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Is SWEPCO hoping opponents will run out of money?

B ecky G illette Enough already. That is the gist of a request made by Save The Ozarks (STO) to the Arkansas Public Service Commission requesting the APSC deny the American Electric Power (AEP)/Southwestern Electric Power Company (SWEPCO) request to take until the end of January 2015 to provide additional information requested by the commission regarding need for a proposed 49-mile-long high voltage transmission line through the Ozarks.

Earlier this year the APSC ruled that SWEPCO had not made adequate arguments about need for the line, which the company said would improve electric reliability. STO has contended that SWEPCO wants to build the line in order to maintain profitability in an era when electrical sales are decreasing because of energy conservation measures.

A letter from STO attorneys Mick Harrison and Gregory Ferguson to the APSC said if the commission declines to dismiss the application, the commission should order SWEPCO to reimburse STO’s and other intervenors’ expert witness and attorneys’ fees going forward, “Absent such an order, SWEPCO and SPP (Southern Power Pool) can simply continue to make flawed applications, year after year, in the hope that interveners eventually run out of money or energy and give up, an outcome which will not serve the public interest and which will be contrary to the intent of the Arkansas Legislature,” STO attorneys wrote.

STO Director Pat Costner said it is unlikely that a restudy will make a credible case that SWEPCO should continue to propose a 345 kV transmission line, or any new transmission line.

“Meanwhile, hundreds of landowners and business owners have been facing loss of both their property and property values for more than sixteen months,” Costner said. “Their ordeal will continue for

‘Tis the season – Hardworking RN, Bri Danley, found the perfect place to relax in the August heat on her days off. It’s definitely hammock weather in Eureka Springs.

Photo by Becky Gillette

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This Week’s INDEPENDENT Thinkers Big companies and state legislators insist that by adding fluoride, full of toxic heavy metals, to our drinking water we can all sleep well knowing our health is in their profit-driven hands.

But in Boston, Massachusetts, that hub of intellectuals, radicals and blue bloods who love red sox, they decided watershed protection would be cheaper, easier, cleaner and sustainable. They protected the forest around their water source.

Forests clean water naturally, so by the time water gets to the pumping station it only needs minimal filtering, not the addition of fluoride.

Boston won first in the U.S. for best tasting tap water, voted in by the 50,000 professionals charged with keeping the U.S. water supply healthy.

Inside the ESI Do Not Spray

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Independent Art

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Gay marriage attorney speaks

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Independent Lens

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Tick fever

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Astrology 14

Larry Lowman

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Sycamore 15

Keller’s Country Dorm

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Notes from the Hollow

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New Expo

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Indy Soul

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Independent Mail

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Nature of Eureka

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Guestatorial 9

Dropping A Line

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Constables on Patrol

Crossword 21

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Auto correct could be your worst enema.

INDEPENDENTNews Some ‘No spray’ properties getting sprayed by mistake Becky Gillette Some area property owners who signed Do Not Spray agreements with Carroll Electric Cooperative Corp. (CECC) to avoid having herbicides applied on their property have been sprayed anyway.

“It is so distressing,” Meg Mauro, who owns property in Marble Falls in Newton County that was recently sprayed with herbicides, said. “It is a horrible thing they are spraying herbicides at all. But to go through all the rigmarole to get on their ‘do not spray’ list, and then get sprayed anyhow is very depressing. If it rains after application, the herbicide goes right into our drinking water, our swimming holes and our springs.”

Mauro said herbicides sprayed July 17 damaged trees in the yard.

“Neil Rushing came out and said they sprayed where they shouldn’t have and asked if they could make it up to me by planting some trees or something,” Mauro said.

“But this is a lot bigger issue than that. I’m not asking for money, but for democracy. I’m going to ask that I be put on the board of directors. It needs to be easier to opt out of herbicide spraying, and people who have concerns about this need to be represented. We need a real cooperative.”

A rancher in Green Forest said about an eighth-ofa-mile was sprayed in front of his home despite his DNS

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agreement. He uses organic ranching practices, and is upset that the spraying kills off some of the more favorable vegetation in favor of invasive weeds like greenbriar.

“You will end up with more weedy, invasive plants that won’t compete as well,” said the rancher, who voluntarily brush hogs his property underneath the power lines. “Previously their spray killed the decorative quince trees that my mother planted in the 1950s in the yard. They were about ten foot tall and don’t grow up to the power line levels.”

The rancher, who asked not to be identified, said, “The top management is pretty vindictive, in my estimation, and they have more power than I do.”

One person sprayed in Carroll County who had a DNS agreement also asked not be identified.

Herbicide spraying in the area has been a big issue in recent years. CECC members opposed to herbicide spraying were attending the company’s annual meetings in large numbers until being told they could not speak and had to allow purses to be searched before entering the meeting.

There was a large police presence at the meetings. No members opposed to the herbicide spraying attended the most recent annual meeting.

CECC Director of Communications Nancy Plagge said since the opt-out application process was implemented,

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they have accurately honored 99.8 percent of these requests.

“Prior to each spray season, a face-to-face meeting with the landowner who has requested to opt-out of herbicide application is arranged,” Plagge said. “Carroll Electric physically marks the landowners’ property and enters the data into our mapping system which generates maps supplied to our contractor. This year, I am aware of two individuals who completed the opt-out request application, received approval by Carroll Electric, and herbicides were applied by mistake on a small portion of their property. We are in contact with and working directly with these individuals.”

Plagge said they are unaware of any locations where ornamental or fruit trees in a member’s yard have been sprayed or killed as a result of herbicide drift. “Carroll Electric’s vegetation management program does not include the use of herbicides in maintained areas and yards,” she said. “Members should contact the cooperative if they have concerns on this.”

CECC maintains vegetation within easements for 7,665 miles of lines, including more than 11,000 acres of rights-of-way in Newton and Carroll Counties. About 3,400 acres of this were included in this season’s herbicide contract, but Plagge said the typical brush density runs DO NOT SPRAY continued on page 15

INDEPENDENTNews Legislature v. judiciary tussle over same sex marriage continues Becky Gillette of impropriety, which is grounds for Attorneys who won a ruling in May recusal. that the ban on gay marriage in Arkansas Maples said it is unfortunate that is unconstitutional filed a motion Monday people like Sen. Jason Rapert, who led the that asks members of the effort to get the legislature Arkansas Supreme Court “Someone missed to adopt a resolution who are up for re-election to their ninth grade encouraging discrimination recuse themselves from an gay couples, don’t Civics class if they against appeal of the decision. understand the constitutional approve of the separation of powers among Attorneys Cheryl Maples and Jack Wagoner legislature trying the legislative, judicial argue that justices have and executive branches of been threatened with a recall to force its will on government. She found it election if they support the judiciary.” even more alarming that finding the ban on gay former Arkansas Gov. Mike marriage unconstitutional.

Huckabee, a Fox News – Attorney The Arkansas Legislative commentator considering Cheryl Maples Council, which represents the another run for the legislature when it is not in session, passed presidency, has called for the impeachment a resolution stating the Pulaski County of Piazza.

Circuit Judge Chris Piazza overstepped “Can you imagine having a president his authority and contradicted his oath to who doesn’t understand the importance of uphold the Arkansas Constitution with his the separation of powers?” Maples asked. “judicial activism.”

“Someone missed their ninth grade Civics In its resolution, the Arkansas class if they approve of the legislature Legislative Council resolves to “explore trying to force its will on the judiciary.” legislative remedies to prevent the Arkansas There is a considerable amount Constitution and the will of the people of of uncertainty about the legal status of this state from being negated by judicial about 540 same sex couples who were activism which violates the separation of married after Judge Piazza ruled in May powers ensured in our government.” that Arkansas’ 2004 voter-approved gay The motion by Maples and Wagoner marriage ban was unconstitutional. A week said actions of the Legislative Council and later the Arkansas Supreme Court put a stay its members are unfortunate, as they create on gay marriage until an appeal is heard, an appearance that outside influences could leaving in limbo the legal status of those have an impact on those sitting justices gay married couples. who expect to seek election to court in Maples said the marriages are valid. the future. They argue that actions of the “The licenses were legally issued Legislative Council create the appearance through counties in the State of Arkansas,

and should be recognized,” Maples said Sunday while speaking at the Unitarian Universalist (UU) Church in Eureka Springs. “But when the Supreme Court issued the stay, it was silent on this issue.”

The uncertainty regarding the legal status of gay couples creates problems.

Currently the federal government recognizes marriage equality so someone who filed a federal tax return would file as married. But since the State of Arkansas doesn’t currently recognize gay marriages, couples who file jointly on the federal tax return would have to perjure themselves to file singly on the state return.

There are also other impacts. Some of the couples who married are elderly. If one passes away, what will be the rights of the surviving spouse? How does it affect inheritance of property and other assets?

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INDEPENDENTNews Carroll County - gloryland for ticks Nicky Boyette The parallel transmission line project for the Carroll-Boone Water District came to a brief halt recently because “one of the engineers in the field got tick fever,” engineer Brad Hammond said at a recent CBWD board meeting.

Justice of the Peace Ron Flake reported to the Carroll County Quorum Court the preliminary work for a rural water system in north and central Carroll County “was delayed by the engineer getting bit by a Carroll County tick.”

Carroll County, like it or not, is apparently prime tick habitat. Summers are usually humid and always warm and we have plenty of white-tailed deer to transport ticks throughout our Ozark Mountains woods and Eureka Springs neighborhoods.

Bloodsucking disease-spreaders Ticks are hematophages – they sustain themselves by consuming blood. Other animals that have adapted to hemaphagy include lamprey eels, vampire bats and oxpeckers of sub-Saharan Africa.

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Being tiny arachnids, adult ticks have eight legs. A hungry one might assume the “questing” position of holding on at the edge of a leaf or blade of grass with the back pairs of legs and holding the front pair up ready to grab a passing host – and all sorts of wildlife and tame life serve as hosts.

Ticks are found all over the world.

The tickmap.org clustermap even indicates a cluster of reportings at the extreme northern edge of Norway. Ticks are even more established here in the Natural State.

According to the Arkansas Department of Health (ADH), at least five kinds of ticks inhabit our state.

Outside magazine, reported in its April 2013 issue that the National Academy of Sciences referred to ticks as “the Swiss Army knife of disease vectors” because a single tick might be a vector for more than one disease with a single bite. In Arkansas in 2013, ADH reported there were 690 cases reported of tickborne diseases, or, in particular, 480 cases of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, 165 of ehrlichiosis, 38 of tularemia, and seven cases of anaplasmosis.

In this count, 63 out of 75 counties in Arkansas are represented.

Tick habitat and lifestyle Locales in the world with warm, humid climates seem to have the most ticks, although they are spreading north as local climates change. There are also studies linking the expansion of white-tailed deer into new territory with the spread of ticks.

Carroll County scores well on all these tick prerequisites.

In addition, the same Outside article reported some studies point to the expansion of coyotes into new habitats as a contributor to tick expansion because

coyotes chase away the foxes but do not replace them as effective controllers of rodent populations. If rodent populations swell into new neighborhoods, they take ticks with them.

On its own, a tick will not travel more than a few yards. However, it must search for a host to feed on, so it will grab onto a passing rabbit, mouse, gardener or fouryear old and catch a ride.

Unless scratched away, it might continue feeding on a host for two or three days. In fact, a fertilized female tick must wine and dine for three days on a host before she plops off and drops as many as 3,000 eggs on the ground.

So if you are strolling through the woods on a pleasant afternoon and suddenly notice hundreds of tiny brown dots (all looking hungry) swarming up your pants leg, that might be just a small contingent from one happy family.

From one to maybe three years is what a tick expects of this life. It hatches out as a tiny hungry larva and instinctively searches for sustenance. After its first meal, it morphs into the nymph stage, which is a technical term for “bigger tick.” Ticks start out disease-free but, according to the University of Rhode Island TickEncounter Resource Center, they might get infected by small rodents or birds during the first meal and as nymphs possibly spread those organisms to the next host during the second meal.

How does it feel?

The lone star tick likes both Carroll County and white-tailed deer, and it can spread ehrlichiosis and tularemia.

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INDEPENDENTNews ‘Spuds and beans’ guy as varied as his produce B ecky G illette A lot of people think a potato is a potato. They may look different, but they all taste pretty much the same. But you only have to try the different heirloom varieties of potatoes grown by Larry P. Lowman at the Saturday morning Farmers’ Market in the parking lot of Ermilio’s on White Street to learn there is more to a spud than meets the eye.

Conventionally grown potatoes are one of the crops sprayed with chemicals the most. So, first of all, Lowman’s potatoes are healthier because they’re grown organically.

Second, they’re also more colorful.

Some varieties he grows include Cranberry, Yukon Gold, Reddale, Kennebec, Caribe and Purple Peruvian.

Lowman said heirloom varieties have very different textures, some dry and starchy, others moist and waxy. Some are best for baking, others for fries, and still another for mashed potatoes. If you’re a gourmet cook, or just a real foodie,

having access to these unusual varieties — and the many other organic, heirloom vegetables he grows – is a delight.

Lowman is somewhat like the potatoes he grows – more to him than immediately apparent. He currently produces large amounts of food on a one-acre plot surrounded by 12-ft.-tall fencing at his Ridgecrest Gardens on Dry Fork Creek in southern Carroll County.

Earlier in his life he was a naturalist for Arkansas State Parks for 11 and 1/2 years, and the owner of the Ridgecrest Nursery & Gardens in Crowley’s Ridge near Memphis for 25 years.

Lowman has introduced about a dozen plant varieties to the nursery trade.

Some he discovered himself in nature, and others he propagated after they were found by someone else. He has “moral indignation” about plant patenting, and an even bigger objection to trademarking plants; so he allows others to grow plant varieties he has introduced without LOWMAN continued on page 21

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INDEPENDENTNews Keller’s Country Dorm – ten years after

C.D. W hite Way back in 1972, Keller’s Country Dorm Resort for Groups was the most economical and fun place in Eureka Springs for church and bus groups for many years. You may remember the popular $39 Dorm Passion Play Package which included tickets, lodging and breakfast, plus recreational swimming, basketball, volleyball, hiking and more.

Happily for groups, that same package is back! Even without the package, individuals can still stay for $12 a night (which may come in handy around War Eagle Craft Fair time) and enjoy a free breakfast.

Owner Richard Keller ownerfinanced the sale of the resort and retired in 2004 and moved to Berryville. When the new owners failed to prosper and let the property run down, Keller felt it was too important a resource to let go and took the property back.

Keller said after extensive cleaning and upgrades he took down the sign that

had been bolted onto his original sign, “And just like that it was back to Keller’s Country Dorm!” But now that he’s 76, his wife felt he was getting to old to run the business. Keller disagreed. Strongly.

“And it was worth it,” he said, “I’ve already had a group of forty people come. We’re the only business we know of with dorm-style lodging, like a youth hostel. After building the facility over a third of a century ago, I’m back and it’s better than ever.”

Keller’s now has upgraded facilities with newly refurbished cottages and a lodge for groups and family reunions of

Re-emergence – From wrack and ruin to new life, Keller’s Country Dorm is back! After reclaiming their property, the Kellers have refurbished and upgraded to include a new lodge, including a kitchen, to add to their unique 30 acres of amenities open to locals and tourists.

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up to 20 people. Wedding parties have a choice of an indoor, or a tree-shaded outdoor, chapel. There’s even a parsonage for speakers or pastors traveling with groups, and a family-friendly, treeshaded RV and tenting campground open to everyone – all located just two miles east of Passion Play Rd. at 5060 US 62.

Residents are cordially invited to stop in and see what’s new at the economical 30-acre camping and lodging facility. A grand re-opening is scheduled for later in the summer, but meanwhile, folks can phone (870) 480-9379 for more information or stop by and take a tour.

INDEPENDENTNews New Expo adds to annual events

C.D. White Environmentalists, organic gardeners, healers, holistic teachers and those concerned about the planet, sustainability and personal harmony will soon have a local annual venue for learning, teaching and raising awareness about issues important to human well being.

The first Moon Wave Expo at the Inn of the Ozarks is scheduled for Oct. 3 - 5 with classes ranging from organic gardening to Chinese medicine and beekeeping, along with demonstrations and more than 30 vendors representing sustainable, organic and holistic products and services.

Organizer Peggy Hill has drawn from the local wellness and healthy living community for many presenters and is open to hearing from more. “There are so many locals with knowledge and skill in environmental, health and wellness issues that having them presenting to crowds from all around the Midwest along with our regional teachers is really exciting to me,” Peggy commented.

The Moon Wave Expo is patterned after larger “environmental/ wellness” events on both coasts, and Peggy hopes it will become the expo of note for the Midwest. “Of course, it will take time to grow from this little seed,” she explained.

Keynote speakers, Dr. Jessie and Sue Lopez, are passionate about holistic living. Dr. Lopez draws on his expertise as a medical

doctor as well as his Apache heritage to present practical health tips.

In addition to demos and classes, attendees will enjoy soothing music, yoga, healthy foods, massage and much more, including a Saturday night “Horse Spirit” concert by John Two-Hawks.

And it’s all about balance. After 14 years of presenting the Mending Medicine Retreat, Peggy and husband, John Two-Hawks, felt it was time to expand the concept of living a balanced life to a full Expo. They’ve planned the 2014 Moon Wave Expo–Be Present, to be an exciting weekend of transformation and learning.

This year, the World Drum will make an appearance during the Expo. The World Drum travels the globe from human to human to help bring about the change of mind necessary to restore our relationship with the Earth and break the barriers of nationality, gender, race and ideology.

From hybrid and electric cars to handmade musical instruments, solar panels, food demonstrations, recycled clothing, dousing and a sure-to-be-green silent auction – this will be a weekend of organic fun, inspiration and grass roots change that’s sure to bring more tourists to town.

For more information or questions about presenting or being a vendor, phone (479) 253-1732 or see the Moon Wave Expo page on Facebook.

Another “Montgomery”

Real Estate AUCTION 409 W. Van Buren • Eureka Springs, Arkansas Saturday, August 23 • 11 a.m.

11.84 Acres, 7,000 SF Building Formerly the Elks Lodge building, presently owned and used by Clear Spring School. The building is divided into 9 rooms plus a kitchen area, 2 rest rooms, 2 storage rooms and offices. It is built on a concrete slab and has a brick front. It has CH&A and is zoned by multiple units. It has a metal roof and guttering.

Pictures may be seen on our web site www.lmontgomeryauction.com.

Property will sell with a minimum bid of $220,000.

To view this property or for a Bidder’s Packet, contact Larry Montgomery, agent for the seller.

Clear Spring School LARRY MONTGOMERY

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Let the conversation begin

Editor, Kudos to higher-level thinking. Linda Maiella’s letter to the editor in the July 30 Independent is nothing short of intellectually inspired. “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your selfconfidence” wrote Robert Frost.

With regard to domestic abuse, we must all learn to forego ego and replace it with a conversation. “The conversation” so eloquently purported in Maiella’s letter, began as a result to HuffPo’s well-researched article, and my hope is that it will result in the saving of lives. The reaction to Laura Aceves’ death and how her call for help was handled has put a successful violence protection advocate on the upcoming ballot – something that would never have occurred without “the conversation.”

Julie Freeman, Ph.D.

Replacement of ES hospital

Editor, For about a ten year period in the late ‘60s and ‘70s, I was actively involved in the Lake County Illinois, and later, State of Illinois Health Planning committees and represented the area on the health committee of North East Illinois planning commission. These groups were mandated to help control medical costs by avoiding duplication of services and over bedding, while at the same time responding to local needs.

Eureka Springs expressed need is for hospital availability for emergency care for the large number of transient tourists and daily needs of the local population. This desire is complicated by the recent federal mandate forbidding building nearer than 20 miles of an existing hospital, which would entail costly infrastructure investment.

I suggest an alternative which

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would serve most of the needs met by our existing hospital while enabling use of the old high school grounds.

This alternative would involve the construction of an emergency care center with all diagnostics currently available. A limited number of 2448 hour observation beds would be included and necessary. Including a hospice in the services would serve another need. The only potential drawback is the unknown quantity of patients whose condition precluded discharge at 48 hours. The hospital could provide average figures for this classification.

Since this service would be provided at the old high school location which is already publicly owned and centrally located, has existing sewer and water and adequate parking, most likely need at least the same staff, and by definition not a hospital, I think it is well worth consideration.

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Big mistake, that fluoride

or the moment, let’s just shelve the debate about whether fluoride additives in drinking water prevent cavities. Instead, let’s just talk about the lack of regulation of the chemicals that are added to drinking water in the U.S. No government agency tests these for purity. The certification is done by a private nonprofit organization, the National Sanitation Foundation (NSF) that tests fluoridation chemicals only once a year.

The Carroll Boone Water District (CBWD) has made repeated efforts to get information about contaminants in sodium fluoride (NaF), the type of fluoride additive chosen to comply with the state mandate that the district fluoridate water supplies. Not a single company has complied.

Now read the latest research on what those contaminants are. “A new perspective on metals and other contaminants in fluoridation chemicals,” published in July in International Journal of Occupational Environmental Health, reports that fluoride additives sodium fluoride and hydrofluorosilicic acid (HSF) have high levels of arsenic, lead and barium.

“Fluoride additives contain metal contaminants that must be diluted to meet drinking water regulations,” the study states. “However, each raw additive batch supplied to water facilities does not come labeled with concentrations per contaminant.

This omission distorts exposure profiles and risks associated with accidents and routine use.”

The study states that while metal content varies with each batch, all HFS samples contained arsenic, or arsenic in addition to lead. Two NaF samples contained barium instead. All HSF and NaF contained “a surprising amount of aluminum.”

Then lead. Yes, lead! The lead alone in the samples should be enough to shelve the fluoridation debate forever. There is no safe level of exposure to lead, which causes physical and development delays in children, and high blood pressure and kidney problems in adults.

While the amount of contamination found in fluoridation chemicals would be diluted when added to drinking water, with the amounts of contaminants varied, amount of metals that end up in the drinking water could be substantial. It is crazy to deliberately add arsenic, lead, barium and aluminum to drinking water. As the study concludes: “Such contaminant content creates a regulatory blind spot that jeopardizes any safe use of fluoride additives.”

Fluoridation has been pushed by the U.S. government for decades. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “has recognized water fluoridation as one of 10 great public health achievements of the 20th century.” An estimated 170 million people drink fluoridated water in the U.S. More people in the U.S. drink fluoridated water than the rest of the world combined.

Recently the EPA nearly halved the recommended fluoride levels added to drinking water from 0.7 to 1.2 parts per million to 0.7 parts per million after finding out that millions of American kids have been over-fluoridated, leading to a mottling of teeth called dental fluorosis. However, Arkansas is behind the times once again, and has stuck with the old, higher levels.

A Harvard University study shows that fluoride additives adversely affect brain development in children. The Fluoride Action Network’s website has links to evidence of the harmful effects of fluoride on everything from arthritis to cancer and heart disease.

The mass medication of Americans continues even though studies have shown fluoride levels can be very high in certain foods like juice and wine. Because we don’t know how much fluoridated food people are consuming, there is no way to know how much should be added to the water.

Fluoridated water is harmful.

Americans have some of the worst health outcomes of any industrialized country.

Does this have anything to do with being fed poison in their water supplies? When will this stop?

We predict in another few years, fluoridation is going to be known as “the great public health mistake of the 20th century.”

Becky Gillette

ThePursuitOfHAPPINESS

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by Dan Krotz y pals and I are up at Oscar’s on White Street having tea and scones. We know this isn’t manly grub, but we’re secure in our sexual identities and order it anyway. Nameless poked me in the chest and said, “I hear you wrote another book. Is it as dull as the last one?”

“I believe so,” I answer. “You’re a central character, so I don’t have much to work with. And yes, I’m aware I ended that last sentence with a preposition. Sue me.”

“I’d like to sue you over your last column,” says my oldest friend, John Heartbreak.

“You’ve got to stop taking potshots at politicians. It’s like shooting fish in a barrel, or making fun of hunchbacks. These are your neighbors, for God’s sakes.”

“How about those Texans,” Nameless says, rhetorically. “Lone Star Republicans voted to make gay people go to straightness therapy. Like Michelle Bachmann and hubby Marcus.” He pauses, deep in thought. “Imagine trying to get it up for Michelle,” Nameless intones, slowly. “Unless there’s some of that S&M deal going on. Whips. You know…”

“You can’t print stuff like that in the newspaper,” I say. “Unless you link it to job creation. Then you can say anything you want. Like, ‘If we lower corporate taxes Marcus can afford to hire 15 guys to whip Michelle! Around the clock! 24/7!’ I mean, our legislators routinely make similar claims with even less evidence.”

“Hold on,” Heartbreak says. “Half this town is gay. If they all went into straightness therapy Eureka Springs might become the capital of an inverted Esalen Institute industry.

There’s money in it. We’d fill up with Human Suppression Movement Swamis, Mind-Body Disconnection Facilitators, and I’m Okay but You’re Queer psycho-guides. They’ll rent office space, buy advertising, and spend money like drunken, but certified, heterosexual sailors. Droves of gay Texans will come to town and rent motel rooms while they learn how to live with repression, find meaning in closeted life, and purchase pallets of plain white boxer shorts. It could work.”

Nameless smiled. “It’s bi-partisan, too. Tom Pryor and Mark Cotton will both sign on.

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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 Christcentered meetings for those suffering from addiction, habit, hang-up or hurt.

• 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) 981-9977 • Overeaters Anonymous – Thursdays, 10:30 a.m. Barbara (479) 244-0070 • Narcotics Anonymous – Fridays, 5:30 p.m. (903) 278-5568 • AlAnon 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 |

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July 28 8:54 a.m. – Resident requested assistance for a sick raccoon. Constable on patrol determined the animal was out of city limits.

9:13 a.m. – Washington County SO had detained a person on an ESPD warrant, and a constable went to pick him up.

11:46 p.m. – Constable attempted to make a traffic stop on an intoxicated driver on a motorcycle but the driver tried to flee and soon crashed at a downtown intersection. Driver sustained minor injuries and was arrested on several charges.

July 29 2:18 a.m. – A woman was walking suspiciously between parked cars at ESH. She made a quick getaway when confronted by hospital staff.

11:45 a.m. – Employee at a tourist lodging witnessed a male subject attempting to take the computer from the lobby, but he dropped it when he was spotted. He did take the phone and fled west on U.S. 62.

Constables watched for his vehicle.

9:07 p.m. – When a couple sat down on a bench in Basin Park, the male received a shock from a wire sticking out of the bench. He did not need EMS. Power was shut down for that part of the park and a message went to the Building Inspector to figure out how a live wire made its way to a park bench.

July 30 8:25 a.m. – Someone caused damage to a building overnight.

9:53 a.m. – Resident of an apartment complex told ESPD a man had threatened him the night before. When questioned about the incident, he could not remember how exactly the person had threatened him or the intimidator’s name.

July 31 7:31 a.m. – Witness reported a motorbike speeding into the city from the east.

Bike also had no license. Constable encountered the bike and issued citations to the driver for no vehicle license and no insurance.

7:56 a.m. – Passerby noticed a man walking along U.S. 62 gesticulating and apparently screaming at passing vehicles. Constable spoke with him and learned he was not intoxicated and was only talking to himself.

8:23 a.m. – Central dispatch warned ESPD of a red pickup on Hwy. 23 nearly running other vehicles off the road.

Constable waited at the US 62/Hwy. 23

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intersection and saw four red pickups, all driving safely.

8:49 a.m. – Constable responded to a 911 hangup call from a motel and learned it had been an accident.

11:11 a.m. – Another reckless vehicle was spotted heading northbound on Hwy. 23 toward town, but constables did not encounter it inside city limits.

12:32 p.m. – Store owner spoke with a constable about a possible shoplifter.

Constable took down a description of the suspect but constables never saw him.

8:33 p.m. – Restaurant staff told ESPD one of their customers was intoxicated and yelling abusive language at passersby on the street below. He withdrew from the restaurant and attempted to outsprint police up a nearby street. He was taken into custody and charged with fleeing and public intoxication.

August 1 12:37 a.m. – Traffic stop resulted in the arrest of the driver for DWI. 5:07 p.m. – Person reported a minor keying incident on her rental car. She did not request a report.

7:42 p.m. – Individual thought a driver in the drive-through lane at a restaurant was intoxicated. Constables surveilled the suspect driver and determined his driving was okay.

10:59 p.m. – Guest at a motel reported her Shih Tzu was missing. A search of the area did not return the animal.

August 2 1:52 a.m. – Traffic stop on a moped resulted in the arrest of the driver for DWI and driving on a suspended license.

5:30 a.m. – Delivery person accidentally tripped the alarm at a bar uptown.

10:09 a.m. – An individual in a restaurant was making employees feel uneasy, and a constable arrived to ask the individual to leave.

10:40 a.m. – One person thought it was a problem the way a vehicle was parked at a particular corner. Constable observed the situation and did not see a problem.

12:48 p.m. – Resident of an apartment complex told ESPD someone had stolen her pills. Constable went to the scene of the crime and discovered the pills had fallen onto the floor.

1:31 p.m. – One vendor took up the other vendor’s spot in the park, and a constable had to ask the wrongly-encamped vendor to move aside.

2:34 p.m. – Individual was arrested on a warrant for probation violation.

4:05 p.m. – Resident in the far west part

of town reported a sick raccoon had been suffering on his property for awhile, so a constable was called upon to handle the situation.

11:51 p.m. – People were yelling in a neighborhood, so constables went to the hullabaloo and arrested one person for public intoxication.

August 3 1:07 a.m. – ESPD learned of a fight involving several people that had started at one bar and had continued to another one. Constables intervened and arrested one individual for public intoxication.

11:17 a.m. – Person came to the station to file a report regarding harassing communications and terroristic threats.

11:18 a.m. – A father said a 15-year old boy had been stalking his 17-year old daughter, and asked for constable assistance. Constable spoke with the boy and advised him to forgo any further contact with the girl, and the boy agreed he would.

1:01 p.m. – Anonymous caller asked for a welfare check on a 14-year old girl who was staying in a hotel room with her 28year old boyfriend. Constable responded and found the girl okay, and also learned her mother knew where the daughter was and whom she was with.

1:13 p.m. – Observer reported a sports bike and sports car were racing on Hwy. 23 N on their way into town. Constable staked out at the city limits but did not encounter either vehicle.

4:14 p.m. – Someone ran into a parked trailer in a neighborhood.

Eureka Springs Middle School registration schedule Registrations for all new and existing students in grades 5 through 8 are from 8 a.m. – noon each day as follows: Monday, Aug 11, grades 5 and 6; Tuesday, Aug 12, grade 7; Wednesday, Aug 13, grade 8.

Open house for the Middle School will be Thursday, Aug 14, 1:30 – 3:30. All parents and students are welcome.

INDEPENDENT Art & Entertainment 26th annual HI art exhibit and sale Entries welcome until August 15

The Holiday Island Association of the Arts art show and exhibit takes place August 29 – 31 at the Holiday Island Barn on Shields Dr. The exhibit will include works on paper, canvas and fabric along with three dimension and photography. A silent auction will be held to defray the cost of the show and artists will also be selling in spaces by

the Barn.

Admission and parking are free, but donations are appreciated. Exhibit hours are Saturday, August 30, 10 a.m.

– 6 p.m. and Sunday, August 31 from noon – 2:30 p.m. Deadline for entries is August 15. Contact Joan Hirnisey at (479) 253-6285 for more information and to reserve placement.

Second-Saturday Gallery Stroll Receptions The Norberta Philbrook Gallery, 34 North Main, hosts a reception for Paula Watters Jones on August 9 from 6 – 9 p.m. The latest series – ABSTRACT – from the painter, sculptor, and writer embraces the concept of movement. Jones finds movement reveals inherent echoes of our own vulnerabilities and personal growth.

In this new series, paintings isolate movements so new sequences are created which reveal an inseparable relationship between motion and emotion. By applying abstraction, Jones masterfully creates intense personal moments in a series of work that doesn’t reference recognizable form. For more about the gallery, see norbertaphilbrookgallery.com.

Iris at the Basin Park, 8 Spring St., offers a variety of handmade treasures, with more than 140 ABSTRACT2 artists represented. In August, it might be a new

by P aula W atters J ones ‘3-D Impressionist’ painting by D.G. Womack or a surprise from Pete the Cat. But for sure you’ll be amazed at photographer Edward Robison’s new book, Ozark Landscapes, an ‘Augmented Reality’ creation that makes the wondrous beauty of our area come alive before your eyes through modern technology. You’ll want to see this for yourself! Edward will be in the gallery for the Second Saturday Gallery Stroll August 9 to sign a copy of his book for you.

Eureka Fine Art Gallery, 63 N. Main, features “The Art of Negative Thinking,” a photography exhibit by Ron Lutz. Come meet Ron at the Artist’s reception, 6 – 9 p.m. during the gallery stroll.

Ron illustrates the relationship of the photographic negative to the finished work in a series of diptychs, each showing the negative image and final photo image side by side in the same frame. Ron looks at things differently—sometimes upside down and backwards through the viewfinder of his large-format cameras and controls each step of the process from exposure to development and printing of film.

At Eureka Thyme, 19 Spring St., come meet Sandy Wythawai Starbird, who has been creating fabric figures for almost 30 years. Sandy and her colorful “companions” will be happy to greet you on August 9 from 1 – 4 p.m., and again from 6 – 9 p.m.

This show was originally scheduled for May and was postponed due to the illness of Sandy’s husband and SSS pringing F orth fellow artist, Ken Starbird, who passed away on July 6. Come

by S andy S tarbird celebrate his life and art during this show.

33rd Annual Texaco Country Showdown August 16

Country music lovers, this is for you! Get your fill of old and new country music for an entire afternoon at Pine Mountain Theater, US 62E. From 2 – 5 p.m. you’ll hear some great single artists, groups and bands compete in this national competition to become country music’s next big star!

Tickets only $10 adult, $5 children 3 – 11. Call (479) 253-9156 to reserve.

All Things New at Aud August 14 Catch All Things New at the annual Back to School concert at the auditorium, 7 p.m. Thursday, August 14. If you love contemporary Christian music, this is the band to hear. The Florida quartet of 20-somethings rewards with a surprisingly insightful contemporary, and often folksy, message. The songs

they write and sing already contain the clarity of a hard-won life lesson: things break apart in this world, but they can be restored. For tickets see www.greatpassionplay.org and click on Special Events. Tickets are only $5 at the special rate. Call (800) 882-7529 if you have questions.

Cate Brothers August 9 Get in the mood for the 2nd Saturday Gallery Stroll with a free concert by the Cate Brothers Band in Basin Park from 5 – 7 p.m. The Cate Brothers, perhaps Northwest Arkansas’ most famous music export, rarely perform. So don’t miss this gig!

Mr. Big’s Annual Bluegrass Festival August 14 – 16 Tickets are now on sale for shows featuring bluegrass legends Melvin Goins & Friends on Friday and Karl Shiflett & Big Country Saturday at the auditorium.

Others joining this great weekend of bluegrass include Retro & Smiley, Pam Setzer, the Clark Family and Bill Nesbitt.

Get tickets now at www.theaud.org and save waiting in line.

Free events: Thursday: Watermelon Social and bluegrass jam, 7 p.m. in Basin Park.

Friday: Music in Basin Park – 12 p.m. Davanzo Family, 1 p.m. Clark Family, 2 p.m. Eureka S p r i n g s Bluegrass Band, 3 p.m. Donny Catron, 4 p.m. Dragonmasters and at 5 p.m.

Clancey Ferguson Saturday: Bluegrass legend Melvin Goins tells stories about his life on the road at the Rodeway Inn Swiss Holiday Resort hotel at 9 a.m. followed by more music in Basin Park: 12 p.m. the Clark Family,

1 p.m. Buffalo City Ramblers, 2 p.m. Al Brumley & Friends, 3 p.m. Mountain View Friends & Family, 4 p.m. Dragonmasters and at 5 p.m. the Davanzo Family Auditorium shows Friday: Melvin Goins with Retro and Smiling, 7 p.m. with opening acts The Davanzo Family, Mountain View Friends & Family, Clancey Ferguson, Buffalo City Ramblers with Donny Catron, and the Dragonmasters.

Saturday: Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show, 7 p.m. with opening acts Al Brumley Jr. & Friends, Clark Family with Bill Nesbitt, Tim Crouch & Friends, Pam Setser & Mountain View Friends featuring Clancey Ferguson, Buffalo City Ramblers featuring Donny Catron and Retro & Smiling.

Advance tickets at www.theaud.org are only $20 per show or $35 for both.

Children 16 and under $12 per show, $20 for both.

New Art Guide unveiled

The 2 Edition of the Greater Eureka Springs Chamber of Commerce Art Lives in Eureka Springs Art Guide will be unveiled at Keels Creek Winery and Art Gallery at a reception from 5 – 7 p.m. during the First Thursday Business After Hours on August 7. nd

The Guide will be widely distributed; promoting arts, artists, and galleries of Eureka Springs and the area. Come pick up your copy at Keels Creek, 3185 E. Van Buren on Thursday or phone (479) 253-8737 for more information.

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INDEPENDENTNews Thursday night basketball The First Southern Baptist Church, 6 Dove Circle, Holiday Island, invites all to come play basketball every Thursday night at 6 p.m. at the church. Come get a game on! For more information call (479) 253-6711.

Friday family movie nights The First Southern Baptist Church at 6 Dove Circle, Holiday Island, offers movies every Friday at 6 p.m. at the

church. Admission is free and popcorn and soda will be served. For more information call (479) 253-6711.

‘Beyond Aging Well’ workshop August 9 “You might think you are aging well, but are you really? Growing old is a privilege not everyone gets. If you get it, you should make it count for something,” Nikki Hanna, writer and speaker, believes.

Come hear more from Hanna and learn how to take aging to a higher level at the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow Saturday, August 9, in “Beyond Aging Well,” a workshop for people over 50 and those who care about them. Did you know at 60 you could begin to disappear? For older people, the path to relevance is to redefine aging.

In this workshop, explore how to use the third trimester of life to create the gift of legacy, and deal with heavy issues in a way that inspires hope and proves you haven’t peaked yet. Learn how your legacy passes through generations, and how to have fun creating it.

Topics include relevant subjects from,

“What if the Hokey Pokey Is What It’s All About,” “Tattoos and Tarts” and “Spanked

by Technology” to “Orchestrating a Good Goodbye.” Discover how to shape the rest of your life into encore years that are better than the original show – and laugh while doing it. If you’re over 50, this is your time – and it can be your best time.

Hanna is an author and winner of the Oklahoma Writers’ Federation 2013 Crème de la Crème award. She is dedicated to encouraging people to age with purpose and passion, and her writings and presentations are rich with strong messages laced with humor.

The workshop is from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. at the Writers’ Colony, 515 Spring Street. Cost including lunch is $45. Email director@writerscolony.org or phone (479) 253-7444 to save a seat. Each participant will receive a copy of Hanna’s book, Capture Life.

Last supper – at least the last one at Sparky’s, that is. Independent office manager Gwen Etheredge shores up the energy needed to pack up her house, two teens, a dog and several cats for the move to Colorado on August 8. Guess that makes her the former office manager. Happy trails, Gwen, we’ll miss you. Photo Jeremiah Milan Alvarado-Owens

Wheelin’ and grillin’ for a cure Relay for Life invites everyone to their first Wheelin’ and Grillin’ for a Cure BBQ cook off Saturday, August 9 from 8 a.m. – 9 p.m. at the Wheelin’ World off Road Park, 3.5 miles south of Eureka Springs on Hwy. 23.

There will be fun for the whole family including face painting and games for the kids. All proceeds go to the American Cancer Society, Relay for Life of Carroll County.

Spiritual healing workshop Melissa Clare is offering a series of three workshops at the Christian Science Reading Room, 68 West Mountain, to explore how the spiritual dimension informs and enriches personal and professional healing. Part one, Healing Our Lives, August 9 and 10, will explore spiritual resources, technologies and more.

Workshop time on August 9 is 10 a.m. – 5 p.m., and on August 10 will be held from 10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Advance registration is $50, or $75 at the door. Call (479) 253-8252 or email melissaclare01@gmail.com to register.

The Eurekan needs you!

Volunteering at the Eureka Springs Multisport Festival – “The Eurekan” – is both fun and rewarding. Hundreds of participants are coming in for the races and our community is relying on local knowledge and help to help make this event a success!

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register to volunteer today and help everyone make it safely to the finish line. More than 300 volunteers are needed for this 3-day, 4-event festival!

All volunteers will receive a goodie bag, t-shirt and lots of thank yous for their time and efforts. Register today at www.eurekasportsfestival. com or phone (479) 253-8737 for a list of times and events at which help is needed.

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Ready for TV – Paddle boarding is catching on! Last week it was a Parks and Tourism promotional video, this week it’s a segment with SUP Outfitters for AETV’s Exploring Arkansas to be shown Sept.

1 at 6:30, repeating Sept. 2 at 5 p.m. Boarders are Eden Randolf, Montana Widener and Melody Elliot.

Photo courtesy of Adam Hisaw

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Birthday boy – Jeremiah Alvarado-Owens celebrates his 17th at Sparky’s as Haley Comstock lights candles posing as sticks of dynamite and a bomb. No-one was injured in the meltdown.

Some happy couples – Hundreds of guests showed up at FRESH August 2 to celebrate at a wedding reception for gay couples married before the Arkansas Supreme Court issued a stay on a lower court ruling that overturned the same-sex marriage ban. Photo by Becky Gillette Feted – Former Carroll County Deputy Clerk, Jane Osborn, and hubby, Win, celebrate Married for Equality at FRESH. The LGBT community presented Jane with a clock set in crystal for issuing the first same-sex marriage licenses in the state after another clerk refused on May 10. Photo by Becky Gillette

Photo by CD White

Purdy music – Melodye Purdy saved the day, or rather the night, by stepping in as deejay at Eureka Live!’s diversity party and drag show Aug. 1 when the scheduled spinner couldn’t make it.

Photo by Gwen Etheredge

Buh bye – Perlinda Pettigrew-Owens, right, and former Independent office manager, Gwen Etheredge, enjoy the party at Eureka Live! August 1.

Yep, we said former. We’re losing Gwen to the great Water star – Local clean water activist, Barbara Harmony, takes on state of Colorado on August 8. Condolence cookies a bowl of watermelon at a Summer Celebration party in Eureka can be delivered to the Independent office anytime.

Photo by CD White Springs. Photo by Becky Gillette

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ESOTERICAstrology as news for week August 7 – 13

by Risa

Leo Solar Festival Full Moon

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e continue in the month and Leo, the sign where humanity begins to recognize itself through it creativity and it love. Leo (and Rays 1 & 5) flows through the Sun, absorbs the heart of the Sun (Ray 2, Love//Wisdom flowing through Jupiter) and streams into Earth and her kingdoms.

Love comes directly from Sirius to the heart of the

Sun into our hearts and minds. Combining the inner esoteric influences (Love/Wisdom, Ray 2) of Leo this month, we see great amounts of Love/Wisdom attempting to penetrate into the Earth providing us with a great opportunity to radiate Goodwill, the primary component needed for peace on Earth. Sunday is the Leo solar festival at the time of the full moon. The New

ARIES: Do you feel as if you’re on a cross, divided intensely between four ways, standing in the middle wondering which paths to conquer next? There are some past issues that need tending and bring to a close before you will know how to proceed.

They are being illumined for you now so look around, assess, ponder, pray and have the intention to complete all things unfinished. Then the next page of your life turns.

TAURUS: Keep going into the future even though many pressures pull you back. The new realities must be brought forth and they are to be done through each of the signs. Taurus has the illumination needed for others to understand just what plans and purposes the future will bring. You have a model to construct, things to build, expansions to bring forth so others will be saved. The God of the waters will help.

GEMINI: Truly you’re experiencing much duality; a confusing here and there-ness unless you stand directly at center. Why? So you can see both sides, so you don’t choose yet (observe instead), so you can understand how to create triangle of synthesis. There are two paths outlined for you. Which path is revealed through revelation hints, and symbols. Ponder upon, draw and visualize the following – the seven pointed, six pointed, five pointed stars, a triangle and the Cross.

Combine them.

CANCER: A duality is being presented to you in terms of your religious or spiritual practices. Perhaps there’s a fusion occurring between what you were taught and what you know or seek now. Are money concerns of concern? Past practices must give way to new banking practices. Is your communication sharp, harsh, possibly critical? Careful. You may not realize your tone of impatience. The homeopath Aconite neutralizes impatience (an excess of electrical energy). Stay out of rainstorms.

LEO: Tend carefully to finances; ask for assistance if puzzled, embrace the future by banking locally and investing money in tangibles and goods that will sustain you for two years. Plan on others joining you. Remember the animals and their needs, too. Past memories may appear. It’s good to ask, “Did I love enough?” If not, there’s still time. A group offers two suggestions. Relationships fall sideways.

VIRGO: There may be some ongoing self-criticism and your heart aches with these beliefs. It’s important to know these critical thoughts are not true.

They’re simply old remnants from childhood. It’s good to turn toward words of praise creating a journal of true identity focusing upon self-praising while identifying gifts and abilities. This neutralizes mental and emotional illusions and distortions. Chiron, Neptune & Jupiter are attempting to purify all Maya.

LIBRA: Something profound, transformative, different and new will occur to your home situation, or perhaps it’s the foundations from which you live your

Group of World Servers will be calling to recognize their gifts so they can turn to the world and offer their gifts. This assists in restoring the mysteries on Earth and helps to “seal the door where evil dwells.” Join us at the Leo festival by reciting the Great Invocation.

This world prayer is on my Face Book page – Risa D’Angeles FB.

life where the changes will occur. By autumn you’ll know what these are. In the meantime so much has shifted about with work and your professional life. Are you feeling somewhat out to sea? Are you doing what you love to do? Do you know what this is? Are you thinking about and able to travel? Tend with care and kindness to all relationships. They sustain, nourish and fortify you.

SCORPIO: As your home life tumbles and bobs about here and there (expansion, then wounding, then a sense of dissolving) you could feel a bit of despair along with exhilaration. Both are occurring along with a shift of friends (are you feeling somewhat alone?) and new information coming in about work and your professional life. Tend to money carefully. No excess expenditures on baubles. Things in matter are disappearing quickly. Do you have emergency supplies?

SAGITTARIUS: It’s time for something new in terms of relationships. It’s also time to travel somewhere you’ve been before to assess it with new eyes. Do be aware of how much work you’ve done, how hard and where you are today. In the next seven years your usual ways of thinking and interpreting will change into a profoundly new way of assessing the world.

Your creativity alters, too. Some of this is already occurring. As you hover forever at the razor’s edge, inch closer to the middle.

CAPRICORN: Money. You stand between two themes. You have enough. You don’t have enough. In between is a wound. Perhaps you grew up with very little or perhaps with too much money. Either gave you a certain lens concerning money. But here we are today and all around us the monetary world as we’ve known it is collapsing. Don’t fret or be fearful. From the ashes emerge great opportunities. Ponder upon gifts and recognition of resources. What must you do now? You’ll come to true answers.

AQUARIUS: There is and will be a breaking away from your usual ways of being. What’s normal will be upside down giving you time to assess who you are, what you value about yourself and how you would like to change. Increased social interactions lead to increased social successes. You are accomplishing life’s tasks on your own, in your own timing and rules. This is good. Finally, you had the freedom to step into your dreams. Remain there.

PISCES: Things feel very complex. And so you’re in a state of solitude and all your expectations are surfacing, providing information previously not known. Clearly you see that disappointments and sadnesses, those that lead to despair, are/were based upon unrealized hopes, dreams and wishes. These were not incorrect. Now you are aware of them. What will you do next? This question isn’t answerable yet. Keep observing and defining yourself.

Risa, writer, founder & director Esoteric & Astrological Studies & Research Institute, a contemporary Wisdom School studying the Ageless Wisdom teachings. The foundation of the Teachings is Esoteric Astrology. Email: risagoodwill@gmail.com. Web journal: www.nightlightnews.com. Facebook: Risa’s Esoteric Astrology for daily messages.

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Sycamore©

– Chapter 9

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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lytie had had a war on her hands from the day of her birth, though she did not realize this until she went to school. It was a hereditary war, passed on by her mother – a bitter, unbending woman, past forty when Clytie was born, and with another life already behind her. All Dory’s memories were cruel ones, and she bore the stamp of them on her face, but she never spoke of them. Perhaps it was the half-measure of Indian blood that made it possible for her to sit rocking for an hour at a time without uttering one word to whoever happened to be with her, and Dory not at all disturbed by the silence, rocking forward and back with the patient inscrutability of one of the Norns, her hard black eyes fixed on something far-off, or perhaps on something inside herself. In her face, too, the Indian showed up more and more as she grew older. Her skin darkened, the bone points beneath it seemed to sharpen, and the perpendicular lines in her cheeks cut deep like creases in leather.

Asa, her husband, was an amiable soul, not too bright, but he knew the rudiments of hill farming and did odd

jobs of manual labor when chance threw them his way. During Prohibition days, he scrabbled a little cash money from his still in the woods above the pasture-lot, but even then life was not abundant.

To the silent, withdrawn, already aging couple, Clytie must have come as a miracle, something almost beyond belief. It was Asa, no doubt, who made awkward attempts to play with the baby.

To Dory, play was temperamentally impossible. Even when she carved out dance tunes on her fiddle or called the turns for a set, she was without joy. So she labored at fashioning rag dolls and toys for the child, and she would instruct Clytie in the use and care of them, all with the same grim, purposeful air with which she had sat blocking the path, a rifle across her knees, in the days when they sold moonshine. She would beat Clytie, too, if she thought Clytie needed beating, and this also without anger.

Dory’s anger was buried deep.

When Clytie was six, however, and came home from her first day of school with her face bruised and her dress torn half off, Dory’s dark fury rose to the surface. She tramped to school with the

child, the next morning, picked up the two boys who had set upon Clytie, one in either hand, and cracked their skulls together, methodically, saying no word.

Then she flung them down in the road and turned to the gaping Clytie, “If they’re bigger’n you, I’ll handle ‘em,” she said, now calm. “If they ain’t, you better do it yourself.”

To Clytie, even at six, the need for protection was humiliating. “Reckon I can fight ‘em myself,” she said sullenly.

Her mother looked at her with hard eyes. “Reckon you can and reckon you better,” she said. “You’re going to have a fight from now on, so you might as well learn how.”

Dory had always known that the child was different from the dull and heavy clods about her. She had an arresting kind of beauty: golden skin that ripened to rich bronze under the summer sun, till it was darker than her corn-colored hair. Her face was finely and lovingly shaped, with the immobility of her mother’s, but sweetly rounded where Dory’s was bony and gaunt.

There was a quietude about her (she never prattled), yet she gave the impression of a devouring eagerness and a vitality held in

NOTES from the HOLLOW

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cKinley Weems asked if I’d ever seen the crocodile-skin purse he’d bought my grandmother.

“No,” I said. “Where’d you buy it?”

“Havana, Cuba,” was the surprising answer.

“You’ve been to Havana?” I asked, suspicious.

“Sure, took a cruise there.” My mind went to a Love Boat-type cruise, which

didn’t sound like something he’d do. I think my confusion amused him.

As it turns out, he and a group of sailors from the local U.S. Naval Reserve unit had travelled from New Orleans to pre-Castro Cuba on a training exercise.

As odd as it may seem now, for nearly two decades, Eureka Springs hosted a United States Naval Reserve Electronics Division unit on the third floor of the

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CECC could do much better. Pang had a lot the family owns in their subdivision sprayed although she had filed a DNS request and has written numerous letters to editors opposing herbicide spraying.

Pang said a lot of what is being killed are plants like coral berries and blackberries that would never come close to hitting the power lines. She argues that herbicides encourage growth of invasive plants, like Johnson grass, and invasives are a top environmental hazard.

30-40 percent so the actual acreage where herbicides were used is approximately a third of the contract acreage.”

“Vegetation management is the key to providing continuity of service and low rates which, when asked by the Cooperative each year, is what members want from their electricity provider,” Plagge said.

But some members, like Susan Pang, who has a home near Garfield, think

reserve. For a time, only the mother CONSTANCE perceived anything WAGNER uncommon in the dirty-faced tomboy (except that she was sturdier and better-boned than the others, for Dory saw to it that she did not grow crookedly on hog meat and milk skimmed of its butter fat). She wished that Clytie could pass unnoticed till the day when she could grind them all under her heel, but Dory could not bring herself to send the child to school in the draggle-tail clothes that would have left her inconspicuous among the other farm children. Recklessly, she squandered her egg money on pretty cotton prints, and crouched by night over the ancient, treadledriven machine, sewing her dark, vindictive passion into dresses for Clytie. And Clytie, wearing such angry finery, was set upon by little girls from the leading families.

“Lookee that Clytie!” they yelped, pointing fingers. “Who’s she think she is?

Feed sacks ain’t good enough for Miss Clytie Byrne…” Wedge-faced Joada Dycus would add in a loud whisper: “Why, those Byrnes are just trash. My mother said so.”

by Steve Weems

McVay Building at 55 Spring St. For the 18 years of its existence, the unit was commanded by Tillman Morgan.

He and Forrest Binall, a retired chief radioman, started the unit in 1948. Harry Hussey was the first Station Keeper. Over time, more than 300 men trained at the unit, coming not only from Carroll County, but also from Bentonville, Harrison and even Point Lookout, Mo. The medical officer was Commander Neil Compton, the Bentonville medical doctor who became famous for saving the Buffalo National River from being dammed.

My father, Donnie Weems, was the active-duty Station Keeper for two years.

He said some unit members from dry places, such as Harrison, were attracted to joining because they could get a beer at the Hi Hat while in town for the Wednesday night meetings.

As surprising as McKinley’s trip to Havana was, it doesn’t compare to the

time we were talking about guns. I knew McKinley had firearms and was a good shot. I’ve heard his aim was accurate enough to win the turkey shoot one year, and that he used to hunt squirrels and elk. However, he seldom talked guns like some men do. He told me the reason why: “I’m skittish about guns on account of that time my brother shot me.” I think my jaw dropped open. I’d known him for almost five decades and I’d never heard about this? But, that’s another story.

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another year or more if the APS continues proceedings while SWEPCO conducts its new evaluations.”

In the event that the commission chooses not to deny SWEPCO’s application and close the docket, STO proposes two procedural alternatives: The first is to allow STO and other interveners the same amount of time to review the restudies by SWEPCO and the SPP as the 6-7 additional months requested

by SWEPCO and the SPP to carry out those restudies. If this alternative is not acceptable, STO requests the commission to direct SWEPCO and SPP to provide GAY MARRIAGE continued from page 3

away,” Maples said.

Maples argues that the Arkansas Supreme Court should hear this case before the end of the year instead of granting an

STO and other interveners all relevant materials as the study period proceeds, and allow certain STO-designated individuals to participate as stakeholders in the process of reevaluation in the same manner as SWEPCO’s and SPP’s other stakeholders.

Costner said it would be in everyone’s best interests, even SWEPCO’s, if the commission simply denies SWEPCO’s application.

“People here can get on with their lives and, after the new studies are completed next year, SWEPCO can start over with a clean slate if they’re still convinced there is a public need for a 345

kV transmission line,” Costner said.

Local real estate sales have been impacted where properties are located next to or within the view of homes and other properties, including commercial development. Because there have been so many different routes considered, and only people whose property will be taken for the project were officially notified, there are still many people who aren’t aware of the project’s potential impact on their property.

“I visited with a potential seller last week and after all the attention, they were still not aware that the lines were crossing close their home,” a local real estate

agent said. “They, like all of us affected, are going to have to disclose this to any potential buyers. Any buyers we talk to want nothing that is near or in view of these huge towers. No one wants to make a large real estate investment to then find out that they could have a power line on their property.”

The impact goes beyond sales of property. People who are on the proposed routes are reluctant to spend any large amount of money investing in their home if they may not be able to see a return on those expenses.

SWEPCO did not respond to a request for comment prior to the deadline.

extension because people in the state, whether they are married or not, are harmed when a constitutional right is being denied daily.

Maples said she has never been

involved in a case that is more meaningful.

“I have been able to have a positive impact on thousands of people,” Maples said. “I cry a lot, out of joy. It is also opening up fascinating new areas of the law, and I’m right in the middle of it.”

Maples said she was recently able to help a gay couple have both spouses named on a birth certificate, both the biological partner and the spouse.

“That was incredibly rewarding,” she said.

Maples referred back to an earlier presentation in Eureka Springs in

November 2013 where she talked about the ample legal precedent for overturning the ban on gay marriage and predicted that good things would happen.

“And it did,” she said. “Judge Piazza issued a beautiful decision.”

Piazza’s ruling is considered one of the most eloquent out of about a dozen similar rulings in other states consistent with a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in July 2013 that found the Defense of Marriage Act barring the federal government from recognizing same sex marriages as unconstitutional.

A toast to the brides – Jennifer Rambo and Kristin Seaton, who were issued the first same-sex wedding license in Arkansas, flank attorney Cheryl Maples.

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by Reillot Weston

Order of Will musically reunites friends from Last Century

ast century some young dudes played music together around town, developing their talents and refining their tastes, choosing their path musically.

The path led all the way to New York City. Playing in the city for a few years split into other ventures and everyone

returned to Eureka at various times. After 13 years, JD Davis, Cassidy Gorrell and Orion Maese have returned to playing and writing music together as Order of Will, on guitar, drums and keyboards, respectively. They spent the past winter writing new material and discovered a new

Cassidy Gorrell, Orion Maese and JD Davis celebrate the Order of Will power at the Space.

sound for them, a heavy, melodic psychedelia. They are hosting a special engagement show Sunday, August 10 at The Space on Spring Street. All ages show, doors open at 8 p.m., BYO age appropriate beverages. $5 at the door, will fill to capacity quickly.

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 7 CHELSEA’S – Grifter and Shills GRAND TAVERNE – Jerry Yester JACK’S PLACE – Karaoke w/ DJ Goose LEGENDS – Ladies Night, Starseed FRIDAY, AUGUST 8 BALCONY RESTAURANT – Hogscalders, 12 p.m. and 6 p.m.

BEREAN COFFEEHOUSE – Kate Hurley BLARNEY STONE – Paradise Mountain Jug Stompers CATHOUSE LOUNGE – Jukebox CHELSEA’S – Josh Hoyer and The Shadow and Boxers EUREKA LIVE! – DJ & Dancing GRAND TAVERNE – Arkansas Red JACK’S PLACE - Blue Moon LEGENDS SALOON – The George Brothers MADAME MEDUSA’S HOOKAH LOUNGE – DJ Avery, Circus Sideshow Costume Contest NEW DELHI – The Dusty Pearls, 6 to 10 ROWDY BEAVER – Two Dog Two Karaoke 18 |

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ROWDY BEAVER DEN – Matt Reeves Band THE STONEHOUSE – Jerry Yester SATURDAY, AUGUST 9 BALCONY RESTAURANT – James White, 12 p.m.

BASIN PARK – The Cate Brothers 5 p.m.

BLARNEY STONE – The Bob Eis Band CATHOUSE LOUNGE – John Henry CHELSEA’S – Josh Hoyer and the Shadow and Boxers EUREKA LIVE! – DJ & Dancing GRAND TAVERNE – Jerry Yester JACK’S PLACE – Blue Moon LEGENDS SALOON – Southern Confessions MADAME MEDUSA’S HOOKAH LOUNGE – Experimental Open Jam, Jugglers Meet and Greet 8 p.m.

NEW DELHI – Peter and Dave, 6 to 10 ROWDY BEAVER – Diana and the Heartbeats, 1-5 p.m.

ROWDY BEAVER DEN – Reeves Bros, 1-5 p.m., Blew Reed and the Flatheads, 9 p.m.- 1 a.m.

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

SUNDAY, AUGUST 10 BALCONY RESTAURANT – Jeff Lee, 12 p.m. and 5 p.m.

EUREKA LIVE! – DJ, Dancing, & Karaoke MADAME MEDUSA’S HOOKAH LOUNGE- BYOB NEW DELHI – Terry and the Executives, Noon to 4 ROWDY BEAVER DEN – Tightrope, 1-5 p.m.

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

THE SPACE – Order of Will, Doors 8 p.m., All Ages, BYO Age Appropriate Beverage MONDAY, AUGUST 11 CHELSEA’S – Springbilly TUESDAY, AUGUST 12 CHELSEA’S – Open Mic MADAME MEDUSA’S HOOKAH LOUNGE – Game Night WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13 MADAME MEDUSA’S HOOKAH LOUNGE – Arabic Break Beat PIED PIPER CATHOUSE LOUNGE – Wheat Wednesday

INDEPENDENTNews Upcoming book study The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom is the selection for the next Blue Skies Book Study, scheduled for Tuesday, August 26 from 4:30 – 6 p.m. The book study is hosted by St. James Episcopal Church, 28 Prospect St. The discussion will be held in the undercroft on the church’s lower level.

Accomplished writer Laura Shoffner

HICC Praise Band featured August 10 Holiday Island Community Church invites all to join them for some old time gospel music presented by the HICC Praise Band on Sunday, August 10 at 4:30 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall at 188 Stateline Drive. For more information call (479) 253-8200.

Metafizzies meet August 11 Rebekah Clark will lead a session of divine singing and sound meditation on Monday, August 11 at 7 p.m. during the Arkansas Metaphysical Society meeting.

No vocal experience is necessary and singing will be led in a call and response style. Chants and mantras from multiple traditions will be used.

The meeting will take place in the reading room of the Eureka Springs Christian Science Church, 68 Mountain Street.

Master Naturalist class offered

Wed., Aug. 6 • 9:30 P.M. – DIESEL DEAN & the 18 WHEELERS Thurs., Aug. 7 • 9:30 P.M. – GRIFTER & SHILLS Fri. & Sat., Aug. 8 & 9 • 9:30 P.M. – JOSH HOYER & the SHADOW BOXERS Mon., Aug. 11 • 9 P.M. – SPRINGBILLY Tues., Aug. 12 • 9 P.M. – OPEN MIC

The next opportunity to become an Akansas Master Naturalist will be during the fall semester at the NWA Community College (NWACC) in Bentonville.

Classes start August 26 and will meet on Tuesdays form 2 – 4:50 p.m.

The course title is, Special Topics in Environmental Science: Natural History and Field Identification, and students may opt to audit the class if not interested in receiving college credit.

NWACC tuition is free for adult learners at least 60 years old.

There are no prerequisites for the course and registration is easy. For more information contact the instructor, Lilia Beattie at lbeattie@nwacc.edu.

will lead the gathering, open to all.

Albom has written many bestsellers, including Tuesdays with Morrie and The Six People You Meet in Heaven. In The Time Keeper he has devised a tale about the first man on Earth to count the hours, a man who becomes Father Time. Told in Albom’s signature spare prose, the book

inspires readers to reconsider their own notions of time.

Plan now to join the group. The Time Keeper is available as an e-book, as well as hard or paperback. There are also copies that can be checked out at the Carnegie Library. For additional information, call 253-8610.

Sunday at EUUF All are welcome at the Eureka Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 17 Elk Street. Join us Sundays at 11 a.m. for a program followed by refreshments. On August 10 Chuck McNeal will help navigate a path over

the shoals and into the clear waters of hope with “Is That All There Is? Disillusionment and Hope: A UU Perspective.” Childcare is provided.

Find extra parking at Ermilio’s Restaurant, 26 White St.

Giving Tree grant deadline coming up Nonprofits in Carroll County have until August 15 to submit an application for Giving Tree Grants through the Carroll County Community Foundation, an affiliate of Arkansas Community Foundation. Grants range from $300 to $3,000.

Any IRS 501(c)(3) public charity, public school, government agency or hospital in Carroll County is eligible to apply. Other applicants may be considered if the project has a clear charitable purpose for the public benefit. Grants are not made to individuals. Applications can be downloaded at www.arcf.org and must be submitted via email by August 15. Applications will be reviewed by a grantmaking committee from the Carroll County Community Foundation.

HIFD celebrates 40th Anniversary

The Holiday Island Fire Department is celebrating their 40th Anniversary Saturday, August 30, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., at the Holiday Island Clubhouse. There will be displays of equipment used then and now, and at noon there will a short ceremony to commemorate those who are special to the fire department.

Refreshments will be served. Mark your calendar now and plan to be there!

Questions may be directed to Robin Lahm (479) 253-5912.

Al-Anon convention begins Aug. 15

Summertime in the Ozarks 3rd Annual Al-Anon Convention – Respect the Past. Believe the Present. Trust the Future. – will be held at the Inn of the Ozarks August 15 – 17.

Registration begins at 3 p.m. Friday.

Convention includes speakers, AA, Al-Anon and ALATEEN workshops along with fre time. Closing ceremony is 10 a.m. on Sunday. For costs and full schedule see summertimeintheozarks. org or phone Jenny (479) 363-9495.

Phone scam warning Cpl. Jerry Williams from the Carroll County Sheriff’s Department has asked residents to be aware of a phone scam from persons claiming to be from the Publisher’s Clearing House.

The caller will state you have won money and prizes and ask you to load money onto a prepaid debit card to

pay the taxes on the money you have just won. As a rule, anyone asking for information and/or money is more than likely not legitimate.

If you receive such a call, hang up on the caller and notify the Sheriff’s Department (870) 423-7373 that you have been contacted.

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reetings from the Southern Maine coast. Perilla, Part 2, will have to wait, as I contemplate my personal and family history in a be-here-now moment. My parents, married in 1951, have lived in the same house since. They are both in their mid-80s and mentally-sharp. “Going home” is going home, to the house in which I was raised.

I turn to memories of vegetation, as is my obsession.

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anaplasmosis and Lyme disease, which is not found in Arkansas according to ADH. Dog ticks specialize in Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, the most prevalent tickborne disease in Arkansas by far.

So what are the symptoms of a tickborne disease?

Mike Maloney, executive director of the Eureka Springs Advertising and Promotion Commission, said he got a tick bite last year, and the area around the bite had gotten a bit red before he noticed and pulled off the tick. But he said it is not uncommon to get a tick bite around here, so he thought nothing else about it.

Maloney said three weeks later he began to experience the overwhelming malaise of debilitating flu-like symptoms.

He was tired, achy and feverish, and doctors were unsure what to do except prescribe antibiotics. Then Maloney said his lymph glands began to swell prominently, and doctors knew to run a blood test for Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever.

He underwent a ten-day treatment with antibiotics which worked on his RMSF, but was still affected all the while.

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In the past week I’ve been scanning old family photos.

Amongst the files was a long-forgotten newspaper interview with me from the Portland Press Herald published in 1990. The accompanying photo has me ankle-deep in dandelion blossoms on what we called the side lawn at my parent’s home. My dad, Herb, reminded me that my grandmother, Lena Foster, went out every spring and harvested dozens of dandelion crowns – the rosettes of leaves obvious before dandelion flowers. I fondly remember eating my grandmother’s boiled dandelion greens with a dash of vinegar. In his 65-years of maintaining, mowing and improving the side lawn, my dad has proudly managed to turn the entire lawn into a monoculture of neatly mowed grass. “All of the dandelions are gone!” I exclaimed. “Good,” my dad, Herb replied.

I see their absence as a symptom of a greater evil – our society’s insatiable appetite for mowing and mowing machines.

but not always right away, and rashes vary from disease to disease. In both Lyme disease and southern tick-associated rash illness (STARI) there will be a bull’s-eye rash around the site of the bite.

Ehrlichiosis, tularemia and anaplasmosis are similar in that the victim experiences fever, headache, muscle pain, chills, malaise and possibly a rash and nausea, and any of these symptoms can be severe. It is important to note an immunecompromised victim will be affected more severely.

Although antibiotics are almost always effective, it is difficult for a doctor to pinpoint that a patient has a tickborne disease and not another more common ailment. It is also important to note ADH reported four people died in 2013 from tick-related illnesses with five fatalities the previous year.

Maloney got his medication fairly quickly, but victims of tickborne diseases even 20 years ago often went undiagnosed and untreated, and victims suffered for years. One victim bitten in 1999 said his first symptoms were severe leg pains and weight loss. Doctors told him he had everything from leukemia to strep throat to schizophrenia to AIDS before getting a proper diagnosis of Lyme disease. Because it took so long for him to be treated

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The fields surrounding the property, less than two acres, are mowed a couple of times during the growing season. Grass takes over a field once thick with wildflowers, such as common milkweed, food of monarch butterfly larvae. Oh, that pesky word “weed.”

“Why did you have that field cut now?” I asked my mother. “Why?” she replies as if I’m daft, “Because the grass was too tall.”

My childhood memory banks flash back to scenes of crouching amidst the un-mowed thicket of common milkweed, aflutter with monarch butterflies.

When I was born in 1957, mowing was done with non-motorized push mowers. The cut was rough, but only a small area was mowed. Tractor-mounted mowers were used only to harvest hay. Now Americans are obsessed with every manner of hand-held, selfpropelled, riding and undoubtedly soon, robotic mowing machines. A professor at the University of Massachusetts Plant Sciences Department, Lyle E. Craker, reminds me that the best high-paying jobs available for graduates in plant sciences are in the field of “turf management.”

“Hey Dad, maybe you should change your name from Herb to ‘Turf.’”

properly, it took more than 10 years for his symptoms to fade away, so the point is it is important to seek a diagnosis and treatment early if you have the symptoms.

Here is what to do Ticks abound in warm weather, but there are precautions a person exploring the wild outdoors or even a timid backyard can take to protect oneself.

• To expose less skin, wear long-sleeve shirts and long pants. Tuck pants legs into socks.

• You can see ticks more easily with light-colored clothing.

• Many commercial products promise to repel ticks and other vermin, but DEET, a common chemical used in these repellants, has its detractors. Rodale News reports cases of asthma, skin reactions and nervous system disorders after exposure to DEET. Rodale suggests restricting DEET to lower concentrations so maybe spray it only on clothes and shoes. There are more natural products made from cactus juice, herbs and peppercorns available as repellants, and maybe they work.

• Avoid tall grasses and weeds if you can.

• Upon returning from a hike or jaunt into the woods, check yourself for ticks or have someone check hard-to-see areas for

you. For your own safety, it must be reported this kind of tick check has been referred to as “hillbilly foreplay.” We’re just saying.

• If you really want to make sure you are tick-free, a vigorous scrubbing in a hot shower after the outdoor event also helps.

• To remove a tick, try to remove the entire animal. Use tweezers if they are handy and grab the tick close to the skin.

If the attached tick mouth stays attached in the attempt, infection might follow, so anoint the wound appropriately.

• Also check your pets if you are so inclined because pets do not mean to pass on ticks – it just happens.

• Try to keep tick habitats like leaf litter to a minimum.

• Guinea fowl are champion tick predators. If your country living can accommodate them, turn them loose in infested areas because it is reported they perform miracles on tick control. They are also effective watchdogs and often noisy.

So… Maloney said he knows two people who were diagnosed with a tick-borne disease on the same day last week. Tick season is raging around here now and might storm through another eight weeks. Nevertheless the outdoors are still wonderful and available, so take precautions.

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paying a patent or trademark fee.

After college Lowman went to work as a naturalist for the Village Creek State Park in eastern Arkansas. In addition to leading people on walks in the forest, he took photographs and developed informational materials on its flora and fauna.

Decades later people still come up to him to say how much they were influenced by those nature walks. For some, he even influenced their choice of a career. To walk with Lowman through the woods was part botany, part folklore – outdoor education made fun.

Lowman was fired from the State Parks because he refused to cut his ponytail. He won a wrongful termination lawsuit, but being harassed for something that had nothing to do with job performance left him ready to seek greener pastures, in this case operating a nursery. After 25 years introducing many new varieties of native plants to the trade, including a bright yellow wild

indigo he named Screaming Yellow, he moved to Carroll County in 2008 to become a farmer.

Lowman is known as “the bean and pea guy” because he specializes in growing a large variety of those crops.

These aren’t English peas, but Southern peas like crowder peas, purple hull, black-eyed peas and other field peas. He grows 12 different types of peas and 13 kinds of lima beans.

“My passion since I was a kid has been beans and peas,” Lowman said. “I especially love lima beans. I’ve been developing my own cultivars. These are different from anything else on the market.”

Keeping animals from destroying crops is always a challenge. Lowman’s 12-ft. fence with three feet of sheet metal buried in the ground has been successful in keeping out deer and armadillos. He still has problems occasionally with raccoons that climb the fence, and young rabbits and skunks that can get through

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aturday we filled two one-gallon freezer bags with fillets for Don Overton and Stephen Johnson. If you look close you can see the difference between the striper and the three hybrids which have broken up lines and a fatter body. Also known as a Wiper. I call them test tube babies because they can’t spawn and Game & Fish cross the eggs with white bass for a fast hard fighting fish.

The record striper for Arkansas is 64.8 pounds and caught by one of our local guys. Jeff Fletcher of Eagle Rock caught it in the Beaver tailwaters in 2000. The fish came over the dam when the floodgates were open. He also broke the line class record, catching the fish on 12-pound line. The record hybrid is 27.5 pounds. Both still big fish.

We caught these fish on five-to-six inch shad down between 30 – 40 ft. deep. We did have a big one get away.

Right when he got close to the boat he rolled and I do believe he cut our 25-pound line with his gill plate.

The bait and fish are moving back and forth between the Rocky Branch area and the dam area. We are marking most bait and fish in water between 48 and 100 ft. deep before the sun

the fence wire. And he is still working on keeping the crows out.

In addition to the demands of farming, Lowman can often be found staying up late at night writing. An example from The Best of Fine Gardening is his article, “Buckeyes, these easy care scrubs deserve wider attention.”

Lowman keeps plenty busy tending his garden and selling at the Saturday Farmers’ Market, but still finds time to enjoy the nature.

“I really love the land where I live,” Lowman said. “Fifty feet from my door are numerous rare species of plants. I feel like I live in a very special place.”

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gets too high.

Here at Holiday Island we are in the summer pattern, so look for crappie deep in the treetops with minnows or jigs.

Bass will still hit a top water bait early in the day, then go deeper as the sun comes up. Trout up the river this time of year can be a little cooler and relaxing now if you’re fishing off the shoreline.

Riverview store on US 62 and Beaver Dam store on Hwy. 187 can both help you out with what you need. Power bait with a worm always worked well for me, find a spot in the shade and relax.

Well, that’s it for this week. Enjoy the summer. Fall will be here soon. All that rain last week should help our fall colors a bit.

ACROSS 1. Paint layer 5. Airport info 8. Totals 12. Swiss river 13. Indian stew 14. Orange rind 15. Soft metal 17. Court response 18. Re-rent 19. Daubed surface 21. Wicked 23. Swerve off course 24. Bitter criticism 27. Make joyful 30. Top fighter pilot 31. Tree knot 33. Outer edge 34. Earth 36. Unmarried women 38. Encountered 39. Poker stake

40. Ready for final coat 43. Face 47. Indian queen 48. Spanish liqueur 50. Persia 51. ____ compos mentis 52. Crucifix 53. Blend 54. Bacon’s partner 55. Turns hide to leather DOWN 1. Felines 2. Hawaiian island 3. Middle eastern native 4. Bank employee 5. Issue 6. Frat letter 7. Poor money 8. To be attractive 9. Mid-Atlantic state

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

ANTIQUES

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

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

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

Quality produce. Potatoes, onions, tomatoes, cucumbers, greens, Old World sourdough bread. This week only: Sweet Corn LAUGHING HANDS MASSAGE announces its summer special – free peppermint foot scrub with a one hour massage. Laughing Hands always a great location for couples massage. Call 479244-5954 for appointment.

Established & Effective: SIMPLICITY COUNSELING – improving the health of your friends and neighbors in this community in a relaxed respectful environment since 2010. Depression, Anxiety, Self-Worth, Trauma, Grief, Adjustment & Relationships. Call for professional licensed service. (479) 2445181 “It’s Your Time”

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

HELP WANTED HIRING FOR ALL POSITIONS. Full time experienced cooks and servers wanted. Part time experienced bartender and full time dishwasher. Apply within at The New Delhi Café located at 2 North Main Street.

HOLIDAY ISLAND GOLF COURSE hiring part-time cart attendant/janitor.

Apply in person at 1 Country Club Dr., Holiday Island. (479) 253-9511

HOLIDAY ISLAND GOLF COURSE hiring part-time cook. Start at $8.40/hr, plus meals and gratuity. Family golf and recreation benefits included. Apply in person at 1 Country Club Drive, Holiday EUREKA SPRINGS FARMERS’ Island. (479) 253-9511 MARKET has Fun Food Tuesdays!

From 7 a.m. – noon there’s something new WE ARE IN FULL SWING at The every Tuesday: cooking demo, breakfast Greater Eureka Springs Chamber of with Frank, juicing bar or veggie grill. Commerce and we need someone for On Tuesdays only Our Green Acre farm administrative functions; you’ll need brings you certified naturally grown good phone skills, Word and Excel produce, eggs, chicken, pork and beef experience. You’ll sometimes be greeting – and local maple syrup, honey and all- Visitors, as we all do, and guiding them natural dry goods, too! Market hours are to their next destination. Professional Tuesdays and Thursdays, 7 a.m. – noon dress and appearance required. 40 hours at Pine Mountain Village. See what’s a week all year ‘round! Fill out an new on the Eureka Springs Farmers application at The Visitor’s Center 516 Village Circle, Villages at Pine Mountain Market page on Facebook! (next to Pine Mountain Theatre).

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 22 |

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HELP WANTED

REAL ESTATE HOMES FOR SALE

Best Western Inn of the Ozarks 207 W. Van Buren 479.253.9768

Full time position available: FULL TIME WAITSTAFF

• Year Round Employment • Vacation & Holiday Pay Now accepting applications. Please apply in person.

MASSAGE & ACUPUNCTURE THERAPISTS – The new Holiday Island Wellness Studio, home of Synergy Fitness, is looking for one or two licensed massage or acupuncture therapists to join us in providing a full service health & wellness environment for our clientele.

Plan to open mid-August. Can provide scheduling & payment services, flexible hours and rent. If interested, please contact us at holidayislandwellness@ yahoo.com.

RED BUD VALLEY SEEKING APPLICANTS for housekeeping position in a drug, alcohol and smoke free environment. Must supply own transportation and have valid driver’s license. Must provide character references and apply in person.

POSITIONS AVAILABLE FOR THE FRONT DESK at Red Bud Valley Resort, working in customer service, sales, and reservations. Must have Word and Excel computer skills. Seeking reliable person for year round position, full or part time. Apply in person at the front desk.

CRESCENT HOTEL – Individuals of good character may apply for: Server; Line Cook I; Housekeeper.

BASIN PARK HOTEL – Individuals of good character may apply for: Massage Therapist; Housekeeper; Front Desk; Busser; Housekeeping/Maintenance Supervisor, year round, good base with incentives.

DOWNTOWN, WELL MAINTAINED 2-STORY with lower level rental. Ample parking. Established garden. Detached shop/studio with high ceiling.Two decks. $144,000 (479) 2534963

COMMERCIAL FOR SALE LOG CABIN, BEAUTIFULLY REMODELED. Located near Wal-Mart & Country Club, Berryville. Features: living quarters, small greenhouse, CH/A. Perfect for law office, beauty salon, dog grooming, you name it. $159,900. Call (870) 847-1934

RENTAL PROPERTIES HOMES FOR RENT HOLIDAY ISLAND 3BD/2BA, $800/ mo. No pets, no smoking. First & last month’s rent. 27 Dove Ln. Call Glenda (479) 981-1141 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.

APARTMENTS FOR RENT 1 ROOM + KITCHEN & BATH. Near downtown. No pets, no smoking. $525 + deposit, includes utilities. (479) 2449155 HOLIDAY ISLAND VILLAS & TOWNHOUSES near lake and marina.

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

COMMERCIAL RENTALS 8’x12’ BILLBOARD SPACE Hwy 23 South across from Acord’s. $800 yearly.

Call Bill at (479) 253-4477 REASONABLE DOWNTOWN SHOP space for rent. (479) 253-9481 or dan@ twilight.arcoxmail.com

INDEPENDENTClassifieds RENTAL PROPERTIES COMMERCIAL RENTALS RETAIL LEASE SPACE 4350 SF, Hwy 62 frontage, highest traffic count in Eureka. Parking. (479) 903-0699

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

Mention this ad for $5 off your first visit.

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

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

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

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

CLEANING PROFESSIONAL CLEANING SERVICE Residential & small business.

Deep cleaning, Windows, Organizing, References Available. Call Sharon (479) 244-6527 TAYLOR-MAID TO THE RESCUE! Clean freak has openings. References.

Call Angie (479) 981-0125.

To place a classified, email classifieds@esindependent.com

MAINTENANCE/ LANDSCAPE/ HOME SERVICES FANNING’S TREE SERVICE Bucket truck with 65 ft. reach.

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

Free estimates. Licensed. Insured.

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

SERVICE DIRECTORY MAINTENANCE/ LANDSCAPE/ HOME SERVICES TOM HEARST PROFESSIONAL PAINTING AND CARPENTRY Painting & Wood Finishing, Trim & Repair Carpentry, Drywall Repair & Texturing, Pressure Washing (479) 244-7096 REALTORS-PROPERTY MGRSLANDLORDS. I specialize in preparation of properties for showing and/or occupancy. Excellent references.

(479) 981-0125.

CHIMNEY WORKS Complete chimney services: sweeps, repairs, relining and installation. Call Bob Messer (479) 253-2284 TREE WORKS Skilled tree care: trimming, deadwooding and removals. Conscientious, professional arborist and sawmiller. Bob Messer (479) 253-2284

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could then be turned over to architects, number crunchers and lawyers to deal with the problems; and there are always problems.

Dr. John Dolce

Raising minimum wage

Editor, In states that have raised the minimum wage, their economies are doing much better than the ones that have refused to do so.

Here in Arkansas, we have one child in every three going to bed every night hungry. Many are from single parent households (let’s not get me started about “deadbeat dads” who are allowed to skate on their responsibilities.) Giving women (who still make only 77 cents for the same work performed by men who are paid $1) this raise in the minimum wage could mean the difference between needing food stamps, or having their children starve. Mark Pryor supports raising our minimum wage.

It’s time that we here in the beautiful state of Arkansas help our citizens rather than the wealthy, wealthy corporate owners. Owners so rich they can build their own museums while our children starve seems so out of place in our country.

Sheri Hanson

Fun at the Gentry Safari

Editor, With many people wondering, “How could SWEPCO traverse the 50 year-old family owned and operated Safari with a 345 kV transmission line?” a Facebook page “Save the Gentry Safari 4” was created. Over 2,500 people follow the Safari saga, a great testimony of the love the community has for the Safari and the Wilmoths: Arkansas cares!

Saturday, August 2, a group of Safari fans went to visit Leon and his family, a beautiful summer day, fun for everyone.

The Gentry Safari plans to appeal the SWEPCO condemnation lawsuit with the Arkansas Supreme Court, hoping to have a favorable ruling and get full compensation for 116 acres taken by SWEPCO, and the wildlife that unfortunately died when they lost their habitat of many years in Park 4.

Leon plans to install solar panels at the Pavilion and several large barns

to provide clean, renewable power, consistent with the environmental concerns of the Gentry Safari. Next time you visit you may see solar energy used for habitats and other Safari needs, the dream of the Ozarks.

The Safari is open every day. For less than the price of a movie, your family can spend a whole day with friends learning about ecology and the wonders of nature found only at the Gentry Safari.

Crystal Ursin

Helping those in need

Editor, While the Republicans strut around proclaiming their compassion at the same time demanding that the immigrant children from Central America who fled to the US be sent back to horrendous conditions, violence and murder in their countries, goodhearted people collected backpacks and filled them with necessities.

In Eureka, backpacks were donated and purchased and filled with shoes, socks, t-shirts, pencils and drawing paper, crayolas, toothbrushes and toothpaste, caps, shoes, peanut butter cups and stuffed animals. The backpacks were delivered July 31 to St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Fayetteville where many are being collected to be sent on to Harlingen, Texas.

Folks in Eureka were delighted to help with money, contributions, backpacks and necessities. We thank Eurekans Nellie, Marie, Helga, L.J., the Doggie Store, ECHO, Carrie, Trella, Flint St., Sally L., Dr. Fain, FRESH, and Myrtie Mae’s. It was so much fun packing the bags and contemplating how happy the children will be who receive them from loving people in America.

Trella Laughlin

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CLOVERTREE COTTAGE

PERFECT LITTLE THREE BEDROOM two bath house with all the bells and whistles. Granite countertops, recessed niches, wood floors, big decks.

Custom cabinets, large decks all around the house. Very private back yard with amazing terracing all around. All this for only $165K. MLS #711432

CUTE BUNGALOW Easy almost flat walk to our lovely downtown historic district. This one bedroom is adorable inside! Beautiful wood floors, large master bedroom, view deck that is partially covered. Nice sized living area open to kitchen and dining area. Big claw foot soaker tub and shower in the bathroom. Two coveted off-street parking places. $114,900. MLS #710335

STUNNING WATERFRONT HOME three bedroom/three bath with additional room that could be used as a fourth bedroom, office, or exercise room.

Big windows and nice decks. Granite countertops. Eat-in kitchen and formal dining.

Kitchen was remodeled two years ago with new appliances. Wet bars and wood burning fireplaces in living and family room. Immaculate home. PRICE REDUCED TO $369,500. MLS #707193

LAKEVIEW – Craftsman Style, 3 bedroom, 3 bath home with fabulous views of Beaver Lake and the Ozark Mountains. Gorgeous entry opens into great room with vaulted ceiling, lots of windows, gourmet kitchen and two stacked stone fireplaces. Gated community; community dock; boat slips available. Hardy board siding, wired for generator, 2 car garage, basement is 75% finished and would add 2 bedrooms, 4th bath, workshop, storage and family room or what ever you’d like that space to be. Price below market value. $369,900. MLS 713359 A SLEEPER – Beautiful setting in quiet subdivision, convenient to all amenities. This home has lots of extras. RV pad w/ 60 amp electric, water hookups and septic available. House is wired for separate generator connection.Basement level includes a large rec. area, shop, utility room, bath and bedroom. Backyard is fenced with chain link – great for pets or children. $134,900 LAKEFRONT LOT – GREAT BUY! Already cleared, level pad – ready for you to build just what you’ve always wanted. Gentle walk to the water, gorgeous bouldering rocks would make interesting landscaping.

Underground electric and phone, community water, boat slip available nearby. $74,900. MLS 641212

Call today!

479.253.0997 12608 Hwy. 187 Eureka Springs

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Evelyn Cross

Broker 479.253.3450

Darling 3 bedroom/3 bath cottage at Lake Lucerne Resort. Beautiful resort setting and charm in every room! $179,500