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No trial for Acuna-Sanchez Plea bargain reached

Alana Cook Victor Acuna-Sanchez, 20, of Berryville, pleaded guilty Oct. 6 and was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the New Year’s Eve 2012 murder of his girlfriend, 21-year-old Laura A wrong turn Aceves. at a stop sign Acuna-Sanchez’s plea and subsequent sentencing by the third judge on case, Jay is a mistake.

Finch, who retired from the Arkansas 19th This is not Circuit West Court in 2011, came only one a mistake. week after Finch granted defense counsel You put the gun Bill James’s motion to suppress major evidence, including a .22 caliber pistol and to her head and you pulled bullets, that deputies found with AcunaSanchez during a search of his mother’s the trigger. home. Finch had said he ruled the evidence was suppressed because Carroll County ~ Judge Jay Finch Sheriff’s officers deputies did not have a valid search warrant, thereby violating Acuna-Sanchez’s Fourth Amendment rights.

CCSO deputies responded to a call reportedly from Eric on New Year’s Eve saying Aceves was lying on the floor in a pool of blood gasping for air. Sheriff Bob Grudek said in a press release shortly after her death that Aceves had been shot and “a metal object was lodged in her head.” Aceves died later that day at Mercy Hospital in Rogers.

Finch’s decision to suppress evidence last week and Monday’s subsequent plea bargain and sentencing hearing came as a surprise to

The once and future governor? President and former Arkansas governor Bill Clinton stumped through the state for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mike Ross (pictured) and US Senator Mark Pryor, who are both in tight races this November. At the Hammond Center in Rogers, Clinton urged the packed ballroom of Democrats to get out the vote. Early voting begins Oct. 20.

Photo by John Rankine

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This Week’s INDEPENDENT Thinkers That lively and far-reaching Internet is the target of jokes and mistakes, yet is also an enforcer of good manners and public pride.

A man in New York decided it would be great sport to kick a cat 20 ft. into the air and over a fence. He was so proud he posted a video of it on Facebook.

So now he is facing animal rights’ activists, prosecutors who won’t offer him a plea bargain, and jail time. NYPD has stopped listing animal cruelty as “Other” and even created an Animal Cruelty Investigation Squad.

We like when Facebook is used for informing a truth-craving population.

And King, the cat who lived through violent flight, was happily adopted.

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Independent Art

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Pet fostering

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Independent Lens

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Meteorites and More

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Astrology 14

Changing times

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Sycamore 15

City Council agenda

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Notes from the Hollow

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Smiling Brook

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Indy Soul

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Independent Mail

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Exploring the Fine Art of Romance 20

Guestatorial 9

Dropping A Line

Constables on Patrol

Crossword 21

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Isthmus be my lucky day ~ Alfalfa

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INDEPENDENTNews HDC reviews guidelines Nicky Boyette The Historic District Commission held a two-hour public workshop before its Oct. 1 meeting to discuss guidelines for demolition time frame; alternative materials; pillars/fences; windows; temporary weather screening; commercial building decks and sidewalk repair materials.

Chair Dan Hebert said they would announce any proposed changes at the Oct. 15 meeting and vote at the Nov. 5 meeting, to give the public a chance to comment.

Following the workshop, the commission quickly dispatched with its agenda. These applications were unanimously approved: 21 Amity – roof & screen rear deck 22 Emporia – replace existing overhead garage doors with sliding patio doors

Items on the Consent Agenda were also approved: 510 Village Circle – replace directory sign 140 Spring – new paint colors The Consent Agenda items are Level I applications that the City Preservation Officer believes to be in accordance with the Design Guidelines.

Hebert presented these Administrative Approvals: 5 Washington – re-roof, new color 9 Pine – re-roof Administrative Approvals are applications for repair or for work involving no changes in materials or color and includes applications for changes in roofing color.

Next meeting will be Wednesday, Oct. 15, at 6 p.m.

Ham radio meetings The Little Switzerland Amateur Radio Club will meet at noon Thursday, Oct. 9, at the Eureka Springs Pizza Hut, 2848 E. Van Buren, for monthly lunch and meeting.

There is also a meeting in Berryville

on Thursday, Oct. 16, 6:30 p.m., in the physicians building at Mercy Hospital.

Anyone with an interest in amateur radio is welcome. Refreshments will be available. Check http://lsarc.us for current information.

Beans and Cornbread Social follows Folk Fest parade Main Stage Community Art Center at 67 N. Main will host a Beans and Cornbread Social following the Folk Festival Parade on Saturday, Oct. 11 from 3 – 6 p.m. Beans, cornbread and a variety of drinks will be served. Choose from several different styles of beans including a vegetarian recipe from Jane Tucker.

Enjoy live music performed by The Lark and Loon featuring Jeff Rolfzen, and exhibits in both the lobby and newly opened reception hall featuring works

by Eureka Springs artists. Admission is $7 for adults and $3 for children 12 and under. The fundraising event will help raise money for theater seating and curtains.

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INDEPENDENTNews Foster parents for pets fill the gap

B ecky G illette The Good Shepherd Humane Society does a great job taking care of animals in the shelter, which can average around 45 dogs and 85 cats. But with that many animals, there is only so much that employees and volunteers can do at the shelter. That is why some volunteers are also involved in pet fostering that gives the animals extra love and attention.

“Fostering can make such a huge difference in a shelter animal’s life,” Janice Durbin said. “Foster families can fill the gap for us, especially when we have babies that don’t have mamas and need to be fed. It takes a long time to bottle feed cats if you have four or five of them that need to be fed every few hours.”

It also helps the animals to get used to being handled by humans. It makes them more sociable, which makes them more adoptable when the time comes.

“They want to be held,” Durbin said. “The more people working with them, socializing them, the better off the animals are in the long run. It makes them happier and calmer, which is important. The animals are less stressed.

They already know what it is like to be in a home and not in a kennel or cage.”

Pet fostering is ideal for those who don’t want to permanently adopt.

“Some folks don’t want a long-term commitment,” Durbin said. “We have volunteers who live here part of the year and part of the year somewhere else. They want to do something to help, but aren’t able to pack up an animal and move it across the country, which is difficult.”

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INDEPENDENTNews Space suit not included Kenzie Doss woman finding a meteorite Where on earth you can and later selling it to Kansas walk on the moon? Meteorite University. Steve decided if a man Steve Arnold can tell you. meteorite was worth money in His shop on Spring Street, 1890 then it was certainly worth Arnold Meteorites and More, money now. draws the curiosity of passersby “Why get a real job? I can hoping to glimpse, maybe even have fun,” Steve decided. touch, meteorite fragments.

And it does indeed look Moon rock, Steve said, like fun. Having done three is one of the most popular seasons of the award winning meteorites because of its surreal television series Meteorite and romantic associations “in Men, with the show currently virtually every culture.” There airing worldwide on Discovery are both scientific and private networks, Steve commented, interests in collecting lunar “Nearly twenty-five percent of meteorites, but the general people coming in have seen us fascination is clear – who on TV. The recognition is really Steve Arnold holds a coveted piece of lunar meteorite. wouldn’t want to own a piece of rewarding – everyone comes, the moon? from purist to passerby to the The small shop is full of pendants, highlighting translucent circular patterns curious child.” slices of meteorite fragments and even in the rock, almost surreal to look at, Steve fashioned a container for a some larger fist-sized pieces. A backlit almost primordial. Maps, impact images, moon rock he obtained some time ago, meteorite slice sits behind the glass a picture of the moon, the solar system and offers visitors a chance to walk on it. counter casing, with a soft yellow glow and a poster of tektites decorate the walls. A family wanders in and their two children This is a shop with an easy, exploratory jump at the chance to “stand on the moon” atmosphere. as a sound clip plays Neil Armstrong’s There are displays of meteorite pieces famous quote, “One small step for man, from Texas, Morocco, Russia and the one giant leap for mankind.” You can’t Western Sahara – even fragments from the help but have a sentimental response.

Chelyabinsk meteorite of last year, which It’s true – the feeling of discovery is happen to be a top seller. amazing and made possible by museums, Steve recently acquired his moon classrooms and places like Steve’s shop rock fragment through a successful that offer a special experience: an up Kickstarter campaign. The lunar fragment close and personal look at something from has been authenticated, but is currently in beyond our world. the process of being officially classified It is this scientific and aesthetic and remains “unnamed 69” until fascination that the meteorite men want to officially named by the Nomenclature and convey most.

Meteoritical Society; the “gatekeepers on “When a junior high science teacher the naming,” as Steve puts it. comes in and says ‘thank you for helping to How does one even decide to become make science cool’ it’s a really rewarding a meteorite hunter? feeling,” Steve said.

Twenty-two years ago, Steve was Visit Arnold Meteorites and More at hunting treasure with metal detectors 28 Spring St. Monday – Sunday 10 a.m. until, one day, he ran across an interesting – 5 p.m. For info call (479) 244-5999 or story from 1890. The account told of a email: MrsMeteorHntr@aol.com.

Sunday at EUUF All are welcome at the Eureka Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 17 Elk St., each Sunday at 11 a.m. for a program followed by refreshments. On Oct. 12 Dr. Jim Fain, owner of Fain’s Herbacy in Eureka Springs, will present “Beauty is Life, Life is Experience, Experience Brings Measure.”

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

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INDEPENDENTNews Timing is everything N icky B oyette In the beginning, we had plenty of time on our hands. Life was measured by daylight and dark and seasons. The sun provided a rhythm to our days, and the moon and stars captured our imagination at night.

It was the imagining at night while looking at the stars over thousands of years that convinced those clever humans there was indeed a precise rhythm in the celestial sphere if only someone would create an instrument to properly measure it.

Civilization evolved and timeliness followed. After a point, high noon and sundown were not specific enough, so along came a sundial and then water clocks and marked candles that burned at a predictable pace to measure the passage of our lives.

Soon enough those clever humans invented mechanical clocks, and a person could find clock towers in many towns and pocket watches in many pockets.

Townspeople began to coordinate their activities, such as arriving at church at the same time or watching a hanging at three in the afternoon.

As soon as there was a way to reliably measure the passage of time through the day, there were those who espoused better ways to use our time. Seventy-seven nations around the world today subscribe to the concept of Daylight Saving Time (DST) in which they turn their clocks an hour ahead in the spring and an hour back in autumn.

Facts you might not know about DST: 1. Benjamin Franklin is often

credited with inventing DST because of a 1784 essay “An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost of Light.” However, his idea, according to History.com, was to encourage rising earlier in order to use “sunshine instead of candles,” not reset the clocks.

2. William Willet published an essay in 1907 called “The Waste of Daylight.”

He envisioned England setting its clocks 80 minutes ahead from April through October so people could take advantage of more sunlight. He campaigned vigorously for acceptance of what he called “summer time.” He was rebuffed over and over by Parliament, and he died in 1915 without seeing his idea embraced.

3. The following year, Willet’s idea was implemented by England’s bitter enemy, Germany, as a way to conserve energy for use in war efforts. Later, in 1916, England and the United States also finally embraced DST, but abandoned it at the end of World War I. 4. The United States has started and stopped DST several times, and always with confusing results. President Franklin Roosevelt instituted year-round DST, which he termed “War Time,” from February 1942, through September 1945.

After 1945, states and localities were free to choose to use DST or not or to begin and end it on different dates, so train and bus schedules, for example, were bewildering. According to History.com, “In 1965, there were 23 different pairs of start and end dates in Iowa alone… and passengers on a 35-mile bus ride from Steubenville, Ohio, to Moundsville, West Virginia, passed through seven time changes.”

5. The Uniform Time Act of 1966 standardized DST as beginning on the last Sunday in April and ending on the last Sunday in October, although states still retained the option to remain on standard time. Legislation passed in 1986 nailed down the start time as 2 a.m. on the start and end dates. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 revised DST to begin at 2 a.m. on the second Sunday of March and end at 2 p.m. on the first Sunday of November.

6. In the United States, each time zone switches to DST at a different time. In the European Union, all time zones change at the same moment – 1 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time on the last Sunday in March and the last Sunday in October.

7. Web Exhibits website reported, “In September 1999, the West Bank was on DST while Israel had just switched back to standard time. West Bank terrorists prepared time bombs and smuggled them to their Israeli counterparts, who TIME continued on page 19

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INDEPENDENTNews Outstanding volunteer – Steve Sampers, NWAMN Membership, Awards & Recognition Chair, presents Lilia Beattie with the Volunteer of the Year award.

Lilia accumulated more than 1,000 volunteer hours while designing the new Master Naturalist training course.

City Council Agenda Monday, October 13, 6 p.m.

Approval of minutes from Sept. 22

Lilia Beattie a ‘natural’ fit

Currently serving as vice president of curriculum for the Northwest Arkansas Master Naturalists, Lilia Beattie’s energy and enthusiasm earned the recognition of her peers, who recently named her Outstanding Volunteer of the Year for 2014.

Beattie was responsible for developing and scheduling the chapter’s annual Naturalists in Training program for new members, which covers more than 18 environmental topics over 13 Saturdays.

She also revitalized the 2012 annual training program, requiring educators to supplement classroom presentations with class activities and field studies to further enhance the learning experience.

For Beattie, who taught outdoor education in Hawaii and California before taking a post as adjunct faculty member at Northwest Arkansas Community College, teaching others about the environment is a labor of love.

As for receiving the award, “It is quite an honor,” Beattie said. “There are many deserving members who devote a lot of time and love to the efforts of this organization and the natural treasures of the Ozarks.”

Don’t forget Hungry Bowls Oct. 9 The Eureka Springs Ale House and Distillery on US 62W is now open, and their first fundraiser will help stock the shelves of local food pantries.

The Hungry Bowl Benefit Thursday, Oct. 9, 5 – 8 p.m., features soups made by more than a dozen restaurants to fill artful, handcrafted bowls made and donated by local potters. Admission of $20 includes soup and the bowl, along with live entertainment by Jerry Jones. For tickets call (870) 350-4955. See The Hungry Bowl on Facebook for updates.

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Commission, committee, authority reports and expired terms: Planning – Pos. 1 – Steve Beacham – expired 7/1/14. Pos. 2 – Mickey Schneider (temp.) – expires 1/1/17.

Hospital – Pos. 2 – Suzanne Tourtelot – expired 6/1/14 Parks – Pos. 6 – vacant -- expires 5/1/19 Cemetery – Pos. 2 – vacant – expires 2/15/15. Pos. 4 – Henry Romanski – expired 2/15/14.

Public comments: Unfinished business: 1. Update on disposal of yard waste –Schneider and Mitchell 2. Ordinance No. 2214 Multifamily – postponed, pending Planning action 3. Response from the Hospital Commission re: meetings taped/occur in the jury room – Mayor Pate New business: 1. Discussion with Parks regarding the circus – Schneider and Mitchell 2. Review by the City Attorney regarding options other than discussion with Parks, regarding the circus – Zeller and Schneider 3. Appraisal for two fire stations – pending scheduling – Schneider and Mitchell 4. Summary of the Sept.

25 Tourism workshop – Purkeypile and Mitchell 5. Discussion of changing CAPC limits on residency to include an at-large seat from within Carroll County – Schneider and McClung City council comments followed by Mayor’s comments

INDEPENDENTNews All smiles at Smiling Brook

Second STO fundraiser coming up Oct. 19

Smiling Brook Café at 57 N. Main is becoming a go-to place for casual music, good food and local causes. Taking time from their B&B in town, the Smiling Pine, co-owners of the café, Pam Ensminger and Johnny Campbell, clearly put a lot of effort into affordable fresh and organic food served in a charming environment.

They’ve also recently gone all out to support Save the Ozarks, and held a fundraiser for STO with the Hoot-N-Annies in September. A second STO fundraiser is set for Sunday, October 19 from noon until closing.

Coy Dog & the Other Walton will provide entertainment. Admission is $10 to benefit Save the Ozarks, and food will be available from the menu. The Café doesn’t serve alcohol, but is legal for BYOB, and is pet and smoker friendly.

The café itself is a cozy place with a tree house feel. There is a lower deck overlooking Leatherwood Creek surrounded by trees changing their colors, creating a beautiful ambiance for a Sunday fundraiser.

In addition to supporting Save the Ozarks, Pam and Johnny place a high emphasis on music, and love to showcase singer/songwriters and original music. They also embrace the beautiful and eclectic and enjoy promoting local and upcoming artists.

Settle in and enjoy the music and the aromatic spices of a chai latte while munching, for instance, a delicious Thai curry wrap (rice, curried lentils, Thai

Smiling Brook Café co-owners, Pam and Johnny

Photo by Eric Studer

chicken, onion, tomato, pineapple, peanuts, onion, spinach, kale, and jalapeno) – a few of many selections on the menu.

If you can’t make the STO fundraiser, you can offer your gift of support (or grab a fresh, organic giant wrap) whenever the Café is open – Tuesdays and Thursdays 9 a.m. – 3 p.m., Fridays 9 a.m. – 7 p.m., Saturdays 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. and Sundays 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. Call (479) 981-3582 or see the Smiling Brook Café page on Facebook for updates and music schedule.

The circus is coming in November!

Eureka Springs Carnival Association is seeking sponsors and volunteers to make this event a success.

Proceeds go toward the Eureka Springs After-School Program.

Pledge your support today!

Contact Brenda Tenan, 479.244.5042, or Danny Cameron, 870.416.0758.

Get your STO gear at Smiling Brook Café!

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The Eureka Springs After School Program, in conjunction with the Eureka Springs Carnival Association, is holding a Bake Sale and Silent Auction on Saturday, Oct. 25, from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. at the elementary school.

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Circus of neglect?

Editor, You are correct that something wicked with the proposed circus is coming to our town. As a child and young adult the circus had nothing but wonderful connotation and memories. I attended the circus, was a huge fan of “Circus Boy” and had circus related toys. That was all before as an adult I found out about the horrific abuse, neglect and suffering these animals go through for our entertainment.

I have lived here many years, but it didn’t take me long to see how much this town loves and champions its animals.

We actually have more pets than residents in town. The kindnesses, support, organizations speak testament to the love we have for animals. One of the most respected entities is Turpentine Creek that rescues wildlife that has nowhere else to go.

Carson Barnes circus has a horrible documented list of neglect, suffering and irresponsibility to its animals, patrons and employees. Info from PETA and Bornfree is readily available online. Warning: very hard to read or watch. Most telling

are US Dept. of Agriculture reports that collaborate PETA timeline and incidents.

Have a strong stomach to watch PETA’s videos documenting the abuse, much less read it. At least the USDA is not so graphic, just the horrific facts.

I know everyone connected with this event would never have sanctioned this if they were informed of this company. The sad part is this is being promoted for an after school program. Instead of a circus of fun it is a circus of tears! I couldn’t imagine taking children to it. Over 20 states and many countries have outlawed or made strict laws governing circuses.

As a city commissioner on two commission for ten plus years, I have made mistakes and bad judgment calls mostly from bad or no information. Fortunately, this is one mistake I don’t have to live with.

There are the monies available to pay the retainer fee for the circus cancellation. I personally will volunteer money and time to the after school program if they will cancel this event.

For me and I assume many others, abuse as this is a huge black eye for our town and one of the most beautiful areas in the world. I am respectively asking

anyone involved in promoting this horror to reconsider.

Melissa Greene

Ramping it up

Editor, I visited Eureka Springs back in August. I thought it was a very beautiful place. I unfortunately was only there about 24 hrs. and parking was a major issue. I picked up your newspaper while exploring and read it when I got home. I noted that there is a debate about adding a parking ramp. I just wanted to weigh in and say I would have spent a lot more time downtown if parking had not been such a pain.

I would love to come back for several days. I do wish the hotel I checked into had told me about and recommended the trolley deal… if I had known about it right away I also would have gotten to spend more time going around. As it was, I discovered it when it was only going to be running for a short time and was not advantageous for me anymore.

Hope sharing my opinion helps the city council make a good decision.

Teri Ningen

WEEK’S TopTweets @rorynotroy: New rule for football: when a player is at the bottom of a pile after being tackled everyone on top has to whisper to

him a compliment @Valios_: I’m on Twitter because my family is on Facebook. @zacharyflynn: Thought about helping an old lady across the street but she prob doesnt have Facebook & wont make a post about it that goes viral so no thx @JudgmentalGay: my phone keeps capitalizing my lols like I’m some kind of suburban mom with highlights and bedazzled jeans. @NicestHippo: Facebook has a link to “Report a Problem” so I wrote “I’m not very close with my father.” Now we wait I guess

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@CopBroughtPizza: thesaurus for sale, brand new, current, modern, original, unused, untapped, fresh, pristine, untouched, mint condition, spotless, untried... @WilliamAder: When your pet is staring at you, it’s probably thinking “I wonder how long those things live.” @sageboggs: Hey I bet you guys can’t guess what the Titanic’s least favorite kind of lettuce is @weinerdog4life: When God invented snakes he was like do you want legs or do you want to look like a scary belt, too late scary belt @TheRolo: A fun way to “Break up” is to tell them to “Go long” and then never throw them the football.

GUESTatorial Déjà vu: HDC revisiting materials guidelines Becky Gillette Local banker Leroy Gorrell showed up at a Historic District Commission workshop Oct. 1 with a yellowed news clipping of an article written by CD White in 2010, “HDC: Guidelines to go nova?” regarding what building materials can be used in the Eureka Springs Historic District.

“A struggle over whether or not to approve newer roofing and siding materials caused the HDC to table an item of old business for the second time during its May 19 meeting and call for a workshop on new material news,” the article said.

Ray Dilfield, then chair of HDC, advocated “a little more user-friendliness.”

“Not everyone can live up to the Williamsburg [Va.] restoration standards, nor should they,” Dilfield said. “This is still a functioning town.”

At that same meeting, the HDC turned down a request by the owners of 176 Spring St. to replace aluminum siding with Hardie board lapsiding made from cement and cellulose fibers that look like wood, but are fireproof, termite proof, mold proof and need far less painting than wood. The house had original siding covered with leadbased paint that had been covered years ago with aluminum siding. The HDC denied permission to use Hardie board, and wanted the owners to restore original siding.

Removing lead-based paint from an average house costs between $9,600-$30,000.

If sanding and scraping is not done with extensive precautions, lead is released into the environment where it is a potent neurotoxin.

Gorrell made a plea to the HDC to consider cost to homeowners in not allowing use of modern building products like Hardie board when repairing. He has painted his home four times in the past 22 years, and said a lot of people in Eureka Springs can’t afford renovating with inferior wood products that require frequent maintenance and upkeep.

Recently commissioners softened slightly in allowing the Hardie board in areas of a building that are particularly prone to rot. In one case when homeowners asked why they couldn’t be approved for Hardie board when neighbors on both sides of them have it, the HDC response was: “They didn’t ask us for permission.”

What does that tell property owners? Don’t ask. Do what you want, though fines of hundreds a day are possible for violations.

At the Oct. 1 meeting, commissioner Melissa Greene said it is more expensive living in a historic district and that is something you have to expect. Certain rules and regulations make it more expensive. Greene was the only HDC commissioner in 2010 to vote to allow the home at 176 Spring St. to use Hardie board.

The city requiring owners of private property to use inferior building materials that cost more is wrong. To preserve historic buildings, use superior building materials. If a building has to be repainted frequently, and rotted wood replaced, it is an unnecessary burden on the homeowner, decreases the value of the home, and overall makes the city less sustainable.

The city needs to consider the reality of climate change. Terrifying wildfires in drought-stricken Colorado and California have consumed thousands of homes. Eureka Springs should do everything possible to be “fire wise,” including letting people renovate with fireproof siding and metal roofs.

These regulations discriminate against low-income people. It is a hardship on people of all income levels to be micromanaged on repairs and told what can and can’t be done by fellow citizens who may not have any significant building or remodeling experience and who aren’t paying for it!

The HDC is expected to once again review materials guidelines at a November meeting. Currently, the HDC is leaning toward just bumping applications for Hardie board up to a Level Three, which requires a site visit. Commissioners will decide if you get to use Hardie board on existing homes when there is a demonstrated moisture or rot problem, and then only on that portion of the building.

Or, ignore them and don’t apply for a permit. When government fails to be reasonable, when decisions are arbitrary and counter to property rights, sustainability and the economic interest of citizens, the right thing for citizens to do is refuse to support it.

Becky Gillette

ThePursuitOfHAPPINESS

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by Dan Krotz y oldest friend, retired bookseller John Heartbreak, sat with me in the Crystal Bridges parking lot. We’d just finished viewing the museum’s newest exhibition, “State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now.” Neither of us are strangers to the place. We both love Bridges and go a couple of times a month to look for new pictures – this visit we saw a dazzling Rothko — and to eat an always good lunch at Eleven, the museum’s restaurant.

John was uncharacteristically silent. “What?” I finally ask. He shrugged and said, “I don’t know. I just wonder what Alice thinks about it.” He is referring to Alice Walton, the money and power behind Crystal Bridges, the restaurant, and 12 percent of all productivity gains in the United States since 1991.

“She’s a pretty nice girl, but she doesn’t have a lot to say,” I replied. “What’s on your mind?”

John read from the exhibition’s brochure… “Museum curators conducted hundreds of hours… 100,000 miles, 1,000 destinations, 100+ artists… one unforgettable exhibition!”

“Is it only me, or didn’t we just see something so grotty it must be a careless and cruel joke? And Alice? Is she in on it? Or the butt of it?”

“I hardly think Ms. Walton is that cynical. Or naive enough to be used in such a fashion.

It’s possible that you’re a Philistine, and not hep enough to join the curators – and genuine lovers of art – in celebrating the ‘unprecedented exploration of the power of American art today’ that this exhibition must clearly be.”

“It’s possible. It’s also possible that the curator boys were stuck at mile 67,000, in a joint in Youngstown, Ohio. They’re tired and lonely and homesick. Across the bar, there’s a bored girl on a pole, dancing dispiritedly to Karen Carpenter’s Close to You, instead of the decent Dire Straits tune the boys were expecting. The older, wiser curator sighs and says, ‘Screw it. Let’s call it art and go home.’ The junior curator looks at the girl, shrugs, and drains his beer. ‘Okay,’ he says.”

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A little help from our friends:

• Cup of Love free dinner, lunch, clothing – Free Mexican dinner Wednesdays at 5 p.m.

Hearty soup lunch Fridays 9:30 – 2 p.m. Free clothing. Located in former Wildflower thrift shop (yellow building next to chapel) US 62E. (479) 363-4529.

• Flint Street Fellowship food pantry, lunch, free clothing – Pantry open 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Mondays and Wednesdays. Free lunch Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Free clothes/shoes closet, books and household items.

(479) 253-9491 or 253-4945. Leave donations in barrel at entrance if facility is closed.

• Wildflower food pantry, furniture bank and clothing – Wildflower Chapel (US 62E) free food pantry 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. on Fridays.

Thrift store and used furniture bank (now in big blue barn only) Wednesday – Saturday 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. and Friday 1 – 6 p.m. Drop off donations Thursday – Saturday 11 a.m. – 3 p.m.

• GRIEF SHARE – 13-week grief recovery program. Sundays 2 – 4 p.m. HI Community Church Fellowship Hall library (188 Stateline Drive). Join at any time. $15 workbook fee.

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

• Celebrate Recovery – Soul Purpose Ministries, 801 S. Springfield, Green Forest, 6:30 p.m. each Wednesday. Potluck meal followed by 12-step Christ-centered meetings for those suffering from addiction, habit, hang-up or hurt.

• No high school diploma? Take free GED classes in the Carnegie Library Annex every Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday from 9 a.m.

- noon with study and tutoring for the GED test.

Open to ages 18 and up. GED classes also in Berryville at Carroll County Center. Some open to ages 16 and 17 per educational requirements.

For info: Nancy Wood (479) 981-0482, Carnegie Library (479) 253-8754, Carroll County Center (870) 423-4455). Offered by North Arkansas College with Carnegie Library support.

• Coffee Break Al-Anon Family Group Women – Tuesdays, 9:45 a.m., Faith Christian Family Church, Hwy. 23S, (479) 363- 9495.

Meetings at Coffee Pot Club behind Land O’ Nod Inn: • Alateen – Sundays, 10:15 – 11:15 a.m. Email alateen1st@gmx.com or phone (479) 9819977 • Overeaters Anonymous – Thursdays, 10:30 a.m. Barbara (479) 244-0070 • Narcotics Anonymous – Fridays, 5:30 p.m.

(903) 278-5568 • Al-Anon Family Group (AFG) – Sundays, 11:30 a.m., Mondays and Tuesdays 7 p.m. • Eureka Springs Coffee Pot AA Groups Monday – Saturday 12:30 p.m.; Sunday 10 a.m.; Sunday – Thursday, Saturday, 5:30 p.m.; Tuesday and Friday, 8 p.m. (479) 253-7956 • Al-Anon Wednesday, 5:30 p.m. All other meetings: See www.nwarkaa.org 10 |

INDEPENDENTConstablesOnPatrol September 29 9 a.m. – Individual told ESPD she had been receiving harassing phone calls from the ex-wife of a person arrested over the weekend for domestic battery. Constable on patrol took down her information.

9:35 a.m. – A rental truck was involved in a private property parking lot accident.

11:50 a.m. – Constable was able to nab a canine gamboling in a neighborhood. Its owner was not home, so the constable took the dog to the kennel for safekeeping.

11:06 p.m. – Alarmed witness reported a suspicious person dressed all in black near a business. Constables responded but did not encounter anyone suspicious.

September 30 6:26 p.m. – A motorist was reportedly driving erratically through a neighborhood in the eastern part of town. The constable did not encounter the vehicle.

7:39 p.m. – Neighbor reported seeing a suspicious individual walking around a house near downtown. Constable went to the scene and checked the house and found it secure.

9:42 p.m. – Constable responded to a domestic disturbance in a neighborhood above downtown. The couple admitted they had been arguing, and the constable did his part to calm things down.

9:49 p.m. – A kitten ran around just like a kitten in a motel parking lot. Animal Control was notified.

10:39 p.m. – A mother asked for constable assistance finding her daughters who were reportedly on their way home.

October 1 9:01 a.m. – A jogger told ESPD a male harasses her when she runs by.

10:31 a.m. – Report came to ESPD of a male walking down the middle of a road at the edge of town. Constable did not see him.

12:11 p.m. – There was a one-vehicle accident on US 62 in the west part of town. No injuries.

8:45 p.m. – One tenant in an apartment complex said nearby tenants were banging on the walls and stomping loudly. When questioned by a constable, the alleged noisemakers maintained their innocence.

October 2 7:48 a.m. – A dog ran loose on high school property. Constable caught it and took it to the kennel.

1:38 p.m. – Traffic stop resulted in arrest of the driver for driving on a suspended license.

9:16 p.m. – Constable performed traffic control while Public Works removed a

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tree that had fallen across Hwy. 23 on Planer Hill.

10:10 p.m. – Traffic stop resulted in the arrest of the driver for DWI and implied consent.

10:23 p.m. – Guest at an inn told ESPD a female had knocked on his door asking for help. She claimed she had been in an altercation in the parking lot and needed to call a friend to come get her. Constable went to the scene, but the vehicle and the female were already gone.

October 3 8:25 a.m. – Constable took down information from two motorists who had had an accident and exchanged information, but left the scene and driven to the station.

9:44 a.m. – Traffic stop resulted in the arrest of the driver for driving on a suspended license and obstruction of governmental operations.

2:07 p.m. – Innkeeper told ESPD he had guests refusing to leave. Constable arrived at the scene just before the guests decided it was time to go.

October 4 12:36 a.m. – Central dispatch alerted ESPD to a report of people trying to flag down passing vehicles on a remote road at the eastern edge of town. Constable discovered they had a flat tire and needed help.

1:52 p.m. – Constable on patrol watched for a reportedly erratic driver. He stopped the vehicle and spoke with the elderly driver who seemed to be driving just fine in town.

5:15 p.m. – There was a three-vehicle accident near the intersection of Hwy. 23 South and US 62. EMS transported one person to ESH and one vehicle was be towed.

October 5 12:36 a.m. – Constable made a traffic stop and arrested the driver on a Carroll County warrant.

3:08 a.m. – Constable responded to an alarm at a bank and found everything okay.

3:47 p.m. – Another traffic stop resulted in the arrest of the driver for driving on a suspended license, noise ordinance violation and no liability insurance.

4:42 a.m. – Constables arrested an individual on warrants from Rogers, Bentonville and Washington County.

5:13 a.m. – Girlfriend who was staying at a local inn claimed her boyfriend had taken her vehicle and more than $7000, and she said he might be with his mother at a nearby hotel. Constables watched for someone matching his description.

ESPD later learned the vehicle had been returned to the complainant’s residence in Oklahoma.

9:58 a.m. – Observers reported an erratic driver westbound on US 62, but constables never encountered it.

10:10 a.m. – Residents along N. Main complained vehicles were speeding as they exited town. Constable kept an eye on that part of town.

2:51 p.m. – Motorist heading north into town on Hwy. 23 said four or five sports bikes were doing wheelies and stunts as they tailed him and then they passed on the double yellow lines. Constable watched for but never did see them.

11:27 p.m. – Restaurant employee told ESPD he had gotten a call from an individual who had asked when employees would be paid, information which the restaurant employee could not provide, and the caller then began to verbally threaten him. Constable spoke with both parties and settled the issue.

11:43 a.m. – Apartment resident said someone stole her boombox from outside her residence. She told ESPD she had checked inside just to make sure she had not misplaced it but was fairly sure it had been stolen. Constable found no signs of forced entry and took a report.

Step up for Silver Tea Volunteers are needed to help with the Silver Tea benefitting Turpentine Creek on Thursday, Dec. 4. Please put this on your calendars, and if you can help, email Tanya Smith at tanya@turpentinecreek.org or phone (479) 253-3715.

Pubs vie for Keg Cup The Annual Pied Piper vs. Chelsea’s Pub soccer charity benefit game for the Keg Cup will be held Tuesday, Oct. 14, at the Leatherwood ballfields. Prematch ladies game at 6 p.m., mens game at 7:30. Concession open. Donations and support most welcome!!

INDEPENDENT Art & Entertainment Emerging artist at Jewel Box The Jewel Box features emerging new artist, Leigh Valens, during the Gallery Stroll on Saturday, Oct. 11. Known for her vintage-inspired mixed media jewelry, Leigh treats us to a sneak peak at her latest designs hand fabricated from silver and natural stones.

Silversmithing is a natural for this creative and inventive artist inspired by nature and antiquities.

Come meet Leigh during a reception for the artist from 6 – 9 p.m., Saturday at the gallery, 40 Spring Street. Refreshments will be served.

Get your mad hat prepared for Oct. 24 ESSA’s 12th Annual Mad Hatter Ball takes over the Crescent Hotel Ballroom Friday, Oct. 24, from 6:30 – 11 p.m.

As always, fun hats are required. An exciting hat contest, music by Red Ambition and hearty appetizers will enliven the evening along with a silent auction featuring art by ESSA instructors.

Special sponsorships that can benefit you and your organization are available. For tickets and information see essa-art.org or call any weekday (479) 253-5384.

‘Moving’ pictures surprise the eyes at Iris at the Basin Photographer Edward Robison has just published a terrific collection of his favorite photographs of the Ozark Mountains, Ozark Landscapes. A book like no other, Ozark Landscapes combines the talent of a superb photographer with new Internet technology that brings many of the photographs to life in an augmented reality.

If you love watching scenes like mist rolling across the mountains, this book will give you that pleasure every day – and in motion! See for yourself at

American Craft Week

American Craft Week ends on Oct. 12 so come celebrate and support America’s craftspeople and products this weekend. Buying handmade art and items is an investment in our country’s traditions plus it generates jobs and builds creative, lively communities such as Eureka Springs.

In recognition of this heritage, the Eureka Springs Gallery Association is an official participant in American Craft Week.

STUDIO 62, 335 West Van Buren, (479) 363-9209 During October, Jody Stephenson is exhibiting 25 new paintings of Eureka Springs and the surrounding area--many completed en plein air with the Plein Air Painters of Eureka Springs. There will be a special reception at Studio 62 on Oct. 11 from 4 – 7 p.m.

Eureka Thyme, 19 Spring Street, (479) 363-9600 On Oct. 11, the gallery celebrates its 10th year and its more-than-100 contributing many artists. Lida Arthraud of Pandache Scarves will share new colors and designs of her scarves and hats from 1 – 4 and 6 – 9 p.m. Sign up for the Eureka Thyme newsletter and enter for a chance to win a $50 gift certificate! Celebratory refreshments will be served!

The Emporium By DÉJÀ VU, 179-184 North Main, (479) 253-9300 Beginning at 11 a.m. Oct. 11, The Emporium by DÉJÀ VU will be hosting some of Eureka Springs’ finest artists in a “Deck the Fall” event. Artists will be displaying and selling their work on the decks providing a fall art enjoyment and shopping experience like no other. More than 25 local artists will also be participating in the Gallery Stroll that evening. Refreshments provided by Farm to Table FRESH.

The Devine’s Apartment from The Jetsons The Norberta Philbrook Gallery, 34 N. Main Street, (479) 363-6703 The gallery hosts a reception for guest artist Drew Gentle from 6 – 9 p.m. during the Oct. 11 Gallery Stroll. Gentle will debut his retro animation series of evocative illustrations gleaned from your memories and his 40-year career as a top echelon animation artist.

The show features Gentle’s modernistic backdrops for The Jetsons, wooded views from Scooby-Doo and whimsical renderings from Candyland. Gentle worked from scripts to create the look of iconic animated movies and television shows including The Jetsons, The Flintstones, Batman, Scooby-Doo, Bugs Bunny, The Smurfs, Yogi Bear, Johnny Quest, The Land before Time, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Family Guy. ZARKS … fine design gallery, 67 Spring Street., (479)253-2626 More than 30 area artists will interpret this year’s theme, “Spectacles,” in their own original style and choice of media. This is the 16th year the popular invitational show has been held at Zarks Gallery, highlighting some of the most talented artists in the area. The show will be on display all day Saturday and everyone is invited to cast their vote for the “People’s Choice Award.” The winner will be announced at a reception from 5:30 – 9 pm. And don’t miss the Terri Logan Trunk Show all during October!

Call to artists and aspiring artists Iris at the Basin Park Saturday, Oct. 11, during the Gallery Stroll from 1 – 4 and 6 – 9 p.m. Come meet Edward and get a peek at his newest creation.

ESSA is hosting a poster contest for the 2015 Mad Hatter Ball. Be the winner and receive a $100 cash prize!

Your art may be made of any medium that can be photographed. All entries

must be submitted by Nov. 1 and the winning entry will be chosen by Nov. 20. Email your entry in JPEG format (300 DPI) to ESSA at esartschool@ gmail.com.

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HI roadside and shore cleanup

U.S. Congressman Steve Womack will be in Carroll County on Oct. 15 to meet with constituents in Eureka Springs and Berryville. The congressman will have an informal public gathering for questions and answers from 9 – 10 a.m. at the Carroll County Country Club, 365 U.S. 62 in Berryville, followed by a stop at the Carroll County Learning Center from 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. to tour the facility and read a book to students in the new library as part of the Center’s 40 year celebration.

From 12:15 – 1 p.m. Rep. Womack will tour the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow, and will wrap up the day at the 1886 Crescent Hotel for a roundtable discussion from 2 – 3 p.m. with an informal gathering of local businessmen and women who wish to discuss concerns and ask questions of the Congressman. For more information email Teri.Garrett@mail.house.gov.

On Saturday, Oct. 18, the Holiday Island Homeowners Association sponsors the semi-annual roadside and shoreline cleanup, and all volunteers are welcome.

Roadside cleanup will meet at the Holiday Island Clubhouse north parking lot at 9 a.m. for road assignments.

Shoreline cleanup will meet at the Island beach parking lot (first right after crossing the bridge) at 9 a.m.

A picnic lunch will be provided for all volunteers at approximately 11:30 a.m. at the Recreation Center Pavilion. Rain date is Oct. 25; all other details the same.

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many involved, especially Aceves’ mother and her supporters. “I could not sleep after I heard we would be going to court today,” Laura Ponce told the Independent. “I thought they were going to let him out. We were all afraid.”

“The Defendant’s guilty plea and 25year sentence guarantee that Victor Acuna is now a convicted murderer and will face punishment for his crimes,” the Carroll County Prosecuting Attorney’s office wrote in a press release.

Acuna-Sanchez pleaded guilty to Murder in the First Degree, Aggravated Residential Battery and Violation of a No Contact Order. He is entitled to 644 days credit for time served while awaiting trial.

He will not be eligible for release before at least 70 percent of his sentence is served.

“Our office reached this agreement with the Defendant after considerable negotiation with Defense Counsel and in consideration of the trial court’s recent order suppressing evidence essential to proving the guilt of the Defendant,” the Prosecuting Attorney’s office wrote.

Carroll County Prosecuting Attorney Tony Rogers said if his office filed a notice of appeal challenging Judge Finch’s decision to suppress evidence, there was no guarantee the Arkansas Supreme Court would have accepted their appeal. If they affirmed Finch’s decision, “Victor would have walked.”

“To risk the defendant going free at the conclusion of a suppression appeal would have been against the interests of justice and against the interests of the community,” the press release said.

Tension high in courtroom At 9 a.m. deputies walked a shackled Acuna-Sanchez upstairs to the Eureka Springs courtroom. He was wearing a Crawford County jail uniform and his build seems larger than it was a month ago during the suppression hearing.

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the bailiff stood at the court gate looking left to right. He gave the nod that the courtroom was safe as Victor’s brother, Eric, held a small Bible in his lap.

Laura Ponce, Laura Aceves’s mother, saw Acuna-Sanchez and cursed him in Spanish under her breath. She broke down for a minute and put her hands over her face. Ponce placed the purple flowers from her supporters on the court ledge. Though court was scheduled to begin at 10 a.m., Finch arrived at 10:40 a.m., then attorneys spent time with the judge in his chambers.

Prior to proceedings, a visibly upset Ponce sat in a friend’s car working on a victim impact statement, which she gave shortly before Acuna-Sanchez was sentenced.

“My daughter was a wonderful woman. She always had a smile on her face, even when she was struggling or suffering. She helped many people and she is still helping, through me. I am her voice. I always will be. On to the justice side: Victor not only tortured my daughter and killed her, he destroyed my entire family and many other people, including his own son, by not letting him have an opportunity to grow up and be with his mom. PTSD, all the kids suffer from it.

They cannot sleep very much, expecting his release and to be killed, like he told them many times. My job is to make sure these kids grow up as good citizens, fight for justice and help others.

“Punishing Victor cannot bring my daughter back, but it can help make certain she did not die in vain, and the kids will have a night of rest. Victor always ignored the law and because of his release before now, Laura is dead. Please do not allow him to kill again.”

Finch agreed to the plea bargain terms and sentenced Acuna-Sanchez to 25 years in the Arkansas State penitentiary. Ponce breaks the courtroom silence with a “Yes.” A seemingly repentant Acuna-Sanchez put his head down and looked up at Finch

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after the judge asked him if he had anything to say.

“I made a mistake. I loved Laura and Jordan very much and I never wanted to hurt her. I wanted to take care of my son.

If I could switch sides, I would,” AcunaSanchez said.

Judge reprimands a quiet Acuna-Sanchez “For more years than I care to count, I have heard juvenile cases such as yours where they stand in front of me and say they made a mistake,” Finch told AcunaSanchez. “A wrong turn at a stop sign is a mistake. This is not a mistake. You put the gun to her head and you pulled the trigger.

It was a brutal, selfish act and I hope while you are serving your twenty-five years you learn to see the world from someone else’s point of view.”

As Acuna-Sanchez shuffled out of the courtroom in shackles, tension lifted.

Reactions vary, but many said they were relieved.

“The best thing for me was not hearing that he was sentenced to twenty-five years and hearing him say he was guilty, but hearing what the judge told him,” Linda Maiella, an anti-violence advocate who has supported Ponce since Aceves’s funeral, told the Independent.

“I don’t believe the punishment fits the crime,” said Barb Weems Mourglia. “This is not adequate punishment for a man that stole a mother away from her children and ripped a daughter away from her mother in such a brutal manner, but I am relieved, as I think everyone is, that this is over now. That it doesn’t have to be dragged out anymore, and Laura and the kids can feel safe.” Mourglia also supported Ponce over the last two years. She and Maiella held signs in front of the court prior to the start of proceedings. A scuffle between the ladies and James almost occurred during the protest when James had a few harsh words for the ladies. After trial, things calmed and James told the Independent he too was glad

that they did not have to go to trial.

“I am very glad we were able to bring this to a conclusion,” James said.

“The irony is Victor loved her and his son.

The pressure of losing his son brought this about. Hopefully one day the pain will subside. I wish the best to Laura’s family. It is easier to be in jail than to live with what happened out here. I am glad it turned out this way rather than put everyone through a trial.”

Acuna-Sanchez’s family were last to leave the courtroom. Eric, Victor’s brother, held his Bible to his chest as he spoke on behalf of his mother, Jerlin. Both say they had given their lives to Christ recently and that Victor did the same in jail.

“We feel hurt not only for Victor, but for Laura and her family and Jordan,” Eric said. “I am not a mother or father but I know both my mother and Laura are hurting. If we think in a deep way, life would be great if we all lived in peace but we won’t find that in this world. One day we will pass and live together in the kingdom of Heaven.

I believe Laura will be there. But the Kingdom of Heaven starts here. We feel for Laura’s mom and hope she can one day turn to God, if she hasn’t already, for comfort.

The word of God says not to judge people.

Many times we see things on the surface without looking any further.”

“I loved Laura and my grandbaby,” Jerlin Sanchez said. “She will be in heaven.

I was with her when Jordan was born helping to clean and cook. I never wanted something like this to happen. We don’t like what he did but we still love him. He is going to pay.”

Laura Ponce took home the purple flowers supporters gave her and said she would sleep for the first time in a week.

Carroll County Sheriff candidate Randy Mayfield said afterwards, “I hope the victim’s family finds comfort in the sentence.”

Sheriff Bob Grudek was said to be out of town and not present at the proceedings.

INDEPENDENTLens The Willer touch – Artist John Willer discussed a slide show of his work along with paintings he brought to a recent meeting of the Holiday Island Art Guild. He finished with a flourish, demonstrating his style of portrait painting. More faces on our Facebook page!

Photo by Jay Vrecenak

27,000,000° icemaker – Yep, the sun makes ice. Jerry Landrum demonstrated his solar powered freezer at the Moon Wave Expo at the Inn of the Ozarks Oct. 4. The sustainability and organic living Expo included classes, demonstrations and services for transformative living; as well as a concert by John Two-Hawks and the release of his Spirit Horse CD. Photo by Jay Vrecenak

Orange you glad you showed up? – Congratulations to Corvette Show finalists Jennifer and Eric Gunter, and their mascot, of Camden, Ark. More Corvette pics on our Facebook page!

Two Vette garage? – A love of Corvettes brought Dick and Olivia Krull of Trinidad, Texas, together. They drove their own cars to Thorncrown Chapel to be married on Oct. 3 during Corvette Weekend as members of their Corvette club packed the parking lot with a sea of sleek, shiny Vettes!

Photos by Melanie Myhre

In tune – Massage therapist Rebekah Clark prepares to do a demonstration using tuning forks at the Moon Wave Expo this past weekend.

Expo pics on our Facebook page!

Photo by Becky Gillette

Anti-gravity – Moon Wave Expo organizer, Peggy Hill, got a ‘rise’ out of a levitation demonstration at the event last weekend. “That was crazy fun,” said Peggy, “they were able to lift me like I was a feather ... great diet plan? ” We wish, Peggy, we wish.

Photo by Jay Vrecenak

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ESOTERICAstrology as news for week Oct. 8 – 14

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by Risa

True Heroes Amidst Weary Humanity

e have a complex week beginning Wednesday the 8th with the full moon lunar eclipse. For three months prior and three months after, eclipses bring change to our lives. The lunar eclipse brings to a close something in our outer daily lives, its usefulness completed. We know what area of life will be affected when consulting our astrology charts.

Wednesday’s eclipse, which overshadows Thursday, Friday and Saturday, is at 15 degrees Libra. Libra and Aries are especially influenced.

During this time we also have Mercury retrograding in Libra and a potent Venus/Pluto/Uranus T-square in the heavens. Venus is in Libra. It can signify our personal

ARIES: Assess if there are any needs you and/or a partner have that are hiding away someplace, only coming to life when there’s deep conflict. This is a good question to ask in all relationships, but especially now and with loved ones. Are there legal situations you must tend to? Carefully make plans for implementation either now or next month.

Closure is needed.

TAURUS: It’s time to teach others what you know. You’ve been hiding information until the right time, and soon you will need to shift, change and share. Soon, too, it will be time to leave your bunker. You cannot do what you’ve been doing alone for much longer. It’s not healthy. Do you ask others to help you? Ask what they need in return. This equality is important.

GEMINI: Is there difficulty with concentration, communication or making contact? Are there misunderstandings occurring? What do you value most in daily life? As expectations are placed upon you, explain you’re working slowly now as life has taken backward and sideways turns.

You’ll be called to duties and tasks not quite to your liking - an exercise in sacrifice. Go slow. Call an old intelligent friend.

CANCER: You’re most likely tending

relationships, money and the world economy. Venus, combined with Pluto and Uranus brings forth urgent, surprising and transformative change. Let us watch the news for events. We already had the protests in Hong Kong demanding balance and stability in their future economy and government. The Forces of Darkness do not have this on their agenda and will do all they can to destabilize humanity’s unified wishes.

However, most of humanity, wearied of war, seeks to inaugurate a new era of harmony and cooperation.

We must build the New Era Communities to bring this forth. The trend of human thinking and the heart is towards the cessation of conflict. This is an event of

to family. Are you sleeping enough?

Your appetite may increase. Something slips into your life that makes you happier, creating a surging forth of determination and courage, along with a new sense of creativity. You’ll be inspired about how and where you live. Prepare for a new life to appear. Slowly become more organized.

LEO: Should you feel you cannot possibly leave home, then remain there. Tend to personal issues, things domestic, like, organizing, ordering, cleaning and clearing with equal time for research. Contact previous friends far away. Is there a misunderstanding to be explained, care and tending to be offered? Is a move pending? An expanded self-identity is happening.

VIRGO: Make sure you’re getting enough vitamins and minerals, especially calcium/ magnesium along with adequate nutrition.

You may not have an appetite. Drink more vegetable juices then. Monetary situations continue to unfold. Ideas concerning what for you is Right Economy enter your mind and you ponder upon what is of value. Have you started your many journals yet? Now is

major importance and indicates an important turning point in human affairs. This trend is impulsed by a weariness of fighting wars, by recognizing the value in human accomplishment, and by a recognition that true greatness is expressed by those who see life itself, humanity, Earth’s kingdoms and the entire world as one united, interrelated, cooperative, harmonized whole. They seek to educate humanity in the Principles of Harmony, Goodwill and Right Relations. Those who struggle for this world perspective and unity are the true heroes. These are the New Group of World Servers (NGWS). Let us join in this endeavor together recognizing ourselves part of this world-serving group.

the time for your Mercury retro journal.

LIBRA: Get your finances in order. Assess them carefully. Maybe you’ve been given incorrect financial information – this affects your emotions and health. Find the source of this, rely on your intuition, consult a professional for assistance, and don’t succumb to a situation or person that may hurt or confuse you. Something financial is hidden. You must bring it into the light of day.

SCORPIO: Suddenly your life assumes additional intensity of memories and you’re unable to hide it. To ease any discomfort concerning this subtle yet concentrated power, force and energy, maintain consistent exercise, and then double it. There’s new self-identity and strength emerging. Set your sights on new communications and new financial resources. You’re a gold mine.

SAGITTARIUS: The structure you’ve sought is finally transforming itself within your sphere of dedicated work. Discipline yourself in the right use of energy and time.

Don’t waste these in emotional vicissitudes.

Stay behind the scenes. Work on your own.

Plan for future endeavors or do nothing at all. Don’t waste resources. New friends and groups of people will be searching for you.

They bring balance and a resting place.

CAPRICORN: Don’t take on extra tasks or exhaustion will affect your immune system.

You’re capable of holding the entire world on your shoulders, but soon this becomes

too heavy and burdensome. Create a manifestation list with your hoped-for goals and priorities, forming a magnet of energy around you. Delays are normal. Don’t fret.

Give others specific tasks to do. They need them.

AQUARIUS: You understand humanity’s needs and sorrows, and thus you bring forth new ideas that sustain them, bringing forth balance and harmony (and fun). You have tremendous energy and potential to bring into form hopes, dreams and aspirations.

Travel helps you. Focus on specific goals.

It’s an important time for financial planning.

Make and maintain new needed contacts.

PISCES: Piscean teachers, travelers, publishers, writers, adventurers and religious leaders are busy with schedules, plans, travel (careful!), cultural and/or religious aims and endeavors – attempting to inject harmony, change and balance into humanity’s daily life. At times these agendas can feel isolated and isolating. You need new direction and hope. Safety and trust are important. You will meet new people soon. Observe everything in silence.

Risa – writer, teacher, founder & director of the Esoteric & Astrological Studies & Research Institute a contemporary Wisdom School. The foundations of the teachings are the study & application of Astrology & the Seven Rays. Email: risagoodwill@gmail. com. Web journal: www.nightlightnews. com. Facebook: Risa’s Esoteric Astrology & Risa D’Angeles for daily messages.

Metafizzies meet Oct. 13

Rebekah Clark will lead the Eureka Springs Metaphysical Society meeting in a session of Divine Singing and Sound Meditation on Monday, Oct. 13, at 7 p.m. No vocal experience necessary. Singing will be led in a call and response style, making it easy for everyone. Chants and mantras from multiple traditions will be used.

All are welcome to join the group in the basement reading room of the Eureka Springs Christian Science Church, 68 Mountain Street.

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Sycamore©

– Chapter 10

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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hat too, though, with its trail of resentment toward his father, had belonged to the time of immaturity. It had not been more than a month after Clytie had dealt her saving blow that his mother’s letters began to dwell, more and more, on Roger’s grief and loneliness with Walter gone. He blames himself, she wrote, and of course there is very little that I can say. But if you could see how lost and haggard he looks, I know you would not be so hard. After all, Walter, you are very young… Not quite so young as he had been, because, when at last the letter came from his father (a forthright, candid letter, not coaxing, not imploring, suggesting simply that it was an evil thing to allow a specter of twenty years past to rise up and possess three lives, and that Walter’s place was among his own people), he had seen that this was true, and that his own behavior, which had appeared a gesture toward self-respect, was in fact childish and cruel. A few days later he had gone home.

The summer that followed looked,

in retrospect, a kind of anteroom – a closed, hot place where he had done nothing but study, under the impact of an electric fan, to enter the University in September. Then there had been the three years in Fayetteville (less stimulating than he had hoped for) and the next three in the army, where it seemed as if he had gained more of essential truth, from the forced associations of barracks and troop transports and ruinous Pacific islands, than he had ever found in a classroom.

This conviction was so strong that, after his discharge, he had been able to hold it, even in the face of his mother’s insistent talk about Harvard and a degree. “No,” he had said, over and over, restless after a few months of home and the Democrat office. “That’s finished. I can’t go back.”

So it had been New York instead – and the agency – and then, Jane.

He swung down off the wall and continued the climb up Jethro Street.

He wondered what impulse had caused him to stop, on this particular evening, to cast up accounts with his past, when there was every reason to get home promptly and lend a hand. Perhaps it

was that the day had an epochal note: the moving into his own house, the end of one time, the beginning of another. He had only twenty-six years to account for. He wondered, treading down the colored leaves that had gathered in the ruts of the road, how the very old could bear up under the burden of a longaccumulated past. Unless memory were blotted out, how could they help but sit brooding over the guilt compounded over sixty or seventy years? Granny Knowles, alone in the huddled room, facing a window which, even to her blindness, could contain nothing but the unchanging, remembered rock – could one ask her what mitigation she found in her darkness, that she was able to endure the weight of the past?

He reached the crest of the mountain, where Jethro Street dissolved in the paved highway, and saw, beyond the wide space of lawn with its crimson dogwoods and bright maples, the familiar white portico of the house where he was born, the very windows of the square front bedroom, still his mother’s. He shied away from the circumstances of his own

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had a good friend in the army named Jim Never who always amazed me with his strength. He could do 80 or 90 pushups so fast that he’d just be a flash of motion. I talked to him recently and asked if he was as strong as he once was. He said no, but that after a

recent full workout he bench-pressed 225 pounds (about his body weight) 22 times. That sounds strong to me.

Over the course of my lifetime, I’ve heard from numerous local oldtimers that the strongest person they ever knew was Wells McCall. His

Festival of St. Anne Oct. 11 – Hot Tamales!

The 2014 Festival of St. Anne’s Church takes place in Berryville on Saturday, Oct. 11 from 2 – 8 p.m.

It’s a family feast of fun and international food with authentic, homemade dishes from Guatemala, Mexico, Philippines, El Salvador and the USA – along with the “Almost Famous” Red and Green Tamale dinner. Food will be served from 2 – 6 p.m. with games of skill, activities for kids and entertainment until 8 p.m.

There will also be hot apple cider, Mexican hot chocolate, prizes for all ages and folk music from local groups. Don’t miss the fun at Saint Anne’s Church, 614 S. Main Street (US 62E) in Berryville on Saturday! For more information and tickets call (870) 423-3927.

birth (something not quite decent CONSTANCE about penetrating WAGNER that closed door, entering the room where his first cry of protest had been uttered against life). Even so, he was drawn for an instant into conjecture as to his mother’s behavior, found he could not imagine her whirled in the vortex of so primal an experience as parturition.

No outcry, surely? Did she lie rigid, the pain subdued by her will, the terror and surprise frozen somewhere beneath that impregnable composure? The child placed in her arms, would she turn her eyes upon it in tenderness, or would it be rather the fierce, possessive face of triumph, of vindication? My son…

He turned in at the graveled drive which cut off a semicircular segment of lawn. There was a smell of smoke in the air, and he saw that old Jim Gurley was raking leaves, heaving armloads of them into the flames beside the curb. Death of summer: balefires. What the hell was a balefire? Something archaic, lost, vaguely portentous.

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feats of strength are legendary. When I was in the army 25 years ago, I had a recurring notion that I’d like to introduce Jim Never and Wells McCall to each other.

In the late 1940s, McKinley Weems put in a spring-fed water system for Wells on his farm east of town. McKinley had driven his work vehicle, a four-wheel drive Willys Jeep down under the hill where the spring was located. There were a number of rock shelves that the jeep had to traverse and it was unable to get traction. Wells said if McKinley would drive the jeep so two wheels were able to grip, Wells would lift the other end of the jeep onto the rock shelf. And that is what he did.

Another time, Wells had a sick draft horse that was down and needed to be stood up. Wells cut a hole in the floor of the barn loft and lowered a sling he put under the horse’s belly.

Using heavy rope that he tied on either

side of the sling and looped up into the barn loft, he squatted down with the rope over his neck and then stood up, lifting the massive animal to its feet.

Obviously, I only knew Wells in the latter part of his life. He died in 2006 at the age of 94. In his senior years, he was still strong, but did not look like a classic symbol of strength like a Charles Atlas. Wells was not overly tall and was somewhat rotund, with thick, heavy arms. I’ve seen photographs of him in his youth, though, and he looked like a bull.

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he climate has changed. Gradual changes over many years are easy to ignore. We were not paying attention and some did not want to hear the warning signs. Like the story of the frog placed in a pot filled with cool water on a stove, slowly heating the water the frog swims happily while the water gets warm until the water boils, too late to jump out of the pot. We don’t have the option to jump, but we can use less energy to reduce carbon dioxide pollution from coal-fired power plants.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) using the Clean Air Act section 111d, proposed carbon dioxide pollution reduction for coal-fired power plants by 2030. The coal industry opposes change.

Good news: We have control over the amount of energy we use. There are many simple low cost changes you can make to use less and pay less. We can send public comments to EPA in support of the Clean Power Plan, and cast our vote in the upcoming elections.

Bad news: Arkansas generates 30 percent more than the energy demand for Arkansas, with SWEPCO coal-fired power plant exports to Texas and Louisiana. The EPA target is to reduce carbon dioxide pollution 45% by 2013. Eliminating SWEPCO coal power exports is a logical solution; only AEP shareholders benefit, Arkansas gets polluted.

What can you do to use less energy?

SWEPCO and Carroll Electric offer free Energy Audits. SWEPCO has a $300 rebate for energy efficiency improvements.

Use less, pay less

Please call today, or visit their website.

Additional energy efficiency information is available at EPA ENERGY STAR, www. energystar.gov Here are some quick ideas to pay less: Turn off the lights you don’t need.

Change the temperature setting of your thermostat when you leave your house.

Save over $200 per year on heating and cooling. Check for signs of air leakage around windows and doors. Use caulk and weather-stripping to seal leaks. Replace your HVAC air filters every three months to improve airflow.

Stay healthy this winter and save time and money. Consider HVAC air filters electrostatically charged to attract and capture microscopic allergens like pollen, mold spores, and pet dander.

Save $180 per year on lights. How many incandescent light bulbs do you have? Replace them with LED light bulbs, using 80 percent less energy and lasting 25 times longer.

Arkansas utilities oppose EPA To maintain control over energy prices and energy generation, Arkansas utilities oppose EPA pollution standards.

Using lobbyists and media they are setting the stage for higher electric rates, replacing coal with natural gas, excluding solar local generation as part of the mix. SWEPCO plans to increase electric bills to recover the cost of natural gas. The Arkansas Electric Cooperatives Arkansas Living magazine editorials tell members to oppose EPA carbon dioxide emissions. Otherwise, rates will be increased by 20 to 40 percent, “which

could lead to illness and death among the elderly.”

Coming Clean The clock is running; there is no time for denials, delays or deceptions.

Unlike distribution cooperatives serving homes and businesses, the Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas is a power generation and transmission utility, supplying wholesale electricity to most Arkansas distribution cooperatives. AECC owns four coal-fired power plants: 50 percent of the SWEPCO Flint Creek power plant, 12 percent of the SWEPCO Turk plant, and is part owner of two other coalfired plants.

AECC wants to protect their coal investments, which explains their fierce opposition to the new EPA carbon dioxide reduction rules. Years of monthly stories

by Carmie Henry, AECC vice president of Governmental Affairs, endorse SWEPCO and claim carbon dioxide is good for

the environment. Top AECC and SPP executives are using Arkansas Living to oppose EPA with false editorials stating: EPA will raise electric rates Companies will move overseas Arkansans will loose many jobs EPA will dismantle America’s electric system EPA threatens grid reliability Solar PV local, community, and utility systems are unaffordable Take action today Energy policy proposed by EPA needs your support. Your voice counts, this is a numbers game. The coal industry is spending millions of dollars with professional media and lobbyists trying to create fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Please talk with your friends and family and send personal comments supporting EPA carbon reduction pollution standards to: http:// tinyurl.com/NoCO2.

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Alzheimer’s Support Group Oct. 16 The monthly Alzheimer’s Support Group for Caregivers is Thursday, Oct. 16, 10 – 11 a.m. in the Conference Room at Area Agency on Aging, 1204 Primrose, Berryville.

Caregivers are welcome at any meeting to share experiences, comfort and resources. Come be informed, inspired and encouraged. For details, call Rebecca Davis (870) 350-3415 or Anita Spearman (479) 981-0626.

HIFD pancake breakfast on Oct. 11 The Holiday Island Fire Department’s pancake breakfast is Saturday, Oct 11 at the Holiday Island Clubhouse Ballroom. The breakfast from 7 – 10:30 a.m. Cost $6 for adults and $3 for children under 12.

DEPARTURE Carol Jean Parsons July 11, 1941 – Oct. 1, 2014 Carol Jean Parsons, a resident of Eureka Springs, Ark., was born July 11, 1941, in Kansas City, Mo., a daughter of Eugene Victor and Vera Katherine (Burwinkle) Allen. She departed this life, Oct. 1, 2014 in Rogers, Ark., at 73.

Carol worked 16 years in the County Clerk Office in Independence, Kan. She enjoyed traveling, fishing, cooking, and her pets. Carol worked at the gift shop at the Great Passion Play.

On February 5, 2000 she was united in marriage with Alfred Leroy Parsons who survives her of the home. She is also survived by two children, Chris and wife, Carol Oneslager, of

Wichita, Kan.; Don and wife, Kelly Oneslager, of Dearing, Kan.; grandchildren, Olivia and Sophia Oneslager of Wichita, Kan.; Hayley and Kori Oneslager of Dearing, Kan.; stepdaughter, Janelle and husband, Gwin Greenwood, of Chelsea, Okla.; step grandchildren, Twilya Lynn Porter of Tecumseh, Okla.; Heather Nicole Parsons of Moore, Okla.: step daughter-in-law, Michelle Field of Moore, Okla.; step great-grandson, Coby Conway of Tecumseh, Okla.; and close cousin, Vera VanBlaricom of Berryville, Ark.; and cousinin-law, Judy Showatter, wife of the late Don Showatter; and a host of other family and friends.

Carol was preceded in death by her parents.

Visitation will be 5 – 8 p.m., Friday, Oct. 3, at the Nelson’s Chapel of the Springs. Funeral service will be 6 – 8 p.m., Monday, Oct. 6, at the Ford-Wulff-Bruns Funeral Home in Coffeyville, Kan.. Interment will be at the Maple Grove Cemetery in Seminole, Okla.

Memorial donations may be made to the Great Passion Play, 935 Passion Play Road, Eureka Springs, AR 72632. Online condolences may be sent to the family at nelsonfuneral.com. © Nelson Funeral Service, Inc. 2014

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Ozark Mountain Daredevils

67th Folk Festival continues traditions, showcases old friends

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ureka Springs knows how to throw a folkin’ good festival, as showcased this weekend all over town. We have live music inside and out – events at THE AUD, The Barefoot Ball, and a parade on Saturday. Local families have been participating in Folk Festival events for generations, and each year creates fond memories to be passed on to the young folkers in our lives now. This year’s music returns some old friends and introduces us to some new ones. The fun begins Thursday: strap on your overalls, put boots on the kids, and wagon on downtown to see what we’ve been doing for more than 60 years.

THURSDAY, OCT. 9 BALCONY RESTAURANT – Maureen Alexander, Jazz Singer, 5 p.m.

BAREFOOT BALLROOM – Barefoot Ball, Cindy Woolf Band feat. Mark Bilyeu, 8 p.m.

CHELSEA’S – Brian Martin, Folk, 9:30 p.m.

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

LEGENDS SALOON – StarSeed, Local Power Group, 8 p.m.

ROWDY BEAVER DEN – Matt Reeves,

Classic Rock, 9 p.m.

FRIDAY, OCT. 10 BALCONY RESTAURANT – Hogscalders, Bluegrass, 5 p.m.

BASIN PARK – Jeremiah Jones, 1 p.m., Clancy Ferguson Band, 3:20 p.m., Lyle Strickland & Moonlight Farmers, 4:00 p.m., The Old 78’s, Contra Dance, 6 p.m.

CATHOUSE LOUNGE – Houston Hues & John Henry, Poetry and Music, 8 p.m.

CHELSEA’S – Dirt River Ramblers, Folk, 9:30 p.m.

EUREKA LIVE! – DJ & Dancing, 8 p.m.

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

JACK’S PLACE – Blew Reed, Blues, 9 p.m.

LEGENDS SALOON – Karaoke with Kara, 8 p.m.

ROWDY BEAVER – Two Dog Two Karaoke, 8 p.m.

ROWDY BEAVER DEN – Matt Reeves and the All Americans, Classic Rock, 9 p.m.

THE STONE HOUSE – Jerry Yester, Artist’s Choices, 7 p.m.

SATURDAY, OCT. 11 THE AUDITORIUM – Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Brewer and Shipley, Danny Cox, Folk Fest Headline Show, 7:30 p.m.

BALCONY RESTAURANT – Catherine Reed, Singer/Songwriter, 7 p.m.

BASIN PARK – 2nd Saturday Music in the Park, Clark Family Trio, Folk, 3:30 p.m.

CATHOUSE LOUNGE – Dusty Pearls, Dynamic Duo, 8 p.m.

CHELSEA’S – Chucky Waggs and Tyler Gregory, Bearded Folk Troubadours, 9:30 p.m.

EUREKA LIVE! – DJ & Dancing, 8 p.m.

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

Wed., Oct. 8 • 9:30 P.M. – CANDY LEE Thurs., Oct. 9 • 9:30 P.M. – BRIAN MARTIN Fri., Oct. 10 • 9:30 P.M. – DIRT RIVER RAMBLERS IVAL Sat., Oct. 11 • 9:30 P.M. FOLK FEST WN THROW DO TYLER GREGORY and CHUCKY WAGGS

Sun., Oct. 12 • 9:30 P.M. – OZARK MOUNTAIN MAYBELLES Mon., Oct. 13 • 9:30 P.M. – SPRINGBILLY Tues., Oct. 14 • 9:30 P.M. – OPEN MIC Thurs., Oct. 16 • 9:30 P.M. – REV DEAD EYE

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JACK’S PLACE – Blew Reed, Blues, 9 p.m.

LEGENDS SALOON – Dayton Waters, Intense 12-string, 9 p.m.

ROWDY BEAVER – Midnight Traveler, Classic Rock, 8 p.m.

ROWDY BEAVER DEN – Garrett August Duo, Classic Rock, 1 p.m.- 5 p.m., Vintage Pistol, Classic Rock, 9 p.m.

SMILING BROOK CAFÉ – Alex Liles, Americana, 5- 8 p.m.

SUNDAY, OCT. 12 BALCONY RESTAURANT – Jeff Lee, Classic Rock, 12 p.m., Tim Forsythe, Singer/Songwriter, 5 p.m.

CHELSEA’S – Ozark Mountain Maybelles, Folk, 7:30 p.m.

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

OZARK MOUNTAIN TAPROOM – Service Industry Sunday, 2- 9 p.m.

ROWDY BEAVER DEN – Arkansas Bootleg, Classic Rock, 1 p.m.- 5 p.m.

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

MONDAY, OCT. 13 CHELSEA’S – Springbilly, Bluegrass, 8 p.m.

TUESDAY, OCT. 14 CHELSEA’S – Open Mic LEGENDS – Jam Night

INDEPENDENTNews Siberian tiger release Oct. 18 will be watched worldwide

Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge will hold its 55th habitat opening on Saturday, Oct. 18 at 10 a.m. when Rayn, an eightyear-old female Siberian tiger, will officially be introduced to her new home. Like most of the big cats at Turpentine Creek, she is being moved from the old compound into a larger habitat with grass and trees.

The release and Rayn’s reaction to touching grass will be streamed live around the world via Internet. Viewers can access the live link on the Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge Facebook page on the day of the event.

Rayn came to Turpentine Creek in 2008 from a privately owned zoo that had shut down the year prior. TCWR Vice President Scott Smith and Curator Emily McCormack made a grueling 28-hour, 2900-mile round trip to New York, returning with a trailer full of giant cats, including Rayn.

Normal admission prices apply: $20 adults, $15 children 13-19, $10 children 12 and under, seniors, and military members. Children under 3 free. For refuge details, visit www. turpentinecreek.org or call (479) 253-5841.

Sunpower shower – Jerry Landrum’s solar powered water pump was on the 2014 National Solar Tour hosted by the Arkansas Renewable Energy Association this past weekend.

Photo by Becky Gillette

Dusk and still diggin’ – Carroll County Master Gardeners Linda Caldwell (from left), Anna Mathews, Faye Martin and Alice McNeal weeded beds, planted ground cover, mulched and did general cleanup at the Good Shepherd Humane Society Thrift Store gardens on Oct. 1.

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Barktoberfest woofs it up Oct. 18 The Bark Park is raising money for a water fountain with an inaugural Barktoberfest on Saturday, Oct. 18 from 5 – 8 p.m. at Eureka Live Patio and Beer Garden. There will be brats, beer and barks – and a canine cutie contest to choose Mr. and Ms. Bark Park, whose picture will be posted on the park’s kiosk until next year’s Barktoberfest. Bring your friendly dogs on leashes for some Bowser Beer and come sit and stay.

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foster parents like Nan Johnson and Dave Spencer, who have fostered eight times for a total of 22 cats.

“The shelter in recent years has held more than 100 cats/kittens for many, many months,” Johnson said. “This means kittens and cats stay in smaller cages for long periods of time, and the office itself gets filled with cages. The staff can barely move around. It can really relieve stress all around to be able to foster out the animals.”

Johnson said foster parents don’t have to commit to bottle-feeding babies around the clock. She has never done that.

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misunderstood the time on the bombs.

As the bombs were being planted, they exploded – one hour too early – killing three terrorists instead of the intended victims, two busloads of passengers.”

Johnson said. “Foster parents pick the level of commitment and it can vary from season to season. The four most recent motherless kittens we fostered are now fat and sassy, no eye infections or tummy upsets, romping around with Mr. Hodges, one of our cats, and loving our dogs. They are so personable and socialized that I know they will be great for adoption.”

Staff is careful to screen out sick or contagious animals, and there is medical support. Foster parents can call shelter for advice, or bring in an animal for the vet to check.

The shelter is able to supply litter and food for pets being fostered, although some people like Johnson and Spencer donate that in order to help save the

shelter money.

Arrangements are very flexible. You can foster for a few days or longer. It is up to the person.

“For those who are not so ambulatory, fostering is a wonderful way to serve without having to drive someplace,” Johnson said. “Of course, there is work involved, changing litter and stuff. There is a big cage set up permanently in our living room to hold a litter and for the first day or so, for each new arrival to adjust. But we chose not to keep even the youngest ones caged. Being out all the time, sometimes there are accidents, but we have laminate floors and tile so no problem cleaning up.”

These cats do come in for a bit of

spoiling. Spencer has built a cat tree in the house by adding platforms to a downed tree. The cat tree is kept by the window – cats love to look outdoors – and is a favorite with the cats.

“Every evening, as we watch a movie, all the fosters get up on the sofa with Dave and me, snuggling and tussling,” Johnson said. “Either mom, Dave or I are usually home most of the time. If no one is home most of the time, maybe being a pet foster parent is not as workable. But I would say if anyone wants to foster, they don’t need the ideal situation at all. They just need the willingness to try it, be a bit flexible and enjoy all the love.”

The Good Shepherd Humane Society can be reached at (479) 253-9188.

8. Statistics indicate accidents increase during the adjustment period after the time changes. Pedestrians are more likely to be hit right after the change than in the month before. However, vehicle accidents might decrease overall

during DST because of extended periods of daylight in the evenings.

9. Opinions vary on whether DST results in energy savings. More evening daylight hours mean longer air-conditioning time for some, so results are mixed.

The time change might not bother monks on a mountaintop or farmers’ wives who get up early every day anyway.

Nevertheless, the time change arrives 2 a.m., Sunday, Nov. 2. Remember to reset your sundial.

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EXPLORING the fine art of ROMANCE...

My wife says if I’d stop pressuring her about sex she might be interested. When we talk she admits we don’t even touch anymore but nothing ever changes. If I stop pushing for attention I’m afraid we’ll drift so far apart our marriage will end. Can we ever be close again?

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our fear is valid. When partners no longer engage sexually there is reason to be concerned, but when touch dissipates completely the relationship is in significant danger.

Touch soothes and comforts. It deepens emotional connection and most important, it creates a foundation of safety where intimacy can flourish. Securely connected partners are able to immerse themselves freely in the pleasure of sexual play and surrender to their sensations.

Loving touch paves the way to true eroticism.

When partners are disengaged however, touch often falls by the wayside. Sexual needs are either suppressed or become goal directed, driven by anxiety and fear, reflecting

the relationship’s lack of security. Our life partner is the one we turn to for safety and shelter. When that connection is lost the relationship’s security is threatened and fear prevails.

In fear, partners become desperate for balance. Typically one partner becomes clingy, critical and demanding of attention while the other becomes increasingly defensive and withdrawn to avoid further emotional injury. This struggle of demand and withdrawal between partners quickly takes the shape of a repetitive defeating dialogue that spirals infinitely, accruing resentment and despair at every turn.

This dialogue can focus on any number of topics.

The most common topic is sex, which in truth is simply a disguised attempt to communicate one’s longing for closeness and concomitant fear of vulnerability.

For change to occur and connection to be restored partners must first recognize that their relationship has become emotionally starved and they’ve each lost their primary source of emotional sustenance and security.

Banking biz after hours – Community First Bank hosted the Chamber’s Business After Hours with a packed house despite the downpour Thursday night, Oct. 2. From left, Cynthia Dupps; Elizabeth Kelley, bank president; and board member, Sandy Martin enjoy the libations and fabulous noshes.

Photo by CD White

Mobile home – If you don’t enjoy traveling behind a Winnebago, imagine following this on Hwy. 23! The First United Methodist Church wanted the house removed from their property in order to add parking space, and Monte Taft had just the place for it on Gretna Green, just down the road. He built a foundation and had the 30x60 ft. home moved onto it last week.

Videos of the move can be seen on the Eureka Springs Woodworks page on Facebook. See more pictures on the Independent’s Facebook page.

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Both are victims of the recurring negative spiral and neither partner is the enemy. The enemy is in fact the defeating dialogue.

Kick criticism to the curb.

Choose to be gentle. Share your fears and needs honestly with each other. Use touch often to communicate caring. With continued openness your relationship can become your treasured shelter. Intimacy will be both safe and exciting, creating the space for eroticism and endless sexual adventures.

Questions?

Email leslie@esindependent.com.

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

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inger Johnson from Berryville decided to try getting one of these big fish after her husband, Steve, got a striper and some hybrids in August.

We started putting in at the dam at daylight Friday after the rain brought in the cold front, along with a strong northwest wind.

We looked around Point 5 but found no bait or fish on graph, so fished the back of Rambo near Rocky Branch where we caught fish last week but just caught trees this time.

So we went to fish the flats around the island at Rocky Branch but it was one of those days where the wind and cold front was making it hard. Every turn we made the wind turned with us. We fished hard and ended up coming up to a deep cove near the dam where the wind was light for one last

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drop. Marked fish and bait between 30 and 40 ft. but also some of both at 18 ft. deep, so put out two plainer boards at 18, three balloons at 30 and two rods straight down at 40 ft. All baited with 4 – 7 in. shad. Had bass kill some baits, then a plainer board went down hard and Ginger got her 32 in. striper. The wind found us again and we were running pretty late, so we called it a day after one more pass.

Did also have a trip here at Holiday Island this week and caught some crappie still down over the brush at 12 ft. Bass are feeding on shad from the back of the creeks to the flats in the open, also deep off the rock points. Walleye are being caught from 12 – 28 ft. deep off the flats.

Water temperature on both lakes was running about 73° and now that we have

had this second cold front we should be below 72° which means start looking for all our fish and bait to start moving shallow and closer to the top. I also had a bait run this week and released a few crappie that got in my net in 4 ft. of water.

Fish and bait are all doing well now since they can move into water that was

forbidden when it was too hot.

Watch the weather, fish the days before a cold front comes in or after it settles in for your best fishing this time of year. Well, that’s it for this week.

Have a lot of nice fall days coming so get out and enjoy and take a kid with you. fishofexcellence.

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Hearing voices? You will be on Oct. 16 The 6th annual Voices from Eureka’s Silent City living history tours are on Oct. 16, 17, 18, 24 and 15 and will feature accounts from heroes, healers and humdingers from Eureka’s past.

Actors in period costumes will portray Rear Admiral Margaret McLaughlin, Alvah Jackson, Dr. Pearl Tatman, Dr. Charles Fremont Ellis, Miss Kitty Goodwin, Johnny Pointer, Lena Wilson and George Head. Their voices will be heard on each of the guided tours through Eureka Springs Cemetery beginning at 5:30 and departing every 20 minutes thereafter until 8:30 p.m. There is free parking at the former Victoria Inn parking lot on US 62E with free shuttle service to the cemetery as there is no parking at the cemetery.

Tickets are available at the all Cornerstone Bank locations, the Eureka Springs Chamber of Commerce and at the Historical Museum. Call the Eureka Springs Historical Museum at (479) 253-9417 for more information, or see www. eurekaspringshistoricalmuseum.org.

Informative program on old cemeteries The Holiday Island Community Church Ladies Fellowship meeting is Oct. 20 at 10 a.m. in the HICC Fellowship Hall. Guest speaker Susan Young with the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History will

speak on old tombstones and cemeteries in Northwest Arkansas. Refreshments will be served. Contact Linda Bartlett (479) 244-5961 or Eula Jean McKee (479) 253-8021 for further information.

Across 1. Time long past 5. Antiquity 8. Gift card word 12. Sitting atop 13. Fish eggs 14. Mind/body exercise 15. Praise highly 16. Went up 18. Building extension 19. River mammal 20. Observe 21. Taro root 23. Assist 25. Group of eight 27. Perfume 31. Gentle stroke 32. Female rabbit 33. Faucet drip 34. Make more vertical 36. Avoid capture 37. Owing 38. Allege as fact 39. Doctrine or theory

42. Enjoy a cigar 44. “The ___ Squad” 47. Easily cut 49. Grain storage tower 50. Tiny bit 51. Nada 52. Capital of Norway 53. Stairs’ section 54. Himalayan antelope 55. Russian ruler of old Down Christmas Iridescent gem Casino game Termination Poetry muse Missing Die Danish island Reels’ companions Double curve

11. Created 17. Goddess of discord 19. Not even 22. Old fashioned 24. Dig into 25. Photo moments 26. Snip 27. Long time 28. Pilot’s scare 29. Dishonorable man 30. Scratch out a living 32. Judging 35. Cat 36. First lady 38. The Jungle Book wolf 39. Goddess of fertility 40. Gael 41. Chigger 43. Stewed meat dish 45. Ceramic stew pot 46. Portal 48. Plant juice 49. Lush

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

FOUND DOGS

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.

FOUND, TWO CHOCOLATE LABS behind Beaver Dam Store, no collars.

One young male, one older male. Call Ron at Spider Creek, (479) 253-9241.

CLOSING FOR THE SEASON – Flea Market located on Onyx Cave Road is closing for the season. Huge sale Friday and Saturday starting at 10 a.m. – Bargains galore!

WHITE ST. SATURDAY MARKET 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Ermilio’s. Quality produce and 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 LAUGHING HANDS MASSAGE IS OFFERING GREAT FALL DEALS. Three one-hour massages for the low price of $120. Laughing Hands is always a great location for couples massage.

Come join the fun with a cup of delicious Hawaiian coffee free with a Lomi Lomi massage. Call (479) 244-5954 for appointment.

HALLOWEEN COSTUMES for sale or rent at Celebrations & Traditions Hwy. 62E, Pine Mountain Village Shopping Center #502.

Open 11 to 4 Tues. to Sat. or by appt.

Ring (479) 981-1559. There’s magic in the Clothes!

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REAL ESTATE COMMERCIAL 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

RUSTIC CHARM ABOUNDS IN LOG CABIN, close to Berryville Walmart and country club. Features living quarters, small greenhouse, new roof/windows, updated appliances. Perfect for office, salon, shop, dog grooming, bike showroom, you name it. Possible owner financing, 20% down, details provided, or discount for cash. $154,900. Details (870) 847-1934.

MOTORCYCLE FOR SALE

HOMES FOR SALE

MOVING SALE

2009 SUZUKI BOULEVARD S40, 379 miles. Almost brand new, excellent shape. $4,000. (479) 981-3491

VEHICLES FOR SALE 1987 SUBURBAN 4X4 with 4 in. lift.

Restored. Low miles on new engine/ transmission. New front end. Custom paint. New interior, undercoated. $6,500.

(931) 222-9602.

2002 BUICK LeSABRE, 4-door, 131,000 miles, well-maintained, clean. $3,800. Call (479) 981-3491

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

UNUSUALLY NICE INTERIOR FOR INEXPENSIVE HISTORIC HOME. Excess parking. Income possibilities. Excellent detached garage/ shop/studio. Porches and deck. $139K. (479) 253-4963

RENTAL PROPERTIES APARTMENTS FOR RENT HOLIDAY ISLAND VILLAS & TOWNHOUSES near lake and marina.

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

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

JUST OFF HISTORIC LOOP, onebedroom apartment, quiet, patio and gazebo, no pets, proof of year-‘round income, one year lease. Wi-Fi available. $550/mo., utilities included. (479) 2535719

HELP WANTED

HOMES FOR RENT

LAUGHING HANDS MASSAGE IS LOOKING FOR A PART-TIME MASSAGE THERAPIST. Call (479) 244-5954 for interview.

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.

HOUSEKEEPER WANTED for private home near Eureka. Experience required. 4 – 6 hrs./week, $11/hr.

References required. Male or female.

(479) 244-0987 ROWDY BEAVER RESTAURANT HIRING DINING ROOM MANAGER, experience required along with references. Salary based upon experience. Drop off application – Attn: Sharon to 417 W. Van Buren.

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2 BR/1 BA – $750 plus utilities. No Pets.

No Smoking. Everything brand new. In town. Call (479) 981-9976 BEAUTIFUL CABIN IN THE WOODS, easy walk to the creek, short paddle to the White River. Room for garden, pet friendly. Beautiful place to live. Looking for a couple to do general maintenance in exchange for part of rent. (479) 253-1536, leave message.

RENTAL PROPERTIES HOMES FOR RENT

HISTORIC DISTRICT FURNISHED SEASONAL COTTAGE HOUSE, 3 BR, 2 BATH. Deck, Gas Log Fireplace, TV’s in all bedrooms & living room. $1,500 a month, $500 deposit, all utilities paid. NO PETS/NO SMOKING. Available Dec. 10th – April 1st. (479) 253-8920. Call for web site photos.

2 BEDROOM/1 BATH – Kings Hwy. in town near hospital, walkable. Updated interior, carpet, doors. New energy efficient gas heat and hot water. Deck, wooded view. One off street parking space. Shared washer/dryer. $560/mo. + $560 deposit. 1 pet up to 20#. Lease, references, stable work history/income required. No drama, no party animals.

Behave or begone. You pay utilities. Call (479) 981-3700 ask for Bob. HOLIDAY ISLAND 3BD/2BA, $800/ mo. No pets, no smoking. First & last month’s rent. Major appliances included.

27 Dove Ln. Glenda Satterfield Real Estate, (479) 981-1141

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

Call Angie (479) 981-0125.

COUNSELING FAMILY TREE COUNSELING, offering individual, family, and couples therapy for adults and children in a relaxing, professional environment. Over 10 years experience. Some insurance accepted. (479) 981-0060

HOME SERVICES HOME SERVICES OFFERED – Prepare meals, light housekeeping, driver, personal assistance. Experienced in elder care, child care, tutoring.

Certified teacher. Resume, background check available. Call (479) 981-4517.

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

(479) 981-0125.

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

SERVICE DIRECTORY PETS PETSITTING, HOUSESITTING. Holiday Island and Eureka Springs area. 25+ years experience. Reliable, references, insured. Call Lynn (479) 363-6676

VEHICLES 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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67th Annual Folk Festival Schedule Thursday, Oct. 9 at 7 p.m. – Doors open for the traditional Barefoot Ball in the 1905 Basin Park Hotel. Music starts at 8 p.m. with The Cindy Woolf Band featuring Mark Bilyeu of Big Smith. Check your shoes at the door!

Friday, Oct. 10 – Free music in Basin Park 1 p.m. – Jeremiah Jones 2:30 – Clancy Ferguson Band 4 p.m. – Lyal Strickland & the Moonlight Farmers 6 p.m. – Contra dance with The Old 78s, Auditorium, lower level

Saturday, Oct. 11 Noon – Folk Festival Singer/ Songwriter contest. Basin Park 2 p.m. – Folk Festival Parade 3 p.m. – Clark Family Trio in Basin Park

7 p.m. – Doors open for 7:30 headline show at the auditorium with The Ozark Mountain Daredevils and special guests Brewer & Shipley and Danny Cox. Tickets Headline show $32 advance, $37 at the door. Barefoot Ball $12. Advance tickets at www.ozarkfolkfestival.com or www.theaud.org. Questions? Call (479) 253-7333.

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Special Poetluck Oct. 9

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

In anticipation of Halloween, there will be a special Haunted Poetluck Thursday, Oct. 9, at 6:30 p.m. so resident writers in town for the Ozark Creative Writers’ Conference can take part. Marian Szczepanski, Talya Boerner and Jen Nipps will be reading something scary, then local writers will also try to send chills down your spines with slightly twisted stories and macabre musings.

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

PUBLIC NOTICE The City Advertising and Promotion Commission (CAPC) of Eureka Springs has adopted new penalty assessment procedures for non-compliant collectors. Any business required to collect and remit CAPC taxes that are delinquent more than 3 months in a 12 month period are deemed non-compliant and will be subject to a $50 per day penalty in addition to the regular penalty and interest charged per state and city tax regulations.

If you’ve got a haunted or ghostly story you’d like to share, bring it – we dare you! Potluck begins at 6:30 p.m. at the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow, 515 Spring Street, followed by readings. Everyone is welcome, so bring a dish to share and settle in for a great evening. Poetluck takes place every third Thursday (except for this month).

Want to build your career as an artist?

ESSA is offering a one-day workshop Nov. 18 called Building a Successful Career as an Artist, Part Two. You will be privy to the wisdom and experience of several accomplished regional artists who already have successful careers. Come learn how they did it. Tuition is $40 and a catered lunch is included. For more information see ww.essa-art.org or call weekdays (479) 253-5384.

Why mow when you can grow dandelions?

Steven Foster, well known herbalist, author and photographer, will be guest speaker for the Northwest Arkansas Master Naturalists meeting on Sunday, Oct. 19 at the Washington County Extension Office in Fayetteville. Foster’s experience in medicinal plants encompasses 40 years and he is author or co-author of 18 books, the latest of which is the third edition of the

Peterson Field Guide to Medicinal Plants and Herbs: Easter North America with James A. Duke.

He will be speaking about plants found in Northwest Arkansas and how people perceive and use them. He will also engage in botanical storytelling (and a little humor) set against a backdrop of visuals leaning heavily on the third

edition of the Field Guide.

Social time begins at 1 p.m. with the meeting starting at 1:30 p.m. Copies of the Field Guide will be available for purchase, and for more information on Steven Foster see www.stevenfoster.com. The meeting is open to the public. For more details contact nwamnboard@mn4arkansas.org.

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