Lovely County Citizen Feb. 2, 2017

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VOLUME 18 NUMBER 37

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Winterfest Party grows Farmers Market fund Page 3

n Good Shepherd OKs kennel plan

n CAPC addresses market fund requests

n Holiday Island searches for doctor

Locals help plan, raise money for kennel improvements

Commission to vote on requests at Feb. 8 meeting

HI developer talks about search at Rotary meeting

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Jan. 25 10:22 p.m. — A caller advised of a possible intoxicated driver coming into Eureka Springs. An officer was unable to catch up to the vehicle before it made it out of the city limits.

Jan. 26 12:21 p.m. — A semi truck got hung on a phone line, and the line broke. A report was taken.

12:35 p.m. — A black and tan male shepherd mix with a blue collar was turned into the police department after the dog was found running loose on White Street.

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Jan. 27 5:19 p.m. — An officer responded to a report of an intoxicated female walking down the road, stumbling and spitting at cars.

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Jan. 28 12:29 a.m. — A traffic stop resulted in the arrest of a subject for driving on a suspended driver’s license and having an open container.

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For the farmers

Winterfest Party helps move Farmers Market to community center

By Samantha Jones Citizen.Editor.Eureka@gmail.com

It won’t be long before the Eureka Springs Farmers Market moves to the Eureka Springs Community Center.

Joyce and Eric Knowles helped move that along on Jan. 26 with the Winterfest Party, a fundraiser featuring bluegrass bands, a potluck, a soup contest, silent and live auctions, a chance to win $20,000 and the farmers market itself.

Joyce Knowles said she and her husband wanted to help the farmers market move to the community center after realizing all the benefits of the new location. She described these benefits, saying the community center will offer running water, working electricity, bathroom facilities and a covered pavilion. The covered pavilion will be a huge help to the farmers, she said.

“Once they’re under a pavilion, it’ll be easier to do a lot of things,” she said.

The Eureka Springs Community Center Foundation has set aside $10,000 to relocate the farmers market, Joyce Knowles said, but that’s not nearly enough.

“This fundraiser is to add money to that.

We realized they needed much more than $10,000,” she said. “You can’t get much of a car for $10,000 anymore, and we knew that wasn’t going to be enough. We’re not telling them how to use it. We’re just trying to add money to that fund. We’d like to get them here sooner rather than later.”

Joyce Knowles said she and her husband frequent the farmers market when they’re in town.

“We travel a lot, but when we’re here we go through pounds of vegetables and fruit,” she said. “We love going to the farmers market.”

Though she and her husband had been planning the fundraiser for a while, Joyce Knowles said, they ran into a problem the day it was slated to happen. She said the building didn’t have an occupancy permit, describing how she and the community center foundation worked with the Eureka Springs Fire Department to keep the event going.

“We’re all on the phone making calls.

Photo by Tavi Ellis

From left to right, Damon Henke, Jean Elderwind and Diane Murphy enjoy an evening spent with great friends, good food and generous fundraising.

Everyone was making calls. Our valiant fire department came in and told us what we needed to do to get a temporary occupancy permit,” she said, crediting fire marshal Jim Kelley for coming in on his day off. “He was here to make it work, and it all worked out.”

Kelley said he was just doing his job.

“Mayor Berry called me and asked me about the situation. I told him I’d come in and try to see where they were,” Kelley said.

To have the event, he said, the gym needed to have working emergency lights, exit signs, fire extinguishers and a fire alarm system. The fire alarm system doesn’t work yet, he said, so he and a few other firefighters stood by during the event in case they needed to guide people to safety.

“If we could get two or three people to do this, we felt comfortable we’d have a safe building,” Kelley said. “The fire department’s goal is always to try to see what we can do to help the public … anything we

can do to help and make things work.”

Joyce Knowles said she is grateful to the fire department for helping make the event possible. The whole idea behind the community center, she said, is to unite everybody in the community.

“Look at this. This is a place to pull Eureka Springs together. We’re bringing the whole town together in one big place to do a big thing for the farmers,” she said.

“That’s what this is for. It’s for us to come here together.”

Eric Knowles agreed.

“We like the community center. We love the farmers and the farmers market,” he said. “We just wanted to do something to help raise money to move them over here as the community center gets built.”

Eureka Springs alderwoman Mickey Schneider said she enjoyed the fundraiser, saying she’s excited to see the old high school become part of the community again.

“I’ve been part of this community for

43 years. All my kids graduated from the school. This school means a lot to us, and we’re really glad it’s going to be our community center and not wasted and destroyed or turned into a shopping mall,” Schneider said. “There was big talk about it turning into a shopping mall. We don’t need a shopping mall. We need a community center.”

She continued, “Support it. Support it.

Support it. This is going to be so awesome for Eureka. It’s one of the few things we’re missing.”

Bill Featherstone, a member of the community center foundation, said he loved seeing so many people come out to support the farmers market relocating to the community center. With the demolition of Building 100 almost complete, Featherstone said that could happen sooner than many people think.

“We’re very much on schedule in clearing that area and making it ready for the farmers market to start their spring and summer season,” Featherstone said. “All indicators are good that the farmers market will be with us starting this next season.”

Featherstone said the farmers market became involved with the community center very early in its development.

“They were the first ones to actually get this concept. They totally embraced it from day one,” Featherstone said. “It went beyond the selfishness of what their needs were. They saw the big picture. Kudos to them for having the vision early on that a lot of people are only just starting to realize.”

The farmers market relocating to the community center isn’t the only big thing happening at the site this year, Featherstone said. He said after-school programming should begin sometime in March and the gym should open up around that same time.

“There will be some public access to this building starting in March. Beyond that, it’ll just grow from there,” he said. “Hopefully we’ll have a full schedule from very early in the morning to late in the evening.

That’s exciting. We’re only two months away from that.”

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Good Shepherd Humane Society will hold its annual membership meeting on Wednesday, May 24.

The board approved the date at its regular meeting Jan. 25. Secretary Anne Wilson said the membership meeting usually takes place during the May board meeting.

“I would like to propose that we continue doing that … having it at that time,” she said. “We can lock in that date.”

The board agreed to have the membership meeting May 24, moving on to discuss the progress on the meet and greet building. The meet and greet building is meant to serve as a place for potential adopters to meet animals they like in a quiet environment. President Jay Fusaro said the painting on the inside is finished, saying heating and air has been installed as well.

“Next, we’ll be laying the board and installing the cabinets. We’re making really, really good progress on that,” Fusaro said.

Board member Jeff Burdsall, who has been working on the building, said he’s been coordinating the work with shelter manager Sandra Mittler.

“I’m waiting for Sandra to tell me the lights and fans are ready to go up. I’m just waiting for that,” Burdsall said.

Fusaro presented the shelter report for Mittler, who couldn’t be at the meeting. He reported how many animals were brought in, returned and adopted in 2016. Intakes included 47 cats, 55 kittens, 88 dogs and 16 puppies, Fusaro said, totaling 206 intakes in 2016. He said 14 cats and 33 dogs were returned for a total of 47 returns in 2016. The shelter adopted out 67 cats, 47 kittens, 120 dogs and 10 puppies, he continued, adding up to 244 adoptions in 2016.

“Overall, I would say we had an OK year on the adoption side. I think the good thing to know is we’re working on other adoption ideas,” Fusaro said.

He said he felt proud of how many animals the shelter took care of in 2016.

“That’s 206 animals that most likely would have been put down or something else had we not taken them in, so we’re very

proud of that,” he said.

Moving forward, Fusaro said, Mitlter and office manager Gina Marchant are contacting other animal shelters around the country to see how they can work together.

“That would either be moving our animals, potentially swapping them with other vetted shelters …They’re talking to a group that might be able to take several of our long-term animals,” Fusaro said. “That’s who we’re focused on. They would be adopted before they even left Good Shepherd.”

Secretary Anne Wilson asked if there is a shortage of animals in other states, and Fusaro said there is.

“There are states and counties that are heavy spay-neuter counties. They actually need animals,” Fusaro said. “We’re making contacts to figure out where these places are, and we’re working with other organizations to get else animals moved on so we can take in other animals.”

There are many good reasons this needs to happen, Fusaro said. He pointed out that one of the shelter’s long-term dogs, Fred, was recently adopted to a veteran. He said the shelter will be looking into a program where the government pays for shelter dogs to receive service animal training.

“I’ve found out either Arkansas Medicare or Medicaid will pay for the training of that animal to be a service dog,” he said.

“That might be something we can promote once we identify what the program is. We think that’s a really good deal.”

Fusaro continued, saying the shelter has fixed its internet problem.

“We’ve just had horrific internet for a long time. We finally got that resolved.

Verizon got everything hooked up,” Fusaro said. “Our social media is back up and running.”

He said board member Todd Allen is working with another person to improve the shelter’s website.

“We’re very excited about that. That will happen over the next couple of months,” Fusaro said.

The shelter will be having more events on-site, Fusaro added, to get animals ad-

opted out and raise awareness for what’s happening at the shelter. The first such event, he said, will take place from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 11.

“The theme is going to be around, ‘Find your true love at Good Shepherd.’ We’re really excited about that event. We think it’s going to be a good thing,” he said.

“We think it’s in the best interest of everybody, including the animals, to have the events at the shelter opposed to off-site adoptions.”

Thrift store manager Janet Chupp presented a report on what’s been going on at the stores, saying she’s had a few more volunteers recently. Some of these volunteers, she said, are eligible for a government program allowing seniors to work a certain number of hours each week. In December, Chupp said the program is designed to teach seniors and the disabled job skills to find work in their community.

The program teaches computer skills and math and provides on-the-job training for those who find employment, Chupp said. She said the seniors can work up to 15 hours a week for more than the minimum wage. She said Jan. 25 that she’s had three people apply for the program since December.

“I’m starting to get full crews. The Eureka store is really running smoothly,” Chupp said. “Good things are happening, and that’s because I’ve got the best volunteers on the planet.”

Chupp said she could use some help selling items on Ebay in the Berryville store and taking photos of the stores for social media.

Anyone can do these things, Chupp said, and she hopes to hear from members of the community who want to help. She pointed out the way the stores have improved over the past year and said she’s looking forward to continuing that.

“I think as long as we continue to change things up in the stores and make it exciting … I have customers coming in just to see what’s new, to see what we changed this week,” Chupp said. “That’s wonderful. I’m hoping that’s going to make some longterm revenue changes for us.”

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GSHS approves kennel improvement plan A few local do-gooders are stepping up to help the pups at Good Shepherd Humane Society.

At Good Shepherd’s regular board meeting Jan. 25, Chris and Gilbert Bercier presented a plan to improve the kennels at the shelter. Chris Bercier explained that she and her husband have adopted two dogs from Good Shepherd. While visiting the shelter, she said, they realized that the outdoor kennels could provide better shelter.

She proposed a plan that would bring more coverage to the kennels.

“It’s a shelter for the dogs that are in front of the building, so if it’s really, really hot out, they have shelter,” Chris Bercier said. “If it’s raining out, they still have something over their heads so they’re able to enjoy the outdoors, as they should be.”

She recalled when she realized the kennels could improve a bit during her visit at the shelter.

“We were there walking around and loving on the dogs. I made a comment, ‘They need covering over these kennels for the dogs,’ ” Chris Bercier said.

“So I looked over at Gilbert and I said, ‘Honey, make it happen.’”

She continued, “After 26 years, I think he can read my mind. He knew it was coming, so he was just like, ‘Yes, honey.’ ” Chris Bercier pointed out that the tarps covering the kennels aren’t in the best shape.

“This is really going to alleviate the use of those tarps that keep getting torn up. That was one of our main things for this, because I just feel so bad for those babies out there with those tarps,” she said. “It’s a waste.”

She added that she and her husband developed the plan with friends Maria La Cavera and Terry McGuire. All of them, Chris Bercier said, love being around animals.

“It’s in our hearts. We’re all animal lovers,” she said. “We love what you have done and we’re trying to be a part

of that to help things along.”

Another reason he agreed to help with the project, McGuire said, is because he has been friends with the Berciers for a long time. McGuire, a local architect, said the kennels have already been measured to see how much material will be needed to cover them.

GSHS secretary Anne Wilson asked what fencing will be used on the project, and Chris Bercier said they plan to stick with the chain-link fence that is already there. Chris Bercier said she spoke with shelter manager Sandra Mittler to make that decision.

“Sandra wanted something where she could pull those out, because the kennels themselves are not that heavy,” Chris Bercier said. “This is just, we’re hoping, the first part of a great thing.”

To get the project going, she said, she will be looking for ways to raise money. Chris Bercier said La Cavera has offered to get a GoFundMe page started for the project once everyone knows how much money will be required.

“I’m going to have my hand out to everybody I know. I want money for this, and I hope we can collect a lot more,” Chris Bercier said.

GSHS president Jay Fusaro asked how the board could help, and Chris Bercier said the project would need to be approved first. She said they’ll also need help collecting materials and money to get the project off the ground.

“We are going to need help with the bank thing. As you know, companies want a tax deduction, so if someone gives me $1,000, they’re going to want that slip,” she said. “We’ll need your help on that.”

Fusaro said the board is already working with companies to raise money for the shelter, saying Stone Financial will be sponsoring the shelter in February. He said it would be a good idea to offer sponsors the opportunity to have their names on a plaque on the kennels.

“Maybe there can be multiple plaques on each kennel, something like

that to generate money,” Fusaro said.

Chris Bercier said she appreciated the input.

“It’s things like that that help. If you have something, please share it,” she said.

She said she plans to present photos of the kennels in their current state to potential sponsors.

“I want to be able to put that inside the campaign itself. People need to see it in its raw form,” Chris Bercier said.

Fusaro said he and other members of the board could help get in contact with corporate sponsors, and Chris Bercier said help on the financial side would benefit the project quite a bit.

“If we could also make sure that everyone understands it’s our intent to have all monies or materials donated,” she said. “I’m sure you have money now for other things. We’re not looking to touch that. We just want to make that clear.”

Fusaro said he’s happy to work with the board on getting sponsorships from the local business community for the project.

“Part of the reason we put these people on the board is because they’re invested in the business community,” he said.

The board voted, unanimously approving the project. Chris Bercier thanked everyone for their help.

“We would like to thank the volunteers, the staff, the board members … what you do is awesome. It shows compassion, and it makes me personally proud to be part of this community,” she said. “I think it’s great that we have this no-kill shelter.”

She added that she looks forward to working on the kennels.

“I like to do whatever I can. Animals are my soft spot,” she said. “If I could have my own animal sanctuary, I probably would.”

Cigarette Butt Litter - What A Waste Source: Keep America Beautiful

By Samantha Jones Citizen.Editor.Eureka@gmail.com

Cigarette Butts • Cigarette waste is the most abundant form of litter in Arkansas and on the planet.

• Smokers discard billions of cigarette butts yearly, tossing many directly into the environment.

• Cigarette filters are not biodegradable; they are made of plastic, not paper and cotton.

• Cigarette litter lingers in our environment up to 25 years.

• Cigarette butts are lightweight and can easily move through our storm drains into our waterways and water supplies.

• Water will leach the toxins from cigarette litter, making it deadly to most aquatic life.

• Discarded cigarette butts pose a significant threat to our environment in terms of fire.

• According to the National Fire Protection Agency, upwards of 90,000 fires every year in the U S are caused by cigarettes.

• Cigarette-induced fires claim hundreds of lives in the United States each year, and injure thousands more, not to mention the millions of dollars that go up in smoke in property damage.

Source: Clean Virginia Waterways

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CAPC workshop focuses on market fund requests

By Samantha Jones Citizen.Editor.Eureka@gmail.com

The Eureka Springs City Advertising and Promotion Commission heard several market fund requests at a workshop Jan. 25.

Director Mike Maloney presented the requests, saying the commission had quite a few on the table. One of the biggest requests, he said, was $25,000 for May Festival of the Arts. Maloney said the Eureka Springs Arts Council has been working on ways to make this year’s festival more dynamic than those held in the past. He said the council will be bringing in new artists for the festival, as well as having new interactive events.

“The artists have been vetted by the arts council. These artists came and made really great presentations to the council a week and a half ago,” Maloney said. “The overall feeling was these were great events to bring to Eureka Springs, to pull people in.”

He said some of the interactive exhibits include a sculpture in Basin Spring Park, where four large mobiles will be placed.

“In fact, there’s a display of them right now at Brews. It’s an incredible visual,” Maloney said. “It’s going to be one of those things that’s spectacular for Basin Spring Park.

“You’ll be able to take the app around

to different places in Eureka Springs, pull up the app and get information on where you’re at,” Maloney said. “It’s a very cool month-long thing that will actually sustain itself for a long time. It’s not just something that’ll last 30 days. It’s built to continue on.”

He said Five & Dime Drama Collective will be having a performance in The Auditorium during the festival.

“All the actors and writers are local. It’s one of the things that’s right here in Eureka Springs. It’s going to be one big performance,” Maloney said. “It’s going to be free to the public but they’ll be asking for donations. I think everyone will be really excited about it.”

Arts council member John Rankine said the play will feature vignettes from The Tempest.

“You’ll go point to point and point out the spot where the actual play was done,” Rankine said. “It’s a virtual reality kind of situation.”

The play is original to Eureka Springs, Rankine added.

“They got 18 scripts, so they’re choosing one out of this thing,” he said.

Another exhibit, Maloney said, is a citywide experience that uses an application.

Commissioner Susan Harman said she hopes to have more events happening on the

weekdays during this year’s festival.

“We did have some guests who came for the May festival last year and were disappointed. The days they came, there wasn’t much going on,” Harman said.

Chairman Ken Ketelsen advised Harman to wait until arts council chairwoman Sandy Martin gives a presentation on this year’s festival. Maloney agreed, saying he believes this year’s festival will be better than last year’s.

“Last year, there were 177 events put in May Festival of the Arts. A lot of the things they’re looking at is to sustain these same events, but it’s really going to be what comes out of Eureka Springs,” Maloney said. “There’s some aggressiveness with the arts council. It’s perfect for Eureka Springs.”

The commission moved on to a request for the Nuits Rose Wine Festival. Maloney said the festival organizers are asking for $250 to print posters for the participating restaurants. Commissioner Dusty Duling explained what the festival is, saying it’s a way for restaurants to offer wine-based specials.

“Lots of towns and cities are having these wine festivals. They’re successful,” Duling said. “We did it last year. The wine is the focus. It’s all about the wine.”

Harman asked if there’s any wine educa-

tion involved in the festival, and Duling said there isn’t.

“This is just the second year, so that’s something somebody else would have to stand up and run,” he said.

Another festival asking for support, Maloney said, is the Eurekan Multi-Sport Festival. Maloney said the festival has taken place in Eureka Springs for at least five years, saying the CAPC hasn’t funded it since 2013. Finance director Rick Bright explained that the commission gave the festival $25,000 in 2011, $15,000 in 2012 and $10,000 in 2013.

“They’re back asking for $10,000 again.

It’s a big draw. A lot of people come,” Maloney said.

Last year, Bright said, the commission helped the festival without giving any money to it.

“What we agreed to do last time was just push it on our social media. It’s a for-profit event, too, so it’s a little different from other festivals,” Bright said.

“I’m all for that,” commissioner Terry McClung said.

The commission also discussed market fund requests for Books in Bloom and Springtime in the Ozarks. Maloney said Springtime in the Ozarks is one of the lonSee CAPC, page 25

CAPC debates Auditorium agreement

By Samantha Jones Citizen.Editor.Eureka@gmail.com

The Eureka Springs City Advertising and Promotion Commission revisited its agreement for providing funds for The Auditorium at a workshop Jan. 25.

Chairman Ken Ketelsen said finance director Rick Bright worked on the new management agreement, which allocates $40,000 to The Auditorium in 2017. The commission voted to give The Auditorium extra funds at its Jan. 11 meeting. At the meeting, Bright said the $40,000 could cover the maintenance, insurance and utilities at The Auditorium.

Bright said Jan. 25 he was considering breaking the $40,000 into $3,300 per month, and commissioner Terry McClung said he agreed with that.

“I think it would be easier to simplify that.

We’ve agreed to give them $40,000,” McClung said. “I think we should divide it into 12 months and just be done with it. I don’t think we need to burden Rick with anything additional.”

Commissioner Susan Harman said she wanted to know what the money goes toward each month.

“For auditing purposes, it is much better if we have a record of exactly how much money they need as opposed to us giving them a flat $40,000,” Harman said. “If they don’t use the whole $40,000, we can have a record of where that money went. It’s not just, ‘Here you go’ every month.”

“I think the flat $40,000 … that’s what we agreed to do,” McClung said.

Harman said they would agree to disagree.

“I just have a difference of opinion. I don’t have a problem with the $40,000,” she said.

“What was it spent on? Did you give them that check? Did they deposit it and use some of it but not all of it? Where did the rest go?”

Commissioner David Mitchell asked Bright who audits the commission, and Bright said the state does.

“So this money is getting audited twice, once for you and once for the city,” Mitchell said. “I see no problem with it.”

Bright added that the agreement is only for one year.

“For us to spend money on city stuff, we have to have an agreement. It serves its purpose,” Bright said.

Mitchell said he’s happy the commission

is helping the city out. He recalled when the proposed 1 percent sales tax failed. Revenue from the tax would have been used to fund repairs and improvements to the city’s water and sewer infrastructure, as well as help fund operation of the Auditorium.

“Based on the sensitivity that just occurred between the CAPC and The Auditorium …

I think it’s good to see the CAPC working closely with the city to support The Auditorium,” Mitchell said.

Director Mike Maloney agreed.

“That’s the point of the exercise. It’s a good will gesture,” Maloney said.

The commission will vote on the revised management agreement at its next regular meeting 6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 8, at City Hall.

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Financially stable

Good Shepherd ends 2016 on a good note

By Samantha Jones Citizen.Editor.Eureka@gmail.com

When it comes to finances, Good Shepherd Humane Society is doing well, according to information presented at its January board meeting.

Interim treasurer Rosemary Fusaro reported Jan. 25 that Good Shepherd ended 2016 with a loss of $227, compared with a predicted loss of $10,000.

“Adjusting for the meet and greet, we pretty much broke even. That’s what you want a not-for-profit to do,” she said. “We came in just with a loss of $227. This was compared to a budget put in place with a loss of $10,000. You don’t want that to happen.”

She credited the successful year to the shelter’s staff and board members working together to keep expenses down.

“Even though our revenue came in under budget, our controls came in way under budget … vet services and some of the payroll,” she said. “That’s where we broke even, so congratulations, guys.”

GSHS president Jay Fusaro said he was happy to see the shelter end the year with such a small loss.

“We were faced with a $10,000 budget deficit and we made that up,” he said. “That’s just really, really terrific.

Congrats to everybody for a really good year.”

Rosemary Fusaro added that Good Shepherd made $4,130 in December.

“This was driven mostly by miscellaneous donations, which were huge in December,” she said.

Donations in December, she continued, came to $8,044.

In addition to the financial report, Jay Fusaro said he wanted to clear up some confusion about his and Rosemary Fusaro’s roles on the board. He said he recently read criticism that the board president and treasurer were related, pointing out that Rosemary Fusaro is the interim treasurer.

“I want to be very clear with what

the treasurer’s responsibilities are with Good Shepherd. For the last nine years, we’ve outsourced most of our financial functions to Stone Financial,” he said.

“They are responsible for producing our financial statements, writing checks and dispersing those checks. The treasurer is responsible for putting the financials together for the board budget analysis.”

He continued, “I want to make it crystal-clear to everybody that the treasurer in Good Shepherd cannot disperse funds outside of the organization and hasn’t been able to for nine years, so the fact that Rosemary and I are related has no negative implications to Good Shepherd.”

Secretary Anne Wilson reiterated that Rosemary Fusaro is the interim treasurer.

“Rosemary is not on the board. We have kept it as segregated as possible until we can find someone who will be a board member,” Wilson said.

Rosemary Fusaro described her experience in finance, saying she received a bachelor’s and master’s degree in finance. She said she worked in banking and finance for 30 years, finishing her career as the chief lending officer of a bank in Texas.

“The chief lending officer is the number two position in the bank. I’ve been pretty well vetted,” she said. “I’d say I do have some qualifications to do this.”

She pointed out that she’s been helping her church with finances, too, and said she can’t do both at the same time.

“It is almost a full-time job I do with the church. We have to find somebody to take this position, if you know somebody who has some financial background,” she said. “I’m happy to do it. I love working with you guys.”

Jay Fusaro said he was glad to have that on the table.

“I just wanted to put to rest any issues people may have in the community regarding the president and the treasurer being related,” he said.

Photo by Kelby Newcomb/Lovely County Citizen

(From left) David, Vera, Mark and Nancy turned out to support the ‘Stop the Diamond Pipeline Benefit’ at Caribe Restaurant and Cantina on Thursday, along with many other Eureka Springs and Holiday Island residents.

Benefit partners with Arkansas Rising to fight Diamond Pipeline

By Kelby Newcomb CCNNews@cox-internet.com

People are rising up across Arkansas to oppose construction of the Diamond Pipeline, and Eureka Springs is no exception.

A “Stop the Diamond Pipeline Benefit” was held at Caribe Restaurant and Cantina on Thursday, Jan. 26, to educate people about the pipeline and raise money for the legal team working to prevent the project. Those in attendance got to enjoy a meal, a raffle and silent auction and live music from Sage Ahava, Rochelle Bradshaw and Hypnotic as they showed their support for cause.

Keaira Perry, who helped organize the benefit, said volunteers were working in connection with Arkansas Rising to promote nonviolent direct action to stop the Diamond Pipeline and protect Arkansas.

“We are here to stop the Diamond Pipeline and protect Arkansas,” Perry said. “Above all, we’re with Arkansas Rising, which supports nonviolent direct action and putting yourself right there.”

According to its website ArkansasRising.net, Arkansas Rising is a collective of guardians protecting the natu-

ral state against the Diamond Pipeline through civil disobedience. The site says that Arkansas Rising respects all forms of civil resistance but does not organize the destruction of property or the injury of any person.

Perry said the funds raised by the benefit will go toward the legal team which is trying to slow down and ultimately halt progress on the Diamond Pipeline.

“We’re asking for $10 donations at the door, and we have tip jars set up around the restaurant,” she said. “Our funding goes to a legal team to interfere and hopefully stop the Diamond Pipeline. A huge part of this is being directly there and trying to stall it as much as possible.”

The Diamond Pipeline will provide the Valero Memphis Refinery with domestic sweet crude oil from Cushing, Okla., and enhance the refinery’s longterm viability for the production of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel for the greater Memphis and eastern Arkansas area, according to Diamond PipelineLLC.com. The site says the project is committed to designing, constructing, operating and maintaining the Diamond See Pipeline, page 25

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Holiday Island searches for new doctor

By David Frank Dempsey Lovely County Citizen

HOLIDAY ISLAND — Developer Tom Dees said during a Rotary meeting on Friday, Jan. 27 that he had visited area hospitals seeking advice on bringing a new physician and other medical professionals to Holiday Island after the December departure of Dr. Sonal Bhakta and the upcoming closing of the Mercy Clinic.

One important contact Dees made was Marshall, Ark.-based Boston Mountain Rural Health Center.

On Dec. 19, Dees gave a three-and-ahalf hour tour of Holiday Island to two BMRHC representatives. On Tuesday, Jan. 31, four BMRHC representatives — CEO Betty Sanders, Chief Operations Officer Debbie Ackerson, Dental Director Dr. Bill Dill and Dr. Ben deMiranda — spoke to residents and community leaders

at the Elks Club.

Dees met Dill more than 20 years ago and Dill was instrumental in bringing Dr. Terry Bushay to Holiday Island.

Now there is a chance that Dill and his BMRHC colleagues might help bring a much-needed clinic to Holiday Island.

BMRHC was started in 1994 and is a non-profit charitable health care provider with clinics in Marshall, Clinton, Southside Bee Branch, Jasper, Green Forest, Yellville, Deer, and Huntsville. They are currently in the process of opening additional clinics in Mountain View and Nemo Vista.

Their patients are a mix of walk-ins and appointments.

About 25 residents attended the Tuesday meeting, including all five Holiday Island Suburban Improvement District Commissioners, District Manager Law-

rence Blood and Dees, who started the meeting by telling the story of working with Dill two decades ago.

It was agreed among the commissioners and BMRHC staff that a HISID resolution in support of a clinic would demonstrate the community’s willingness to move forward with the idea. The next HISID BOC meeting is scheduled for Feb. 27.

According to Ackerson the Holiday Island area with its estimated population of 3,000 residents is large enough to support a clinic.

The next step, Sanders said, would be for their board of directors to study the financial feasibility of establishing a new clinic here.

The cost for establishing a clinic with new high-quality equipment is between $18,000 and $20,000 per patient room.

Currently Holiday Islanders have to drive to Benton or Washington counties for health care.

“We need medical care here. It is a desperate need,” said Commissioner Linda Grave,s who also pointed out that most physicians in Eureka Springs and Berryville have full workloads and are not accepting new patients.

MRHC recruits many of their new physicians and advanced practice registered nurses from the nation’s medical schools, according to Sanders. Recruitment is a very competitive process because of a rapidly emerging shortage of qualified physicians and an ongoing shortage of nurses.

Recruitment for a clinic in Holiday Island would begin only after a deal could be made ensuring that a clinic would open.

Harrison hospital to open BV clinic

By Scott Loftis CarrollCountyNews@cox-internet.com

Carroll County residents will soon have a new option for healthcare.

Dr. Alice Martinson confirmed Monday that a building she co-owns with Dr. Joseph Ricciardi has been leased to North Arkansas Regional Medical Center of Harrison, which she said plans to use the building for a family practice clinic with one physician.

An NARMC spokeswoman did not confirm that information Monday afternoon but said she would discuss the issue with the hospital’s chief executive officer. No more information was available from NARMC as of press time Monday night.

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Martinson said the lease for the building will be effective Wednesday, Feb. 1, although she is not sure when the new clinic will begin accepting patients.

Martinson said all parties involved expect the lease to continue well beyond its initial one-year term.

“This is a long-term deal as far as everyone is concerned,” she said.

Ricciardi and Martinson operated an orthopedic and sports medicine clinic in the building, which is located at 408 Orchard Drive, near Mercy Hospital-Berryville. Although Ricciardi has retired and Martinson said she no longer performs surgery or sees emergency patients, she said she will continue to see patients in the building.

The Carroll County Assessor’s office said the building, constructed in 1998, has an appraised value of $373,050. Martinson did not discuss the financial terms of the lease.

Mercy Berryville’s administrator, Doug Stroemel, responded to the news via email.

“Our primary goal at Mercy Hospital Berryville is to help our community be healthy,” Stroemel wrote.

“We want all of our neighbors to be able to access the care they need, and we stand ready to complement the primary care provided in our community clinics through specialty, inpatient or outpatient services.”

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Another man’s treasure

Eureka Springs Historical Museum hosts annual Garage Sale

By Samantha Jones Citizen.Editor.Eureka@gmail.com

The Eureka Springs Historical Museum had one of its largest crowds yet during the annual Garage Sale fundraiser Saturday, Jan. 28, at Inn of the Ozarks Convention Center.

ESHM operations manager Stephanie Stodden reported Monday that around 400 people attended the fundraiser, browsing more than 25 booths for a hidden treasure. Stodden said the idea for the fundraiser came from Randy Wolfinbarger, who runs the convention center.

“He’s a strong supporter of the museum and he just wanted to donate the convention center,” Stodden said. “He thought it would be a win win. People could bring their things in and sell them.”

The museum kept all the money from admission and booth fees, Stodden said, making the fundraiser quite lucrative. She thanked Wolfinbarger and other community members who stepped up to help.

“It just shows how our community works together to help support the little guy,” she said.

Much of the money raised, she said, will be used for new exhibits at the museum. She said one new exhibit focusing on World War I will go up around May, when Arkansas Heritage Month takes place.

“That will be a strong exhibit. We’ll be promoting that,” she said. “Exhibits

are expensive.”

She added that she hopes to expand on the school exhibit, saying the Eureka Springs Community Center Foundation recently donated three of the blocks from Building 100 to the museum. The building was torn down to create an area for the Eureka Springs Farmers Market at the new community center.

Stodden recalled going to school there and said it felt bittersweet to see the building come down.

“I attended there from kindergarten to my senior year. Watching it come down just took my breath away,” she said. “But it is going to be great for our community.”

She said she’s looking forward to seeing how the school exhibit evolves with the new additions.

“We would like to embellish and make it a little larger … make it stand out a little bit more,” she said.

For those wondering how they can help, Stodden said, the museum accepts donations at any time. She said anyone can become a member of the museum, explaining that membership lasts a year. There are different types of membership options, she added, including individual membership, family membership and business or a sponsor membership.

“You can always come to the museum itself and pay admission fees. You can support our gift shop or attend our fundraisers,” Stodden said. “We’re always accepting donations.”

HIFDA to host Souper Sunday Feb. 26

The Holiday Island Fire Department will hold its Souper Sunday from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 26, at the Holiday Island Country Club Ballroom. It will cost $6 for adults and $3 for children under 12. If you would like to donate soup, call Mary Amundsen at 479-363-8125.

Nuits Rose Wine Fest slated for May 12-14

The 2nd Annual units Rose Eureka Springs Wine Fest will take place from May 1214. Various restaurants and lounges in Eureka Springs will offer rose tastings, flights and pairing to serve with special menu items during the festival.

Photo by David Bell

Heidi Rice, right, clutches the spatula she found, showing it to friend Carol Douglas.

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Mercy Berryville Charity Ball returns Feb. 18

EUUF to focus on LGBT progress Feb. 5

The Eureka Unitarian Universalist Fellowship at 17 Elk St. will hear from Roxie Howard at 11 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 5. Howard will discuss her attendance at the White House Convening in December 2016 on advancing LGBT progress for rural America.

It will be Soup Sunday, so bring some soup, bread or dessert to share if you can. Join in the meal with a donation of $5 per person or $10 maximum per family. Proceeds go to a local charity. Childcare is provided.

Kings Hill Pioneer Church to meet Feb. 12

The newly constructed and formed Kings Hill Pioneer Church will meet at 10 a.m.

Sunday, Feb. 12. The church is located a half mile west of the Kings River Bridge on Highway 62. For more information, call 870-423-9399.

Citizen of the Week Eureka Springs Fire Marshal Jim Kelley is this week’s Citizen of the Week. Kelley sprung into action Thursday, Jan. 26, to inspect the old high school gym to make sure the Eureka Springs Community Center’s Winterfest Party could be held in the building.

To nominate someone for Citizen of the Week, email Samantha Jones at Citizen.

Editor.Eureka@gmail.com.

The date is set for Mercy Hospital Berryville’s 14th Annual Black and White Charity Ball, a fun-filled gala that has improved patient care in the community year after year.

The 2017 event will held Saturday, Feb. 18, at Inn of the Ozarks, located at 207 W. Van Buren in Eureka Springs. Doors will open at 6 p.m. Attendees will be treated to dinner, as well as live entertainment by country band Spa City Jumpers. There will also be live and silent auctions.

“We’d love to top last year’s donations, which were just shy of $58,000,” said Cody Qualls, executive director of Mercy Health Foundation Berryville. “That money paid for a new device for colonoscopies, which made a big impact on cancer screening and prevention efforts here in town.”

This year’s donations will pay for a new stress test machine – or electrocardiogram – to the tune of about $35,000. Hundreds of patients at Mercy Hospital Berryville undergo stress testing each year to pinpoint heart disease, irregular heartbeat or other cardiovascular issues.

“The leading cause of death in both men

and women is heart disease,” said Dr. Richard Taylor, who oversees stress tests at Mercy Hospital Berryville. “Most of the time, it’s preventable through controlling your diet and quitting smoking. We’re able to provide a convenient, local test to help Mercy patients pinpoint any problems before major damage to the heart is done.”

Taylor plans to speak at the Feb. 18 gala about the importance of stress tests. He’ll be joined at the event by more than 20 sponsors.

“It goes without saying, but this gala is truly powered by generosity of our friends and neighbors,” Qualls said. “The more involvement, the more Mercy patients will benefit.”

In addition to colonoscopes, the Black and White Charity Ball has most recently funded new patient stretchers in the Mercy emergency room, as well as state-of-the-art patient monitors in the surgery department. If this year’s goal is exceeded, the extra funds will go toward the purchase of new cardiac rehab equipment.

For ticket information, or to make a donation, call 870-423-5245. Click here to view the gala’s Facebook event page.

Holiday Island Community Church to begin Bible Study Feb. 3

Holiday Island Community Church will have a Bible Study on the book of Isaiah beginning at 10 a.m. Friday, Feb. 3, in the Library of Fellowship Hall. Park in the back of the Fellowship Hall and enter from the bottom floor. The church is located at 188 Stateline Drive. For more information, call 479-253-8200.

Sweetheart Lunch/Eagle Watch Cruises announced at Hobbs State Park Share the wonders of nature with your sweetheart this Valentine’s Day weekend by taking an Eagle Watch Cruise on beautiful Beaver Lake and enjoying lunch at Ventris Trails End Resort.

Lunch features meat lasagna, French onion soup with homemade bread rolls, salad, garlic bread, chocolate or vanilla sheet cake, tea, or coffee. The vegetarian option is a portabella mushroom. Alcoholic beverages are available at an additional charge.

Sweetheart Weekend trips are limited to the first 10 couples or 20 individuals.

Cruises are available Saturday, Feb. 11, and Sunday, Feb. 12, and run 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The cost is $80 plus tax per couple or $40 plus tax per individual. Reservations and payment must be made in advance.

Contact Hobbs State Park – Conservation Area visitor center to reserve your spot by calling 479-789-5000.

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What do

think

Citizen Opinion by Cindy Worley

Do you support President Trump’s immigration policy?

Matthew Jordan

Chloe Thomas

Phillip Thomas

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No. Immigrants are welcome here.

No. If they go through the process, let them in.

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Samantha Childress

Hell yes.

“Jess” No.

“Chlo”

“Sam”

“Phil”

Breanna Yowell “Bre”

Oh God, no.

No, no, no.

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Social media shutdown

ack in the day, all my friends were heavily involved with Myspace. I remember my friend Kasey agonizing over who to put in her Top 8 and trying not to take it personally when she put me near the end of the list. Kasey had a lot of friends. She was a social type, the kind of person invited to every party. Her presence on Myspace reflected that.

I wasn’t quite that social. I didn’t have enough close friends to compose a Top 8, so I put my favorite bands on there instead. I posted updates rarely, usually focusing on photos of my cats. Myspace was more a place where I checked up on everybody else. When Facebook started becoming popular, I had to jump on that bandwagon, too.

Facebook was a little different from Myspace. You could post status updates and photos and videos that appeared in a feed. I didn’t have to search for the people I liked to cyberstalk anymore. They were just there, popping up on my feed as if I had wished it so. It’s like the Facebook gods knew I wanted to see what my high school science teacher cooked for dinner. I was quite grateful for that. Secretly checking up on my acquaintances had never been easier.

At the time, I was obsessed with the television show “Lost.” Surely it annoyed everybody I knew but I couldn’t help but talk about it all the time. I started doing recaps of the show on Facebook, not expecting anyone to pay attention to them. Then someone liked it. Another person commented, “I love how crazy you are about this show.” It occurred to me that people were reading my updates the same way I read theirs, and I was hooked.

I started posting more updates. Some of them weren’t even about “Lost.” Before I knew it, I had fallen into social media’s trap. It was all about instant gratification, and I loved the way that felt.

For a while, I went a little over the top on Facebook.

I’d post selfies for no reason and let everybody know about how bad traffic was on Highway 71, as if it was my job to deliver the traffic report. Of course it wasn’t my job. Eventually I started to annoy myself by posting so regularly about such mundane things. My posting cooled down, and it has stayed that way. Over the

past few years, I’ve returned to cyberstalking people who probably don’t even remember meeting me.

It was pretty blissful until the election this past year, when political posts became rampant on Facebook. I suppose people have argued about politics on social media since it became available, but I don’t think it’s ever been this bad.

Since Donald Trump’s Samantha Jones inauguration, I have unfollowed and unfriended more people than I can count.

This hasn’t been easy for me. The main reason I enjoy social media is because it offers an opportunity to see life from other perspectives, especially those I don’t understand. I like seeing how other people think and what they like to eat and whether or not their favorite TV show got renewed. It’s like people watching except I don’t have to pretend to read a book to avoid being called creepy.

But now I don’t really want to see what other people are doing. I’m not saying politics don’t belong on social media. They do, probably now more than ever.

I’m starting to think maybe I don’t belong on social media anymore. It used to be fun and now it’s saturated by hyper-partisan bullhonkey. I’m prone to partisanship as much as the next person, so it’s been a chore for me to sit back and watch people attack one another and, often, views I hold dear.

Gideon and I are leaving for a seven-day cruise to Mexico this weekend. I’m elated for the opportunity to spend time with my husband, but I’m even more excited about avoiding the 24-hour news cycle and the comments that come with it.

A week at sea means we’ll have to unplug from social media, and I am embracing it with open arms.

••• Samantha Jones is associate editor for Carroll County Newspapers. Her email address is Citizen.Editor.Eureka@gmail.com.

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From left to right: Carroll County Sheriff Randy Mayfield, Lt. Dana Bailey and District 2 Justice of the Peace Chuck Olson.

Ty Loftis / Lovely County Citizen

Ty Loftis / Lovely County Citizen

From left to right, Sheriff Randy Mayfield, dispatcher Felicity Ber- Cpl. Taneia Snee accepts her award from ner and J.P. French, director of strategic accounts for Rave Mo- J.P. French, director of strategic accounts bile Safety. for Rave Mobile Safety.

Carroll County 911 personnel honored for helping domestic violence victims

By Kelby Newcomb CCNNews@cox-internet.com

Dispatchers with the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) have been recognized for outstanding efforts to aid citizens in need using Smart911, the county’s enhanced 911 service.

On Wednesday, Jan. 25, Sheriff Randy Mayfield, Chief Deputy Maj. George Frye and County Judge Sam Barr presented several members of Carroll County Central Dispatch with the Rave SmartSave Award, designed to honor call-takers and emergency responders for their quick thinking and ability to utilize Smart911 to improve the outcome of emergency situations.

JP French, director of strategic accounts for Rave Mobile Safety, which designed Smart911, said the program provides dispatchers with improved data and communications on each call.

The platform functions allow 911 dispatchers to text any mobile phone that calls in during events where callers are unable to speak or do not feel safe to

speak, French said. He said it also has a facility component that enables dispatchers to better locate callers.

A press release from CCSO states that a call came into central dispatch on Sept. 10 and was immediately disconnected. Dispatcher Clyde Thomas, Cpl. Casey Reddick, Ryan Hand and Nate McDaniel then reached out to the caller through text message, the release says.

The caller responded that there was domestic violence in progress, according to the release, and provided the names of all persons involved. The dispatch team then sent help, and the situation was resolved with one arrest, the release states.

On Tuesday, Dec. 20, central dispatch received a call from a familiar number, which had dialed in several times over the previous month, the release says. Cpl. Taneia Snee, Lt. Dana Bailey, dispatcher Felicity Berner and other team members were able to talk to the subject during the call and gain information about the situation, it says.

The release states that the caller was a 17-year-old who was certain his young cousins were being abused by their parents, including being locked up in a bedroom and bot being allowed food or access to the bathroom. By using Smart911 facility information, operators were able to take the descriptions of locations provided by the 17-yearold, locate the exact apartment building and send help, the release says.

“This is a great example of how Smart911 delivers more tools to our operators, which helps us get the right help to residents experiencing an emergency,” Mayfield said. “Our dispatchers’ persistent and skilled use of Smart911 made a difference in providing help in these situations.”

French said that Smart911 is a national service available to all residents and travelers in Arkansas. It provides the option to create a free safety profile for one’s household, he said, including any information an individual would want 911 and first responders to have

in the event of an emergency. He said the profile will immediately display on a 911 dispatcher’s screen should the individual make an emergency call.

“You can visit Smart911.com to create a safety profile for yourself and your family members,” French said.

“You can list all of your family members and any crucial information, such as allergies and any medications being taken.”

The only time the information is accessible, he said, is when someone from that safety profile makes an emergency call. It includes current photos of the family members, he said, which are vital in cases of missing persons.

“When kids go missing and parents call 911, they ask for a current picture of the child,” French said. “If you have a safety profile set up, then that photo comes up as soon as you call, and dispatchers can right click and immediately disseminate that photo to help locate the child.”

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Winterfest Party

Photos by Tavi Ellis

The community came together to support the Eureka Springs Community Center at the Winterfest Party on Thursday, Jan. 26. The party was held in the old high school gym, where the community center plans to have after-school programming in the next few months.

Local musicians play some tunes at the party.

Lorrie Davis presents this rare find, a genuine opossum fur coat, during the live auction.

Andrew Schwerin of Sycamore Bend Farm and Richard Potter of RP Beef enjoy their time representing the Eureka Springs Farmers Market.

Joyce and Eric Knowles are largely responsible for the party. The couple donated their time and effort to organize the event.

Poco Carter, Faith Shah and Mary Springer sip soup for a good cause.

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Garage Sale

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The Eureka Springs Historical Museum hosted its annual Garage Sale on Saturday, Jan. 28, at Inn of the Ozarks Convention Center.

Berryville resident Jay Bullock demonstrates the Berryville residents Carol and Cliff White man their booth scale he has for sale, saying, ‘I’ll take $10 for it. I at the sale. don’t want to haul it back.’

June Owen and June Hagedus say they’re here to support the Eureka Springs Historical Museum and perhaps find a treasure or two.

Leslie Purdy-Hoyt found something she couldn’t live without at Wayne Schmidt’s booth. Heidi Rice, right, clutches the spatula she found, showing it to friend Carol Douglas.

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Honor Roll

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These are the students who made the Honor Roll for the second quarter at Eureka Springs Middle School. The students who had all A’s were named to the Superintendent’s Honor Roll, and the students with A’s and B’s were named to the Principal’s Honor Roll.

Seventh and eighth grades

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With a little help from their teachers, Eureka Springs kindergartners celebrate their 100th day of school on Jan. 25 by dressing up as if they’re 100 years old. As part of the celebration, the students gathered 100 small objects from home and counted them with their classmates.

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The Eureka Gras Night Parade will take place at 6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 18, and the daytime Costume Parade is slated for 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 25. For more information on joining the parade, contact nlpaddock@gmail.com or 479-244-0123. Applications can be downloaded at http://www.EurekaSpringsMardiGras.org.

Senior Center Menu The Carroll County Senior Activity & Wellness Center is located at 202 W. Madison Ave. in Berryville. Lunch is served weekdays at noon.

Monday, Feb. 6 Spaghetti with meat sauce, broccoli, garlic toast and peaches Tuesday, Feb. 7 Chicken stew, fluffy rice, cornbread and cherry dump cake

Wednesday, Feb. 8 Fish, hominy, coleslaw, hushpuppies and fruit Thursday, Feb. 9 Meatloaf, mashed potatoes, turnip greens, wheat bread and pudding Friday, Feb. 10 Baked potato soup, ham sandwich, lettuce, tomato, onion and pickle, fruit and cottage cheese

ES School Menu Monday, Feb. 6 Breakfast: Chicken tenders and Dutch waffle or strawberry banana yogurt and oatmeal bar or bowl of cereal and strawberry banana yogurt or chocolate or powdered mini donuts, Mandarin oranges, juice and milk Lunch: Pepperoni stuffed sandwich pocket, baby carrots and broccoli bites, dried cranberries, juice and milk Tuesday, Feb. 7 Breakfast: Pillsbury mini cinis or bowl of cereal and strawberry banana yogurt or whole grain strawberry pop-tarts or chocolate or powdered mini donuts, dried cranberries, juice and milk Lunch: Chicken sandwich, waffle fries, sandwich veggie sides, fruit, juice and milk Wednesday, Feb. 8 Breakfast: Mini pancakes or bowl of cereal and strawberry banana yogurt or whole grain strawberry pop-tarts or chocolate or powdered mini donuts, fruit, juice and milk Lunch: Spaghetti with meat sauce and cheese-filled Bosco bread stick, steamed broccoli, corn, pineapple tibias, juice and milk Thursday, Feb. 9 Breakfast: Egg, cheese and bacon

breakfast boat or bowl of cereal and strawberry banana yogurt or whole grain strawberry pop-tarts or chocolate or powdered mini donuts, Mandarin oranges, juice and milk Lunch: Homemade chicken crispitos, salsa, green bell pepper strips, black bean salad, diced peaches, juice and milk Friday, Feb. 10 Breakfast: Biscuit and gravy with turkey bacon or strawberry banana yogurt and oatmeal bar or bowl of cereal and strawberry banana yogurt or chocolate or powdered mini donuts, dried cranberries, juice and milk Lunch: Honey barbecue pulled pork sandwich, spiral fries, cole slaw, black bean salad, strawberry cup, juice and milk

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The phenomenal growth of Eureka Springs occurred as thousands of people rushed to the springs from all directions, responding to the promise of the healing attributed to the waters. Many of these health-seekers were people of faith who put their confidence in God to provide guidance and healing.

Eureka Springs was often called ‘the Siloam of the Afflicted,’ ascribing to its water the same healing properties of the Biblical ‘Pool of Siloam.’ The atmosphere of faith and gratitude prevailed throughout the growing community, and many of the first gatherings at the springs were services of worship.

Among the earliest arrivals were ministers of the gospel, circuit-riding preachers and traveling evangelists. They preached to the crowds at Basin Spring and used the waters of the springs to baptize new converts. In the summer of 1879, the encampment around the springs resembled a great camp meeting. As the new city developed into a fashionable health spa, the newly organized congregations began to build houses of worship, some as early as 1880. By 1890, a local writer referred to the ‘edifices which graced these hills,’ built by several denominations.

‘The City that Water Built’ soon came to be known by another name: ‘The City of Churches.’

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Highlanders grind it out, beat Alpena by four

By Ty Loftis

CCNSports@cox-internet.com

EUREKA SPRINGS — Defense has led the charge all year for the Eureka Springs Highlanders. That is what won the game for the Highlanders once again in Friday night’s 60-56 home victory over Alpena.

“They got ahead by as much as 13 in the third quarter,” Eureka Springs coach Brian Rambo said. “I called a timeout and we finished the game on a 31-14 run. We outscored them 24-14 in the fourth quarter. We just did a great job defensively once again. That was the difference in the game.”

With 40 seconds remaining in the game, Alpena had the ball leading 56-54 and was attempting to dribble out the clock when Brandon Ray stole the ball and passed it ahead to Keeton Lofgren for a three-point play.

“They were trying to hold the ball against us and make us foul them,” Rambo said.

“We just got a deflection for our effort and got a run out and a layup. That just turned the whole game around. Keeton made that big free throw. They go from holding the basketball. Now they have to score to beat us.”

After an Alpena timeout, the Highlanders forced the Leopards to take a contested shot and Carter Drennon got the rebound and was fouled. Drennon made the first free throw.

After he missed the second, J.M. Gregg rebounded the ball and made a basket to put Eureka Springs ahead 60-56 with 14 seconds remaining.

“All of a sudden, we are up four and the clock is running and they have no way to score four points in 14 seconds,” Rambo said. “Those plays down the stretch are about effort. Those aren’t sets to beat guys. We are just grinding things out and winning games

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guest and advised that if she didn’t stay in her room for the night she would be arrested for public intoxication. She agreed to stay in her room and to stop disturbing the other guests.

12:45 p.m. — An employee at an area business advised that a female subject had taken some money and an officer was needed. An officer responded and took a report.

on effort.”

Rambo knows holding the Leopards to 14 points for a quarter and a half is quite an accomplishment.

“This is a quality opponent,” Rambo said. “They have scored 70 points against a lot of people. They have scored 90 a couple times this year. You can’t say enough about our kids and their effort. It’s not pretty wins.

We aren’t beating guys 85-75. It’s not NBA basketball, but it’s gritty, dirty, grind-it out games. My guys are expecting that. It makes you feel like you can play with anyone.”

Alpena got out to a 15-11 lead in the first quarter and led 30-24 at halftime. Rambo credits the Leopards for having a good game plan heading into the game, but he is glad Eureka Springs found a way to make adjustments as the game went on.

“They watched some things defensively on film,” Rambo said. “They tried to change how they guarded J.M. and Garrett (Cross).

It gave us problems early. Luckily, we were able to get a few buckets and guard well enough to keep it close at halftime. After we came out in the second half and made some adjustments, we really got rolling.”

Eureka Springs has two conference games left on the road. If the Highlanders win both, they are conference champions. “’Our guys understand that we put ourselves in a position to win the conference,” Rambo said. “We beat two quality teams last week, but it won’t mean anything if we can’t go on the road and win two basketball games.”

Gregg finished the game with 22 points, while Cross had 19 and Avery Walker had 13. Tipoff at St. Paul is scheduled for 4 p.m.

On Friday, the Highlanders travel to Decatur.

Eureka Springs’ J.M. Gregg attempts a slam dunk over a Kingston defender in a game earlier this year.

9:46 p.m. — Officers responded to a local motel to a report of a female not leaving when the owners requested her to leave.

11:04 p.m. — A complainant advised that a man dressed in all dark clothes was by the Little Chapel with a flashlight and a bicycle acting suspicious. Officers responded and spoke with the male in question, who advised that he was looking through the clothes left out for the needy because he needed some.

11:50 p.m. — A complainant advised

that they thought they heard someone walking on the roof of their residence and out in their yard. Officers responded and checked the area. They found no one in the area.

Jan. 29 7:32 a.m. — An officer responded to an alarm and checked the area and the building. All was secure.

6:57 p.m. — A caller advised that he saw a man chasing a woman near an area business. An officer responded and located the

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subjects. They advised that they had had a verbal argument and went back to their apartment.

7:34 p.m. — A caller at an area business advised that she could hear a male yelling at nearby apartments. An officer responded and discovered a male yelling at another resident for playing loud music. He was just adding to the noise in the end.

11:20 p.m. — An officer checked a suspicious vehicle and arrested a subject for public intoxication.

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Opera in the Ozarks adds new rehearsal space

By Kelby Newcomb CCNNews@cox-internet.com

Students at Opera in the Ozarks will no longer have to sing where they eat.

Board member Dr. Alice Martinson said the campus is adding a 40-foot by 80-foot building that will serve as a rehearsal space for the students. The building will be divided into two 30-foot by 40-foot rehearsal areas, which will be separated by a 20-foot wide tech space. The tech space will also feature new restrooms, she said, including a handicap accessible restroom.

Martinson said the rehearsal space was important to have in order to properly stage the operas.

“When you put on an opera or any musical production, you have to design it and rehearse it in a space of the same size that you’re going to produce it in,” she said, “because your movements have to go with the music. You have to be able to get from one point to another.”

The campus had little suitable space for rehearsals, she said, so students have been using the cafeteria as a rehearsal space for years.

“The cafeteria is the only space that’s big enough, and that means taking up the tables and chairs three times a day and setting them back up three times a day,” Martinson said.

The new building will also provide Opera in the Ozarks a nice space to do master classes with visiting professional singers, she said.

“We’ve been doing them in the cafeteria as well, with lunch being cooked in one part of the room and a very noisy ice machine in the back,” Martinson said. “It’s been kind of comical.”

She joked, “I offered to go and find two new noisy ice machines to put in each of the new rehearsal spaces, but they said ‘No, don’t put yourself out.’ ” Jim Fliss is the general contractor for the project, Martinson said, and has already completed much of the exterior work on the new building.

“It’s a metal building. That’s why it went up so fast,” she said. “Jim, who also happens to be just about our nearest neighbor out there, subcontracted the building. It may have come from Central States. I do know

Photo by David Bell

Large group rehearsal space and additional public restrooms have been added in a new building, which will be ready for the upcoming season at Opera in the Ozarks.

that everything we are putting in it and everyone who is working on it is from Carroll County or immediately adjacent counties.

We’re leaving the project at home.”

Martinson said the project will cost upwards of $130,000. While Opera in the Ozarks is hoping to receive grants to offset the expenses, she said they decided the project needed to be completed as soon as possible.

“We decided that we needed to just step up and do it rather than wait around and seek the money first,” she said. “So we were fortunate enough to have some resources we could apply to the project, but we have to replenish them.”

Martinson said that there will be naming opportunities for donors to the project.

“We have naming opportunities for everything from $50 for a piece of furniture to $70,000 to name the building after someone,” she said. “We remain optimistic.”

The new building is not the only project being worked on at the campus, she said.

Opera in the Ozarks is also currently working to rehabilitate its men’s dorm to make it more livable for the summer.

“We’re being really active out there. Singers and staff are in the dorms for about eight weeks over the summer, so we’re trying to make it as livable as we can for them,” Martinson said.

The program’s other goal is to fully fund

scholarships for all students, she said.

“It’s a very intense program that has proved very valuable for so many young people getting started in opera,” Martinson said. “Our goal is to be able to fully fund scholarships for everybody. Right now, we can’t, but everybody gets at least a partial scholarship.”

She said the new rehearsal space will be ready before the upcoming season this summer.

“It will be ready well before the first person checks in at about the first of May,” Martinson said.

She said this summer will be Opera in the Ozarks’ 67th Season. They are currently getting the cast together for the summer, she said, and the summer’s operas will be “Carmen,” “Marriage of Figaro” and “Susannah.” The first performance will be Friday, June 23, she said.

“This will be our 67th season, and, for a nonprofit arts organization, that is a longevity record that is pretty special,” Martinson said. “We have been able to survive and prosper this long because we’ve been sponsored by the South Central Region of the National Federation of Music Clubs.”

She continued, “We are always looking to broaden our base of support and to broaden the reach of the art form to people not only in this county but also in the state as a whole.”

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CALENDAR of events

Send calendar entries to Kelby Newcomb at CCNNews@cox-internet.com. The calendar is reserved for events sponsored by non-profit entities, benefits for non-profits and free events. First priority will be given to organizations providing a public service, such as rural fire departments, schools, churches, hospital auxiliaries and services for senior citizens or veterans. Submissions should be timely. Calendar listings should not be more than 30 days in advance of the event. The calendar is sometimes edited to fit the available space in the print edition. See the full calendar online at www.LovelyCitizen.com.

Roxie Howard will discuss her attendance at the White House Convening in December 2016 on Advancing LGBT Progress for Rural America at the Eureka Unitarian Universalist Fellowship at 11 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 5, at 17 Elk St. Childcare is provided. It will also be Soup Sunday, so attendees are encouraged to bring some soup, bread or dessert to share if they can. Join in the meal with a donation of either $5 per person or a $10 maximum per family. Proceeds go to a local charity.

Feb. 6: Metafizzies Meeting

The Eureka Springs Metaphysical Society (Metafizzies) meeting will feature Dr. Stephen Foster continuing his discussion on metaphysical interpretation of the New Testament at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 6, at the Heart of Many Ways at 68 Mountain St. All are welcome.

Feb. 9: Mardi Gras Shoebox Floats

Clear Spring School’s Mardi Gras Shoebox Floats will be on display at the school on Thursday, Feb. 9, for the public to view and bid on the silent auction of the floats. The floats were created by Clear Spring students in grades 1-12 and have themes ranging from Mardi Gras to the beach. The floats will be auctioned off at the Krewe du Kork Wine and Dine Benefit Dinner for Clear Spring School on Saturday, Feb. 11, at Cottage Inn Restaurant. Chef Linda Hager will serve a traditional Mardi Gras dinner, donating a portion of the cost of the dinner to the school.

For more information call the school at

Feb. 11: Chocolate Lover’s Festival

The Greater Eureka Springs Chamber of Commerce will hold the 13th annual Chocolate Lover’s Festival from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 11, at the Best Western Inn of the Ozarks. Admission is $15 per person when purchased online at EurekaSpringsChamber.com or at the Eureka Springs Chamber of Commerce. Admission at the door will be $20. For more information contact Jessica Wheeless at Jessica@EurekaSpringsChamber.com or 479-2538737 or visit EurekaSpringsChamber. com and click on events.

Feb. 12: Kings Hill Pioneer Church Service

The newly constructed and formed Kings Hill Pioneer Church will hold service at 10 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 12. The church is a half mile west of the Kings River bridge on Highway 62. For more information call 870-423-9399.

Feb. 12: EUUF Service

Jan Schaper of Eureka Springs and Fayetteville resident Chris McNamara and Shelley Buonaiuto will offer a brief

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Local organizers of the One Billion Rising movement will host the third annual event from 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Sunday, Feb. 12, at Main Stage Creative Community Center at 67 North Main St. in Eureka Springs. One Billion Rising, created by Eve Ensler, is a worldwide movement to bring awareness to the United Nations statistics that one in three women across the planet will be beaten or raped during her lifetime.

This year’s theme is solidarity, giving a sharper focus and visibility to the exploitation of women in order to demand an end of violence in all forms.

Speakers for the event will be John McGee, director of the Northwest Arkansas Shelter, Rev. Blake Lasater from the Eureka Springs Methodist Church and volunteers from the Purple Flower Domestic Violence Resource Center in Berryville. Entertainment will feature Morty and Melanie Mortensen from Fayetteville, Catherine Reed with Rain Equin and Pearl Brick. To learn more, visit Onebillionrising.org.

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overview of the goals and efforts of Citizen’s Climate Lobby and will invite sharing about living in a climatically changing world at the Eureka Unitarian Universalist Fellowship at 11 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 12, at 17 Elk St.

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Feb. 5: EUUF Service

Dr. Thomas Conboy, member of First Presbyterian Church in Eureka Springs, is presenting a five-week series on “How We Create Hell,” reflecting on C.S. Lewis’ “The Great Divorce” and the works of English poet William Blake referred to as “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.” The series is open to the public and well begin from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, in the fellowship hall of the church. The fee for each session will be a can of food for Flint Street Food Bank.

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Frank Wicks will be leading a Bible Study on the book of Isaiah at 10 a.m. on Friday mornings at the Holiday Island Community Church at 188 Stateline Dr. The Bible Study will be held in the library of the Fellowship Hall and will begin at 10 a.m. Friday, Feb. 3. For more information call 479-253-8200.

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Photo by David Bell

These students received music camp scholarships at last year’s We’ve Got Talent concert.

We’ve Got Talent concert scheduled for March 5

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Cheri Yarborough, left, and Linda Maiella greet people at last year’s One Billion Rising event.

One Billion Rising scheduled for Feb. 12

The 3rd Annual One Billion Rising event will take place from 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 12, at Main Stage Creative Community Center at 67 North Main St. in Eureka Springs.

The event is a worldwide movement to bring awareness to the fact that one in three women across the planet will be beaten or raped during her lifetime. Every February since 2013, people have been rising in hundreds of countries to show local communities and the world how to shine a light on the rampant impunity and injustice that survivors often face.

The theme of the event this year is Solidarity, giving a sharper focus and visibility to the exploitation of women and to harness even greater global solidarity to de-

mand and end of violence in all forms. According to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, nearly 20 people per minute are physical abused by an intimate partner in the United States. In one year, that is 10 million men and women.

The speakers at this year’s event are John McGee, director of the Northwest Arkansas Shelter; Rev. Blake Lasater from the Eureka Springs Methodist Church and the volunteers from the Purple Flower Domestic Violence Resource Center in Berryville. Entertainment includes Morty and Melanie Mortensen of Fayetteville, Catherine Reed with Rain Equin and Pearl Brick.

For more information, visit OneBillionRising.org.

Carroll County Music Group’s annual We’ve Got Talent concert will take place on Sunday, March 5, at the Eureka Springs City Auditorium. The show helps provide funds for local youth to attend music camps and other music enrichment opportunities.

The two-hour, fast-paced program is supported by area businesses and individual donations and through ticket sales. The show will feature local and area talent ranging from solo singers, ensembles, choirs, dance groups, band and instrumentalists.

The show’s directors, Rick and Donesa Mann, will announce the final lineup later in February. In addition to the performances, the audience will meet several of last year’s scholarship recipients who will share their camp experiences.

Last year, Carroll County Music Group provided music camp scholarship funds for nearly 30 local students. This is the fifth year that Carroll County Music Group has brought the talent show to the Eureka Springs Auditorium.

Blood drives scheduled in BV, ES

Community Blood Center of the Ozarks (CBC0) is on a Code Red Alert for O Positive and O Negative blood types and a Code Yellow Alert for B Negative and A Positive blood types.

The community is strongly urged to give blood at a CBCO donor center or blood drive.

Donors to CBCO provide all of the blood for patients at 40 area hospitals.

On average, a transfusion takes place every seven minutes and around 200 donations are needed each day to meet the area’s blood needs.

In Carroll County, blood drives have been scheduled from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Tuesday, Jan. 31, at Inn of the Ozarks on

Highway 62 West in Eureka Springs; and from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 1, at the Walmart Supercenter, 1000 W. Trimble in Berryville.

Each donation will be awarded LifePoints as a part of CBCO’s donor rewards program. LifePoints may be redeemed online for a variety of gift cards, or points may be assigned to other meaningful causes or charities. More information on the LifePoints donor rewards program may be found at www.cbco.org.

To be eligible to give blood, you must weigh at least 110 pounds, be in good health, and present a valid photo ID. For more information, visit www.cbco.org, or call toll-free 1-800-280-5337.

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LIVELY Entertainment

THURSDAY, FEB. 2 • Cathouse, 82 Armstrong, 479-3639976: The George Brothers, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

• Eureka Live, 35 N. Main, 479-2537020: Happy Hour, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.; Green Screen Karaoke, 9 p.m.

• Farmers’ Market, Pine Mountain Village: Los Roscoes, 9 a.m. to noon • Grande Taverne, 37 N. Main St., 479253-6756: Jerry Yester, 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

• Grub & Pub Club 169, 169 E. Van Buren, 479-253-7122: Throwback Thursdays, 90’s music • Legends Saloon (Lumberyard), 105 E. Van Buren, 479-253-2500: Happy Hour, 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.; SOB, 9 p.m.

FRIDAY, FEB. 3 • Brews, 2 Pine St., 479-244-0878: Chris Harp, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

• Cathouse, 82 Armstrong, 479-3639976: Mark Shields & Good Company, 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.

• Chelsea’s, 10 Mountain St., 479-2536723: Sad Daddy, 9 p.m.

• Eureka Live, 35 N. Main, 479253-7020: Happy Hour, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

• Grande Taverne, 479-253-6756: Arkansas Red, 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

• Grub & Pub Club 169, 479-253-7122: TBA, 8:30 p.m.

• Legends Saloon (Lumberyard), 479253-2500: Happy Hour, 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.; DJ Karaoke, 9 p.m.

• Rowdy Beaver Den, 47 Spring St., 479363-6444: Dave Smith Trio, 8 p.m.

• Rowdy Beaver Tavern, 417 W. Van Buren, 479-253-8544: 2 Dog 2 Karaoke, 7 p.m.

SATURDAY, FEB. 4 • Brews, 2 Pine St., 479-244-0878: Route 358, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

• Cathouse, 82 Armstrong, 479-3639976: Kevin Upshaw, 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.

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Dancing, 9 p.m. to close • Grande Taverne, 479-253-6756: Jerry Yester, 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

• Grub & Pub Club 169, 479-253-7122: TBA, 8:30 p.m.

• Legends Saloon, 479-253-2500: Happy Hour, 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.; Opium Western, 9 p.m.

• Rowdy Beaver Den, 479-363-6444: Dorrian Cross, noon to 4 p.m.; Richard Burnett Band, 8 p.m.

• Rowdy Beaver Tavern, 479-253-8544: Southern Confession, 7 p.m.

SUNDAY, FEB. 5 • Brews, 479-244-0878: Trivia, 6 p.m.

• Eureka Live, 479-253-7020: Green Screen Karaoke, 7 p.m.

• Grub & Pub Club 169, 479-253-7122: Sinday Sunday Service Industry Night • Legends Saloon (Lumberyard): Happy Hour, 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.: Texas Holdem, 7 p.m.

• Rowdy Beaver Den, 479-363-6444: Terri & Brett, noon to 4 p.m.

• Rowdy Beaver Tavern, 479-253-8544:

Super Bowl Party; Free Pool MONDAY, FEB. 6 • Chelsea’s: SprUngbilly, 9 p.m.

• Grub & Pub Club 169, 479-253-7122: Happy Hour, 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.

• Legends Saloon (Lumberyard): Happy Hour, 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.

TUESDAY, FEB. 7 • Cathouse, 479-363-9976: Los Roscoes, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

• Chelsea’s: Open Mic, 9 p.m.

• Grub & Pub Club 169, 479-253-7122: Tuesday Boozeday, $2 Specials all day • Legends Saloon (Lumberyard): Game Night: Happy Hour, 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.: Texas Holdem and Pool Tournament, 7 p.m.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 8 • Cathouse, 479-363-9976: Jimmy Wayne Garrett, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

• Grub & Pub Club 169: Whiskey Wednesday, Whiskey Specials • Legends Saloon (Lumberyard): Happy Hour, 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.: SOB, 9 p.m.

• Rowdy Beaver Den, 479-363-6444: Shawbee Karaoke, 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.

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caller and find out if someone is there with them, if they need medical assistance and if the assailant has weapons in the home.”

He continued, “Then, officers can determine if they should send multiple responders instead of sending one officer. If they find out there is a weapon in the home, they can prepare accordingly, so it’s protecting our officers as well as our citizens.”

French said Rave Mobile Safety wanted to recognize the Carroll County Central Dispatch team for utilizing the tools that Smart911 offers to help citizens in emergency situations.

“We wanted to recognize them for a job well done,” he said. “Look at the difference they’re making and the time they’re saving.”

Mayfield said Smart911 is provided to Arkansas residents by the state.

He said residents are encouraged to create a free safety profile at Smart911. com. All information is kept private and secure, French said, and only becomes available to emergency responders when 911 is dialed.

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et your scissors out and clip this column to save on your refrigerator door. I’ll be giving you two different reciJim Fain pes for the use of cayenne and cider vinegar. First, a review of usefulness for each of these traditional healing agents.

Cayenne can be used both internally and externally. The benefit internally is mostly for the stimulant properties of the fiery hot pepper. The benefit externally as a surface rub is mostly as an emollient ,though one concoction which I will give you can also be used for relief of congestion, sprains and bruises. The emollient use is for the reduction of pain from shingles, diabetic neuropathy, arthritis, rheumatism and fibromyalgia.

Apple cider vinegar has an outstanding reputation with fitness enthusiasts and weight loss supporters, though very little science backing the benefits. Many other folk uses/treatments exist with many stories supporting its usefulness. We know for certain vinegar is acidic and has no vitamins and almost no minerals or trace elements. Sometimes you’ll find sediment in the bottom; this is called “Mother.” Mother shows this to be an unstrained product which may have additional benefit. The addition of vinegar to your diet may help with the digestion which happens in your stomach before going to the small bowel. If food is better digested, it makes sense that better health will follow. Certainly it can help diabetics control blood sugar. Vinegar is also a wonderful extraction liquid for tinctures and may have different flavors depending upon the source of the vinegar (I like rice vinegar for flavor).

It also makes for a good soaking medium ,especially for the nails.

For external use only, boil for 10 minutes one tablespoon of cayenne in one pint of cider vinegar.

Bottle it still hot, unstrained. Use as a rub to relieve congestion, sprains, pain of shingles, neuropathy and fibromyalgia. Be sure to wash your hands after use and stay away from your eyes and delicate areas.

For internal use as a cleanse, add the juice of four lemons, four ounces of organic maple syrup (grade B tastes best), one to two teaspoons of cayenne to one gallon of pure water to taste. Drink a gallon per each twenty-four hour period. Cleanses can be tricky, so if you go longer than one day be sure you have the support of your healthcare practitioner.

Bottoms up!

Wisecrack ZODIAC ARIES: A situation requires the gentle approach, so set aside the power tools and practice your finger exercises. You’ve already destroyed two iPads and a phone this year; your ham-handed ways are costing you a fortune.

TAURUS: Good grief, pull yourself together and keep it that way. Use staples and Velcro if you have to, but reserve the duct tape for last-ditch situations. Like Saturday.

GEMINI: You don’t have all the answers, but you have enough to bewilder those asking the questions. Remember, the guru on the mountaintop ended up there just so he could get some peace, and better wifi for a Netflix binge.

CANCER: Reach deep inside yourself for the truth you seek. Not that deep, though. If you find something squishy, it’s not the truth, it’s your appendix. Neither one of them need to come out right now.

LEO: The earth may revolve around you, but you don’t have to shine on everyone all the time. Quit poking at those enjoying the shade; they won’t sing your praises, but they might use some interesting hand gestures.

VIRGO: Your plan is nearly complete. All you need now is lots of money, time and a discarded gum wrapper.

Take heart, because you already have one of these things. Hustle until you have the other two.

LIBRA: Someone’s playing the wrong tune for all your right moves. If you can’t fall into step, kick the drum player and change the beat. Or offer him a couch and some pizza. That usually works.

SCORPIO: Broaden your horizons this week. Not only does travel and adventure introduce you to new concepts, it also expands your mind. Good thing, too, because you really need more room so you can move around your mental furniture.

SAGITTARIUS: Dance like no one’s watching, sing like you’re in the shower, but text like your grandmother is reading every single one. That goes

double for pics. Granny doesn’t want to see your junk.

CAPRICORN: Your stubbornness is legendary; that’s why the highway makes a loop around your house instead of going through it.

Pick your battles carefully on Friday, though. Someone you meet isn’t as easygoing as the guys on the road crew.

AQUARIUS: Be brave, be bold, and on Thursday, be under the covers

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with a flashlight until the storm passes. Some things are too weird to face alone, and your back-up won’t arrive until the zombies are gone.

PISCES: You’re feeling out-of-sorts. But really, have you ever been insorts? Your everyday mood swings would scare the crap out of a normal person, but it would make a compelling horror movie.

Scribble it down and make some cash.

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In-Home Caregivers The Area Agency on Aging of NW Arkansas is looking for Personal Care Assistants (PCA’s) to work with our In-Home Care clients. We are looking for trained PCA’s with good work ethics and a caring attitude. If not trained, we will provide FREE training for the right applicants that are otherwise eligible for employment. Part- time schedules - up to 28 hours per week. $9.25 per hour

UPCOMING CLASS SCHEDULE: February 6 - 10, 2017 March 13 – 17, 2017

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Pharaoh (F14-0066) is a very special cat that needs and deserves a very special home. He’s only a few years old and suffered from bad gums to the that point he had to have most of his teeth extracted. Despite this, he continues to keep up his winning personality. He needs to have warm water added to his dry food and loves canned food. He needs to be an indoor cat and his favorite thing to do is to lie in the window and watch the birds. He is neutered and has his shots.

He’s available for adoption at the Good Shepherd Animal Shelter on Highway 62 east of Eureka Springs. The shelter is open from noon to 5 p.m. every day but Tuesday and Wednesday. For more information, call 479-253-9188.

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Pipeline in a safe and reliable manner, which, in many cases, will exceed required safety, design, construction and operating standards.

The Diamond Pipeline would run from Cushing, Okla., to Memphis, Tenn. According to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the pipeline would cross approximately 500 bodies of water, including 11 drinking water sources. \Residents who attended the Stop the Diamond Pipeline Benefit expressed concerns over the environmental and health impacts of the project.

“The pipelines have been shown to be ineffective,” said David Roll. “There’s a lot of leaking going on all over the place, and we’re here to support a different way of looking at things. It’s the spirt of innovations like solar panels and the movement away from fossil fuel. This is where we’re starting.”

Nancy Bergeron said she is worried about how the construction of the pipeline would affect plants, animals and Arkansas’ landscape.

“Without water, we have no life,” Bergeron said. “Tearing up this beautiful land for a pipeline will be bad for the

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plants and animals and drinking water. It’s all about greed. It’s not benefiting us, and it’s not benefiting the state. So what’s the point? Why should we allow it?”

Tess, a volunteer at the benefit, said she thinks events like the benefit are an important way to show tangible support for causes such as stopping the Diamond Pipeline.

“I think we need to actively organize in a way that isn’t all on the internet. This is a tangible space where you can see the faces of people who care about this,” she said. “I just think in the political climate that we have right now it’s important to have solidarity in as many places as possible. I want to be supportive of any and all activism right now. I feel like this is important.”

While the Diamond Pipeline would not run through Eureka Springs, Perry said she believes people everywhere need to recognize the impact of pipeline projects.

“There are pipelines everywhere. Every one of us need to be picking up a fight where we are,” she said. “Standing Rock was a large influence on everybody, of course, because it put things into perspective that we can do this.”

Perry continued, “Arkansas is our home. I love all of Arkansas. All of this is supporting Arkansas Rising. We’ve got to fight this pipeline from all angles.”

She said the organizers of the benefit have another show planned for Thursday, Feb. 16, at Chelsea’s Corner Cafe in Eureka Springs. Five bands have arranged to play at the event, she said, and there will be raffle items and T-shirts.

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gest-running conventions held in Eureka Springs.

“According to their fact sheet, they’re going to have at least 2,000 people here,” Maloney said. “They’ll need help printing and mailing and the promotional flyers.”

Duling said that conference is usually a big hit.

“We always get two- or three-nighters out of the deal,” he said.

The commission will vote on the market fund requests at its next regular meeting 6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 8, at City Hall.

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Krewe du Kork, Cottage Inn host cooking class for Clear Spring School Linda Hager of Cottage Inn recently hosted a cooking class for Clear Spring School students.

The students were hands-on in the kitchen, creating a little lagniappe to serve at the Krewe du Kork Benefit Dinner for the school. Lagniappe means a little something special or extra. The field trip not only introduced the students to a possible future in the culinary arts; it also gave them an opportunity to create a dish to give back to those supporting the school.

Cne’ Breaux and Ilene Powell have formed Eureka Springs’ newest Mardi Gras krewe. The krewe is having its first wine dinner on Saturday, Feb. 11, at Cottage Inn. Proceeds from the dinner will benefit Clear Spring School. The doors will open at 5 p.m., when people can begin viewing the Mardi Gras shoe box floats decorated by Clear Spring students. The

wine dinner and silent auction will take place from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tickets cost $55 per person, with $20 of each ticket being donated to the school.

Before the dinner takes place, he school will display the Mardi Gras shoebox floats from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9.

The floats will be auctioned off at the benefit dinner.

Light refreshments and a Mardi Gras paper bag making station will be available during the viewing of the floats. It will take place at Clear Spring School, located at 374 Dairy Hollow Road.

For more information on the events, contact Clear Spring School by calling 479-253-7888 or emailing development@ ClearSpringSchool.org. You can reserve a spot at the benefit dinner by visiting CottageInnEurekaSprgs.com or calling 479253-5282.

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Clear Spring School students are captivated during a cooking class with Linda Hager of Cottage Inn.

Arkansas Community Foundation offers scholarships for local students

Beginning Feb. 1, Arkansas students can apply for more than 200 private scholarships through Arkansas Community Foundation’s online scholarship portal.

April 1 is the deadline to apply for most opportunities. Students can begin their online application by visiting www.arcf.org/ scholarships.

“Post-secondary education is a key to financial stability and opportunity,” said Heather Larkin, president and CEO of the Community Foundation. “When Arkansans earn college degrees or professional certificates, they benefit as individuals and we all benefit as a state. The community foundation is honored to help connect students with the resources they need to keep learning.”

Each scholarship has its own eligibility criteria; in general, the community foundation’s scholarships are for Arkansas students pursuing higher education at two- or four-year colleges or universities, vocational schools or technical training pro-

grams. Some scholarships are designated for graduates of a particular high school or those who plan to attend a particular college. Others are based on extracurricular activities or intended college majors. College students are also encouraged to look through the list of scholarships – some apply specifically to students already pursuing an undergraduate degree or a master’s degree, and there are even a few very specific to the medical field. All students are encouraged to go online today and look through the list of available scholarships.

Locally, students from Alpena, Berryville, Eureka Springs and Green Forest are eligible to apply for these scholarships, established for students in the area: • Supercow Endowment for Academic Excellence in Agriculture - (agriculture-based studies) • Dr. Austin C. Smith Memorial Scholarship – (medical field studies) • Poultry Federation Scholarship - (students whose families are affiliated with

poultry production – early deadline here) “Funding for these scholarships comes from families, businesses and individuals who want to support higher education and invest in Arkansas students,” said Janell Robertson, executive director of Carroll County Community Foundation, Arkansas Community Foundation’s affiliate in the area. “These donors determine the size and eligibility criteria for the scholarships they create, and we grow the endowment and manage the scholarship process on their behalf. We want to encourage all students in high school and in college to look through the list of scholarships to see if they are eligible to any funding beyond those specifically managed by this local affiliate.”

More information about the online application process is available at www.arcf. org/scholarships.

Arkansas Community Foundation is a nonprofit organization that fosters smart giving to improve communities.

The Community Foundation offers tools to help Arkansans protect, grow and direct their charitable dollars as they learn more about community needs. By making grants and sharing knowledge, the Community Foundation supports charitable programs that work for Arkansas and partners to create new initiatives that address the gaps. Since 1976, the Community Foundation has provided more than $156 million in grants and partnered with thousands of Arkansans to help them improve our neighborhoods, our towns and our entire state. Contributions to the Community Foundation, its funds and any of its 27 affiliates are fully tax deductible. The Carroll County Community Foundation has been working in and for the people of our area for over 15 years and has granted more than $780,000 worth of support locally. For more information about our grant cycles and how you can improve our area through smart giving, visit: www. arcf.org/carrollcounty .

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Who Reads NeWspapeRs aNymoRe? Six out of ten (60%) of U.S. adults, or nearly 191 million people, read a newspaper in print or online - in the last week.

The analysis of audience data not only indicated that newspapers are being read by a majority of adults in print and online, but also that these integrated audiences continue to attract educated, affluent readers.

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Spring Course Offerings Continued Featured Guest Instructor: Susan Morrison Susan Morrison is a nationally recognized artist who lives and works in the Ozark Mountains.

She has won awards in numerous national art shows featuring wildlife art. Susan’s work is featured in galleries across the country.

Field School Nature for Grown-ups!

Spring Course Offerings Winter is for Nature Lovers: Don’t let Old Man Winter keep you from enjoying the outdoors. Join ONSC by spending a day hiking the trails in Bear Hollow. Learn and share knowledge about Ozark history and its natural wonders. Wrap the day up with a crackling fire, wine and cheese sampler, and a delicious meal.

Date: February 11 Cost: $25; includes wine, cheese, dinner, chocolate desserts ONSC at Large: Family Camp at Mt. Sequoyah Center in Fayetteville Kick off your spring break with some great family fun!

ONSC and Mount Sequoyah are teaming up to offer this “close to home staycation.” This two-day camp adventure is complete with hiking, nature study, crafts, games, a campfire, and great food! Children must be 6 years or older.

Date: March 17-18 Cost: $65 per person; includes meals Birds, Bugs, & Blooms: Calling all Ornithologists, Entomologists, and Botanists also known as Birders, Buggers, and Bloomers! Spring is busting out and you’re invited to come and enjoy, explore, and discover the awakening of the season with us. While searching for the three “B’s” we’ll share our Ozark natural history knowledge.” Grab your field guides and binoculars and join us for this celebration of spring.

Date: April 15th Cost: $15; includes lunch Primitive Skills: Fire & Flint: Mix together equal parts geology, history, technique, and skill and you have the perfect recipe for primitive tool making. Learn first-hand how to create flint points, blades, and scrapers.

Then take your skills to the next level by using flint and steel to create fire!

Date: May 20 Cost: $15; includes lunch & class supplies

Guest Instructor: Paul Rawlings

Drawing on Nature: Grab your sketchpad, sharpen those pencils, and prepare to be inspired by nature. Nationally known artist, author, and naturalist Susan Morrison will guide you through a nature doodling and journaling experience like no other. No experience necessary, just a desire to put your observation and creativity skills together.

Date: April 27-28 Cost: $268; includes lodging at ONSC, meals, & class supplies

Guest Instructor: Susan Morrison

The Art of Nature: Renowned artist and author Susan Morrison facilitates this art and nature writing workshop. Combine your observations, art, reflection, prose and poetry to create a meaningful naturalist journal. The journey begins along the trails in Bear Hollow at ONSC and is followed by a day at Heronswood Wildlife Sanctuary, Susan’s very own nature reserve and gallery on the White River.

Date: June 2-4 Cost: $536; includes lodging at ONSC, meals, and class supplies

Guest Instructor: Susan Morrison

ATTENTION TEACHERS:

Field School Courses May Qualify for ADoE Professional Development Credit.

SIGN UP EARLY! COURSE SPACE IS LIMITED WHERE IS ONSC?

IN THE HEART OF THE OZARKS NESTLED BETWEEN HUNTSVILLE & EUREKA SPRINGS. 3 MILES OFF HWY 23 WITHIN THE 400 ACRE BEAR HOLLOW NATURAL AREA.

To register, visit our website: www.onsc.us *Please Note: Participants must be 21 years of age or older