carrollecc.com.”

Plagge said they have had no incidents of meters catching on fire. The meters also do not have the capability to communicate with any “smart” appliances within members’ homes, which has alleviated some member’s security concerns with the AMI system.

Plagge said benefits of the AMI include the following: • Helps prevent outages • Improves ability to diagnose, dispatch, and promptly respond to outages • Reduces operating costs associated with manually reading meters • Transmits readings back to the co-op through the energized power lines • Provides free personalized usage information to help customers track and reduce energy consumption • Saves money by greatly reducing the labor and transportation costs of in-person meter related trips.

• Improves billing accuracy by eliminating meter-reading errors.

• Determines the location of outages more quickly, meaning faster response and restoration times.

• Resolves member problems with blinks, voltage and usage issues.

• Improves system efficiency by optimizing equipment and reducing losses.

INDEPENDENTNews City Clerk but not Treasurer?

N icky B oyette Alderman James DeVito suggested at the Sept. 10 council meeting that the city has a competent Finance Department, so the city could separate treasurer responsibilities from the City Clerk position. He pointed out mayors in the past had relegated the City Clerk position to part-time. He also observed the mayor’s salary was less than half that of the City Clerk/ Treasurer, which is not fair to the mayor.

Alderman Dee Purkeypile stated the City Clerk should be a full-time position and Ann Armstrong (current City Clerk/ Treasurer) is “working hard for her salary.” Alderman David Mitchell followed that he respects the competence of the Finance Department, but he saw the City Clerk/Treasurer as an important part of the checks and balances although he was open to considering other points of view.

“The City Clerk is not a part-time job,” Zeller stated strongly. “There are too many duties. Things simply would not get done.”

DeVito moved to separate the Treasurer function from the City Clerk position. There was no second, so his motion failed.

At that point, Armstrong said the way the city has handled the City Clerk/Treasurer position has undermined the design she claimed has been handed down by the Municipal League.

She also told DeVito that in spite of her many years of experience in the restaurant business, she would never attempt to tell him how to run his restaurant, and “you have no clue what goes on in my office.”

Armstrong said council should not prevent, but facilitate, engagement between her office and the Finance Department as part of the city’s checks and balances.

Petal stop – A spicebush swallowtail butterfly makes a pit stop to sip nectar from a native cirsium altissimum, or tall thistle, in a patch of weeds in western Carroll County.

Photo by David Frank Dempsey

Candy lad – Little Mason Beason from Russellville was the official candy tosser from the back seat of grandpa Dan Beason’s car in the Antique Auto Parade Saturday. Sweetie!

Photo by Becky Gillette

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INDEPENDENTNews Old jetters need replacing Nicky Boyette Alderman Dee Purkeypile delivered news to city council Monday that a new combination jetter and sewer camera for Public Works could cost $79,000, although a used one might only cost $45,000.

“We must start looking at this even though money is tight,” Purkeypile stated.

He said the jetter currently used by Public Works operates with maybe ten percent of the expected force. The camera is being repaired, and Purkeypile said Public Works Director Dwayne Allen “has little hope for it.”

Mayor Morris Pate said the antiquated

pipes become clogged with tangles of tree roots, so there is a frequent need for the jetter and camera. Purkeypile added even new PVC pipes can crack from the intrusion of roots.

Purkeypile said another option for the city is to contract out the service. Regardless of which choice the city makes, time is nigh for deciding.

Alderman Joyce Zeller commented it sounded to her like the situation would require expert oversight, so she was in favor of hiring a contractor to do the work.

Purkeypile said Allen would gather more information for council.

Other items • Council voted to have Weaver draft an ordinance changing the time limits for six parking spots near the Carnegie Library from one to two hours. Loretta Crenshaw, library director, told council library patrons have recently been getting parking tickets, and have told her they would start going to the Berryville library instead.

• Aldermen voted unanimously to approve the first two readings of the annual ad valorem tax ordinance.

Next meeting will be Monday, Sept.

22, at 6 p.m.

Childhood Cancer Awareness Month important to local child, Jimi Tucker

C.D. White September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, and not many realize some 15,780 children under the age of 21 are diagnosed with cancer every year – a

diagnosis that turns the lives of the entire family upside down. Childhood Cancer Awareness spotlights the types of cancer that largely affect children and helps raise funds for research and family support.

Locally, three-year-old Jimi Tucker, nephew of Jay and Holly Ertel, grandson of Cynthia and Kirk Dupps and son of KC and Josef Tucker, is fighting his own painful battle with the disease and the effects of chemotherapy.

Many children like Jimi can benefit from bone marrow transplants in their ongoing treatment, and two fundraisers have been organized to help provide them.

The bankers at Community First Bank have already taken the pie-in-the-face challenge (see video on the Facebook page: Community First Bank), and are holding a bake sale during business hours Friday, Sept. 12, to raise funds for “Be A Match.”

CF bank employees are also helping

out at the ECHO Clinic on US 62E Saturday, Sept. 13, during a bone marrow drive from 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. The community is encouraged to come out and enjoy another bake sale, along with snow cones, and help save a life. Those interested in being a bone marrow donor for “Be a Match” can have a simple swab taken onsite – that’s all there is to it.

Benefits from the sale will go to Jimi Tucker and donations will also be accepted for “Be A Match.” For more information see www.whippingchildhoodcancer.com.

Donations for Jimi can also be made directly by mailing a check to Arkansas Children’s Hospital, Oncology Dept., ATTN: Jimi Tucker, 1 Children’s Way, Little Rock, 72202-3591.

Jimi loves the Ninja Turtles, has their pictures all over his hospital room, wears Ninja Turtle PJs and is trying hard to be “Turtle Strong.”

Heroes wanted.

Geshe Thupten Dorjee shares Heart of Wisdom Sept. 12 Geshe Thupten Dorjee will be teaching at the UU Church building, 17 Elk Street, Sept. 12 at 7 p.m.

His talk will center on The Heart of Wisdom, the essence of Buddhist teaching. Admission is free and this event is open to the public. Donations are also gratefully accepted.

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INDEPENDENTNews House candidate has questions for SWEPCO Becky Gillette and the environment, responded to the Michael Kalagias, Libertarian same question by stating SWEPCO is candidate for District 96 House of correct that a higher voltage power line Representatives, has been asking would not fit in existing rights-of-way, questions regarding American Electric but said that is only due to SWEPCO’s Power (AEP)/Southwestern Electric insistence on a 150-ft. right-of-way.

Power Company’s (SWEPCO) proposed “However, if they chose to follow 345 kilovolt (kV) transmission line that NERC and FERC regulatory standards, has drawn strong public a 345 kV power line “... utilities attempt opposition in the Ozarks. would fit neatly within Kalagias, who is to reduce the public’s a standard 161 kV rightrunning to represent the perception of overall of-way,” said a written area near Pea Ridge, response from STO impact of a project asked SWEPCO why the Director Pat Costner and new lines can’t follow by cutting it into bite- Doug Stowe, a member of sized chunks... thus the same exact path that the STO board. “So their the current lower voltage point is not consistent avoiding the public lines use. with federal regulatory outrage that would “Would you even standards. We have be generated if the need Public Service every reason to believe Commission (APSC) project as a whole was that their proposed 150approval to upgrade that foot right-of-way is to understood.” line to a higher voltage if allow for helicopter – Costner and Stowe you are using the existing maintenance of power right-of-way?” Kalagias said. lines and planned aerial application of Response from SWEPCO was that herbicides. While this matter has been the possibility of doing as he suggests raised as an issue, SWEPCO has offered is being considered in the restudy no assurances that helicopters will not ordered after the APSC ruled that be used, but rather that they will be SWEPCO failed to prove need for the when they consider their use most cost project. But SWEPCO said factors such effective for the utility.” as engineering for different voltages, Kalagias also asked SWEPCO why wider rights-of-way for higher voltage, the proposal filed with the APSC was locations of existing homes and other only for one line, when the plan calls structures or adjacent development all for a loop of two lines. SWEPCO’s impact and possibly limit the ability to response was the Southwest Power use or parallel existing right-of-way.

Pool (SPP) – a regional transmission Save the Ozarks (STO), the organization – determined the scope of citizen group opposing the 49-mile- the project when it identified the project long transmission line as unnecessary and issued a Notification To Construct and damaging to the tourism economy to SWEPCO.

STO pointed out that SPP’s plans show a loop in Northwest Arkansas, not a single line. The northern leg of the loop appears to match Route 33 and the southern leg follows Route 108.

“The practice of piecemealing (also called ‘segmenting’) comes to mind,” Costner and Stowe said. “According to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, utilities attempt to reduce the public’s perception of overall impact of a project by cutting it into bite-sized chunks... thus avoiding the public outrage that would be generated if the project as a whole was understood.”

Kalagias also suggested that while SPP/AEP/SWEPCO re-examines the study used to pick Route 33, it might be easier to close this docket and open a new one, so the company could propose a better modified route not constrained by the variance limit for the already judged “unsuitable” Route 33.

“There is no need to close this docket and open a new one,” SWEPCO responded. “The additional study being conducted by SPP concerns the need for the proposed facilities. Depending upon the outcome of the SPP study, SWEPCO is authorized by the Commission to propose modifications to its proposed routes with proper notice to all affected landowners. In its order granting rehearing, the Commission has specifically directed the parties to provide evidence whether existing 161 kV lines could be upgraded or existing rights-of-way used or expanded so as to limit adverse environmental impacts.”

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INDEPENDENTNews Workshop set for economy powwow N icky B oyette Some sectors of the local economy are thriving and some are suffering, according to alderman Dee Purkeypile, so he announced at Monday night’s Eureka Springs City Council meeting there will be a joint workshop with city council, the Chamber of Commerce, and the City Advertising and Promotion Commission (CAPC) Friday, Sept. 12, from 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. in the Pine Room at the Inn of the Ozarks.

Purkeypile said the intent of the first meeting would be to gather information and hopefully engender several other meetings that might eventually lead to creation of an economic development committee.

Alderman James DeVito commented the Chamber and CAPC already meet often, so for them the workshop will not

be anything new. He also observed his experience is businesses which do not adapt, die. He said the current environment has been unfortunate for some and it has led to “a damaging undercurrent in our community,” but overall the Eureka Springs economy is stable, and he sees no evidence to support dire predictions of the naysayers.

Alderman David Mitchell remarked everyone in the tourist business needs to know more about why tourists come here and what they do when they are here to avoid becoming a dinosaur that dies out. He observed owners of tourist lodgings or other tourist-oriented businesses get only a limited sampling of information from their guests, so the data is skewed. He said the upcoming workshop is a positive opportunity, and has spoken with other principals in the discussion who agree.

Anti-discrimination ordinance gets thumbs down N icky B oyette At Monday’s council meeting, alderman James DeVito presented copies of Fayetteville’s recent antidiscrimination ordinance and said people in Eureka Springs stand to be discriminated against without a

similar ordinance. He moved to have City Attorney Tim Weaver draft an ordinance for Eureka Springs based on Fayetteville’s ordinance. Mitchell seconded the motion.

Alderman Terry McClung said, “I’ve read it, and it looks like everything is already covered by federal and state regs.”

DeVito clarified he was not looking to create a city position like Fayetteville was doing because there would not be so many cases the mayor’s office could not handle them.

“I think we’re too small to need this,” alderman Joyce Zeller observed.

She went on to assert, “It is almost an insult to our community that we need this ordinance,” pointing out Eureka Springs has a reputation for not discriminating.

DeVito maintained he was being proactive because council does not know everything that goes on in the city.

McClung, shaking his head, insisted all safeguards were already in place.

Weaver added state law picks up where federal law leaves off, so most discrimination is already covered.

Vote on DeVito’s motion was 2-3, with Zeller, McClung and Purkeypile voting No.

HI Fire Department auxiliary luncheon The next Holiday Island Fire Department auxiliary luncheon is Tuesday, Sept. 23, in the Ballroom of the Holiday Island Clubhouse. Doors open at 11:30 a.m. with luncheon starting at noon. Cost is $8. Reservations are required and must be made no later than Friday, Sept. 19, by calling Peggy Arnhart (479) 2536235. Annual membership is $12.

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INDEPENDENTNews HDC votes yes and no N icky B oyette The Historic District Commission had no problem approving the application for adding a bathroom to St. Elizabeth Catholic Church at 30 Crescent Drive. Architect Butch Berry said the addition would fit into an alcove on the northeast side of the building. It will be constructed of native stone to match the existing structure., and vote to approve was unanimous.

Commissioners were not as sympathetic with the application by Scott and Jane DeNuys to construct a 16x16x20 two-story structure with a gambrel-style roof as their residence on the property at 10 Drennon Drive. The property is zoned C-2.

DeNuys said he would install two

French doors to begin with and “add windows as we go.”

Commissioner Richard Grinnell commented the design looked like an ancillary structure, and the size, shape, roof shape and pitch did not fit with other houses in the neighborhood.

Jane DeNuys acknowledged the design “looks a barn now,” but said her husband was an artist and had tasteful ideas he would apply in time. Scott DeNuys added the building would be low impact on the property.

Then it was commissioner Doug Breitling who pointed out the guidelines call for architectural harmony in the neighborhood, and the proposed design was “significantly different from anything nearby.”

Dance with stars of Eureka Springs

You, too, can dance (in your seat) with the stars of Eureka Springs on Sept. 11 at 7:30 p.m. at the auditorium. Dancing with the Eureka Stars pairs 10 local community notables – all novice dancers – with professionals from Melonlight Dance in a fun evening of entertainment and dancing competition.

Come cheer your favorite: Chip Ford (if he doesn’t faint), LeRoy Gorrell, Damon Henke, David Kellogg, Mark Minton, Mary Popovac, Elise Roenigk, Zeek Taylor, Fatima Treuer and Diane Wilkerson. Tickets for adults are $10 and kids are $5 at the door. From now on you may see Eureka stars shining in the park, eating in restaurants or even dancing in the street!

Jane again said they had great plans for the property, but commissioner Dee Bright said all the commission could do was vote on the application before them.

In spite of DeNuys’ appeals, the vote was 1-4, Breitling, Grinnell, Bright and commissioner Steve Holifield voting No, so the application was denied.

Commissioners unanimously approved these items on the Consent Agenda: • 247 N Main – new sign • 63 N Main – move sign.

Consent Agenda items are applications the City Preservation Officer beieves to be in accordance with the design guidelines.

Chair Dan Hebert presented these Administrative Approvals: • 25 Amity – new roof • 98 Wall – re-roof • 30 Benton – re-roof • 269 N Main – repair bridge Next meeting will be Wednesday, Sept. 11, at 6 p.m.

The family of Ramona Osburn would like to thank everyone for their help, support, calls and cards in this time of sorrow for us. Special thanks to Dr. Charles Beard, his nurse Gail, and Vicki, who provided compassion mixed with laughter each step of the way.

Thank you to Beth and all the staff at Medical Park Pharmacy.

Much praise and appreciation for everyone at Peachtree for their love and devotion given to our mother.

Her stay there was perfect.

A memorial service will be held at Peachtree on Saturday, Sept. 20 at 10 a.m.

Susan and Fred Hopkins

Hams and pizza The Little Switzerland Amateur Radio Club meets at noon Thursday, Sept.

11, at the Eureka Springs Pizza Hut, 2848 E. Van Buren, for monthly lunch meeting. Anyone with an interest in Amateur Radio is welcome.

The group also meets in Berryville at 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 18. Check sss.lsarc. us for information on the location or email gmjar@outlook.com.

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hile Arkansas federal and state representatives meet with utilities to oppose the EPA Clean Air Act Power Plan, Nevada celebrates a $100 billion win. AECC blames EPA on the back page of Arkansas Living, begging members to “tell EPA we need coal plants,” and they claim natural gas would increase electric bills up to 30 percent.

High tech has its rewards. Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval and Tesla Chairman and CEO Elon Musk said the $5 billion lithium-ion battery gigafactory would prove a boon for both sides, including billions in investment from Tesla and billions in tax breaks from Nevada. Sandoval said the deal would “change Nevada forever… and stream billions of dollars into our economy. We are determined to be a major part of moving our country and our global economy forward. Ladies and gentlemen, we are ready to lead.” Let’s look at the numbers: 6,500 permanent factory jobs, at $25 an hour with full benefits 16,000 additional jobs, including 3,000 construction jobs 2 percent increase in state employment 10 percent increase in regional employment Low tech has a huge cost. American Electric Power and Southwestern Electric Power Co. jumped ahead of the pack opposing EPA. “The only thing the Environmental Protection Agency’s new Clean Carbon Plan is likely to clean up would be energy production,” according to Brian Bond, vice president of External Affairs for AEP-SWEPCO. Bond added that the EPA’s proposed rule isn’t tenable, it is totally unrealistic and unachievable.

Brian makes a good point: it’s all about coal power generation and emissions. If you make more power than Arkansas needs, and sell it out of state at a profit using coal-fired plants, Arkansas ends up with more carbon dioxide pollution. Using Logic 101, if you reduce the megawatts produced by coal-fired plants, you reduce the carbon dioxide pollution, precisely what EPA is trying to do. Arkansas sells 30 percent of its power generated to other states, mainly Texas and Louisiana, from the Turk coal plant. SWEPCO and AEP profit, Arkansas gets the pollution. Shutting down Turk would be a quick, painless way to meet EPA carbon dioxide requirements!

Brian, the EPA 2030 target, a 16-year deadline, is realistic, achievable and desirable. We know how to do it and it does not involve natural gas. Local and community solar generation can be used to meet the EPA target by 2016.

Natural gas is not a solution. Similar to clean-coal, a deception used by AEP and Nick Akins, natural gas is not natural. Methane, the main component, comes from shale oil fracking operations. A new report suggests highly potent greenhouse gas is far more prevalent in gas production than previously thought: fracking emissions are up to 1000 times higher than EPA estimates.

Fairy tales, childhood stories and lies: Nick Akins, AEP Chairman, President and CEO claims ultra-super-critical coal plants are clean.

Truth: Clean Coal is fiction and false advertising. Nick, the tobacco industry got in trouble claiming cigarettes were safe, and had to agree to pay $368.5 billion. Please see “YouTube WSJ Nick Akins Clean Coal.” At the April 3, 2014, Wall Street Journal ECO:nomics conference in Santa Barbara, Calif., Nick talks about his company’s efforts to create clean coal technologies. Nick says carbon capture storage (CCS) has to work, “because we have so much coal.” Nick, not even a high school student would get away saying “it will work, because it has to work.” Nick is not alone, CCS is the same technology the Kemper Mississippi $5 billion coal plant is trying with no success.

High tech is much better than low tech. We have the government we elect and the economy we choose. Please take action today. Raise your voice and support EPA for having the political courage to choose the Clean Power Plan. http://tinyurl.com/NoCO2 Dr. Luis Contreras

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by Dan Krotz y good friend Dr. Sharon Sloan was the subject of much conversation between me and local actor, Richard Pille. Sloan has been teaching us how to be radio personalities in preparation for the 2014 season of The Ozark Harvest Radio Hour. It’s dirty work, with little prospect for success, but Sloan has hung in there. Her nickname, The Warrior Queen, is well-earned.

“She’s a former Catholic sister, isn’t she?” Richard asked. “And where’s she from?

Someplace out east, I bet.”

“Wrong on both counts,” I replied. “You’re confused by the nunchaku in her hip pocket, and the haughty stare. She was actually raised as some kind of Hard Shell Baptist, in Dallas, Texas.”

“Good Lord, a disadvantaged background indeed!”

“You have no idea. Rumor has it that she paid her way through school as a jammer on the Fort Worth roller derby team, the Wombats. Her track name was Lady Shatterly, or maybe it was Buns Bunny. I’ve forgotten which. After that, she migrated to graduate school in Germany and whipped Volkswagen’s fahrgestellnummer system into place. Her family refers to her time there as the lost years, but I don’t think they were wasted. She certainly knows her strudel.

“Among her current accomplishments, as you know, is heading the Carroll County Literacy Council. She, along with volunteer tutors, teach illiterate and disabled adults to read and write, helps English as a Second Language (ESL) students become proficient in English, and helps older Carroll Countians, such as yourself, master the Internet, social media and more complex software programs such as Adobe Audition.”

“Goodness. She’s a Renaissance Woman. How can people help?”

“The Carroll County Literacy Council is a 501c3 organization and donations are tax deductible. Send money. You can also become a volunteer tutor, refer students or, if you’re an old person, such as yourself, you can get trained to use the new technology.”

“Don’t call me old. I prefer to be called mature if you must label.”

“I prefer to be called Woo Fat, God of Love and King of Animal Lore. But I’m just tired and fully depreciated. We are who we are, pardner.”

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September 1 1:31 p.m. – Constable and Animal • Cup of Love free dinner, lunch, clothing – Control were alerted to a puppy in Free Mexican dinner Wednesdays at 5 p.m. distress in a parked vehicle. Puppy Hearty soup lunch Fridays 9:30 – 2 p.m. Free had got itself caught in a strap. clothing. Located in former Wildflower thrift Responders were able to enter the shop (yellow building next to chapel) US 62E. vehicle and free the puppy but set (479) 363-4529. off the car alarm in the process.

• Flint Street Fellowship food pantry, lunch, free clothing – Pantry open 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Vehicle owner came out to see about Mondays and Wednesdays. Free lunch Tuesdays the alarm and authorities informed and Thursdays, 10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Free the owner of what had happened clothes/shoes closet, books and household items. and gave owner a verbal warning (479) 253-9491 or 253-4945. Leave donations regarding the animal.

2:26 p.m. – Business owner downtown in barrel at entrance if facility is closed.

• Wildflower food pantry, furniture bank and reported a male in the street dressed clothing – Wildflower Chapel (US 62E) free like a cowboy with a sidearm trying food pantry 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. on Fridays. to lasso passing vehicles. Responding Thrift store and used furniture bank (now in big officer discovered the man’s pistol blue barn only) Wednesday – Saturday 10 a.m. – was a toy. He was encouraged to 4 p.m. and Friday 1 – 6 p.m. Drop off donations move along.

6:40 p.m. – Central dispatch warned Thursday – Saturday 11 a.m. – 3 p.m.

• GRIEF SHARE – 13-week grief recovery ESPD a motorcycle being driven program. Sundays 2 – 4 p.m. HI Community recklessly might be entering city Church Fellowship Hall library (188 Stateline limits from the east, but constables Drive). Join at any time. $15 workbook fee. on patrol never saw it.

September 2 (479) 253-8925, or e-mail lardellen@gmail.

2:13 a.m.

– Several citizens com. reported the sound of either gunfire • Celebrate Recovery – Soul Purpose Ministries, or a transformer exploding near 801 S. Springfield, Green Forest, 6:30 p.m. each downtown.

Constable investigated Wednesday. Potluck meal followed by 12-step Christ-centered meetings for those suffering but discovered no source of the sounds. from addiction, habit, hang-up or hurt.

• No high school diploma? Take free GED 4:05 a.m. – Motion alarm sounded at classes in the Carnegie Library Annex every a restaurant. Constable checked all Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday from 9 a.m. doors and found them secure. He and - noon with study and tutoring for the GED test. the keyholder inspected interior and Open to ages 18 and up. GED classes also in found everything in its place.

Berryville at Carroll County Center. Some open 7:01 a.m. – A silent alarm at a bank to ages 16 and 17 per educational requirements. was triggered somehow, but the For info: Nancy Wood (479) 981-0482, Carn- constable found nothing suspicious. egie Library (479) 253-8754, Carroll County 7:08 a.m. – Constable cleared Center (870) 423-4455). Offered by North Ar- downed branches from a road just kansas College with Carnegie Library support. east of downtown.

• Coffee Break Al-Anon Family Group Women 11:35 a.m. – Northbound vehicle on – Tuesdays, 9:45 a.m., Faith Christian Family Hwy. 23 South went off the road three Church, Hwy. 23S, (479) 363- 9495. times according to another driver.

Meetings at Coffee Pot Club behind Land O’ Constables watched for the vehicle in Nod Inn: city limits but never encountered it.

• Alateen – Sundays, 10:15 – 11:15 a.m. Email 4:31 p.m. – Another vehicle being alateen1st@gmx.com or phone (479) 981- driven recklessly on a city street 9977 • Overeaters Anonymous – Thursdays, turned onto US 62 and headed west, 10:30 a.m. Barbara (479) 244-0070 • but constables never saw it.

Narcotics Anonymous – Fridays, 5:30 p.m. 6:23 p.m. – A resident complained (903) 278-5568 • Al-Anon Family Group a neighbor was using an annoying (AFG) – Sundays, 11:30 a.m., Mondays and loud device until just before sunset.

Tuesdays 7 p.m. • Eureka Springs Coffee Pot Constables had a chitchat with AA Groups Monday – Saturday 12:30 p.m.; everyone involved.

Sunday 10 a.m.; Sunday – Thursday, Saturday, 7:59 a.m. – There was a two-vehicle 5:30 p.m.; Tuesday and Friday, 8 p.m. (479) accident on US 62. No injuries and 253-7956 • Al-Anon Wednesday, 5:30 p.m. All the road was not blocked. other meetings: See www.nwarkaa.org 10 |

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September 3 10:48 a.m. – Two dogs roamed the parking lot of a motel, and a constable captured one of them and took it to the kennel. The other one eventually met the same fate, and their owner later retrieved them.

11:25 a.m. – Guests at a campground left without paying what they owed.

Constable filed a report.

6:51 p.m. – Driver of an SUV on Hwy. 23 South rear-ended a vehicle and then careened into another one, and the driver fled the scene. Constables soon caught up with him and took him into custody on several charges.

Victims were checked out by EMS. 8:46 p.m. – ESFD responded to the smell of gas at a business on US 62.

11:15 p.m. – Observant passerby noticed a front door of a business on Main Street was open. Constable checked the area and secured the door.

11:16 p.m. – Alarm rang out at a bar, but the constable found the place locked up tight and everything okay.

September 4 7:10 a.m. – Someone threw food all over a vehicle parked in a neighborhood. Constable filed a report.

12:50 p.m. – A truck got itself stuck near US 62, and a constable went to the scene to help unstick it.

6:56 p.m. – Motorist reported a driver up ahead on US 62 was driving erratically.

Constable watching for the vehicle also noticed unsafe behavior and initiated a traffic stop.

He cited the driver for driving left of center.

8:21 p.m. – Staff at a motel asked for constable assistance in removing two unwanted guests. The two guests had sneaked into the room of other guests and reportedly were discussing drug deals. Constables arrived at the motel and advised the couple to leave. They complied and paid their bill in full.

8:52 p.m. – Customer was carded at a gas station when he wanted to buy cigarettes, and he began harassing the clerk. Constable intervened and told the individual not to return to the property.

10:45 p.m. – Motorcycle rider had no headlights or taillights on his vehicle.

He tried to avoid a constable by ditching his bike, but constable found him at a nearby restaurant. Constable

arrested the biker for DWI and operating an unsafe vehicle. Rider also had a warrant out of Siloam Springs for failure to appear and no driver’s license.

11:04 p.m. – Individual came to the station to report she had been assaulted at a residence near downtown. She said a third person had transported the assailant back to his home in Missouri after the incident. EMS checked her out, and her grandparents drove her to a hospital.

September 5 1:11 a.m. – Staff at a care facility reported a woman was loitering outside looking for a ride. A male was with her, but he ran away when confronted. Constable determined the female had been fighting with her boyfriend and was seeking help.

Constable gave her a ride.

5:04 a.m. – Central dispatch reported a call from a guest at a motel who said her boyfriend was bothering her and trying to break down the door to her room. Constable who responded realized this was the same male who had been arrested for trespassing on these same premises only a week ago.

The subject fled as soon as the female had called ESPD and was nowhere to be found.

8:19 p.m. – Innkeeper told ESPD an ex-employee had returned to the premises and had been asked to leave.

He remained in a vehicle out front awhile but left before the constable arrived. Constable later made a traffic stop and arrested the individual on a warrant out of Madison County for probation revocation.

8:32 a.m. – A raccoon waited at the front door of a bank. Animal Control captured the animal without incident and relocated it.

9:40 a.m. – Alarm at a business was triggered by an employee and a repairman working on the alarm system. Constable went there to find everything was okay.

3:58 p.m. – Constables were on the lookout for a vehicle driving around town revving its engine excessively.

5:15 p.m. – Witness called in a rolling domestic dispute on US 62 heading east through town. Deputies encountered the vehicle first and then constables arrived, but order

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INDEPENDENT Art & Entertainment Bridging the arts at Crystal Bridges Alison Taylor-Brown, Director of the Village Writing School, will teach a series of creative writing workshops at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art as a short story adventure entitled Bridging the Visual and Literary Arts, based on Crystal Bridges’ new exhibition, State of the Art. Participants will draft a story based on a piece of art in the SOTA exhibit, edit that draft, and create a publishable short story. TaylorBrown will offer instruction in finding a narrative arc, creating dialogue, developing character and building drama.

The group will meet from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. on Sept. 15, Oct. 13 and Nov. 10. Admission is free but seats are limited. Register at www. crystalbridges.org, or email alisontaylorbrown@ me.com.

Sign up for Ozarks Chorale Sept. 16 Area singers are invited to join the Ozarks Chorale for their first rehearsal and registration Tuesday, Sept. 16, at 6:15 p.m. in the Eureka Springs Middle School cafeteria. If you love to sing and can commit to a once-a-week rehearsal, you are welcome to join! No audition is required.

Ozarks Chorale singers of all ages have been coming together in harmony from all across the Arkansas/Missouri Ozarks. A nonauditioned, four-part chorus, now over 50 members strong, The Ozarks

ESSA September workshops Get creative and treat yourself to one of these fun workshops with professional instructors at Eureka Springs School of the Arts. Relax and learn in the school’s scenic location on US 62W. 17 – 19: Julie Kahn Valentine, Life Drawing 22 – 25: Wayne Summerhill, Metal Sculpture 25 – 27: Melanie Myhre, Storytelling Portraiture Photography Register and get details online at www.essa-art.org, or call the school (479) 253-5384 for more information.

Chorale is well-known for their wide variety of holiday music.

This year the Chorale will perform multiple pieces from the Messiah and will continue the Hallelujah Chorus Community Sing initiative with practice tracks available online. Check the page: The Ozarks Chorale on Facebook for more on the kickoff.

Rehearsals are 7 – 9 p.m. Tuesdays.

For more information, email Janell Robertson at ozarkschoralepublicity@ gmail.com or Paul Gandy at pgandyjr@ gmail.com, (479) 366-4996.

Jazz Weekend Gallery Stroll

Eureka Thyme, 19 Spring Street, will join the festivities of Jazz Weekend with a featured artist known for weaving and spinning both fabric and words – Crow Johnson Evans, a well-known musician who has recently been making a splash with beautiful fabric creations. In celebration of jazz, Crow has made some Jazz Boutonnieres and other woven items that take us to the heart of jazz. Meet her at the gallery from 6 – 10 p.m.

Norberta Philbrook Gallery, 34 N. Main, will feature John Rankine during Jazz Weekend. Meet John at the artist’s reception Saturday, Sept. 13, 6 – 10 p.m., at the gallery.

Rankine will debut the next season of his popular photographic series, POSY, introducing vivid captures in a stark black and white environment. Rankine is known for creating situations in which everyday objects are balanced on the edges of familiarity and alienation. The POSY series features works reflecting upon the art of photography itself, embracing a subtle minimalist approach that generates tranquil imagery and sophistication.

DeVito’s of Eureka Springs, 5 Center Street, hosts the art of Paula Watters Jones during the month of September, curated courtesy of Norberta Philbrook Gallery.

The latest series from Paula Watters Jones, ABSTRACT, embraces the concept of movement, which Jones says reveals inherent echoes of our own vulnerabilities and personal growth. In this new series, paintings isolate movements and new sequences are created which reveal an inseparable relationship between motion and emotion.

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House Concerts are back!

The popular singer/songwriter House Concerts are back at the UUF building, 17 Elk Street, with six outstanding shows beginning Sept. 21. Tickets will be $15 at the door or $60 for the season. As usual, doors open at 5 p.m. for a potluck/ meet-n-greet with music at 6.

Sunday, Sept. 21, Canadian-born Gordie Tentrees makes a stop on his NorthboundSouthbound Tour to bring his John Prine-like brand of relaxed entertainment to the local stage. Armed with porchboard bass, dobro, acoustic guitar and harmonica, Tentree’s music is his own blend of folk, roots and blues sounds.

Tentrees has released five albums and performed at more than 2000 concerts and festivals in 17 countries in the past decade. His newest CD, North Country Heart, contains “twelve swampy country blues songs layered with the storied delivery of a Texas word slinger.”

Future House Concerts will feature Randle Chowning, founder of the Ozark Mountain Daredevils, in October; Jonathan Byrd in November, Sam Baker in February, Harpeth Rising in March and Rebecca Loebe in April.

Get your season ticket now for six great nights of music and fun and save $30! To purchase tickets, email nlpaddock@gmail.com or phone (479) 244-0123.

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INDEPENDENTNews Keeping water clean seen as stepping on landowners’ toes Alana Cook In a statement of Administration Policy released late Monday, the Obama administration said it plans to veto H.R. 5078 that would block a controversial proposed Environmental Protection Agency rule that extends the reach of the Clean Water Act to include bodies of water such as streams and ponds.

The administration said in the statement the Waters of the United States rule, which is being proposed by the EPA in conjunction with the Army Corps of Engineers, is intended to “clarify the jurisdictional boundaries of the Clean Water Act. The agencies’ rulemaking grounded in science, is essential to ensure clean water for future generations and reduce regulatory uncertainty, and is responsive to calls for rulemaking from Congress, industry, and community stakeholders as well as decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court.” But Arkansas and Texas lawmakers disagree.

Rep. Rick Crawford, R-Ark., who co-sponsored H.R. 5078, Waters of the United States Regulatory Overreach Protection Act of 2014, which Congress is voting on this week, said in a July 16 press release that, “This issue is yet another example of the Executive Branch overstepping its authority.” Crawford said the proposed rule is ambiguous and “will likely result in the regulation of bodies of water that currently are [unregulated], such as rice fields and

agriculture water retention ponds.”

Science, Space, and Technology Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, R-TX, in mid-August sent a letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy requesting a more comprehensive, independent scientific analysis before the agency moves forward with enacting the rule.

“For too long the EPA has hidden the truth from the American people. In order to regain public trust, the agency should rely on robust, objective and well-grounded technical analysis of its climate regulations. Flaws in recent EPA analyses amplify concerns about the real impacts of these regulations. Americans deserve an opportunity to see the facts,” the letter said.

The proposed EPA rule has drawn criticism from groups such as the American Farm Bureau Federation, the National Association of Counties, and the National Cattleman’s Beef Association.

Last month, the NCBA, the Missouri Cattlemen’s Association and Missouri Farm Bureau showcased interactive maps at the Missouri State Fair that illustrate how the proposed rule will impact property owners throughout the country.

“The maps highlight just how far the proposed rule would expand federal jurisdiction over waters across the country,” NCBA environmental counsel

Ashley McDonald said.

“In Missouri alone, nearly 80,000 additional stream miles will be under the regulatory authority of EPA and the Corps. Logic and commonsense tells us that the surrounding land will also be regulated more than ever before. This rule just continues this administration’s regulatory rampage and enough is enough. Farmers and ranchers are not confused and are well aware of this administration’s blatant attempt to control every drop of water and every piece of private land in this country,” she said.

McDonald said any activity near a jurisdictional ditch will now require a federal permit and as a result, many farmers and ranchers will need to acquire permits for routine land use activities and the rule has caused confusion for farmers and ranchers.

“Instead of providing the clarity that so many people have asked for, the agencies have instead proposed a rule that muddies the water even further through their clever use of ambiguous and vague terminology. The agency’s proposed rule adds more layers of government bureaucracy and red tape and amounts to nothing more than a pervasive invasion of private property rights,” McDonald said.

Instructions on how the public can comment on the proposed rule are on the EPA’s Website at www2.epa.gov/ uswaters. Deadline for public input is Oct. 20.

Chicken Train stops here!

Ozark Mountain Daredevils headline 67th Annual Ozark Folk Festival The 67th Annual Original Ozark Folk Festival Oct. 8 – 11, continues its remarkable history of being the longest consecutively held annual folk festival in America. The Original Ozark Folk Festival began in 1948 to showcase the music, dance, arts, crafts and people of the Ozarks.

This year’s events include the annual queen’s contest on Wednesday, Oct. 8, with the traditional performance by the 3rd grade Hedgehoppers at the Aud at 7 p.m. Free admission.

The Barefoot Ball Thursday, Oct. 9, at the 1905 Basin Park Hotel features dancing to great music by the Cindy Woolf Band featuring Mark Bilyeu of Big Smith. Doors open at 7 p.m. and music begins at 8. Tickets are $12 and available online at www.theaud.org.

Free music in Basin Park Friday and Saturday at noon features Clancey Ferguson, The Clark Family Trio with Bill Nesbitt, Lyle Strickland & The Moonlight Farmers and Jeremiah Jones, the winner of last year’s Singer/Songwriter contest.

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At 2 p.m. on Saturday the annual Folk Festival parade will roll down Spring and Main Streets along the usual parade route from the library to the courthouse.

Saturday’s festival headliners are The Ozark Mountain Daredevils with special guests Brewer & Shipley and Danny Cox in the Aud at 7:30 p.m. Following the rerecording of the beloved album, Chicken Train, just released in July, this show is sure to bring back memories of good times from the 1970s in a welcome blast from the past.

These three great acts all have roots in the legendary Vanguard Coffee House and the Cowtown Ballroom in Kansas City, making this show The Ultimate Cowtown Ballroom Reunion. The Cowtown Ballroom was considered by many to be “The Fillmore Midwest.”

Tickets are general admission, $32 in advance at www.theaud.org or $37 on the day of the show. For a complete schedule and information about the performers, visit www.OzarkFolkFestival.com.

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O zark M ountain D aredevils

then and now

INDEPENDENTLens Seeing Red – The colorful Arkansas Red appears to be looking at life through rosecolored glasses. Besides his gig playing at the Farmers’ Market, he plies his expert musicianship all around town in various solo and group performances. You name a style, he can play it!

Photo by Becky Gillette

Herding cats – Some people just can’t stand still for a serious picture. From left, Nora Patterson Viola, John Two-Hawks, Peggy Hill, Janet Alexander and Barb Kerbox show some of their wares at Saturday’s Trunk Show at Nora and Barb’s Studio on Ozark Automotive Road.

Photo by CD White

Ready or not, here I c... – Never mind. Some people just don’t get the point of hide and seek.

Photo by CD White

Knit one, purl two? – From left, knitters Juliann King, Betty Haisten, Loralee Canfield, Crow Johnson-Evans and Marty Benson watch Beth Brown-Reinsel demonstrate an intricate technique they would be using during her workshop at the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow.

Photo submitted

Living window? – Al Larson is on display working on the Carnegie Library Annex Centennial Room renovation.

Carpenters have added a door between the Centennial and Friends rooms, allowing access to the Friend’s Room kitchen. Library Director Loretta Crenshaw said they hope to obtain funding to expand the library’s computer services to the Centennial Room.

Photo by Becky Gillette

Stealth gardeners – Carroll County Master Gardeners, from left, Lee Monger, Doug Miller and Mariellen Griffith planted mums, pulled weeds and picked up leaves at the Eureka Springs Historical Museum Friday.

CCMGs design, plant and maintain gardens all over the county while we’re busy doing other stuff. Photo submitted

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ESOTERICAstrology as news for week Sept. 10 – 17

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The Revolution Must Be Different

ries Moon late Wednesday and Thursday. We think new thoughts and initiate new ideas. Sun in Virgo with Saturn in Scorpio help disciples to create orderly structures to anchor and bring forth new ideas.

Stabilizing Taurus moon Friday and Saturday. We anchor new ideas into form and matter, like seeds planted in the soil. We tend them, waiting for green shoots to emerge. Like the gestating Virgo Sun Madonna, awaiting

ARIES: Speak carefully and harmoniously to loved ones. Realize you may be more critical at this time, which includes selfcriticism. Allow others the benefit of understanding you. Always give and ask for explanations, then listen carefully.

What you know as real and what you feel (frustration, anger, impatience, etc.) may at first be at odds. Wait a while before acting.

Then you can choose the right course of action. Then your heart opens.

TAURUS: Events dissolve, are created, retreat, happen, fall apart and re-emerge again – all defining the breakdown of the past and a defining of the future.

Beware of stepping across boundaries where uncontrolled power is an issue. In communications have Right Relations within so Right Relations of others can also be summoned. You teach us to maintain the highest ethics, morals, values and intentions. You know how one begins a project is also how it ends.

GEMINI: You find you must empower your values and day-to-day ways of being through bringing harmony forth. You must reach out to friends and loved ones from your heart. This expands them. You must alter your habits and ways of living so your health is strengthened. Soon everything must change and this is good.

Each day support world enlightenment on

by Risa

the birth of the holy child, the Soul, the new light at winter solstice. Mercury and Chiron converse about what hurts and what heals.

Saturday – a complex day with Mercury (communication), Mars (action!) and Uranus (revolution).

Mercury in Libra is opposite Uranus in Aries. Oppositions (recognizing something new appearing over there somewhere) eventually synthesize. Mercury in Libra calls for Right Action and Right Relations, especially with

inner levels. Join the New Group of World Servers consciously, with determined loving rhythm and dedication.

CANCER: New ideas, revolutionary, unusual and revelatory are being impressed upon your mind. You’re therefore learning at an accelerated pace as if in a school, but actually it’s that you’re concentrating on the value of here and now. There’s extra energy being offered you from Jupiter that is expanding your heart. You’re loving more, becoming strong, resourceful, intuitive.

Your garden is calling.

You are to feed the world.

LEO: It’s important for Leos to always be recognized and praised.

The secret of helping Leo evolve is other people’s acknowledgement of their gifts and talents. While hoping to not be seen, we must say you’ve become more attractive and nurturing, flowing with generosity.

You offer support when the need arises and tend to those more vulnerable. You keep secrets, prefer working alone, while empowering everyone along the way.

You’re a Pathfinder.

VIRGO: The Sun is shining on your gifts and creative abilities and all you’ve wanted

money. Uranus in Aries – the revolution this time must be different. Also on Saturday Mars enters Sagittarius.

Where are we going, what are our goals, where’s justice, where’s the mountain, do we have good shoes?

Sunday Venus trines Pluto – in depth assessment of money, values and resources. Gemini moon Monday – we talk a lot, tending to tasks in gardens and neighborhoods.

Cancer Moon Tuesday and Wednesday. We nurture and nourish. The stars and planets remind us.

to do feels like it can come true. It’s your birthday month. Know that you have everything you need in terms of energy, resources and time. Whereas much has been external, notice you’re beginning to withdraw into yourself. Expansion occurs internally for a year. Creating a time of composure, reflection, contemplation and peace.

LIBRA: Librans always need a social group around where everyone recognizes and loves them. And then there are times when you feel out of place, the odd one, not heard, seen, listened to or understood.

During the month, through inner communication and wisdom, you will assess the many paths you’ve taken and realize new needs. In between, attempting to stabilize a new sense of self you will also be very practical. You will also begin to tithe to those in need.

SCORPIO: As you redefine yourself, there may be conflicts and collisions with other people’s ideas of who you are. There may be difficulty communicating and/ or being understood. Before speaking, consider your words, intentions, attitude and tone, have the intention for goodwill, and seek to become a “harmonizer.” These are important values to remember and uphold. If traveling, be cautious, empower yourself with mantrams. No gambling or risk taking.

SAGITTARIUS: During the month of traveling here and there, you seek a new base of operation and wonder about your true foundations. You realize your family heritage has given you an identity

propelling you forward into new territory.

Do not be concerned if chaos is your companion. Chaos is the first step toward greater harmony. Chaos contains the seeds of creativity, provides excitement, experiences and shreds outworn ways of being. Carve a tall sturdy walking stick.

CAPRICORN: Subtle shifts and changes continue in your life, growing ever more present as each new light of day unfolds.

Your foundations are being quietly transformed as you become what you were born to be. Tend to things financial.

Don’t think unlimited funds are available.

A serious plan must be applied to money earned and spent. Notice soon a return to previous realities. For assessment, review and guidance concerning your next endeavors. Create tasks and disciplines with family. These sustain everyone.

AQUARIUS: You may feel that all progress is stalled; movements forward take two steps back. This is not failure. It’s a review, revisiting and revisioning that must occur. It’s also the energies under which you experience the coming autumn season.

In this Virgo month you are soon to become Persephone, moving underground. Even if often out and about in the world, prepare for a simultaneous inner experience of solitude, retreat and contemplation.

PISCES: Something comes to rest and perhaps completion in the coming weeks.

You then prepare for new activities that define the rest of the year. Notice all thoughts, impressions, ideas and intuitions.

They provide subtle signs and information concerning your next steps. Interactions with loved ones will be loving yet disciplined, kind yet structured. Eliminate all that’s unnecessary for soon it will be time to move on. No sadness.

Risa, writer, founder & director Esoteric & Astrological Studies & Research Institute, a contemporary Wisdom School studying the Ageless Wisdom teachings. The foundation of the Teachings is Esoteric Astrology. Email: risagoodwill@gmail.com.

Web journal: www.nightlightnews.com. Facebook: Risa’s Esoteric Astrology for daily messages.

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Sycamore©

– Chapter 9, cont.

Sycamore, written 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 daughter lived in Eureka Springs while the novel was written. In addition to five novels, Constance Wagner wrote numerous articles and stories published in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly and Collier’s.

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gnes Knowles sighed, relieved.

“Ah, yes,” she said in a tone of resignation. “I was simply being selfish – for Walter. His interest has always come first with me, since the day he was born. I want him to be happy. But,” she threw Clytie a kind and rueful smile, “it would be very hard for you, and probably for a long time to come. Walter will have to hoist himself up by his own bootstraps, in the future.

The first thing Roger did after this – this unpleasantness, was to rewrite his will.”

She spoke without emphasis, looking off into space, as if what she said were a foregone conclusion, its facts contained inevitably in the situation. “I tried to prevent it,” she said, and shook her head sadly. “And of course, I have nothing…”

Clytie made a show of consulting her wrist watch and looking surprised.

(Had no idea it was so late!) She rose, and the small tea-napkin slid off her lap to the floor. She was in a hurry to get out of this house, with its feeling of suffocation. She scarcely bothered to reply, except by an incoherent mumble,

when Mrs. Knowles pressed her hand warmly and said: “Please consider what I have said, my dear. I have always so wanted you for Walter.”

Clytie untethered her horse with cold, clumsy fingers, mounted and rode off without a backward glance. Within her was the certain conviction that she would never again go up the steps of the wide white portico. She knew that Agnes had outwitted her. She must keep Walter writing to her regularly, so she would not lose face, but in the meantime she must be quietly casting about for a substitute. It would be folly to break off with Walter until she was on the verge of marrying someone else. So she fell into the habit of riding to town every Saturday night, beautifully groomed and heavily perfumed, and going to the beer joint on top of the hill. Beside the regular crowd – country boys, very drunk, wearing stupendous sideburns and big black hats, and acting always with a heavy touch of the desperado – there were usually two or three out-of-town men to be found there: salesmen from

Joplin or Springfield or Kansas City.

They would notice Clytie, sitting aloof and alone in the corner by the window, and, being alone themselves, they would presently scrape up an acquaintance, and buy her beer. Some of them had so much city glitter that she was impressed, but unfortunately, most of them were married. Even when they would not admit to it, she believed she could recognize a married look about them, so she confined her favors to the drinking of beer and the sharing of a table.

One night a man from Springview turned up – a thirtyish man who did not look married, who wore a large gold ring and clothes that looked, to Clytie, both smart and expensive. She decided that Mr. Madison Graves might be worth her while. And, after one evening with Clytie, Mr. Graves was fatuously arranging his schedule so he could be in Sycamore once a week On the second visit, he brought three pairs of nylon stockings, and told her about his part interest in the distributing firm he worked for. Clytie might have taken all this with a grain

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ears ago, my wife was pregnant with twins and a gentleman took me aside at a meeting of the Eureka Springs Rotary Club. He said, “Everyone says that twins are twice as hard, but don’t believe it. They’re ten

times as hard.”

Now go back in time to 1982 when I was a lowly freshman at Eureka Springs High School. Sophomores Lori and Lisa Bingaman were twins, as were Juniors Amy and Scott Bingaman, all the

Zombies take over Basin Park Assemble your team of survivors and head down to Basin Park Friday, Sept. 19, for Zombies in the Park, a family friendly evening of ghoulish games, morbid music and a zombie scavenger hunt.

Beginning at a survival camp in Basin Park around 5 p.m., teams of “survivors” embark on a perilous journey through post-apocalyptic downtown Eureka Springs in search of survival items and secret underground locations.

While brave scavengers are exploring the dark alleys of downtown Eureka, the Basin Park survival camp is alive with a supernatural smorgasbord of Halloween-themed games, crafts, costume contests, music and dancing courtesy of ESDN, students of FBLA, Northwest Arkansas Hauntours and many others.

Participants in the zombie scavenger hunt are encouraged to register their team today at EurekaZombies.com. Each participant is asked to bring two cans of food for the Flint Street Food Bank.

of salt, except for his car, which was CONSTANCE long and bright WAGNER and new, and a Buick, rather than a mere Ford or Chevvie.

Since she was now shopping for a husband, not a lover, she tempered her sex-appeal with pretty reticence, a shy withdrawal in the face of ultimate concessions. This was so effective that, on the third visit, Mr. Graves in desperation began to babble about marriage. It was on the same visit, while they were tucked into their usual corner beside the window at the beer joint, that Clytie saw Mrs. Knowles’s car creep into the lighted space beyond the door, where the gasoline pumps stood up like twin obelsiks, and was aware of Mrs. Knowles’s eyes upon her, while the car stood idle, being fueled. Clytie turned her head away. Perhaps she oughtn’t to have pretended not to see her? She was uneasy, with a sense of pressure, of events pushing her toward a corner from which it might be impossible to escape.

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progeny of Don and Lynn. If one set of twins is ten times as difficult, how would one do the math on two sets of twins so close together in age?

As mentioned previously, Don Bingaman and his older brother, Claude, purchased the Eureka Bakery on Spring Street from Al Neumann in the early 1960s. Illness forced Claude to close the popular bakery in 1984.

After the first set of Bingaman twins were born, Lynn pushed Amy and Scott in a side-by-side double stroller in the Annual Folk Festival Parade. The top of the stroller flipped up and said “Double Your Pleasure With Fresh and Tasty Homemade Bread and Pastry – Eureka Bakery.” They won first place in the walking division.

Lori remembers going by the bakery in the early morning and getting “a hot fresh donut out of the dripping glaze and eating it on the way to school.” She also recalled helping out at the bakery – “I was able to help my dad with the bread slicing. I would

put the bread down the chute, he would put it in the bag and I would put the tie on the bag. He realized, after some customers mentioned it, that the ties were put on backwards. You see, I was left-handed! My career was short-lived.”

Work begins at a bakery in the middle of the night and bakers have to nap when they can. Lori said, “I remember my dad would be asleep on the couch in the living room. When he would awaken, we had fun beating the couch and watching the flour emerge in a cloud!”

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DEPARTURE Donald Ray Engles Jackson Donald Ray Engles Jackson, Sr., was born in Texas City, Texas, January 30, 1938. Don was a founding member of Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge.

He moved to Eureka Springs, Ark., in May 1992 with his wife, Hilda P. Jackson, and their daughter, Tanya Jackson Smith, and her two children, Victor and Miranda.

Don served in the Air Force and received a Purple Heart for his service.

Don died peacefully in his home at the refuge after a long illness. His wife, Hilda P. Jackson, a daughter, Heather Khatibi, and a son, Robert Jackson, preceded Don in death.

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on the highway,” Sheard said. “They are probably going to die and fall over.”

Former Eureka Springs Mayor Dani Joy refers to the funny-looking trees that have been left in the wake of SWEPCO’s line cleaning as “Dr. Seuss trees,” referring to the children’s books with fanciful drawings.

Joy had five trees in front of her Casa Colina restaurant that were severely pruned, including two redbuds, a shortgrowing species.

“One of the redbuds is a giant stick with a tufted ball on the top,” Joy said.

“It is ridiculous.”

Joy is aware that trees have been trimmed in a similar lopsided and topheavy fashion across town. “When you are a Tree City USA, that doesn’t look too good,” she said. “When they worked on trees in front of the restaurant, they broke the cable lines. Instead of telling anyone, Asplundh workers just coiled it up and left it. My charge machine is connected to the cable. For dinner that night, I had no way to run credit cards. It took two days to get it fixed.”

It goes far beyond esthetics, though, to issues of safety, liability and the cost to remove trees so damaged by pruning at the worst time of the year for tree health that property owners have to make decisions about spending thousands to remove large trees that now are hazardous.

“They should have taken them down if they were going to cut them back that far,” Joy said. “I’m going to get an arborist up to the restaurant to tell me if I have to take the trees down. If I do, what

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Three sons, Christopher, Donald Jr., and Clif Jackson, and three daughters, Donna Jackson, Denise Balint and Tanya Smith, along with their spouses, many grandchildren and great grandchildren and their families and friends, survive Don. A memorial service will be held at Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge this Saturday, Sept. 13, at 7 p.m. The family welcomes friends to pay their respects.

The family request instead of flowers that donations be made to Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge, 239 Turpentine Creek Lane, Eureka Springs, AR. 72632 in his honor. will that cost?”

Joy said the city ordinance was written to make sure the city is not liable for anything SWEPCO does.

“That means if anyone has property damage because of SWEPCO, they will have to go to SWEPCO with it,” she said. “And good luck with that one.”

Joy understand there is need for a balance between protecting trees and the town’s reputation as a scenic city, and the need to keep lines clear.

“I went through the ice storm,” Joy said. “I understand why we have to do it.

We have an ordinance that says they are allowed to cut the limbs overhanging the electric lines. But they cut farther back, and went radical in doing what they did that was so damaging to the trees.”

When Joy was mayor, an arborist from SWEPCO worked with the tree trimmers. She said with an arborist involved, there was a better balance was between nature and the need for reliable electrical service. Other tree advocates in town noted that in the past, there was someone supervising crews. This time, no such supervision was apparent.

Joy said it makes a critical difference to have an arborist on hand giving directions on how to cut which trees and how far back.

“What I saw with the guys out there, a lot of the workers were getting onthe-job training,” Joy said. “In previous years, the city did have a discussion with SWEPCO about how much they were going to do and where they were going to do it. We sent out press releases to let the public know what was happening. This time there was no spirit of cooperation.”

Still standing – This tree on US62 might have had the life cut out of it.

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Jazz Eureka Sizzles September at AUD and Basin Park

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ureka brings sizzling jazz moves downtown this weekend for Jazz Eureka! There’s live music in The Auditorium, Basin Park, and various venues throughout town. Friday The Auditorium features the Fayetteville Jazz Collective, and Saturday Ellis and Delfeayo Marsalis. Ellis, on piano, comes from a Jazz family and has extended that creativity to his son, Delfeayo, playing trombone. The duo is touring to support their aptly titled album The Last Southern Gentleman. Live music in Basin Park Friday with Rodney Block from 5-7 p.m. and a hornful of artists on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 THE AUDITORIUM– Dancing with Eureka’s Stars, 7:30- 9:30 p.m.

BALCONY RESTAURANT– Maureen Alexander, Jazz, 5 p.m.

CHELSEA’S– Gina Gallina and Lou Shields, Americana, 9:30 p.m.

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

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 THE AUDITORIUM– Fayetteville Jazz Collective, 7:30 p.m.

BALCONY RESTAURANT– Hogscalders, Bluegrass, 12 p.m. and 6 p.m.

BASIN PARK– Free Music Event: Rodney Block, Jazz, 5 – 7 p.m.

CATHOUSE LOUNGE– Adams Collins Jazz Trio, 3-5 p.m., Reeves Brothers, Country, 8 p.m.

CHELSEA’S– Matt Smith and Ocie Fisher, Jazz, 9;30 p.m.

EUREKA LIVE! – DJ and Dancing, 9 p.m.

GRAND TAVERNE– Arkansas Red, Amplified Acoustic Guitar Dinner Music, 6:30- 9:30 p.m.

JACK’S PLACE– Daryl Brooks, R&B, 9 p.m.- 1a.m.

LEGENDS SALOON– George Bros., Rock N Roll, 9:30 p.m.

NEW DELHI– The Shannon Hope Band, Americana, 6- 10 p.m.

ROWDY BEAVER– Two Dog Two Karaoke, 9:00 p.m.

ROWDY BEAVER DEN– Vintage Pistol, Classic Rock, 9 p.m.- 1 a.m.

SMILING BROOK CAFÉ– Sonny Royal, Americana, 5-8 p.m.

THE STONE HOUSE– Jerry Yester, Artist’s Choices SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 THE AUDITORIUM– Ellis and Delfeayo Marsalis, 7:30 p.m.

BALCONY RESTAURANT– James White, Singer/Songwriter, 12 p.m., Catherine Reed, Singer/Songwriter, 6 p.m.

BASIN PARK– Free Music Event: Gus Smith, Brandon Mazello, Walter Savage, NSU Jazz Quintet/ Poole, Jazz, 11 a.m.- 6 p.m.

CATHOUSE LOUNGE– Adams Collins Jazz Trio, 1-3 p.m., Reeves Brothers, Country, 8 p.m.

CHELSEA’S– Crescent City Combo, Jazz, 9:30 p.m.

EUREKA LIVE! – DJ and Dancing, 9 p.m.

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

JACK’S PLACE– Daryl Brooks, R&B, 9 p.m.- 1 a.m.

LEGENDS SALOON– Jeff Horton

JAZZ FEST

Wed., Sept. 10 • 9:30 P.M. – CANDY LEE Thurs., Sept. 11 • 9 P.M. – GINA GALLINA & Pals LOU SHIELDS Fri., Sept. 12 • 9:30 P.M. MATT SMITH & OCIE FISHER Sat., Sept. 13 • 9:30 P.M. CRESCENT CITY COMBO Sun., Sept. 13 • 7:30 P.M. JEFF GRAY TRIO Mon., Sept. 15 • 9:30 P.M. – SPRINGBILLY Tues., Sept. 16 • 9:30 P.M. – OPEN MIC Wed., Sept. 17 • 9:30 P.M. – GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS

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Band, Rock N Roll, 9:30 p.m.

NEW DELHI– The Medicine Man Show, Eclectic, 6- 10 p.m.

ROWDY BEAVER– Underground Cats, Classic Rock, 1 – 5 p.m., One Way Road, Classic Rock, 9 p.m.

ROWDY BEAVER DEN– Matt Reeves Duo, Singer/Songwriter, 1-5 p.m., Blew Reed and the Flatheads, Blues, 9 p.m.- 1 a.m.

SMILING BROOK CAFÉ- Becky Jean and the Candyman, Americana, 5- 8 p.m.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 CHELSEA’S– Jeff Gray Trio, Jazz, 7:30 p.m.

EUREKA LIVE– DJ, Dancing, and Karaoke, 7- 11 p.m.

NEW DELHI– Rockenheimer, Rock N Roll, 12 p.m.- 4 p.m.

ROWDY BEAVER DEN– Jigsaw Mud, Classic Rock, 1-5 p.m.

SMILING BROOK CAFÉ– Coy Dog and the Other Waltons, Americana, 12- 3 p.m.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 CHELSEA’S– Springbilly, Bluegrass, 8:00 p.m.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 CHELSEA’S– Open Mic LEGENDS– Jam Night WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 CHELSEA’S– Gasoline Lollipops, Familial Harmonic Jams, 9:30 p.m.

INDEPENDENTNews Writers’ Colony fellowships awarded

Writers from New York, New Hampshire and Arkansas have been awarded a stay at the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow for submitting winning applications for My Time, Moondancer and Eat-Write! fellowships.

Each year various funded fellowships provide promising writers a two-week stay at the colony including meals and plenty of writing time. A total of 32 entries and the caliber and imagination of the applicants made naming a winner for each 2014 fellowship extremely difficult.

Brian Gresko of Brooklyn, New York, was awarded the My Time Fellowship for writers with children at home. Brian will receive two weeks at the Writers’ Colony and a stipend to help cover costs of transportation or childcare, thanks to a grant from the Sustainable Arts Foundation in San Francisco. Brian, a journalist, columnist, book reviewer and editor is also the stay-at-home dad of a special needs preschool-age son.

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He is editor of the anthology, When I First Held You: 22 Critically Acclaimed Writers Talk About the Triumphs, Challenges, and Transformative Experience of Fatherhood, and his writing has appeared in Poets & Writers Magazine, Glimmer Train Stories, Slice Literary Magazine and online at The Huffington Post, Salon, TheAtlantic.com, The Daily Beast, the Los Angeles Review

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of Books, The Rumpus and others. He writes about parenting for Babble, and curates the Pen Parentis Literary Salon in New York City.

Brian will be working on a literary science fiction novel about the first colony on Mars. His submitted short story, “The Open Palm of Desire,” was a favorite of all judges.

Liz Ahl of Holderness, New

Hampshire, received the Moondancer Fellowship for writing about the environment or nature. A muchpublished poet, she is the author of three chapbooks. While at the Colony, Liz will work on a collection of poems called Holderness, after the small town where she lives. Her goal is to evoke a strong sense of place rooted in the overlapping and symbiotic ecosystems of human history and ecology/biology.

Ruth Weinstein of Marshall, Arkansas, is the Eat Write! Culinary Fellowship winner. An accomplished poet and gardener, she will be working on a unique, book-length manuscript of poetry and recipes. Ruth has written poetry for many years but only began to share it in the past year or so at Poetluck salons at WCDH, which she called a nurturing, warm environment for writers.

Ruth will receive two weeks residency at the Writers’ Colony.

For more information, or to help fund a fellowship for the coming year, phone Linda Caldwell (479) 253-7444.

Sunday at EUUF All are welcome at the Eureka Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 17 Elk Street, Sundays at 11 a.m. for a program followed by refreshments. On Sept. 14 Cliff Beacham, EUUF member and Professor of Sociology at the University of Arkansas, will bring the program, Interconnectedness: The Sociological Imagination and the Seventh UU Principle.

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

Jazz Eureka Handy Dandy Schedule Wednesday – Sunday, Sept. 10 – 14

Woodcraft – some nice work by Cliff Payne of Broken Arrow, Okla., one of the carvers at this year’s Woodcarvers Jamboree at Pine Mountain Village during the Antique Auto show.

Photo by CD White

Wednesday Roarin’ Lawn Party, Crescent Hotel Fountain Garden, 7 – 10 p.m.

Thursday Dancing with Eureka Stars, city auditorium, 7:30 p.m.

Friday Free music in Basin Park with Rodney Block, 5 – 7 p.m.

Fayetteville Jazz Collective at the auditorium, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday Acoustic Jazz at White Street Market, Bosa Screwnova and J Funk, 9:30 – 11:30 a.m.

Free Music in Basin Park: Noon Matt & Gus Smith 1:30 Brandon Mezzelo 3 Walter Savage Ellis Marsalis Jr. & Delfeayo Marsalis, Last Southern Gentlemen Tour, Aud, 8 p.m.

DeVito’s Jazz Martini After Party, 9 p.m.

Sunday Crescent Hotel Jazz Brunch For details, tickets and more, see www.theaud.org – and see the Jazz Eureka spread in the Independent Fun Guide!

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INDEPENDENTNews It’s important to know for whom you’re voting Meet-n-greet the candidates Sept. 12 Take the opportunity to get to know and support local candidates running for office and vote for them on Nov. 4. Four candidates will be on hand to greet you and answer questions on Sept. 12 so you can make an informed choice at the ballot box.

Mark Robertson is running for Commissioner of State Lands, and says, “It’s time for our Commissioner of State Lands to serve Arkansas and invest in our future. I will put 35 years of experience with land issues to work for Arkansas and spend every day focused on economic opportunities and protecting our resources.” See www.MarkRobertsonForAR.com Charles “Sonny” Carter is running for State Representative for District #97. He is for working class people, supports the minimum wage increase, is pro women’s rights and is for affordable health care. Carter has been endorsed by the Arkansas AFL-CIO, and in an August 26 letter to Carter,

Metafizzies get pain relief The Sept. 15 meeting of the Eureka Springs Metaphysical Society will feature a talk by Lynne Sterling on achieving natural pain relief by eliminating high-energy electronic interference with objects designed to harmonize the bioenergy in our bodies.

Meeting begins at 7 p.m. in the reading room of the Christian Science Church, 68 Mountain St. All are welcome.

AFL-CIO. Carter, of Eureka Springs, is running against Republican incumbent Bob Ballinger of Berryville in the Nov. 4 election. For more on Sonny, see www.Carter4Arkansas.com.

Sheri Hanson is running for a seat on the currently-all-male Carroll County Quorum Court.

For more information, see the Facebook page: Sheri Hanson Campaign.

Randy Mayfield is running for Carroll County Sheriff. He’s been a Berryville police officer for 14 years. See the Facebook page: Randy Mayfield for Sheriff for ALL of Carroll County.

It’s important to get out and meet and support those running for office and vote on Nov 4. Come talk with the candidates from 5 – 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 12, at the home of Barbara Deschner, 20858 US 62W, directly after the driveway to the Carriage Inn, about 10 miles west of town. There will be live music and refreshments. For more information call Regina Smith (479) 981-2613.

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Classics – Red seemed to be the “little black dress” of Ferrari world. Fast, sleek, costly Ferraris filled the Crescent Hotel parking lot during the Crescent Classic Rally Sept. 2 - 7. Cars from around the country went on rallies around the area including to War Eagle and back.

Photo by David Frank Dempsey

Workshops for healers continue Sept. 17 Who Heals? An exploration of the spiritual dimension informs and enriches personal and professional healing with a series of three workshops at the Christian Science Reading Room, 68 West Mountain St., led by Melissa Clare.

Part Two, The Path of Healing, is being offered Sept. 13 and 14 and will cover several healing methods documented by, but not limited to, the Sufi tradition.

Where do they apply and how can they assist our work? How can they expand and deepen our healing experience? Find out during the workshops from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Sunday. Advance registration is $50 or $75 at the door. Phone (479) 253-8252 or email melissaclare01@ gmail.com to register.

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Labor day dip – Locals gathered for a Labor Day party at the newly renovated Joy Motel saltwater pool. The 30x60ft. pool built in 1936 was at one time the municipal pool for Eureka Springs and the largest pool in Arkansas.

It’s now the largest pool in town and possibly the first commercial saltwater pool in the state. Guests sensitive to chlorine and bromine will now have a place to swim!

Photo by Becky Gillette

DROPPINGA Line

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onald Klos and Donald Rhoades had a couple good days of fishing last week with a two-day special catching some good crappie here at Holiday Island on Monday, then going striper fishing on Wednesday. The big fish was 22 lbs.

We found a big school of bait and fish in the back of one of the major creek arms. Best places to look for them now is off the big flats on the main lake from the dam to Rocky Branch and from the mouth to the very back of Indian, Big Clifty, Little Clifty and Rambo Creeks.

Best depths are from 30 – 40 ft.

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deep. Best bait is shad, but you can catch on perch or big shiners, also. We caught our crappie over the top of brush on minnows 12 – 14 ft. deep. Walleye and bass are being caught on jigs, minnows and night crawlers closer to 28 ft. off the bottom.

Well, it looks like we still have a couple more weeks of warm water if you want to swim before it cools. One good thing to remember is when the water temp gets too cool to swim, the fish come closer to the top for some great surface fishing.

That’s it for this week, enjoy this

HI Elks Fall Charity Golf Classic Sign up now and get in on the fun of the annual Holiday Island Elks Lodge four-person scramble golf tournament coming up Saturday, Sept. 27, with a 9 a.m. shotgun start at the 18-hole golf course in Holiday Island.

Following the tournament lunch will be served at the Lodge with time to enjoy a silent auction and the prize awards.

Registration forms are available at the Elks Lodge, H.I.C.C. Pro Shop or online at www.elks1042.com.

All proceeds benefit Holiday Island Elks Lodge local community projects: veterans’ aid, scholarships, drug prevention and Connecting Books with Kids. For more information phone Lou Schoeneman (479) 263-6388.

Alzheimer’s caregiver group begins Sept. 18 Mercy Auxiliary – Berryville in conjunction with Area Agency on Aging will sponsor an Alzheimer’s Support Group for Caregivers from 10 – 11 a.m. on the third Thursday of each month beginning Sept. 18.

Meetings will be in the conference room at Area Agency on Aging, 1204 Primrose, Berryville. Caregivers are welcome at any meeting to share experiences, receive comfort and share resources. Come be informed, inspired and encouraged.

Coach Frank Broyle’s Playbook on Alzheimer’s will be available for everyone.

For details call Rebecca Davis (870) 350-3415 or Anita Spearman (479) 9810626.

great whether and the fall bite. We still have a lot of open days between now and January, with some of the best fishing of the year around the corner, so get the jacket out then go fishing. If you can’t get out on a boat, I suggest hitting the

tailwaters with worms and power bait for some trout, or checking out Lake Leatherwood for crappie, bass and catfish all catchable from the bank.

Have a good week. Fishofexcellence. com

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

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

Sliding scale fee. $15-$35 per treatment, with an additional $15 paperwork fee the first visit only. You decide what you can afford to pay! Francesca Garcia Giri, L.Ac. (479) 253-4968, 119 Wall Street

DERKSEN PORTABLE BUILDINGS for sale or rent-to-own. Hwy 62 West, across from WalMart, Berryville. No credit check. Free delivery. (870) 4231414.

WHITE STREET SATURDAY MARKET 8–11:30 a.m. at Ermilio’s.

Quality produce. Potatoes, onions, tomatoes, cucumbers, greens, Old World sourdough bread.

EUREKA SPRINGS FARMERS’ MARKET every Tuesday and Thursday, 7 a.m. – noon. Summer vegetables and fruits, cheese, meat, eggs, honey and so much more. Come for the food, music and to be with your friends. Catch us on Facebook.

BREAD – LOCAL – SOURDOUGH by Ivan @ the ES Farmers’ Market! Thursdays.

All is dairy free! Art Loaves: Rye, Golden Gate Sourdough, Rustic Italian. Toaster Muffins: Oat, Honey & Fruit, Plus Wheat Free Artful Dodgers! Summer Focaccia & Pizzas. Request Line: (479) 244-7112 bread.loveureka.com MUSICIANS – Berryville Symphonia in its 2nd season invites players of violin, viola, cello & bass, as well as band instruments to join Monday night rehearsals and performances. Call/txt (216) 225-6512.

FREE FREE CHURCH ORGAN. Call Randy, (479) 253-1536.

GARAGE SALE BIG SALE Friday, Sept. 12, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m., Red Bud Valley (big white barn).

US62E, exit onto Rock House Road at ECHO Clinic, follow signs. Antiques, furniture, quilts, glassware, good stuff!

PETS SEEK HOME GERMAN SHEPHERD PUPS, AKC, black/tan. Breeder over 25 years. Photos available. Health guaranteed. (479) 2447899

HELP WANTED COOK WANTED – The Ozark Natural Science Center has an immediate opening for a part-time evening shift cook. Send resume to ONSC 1905 Madison 1305, Huntsville, AR 72740 or e-mail to loretta@onsc.us.

CAREGIVERS NEEDED IN EUREKA SPRINGS AREA. Live-in positions available. Need to be able to lift. (800) 780-4009.

NOW HIRING CRESCENT HOTEL Individuals of Good Character may apply Line Cook I P.M. Public Area Attendant

RENTAL PROPERTIES

APARTMENTS FOR RENT

HOUSE SHARE

HOLIDAY ISLAND VILLAS & TOWNHOUSES near lake and marina.

Peaceful and quiet, ample parking. From $375/mo. (479) 253-4385

I AM LOOKING FOR A ROOMMATE, I am an elderly woman who lives in a beautiful home on a wildlife sanctuary. I love it here and want to stay but in order for me to do that I need a roommate. One bedroom, all other facilities shared, fullyequipped kitchen, laundry room, large living room with big screen TV, lovely very large wrap-around covered porch, patio, beautiful fully-maintained grounds, close to Eureka Springs, pets allowed, references required. $250/mo., utilities paid. Call my son, Randy, (479) 253-1536.

SPACIOUS 2BR APT, GREAT LOCATION on North Main St. 2BR/1BA, all appliances including W/D. All utilities paid except electric. 2nd floor with deck on two sides. Off street parking. $650 + deposit. (479) 981-9811

COMMERCIAL FOR RENT REASONABLE DOWNTOWN SHOP space for rent. (479) 253-9481 or dan@twilight.arcoxmail.com 1,500 S/F FOR LEASE – Office, bath, warehouse. $600/mo., $400/deposit.

Hwy 23 S., Eureka Springs, across from Acord’s. (479) 253-4477, Bill; (479) 721-4019, Derrick.

WANT TO LEASE LOOKING FOR 2 – 3 BEDROOM HOUSE with long-term lease. Rural okay, but in Eureka Springs Schools District. (479) 849-7987.

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

Call Angie (479) v125.

HOMES FOR RENT

COUNSELING

BASIN PARK HOTEL Massage Therapist Housemen Line Cook

SEASONAL – Winter rentals, Nov. 1 - May 1. In town, both furnished, each with private entrance, patio, parking. Utilities included.

Studio $600, 2 bdrm. house $1200. (479) 981-2507. No Pets. No Smoking.

GRIEF COUNSELING: being supported by one who listens and guides often helps adjust to the loss of a loved one. Specializing in traumatic loss.

Ann Helmer, LCSW, (989) 792-3157, annhelmer@cox.net.

GRYPHON’S ROOST DAY SPA has an immediate opening for a highly skilled, loving massage therapist.

Please submit resume to stephanie@ gryphonsroost.com or call (479) 9811844 to set up an interview.

2 BR/1 BA – $800 plus utilities. No Pets.

No Smoking. Everything brand new. In town. Call (479) 981-9976

CAR/BOAT DETAILING

REAL ESTATE

MOVING SALE

HOMES FOR SALE

STOREWIDE SALE Happy Things classic toy store quitting business.

Inventory 40-50% off! Showcases, shelving, fixtures and more. 55 Spring.

(479) 253-8011

HISTORIC HOME well maintained, town center. Excellent neighborhood.

Detached shop/garage. Ample parking.

Two-story with downstairs rental. $139K. (479) 253-4963

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LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION – Looking for retired couple who are seeking a beautiful place to live on an amazing wildlife sanctuary, lovely rustic home, artist studio and large shaded wrap-around decks with inspiring views.

Butler Creek/White River/Table Rock Lake, fishing and swimming, close to Eureka Springs. $950/mo. plus utilities, includes grounds maintenance, first/last months rent plus security deposit. Call Randy, (479) 253-1536.

DETAILING – ALL TYPES At your place of convenience. For details (479) 363-6490 or (870) 715-5404 and leave messge.

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

(479) 981-0125.

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

TREE WORKS Skilled tree care: trimming, deadwooding and removals. Conscientious, professional arborist and sawmiller. Bob Messer (479) 253-2284

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

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

Reliable, references, insured. Call Lynn (479) 363-6676

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

I BUY AND REMOVE OLDER CARS & TRUCKS. Reasonable prices paid. Also some scrap and parts vehicles. Call Bill (479) 253-4477

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prevailed by that time.

September 6 2:12 a.m. – Traffic stop resulted in the arrest of the driver for DWI, expired vehicle license and no motorcycle license.

6:40 a.m. – Concerned passerby thought a sliding door at a business was open and might have been pried open. Responding constable figured out a light from the inside created the optical illusion of the door being open, but everything was secure.

11:33 a.m. – One vehicle rear-ended another near downtown. No injuries.

12:06 p.m. – Constable responded to assist with a landlord-tenant dispute.

1:43 p.m. – Two individuals were going door-to-door selling cleaning supplies. Constable apprised them of the local ordinance forbidding door-todoor sales.

4:17 p.m. – Person flagged down a constable on patrol to inform him of a sick raccoon on a street in the western part of town. Animal Control went to the scene to take care of the suffering animal.

September 7 2:32 a.m. – Constable went to the

Go Shakin’ in the Shell Sept. 20 Get out of town and have some fun at Shell Knob Missouri’s 9th annual Shakin’ in the Shell Festival and Car Show Saturday, Sept. 20 from 9:45 a.m. – 8 p.m. at Shell Knob’s Chamber Park.

Activities include the 25th annual classic custom car, truck and motorcycle show with registration at 7:30 a.m., judging at 10:30 a.m. and awards at 3 p.m. including a new category – custom golf carts! The day’s fun also includes a kiss a pig contest, horseshoe tournament and musical entertainment from 6 – 8 p.m. by J Rock and the Third Street Band.

To pre-register for the car show, contact the Shell Knob Chamber Office (417) 858-3300, Paula Andersen (417) 352-4599 or Bernard Dick (620) 434-6079. All activities are subject to change and updates can be found online at www.shakinfest.net.

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location of a dog barking on a street toward the western edge of town, and found no one was home. He thought the animal had been barking at passing wildlife and had calmed down.

10:10 a.m. – Constable took a report of a cell phone possibly stolen from a guest of a hotel.

11:36 a.m. – A dog wandered up to a residence just above downtown. The animal had a collar and tags. Animal Control took the canine to the kennel.

12:42 p.m. – One person claimed a group of sports bikes were being driven recklessly on Hwy. 23 South on their way to town. The constable who watched for them did not encounter them.

2:31 p.m. – Guest at a hotel claimed her medication had been stolen and she suspected hotel staff. Constable went there to get a report, but the caller had abruptly departed before the constable arrived.

11:38 p.m. – Another report from the same neighbor about the same barking dog. Owner was not home again, but constable was able to speak with the owner who assured the constable she would make sure her dog remains quiet.

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directives of the APSC to determine whether existing 161 kV lines could be upgraded or existing rights-of-way used and would make any required adjustments to its proposed route as necessary and feasible.

STO disagrees, stating the appropriate time for a 161 kV power line to have been submitted for APSC consideration would have been concurrent with the application for a 345 kV power line, not after the evidence for the 345 kV power line had been proved insufficient, particularly since this option had first been proposed by the applicant and subsequently ignored.

Another question from Kalagias was why SWEPCO had a problem with the Commission’s Administrative Law Judge order restricting the use of herbicides. Pollution of land, vegetation and drinking water supplies with herbicides has been one of the biggest concerns of opponents of the project.

The ALJ ruled, “SWEPCO shall avoid construction and maintenance practices that are inconsistent with the landowner’s or tenant’s use of the land, particularly the use of fertilizer, herbicides or other pesticides. To that effect, SWEPCO shall contact the landowner or his designee to obtain approval for the use of any herbicide prior to any application on the right-ofway.”

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