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VOLUME 15 NUMBER 12
MARCH 13, 2014
Hoe-Down Handover New owner, new star take over at Eureka music theater n Page 3
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waiver to teach
n Open carry gun
n Theft case against
walk draws fire, ire ex-mayor continues
Substitute allowed to stay after school board meets
Citizens, council not sold on rights advocates’ plans
Trial date set for Satori on felony theft charges
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George Brothers hand Hoe-Down off to new owner, performer By Jennifer Jackson
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Since the news broke that Randall and DeWayne George had sold the Ozark Mountain Hoe-Down, they’ve fielded calls and emails from fans near and far asking: What happened? And when is the farewell concert? The answers: the sale was culmination of something the George Brothers, who have played there for more than 20 years, have been thinking about for several years and discussing with Larry Reitz, the new owner, for the past six months. “It’s time for us to do something new,” Randall said. The Hoe-Down’s new show, the Carl Acuff, Jr. Band, opens in three weeks, and starts rehearsing next Monday, so there is no time for a farewell performance, Randall said. Last Monday, he and Dawayne packed up their gear into a trailer and handed the theater over to Reitz and Acuff, along with their good wishes. “We’ve had a good run here,” Randall said. “I hope it’s a good run for you.” The George Brothers have been performing at the Hoe-Down since 1992, and bought it with their father, Leonard, in 2004. They sold it to Reitz, a cattle rancher in Lenapaw, Oklahoma, who has been watching it since he bought and renovated the Cinnamon Valley Resort several years ago. Larry and spouse Sharon Reitz alo bought acreage adjacent to the Hoe-Down parking lot that borders the access road to the resort, and knew the George Brothers were interested in selling at some point. Their reason for buying the theater: “We kinda had to have it because of the same entrance,” Reitz said. The George Brothers have signed a new record deal with Way Out West. Knowing they would be on the road promoting the record, they had lined up Carl Acuff, Jr. and his band to play the Hoe-down on the dates they were out of town. With Reitz purchasing the theater, the natural choice was to offer the lease to Acuff.
Acuff, who lives in Harrison, said he and his band – Bubba Fisk, Jackie Harris, Wayne Hackett and Fred Reeves – were happy to accept. “We are ready to sleep in our own beds for a time,” Acuff said. Last season, Acuff’s band played at the White River Hoe-Down in Mountain View, Ark. While there, Hot Links Entertainment approached Acuff about backing his show, he said, and are now backing him at the Ozark Mountain Hoe-down. The timing couldn’t have been better. “The other one went away on December 31, and Randall called in January,” Acuff said. Born and raised in Harrison, Acuff, like the George Brothers, grew up in a musical family. His father, Carl Acuff, Sr., had a rock and roll band, and bought Carl Jr. a drum set when he was 3 years old to save wear on the pots and pans. By the time he was 6 years old, Carl Jr. was singing in the choir at Hopewell Baptist Church in Harrison. The first song he ever sang in public, other than in church, was “Kansas City,” which he performed on the Fourth of July in the Harrison gazebo, accompanying himself on the drums, with his father on guitar and his sister, Diana, singing back-up. Acuff graduated from Harrison High School in 1989, the same year he started working at Dogpatch USA. He also played at the Country Time Jamboree, the Harrison theater run by Mike Bishop, now at the Pine Mountain Theater. Acuff and spouse Nina Acuff live outside of Harrison in Everton, population 150, and have three boys, Donnie – Donald Carl Acuff III, age 9; Joseph, 6, and Brendon Michael, 9 months, who is named after Mike Bishop. Acuff also worked with the Blackwood Brothers, and briefly at Warren Stokes’ Country Review, a Eureka Springs theater that was torn down. In 1992, he started touring with his band. He’s performed in Nashville, which Roy Acuff, who was a distant cousin, helped make the country music capital of the world.
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Dewayne George, left and Randall George, second from right, pose with new HoeDown owner Larry Reitz, second from left, country singer Carl Acuff, Jr., and Leonard George, right.
“I’ve sung on the Opry stage in the Ryman Theater, at Ernest Tubbs’ Midnight Jamboree and the Nashville Palace,” Carl Acuff said. Acuff also performs in the country music version of the Brat Pack with other
relatives of country legends – Georgette Jones, Michael Twitty, Marty Haggard, George Hamilton IV and David Frizell. Although he never met cousin Roy, who died in 1992, Carl said his grandfather See Hoe-Down, page 30
The history of the Hoe-Down By Jennifer Jackson
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It’s the fourth-longest continuously running show in the Ozarks. The Ozark Mountain Hoe-Down started in 1981. It was owned by Jay and Judy Potter. In Miss Judy’s time, people entered on a path that led past the old cabin with the water wheel, which still stands, the past the petting zoo to the gift shop and pizza stand. Before the show, people sat outside and ate pizza while listening to a musician playing bluegrass before the show. The George Brothers bought into the Hoe-Down in 2001, then became full owners with their father, Leonard George,
in 2004. The theater is located on a sharp curve, where there are lots of accidents. One time a car going 100 m.p.h. in the driver’s attempt to allude police didn’t make the turn and crashed right through the building and into the gazebo on stage – luckily, not during a performance. Back in the 1990s, the theater would sell out 21 to 31 nights during the season, with 10 busloads of tourists a night. The George Brothers are bikers, and promoted the theater to motorcyclists after the tour bus trade dropped off. Like all theaters, the Hoe-Down has a ghost. During one show, the power shut off repeatedly at the exact same moment of the performance.
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Eureka council, citizens not sold on open carry By Landon Reeves
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Teresa DeVito gives reasons why she is opposed to the open-carry gun walk in Eureka Springs while her husband, sitting at left, Alderman James DeVito sits in for Mayor Morris Pate, who was absent from Monday’s council meeting.
The City Council has scheduled an emergency meeting on Thursday, March 13, at 3 p.m. for discussing the proposed open carry gun walk by the group Northwest 746. Northwest 746 is affiliated with the Patriots of Act 746, said group member Janis-Marie Horsley. The group believes and advocates that Arkansas Act 746, passed in 2013, allows residents who legally own a firearm to openly carry it as well, Horsley said. The group plans to meet near Basin Park and walk around the city while openly carrying firearms in holsters on March 29. City Council members voiced their concerns and apprehensions for allowing multiple armed residents to meander and shop in the city at their meeting on Monday. “The proposal is to meet down by Basin Park and to walk in and out of thee shops and restaurants down town openly displaying handguns,” said Alderman James DeVito. Before the meeting, DeVito visited several merchants and shopkeepers in the downtown area and collected signatures for a petition against the open carry walk. “I got about 150 signatures of the 200 ... I didn’t go in all the shops because frankly I didn’t want to discuss this in front of tourists,” he explained. “Of all the people I contacted, I had four people that said they didn’t want to get involved in politics, and I had four people who said they were in favor of open carry; I had about 150 people who were concerned with the ramifications … of having people walk the downtown area with pistols on their hips.” Council members discussed many ideas for preventing or abating the results of the walk, which they presume will be a decline in tourism and revenue. Alderman Joyce Zeller suggested handling the problem with public relation tactics such as providing signs for businesses that prohibit weapons; she also said that people in groups such as Northwest 746 do not like being ridiculed so the signs could possibly be a belittling or comical cartoon of gun carriers.
The council also debated passing an emergency ordinance to prohibit open carry of firearms within city limits, or enforcing the legal opinion of the Arkansas Attorney General. “I do not interpret Act 746 as authorizing so-called open carry,” Attorney General Dustin McDaniel has written. “It is my opinion that Act 746 does not itself permit a person to possess a handgun outside of his or her vehicle or other mode of transportation while on a journey outside his or her county of residence.” The council decided that Mayor Morris Pate and Police Chief Earl Hyatt are the only people who can decide how the law will be enforced in the city. Since neither were at the last meeting, the council scheduled another where the two will be in attendance. Hyatt told the Citizen that he does not believe carrying a handgun is a punishable offense, unless someone commits a crime with it or has the intent to do so. He also said that anyone could openly carry a rifle or shotgun and there are no laws prohibiting it, but a handgun is a different classification of weapon. During the public comments section of the meeting, Teresa DeVito spoke first and for the 200 people who have signed the petition, she said. “We got 200 signatures in four days, and that is 10 percent of the population, which to me is pretty substantial,” she said. “We hopefully covered all the people’s concerns. ... It is intimidation to me. They say their point is to educate folks, but you do not educate through intimidation and fear.” Other speakers during the public comments portion of the meeting included Eureka Springs resident Susan Morrison, who quoted Louis L’Amour by saying the impersonal easy means of dispatching someone with a gun is “murder made easy.” “Not too long ago, one of our employees got into an argument over his truck blocking someone into our parking lot,” Morrison said. “By the time Randy got out there both See Open Carry, page 21
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Former Eureka mayor’s trial date set Satori faces felony theft charge By Landon Reeves
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Former Eureka Springs Mayor Beau Satori’s jury trial was scheduled for May 19 in Eureka Springs at 8:30 a.m. during his last pretrial hearing on Thursday. He was charged with theft of property, a class C felony, on Wednesday, May 1, 2013, after his former landlord told police that Satori stripped from his building some antique oak baseboards worth approximately $10,000. The landlord, John Cross, evicted Satori Beau Satori from 81 Spring St. last fall for nonpayment of rent, he said; the building housed Satori’s art and jewelry gallery, Satori Arts, where he’d been located since 1978. It took until early February for Satori to clear the property. According to the prosecuting attorney’s affidavit of probable cause, when Satori finally left, he stole architecturally significant baseboards from the building. When Cross took possession of the building on Feb. 4, “it was discovered that the original ornate oak baseboards and trim had been removed and replaced with un-painted white pine boards,” the prosecutor wrote in his statement of probable cause. The baseboards and trim were made by W.O. Perkins and installed in the early 1900s, the report states, and were valued by an antiques expert consulted by the prosecutor to be worth at least $8,000. Authorities interviewed Satori about the missing oak baseboards. “He stated in this interview that the original baseboards, trim and molding that were in the building are still present and are behind the white pine
boards he installed,” wrote Detective Thomas Achord in his report. “He stated he didn’t leave the building with anything that he didn’t install.” However, after removing the pine boards and further investigation, Achord wrote the following: “Photographs show there are no boards behind the pine boards, as Satori told me. It also dispels Satori’s statement that all the oak boards were flush, given the dimensions measured from the floor to the sheetrock. “These photographs along with statements from [the building’s repairmen] saying that the pine boards were installed by Satori over the weekend he was to vacate 81 Spring St., disagree with Satori telling me he put the pine boards over the oak boards to make it look better while he was renting the store,” Achord continued. Jane Baker, former owner of the Eureka Springs March and November Antique Shows and a professional antique appraiser, was consulted about the missing baseboards and asked to estimate their value. In her report, Baker said the oak baseboards that remained in a small storage closet were of the same age and style – with, for example, unique bull’s eye corners – as an original golden oak wood cabinet that was in the building as well. That cabinet was made by W.O. Perkins around the early 1900s, she wrote, and the baseboards and cabinet surfaces “show age,” something that is difficult if not impossible to reproduce. Baker valued the missing baseboards, extensive trim and doors at at least $8,000 to $10,000, Achord’s report states. “This is a tragedy to everyone who cares about preservation and restoration in Eureka Springs,” Cross told the Lovely County Citizen after the charges were filed. Cross has owned the building for 47 years, which is the same length of time he has been a commercial landlord; he currently owns about three dozen commercial rental See Satori, page 21
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Council closer to OKing rules for land vacating By Landon Reeves
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The City Council approved the second reading for an ordinance that establishes a procedure for vacating property at its meeting on Monday, March 10. Ordinance 2203 establishes a $200 application fee that anyone who wishes to have property vacated by the city must pay. If the city does not vacate the property then the fee is returned to the applicant, according to the ordinance. It also states that before vacation, the City Council must consider how its decision will affect green space and if the vacation is in the best interest of the city. The council also moved toward vacating several pieces of land or reclaiming them to potentially vacate. The most notable of the reclaims is the portion of Rock Street, or the portion of unnamed street that passes through the property of Rachel and Ryan Brix. The Brixes have attended several meetings and provided research and maps that suggest the city does not own the property, or street, that runs through their land, but at the last meeting they were petitioning the city to vacate the property. The property is at 1 Magnetic Drive, and they have lived there for a year and a half. The last time this was brought to the City Council, no action was taken. The lack of action has prevented the Brix family from developing their property, threatened to negatively impact the marketability of their property and could also “obscenely” affect their right to safely access, use and reasonably enjoy their property, Rachel Brix said during one of her previous presentations to the council. The Parks and Recreation Commission and the trails committee are still apprehensive to give up the land. The land was called a crucial point in the “spine” of a larger trail system that has been planned, but not developed, said Sheryl Willis. She went on to say that past City Councils have “irresponsibly” vacated
the land around the area that they would prefer to use and that the Brix’s property contains the cheapest and easiest route for the committee to use in their master trial plan. After the council read the ordinance, Willis started a petition of her own to voice her opinion on how the city should not vacate the property. The council has to read the ordinance two more times, give it final approval, then wait 30 days to reclaim the property from Parks, then it must create another ordnance to vacate the property before it can be sold. That ordinance will require three readings and a waiting period as well. The council also read and approved for the second time an ordinance to reclaim a portion of Sweeney Alley. Also they read and approved an ordinance to vacate portions of McCune and Hartman Street. The council later heard the second reading of proposed Ordinance 2205, which removes the prohibition of animals in C-3 zones. The ordinance was brought to council after it had approved the Intrigue Theater to operate in the C-3 zone where the theater is located. After approval, the council realized that the theater used animals in its act, but animals were not permitted for use in the zone, so since then they have drafted and read an ordinance to allow the use of animals. Susie Allen is a Eureka Springs resident who attended the meeting to ask the council for reimbursement for damages done by a broken water main on her property. Two of the council members, Terry McClung and David Mitchell, voted to not reimburse her for the sake of fairness stating that others have made similar request but for them the council had claimed tort immunity. The remaining council voted to reimburse Allen, except for Mickey Schneider who was absent with notice. Because of Schneider’s absence the remaining three members did not have the majority See Council, page 21
Youngster gets President’s Award On February 12, 2014, Preston Hyatt, honorary Eureka Springs Rotarian, was presented with the President’s Volunteer Service Award for 2013 by Dave Teigen, President of the Eureka Springs Rotary. Included with the certificate was a letter from President Barack Obama thanking Preston for all of his volunteer efforts in the community. Preston, the son of Police Chief Earl Hyatt and Rachal Hyatt, counselor at Eureka Springs Elementary School, attends Rotary every Wednesday morning. He loves going to Rotary every week and helping with their fundraising events. In addition to volunteering with Rotary, he also helps with all Special Olympics events in our area. He has been a part of the Polar Bear Plunge for the last five years and has raised over $4,000 for Special Olympics through this event. Special Olympics is close to Preston’s heart because his Uncle Alex has Down Syndrome. Preston volunteers for the Eureka Springs Youth Sports fundraiser at the Cornerstone Bank Parking lot. He helps younger students with homework after school at the elementary school. Preston is a perfect example of the Rotary motto, “Service Above Self.”
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Quiz Bowl team heads for State
School board waives felony record for substitute teacher
sonnel.” Grat had evidence in all seven categoA background check of substitute ries. teacher Timothy Grat, hired by the Eureka “This happened 17 years ago, before Springs School Board in November 2013, I was married and before I had kids,” he was the reason for a special meeting of the told the board. board Tuesday. He gave his history of working in Eureka Grat applied for a hearing to waive re- Springs for Gallery Mint during the time of vocation of his hire under a new rule by his arrest, then completing trade school edthe Arkansas Department of Education, ucation in Houston at a mint, returning to enacted in April 2012. Under the rule, Eureka as production manager for 12 years Superintendent Daat Gallery Mint until it vid Kellogg said, the went out of business hearing has to be conand he started his own “I move to grant a waiver, ducted in open, public mint here, then movbased on all seven meeting of the board, ing to Idaho to work although that has been for a mint and transcircumstances. But if I had challenged. Nevertheto name just one, it would be ferring to Las Vegas, less, the board held the all in the meantime character references.” meeting in public. marrying and having Grat said that in three children. – Chris McClung July 1997, when he He did not want to was 19 years old, he raise his children in was charged with felLas Vegas, he said. ony possession of marijuana in sufficient “I came back to Eureka Springs and quantity to deem it “intent to deliver,” started Eureka Mint,” Grat said. He said along with possession of drug parapher- he had also been to trade school for autonalia, following a traffic stop. He was sen- motive machine work. tenced three years of probation, rehabiliHe had character and employer refertation, restitution and community service, ences. His three children, ages 16, 14 and all of which he completed, he said. Fol- 6, go to Eureka Springs schools, he said, lowing that, his records were expunged. and he is the branch president of his local But Arkansas allows school boards to LDS church. look at expunged records when consider“I move to grant a waiver, based on all ing a hire. seven circumstances,” said board member Under the ADE rule, the board may Chris McClung. “But if I had to name just grant a waiver in such circumstances for one, it would be character references.” one or more of seven considerations: the Debbie Davis seconded, and the board age at which the crime or incident was approved the waiver. committed, the circumstances surroundUnder the ADE rule, the board could ing the crime or incident, the length of have placed a probationary status or other time since the crime or incident, subse- restriction on Grat’s hire, but they did not. quent work history, employment referThe board then went into executive ences, character references and other ev- session and returned to approved hiring idence “demonstrating that the applicant Arthur Miller as substitute bus driver and does not pose a threat to the health or Scotty Collins as substitute custodian and safety of school children or school per- maintenance worker. By Kathryn Lucariello
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Two Missouri bills to kill SWEPCO line advance By Kristal Kuykendall
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Four bills have now been introduced before the Missouri Legislature that would halt SWEPCO’s plans to build a 345 kV electric transmission line along its proposed Route 109 through Carroll and Benton counties in Arkansas and McDonald and Barry counties in southern Missouri. Two of the bills, HB 2092 and SB 839, have not yet had their required public hearings. But the other two of the bills – one dealing removing authority from the Missouri Public Service Commission to OK the project and another limiting utilities’ power of eminent domain — were the focus of public hearings before Missouri’s House Utilities Committee on March 5. Next, HB 1622 and HB 1774, respectively, will be voted on by the full committee and, if passed, then brought up for debate on the House floor, lawmakers told the Lovely County Citizen this week. The Legislature is scheduled to have a week off for spring break next week, so a vote on the bills won’t likely occur until the week after or even later, they said. The sponsor of the two bills, Missouri State Rep. Scott Fitzpatrick, presented both pieces of legislation to the House Utilities Committee last week, but his favorite is HB 1774, which would restrict the ability of SWEPCO to use eminent domain in order to acquire property from landowners along the proposed route. If that bill were to pass, SWEPCO would be required to negotiate with individual property owners, without the threat of eminent domain being used against the landowners. “HB 1774 seems to be the more palatable option, as opposed to HB 1622, because several members of the committee were
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Save the Ozarks member Beverly Wright approaches Gov. Mike Beebe Tuesday at the STO’s joint protest rally alongside the Save the Buffalo group, who are opposed to the newly approved factory hog farm near the Buffalo River. Beebe came out to chat with protesters during the Governor’s Conference on Tourism being held at the John Q. Hammons Center in Rogers this week. Wright wrote on STO’s Facebook page that Beebe “did not have much to say regarding SWEPCO.”
Pat Costner, front left, and Doug Stowe, right, lead the Save The Ozarks rally and protest at the John Q. Hammons Center on Tuesday. Dozens of SWEPCO opponents showed up to show their feelings about the proposed power lines.
they will go out in Southwest Missouri too. “If we allow this project to proceed as proposed under the guise of grid reliability, we are setting an incredibly low bar with regard to how we define a ‘benefit’ to the state of Missouri,” Fitzpatrick said. Missouri State Sen. David Sater has filed an identical bill in the Senate, which should receive a hearing in the next couple of weeks, likely right after the Legislature’s upcoming break, Sater said. To this point, there has been no action taken by SWEPCO to move forward with the project in Missouri. The power company has not filed the necessary paperwork to begin the approval process with the Missouri Public Service Commission, which would be the first step in the process. Once a hearing is held on Sater’s bill, Fitzpatrick said he, Sater, and other SWEPCO opponents would meet to see whether they can work out a plan to move forward
with the legislation in one of the two houses at the State Capitol. Sater, a Republican, said that despite fears among some that the legislation, if passed, might be vetoed by the governor, who is a Democrat, “you don’t file legislation with fear of a veto by the governor,” and he is not going to hesitate in the fight, he added. “I’m very aggressive about this issue; this is important for our landowners in McDonald and Barry counties as this power line would greatly decrease the property values there,” Sater said. “I don’t care which bill makes it, I just want to make sure we have some legislation that addresses this and protects our people. “I would really like to see the Missouri Pubic Service Commission axe this project so we don’t have to pass any legislation, but in case they don’t, I’m doing what I can to protect my constituents.”
concerned with removing the jurisdiction of the PSC to make decisions regarding the project,” Fitzpatrick said. “Under HB 1774, the PSC would still have the ability to make a decision on the project, but it would protect property owners in the event the PSC approved the project.” According to Fitzpatrick, the bill is an unprecedented solution to an unprecedented problem, because he has not found another example of a project that began and ended in a single state outside of Missouri, but traversed Missouri in its path. Additionally, there is no substation being built in Missouri, and no Missouri companies are tying into the line, which, Fitzpatrick argues, proves that there is no benefit to Missouri residents. The argument made at the hearing by proponents of the project was that the power line fulfills more needed reliability of the electric grid, and they said that if the lights go out in Northwest Arkansas,
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Equinox Concert to blend visual, aural arts By Kathryn Lucariello
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“On this day of balance, between day and night, with the sun poised perfectly over the equator, the Spring Equinox Concert will bring our community together for renewal. Spring marks the return of green and growing,” says Dr. Fred Mayer, of the event that will be staged Friday, March 21, at 7 p.m. at the City Auditorium in Eureka Springs. The unique concert will be a blend of singers, dancers and musicians in an “aural and visual spectacle.” The performance draws on the modes for the Spring equinox, derived from Indian tradition, “Bhupala” and “Durga,” and will be a “harmonizing concert,” conceived by researcher Fabien Maman, founder of modern vibrational therapy and the Tama Do Academy of Sound, Color and Movement, Photo by Kathryn Lucariello with whom Mayer has studied and become Singers, dancers and musicians practice for a performance celebrating the Spring a certified practitioner in the last few years. equinox, to be held March 21 at 7 p.m. in the Eureka Springs Auditorium. The modes also come from the Chinese tradition of the five elements, with the element string lessons. He directs the Berryville work was coming from and how it tied in for Spring being wood. Symphonia, performs with local musicians with the chakras, along with my studies. We Some of the instruments played in the and runs a Tama Do treatment center on his are a reflection of the whole – with our alignconcert have been specifically created by 11-acre organic farm in Berryville. ment and attunement with the earth, we are hand for it. Jonason moved to this area in 2001 and is literally the tree of life.” “These concerts go back in history to a an artistic director, choreographer and dancShe said the tree image represents the time when sacred arts were the foundation er who performed with the Colorado Ballet ability to be rooted but also to grow and be of music and healing,” Maman says. “Since Company and others. She has been choreo- resilient, a balance of the two. ancient times, humans have understood that graphing and teaching dance for the last 30 “The most fascinating thing about some music and sounds are an expression of years. [Maman’s] work is he’s integrating taoism the Creator’s universal tone.” Trigg Hirsch is an artist, creative facili- and qi gong along with chakra work and “As we’re playing through the modes, tator and African art and artifact educator light and movement,” she said. each of the instrumentalists and vocal coor- who grew up in South Africa among tribal She said the performance, through people dinator drive musical ideas on how they feel peoples. She, along with her husband, Craig watching and listening, makes these conthe flow of the modes might sound best,” Hirsch, run the FireOmEarth studio and edu- cepts more readily available to people in a Mayer said. cation center in Eureka Springs. moving experience. The “musical ideas” are based on the Beth Withey is the artistic director and “It’s not passive experience,” she said, certain notes in scales and syllables that are conductor of the Ozarks Chorale. She has “even with an audience sitting there. There sung with those notes. The dance choreogra- served as faculty at various universities and are parts of there where we go out into the phy incorporates some of Maman’s concepts spent 15 years in arts management at Carne- audience and do qi gong movements.” of the elements – for example, the image of a gie Hall, the Whitney Museum of American She said she is “having a wonderful time.” tree to represent wood and its rootedness and Art, the New York City Opera and Jazz at “I love the choreography and dancers, and growth as parts of Spring. Lincoln Center. they’re amazing to work with, and so presMayer, the producer of the event, coorThe various groups have been practicing ent.” dinates the musicians and is joined by three their sections separately, generating and Trigg Hirsch is coordinating the percusfellow coordinators: Lorna Trigg Hirsch for improvising within the parameters of the sion section of the musicians, which consists the percussion; Beth Withey for the singers; modes and then finally coming together and of drums, a rain stick, shakers and Tibetan and Tamara Jonason for the dancers. allowing the work to evolve. bells. She also will be dancing with the dancMayer is a composer, performer and mu“We have five dancers,” said Jonason. ers. “The percussive pieces are not the primasic teacher and teaches private and group “Fred shared ideas he had and where the
ry pieces. I was looking for percussion to support the music that will be played by the viola d’amore and the flute,” she said. She said the percussion pieces “lay under the music and create effects within the music, subtleties.” She called it a “phenomenal experience” for the audience, that they will benefit just by being present. “What they’re going to experience is collaboration and cooperation that happens between the music and the dancers, and just seeing it and hearing it, they will go away with the idea of ‘This is how things work. We cooperate, listen, work with each and share,’” she said. “This is a huge group of people coming together on a totally voluntary basis to create this. This is a sharing that’s happening. The singers, musicians and dancers are all handing back and forth to each other the performance pieces and are interconnected with each other. I think that’s what they’ll go away with: we’re all together in this, and we can all raise our consciousness together. I think it’s a subconscious enlightenment or awakening, not just an appreciation of the arts.” Beth Withey, conductor of the Ozarks Chorale, is coordinating the singers. “I’m fascinated by the ability of music and sound to transform people’s lives, and so exploring this within the overarching concept of a healing modality is really intriguing,” she said. The two modes, Bhupala and Durga, are central to the vocal contribution to the concert. “One thing that Fred and I both wanted was to be sure that these modes were stated in full, from beginning to end, at various times within the concert,” said Withey. “The choral ensemble provides this. Unlike instruments, we can also state the specific syllabic sounds associated with the modes. These syllabic sounds themselves are believed to convey positive benefits. “ Withey said she is enjoying working with singers in a piece that is continually evolving, unlike a set piece of sheet music that is performed. “It is literally never the same twice. So when we all rehearse together, even though the chorus has some set segments to work
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Soccer team heads to Fayetteville
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Principals meet with Sen. Pryor
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The Lady Highlander soccer team is pictured here last week. From left are Coach Daniel Moose, Kellie Crawford, Corinna Green, Deidra Asmus, Heather Brooks, Kyla Boardman, Dallas Galyen, Naomi Floyd, Mariah Robinson, Kennedy Cash, and Coach Ben Rodda. On Saturday, the Lady Highlanders competed in the Shiloh Christian Invitational Tournament today, suffering a sharp 8-1 loss to the reigning 5A State Champion Shiloh Christian Saints in the first game, with freshman Deidra Asmus scoring for the Lady Highlanders. In the second game, Eureka Springs fell to the Clarksville Panthers 6-2, with sophomore Naomi Floyd scoring both goals. The Lady Highlanders’ next games will be Thursday, March 13 as the boys and girls travel to Fayetteville to take on the Purple Dogs.
with, we cue off of Fred, the dancers, and other instrumentalists for our entrances, so the the work has a very improvisitory nature, like jazz. “ Asked what she feels the vocal element adds to the overall effect of the concert, she said, “The human voice is a very personal instrument, essentially an instrument of empathy. So much research is being conducted now on the benefits of singing, and one of the findings that blows me away is that when people sing together, their hearts literally begin to beat in sync with each other. When we sing, we vibrate together in a really literal way. The human voice is very powerful.” “This is an important time for us to realize our connections and interconnections among all things on Earth, animate and inanimate,” summed up Mayer. “The equinox is a perfect metaphor for feeling our connections to all things on Earth because we all receive the same daylight, the same amount of time on that day. This is a time when we have all that in common with living things. We share that twice a year, and that’s what we’re celebrating.” The concert will benefit the Arco Iris Earth Care Project, located in Boxley Valley
close to the Buffalo River. The non-profit organization has 400 acres of pristine land it is dedicated to preserving and protecting. Proceeds from the concert will be used to help in building a center to foster indigenous ways of living in harmony with the earth and provide a natural health center and school. For more information on Arco Iris, visit www. earthcareproject.wordpress.com. The March 21 concert is part of the week-long My Wellness Festival in Eureka Springs, which begins this Saturday at the Crescent Hotel, and concludes March 22 with a seed swap at the Carnegie Library Annex. The week-long event is organized by the Eureka Springs-based Partners in Wellness. Tickets for the concert are $5 for adults and $2 for youth at the door. Program sponsorships at various levels are also available and include VIP tickets. Those who wish to sponsor need to contact Mayer by this Saturday, March 15, to be included in the program. He can be reached at 216-225-6512 or email fiddlinfred51@gmail.com. For more information on the festival and on the concert, visit www.mywellnessfestival.com.
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U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor met with Arkansas representatives of the National Association of Elementary School Principals to discuss their coordinated efforts to secure funding for national and state education programs and boost the academic performance of Arkansas students. Pictured from left are Maribel Childress of Springdale, Mark Rash of Sheridan, Pryor, Claire Lesieur of Eureka Springs, and Melanie Churchill of Jacksonville.
PUBLIC NOTICE CARROLL COUNTY TAX BOOKS OPEN Tax Books opened March 3, 2014 for the collection of 2013 Real Estate and Personal Property Taxes. Tax Books will remain open through Tuesday, October 15th, 2014 for payment without penalty. After that date a 10% Penalty will be charged; interest will also accrue at a 10% annual rate for those Taxes not paid for Real Estate. Instalment payments of current Taxes will be accepted through October 15, 2014. Payments may be made by: Mailing to:
Carroll County Tax Collector PO Box 432 Berryville, AR 72616
Or: in Person at the Carroll County Courthouse Annex, 108 Spring Street, Berryville, AR. We are located next door to the Library in Berryville. Office hours are 8:30 A.M. to 4:30 P.M., Monday through Friday. Payments made by mail must be postmarked by October 15th, 2014. Payment by Credit Card or e-check can be made in the Office or by phone 1-888-272-9829 or online at www.countyservice.net. A fee will be charged for using this convenience. Instructions for doing this are on the back of Tax Statements. If you have questions about your bill, please call 870-423-6400 option 2, or come to the Tax Collector’s Office at 108 Spring Street, Berryville AR. KAY PHILLIPS CARROLL COUNTY COLLECTOR
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Guest Commentary
Time to get serious about tourism
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shocking report that has turned the lights on the failure of the Eureka Springs City Advertising and Promotion Commission’s efforts in the last 20 years has been written and published by Kristal Kuykendall, editor of the Lovely County Citizen, in its Feb. 27, 2014, edition. Said report shows only an 8.2 percent increase in lodging in the last 20 years, and a 0 percent increase in the last 10. These numbers are not only disgraceful and appalling, but they don’t take into consideration the fact that Eureka Springs is falling behind the Consumer Price Index Inflation Rate, as the article plainly states. This means our dollars won’t buy as much advertising or anything else as they used to! In addition to the article, marriage licenses sold in Eureka Springs are now down to less than of the peak of 5,124 issued in 2001. The drop is due in part to Oklahoma making adjustments in their marriage licensing procedures, but much of it is due to our bad advertising and promotion. We have had six CAPC executive directors since the Cranford Johnson Robinson Woods ad agency was fired by the CAPC in 1995, and Bob Purvis fired by the Chamber of Commerce in May of 1996. The chamber has had eight directors in that period. It is no coincidence that during many of the years that we had a professional tourism ad agency and an efficient local operation, we had double-digit increases annually in our tax collections. But in the last 20-year drought of having no agency, collections have gone downhill, as stated above. In 1977, CAPC tax collections were $100,688. In 1995, they were $927,412, a meteoric rise in an 18-year period, and Eureka Springs was the envy of the tourism industry in this region. Shortly after CJRW and Purvis were fired after their approximate 16-year tenure representing Eureka Springs, our one headquarters with one staff and two boards (CAPC and Chamber of Commerce) was separated into two buildings, two directors, two staffs, utilities, etc. Where did the money come from to run these
two separate agencies and offices? Why, out of the advertising budget, of course, making Eureka Springs the most inefficient tourism destination in the region. Today, CJRW represents Hot Springs as well as the State of Arkansas’ tourism accounts. In February 2001, the Lovely County Citizen did a poll in their “What Do YOU Think” column, asking the question, would you support the CAPC and the Chamber of Commerce merging? All six people interviewed on the street said it was a good idea. Can’t remember six people being interviewed in Eureka Springs ever agreeing unanimously on anything! And, in the poll of the same question, 71.2 percent of respondents put the agencies back together to save money! The poll and interview should tell anyone that the people in this town have long wanted to get Eureka Springs back on track again, as we have a great product. Back in the days when we had the best professional ad agency, CJRW, surveys were made almost every year. These surveys told us things like, “Who’s going to travel,” “Where do they live,” “How much do they earn,” etc., and then those people and their areas were targeted with our advertising. That, plus many other things is what a professional tourism ad agency does for you, as marketing today is much more specialized, more technical, changes constantly and requires great research. Here in Eureka Springs we don’t have the expertise or the resources to do all of this, and that is a major part of our marketing problem. So how do we get things turned around in Eureka Springs? 1. Be more efficient by having one building with one staff and one executive director overseeing both the CAPC and the Chamber of Commerce boards. The boards would meet at different times and have different functions. Tens of thousands of dollars could be saved and used for advertising! 2. Get the best professional tourism ad agency that can be afforded, and let them do the research, the marketing, and the ad placement and, overall, represent us. There is an old Chinese proverb that says: “Man who represent See Editorial, page 16
Citizens of the Week
This week’s Citizens of the Week are two leading local businessmen who are actually moving out of their digs this week and, we all hope, movin’ on up in the world. The George Brothers, owners and stars of the Ozark Mountain Hoe-Down, have sold it to Larry Reitz, the owner of Cinnamon Valley Resort next door. Randall and Dawayne George have been a big part of the local tourism industry and business community since the early ‘90s, playing music and setting the bar high for quality entertainment in Eureka Springs. They performed at the theater for more than a decade before buying it
in 2001, and during their time there, they’ve seen more than 1 million tourists come through the doors of the Hoe-Down. The brothers, who have performed with many artists who’ve gone on to stardom including Rascal Flatts, now may be headed for a bigger musical future of their own, as they have signed with Texas/Red Dirt Country music label Way Out West Records. We wish them all the best – and look forward to seeing them perform here every now and then, we hope – and we thank them for their contributions to Eureka Springs over the last 20-plus years.
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Citizen Opinion by Kristal Kuykendall
Do you support gun-rights advocates plans for an open carry gun walk in downtown Eureka?
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The people have the power
James DeVito
I do not support the illegal open carry of handguns in Eureka Springs. … Do we get to pick and choose which laws we are to obey? No.
Mike Armstrong
I’m for it 100 percent. The difference between open and concealed carry is only an untucked T-shirt. Preach equality practice equality.
Deborah Hill
I’m for it; why not? It’s your right to own and carry a gun and your right to talk about it. Period. You don’t have to own one if you don’t care to.
Jo-Rita Dewey
I am an advocate for gun rights! … However, I do not agree with the open carry walk. It seems like they are trying to intimidate the public, not educate.
Libby Havemeyer Wright
No. I think it would be something Eureka Springs does not need.
Stacey Wise Stringer
Why do we need see that you’ve got a gun and how does walking around showing it off make any difference? How about a bong parade for pot smokers?
As I read the recent Citizen Editorial, “Who will take a stand to protect us?”, I couldn’t keep from responding: The editorial points to the amazingly swift action by Missouri lawmakers to protect their citizen’s interests, while Arkansas lawmakers ignore the pleas of its citizens, or at best pay lip service. It appears that our lawmakers have been influenced to create the Arkansas Power Commission to insulate their corporate sponsors from the annoying citizenry; SWEPCO has indeed done its homework, not in completing a proper environmental impact study, but in creating a political fortress – complete with a “tower” (the Judiciary), a “main gate” (the A.P.C.), and a moat and drawbridge (Judge Griffith). It’s interesting how much of the citizens’ resources were expended without even getting past the moat. What’s a lawful citizen to do? Crouch down and grovel? It’s not surprising that the citizens don’t know what to do since their unconstitutional, centrally regulated school system was created by the Standard Oil Corporation (General Education Board, 1902), training us to follow leadership regardless of questions. Of course, this defines Dictatorship, but they didn’t teach us that either. History shows us what to do; remember, in a Republic the citizens are the supreme authority, not the leadership as we’ve been led to accept. All we need is literacy (it’s interesting which words were omitted from our schooling vocabulary): “It is a very dangerous doctrine to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions. It is one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy… The Con-
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stitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots.” – Thomas Jefferson Jefferson further states that, “I consider the Trial by Jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its Constitution.” (Letter to Thomas Paine, 1789) I’ve already explained the Trial by Jury process (Citizen Forum, Aug. 22) and how this may be applied to the SWEPCO invasion, just as we had done to repel the railroad eminent domain foreclosures of the 19th Century. Alcohol Prohibition was also struck down by courageous local juries who lawfully disregarded the instructions on the law given by the trial judge. Citizens of the Ozarks are overwhelmingly opposed to SWEPCO’s proposal, and have a simple and inexpensive, 800 year old legal mechanism for correcting the corruptions of government, and limiting government officers to service of the people. All we have to do is vote “not guilty” when we sit on the jury of a landowner who is lawfully resisting Eminent Domain Foreclosure (or any other law which doesn’t serve the citizens). The individual citizen alone has the power and authority to dis-spell the illusion of the corporate political fortification – moat, drawbridge, gate and tower. So the answer to the opening question is, “We are a Republic, so we take a stand to protect ourselves”. (P.S. An added bonus is that we are learning, thanks to SWEPCO, of the key mechanism for peacefully restoring our citizen government, besides occupying public office in the first place. ) Eric Scheunemann
LAST WEEK’S QUESTION
35 votes cast
Do you support gun-rights advocates plans for an open carry gun walk in downtown Eureka?
What’s the first thing you want to do when it’s sunny and 80˚ outside for the first time?
m Yes, it’s their right, so what’s the harm? m I support gun rights but not this. It’ll harm tourism. m I think too many people are gun-happy already.
m Sit on a rock in the sun like a happy lizard.: 62.9% (22 votes) m Get out on the lake in a boat.: 17.1% (6 votes) m Go floating on one of our rivers.: 14.3% (5 votes) m Nothing because I prefer winter.: 5.7% (2 votes) Go to www.lovelycitizen.com and weigh in. Vote by Wednesday 9 a.m.
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Rotary Student of the Month Miranda Hudson, daughter of Tawny Hudson of Holiday Island, was selected as the Eureka Springs Rotary Student of the Month for January 2014. Miranda is a senior at Eureka Springs High School, where she maintains a 3.6 GPA. She is a member of the National Honors Society and takes Advanced Placement classes. Her teachers describe her as a student who is well-organized. Miranda knows the importance of setting goals for her life and finding ways to reach those goals. She enjoys watercolor painting, drawing, reading and writing. She has already been accepted at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, where she plans to major in pre-med chemistry. Her goal is to become a radiologist.
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Three Eureka-area students who attend the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and Arts in Hot Springs took first place in their category at the West Central Regional Science Fair. Joah Clements of Eureka Springs, son of Amy and David Clements, took first place, Cellular and Molecular Biology category, for his project, “An Everlasting Gene: CREB1 and Long-term Memory.” Inga Nordgren of Eureka Springs, daughter of Ann Nordgren, took first place in Plant Science for “Plants Don’t Lie: Testing Plant Responses to Water Stress.” Inga also received the award for Most Aesthetically Pleasing Backboard, and tied for second place in her category for her research presentation. Sarah Winters of Eureka Springs, daughter of Nicole and Tom Winters of Holiday Island, took first place in Environ-
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What do you have when you 19 acts performing for almost three hours to a large crowd at Eureka Springs’ Auditorium? If the musicians are all from Northwest Arkansas, you have the third annual “We’ve Got Talent” showcase. The Carroll County Music Group’s Jim Swiggart served as emcee, as well as performed with the Ozarks Chorale. Established performers as well as music students entertained the appreciative crowd last Sunday.
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who could and would come here and spend their money. With the lack of leadership in this town, Eureka will continue to suffer economically and emotionally until the city determines who it is and promotes itself as such. It doesn’t take a ton of development, just some people who care and have a vision. Until there is a clear vision of who we are, the business people will not realize how good things can be! … It’s time we got a good engine to drive the marketing in this wonderful, restored village! The Lovely County Citizen has turned the lights on, and it’s up to us to keep them on! Do we bring Eureka back or continue to settle for mediocrity? It’s not too much to ask, and it’s everything!! — John Fuller Cross Eureka Springs
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Victorian Classic draws over 100
The Eureka Springs Rotary Club’s running of the 32nd Annual Victorian Classic was last Saturday under overcast skies with on-and-off-again light rain. There were 129 athletes participating in the three events: a 10K run, a 2-mile run, and a 2-mile walk. The the skies were somewhat gloomy the participants were all having a good time. Results are available on at www.race-wizard.com. Overall winner was Brian Crigger of Carthage, Mo., with a 10K time of 38;00.3. Women’s overall winner was Tammy West, Tahlequah, Okla., with a 10K time of 43;11.8. Other winners are: 2-mile men’s run winner, Shaun West, Tahlequah, Okla. 12:42.4; 2-mile run women’s winner, Katie Avery, Eureka Springs, 15:19.5; 2-mile walk men’s winner, Wayne Carr, Eureka Springs, 25:05.7; and 2-mile walk women’s winner and first of all walkers, Chrys McClung, Eureka Springs, 24:45.8.
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Who will take a stand to protect us? Working together, we can stop all new unnecessary transmission lines. Missouri legislators have taken the lead to change the law and protect our land. Governor Nixon can sign these bills to benefit everyone. What an opportunity to show that Missouri and Arkansas are awesome!
Governor Jay Nixon
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Please help the people of Missouri and Arkansas protect their private property by signing Senate Bill 839 and House Bills 1622, 1774 and 2092.
Senator David Sater SB 839
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Fire destroys home on Mundell Road
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Fire destroys a home on Mundell Road as firefighters try to keep the blaze from spreading to nearby buildings and the wooded area by the house.
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Grassy Knob firefighters were toned out early Saturday morning to a fully involved residential structure fire on Mundell Road. “Upon our arrival, the home was fully involved,” Grassy Knob Fire Chief Bob McVey said. “The flames were 40 or 50 feet in the air.”
The home was unoccupied, but it could not be saved. Due to the extent of the damage done by the fire, the cause cannot be determined, McVey said. “There’s no way to determine the cause when it’s engulfed like that.” With the assistance of the Inspiration Point Rural Fire Protection District, Grassy Knob firefighters were able to keep the fire from spreading to nearby buildings
and the wooded area behind the home. In total, 25 firefighters from Grassy Knob and Inspiration Point, two Grassy Knob emergency responders and a Eureka Springs EMT crew were on the scene from 6:30 to 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, McVey said. McVey added that the homeowner was in the process of remodeling the residence to be rented out.
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Trees that keep on giving Norberta Philbrook Returns Crescent’s Christmas Forest raises money for area charities Oftentimes on Dec. 26, Christmas decorations and gifts become old news having run their course. But thanks to the 1886 Crescent Hotel and Spa, one holiday decoration actually becomes two gifts enjoyed in two very different but joyous ways. That holiday decoration turned gift is this Historic Hotel of America’s annual Christmas Forest. “Back in 2008, we wanted to add an element of our annual ‘Christmas At The Crescent’ celebration to directly reflect one of the key tenets of our hotels’ creed,” said Jack Moyer, general manager and vice president for both the Crescent and its sister hotel, the 1905 Basin Park Hotel downtown. “That tenet, one of four, states ‘Being Community Minded.’ Our Christmas Forest is a manifestation of that part of our creed.” The Crescent Hotel’s Christmas Forest begins around Thanksgiving weekend when 25 to 30 holiday spruce trees are purchased with some being donated by such businesses as SunFest Market of Holiday Island. Each tree is festooned with lights, compliments of the hotel, and then brightly and uniquely decorated by representatives of local and regional charities. That tree then becomes that charity’s tree. A grand illumination is held the Saturday evening of Eureka Springs’ Christmas Festival weekend. From that day on through New Year’s Eve (approximately four weeks), visitors can come to the Crescent, stroll through the forest enjoying the holiday artwork, and then “vote” for their favorite tree; one-dollar equals one vote. All money collected for each tree is given to that charity. In addition to that money, the top three “vote” getters receive prize money while all other charities receive an “honorable mention” cash prize, all from the Crescent Hotel.
“A new twist that was added last year,” explained hotel Activities Director Mary Howze, “is that all trees once stripped of their lights and decorations are donated to a local attraction, Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge. The trees become play toys for the big cats and bears who reside there. It is so awesome to see these beautiful creatures get so happy, excited and playful when given a Crescent tree.” The charities for whom trees were decorated in the Crescent’s 2013 forest were American Veterans Association, Back Our Kids, Berryville Elementary Nurses Program, Brighton Ridge Activities Program, Carroll County Literacy Council, Clear Spring School, ECHO, Eureka Springs Boy Scouts, Eureka Springs Downtown Network, Eureka Springs School of the Arts, Flint St. Food Bank, Good Shepherd Humane Society, Heifer International, Life Saves Wild Horse Rescue, Loaves and Fishes, Merlin Foundation, OARS, Operation Smile, Our House, Preservation Society, Project Self Esteem, St John’s Hospice, The Ozarks Chorale, The Rapunzel Project, and Wounded Warriors. Winners for 2013 were Wounded Warriors, first prize with $736.00; The Rapunzel Project, second prize with $629.00; and Back Our Kids, third prize with $467.00. “The Crescent Hotel’s Christmas Forest has generated literally thousands of dollars for area charities over the past eight years, moneys these worthwhile community programs probably would never have seen if it hadn’t been for a fun community-minded event sponsored and hosted by a caring local business,” Moyer added. “We are glad to generate these kinds of dollars, after all it’s part of our creed.”
Eureka draws gallery owner back to town By Jennifer Jackson
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Eclectic. Liberal. Mountains. Art. Those are the four words Raven Derge googled when she decided to move from southwest Florida to the northern Rockies eight years ago. Her plan: to acclimatize herself by choosing someplace in between to live for a time. “I wanted to practice mountains,” she said. The place that came up no her search – Eureka Springs, which she liked it so much, she never moved on. Derge did have an art gallery off the square in Bentonville two years ago, but kept her home at Elk Ranch, near Beaver. Last week, she moved the gallery to Eureka, which includes the art supply store like the one Derge originally had on Center Street. “I missed the ambiance,” she said. A fourth generation Floridian on her mother’s side, Derge grew up on Sanibel Island, south of Naples. She majored in marketing at the University of Maryland, where her father, an artist, had taught art. She also lived in Delaware the year before her daughter entered college at the University of Delaware, then moved back to Florida. But after her first husband died, she decided to make a change and in 2006, moved to Eureka Springs. She rented a house and spent the first 18 months healing from her loss and from a car accident that happened when she first arrived. Derge now lives in Elk Ranch, near Beaver, with her husband, Ron Derge, a.k.a. “Ron the Pepper Man,” whom she met when she answered his ad for free produce. Their house has art in every room, Raven Derge said, including the kitchen, the bathroom and the closet, which she rotates regularly. “Nobody local is in the closet,” she said. At the gallery, she carries art by Zeek Taylor, The gallery is named for Taylor’s painting, “Norberta Philbert returned from the Farmer’s Market with something for everyone.” Derge said she had planned to open the gallery in mid-March, but so many people came by and knocked on the window that she quickly put out the displays, shoved
Photo by Jennifer Jackson
Raven Derge has moved the Norberta Philbrook Gallery and art supply store to Eureka Springs after a two-year stint in Bentonville. The gallery, at 34 N. Main, is named for this Zeek Taylor painting, “Norberta Philbrook returned from the Farmer’s Market with something for everyone.”
the unpacked boxes aside and opened a week early. She plans a grand opening on Saturday, May 8, during May Festival of the Arts. The Norberta Philbrook Gallery is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday and Sunday, to 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
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Eureka fiddler Roger Johnson dies at 59
Street musician reunited with long-lost daughter just before his death By Jennifer Jackson
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For 30 years, all Amber Merga had of her father was a photograph of a man with black hair and a big black beard. Her father was Roger Johnson, a street musician who usually sat on the bench in front the New Orleans Hotel on Spring Street and played the fiddle. Johnson – a well-known figure in the downtown community and particularly among area musicians and music fans – died of cancer on March 6 at the age of 59, but not before he was reunited with his daughter through the kindness of others. “I had lost him for 30 years,” Amber said. Johnson, who was from Florida, was living in California when he met Amber’s mother. They had a baby girl who was diagnosed with spinal meningitis. The baby was not expected to live, so the first and middle name were not filled in on her birth certificate. The baby was at the hospital for half a year until antibiotics saved her life, and she
was given a name. “I was known as Baby Girl for six months,” Amber said. When Amber was 4, Johnson asked her mother to marry him, but she refused. That was the last she saw of her father for 30 years, Amber said, although she doesn’t remember him from that time. Then a woman who was visiting Eureka Springs from Texas was talking to Johnson one day, and he told her that he had a daughter in California. The woman went back to Texas and managed to track Amber down through her first husband, Amber said. Chuck Wofford, co-owner of the Back Porch Gift Shop on Center Street, befriended Johnson, who was homeless. Johnson slept in the snow on the stairs going down to the old jail, or in a friend’s attic, Wofford said, which made keeping track of possessions and personal records difficult. So when Johnson asked Wofford to help him re-connect with his daughter, Wofford went online
and found Amber’s mother, Pamela Huffman. Johnson wrote to Huffman and got in touch with her and then Amber. “He found out he had grandchildren,” Wofford said. Johnson talked to Amber and her mother by phone, provided by Wofford and Bozeman, which involved keeping track of them through moves. They also arranged for Johnson to fly out to California to visit Amber. Wofford and Bozeman provided the plane tickets. Dee Vasquez organized a fundraiser concert so that Johnson would have spending money. Wofford also got Johnson, who had hepatitis C and cirrhosis, enrolled in veterans’ services, got him into the V.A. homeless shelter in Fayetteville, and advocated for the medical and dental care he needed. “He saved my father’s life two years ago,” Amber said. Amber and her husband, Jason, were planning to move her father to California this spring – they were waiting for the allclear at his next appointment at the V.A hospital. Then Johnson began having abdominable pain and became very ill, and Jason suggested they move to Eureka instead. “He loved Eureka Springs so much, and we could see he couldn’t move out here,” Amber said. They arrived on Feb. 3. A few weeks later, Johnson was diagnosed with stage 4 liver cancer, which had spread. He died at the Veteran’s Hospital in Fayetteville on March 6. A celebration and benefit to cover cremation expenses is planned for March 17 at the Blarney Stone, and some of Johnson’s instruments, including one of his newer violins, will be auctioned. “I am keeping his old violin,” Amber said. In addition to spending time with her father the last month of his life, Amber has a small store of background information about her father. Roger Johnson was born in Miami Beach on Jan. 6, 1955. He studied music in college. That was probably what Johnson was doing in California in his early 20s, Wofford said, although he doesn’t what school he attended. He does know that Johnson composed an opus as part of the program requirements. “Roger was extraordinary,” Wofford said.
Photo by Richard Quick
Roger Johnson and his beloved fiddle
“He knew all the classical stuff, but he did the hokey hillbilly stuff here.” Amber knows that her father was 20 years old when she was born, and that he joined the Air Force after he last saw her and her mother. Johnson trained at Lackland Air Force base in Texas, Wofford said, and was stationed at Okinawa, Japan, during his six years in the service. “He was in the air police,” Wofford said. “He was a marksman and also a gunsmith, repairing guns for the military.” Johnson came to Eureka Springs about 20 years ago, Amber said. He also spent time playing music in New Orleans. In addition to getting to know her father the last years of his life, Amber will have copies of tapes Johnson recorded in a studio in 1979, which her godfather is having transferred to discs. A video of Johnson singing “I’m Walking on the Edge of the Line” at Chelsea’s open mike in 2011 is on YouTube. In addition to his daughter and son-inlaw, Johnson leaves three grandchildren, Destiney, 21, Lylian, 16, and Joseph Huffman-Doughty, 10. Friends are invited to remember Johnson and his music at a celebration/benefit at the Blarney Stone Irish Pub, 85 S. Main, on March 17 starting at 6 p.m., with music by the 1ozJigs at 7 p.m. People are asked to bring any photographs, videos or memories they have of Johnson to share.
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vote of four members they needed to allow reimbursement for Allen. Resolution 635 was also read and approved at the last council meeting. This resolution is an update to a Title VI program that must comply with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and is necessary for the city’s Transit Department if they wish to apply for grants from
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properties. During his time as a commercial landlord, he noted, he has issued only three evictions. “I bent over backwards to work with
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of those men were getting into their vehicles to get their handguns out. Had they been openly carrying, one of them could have easily been murdered, and no one would have had time to bring reason to the situation.” Both gun-rights advocates and people who don’t even own a gun spoke during public comments against the open carry walk. Residents said that people do not come here to feel threatened by someone walking around with a gun on their hip or shoulder and that open carry would destroy
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the Federal Transit Administration and U.S. Department of Transit, said City Clerk Ann Armstrong. Armstrong also informed the council the fourth quarter financial records are available for viewing in the city finance director’s office. The council also heard multiple public comments about the open carry walk scheduled for March 29. Information on those comments and the council’s discussion are in a special report him,” Cross said. When he was served with the paperwork for the felony charge, Satori was not arrested, confirmed Police Chief Earl Hyatt. Carroll County News Managing Editor Kristal Kuykendall contributed to this report. the vibe, energy and ambience that the city residents have worked to create. “I was raised in a family that hunted, and I shot my first .22 when I was 6 years old. I am a fervent gun-rights advocate just as I am a free speech, due process and all other constitutional-rights advocate,” said Eureka Springs resident Nancy Fuller about her stance on guns and open carry. “People don’t customarily carry sidearms or swords for the same reason they do not carry bullwhips; they aren’t needed. There are places in the world where it is necessary for people to arm themselves to go about their daily business. Eureka Springs is not one of them.”
Charles E. Wilcox
June 1, 1927 – March 9, 2014
Charles E. Wilcox, age 86, beloved husband and father, passed away Sunday, March 9, 2014 in Fayetteville. He was born June 1, 1927 in New Orleans, Louisiana to parents Frank H. Wilcox, Sr. and Marguerite (Chisholm) Wilcox. He grew up in Erlanger, Kentucky and developed a passion for horses. Charles attended Denver University in Colorado, and Georgetown University in Kentucky. In 1945 he was appointed by US Senator Albert B. Chandler, Sr. (KY) to serve as a senate aid. After college, he lived in Pasadena,
California and Arlington, Texas, then in 1993 he and his wife Patsy retired to Holiday Island, Arkansas, and, in 2012 they relocated to Fayetteville. He is survived by his wife Patsy, of the home in Fayetteville, and a son, Victor Charles Wilcox, of Arlington, Texas. A private service will be scheduled at a later date. To sign the online guestbook, please visit www.nelsonberna.com. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Nelson-Berna Funeral Home & Crematory, Fayetteville, Arkansas.
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Robert William Karasek
October 8, 1932 – March 7, 2014
Robert William Karasek, known to his many friends as “Bob K,” was born October 8, 1932, and passed away at Fayetteville’s Washington Regional Medical Center on March 7, 2014. Bob had made his home at Holiday Island for the past several years, having lived in Eureka Springs since the early 1990’s. Bob Karasek grew up in a cold-water flat on Chicago’s west side during World War II. One of three children raised in a working-class family, he learned to be resourceful and to be grateful for everything he had. He would rummage through the bins in alleys in his neighborhood to find broken toys and cast-off items he could repair. He shared the toys with the kids in the neighborhood, and anything else of value he sold to help out his family. A self-educated man, Bob left school after the eighth grade and worked setting pins in bowling alleys, pumping gas, and later assembling telephone circuits for Western Electric. He also tended bar at a few taverns around town. He eventually enlisted in the Army during the Korean Conflict, serving stateside in the signal corps. He traveled around to bases in the southwest in a truck that served as a portable theater and showed training films to soldiers. Bob was in active
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duty for two years and in the reserves for eight years. After the army, he drove trucks and taxis all over the Chicago area. Described as a free spirit by some in his family, Bob moved to Wisconsin to discover the Native American spiritual path that would guide the rest of his life, and there he made many friends among the Ojibwe people, who called him “Red Willow.” Muskie, Pike, and Walleye fish were not safe while Bob lived in Wisconsin, and he especially enjoyed ice fishing from his well-heated van. Tiring of the Wisconsin winters, he followed some retired friends who moved to Eureka Springs, where he again made many friends as a member of the Coffee Pot Club. Bob’s spiritual path also included 12 steps that, with the help of the Creator, enabled him to live a life of sobriety for almost 47 years. He often shared that he found a room full of friends he had always looked for and lived the life he had always dreamed of. Bob leaves behind his beloved shitzu, Suzy Q (who is being well cared for) and a host of friends. A memorial remembrance gathering will take place at 2:00 PM, Monday, March 17, 2014, at the Coffee Pot Club located on the corner of HWY 23 and Stadium Road in Eureka Springs. All are welcome.
Marguerite May Nichols
June 26, 1914 – March 4, 2014
MARGUERITE MAY NICHOLS, a resident of Eureka Springs, Arkansas, was born June 26, 1914 in Mentone, Indiana, a daughter of Charles and Florence (Harris) Nelson. She departed this life Tuesday, March 4, 2014 in her home in Eureka Springs at the age of 99 years. Marguerite worked as a teacher and received her master’s degree from the University of Oklahoma. She was of the Methodist faith. Marguerite was also an Eastern Starr and a member of the gardening club. She is survived by one son, Clyde Nichols and wife Woodalea of Eureka Springs; two grandchildren, Timothy
Shawn Nichols of Eureka Springs, AR and Jarrod W. Nichols of Bentonville, AR; two granddaughters, Kaitlea Nichols and Shyanne M. Nichols both of Bentonville, AR; and a host of other family and friends. In 1940, Marguerite was united in marriage with Clyde Nichols, Sr. who preceded her in death. She is also preceded by her parents, Charles and Florence Nelson. Graveside service will be 4:30 P.M. Friday, March 7, 2014 at the Eureka Springs Cemetery. Interment was under the direction of Nelson Funeral Service. Online condolences may be sent to the family at nelsonfuneral.com.
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Alison By Sandra TaylorSynar Brown
Your Fascinating Life
recent bout with the flu and then masterful. these wonderful days of thaw Then Kristen Lamb and robins has inclined me to goes on to make her second point. Yes, you think about my original passion for this have a story. But it’s a delusion to think that program and whether or not I’ve drifted you’re going to tell it. any from that heading. Yesterday I read a The blunt truth is everyone has a story to blog post by Kristen Lamb that says it all. tell. They do. Every life can be fascinating The blunt truth is everyone has a story to in the hands of a skilled author. Every idea tell. They do. Every life can be fascinating in can be masterful in the hands of a wordthe hands of a skilled author. Every idea can smith. Ah, but the general public assumpbe masterful in the hands of a wordsmith. tion is that the only thing standing between I really believe this. Not everyone does. them and being J.K. Rowling is merely sitThere’s a certain snobbishness among many ting down and finishing the story. Many bewriting programs, whether they be NYC, lieve that, because they’re literate and have MFA, or nearer to home, that seems to im- command of their native language that they ply that to be a writer you must have been can do what we do. born with an esoteric vision, had the advanThe thing that keeps most stories from tages of years in literary academe, and have ever seeing the light of day is this delusome bizarre story that has never happened sion that we’re going to write it one of to anyone else on this planet in its history. these days. Not today because we’re going The truth is, the libraries and bookstores to Wal-Mart. And not tomorrow because are full of wonderful books, but when you we’re taking that class on macaroni flowanalyze them, what happened? Her husband erpots. The kids are coming in a couple of left her and she had to find her own way. Ok, weeks, and we want to get those bulbs out, been there, done that. Her children grew up and. . . and. . .and. . . and she moved on. That’s a big club. He’s But really, how hard can it be? You sit dealing with his adult children who won’t down at the kitchen table with your laptop launch and an aging mother and a very big or your notebook and you use the same Endog. How many in that boat or one similar? glish skills you used in your previous career There’s nothing inherently unusual about in business or education or counseling. these stories. Which is one thing that makes And maybe you do sit down one day and them so appealing. We want to know how you do write the beginning. You read it, these characters deal with their situations there’s nothing wrong with it. You read it to because we relate. And what makes these your husband. He nods. And yet, there’s no stories work is the strong, interesting voice thrill, really. You don’t even feel as creative and perspective of the narrator and his abili- as when you did the macaroni flowerpot. ty to see the quirkiness all around us. But you’ve got a spurt of determination, Now it’s true that some of us get our and the next day, you tackle the next section. hearts hung somewhere odd. The 16th cen- This seems even less appealing, more stertury. Another planet. The Mafia. We’ve had ile, more like a book report of a not-so-inone story burning in our heart for decades. teresting book. You conclude that writing is The story we’re called to tell. not as much fun as you thought it would be. Either way, whether it’s our own or an- It feels more like organizing the closet than other, the story is there for the telling. Every creating something exquisite. life can be fascinating, every idea can be What’s happened here? Just this: you’ve ••• Alison Taylor-Brown has an MFA in Fiction and a lifetime of teaching experience from preschool to university levels. She directs The Village Writing School, whose mission is to foster the development of area writers through workshops, writers’ circles, and coaching. Her column, Village View, appears weekly. To talk to Alison about your writing goals and dreams, contact her at alisontaylorbrown@me.com or 479 292-3665.
discovered that you don’t have the skills to write the story in an interesting way. You read and reread it and you can’t find anything wrong with it and yet, somewhere deep down inside, you know that there is. And you lose interest. The thrill, the inexpressible thrill that those of us who are hooked on this crazy writing ride experience, comes to us because we know how to make that character—whether he’s a 16th century nobleman or our own younger self—walk right off that page. We know how to enter the dream
and how to bring it back with us. As long as you’re just using your decent English skills to record what happened, you’re not creating—you’re just reporting. You’re not showing, you’re just telling. But the good news is that writing craft is a set of learnable tools. We can teach them, you can learn them. That’s what I wanted to do in the beginning. That’s why the Village Writing School exists. Every idea can be masterful. Yours, too. Every life can be fascinating. Yours, too.
Everything You Need to Write a Beautiful Book 2014 Writing Craft Core Curriculum
March 15 – The Word & the Sener’s Tools tence April 19 – Subtext, High Events, Diction Closing Sound Devices Below the Surface of Story, Plot, The Sentence Context Figurative Language Implicit Narrative Types of Phrases Weaving the Dramatic & the Subtle Two Mistakes with High Events Style March 22, 2014 – Self-Editing Endings can Culminate or Imply From First Draft to Finished Manu- Continuation script in 15 Steps Ending Literal or From Afar? Reviewing and Applying all the WritUnless otherwise noted, all workshops are 9-4 and are $45. Register online at VillageWritingSchool.com For more information, contact alisontaylorbrown@me.com or 479 292-3665. Follow Village Writing School on FB.
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The Village Writing School In our series of feature articles on businesses of interest to Citizen readers, one Village Writer shares his wife’s personal journey with an alternative healing clinic in Bentonville and their “hands off” chiropractic practice.
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“We’re going to love you into Wellness”
hat’s what Dr. Katy Morter told my wife Cheri. Drs. Ted and Katy Morter are advanced holistic Chiropractic Physicians, whose practice focuses on balancing physical, emotional and chemical stressors, and the development of healthy daily habits in six essential areas (what you eat, what you drink, how you exercise, how you rest, what you breathe and what you think). This leads to the body healing itself as it was designed originally – from the inside out. The Morters use a system, developed by Dr. Ted Morter’s grandfather, called the Bio-Energetic Synchronization Technique, (B.E.S.T.). B.E.S.T. works by re-timing messages between the body and the brain to remove outdated subconscious memory patterns. Traditional chiropractic, founded by D.D. Palmer in the 1890s, is a form of alternative medicine that attempts to diagnose and treat patients through manipulation of their musculoskeletal system, especially the spine. It uses manual manipulation of the spine, joints, and soft tissues as well as exercises and lifestyle counseling. In contrast, B.E.S.T. is a non-forceful, energy balancing procedure used to help reestablish the full healing potential of the body. B.E.S.T. principles identify the interference we create with our conscious mind. This interference has caused imbalance in the autonomic nervous system leading to exhaustion of our organ systems over time. Emotional B.E.S.T. utilizes advanced technology developed to update higher brain interference from expression in the physical body. When emotional thoughts such as worry, guilt, fear, judgment, to name just a few, become the overriding factor in our memory patterns, interference with our perfect health and wellness becomes the norm. This interference, formulated by con-
scious thought, which in turn becomes a pattern, prevents the true expression of our physical bodies healing capability. Emotional B.E.S.T. is an advanced procedure to help identify this emotional pattern, update the interference, and then allow the body to function based on current situations rather than past experiences. Drs. Ted and Katy Morter met and fell in love in chiropractic school. Ted is a fourth generation Morter chiropractic physician. Katy comes from a family of osteopathic physicians turned MD’s. Ted and Katy migrated to Bentonville, Arkansas to be close to family a few years ago. They started a clinic called The Morter Wellness Center. My wife Cheri and I had been going to The Morter Wellness Center for several months when Cheri discovered she had advanced Stage III C uterine cancer. The Morters were compassionate and helped her accept the diagnosis. She was told her body was strong and up to the challenge, but she had some self-sabotaging negative thoughts which would interfere with her healing process. German Energy Medicine has advanced in determining the emotional dynamics involved in creating several types of cancers. Dr. Ted was determined to find the emotional trigger that created this disease. He stayed up one night until 1:30 a.m. to research the emotional causes of uterine cancer. He presented two different scenarios to my wife which may have created her disease. Dr. Ted asked Cheri to go home and make a numbered list of any situation or event that would apply to either scenario. She was instructed to limit her list to events which had occurred within the last two years. When she returned to the office, Cheri kept her list private while the doctors asked her body which item
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This Week’s Writer Shiva Shanti on the list was the cause. The doctor and trusted the surgeons’ ability to do called out a number when a match was an excellent job. Her physician at MD found. While it wasn’t necessary for her Anderson told her the tests performed to disclose any details, she wanted to revealed she was in excellent health share her enthusiasm for discovering and that cancer was her only problem. the truth. The doctors determined her What joy! She felt really good for the emotional baggage was a classic match first time in four years. with one of the German stated causes of The surgery went well, and she was uterine cancer. released three days later. The surgeon Cheri also realized that what she at MD Anderson told her to rest for considered her primary cause had thirty days and come back for tests. nothing to do with the reality of her When asked about other treatment opdisease. This was an enlightening real- tions the physician said most likely it ization that prompted her to let go of, will be chemo only. and forgive, the situation she had been Ted and Katy Morter were the first blaming. Several visits were involved people we stopped to visit on the way in unraveling negative thinking and home from Houston after surgery. replacing it with creative new thought Cheri’s body was racked with pain. patterns. They were able to realign her body Cheri decided to go on a vegetable via non-force methods and relieve the juice diet before surgery. The doctors emotional trauma undergone as a reasked her body, while monitoring her sult of the hospital stress. feet for yes or no answers, how much As of the latest lab test, Cheri’s juice she should drink each day. The CA125 cancer blood count was 23. Morters became her life coaches. They A count below 35 is considered nortold her they were going to just love mal. “I’m so grateful to know that the her into healing, and she believed cause of this dreaded disease has been them. addressed, and I have become a betBy the time she went in for surgery ter person in the process,” Cheri says. on November 6, Cheri was positive “The Morters are very special human she would live through the experience beings.” •••
After a career in the music industry, Shiva Shanti moved to a house on Beaver Lake. His memoir explores the impact that sound has had on his spiritual journey.
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Calendar of Events March 13 & 20: Little Switzerland Amateur Radio Club meetings
The Little Switzerland Amateur Radio Club will meet on Thursday, March 13 at noon at the Eureka Springs Pizza Hut, 2048 E. Van Buren, for our monthly lunch and meeting. The club will hold its monthly evening meeting on Thursday, March 20 at 6:30 p.m. at the physicians building at Mercy Hospital Berryville. Refreshments will be available. Anyone with an interest in amateur radio is welcome at both meetings. For additional information, email gmj@bscsystems.com.
March 13: 6th Annual ESDN Company Picnic
The 6th Annual Benefit for Eureka Springs Downtown Network and kick off for the season in Eureka Springs is set to light the night up on Thursday, March 13 at the Basin Park Hotel. The event starts at 5:30 with a potluck dinner and a silent business service auction. Bring your business checkbook, as there are great opportunities to bid on advertising and business services. The program begins at 6 with a brief introduction from the Main Street Arkansas director, Greg Phillips. At 7, we will flip the switch and you can purchase a $10 wristband to visit the Cocktails for a Cause Drink Competition that puts five downtown bartenders fighting for your vote to pick the best cocktail, or stay in the main hall and pay $5 to play bingo with amazing prizes and trips. The evening culminates with a live auction with two trips for your next vacation.
March 14: CBCO Blood Drives in Berryville
Community Blood Center of the Ozarks has issued a code yellow alert for all negative blood types. Donors to CBCO provide all of the blood for patients at 38 area hospitals. Every five minutes on average, a transfusion takes place. CBCO will be at the Berryville Tyson plant on Friday, March 14 from 9 a.m. to noon for a blood
drive. From 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. that day, there will also be a blood drive at the Berryville Wal-Mart. To be eligible to give blood, you must weigh at least 110 pounds, be in good health and present a valid photo ID.
March 14: Eureka Springs High School movie night
The next movie night at the Eureka Springs High School will be Friday, March 14. The movie will start promptly at 7 p.m., so don’t be late. Popcorn and water will be available at the concessions stand. This week’s movie features Stanley Yelnats and his friend Zero digging up clues to an age old mystery. “If only if only, the woodpecker cries!” Come and join us for this fun-filled movie with a great soundtrack. It all benefits the Eureka Springs High School Drama Club.
March 15: The Word and the Sentence at Village Writing School
A full-day writing workshop, “The Word and the Sentence,” will be offered at the Village Writing School in Eureka Springs on Saturday, March 15 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. If you missed this workshop in February, here’s another opportunity to attend. The March 15 workshop will cover diction, sound devices, the sentence, figurative language, types of phrases and style, and will be taught by Village Writing School Director Alison Taylor-Brown. Taylor-Brown has an MFA in Fiction from the University of Southern New Hampshire. The workshop will take place at the Village Writing School, 177 Huntsville Road in Eureka Springs (Highway 23 South). Pre-registration is required, and class size is limited. Cost for the all-day workshop is $45. Register online at villagewritingschool. com. For more information, contact Taylor-Brown at alisontaylorbrown@me.com or 479-292-3665.
March 15: Kerusso Christian Outlet to host book signing
Kerusso Christian Outlet, located on
Passion Play Road, is hosting a book signing for John Turner of Eureka Springs on Saturday, March 15 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Turner has more than three decades of pastoral experience. Along with his wife, Judy Turner, he founded Christview Ministries in 2004. Christview is located on Rocky Top Road in Eureka Springs and is a center for spiritual and biblical formation. This, his first book, reflects his life-long love and study of the scriptures. “Living the Full Bible, Embracing God’s Vision for Your Life, Your Church and Your World” offers many open doors inviting you to a new depth of relationship with the Living God.
March 15: Honorary Survivor Walk
David Stidham, also known as Mile Walker, is planning a “walk” dedicated to cancer survivors beginning at 7 a.m. on Saturday, March 15, with an alternate date of March 22. The walk will begin at Grandview Baptist Church on to Highway 62 toward Eureka Springs, with a return walk back to the church. David is seeking supporters for his walk. If you would like to sponsor David financially, you can contact him at 870-423-4548 or 870-4802496. All funds collected go to the American Cancer Society Relay for Life.
March 15: Help with the health care marketplace
A licensed IPA guide will be at the Eureka Springs Carnegie Public Library Annex to help with your health care questions and enrollment on Saturday, March 15 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more information, call 479-325-0943.
March 20: Fleur Delicious Weekend planning meeting
The Fourth Annual Fleur Delicious Weekend will have a planning meeting on Thursday, March 20 at 9 a.m. at DeVito’s of Eureka Springs. We invite anyone who wants to be a part of FDW to join us at 5 Center St. to help plan this year’s festivities. This year’s FDW will be held Tuesday, July 8 through Sunday, July 13. Fleur Delicious Weekend is a celebration of all the senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. It is a French-themed weekend in
which restaurants, bars, art galleries, boutiques, spas, and music venues participate with French inspired indulgences in food, wine, spirits, art, entertainment and luxe galore. For more information about Fleur Delicious Weekend, please visit www. FleurDeliciousWeekend.com or Fleur Delicious Weekend Eureka Springs, AR on Facebook.
March 21: Spring Equinox Concert at The Aud
In an event that will be the first of its kind in northwest Arkansas, The Aud will host a concert and dance event celebrating the beginning of spring. This will be an opportunity for everyone in the community to enjoy sights and sounds unlike any previously experienced in this area, bringing the community together to celebrate the renewal that arrives with spring. The Spring Equinox Concert will be held Friday, March 21 at 7 p.m. in the Aud, 32 South Main St. in Eureka Springs. Admission will be $5 for adults and $2 for youth at the door. For more information about the concert or to purchase VIP Sponsorship tickets, email fiddlinfred51@gmail. com. The concert is the highlight and one of several events during Eureka Springs’ MyWellnessFestival.com, to be held the week of the spring equinox, March 15 through 22.
March 24: Metaphysical meeting
On Monday, March 10 from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Reading Room at the Christian Science Church, 68 Mountain St. in Eureka Springs, Mariellen Griffith will host a metaphysical meeting with a healing ritual.
March 25: Holiday Island Fire Department Auxiliary Luncheon
The next Holiday Island Fire Department Auxiliary Luncheon is Tuesday, March 25. The luncheon is held in the ballroom of the Holiday Island Clubhouse. Luncheons start at noon with doors opening at 11:30 for social time. The cost is $8. Reservations are required. They need to be made no later than Friday, March 21 to Peggy Arnhart at 479-363-6235.
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pring can‘t get here soon enough, it is time to open the windows, dust the corners and Jim Fain air out the house... a Spring-cleaning. For the health minded an internal cleanse is front and center as we step into the newest growth spurt of the year. I like a fast/cleanse, which I call the Desert Morning Cleanse or Master Cleanse. It uses a powerful blend of simple natural foods. I’ve seen it work like a charm and it tastes pretty good too. This one is a combination of cayenne (heat units are important, 40 and above) as hot as you can easily tolerate, juice from four lemons, pure water and four ounces of B grade, organic maple syrup. For one to three days you eat nothing and drink only this combination in one gallon of pure water for each day. I’ve found not watching TV beneficial during this time as the advertisements for food cause some grief. An easy alternative is to use proteolytic enzymes also known as systemic enzymes. These enzymes are a different formula than typical digestive enzymes but can and do improve digestion. They also roto-route out the residue of metabolism and attack yeast by breaking down the cell wall. An additional benefit many people gain is less joint aches and pain. This unique use of enzymes for cleansing can take about 2 weeks. Since there is a reduction of internal yeast take the opportunity to refresh your internal garden with probiotics. Start this detox on a night that can give you several days free just in case you temporarily feel not up to par as your body dumps accumulated toxins. It goes without saying plenty of good fresh water is in order. The proteolytic cleanse/detox just might help you break that set point for weight loss, too. To dust out the deep recesses, finish up by taking 5 capsules/day for 18 days (150mg/ ea) per day of reduced glutathione or alternatively 3 capsules/day for 20 days of NAC at 600mg each. After completing the cleanse you’ve got the perfect moment to clean up your diet and review your supplement list. Generally, I suggest an iron free multivitamin with trace elements and minerals as well as fish oils every day for every adult over forty-five. If you have ailments or are taking nutrition-starving prescribed drugs then other supplements will be needed. Choosing food to put in your pantry is really easy by remembering to select food that travels the shortest distance from the garden/ranch to your table. Read all of the ingredient panels on packaged food and choose the lowest carb values, no trans-fats and no high fructose corn syrup.
Wisecrack Zodiac Aries: You may see yourself as the badass V8 engine under the hood, but you’re more like the banana in the tailpipe. You still make an impact it’s just hilarious instead of heart-pounding. Taurus: You have the wings of a falcon, the heart of an eagle and the thighs of a chicken. When you soar to impossible heights you may want to stay there, because if you land, you may be seen as very, very tasty. Avoid older men in bolo ties with bags of spices. Gemini: Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee, because you forgot to put your phone on vibrate again. Really, there’s no taking you anywhere, is there? Stay at home for a few nights until the theater usher forgets what you look like. Cancer: Every day is a new beginning, sometimes it’s just a lousy story. Be grateful that Thursday is flash fiction, because you want to be fresh for Friday night’s spicy chapter. Leo: There’s a lot of people on the path not taken, you’re just not seeing the foot traffic. Look up and you’ll see scores ziplining above the treetops to destiny. Strap on that harness, because walking is for wussies. Virgo: If you’re not seeing eye to eye with someone, it’s better to get a stepladder and move up. That makes it much easier to whack them on the head and drive them down to your original point of view. Bring smelling salts in case the hammer of your opinions is too effective. Libra: Sexy? Your bedsprings have made more squeaks than a barn full of mice. Use that mojo on Saturday’s hottie, and watch out for mousetraps. Scorpio: If there’s such a thing as a lucky break, it’s definitely not coming from that loan shark with the baseball bat. Do yourself a favor and avoid investing in those ant farm-powered cell phone chargers. Sagittarius: Sure, you can slide a webcam under your boss’
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locked door, but you can’t unsee what he does with a bird feeder and two pounds of marshmallow cream. Forget therapy, too, because re-enacting it makes the dolls all sticky. Capricorn: Sometimes the best smiles come from the scraggliest faces, but you’ll never see them if you only look down your own nose. Be kind this week, because karma has a savage sense of humor. Aquarius: In your hands, trash becomes treasure but a hot glue gun
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becomes a spontaneous waxing session. For the EMT’s sake, wear pants when doing crafts. Pisces: You’re so exhausted from the imaginary conversations in your head that you can’t bear talking to a real, live person right now. Start slowly by telling the telemarketer to bugger off and you can work your way up from there. Answers on page 29
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Lively Entertainment By Kristal Kuykendall
by Kristal Kuykendall
St. Patrick’s weekend: Tons of music
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major player of the Eureka Springs punk-grass/hillbilly-rock sound is Springbilly, who will headline a show at Squid and Whale Pub this Friday night.. Springbilly, one might say, is kind of like Eureka Springs’ rotating house band. The group, which could be described as hillbilly punk rock with a bluegrass feel, has played at venues all over Eureka during its five years of existence, which has seen the band’s membership change a few times and has seen dozens of local musicians sit in here and there. “Springbilly is an amorphous blob of Eureka Springs musicians,” explains the band’s co-founder, guitarist and vocalist Travis Graham. For about the last year, the line-up of Springbilly has consisted of Graham; co-founder and banjo player Cameron Dunaway; bassist Mark “Slim” Nelson; and guitarist/vocalist Ratliff Dean Thiebaud.
The group often also includes a guest fiddler as well as a friend on dobro, mandolin and/ or lap steel guitar. Until last November, Eureka Springs fiddler (and vocalist) Blayne Theibaud also was a regular member; since he moved away, Chuck Onofrio has been sitting in on the so-called “Devil’s box.” Springbilly’s show begins at 9 p.m. at Squid and Whale, located at 37 Spring St. No charge for admission, open to ages 21 and up. SATURDAY This Saturday is the opening of Pied Piper Pub / Cathouse Lounge’s big St. Patrick’s Day weekend of live music both inside and in the Beer Garden. Last year was a blast, with great bands and fun crowds of all types of music fans, all weekend long. This year, their lineup (see below for all of the band listings) includes two favorites: Foleys Van from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. and Honkysuckle from 9:30 p.m. to midnight.
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THURSDAY, MARCH 13 • Blarney Stone, 85 S. Main St., 479-3636633: Grace Askew, 7 p.m. • Squid & Whale, 37 Spring St., 479-2537147: Open Mic/Tribute to Roger Johnson, bring photos/stories to share, 8 p.m. FRIDAY, MARCH 14 • Blarney Stone: Sam Clanton, 8 p.m. • Cathouse / Pied Piper, 82 Armstrong St., 479-363-9976: Matt Reeves, 8 p.m. to midnight • Chaser’s, 169 E. Van Buren, 479-2535522: Juke Box and Beer Pong Challenge • Chelsea’s, 10 Mountain St., 479-253-6723: Flip Off Pirates, 9 p.m. • Eureka Live!, 35 N. Main St., 479-2537020: DJ & Dancing, 9 p.m. to close • Henri’s Just One More, 19 1/2 Spring St., 479-253-5795: Juke Box, 9 p.m. • Jack’s Place, 37 Spring St., 479-253-2219: Karaoke with DJ Goose & Maverick, 8 p.m. to midnight • Legends Saloon (Lumberyard), 105 E. Van Buren, 479-253-2500: Karaoke with DJ Pharoah, 8 p.m. • New Delhi Cafe, 2 N. Main St., 479-2532525: The Earthshakers, 6 to 10 p.m.
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Foleys Van is one of my favorite new bluegrass/acoustic groups based in Arkansas, and the band has performed several well-received shows at both New Delhi Cafe and at Chelsea’s Corner Cafe & Bar. Honkysuckle is a favorite in the Springfield area, where they are based. They also just announced the band’s retirement, effective this summer. So you might want to catch them while you can. Honkysuckle is comprised of four talented musicians in upright bassist and vocalist Dave Smith; Kyle Young on harmonica and vocals; drummer and vocalist Adam Howell; and Eric Howell on the resonator, guitar, banjo and vocals. I’ve heard this group at Chelsea’s and at Yonder Mountain String Band’s Harvest Music Festival; they absolutely blew me away at the inaugural Ozark Mountain Music Festival at the Basin Park Hotel in January. Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Have fun and be safe. ••• Following is the full listing of entertainment at Eureka Springs venues in the coming week:
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• Rowdy Beaver Den, 45 Spring St., 479363-6444: Terri & Brett, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. • Rowdy Beaver Tavern, 417 W. Van Buren, 479-253-8544: Karaoke with Jerry, 7:30 p.m. • Squid & Whale: Springbilly, 9 p.m. • Voulez-Vous Lounge, 63 Spring St., 479363-6595: “Lucky” with DJ HAVOK and Guest DJs Shortfuze and Lunitune, 7 p.m. ($5 cover) SATURDAY, MARCH 15 • Basin Park Hotel Balcony Bar & Restaurant, 12 Spring St., 479-253-7837: Jeff Lee, noon-2 p.m.; Catherine Reed, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. • Blarney Stone: Brian Muench, 4 p.m. • Cathouse / Pied Piper: Little Buffalo River
Band, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Foleys Van, 2:30 to 5:30 p.m.; John Henry & Friends, 6 to 9 p.m.; Honkysuckle, 9:30 p.m. to midnight; Keith Nicholson Band in Beer Garden, 8 p.m. to midnight • Chaser’s: Rideshy, 9 p.m. • Chelsea’s: St. Patty’s Day Party with Magic Mule, 3 p.m.; Chucky Waggs, 9 p.m. • Eureka Live!: DJ & Dancing 9 p.m. to close • Henri’s Just One More: Juke Box, 9 p.m. • Jack’s Place: Karaoke with DJ Goose & Maverick, 8 p.m. to midnight • Legends Saloon (Lumberyard): Ozark Thunder, 9 p.m. • New Delhi Cafe: Pete & Dave, 1 to 5 p.m.; Pete & Dave, 6 to 10 p.m.
• Rowdy Beaver Den: Karaoke with Jerry, noon to 4 p.m.; Terri & Brett, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. • Rowdy Beaver Tavern: One Way Road, 7:30 p.m. • Squid & Whale: Dayton Waters, 9 p.m. • Voulez-Vous Lounge: “Lucky” with DJ HAVOK and Guest DJs Shortfuze and Lunitune, 7 p.m. ($5 cover) SUNDAY, MARCH 16 • Basin Park Hotel Balcony Bar & Restaurant: Jeff Lee, noon to 3 p.m. • Cathouse / Pied Piper: Keith Nicholson Band in Beer Garden, 1 to 4 p.m. • Rowdy Beaver Den: DJ Goose, noon to 4 p.m. • Rowdy Beaver Tavern: Sunday Specials
MONDAY, MARCH 17 • Blarney Stone: Friends Jammin’ at Celebration/Benefit for Roger Johnson, 5:30 p.m.; The 1 Oz. Jig, 7 p.m. • Cathouse / Pied Piper: Air Loom, 1:30 to 4:40 p.m.; SX REX, 6 to 9 p.m. • Chaser’s: Poker ‘n’ Pool night • Chelsea’s: Springbilly, 9 p.m. • Rowdy Beaver Den: Paddy O’Grill & Bill O’Sayle, 5 to 8 p.m. • Squid & Whale: Local Kine featuring Derek & Friends plus Oh No! Variety Show, 7:30 p.m. TUESDAY, MARCH 18 • Chelsea’s: Open Mic, 9 p.m. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19 • Chaser’s: Ladies night, 9 p.m.
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local watering hole extremely intoxicated, an employee called a cab for her, but the crying woman would not get into the cab. An officer responded to check on her, but she had taken the cab by the time he arrived. All’s well that ends well, we hope. 10:40 p.m. – A caller reported hitting a deer near Apple Blossom Inn, and needed help moving the animal out of the road, and needed a report on vehicle damage. Officer reponded. 11:03 p.m. – A caller reported a large brown dog running loose along Highway 62 between Pine Mountain Village and Fast Bob’s (that’s Rapid Roberts), and she had almost hit it. Officer responded but was unable to locate the poor beast. 11:04 p.m. – A caller on Armstrong Street reported loud music coming from the big house right behind Mud Street Cafe. They turned it off by the time an officer arrived. 11:05 p.m. – Carroll County Sheriff’s Office advised someone had reported a dark two-door car heading into town, crossing the Kings River Bridge, driving erratically and in the wrong lane, and the car was smoking and speeding. Maybe the driver was hurrying to get to their destination before their engine exploded! Officers were unable to locate the vehicle. 11:23 p.m. – A caller advised of a yellow lab that was limping along Highway 62 heading toward the grocery store from the direction of Planer Hill. Officer was unable to locate the injured fella; hopefully he found his way home.
March 7 3:14 a.m. – A woman staying at a Swissthemed inn reported that her vehicle that she had parked at her hotel the night before was no longer there. An officer responded and told her he had checked on our vehicle the night before because it was left parked at Rockin’ Pig after closing time. Wow, must have been one helluva rockin’ good time! What happens in Eureka stays in Eureka! LOL 9:01 a.m. – Animal Control picked up a pit bull that was reported by someone on Mountain Street to be running loose. Owners were located, the police report says, and “the dog returned with a warning.” I hate it when my dog comes home and has a warning for me. Ha. 9:16 a.m. – After someone left their vehicle parked in the middle of the road on upper Mountain Street, officers had it towed since they could not locate the owner. 1:05 p.m. – A caller from an animal-themed tavern on U.S. Highway 62 West requested to speak to an officer about possible check fraud. 6:13 p.m. – A routine traffic stop by State Police on Highway 23 South resulted in the arrest of a woman on an outstanding Eureka Springs Police Department warrant. She was taken to ESPD for booking. March 8 2:14 a.m. – A woman from Glen Avenue said a very intoxicated woman had just tried to enter her house accusing the caller of taking her husband. The woman then left in a small, red four-door car. Officers in the
area couldn’t locate the vehicle and the caller didn’t want a report. Turns out the drunk woman’s ex-husband lived nearby and she had just gotten the wrong house. How embarrassing! 8:37 a.m. – A caller from a motel named after the highway complained that an ex-employee had stayed at the motel the night before apparently without permission or without paying. Officer took a report. P.s. If you think you can hang onto those motel keys and use them later for free, you’re wrong! 2:04 p.m. – A caller complained about a suspicious and/or dangerous driver on Highway 62 West. Officers located the vehicle and issued the driver a warning for driving left of center. 10:59 p.m. – A routine traffic stop on Highway 23 South resulted in the (brief) arrest of a man on suspicion of DWI. However, when the driver took the Breathalyzer test at the police station, he blew under the legal limit, so he was released. For once, peppermint worked. Ha. March 9 12:34 a.m. – A routine traffic stop near Exxon resulted in the arrest of a man on charges of driving on a suspended license. March 10 12:32 a.m. – A caller on Oakridge Drive reported an attempted home invasion. (WTH?!) He said he heard his basement door being broken open, and when he went downstairs he saw four or five males run out to a small black sedan and take off toward East Mountain. Officers responded and took a report. Scary.
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credit card being used in ways that were not authorized. Report filed. March 6 1:03 p.m. – A caller reported a man and woman fighting inside their vehicle and they possibly had a child with them. When the officer spotted them, the female driver was laughing and smiling, so he didn’t feel he had sufficient reason to pull them over. First off, my goodness, someone maybe jumped the gun on this one. Second, thank you, ESPD officers for not being pull-over-happy and harassing people who aren’t doing anything wrong. 2:14 p.m. – Animal Control picked up a dog for holding after its owner at the medical clinic on Passion Play had to be taken to the hospital by air ambulance. Awww. Hope everyone is OK. 3:36 p.m. – A man calling from a local Alps-mountain-themed hotel said his girlfriend had trashed their room and stolen things. Officer responded. 3:40 p.m. – A caller on Cliff Street and German Alley said a driver had run over some cones on the street and described the vehicle. Police issued a BOLO for the vehicle. 3:43 p.m. – The girlfriend from the call before last told police that her boyfriend had held her hostage and wouldn’t let them leave a few weeks earlier. Somehow not believable at this point, sister. 8:55 p.m. – After a woman came into a
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Area Agency on Aging of Northwest Arkansas
ATTENTION Brighton Ridge of Eureka Springs is seeking a qualified individuals to fill the position of: Full-Time Floor nurse LPN, CNA or RN
Brighton Ridge offers a newly remodeled living and working environment located in the beautiful city of Eureka Springs, AR. Brighton Ridge offers a competitive wage scale, full health insurance, 401K plans, and vacation benefits. Please inquire at the Business Office or send resumes to Jayme Creek. jcreek@victoriahealthcare.net FX: 479-253-5325 • 235 Huntsville Road Eureka Springs, AR 72632 • 479-253-7038
In-Home Personal Care Assistants The Area Agency on Aging of Northwest Arkansas is currently accepting applications for Personal Care Assistants to work with our In-Home clients of Carroll County. We are looking for outstanding individuals with good work ethics that truly cares about our senior citizens. The right candidates would enjoy the flexibility of a work schedule up to 28 hours per week, paid holidays, incentive bonuses, participation in the agency’s retirement plan and the satisfaction of helping senior citizens maintain their independence. Previous training and experience preferred for immediate placement with a starting wage of $9.10 per hour. We will provide training for untrained applicants otherwise eligible for employment.
For more information and to apply on-line go to www.aaanwar.org and click on the Employment tab. Position will remain open until filled. AA/EEO employer
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did, and the family has the lineage. Considered the King of Country Music, Roy Acuff and the Smokey Mountain Boys made “The Great Speckled Bird” and “Wabash Cannonball” country music standards. Roy Acuff also co-founded the first major Nashville country-music publishing house. His cousin could balance his fiddle on his chin and performed yo-yo tricks on stage, Carl said, talents which he did not inherit. “I can run the cats up on the roof,” Carl said. Actually, Carl Acuff, Jr. has five records that made the charts, starting in 1992 with “Make the World Go Away.” He wrote his second hit, “Two-Dollar Coke,” which was number one in Europe, where his band is popular. Another song, “I’m Going to Be Bad Today” was a big hit in Texas. Acuff is lining up special shows to play when his band plays out of town, he said, and will post the schedule when completed. He also plans to develop a Sunday gospel matinee, an idea that the George Brothers had set in motion. “Joe Gordon from Texas will be here on May 18,” Randall said. The George Brothers’ new single, “Make Sure You Get Name Right,” will be released the first of April. Dawayne will continue to live in Eureka Springs, and the brothers are planning to perform in Eureka and in Branson as well as tour. Comedy will still be a part of the show, Dawayne said, so their skit characters, Pony Tail and P.Nutt, will live on. While they are looking forward to the new phase of their careers, the brothers said they are grateful for the time the years they spent in Eureka, where their children grew up. “I can’t tell you how good Eureka has been to the Hoe-Down and our family,” Randall said. “Millions of people came through our doors.” The Ozark Mountain Hoe-Down featuring Carl Acuff, Jr. opens Saturday, April 4, with shows at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday through April 29, Tuesday through Saturday in May and August, and seven days a week in June, July and October. The theater is located at 3140 E. Van Buren (Highway 62), Eureka Springs.
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‘CALL US ABOUT ANY HOME IN EUREKA - AL, Cheryl, Paul, Dom’
This cleared 3.96 acre property comes with a beautifully maintained 3 bed / 2 bath home, separate garage w/ electric, gas, water, a well house & bonus building. 4th room in home used as office but can be bedroom. Nearby school bus stop, stores, amenities. Minutes to downtown Eureka. Don’t miss this one! $121,000.
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Fantastic open floor plan accented with attention to quality & detail compliments this home with entertainment areas on the main & lower levels. The double decks offer you private views for your outdoor living pleasure. Custom kitchen, formal dining room, 4 bedrooms & much much more are but a few or the amenities offered to you. This MUST SEE home offers not just an address but a true Ozark lifestyle. $219,900. For a private showing call Al Hooks.
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Historic 3 bed 2 bath cottage on quiet street just off the historic loop and minutes to downtown. Nice high ceilings, enclosed sunroom and separate living unit on lower level. Great home for easy living or that weekend getaway home. Close to all the best that Eureka Springs has to offer. $139,000.
Paul Faulk 479-981-0668
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Make it your own... opportunity awaits to make this successful long term rental facility into whatever you desire. Owners quarters and 11 rentals on over 3 acres. Close to the lake and easy access to Eureka. Good highway frontage. Call for a showing today! $325,000.
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Fabulously restored 8,528 sq ft historic 2 story landmark building w/basement. Presently home of unique shop on main floor and balconied living quarters upstairs both hosting approximately 3000 sq. feet each. Located in historic downtown on Main St. flanked by parking on 3 sides. This rare totally restored piece of history has amenities galore $859,000.
Single family 2,250 sq ft home with finished downstairs boasts 4 Bedroom , 2 & 1/2 baths, 2 kitchens, 2 covered decks, 2 living areas - one with gas log fireplace and Jacuzzi tub. $139,900.
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This prime retail building
COMMERCIAL & located right on historic RESIDENTAIL Spring St. is waiting for
you! This building boasts a prime retail location PLUS a nightly unit (with separate entrance) on 2nd floor. Off-street parking, balcony in front & back with views. A great opportunity to have a home & business. $490,500.
AL HOOKS 479.363.6419 alhookseureka.com – alhooks@me.com
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DOminiquE LOvELL 479-244-5231 hooksrealty.com - domsellseureka@yahoo.com
Cedar home w/ guest house on 8.29 (+/-) acres, pond, beautiful mtn. views & land. The home features large open rooms, geothermalheat,gen- REDUCED erator, large windows, 2-car garage, 1-car carport, detached 3-car carport w/storage, guest house w/kitchenette, bath. POSSIBLE OWNER FINANCING. $395,000.
AL HOOKS 479.363.6419 alhookseureka.com – alhooks@me.com
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Excellent business location! This very successful Hwy 62 high traffic location offers multiple use buildings with approximately 10,000 sq ft of combined spaces. 40+ parking spaces. Buildings have been updated and maintained meticulously. Possible usage and amenities too numerous to list. For confidential showing please call Al Hooks. $850,000.
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This 2008 2 bed/2 bath home on 1.82 acres boasts a solid concrete foundation & 8” concrete walls. Reinforcements, 12” insulation throughout walls & ceiling adds to it’s fuel efficiency. Open floor plan, stainless appliances, 2 ply door & windows w/built in blinds, newer carpet, tile & laminate floors. 2 addtl rooms. Separate laundry room. Sky/solar lights. Walk in closets. Low maintain exterior, buried cable & lines, picnic area. $179,000.
Log home in desirable Lake Lucerne Estates sits on 6 (+/-) acres. Bright open living space is graced with exposed beams, stone fireplace, beautiful hardwood floors. Huge master suite has many possibilities. Covered front porch, large back deck overlooks big backyard & offers valley views. $189,000.
PAuL FAuLK 479.981.0668
AL HOOKS 479.363.6419
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TURNKEY BUSINESS! This profitable business is a favorite hangout. Main building is currently Jim’s Saloon which includes a living room, 3 bedrooms & bath that could be used for owners quarters. Saloon has seating capacity for 60. Rental cabin has 2 bedrooms, full bath. Large 24’x32’ metal garage/shop has concrete slab floor. Business fixtures included in price. $250,000.
LIKE NEW Custom built 3bed/2bath home on the “Island”, granite counters, hardwood floors, fenced yard, sunroom w/lakeview. Meticulously maintained, MOVE IN READY $234,000.
CHERYL COLBERT 479.981.6249 eurekaspringsrealtor.com – cjceureka@yahoo.com
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1,240 sq ft 1800’s shotgun-style farmhouse on 1 acre offers end of road privacy. Double parlor, covered porches and old barn. Open garden area. Minutes to downtown. $124,000.
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AWE INSPIRING LAKE VIEWS from every room of this 4 bedroom 3.5 bath custom built home, open floor plan, 2 living areas, workshop & more. Boat slip included. $469,900.
CHERYL COLBERT 479.981.6249 eurekaspringsrealtor.com – cjceureka@yahoo.com
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