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Singer finds a new voice at Opera in Ozarks By Jennifer Jackson In the fall of 2007, Jesse Donner entered Iowa State University. It had been his dream since high school to study aerospace engineering at ISU, but in the middle of his sophomore year, Donner switched majors. Since then, Donner has completed a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music performance and and auditioned twice at the Metropolitan Opera regional auditions – once as a baritone, and once as a tenor – receiving $1,000 encouragement awards each time. This summer, he is singing the role of Lt. Pinkerton in “Madama Butterfly,” the opening-night production of Opera in the Ozarks at Inspiration Point. At 24 years old, his career, like his voice, is on the rise. “I’m exactly where I should be right now,” Donner said. It’s not unusual for a man’s voice to change before reaching maturity in his late 30s, he said, producing what is known as a Heldentenor, a singer who has the range and power to sing Wagner’s heroic tenor roles. Donner, who is 6-foot-5, has a vocal range close to three octaves – he still has a low G he can sing in public, he said, and he can comfortably sing A flat below staff to a high B and add a high C, although the floor shakes when he does. “I think my voice matches my body,” he said. Growing up in Des Moines, Iowa, Donner sang baritone in the choir at Dowling Catholic High School and in his church choir. But singing was for fun, he said, not something he did seriously. When he started college, he decided to take voice lessons as well as engineering prerequisites and realized (“in the humblest possible way,” he notes) that he sang as good as or better than most of the students in the program, despite a lack of training. His sophomore year, he tried to juggle a double major in engineering and music, which proved to be untenable. Halfway through the year, he realized he had to choose. When he did, it was all or nothing.
Jesse Donner, who is singing the male lead in the opening-night production of Opera in the Ozarks, is one of this season’s big talents.
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“I knew I wanted to make singing the only thing I do,” Donner said. “I wanted a performance degree. I wanted to perform.” Then last fall, his second year of graduate school at the University of Michigan, he made the switch from baritone to tenor. As soon as he did, he was chosen to sing the lead in the school’s production of “Ariadne Auf Naxos.” “My voice has been gradually moving up,” he said. “It was a big change.” In January, Opera in the Ozarks artistic director Tom Cockrell came to the university to audition singers. Donner had never heard of OiO and wasn’t even on the list until he met Robert Swedberg, director of the UM’s opera studio program, in the hall. “He said, ‘You should go sing for these people,’” Donner said. “I called up my pianist and said, “Can you play for me in 15 minutes?’” Donner sang one of Pinkerton’s arias from “Madama Butterfly” and was accepted as one of 43 singers for the program. Last week, he was cast as the male lead opposite Jennifer Noel in “Butterfly,” which is double-cast with Steven TompSee Opera, page 26
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The dog came back Maggie is faithful friend of Opera
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By Jennifer Jackson It’s the 63rd season for Opera in the Ozarks, which every summer, brings a troupe of talented singers and musicians to the program site near Inspiration Point for two months. And for at least 10 years, Maggie has been a faithful fan. Maggie walks more than a mile through the woods every day to be on the Opera in the Ozarks grounds. She arrives every year when staff start coming in to get things set up, and is there every day until the last person leaves at the end of the season. She’s done so since she was a puppy, according to Janice Swiggart, office manager and spouse of OiO general director Jim Swiggart. Maggie’s job: lying around, accepting dog treats and ear rubs, and generally keeping track of where everyone is. Maggie made her opera debut her first year – almost. “She was going down the aisle to the stage to be with her friends,” said Steve Rushing, Jim Swiggart’s assistant. That first year, according to Janice, one of the performers, believing Maggie to be stray, took the puppy home with her to Bentonville, Janice said. On learning that Maggie had a home, the young woman returned the puppy to the owners, L.D. and Susan Clark. Although Maggie has mellowed with age, she still has to put on a leash to dis-
Steve Rushing poses with Maggie, the opera dog, outside the Opera in the Ozarks office.
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suade her from joining her friends on stage and also from following singers when they go off site. The staff sometimes drives her to her home on the fire department road at the end of the day, or call the Clarks to pick her up. But every morning, Maggie comes back. She’s also been known to spend the night on the grounds, surprising people when they go to open a building and find Maggie inside. They now keep dog food and treats in the office, a bowl of water outside, and when it storms, let her inside. “She doesn’t like thunder and she doesn’t like fireworks,” Janice Swiggart said. But she does like opera.
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Family rescued from river
By Landon Reeves As three members of the Harp family of Berryville prepared for a day of canoeing on the Kings River last month, they never expected their day of outdoor relaxation would end with a brush with death — and an act of bravery by a stranger whom the Harps say saved their father’s life. “Me, my brother and my dad decided to go floating. We thought of it as any other day,” wrote Callie Harp, 15, in a thank-you letter to the woman who kept Brian Harp from drowning. “When we go floating we goof off, have fun and relax, and that’s exactly what we were doing — then we came to the bridge.” It had begun to rain on the Harps during the last 20 minutes of their four-hour float. Thinking little of it, the Harps continued as the rain turned to hail and they approached Trigger Gap south of Eureka Springs. Trigger Gap is the remnants of a bridge that has been opened to allow canoeists and the like to pass through. As the group neared the bridge, father Brian Harp warned Callie and her brother, Kolby, that the current was getting stronger and they might need to pull off the river to pass the rapids. There was an unspoken reason to take extra care at the Trigger Gap pass: Callie and Kolby’s grandfather — their mother’s father — had drowned at that spot in 1989 while trying to cross the river with his horses. Their mother, Rhonda, was a child at the time and watched the entire tragedy unfold, Callie recalls from her mom’s stories. But on May 1, it was impossible — once they began to approach the bridge — to escape the river’s tug and opt for the safe, dry route around the bridge and rapids. “The current was too strong (to pull to the side), so we decided to go with it,” Callie wrote in her letter. “We hit a rapid just right and flipped. When we flipped, I got sucked under the canoe.” After she rose to the surface, she saw her submerged brother struggling for air as her father instructed them to relax and float on their backs. Callie did so until she could safely touch the bottom of the river, but her brother was still struggling to get away from the rapids. Callie rushed to her brother’s aid, but his struggling endangered both of them.
“He pulled me back out into the water. He was climbing on me and pushing me under the water,” Callie wrote. “I finally had to push him off and tell him he was going to drown me if he didn’t quit.” Callie and her brother finally made it to the bridge and pulled themselves onto the concrete. They were safe, but their father was still in the river. “He was screaming for someone to help him, and I didn’t know what to do,” wrote Callie. Luckily, Eureka-area resident Leslie Hammond had decided to go for a swim despite the storm. As she was walking to the river, she noticed the struggling family in the water and dashed toward them to help. “Leslie got here and said she was going swimming,” said Kevin Kline, owner and operator of Kings River Adventure on Rockhouse Road at Trigger Gap. “About halfway down the road toward the water, she started running, and I thought ‘Oh Lord,’ and jumped in my Jeep.” By the time Kline had arrived on the scene, the children were on the concrete and Hammond had saved Brian — and his canoe. “Anybody would have done it,” Hammond told Carroll County Newspapers. “At first, he seemed OK, then I noticed he was struggling, and that was when I started running.” Hammond tried to assure Brian that he would have been fine, but Brian insisted that she saved his life, recalled Kline. Since that day, Hammond has not seen the Harp family again, but Rhonda Harp, Callie’s mother, wants a reunion so she can personally thank the person who saved her husband’s life. “I consider it divine and I was honored to help them,” Hammond said. “I can’t wait to see them again and give them a hug.” Trigger Gap is still a hard place to go to for Rhonda and her family. She has shared the tale of her father with her family before and the troubles of having to grow up with out him. Callie is the same age as Rhonda was when she saw her father drown. “I do not know what I would do without my father,” said Callie. “ We don’t see eye to eye on everything, but he is the one man in my life that I can always trust. You(Hammond) are my hero for saving my fathers life. I can not tell you thank you enough.”
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Council hears proposed weekly rentals rules
By Landon Reeves At Monday’s City Council meeting, the debate over weekly rentals came within reach of its ending when the council heard the first reading of proposed Ordinance 2184, which would disallow weekly rentals in residential areas. “There are plenty of places on Highway 62 that do weekly rentals,” said Alderman David Mitchell. “I for one will not sit here and second-guess our legal counsel. I think it is a good ordinance; it is time to move on.” The ordinance was first drafted by City Attorney Tim Weaver and presented to the council in 2012, but aldermen did not act on it at the time. The debate over the legality of weekly rentals in residential neighborhoods continued until the May 29 meeting, when it was decided that Weaver would amend the previous ordinance to better include all the input given from residents and council members. Weaver, however, did not significantly amend the ordinance because it, as is, will solve the problem of illegal tourist weekly rentals in residential areas, he said. After its first reading Monday, everyone but Alderwoman Mickey Schneider voted to approve the reading and bring it back for a second reading at the next regular meeting. It must pass three readings and be approved by a majority of the council before becoming law. The ordinance mostly addresses weekly rentals in Zone R-1, where tourist rentals are prohibited. Other zones, such as R-2, allow Conditional Use Permits for tourist lodging. The existing CUPs that allow tourist rentals in residential areas will not be affected by the new ordinance. “Nearly everyone went through quite an ordeal to get those CUPs — it was never cut and dried,” noted Alderman Terry McClung. “In all fairness to those people, anyone trying to slip in and operate without following the process is not doing it correctly, and it is not fair for those went through all the loops to get there.” The weekly rental dilemma Several residents of Eureka Springs had apparently been misinformed about the purpose of the 199 business license and the nature of landlord and tenant agreements. It has been a well-spread rumor that anyone from
residential districts could get a special 199 license and rent their property to anyone for a week or more under the guise of a landlord-tenant relationship. But the 199 license does not qualify anyone to rent to tourists in residential areas, Alderman James DeVito explained. It only allows the owner of the license to collect taxes. There is no need to purchase any license to rent a room to a tenant as a landlord, officials said. But in residential areas, such as R-1, rooms must be rented for at least seven days to non-tourist guests only, according to the ordinances in place now. But officials say that a number of local residents have bought the special license and conducted weekly rentals that were actually rentals to tourists — and some say this has greatly reduced the number of available rentals for potential or current residents looking for housing here. The City Council has for some time been at its wit’s end trying to figure out how to stop illegal rentals to tourists in residential areas. The new ordinance will hopefully curb illegal rentals by raising the rental period requirement to monthly. With the new ordinance, in order to rent under the terms of a landlord-tenant relationship in residential areas, the lease for the property must be at least 31 days. During the lease time, landlords are not allowed to rent to anyone else but the tenant who originally rented the space. “If the land lord allows someone else to occupy the leased space during the 31-day period, they would be in violation,” Weaver said. The landlord can be fined up to $500 for each day that they rent to someone besides the original tenant, Weaver added. The ordinance will be enforced by the Planning Commission, the police and local residents. If someone complains about illegal tourist renting, the police will investigate. Before any offense is finalized by authorities, there will be a chance for the weekly renters to plea their case before the Planning Commission. If the supposed landlord can provide evidence to prove they are not renting to tourists, then they can continue their business under the regulations of the new ordinance, officials explained Monday. Jumbo taxis and limos Also on Monday, City Council members gave final approval to Ordinance 2181, defin-
ing and regulating the use of limos and “jumbo” taxis, after its third reading. The new law takes effect in 30 days. The new ordinance increases the maximum amount of passengers for limousines and jumbo taxis from seven to 18. The ordinance also requires that a customer wait two hours after they call before their limousine or jumbo taxi arrives, but a regular taxi can be available as soon as the driver can reach the customer. “If all they own is limos, they don’t need a taxi business license, but they then have to wait two hours (before customer pick-up),” explained Alderwoman Mickey Schneider at a previous meeting. “But if they have a (regular) taxi license they can still use a limo as a jumbo taxi without waiting the two hours.” The council had two paths to choose from in terms of regulating limo service. It could set a minimal hourly rate for limos or a minimum wait time, but setting prices might be government overreach, said Devito previously. In time, the city may have create a special space designated for taxis to pull over and/or pick up customers since parking is so difficult to find, warned Alderman Dee Purkeypile. The ordinance met no resistance on its first or second readings. Now that it is becoming law, the police will enforce the ordinance with a fine against any limousine service provider who does not respect the waiting period. The fine can be up to $100 per customer plus $50 court costs per customer, since each customer involved in the transaction is a separate offense, Weaver explained. Other business In other news, the council took the following actions: • Announced that the location of the Demolition By Neglect town hall meeting on Aug. 19 will be The Auditorium. • Heard the second reading of an ordinance to rezone a portion of South Main Street from R-1 to Commercial. If the ordinance receives final approval at the next meeting as expected, and the land is re-zoned, the property could potentially be developed into businesses. The City Council is expected to hear the third reading and give its final vote on the matter at its next regular meeting on June 24. The property, which extends from the
small, white shed just north of Casa Colina to the gray house south of the Eureka Springs Historical Museum, is owned by Patrick Brammer, who says he has no plans for immediate development of the property. The land in question is currently designated residential and is largely wooded and open greenspace. It includes eight consecutive lots that are 40 feet wide by 80 feet deep, Brammer said, and 320 feet of highway frontage. The address at the site, designated by the Fire Department for 911 purposes, is 123 S. Main St., but if the lots are used separately by the owner, they would each get their own numbered address designation. “I’m not in a financial situation where I can develop it, but someone will probably want to eventually,” Brammer told the Citizen weeks ago. “That whole street is not a residential street, so it should be zoned Commercial anyway. Hopefully there will be some interest in developing the property.” It is likely to be put up for sale at some point – if and when it is rezoned Commercial, he confirmed. Brammer has lived in Eureka Springs for 11 years, he said, and has owned the property for six years. He declined to estimate its value or reveal his purchase price for the land. • Heard the first reading of a proposed ordinance that would remove front-right-corner setbacks from corner property lots • Heard about a new guided tour service being operated by Tom Tharp of Old Days Carriage. “What we are going to attempt is something that has never been done in North America,” Tharp said. “It is a mobile restaurant that has been retrofitted inside a decommissioned Eureka Springs trolley. It will have settings for 12 for dinner.” Tharp plans for the trolley to tour the city while its passengers sample local restaurants. The customers will order their meals before the tour begins. During the tour, the trolley will stop, and servers — from whatever restaurant(s) has contracted with the tour company — will bring out the guests’ food then return to their normal routine. The tour vehicle will have other servers riding along with the tour to offer silverware, refresh drinks, etc. For more information about Tharp’s new tour service, visit RollingCafe.com.
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ES School Board narrows super search to four candidates
By Kathryn Lucariello At a special board meeting Thursday night, the Eureka Springs School Board narrowed a list of 14 superintendent candidates to four and voted to hire a consultant to assist in the search. One more candidate was added to the list of 13 the board had received by June 5: Andy Chisum, K-12 principal with Western Yell County School District. The board returned from executive session to name the four to be interviewed: David Kellogg, superintendent of the Cossatot River School District; Bryan Pruitt, high school principal at Bergman School District; Teresa Ragsdale, superintendent of the Hartford School District; and Paul Shelton, superintendent of Caddo Hills School District. Kellogg has served as superintendent at Cossatot since 2011 and was a school improvement consultant for one year before that. Before that, he had served as principal at various Arkansas high schools since 1987. In his present position, he is overseeing the construction of a high school and the recent consolidation of two school districts. He has served as president of the Arkansas Association of Secondary School Principals as well as officer and board member positions of other professional organizations. Pruitt has been the principal at Bergman
for seven years and was an agriculture instructor there since 1987 before that. He is the administrator of the high school ACSIP program, has served on the personnel policy committee and is a curriculum instructional leader. He has also taught at the college and university level. Ragsdale has served as superintendent at Hartford since 2010, was assistant superintendent in McGehee from 2007 to 2010 and was principal in El Dorado from 2003 to 2007 and in Stamps from 2001 to 2003. She has also taught mathematics at the college level and was a mathematics instructional specialist at the Arkansas Department of Education in Little Rock in 1998-99. She is the immediate past state president of Arkansas Association of Federal Coordinators. Shelton has been superintendent and federal coordinator at Caddo since 2009 and before that served as elementary principal and federal coordinator from 1993-2009. He also served as high school principal in Beaumont, Texas. Before executive session, the board approved hiring Dr. Diana Julian of McPherson & Jacobson to give limited assistance in the superintendent search at a cost of $500 per day, plus travel cost and accommodations, if needed. President Al Larson said Julian does not anticipate being here more
than two days. Julian will work with the “stakeholder” groups to prepare them to interview the four candidates. Those groups will consist of representatives of administrators, teachers, classified staff and students. Each group will meet with all four candidates separately, and the school board will also meet and interview the candidates. Julian will compile the results of the interviews from the stakeholder groups and convey them to the board. Board members will not be present at the stakeholder interviews. Members of the public, the same as during last year’s superintendent search, will not be one of the groups interviewing candidates. “The public should be a stakeholder group,” said board member Jason Morris. “That all came up in the questions we were asking a year ago,” said Larson. Although the members of public did not interview candidates last year, they were one of the groups involved in generating a list of criteria for a desirable superintendent candidate. Those selection criteria will be used again this year. They are: • An experienced person with superintendent skills necessary to lead the district successfully, both financially and academically. • A strong instructional leader who is
knowledgeable about the Common Core Standards and who is student focused with a strong resolution to maintain high academic standards and promote math, science and the arts. • A community oriented leader and a skilled communicator who promotes the district and understands the diversity of the community. • A technology oriented leader who will be innovative in obtaining for the students the necessary technological tools/skills for college and career readiness. • A visionary leader who will be committed to the future of the district and able to recruit, retain and further professionally develop talented personnel. Board member Sam Kirk suggested having a “meet and greet” for the candidates to which the public would be invited. Two such sessions were held Tuesday and the remaining two sessions to meet candidates will be held this Thursday, June 13. Eureka Springs School District’s superintendent candidates will be available to meet the public at the new high school cafeteria Thursday as follows: • Thursday, June 13, 4-5p.m.: Bryan Pruitt • Thursday, June 13, 5-6p.m.: Paul Shelton. The public is invited to participate.
Two students from Eureka awarded $5K scholarships The Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans is has announced that two students from Eureka Springs are among seven statewide Keegan C. Wilbur winners of the Horatio Alger Arkansas Scholarship. Keegan C. Wilbur and Joshua B. McClelland will receive $5,000 that will go toward their college tuition, fees, books
and on-campus room and board. The scholarships are made possible with generous support from the American Electric Power Foundation. Horatio Alger scholarship recipients have Joshua B. McClelland been chosen based on their demonstrated commitment to education, dedication to community service, and strength of character in overcoming personal obstacles to achieve aca-
demic excellence. “It is a privilege to play a part in these young people’s college education,” said Tony Novelly, president and CEO of the Horatio Alger Association. “They have already shown perseverance and courage in the face of adversity, and with opportunities made available through higher education and our free-enterprise system, there is no limit to the things they may achieve.” In addition to the scholarship, the students have access to the following opportunities: • Financial aid and scholarship counseling • College readiness tools and assess-
ments • 24/7 Support and Referral Services including crisis response and counseling resources • Free housing opportunities provided by Campus Crest at 44 campuses across the nation • Graduate school funding • Access to a network of their peers and alumni through the Association’s website, Facebook and LinkedIn The Horatio Alger Association’s scholarship programs are funded by its members, friends of the organization, and other foundations. Since 1990, the Association has provided $670,500.00 in scholarships to high school seniors from Arkansas.
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Judge Crow accepts responsibility for error, tells Citizen he will seek re-election next year By Landon Reeves Circuit Judge Gerald Kent Crow told the Lovely County Citizen last Thursday that he will seek re-election next year, and he accepts responsibility for his actions that led to a recent letGerald Kent Crow ter of reprimand. Crow added that he did not realize he was breaking any rules at the time he committed the actions in question. “I have to be careful not to put a spin on anything,” he said. “My purpose is to provide you with the facts and context for the letter of reprimand.” The letter was issued by the Judicial Discipline and Disability Commission, and it was accompanied by a letter of censure as well. The reprimand and censure were related to two separate cases. In the first case, Clint Blackstone in 2009 was charged with with his fourth DWI, which is a felony and, if convicted, the offender typically is sentenced to a year in prison. Blackstone was represented by Chris Flanagin and was prosecuted by Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Dave Phillips. The attorneys had reached a plea agreement for his third DWI , but not his fourth. Flanagin claimed that Blackstone’s previous conviction from Boone County was invalid because he was sentenced without an attorney, according to JDDC reports and Crow. “Two things struck me with regard for this: one was that Mr. Blackstone had not filed an appeal in Boone County,” Crow explained of his thinking at the time. “And the second was that I have known the judge in Boone County, Fred Kirkpatrick, for more than 20 years … and I did not believe that Fred Kirkpatrick would sentence someone to jail without the benefit of an attorney. In
fact, we are prohibited from doing that.” After the hearing over the attorneys’ plea agreement, Crow obtained reports from Blackstone’s third DWI conviction and discovered he had been, in fact, represented by an attorney. Crow confronted Flanagin and told him he was wrong and that he should prepare for trial. After this, Blackstone pleaded guilty to his fourth DWI. The JDDC said that Crow obtaining the previous court docket constituted an investigation into a case by a judge, and that was the basis for the reprimand. Crow said he thought the docket was public record. “I thought I was doing my job. I believe that the ultimate goal of the criminal justice system is to find the truth,” Crow said Thursday. “I think that is the job of the attorneys, and that is the job of the judge. ... I don’t try to hide what I do and I accept the responsibility for anything that I do, and when asked about this incident I told the JDDC what I just told you.” In the other case, the judge was reprimanded over was the arrest of Cody Mayes for possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia after he was detained and searched by Carroll County sheriff’s deputies. The officers detained Mayes for nearly 30 minutes before they searched his vehicle — but the Arkansas Rules of Criminal Procedure limit the time for detaining a driver during a minor traffic violation stop to 15 minutes. Mayes was represented by the Carroll County Public Defender Robert “Beau” Allen and prosecuted by Phillips. Allen called for a suppression hearing to bring the allegedly illegal search to Crow’s attention. The main issue at that hearing was that the dispatch log did not match the officers’ accounts. Crow then subpoenaed the dispatch tapes, the audio log, the operator and the operator’s supervisor — not the attorneys. He was concerned he had not seen all the evidence, Crow explained. The judge then set another hearing in the case and reviewed the tapes before the hear-
ing. At the hearing, the first thing Crow did was inform both attorneys of his actions. They both objected and asked that Crow step aside and not hear the case. Crow declined their request and then went on with the hearing and entered the transcript and tapes into evidence. During the hearing, the dispatch operator admitted to making mistakes and said that was the reason that the dispatch log and the officers’ accounts did not match, so the officers’ accounts were considered correct after the operator’s admission. The prosecutor won the suppression hearing, the detainment and search were ruled as legal, and Crow also entered his subpoenaed materials into evidence. “By the prosecutors winning the suppression hearing, I told the state that the evidence is admissible in trial,” Crow explained this week. But the JDDC said that Crow’s actions constituted an impermissible investigation by the judge. A judge is allowed to subpoena witnesses and evidence, but Crow’s mistakes were having the evidence brought to his office instead of the court, and then reviewing it without the attorneys being present, said the JDDC. After this case, Allen filed a complaint against Crow. After the complaint was filed, Crow wrote a letter to the Arkansas Public Defender’s Commission questioning whether Allen could be employed by the state as public defender and by the city of Green Forrest as a public defender at the same time. Crow thought it might be a violation of Arkansas Code 16-87-214. After receiving no response to his questions, Crow filed an Freedom of Information request. The APDC finally responded and told Crow that Allen had “permission for occasional representation in the Green Forest City Court on a temporary basis.” Crow was told that Allen’s contract with Green Forest had ended, in a letter from
Didi Salllings of the APDC that was dated May 3, 2012. “That was the last communication or inquiry that I made about the Public Defender’s Office, after being told Mr. Allen no longer worked in Green Forest,” the judge said. “But to my knowledge, Mr. Allen is still working as the public defender for the city of Green Forest.” The JDDC said Crow’s actions — inquiring about Allen’s employment and Crow’s FOI request — were an act of retribution for Allen’s complaint against Crow, so Crow was censured by the JDDC, along with the letter of reprimand. “I think it is important that the public understands what the basis for these actions was and that I am on the record as saying I accept responsibility for anything that I or my staff does,” Crow said. “These are three incidents over a period of four and a half years and are two cases . . out of more than 5,000 cases that I have handled. “I am not saying these are the only mistakes I have ever made. I am sure I have made others , but I am like everybody else. If I make mistakes I go to bed at night and tell myself I am going to get up tomorrow morning and do a better job.” Crow’s six-year term expires at the end of next year. He said Thursday that he plans to run for re-election and continue furthering his education in the meantime.
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Why we’ve got – and you should get – the blues
ld Man Winter really taken a bite out of Eureka Springs’ tourism revenue so far this year, but this weekend could be a great rebound for our lovely city. Through the end of May, revenue from special events such as the May Festival of the Arts has tanked in 2013, falling a whopping 60 percent from the same period last year. Revenue at The Auditorium is down 61.5 percent for the year since 2012. And while hotel and motel tax collections are up about 6 percent, restaurant collections decreased 10 percent for the first five months of this year. The bright spots in our tourism outlook? The weather, for one. A little over a month after a very long winter led to a freakish early-May snowstorm and a very wet spring, it appears that summer has arrived. Hopefully, it will encourage folks to come visit and spend their vacation dollars in beautiful Eureka Springs and Carroll County. Another big plus in our outlook, from the recently released CAPC numbers, is Blues Weekend revenue. With the festival still weeks away — and ticket sales still going strong —when the report was issued at month’s end, Blues Weekend revenue was already up 70 percent from the same period last year, the CAPC said. Why is that a big deal? Well, have you tried to book a hotel room for this weekend? Good luck with that. They’re all full. Travel websites such as Priceline and Expedia show zero vacancies in town this weekend, and a few calls to the larger hotel properties confirm that they’re full up for Blues Weekend. It’s no big surprise, if you really check out the line-up for Blues Weekend; it’s packed with topof-the-line talent, multiple international Blues awards winners and hot up-and-comers in the industry. Here’s a brief synopsis of two of the most exciting blues acts to come to Northwest Arkansas in years — and they’ll be in Eureka Springs this weekend! • The Grammy-winning Chicago Blues Revue headlines the weekend, performing Saturday night around 7 p.m. at The Auditorium. Saturday’s Blues Weekend concert at The Aud actually begins at 3 p.m. and includes not one but three opening acts, including Ozarks Blues Challenge winner Buddy Shute; Fayetteville-based award-winners Leah
and the Mojo Doctors; and multiple Blues Music Association award nominee EG Kight. The Chicago Blues Revue features a number of internationally loved solo stars who earlier this year formed the Revue group just so they could headline this year’s Lucerne Blues Festival in Switzerland. They were such a hit there that Eureka Springs Blues Weekend asked them to keep the Revue together for at least one more performance and to bring that performance to our city. The Revue features John Primer, Bob Stroger, Kenny ‘Beady Eyes’ Smith, Billy Flynn & BarrelHouse Chuck. Collectively, the Chicago Blues Revue has three Grammy Awards, five Grammy nominations, 24 Blues Music Award nominations, and seven Blues Music Award wins! • Friday night’s headliner at The Auditorium will be BMA winner The Nighthawks, with multiple-BMA nominee Eugene “Hideaway” Bridges opening beginning at 7 p.m. The Nighthawks have been playing the blues to audiences all over the world for more than 40 years, and their music keeps getting better with each passing year. In 2009, The Nighthawks were honored with a Blues Music Award for “Last Train To Bluesville,” and their new album “Damn Good Time” is getting rave reviews and airplay around the world. Founded in 1972 by Mark Wenner, who continues to front the band today, The Nighthawks have opened for major stars ranging from Muddy Waters to Stevie Ray Vaughn, and they have headlined festivals all over the world. Some of the better-known musicians who have been a Nighthawk over the years include Warren Haynes, Stewart Smith and Jimmy Thackery. For more information on the other acts performing around the city this weekend — including late-night shows at the Basin Park’s Barefoot Ballroom that start at 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday — visit www.EurekaSpringsBlues.com or check out our previous report at LovelyCitizen.com/story/1973855.html. We hope to see many of our readers and friends out and about this weekend, as we all show up to support one of Eureka Springs’ best musical traditions. If you enjoy live music and the blues, get your tickets now at www.EurekaSpringsBlues. com and support your hometown’s efforts to be the Little Tourist Town That Could — that could really shake a tailfeather, we mean!
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his week’s Citizen of the Week is someone who is owed a big “Thank You” from anyone in the city who enjoys the blues or whose income benefits from tourism: Charles Ragsdell, the driving force behind Eureka Springs Blues Weekend. Ragsdell, who is also chairman of the City Advertising & Promotion Commission, coordinates all the musical talent that appears throughout the city during this four-day festival celebrating blues music of all kinds. Good thing for us, he’s very well-connected within the international blues music industry, having worked in radio in Kansas City before he moved to Eureka Springs. His experience and networking efforts are paying off: Eureka’s hotels are completely full this weekend, and tickets are going fast to all the performances. “Blues Weekend was faltering when he took it over several years ago,” said one of our sources who works closely with the festival and
the local tourism industry. “I saw it in its heyday and I saw it when it had fallen off some, and it’s definitely better than it has ever been and it’s different than ever before. It’s more of a true blues weekend, instead of just a lot of bands that aren’t really blues.” Ragsdell has worked very hard to fill the bills for the Thursday-Sunday shows with honest-to-God blues groups, bringing integrity back to the festival and infusing Eureka Springs’ tourism with new blood and new energy.
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Citizen Opinion by Cindy Worley
Have you noticed if tourism has increased or decreased this year? Why?
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SWEPCO squashing beauty that draws artists to area
Michel Harris
Dan Morgan
Increased, seems it’s an easy place to get to as opposed to Florida for vacations.
Decreased early in year, probably due to weather.
“Viking Maiden”
Martin Greer “Candy Man”
I think it is the same as last year.
“The Janitor”
Loan K. Tolle “Rabbits Momma”
Increased, lots of people come but just to window shop.
Debbie Mathis “Domestic Goddess”
Decreased before but increasing now.
Kathy Weathersby
“Harley Chick”
We have had a slow kickoff this year, probably due to weather, but it’s starting to boom.
I want to address SWEPCo’s Shipe to Kings River project from the standpoint of the arts. I am a member of the arts community in Eureka Springs. We are heavily dependent on two things that this project will directly affect... The beauty of the area and tourism. As an artist, I moved here in 1975 drawn by the scenic beauty, the abundant hardwoods, the pristine ecosystem, the quaint galleries, and the wonderful outdoor recreation opportunities this place offers. I was one of the founders of the Eureka Springs Guild of Artists and Craftspeople in 1976, and was one of the founders of the Eureka Springs School of the Arts in 1998. I was named an Arkansas Living Treasure by the Arkansas Department of Heritage and Arkansas Arts Council in 2009. There are two industries in Eureka Springs. The arts and tourism, and they are deeply entwined. Nationally Eureka Springs is one of the top tourist destinations for the arts, and the environmental qualities that bring artists to live in the area are the very same factors that bring tourists here to buy the arts. SWEPCo would just as soon cut the head off the golden goose of Arkansas tourism just to make a profit... The shame of their proposal should haunt them the balance of their corporate life. As pointed out by Richard Davies, director of the Arkansas Dept of Parks and Tourism, tourism brought 5.7 billion dol-
Citizen Survey Have you noticed if tourism has increased or decreased this year? Why? m Yes, our restaurant/hotel has seen less business. m Yes, traffic in town has not been as bad this year. m No, I think tourism is just fine so far this year in Eureka. Go to www.lovelycitizen.com and weigh in.
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lars to the state in the last year, with Eureka Springs being one of the primary tourist destinations in the state. He notes: “The scenic quality of Arkansas, and especially the area this line would cross, is the number one reason people visit our state.” The utter insensitivity of SWEPCo’s proposal is astounding, particularly from the vantage point of the arts. Mr. Davies also notes: “Many of our citizens have moved to these scenic areas to avoid just this sort of intrusion.” As an artist, I hope I speak for all the other artists in Eureka Springs and the surrounding area. We are here, first and foremost for the beauty of this place. I urge the APSC to end this artist’s worst nightmare and pull the plug on SWEPCo’s egregious proposal. – Doug Stowe
Get your anti-SWEPCO signs while they last I hope all you folks who haven’t bought your “Orange Slash Swepco” signs get them while they last. I know the UPS store has them, but look at the Save the Ozarks website at www.savetheozarks.org for the other locations or ask around. Each sign is $5.00 and comes with its own stand. Wouldn’t it be great to see a sign outside everyone’s home or business, especially when the Swepco reps come to town? All that orange could be blinding. — Enid B. Swartz
LAST WEEK’S QUESTION
44 votes cast
Do you plan on attending the Opera in the Ozarks? m Yes, I am really looking forward to it.: 13.6% (6 votes) m Yes, it is a local treasure we should all support.: 2.3% (1 vote) m Maybe, I have never been before and am intrigued.: 9.1% (4 votes) m No, I am simply not a fan of the opera.: 75.0% (33 votes) Go to www.lovelycitizen.com and weigh in. Vote by Wednesday 9 a.m.
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Cherokee Conjurers bring magic to Basin Park By Jennifer Jackson Bobby Neugin and his son, Jeramy Neugin, are packing their bags and coming to Eureka Springs this weekend. Some of the things going into the bags: the eye of a witch killed in Oklahoma. The preserved hand of a chupacabra. A medicine bag, crystals, dream-catchers and a rock that can make it rain. What they aren’t bringing along: black snakes, a mummified head or one of the Little People, small horned spirit-creatures that help the Cherokee. The Neugins, who live in Lost City, Okla., are magicians that combine their Cherokee heritage with show business, producing a unique entertainment experience. Starting Sunday, June 16, they will be performing free, 15-minute magic shows in Basin Park continuously through the day through Friday, weather permitting, as a way of introducing themselves to the community. “We were going up there as a regular vacation, and we saw you guys allow street performing,” Jeramy said. “So we thought, why not give you a show?” None of their family is coming with them – as Jeramy puts it, “People are not too comfortable traveling with us for some reason.” Nor can they keep an assistant – they all quit after Bobby performed the cut-rope trick with a black snake, he said. The snake did survive. “There was a lot of blood and gore to clean up,” Jeramy said. What they will be doing in Basin Park: family-friendly street magic, close-up magic, mentalism and voodoo tricks with a native twist. One illustrates why Cherokees carried medicine bags, which tell if a person is in tune with himself. Another illusion ends with ashes appearing in people’s palms. Jeramy’s grandmother gave them an illusion performed with Tarot cards – after a person picks three cards, he plays a recording his grandmother made, describing the person and the cards they picked.
Jeramy and Bobby Neugin
“I was there when she made it,” he said. “It was weird.” Magic has always been a part of Cherokee culture, Bobby said, but was stamped out by missionaries at the beginning of the 19th century. The Neugins’ goal is to recover as much of it as they can before it is lost. “It was like religion – everybody had some sort of power,” Bobby said. “Then it got weakened and just medicine men and magicians had it.” Their own heritage goes back beyond the Trail of Tears, which Bobby’s greatgreat grandmother, Rebbecca Neugin, traveled when she was 13. She was one of the last survivors, he said, dying at the age of 105 in the 1960s. And everyone in his family saw and heard the ghost of a child who inhabited the house they lived in after their house burned down. The Neugins will also display exhibits from their museum at Lost City, including the witch’s eye, which is psychic – if you look through it, you can see the future. They are bringing the
Highway Department to repair CR 55 / Buck Mountain Road By Kathryn Lucariello The Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department announced Monday it has accepted a bid to make improvements to County Road 55, a.k.a. Buck Mountain Road, off Hwy. 23 South in Eureka Springs. The work will extend 5.5 miles westward from Hwy. 23. The bid was awarded to low bidder Hutchens Construction Co., of Cassville, Mo., for $258,512.26. Two other bids were received, said AHTD officials by phone Monday, one from Holman Construction of Lamar, Ark., for $290,336.90; and one from Heavy Constructors (formerly Jimmie Jones) of Berryville for $283,175.09. Asked why AHTD is paving a county road, Public Information Officer Jeff Whatley said the state has a county road program. “A certain amount of tax money goes back to the counties for projects like this,” he said. “It’s all up to the counties to choose which roads it goes to.” AHTD’s press release states, “The county road program was established rock that a cousin who was a rainmaker used, and will give a demonstration. In addition to the demon hand, they have other mythical objects, including the finger of a Bigfoot, but they don’t reveal how they got it. “He was attached to it,” is all Bobby would say. They will have a hat set out for donations if anyone is feeling generous, but are mainly in Eureka Springs because they visited here earlier in the year and wanted to come back for more than a day. “Eureka Springs is gorgeous, with a magic of its own,” Bobby said. “We’re on a working vacation and want to see if the crowd and the city like us.” If they do, they might come back and
by the legislature and is administered by the State Aid Division. The program provides approximately $20 million annually from the state motor fuels tax to assist counties with projects of their choosing on the county road program.” Claude Klinck of AHTD’s State Aid Division said there is different work to be done in sections of the project. The first 3.5 miles will get hot mix to level it, then will be paved over with single chip-and-seal. The next .9 miles will receive the same treatment but at a different width. The next .36 miles needs more intensive work of base reconstruction, then leveling and double chip-and-seal. The final .74 miles will receive leveling and single chip-andseal. The work doesn’t go right down to the lake, said Klinck, consulting plan documents. “It looks like most of it, close to the end,” he said. Construction is scheduled to begin in two to four weeks, weather permitting, and should be complete by this fall. Travelers using the road should expect delays. do a stage show, he said. Illusions Bobby performs on stage: pulling a 5-footlong black snake out of an egg shell. Mixing mud and water in his hand, and when he opens it, red wasps fly out. The Neugins also do illusions involving cut-off limbs and setting Jeramy’s head on fire, but they require a large stage. “We usually do the gory stuff at Halloween,” Jeramy said, “and even then it’s more Adamms Family than Freddy Kruger.” The Neugins will be performing in Basin Park Sunday, June 16, through Friday, June 21. Shows run 15 minutes throughout the day, and vary in content. For more information about Lost City Magic, go to www.neugin.vpweb.com.
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Gentlemen and ladies, light your lanterns
Masonic Lodge presents scholarships Two recent Eureka Spring High School graduates have been awarded Smead Walden Memorial Scholarships, presented here by Randy Harris of the Basin Spring Masonic Lodge #386 in Eureka Springs. The winners were Taylor Osterhout, left, and Jazmin Urioste. The $1,000 scholarships are given each year to two well-deserving graduates to aid in furthering their education. Funds for the scholarships are raised each year by the Masons at the club’s bi-annual fundraising pancake breakfasts.
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Winning young journalists Kenya Boes, left, and Miranda Latham, both seniors at Eureka Springs High School and winners in the Arkansas Scholastic Press Association’s high school journalism mail-in competition. Boes received an award in the newspaper news story category and Latham received one in the feature story category.
By Jennifer Jackson The Eureka Springs Preservation Society is sponsoring a lantern decorating contest in conjunction with the 2013 Grand Illumination June 30 through July 14. Cash prizes of $100, $75 and $50 are offered for the first, second and third place winners. The idea is to light up Eureka Springs for the Fourth of July in a traditional way by hanging lighted paper lanterns on downtown businesses and houses in residential neighborhoods. Yard entry signs are available at the Grand Central Hotel or the Eureka Springs Chamber of Commerce June 17 through June 30. Paper lanterns can be spray-painted to make them weatherproof, organizers said. The Grand Illumination kick-off event is June 30 at 8 p.m. at the Crescent Hotel, and features live music and refreshments. The 2013 Grand Illuminator, a local resident who has contributed to beautifying the local landscape, will be honored at the
Dee Bright already has lanterns up at the Border House on Armstrong Street for the Grand Illumination, a Fourth of July tradition revived by the Eureka Springs Preservation Society.
event. Lantern decorating contest winners will be announced July 3 at the Party at Eureka Live Patio at 8 p.m. Glo-loons (lighted, no-flame balloons) will be released at the event. For more information, go to www. eurekaspringsgrandillumination.com.
Photo by Denise Gibson
Battleship
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The battleship shook violently when the Ambassador’s ship exploded. Alarms went off. Grey steadied himself against the nav table. Garcia’s mouth went dry. “The Ambassador’s ship is destroyed.” “Son-of-a-bitch! Bring us hard about!” Helmsman Sorrells brought the ship around, and the two forward turrets raised up their tri-cannons. Garcia held her breath. “Sir, I have a firing solution!” Suddenly, a red light blinked on her console as three red dots left the attacking vessel. “Sir, the radiological alarm just went off;
they’re firing nukes.” “Target?” Grey asked watching. Garcia couldn’t believe her eyes as her computer displayed the projected coordinates. “They— have targeted 317!” “Get us between that station and those missiles!” Sorrells, the helmsman, didn’t move. “We can’t make it in time.” “The hell we can’t!” Garcia slipped over the railing and pushed Sorrells out of his chair, grabbing the steering control and pushing it forward. The engines roared loudly, the old battleship shuddered, and everyone was thrown to the floor as the Scorpio thrust forward at full speed. It’s ok Baby. Mommy won’t let them get you.
Carving In The Ozarks presents Eureka Springs Youth Sports Association with $1,000 check for their help with Carving In The Ozarks 2013. Also presented separately with a $1,000 donation was the Eureka Springs High School Skills USA class.
Photo submitted by David Blankenship
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Historical Museum celebrates grand re-opening By Jennifer Jackson The Eureka Springs Historical Museum celebrated its official re-opening Sunday after completing a major remodeling on the museum’s main floor and exhibits. And not all the history was under glass. Attending the party was Mae Star Miller, Eureka Springs’ first telephone operator. Portrayed by Mary Diehl, Miller was the voice of “Central,” from 1895 to 1939, working at a switchboard similar to one on display in the museum. But at Sunday’s party, she wasn’t on duty. “I spent 44 years sitting at that thing, and I’m going to walk around,” Diehl said. A photograph in the Folk Festival exhibit of “hedge hoppers,” grade-school students who danced in the festival brought back memories for Gayla Wolfinbarger. Wolfinbarger recalled that someone stepped on her shoe, causing her to lose it. As she continued the circle dance, another dancer kicked the shoe back to her and she put it on without disrupting the dance. “We got a standing ovation,” she said. Hello Cello, the mother-daughter duo of Rachael Moyer and Annamarie Prevatte, played old songs for the party. One Civil War ballad, “Aura Lee,” prompted Jeannie
Keck Lee, Barb Keck McClung and Sharon Keck Parker to sing along in harmony. “It was our Dad’s favorite song,” Parker said. Their father, Warren Keck, owned Perkins Lumber Mill for many years. One of the new exhibits was sponsored by the Warren and Eugenia Keck Memorial, and the family donated a large display case and a desk from the Keck home. “I’m sure Dad told me it was made by W.O. Perkins,” Parker said, referring to the mill’s original owner. Sara and Rick Armellini designed and created the new exhibits, which cover architecture, travel and tourism, fire-fighting, transportation and the springs. Temperance leader Carry Nation, portrayed by Michelle McDonald, also put in an appearance at the reopening, brandishing a hatchet and threatening to smash guests’ glasses if anyone imbibed in alcohol. The Eureka Springs Historical Museum is open from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday. Located at 95 S. Main St. For more information, go to www.EurekaSpringsHistorical Museum.org.
Hello Cello – also known as Annamarie Prevatte, left, and her mother, Rachael Moyer – performs for Sunday’s partygoers.
With Mike Bishop, left, holding one end and Rod McGuire on the other, Museum Director Steven Sinclair gets ready to cut the ribbon to re-open the newly remodeled main floor of the Eureka Springs Historical Museum.
Carry Nation, a.k.a. Michelle McDonald, threatens Marvin Ballard with her hatchet if he imbibes the wine offered at the re-opening. Ballard was visiting Eureka Springs from Wichita.
Mary Diehl portrays Mae Star Miller, Eureka Springs’ first telephone operator, who worked the switchboard from 1895 to 1939.
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Hula contest lights up chamber luau
Charlene McLean, right, won the women’s hula contest at Thursday’s Chamber of Commerce luau.
Terry Miller, left, George Purvis, and Mike Bishop compete in the men’s hula contest at the Chamber of Commerce Luau. Miller won by popular vote.
Kelly Jo Carroll of Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge was named Limbo Queen at the Eureka Springs Chamber of Commerce Luau at the Crescent Hotel gardens Thursday night. Charlene McLean won the women’s hula contest, and Terry Miller was named Hula King.
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Inspired by Arkansas
The Artosphere Festival Orchestra returns! June 16 - 28
with Corrado Rovaris, Music Director More than 80 premier musicians from around the world come together for a series of truly inspired orchestral performances.
An Evening of Beethoven
FRIDAY JUNE 21 | 7pm | Walton Arts Center
Join us as the AFO performs Beethoven masterpieces Bryan Lee, violin; Camden Shaw, cello; and Andrew Tyson, piano
Russian Masterpieces
FRIDAY JUNE 28 | 7pm | Walton Arts Center
AFO musicians perform iconic works by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff Andrew Tyson, piano
TICKETS ON SALE NOW | Starting at $10 Visit artospherefestival.org, or call 479.443.5600
Artosphere 2013 is funded in part by an Art Works grant from the National Endowment of the Arts. Other supporters include Arvest, Bentonville A&P Commission, The Chancellor Hotel, The Clorox Company, GE Lighting, Greenwood Gearhart, Inc., Regions Insurance, Walmart Foundation, Walton Family Foundation, Les & Mina Baledge, David & Rosamond Banks, James & Emily Bost, Ed & Karlee Bradberry, June Carter, Dale & Prudy Caudle, Chip & Susan Chambers, Nick & Carolyn Cole, Marybeth Cornwell & Rick Hays, Cynthia & Tom Coughlin, Sandy Edwards, Pete & Shirley Esch, Hershey & Denise Garner, Jeff & Lisa Gearhart, Orville & Susan Hall, Malcolm & Ellen Hayward, Tony & Susan Hui, Tom & Jill King, Tim & Christine Klinger, David & Deborah Malone, Bob & Melinda Nickle, David & Pam Parks, John & Marsha Phillips, Mary Lynn Reese, Mitchell & Barbara Singleton, Clubhaus Fitness, Crafton Tull, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Greenhouse Grille, KUAF/91.3FM, Saied Music Co., The Depot (Arsaga’s). Media partners: NWA Media, Celebrate Arkansas Magazine, CitiScapes Metro Monthly & Kid’s Directory of Northwest Arkansas.
63rd season june 21-july 19, 2013 Madama Butterfly – Giacomo Puccini The Elixir of Love – Gaetano Donizetti The Pirates of Penzance – Gilbert & Sullivan Call or visit website for ticket and schedule information
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Calendar of Events ONGOING Donations needed for Moore tornado victims Superior Abbey Flooring Center is currently taking donations for those affected by the tornados in Moore, Okla. Superior Abbey is working with the City of Moore’s Emergency Management Office. They are also receiving help from New Fitness and Attitudes Salon, as they have allowed Superior Abbey to put donation bins at their businesses and help collect items. Items needed most at this time according to the City of Moore are: Flashlights, Blankets, First Aid Kits, Hygiene Supplies, Infection Control Products, Soap, Shampoo, Deodorant, Sanitary Napkins, Work Gloves, Water, Non-Perishable Food Items, Diapers, Baby Wipes, Formula, Pet Food & Gas Cards. Donors may drop these off at any of the above locations. For up-to-date information, you can check Superior Abbey’s facebook page at facebook.com/SuperiorAbbeyFlooring. EVENTS AND MEETINGS Through June: Scottish Country Dancing The spring series of Scottish Country Dancing meets on Wednesdays from 7 to 8:30 p.m. through June at Enthios Dance Studio, 215 Greenwood Hollow Road, (past school campuses), Eureka Springs. Melissa Clare teaches reels, jigs and other square and line dances. $35 for set of 6 classes for adults. Children under 16 no charge. More information: 479-253-8252. June 13: Amateur Radio Club The Little Switzerland Amateur Radio Club plans to meet at the Pizza Hut on U.S. Highway 62 in Eureka Springs on Thursday, June 13 at noon for lunch, the monthly meeting and a picture presentation of the work done at the repeater sight. For more information contact patriciadean@cox.net.
Berryville EAST Lab is planning a Summer Fashion Show fundraiser. All donations will help fund the Senior Center’s home-delivered meals program. The Fashion Show will be held at the Ice Cream Social on the Square in Berryville on Saturday, June 15. Show time will be from 10 to 11 a.m. Donations will be taken from the audience during show time. The Senior Thrift Store on the square needs your help. Models of all ages from seniors to toddlers, guys and gals come pick out your outfit to style. All those modeling will be rewarded with the option to purchase their outfit at a discount off regular purchase price. The store has all your summer needs. Shorts and tops, summer dresses, swimwear, sandals, hats and even wedding attire are available to choose from. The Senior Thrift Store accepts donations and is looking for volunteers to help with sorting, pricing and sales. Come by to choose your modeling outfit or call the store at 870-929-6280 for more information. June 16: Pet baby shower, discounts and fundraiser The Good Shepherd Humane Society will host the 1st annual Pitter Patter of Little Paws Baby Shower at the Animal Shelter on Sunday, June 16, from 2 to 4 p.m. Get sugared up on punch, cookies, and candy, then try your hand at silly shower games: bone tossing, guessing how many cotton balls are in the jar, baby bottle bowling, and balloon popping. Prizes include stuffed animals and gift certificates from local merchants. Bring a gift donation for kittens or puppies (puddle pads, kitten/puppy chow, toys, etc.) and get 50 percent adoption fees should you decide to adopt a furry baby. In honor of Father’s Day, anyone who shows up with their dad will also get 50 percent off. This adoption special applies to every animal at the shelter, not just kittens and puppies.
June 16: Broadcast of June 15: Summer Fashion Show Tales from South - Eureka & Ice Cream Social Spaces are filling quickly for the Tales The Senior Thrift Store along with from the South broadcast this Sunday,
June 16, at KJ’s Caribe Restaurante and Cantina. Paula Morell, creator of the show broadcast on NPR stations KUAF and KUAR in Arkansas, chose the Eurekan’s tales that will be read by their writers. Morell taught writers how to write their personal stories during a workshop at the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow on May 5. She is a published author and has taught creative writing for more than 20 years. She has won numerous regional, national and international awards for her work. She created “Tales from the South” in 2005 to showcase “southern-style storytelling,” and started a small literary press, Temenos Publishing Company, that same year. She and her husband, Jason, own the Starving Artist Café in North Little Rock, where the show’s broadcast hub is located. Tickets to Sunday’s soiree are only $10 and include a light supper, served from 4 to 6 p.m. The show starts at 6 p.m. Call the Colony at (479) 253-7444 to reserve your seat. June 17: EUUF discussion of beliefs Sunday at the Eureka Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Moderator Bryan Manire will continue an ongoing discussion of our personal belief systems, how we came to U.U. and our sense of personal spirituality. The public is invited to attend the service at 17 Elk St. Starts at 11 a.m., followed by refreshments. Child care provided. June 18: Genealogy program An introduction to a genealogy program, sponsored by the Friends of the Eureka Springs Carnegie Library, will be held on Tuesday, June 18 from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Friends Room at the library annex, 194 Spring St. Admission is free. The presentation will be given by Sean Franklin of Eureka Springs, a former support representative of Ancestry.Com, an online genealogy site. A question-and-answer period will follow. The Friends of the Carnegie Library will plan several more indepth workshops if it is determined there is interest for them to do so. For further information contact 479-253-8754.
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at Dairy Hollow. Ellie hails from St. Louis, Mo. She has a PhD in English and teaches high school. She holds the Neville-Perry Distinguished Chair in English at John Burroughs School in St. Louis, and is chair of the school’s English department. She has won several awards, honors and a fellowship, and writes poetry and memoir. Poetluck brings together established visiting poets and writers with local poets and writers, aspiring writers, songswriters and all those interested in the creative process. Everyone is welcome, and local writers can read from their work for up to four minutes. The evening starts with a potluck dinner at 6:30 p.m. at the Writers’ Colony, 515 Spring Street in Eureka Springs. Please join us and bring a dish to share. June 21: Super Science Friday at library Natalie Casey with Hobbs State park will bring a series of summer science programs to Carroll County Public Libraries as part of the Dig Into Reading Summer Reading Program. On June 21, the topic will be “Wild About Life.” We’ll find out about which animals are wild, keeping animals as pets, and basic needs of wildlife. “Wild About Life” will be at the Eureka Springs Carnegie Public Library at 3 p.m. All programs are free of charge and open to all ages. For more information visit us online at www.carrollmadisonlibraries. org, on Facebook, or call Green Forest 870-438-6700, Berryville 870-423-2323, or Eureka Springs 479-253-8754.
June 21: Art in Opera Group Show Eureka Springs Opera Guild will present the 5th Annual Art in Opera Group Show at the Opera in the Ozarks Theatre. The exhibition runs nightly for operagoers, June 21 through July19. Featured artists include Larry Mansker, John Robert Willer, Zeek Taylor, Diana Harvey and David Bell. Visit http://www.artinopera. vpweb.com, or call Carol Saari at (479) 981-3073. For more information about opera at The Inspiration Point Fine Arts Academy, also known as Opera in the Ozarks, go to https://www.opera.org. LoJune 20: Poetluck cated at 16311 Highway 62 West, 5 miles Writer-in-residence Ellie Des Prez will west of Eureka Springs, near Blue Springs read some of her poetry at Poetluck on Heritage Center. All seats reserved. Call Thursday, June 20, at the Writers’ Colony for tickets at (479) 253-8595.
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The teen said she was drugged and raped at a friend’s house. Officer responded and spoke with the victim who said it took place in Holiday Island. Carroll County Sheriff’s Office was notified and responded. 3:52 p.m. — A caller on East Mountain called to say the music was too loud at a local bar. He said their door was open and it just echoes. He said if they can just shut the door that it would be OK. Officer responded and they turned the music down and shut the door. Free entertainment? What’s to complain about? 3:54 p.m. — A caller advised ESPD that the door to her apartment was open when she got off work. Officer responded and checked the apartment and everything was okay. No report required. This is an example of a good reason to call police. 4:35 p.m. — A caller reported a neighbor assaulted her while she was holding her 3-month-old child. Officer made contact and took a report. 7:19 p.m. — An alarm company reported an alarm going off at a local free health clinic. Officer arrived on the scene and found an employee had tripped the alarm. 10:24 p.m. — A caller advised ESPD that an elderly intoxicated male had a gas can pouring it on a brush pile and didn’t know what he was doing. (Trying to start a fire, perhaps? LOL.) Officers made contact. 10:55 a.m. — Carroll County sheriff’s deputies advised ESPD of a hit-and-run in front of a local inn on Hwy 62. The driver crossed the center line in a red or maroon vehicle headed east. Officer responded and spoke with complainant who did not want a report, but warned officers that the hit-andrun driver may be intoxicated. CCSO was also put on alert for the driver in question. 11:04 p.m. — A gentleman was arrested on a routine traffic stop for driving on a suspended license. June 5 2:59 a.m. — While an officer was checking doors, he arrested a man for public intoxication and possession of a controlled substance. 8:48 a.m. — A caller requested a welfare check on an individual. She has been trying to get hold of her and she didn’t answer her door. Officer was able to make contact, and she was fine.
12:38 p.m. — A caller reported a blackand-white dog wandering around Center Street. ACO responded and picked up the dog. Its owner came and picked it up shortly afterward. I love a happy ending. 1:02 p.m. — A nurse from a local hospital called and advised ESPD that a gentleman was brought in for a 72-hour hold and he is trying to leave. Officer responded and convinced the subject to stay at the hospital. 1:08 p.m. — While en route to another call, an officer saw a student from the school walking along the highway and asked him where he was going. He replied that summer school had dismissed and his parents hadn’t picked him up and he lives in Berryville. Officer advised the child to go to a local gas station on Hwy 62 until someone could contact his parents to come and get him. Dispatch called Berryville Police Dept., who went to his house. The mother advised that the father was in town searching for him, and he was then advised that the child was at the gas station waiting for him. Good looking out, Officer! 1:31 p.m. — A caller advised that there was a female at a local store who has been advised to leave several times and is refusing. Officer responded and advised them that since the two involved parties were partners in the business, they are both legally able to be there. No pastries were harmed in the incident. 4:04 p.m. — A gentleman called and advised ESPD that his soon-to-be ex-wife keeps calling him. She just called and said that she took a bunch of pills and she is going to die. He said she had cut her wrists last week and she said this time no one will be able to find her and it will be his fault. She refused to tell him her location, but he did provide the officers with her phone number and the make of car that she drives. 4:57 p.m. — A caller at some apartments just outside of town reported that her neighbor was yelling obscenities at another neighbor for leaving his residence to kill a snake for the lady who called. She said that the neighbor yelling obscenities has been a disturbance and has received an eviction notice but has not left yet. The officer made contact and advised the snake-lover to take it easy for the rest of the night. 8:02 p.m. — A caller advised ESPD that her son is missing. She said he was on a bicycle and he took his computer bag as well. A BOLO advisory for the boy was issued to
surrounding agencies. Later that night, she called to say that she had found her son. 10:39 p.m. — A caller from a downtown pub advised ESPD that two people in a green or blue 4X4 were intoxicated. The bartender was trying to stop them from leaving. Officer made contact, they were just sitting there. Everything was okay at that time and a taxi was called. 11:53 p.m. — An anonymous caller from some apartments just outside of town said that a resident and several of her friends are being very loud and they are making a disturbance. The caller told the ESPD the apartment number, and said that they were very intoxicated and possibly on something else as well. Officers responded, and one of the rabble-rousers was picked up by his grandfather and the other two subjects took off walking across the county. That’ll sober them up. June 6 2:31 a.m. — A caller from a local gas station called to say that there was a male and female who’d argued in front of the establishment and the male left the female there with some bags and a dog, and he took off in a white car. Officer responded and spoke with the female, who said she was going to walk to a hotel for the night. Right as the officer was leaving, he made a traffic stop on the white car, and the boyfriend said he was going back to get her. The dog was quite relieved as he was not involved in the argument in the first place. 2:53 a.m. — A caller advised ESPD that there was an older-model, black Ford pickup backed up to a local open-air market with a male sitting in it. Officer responded and found that the guy was just using the free WiFi. 7:20 a.m. — A caller reported a loose black dog in the area between a local grocery store and a restaurant that was last seen heading westbound. Officers checked the area and were unable to locate any dog. 11:50 a.m. — A detective called and said he was with a box truck on Hwy 62 near a hotel named after a mountain, and that the lift gate had been dragging the concrete. He requested a wrecker to assist while he directs traffic around the truck. The wrecker was able to get the truck unstuck. If I had a nickel for every truck that got stuck in that spot, I could retire. 12:29 p.m. — CCSO said they had a caller request a welfare check on a lady who lives in town. They were trying to deliver her a
meal and she isn’t answering the door. Officers responded, gained entry into the house and found that she was not home. They secured the house and left the scene. She later returned home and called to say that she had been at the doctor and had forgot to let anyone know. She wanted her food and said she wanted to press breaking-and-entering charges against the officers. Just kiddin’. 5:35 p.m. — A gentleman from Parks & Rec called to say that there were kids stripping the bark off the trees and asked if an officer can come and talk to them before they leave. Officer made contact, and their parents were notified. 9:58 p.m. — A caller from those apartments outside of town called to say that a female was throwing silverware and other items at her (this is why we can’t have nice things) and cursing loudly. An officer made contact with the subject. June 7 2:37 a.m. — A caller said there were some out-of-town people at an old apartment downtown who were using cocaine and doing some “messed-up stuff” to girls. Officer responded and found it to be some girls celebrating their 21st birthday and they had been drinking but there was no drug use. The girls said they just kicked out a weird guy. Officer made contact with the “weird” guy, whom he saw walking down the road on the way to the call. The officer surmised that the “weird” guy was the one who made the call. There was no action needed. 6:57 a.m. — A caller requested officer assistance with a subject who had been told to leave the property and not return. Complainant told officers the apartment number of the subject, officers made contact and advised him to vacate the property and not return or he would be arrested for trespassing. 8:15 a.m. — A caller from some out-oftown apartments called to say that a neighbor was out of his apartment wandering around the complex. She said that he appeared to be intoxicated and was muttering to himself. Officer checked and everything was okay. Officer requested an EMS to respond and check his welfare. EMS responded and advised that he was okay. Can’t a guy go for a walk (and talk to himself) when he wants to? 9:30 a.m. — A caller advised that a female was running down the street on Pivot Rock Road wearing Army pants and a white tutu acting out of the ordinary. He advised that she appeared to try to hide something while
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she was talking with him. Officer responded and checked the area streets but did not locate her. An officer did make contact with her at her apartment and she appeared to be acting more normal when he first made contact with her. Strange. I’ve heard of leather and lace but not camos and lace. 9:41 a.m. — A pastor of a local church requested an officer check a vehicle that had been left in the parking lot behind the building for the last few days just to make sure it was not stolen or had any other issues. Officer checked the vehicle and it was clear. Contact was made with the owner to check the status of the vehicle. The owner told the officer that the vehicle was broken down and he would be getting it moved tonight. 10:17 a.m. — An upstairs neighbor called to say that their neighbor’s dogs bark and whine at all hours of the day and night. It was causing distress to other apartment residents. Information was give to ACO to make contact with the owner in reference to the multiple complaints on the digs. ACO attempted contact but the owner was not home and the dogs were outside and began barking when he came to the house. They are equal-opportunity barkers. 1:10 p.m. — A caller from a local gas station reported watching a white male kick a white female very hard in the parking lot of the establishment. The caller said that the female was sitting on the curb crying and the male was in a white car. Officer made contact with the subjects and determined that there was no report required and advised the subjects to move on. 2:30 p.m. — A caller advised the meter in front of a leather store downtown is not functioning properly. Officer responded and fixed the meter. 6:08 p.m. — A caller from some apartments outside of town advised that a female from a previous call was outside again yelling and cursing. Officers made contact and advised that the subject was back in her apartment not making any noise. 7:36 p.m. — Caller advised that there was a 2-vehicle accident at a local German-themed restaurant involving a Mercury and a Kia Soul. Officers took report. 9:09 p.m. — A caller who wished to remain anonymous advised ESPD that a lady on Main Street had fired up her weed-whacker late at night. Officer made contact and advised her to make sure it stays off. 9:15 p.m. — A caller from a rock-themed
bar downtown called to say she had some unruly patrons that are staring at her from the parking lot, making her feel uncomfortable. Officer made contact and both parties went their separate ways. June 8 1:23 a.m. — An employee at a local establishment on Hwy 62 called to advise of a fight taking place in the parking lot. Officers responded and arrested a male subject for public intoxication. 10:23 a.m. — Complainant advised of a trailer blocking their parking lot and it had been there awhile, they wanted an officer to check it out. Upon officer arrival, trailer was moved. 11:15 a.m. — Complainant from a downtown India-themed cafe was having an issue with an employee and wanted an officer. Officer responded and after speaking with all parties involved, determined it was a civil issue. 4:27 p.m. — A lady called to advise that there was an intoxicated man on the corner of Emporia and Glenn. Officer checked out the situation, and the man was just headed home. 8:08 p.m. — A caller said that hey could hear gunshots within the city limits. Her address is on a road just outside of town, outside of the city limits. Officer arrived and heard nothing but kept an ear out for the gunshots. June 9 12:27 p.m. — An employee at a local motel called to advised ESPD of noise complaints on two rooms, and also said guests were possibly using drugs in the room. Officers responded and spoke with the individuals in the room and officers did not see any drugs. They were all drinking beer and all of age to do so. The hotel did not want to kick them out so officers advised them to keep it down for the night. 12:56 p.m. — A caller from some apartments outside of town called to advise that a male subject was trying to break into her house. Officers responded and found said male subject walking down the road. He was arrested for public intoxication and open container. 1:21 p.m. — An employee at a nautical-themed bar called to advise ESPD that there was a white male in a white shirt with jeans on in the bar who was causing problems. She also advised that the subject had hit the establishment’s cook but that the cook didn’t want a report. She advised the
man had left on foot. While on the phone, she said he was on his way back toward the bar with what looked like an unknown weapon in his hand. Officers responded and arrested a gentleman for public intoxication, possession of drug paraphernalia, and an ESPD warrant for failure to appear on numerous charges. 2:29 p.m. — A caller from Harrison called to tell ESPD that his girlfriend was in Eureka Springs staying at a local Inn on Hwy 62,and he got a call from her that she was attacked at a gas station. Officers responded and made contact with the girlfriend and the employee of the station and a report was taken. 3:47 p.m. — A gentleman was staying at a lodge on Hwy 62 when he went out to smoke and found a large puddle of blood in front of his door. (In some cultures, this is a marriage proposal!) He said that there was a couple staying in a room next to them and he thinks it may have been from the girl. Officers responded and spoke with him and the couple and was unable to find out where the mystery blood came from. 5:08 p.m. — A security company called to advise ESPD that there was an alarm going off at a store downtown, and that they had reached the keyholder, but they cannot respond. Officer responded and found the building to be secure and okay. 6:40 p.m. — CCSO called to advise of erratic driver call they received, advising that a blue minivan on Hwy 62 was headed into town. Officer responded but was unable to locate the vehicle. 8:11 p.m. — ESFD advised that the alarm was going off at a local bank and that the power just flashed off and on, possibly tripping the alarm. Officers responded, all was okay at the bank. The alarm company never did call in the sounding alarm. Wait, was that a test? 9:05 p.m. — Caller needed officer to respond in reference to an incident that happened the night before. Officer responded and discovered that officers had already taken a report for the incident. No report needed. 9:11 a.m. — CCSO requested a BOLO for a man in a checkered shirt and blue jeans on a moped and said it was seen leaving from a store and they were concerned that he just took it. Officers didn’t locate any moped on the highway. 9:13 a.m. — A caller reported a fawn in the drainage ditch at Main and Mill Hollow
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and was afraid it will need assistance getting out. ACO arrived on scene and found no deer in the ditch. 9:24 a.m. — A caller requested a welfare check on a 14-year-old female. Officer checked and determined she was fine. 9:51 a.m. — A caller reported a suspicious male subject walking around the parking lot of an inn and looking in vehicles. Officer located the subject in the parking lot of Planer Hill Park and Ride. Subject was identified and had a warrant out of ESPD for FTA on traffic charges. He was arrested. 4:02 p.m. — Complainant advised that a male wearing a white shirt and brown shorts was mooning people and yelling obscenities walking down the middle of the road headed up Spring Street, and the caller was concerned for his welfare as he appeared to be on some kind of drug. Officers responded and arrested him, and he was transported to the hospital. 4: 26 p.m. — Complainant advised he has been having trouble with a trespasser walking his dog on her private road and would like it to stop. Officer responded and spoke with complainant. 7:11 p.m. — Complainant advised that her daughter was receiving harassing text messages. Officer made contact with parties involved. 7:13 p.m. — Complainant advised that there were kids on top of the band shell in Basin Park. Officer responded and upon arrival they were getting into a vehicle and leaving. 11:15 p.m. — Caller advised ESPD that she was on Hwy 23 just past Turpentine Creek headed toward Eureka Springs and from Turpentine Creek to the junction of Highways 23 and 62, there was “poop” all over the road. She said it looked like a chicken truck was leaking something and that it went all the way to Rockhouse Road and probably further. Officer responded and found it went all the way down Highway 62 and it looked like a motor home was emptying its “poop tank.” CCSO was notified. Gross. June 10 2:31 a.m. — CCSO called to advise of a 911 call from a female. She reported 2 small dogs abandoned at White and Mountain by the old Texaco gas station. Officer responded and checked the area and was unable to locate the dogs, but the officer asked ACO to follow-up.
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Village View My guest columnist this week is Rebecca Mahoney, who will be teaching the Memoir workshop for the Village Writing School on June 22 and June 25. Today, Rebecca gives us a lesson and an exercise on a powerful way that you can make your personal story compelling.
Bring Memoir Alive through the Senses
By Rebecca Mahoney It’s been thirty years since I first baked cookies with my mother. Yet it only takes one whiff of melting chocolate to transport me back in time. I was four, not quite tall enough to see over the counter, so I sat next to the sink, my legs dangling over the side. I remember my mom gently gripping my wrist as she showed me how to measure a teaspoon of vanilla. The streak of flour on her forehead where she kept pushing her hair out of her eyes. The cloud that rose from the bowl as I dumped in the dry ingredients. Later, we played checkers at the table, Paul McCartney singing “Yesterday” on the oldies station, as the aroma of molten chocolate filled the house. Science has long proven the link between memory and the senses. The receptors in our brains responsible for the storage of memory are very close to the areas we use to process what we hear, smell, see, touch and taste. Those senses make lasting imprints on our brains, so we forever associate certain scents, sounds or images with particular events and emotions. As writers, especially those of us who aim to capture our life experiences, we can use
Alison By Sandra TaylorSynar Brown
sensory details to bring those memories to life – not just in our minds, but for our readers. Often, memoirists focus too much on what happened – the sequence of events; times and dates and places; the people who were present. But without the addition of sensory details, writing can seem vague or impersonal, even clinical. What if I simply told you that I was four the first time I baked cookies with my mother, and left it at that? As a reader, you’d have a fact: an event that transpired. But you wouldn’t have a story. Sensory details are key to helping your reader see the world through your eyes – and that’s the goal of any piece of creative writing, from memoir to fiction. Remember that moment in the Wizard of Oz when the movie switches from black and white to full, brilliant color? That’s what sensory details do for your writing – they allow readers to experience your story in color. Consider this: Everyone experiences Thanksgiving. But nobody experiences it exactly the way you do. Thanksgiving, to you, may be a beloved family holiday, rich with laughter and good food and traditions. Or it could be a dreaded event, one you suffer through every year. Use sensory details to help the reader better visualize the scene and convey the emotional context. Rather than simply telling us that it was a dreaded holiday, you can show us through sensory details by writing about the sickly-sweet scent of your mother-in-law’s perfume as she criticized every dish you made, the relentless blast of the Auburn football game on TV, the way your jaw ached from clenching your teeth. That’s going to help put that reader in your shoes, in that scene – inside your memory. One final thought: when using sensory details in writing, remember to include all five senses, not just sight or sound. Many writers, consciously or not, focus on how something looks because that’s our primary receptor of information. But touch, smell, taste and sound are equally important. What would the beach be without the crash of waves, the taste of salt on your lips, the silky white sand between your toes? We experience the world with all our senses; your reader should, too.
Rebecca Mahoney is a novelist, journalist and creative writing teacher from New Hampshire. Her essays and features have been published by The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The L.A. Times, The Orlando Sentinel, and many others. Mahoney teaches creative writing at Southern New Hampshire University and will bring her years of experience writing both fiction and creative nonfiction to show you how to tell your story. Memoir will be offered on June 22 at the Holiday Island Club House and June 25 at the Garden Bistro. 9-4 with an hour for lunch. Cost for the all-day workshop is $45. For more information and to register, contact Alison at alisontaylorbrown@me.com or 479 292-3665.
So how do we capture those sensory details in our writing? Here’s a great exercise: Start by writing down what you remember about a memory. After a minute, add in what you saw – colors, setting, descriptions, the people present, and so on. Write for another minute, focusing on that one sense. Then add in what you smelled – what aromas or odors you remember. After another minute, focus on what you heard, and so forth, until you’ve worked your way through all five senses. You’ll be amazed at how much more vivid your scene is, and perhaps also how much more you remember about it. You may even find yourself uncovering details that you had forgotten.
That’s the beauty of sensory details. They help create a true, rich world for the reader – and bring our memories to life on the page.
The Village Writing School coming workshops • Writing the MEMOIR – June 22 and also June 25 • PUBLISH! Your Questions Answered– July 27 • BLOG Right – August 17 • INSPIRE! Writing from the Soul – September 7
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The Village Writing School Battleship Scorpio
Lieutenant Garcia wiped at her eyes as she rode the elevator up to the Combat Information Center. The image of her son still burned strongly in her mind. The elevator stopped, and she took a deep breath, straightening her dark blue uniform. Garcia glanced at the red diamond patch on her sleeve, her eyes lingering on the white lettering: 51st Space Armada, Battleship Scorpio. When the elevator opened, she was standing straight, arms back, eyes red. Garcia walked out into the hallway and up to a single metal door guarded by Ultra Marines on either side. They saluted her, and she saluted back. The one on her right stepped aside, and Garcia pushed the door inward. She walked up to an officer who was monitoring his screen closely. “Lieutenant Garcia to relieve you,” she said, standing at attention. Lieutenant Delgran slid to attention and then relaxed in one fluid motion. “I stand relieved.” “So what do you have for me tonight, Delgran?” “The Ambassador’s ship will arrive in twenty-one minutes; Space Station 317 is fifty kilometers off our port bow. Otherwise, all is well except for—“Lieutenant Delgran looked back down at his screen. Garcia followed his stare. “Except for what?” “There was a short blip on long-range scanners a minute ago. Then it vanished.” “Maybe it’s just a glitch.” “Maybe.” “Thank you, Lieutenant Delgran. You are dismissed.” Lieutenant Garcia sat down at the computer and logged in. She brought up the list of orders for the evening. A group of officers would be boarding the Ambassador’s ship soon, and she made preparations. Across from her sat Helmsman Sorrells. He caught her eyes and waggled his eyebrows. Garcia gave him a disapproving scowl. Scumbag. After about fifteen minutes, she began watching the tactical screen. Garcia’s mind wandered to her son. The video email sent by her sister from the hospital on Space Sta-
tion 317 clearly showed his young pale body limp in bed. There was a purple discoloration around his eyes. I.V.’s ran to his arms and an oxygen tube to his nostrils. Just five months ago, they all three had celebrated his sixth birthday. He had raised his small hand to wave at the camera, but his arm seemed weighted down, and he had struggled to bring it up. Just waving caused him pain. Garcia’s eyes moistened. “A heavy element dust poisoning,” the doctor had said. How the hell did my child get that? Hang in there, Jeremy. I’ll be there soon. I promise. “Commander on deck!” Everyone stood up saluting. “As you were.” Commander Grey’s voice was deep. He walked over to the Navigation table. The Searchable Electronic Frequency, or SEF, hung above the nav table displaying a complete tactical overview of everything that could be detected in a 1000-kilometer radius from the ship. An alert signaled as a blip appeared on the screen two kilometers out. “Alliance signal, it’s the Ambassador’s ship, Sir.” Garcia announced. Commander Grey popped a hard cinnamon candy into his mouth. “Standard docking procedures.” “Commander, receiving a communication from 317,” the communications officer said. “On speaker.” “Battleship Scorpio, this is Space Station 317. We are no longer receiving the transmission from Long Distance Relay Satellite 42.” Grey nodded. “We’ll investigate after the Ambassador’s ship leaves.’” “Aye, sir.” The Communications Officer paused. “The Ambassador’s ship reports that it has completed docking on the starboard side and is ready to receive boarding parties.” “Commence with boarding procedures.” The commander cracked the candy between his teeth. “Lieutenant Garcia, how far away is LDR 42?” Garcia brought up the data on her computer. “500 kilometers out, Sir.”
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To support our local emerging writers, the Lovely County Citizen is providing space each week to showcase a student of The Village Writing School. For more information, email alisontaylorbrown@me.com
This Week’s Writer: Derek Grimes
“As soon as the ambassador’s ship clears, send a long-range shuttle to LDR 42 and find out what’s going on.” “Aye, sir.” Garcia sent orders to the on-duty flight officers. The ship’s emergency alarm fractured the efficient procedures of the crew. Shocked, Commander Grey looked up at the SEF. There was a red triangle on the screen bearing the word: Unidentified. “What the hell is it?” Commander Grey snapped. Lieutenant Garcia scanned the ship. “Unknown Sir. They just came out of light speed. Ten kilometers away and closing fast. “Battle stations!” Commander Grey yelled across the CIC. Garcia’s training took over, her hands flying over multiple keyboards. “All point defense batteries online; main cannons report ready; computing a firing solution.” “Helm, get us between that ship and 317. Now!” Commander Grey barked. “We can’t yet, Commander,” Sorrells said. “The Ambassador’s ship is still attached to us.” “Disengage the docking tube!” Garcia’s screen started flashing. “Sir, the attacking vessel just launched missiles. Targeted . . .at the Ambassador’s ship!” “Emergency disengage! Get that ship beneath us!” The five tiny red dots approached closer and closer to the Ambassador’s ship, as the Scorpio seemed to move in slow motion away from her. “Now bring—“
Free Verse Ann Carter is a Carroll County native with roots back seven generations. She has an MFA in poetry from U of A, and lives in Eureka Springs, where her book of poems, Sweetness, is available at Prospect Gallery and Studio 62.
Ann Carter
Mississippi River Evening (Vicksburg Bluffs, September) As I face this potential ocean Lit by the low sun’s coral rush, I remember Debussy’s Beau Soir, His quiet lamentation: “For we are going as the river goes, It to the sea, we to the grave.” There is no music here, And I’m in no hurry To drop to black To be proof of his art song― Even when these bright colors Of sky and water fine tune A grief that in the falling dusk Makes all my plain petitions rise Briefly as burning paper, To scatter to ash on the cleft Of this beautiful evening.
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Derek Grimes moved to Eureka Springs two years ago from Tulsa, Okla. With a background in Mac and PC repair, Derek started his own computer repair business, Eureka Computer Doctor (eurekacomputerdoctor.com). He has always had a passion for writing, but he never pursued it until he took a workshop at the Village Writing School. This is his first story.
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Lively Entertainment By Kristal Kuykendall
By Kristal Kuykendall
Pumped up about getting down to the blues Blues is the order of the weekend all over town, and Eureka Springs’ nightclubs are getting in on the game too for Eureka Springs Blues Weekend, which begins Thursday night. FRIDAY Out of all the acts coming too town this weekend for Blues Weekend, the one I am most excited about is multiple-BMA winner The Cedric Burnside Project, performing at the Basin Park Hotel’s Barefoot Ballroom at 10 p.m. Friday. Cedric Burnside, who mans the guitar, drums, and vocals, was born and raised in Holly Springs, Miss. At the young age of 13, he began touring around the world playing drums with his grandfather, Mississippi blues legend R.L. Burnside, also known as “Big Daddy� or “The Reverend of the Blues.� In late 2006, Cedric & Lightin’ Malcolm teamed up and toured as “The Juke Joint
Duo,� which produced the award-winning record, “Two Man Wrecking Crew.� In 2010, Cedric collaborated with his younger brother, Cody Burnside, and his uncle, Garry Burnside, to create The Cedric Burnside Project. They have created a new genre of music by infusing Mississippi Hill Country Blues, Funk, R&B and Soul that will keep your feet stomping all night long! Cedric Burnside has performed or recorded with the following blues and rock music stars: R.L. Burnside, Burnside Exploration, Bobby Rush, Jimmy Buffett, T-Model Ford, Bobby Rush, Honey Boy Edwards, North Mississippi Allstars, Galactic, Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears, Widespread Panic, and the John Spencer Blues Exploration. Doors open at 9 p.m. Friday for the Burnside show, and tickets are $20 each, available online at www.EurekaSpringsBlues.com or at any of the Blues Weekend tents that will
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And, we would be remiss if we did not note the outstanding vocalist who is sitting in with them this weekend, Baby Jason, and the band’s excellent new-ish bassist, John Davies, who previously toured the globe with the Michael Burks Blues Band. What a group of amazing musicians! ••• Performing also this weekend at Chelsea’s is International Blues Challenge semi-finalist The Lil’ Slim Blues Band out of Nebraska. Shawn “Lil’ Slimâ€? Holt is the son of legendary blues master, Magic Slim, a.k.a. Morris Holt. Shawn started playing the blues at age 17, when he went on the road with his father and his Teardrops, where he aquired the name from his late Uncle Nick Holt. Shortly after that tour with his father Shawn formed his band, “Lil’ Slim and The Back Alley Blues Band,â€? with his god-brother, Jeff Boehmer, Joe Manthey and J.J. King. Lil’ Slim has been a part of the Blues Messengers based in Lincoln, Neb., and was a member of the True Sons of the Blues in Minneapolis, Minn., as well. In 2009, he hooked up with some of his old bandmates and added some new ones, too, creating The Lil’ Slim Blues Band.
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The Cedric Burnside Project features multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Cedric Burnside, the grandson of Mississippi blues legend R.L. Burnside.
Last year, the group competed in the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, going all the way to the semi-finals before being eliminated. The Lil’ Slim Blues Band performs twice this weekend: at 9 p.m. Friday at Chelsea’s and then again at 6 p.m. Saturday. Admission is expected to be $5 for each show (and both groups are easily worth $10, which is what you’d pay in any other city). Chelsea’s is located at 10 Mountain St., Eureka Springs, 479-253-6723. THURSDAY, JUNE 13 • Chelsea’s, 10 Mountain St., 479-2536723: Earl & Them with Baby Jason, 9 p.m. • Jack’s Place, 37 Spring St., 479-2532219: Karaoke with DJ Goose,8 p.m. to midnight • The Lumberyard, 104 E. Van Buren, 479-253-0400: Dj/Karaoke, 8 p.m. • New Delhi Cafe, 2 N. Main St., 479253-2525: Randy Beach, 6:30 p.m. • Squid and Whale, 37 Spring St., 479253-7147: Lil’ Slim Blues Band, 8 p.m. FRIDAY, JUNE 14 • Basin Park Hotel Balcony Bar & Restaurant: Hogscalders, 6 p.m. • Berean Coffee House, 4032 E. Van Buren, 479-244-7495: To Be Determined-Classical Band, 7 p.m. • Blarney Stone, 85 S. Main St., 479-363-
6633: Sean Calvin, 9 p.m. (no cover) • Cathouse / Pied Piper, 82 Armstrong St., 479-363-9976: Brody Buster Band, 8 p.m. to midnight Beer Garden: Isayah & Chooch, noon-4 p.m.; Brandon Santini, 8pm - midnight • Chaser’s, 169 E. Van Buren, 479-2535522: Dime Trip, 9 p.m. • Chelsea’s: Earl & Them/Lil’ Slim, 6 p.m. • Eureka Live!, 35 N. Main St., 479-2537020: DJ & Dancing, 9 p.m. to close • Eureka Paradise, 75 S. Main St., 479363-6574: Dance music, 8 p.m. • Henri’s Just One More, 19 1/2 Spring St., 479-253-5795: Zack Bramhall Band, 9 p.m. • Jack’s Place, 37 Spring St., 479-253-
2219: Terry Quiett Band, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. • The Lumberyard, 104 E. Van Buren, 479-253-0400: Thunder Crow, 8 p.m. (no cover) • New Delhi Cafe, 2 N. Main St., 479253-2525: Gone Was Here, noon; Randy Beach, 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. • Rowdy Beaver Den, 45 Spring St., 479363-6444: Blue Krewe, 9 p.m. • Rowdy Beaver Tavern, 417 W. Van Buren, 479-253-8544: Doghouse Daddies, 8 p.m. • Squid & Whale: RJ Mischo & His Red Hot Blues Band/Brother Bagman, 9 p.m. • Voulez-Vous Lounge, 63 Spring St., 479-363-6595: Leah & The Mojo Doctors, 9 p.m. SATURDAY, JUNE 15 • Basin Park Hotel Balcony Bar & Restaurant: Chris Diablo, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m. • Blarney Stone: Ozark Thunder, 9 p.m. (no cover) • Bush Doctor, 5830 Hwy 62, 479-2447172: Will Stelle & Friends, 3 p.m. • Cathouse / Pied Piper: Chooch, 8 to midnight. Beer Garden: Brody Buster, 3 p.m. - 7 p.m.; Brandon Santini, 8 p.m. - midnight • Chaser’s: Blue Moon 9 p.m. • Chelsea’s: Jones Brothers, 2 p.m.; Lil’ Slim, 6 p.m.; Earl & Them, 9 p.m. • Eureka Live!: DJ & Dancing 9 p.m. to close • Eureka Paradise: Dance Music, 8 p.m. • Henri’s Just One More, 19 1/2 Spring St., 479-253-5795: Zack Bramhall Band, 9 p.m. • Jack’s Place: Justin Cauble, 5 p.m. - 8 p.m.; Chad Emmert Band, 9 p.m. - 1 a.m. • The Lumberyard: Slam Boxx, 8 p.m. • New Delhi Cafe: Randy Beach, noon; Dog House Daddies, 6:30-10:30 p.m. • Rowdy Beaver Den: Isayah Warford, 1
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p.m. to 5 p.m.; Blew Reed & The Flatheads, 9 p.m. • Rowdy Beaver Tavern: Blue Krewe, 9 p.m. • Voulez-Vous Lounge: Leah & The Mojo Doctors, 9 p.m. SUNDAY, JUNE 16 • Basin Park Hotel Balcony Bar & Restaurant: James White, noon to 3 p.m.; James White, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. * Blarney Stone: Ozark Thunder, 9 p.m. (no cover) • Cathouse/Pied Piper: Beer Garden: Brody Buster, noon-4 p.m. • Chelsea’s: Terry Evans, 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. • New Delhi Cafe: Dog House Daddies, 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. • Rowdy Beaver Den: Jesse Dean, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. • Squid and Whale Pub: Laurie Morvan, 8 p.m. MONDAY, JUNE 17 • Chelsea’s: Springbilly, 9 p.m. TUESDAY, JUNE 18 • Chelsea’s: Open Mic Night, 9 p.m. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19 • Chelsea’s: Drink & Draw with Tebo Brujos, 9 p.m. (no smoking)
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kins and Coretta Smith. Singing a big role in the OiO program is exactly the right thing for Donner’s career at this time. “It gives me the challenge of singing a difficult role in a safe setting,” he said. The role is also difficult because the audience is not sympathetic to his character – he doesn’t like being the bad guy, whose behavior is even less acceptable now than when the opera was written. Also difficult is the fact that another character, Sharpless, interrupts Pinkerton’s arias with responses, and the music doesn’t stop after Pinkerton sings – it continues with no break for audience response. Sometimes audiences have booed Pinkerton at the end of the opera, Donner said, but when he’s singing, he focuses on the beauty of Puccini’s music, not the infidelity of the character. “In the moment, it’s pure love,” Donner said. For Donner’s second performance on June 29, he might be putting even more emotion into the role: his girlfriend, Katie Calcamuggio, is planning to drive from Ohio to be in the audience that night. A mezzo-soprano in UM’s doctoral music program, she also sang in “Ariadne” and, like Donner, is a soloist at the Presbyterian Kirk of the Hills in Ann Arbor. They match each other in another way– he’s 6-5, she’s 6-1. Being one of the biggest singers in the company has its disadvantages. “They made me move all the pianos,”
Donner said. Donner, who worked in construction for three summers, also helped build the stage he’s going to be performing on. So when he steps out onto it on opening night, he wont’ be worried that it won’t support him – or that the other singers won’t. “We rehearse a lot and by the time we are on stage, you should be fully confid� dent in yourself and your stage-mates,” he said. “It’s really a team. It’s not about one person.” Donner plans to return to UM in the fall and study two more years with his voice teacher, Daniel Washington, to perfect his technique as a tenor. He’s always been a fan of Pavarotti, Donner said, because the Italian tenor brought joy to his singing. “I think that’s what music should be about,” Donner said. “It’s all well and good to be a great singer, but if you haven’t made somebody feel something, you haven’t done your job.” Opera in the Ozarks 2013 season opens Friday, June 21, and goes through July 17. The first performance of each production – ”Madama Butterfly” on June 21, “The Pirates of Penzance” June 22, and “Elixir of Love” June 25 – is half-price for residents of Carroll, Benton, Washington and Madison counties. Order by phone at 479-253-8595. Regular-price tickets available online at www.opera. org. Opera in the Ozarks is located 15 minutes west of Eureka Springs at 16311 Highway 62 West, near Inspiration Point. For more information, go to www.opera.org.
Pet of the Week Sassy is a very sweet 1-year-old white/black Pointer mix who came to the shelter in January. She is smart, affectionate, walks well on a leash and gets along well with other dogs. She would make an excellent family pet. Sassy can be adopted for half the usual fee. For more information, call the Good Shepherd Humane Society Animal Shelter at 479253-9188 or stop by the shelter on Highway 62 East in Eureka Springs. Shelter hours are noon to 5 p.m. daily except Wednesdays.
Notes from the Colony
Linda By Sandra Caldwell Synar
Tales From the South filling up, and a story from a survivor Spaces are filling quickly for the Tales from the South broadcast this Sunday, June 16, at KJ’s Caribe Restaurante and Cantina. Paula Morell, creator of the show broadcast on NPR stations KUAF and KUAR in Arkansas, chose the tales that will be read by their writers. Morell taught writers how to write their Euerka Springs stories during a workshop at the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow on May 5. She is a published author and has taught creative writing for more than 20 years. She has won numerous regional, national and international awards for her work. She created “Tales from the South” in 2005 to showcase “southern-style storytelling,” and started a small literary press, Temenos Publishing Company, that same year. She and her husband Jason own the Starving Artist Café in Little Rock, where the show’s broadcast hub is located. Tickets to Sunday’s soiree are only $10 and include a light supper, served from 4-6 p.m. The show starts at 6 p.m. Call the Colony at (479) 253-7444 to reserve your seat. This week I’d like to share a short story written by Christy Scarrow, one of the participants in our Survivors Growing Stronger workshop for cancer survivors in April. Christy is an oncology social worker and the manager of Patient Support Services for Hope Cancer resources in Springdale.
Bad Hair Day I got up out of bed and headed for the shower. I had another full day of treatments. I was in the shower washing my hair, when I realized that my hair was starting to come out in my hands. My heart sank and felt the tears begin to stream down my cheeks. There was so much hair falling out. I couldn’t stop
myself from running my hands through my hair over and over again. I thought to myself “I’m going to be bald if I don’t stop”. I knew this day was coming so I was surprised at my emotional reaction. To my surprise, when I got out of the shower and looked in the mirror, I wasn’t bald. I couldn’t even tell that my hair was coming out by looking, but I could sure feel it. My scalp hurt. It felt like I had my hair up in a super tight ponytail all day and had just let it down, only a hundred times worse. I finished up in the bathroom and headed to the bedroom to get dressed. I was sitting on the bed trying to muster up the energy to get my clothes on; taking a shower had sucked up what little energy I had started the day with. My mom got there to pick me up. She came into my bedroom and began helping me dress. I reached up and touched my hair. As I pulled my hand away from my head, the hair came with it. My mom just looked at me and assured me that it would be OK. She was so positive and encouraging. A few days later, we were once again heading to treatment. I had a radiation treatment at 9 in the morning. Since we lived an hour-and-a-half away, we would leave about 7:30. It was late summer, so the mornings were humid but mild. We had the windows rolled down enjoying the morning breeze. I caught a glimpse of something from the corner of my eye in the window. I turned to see what it was. I started yelling for my mom to stop the car as I frantically tried to get the window rolled up. The car came to a stop and my mom was repeating “What’s wrong, are you OK?” I calmed myself long enough to say, “My hair is blowing out the window!” We just looked at each other for a moment and then we started to laugh. We laughed and laughed until we were crying. That evening my mom shaved my head.
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The Natural Way Men’s tip: Swedish Flower Pollen
Here is a unique supplement most people know nothing about. Men should read this column and Jim Fain acquaint themselves with Swedish Flower Pollen. The supplement is available in the U.S. but may be difficult to find. This is an alternative to Saw Palmetto for benign (non cancerous) hyperplasia (enlargement) of the prostate. So, if Saw Palmetto didn’t work as well as you would have liked, I’ve found an alternative. Swedish Flower Pollen can be used by itself or along with Saw Palmetto or any number of other good for the prostate supplements. As usual, I did a search through PubMed/MedLine and found abstracts of science studying whether it is useful. Honestly, not many research papers were found but one really stood out as it was done at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, DC. If you do your own search. look for the word “cernitin” not Swedish Flower Pollen. Cernitin is the actual extract studied, found in Swedish Flower Pollen. The researchers start their abstract reporting by stating, “Pharmaceuticals such as finasteride and alpha blockers are used to treat symptoms of prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) and are known to cause severe adverse reactions. Accordingly, a search for safer, natural products has been undertaken. Two natural agents (nutraceuticals) have come under scrutiny; because natural products, in general, often have evidence of long term safety”. They studied Saw Palmetto and Cernitin (defined pollen extract) found in Swedish Flower Pollen. The research was done in old rats with varying amounts of testosterone as higher amounts of testosterone can influence BPH. I couldn’t find studies done in humans but honestly you and I both know old rats with varying amounts of testosterone. Some will even be able to laugh about this... some will grumble. The conclusion was the Cernitin was as good as the prescribed drug finasteride. Maybe, this effect could cause that old rat to grumble less. Certainly, being able to urinate better and less often is what we aging males (and those family members around us) want to gain. To make things even better, Swedish Flower Pollen has a lower price than Saw Palmetto.
Wisecrack Zodiac ARIES: Even when you’re the best you can be, no one’s that impressed. You may not star in a movie, but at least you’ll always have that thing you did when Google StreetView passed by. TAURUS: You’ll start Tuesday with a whistle on your lips, but a sudden surprise may make you swallow it. Thank goodness for that goofy cord around your neck. GEMINI: Wednesday calls for a change of scenery. Go wild and swap out your computer wallpaper. You could go outside for a while, too, but that’s rather drastic. Besides, no one should see you in those shorts. CANCER: Your body is a temple. Unfortunately, it’s in the same shape as one, too. Do some restoration work on those thighs before your Parthenon falls completely off. LEO: Job security isn’t about knowing everyone’s dirty little secrets. It’s about knowing their passwords, too. If you see someone enter “sexytimegoatvegasweekend” into their computer, you know both. Go forth and get that raise. VIRGO: That last wave of sweet lovin’ may not have floated your boat, but did it at least buoy up your driftwood? If not, the tides may be turning in your relationship. Time to show off your dinghy before you hit the rocks. LIBRA:You’ll learn three things on Friday. One will benefit your career, and the other two will change the way you look at inflatable zebras forever. Normally the two wouldn’t be connected, but you’ll be prepared if your boss runs out of hot air. SCORPIO: A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine slide down, but a few margaritas makes you forget why you needed the meds in the first place. Good thing you have your name sewn into all your clothes. SAGITTARIUS: You’re thinking about going to the gym so you can get back in shape. Great idea! Your ideal shape is a hexagon, so it won’t
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take much work. CAPRICORN: Some are born to lead, while others just enjoy telling people what to do. If you’re not sure which one you are, put up a suggestion box and tally up all the anonymous comments about your mother. AQUARIUS: Forget knives; you just brought an aircraft carrier to a gunfight. Back off the heavy artillery and talk things out at the bar. If you both get bombed, there’s less like-
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lihood of an international incident. PISCES: You’re not used to the good things. When someone offers you a chair, you look for the whoopee cushion. On Thursday, don’t think twice, just sit your butt down. You’ll have the best seat in the house for what’s about to happen.
Crossword Puzzle ACROSS 1. Wearable souvenirs 8. Bad guys in Popeye 13. Sharpest 14. Beginning 15. John Gotti or Al Capone 16. Madagascan arboreal primate with a foxy face and a long tail 17. Irish bar 18. Home ground 20. Mined-over matter? 21. Fancy flair 24. Pull a dead car 25. Pedro’s rah 26. Suburb of St. Paul, Minn. 28. Modern correspondence 31. Pain in the gut 32. Sources of senna leaflets 34. Run out or down 35. Ecru 36. Change loads from a freighter to another form of conveyance 41. Collection of sayings 42. One of HOMES 43. Beer type 44. Prefix meaning quarter 46. A bad pun
49. Former Tenn. Sen. _____ Kefauver 50. Docket 51. Kitchen appliance 52. Lyre-playing techniques DOWN 1. Packs by thumping 2. Reconnoiter 3. Cute name for a married man 4. Jumbled sit 5. Abbr. after one’s name after they’ve done their job of a lifetime 6. Dreaded fly 7. Proud way to
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walk; car suspension part 8. Woods, irons and putters 9. 10 – 9 = _ 10. Having the tendency of soaking through 11. Neuron, (var.) 12. One sowing seeds 19. Where Eve came from 22. Good thing to gird before battle 23. Uncomfortable, (3 wds.) 27. Priests’ vestments
28. Manors surrounded by large tracts of land 29. Cruelest 30. Tropical evergreen also called achiote 33. Lanka leader 34. Pep 37. Argol, (var.) 38. Ranch personnel 39. This is between the jejunum and the large intestine 40. Some dos 45. Gun 47. Bard’s above 48. Black cuckoos
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ways upbeat and enthusiastic, she brought warmth, cheer, and laughter into everyone’s day. Mary Jane will be deeply missed by everyone who knew her. Funeral services were held at the Eureka Springs Cemetery in Eureka Springs, AR., on June 4, 2013. Mary Jane was laid to rest next to her mother and father.
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Mary Jane Jackson, born in Eureka Springs, AR, on Jan. 11, 1942, died in Springdale, AR, on May 27, 2013 at the age of 71. A native of Eureka Springs, Mary Jane traveled the world before returning to the area in 1998 to help her brother take care of their ailing parents. For most of Mary Jane’s professional career life, she was a travel agent and international tour guide and, upon her return to northwest Arkansas, held the position of Concierge at the Pinnacle Country Club in Rogers, AR. Mary Jane is survived by her brother, Raymond James Jackson, of Springdale, AR, and her niece, Sarah Lee Jackson, of Las Vegas, NV. Mary Jane was preceded in death by her father, James Leroy Jackson, who died in 1998, after having been married for 68 years to Mary Jane’s mother, Mary L. Jackson, who died in 2000. Mary Jane was loved by so many who were fortunate to have had the delightful experience of having her in their lives. Al-
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AL HOOKS – SELLS EUREKA ... FOR INFORMATION ON ANY HOME IN EUREKA, CALL 877.279.0001 HOOKED ON EUREKA – Al, Cheryl and Paul
Just minutes to Beaver Lake & close to town. 2 Levels 3 bedroom /2 bath, huge family room & bonus room. Radient heated floors on 3 zones. Great privacy on 11.71 acres. Large yard with fenced garden area & fenced backyard. Driveway + parking area large enough for boat or RV. $210,000.
PAUL FAULK 479.981.0668 eurekasprings-realty.com – pbfaulk@cox.net
This home boasts an open living/dining area that has a gas burning fireplace. With the split floor plan, provides privacy. A great deck for entertaining and a fenced back yard. 2 car garage. Utility laundry room. Close to all Holiday Island amenities. $135,000.
AL HOOKS 479.363.6419 alhookseureka.com – alhooks@me.com
The perfect marriage of home & lake. This geo Dome Home & fab guest house are nestled on pristinely landscaped grounds & gardens with million dollar views. Multi leveled decks surround this home, and invite the Ozarks into your living areas. The home has been immaculately maintained with attention to detail and quality. Amenities too numerous to list. $369,900.
AL HOOKS 479.363.6419 alhookseureka.com – alhooks@me.com Beautiful cedar cabin set in the woods on 3.1 acres includes all wood oak floors that are 3/4” thick & eyebrow skylights. Wonderful wood features throughout. Big covered back deck provides tranquil spot for reflection. $185,000.
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Lovely custom built 3 bed 2bath home with lakeview. Hardwood floors, granite counters, huge cabinet filled kitchen, sunroom & master suite w/fireplace all on main level. Lower level has additional bedrooms & bath. Flat fenced backyard w/storage building. Like New $234,000.
Charming historic victorian home located right in town! Easy walk to downtown from Elk or Owen St. Updated electrical, paint, plumbing, roof. Wrap around decks on 2 levels plus covered porch. Low E windows. Hardwood floors. Located on a quiet street. $129,900.
Ever dream of your own business? NOW is the time! HUGE commercial space can be whatever you desire – event center, flea market, bar/ restaurant, church, retail, movie theatre, the list is endless. Tons of parking, circle drive makes for easy in & out. Over 1.5 acres of land, beautiful 4 bedroom custom home on upper level. $437,000.
One of Eureka’s best business locations, offering a rare opportunity of living quarters and business. The building offers all the charm of Eureka. Successfully being run as a unique retail shop, but has endless possibilities. Call Al for a private viewing and details. $272,000.
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CHERYL COLBERT 479.981.6249 eurekaspringsrealtor.com – cjceureka@yahoo.com
CHERYL COLBERT 479.981.6249 eurekaspringsrealtor.com – cjceureka@yahoo.com
AL HOOKS 479.363.6419 alhookseureka.com – alhooks@me.com
AL HOOKS 479.363.6419 alhookseureka.com – alhooks@me.com
Converted school house w/ guest cottage nestled on 10 unrestricted acres. This perfect marriage of land & homes has unlimited usage. Your dream hideaway offers multiple possibilities, lovely home, commercial development or whatever you can imagine. Amenities galore! $295,000.
Cedar home w/guest house on 8.29 (+/-) acres, pond, beautiful mtn. views & land. The home features large open rooms, geothermal heat, generator, large windows, 2-car garage, 1-car carport, detached 3-car carport w/ storage, guest house w/kitchenette, bath. OWNER FINANCING. $399,900.
AL HOOKS 479.363.6419 alhookseureka.com – alhooks@me.com Nestled in the heart of historic downtown. Beautiful wrap-around porch and luscious gardens hidden behind stone walls. Recently renovated with attention to details. 2 oversized bedrooms, hardwood floors, bright and airy. Off-street parking and much more. $194,900 $174,000.
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AL HOOKS 479.363.6419 alhookseureka.com – alhooks@me.com Lovely brick home meticulously maintained. Oversize windows affords great views of the golf course. Spacious master suite. Split floor plan. Open living/ formal dining area is warmed by gas log fireplace. Tons of cabinets/ counter space in the kitchen. Covered brick patio area for outdoor dining. $207,000.
AL HOOKS 479.363.6419 alhookseureka.com – alhooks@me.com Great home on one of Eureka’s unique streets. Views of downtown from deck & backyard. Approx. 1,724 sq. ft. 2 bed/2 bath, 2 car garage with additional parking pad. PLUS additional 1 bed/1 bath & workshop, both with separate entrances. Fireplace, Jacuzzi bath, eat in kitchen and lots of storage. This is a MUST SEE! $153,000.
AL HOOKS 479.363.6419 alhookseureka.com – alhooks@me.com
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Here’s an opportunity to own your own office space that is light & bright with a nice floor plan. A great location for your business venture that has plenty of parking for the public. Handicap accessible. Property is available for lease @ $1,500 per month (1 year lease minimum). $190,000 $179,000.
Fantastic home and cottage or a great business opportunity. Nestled on Hwy 62 with great white river valley views from rear decks and high traffic visibility. Two individual homes offer multiple use possibilities or that quiet get away family compound. 1457 sq ft house and 910 sq ft cottage each hosting 2 bedrooms and 1 bath in each dwelling. Check it out at roadsidehaven.com. $189,900
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This prime retail building located right on historic 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.